1 The Strike
In a special edition of Chronicle
Camera, our respondents share their
reactions to the pro football strike ?
. and how they're coping.
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Reservations
Plan Not Tough Enough,
, Womble Complains
By Ruthell Howard a need for such a plan to
Staff Writer help increase the percentage
of minorities in city posiAlthough
an Equal tions.
Employment Opportunity After reviewing the plan,
Program and Affirmative Burke, who is not a member
Action Plan presented to of the committee, says she
the Winston-Salem Board is "pleased" that a plan has
? nf? Aiit+rvmt**? fi^npraf-hi?i?Tr
Committee last Tuesday 44As I look at the plan, I
night was, on the whole, feel that it will be a
-well received, Southeast workable one," she says.
Ward Alderman Larry~ She adds that she is waiting
womble says he has reser- for more discussion by the
vations. General Committee before
Womble says he doesn't commenting further.
reject the plan "outright," If the present plan is apbut
that he would like to see p/oved by the board, it will
higher goals for minority be-the first affirmative ac^_
employment. tion plan adopted by the ciFellow
aldermen Vivian ty since 1975 (the existing
Burke and Virginia Newell plan, presented to the board
are, on the other hand, in 1981, was not approved).
guardedly optimistic in The new plan has a shorttheir
reactions. # range goal of increasing the
Fact w/ora a '
?..mu niutiiuau percentage OI oiacKS in OfNewell
says she is pleased ficial and administrative
1 with tbCc?kuii?but she i* not positions from 20.5 percent
yet satisfied with the city's to5!T.8 percent by 1985. For
progress in increasing the women, the 1985 projection
percentage of minorities in is art increase from 7.7 perupper-level
city jobs. cent to 9.5 percent.
?'"The city manager (Bill Similar increases are proStuart)
has been honest in jected for blacks and
his attempt to have some af- women in other job
firmative action," Newell categories, and the plan
says. "He has pursued it also includes long-range
with diligence and given us goals in those areas.
a plan we can live with." Womble's contention is
The plan was drawn up that the projections are too
by Assistant City Manager low. He also says figures usAlexander
Beaty after Nor- ed to formulate the goals
theast Ward Alderman should have included the
Burke requested a plan to percentage of blacks in the
be adopted by the Board of city rather than just the
Aldermen in the board's number of blacks in the
Public Works Committee labor force.
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? iiiccung. "There are a lot of blacks
Burke and the other and women who are not
black aldermen say there is See Page 2
Blacks And The C
~? Participation Amoiu
But New Task Fore
By Ruthell Howard and Edward Hill Jr.
\ Staff Writers
While there have been concerted efforts on the part of
prominent black businessmen and officials of the Greater
Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce to solicit more
minority businesses, blacks still comprise a little more
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man one percent of the chamber's membership.Of
the chamber's nearly 1,600 members, approximately
35 are black according to its latest figures.
...'7 will say this whole thing is a two-way
street. On the one hand, you have a situation
where the chamber is wondering why more
black businessmen are nor members, and, on
the other hand, you have the black businesses
wondering why the chamber isn 7 doing more to
get them involved. " -
Tom Trollinger
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The chamber ^also has no black officers, which are J
voluntary positions, and only two black members on its
Board of Directors.
Thomas E. Waldrop, vice president and general
manager of the Piedmont Publishing Co. and president
of the chamber, says there has been a concentrated effort,
over the past few years, to recruit more minorities. 1
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e May Change That
"A black business has as much at stake with the
chamber as a white business," Waldrop says. "We wish
we had more minority businesses and we're working hard
to get them to see the advantages of belonging to the
chamber. A large amount of energy and effort is geared
toward trying to attract minority businesses."
Waldrop adds that the chamber will form a task force
by next year that will consist of "citizens who understand
the black community and perhaps will help us understand
the black community better."
"We're working harder at trying to get more black
representation at chamber functions," he says.
|n talking to the city's black aldermen, Waldrop says
he received positive feedback on ways to approach the
problem.
?"The real purpose (of the meet i n gV was 4<>get to know
them and let them get to know us," he says. "With
(North Ward Alderman) Larry Little and all the other
black aldermen, one of the things we stressed was jobs.
minorities and how we can do a better job of attracting
and retaining them."
Waldrop admits that there is a need for the chamber to
be more visible in the black community and says that
black members, such as Tom Trollinger, "have helped us
identify some resources in the black community that will
be very helpful."
Blacks Share Part Of The Blame
Trollinger, owner of Contract Furnishings, is one of
the two black board members.
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Thursday, October 7. 1982
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v ' : ' Staff Writer
WpPE" ' The- race- for-sheriff-o?1
I Forsyth County isn't over
Republican Steve
x. Schank, a former deputy in
the sheriff's department,
BS has launched a write-in
- w campaign in an attempt to
Ib| oust incumbent Manly Lan
__. easier, a. democrat who
Uf -Ijp '* won decisively in the July
. 29 primaries.
No Republican candidate
Hf entered that race.
At a press conference
Tuesday evening in Wake
p'C'.Forest University's
fcJ Jb Reynolda Hall, Schank
VSm* ^!Hfe charged that he was
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Wl- "being politically disloyal"
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pgjjiffi1 ?= ?vestigation of a death that?
he suspects was murder.
Schank also accused Lan
caster's department of fail "a
/ ing^to jsroperty investigate
? \ 43 unsolved murders in ForS/
| syth County, covering up
||? > % crimes--including an alleged
statutory rape involving
BMilBgO- two deputies in a local
motel -- and the misuse of,
county funds.
The department, he said,
needs a "house cleaning."
[ - "This is the type of thing
I'm talking about in the
eturns interception for a sheriff's department," he
lay at Miller Park (photo said. "This is a cover-up
and it's happening."
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Efforts Bel
Thomas Waidrop, president of the Greater Win
chamber has been diligent in its efforts to recruit m
say they don't know enough about the chamber or <
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i luiiui^ti ntdi me cuarriDcr nas not Deen 1
aggressive enough in its efforts to attract more blacks, he j
also contends that blacks could show more initiative. ~ <
"Up until recently, the Chamber of Commerce did not I
actively seek out black and minority businesses/* Troll- I
inger says. "I think that now there is a more concerned i
effort to recruit black businesses. I'm not at liberty to
discuss those moves at this time because they are still in
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They Should Weep
Columnist Tony Brown says Andrew
Young, Coretta Scott King and other
black leaders ought to cry ? at their
failure to give direction to the struggle.
Editorials, Page 4.
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k's Support
;k Community
ns Uncertain
dismissal or resignations of Larry Little, chairman of
11 officers accused of drug the Black Leadership
use in the ^jreensboro Roundtable Coalition (a
-PoHcc-Pepartment and the?group?of?black?leaders
suspension of two after an formed the organization to
investigation which began offer political guidance
last year, Schank said, before the primary elec"I'm
not committing myself to support any
write-in .candidacy. I feel like if they (people
who wage write-in campaigns) were serious,
they 'd file like everyone^ else and run a cam-??
paign.V
-- North Ward Alderman Larry Little
"The Forsyth County tions), said the coalition
Sheriffs Department has will probably discuss the
never had a house situation in its meeting
cleaning." He adcied that tonight and decide whether
Lancaster is "unable or or not to become involved.
either unwilling" to deal for his personal sup1:
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witn sucn problems. port, Little said although he
Schank further charged strongly opposed Lanthat
morale is low in the caster's- candidacy^- "I'm
department and criticized not committing myself to
Lancaster for dismissing support any write-in canCapt.
Harry Joyner, who didacy. I feel that if they
had publicly opposed Lan- (people who wage write-in
caster's re-election effort. campaigns) were serious,
Schank said he has the they'd file like everyone else
support of many who sup- and run a campaign. A
ported Robert Woods and write-in campaign is
Bob Carter, Lancaster's nonsense in this instance."
two opponents in the But Schank appears opprimaries,
and predicted he timistic.
will defeat the sheriff in the Once in office, he said,
November elections. "It will take me about 30
But Schank's support in seconds to solve about 90
nr rrrc
where Lancaster met with (department's) problems."
strong opposition, is uncer- He said guilty personnel
tain. would immediately resign if
North Ward Alderman See Page 5
ng Made
iston-Salem Chamber of Commerce, says the
ore minority members. Some black businessmen
don*t have the time to be active members (photo
the planning stages. But I will say that this whole thing in
a two-way street. On the one hand, you have a Nituation
where the chamber is wondering why more ""black
businesses are not members, and, on the other hand, you
lave the black businesses wondering why the chamber
sn't doing more to get them involved.
"Black businesses just can*t sit by and wait for soSee
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