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4 ? ^unO BLUNTTf * ^ t?r Jl90s Style Reefer Madness By WILLIAM H Tl KM.R. PHI) Special lo the Chmnn lc Add a new term to the lingo of marijuana use; BIJUN T. The new delivery system consists of marijuana in a blunt-tip cigar. Out w ith the reefer, or joint, marijuana commonly rolled into a.small "stick." Out w.ith the "Tops" and other 60's-era white cigarette papers in which joints are smoked. Out with the tell-tale pungent smell ot marijuana. Now. the once-distinct smell of the most widel\ used illegal drug in the United States is commingled w ith the strong aroma of cigar tobacco. Please see BLUNT* N \ V * \ recent trend in drug use is the rollimg oj marijuana into a cigar, or blunt, /'he aroma o the cigar masks the odor of marijuana. ' , _ . i-Salem Chronicle ,,B * c *0~Tc*n pUB 2sJ"th s\f t;c n ^ 'z2bl,noice for African-American News and Information -r mcTO^ W^-'1 THURSDAY, August, 8 1996 Dedicated to the Memory of Clarence E. Nottingham: 1903-1995 vol. xxii. No "I have had f had to use the sy tance to make it o \mily members who stem of pnbtii <lssis rersome humps*" ? i \ I i \ IflltKMM f \ I * ? ' I I I I Analyzes Welfare Reform Bill A Combines Compassion With Values Mont's By WILLIAM H I I KM R. Kill) Special u? the Chmtinlr One of the first things Art Milligan does when he talks about the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (passed last week bv Congress and sent to President Clinton tor signature) is talk about his own personal contact w ith people on welfare: "I have had family members who had to use the system of public assis tance to make it over some humps," he says" without a hint of shame. Then, the barrel-chested and soft-spoken chief administra tor of Winston-Salem's public housing authority. HAWS, ticks oil the differences between what he calls "welfare myths versus wel fare facts." While brandishing a three-inch-thick computer print-out of detailed data on the four major housing communities in Winston Salem, Milligan points out that "most welfare families are not black." There are far more white than black welfare families: over two-thirds of pix)r people are white. As though seven is a magic number, Milligan puts his right index finger to his spread left hand, enumerating other myths, some of which, he says "drive the poli tics of welfare reform, in a way that slanders and maligns a lot of people with bedrock values who've just been on their luck a longer Please see HA VV.S A 5 Flossie Allen's Fortunes and Misfortunes Putting a human face to the welfare system Flossie Allen. 33. a single mother on hut I think people should know." She AFDC. neither Clinched nor winced in thinks that the interview may help some response to the request to discuss her life body else, which is what she thinks is the in the context of how the new welfare most important thing in life, reforms will affect her and her four chil- Saying matter-of-factly that she is a lot dren. She was quick to say "Yeah. I'll talk. . ? Welfare recipient Flossie Allen advises I will go on record. It ain't no secret ... It Please see FLOSSIE .45 others, "Keep faith in (iod and find good is personal and hurts a lot sometimes ... ? people to give a hand, not a handout." Alexander pull C NAACP's use of family name ?WINSTON-SALEM fAP) ? The suspended president of the stu chapter of the NAACP says the acting president improperly. replace the executive committee and refused to release S5.(XH) in scholarsh money. Kelly M. Alexander Jr. made the accusations against Melvin Alston in a letter to Kweisi yifume. the president and chief executi officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Color People. Alston denied the accusations, savine the state branch executi \ \ T !*L use see A LEA A NDER t V 1 _i Church Watch fails to impress ministers B> MAI KICK ROC Kl k \ Coinmunit) Ncus Rcporto \ Local ministers arc at odds with NorthCarolina Governor Jamc B. Hunt o\er his new Church Watch Program, which was set up i provide protection to the state's African-American churches. The governor's program was created in response to the mot than 40 church burnings that have occurred throughout the natioi Local ministers sav although the governor mav have good intention they do not see where the program will have n\uch impact. "I'm not impressed with the program." said the Rev. J oh Mendez. pastor of Lmanuel Baptist Church here. "This so-calle new program will not do anv more than the neighborhood watc program it is modeled after" However. Governor Hunt insists that Church Watch has a lot c potential to make African-American churches ^aler. "But. we can stop there."' Hunt said. "We have to work together to get to the boi torn of racial and religious intolerance. This has to be a team effort." Church Watch is modeled after Neighborhood Watch and 1 designed to help congregations and communities keep an eve 01 local churches, to protect them from arson, vandalism and acts o v iolence. Mendez and the Rev Carlton B. LversR .. pastor oT tleljahiool Presbyterian church, contends that the protection of the commun'itv' churches is not the commumtv's responsibility "It's the govern Please see HI A 7 W CLASSIFIEDS B-12 OPINION A-9 ENTERTAINMENT..B-' 0 OBITUARIES B-11 SPORTS B-1 This Week in Rlack History ALT, 1ST 9, IV.16 Jesse Owens won four gold medals at Olympics. Berlin winctnn.Snlrm Chronicle ??tm i t?nca i,*ot to he a wauilll JiKlHI IdMi.MBBMMBBfe i> Three Hawley House graduates look forward to brighter drug free days Ms \1 VI KICI ORCX'KtR "I started using drugs when I was IS years Coimminils Ncssx Reporter , , .. , i i- ? ' .1 1 .. . 0|d. Bo>d said. I just got tired ot living the w a\ I w as " T, ' ^ \ear^ battling a disease. Bovd. M\ said her children and her husband homastna Jenkins-Boyd teels good about her- wcre hcr ,nspiralioft whjlc sho was in lho pro. sell", and is proud of the way she looks. The dis . . , gram, ease Boyd mm calls conquered is not the result ' H , |fc Has established in I <>66. and of a medical condition. hut of drug addiction. b as " mcnla, hcallh aacncv. said Joanna barber this week Boyd, along wll? Nirta K(J,Vi cwmiu:diSci5r Wh.taker and Yolanda Peters, said they have Acc?rd,ne to Kellv. in the mid l<M<>\ the overcome their addictions. All three graduated . r- ,i u i . u r? -. , _________ rrom left to right, tolanda Peters, \ma Whitaker, and Ihomasmc from the Torsvth Rehahilition House, better known as the Haw lev House. Phase see THRU: A 9 _ Jenkins- Boyd, recently graduated from the Forsyth Rehahilition House ** better known as the Hawley House. ifaacii' norr. oai i e? m>) /.>?.>m.y/| ? ma*. 11 ik.aiid, vr.A < >it ami ttir.AM i 0.0. 0 ? ?
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