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national roups to honor istoric march PAGE A9 A closer look at the faith of the Koran PAGE B1 yn-Salem Chronicle The Twin Citv's Award-Winnino WppItIm olice youth rant approved 'uLERIE ROBACK GREGG Jrticle Staff Writer TJie kid grew up watching drug pushers get rich, Ijoiher get beat up. drunks lying on the sidewalk, [playing with other kids who lived in the public ig pojecis. He started delivering drugs for the pushers and ]g drunk with his friends. Then he started smok- jiH[ot and doing cocaine, and then robbing conve- stores to support his habits. '■gut he soon got caught, went to jail for a time, and finished school. ilhis scenario is common in East Winston's public ig projects, and the city Police Department has ,ed to stop the cycle before it's too late for the IhAmerican youths there. A S42,000 grant from the North Carolina Depart- of Crime Control and the Governor’s Crime Com- .^lon will help police conduct a two-year program preventing juvenile delinquency in East Win- highest crime area. Last week, the Board of :n voted to accept the grant. This effort may help fill the void left by successful )le who leave East Winston as soon as they are icially able, Alderman Larry W. Womble said, they leave, the negative element enters and the are left the pimp, the pusher and the prosii- he said. "They (children) see these people every in their fine cars and clothes, and they see the Please see page A10 ttPsa Valley of the Dolls' #0 / Photo by Mike Cunningham There Is a doll to suit the fahcy of almost everyone on display at the Delta Arts Center. The varied assortment of dolls, from the personal collections of three local residents, will be exhibited through Sept. 30. See story on A6. Group opposes East Winston shopping center By VALERIE ROBACK GREGG Chronicle Staff Writer Slater Park residents are gathering ihek forces to oppose the construction of a shopping center off New Walkertown Road in East Winston and say they will go to the Board of Aldermen if necessary, but the project's developer is confident they can reach a compromise. About 100 people have already signed a petition opposing the lodaiion of the proposed development off "We are already obligated to provide on-site security to control traffic during operating hours and loitering after hours. The opposi tion is based on anxiety and lack of knowl edge about the complex. We're willing to work with them.” - Herman Turner . Route 311 between Gerald and Dellabrook Roads, directly south of Slater Park. The Gerald Road seg ment of Slater Park would border directly on the north ern edge of the shopping complex. Herman Turner, the principal in Turner Develop ment Services which is proposing the development, said he hopes to draft a contract with Slater Park resi- Please see page A10 lUjla 11 historically black colleges lose federal funds NEWS DIGEST Compiled From AP Wire ^candidates sign agreements with NAACP CHARLOTTE (AP) - State NAACP officials, carrying a it-year-old crusade with businesses into the political arena, ive reached agreements with 10 statewide and congrwsion- icandidates to spend more campaign dollars with blacks. The one-page Fair Share agreements, reached with the didates’ campaigns, generally pledge the campaigns to a wal cOTimitment" to use more black campaign managers t’al consultants, advertise with black media and increase bases from black businesses. : Controversial attorney back in High Point HIGH POINT (AP) - Robert Brown, the High Point ^Horaey and public relations executive who was a near- s candidate for ambassador to South Africa two yeai^ ), is an enigma to many people. Brown made international news recently in a squabble over 'Nho represented the family of Nelson Mandela. Biovin announced he'd received power of attorney world- 'Nide for the family of the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress. He has twice visited Mandela in prison. Fisk program hopes to increase black doctors NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Fisk University will use a grant of nearly $600,OCX) to try to increase the number of I black physicians in the country, officials say. "nie S593.478 grant will allow the number of minority allege students prqnaring for medical careers in a summer 'hstituteto increase from 73 to about 180. GREENSBORO (AP) - Bennett Col lege and 10 other historically black institutions in the Southeast have lost out on $2.3 million in federal funds they had expected to use in the upcom ing school year. Gloria Randle Scott, Bennett's presi dent, said this week she wiD be hard- pressed to make up about $100,000 her school had expected from the federal Title III program. "It hurts us pretty badly," Ms. Scott said. It means the school has to find the money somewhere else, she said. Ms. Scott said about $70,000 of the lost funds had been earmarked for salaries. Title III is a federal program that began in 1965 in an effort to move developing institutions, including his torically black schools, into the educa tional mainstream. The schools won't get the money because Congress recently prohibited black institutions from receiving funds from both the major parts of the Title III program, known as Part A and Pan B. In June, Bennett was awarded funds from both parts. It is the only North Carolina school to gel funds from both parts. Ms. Scott said this week she has asked the North Carolina congressional delegation to offer a technical amend ment that provides Bennett and the other schools an exemption from the congressional act. "As a result of this action," Scott wrote in a letter to Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., "We have been unfairly and unjustly cut from appropriations allo cated in the 1989 federal budget with out prior notice or consideration of its impact upon our entire program.... Wc have no sources from which to draw funds which will be cuL" A spokesman in Coble's office said North Carolina's entire delegation has signed a letter asking for the exemp tion. Community group to elect Board of Directors Community Development Corporation to select 21 members by mid-September By VALERIE ROBACK GREGG Chronicle Staff Writer The East Winston Community Development Corporation will elect a 21-member board of directors Sept. 15. According to CDC officials, the total membership will vote on a list of 21 persons proposed by a CDC nominat ing committee. The three-member committee has narrowed a list of 55 nominations down to 23 names so far, Joycelyn Johnson, CDC nominating committee chairwom an, said Tuesday. The committee asked East Winston area residents, business people and government officials, as well as people from outside the East Winston community, to submit nomina tions for the 21-member board. The 21-member board will be elected by secret ballot at a regular meeting of the CDC. "There's been a tremendous increase in members since the shopping center (was announced)," CDC Chairman James R. Grace Jr. said Tuesday. "Membership was 98 at last count without any really organized effort." The East Winston Development Task Force recently voted to support a proposal to deed 14.5 acres of city land off Route 311 to the CDC to house a shopping complex. The CDC would then give the land to the corporation owning the complex in exchange for 20 percent of the company’s stock. The task force resolved to endorse the city's involvement, however, only if the CDC gains a tax-exempt status, elects a full board of directors with elected officers and installs management positions to help carry out the CDC's functions. Fifteen of the 23 finalists have accepted their nominations, Johnson said, and the final list of 21 nominees will be sent to all CDC members to consider on Sept. 2. "At the member ship meeting (Sept. 15) they'll say who they want and who they don't want," Johnson said. "We don't feel there will be a lot of changes in the listing.’’ Advisory board positions will also be considered, she said. Grace said the CDC's nominating committee has been soliciting nomina tions from members for the past nine months. "They have members for newn- inalions with certain qualifications," he said. "It's hard to match the certain types of expertise people bring to the table." The nominating committee has Please seepage All Black businesses still lag behind other minority firms j By VALERIE ROBACK GREGG I Chronicle Staff Writer tory is the first in a series investigating the state of the local ican business community. Next week, look for a summary of unity resources available to help minority-owned businesses. Despite government assistance programs, minority business organi- I zaiions, and the rise of the Afro-American middle class, Afro-Amencan I lousiness owners remain on the fringes of the country's business commu- I "ity in terms of their numbers, the size of their businesses and the inte- I Station of industry. Nationwide, Afro-Americans constitute about 10 percent of the I population but own only 2.3 percent of the country’s businesses. And B ®ost of these businesses are not in the mainstream of the American I «:onomy. They remain on the outskirts. About 43 percent of these busi- I "osses provide a service, and the rest involve predominantly retail sales, I construction or transportation, according to a 1982 U.S. Bureau of the I Census e s economic survey. The 1982 Survey of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises says Afro-Americans are the least likely of all minorities to own their own businesses. Afro-Americans are the largest segment of the country's minority population, yet they own less than half of all minority-owned businesses. Their businesses also have significantly lower sales and fewer employees, according to the survey. Afro-American businesses are concentrated most heavily in the retail and service industries and are hard to find in the areas of finance and manufacturing, according to the survey. Of the 513 firms owned by Afro-Americans in Winston-Salem in 1982, 243 provided services, 149 conducted retail sales and 40 were in the construction business. Most of them had no employees. The Afro-American business community is growing, but as busi ness, especially big business, is reladvely new to Afro-Americans, they suffer their share of problems. Eight out of every 10 new businesses in the U.S. fail, and in North Carolina, 7.3 out of every 10 businesses fail, W.R. Dow, director of the UNC Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC), ' Please see page All „ on-/ 0 7av > „ Breakdown of city's 8.38^_^ 4 ^ business types 29.04% ■ agriculture construction mfg. retail □ transportation finance services B v/holesale' □ undassified - Jt: