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Columnist Clifton Graves pays tribute to the
year-old Winston-Salem office of Mechanics
and Farmers Bank ? and raps the knuckles 1
of those among us who neglect to support it
and other important black institutions.
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Ferguson follows the lead block of Mike Roblnsc
line during last Saturday's season-opening win <
rival North Carolina A&T. Ferguson, a senior
This Rivalry Invoi
By Edward Hill Jr. ween the Rams of WinstonStaff
Writer Salem State University and
the Aggies of A&T State
For those who were either University. Never mind that
out of town or out of touch, the Rams prevailed on the
last Saturday was another scoreboard, 21-7. The issue
chapter in the yearly here is the rivalry,
knockdown, drag-out bet- That rivalry transcends
Chronicle Camera
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By Edward Hill Jr.
i Staff Writer
Recently, Duke Power Co. proposed an 11.85 percent
rate increase to the N.C. Utilities Commission.
Translated monetarily, such an increase would mean
that customers now using an average of 1,000 kilowatthours
per month would have to pay $6.73 more monthly.
The Chronicle polled citizens downtown recently to
find out their feelings on the proposed rate increase and
how it would personally affect them, if passed.
Ray Matthewson, manager of Matthewson East Construction
Co.: "Well, I can't say how it will affect me
"Urban Renewal <
By Allen H. Johnson
Managing Editor
DENVER ? In theory, it sounds very appealing.
Middle- and upperclass developers and residents
venture back into the inner city by droves. They
restore and renovate old houses and turn grimy skid
rows into shopping malls and gleaming, glass-plated
office towers. *
Unfortunately, as good as it all looks, urban
renewal can be very ugly, critics say, when it
1 displaces low-income residents.
"The middle-class is creating its own country club
districts," says Dorothea Armstrong, who works
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A tongue-in-check listing of Chronicl
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Most Off-The-Wall Lyricist Award" an<
"The Most Over-rated Sex Symbol Award.'
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touchdowns and extra porter who si
points: it affects the to all of
coaches, the bands, the 44Whoever v>
mascots and most impor- can stick out
tantly, the fans. brag for anoi
44This is the game we all 4'This gan
look forward to," said Her- deep feeling!
man Fulton, a Ram sup- among the j
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personally right now, but I do know that a
who I know will feel the crunch. There arc
people who are having a hard time making
for me, I'll just have to make adjustments
if they go up."
Raymond Anderson, employee of Piedr
Leaf Co.: "With the high unemployment r
costs, a rate increase would cause a hardsl
people, me included. If things go as planni
see people freezing to death in their homes,
think something should be done to try an
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with Expansion Unlimited, a counselir
residents in Five Points, a largely
neighborhood in Denver, Colo. "It's
nice house in your area, but not when it:
The problem, Mrs. Armstrong says,
young, mostly white professionals mov<
the property taxes to rise. The resident!
the neighborhood originally wind up h;
because they no longer can afford to sta
houses.
The positive influences of the
"pioneers," as many of the newcome
are being played up, adds Yvette Cousir
pansion Unlimited, while the negative i
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SALEM. N.C. Thursday, Septembe
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ory and a look ahead to next week's oM3 tl
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voter re
lys he has been Aggie supporter Curtis Pitt- itiated t
these affairs, man, who has been to eight year
ins this game Aggie-Ram struggles. 44It area rej
his chest and seems really important to should
ther year." the fans that their team much
le brings out wins this game.'* especial!
5, particularly The fans came out on when
alumni," said See Page 2 started i
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moval? Is White
ig servicc for being largely ignored.
DiacK uroan ** i ney nave to paint a rosy picture
nice seeing a what is happening," Cousins says,
s detrimental. us this is going to be great, but they'
occurs when you're not going to be here a few y
i in and cause Both Armstrong and Cousins are
i who lived in Points, a predominantly black anc
aving to leave munity so named because of five i
y in their own tersect there.
Denver's growing black populatic
r influx of Points in the early 1930s. By the 40s
rs are called, area, called the Welton Commercia
is, also of Ex- the heart of the city's black cultur
influences are ment.
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uthell Howard tion drive, to July 31.
itaff Writer H e says the di
averages over 100 regist
voter registration voters a^eek- and heis
ihow a slow increase that the number of bl:
r following the June registered has increases
aries. date at least by 1,000.
local ~NAACP The^Boardnof Btect
I Action Committee had no tally on the incr
in Walter Marshall for blacks past July,
e-figures do^ not one official said the t
the results of the county figure is up by <
>'s voter registra- 341 people as of Sept
vc. She says the figure inch
ding to the Forsyth
Board of Elections'
tally, the number of ftr , , t/
* blacks in the city 1 do have OVer 1'C
d less than one per- >n and would be h
m 21,878 before the one-third could be
;s to 21,983 after.
s parallel with a less
le percent increase people moving away, d
from 20,783 before or being purged from
mary elections to books and those i
before the general register.
in November of Though Marshall says
number of names turne
ity figures are by the NAACP won't
showing an increase?curately reflect the-nun
lis year from 2,051 increase because some \
the primaries to pie may already be on
tne last tally, which books and don't realiz*
t the same as last he says he also has s<
aunty increase of 11 questions about the
947 to 1,958. curacy of the Board of E
Marshall says the tions figures.
gistration drive, in- "A majority of the ]
)y the NAACP this pie (registered by the c
h cooperation from mitttee) are between
jistrars and judges, ages of 18 and 35," he s
have effected a Though the commi
higher increase, was told that one-thin
ly from June 9, one-fourth of the peop
the organization registers are probs
its massive registra- already on the books, N
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lelody Tate Zeke Smith
Influx A New
"Anybody who was s
; for us not to see one black resident. "Thi
"They're telling those days."
re not telling you As Denver's black i
ears from now. affluent, many left Five
residents of Five city- The area deteriate<
1 Hispanic com- community. Its business
streets which in- Then came the mixed
exodus back from the si
>n settled in Five "Because of the energ;
, the heart of the walk to their jobs," s;
1 Strip, was also residents.
e and entertain- They also could buy he
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between the bitter Triad
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gures
shall says the increase as a
rive result of the drive should be
ered higher.
sure "Some "(people) voted
acks last when (President) Carter
i to ran and would be purged
from the books by now,"
ions~he saysr
ease The NAACP and
but registrars met with Jim
otal Armentrout, chairman of
only the Forsyth County Board
. 9. of Elections, before the
jdes drive to discuss effective
XX) names that we *ve turned
ard to convince me that over
challenged."
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ying procedures to register prothe
spective voters.
ivho "One reason we talked
with Armentrout," Mar^
i~the shall says, "was that" last
d in election, people in Cherac
ryview and North Hills
iber?(predominantly black areas
3eo- where they had registered
the over 300 people) went to the
e it, precincts and their names
ome weren't on the books."
ac- Armentrout said any inLlec
dividuals the organization
could prove they had
peo- registered would be allowed
om- to vote this time.
the 4'Every Friday we have
ays. been turning the cards in,"
ittee Marshall says. "We do
i to have records. I've been
le it keeping a copy of
ibly everybody we got since July
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W.T. Wright
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iomebody went there," says
s place was really jumpin' in
middle class became more
Points for other parts of tjie
i and became a low-income
es suffered.
blessing of thr middle-class
iburbs into the city.
y crisis, many felt they could
ays Armstrong of the new
>uses inexpensively, fix them
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