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Winston-Salem Chr^onicle
“Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 1974“
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U.S.P.S. No. 067910
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
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Thursday, December 3, 1981
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26 Pages This Week
Welfare Organization
Seeks To Provide Voice
By Allen H. Johnson, HI
Managing Editor
“Welfare with
)ignily” as its watchwords,
newly formed Winston-
;aiem organization plans to
irotect the rights and needs
,f welfare recipients.
Leaders of the People’s
trganization for Welfare
„d Equal Rights
POWER), in a press .con-
erence at the Old Cour-
house last Friday, said they
eel a need to counter the
egative images given to the
.elfare system and those it
erves by conservative
loliticians.
“Jesse Helms seems to be
he one who got the ball
oiling,” said Reggie War-
eii, advocate counselor for
he organization.
Helms, and other conser-
atives, Warren said, “have
been successful i n
manipulating facts that on
ly demonstrate fraud by a
couple of people. They saw
fit to penalize a nation of
people.”
churches and hopefully we
can develop a link with
some white organizations,
to let them know that
they’re being affected by
the same enemies.”
“Black people, unwed mothers, poor families—
I want to see them better themselves. The doors
ain’t gonna stay closed. ”
-Maggie Shores
Warren said
POWER, barely a
old, has had “a
favorable response”
The group plans
that
month
lot of
to
ac
complish its goals by
establishing coalitions with
other existing groups in the
area, including the
Winston-Salem improve
ment Association.
“We also plan to enlist the
aid of tenant organizations.
Toward that end, POWER
will hold its third meeting at
7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec.
9, in Roots I at 975 Liberty
St.
“We’re trying to get
numbers now,” Warren
.said, “and get people aware
of the things we can do to
counter racist and class at
tacks on poor folks, be they
black or white.”
Warren added that
POWER, and other groups
like it, indend to serve
notice on “the Reagan ad-
ministriation and Helms
fatcats that we won’t stand
idly by while decisions
which affect our lives are
being made.”
Maggie Shores, president
of POWER, said she is op
timistic that the organiza
tion will succeed.
“1 feel that it will be suc
cessful because I’ve got the
determination,” she said.
Miss Shores said that that
determination will reap the
support she needs.
“I’m unemployed, but I’m
out to better myself,” she
said. “Black people, unwed
mothers, poor, families-l
want to see them better
themselves. The doors ain’t
gonna stay clo.sed.”
Like Warren, Miss Shores
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Vice President Meets Black Mayors
WASHINGTON-SevevaX
prominent black mayors
met recently with Vice
President Bush to discuss
the plight of cities under the
Administration’s new
economic plan. The
mayors, under the auspices
of the National Conference
of Black Mayors Inc.
(NCBM)i whose collective
constituency represents an
estimated 10 million U. S.
citizens, focused on three
highly controversial issues
and presented policy recom
mendations.
The Voting Rights Act,
Civil Rights, as well as
block grants and revenue
sharing, dominated the
discussion according to
Gary, Indiana Mayor
Richard Hatcher, president
of NCBM and leader of the
delegation.
Hatcher expressed
‘satisfaction’ with the
meeting saying, “I believe
the Reagan Administration
now understands that the
success of their efforts at
revitalizing this nation
depends to a rather signifi
cant measure on input from
leaders at the local and
municipal level in the for
mulation of federal
policies.”
Scheduled as an oppor
tunity to relay NCBM’s
position on issues facing
municipalities, represen
tatives of the 201-member
organization encouraged
the Administration to focus
attention on short range
problems while pursuing
long-range objectives.
According to Hatcher,
“We want to emphasize
that no sector of our society
should bear the full weight
of policy changes—that no
segment of our national
population is expendable in
the process.”
The delegation included:
Carborro, N.C. Mayor
Robert Drakeford,
MCBM’s 1st V.P.;
Tuskegee, Ala. Mayor
Johnny Ford, 2nd V.,P.;
Shelby, Miss. Mayor
Robert Gray, 3rd V.P.;
Centreville, 111. Mayor
Riley Owens III, NCBM
Secretary; Vandalia, Mich.
Mayor John B. Cooper,
NCBM Treasurer; D. C.
Mayor Marion Barry; Com
pton, Ca. Mayor Dr.
Walter Tucker; Hayti
Heights, Mo. Mayor David
R. Humes; and Richwood,
La. Mayor Verdiacee
Hampton-Goston. Stanley
Alexander, director of
NCBM’s Washington office
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UP! Photo
ATLANTA: Accused child killer Wayne Williams is hustled away from an Atlanta courtroom by deputies on Nov.
20. A judge refused to throw out evidence taken during a June search of his home. Williams is scheduled to stand trial
in late December in the killings of two of the 28 black youths. UPI
INDEX
Arts and
Leisure 12-13
Business i 17
Church News.... 18
Editorials 4
Lifestyle 8
Sports 13
Chronicle Camera
By Beverly McCarthy
Staff Writer .
Residents from all over
Winston-Salem followed
the trial of former Benton
Convention Center Director
William McGee last week..
Chronicle reporters gave
some of those residents the
chance to voice opinions
about the outcome of that
case.
Darryl Jones-“\ think Bill
McGee is in trouble, but I
think he’ll get out of it
because he’s rich. I really
Winston Residents React To McGee Sentencing
think he’s guilty.”
Michael Gray-”If he was
guilty, 1 think he should pay
for what he did. Something
shouldtave been done about
the way the trial went,
though.”
Vincent Caldwell-You
shouldn’t make a man pay
seven years of his life for
something like traffic in co
caine. We’re going to wish
Lewis Perry
Theressa Edwards
Michael Gary
him luck, though, because
he is a brother.
Waller Chambers -“He
had a good job, so 1 don’t
think he needed to get in
volved in selling drugs.”
William Johnson-"A man
with his ability and
knowledge should have
stayed, clear from any drug
dealings.”
Betlie Bennett"yo a cer
tain extent, he was set up.
It’s obvious that justice
didn’t prevail and 1 don’t
think everything was done
that could have been in his
defense. I wish Smith could
gel out on bond too.”
Lillie Holcomb-"\ didn’t
like it. I didn’t like the wa>
the whole thing was handl-
e d . ’ ’
Lewis Perry-‘‘Some peo
ple think that he’s not guil
ty, but there is really no way
he couldn’t have been. 1
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Membership On Rise Among Black Churches
By Beverly McCarthy
Staff Writer
all men unto me.” Obvious- ches to find spiritual
ly, somebody, somewhere homes. According to sever-
Even though the reasons
for this increase seems to
be more practical than spir-
is lifting up the name of al local pastors, church
iesus said, “If I be lifted Jesus. People all over the membership is increasing itual, Father Michael Cur
“P from the earth, I’ll draw world are turning to chur- at a steady pace. ry, pastor of Saint Stephens
Episcopal Church, church
membership is increasing
for a combination of rea
sons.
“It really depends on what
people are looking for in a
church, the major reason
for the membership at St.
Stephens increasing is our
ability to make new people
feel welcomed and at the community is also a
home”, he said. contributing factor for the
Curry also said that the increase in church member-
desire for people to become ship.
a part of some vital force in
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Employment Outlook Not A Rosy One
^ORK: At the first rehearsal on Aug. 27 for the new Jackie Robinson musical
w First,” Rachel Robinson (R), Jackie’s widow compared notes with Lonetta
w, who plays Mrs. Robisnon in the show.
UPI Photo
Unemployment and its re
lationship to the black pop
ulation in Forsyth County
was the topic of discussion
at the regular meeting of
the Greater Winston-Salem
Kiwanis Club
Grover Teeter, man
ager at the Employment
Security Commission paint
ed a topsy-turvy
employment picture with a
hopeful outlook for the
skilled and professional
levels but a bleak one for
the unskilled.
“It is unfortunate that we
don’t develop the extensive
kind of information to really
tell how the economic
status is affecting the black
labor force,” Teeter said.,
“but we don’t, yet it is
consistent that whatever
the unemployment rate is,
the black rate will be twice
that much.”
Teeter said that the racial
aspect of the job market
isn’t a significant factor
because employers are
looking for skilled com-
petative people.
“In the past we have had
CETA (Comprehensive
Employment and Training
act) to build a trained
force, but now that there is
a slow down in tr&ining
social programs it is obvi
ously going to have an
effect on the population,”
said Teeter.
According to Teeter, the
prospect tor blue collar jobs
in Winston-Salem is excel
lent because the industries
here have’t been affected
by . the economy. Teeter
said that the professional
level jobs will be harder to
get because employers are
looking for the most quali
fied applicant they can find.
“My advice to young
black people is to get
training, experience and an
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