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The Black SoMeF
The first article in a three-part
series recounts the triumphs and defeats
of the many military geniuses of Africa.
See Page 15
Sweatsocks
and Heels
Can a lady be a lady and a
basketball player, too? You bet,
say members of the
Winston-Salem State Ramettes.
See Sports Page 17
Welcome Back
Writer Maya Angelou explains her return
to Winston-Salem and the South in
a current Ebony magazine article.
See Editorials, Page 4
Winston-Salem Chnonicle
Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 19 74"
VOL. Vin No. ^ U.S.P.S. No. 067910
WINSTON-SALEM. N.C.
Thursday, February II, 1982
*25 cents
28 Pages This Week
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Principals Agree With Study: Drug Problem Not That Bad
By Yvonne Anderson
Staff Writer
choing the conclusions of
a recent police study, area
ineipals say the drug pro-
lems on their campuses are
01 as severe as the public
lay believe.
We have no way of
[kiiowing specifically how
Widespread the problem
is,” said A. C. Larrimore,
principal of Parkland
Senior High. “Based on
referrals for disciplinary ac
tion, we have the lowest
rate in about 10 years. The
referrals for alcohol are
slightly higher,”
Edward Armstrong, prin
cipal of Anderson High,
said that drug use in his
school appears to be on the
decrease, but he admits that
the problem may exist in
greater numbers outside the
school.
“1 would say that we have
10 to 15 kid.s who are heavy
users,” Armstrong said.
“We prosecuted many
violators last year and that
had curtailed the open use
of drugs. At any rate, the
situation here has improved
tremendously.”
“We take a pretty hard
line and I think students
feel that it is not worth the
risk,’’ said eight-year
veteran Donald GoldirA,'"
principal of Atkins High.
“We have a very small pro
blem in my estimation. It’s
not nearly as prevalent as it
was five years ago.”
Northeast Alderman Vi
vian Burke, chairman of the
Public Safety Committee,
requested a police tally of
drug-related offenses at the
city’s high schools to dispell
the belief that Carver High
had a special drug problem.
The report showed a
relatively low number of in
stances where the police
where called in on drug of
fenses. Ms. Burke said that
although the report was by
no means conclusive, it
does provide officials with
something to go by,
Ms. Burke also said that
the police department
would continue to monitor
the situation. However,
Police Chief Lucius Powell
said that although his
department would pay “ap
propriate attention” to the
schools, it has no special
plans for surveillance.
The principal at Carver
High, Ear! R. Parker,
agrees with many of the
area principals, saying that
the problem is at a very low
point, but cautioning that
drug abuse could always
ri.se without warning.
“At this moment, we
haven’t found a major pro
blem this year,” said
Parker, who has headed
Carver for 11 years. “But
that isn’t to say that it
won’t rise again and that
doesn’t even mean that the
kids aren’t using it. They’re
just not using it in school.”
Julian Gibson has been
principal at North Forsyth
Senior High since it opened
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VAACP Begins
1982 Campaign
By Allen H. Johnson
Managing Editor
The Winston-Salem branch of the NAACP will
mount its annual membership drive and seek to stem
what President Pat Hairston sees as an ebb in black
activism,
Hairston told the Chronicle last Tuesday that the
campaign’s goal will be 10,000 members locally,
more than double the 4,000 members currently on the
Winston membership rolls.
“We have only 450,000 members nationwide,”
Hairston said. “A lot of black people don’t know
what the NAACP is all about even though we’re in
the courts and news everyday.”
Although the NAACP’s membership has dwindled
nationally and locally, Hairston said, he feels
Wisnton-Salem has enough black people-and racial
problems-to warrant the high goal.
There is a pressing need for black people to come
together politically and economically,” Hairston
said.
Hairston said there is also a ned for black youth to
hecome more involved in the organization.
We need volunteers to work on the executive com-
itiittee and throughout the NAACP,” he said,
especially young black people who were born in the
S' All they have to do is call the office. Anybody
can qualify. ’ ’
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A Helping Hand
Local Group Plans To Aid Haitians
Crystal Mobley, a 20 year-old psychology major at
UNC-Charlotte, beams as she holds her first place
trophy bearing the title of “Miss Black and Gold.”
The pageant was held at the Kenneth R. Williams
auditorium last week as part of the Alpha Phi Alpha
State Convention festivities.
By Yvonne Anderson
Staff Writer
The Concerned Citizens
for Haitian Relief held a
forum and organizational
meeting last Thursday night
to call attention to the
plight of Haitian Refugees
in Miami.
Dolan Hubbard, English
instructor at Winston-
Salem State University and
Clifton Graves, community
activist and head of the Of
fice of Affirmative Action
at the university, are
spearheading the effort to
collect clothes and money
for the refugees.
“For too long, U. S.
foreign policy has been
neglecting the people of the
Caribbean and Africa,”
Graves told the small
gathering in the East
Winston Branch Library.
“It is time for black people
in this courntry to get
ourselves together and work
for the cause of our
brothers around the
world.”
Hubbard described the
conditions under which the
average Haitian is living in
that country and the condi
tions in which they find
themselves in the U.S.
“They thought they were
going to be welcome and
ses to American phar
maceutical firms and
universities. He said that
the U. S. government uses
the small island, bordered
by Santa Domingo, as a
communications and
satellite center and, accor
ding to Hubbard, in return
maintains a policy of non
interference with the Hai-
“They came here looking for the American
dream and what they got was the American
reality. ”
have a chance to make
something of their lives,”
said Hubbard. “They came
here looking for the
American dream. What
they got was the American
reality.”
Hubbard reported of the
selling of Haitian blood,
which is rich in red cor
puscles, and Haitian corp-
tian government.
“The average Haitian is
hungry and is poorer than
the most economically
deprived black person you
will ever see here in
America,” Hubbard said.
The government in Haiti is
headed by President Jean
Claude “Baby Doc’’
Duvalier who suceeded his
father, “Papa Doc’’
Duvalier. The tiny nation is
rich in minerals but the ma
jority of the nation’s wealth
is kept among the govern
mental ruling class. The
masses remain in poverty,
which many have tried to
e.scape through emigration.
The Concerned Citizens
for Haitian Refugees, in ad
dition to collecting clothes
and money, wish to start a
political campaign to force
the U. S. government to take
a stand on the issue.
“Just as Polish Americans
rallied and forced Reagan
to take a public stand on the
issues surrounding Poland,
just as the Jews rally to the
aid of their people in Israel
and Russia, we too must
rally to the aid of our
brothers,” said Graves.
“We must speak in a
unified voice of one and
make our message dear and
relentless.”
ongressional Black Caucus Unveils Family Leadership Plan
l'*'A s H I N G T O N ,
array of black
from the church
' ■’■Shts, political, enter-
and athletic
^ gathered here on
JWol Hill recently to
to Black America a
"Awaited “Black
*ship Family Plan for
Survival, and
%ess of Black People.”
The plan is the product of
the cooperation of over 150
heads of national Black
organizataions who worked
together over much of 1981
to draft it. According to
Congressman Walter E.
Fauntroy, chairman, of the
Congressional Black
Caucus and coordinator of
the plan’s development, the
plan has three objectives:
First, it sets forth 12 rules
for “Black Unity, Survival,
and Progress,” which this
broad cross-section of black
leaders urge black people to
follow.
Second, it establishes a
Black Development Fund
by which black citizens are
urged to contribute directly
to existing black organiza
tions of their choice which
are working for the pro
gress of black people.
Third, the plan provides a
set of instructions to
numerous categories of
black organizations for im
plementing its strategies.
Fauntroy said that the
plan is really a response to
the appeal of actor-
producer Ossie Davis to
black leadership 10 years
ago. At the first annual
Congressional Black
Caucus Dinner in 1971,
Davis said:
“Give us a plan of action .
, . a 10 Black Command
ments; simple, strong, that
we can carry in our hearts,
and in our memories no
matter where we are and
reach out and touch and
feel the reassurance that
there is behind everything
we do,a simple, moral, in
telligent plan that must be
fulfilled in the course of
time. If all of our
leaders, one by one, fall in
battle, somebody will rise
and say “Brother!! Our
leader died while we were
on page three of the Plan.
Now that the funeral is
over, let us proceed to Page
Four.”
Quoting Davis further
Congressman Fauntroy
said: “ ‘It’s not the man,
it’s the plan; it’s not the
rap; it’s the map’.”
The 12 rules for “Black
Unity, Survival and Pro
gress” are:
(1) Support the black
church
(2) Protect the elderly
and support the youth
(3) Excel in education
(4) Oppose crime
(5) Contribute to the
B lack Development Fund
(6) Buy and bank black
(7) Register and vote
(8) Hold your elected of
ficials accountable
(9) Support black family
and community life
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