Blacks Don’t Communicate
Sickle Cell Testing
Photo by Ann Moore
By C.B. Hauser
Chronicle Correspondent
After a discussion where
tempers flared, the Board
of Alderman adopted
Realignment Plan IB on a
5-3 vote, and voted “no
SaelScott, head of the Forsyth County Sickle Cell Clinic, performs the test and consideration” on the.
Klklone out of ten black Americans have the trait. Story on page 7. adoption of Plan 2D.
spite Controversy
“We as the citizens of the
black community must get
together, we just don’t
communicate enough,”
said George Hill, president
of Winston-Mutual Life In
surance Company in an in
formal talk to the Greater
Winston Kiwanis Club dur
ing a luncheon on Monday.
Hill spoke on The
Economy and its Affect on
Black Business saying that
politics has a lot to do with
black business. “When the
national politics change, so
do the amount of black
owned business,” said Hill.
According to Hill, the
majority of Americans
don’t want social programs
cut, but rather reduce the
amount of money spent in
them and the amount of
waste which results from
them.
“It isn’t a mandate of the
people to cut vital programs
out, just cut the amount of
dollars spent on them,” ex
plained Hill.
Focusing on the local
business future for blacks in
Winston, Hill said, “There
is a great opportunity for
many black businesses in
abandoned areas by larger
firms.”
He cited the example of
the insurance businesses
where the larger companies
forsake the $25,000 and
under policies because of
high acquisition cost.
“In actuality, the acquisi
tion cost for a $100,000
policy is the same as that
for a $2,000 policy but these
companies just won’t sup
port that market. This is
where we (Winston Mutual)
have our strongest base of
support.”
There is a market out
there, said Hill, as he con
cluded his talk. “The trick
is to know what that market
is and how to develop it.”
The Greater Winston
Kiwanis Club is a service
organization with an all
black membership that is
fully sanctioned by the na
tional organization.
“We Care” is their theme
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Board Accepts Plan ,
To Realign City Wards
Ray Selling Shares in Center
By Yvonne Anderson
Staff Writer
Despite much controversy and debate among
■mnnity leaders, the East Winsotn Local Devep-
ifient Company, a non-profit organization headed
jAttoraey R. Lewis Ray, is continuing with plans to
) a community controlled shopping center in
teEast Winston Community.
Ilie(EWLDC) is selling $25 memberships into the
Jiperation and selling shares of stock at eleven
Hits a share as an investment into a for subsidiary
poSt organization.
According to Ray, the profit organization will raise
funds through the sale of stocks which will go toward
the purchase of the $300,000 equity previously
invested by RWSH Corporation based in Minneapo
lis, Minnesota. The RWSH Corporation is also the
primary developer for the Raddison Hotel project.
“The sale of stock is going well, several churches
and individuals in the community has already
pledged,” said Ray in a telephone interview.
Ray is quick out that the drive to build the
shopping center has Just started. “We haven’t
launched our drive yet, we’re getting our tools
together and going to approach businesses and
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Patricia Russell KO’s
AACP Audience Here
^mentary by Carolyn Neal
Ill suffered the outrageous misfor-
ifmissing the NAACP’s Freedom
Kincr on April 30th, you truly
Unreal. You missed hearing one of
orators to come to Winston-
■italong while.
A. Russell, a Washington,
illorney and chief of the complaints
' of the broadcast bureau of the
'*1 Communications Commission,
was the banquet’s keynote speaker. Her
theme was “What Time Is It?”
When Ms. Russell rose to speak, I must
admit, I settled back for what I thought
was going to be a long, boring evening.
Was 1 ever wrong!
Ms. Russell’s mastery of the adjective,
adverb, subject, pronoun and noun was
truly a work of art. She worked the au
dience with her metaphors and similes like
Diana Ross works an audience with her
songs. And like Ms. Ross, the gentlemen
in the audience were spell-bound by Ms.
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Rodney Hotiman
“I’m ready to go to col
lege, ” said Holman. "I’m
really looking forward to
it. ”
Plan B would realign the
eight wards of the city
without including the 8,000
people annexed into the city
in 1979, while Plan 2D
would have included those
annexed. The aldermen had
been instructed to adopt
plans with and without the
annexed areas, since the an
nexation is being contested
legally.
I FTty-five persons from
; ti;'> b^ '*heast' /ard attend-
1 ed the board meeting.
I Several persons from the
I ward spoke in opposition to
I a motion (Northington-
I Groce) calling for the adop-
I tion of Plan lA. They
I favored Plan IB which they
I said followed natural boun-
I daries, would keep the
I neighborhood together, be
I a model for the city, and
I would be the least disrup-
i five of the ward.
I After considerable
I debate, Alderman Little
I made a substitute motion to
1 adopt Plan IB. When Plan
I IB was defeated 3-5, Little
I called for “no considera-
I tion.” He was ruled out of
I order as a vote on the
substitute motion con-
Holman Wins
Scholarship
Rodney Gerald Holman
is the recipient of a $3,0(X)
per year scholarship from
the Western Electric Fund
of the (National Achieve
ment Scholarship.; The cash'
award will cover Holman’s
four years of undergrade
ate study. He will e^r
Davidson College in the'fell
of 1981.
The son of Franklin and
Sandra Holman, 18-year-
old Rodney is interested in
political science and law.
He attends Reynolds High
stituted a vote on the item.
The vote was then taken on
Plan IA which carried 5-3.
When a plan was con
sidered which included the
annexed areas. Aider-
woman Wilson made a mo
tion to adopt Plan 2D.
Plans 2C and 2D had been
prepared and given to the
aldermen this week as
modifications of Plans 2A
and 2B and they included
sTjggestions and reactions of
the aldermen.
During the considera
tions of Plan 2D, members
of the Southeast Ward
spoke in favor of Plan 2B
and against 2D. Larry
Womble stated that if they
could not get plan 2B, Plan
2C would be acceptable to
those present from the ward
if the lines were redrawn to
include Columbia Terrace
in the Ward. He pointed
out that compromise is an
essential feature of our
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Mother Of The Year
Mrs. Mary H. Brim pins corsage on Mrs. Ora Lee Griggs
(1). Mrs. Griggs was honored as "Mother Of The Year”
by the Mount Zion Baptist Church Sunday School during
ceremonies at the church on Mother’s Day.
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School Budget
Includes Some
Cut Programs
By Yvonne Anderson
Staff Writer
School where he lis the
president of the (Student
Council and a member of
the Key Club, a service
organization. Rodney is al
so circulations route assis
tant for the Chronicle.
Baptists Endorse Highway Plan
tua,
General
Baptist State Convention of North
'epresenting more than,400,000 black Baptists
Carolina, has endorsed Governor Jim Hunt’s
the state highway system.
'invention unanimously passed a resolution
I -j Its political action committee endorsing
! ’ mid-year convention in Rocky Mount on
* “f- The resolution states:
North Carolina faces an acute
"tgent transportation needs, and whereas the
make a major investment in resurfacing and
8 our Highway system, and whereas good and
well kept highways are essential for citizens moving from
home to jobs, and to churches. We your committee
recommend that the General Baptist State Convention
representing more than four hundred thousand members
go on record as endorsing the Governor’s program for
financing and maintaining our highway system.”
Governor Hunt has proposed a package of proposals
that include: a three cent per gallon increase in the tax on
gasoline, with an income tax credit to alleviate the
increased cost of necessary personal driving; a SO
percent increase in the tax on alcoholic beverages; an
increase in a variety of motor vehicle fees, most of which
are paid by truckers; an increase in driver license fees.
and making the state sales tax apply to the rental of
vacation homes which are rented for less than 90 days.
The state’s highway fund is running out of money
because of the increased cost of petroleum-based paving
materials and because of increased conservation of
gasoline. The Blud Ribbon Study Commission headed by
former Gov. Dan Moore found that ,the Highway Fund
needs $200 million more a year just for basic
maintenance. (The highways are maintained by funds
from the gasoline tax. Other government programs are
funded from the General Fund.) Governor Hunt has also
ordered the Department of Transportation to save $20
million in its operations.
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board
passed their preliminary budget for fiscal year 1981-82 last
week by a margin of 7 to 1. The budget passed after an
amendment providing for funds to "support programs
that were cut on the federal level was added to the budget
by board chairman Tom C. Womble.
The amendment allocates $300,000 for elementary
remediation programs (math and reading), $75,000 for
library funds and $100,000 for the Strings program. These
programs were slated for cuts because of the reduction of
Title 1 funding on the federal level!
Speaking for the Education Committee of the
, NAACP, Reverend Michael Curry expressed satisfaction ’
at the outcome of the budget.
“We’re in support of the budget all the way and we’re
very pleased with it,” he said. “We got everything we
asked for which mainly was the support of Title I pro
grams lost in the federal budget cuts.”
Although the budget answers the needs of basic educa
tion, the question of the school lunch program remains
unanswered. According to Garlene Grogan, the board
made no commitment on that program when voting on
the budget because they are trying to find alternatives to
raising the price.
“There has to be a way other than raise the price of
lunch,” said Grogan.
The budget is now in the hands of the County Commis
sioners who will take action in June. The commissioners
will decide the amount of local funds that will be
allocated to the school system.