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THE TRIBUNAL AID VOLUME 1, NO . 17 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1973 SERVICE TO ALL 15 CENTS PRESS RUN 5000 HIGH POINT THOMASVILLE WINSTON-SALEM Panthers Want Ambulance Service Thursday Meeting From The High Point Enterprise WINSTON-SALEM The Winston-Salem Br anch of Black Panther party announced that it was seeking approval from the Forsyth County Commission to begin immediate operation of a free emergency and non-emergency ambulan ce service. Nelson Malloy, head of the Panther project said that the ambulance arriv ed last Thursday and that emergency personnel had been trained. Malloy said he had personally taught a first aid and advanced first aid course to the 18 attendants. Ten of the attendants had taken emergency courses at Surry County Community College and Randolph Technical Institute. Mal loy, himself, has complet ed 81 hours of advanced emergency medical train ing. A spokesman at Forsyth Hospital said all of the County ambulance service attendants had not had the ambulance training. The services are being financed with a $35,000 grant from the Episcopal Church. The announcement came as a surprise to county commissioners who had supported the earlier Panther proposal for a convalescent service for which approval is pend ing. The commission is scheduled to discuss the services, Dr. Julian Keith, a physician and county commissioner expressed reservations about the approval. Keith said that he would favor approval of the non-emergency ser vice providing that Pan ther operations could be called on to assist the county’s emergency ser vices when needed. Patients are asked to pay a fee of $20 before they are taken to the hospital in a county ambulance. Keith con firmed the pay-in-advance policy but said that it had been changed several Noise Pollution Research montlis ago. Malloy said the grant from the Episcopal Chur ch covered the cost of the $14,000 ambulance and other supplies and train ing needed. He also said that several Winston- Salem civic clubs have promised contributions to help continue the service and that black entertain ers have been lined up to do benefit performances. The service is named Joseph Waddell’s People’s Free Ambulance Service in honor of a Black Panther who died last year while an inmate at Central Prison in Raleigh. Ambulance services will be available to anyone who requests it. Council To Reconsider Occupancy Law Position GREENSBORO, N.C. — Automobile noise pol lution, which many cb- servers believe will soon come under close federal scrutiny, is the subject of a new $51,000 research project at A&T State University. The grant was an nounced by the huge Ford Motor Company to Dr. Amar Datta, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Uni versity. Datta and a group of A&T engineering students will study the effect of various engine properties on the exhaust noise of the automobile. “At a time when the attention of the public is focused on the purity of the air we breathe and on the automobile as one important contributor to its pollution,” said Datta, “tl^e auto industry is looking years ahead and anticipating possible fed eral guidelines on auto noise pollution.” He said certain states have already adopted guidehnes of their own, “There is no doubt,” added Datta, “that if we can find some remedy to reduce automobile noises, our street would be much quieter.” Datta, who has worked in the Ford Research Laboratory in Dearborn, Mich., lias been active in the past in research related to automobile emissions. He said he is extremely pleased that students will be associated on the project with him. “By undertaking the/ research involving the participation of a number of students, we hope to provide a unique op portunity for these stu dents to be associated with the solution of real-life problems in engineering,” said Datta. Datta will be working with a sound level analyzer and 351 CID - V-8 engine donated by Ford. He will attempt to measure the effect on auto noise of such properties as speed, load, compression ratio, valve timings and type of fuel used. Course Offered ? ■ WHAT’S INSIDE Editorials 4 Entertainment 5 Religion 3 High Point Thomasville Winston-Salem GREENSBORO, N.C. A new course in creative writing (poetryj will be offered by the A&T State University Center for Continuing Education beginning Monday, Sep tember 23, through No vember 4. Offered from 7 to 10 p.m. on Mondays, the course will be taught by Dr. Ann Deagon,associate professor of classics at Guilford College. The course will cover the poetic experience; the process of writing; techni ques of criticism; student poetry readings; and preparation for publica tion. A native of Birmingham Alabama, Dr. Deagon has taught literature for twenty years and has had over 100 poems accepted for publication. BELOIT POETRY JOURNAL and CARLTON MISCELLANY James Webster of 737 Goldfloss Street is a volunteer worker at Belview Recreation Cent er under the supervision of Mrs. Mildred M. Griffin the Director. James Webster is a graduate of Rice High School in New York City. He has been here in the city over a month. He presently lives with his grandmother — Mrs. Synora Monroe and his sister, Cynthia. James hobby is playing the guitar and composing songs. James said when he was in New York he had a band and wrote songs. Come to Belview and meet James and talk with him. He is inspira tional to the young people. are among the magazines in various parts of the country which have accepted her works. In addition she has won over twenty state and national prizes for poetry, her first collection of poetry is now in prepara tion. Dr. Deagon did her graduate work at UNC- Chapel Hill. By RAY HUBBARD Enterprise Staff Writer In what appears to be a sharp shift of position within Council, city councilman voted today to place on Thursday’s official agenda a certificate of occupancy law for High Point. Council acted after hearing Robert Schoch, chairman of a Model Cities-appointed ad hoc committee charged with pushing the occupancy proposal, testify that the present city housing code is not being enforced because city inspections department does not have adequate tools to do the job. Under the draft proposal which Schoch presented to Council, only those houses which fail to meet existing minimum housing code requirements would be affected. Whenever a house is inspected and found to be lacking, that house could not be rented again upon becoming vacant until the owner had made necessary repairs, “It applies only to slum and quasi-slum housing. It puts the burden of eliminating slums in the laps of the people who are capitalizing on the poor,” Schoch declared. “This is no way would change the present law or strengthen the housing standards, but it would provide a tool to enforce the present ordinance,” Schoch said. Under his proposal, a house would be inspected whenever the occupant of a dwelling or five residents of the city inform the city inspections dept, of violations. A major difference in Schoch’s proposal and previous proposals turned down in the past is that new and obviously standard dwellings would not be affected. It was this aspect of the proposal that apparently swayed most councilmen to take another look at the issue. Cotincilmen did not make firm commitments today on how they stand on the issue, but it was evident that there has been a shift of sentiment on the issue. The High Point Council in 1970 turned down a certificate of occupancy ordinance. Three members of the present Council voted against the issue at that time. They are Paul Clapp, Mayor Bill Bencini and 0. Arthur Kirkman. Present Councilman Fred Swartzberg voted for the measure in 1970 and indicated today that he still favors a certificate of occupancy ordinance, Bencini said today “I would like for you gentlemen to tell me what is wrong with this (Schoch’s proposal.)” It apparently was at Bencini’s suggestion that Schoch brought the matter before council today. HRC Voices Support For Appointed Board By RAY HUBBARD Enterprise Staff Writer The High Point Human Re lations Commission Thursday unanimously endorsed reten tion of the appointive system for selecting members of the High Point Board of Educa tion. In so doing, the agency be came the first organized group to publicly take a position on the highly controversial issue. The citizens of High Point wiU decide on Nov. 6 whether the present system under which the City Council ap points members of the board will be continued, or whether future members will be se lected by the voters. On the Nov. 6 general elec tion ballot will be this proposi tion for High Point voters: “Issue 1 — For Election of the City Board of Education and Against Appointment of its members.” “Issue 2 — For Appoint ment of the City Board of Edu cation and Against Election of its Members.” Edward Hardin, president of the Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Human Rela tions Commission, made the motion to endorse the appoint ive system and Dr, Eldora Ter rell seconded the motion. Vice Chairman of the Com mission A1 Campbell, who pre sided at Thursday’s meeting, urged endorsement of the ap pointive system as a guaran tee that blacks would continue to be represented on the school board. During the brief discussion, most members of the commis sion present indicated that they believe the present ap pointive method is best, Charles Carter, pastor of the Forest Hills Presbyterian Church, said that he fears that citizens are more concerned about the controversy over whether the voters would be al lowed to decide which method — appointive or elective — would govern in High Point than they are about the merits of either method, “The reticence (on the part of city council) to allow the people to vote on the issue has become the issue, rather than the appointive or elective method of selecting school board members,” he said. “I think we need to take a po sition in order to clarify the is sue,” Carter said, William Price, pastor of St, Mary’s Episcopal Church, said that he thinks that the system should be changed if the voters believe that the school board is ineffective. He said, however, that he does not believe this to be the case in High Point at the present time. City Councilman Joe Patter son, who is liaison to the com mission for the council, said that politics has not been a fac tor in appointment of school board members, “I can assure you that party affiliation has not been a fac tor,” Patterson said. He said that in every instance, the prime consideration has been whether school board nomi nees were the best people for the job. The present City Council has appointed five to the seven- member board. Members are appointed for four-year terms' on a staggered basis, but res ignations compelled the pres ent Council to make additional Continued on Page 7 Clapp and Kirman made no definite commitments today, but both indicated they would like for Council to consider again the issue, Kirkman did say that his initial reaction was that his mind might be changed. Councilman S. E. Burford, spoke strongly in favor of the proposal today, saying that 35 years as an ^ucator in High Point he had visited the homes of his students and knew first hand the deplorable homes in which many of them lived. As late as April of this year, most council had indicated in an informal poll by The Enterprise that they still were reluctant to endorse a certificate of occupancy. Since that time Schoch's ad hoc committee has worked toward building a case for the proposal. The committee negotiated for two or three months with the High Point Board of Realtors in an attempt to work out a proposal acceptable to that agency. But in July the realtors flatly rejected the proposal submitted to Council today and broke off discussions on the issue. Subsequently, the Model Cities Commission approved the proposal and left it up to the ad hoc committee to determine when the matter would be submitted to Council,' Schoch has said all along that he intended to make the matter a political issue in the upcoming elections. He had scheduled a briefing for candidates on the issue for Wednesday night but announced _ today that he is calling off that meeting in view of Council's attitude today, “I can detect no negative response to my proposal, so I think you are going to act,” he said in calling off the briefing of candidates, Bencini indicated today that he has been hearing mainly support on the part of the citizens for the proposal, “People have been asking me why not support it, and some realtors have said they didn’t know,” he said, Bencini in the past has been an outspoken supporter of enforcing present laws as a means of eliminating slums, Clapp has been strongly opposed to a certificate of occupancy ordinance in the past, but he appeared to be softening his stand today. Continued on Page 8 SERVING IN THE MILITARY SAN ANTOiNIO — Craig A. Davis, son of Harold R. Davis of 5220 Peppercorn St., Durham, N. C., recently completed a six-week U.S. Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps field training en campment at Lackland AFB, Tex. Cadet Davis is a student at North Carolina A&T State University. SAN ANTONIO - Airman Andre P. Maupin, son of Mrs. Sarah D. Maupin, 2509 O’Cono, Winston-Salem, N. C., has been assigned to Shep pard AFB, Tex., after completing Air Force basic training. During his six we^ks at the Air Training Com mand’s Lackland AFB, Tex., he studied the Air Force mission, organiza tion customs and received special instruction in human relations. The airman has been assigned to the Technical Training Center at Shep pard for specialized training in the transpor tation field. Airman Maupin, a 1972 graduate of North Forsyth High School, attended Mitchell College, States ville, N. C. SAN ANTONIO — Airman Donald R. Fulton, son of Mrs. Clara L. Fulton, 5315 Oak Ridge Place, Winston-Salem, N. C., has been assigned to Lowry AFB, Colo., after completing Air Force basic training. During his six weeks at the Air Training Com mand's Lackland AFB, Tex., he studied the Air Force mission, organiza tion and customs and received special instruc tion in human relations. The airman has been assigned to the Technical Training Center at Lowry for speciahzed training in the munitions and wea pons maintenance field. Airman Fulton is a 1973 graduate of North Forsyth Senior High School. SAN ANTONIO — Airman Norman T. Row dy, son of Mr. and Mrs, Norman Rowdy, 527 Liberia St., Winston- Salem, N, C,, has completed Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. During his six weeks training, he studied the Air Force mission, organ ization and customs and received special instruc tion in human relations. The airman is remain ing at the Air Training Command base for specialized training in the security police field. Airman Rowdy is a 1972 graduate of Park land High School, SUPPORT THE ADVERTISING MERCHANTS OF THIS, YOUR NEWSPAPER!
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