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A string of armed robberies
has plagued the East
Winston community for
more than two months.
Despite increased police
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community. He seems
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surveillance of the area and
stepped- up community
watch activity, the gunman
and a number of individuals
police feel are mimicking
his crimes have yet to be
caiicht
Medical
By Yvonne Anderson
Staff Writer
Dr. Sidney Barnwell, dean
of the East Carolina
University Medical School
and president of the Old
North State Medical Society,
visited the city last week
to make plans for the society's
convention.
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The Chronicle canvassed
East Winston last week,
asking residentsr^'How^
have the robberies in East
Winston affected your
life?'^ L*_
Many persons declined to
give their names while
others refused to pose for a
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familiar with the way
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picture. Still others didn't
want to talk about the situation
at all, saying only that
they feared that the person
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responsioie was a member
of their community and
that expressing their opi
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did his undergraduate and
post graduate study at
Howard University, Barnwell
also made it a point to*
visit Winston-Salem State
University to talk with
students about the medicalprofession.
"Students who are interested
in medicine are
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said of the students he met.
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Of the people who didres=pond,
the reaction was
uniform: They were tearful7
Keith Locke tt--26 years
old--4tI*m only here
visiting, but I see what this
thing is doing to the people
who have to stay here. The
women are really scared;
they're scared / for the
children and for themselves.
I've told my relatives
who I'm staying with to
stay off the streets at
night."
Calvin Lennix? 25 years
old--44It hasn't affected me
personally. I mean, I'm not
afraid to go out at night,
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terested people. My main
concern, both at ECU and
with Old North State, is to
get more minority students
into medical school."
Barnwell believes that
medical school is tough on
any student, regardless of
color, but that for black
students the pressure is
twice as heavy.
"Medical school has
always been tough for every
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very happy," Ellison said.
Harold Ellison runs a onethe
help of volunteers from
Kimberly Park, Happy Hill
and Skyline Village to help
housing developments thn
positive goals through cot
workshops.
"During the course of a yi
tact with about 2,800 youl
trying *o sell them on the i
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student," Barnwell said.
"But for black students it is
a lot harder. Their
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keeping their mission, tl
mitted."
background doesn't give
them the kind of training
they need to cope. It has
been that way all along."
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man operation along with
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) youth in these and other
oughout the city develop
mseling and motivational
jar, we make average conh,"
Ellison said. "We're
dea that adults do care."
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The state of the medical
profession in the United
States has improved for
iities are interested in
ien they should be comblacks
who participate in it
and for those who require
medical service. Yet, Barnwell
feels that more needs to
'ting Foi
years. "We've got to nurt
said. "Nurturing doesn't s
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love and providing a posit
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forts made by the youth ai
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Chronicles. We sold ab
Winston-Salem Chronicle
selling them each week thr
Much of the funding for
downtown businesses, but
black community. "The ci
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woman who has the
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that field. But she
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By Ruthell Howard
Staff Writer
The unemployment situafiorTln
Forsyrti County and
Winston-Salem is not bad,
says Grover Teeter, manager
of Winston-Salem Employment
Security Commission,
but figures for blacks
and minorities, though
slowly decreasing, are still
relatively high.
"Anytime someone is out
of work it's bad news,
especially for him," Teeter
said, "but the overall picture
for Forsyth County
and Winston-Salem is pret
ty good^ :
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By Ruthell Howard?
Staff Writer
and
Allen Johnson
Managing Editor
The Winston-Salem
branch of the NAACP has
called publicly for information
leading to the arrest of
the person or persons responsible
for 28 robberies
in East Winston during the
past two months. r
Admonishing the black
community to use the
NAACP Crime Line, a
phone number which community
members may call in
information anonymously,
Hairston told the Chronicle
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health care available to
poor people. He said that
the only way to do that is to
increase the number of
practicing black doctors.
4'The greater percentage
of Medicaid patients go to
black doctors. Middle income
people tend to go to
white doctors," Barnwell
said. "That is unfortunate
because black doctors can
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; kind, giving support and
ive role model."
hrough donations and efid
Ellison to raise money.
Bllison said, "is selling
out 200 copies of the
last week and we will be
oughout the area."
the program comes from
very little comes from the
itical part of the program
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prised ot *2.9 percent total
minority population with
19.8 percent of the total
minority population black.
While the total unemployment
figure for Forsyth
County is 5.9 percent,
"Blacks have not but
perience, training and <
with white applicants."
~ blacks in the county have a
9.8 percent rate. Teeter attributes
the high unemployment
figure for blacks and
minorities to a lack of
preparation for certain
jobs. 4 * Blacks haven* t built
up a backlog of experience,
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people have a special
black-on-black crime.
t4We hope blacks will
realize that black-on-black i
crime is the worst type/'
Hairston said. "Nobody
can solve our problems but
us."
Hairston described the
Crime Line, which was
established in ^nt*?rr?k/?r
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1981, as a "liaison between
the police and the community."
An NAACP press release,
submitted to the Chronicle
last week, says the organization's
"struggles for
justice and equality using the
law as its tool are being
till Grea
not plan on their peers for
business. But, it also means
that a larger number of
poor people will get the
medical attention they
need."
As president of the Old
North State Medical Society,
Barnwell, 55, carries on
the tradition of fighting
discriminatory practices in
the health care field, for
which the society was form
unity Suj
is that 75 percent of the yout
we get very little supp
community," Ellison said.
"Until crime really hits soi
face, they think they are exei
made it should not forget <
They may feel that their kit
peer pressure can cause a chi
regret for the rest of his life,
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competing with white applicants,*'
Teeter said.
"Though in the last 10 to
15 years emphasis has been
"placed on Better preparingminorities
to compete for
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in competing
Jobs,?prior?to?Hm
minorities, overall, weren't
getting adequate preparation."
Teeter said special training
programs, such as CETA,
have been instrumental in
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ing blacks." The release
calls for anyone in the community
who knows about the
robber to come forward.
"The mandate of the
NAACPJ' savs the refrasr
"is ingrained in the struggle
for civil rights for all people,
especially minorities.
But as blacks continue to
abhor the bnfair practice
within this lys'em against
blacks and othe'1 minorities,
it is ironic that somewhere
among us, ther) is a black
person committing crimes
against other bfccks." V
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in 1886. Barnwell said
that a group of black doctors
who could not get
residencies at white
hospitals got together and
formed the society.
"Through their efforts,
the society was able to build
and support the Leonard
Medical School at Shaw * *
University. It closed-?ifl?
1914, but during the time it^
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