Crime rate
Continued from page A1
Johnnie Mae Ingram, president
of the Resident's Council in Kim
beriy Park, Sara Webster, president
of the Happy Hills' Council, and
Doris Coble, vice president of the
Cleveland Avenue homes Council,
all agreed with Black that the pro
, gram has made a difference in
v reducing the drug trade and violent
crime that once plagued their neigh
. borhoods.
"We're just doing great over
there (in Kimberly Park) with the
help of the police department,'1 said
Webster proudly. And if it weren't
for them, I myself, wouldn't be over
there. But now they're doing a great
job and we are enjoying sitting on
our porche."
Both Wood and Chief Sweat
were modest in receiving the praise,
maintaining that it was the residents
working together along with the
police department that really made
the difference.
Chief Sweat also said that the
real answer to the problem with
crime is in prevention rather than
enforcement.
HI think we've got to start
putting the dollars where preven
tion's at, and save some young lives
before they get to us (the police),"
he said.
Carver
Continued from page A1
Several punches were thrown, and
other white students joined in the
fight, including the nephew of Gor
rell Pierce, a former grand dragon
of tfce ku Klux Klan and a member
ofihe American Nazi Party.
In trying to stop the fight, Ben
Robinson, the brother of Carver's
assistant principal, was hit in back
of the head with a piece of brick,
requiring eight stitches. Clemmer
said Robinson was knocked down
but did not lose consciousness. One
of the students involved had a par
tial tooth broken.
"I know there's good in these
kids," said Clemmer, "because most
of them came back Friday at 4:30 to
turn themselves in, both black and
white, and to explain their involve
ment I think when they heard Mr.
Robinson got hurt, they really felt
bad."
Seventeen of the boys met with
Clemmer all day Monday in the
media center, discussing the inci
dent and helping to decide on their
punishment.MThey got down to it,"
said Clemmer. "They said this is
what made me mad, when you said
that, and they really cleared the air.
They were gentlemen all day long.
They felt that if any one of^them
were to be charged, all of them
should." Most of the students were
suspended for four days. The stu
dent who threw the brick has not
been identified yet, but Clemmer
Winston-Salem is the only city
in the Triad where the number of
crimes decreased in 1991.
Between January and June, the
number of crimes dropped from
8,228 to 8,1222. Greensboro and
High Point's crime rates both
increased during the same time
period.
The Community Action Group
was first organized by Mayor Wood
in May of 1990 to empower the res
idents of Winston-Salem's public
housing communities to respond to
the violence and conditions in their
communities with the help and sup
port of all of the city's resources.
says he should be made to face
legal charges.
Clemmer said there has not
been a focus on race relations at
Carver before. "We knew maybe
two or three percent of the students
had those problems, and we tried to
deal with it on a one-on-one basis.
This caught me by surprise. Maybe
we have a bigger problem than I
thought"
Carver's school improvement
committee was to meet yesterday to
discuss new approaches to racial
and cultural issues in the school.
"We're not ashamed to admit
we have a problem, but we will do
something about it," declared Clem
mer.
Southern accents
Continued from page A5
white salesman for the Nashville
Life Insurance Co. came to see my
mother. I answered the doorbell. He
demanded, *"Hey boy, ah wanna see
Elgeitha." Noticing his Southern
- accent and his call ing my mother by
her first name, I instantly flew into
a rage and screamed, HYou disre
spected my mother...damn you...
you white son-of-a-bitch," trying to
get at him through the screen door.
I tried to open the door that 1
had opened for years, but I was out
Washingto
shore up the foundations of the
economy so that there will be
enough jobs in the future.
It's been estimated that for
every available job, there are six to
ten people who are unemployed,
discouraged workers, or on wel
fare.
There just aren't enough jobs to
go around, and because of that we
have millions of people who are
permanently poor and millions
more who have lost their jobs and
can't work their way back into the
middle class.
Congress should start now to
push through programs that create
jobs.
NCAS Endowment
Fund gives grants
Six North Carolina organiza
tions and individuals have been
selected to receive grants from the
North Carolina Amateur Sports
Endowment Fund.
The NCAS Endowment Fund
was established to promote amateur
athletics in North Carolina. It dis
tributes grants twice a year. The
endowment is funded from profits
associated with U.S. Olympic Festi
val-'87 and is managed by the
Greater Triangle Community Foun
dation.
In the past two years, the
NCAS Endowment Fund has given
over $75,000 to amateur sports
organizations in North Carolina.
The organizations receiving
grants in December 1991 are Win
ston-Salem Parks and Recreation
Department (Winston-Salem), ther
apeutic recreation program for dis
advantaged youths ($2,000); Boys
and Girls Club (Raleigh), Olympic
Sports Program, ($2,000); Molly
Terry (Davidson), triathlete train
ing, ($1,750); Fernando Cardenas
Jr. (Apex), training for the
Olympics in equestrian, ($2,000);
Edge Kids Foundation (Raleigh),
tennis program for disadvantaged
youths, ($2,000); and Wake County
Special Olympics (Wake County),
training for mentally/physically
impaired athletes for gymnastics
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of control andcouldn'tget it open.
The startled man ran to his car
across the street and quickly drove
away.
My mother, who had never
heard me use profanity, ran down
stairs and gave me a hug. I was stiir
shaking and my heart was pound
ing. Uncle Billy, who probably
heard the confrontation, came and
paued me on the shoulder.
Some years earlier, my mother
took us boys to nearby Quindaro
Kas., to see the statue of John
Brown, the white abolitionist who
fought and died to end slavery. She
told us she loved him but hated
Robert E. Lee and the Confederate
flag.
I have read slave narratives and
1 become angry with each Teading.
Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter,
both liberal white southerners,
helped somewhat; but maybe you
will understand why every time I
hear a white man with a Southern
accent, my first impulse is to "get"
him.w
Continued from page A5
There's plenty it can do, from
targeted community service jobs for
urban youth to conservation jobs in
rural areas to rebuilding the infras
tructure.
Our roads and streets and
bridges are falling apart, so the
quickest way to move people from
the unemployment lines to the pro
duction lines is to get an infrastruc
ture repair program under way ? a
main feature of the Urban League's
Marshall Plan for America.
Beefed up training programs
and share-the-work programs ougljt
to be considered by the private sec
tor, too.
Keeping employment high isn't
just Washington's job, but the gov
ernment can help private employers
and unions to implement plans that
save jobs.
The Administration should get
into the act as well. It can't just
assume that the market will right
itself because it won't
The closest it's come to a
domestic policy is the futile fight
for capital gains tax breaks for the
affluent.
With a presidential election
campaign starting up and a reces
sion-induced mood of angry pop
ulism raging in the land, the White
House needs to show leadership and
help get people back to work.
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