The Chronicle, Thursday, November 19, 1981-Page 3
Community
Calendar
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- -. -^lizabeth Welch will speak to the
''WCA’s Widow Outreach Seminar from
1^00-12:00 noon. Her talk “Volunteerism
■^tiployment for the Elderly” is free and open
'“the public.
U.S. Blacks Move
Against S. Africa
Friday, November 20
I A dance workshop and performance will be
held at Mineral Springs Jr. High School for the
Junior High Dance population and the students
of Mineral Springs. The Atlanta Dance Com
pany and 3’s Company, a children’s dance com
pany, will be the guest artists. The program is
jointly sponsored by the Forsyth County
Schools and Urban Arts.
Saturday, November 21
• Dance Symposium in Black ‘81 will be held
at the Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium on the
campus of Winston-Salem State University.
Dance workshops will be held from 9:30 a.m. to
5 p.m. and a performance featuring the Atlanta
Dance Theatre, 3’s Company, Studio Dance
School and Otesha Dance and Music Ensemble,
(vill be held at 8 p.m.
t The Crafters Holiday Arts & Crafts Show
will be held at the Elks Club on Silas Creek
Parkway, Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and
Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday, November 22
• The 1962 graduating class of Paisley Senior
High will hold a meeting to formulate plans for
the 20th class reunion at Funderburkes’
Paradise located 2511 E. 5th Street at 6 p.m.
• The Winston-Salem Friendship Force will
conduct a special informational meeting for all
persons interested in learning about the pro
gram at 3 p.m. in the lecture room of the Hall-
Patterson Communications Building at
Winston-Salem State University. Represen
tatives of the Friendship Force will be on hand
to discuss last year’s trip to Peine, West Ger
many, and a second international exchange
scheduled for spring, 1982. Persons who are in
terested in being hosts or ambassadors are
especially encouraged to attend the informa
tional meeting.
Monday, November 23
• Reverend Gilbert G. Campbell, Jr., pastor of
Mount Zion Baptist Church will give a
“Thanksgiving Message,” to the members of
the Greater Winston Kiwanis Club at their
regular weekly meeting at 12:30 p.m. at the
Benton Convention Center.
t The Forsyth County Publie Library’s
Children’s Outreach Program is sponsoring a
series of film programs on Monday at Happy
Hill Community Center at 3 p.m.; Tuesday at
King Recreation Center at 3:30 p.m.; and
Wednesday at Sprague St. Recreation Center at
3:30 p.m. This week’s featured films are: ‘‘Fur
Coat Club” and‘‘Frederick.”
• The Nursing Homes Community Advisory
Committee of Forsyth County will sponsor a
seminar entitled: ‘‘To Live As We Age - Who?
Where? How?” at the Forsyth County Public
Library Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The speaker
wil be Ms. Gracia S. McCabe from the UNC-G
faculty. Ms. McCabe will discuss guilt feelings,
adjustment period for residents and their
families, the aging process, what to expect in a
nursing home, and how families may assertively
communicate with staff. The public is invited.
• Drew Edwards of Forsyth Psychological
Associates will speak on ‘‘Sharing Respon
sibilities in Two Earner Families” at the
fWCA’s Contemporary Women’s Series. The
series is held from 12:15 to 1:00 p.m. at the
Glade Street YWCA. The series is open to the
Seneral public. For further information, call
722-5 1 38.
• The YWCA’s Widows Support Group will
bear Reverend George Bowman of the N.C.
baptist Hospital School of Pastoral Care speak
® Monday, November 23 from 10:00-12:00
neon. His talk is free. Transportation can be ar
ranged by calling Nancy Adams at the YWCA.
number is 722-5138.
Tuesday, November 24
• Dr. Elizabeth Welch will speak to the
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By Chauncey Bailey
A national drive to end
all U.S. relations - political,
ctilltiral and economic -with
South Africa is now moving
in the wake ol' a roll-up-
yoitr-sleevcs “Solidarity
Conference" that attracted
some 1,000 blacks from 35
states.
“We are beginning to
turn our protests into plans
.of action,” said Randall
Robinson, executive direc
tor of TransAfrica, a
Washington, D.C. - based
lobbying organization
working to set up chapters
in 10 major urban centers.
Robinson said volunteers
from Howard University
are studying a process
whereby the trade routes
and import/export “points
of exchange” involving
trade between the U.S. and
South Africa will be
discovered and monitored.
He stressed this will be
passed along to trade
unions with large black
memberships. Those unions
will then be asked to
boycott any cargo going to
South Africa or any goods
from South Africa. “Too
many black workers in this
coirntry are unwittingly
helping to maintain the
links between the U.S. and
racist South Africa,”
Robinson said. “We plan to
tell the.se blacks what they
can do to cut those ties...”
Blacks are also planning
to boycott black recording
artists (such as Millie
.lackson, Ray Charles, and
the O’.lays) who snubbed
rctiuests not to perform in
South Africa. When The
lacksons were on their way
10 South Africa they receiv
ed death threats attd the
group faced hostile
demonstrations in I.otidon.
The .lacksons decided to fly
back to Los Angeles. Litter,
the white newspapers in
South Africa tried to com
fort its readers by running
advertisements saying:
“The Temptations are
Coming to Sotith Africa!
They are better than The
lacksons...”
Participants at the
Solidarity Conference, held
in New York City, urged
blacks to strike back at
black artists who tout
South Africa by picketing
their concerts and not buy
ing their albums.
Lor three days blacks at
the conference huddled in
workshops, heard fiery
speeches and shoveled past
an avalanee of well resear
ched data. “Damn...” .said
one black woman as she
scanned a listing of 539
American firms doing
business in South Africa. “1
had no idea we were this in
volved with South Africa.”
E.L. “Buzz” Palmer,
chairman of the 70-membei
Illinois delegation, the
largest at the conference,
said: “This shows that the
dormant black middle class
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Mayor Wayne Corpening proclaimed March 5, 1982, “Daddy-Oh Day” in Winston-
Salem. The proclamation was issued Tuesday in commemoration of the WAIR per
sonality’s 25 years of service on raido in this city. Here, Oscar “Daddy-Oh” Alexander
proudly watches Corpening sign the proclamation as Robert Horton looks on.
Transportation Dept. Receives A ward
The stale’s Department
of Transportation has
received a civil rights
award lot its employ
meni and minority con
tracts record in 1981.
Highway contracts
awarded by North
Carolina tv) minority-
owned businesses totaled
$2.5 million in 1979-80.
In 1980-81 contracts
awarded to minority
firms rose to $10.4
million.
The increase in contacts
is largely due to the par^
ticipation by minorities
and women in the
transportation depart
ment’s minority business
enterprise-women’s
business e n t c i p r i s c
(MBL-WBL] internship
training program.
In accepting the civil
rights award from the
G o V c r n V) I , Stale
Secretary of Transpor-
taion Bill Roberson
noted, “We 'are plea.sed
to be recognized for our
accomplishments in the
Department of
Transportation.
However, we would not
have attained our goals
without the help and
support of private in
dustry which has worked
hard with us to achieve
this honor for the state.
Our thanks go to all in
volved.
North Carolina is the
first national recipient of
the civil rights plaque,
which was presented at
the fourth annual
Secretary’s Conference
on Equal Employment
Opportunity and Affir
mative Action in Raleigh
on Nov. 4.
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