AL. ARCHIVES BINDER RT 3 BOX 210 ALBERTVILLE AL m 3595i Affhat Dazz ? What could the funk group The Dazz Band do to top-the phenomenal success of last .year's "Let It Whip"? Simple. A new LP that, accbrding to the^band's leader, is four times better than the last one. Art* And Ubwt, Pifc 10. -Winst V- ; VOL. IX NO. 23 U S P S. No. 067 ' / __^' a>j. j?^^- ^ ' ,.*?* ?tl'.. J P^?W Mmf I Ikw jn R^r 'jfl T f*. ' ?v, fl^ttiBB _____ m %* n #W U lis*' #^ ^^Kbk I ./l ^^^HSjHjV ':->r JMl ,<,4V m t^i^ih i ? ?Hn ^ The Aggies By An In Juan Lanauze of North Carolina A&T State University \ this shot as Kevin Vaughn (34) of Winston-Salem Stal on the play. Details on the thrilling outcome of this am Page 14 (photo by Joe Daniels). r?L i-i ^ r? V/iiimucig camera Will It Bring l By ROBIN ADAMS w Staff Writer cc Gov. James B. Hunt has proposed a 4'Safe Roads Act*' di to the North Carolina General Assembly that is designed Uj to crack down on drunken drivers. & The legislation would incorporate existing driving- tc under-the-influence (DUI) laws into a driving-while- k impaired law. The intent, says the governor, is to increase bl convictions, decrease plea bargaining and give mandatory jail sentences to repeat offenders. n Other changes would raise the drinking age from 18 to * 19 and make tavern owners civilly liable for selling p alcohol to underaged or already intoxicated customers General Excellent Chronicle Takes Tw The Winston-Salem Chronicle and one of its staff n members won first-place awards at the 1983 North a Carolina Press Association Awards Ceremony last a n rcrloi/ ntntif in Lfill V i IIUI jub; 1115111 111 vnapvi 11111. , The paper won first place in the "General Excellence" c category among the state's weeklies, becoming the first t black-owned and operated newspaper in history to claim s the honor. , Meanwhile, Managing Editor Allen Johnson won first' 1 place in the feature series category for five articles last spring profiling Winston-Salem's black aldermen. The competition, involving most of the state's daily 1 and weekly papers, attracted more than 2,000 entries, t First-place awards were presented at a ceremony on the < rtf MVi (**arnlina at PViotvl I campus ui mc uiuv^isuj ui iivim v^w>uu> 1 " Is it racism or an earnest att I. student athletes truly student-&t\ a move to toughen acadc I and, apparently, shore up an ir : by cheating and recruiting viols tional Collegiate Athletic Associ I recently passed a rule - Propo & quiring that athletes score a mi B out of a possible 1600 on the titude Test, or 15 out of 36 on College Test, and attain a 2.0 0 core curriculum of 11 academic school, including three years c two each of math, social scienc sciences. ? And althnuoh the rule annear< a more questions than answers, 01 it is as controversial and emotio mandate as the NCAA has ever TeensJj By RUTHELL HOWARD Surff Writer A proposal befofc; that that would lower the fee wage from $3.35 an hour to $2 teen-agers under 18 to curtail , doesn't appeal either to local tCal ? businessmen. Even black teen-agers, who iocs up high to put In 50-percent unemployment Tate te University defends . the? object to the idea of beinj nual rivalry appear on older employees. Black and white teen-agers \ Education Center voiced strc ~\ safer Roads? ho later cause an accident because of the alcohol they msurned while in the tavern. The bill would allow magistrates to hold drunken rivers for 24 hours or until someone comes to pick them p. The bill also extends the length of time a convicted runken driver can have his license revoked for refusing > take a breathalyzer test and prescribes an immediate )-day revocation of the licenses of drivers who have a lood alcohol content of more than .10 percent. J The Chronicle asked downtown shoppers recently their tactions to the proposal. James Walters, hospital employee: "I think Hunt's rogram is pretty well organized. But I don't like the part See Page 3 e * o Statewide A wards tews, a good opinion page, social news, business news, xts and leisure, comics and other entertainments, sports ind just about everything else a respectable daily should lave. The Chronicle is a people newspaper - it gets lots >f names and a lot of pictures each week, based on the in tries submitted... This paper sets standards that dailies hould be using, let alone a weekly." Johnson's black aldermen series was termed by Judge ^aurin Bracey of the Gadsden County (Fla.) Times as ' ? M "inc sure winner. Ernest Pitt, publisher of the Chronicle, says that the rirst-place award for general excellence is a statement to he community. "We have shown that the black press can :ompete on a level with other weeklies and some dailies," Fie said. Pitt added, "We owe the black community good, solid news coverage. We can do things for the black community that dailies won't do and don't do. And we at the Chronicle have accepted that challenge.'* Pitt also said that winning the award does not-mean the paper won't continue to get better. "We still have areas . See Page 3 v WMBm (")ur Black . woman be) black wont who have i tribute to t Editorials, Pq m Chfc \ce 1974" Thursday, February 3, 1983 Ition 48 uling A Cure Or Curse F The NAACP calls the rule " smac _______ racism*' because it rdies on standardize scores to measure academic achieveir empt to make Black students traditionally have scored iletes? on the tests and a number of scholars cc :mic standards that they are culturally biased against nage tarnished students. it ions, the Na- ~r . . .... iation (NCAA) In the we"'* and eighth gra sition 48 -- re- vv/ie/i the athletes with the acai nimum of 700 problems have to be identified. . Scholastic Ap- help should be provided to help th the American their areas of weaknesses. " O average in a ? ? Thon courses in high^ >f English and Sw North Carolina NAACP State Di :es and natural Carolyn Coleman, *'according to put reports, fewer than 50 percent of blacks s to have raised ^ SAT and 28 percent score 15 < ne fact is clear: tcr on l^c ACT. Tests are not a true meas nally debated a one's ability to succeed in college, partic passed. tests that have not proven to be racia i ' nnlnvprs Aaainsf 1 calling the sub-minimum wage pay rate i "1 feel that teens should be treated eqi ? says Jimmy Jeter, 17, who is unemp #'s Hawi^aK^s^bticause some comeitocn families wh? leral minimum \ parents have financial troubles and it .50 an hour for help them out if they were working." unemployment Jimmy isn't alone in his objection youth or area lower wage scale. Other teens his age as older students who would not be hired suffer_a_40r-to the plan disagree with the ideaT nationally, say "If you're a hard worker, then you oi I paid less than be able to bring something home to sh it," says Stephan Carlos Wells, 20, s at the Optional grader who is employed by North State >ng objections, Co. Inc. "If you're part of the work for< 1^8 ^ ^ Hl i^^NV^ Bridgett McCuHough Eugene Robinson 7flrir edition of the \ l^AfltlAl Chronicle ? dedicated to /YiUvI 111 ?1 tf?$memory of}?Mn. . luctik Williams Pitt, changes "Sister," as she wd$ 491011911 ftr frtemb^fnd bved onet. wa* mi In* ^ Bv RUTHELL HOWARD ^ W/ ^ oortion of the lessons she After hearing proposed mU^aridlLvd^she Precinct changes for the . ^-? jw -m jMMyt Northeast and West wards into the 1111(1 for s^eral county newspaper you ore precincts. Northeast Ward , -,Mha Alderman Vivian Burke n ault C?j> she will ''thoroughly 7H ,ook into" ?" powibleef?wv mthrt wfitild rather he fects of the suggested a herself than chf"ges on h? war^ ? abuse someone else similar situation, 4ttkouMh she left this somc of tJie city's precinct on Tuesday Jon boundary lines were ^Km h*r memory redrawn a decade ago as a will remain withus rcsult ?* ann?**tion, which Ujgmj caused confusion among ^mmmmmmmJ SOmC VOtCfS wh? WCfC ?C? + *' I ' I ssue ? History Month tribute to the black {ins in earnest with a look at famous en in our country's past as well as those made their marks locally. An editorial >lack women appears this week. p?4. njicle - ?J * ?!> ronU Ofl ? TVI- III..L 4L<3 raijep inia wcck or The Black Athlete? :ks of culturally unbiased." id test Other critics cite the fact that the relent. quirements in some instances may be higher lower than those for nonathletes, especially at some >ntend black schools, where standardized test scores black are not stressed as an admissions criterion. Still others, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, " 7 who recently noted the "inferiority" of the e white athlete, feel the rule is an attempt iemic to"whiten" major college athletics, some of Extra which have become dominated by black perem in formers.. ? Presidents and athletic directors at the 16 fDSOn historically black schools in Division 1 (the NCAA's major-college level) contend that Projector position 48 will hurt their schools because of its riished stringent requirements. score "The NCAA is saying, These are the admis- . >r bet- sions standards for athletes,"' says Dr. Robert ure of Randolph, president of Alabama State Univerularly sity. '"We don't care what they are for other ily or See Page 13 Lower Wages infair. can't they give you a workman's pay?" tally," "The cost of living is going up. They should >loyed, raise wages. The minimum wage should go Kigimld Fair* who is also would employed. "It's a bad idea," Fair says. "Who wants to make less money? Nobody's working to the for less money." well as Melissa Daniels, 17, and Angela Moffitt, 16, under both of whoinare unemployed, say that wages are already low enough. "I feel they should pay light to minimum wage," Daniels says. ?. ow for Moffitt adds, "I don't feel it would be right i 12th- (to pay less than minimum wage) because a lot Supply of kids might need the money. Most want the :e, why See Page 3 9 W^K ;aifc^ .M (photo* by Jibm Parker). . Jerry Pommy Eugene Miclcens Jr. i Examining In Precincts customed to voting at par- Armcntrout said the J.D. ticular _ polls but were Ashley, Lowrance and relocated after the new lines Mineral Springs Baptist were drawn. Church precincts have low Burke said last week she voter turnout and in what isn't sure how the proposed he called Plan A, proposed changes will be received in eliminating Ashley precinct her ward, but that con- and having that precinct's suiting with her ward ad- voters moved to St. visory committee and with Stephens Baptist Church, residents will help her iden- which would give that poll tify any problems. approximately 1,900 voters. Forsyth County Board of Lowrance precinct, Election Chairman James which he described as being Armentrout suggested "tiny," would be increased eliminating two precincts in by moving all residents who Burke's ward and live south of Akron Drive relocating the precincts' and who usually vote at voters during a recent board Mineral Springs, to that meeting. See Page 3 o o J