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9/30/81-Harrisburg, Pa.: Black College Day in Pennsylvat
students from various black colleges near Philadelphia. Stu<
of the state capitol armed with pom-poms and songs aimei
schools.
Reaganomic:
By Pat Bryant
Special Correspondent
Capable and honest leadership is a key ingredient
necessary to struggle against oppression. The majority of
me ten Atro-Americans interviewed in this column in our
last series said they were not satisfied with today's black
leadership. In the first part of the series, asked what were
the most pressing concerns of blacks, the majority said
racism and economics. This week we publish their
responses to "Is Reaganomics a cure or a curse upon
black Americans?" You can obtain previous segments of
this series from this newspaper.
Jennifer Henderson, director of the North
Carolina Hunger Coalition in Fayetteville.
1 think Reaganomics is a challenge for black folks to
redefine some priorities and not specifically to spend a lot
of time dealing with Reagan. We need to spend more time
dealing with conservatism in the state and counties.
There's been so much time spent on the national level
that the county commissioners, the city councilmen and
people that are on these local boards have been given a
free.track to do as they wish. With this new wave of con
servatism and state's rights, the states will have much
more power. I would encourage black folks to spend
more time reacquainting themselves with state and local
government.
Dr. Earl Thorpe, professor of history of North
Howard Lee To
Speak HereSunday
The United Methodist
Men Paul United
Methodist Church, 2400 *
Dellabrook Road, will .\JM
observe Mens' Day on Sunday,
October 18, with
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nowara rs. Lee, iuunci
secretary of the N.C. IBJM
.Department of Natural
Resources and Community JJUjM
Development, as the
featured speaker for the
11:00 a.m. worship service. Howard N. Lee
The theme for the day is ^ forrtlcrly djrector of
"Motivation for Witness- . . fh
employee relations, the
,ng' ' Future Parents Program
Mr. Lee is a native of and the Office of Human
Chapel Hill and has served Development and Paths for
the state of North Carolina Employees Progress
in many varied capacities. $ee P?8e
T\
BMuaaammu^mmanmnon
on-Sale
"Serving the Winston-Salem (
' o 516 N. Trade St.. Winston-Salem.
300,0
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Hr An estimated 3CX),000 lowr
income households across
the state will be eligible for
~ v financial help with their
1 ^ heating bills this ?winter
PPMMM9MMI through the federal Low:
Income Energy Assistance
ITrJt f Pro8ramw
I % | % : According to George
mfcn wm " 11 ^?-1 r ?V.. | Flemming, assistant direcfH
t *f \ vjg 1 tor of Program Administra1
""f 1 ) trion, N.C. Department of
| II I-! * Human Resources, Division
* l ' ?* Social Services, "the
d? " program provides a onetime
payment to help eligible
households pay their
^Ik beating bills. However, it
is not the purpose of the
HRf program to pay all of the
Mj household's heating bills,
P but to provide some relief
from the high costs of
Last year, approximately
fa 210,000 households received
assistance under the
1 I Low-Income Energy Assistance
Program with pay^^^B
ments averaging $155 per
C household. The lowest
K payment was $59.00 and
the highest $361. The
^ amount of payment a
household received dePI
Photo pendcd on the number of
- people in the houschjld,
ua did not go unnoticed by incomCf the region of
ients converged on the steps $tatc where they lived
I at legislators to save their an(j the Qf j,eating fuCi
used.
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Carolina Central University and national president
of the Association for the Study of Afro-American
Life and History.
For the black educated elite, what DuBois called the
talented tenth, there is some blessing in Reaganomics.
But for the black masses it's just CURSE in capital letters.
Thev are beinc taken from the nrnoam? thnf
put there to alleviate their plight. I think that it's going to
lead to desperation and the social acts that lead to
desperation. For the talented tenth or black elite, the
highly educated and so forth, it's a curse to them in the
sense that there can be no solution to the problems of the
black elite ultimately that is not a solution of the black
WombT<
Larry Womble has
defeated incumbent Eugene
Groce for the Aldermanic
jfj^yp seat in the Southeast Ward.
Womble finished unof
^ ficially with 1,150 votes to
Groce's 1,006 votes.
Ernestine Wilson also
i defeated Francis L. Frye for
the South Ward seat.
Larry Womble Womb,e said af(er the
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-J IV \ Principals
at Black Leadership Caucus, / to r, Dr. Wil
Miller, Felix Stevens, Jr., Mrs. Velma Hopkins, Dr. Wih
Mitchell and James S. Reeves.
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Community Since 19
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00 Househc
ieating Bill
North Carolina's share of Hemming said that since j
the SI.875 billion in federal Congress has not yet apfunds
authorized by Con- propriated any funds for j
gress for this year's Low- the program, he hopes this <
Income Energy Assistance amount is not reduced j
Program is S35.6 million, when funds are appro- j
Urban Leag
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Political Clout Sh
Yvonne Anderson
Staff Writer
"If you give a man a fish
he can eat for one day.
If you teach that man how ' jffk
to fish, he can eat for a > ytjf&l
lifetime," said Thomas ^
Elijah, director Of the Winston-Salem
Chapter of the M
National Urban League. M
Elijah, addressing the teg- \? Jj
ular weekly meeting of the _ r#.. u
* .? Thomas Elijah
Greater WihstonKiwanis
Club, spoke on the subject in the county and that is
of "Reagonomics and How where our concern must
It Affects Winston-Salem", go," he explained.
Elijah said that the Rea- Much of the monies cut in
gan administration's bud- the budget will be reget
cuts were affecting allocated through block
Winston already and gave grants which will come to
some insight of what is to the state and be divided
come. among the counties. Ffi"
Winston-Salem is the 4th jah believes that the county
largest city in North Caro- commissioners will not be
lina, but the growth trend is as sensitive to the human
eFor Blacks?
masses. Some of the black leaders are sounding like the
KKK used to sound. They say, "If you don't have a decent
job, decent housing, decent income, and so forth,
it's your own fault. You're lazy, you don't have any get
up and go, you're immoral, you don't have the intellect."
Some of the so-called black leaders are beginning to
sound like that which, of course, is more of the deliberate
divide and conquer tactic that is being encouraged.
Virginia Newell, Winston-Salem Alderwoman,
and chairwoman of the Mathmatics and Computer
Department at Winston-Salem State University.
"It's a little too early to tell. Blacks do perform better
See Page 2
i Defeats Groce
victory that he attributed it pleased that whites supto
the fact that the people ported him as well. "I inof
the Southeast Ward tend to be the alderman for
simply wanted someone everybody, black and
who would do something, white. That's why 1 did not
"The people of this ward respond to those race issues
looked beyond rac? and during the election. I will be
chose a candidate they everybody's alderman."
thought would be active More detailed information
and forceful." will be forthcoming in next
week's issue of the ChroniWomble
said he was cle.
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veria
B. Atkinson, Mrs. Mazie Woodruff, Mrs. Mavis H.
Ham J. Rice, Alonzo Gil/, Mrs. Pamela Gladman, Ralph W.
pilicle)
^20 cents 74-t*a%es rhts weeA
?lds Eligible
Assistance
priated. gram. County social serThe
Department of Hu- vices departments across
man Resources has been the state will determine
designated as the state eligibility,
agency responsible for the The only households that
administration of the pro- $ee page 2
\ue Leader
ifting T o County
needs of people as' the The Youth Career Decity's
aldermen. velopment Project, which
"When, that, money is goes to the Forsyth County
Xnuffi frt /wMiniti i
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you have to wonder how the students to give students
commissioners will choose guidance and direction in
to spend it," he com- choosing a career, was
mented. "Are they going originally funded for
to include social services as $327,000. But it was not on
a priority, for the people the state's list of prioriwho
have been cut from ties until a small lobbywelfare
and food stamps? ing effort was made by
Or are they going to pave some concerned citizens. ' '|j
roads?" The program will now rcHe
also cited the affects oi ceive a total of $50,000, a
the budget cuts on the slash so deep, that Elijah is
Urban League itself. Al- uncertain of the overall
though the league is United effectiveness of this year's
Way funded, many of its program,
individual programs receiv- "We have enough money
ed federal funding any to complete this fiscal year, ,
many of these same pro- but where the funding for o'
grams have been cut to- the next year will come
tally or had its funding from is anybody's guess,"
reduced. See Page 3
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UPI PHOTO
Gangland Killing
9/29/81-Columbia, S.C.: Shirley Hark/ess (right) and her
sister, /70//7 nieces of Edward Hark/ess, stand solemnly
9/29 as they look down the road to the house where thei/
uncle and Jive other people were shot in an execution
style shooting. Harkless and three other people were shot
in an executlckt style shooting. Harkless and three other
people were killed by at least two and maybe more
gunmen 9/29 morning in this low-income neighborhood.
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5th District Black
Leadership Caucus
Plans Strategies
By C.B. Hauser J. Rice, treasurer; Dr. WilChronicle
Correspondent veria B. Atkinson, corresponding
secretary and
The Fifth District Black James S. Reeves parlia
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Leaaersnip caucus neia an mentarian.
organizational meeting Sat- Coordinators of the
urday, Oct. 10 at the Rey- various counties are Mrs.
nolds Health Center Cafe- Mazie Woodruff, Forsyth;
teria. Miss Pattic Spencer, Surry;
Ralph W. Mitchell of Franklin Thomas, Yadkin;
Stokes County was elected Ralph Mitchell, Stokes; Fechairperson
of the caucus, fix Stevens, Jr., Wilkes;
and Mrs. Mazie Woodruff and Alonzo Gill, Davidson,
was elected vice chair- The caucus is being orperson.
Other officers are ganized and will affiliate
Miss Julie B. Martin, sec- with the North Carolina
retary; Alonzo Gill, assis- Black Leadership Caucus
tant secretary; Dr. William See Page 2