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VOLUMN 1, NO. 9
WEDNESDAY. JULY 25. 1973
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Press Run 5000
City Program Assures Good Meal For Kids
From The High Point Enterprise
By GA2ELIA PAYNE
EnterpriM Staff Writer-
“Here comes the milk
truck.”
“I thought that it always
came last,” commented one
small voice.
And then, “Here comes the
truck. The lunch truck is
here,” chimed voices from all
around.
Immediately the children
who had been waiting for the
lunches sponsored by the
Model City Commission of
High Point and delivered by
the High Point City Schools’
Food Service came running
from around the faded green
picnic benches at Washington
Terrace Park to the shelter
where the food would be
served. A couple of youngsters
went to the truck to get the
milk.
Approximately 35-40
children who appeared to be
from two to 14 years of
age—there was even a child in
a baby stroller—were on hand
to be served a lunch of pinto
beans, slaw, a hot dog and
dessert. They took the food
and scattered to the picnic
benches in the area.
The children seemed to
enjoy the meal while talking
about playing ball and
swimming. The entire event
hadi a picnic air about it.
This ritual occurs in one
form or another at 10 sites
throughout High Point five
days a week fcir approxi
mately 10 weeks during the
LONE DINER WITH HOT DOG
summer.
A joint effort between the
High Point Parks and
R^reation Dept., M o a e i
Cities, and the High Point City
Schools, the program makes it
supervised play activities and
a middav meal.
According to Ronnie Cox,
acting recreation supervisor,
Model Cities utilizes six of the
city’s playgrounds as sites for
House Of Mercy
pos.'iib'e for children to have the feeding program. In ac
cordance with U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture,
guidelines, sites must have
organized activities in order to
serve meals.
At the play^ounds and
parks the children are
involved in table games (table
tennis, checkers and other
similar games), arts and
crafts once a week, organized
teams of softball, boys’ midget
baseball, volleyball, trips to
the movies and to a putt-putt
golf course once a summer,
participation in c i t y - w i d e
events every Tuesday and
three special events during the
summer.
Mrs. Mary D. Dillard,
director of food services for
High Point City Schools, heads
the food program.
The food, which meets one-
third of a child’s daily
nutritional reqiiirements, is
prepared at Tomlinson and
Shadybrook elementary
schools. As of .July 19 more
than 1,900 meals had been
served. One week a site will
receive hot lunches for its
children and the next week
it will receive cold lunches.
Mrs. Betty H e a t h e r 1 y ,
secretary of food services in
the Higli Point school system
feels that “the children
receive the food well. They
look forward to the truck
coming.'
The program is usedi to “fill
the void ^between school
sessions. During the school
year the children are able to
eat lunch at school and this
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ftho feeding program) is to
make sure uic^ get ^uuu
lunches” in the summer, says
Jim Laumann director of
physical planning for Model
Cities.
The program is obviously
needed. Guidelines which have
TAKES ON AIR OF PICNIC AT CARSON STOUT HOMES
been used to quality the
program for state funds and
federal approval call for aa
area in which poor economic
conditions exist or in which
there is a high concentration
of working mothers, both of
which can be found in the
Model Cities scope.
“The program,” according
to Laumann, “has been very
successful. There have been a
lot of ramifications to the
program that are improving
as the years go along. The
first year we had to work with
(Staff Photos by Sonny Hedgecock)
the children.” Table manners,
the use of eating utensils,
bullying others to get their
food and waiting in line are
just a few of the situations
Continued on Page 2
As It Grows
Drug Abuse , A Growing Problem
Just a few months ago a
vision was shown to the
Rev. Moses Small, that
God wanted him to work
with the ex-prisoners and
their families, as well as
our alcoholics and those
on dope.
He then with some
interested people of the
community opened the
“House of Mercy” at 543
N. Trade Street, where
these people could come
in and talk about their
problems as well as
receiving assistants as
the situation stood.
There were counselors
on hand to help in any
way. They were Mrs.
Lorene B. Thomas, Mrs,
Lee Faye Mack, Mr.
Henry Gaddy, (who is now
a minister) and Mr. James
Sprinkle.
Our aim is to see that
every person has an
abundant life if he wants
it. Our only pay is the
happiness of knowing at North Patterson Ave- the same. The church has
we've helped somebody, nue. Where they can all to offer to its members,
Since the need of come together and serve hfe insurance, a loan
people has become so together along with other system, and all types of
great and Rev. Small feels community workers that counseling as well as
that ex-prisoners and care for them. Rev. Small clothing and food that
their families, people in feels that people should citizens of our city has
all walks of life with not be looked down on made possible to be
different hang-ups needed eternally for their past distributed for this cause,
a church to call their own mistakes. For this reason Rev. Moses Small may
so he then opened the every member at the be reached by calling
"House of Mercv Church House of Mercy is treated 722-2041 or 924-1066.
..Ml. I
Rev, Moses A. Small
Craig Thomas
— Project
Director of treatment
program for drug depen
dent persons — division
of High Point Drug Action
Council
Drug abuse is one of the
major social problems
that we face today. No
one can measure the toll it
takes in human lives and
the misery it brings both
to the user and his loved
ones.
About two years ago,
an ad hoc committee of
United Community Ser
vices made an attempt to
access the drug problem
in High Point, They
considered data and
feelings from all aspects
of the High Point
GREENSBORO, N, C. -
"Traditional schools can
keep students from being
misfits in their own
society,” said New York
Times educational writer
Gene I. Maeroff last week
for the fourth session of
the N. C. A&T Summer
Lecture Series.
Following appearances
by previous lecture spea
kers who expoused the
humanization, openness
and alternatives of ed-
Community, including po
lice department, school
system, private medical
community, hospital ad
ministrators and drug
users. The committee
sooji came to the
reahzation that High
Point’s drug problem was
of major significance.
This knowledge led to the
formation of the High
Point Drug Action Council
and finally, the treatment
center.
Operating for 18
months at 803 East Green
Street, the drug treatment
program is designed to
assist the hard-core drug
dependent individual to
find a better way of hfe.
The majority of clients
that the program serves
are physically and psy-
chologially addicted to
narcotic drugs. To treat
the physical withdraw!
symtoms, the client is
given methadone, a syn-
theic narcotic. Since the
medication will control
the majority of the
physical withdrawl sym
toms and its effects are
long lasting, it is common
ly used in all narcotic
detoxification treatment
programs around the
country. Due to its opiate
base, methadone is care
fully regulated by the
federal government;
therefore, the treatment
center has both a federal
and state license to
operate.
Recognizing that med
ical treatment must be
coupled with rehabilita
tive methods, the primary
thrust of the treatment
effort is found in
redirecting the addict’s
hfe style. It must be
remembered that the
main difficulty in treating
drug addicts is not in
controlling the physical
problem, but in relieving
the mental desire for the
drug. When accepted into
the program, the chents
are given an individ-
uaUzed treatment sche
dule consisting of group
therapy, family counsel
ing, rap sessions, en
counter groups, work
therapy, and structured
recreational activities.
The client progresses
through various stages of
the program being eval
uated about every two
weeks. The eventual goal
of the program is a drug
free cUent who is adjusted
and fulfilled in life.
Even though the main
effort of the program is
for the hard-core drug
dependent individual,
counseling and guidence
is available for all drug
users. To insure that all
clients as well as the
general population of
High Point receives emer
gency help for a drug
problem, the staff is on
call through Contact
(88-28121) 24 hours a day.
Help is available for
anyone who wants it and
reachs out for it. All
information is kept confi
dential in accordance
Continued on Page 2
Old Schools Not ^Dirty Words^
ucation, Maeroff stated
the case for the "Tradi
tional School in the
Seventies,” the type most
adults today attended.
‘A lot of people think
traditional in education is
a dirty word," he said,
"but there are still
schools in New York City
which cling to the old
way.”
Using an example,
Maeroff said one Bronx
high school doesn't chan
ge just for the sake of
changing. There are no
mini-schools, there's little
individualizations, and in
40 years there has been
no renovation of the
Gothic style structure
housing 3200 students.
"But students must
have an inner desire to
work if the traditional
approach is going to work
as it has in helping people
adjust to the norms of
society."
GREENSBORO. N.C,
Three administrators of
A&T State University are
in Port-Au-Prince. Haiti to
explore the possibihty of
the University assisting in
the estabhshment of a
unique experimental town
on that tiny island.
Dr. Lewis G. Dowdy,
Haiti Asks A&T^s Assistance In Opening New Pilot Town
chancellor of A&T. said
the group has been
invited by the Haitian
officials to discuss the
cooperative concept, as
well as several other
cooperative arrangement
between the university
and the developing coun
try.
Accompanying Dowdy
will be Dr. Burleigh
Webb, dean of the School
Oi" Agriculture at A&T:
and Dr, William Reed, the
university's diplomat-in-
residence.
Webb said, if approved,
the experimental city
would be a pilot com
munity of approximately
1,000 farnilies.
"When people migrate
from the rural areas into
the cities,” said Webb,
"this often causes many
problems which the cities
are not able to cope
with."
He said the idea of the
pilot community would be
to locate agricultural
areas in very close
proximity to the urban
area, so that all of the
people would not congre
gate within the city,
"This project,” said
Webb,"would seek a
greater cooperation be
tween industry, agricul
ture and the people,”
Dowdy said the A&T
delegation will also talk
with Haitian officials
about the possibility of
establishing a cultural
exchange to sponsor the
first exhibit of Haitian art
in this country.
Maeroff’s first order of
business for the tradi
tional school was to
create a freedom of
choice. Not the freedom to
come to class when "I
choose to get out of the
sack,” he said, but to
allow those who want
strictness and those who
don't to make that choice.
Traditional education
implies schooling that is
very demanding. It is built
on a solid foundation from
He said A&T’s involve
ment in the pilot project
would possibly be in the
training of seniors and
graduate students in
community. development
and in the dehvery of
needed services within
the community.
Continued on Page 2
the elementary and junior
high level.”
Successful traditional
schools require a low
level of disciplinary
problems and a minimali-
zation of demands from
society. Integration and
drug often mean less time
spent on the funda
mentals in education.
In defending his hberal
philosophy of old educa
tion, Maeroff admitted
Continued on Page 2
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