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ByRUTHELL HOWARD
Staff Writer
At-large elections aren't a problem for Winston-Salem,
at least when it comes to Board of Aldermen elections.
_Blacks won four of eight seats on the board under a
system that divides the city into eight wards with one
representative elected from each ward.
But at-large elections have been a stumbling block for
black political progress in many Southern cities, said
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Black Leadership Caucus' Annual Conference at the
Hilton Inn last week.
Jackson, national president of the Chicago-based
Operation PUSH (People United To Serve Humanity),
said that at-large elections and other tactics, such as gerrymandering
(dividing a voting area so as to give one
political party a majority in as many districts as possible),
annexation, rudeness by uncooperative registrars and
dual registration systems (which require a voter to
register twice), have "served to be major impediments to
registration."
Traditional Schoo
By ROBIN ADAMS
Staff Writer
The city-county school board decided Monday night
that traditional (smaller and more academic) high schools
will be put on hold, at least until the school reorganiza
tional plan is put into effect.
In a 4-4 vote (a majority of the board's eight votes is required
to pass a motion), the board decided to delay
establishing traditional schools. Board member John S.
Holleman Jr. made a motion to establish at least one
traditional high school in 1984 and included Jefferson
Junior High as the site for such a school in 1985. John
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In nine Souihernstates -- including North Carolina ?where
blacks have the most potential to win, the use of
second primaries has also served to discourage and defeat
black candidates by giving whites an opportunity to unite
against those candidates, Jackson said. 4'There is no constitutional
provision for 50 plus one (in an election)/*
Jackson said at a press conference before he delivered his
keynote address Saturday night. "Reagan got 28 percent
of the votes and he's president."
Noting that there are only 5,200 black elected officials,
which is only one perceilt of 512,000 elected officials nationwide,
Jackson later told the banquet audience that
black political progress nationwide has been too slow.
"Our share would be about 52,000 officials,0 he said.
""It took us 18 years after the (1965) Voting Rights Act
to get one percent," Jackson said. "At that rate, it'll take
us 198 years to achieve equality.''
Jackson also emphasized the importance of black candidates
in not only the presidential race, but in state,
county and city elections. "If you don't run, you're
guaranteed to lose," Jackson said.
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Wood, the leading proponent of traditional schools for
the past five years, seconded the motion.
Casting dissenting votes were board members Margaret
F. Plemmons, Garlene G. Grogan, Beaufort O. Bailey
and Chairman Marvin S. Callowav fr.
They said that, while they liked the traditional school
concept, they felt the timing was wrong.
,4l would hope we could put this issue aside to implement
the four-year plan," Grogan said.
But Wood, Holleman, Mary Margaret Lohr and Dr.
William Sheppard supported the idea. Wood said that
sooner or later the motion in favor of traditional schools
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Baseball Rivalry ?
Sports Editor Robert Eller recounts the
semi-pro baseball rivalry between the
Indians and Pond Giants and previews their
long-awaited match-up.
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1 the area is properly zoned for industry.
?en identified The industrial park is expected to brii^g
, the city will 4,000 jobs to the area and $600,000 in new
al park near tax revenue to the city.
ersity at the A perfect stage seems to be set for the
park - except, according to some critics,
le of the foui its location in a predominantly black com
by the city to munity.
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as it has been - A Iderman Larry Womble
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n just behind J.~ Allen Joines, assistant to the city
exit on 1-40. manager for special projects, says the
i park will be location was chosen simply because it's so
snue, beside well-suited for industry.
amp built on -- "The site is located close to the center
city, meaning that transportation will not
t sppt for in- be a problem for people wanting to get to
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Regional Air- Please see page A3
Y Plan Approved
It gives the city its first such plan for
working with minority- and women
? owned businesses and makes Winstonlen
Business Salem one of few cities in the South to
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an Burke and Alderman Larry Womble, however,
, was passed questioned the goals in the plan, saying
of Aldermen that the projections for increasing the
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Our Children, Our Schools
Punishment, ?
Black And White
By ROBIN ADAMS ?Staff
Writer
This article is the third in an eight-part series.
A poor black male student in the lower elementary
grades is more likely to be paddled in the city-county
schools than a white student his age -- and more often
than black children in any other school system in North
Carolina,
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system
ranks first in the state and eighth in the nation in the
number of black students paddled, according to a survey
compiled by the Governor's Advocacy Council on
Children and Youth.
In 1980, 2,536 black children were corporally punished
in the public schools here, compared with 1,767 white
children. During the 1979-1981 school years, 35 percent
of the system's students were black.
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Douglas Punger, principals, teachers, assistants
and school personnel have the right to use "reasonable^^
force" to restrain and correct students. Most of the natf^
dling is done on the buttocks, Punger says, with a
wooden paddle, ping-pong paddle or ruler.
Guidelines For Paddling
According to the rules of corporal punishment
established by the local school system, paddling is
generally not used the first time a student misbehaves,
unless the student's action was extremely disruptive or
harmful to others. Such a decision rests with the principal
Please see page A3