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Winston-Salem
‘Serving the Winston-Salem Community
Community Since 1974
U.S.P.S. No. 067910
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
Saturday, April 11, 1981
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24 Pages This Week
ndustry Asked To Help CETA Workers
social leaders to help 138
terminated CETA (Com
prehensive Employment
Training Act) employees
find jobs.
While Farabee was ap
pealing for jobs for those
who had their program ter
minated when federal fun
ding was cut, seven
members from his own
staff, all non-CETA
workers were also cut.
“lam making a personal
plea to businesses, in
dustrialists, developers,
financiers, program agen
cies, institutions and ser
vices agencies to please
register all openings with
the Employment Security
Commission so that we can
get jobs for these people as
quickly as possible,” said
Farabee.
All 138 of the CETA
workers had their job-
service programs funded
under both Title 2-D and
Title 6 and had expected to
keep their ^bs until their
18-month training period
had run out, but Farabee
said Monday that the
Department of Labor has
informed him that both the
programs have been cut,
leaving no money for the
CETA workers or their pro
grams.
“Since October, more
than $800,0(X) has been cut
from the CETA budget by
the Reagan administration.
Title 2-D was cut $455,000
and Title 6 was cut by more
than $240,0(X) in January.
Last month, on Friday, the
13th, Farabee was notified
again by the DOL that
another $112,500 had been
cut.
“The overall loss was
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Waller "Doc" Farabee
Control Only 5%
City Blacks Spend
r
"4m
$200 Million Yearly
By C.B. Hauser
Special Correspondent
The Black Political Awareness League, held a Unity
Breakfast Saturday morning at the Reynolds Cafeteria.
The heads of black clubs and organizations were invited
to the meeting.
The Saturday breakfast dealt with economic and
political concerns. Mel White of Mechanics and Farmers
CETA Workers To Lose Jobs
International Tea
to*from other countries, clockwise are Velma Watts, LINK Mattie Clarke, Elaine McCloud and LINKS
jib Virginia Wiseman, Dorothy Jones, Sandra Branch, Marie Burney and Burlhell Hoffter.
t Yvonne Anderson j;:
Staff Writer :|:;
llOpeopleemployed by the Com- g
Employment and Training Act ?|:
Site Iheir jobs as of April 30
jCETA) program will be com-
out, in accordance with the
Iget cuts handed down by the jji
linistration.
rabee, Jr., director of Human
iid, “Phase down is now a reali- ij:
[redealing with it as such.” ■
aid that the prospect for plac- tx
enl participants has dimmed
ern Electric announced last ;$
they were laying off 350 :;:t
im two of their area plants.
lat Western is laying off it
lituation more cloudy as more |ij:
be looking for work,” said
ter Project Coordinator, Ann Ijf
d that her office is setting up
tins to help former (CETA) S:
‘Bad Time To Be Laid Off’
By Yvonne Anderson
Staff Writer
“1 wish it would last to the end of
the contract.” “It’s a bad time to be
laid off again.” “1 don’t know what
I’m going to do when it’s over, 1 guess
I’ll start looking for another job.”
That’s how the future looks for
many of the people employed under
the Comprehensive Employment and
Training Act (CETA) which is schedul
ed to be phased out on April 30.
The majority of the persons in the
program were having a tough time fin
ding a job before they found (CETA)
and a lot of them have not finished the
18 month contract with the program.
Stacey Williams, program aide at the
Forsyth County Heart Association
said, “1 wish it could have lasted the
full 18 months so we could have learned
more and been better able to find
another job.”
For Williams and many other of the
program participants the future
doesn’t look bright. The city will be
beseiged with people seeking employ
ment because Western Electric and
Hanes Hosiery is also laying off
workers at this time.
“I’m a mother of three and the sole
bread winner,” said one. participant
who asked not to be identified. “1
think that they could have cut a lot of
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workers find jobs.
“We’re currently working on two pro
grams, a Self Directed Search Program
which is like a counseling service and a
Job Search Club that will work through
our office,” she said. “We want to give
participants the benefit of the doubt and
look positively toward the future,” she
said.
Meanwhile, Farabee is enlisting the aid
of the Chamber of Commerce and all area
businesses and industries to help absorb
the participants into the labor force.
Farabee said, “We’re asking the
chamber, private industry and the council
for help in placing these individuals.” We
would like the area business agencies to
solicitate through the Employment
Security Commission because these peo
ple are skilled and experienced workers,”
he added.
“It is my hope that the community will
address itself to these individuals.”
\ACP Urge^
ivestigation |
School Budget Kills 350 Jobs
’iiklegram to the Justice Department, the
hs called for a federal investigation into
slaying of a 19-year-old Black youth,
A Donald, whose body was found hanging :J:
^Saturday, March 21, in Mobile, Alabama, j;:
P Executive Director Benjamin L. Hooks
llsE ‘brutal” and “heinous” crime. The iji
1“ D.S. Attorney General William French :|:
possibility of a “lynching” and re-
lltf federal
agency to thoroughly investigate
"S ts violation of Michael Donald.
“W ‘federal authorities to act swiftly in tj;
I eir resources to stem similar acts of ij:
opoa Blacks and other minorities, j:
' of''.iolence against minorities will not jij
Prompt federal intervention.”
"'ore arrested four days after the
,^"^Sed with murder in connection with ij:
II look place on a residential street near
area, according to a police official.
Ian ^ “clean-cut respectable ji;
iiir*'.!#**™''® community ties,” said Dr.
j^iart^Preslj^nt of the Mobile NAACP -j::
I hard expressed “cautious optimism”
Wice department’s investigation, despite
‘'’tee suspects.
By Donna Oldham
Staff Writer
A five percent pay in
crease across the board,
tremendously increased
prices for school lunches
and the elimination of at
least 350 jobs were all pro
posals of the 1981-82 budget
introduced by Winston-
Salem/Forsyth County
School Superintendent, Dr.
James A. Adams, Monday
to the Board of Education.
Adams proposed the
budget of $92.5 million, a
3.7 percent increase over
last year’s budget remin
ding the board that further
cuts in funding may be
necessary from the North
Carolina General Assembly
and federally.
Of the total budget, share
to be voted on by the For
syth County Commissions,
would increase by 5.5 per
cent $25 million last year to
$26.5 million for next year.
The increase amounts to
$1,499,000.
Proposed budget cuts in
clude...
-Eliminating or greatly
reducing inflationary in
creases from last year’s
level of funding from all
material, supply and equip
ment accounts, including
vehicles. Energy items were
the only exceptions. The
total of all these reductions
was $789,285 in the local
budget.
-Personal positions were
reduced by a total of 2211/2
positions when compared
with the 1980-81 budget.
State reductions were the
result of declining
enrollments. Federal reduc
tions are due to projected
curtailment of federal
funds. Local reductions
were made to reduce the in
crease in local funds from 12
percent to less than six per
cent.
-A reduction in the State
Primary Heading Program
of 50 percent as projected
would further personnel
decrease of 142 part-time
Dr.James /loams
reading teachers and 24
part-time aides.
—Cutting 111 full-time
food service workers.
-Cutting 50 percent qf
the $204,180 library book
budget.
—The increases of more
than double of the price of
school lunches. Paia lun
ches would almost double
to $1.10 and the price of
reduced lunches would in
crease from 10 to 65 cents.
In presenting the budget
Adams told the board, “In
my 10 years as superinten
dent of schools, without a
Bank delivered a prepared talk on economics and Mrs.
Naomi Jones, BPAL President, spoke on politics.
White staged that it is estimated that the annual income
of blacks in this community is around $200 million. Ex
cluding the professionals, less than five percent of this
wealth is spent in black controlled enterprises.
In the area of economics it was added that blacks have
been brain washed into believing that a black can do
nothing in economics as well as a white; that blacks are
very envious of each other and are reluctant to spend
their money with blacks, feeling that it is a sin for a black
to make a dollar off of them.
“Blacks worry when they spend a dollar with blacks,
but they do not feel the same way when they spend a
dollar with whites. Becau.se of the impact of these at
titudes, the present Reagan outs will be devastating to
blacks who are heavily dependant on special welfare pro
grams,” the group was told.
In the political arena it was pointed out that blacks are
jealous of black office holders and are quick to decide to
put them in their place when they think that they have too
much power. Unlike all other ethnic groups, blacks are
more readily controlled by forces outside their group and
are criticized for voting in their own interest.
In both the political and economic sphere, it was stated
that “whites laugh at blacks because blacks are con
tinually fighting among themselves over something
stupid.”
Alderman Virginia K. Newell and announced can
didate William A. Bryant indicated that they had more
interest in BPAL, the bank and unity than personal
political gain. Both called for an end to fussing and
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Aldermen Seek
Vote On Fair
Housing Bill
doubt. I’ve had the most
difficult time developing
this budget.” Adams also
told the group that other
school systems throughout
the state and country were
facing similar if not more
severe realities.
“What 1 have proposed is
simply to maintain past
levels. The inflation rate
has been about 12 percent
for several years now and
every school year the school
system has to fight to main
tain those levels,” he said.
The superintendent said
that if the Reagan ad
ministration and the
General Assembly make
more cuts than expected,
more staff cuts will be
made, schools will be closed
and more programs will be
reduced or eliminated.
Adams said that he ex
pects a six percent cut in
state financing and from
25-30 percent cut in federal
funds, which has already
been included in the budget
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By C.B. Hauser
Special Correspondent
After considerable
discussion, the Board of
Alderman voted
unanimously Monday night
to ask the Forsyth Delega
tion to vote on its proposed
fair housing enabling
legislation in its original
form and thereby decide
whether or not to introduce
it in the Legislature.
The request for the enabl
ing legislation to allow the
aldermen to pass a fair
housing ordinance was
passed by the aldermen 5-3
some two months ago. The
Forsyth County Delegation
decided not to introduce the
enabling legislation because
the request for the legisla
tion was not unanimous.
After a stormy meeting
of some members of the
delegation with the New
Horizons Fair Housing
Committee, Senator Mar
vin Ward, Chairman of the
Delegation, agreed to ask
the delegation to reconsider
its decision not to introduce
the legislation.
The Delegation recon
sidered its decision and
decided that it would in
troduce the requested
legislation if the aldermen
would revise their request,
removing certain of its pro
visions which it found ob-
jectional.
The objections dealt with
provisions granting sub
poena power and the sec
tion allowing the keeping of
its activities and findings
secret - provisions contain
ed in the U.S. Civil Rights
Act of 1%8.
The request from the
Forsyth Delegation to
soften the provisions of the
proposed fair housing bill
was considered by the
General Committee of the
Board of Aldermen. The
committee rejected the re
quest and recommended
that the full board again ask
the delegation to introduce
the proposed bill in its
original form.
Some of the statements
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