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*""90 percent of those on the ficials
liLlist- Tte city had sought
of subsidized housing,
pleased to receive
|lhat number. No new hous-
jjill be constructed with the
,„i funds, but eligible families
subsidy certificates to
(lidiheir rent payments.
.jl,E certificate is more like a
iljjg license,” said Dave
[ojipkins, director of the city
losing Authority. “Section 8 is
„jlllieonly way you can help
, really, low-income people,
raise they don’t have any
iiey.”
ft number of such families
j ft problems affecting them
particularly severe in the
‘Oil research indicates that
dily disorganization is
picially acute in the City of
nslon-Salem,” the city’s grant
plication stated. “In the
]0.|98O decade, the City of
ision-Salem actually lost
pulation (albeit, less than one
cent), but the total number of
iseholds increased an
onishing 18 percent. Although
number of family households
rained essentially stable, there
iadramatic increase in the ac-
1 number of married couples
,(percent), and a correspon-
I increase in the number of
jle households.”
Winston-Salem has “an ex-
ordinarily high percentage” of
jle-parent families in relation
he rest of the nation, city of-
say. Single-headed
households accounted for 29.2
percent of the city’s 33,328
families in 1980 - representing a
43 percent increase since 1970.
One reason for that, the officials
say, may be that Winston-Salem
has one of thie highest divorce
rates in the state.
And while more parents are
divorcing, more children are be
raised in one-parent families -
with one-parent incomes in many
cases. Nineteen percent of
families with children under 18
years oif age were headed by
single parents in 1970, but by
1980 the proportion had risen to
35 percent.
Compounding the problem, 92
percent of the city’s single-parent
households were headed by
women in 1980 — women who
generally earn less than men.
Gary Brown, the former city
director of community develop
ment who now works in Col
orado, said one-third of the
children enrolled in the Winston-
Salem/Forsyth County school
system lived in single-parent
households and that 99 percent of
them lived with their mothers.
More than 40 percent of the ci
ty’s female-headed families had
incomes below the poverty level
in 1979. The mean income of
female, single parents in 1979 was
$9,288, compared to $10,772 for
single parents of both sexes and
to $28,375 for married couple
families.
An estimated 60 percent of all
female-headed families with
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tesessing the party
5. Why are blacks the only ones
iling up on Wednesday morn-
ij with a headache? The Jews
ij'l wake up worried because
i(ir man lost. They have people
ullcamps. And that’s what we
“Some blacks need to be
Mocratic. Some blacks need to
Republican and some blacks
Kd to be independent. We have
be in a position where people
il bargain for us like they do
elews and Hispanics.”
John Cavanagh, chairman of
t Forsyth County Republican
arty, agrees.
'The Democratic Party, for
most part, has been out of
tp with the general thinking of
people, not only in North
aiolina but in the entire
•ion,” says Cavanagh. “The
mocratic Party needs to re-
aluate its position with regard
the traditional values of
wrica and to recognize that
tse values have deep roots in
HI heritage. And, when we at-
atpt to abuse those values, that
iietica will react as it did in
id again in 1984.”
itile; Blacks Must Diver-
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“When blacks voted straight
Democratic, they gave Brown as
much support as they did (Neal)
Bedinger (a white Democratic
candidate for county commis
sioner),” says Little. “Why
should we give a white man as
much support as we give a black
,candidate?
“Look at Jones,” Little says.
“He got over 35,000 votes and no
more than 3,000 of them came
from black folk. He got the white
vote and he ran ahead of conser
vative Marvin Ward in the coun
ty. For every one vote that
Lafayette got (in the
predominantly black precincts)
(Ted) Kaplan and Ward got 10.
Only at Carver and 14th Street
did that margin narrow - where
Jones got one vote, they got two.
“We can’t even support our
own. We are more loyal to the
party than we are to our own
race.”
Cavanagh says Jones’ loss was
a disappointment to the
Republicans.
Please see page A14
fy
liil blacks who join other pac-
Mught to do so with the inten-
»of working for a black agen-
®ys Little. To do otherwise,
®ys, would be useless.
Don’t go to absorb and
'dlow the Helms or Reagan
*»phy, but go to push for
Little says.
f’tsidem Reagan won 525
Moral votes nationwide to
Mondale’s 13. While
■I' Democrats helped give
his massive win, black
remained loyal to the
dy.
dty percent or more of the
®«tatic Party’s votes in the
® came from black people,”
Ji Little.
|;°y*I. straight Democratic
''^suited in losses
^Oddale and Ferraro, and
other Democrats, says
including Mose’ Belton
j*”’ * Dlack Democratic can-
fnt county commissioner;
’’'nrry and Bill Tatum,
emocratic candidates for
niy-county school board, and
Jones.
'an candidate
•'Senate,
a black
for the
FACTS
LAW ilL
By Gregory Davis
A LEGACY is any gift left to someone by
will. The person intended to receive the
gift is the LEGATEE.
Recent tax law changes can have dramatic
impact on the economic aspects of separa
tion and divorce. The complications pro
vide one more reason to seek expert legal
counsel in separation/divorce situations.
A driver's license may be terminated by
expiration of its term, by an infraction, by
abandonment, or by the death of the
driver.
If you wish to change your legal name, you
must apply to the court, which normally
wHI grant the change unless it is clearly
unreasonable.
A law in the state of Connecticut says that
if you are a beaver, you have a legal right
to build a dam.
A question of law? Bring it to:
Gregory Davis
Henderson & Summers,
Attorneys at Law
224 N. Trade Street
Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102
725-9185
724-7054
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related children now live in sub
sidized, public housing, city of
ficials say.
Because a large proportion of
single-parent income is used to
pay rent, many single parents are
either forced to obtain welfare or
to take low-paying jobs which
leave little time for upgrading job
skills through higher education or
vocational training. Child care
poses still another problem and
the cumulative effect is to lock
many single-parent families into
a cycle of poverty.
“Poverty is one of the driving
forces of family
disorganization,” according to
the grant application, “and, in
creasingly, family disorganiza
tion leads to poverty, especially
for families headed by a female.
“The social and economic
costs of this phenomenon are
staggering and, when viewed in
terms of lost human potential,
anguishing.”
To break that cycle, the city
has recruited a 37-member task
force of city officials and private
citizens to develop guidelines and
implement the program. To do
that, the task force must find
means to provide child care,
counseling, job training and job
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Just how that will be done re
mains to be seen. Samuel Pierce,
the federal Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development, in a ci
ty press release says Winston-
Salem “will have a great deal of
flexibility in designing its pro
gram,” but that HUD will pro
vide technical assistance.
A key element of the program
is the task force’s ability to
generate community support for
the proposal - both volunteer
and corporate support.
Step-by-step, the task force
will have to:
• Conduct a local needs assess
ment.
• Develop community objec
tives.
• Design a plan of action to meet
those objectives.
• Identify and secure com
mitments of local public and
private resources.
• Oversee the program’s ad
ministration.
• Develop a comprehensive pro
gram linking housing assistance,
child care, a plan to select pro
gram participants, transportation
services, employment and skills
training and job development
and placement.
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So experience the smooth mellow lightness of Canadian Mist.
An imported Canadian Whisky.
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The Chronicle, Thursday, November 15, 1984-Page A3
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