iMrry Shaw, president
Shaw Food Services
The Great Food Flip Flop Flap
A Minority procurement process major plot
B> WILLIAM H. TURNER. PH D
Special to the Chronic /?
Many grounds and house keepers at
North Carolina's public black colleges are like
old professors, long tenured and cozy mem
bers of the communities. Those 2,430 people
? mostly blacks on the five predominately
black campuses ? maintain the schools'
grounds and buildings and may be replaced
by private contractors in a cost-cutting move.
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as recommended to the state by a consulting
group. The un-unionized workers have orga
nized to keep their jobs.
LasT mo'ntn, in an apparently unrelated,
though just as ominous development. North
Carolina A&T State University ended it's
decade-long partnership in a model program
of the state's interest to encourage and pro
mote the use of minority-owned firms in the
purchasing of gotxis and services. Shavs Food
Services, black-owned and Fayetteville-based.
operated five cafeterias on public historically
black colleges until last month. v\hen North
Carolina Central University also dropped its
contract.
Fayetteville, Winston-Salem, and Eliza
Please see page 6
Is the case of Shaw
Foods losing the
A&T contracts the
tip of the iceberg?
Will it mean a chill
ing effect ? a com
petitive disadvan
tage ? on this
black company s
future? Is it really
true that "white
folks' ice is
colder?"
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75 cents ' Dedicated to the Memory of Clarence E. Nottingham: 1903-1995 vol. xxiii, No. 3
Strength for the Journey
Noonday Services
Fill Spritual Need
By FELI CIA P MCMILLAN
Special to the Chronicle
The rain was pouring out
side, hut over 350 worshipers
fought back the elements to
find a seat for the Midweek
Noonday Worship service at
Cleveland Avenue Christian
Church last Wednesday. When
the sun is shining, there is
standing room only, and the
line extends out the church
doors.
"If all of the people who
regularly, attend the service
showed up at the same time,"
said Pastor Sheldon McCarter,
"there would be almost 700
people ? tIte line would
stretch to Mount Zion Place."
Dr. Elwanda Ingram, elder
and chairperson of the Wor
ship Committee said, "The
church is packed every week.
Neither rain, ice, sleet or snow
keeps the people away. They
need that spiritual uplift in the
middle of the week. The
anointing of the Holy Ghost is
here!"
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77i? v. Sheldon McCarter preaches the sermon for
the week "Let the Church Be the Church."
The midweek service at Cleveland Avenue Christian Church draws big crowds: often there is
standing room only.
Left to right, cheerleaders captain, IxiSheena Polite; basketball co-captains, Jamaal Rasheed
and DeShaun Love; and cheerleaders co-captain Ashley Wilkerson support the SOS team, the
Bears.
YMCA sends out S.O.S. -
Offers safe haven for kids
B> FF.LECIA P. MCMILLAN
Special to the Chronicle
The fall sessions of the Support Our Students (SOS) 1996
Program began Aug. 26 at Ashley Middle School, Hill Middle
School and Mineral Springs Middle School. Said Lind) Har
ris, YMCA program specialist/supervisor of the SOS pro
gram. "We will open a site in Kernersville during the month
of October that will be prepared to accommodate the multi
cultural population, particularly our Hispanic residents." The
program is free to students that meet the enrollment criteria.
Harris said that research in the city has show 1 that each
day, a large bulk of community crime takes place during the
hours from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.. when students get out of school.
She said. "The SOS program is designed to combat this statis
tic, enhance grades, improve discipline in schools, save tax
Please see page 11
Gerry Clinkscales, 6th-grade teacher at Hill Middle
School, helps Timothy Murphy with his homework.
Jordan ?from criminal to journalist to entrepreneur
B\ M At RICH CROCKHR
Community News Reporter
?At the age of 5, Milton Jordan began
his career as a criminal when he stole a
dollar from his aunt's purse to buy cook
ies. Although it may seem harmless to
some. Jordan said, that incident would
dictate the next 20 years of his life.
The 53-year-old college educator,
publisher, and well-known journalist, is
cumins forth uoth hiv^tory. and recruiting
other post-criminal achievers in an effort
to prove that crime can be eliminated.
Jordan, who >pent almost half of his
Milton Jordan
lite in the criminal justice system, savs he
can remember the 'Irst day he stole some
thing.
"1 asked my aunt for some money, so
1 could buy cookies to bribe the children
not to beat me up." he said. "She told me
she didn't have an\ money, but 1 knew, she
did." Jordan said although he was five
years old. he knew what he had to do to
get the money.
"I knew what I was going to do; my
heart was beating ami \ wav sweating. The
more I entered the room the more excited
I became."
Only needing 25 cents. Jordan said.
he took a dollar, and proceeded to lea\e
the house.
"As I left the house, there was a
tremendous feeling came over me that I
just could not describe, until 1 was 12
years old. when I had my first sexual
orgasm." he said.
Jordan said from that point on. he was
driven to steal by the excitement and the
feeling he experienced.
According to Jordan, people are King
when they say they commit crimes to pro.
Please see page 10
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