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c HOLIDAY RECIPES INSIDE The horror and tragedy in Ethiopia: A4 Our faiied South African poiicy: A4 Music videos reinforce stereotypes: B6 Wiii Archie Cooiey ieave Miss. Vaiiey?: B1 Winston- Piayoff Bound Winston-Salem State locks horns with Norfolk in a battle for all the marbles. Sports, B1. irChronicle The Twin City’s Award-Winning Weekly U.S.P.S. No. 067910 Winston-Salem, N.C. Thursday, November 15, 1984 35 cents 34 Pages This Week Whither blacks and the Democrats? Reassessing the party By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Assistant Editor The Republican Party’s stunning wins in last week’s election -- many of them on the votes of Democrats -- make one thing crystal clear to her party’s leadership, says county Democratic Chair man Earline Parmon: “We have got to revamp.’’ “The (Democratic) Party is going to have to assess its goals and its future,” says Parmon. “This election says that the people are not concerned about social ills and are not concerned about their fellow man. It’s not anything new for Republicans to win big with Democratic votes, but what scares me is the mood of the people all over the country.” While the Democrats rebuild, Parmon says, she intends to remain a vital part of the party and will encourage other blacks to do the same. But holding on to a “dead party” would be useless, says North Ward Alderman Larry Little, an independent who says he registered as a Democrat in the May primary only so he could vote for the Rev. Jesse Jackson. “The election results confirm that the old Democratic Party is no longer functioning,” says Little. “It is obsolete. Black allegiance to the Democratic Party is hurting blacks and it is hurting politics in this country. “When we voted for Jimmy Carter all we got was a few federal judges, but we couldn’t get a (Martin Luther) King holiday and there were problems with unemployment, even though the Democrats con trolled the White House to the school board.” What’s needed, says Little, is diversification. “It’s stupid to stay in the Democratic Party,” says Little. “Blacks ought to be included in all par- Please see page A3 Jones: Black voters did him in By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Assistant Editor Grabbing For Glory When you don’t quite make the grade in coiiege footbali, as neither North Caroiina A&T nor Howard, above, did this year, you grab for memories, or the promise of next year. When you do make the grade, as Biii Hayes’ Winston-Salem State Rams did in ’84, you reach for tities and piayoffs. Story on page B1 (photo by Brian Branch-Price). You can’t see a man shake his head in disgust in a telephone interview, but you could almost reel Lafayette Jones shake his. Jones was angry. Not so much, he said, because he lost in his bid to become ForsyTh County’s first black Republican state senator, but because black votes defeated him. "With me, it’s not anger at losing,” said Jones. “I feel 1 won. But 1 lost in the black community because black ministers and black leaders told peo ple to vote straight Democratic.” But Jones isn’t alone. According to a report prepared by the Joint Center for Political Studies, of the 91 black Republicans nationwide who ran for state legislative offices, only one won. Jones said he ran a double campaign. In the county, he says, he ran as Lafayette Jones the Republican and in the black neighborhoods, he ran as Lafayette Jones, a black candidate for the Senate. It was good campaign strategy, said Jones, but it didn’t pay off. Jones, with a total of more than 35,000 votes, received roughly only 3,000 of them from the black community. The reason, said Jones, was straight ticket voting. ‘‘The worst thing they could have done is vote straight ticket,” said Jones. ‘‘We lost out. If (C.B.) Hauser and (Annie Brown) Kennedy hadn’t been in single-member districts, they would have lost too. When we voted straight ticket, we gave white people two votes to one. “Black people have been used by the Democratic Party.” Please see page A13 Concerning bonds They intend to wait and see By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Assistant Editor Projects financed by a $35“miIlion bond referendum Forsyth County voters approv ed more than a year ago are going as plann ed, said speakers Tuesday night at a “Bond Dollars at Work” progress report meeting at the Benton Convention Center. But, because much of that progress has been made on paper and in many cases can only be seen in cardboard models and ar tist’s conceptions — black opponents and ■l^oponents of the once hotly-debated package have taken a wait-and-see posture — especially where new jobs and the par ticipation of minority contractors are con cerned. “Frankly, the projects have not really come out of the ground,” said North Ward Alderman Larry Little, who opposed the bond package because he felt it didn’t ade quately address the needs of the black com munity, “We still have to wait and see.” Said East Ward Alderman Virginia Newell, a supporter of the package, “There Please see page A2 BOND DOLLARS AT WORK Fbr Winston-Safem and Forsyth County New housing program under way in Winston By GREG BROWN Chronicle Staff Writer Winston-Salem is testing an in novative federal housing and employment program which city officials say will not only provide low-income, single-parent families with homes, but could free them from ‘‘a cycle of pover ty,” as well. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Develop ment agreed to provide 100 more units of Section 8 public housing to the city to implement the pro gram, which the city named ‘‘Project Self-Sufficiency.” Public housing is at premium in Winston-Salem, with about 1,838 families waiting for sub sidized housing units. But most affected by the shor tage are low-income, single parent families, which the city conservatively estimates to repre- Please see page A3 Revised plan for apartments in East Winston awaits approval By GREG BROWN Chronicle Staff Writer When John Duncan examined the city’s housing patterns last year, he found a gap in the market that no one seemed ready to fill - one for middle- and upper-income people who wanted to live in the black community. Looking at the East Winston area, Duncan, a ac man, saw that the city and federal govern- ente had invested millions of dollars in urban uevelopment projects such as the East Winston oppmg Center and a nearby industrial park. And not too far away, Winston-Salem State University Was growing. industrial and commercial develop- ot the area had proceeded, the housing market had not. East Winston’s low-income housing had remained essentially unchanged while the surroun ding industrial and business area had gradually become more prosperous. What the area needed, Duncan decided, was more moderate- and upper-income housing which could attract upscale young professionals with money to spend in the shopping center and surroun ding businesses serving a predominantly black clientele. “It’s the intent of the city and urban renewal to build an area up,” he said. “So they built the shop ping center and an industrial park. But no one had used UDAG money for housing before.” With the aid of the city’s Community Develop ment Department, Duncan and his partners Please see page A13 Faculty submit search criteria By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Assistant Editor The Winston-Salem State University Faculty Senate has devised a list of 10 criteria it wants con sidered in the search for the school’s new head. “This is one way of getting input,” said Dr. Elwanda Ingram, the senate’s chairman. “Since we didn’t have a representative on the search com mittee, we need to let the people know what the faculty is doing.” The list was compiled from two suggestions sub mitted by each faculty member, which were nar rowed to 28, then finally cut to 10 and ranked in order of importance. “Such a person will have to have the wisdom and strength to gather around that office bright, independent people who delight in thinking for themselves,” the top item reads. “Then such a person must be secure enough to recognize dif ferences of opinion as just that, differences, and not as challenges or rebellions. This person must be able to work creatively within the twisting and twisted pathways of the North Carolina state system, both legislative and university. “Such a person needs the personality and temperament that can not only survive, but thrive on the fried chicken and green peas circuit, the cocktail rounds and the boardroom smoke. A humane person of letters who can talk academics, finance and politics is a lot to ask for; we should settle for nothing less.” The other criteria suggest that the chancellor be an academician, have prior university experience, preferrably in an institution like Winston-Salem State, be supportive of faculty research, be able to Please see page A14
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