The NAACP’s View
At best, says Walter Marshall, vice president of
the local NAACP, the city-county school
reorganization plan treats blacks as only
numbers.
Editorials, Page A4.
A Crowning Honor
Though Paula Mickens, Miss
WSSU, says being chosen the
school’s queen is a great honor,
“the title didn’t make me. I make
the title.”
Profile, Page A7.
JCTU
‘The 700 Club
An uncharacteristically excited Bighouse Gaines
begins the road to his 700th win and a possible
divisional title Friday night.
Sports. Page B3.
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-Salem Cht'onicle
“Serving the Winston-Salem Community Since 1974”
VOL. X NO. 9
U.S.P.S. No. 067910
WINSTON SALEM. N.C.
Thursday, October 27, 1983
35 cents
38 Pages This Week
Another Bond Issue
Julian Bond is both the subiect of a brief “People” profile of his
family life on Page AlO this week and a lessdhan-
complimentary column by Tomi Brown on next week’s editorial
page.
Next Week:
•The Chronicle announces its editorial stance on the Nov..Scity-county
bond referendum.
•Plus, we Tl feature more information on the bonds, as well as the pulse of
the black community concerning the issue.
Index
Editorials :........
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Food
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People
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Religion
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Sports
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By ROBIN ADAMS
; Staff Writer
[ The Baptist Ministers’ Conference and
g Associates, a group of local black
J clergymen, decided last Tuesday not to
[take an official stand on the approaching
i S35 million city-county bond referendum.
i( The organization has encouraged each
jminister to make his own decision.
Yet, as of last week, revealed an infor
mal Chronicle survey, most black
ministers have not decided whether they
^ill or won’t support the bonds. The
survey shows that, while many of the
ministers are leaning toward supporting
the bonds, most have not made definite
decisions.
] “Well, this referendum is so confusing
Jthat I am taking a neutral position,” said
sDr. Jerry Drayton, pastor of New Bethel
jBaptist Church. “I think we should let the
|iPeople vote the way they want to vole.
Right now, the black community is so
■(divided (concerning the bond referendum)
•that anything 1 say would be with one
Sroup and against another. I will be
noting my conviction and want others to
do the same.”
Drayton would not reveal how he plans
^0 vote.
Said the Rev. B.F. Daniels, pastor of
Union Baptist Church: ‘‘I’m just thinking
Contends Blacks Are Shortchanged
Leadership Roundtable Says
It Will Oppose Bond Package
By JOHN SLADE
Assistant Editor
A related story appears on this page as well as
an editorial on Page 4.
The Black Leadership Roundtable has for
mally announced that it opposes the city-county
bond package and will advise Winston-Salem
residents to do the same at the polls Nov, 8.
The Roundtable announced its opposition to
bonds that would help finance the reorganiza
tion pf the city-county schools and the expan
sion of Forsyth Technical Institute last week
after a lengthy meeting, and said earlier this
week that it also opposes six other bonds re
quested by the city.
“We’re not going to take anything less than
what is right for the black community,” said
Bill Tatum, chairman of the group.
The organization said in an open meeting
Tuesday night that the bond referendum is a
“smoke screen” for what special interests
want. “It (bond referendum) will have no great
impact on the black community,” said Tatum.
“The city has not dealt with hoqsing and other
'"We understand the city’s concern, but
we also understand that blacks can
make or break the bond referendum. ”
- Mel White
issues of concern to blacks. All they tell us is
that ‘We can try. We can do a study.’ When
you come into our community and tear down
(buildings and neighborhoods without replac
ing them), you don’t tell us you can do a
study.”
The total $35 million city-county bond
package, which, the Roundtable says, spells
few economic or educational gains for blacks
and the poor, includes
•$15 million to expand the Benton Convention
Center and construct an accompanying parking
deck.
•$7.5 million to help finance the reorganiza
tion of the city-county schools.
•$4.5 million to expand Forsyth Technical In
stitute.
•$3 million to develop an industrial park east
of Winston-Salem State University.
•S2.2 million for street improvements.
•Sl.l million to improve downtown sewers
Please see page A3
Ford Praises YMCA, Jackson Candidacy
By JOHN SLADE
Assistant Editor
Tuskegee, Ala., Mayor Johnny Ford lauded the YM-
CA’s goals and accomplishments and repeated his en
dorsement of a Jesse Jackson presidential bid at the Pat
terson Avenue Y’s 56ih Annual Meeting and Awards
Banquet last Thursday night at the Benton Convention
Center.
A crowd of nearly 300 gave Ford, the keynote speaker,
a standing ovation after his address, which emphasized
the humanitarian work of YMCAs all over the country.
“The YMCA is one of the greatest movements in the
nation,” said Ford, who became Tuskegee’s first black
mayor in 1972. He was re-elected in 1976 and again in
1980. Ford termed the work of the YMCA “a precious
work - helping to mold and shape the lives of young peo
ple. Man has never stood taller than when he stooped to
help a child.”
Ford complimented the work of the Patterson Avenue
YMCA in particular, saying it has made a great contribu
tion to Winston-Salem. “What you do at Patterson is of
great worth to the community,” said Ford, noting the
organization’s aquatics program and daycare center as
Please see page A12
Ministers Remain Uncertain
On Whether To Support Bonds
about it. I haven’t made a decision. I’m
just trying to get all the facts together to
make a decision.”
The Rev. Kelly O.P. Goodwin, a retired
minister who was not at the conference’s
meeting last week, said, “I personally
favor getting the most we can out of a
situation where votes are concerned. And,
with this bond referendum, there is a
possibility of getting some jobs. But there
are some more issues that have come up
that will need studying.
“My answer (concerning his position) is
not really a yes or no answer,” said Good
win. “It’s a matter of getting the most for
our people. I don’t see this as a moment
for antagonism. We need to weigh
carefully the decision we make right
now.”
While there are some ingredients in the
bond package that the Rev. Leonard
Lassiter, pastor of Grace Presbysterian
Church, said he can support, there are
many others that he questions.
“1 like the prospect of new positions
and new potential for Winston-Salem,”
he said, “but I have some feelings that
there are no specific guarantees or real
assurances that any real gains will be seen
in East Winston.
Please see page A12
Roundtable Det^nces
Invasion Of Grenada
Members of the Black Leadership Roundtable de
nounced Tuesday night the invasion of Grenada
earlier this week by the United States and six Carib
bean nations - Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, St.
Lucia, St. Vincent and Jamaica.
President Reagan said in a statement to the press
Tuesday, “Let there be no mistake. This collective
action has been forced on us by events in the eastern
Caribbean.”
Reagan referred to the takeover of the island na
tion of 110,000 last week by a military junta when
Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his
cabinet members were killed. Reagan said the reason
for Tuesday’s invasion of the island by 1,900
American troops and 300 troops from the six other
nations was to protect approximately 1,000
Americans there. American troops will remain on the
island, said the president, until a “free election” is
held to establish a new government.
In response to the U.S. takeover of Grenada,
Roundtable spokesmen Larry Little and Clifton
Graves issued the following written statement:
“We deplore the unwarranted and unprovoked
military invasion by the United States of Grenada.
“We see this invasion as a flagrant violation of in
ternational law, the United Nations charter and the
territoriai sovereignty of an independent nation. We
totally reject the reasons given by the Reagan ad
ministration for this senseless invasion as being
nothing more than a pretext for a resumption of the
archaic ‘gunboat diplomacy’ of a generation ago.”
The statement further reads: “Contrary to what
Please see page A3
1
Johnny Ford, the mayor of Tuskegee, Ala., termed the YMCA 
greatest movements in the country (photo by James Parker).
Where Are The Black Men?
Not In These Parts, Ladies
By ROBIN ADAMS
Staff Writer
Where are the available black men?
According to 1980 census data, the
Winston-Salem/Greensboro/ High Point
area is not one of the best places to look.
In fact, for increased odds of finding that
handsome, professional black male, An
chorage, Alaska, and Honolulu, Hawaii
are better choices.
As for the few black men who are here,
some black women say they’d like to
know where to look, noting that black
men don’t patronize local clubs, that con
gregations of most churches are
predominantly female, and that most of
the young, black professional men are
married.
Some of those complaints appear to be
valid. According to local “sex ratios,”
there are only 83 black males for every
100 black females. The national sex ratio
- the number of black males divided by
the number of black females multiplied by
100 — is 89.6. In order to compute the sex
ratio, all males, from infancy to senior
citizen, are used. When the number of
black males between the ages of 15 and 49
is used, the local sex ratio decreases to
81.1. And the number further decreases
when the number of black males in prison
is subtracted.
In a 1980 study on black males in North
Carolina prisons, Dr. Darnell Hawkins,
an associate professor of sociology at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, concluded that, out of 100,000 black
males between the ages of 15 and 54,
2,260 are in state prisons. “But, because
Winston-Salem does not have 1(X),(XX)
blacks, that formula might not apply
directly,” Hawkins said.
Why are black males so scarce? Accor
ding to an article published in the August
1983 edition of magazine titled “Is
the Black Man an Endangered Species?,”
there are numerous factors that influence
the number of adult black males:
•Black males have the highest mortality
rate in the first 28 days of life.
•Almost half of the homicide victims, 42
percent, were black and 48 percent of the
offenders were black. The leading cause
of death for black males between the ages
of 15-24 is homicide.
•More blacks than whites were in com
bat or non-technical units in the Vietnam
War, and, as a result, a disproportionate
number of blacks were killed.
•The suicide rate among black males has
more than doubled in the past 10 years.
•The unemployment rate in the black
community has been traditionally higher
than in the white community, causing
more black men to accept jobs with more
hazardous working conditions. The result
Please see page A3