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Winston-Salem Chr'onicle
"Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 1974 .
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
Saturday, May 30, 1981
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22 Pages This Week
Planners Base
Realignment On
Inaccurate Data
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Let It End
■■old Jaelinne Mason (right) and her sister, Jotonya, 9, wait with other volunteers to begin a search for dues in
of murders of young black children (April 25). Despite 'the efforts of city police, federal investigators and
fill,i combing vast areas for evidence no one has been apprehended for the series of killings.
Social Security Faltering
Sf C.B. Hauser
mide Correspondent
»t Social Security
i«, the most cherished
ite most widely sup
ported benefit program of
the federal government, is
in trouble and measures to
shore up the system are be
ing put forth by the Reagan
Administration and others.
Unless reforms are in
stituted, the Old Age and
Survivors Insurance Fund
will encounter a cash flow
problem as early as next
year, jeopardizing benefit
\oard R edra Precin cts
SyC.S. Hauser
tmiide Correspondent
It Board of Elections
Forsyth County began
laslt last Thursday of
[i«ing voting precinct
for the two ward
iiiitient plans, 1-A and
which were adopted
lly by the Winston-
IBoard of Aldermen,
k Board decided that
optimum precinct
lid contain around 1,500
its and change as few
pit as possible. The
easiest changes would be
made first, and input about
changes would be sought
from the party chairman,
also the aldermen and other
familiar with precinct lines,
the Board decided.
The preliminary planning
by the staff indicated that
changes would have to be
made in seven precincts
under Plan 1-A and changes
in 17 precincts under Plan
2-D with the largest number
of changes to be made in
the West Ward. It was
estimated that 20,000 voters
would be affected.
If the court ruling on an
nexation is not handed
down by July 15, Plan 1-A
will be the official Plan.
Plan 2-D will be the official
plan if the courts rule
favorably on annexation by
July 15.
Input will be secured by
Wednesday, May 27. Work
session of the Board
scheduled for Thursday and
Friday, May 28 and 29. The
Board emphasized that in
put would be sought, but
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Peler Simms
Warren Stewart
Michael Wright
1981 Tar Heel Boy’s State
irea Delegates Chosen
Ptce local high school
fitQis were selected as
Rales to this year’s
F State Convention.
Fcled for the six-day
Tasive workshop in state
r""ient and politics
F«er Simms and War-
r’ewart from East For-
f Senior High and
PWl Wright from
pland.
State delegates par-
' ia a variety of ac-
r® which are designed
to improve their awareness
and understanding of
governmental & political
organizations in North
Carolina, and major areas
of state public policies
which are being debated in
North Carolina congress..
The objective of Boys’ State
is to improve citizenship for
future and present genera
tions of Tar Heels.
Candidates for the con
vention are carefully screen
ed for those boys with
outstanding qualities in
leadership, character,
scholarship and service.
Young men who are
members of the rising
senior class are the can
didates considered for at
tendance at Tar Heel Boys’
State. This year’s session of
American Legion Tar Heel
Boys’ State will be held on
the campus of Wake Forest
University, during the week
of June 14-20.
checks to the 36 million
recipients of social security
benefits.
vVhen the system was
established, 11 workers were
taxed to support one
beneficiary. Now just a lit
tle more than three people
are taxed for each
beneficiary. By the turn of
the century, if present
trends continue, it is
estimated that the ratio of
the taxed to beneficiaries
will be 2 to 1.
The system is in trouble
because Congress has in
creased basic benefits and
added other benefits with
little thought of how the
bills were to be paid. The
problem has been con
founded by high unemploy
ment, high inflation, lagg
ing economic growth, the
trend to retire before age 63
and the generous indexing
of cost of living increases
-raising benefits faster than
wages are being raised.
To bail the system out of
its present difficulties,
disinterested observers have
suggested the following:
- increase the social
security tax to be collected
from employees and
employers,
- shift a number of the
appendages of the system to
general tax revenue making
the welfare instead of a part
of a supplemental retire
ment system.
- reduce benefits.
- a combination of the
above.
The Reagan Administra
tion avows that it is com
mitted (I) to keeping the
system from going broke,
(2) to protecting its basic
benefit structure, and (3) to
reducing the tax burden on
the American worker.
Reagan has outlined 13
proposals for ac
complishing his objectives.
Among them are the
following:
- reduce th welfare
oriented elements of the
system which duplicate
other programs.
- relate disability benefits
to a worker’s earning
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By Yvonne Anderson
Staff Writer
After heated debate and cries of “Racism” shattered
the meeting of the Board of Aldermen last week, it was
discovered by the City-County Planning Board that the
aldermen used inaccurate figures and percentages for the
number of blacks when drawing up new ward boundary
lines.
The Planning Board found, however, that none of the
changes are significant enough to affect the proposed
realignments whose plans were voted on by the aldermen
last week.
Most of the errors were not more than one percent off.
However, the biggest change was in the Southeast Ward,
which also had the most attention in the debate over the
ward plans because, under Plan 2-D, that ward would
drop from 45 percent black representation to 38 percent.
The figures originally showed that the Southeast Ward
is currently 46 percent black and would drop to 42 per
cent under Plan 1-A (without annexation). The new
figures show that the ward is actually 45 percent black
and would drop to only 44 percent under the realignment.
A spokesman for the board attributed the errors to the
ru.sh in getting the information to the aldermen and to the
Adoptive Parents
Convention Here
By Beverly McCarthy
Staff Writer
The first Regional Adop
tive Parent Conference will
be held May 29-31, at the
Winston-Salem Hyatt
Hotel. The conference is for
adoptive parents from eight
southern states which make
up Region IV of the Depart
ment of Health and Human
Services.
Ann Sullivan, director of
the Region IV Adoption
Resource Center, and con
ference planner, said that
the adoptive parents atten
ding this conference are
special people.
“They have adopted
children with special
physical, mental, and emo
tional needs, and are active
in a variety of grass roots
efforts to ensure permanent
homes for other waiting
children,” she added.
The conference will in
clude 20 workshops led by
national and regional
presenters; state and special
interest caucuses are also
.scheduled.
Laurie Flynn, an adop
tive parent of 12 ehildren
and executive director of
the North American Coun
cil on Adoptable Children
in Washington, will be one
key note speaker. Other
guest speakers will be
Moses Gray, advocate for
minority children and direc
tor of Community Rela
tions for Detroit Diesel,
and other members of the
Adoptive Parent Agency.
Conference coordinator,
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elections board in time to change precinct lines.
Meanwhile, the Executive Board of the local NAACP
met last Thursday to discuss what could be done about
the outcome of the ward realignment.
Patrick Hairston, Executive Director of the local
chapter, stated that the board decided not to pursue plans
for a boycott of downtown area business. Instead, the
NAACP is investigating the feasibility of challenging the
legality of Plan 2-D in court.
“We have not ruled out a .selective buying campaign,”
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Marchers
Protest Fed
BudgetCuts
Approximately 4,000 marchers surged on the nation’s
capital last Thursday to protest the extensive budget cuts
being planned by the Reagan administration.
Culminating a week long “presence” in Washington
which began with a lobbying effort for legislation.against
the Ku Klux Klan, the march attracted protestors from as
far away as Texas and California. The march started at
the Washington monument, proceeded down Penn
sylvania Ave. past the White House, and ended on the
grounds of the Capital Building where a rally was held.
The tone of the march and rally was serious and order
ly as the protestors listened to Rev, Joseph Lowery and
Rev. Jesse Jackson blast the Reagan administration for
making cuts that will force over 600,000 students out of
college, terminate over 300,000 CETA jobs, end food
stamp programs for 55 million Americans who are either
children, elderly, or disabled, and cut several billion
Fdollars from other social programs.
Lowery criticized the Democrats who ‘crossed over” to
support the Reagan cuts as having “sold out their
Democratic heritage for a pair of cuff links and some jel
ly beans”;
The rally and march was planned by a coalition of
groups including'National Association of F'arm Workers,
.SCLC, PUSH, and others. Other speakers at the rally In
cluded Mayor Richard Hatcher of Indiana; Congressman
Ted Wyche (D. N.Y.); Congressman Jose Garcia (D.
New York), Chairperson of the Congressional Hispanic
Caucus; Congresswoman Pat Schroder (D. Colorado);
and Rev. Jose Gomez, Chairperson of the National
Association of Farm Workers.
The late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. received a unique posthumous honor as a bigger than life size statue of him w’rrs
dedicated at the SYDA Foundation’s International Headquarters in the Catskill Mountains. Left to right are: Mayor
Brian Ingber, Dr. Eugene Callender, Dr. Wyatt T. Walker, Maili Shetty (translator), Swaini Muktananda. Dr.
William Shane Coffin, Erica Huggins and Maha Coshananda.