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Winston-Salem Chr^onicle
"Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 1974"
Vol. VllI No.
U.S.P.S. No, 067910
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
Thursday, November 19, 1981
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26 Pages This Week'
Blacks Unimpressed
By Reagan Presidency
By Mike Speer
Special To The Chronicle
CHAPEL HILL While
white North Carolinians
jjink Ronald Reagan is
doing a good job, blacks in
the state are not so impres
sed, according to a state-
49 percent of the vote.
The random-sample tele
phone poll was sponsored
by the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Journalism and
the UNC Center for Public
Television.
Persons surveyed were
,/frankly feel that we’re not goirig to try to
\j)uy the black vote by trying to establish pro-
l^ams to keep them on welfare. ”
ide public opinion survey
inducted last month.
'|Sixty-two percent of those
illed gave the president a
favorable job performance
[rating, a higher mark than
the 57 percent he received
in a nationwide Louis
[Harris poll conducted in
August.
But Reagan’s political
[power base appeared to be
[largely among whites. The
i poll found 26 percent of the
whites questioned said
Reagan was doing an excel
lent job, compared to five
^rcent of the blacks.
,i|rhe Carolina Poll results
also suggested that the
jl-esident had picked up
sbme support in the state,
ihere he won an electoral
O^ctory last year with only
asked, “How would you
rate the job Ronald Reagan
has been doing as presi-
dent--excellent, pretty
good, only fair or poor?”
Twenty-two percent of the
respondents rated Rea
gan’s performance as ex
cellent, 40 percent as pretty
good, 23 percent as only
fair and 13 percent as poor.
Among the complaints ab
out the president was his
budget-cutting drive aimed
at social programs. A 26-
year-old black woman from
Durham County said she
favored Reagan's efforts to
decrease inflation, but, she
added, “I don’t agree with
cuts in federal spending
and welfare programs.”
She said she felt those were
important in keeping, crime
down.
A white Chatham County
woman agreed.
“Carried to extremes,”
she said, “cutting social
programs can cause
crime.”
“1 think it's very hard for
a person who's poor,” a
27-year-old Mecklenburg
County woman said, “es
pecially for the elderly.”
When asked if they favor
ed or opposed cuts in a
wide range of social pro
grams, 62 percent of the
whites polled approved,
compared to only 25 per
cent of the blacks.
David Flaherty, Republi
can state chairman, said
black support for Reagan
had increased some since
the president took office,
despite what he called a
liberal press telling every
one that the president was
trying to balance the bud
get at their expense.
“Maybe some of them
believe it,” Flaherty said.
“But I frankly feel that
we're not going to try to
buy the black vote by trying
to establish programs to
keep them on welfare.
“Our goal is going to be to
try to make the quality of
See Page 8
Atthough President Reagan is shown here receiving ap
plause uflpt wgning an executive order establishing plans
to'help 'black colleges obtain equal access to federal pro
grams, his popularity is still low among black North
Carolinians, (see story at left) Tony Brown (right)
discusses the executive order on Page 4 and the Chronicle
investigates the disappearance of Brown’s television pro
gram elsewhere on this page.
For State House
Hauser Announces Candidacy
■ U ^ Selective Buying
By Allen H. Johnson, It!
Managing Editor
Dr. C. B. Hauser, former
iairman of the Education
lepartment at Winston-
Salem State University, will
seek election to the State
House of Representatives,
he hold the Chronicle Mon
day.
Hauser, a Democrat, has
forked at a number of
levels in the party including
registrar, precinct chair
man and campaign worker.
Although he says he has
not formulated a formal
platform yet, Hauser said
he believes strongly in good
public schools, representa
tion for blacks in state
government and the ratific
ation of the Equal Rights
Amendment.
“I’m concerned that we
have black representa
tion,” he said. “We have
five House seats and one
should be occupied by a
black person.”
Hauser has 35 years of
experience in education.
including 21 years at Wins
ton-Salem State. He has
taught at West Virginia
State and Allen universities
and served as the first
principal of the Mary
Wright Elementary School
in Spartanburg, S.C.
“Some of my friends
have urged me to do this
and I’ve worked for the
party for some time,”
Hauser said of his decision
to run.
“I’ll go out there and I’ll
See Page 18
NAACP Mounts Campaign
C. B. Hauser
By Yvonne Anderson
Staff Writer
The Executive Committee of the Winston-Salem
NAACP announced plans to continue a selective buying
campaign throughout 1982 at a press conference held at
Shiloh Baptist Church Monday.
“With blacks spending an excess of $200 million an
nually, in the majority of white-owned businesses, it is
highly appalling and extremely deplorable that a large
percentage of these businesses do not hire blacks,” said
the Rev. Warner Durnell, in a prepared statement.
Patrick Hairston, president of the local chapter,
disclosed a three-phase plan, in which the organization
would first research and identify the businesses and then
publicize its findings. Hairston said that the selective buy
ing campaign would then move to full implementation,
targeting those businesses which do not increase the
number of black employees.
“One of our strongest methods is the selective buying
and boycott method. If the selective buying doesn’t
work, then we will have to move to stronger tactics,”
Hairston said.
The committee is asking blacks not to shop in white-
owned stores where there are not black employees.
“If 50 percent of the merchandise in white-owned
■stores is consumed by blacks, there should be 50 percent
representation in these stores,” said Durnell. “Many
white businesses will say that they have a black working
for them but, if it’s the blacks who are supporting that
particular store or the majority of the goods are bought
See. Page 19
Johnny Sigers and Kimberly Baxter at the recent National Farm-City Week
activities and exhibits in Hanes Mall. Staff photo by Yvonne Anderson.
Survey Sample Backs Selective Buying
In interviews conducted
downtown, Tuesday resi
dents of Winston-Salem ex
pressed positive reactions
to the NAACP’s recently
announced selective buying
campaign. Some of their
comments follow:
Lament Holcomb - “I feel
that the campaign would
supply an increase in black
enterprize. The black com- minorities spend in the purpose, then I support it.
munity certainly needs stores is not being returned Still, I feel that the NAACP
more money so I think the to the minority communi- should just come out and
call a boycott. They would
Your Turn
By Beverly McCarthy
get more support.”
campaign is a good move.” ties. I see the campaign as
0 means of promoting
Fred Battle- ‘I support the ,,
growth in the community.
selective buying campaign . ..jf j^e
because the money that campaign is used for a good
Helen Daniels - “The
campaign sounds fine to
me. The black community
is suffering economically
and we need more money in
the communities. Blacks
spend more money on
clothes than whites do, and
perhaps the campaign
would send more money
into the minority communi
ties.”
Derrick Fair - “The cam
paign sounds all right. We
should do something so
that money will come back
into the black communi
ties.”
See Page 2
INDEX ‘Tony Brown’s Journal’Vanishes
By Beverly McCarthy
Arts and leisure 10-11 Staff Writer
Business 8
Church News 16
have been bewildered over
Editorials 4 sudden disappearance
Lifestyle 18 of “Tony Brown’s Journal’
Sports 13-15 from WGHP-TV’s(Channel
8) Sunday night schedule.
The black-oriented televi
sion magazine was aired for
the last time in this area on
— Sep. 6.
When contacted in New
York, a spokesman for
Tony Brown Productions,
indicated that the program
had gone off the air in this
area because the show’s
contract with Channel 8 has
run out.
“When the program was
first contracted with chan
nel 8, it was decided that a
certain number of shows
would air by Sept. 6. After
that dale, the contract ex
pired,” the spokesman
said.
The show was not,
however, cancelled due to
low ratings, as is the case
with many shows that sud
denly di.sapp,ear from televi
sion.
Channel 8 officials
verified the fact that the
show ratings were not low,
and that the contract with
Tony Brown Productions
had simply run out. Chan
nel 8 also reported that
whether the show will be
re.schedulcd for this ;nea
has not been dclerniined.
“At this time, we just
don't know whether we'll
be airing the show again or
not,” said a channel 8 of
ficial. “We don’t know ol
any reason wh\ we