?I.. y_ ' ,j, .?rr:?-?? I I Coloring Books I Our two-month school series b columnist Tony Brown discusses black" education. I Fro* Phi And M. 1 e Wii ' * " ^ W I i^' m< I HB ^ ! Bgjj^k' j^pi fi I ' ai^b -s :- I I BrBl a K^l ?,*. ;;.jF* H|K ' if BT ^B: '' jfl * s*' &)^^''- .' >* ^>"* ^.'^t _-. I ' - . >,? I swnfey oii f/(^ scHtyof ^ sv& ttftt ^hpi ^!.. : * ' ' oamiaiiun n I Allege Discrii I By R UTHELL HO WA RD Staff Writer Several city workers, who have asked not to be identified, allege that there is discrimination against black employees in their department. The workers said a group is considering I fihng an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit against the city if their grievances cannot be ironed out. Other individual employees threaten to file their own lawsuits, saying they have been discriminated against. What prompted the employees to conI sider stfcKjactions are racial problems that I Heat Waves Here's How \ By EDWARD HILL JR. Staff Writer Sweltering summer temperatures not only can be uncomfortable and irritating, they can kill, says a local physician. One culprit is heat exhaustion, which occurs when the body loses large amounts of fluids and salts that are not replaced. Persons generally affected by this condi - p|; ?gins, and I Deneen Gi "black-on- H tion as th Carolina t I B-l. iston-l "Serving J.S.P.S. No. 067910 Wl -A mm jr :*t&K'!'i^K ' BBT||||rft ft ffHd O ' \*yM' '"T, ' " J^iTttlliMfWf/yy' *~ n* Btisitttss f^M \/Jtt^ ' ftthttfi ?J#?. aawi/Wjift ^; ' ,? mutation have been brewing for years, they said. The employees, who work in the water and sewer unit of the City of WinstonSalem fs Utilities Division, charged that black workers aren't given the same opportunities for training and advancement j that are given to whites who haven't been | in the unit as long. The employees also complained that I there are black workers who have been in \ the department for a number of years who ? started out as laborers and are still j laborers despite efforts to get better jobs. I Through classes taught by city staff members, laborers can learn to become < Please see page AS I To Cope With Them tion engage in heavy physical activity, such as road racing and tennis, or work outside. "Occasionally, you'll get people who have been competing in a marathon or who have played sets of tennis at 2 in the day who are the victims of heat exhaustion," says Dr. Kimbell Johnson of Forsyth Memorial Hospital. Please see page A5 rst raham attributes her selccic first black Miss North o her "unique look/' t r^J Salem i >, the Winston-Salem Community Since 19. NSTON-SALEM. N.C. Thiiwd?i ^^^liMiiifciMiMiM^MMlMMtiailiiMMflMifl^MwfaMgiflM^MBli^ftfiVAi A r--* .v-v-v/.v,- .-. i^^Vt.Yi,, . ^.v. . ^ ? a .............. A ?? #y? B A v"; '< - S; ' V A JQ ?.? *.? * fBj& way it is for most students at that time. The next morning, children, dressed i new clothes, carrying the finest ne1 nntehnnltc and cnortina nneharnenpH rvr cils, lined the streets and roads of the cit || and county waiting for the bus. But this school day was unlike an before it. For the first time, all children i Forsyth County would be attendin 1 . school together. Integration had come not by choice, but by force. On July 21, 1971, Federal Judf Eugene Gordon had ordered that, by tl fall of that year, the schools must adopt Jg* pupil assignment plan that would ma) u.Tjrialhf school* obsolete, cluster school plan, adopted the yei before, where smaller, predominant white and black elementary schools we grouped by size and location, became tl ||| model for the 1971 pupil assijhoient pla Qn July 26, nine daysafter Judge Go don*s order, the school board, co-chain ^ by William F. Mar cad y and form \ Superintendent Marvin Ward, had devi 96c ed the present 4-2-2-2-2 (K-4, 5-6, 78 9-10 and 11-12 grade organization) scho (fe assignment policy. y The board had previously worked wi |J| a 6-3-3 (1-6, 7-9, 10-12) plan. The nc Ife pupil assignment plan, based ( 6& mathematical probability, was founde interestingly enough, at Reynolds Hi{ 2 School, in a social studies class. J Of the 67 schools in the district in 197 I_Our School Board ( Holleman's By ROBIN ADAMS S Staff Writer This article is one in a series pro! ing local school board members. Pill "My friends and allies oftentin IIE* describe me as a fast mover," says Jo Si S. Holleman Jr., 30, the youngi member of the Winston-Sal em/Fors} County Board of Education. "If I see things 1 believe need to done, I work hard to accomplish the goals," he says. And during Hollemai _ six months on the board, he has manaj to accomplish most of the things he pi hoto mised during his campaign. "I worked to get a dental insurai s Lead To Res nd a master's degree in criminal justice rom the University of Cincinnati and a docorate in sociology from Ohio State Univerity, actually has only a two-year associate irts degree from Cincinnati, said a university >fficial. WSSU Chancellor Douglas Covington ;aid that Montgomery was hired on recomnendations from the school's academic affairs office, which normally ensures that applicants have the required credentials. A search committee appointed b% the office's s. Jesse s, with a little help from good r Falwell, tries to counter Jesse ? 4 14. \ lirln e ) tm 2 j Pages This Week ition ears Later: tetter Off? " 15 were all-black, seven were all-white and 31 were less than five percent black. The sparsely integrated schools had come about as a result of the system's "free transfer policy," whereby black students could decide if they wanted to attend a predominantly whit# school. ic The free transfer policy, according to ie Walter Marshall, vice president of the NAACP, was a hoax. J i . ? . t J J _ _ A - n " i ney saia tnai anyooay couia go to w white schools but no one was encouraged i- to go. The ones who went were not really :y welcome," Marshall says. "Free transfer was a policy to appease the public and to ty show that a mandate wasn't needed for n integration." V . wL % lUi f ;e se The board endorsed independent n's districting, under which the attendance ;ed lines for elementary, middle (grades 6-8) ro- schools and high schools are drawn independently of each other, and Holleman ice Please see page A3 iignation head, Dr. Arnold Lockett, interviewed applicants and submitted Montgomery and two other nominees to Lockett. He then presented the nominees to Covington, who made the final decision. "This is what normally occurs: The nominees come to me and I make the choice on the assumption that records and credentials are in order.'* Covington said in a inter view Tuesday. Covington said Montgomery's credentials Please see page A3