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By Yvonne Anderson efforts to raise a $300,000
Staff Writer equity to ensure community
ownership of the center.
The East Winston Shop*
ping Center got and added The shopping center is
a much needed boost yes- proposed for a 7.6 acre tract
terday when George Hill, between Claremont and
president of Winston Mu- Cleveland Avenues. Foodtual
Life Insurance Com- town, Revco Drug Stores,
. pany announced that his Pic 'n Pay Stores, Inc. and
company has. agreed to Family Dollar stores have
work with several financial agreed to lease for space
institutions to secure a $1.1 totalling abqut 39,000 sq.
million loan for the shop* ft. in a 45,00bt?qpare foot
ping center.
Wachovia Bank and Trust
Co. was to have loaned the
project the $1.1 million that El0Ction ,
was the contingency on a
$340,000 Urban Develop- U??i \\\ fm\J
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uvut nviivu Uiaill IIIC Cliy A AAAA W1 Jf 1 '
had applied for earlier but
was turned down. The \\/|fU -T r\\xj
terms of the loan have since VV 1111 1 ^
expired, but Wachovia will
continue to work with the by Yvonne A
development of financing. Staff Wr
Hill's announcement has
come days after the grand With all precincts reporting ?
opening of Mechanics and the 1981 Primary races are as
Farmers bank, who also is
expected to be a parti- Mayor Wayne Corpening dei
cipant to the city mana- landslide victory.
ger, the city will provide In the republican race, Te
$148,000 in city community Grady. Wills received 1,2*
M5^^T!n*publ!c "tmprove- 'J* ?
' ; . . the East Ward, defeated Willi
ment money. N.C. Mutual
Life Insurance Co., the Larry Womble will face Eugt
state's largest black owned tion, the winner of which, i
Insurance company will join Hauser in the general election
the state's largest black Incumbents Ernestine Wilso
owned batik as Attorney R. Robert Northington of the V
president of the East seats.
Winktonv Local Develop- Finally in the Northwest Wi
ment Co., "fc&nrSnues his defeated her opponents - Da\
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Second Of Six Parts
The Most 1
Editors Note: 1
The following question was asked ten blacks who
are active In political life In North Carolina. This c
paper along with others In the state felt that these |,
questions are important and should be asked by the e
black press. These responses have been edited to j
conform to our space requirements. They are a part t
of a six part series. Your comments are ap- p
predated. ? ~
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by Pat Bryant p
Special Correspondent {
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an-Salem! Last
"Serving the Winston-Salem
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The lack of a firm com- M
mitment of leased space
was the primary reason the vFA
U.D. A G. Grant was turned Jk %j
down by the Dept. of fa $
Housing Sl Urban Develop- Jy fffr
ment. The Wachovia bank 4^' W W
agreement stipulated that im _
EWLDC demonstrate com- a
mitments for 85 percent of JEmm w \
the center's overall space. Sja^mS
The grant will be reconsidered
next month. I I *
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t6 to Grady s 1 Ovote^
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mil face Republican Rep.
n of the South Ward and Miss New ft
Vest Ward will keep their Atlantic City, N.J.: Miss Ne
Oliver participates in the swii
ird, Martha S. Wood has the 1982 Miss America h*>r*
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I. More pictures of Grand opening in side. i
Pressing Cor
r.C. Jervay, publisher of the Wilmington Journal
In the 60's we had a social movement to become soalled
first class citizens. In the 1970's we emphasized a
ot about voting and we got a whole lot of black officials
lected. In the 1980's I see it as economics. Jesse
ackson's success with the Coca-Cola boycott indicated
>mi 11w a gui me i ijjru iaca wnen ne emphasizes the importance
of our people being able to work in these large
orporations; tcyget distributorships; to have black people
sitting on the board of directors; and to get advertising
for black newspapers. I was glad when Jackson emphasized
black-owned radio stations because most of
hem are not black owned. They call themselves black
tations but they're not. Getting the privilege of going in
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Community Since 1974
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jl Raleigh New food
stamp rules that become effective
October 1, which
^will change the way eligibility
is determined and the
method of calculating how
many stamps a household
should receive, will
eliminate an estimated
10,500 North Carolina
Jj families from the program
and reduce the amount of
stamps received an
estimated 70,000 other
families, according to John
Kerr, chief of the Food
I Assistance Section in the
I Division of Social Services
of the N.C. Department of
Human Resources.
The
change in the program will
I be the addition of a gross
I income eligibility standard.
I "Beginning October 1,
all households which do not
contain a member 60 years
hm I of age or older or receive
" fl supplemental security inH
5 come, or Title 11 Social
Security disability payments
I will have to hav#? Iacc than
.? i 'iwu^UPW^M .
1 the gross income limit of
* ? 130 percent of the federal
""*"*"'" ?ffice of Management and
^L. : 'family of four can earn no
more than $916 before taxes
IJPl Photo and other deductions and
lampsnire still be eligible, for food
w Hampshire, Natalie Dawn stamps/* Kerr said.
msuit competition portion of Households which have
in Atlantic City, 9/11. gross income under the
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Mechanics anc
A Joyful Gr;
D.. t/ A t " 4 * " _ _ -
oy i vunne Anaerson oanx president J .J. Sansom
Staff Writer Jr. acting as master of cereAfter
years of dreaming, monies and introducing the
hoping and planning the Govenor.
state's largest black owned "There s a special dimenbank
opened its branch of- sion to this institution,
fice last Saturday amid an something very special
atmosphere of jubilant about it," said Hunt to a
pride. receptive and enthusiastic
With the aid of Govenor crowd of about 150 people.
James Hunt and the pre- "The battle for freedom is
sence of the city's top of- fought everyday. AND
ficials, Mechanics & Farm- THAT BATTLE INCLUDES
?rs Bank opened its doors ECONOMIC opportunity.
For business in the heart of This bank represents that
the East Winston communi- opportunity and everybody
ty. in this community ought to
"This is the day we've be proud of this ,bank."
vorked so hard for," said Hunt also praised Sansom
nty executive Mel White, as, "one of the finest bankvho
beamed while gazing ing leaders of any bank in
ii ine moaem wnite eat- mis state."
ice. Hunt was then handed the
The ribbon cutting cere- scissors to make the first
Tiony began at 10 a.m. with incision in the white ribicerns
OfBk
to these places in the 1%0's was important, but in the
1980's it's a bread and butter matter. The economics that
Jackson is working on is bound to help the masses of people
because they spend money for those soft drinks. For
years I carried on the bottom of our paper "The race that
buys everything and doesn't sell anything is always going
to be a beggar race." The mere fact that you are selling
things will help everybody.
Gordon Dtlahiint " "*
, v.va.uwi ui me oiack United
Front, Raleigh
The black commuity is divided up along class lines. So
you find a division of interest, although you'll find a
number of things that people hold in common as pressing
f
ion Up 60%
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JVU1CS Will
I limit will be given certain have had a low enough instandard
deductions before come before the strike to
i the amount of stamps they make them eligible. In addireceive
is determined. tion, if the household does
The new regulations also meet the eligibility rewill
make it difficult for quirements, the amount of
I strikers to receive food food stamps they will
stamps. To be eligible a receive will be based on the
striker's household must See Page 2
Williams Named
To UNC-G Board
4
Greensboro - Ely nor A.
Williams of Greensboro, a
public specialist,
has been the
Board of Trustees the
University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
Ms. Williams, a senior
public specialist
with Western Electric, was
appointed to a two-year ^^^^1
term, expiring June of
1983, by the UNC Board of
Governors. iHHr
Currently serving as Mrs. Elynor A. Williams
president of the Guilford
County Women's Political directors of Guilford
1 Caucus, she is an honor Technical Institute and the
r graduate of Spelman Col- Greensboro Drug Action
p lege in Atlanta, Ga. and Council: She also -ervrs on
holds the master's degree * the couitcff on governmcni
from Cornell University, liaison for the Greensboro
She was an unsuccessful Chamber of Commerce and
candidate for the N.C. on the audience developHouse
of Representatives in ment advisory committee of
1980. the Greensboro Symphony
Among her- civic ac- Orchestra* She is issues
tivities, Ms.. Williams is a chairwoman for the Tarheel
member of the board of See page 2
1 Farmery Banlc
and Opening
bon as the audience sang George Adams served as
the black national anthem cashier and the principal
under the smiling direction employee of the instituof
Dan Andrews, music tion.
director of First Baptist Capital funds of the bank
Church. have grown from $10,000 in
Board members for the 1908 to over $4,000,000 at
bank include: C.P.Booker, the ^end of. 1980. Past
Anne Forsyth, Garence presidents of the institu(Big
House) Gaines, Jerry tion were: William R.
C. Gilmore, Sr., Geneva Fitzgerald, John Merrick,
Hill, Thomas Hooper, W.G. Pearson, S.L. WarCharlie
McLean, George ren, C.C. Spaulding, Sr.,
KJ H ? ? *
iicwcii, j. Kaymond Oliver and J.H. Wheeler,
and Mazie Woodruff. In recent years, the bank
Mechanics & Farmers has pioneered the stimulaBank
was organized in tion and financing of the
January 1907 by a group of construction df low income
nine persons and headed by housing in North Carolina.
William Fitzgerald. The Prior to the activation of the
bank opened for business in Small Business AdministraAugust
of the same year in tion's 4 4Equal OpportunlDurham,
NC. 4 ty" and 4'Project Own"
Throughout the trying programs, Mechanics &
years of its infancy, Dr. See Page 2
$
icks In '81
concerns. I think on one hand right now in the 80's, the
budget cuts really weigh heavy on the minds of a large
number of our people. Concern for the welfare of Aid to
Families With Dependent Children, programs to help
mothers, and then, of course, social security, the CETA
job program, cuts in these and many others are very
much in the minds of people. The same is the case in
housing as well. I know at least in Raleigh, and I'm sure
it's the same in North Carolina, there is a housing shortage
of low income housing whether it be in the public or
the private sector. All kinds of racist organizing is going
on around us. While the most racist form is the
Greensboro massacre, in Goldsboro, Winston-Salem,
and all of these places there is something to be concerned
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