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VOL. IX WO. 29
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By RUTHELL HOWARD
Staff Writer
Staff writers Robin Adams and Edwai
contributed to this story.
If there is no black heaven or white h<
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Our Black
Churches r
An eight-part M fM
series examining \
Winston-Salem's
Mack churches
there black churches and white churches']
The sentiment locally seems to be tl
whites should be willing to worship togetl
still a need among black people to ti
separate religious institutions - partly
churches don't always accept black pec
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By RVTffELLHO WARD
Staff Writer
Four Winston-Salem State University
expected a roach to be a part of their mei
down to dinner recently in the Sho
Restaurant on Old Salisbury Road.
But Sharon Denise Phillips, a junior^
at WSSU, says she and her friends, Sand
Cheryl Wilder and Linda Bailey, watch
cra\vl from under their bread just after
delivered.
/\n apoiogenc waitress iook inc or eat
and brought two more plates of bread, o
had a roach on it ? a dead roach - Phil
She adds that she is angry about the
more disturbed by the restaurant mai
toward her and her friends.
Phillips alleges that the manager, B<
discriminatory in handling the students'
ing them that the building had just been i
4'all restaurants have roaches.*' She al
wanted them to pay for the food, which
fair.
4 "He did not say he was sorry," she &
When they refused to pay for the fo<
Nichols told them they could leave.
% "His attitude is really what upset me
' * who feels that Nichols treated her and hei
tie regard because they are black and bea
look more influential. "I understand th<
have roach problems, but I feel that if w
prestigious-looking, he would not have
way," she says.
Nichols, however, says that the situat
properly and that he did not discrimii
students.
"I don't know how in the world it (t
there," Nichols says. He adds that the
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By RUTHELL HOWARD
Staff Writer
To prevent what they allege is
harassment of teen-agers in their
neighborhood by a white male,
residents in the Morningside area
plan to circulate warning leaflets
and are considering taking legal ac\
* tion.
The residents say they have been
troubled by the man, who, they
charge, has driven through the area
trying to coax teen-agers into his
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n more than.
'or one Rich- fi3
decided to Bm
tr home.
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d Churcli
There S<
because of difference
are accustomed to w<
gregations.
*d Hill Jr. also Moreover, there is
spiritual, cultural ar
given, why are munity that without
"This (the black
_____ have some identity, v
says Cedrick Rodne
University.
Still, a small perce
- ching from predomii
And and a few area
It used to be strict
Dr. Charles Long,
ty of North Carolina
^ were formed early
??__J people were treated *
' ches, if they were i
fiat blacks and Discrimination in th<
ler, but there is Methodist Episcopal
tave their own this country.
because white "Blacks never trie
>ple and partly f
students hardly K^^V' \ \i
al when they sat I
sociology major
Ira Harper, Ray I
>ed a live roach
their meal was
ne of which still I
lips says.
roach, but even I
nager's attitude
Irene Hairsto
in Nichols, was woman to be i
complaint, tell- Wlntton-Salem/I
sprayed and that (photo by James
so says Nichols
she felt was un- m M" 1
Mean
xl, Phillips says
By EDWARD HIL
," says Phillips, Staff Writer
r friends with lit
ause they did not After only three
it all restaurants fledgling East Wir
e had been more Paul Owens Cloud
treated us that level of response h<
"We're still in 1
ion was handled organizing things,"
nate against the "but already I've
cooperation and e
he roach) got in and from the court
waitress tried to much this early."
Cloud, who wa:
aide Reside!
car, since December.
Three residents, Mrs. Jacqueline
Teal, Mrs. Gwendolyn Stewart and
Ronnie Sockwell, all say their
daughters were confronted by Lewis
Carlton, who worked several months
in the area as a salesman for
Orkin Exterminating Co. Inc.
Orkin recently terminated
Carlton for "a bad attitude," says
Manager Ron Rogers, but Rogers
says he has no proof of Carlton's
alleged activities in the
neighborhood while he was with the
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) Few?
)s in the manner black congregations
orshipping as opposed to white cbft5
the black church's role as often a
id economic power base in a cornit
might be powerless.
church) is the only place where we
vhere we are somebody all
y, chaplain at Winston-Satan SUte
ntage of black worshippers arc switnantly
black churches to white oties,
whites are attending black churches.
ily a one-way street.
a religion professor at the Universi- )
i at Chapel Hill; says black chtfrches ?
in American history because black
is second-class citizens in white churallowed
to worship in them at all.
e pulpit, he says, started the African
1 (AME) Zion Church movement in ;
i
d to kick folk out of their churches," ,
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n9 a retired teacher, Is the first
named vice chairmen of the
Forsyth County Planning Board
Parker).
ition Centei
L JR.
weeks on the job as director of the
iston Neighborhood Justice Center,
says he already is encouraged by the
r has received.
the process of making contacts and
says Cloud, a Winston-Salem native,
i gotten a tremendous amount of
ncouragement from the community
system. Actually, I didn't expect this
s named director on March 1, was
nts Say Stra
company.
Mrs. Teal, president of the Morningside
Manor Home Buyers
Association, charges that Carlton,
who is believed to be in his mid-20s,
"I'm concerned about our nei;
without worrying about somet
own backyard."
came to her home several times on
what he said was Orkin business.
Uho's Best Qualified
rho should be the black commun
Residential candidate in 1984? Col
sts Tony Brown and Mam
[arable share their picks.
Mortals. Page 4.
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Community Since 1974"
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And Planning.
By EDWARD HILL JR.
Staff Writer L_
When Irene P. Hairston was electa
chairman of the Winston-Salem/Forsy
ing Board, it came as little surprise to 01
alderman who has observed her over tl
'*1 feel that it is wonderful to have
capacity of vice chairman, not as a 1
capable person/' says Northeast Ward
Rurke. '*1 was not at all curnrised bei
dedication and the experience as a boar
capable job.*'
A former teacher in the city/coun
Mrs. Hairston has served on the plai
1980 and is the first woman elected to
planning board makes zoning recomi
aldermen for approval.
Shortly after her retirement from thi
' 1977, Mrs. Hairston was appointed t
library board by John Tandy, then
Board of County Commissioners. Befo
in and make a smooth transition from
r Head Enco
chosen from a field of seven candidate:
of High Point College and earned his
North Carolina Central University. H
as a law clerk for a private firm in Wi
researcher at North Carolina A&T Sta
"I thought that my legal backgroun
perience and my knowledge of the E
munity would bring something to the \
Cloud says.
The Mediation Center will serve as a
court system. Cases such as domesti
and employer-employee disputes will
wcnicr oy pnvtuc auui ucys auu iuv<
social agencies. The more serious case
inger Haras.
The first time, he made remarks
about how he would like to take her
youngest daughter, Sharon, who is a
cheerleader at Parkland Senior High
School, home with him, Mrs. Teal
fhborhood. We should feel free
me intimidating our kids in our
Jacqueline Teal
says, and the second time Carlton
inquired about Sharon again.
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rap. Mora on Jefferson the man a
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Board Vice Chairman z
the meeting and pit
encountered an unt
"blessing in disguij
i recently as vice ' "A group of Kju
th County Plann- in the Fifth Street
le Winston-Salem Hairston, referrinj
tie years. them down and i
i her serve in the perhaps a hundred
woman, but as a situation.
Alderman Vivian 14 We had a me
cause she has the denied them, it wo
d member to do a ment. The strange 1
to let them go on >
ty school system, decided not to havi
ming board since my involvement
the position. The because it made m
nendations to the all groups of peop
Mrs. Hairston n
t school system in ing of the Klan mat
o the city/county committees and o
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man man ui inc tiiairniau ui inc c
re she could settle Precinct No. 2 (a E
i the classroom to
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s. He is a graduate and entering, simj
5 law degree from threats will be re
e also has worked judges and the dis
lmington and as a After a court da
ite University. Mediation Center,
d, my research ex- ties, the charges wi
ast Winston com- dismissed. If an a
iediation Center," case wilrfeo to tris
Cloud says that
n alternative to the through three da
c, landlord-tenant week by "expert'
be referred to the in Chapel Hill. TY
i\ community and fective April 1.
s, such as breaking
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"He said, 'I'd sure like to take
her home with me... I mean, I'm
sure I'd like to take the picture (of
Sharon that was hanging on the
wall) home with me,"' Mrs. Teal
says.
She also charges that Carlton
later entered her home uninvited
and went to her bedroom. "He was
very free," she says of his eagerness
to wander about her home.
"I'm concerned about our
neighborhood," says Mrs. Teal,
who also says Carlton has appeared
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inning room, however, Mrs. Hairston
Lsual situation that later proved to be a
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Klux Klan members requested a space
Library for an exhibit," says Mrs.
I to the 1980 incident. "We turned
i confrontation ensued. There were
I reporters there. It was a very tense
eting and we determined that if we
uld be a violation of the First Amendhing
was that once we made a decision
tfith the exhibit, they lost interest and
e it. All in all, it was a pivotal point in
with boards and decision-making
e sensitive to the democratic needs of
le."
lade such an impression in her handl:ter
that she was approached by several
rganizations. She presently serves as
ity/county library board and Vienna
>emocratic voting precinct) as wett as a
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Support
3le assault and the communication of
ferred to the center by district court
trict attorney's office.
te is set, the case will be referred to the
If an agreement is reached by the parill
be dropped, says Cloud, and the case
greement is not reached, however, the
il as scheduled.
he and 20 volunteer mediators wjW go
ys of intense mediation training this
' mediators from an established center
ley will then be certified to mediate, efPlease
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lughters ?i
on the Parkland campus. "We
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snouia reel irce wiinoui wuriyiug
about someone intimidating our
kids in our own backyard."
Mrs. Stewart, who was already
using Orkin's services but hadn't
gotten a service call for two months,
says Carlton showed up at her home
in January on what he said was
Orkin business and asked to take
her 14-year-old daughter Tamicko
to a movie.
She says she told him no, but he
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