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Winston-Salem
"Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 1974
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VOL. VII NO.
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U.S.P.S. No. 067910
WINSTON-SALEM. N.C.
Saturday, August 1, 1981
*20 cents
26 Pages This Week
Haitians
Jailed-
A waiting
Deportation
k the U.S. Inl
and Naturaliza-
began transfer-
a refugees from
detention camp
li, Florida, to
isons in New
;as and West
• people incarcerated
use whom arrived in
Jnited States seeking
bI asylum and im-
lion status. Instead
jitians have been jail-
iling deportation pro
gs that are to start
liately.
ly of the refugees do
.peak English and
ilies in Miami had a
lime finding sponsors
I emigrants of Haiti,
love is allegedly to
overcrowding and
nsanitary conditions
camp site adjoining
ttglades.
annot believe,” said
esswomen Shirley
Chisolm (D-NY), “that an
alternative to federal prison
does not exist for the Hai
tian refugees. Nor can I
believe that the refugees
from Poland and the Soviet
Union or from any Euro
pean country for that mat
ter, would ever be
humiliated in this fashion.”
Haitians began im
migrating to the United
States just after former
President Jimmy Carter
open the gates for
thousands of Cuban
political prisoners. The ma
jority of the Cubans have
been placed in homes
throughout the country, but
the plight of the Haitians
has been totally opposite.
“There is absolutely no
legal or moral justification
for jailing these people,”
asserted Chisolm. “There is
a disturbing double
standard pattern emerging
in this Administration’s at
titude toward refugees.”
PAL Workshop
Outlines Black
oting Strategies
tyC.B. Hauser
itle Correspondent
*1. (The Black
ital Awareness
ilpresented Commis-
Mazie Woodruff in a
Education Workshop
Jtsday evening at the
Us Health Center
M. Mrs. Naomi
BPAL President, set
It and presented the
(ants.
•orkshop was con
fer precinct person-
Ifer the officers and
fey persons of the
klubs and organiza-
' ihe area. It was
ttlto meet Objective
#3 of BPAL: “To conduct
vigorous educational and
voter registration efforts
throughout the community
on a continuous basis.”
There appeared to be
general agreement with the
information presented by
the workshop participants
and the conclusion which
was reached. That: “A
black who. has worked in
the community who has the
enthusiastic support of
blacks and at least 20 per
cent of whites can be elected
to a city or county wide of
fice.” Raleigh, Birm
ingham, and Alabama were
cited as support for this
assertion.
Improve Parks?
Black Communities May Suffer
Plight of Blacks
UP! Photo
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.-Robert “Say" McIntosh hangs on a white cross in front of the
state Capital 7-20 to draw Gov. Frank White’s attention to the plight of Arkansas
blacks. McIntosh collasped in the heat after I'A hours. Painted above his head on the
cross are the words: “Must the poor and the black bear the cross alone?"
The city has developed a
plan to set goals for the
future of the parks and
recreation centers in
Winston, however, the in
formation on which the
goals is based, will leave
some black communities
without a recreation center
and its programs.
The City/County Plann
ing Board, under the in
struction of the Board of
Alderman, drew up a
“Recreation Recovery Ac
tion Plan” in June of 1980.
The plan critiques all the
recreation centers and parks
that fall under the jurisdic
tion of the Department of
Recreation. It also recom
mends the steps toward im
provement and for the
centers in the black com
munities the suggested im
provement step is the clos
ing or relocating of the
facilities.
The terminology of the
plan is also quite vague,
leaving room for several
different and possibly
diverse interpretations to be
assumed.
The recommendation for
Reynolds Park Swimming
Pool Is characteristic of the
language used in the plan,
“...the pool is in excess of
40 years old and in the near
future, decisions must be
made as to whether the pool
should be closed or exten
sively rehabilitated.”
The plan suggests that the
Happy Hill Recreation
Center be either repaired or
replaced.
Bryce Stewart, city
manager said that the word
“replaced” could mean
either rebuilt on the same
site or rebuilt on an alter
nate site located outside of
its present community.
“Questions such as that
will be decided upon on an
individual basis,” Stewart
said. “Each facility will be
looked at separately to
determine what its specific
needs are.”
Stewart also said that the
Recreation Recovery Ac
tion Plan was meant to
serve as a guideline on
which to evaluate each
facility. No one from the
Department of Recreation
could be reached to date,
but a meeting between
representatives of the city
and some concerned
citizens was held about two
weeks in which Bryce
Stewart assured par
ticipants that the Recovery
Plan would not be the sole
basis for future decisions.
“It’s not stuck in
concrete,” said Stewart in a
phone conversation. “It
(plan) leaves much room
for flexibility.”
Patrick Hairston, direc
tor of the local NAACP,
who attended the meeting
along with Avis Crockett,
Larry Womble and Willis
Black, said of the meeting.
“He (Bryce Stewart) gave
us the same wait and see at
titude that we hear so often
under this administration.”
“We’re going to do
something in the communi
ty and see what kind of
reaction we get from the
people.”
The pool at the 14th
Street Recreation Center
has been closed for three
summers and the Recovery
Plan calls for the pool to re
main closed.
Fourteenth Street Center
Director, Bill English, said
that his centers’ attendance
has dropped due to the pool
closing. “Our attendance
has been cut in half because
the kids want to swim, so
they go to another pool,”
English explained. “We
even have to reserve Thurs
day, to take the kids in our
programs over to Winston
Lake to swim.”
Yet, non-utilization of a
facility by its community,
was cited in the plan as a
reason to replace, relocate
or close down certain
centers.
Belview Community
Center is facing that
possibility and center direc
tor, A1 Jones said, that if
Belview is closed it would
hurt the community, “I
think it would be a tremen
dous blow to the communi
ty because the kids would
have nothing to do,” Jones
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Goler Tenants Meet
Management Head On
Alderman Larry Little and Mrs. Mazie Woodruff were
among guest panelist at BPAL workshop.
David Wagner
The result of three years
of delapidated housing con
ditions came to an explosive
head last week as tenants of
the Goler Apartments
clashed with the director the
management firm which
they claim is responsible for
the conditions during a
press conference held at the
rental office of the Goler
Apartments.
' David Wagner, president
of Urban Housing Inc.,
called the press conference
to answer allegations cited
in an article appearing in
the Thursday edition of the
Winston-Salem Journal.
The article focused atten
tion on the many problems
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Lynda Bonom
The workshop par
ticipants condemned:
•voting for bigoted can
didates in the name of party
loyalty.
•taking money for
“pushing” political can
didates
•the media for misinform
ing the public on issues and
on the record of office
holders
•standing before the polls
and passing out cards say
ing how to vote.
•blacks for being the only
group wedded to a single
political party when even
white Democrats elect
Republicans
Members of the audience
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^uman Relations Studies A ttitudes
McCarthy
Sltff Writer
Winston-Salem
'Udations Commis-
•orking together to
* change. Herman
director of the
®fea believes that
®8e will be made
'dialogue sessions.
Impose of the ses-
' fe first, create a
Ifel communication
’*cen minority and
[f communities,
'•hcse sessions the
also hope to
create an open community
where differences are
understood and ap
preciated. Leadership skills
in the area of Human Rela
tions alone with promoting
full use of community
resources in dealing with
problems is another reason
for holding the sessions.
Finally, the commissions
hopes to create a communi
ty where equality of oppor
tunity and justice for all
citizens exist.
The idea of the sessions
grew out of a conversation
between Aldridge, Terry
Moore, assistant director of
the YWCA, Peggy Mat
thews, from the Downtown
Church Center and Louise
Wilson, director of Experi
ment in Self-Reliance.
While discussing what
various organizations could
do together to improve
human relations among
citizens of Winston-Salem,
the group decided to focus
on studying the attitudes
among individuals in the ci
ty. It was then discovered
that a good way to improve
human relations in the city
was to try to improve the at
titudes of residents in the ci
ty.
In an attempt to in
troduce the sessions to the
public, two introduction
meetings were held. The
first was held on May 11.
At the meeting, 34 people
signed up to participate in
the training sessions. At a
second introductory session
held on July 13, 43 people
signed up to participate in
the group meetings.
On August 8, at First
Baptist Church on Fifth
Street, the first training ses-
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Forsyth County was specially honored by the National Association of Counties (NACo) at its 1981 Annual Con
ference in Louisville, Kentucky. At the conference, Forsyth County officials received NA CO achievement awards for
two county programs: Emergency Medical Service Drowning Team and Computerized Food Stamp Program.
Receiving the award, from left to right, are: Dr. James N. Ziglar, Jr., Chairman of the Forsyth County Board of
Commissioners: James S. Cooper, Manager - Systems and Programming: and H.L. “Pete" Jenkins, Countv
Manager.