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Liquor Houses
The Chronicle Camera examines liquor
houses and the impact they have on
neighborhoods in the black community.
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'Frightening,
I By Ruthell Howard
u~ - Staff Writer
I The drug situation in the Forsyth County school system
I is "frightening" to the point that it is crucial to educate
youth about drugs as early as the fifth and sixth grades,
one undercover agenrin the WinstomSalem Police
I Department Vice and Narcotics Squad. '
The agenuestimated-that tens of thousands of dollars
wbrtyrTvf drugs is being pumped into borsyth County
''There are a lot of good kids in the schools
and some of them you can save from drugs. But
some of them are lost for good because the
parents don't care."
schools and is a serious threat, especially to elementary
school students.
"Situation^ have been reported where someone will put
a drop of liquid acid or LSD on one of those round pieces
of paper with a smiling face on them" he said'.'They call
it blotter acid. All a kid has to do is lick it, and he gets
Among Blacks
Voter Rolls Im
By LaTanya A. Isley
? : Staff Writer
As of April 30, the number of registered black voters in
Winston-Salem and Forsyth County has increased by only
1,037 since Oct. 23, 1981.
The October count by the county Board of Elections in
dicated a total of 22,892 blacks registered to vote. The
count in April indicated a total of 23,199 blacks
Escapes B}
By Ruthell Howard
Staff Writer
A group of approximately 25 East Winston residents
picketed St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church on 17th
? Street last Sunday morning.
The residents sav thev organized the nrotest to voice
their opposition to the church possibly leasing a convent
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By Shelia Rucker Thomas J. Elijah, presiStaff
Writer dent of the Urban League,
says the center serves a vital
function for a vital segment
The recently opened Ur- of the community. "We are
ban League Senior Center very proud to serve the
-at 514 N. Trade St., has senior citizens because they
been described as an oasis, are one of the most impora
downtown home and a tant constituents we have,"
rest area for the senior Elijah says. "The Urban
citizens in the community. League was founded in
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An old-fashioned set of common-sense
strategies are just what the doctor ordered
for what ails black folks in these United
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An^farrmirg^irre^nrof^drug-traffic wa<r fotrncf m the
school system by the agent, who penetrated a Forsyth
County senior high school disguised as a student. The
agent took on the characteristics of one peer group in the
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auu siaiicu iu mingle. /\i iirsi, everyooay was
pretty close-mouthed when 1 asked about drugs," he
said. "Then they started offering me small quantities of
marijuana, like a couple of joints (a marijuana
cigarette)."
?The agent said he found many ^mall-time deatersTn ihe
school. "A high-school student will buy a bag, or an
ounce, of marijuanaTor about $35700. Then hb'lfroliit
into about 50 or 60 joints and sell them individually for
$1.00 a piece. Then, he'll go back and buy two bags,
maybe three."
The agent also said he found students who would buy a
bottle of 50 to 75 "hits," (or dosages) of LSD and sell
each dosage for $2.00, or students who sell one capsule of
percodan, a synthetic opiate, for up to $40.00 each.
"I knew one kid who was making about $200 a week
selling hand-to-hand," he said. "Fifty percent of the kids
where I was had tried drues. mavhe 60 nprrpnt Niin^tv trv
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registered. In March 1980, 23,936 blacks were registered
to vote. - '
According to Clifton Graves, Affirmative Action officer
at Winston-Salem State University, fFTe reason for
low voter registration is the dissatisfaction of the people
with the political system.
44A lot of our people are frustrated and apathetic
towards the political system because they've historically
been 4sold out' by blacks as well as whites," Graves sard.
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in the community as a home for emotionally disturbed,
potentially violent youth.
The Forsyth/Stokes Mental Health Center has requested
the use of the convent, located in Fast Winston,
as a group home for nine Willie M. youth.
The demonstration was prompted by reports that three
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1910 by some of the people 1980. The Forsyth Council
we are serving today. We for Older Adults and the
arc picking up where they Urban League Conceived
started. The old building in the idea and approximately
which the center is located $22,000 was advanced
was ready to be thrown through Title III of the
away. We can never throw Older American Act and
away our senior citizens, administered by the NorThere
is a value in age." thwest Piedmont Cquncil of
' The property was acquired Governments for the renovaby
the l eague in December tion of the building. A
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Thursday, May^. 1982
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President Reagan's embrace of NAACP chairwoman
June ha9 been prophetic; Reagan now appears to wa
strengthen his standing there. Recent visits to a bh
predominantly black Chicago school may be an indie
ed squarely at the black community. (UPI)
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By Sheila Rucker
^L^g KyPB^Bt^ The East Winston Crime
K^ Task Force was organized
earlier ThuryeaTin~response
to the mounting problem
the black
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Miynard Jackson by?Lhe organization to
Spur Sunday Den
also in East Winston, escaped Friday night, and that one
started a fire in the center last Thursday.
Patrick Hairston, president of the Winston-Salem
NAACP and a resident near the convent, said the protesters
wanted to make the church members aware of the
situation. "Everybody who went to church Sunday and
didn't know about it was made aware," he said. Hairston
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Are Liquor Hou
By Ruthell Howard unlicensed establishments
Staff Writer in residential areas where
alcohol is sold illegally. In a
written report, the Task
One concern of the East p-orce cites at least five of
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? a group ot citi/ens Winston that "appear to
dedicated to combatting flourish and continue"
crime in their community ? despite their "high visibiliare
"liquor houses," ty." The Chronicle Camera
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grant of approximately "The Senior Center is a
$8,(XX) was obtained from prime location for senior
the Winston-Salem l oun- citi/ens and the enthusiasm
dation to operate for its is great. We at the center
first six months and the Ur- arc interested in enlarging
ban League is working to their scope of activity. W'c
dcveJop resources to pa> for lry lo encourage them as an
keeping it going beyond . . . , .
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that period.
GayTon Thomas, coor- Their response has been exdinator
of the center, says, plosive. It makes the Dallas
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at the organization's annual meeting In Denver last
nt to embrace all of black America In an attempt to
ack family in Prince George's County, Md. and to a
ration of an image building campaign by Reagan aimMeeting
Saturday
discuss solutions. PowelJ; "The Church and
l he series (^workshops Crime Prevention," by"the^
will be held from 9 a.m. till Rev. G.G. Campbell of Mt.
3:30 p.m. at Mount Zion Zion Baptist Church; "The
Baptist Church. Family and Crime PrevenMaynard
Jackson, former tion," by Thomas Elijah,Atlanta
mayor, will lead a president of the Urban^
workshop organizing the League, and "The Role of
community into block cap- Other Agencies," by Louise
tains. Other workshops will Wilson of the Experiment
include "Police and Com- jn Self-Reliance.
mtmity Relations," headed The members of the Task
_by Police Chief Lucius . See Page 2
lonstration
added that he felt some church members are "very supportive"
of the picketers' concerns.
Reports that three teens ? two boys and one girl ? had
escaped from the Health Center through a fire door they
had blocked open by putting a slip of paper into the lock,
have alarmed residents, Hairston said.
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recently asked-- East They used to be just plain liW
inston residents and some quor houses, but now you
eiti/ens downtown their can buy drugs there."
views on liquor houses and Maryann Rhodes: "I think
their impact on the com- liquor houses are bad
mumty. because people who are tryBeverly
Hairston: 44I feel jng to live decently in the
liquor houses are bad community can't get any
because they have a bad in- rest because of the noise,
flucncc on young people. See Page 2
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cheerleaders look tame." Local experts from TranSome
of the activities that sAid and the Winstonthe
senior citizens are in- Salem Transit Authority
volvcd in include sewing, shared, information on
knitting and macrame. schedules, passes, fares.
There are movies for enter- tokens and routes to help
tainment and seminars on the senior citizens utilize the
crime prevention and other transit system more effecrelevant
issues. On May 12, tively.
a Transportation "We were pleased with the
Awareness Day was held. See Page 2