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9> PageA2 Wmston-Salr>n Chrontclc Thursda M. . .. Someone You r V- / . . ' -jpg ,.. . Wjt? / V AEFm^Sf '%Vt ]u9ff . . iflw| t 'JjggEmi M f , If yotrare singt?rat-leasM 8 yearsoldr doing-s : and interested in annparinn in this nnl.jmn_aiii please send your name and daytime telephone ston-Salem Chronicle, P.O. Box 3154, Winston SCLC marks its 30th anniverss NEW Off I fans (AP^ -- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was set Monday to mark the 30th anniversary of its birth here with the second of its pilgrimage marches through New Orleans to honor the struggle for civil rights. "Marches have always had a place in SCL.C his?ory. That's where the civil rights movement had its birth," SCLC spokeswoman Marti Chitwood said. "We've been able to call the attention of'the generalpublic to the things that need to Iv righted when they are wrong." The marches were held in preparation for the opening Tuesday oLthe- SCLC national convention, with 4,000 delegates attending through Saturday "We are determined to compel this nation to address ? the- problems uLqhc poor. \lc xomumc our Poor--People's Crusade on into the l?SS presidential Black mayors are told to EUCLID, Ohio (AP) - Blacks must gain more economic clout before thev can make significant political gains, a state senator recently told a group of black mayors from Michigan. Ohio and Indiana meeting in this Cleveland suburb Qnn Pv /^I 1 ? ? -< wrw.. iTuiw T?iuiv, L/-viwciaiiu, loiG inc convention ot the Ohio Chapter of Black Mayors that blacks must become more self-reliant economically by creating and running their own businesses. Me said that is the way Dick Gregory awarded honorar CARBONDALE, 111. (AP) - Comedian and social activist Dick Gregory has rccievcd an honorary degree from Southern Illinois University, where he gained fame as a track star more than 30 years ago. The nationally known political and social activist, whose rapid delivery in comedy routines once rivaled the speed with which his legs moved in foot races, was given an hnnoia-v ixvtor ot Humane Letters degree by the university. "It's just a great day," he said at Saturday's ccrcmonj^. "I came here on a track scholarship running, and i walked 85-year-old man found beate GREENSBORO (AP) - An 85-year-old man was found beaten to death just inside the front door of his Greensboro paint store. LJ. Lowe was found about 12:15 a.m. Saturday after family members became concerned when he did not come home. "He'd work in there evenings, and he was there Kernersville man arrested WINSTON-SALEM (AP) ? A Kernersville man was arrested in San Diego, Calif., and charged with murder in the death of Stephen Gray Petticord, whose body was found near Kernersville shortly after midnight last Wednesday, authorities say. The State Bureau of Investigation and Forsyth County Sheriffs investigators drew the warrant Saturday charging Timothy Owen Thomas, 26, in Petticord's death. Thomas was being held on a fugitive warrant for murder in the San Diego County Jail without bond. Four teen-agers charged afte WINSTON-SALEM (AP) - Four tccn-agcrs allegedly armed with baseball bats and a portable toilet went on a rampage that ended when the toilet was thrown off a bridge over Interstate 40 and onto a car, authorities say. The woman in the car, Lois Myers of Davie County, was not hurt, police said. CapL Bill Klinzing of the Winston-Salem police said * ' / . * V iy, August 13, 1987 Should Meet I Name: Beverle Dobson . Job Title: Employed at County Seat and RJ. Reynolds Tobacco Co. I Hometown: Winston-Salem I Describe Yourself in One Word: Lovable < Hobbies: Swimming, skating, dating Favorite Book:"The Color Purple" Favorite Movie: "Robocop" I Favorite TV Show: "Amen" Persons Admires Most: My mother and my father Career Goal: To be a lawyer (Photo byT^Serx^nlnflham)?4 ornem?ng^>osi#ve4nthewmmur%remp!oyed J f you know someone who meets these criteria, ) number to: Someone You Should Meet, Win- I -Salem, N.C. 27102. j iry this week in New Orleans election," SCLC President the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery said The SCLC said its pilgrimage pays tribute to historic events of the civil riehts movement u/hen the R*?v ----- o """" ""* Martin Luther King Jr. was "demonstrating on these same streets." March leaders planned to speak out against Reagan administration policies they say have led to cutbacks in federal funds for urban areas and setbacks for poor Americans. Marchers planned to visit public housing projects, an area jail, a hospital and other landmarks. The SCLC convention will focus on such issues as housing, health care, the death penalty and poverty as ^ the organization returns to its birthplace. The SCLC _was_foiinded at New ZmrTBaptist Church in New Orleans. put economic gains first black businessmen can deal with unemployment and poverty. Thirteen black mayors attended the convention, which ended Saturday. "Rainbow Coalitions are fine and dandy," White said last Friday, referring to the Rev. Jesse Jackson's efforts to attract non-black supporters to his presidential cause. "But how can others take us seriously if we can't coalesce together among ourselves?" y degree by his alma mater back today," said Gregory, who grew up in a St. Louis ghetto. Gregory, whose time in the half-mile stood unbeaten at Carbondale for eight years, saluted and cautioned the nearly 2,800 graduates taking part in summer commencement exercises. ~And "he"offered both praise and advice to the university for the strides it has made since the days when the fastest man on campus couldn't eat in the same restaurants with his white teammates seven days a week," said Lowe's son-in-law, A1 Snider. "That and church was all he did." Lowe had run the Mary Carter Paint Store since his retirement from Burlington Industries 25 years ago. Snider said. He said there had been two or three previous break-ins at his father-in-law's store. and charged with murder A spokesman for the San Diego police said that Thomas had been taken into custody there biApiat he could release no details of the arrest Petticord, 35, was found dead in his mobile home near Kernersville with a stab wound in his chest Maj. E.D. Alston said last Thursday. The home had been ransacked and his television, uirlrt/vocrAHA ---? - * TiuwVflNVMb IWV71 UW CUIU MU WCTC dppQTCTlUy Stolen, Alston said. The car was found last Thursday by police officers in Jackson, Tenn. r weekend rampage on 1-40 police believe that the youths, swinging baseball bats, also damaged mailboxes and smashed the windows of nearly 40 vehicles in a three-hour spree that ended at 6 a.m. Saturday. a The four youths have been charged with eight counts each of malicious injury to property, Klinzing said. ? ;\^?;. ; ; Strike continues at g \ 4 [.. By GREG MVRE Associated Press Writer ' 3p". y'4 ^ JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The black mineworkcrs1 union said Monday that at least 340,000 miners joined a strike that could cripple the gold and coal industries, the main source of South Africa's export earnings. The National Union of Mineworkers called the ; strike, the country's largest legal walkout ever, to back demands for wage increases and improved benefits. . y;... The strike began late Sunday and closed 44 of the 46 targeted gold and coal mines, the union said. :V'* ' " At least seven miners and two mine security officers were reported injured in strike-related violence. The union said at least 11 members or union officials were arrested in four separate incidents. "The members are prepared to mount a bitter and protracted struggle for a living wage," union GeneralSecretary Cyril Ramaphosa told a news conference. The union is the nation's largest -; -" 3ft,'* ? Ramaphosa said it was up to the Chamber of Mines, which represents the major mining housesrto- makethe next move ? "The ball is in their court" y Union spokesman Marcel Golding said earlier that at least 60,000 of the strikers were not union members, but joined the walkout to show support. The union claims 261,901 paid-up members and a total of 370,000 signed up out of a national total of about 600,000 black miners. It says members voted overwhelmingly to strike 28 gold and 18 coal mines, most of which are in the eastern Transvaal province and the central Orange Free State. The union also called for strikes at gold and coal mines wheie it is not recognized officially. Roughly 80 percent of South Africa's exports are derived from mining. Gold alone provides about 75 percent of mineral exports and more than half the country's foreign currency earnings. Ramaphosa said he did not know what percentage of South Africa's gold and coal production was represented by the struck mines. Anglo American Corp., which produced 39 percent nf Gn..ik AC.:..'. u * vi wuui nuiMi? luuai guiu uutpui oi ojs.z tons in ~t986, said Monday that all its mines were affected by the strike. It issued a statement alleging "incidents of violence and intimidation" by strikers against miners who wanted to keep working. The statement reported three clashes, including one The Winston-Salem Chronicle is published ev Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty Str. Mailing add 27102. Phone: 722-8624. Second-class postage p? The Winston-Salem Chronicle is a charter me Press and a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulai Association, the North Carolina Press Association a Subscription: $18.52 per year, payable in adv* add $5.00 for out-of-town delivery. PUBLICATION I * * V . .. . .. ; ? Inviting J on to 9{e(p Weicoi - ?^r? f^r. ^ . Sunday, Au f 1:00 p.m. GOLDEN STATE MUTUi Winston Mi 1225 Easl ?: WinstonMeet our Cha Mr. Ivan J. Houston "IN?' See Our Newly R * ' A <*-. * v ?; . Thanfefor 'IS. GOLDEN STATE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANC WINSTON MUTUAL REGION Continuing to serve all o/Winstc 11 . * SKv' ^ i JIIIIIIIIIIIIJJIII^ lold and coal mines i ' in which six miners were injured at Vaal's Reef mine, and said security officers used tear gas and rubber bullets against "intimidutors." S" Union officials were instructed to begin strike balloting Monday at 12 other mines that produce platinum, chrome, uranium and diamonds. r<Jk F The Chamber of Mines says the union has only 170,000 members out of a black mining work force of 600,000 men. Sunday night, security men at Anglovaal Ltd., which does not rccoeni/.e the mine workers' unions firipH rubber bullets to disperse an 'unruly mob" at its Lorraine Gold Mine in the Orange Free State. The ' company said one miner was trcaicd for a leg wound. Golding said union members were holding a meeting at Lorraine when security people attacked them. The union said Monday the only "tension point!' was at Johannesburg Consolidatcd's Randfontdio Estates gold mine, west of Johannncsburg. It said security personnel there ordered miners at gunpoint-tb go to work. The company denied the charge, but conceded that mine operations were not "normal." . ?>! __?, 1 ' ; * ~ ' .mZ'?? Mining industry officials gave no overall estimated how many workers were on strike. . -Z*. V Golding said miners were evacuating hostels ifli mine property and were being taken to their homesHb avoid violence. Black mine workers live in hostels on mine property and seldom see their families. >' Blacks do nearly all the underground work at mines, except blasting. The 26,000 white miners do supervisory and special jobs. ' > The strike is legal because the union declared: a ?dispute over specific grievances, negotiated with management, reached a mutually agreed deadlock in July, balloted its members and received a vote to strike. Mining companies implemented 15 percent to 23.4 percent wage increases July 1. The union is demanding 30 percent across-the-board increases. Irsays black miners are paid an average $172"a? month, one-sixth the average white miner's wage, and blacks have an average annual leave of 14 to 18 davs. 7- ~ ~ ? ? F compared to 35 days for whites. The union also wants an increased death benefit and danger pay. ? t Under South Africa's apartheid system, the 5 million whit** rnntrnl lhfi_ecnnftmy and main la In Q/?p*rate districts, schools and health services from the 25.6 million blacks, who have no vote in national affairs. ery Thursday by the Winston-Salem Chronicle ress: Post Office Box 3154, Winston-Salem, N.C. aid at Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. , mber of the Newsfinder service of the Associated tions, the National Newspaper Publishers ind the North Carolina Black Publishers Association. ince (North Carolina sales tax included). Please ISPS NO. 067910. me Our Mew (District Manager il. Stanton gust 16,1987 - 5:00 p.m. &L LIFE INSURANCE CO. jtual Building t Fifth Street Salem, N.C. irman and CEO of Los Angeles, Calif. enovated Facilities 'Your Surmort r r " ' 1225 E. Fifth St. Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101 ECOMPANY ~ 723-0546 m-Salem : . )
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