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# Black Tear - 1 ' . tvfciU U1U Sports, Page 14. VOL. IX NO. 14 Fair Shai Comes T By Ruthell Howard 5 Staff Writer j t 9 Five major food store * chains, including two j operating in Winston- ] Salem, have been named by 1 the NAACP as businesses ( that do not adequately 1 **TU^ m ritzy ure riUl UllVWing back and it's going to ( America if it doesn 't cha employ or do business with i blacks. 1 Harris Teeter, Winn Dixie, Pigley Wigley, Food t Town and Bi-Lo grocery T stores were named as the 1 major chains that the j NAACP is negotiating with < as part of its Operation Fair NIA Hoi jjj' ? Staff Writer ' "By helping miqnnfy businesses prosper, we believe it helps the nation as a whole -- and minorities in particular -- gain jobs, improve educational opportunities and achieve a better way of life," said R.J. Reynolds Industries Inc. vice president Marshall B. Bass. Speaking recently at the 19th Annual Home Office Mid-Year Conference of the National Insurance Association on the con- s ference's theme, "Commit- < m'ent to Excellence," Bass \ said Reynolds' efforts to promote excellence takes t many forms. t It is the role of the large ( corporations, Bass said, j "to pursue their minority j affairs function with the t f r? t / |1|^^H W ?nC$* (photos by James Parker) James Freeman Cll RALEIGH ? Art adult jail is no place for a child I awaiting a court hearing. 1 The more than 1,600 i children under age 16 who ? are placed in adult jails in i North Carolina each year ; should not he sent there. 1 That's a key recommenda- \ tion of a report released last ; week by the Governor's Ad- i ^ vocacy Council on Children i ctnd Youth (GACCY). (is Advance 11 in 1S?78? riqsi U S P S. No. 0< re Drive o City Share Campaign. Other grocery stores are also argets for negotiations. The thrust of the effort, as summed up by Patrick Hairston, president of the ocal NAACP, is that, "We [blacks) are going to do business with those people us to earn our money [financially) kill black mge." --L.R. Byrd .vho do business with us, x>th black and white.'* At a press conference in Jie city last Friday, the Win st on-Salem branch SAACP announced its adjoining with the fair share ;ffort. See Page 3 ds Confc George Hill Jr. ;ame commitment to ex:ellence as with their other business activities." Citing Reynolds' conributions to the educaional development and its ifforts to provide equal opportunities for minorities ind the corporation's support of local and national Felicia Lampkin Should 1 The report, "No Place for a Child: Children in Sorth Carolina Jails," notes that placing a child in an adult jail "can have severe traumatic effects on an already troubled and frightened youngster," The r of a f r /^Ui Irl rnn t n Miitiut iciic iui timui tu in adult jails is five times the national average, the report notes. Herb Stout of Raleigh, ton-, "Serving the Win 67910 Fi Little Miss Janel Nic E. Fuller, flashes th< a haty contest spoil The f ireen Level Uni for the title were W Leah Jones, third dIi by James Parker). jrence H toaLix^A JW"- X.V _ -' Marshall Bass civic organizations, Bass said the corporation has "long subscribed to the belief that we have an obligation to make positive contributions and to establish and maintain mutually beneficial business relations with minorities and women-owned Susie Johnson Be Remo GACCY chairman, said a Nov. 2 incident in Transylvania County underscores the harmful ef fects of this policy. There, a 13-year-old awaiting a court hearing in Hendersonville was driven to Brevard and focked in the adult jail overnight when his hearing was delayed. He attempted suicide by hanging. "In the past seven years, four # Black o fcSJr dispel tl ||&|L * now pia ^ Second Fr< Sale iston-Sa/em Community . ?? WINSTON-SALEM. N.C. . 1. - '' . ""',::;,^S : V'M j*y Jg ss ^ irst Place Winn iit' i" . ole Fuller, the daughter o > winning smile that helpe t sored recently by the Wi ited Church of Christ in B llss Rena Michella Potea ice; and Mit? Aprtl Vaugf r _ -gf337 [erethat minority businesses should share to {he fullest extent possible in the benefits of doing business with us." Bass was keynote speaker at a noon luncheon held in the Holiday Inn North as part of the conference activities. The association brought together representatives from black insurance firms r*f c c t U n nnti An t /> rlirr?nrr avri iiiv, iiaiiwiif iu uiuum problems peculiar to minority insurance firms and to exchange ideas. George Hill Jr., president and chief executive officer of Winston Mutual Life Insurance Co. and president of the association, said the conference was formed "out of a need for black insurance companies to ban See Page 3 Kay Bohannon ved Fron children in adult jails in our state have committed suicide while awaiting a court hearing," Stout said. "If a child really is a threat to himself or others, or if there is reason to believe he will not show up for his hearing, then he should be held in a juvenile detention center or other secure facility," Stout said. "The 13-year-old in Tran Jphill Climb ontractors, who formed < e supporting black busir le low confidence level in in on a new battle. out. m C Since 1974" r Thursday, Decc 1 As/ iL X IK (j^rr^^ m % $vgL mk _ ter - if Mr. and Mrs. Joseph d her net first place In Ulng Workers Club of nrlinntnn Bi?nno?a.n?* g?waa? a iailV? V lip t, second place; Miss m, fourth place (photo tU -i - ->s'MMMfr,., HF jjMr X ia __ 1 1 Winston-Salem State Ur Perry unpack an excitin the colorful hangings of Arts Gallery recently. Chronicle Can Blacks 1 $ By Edwar Staff \ In a nationwide health si tional Center for Health Stj the high blood pressure rate percent. Because of the high amou in their diets and the effects < i AH nit T LM 1 JLltUli U sylvania County had come from the Buncombe County detention center and I feel that he should have been returned there instead of being sent to the Transylvania County adult jail." In fact, the GACCY report found that 60 percent of the almost 4,000 children under 16 in adult jails or juvenile detention centers in 1981 were held Vie in alliance to Viewi lessei and to Brow i bWck firms, the r suppc " Editori; \rc imber 2, 1982 NAACP Affirmati By Ruthell Howard Staff Writer After reviewing a proposed Eoual Employment Opportunity Program and Affirmative Action Plan that is to be presented to the Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen for approval Monday night, the city's NAACP recommends doing away with the proposal and going back to the drawIng board. Patrick Hairston, president of the NAACP, is critical of the plan because it has no provisions for the handicapped and offers no method of insuring that women receive pay equal to that r\f m?*n in cimilor ? %?* v> i ii vs I ill Jllllliai JUU3. Other flaws in the plan that Hair?ton cites are: unrealistic projections for r j r V y> }'t' "V v, i' w. ilversity art majors Emery g show of textiles by Lelii Robertson, a former text lera Vnd High d Hill Jr; Writer irvey conducted by the Naitistics, it was revealed that among black adults is 48.8 nt of pork and salt included )f stressful living conditions, ails, Sun unnecessarily. "State laws that outline when children cKmilrl Ua U AM - ? 3HUUIU un. lltlU 111 >CLUTC detention are vague," the report states. "They allow broad discretion that often results in arbitrary and unnecessary placements." Stout said that a GACCY survey in March 1982 of children held in secure detention found that most should have been returned wers Respond ers respond to noted n's four-part television s( nedia, "Black TV Imaj :>rt as well as criticism. Is. Page 4. ' 25 cents Rejects! ve Action increasing the city's minority employment percentages; not enough detail on how those goals would be reached and no method of training employees for upward "If you look at the pi percentages. But it does back up those percenta^ mobility. " Because of these oversights, Hairston says the NAACP has found the proposal unacceptable. "The plan is no good,'* Hairston says. "You see, the city has always gotten standards and goals it's going to reach by a certain number of years, but they have never materialized." t <r> ".-J v < Partee (left), Wendy McC ta Robertson. Sewn from lie conservator, were on i Blood F blacks are more prone to survey said. The Chronicle recently p Winston Shopping Center tc with the symptoms of hyp< take precautionary measures James Freeman, East Win ly aware of the signs of hype See Pay 'ey Says home. "A total of 32 percent had never had any previous contact with the court," he said, 4'93 percent had never failed to appear in court, 78 percent had never violated court supervision and 88 percent were not assaultive or disruptive. In fact, 15 percent eventaully had their cases dismissed, probably because the evidence columnist Tony ^ries on blacks in ge Month, with e J 26 Pages This Week Proposed Plan The proposal includes a short-range goal of increasing the percentage of blacks in official and administrative positions from its present 20.5 percent to an, you see that it has ' hot have the figures to % S. " --Patrick Hdirfston u 23.6 percent by 1985. For women, the 1985 projection is from 7.7 percent to 9.5 percent. Hairston is also critical of the plan because the projections are based on the Employment Security Commission' s labor force i~; L - J nguics, wiucn, nc says, ao not adequately reflect the See Page 5 - >< % 'v'. ^^Brr"" m-.m : V38P16^H Mk.: mk lure (center) and Bonlta many different fabrics, exhibit in WSSU's Fine 'ressure develop hypertension, the oiled residents at the East ) determine their familiarity ;rtension and whether they against high blood pressure. ston resident: "I'm not real?rtension. My mother has it, 3 against them was too weak to even bring the case before the couri." GACCY made four recommendations based on the report: North Carolina laws that determine when childn n should be held in secure detention should be made more objective and specific, <o children will not be deSce Page 3
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