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Striking Greyhound workers cause woe in W-S By RUDY ANDERSON Chronicte Managing Editor Employees at Winston-Salem's Greyhound Bus terminal are begin ning to feel the economic pinch as the strike against the country's only nationwide bus company moves into - its ftrsi full week. More than 9,000 employees, rep resented by the Amalgamated Council of Greyhound Local Unions, over 6,000 of whom are drivers and main tenance workers, set up picket lines when contract negotiations broke off last Friday. Tom March, area general manag ? er_lor Greyhound, admits that lidei ship is down. But he also points out that this is not a peak time of year for heavy bus traffic anyway. Just the same, March says some of the inde pendent bus drivers he hired to work om of the Winston-Salem area have quit. He also says of the 40 drivers hired to work out of the Fayetteville terminal only 75% are still working. Alese Wilmoth, an independent sales contractor leasing space at the Winston-Salem terminal, said, "we are running limited service." adding in almost the same breath, "Carolina Trailways is still operating. We can still get people and packages to their destinations." Ms. Wilmoth said since the strike started it seems as though people just stopped shipping their - packages- As a result, Ms. Wilmoth said she has had to lay off two of the 12 employees she had and cut back on the work schedules of others. Cary Hall, a platform dock work er, is one of those feeling the hourly squeeze. "They are cutting back our hours because ttjere is nothing to do," he said. Based on reports from Grey hound headquarters in Dallas, Texas, there may be "little" to do for quite a while. A Greyhound spokesman said in a telephone interview Tuesday that no new talks are scheduled. The spokesman said the three year, $63 million dollar, contract is all the com pany can afford. Company officials have adopted a hard line stand on hir ing drivers that is likely to increase tensions between those drivers on strike and those that cross the picket line. P. Anthony Lannie, Greyhound's executive vice president in charge of labor negotiations, confirmed the company has hired 700 permanent replacement drivers and is training 915 more. A Monday Wall Street Journal report said Greyhound won't permit -strikers to use their seniority to regain positions now being filled by perma nent replacements and union mem bers who cross the picket line. In that report Larinie said, "This is not some thing that we want to do. This is a defensive measure to allow us (Grey hound) to operate our business in the face of an irrational strike." "They've hired scabs to do our jobs," yelled Harlan Hawks, a strik ? tri^?itTtv^i^froTrT- Pircn~^roTiTTx^tTrr adding, "they better know, Hitler took Poland too but he had to give it back," a reference to Greyhound CEO, Fred Currey, who strikers accuse of trying ?to bust their union. Among the many problems that striking union members say they have with the proposed contract is that the company would lease work to inde pendent contractors. Union members say that would cause the loss of more than 2,000 jobs. So for now both sides in the labor dispute wait to see who will be first to come back to the bargaining table to resume talks. After the last strike in 1983, Greyhound ridership dropped 33% according to company officials. They attributed that too low morale in the - walkout. -Or eyfeeund officials say sincc that strike* the company had been making a come back and was building itsjidership. Local union members say this strike will severely damage that comeback cfjort. HoldingCo.; developer plans-innovative program? Sy TONYA V. SMITH Ohronicle Staff Writer ' A day care center staffed by senior citizens and an educational institute will be housed in a renovated Skyland School, said the developer Who last week bid $50,000 on the abandoned property that was once to be conveyed by the city-county school board to the Delta Fine Arts Center for $1. William R. Carter Jr. of W.R.C. Holding Company Inc. reigned as high bidder last Friday in a field of seven others vying for Skyland Mon day night the Winston- SalenVForsyth County Board of Education accepted his bid and Mr. Carter's company will take over ownership of the land, which sits on about 19 acres off East End Boulevard, when the sale closes - approximately 60 days from March 2: Mr. Carter will utilize the annex portion of Skyland for the day care Tenter, he said. The project will be * patterned after the Union City Day .Care Center in Union City. NJ. The developer said he has been negotiat ing with Dana Berry, the director of the New Jersey center, for four months. The center was highlighted during a recent episode of "Inside Edition," a television magazine show. The development test scores of chil dren attending the Union City center increased by 20 points because of the interaction between the children and senior citizens, and the linking of "the light of life to the needs of those in the dawn of life," said Alphia Hicks, who is working with Mr. Carter oh the project He and his colleagues have con sidered the findings of recent studies of East Winston, Mr. Carter told school board members, and their plans for Skyland will address con cerns raised in those documents. "I take this project close to heart," Mr. Carter said. "I get goose bumps every time I go by it. I do want to be the person to develop this prop erty and it will be developed in a manner to spark further economic develop in that area." Putting an end to all rumors that he planned to demolish parts of the school, Mr. Carter said his sole aim is to preserve the East Winston commu nity landmark. It wilHake about three to four months to renovate the annex and prepare it for the day care center, Mr. Carter said. He declined to esti would cost. However, developer David Shannon scrapped his plan to renovate the facility for Family Ser vices' Headstart program in 1989, saying it was too expensive an under taking. Vandals have stripped Skyland of its electrical wiring, ?nd the build overtaken with asbestos: The proposed educational insti tute will be developed shortly after the day care center is in operation, said Ms. Hicks, who manages data communications acquisitions for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. "The mission of the educational institute will be to provide a facility which houses all major support sys tems which are essential to the total development of the 'at-risk' individu al, family unit and community; and to teach all essential skills for living," ^ Ms. Hick explained. "All areas which ^engender self-esteem, promote the desire to achieve and succeed, and instill the desire for self determina tion, will receive major emphasis. "The needs of the individual/community will be met either through programs developed in-house, agencies residing in-heuse, or via referral to other agencies." Education and training, cconom be the institute's primary areas of WSSU coffers boosted by RJR gift By ROBIN BARKSDALE Chronicle Staff Writer ; Citing a historical partnership between his company and Winston Salem State University, RJR Tobacco Co. chair and CEO James W. John ston Tuesday made a $4 million con tribution to the school's centennial campaign fund. In announcing the largest contri bution ever presented to the universi ty, Mr. Johnston recalled the partner ship formed nearly 100 years ago by RJR founder, Richard Joshua Reynolds, and university founder, Simon Green Atkins. In 1891, the tobacco entrepreneur contributed $500 to Mr. Atkins to help fund his Slater Industrial Academy. Mr. John ston said while that $500 donation may not seem significant by today's standards, that same amount today would translate into a $71,000 contri bution. He said that his company's decision to give the school $4 million is a move to demonstrate its commit ment to the partnership formed 100 years ago. "Both Dr. Simon Green Atkins and Richard Joshua Reynolds had agrarian roots. And both left their family farms to pursue a dream. For Dick Reynolds, it was a tobacco com pany; for Dr. Atkins, improving edu cation," Mr. Johnston said, addressing the crowd of more than 200 people assembled at WSSU's Anderson Cen ter. "Both men were blessed with vision and the drive to see their dreams become realities.. .The rela tionship between RJR and this univer sity started with Dr. Atkins and Dick Reynolds but it did not end there." The multi-million dollar gift from Reynolds will go toward the~ university's Centennial Campaign, which has set a goal of $55 million. The campaign committee outlined x several urgent needs. Portions of the^ Reynolds' contribution will be used to address those needs. In its case study the committee said that funds are urgently needed because "qualified area students are choosing other schools because of a lack of scholar ships and programs.. .faculty salaries are not competitive, students are' \ Please see page A8 ? Controversy still surrounds census By TONYA V. SMITH Chronicle Staff Writer Probably more controversy has overshadowed the taking of the April 1, 1990, census than any of it 5 prede cessors. Mayors of some of fhr country1!? \ . t # f # t i # ?* ?Ui V inv.., i 4- v 1 4 ? i ^ ' r ' New York Mayor David Dinkins, are threatening to sue the federal govern- > ment if their municipalities are again the victims of under counts*, The city leaders are concerned with the under counts because they result in lower fund allocations. The Twin City's chapter of the NAACP was asked to help with the census but because one of its mem bers was reportedly fired for incom petence, and the numerous other reports it has heard about Afro- Amer icans being turned down for jobs, the organization has opted not to cooper ate with census officials until it can definitely establish that discrimina lion is not taking place. "There's is a lot of misinforma tion circulating in the black commu nity," said the Rev. William S. Fails last week during an NAACP Execu tive Board meeting. "People in low income areas are being told if they work a census job their checks and r. . T1 . . ' , being told that if they cooperate with census takers, that the amount of their AFDC (Aid to Families with Depen dent Children) and welfare checks will decrease, their rent will go up and the government will take their food stamps." Diana Williams Cotton, the third vice president of the local NAACP and director of the organization's fifth region, was a recruit operations supervisor in charge of a seven-coun ty district for the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census. "They fired Diana Williams Cot ton," Mazic Woodruff, an executive board member, inserted during the meeting. "They said she was incom petent." * "We're not going to cooperate with them (census officials), if they're not hiring blacks," President Marshall said. "We can't work with them if they are discriminating against people who want to work " -for commcnt. Census officials maintain that they are doing everything they can to hire Afro-Americans. "I can't discuss any specifics about personnel matters but you should know that all manage ment positions arc hired through the regional census office and not here," said Lynda Seymour, district office manager stationed in Winston -Satcm. "I don't know anything about people being told incorrect information about AFDC or food stamps. We know there has been some confusion about what the ruling of those federal offices were. My understanding is Please see page Ad ilV'e,s Staff Photo Above, striking employees walk the picket lines In the rain. At left, one of the strikers bears a personal message (or Fred Cur rey, president and CEO ol Greyhound, whom the strikers feel is trying to bust up their union. focus, Ms. Hicks added. She outlined the project's objectives as follows: ?to provide a facility which hous es community-based, non-profit orga nizations under one umbrella in order that skills for living can be taught mosteffect ively andeiTictently, ?Yo creaTe an atmosphere con ducive to creativity and innovation that will effectively meet the complex and evolutionary challenges of pro viding quality and relevant education to the "at-risk" population, and, ?to effectively utilize existing professional and corporate human resources to provide quality, practt tioner-oriented Wining and develop ment. The institute's aims will be to educate members of the East Winston [ community with relevant skills for employment, Ms. Hicks said. 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