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has been very helpful to Friends, very devoted to Friends,
and 1 saw her as devoted to her job.*'
. Simpson, who said the community should have had input,
said he isn't sure how losing Mrs. Allen and having a
new white director will affect the library, but he
speculated that it may discourage some patrons.
"I hope it doesn't hurt our library, because, if we fall
down in circulation, I'm sure that the same people that
made the move will see fit to take our library away from
us," he said.
"One thing I did not like was the way it (the decision)
was handled," added Duane Jackson, treasurer of
Friends, "telling people one day they're not going to be
there the next day."
Shedrick Adams, another member of Friends, called
Mrs. Allen "a pillar of the East Winston Library. I don't
know, nor do I understand, what has caused this, but 1
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- Neither Foy nor Hurley testified in court last week, but
Mrs. Foy said that Officer Pat Norris slapped her after
r she had already betn handcuffed for trying to help her
son, and an onlooker, William Keaton, said the officers
started the fight when one strangled Foy while he was on
the ground and another held him down with his knee in
his back. Keaton also said that one officer knocked a
child out of Mrs. White's arms. "I said, 'Man, why you
knock that baby out of that girl's hand like that?'M
Keaton testified.
Officers Leonard and Norris said they were hit and
kicked by residents during the fray, and Norris denied
that she hit Mrs. Foy, saying she was beaten in the back
while trying to subdue Mrs. Foy.
After hearing both sides. Judce Ahner Alp*flnH*?r
sentenced Foy to two years in prison, Mrs. White to seven
or eight months in prison and Mrs. Foy to 90 days in the
Forsyth County Jail.
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has a reason for that, too.
"Lots of times I don't speak up because I know that
the things I think we should do would provoke an argument,"
Wood says. "So I go slow. I ponder these things,
and when I see an opening, ... I light up and give them a
little small bit of what I'm thinking."
| Ultraconservative ... that's the one word that Wood
says sizes him up. "As a child of the Depression, I learned
to make do with what you have. We just shouldn't get
away from the basic living," he says.
And basic living includes concentrating on the basics in
school. For the past five years, Wood has worked tor
"traditional," more academic schools.
"But nobody wants to listen. A traditional school
would concentrate more on work rather than social and
tAuacui i numr atuvmes, wooa says. "Students
wouldn't have time for drugs and alcohol if they had
more homework.'*
And the results of a recent survey conducted among
parents to determine the interest in a traditional school
pleased Wood, although most parents noted that they
had no interest in sending their children to such a school.
people were not interested because they don't
have any idea what it is," Wood says. "But, like I said
from the beginning, this thing is not for everybody."
But the problems in the schools didn't happen overnight,
Wood says. "Most of what the board has been doing
for the pa&u30 years or so since World War II has set
the pattern. The only way to get back again is to make
schools small enough where everybody is meaningful to
one another and where the principal knows the student's
name, his parents and possibly his grandparents."
When Wood was asked to individually critique each
_ board member, he declined* saying instead, "This board
is like eight people who are blind and they want to take a
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nvtwi n ip iu atv an cicpnaiu. i hc nrst one ieeis ine ieg ana
calls it a tree, another feels the tail and calls it a rope,
another feels the trunk and calls it a fire hose and still
another only feels an ear and calls it a fan.
44We are eight people with eight ideas as to wftat makes
a good school board," Wood says. "I'm on one end and
the most conservative. I want to send children to the
schools they live closer to, eliminating so much busing,
and to get back to the basics. On the other extreme - and
I wouldn't want to say who I'm talking about ? you have
people who are working for a particular special interest.
"Some people are there because they have a disabled
child and they want to get more money for those programs,
others are only interested in sports and building
bigger gyms and football fields and some just wanted a
school in their neighborhood."
According to Wood, that makes for a dangerous
school board. 44Not often do you have the kind of person
that runs for the school board who is interested in training
kids for what's important and for future jobs."
But Wood feels he is that type of board member. 441
hope I am," he says with a smile. 44People with children
in the system should not run for the school board unless
they are going to try to be more broad-minded and not
just work for what's good for their child."
Wood, who is not satisfied with the new ^organizational
plan the board voted for last week, says it nevertheless
may increase, from zero, the number of black
senior hinh school orincinals.
"The best black principal we had, they took him out of
the school and put him in the central office,1 * he says. 441
feel that a black principal will be included in the
reorganization plan. There is a black high school principal
who people feel should be promoted and given a
chance."
But a principalship is a strange job, Wood says. "We
have five senior high principals, all white, and on a scale
of (one to) 10, they range from nine to three, with only
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am disturbed by the transfers."
Adams said a director and staff are needed at East
Winston who can renew and enhance the relationship it
has had with the black community, and who know the
community.
4'There are so many positive advantages to having a
staff that knows your community and knows your people/*
Adams said. 4'It's not a racial thing, it's a cultural
knowing your people kind of thing. So, why cause trouble?"
A few East Winston patrons offered differing views.
One said she is angry with the change and doesn't like
it at all hut Mrt Plci* Mlii^ ,.,u " ' '' *
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children take classes at the library, said, <4It don't make
no difference to me."
Added Romar Robinson, "I don't think that's bad.
There's nothing wrong with having white people there, as
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Before the trial, Foy, who said he had come prepared
to pay his court bill and leave, was fairly optimistic. But
~~ afterl>eing sentenced, he said angrily, "They (the officers)
were wrong, but you know they can't lose."
Mrs. Foy said she would rather take the short sentence
than deal with more court costs or problems, but Ms.
Downey said that she is sure she can beat her two-year
sentence in Superior Court.
Hough, who argued that Foy's was an illegal arrest
because the officer did not examine what Foy was drinking
to make sure it was beer, called the incident a "small
matter that grew too large?as?a result?of?poor
~ judgement."
Hough said during a court recess that he expected the
case to go to Superior Court. He also called Ms.
Downey's two-year sentence "harsh" but said that, "in
these cases, the judges tend to side with police officers.M
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one who 1 feel is tops. Once you get to be principal,
regardless of how good you are, you usually remain in
that position. If you don't run your mouth too much,
then you usually stay on."
Wood says that sometimes people think of his ideas of
being foolish and one board member has referred to him
as "being a little farfetched." But he says he builds on experience.
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"I base my decisions On what I have seen that works
and makes beautiful, happy children who are wellinformed.
I have a little different perspective than those
on the Doard who have babies In diapers,*' says the
71-year-old Wood. "I have seen all the kinds of schools
in this county. I spent 11 years as a student, part of them
in a five-teacher, seven-grade elementary school. I taught
school for 14 years and I was a principal for 28 years. So
I've seen it all and 1 stick to what I find to be the right
thing to do."
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long as a black person's there."
William H. Roberts, director of the library system,
said the system is 4'colorblind.'*
"We felt it would be best for the East Winston Library
if we have some changes in personnel," Roberts said.
"We've noticed a definite drop in circulation and we
want to see a little better management of the branch."
Roberts and Sylvia Sprinkle Hamlin, head of the
District Attorney
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He adds that black pco- reached for comment,
pie need to spend more ___________
energy trying to keep black
people out of the courts so
they don't have to face
DAs. Grace says it is also
important to focus on having
a "fair-minded" DA,
rather than a black one.
Roland Hayes, another
local attorney, says, "I feel
like whoever would apply ;
ought to get that position."
Hayes says the vacancy in 7
the DA's office had been r
impending for some time, A
and blacks knew of the M
opening, but "nobody
almost have to get some guy
out of law school. It's not
lucrative." * *~|
Hayes also says that
many blacks aren't in- >
terested in that type of job. ? I fl
"I don't see blacks 'j.
necessarily as prosecution- J (flit'
oriented," Hayes says. 1
''It's hard to prosecute folk ^ ilfci
coming through the system
and they are of your own J* " ^
ethnic origin." ? B
As for himself, Hayes I
says he isn't interested in the
job. "That's not what I !
went to law school for," he ~^
_ says. ; '
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library's Extension Division, said Mrs. Allen's skills and
experience are needed at Reynolda, where there is a larger
circulation and a new director, and that the East Winston
branch needed change.
"The East Winston Library is sort of like an
outreach," Roberts said. "It requires dynamic people
and sometimes I think people might get burned out a little
bit."
"The community needs are most important," said
Hamlin, who emphasized the importance of the library's
programs and not its staff.
Hamlin said it does not matter whether East Winston
has a black or white director, because the final decisions
are made by her. "The key person making decisions for
the branches is not a white person, but a black person,**
Hamlin said.
Barbara Anderson could not be reached by press time.
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