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Introductory sale.
20% off
all our
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Sale
31.20 to $184.
Will be $39. — $230. Pre-season savings on all our
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Fuller, swagger styles, too. Fresh details like
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.SAT., MAY 19.1979
THE CAROLINA TIMES-3
Edwards Threatens Action
Against Legal Aid
By Pat Bryant
A controversy over the
role of staff in policy deci
sions of the North Central
Legal Assistance Program
(NCLAP) may surface
publicly as a lawsuit may
be filed or request made
for an investigation by the
General Accounting Of
fice (GAO), a board
member said this week.
John Edwards, the
board member, said if
staff are not curtailed
from involvement in inter
views and board delibera
tions to hire a director, he
may take action. A
lawsuit, a GAO audit of
the agency or resignation
from the Board, Edwards
said, are his primary op
tions. Edwards also
charges he has been ex
cluded from committee
meetings.
Edwards is one of four
board members on a
search committee to
recommend candidates for
the vacant directorship.
According to Edwards,
the committee agreed that
staff would have input by
submitting to the search
committee in writing a
critique of resumes sub
mitted by applicants. The
NCLAP’s Henderson
staff complied, said Ed
wards, but the Durham
staff insisted on taking
part in board delibera
tions.
“I was totally surprised
and disappointed to have'
four members of the staff
from the Durham office
present at our April 23rd
meeting who were involv
ed in the meeting by
discussing and debating
with members of the
board,” Edwards wrote
Attorney Ann Loflin,
NCLAP’s president, and
chairman of the search
committee.
The NCLAP has been
without a director since
last June. Attorney Loflin
said that prior attempts, to
fill the vacancy have not
been successful. She
doesn’t know if the board
or search committee ever
agreed on a process of
determining staff input in
to selecting a director.
With her permission, four
staff attorneys sat in a re
cent search committee
meeting. Edwards says at
that meeting, staff
members debated board
members over qualifica
tions of some applicants
— to which Edwards ob
jected. Edwards said he
was verbally attacked by
some staff.
A field of more than
thirty applicants has been
narrowed to seven. But
Edwards complains that a
meeting in which a deci
sion was made to refer the
seven finalists to the full
board was not properly
held.
Edwards contends that
he had informed Attorney
Loflin that they might not
be able to have work
assignments completed by
the May 2 meeting. When
r
the meeting was set, Ed-
wards complained that
“embers ramrodded
the May 2 meeting on the
board members. Before
that meeting, Edwards
pys, he communicated his
inability to meet with At-
She says
Edwards letter, received
on May 2, the day of the
meeting, called the
meeting off. Edwards and
Carter are black. Others
on the committee are
white.
Attorney Loflin
responded saying Edwards
had no authority to cancel
\ that only
she, as chairman, could do
so.
The dispute, so far, is
limited to what involve
ment the staff attorneys
should have in the selec
tion process and not on
the choices so far made by
the committee.
Other matters that Ed
wards says are at issue are
too liberal staff leave time
and a sabbatical leave.
Legal aid staffers are
allowed approximately
thirty days leave time an
nually and a four month
sabbatical after the
employee has been on the
job four years.
Attorney Loflin says
those regulations were in
cluded in a personnel
policy manual developed
about two years ago which
has not been adopted by
the board. A regional legal
aid monitoring team
recently advised the board
to revise the policy, she
said. She agrees with Ed
wards that some provi
sions may be out of line
with practices in the
Durham area, but may be
in line with other legal aid
programs across the na-
tion.
A physician once discovered
a way of pinning down an
ailment called iridiagnosis. He
swore he could tell the afflic
tion by the appearance of
the iris of the patient's eyes.
4 >
LUCKY WINNER
President James W. Hill (r) presents the keys of a 1979
Chevrolet Malibou to Exalee L. Chavis, winner of the
College s fund-raising raffle. Wesley Andrews of
Carpenters’ Chevrolet delivered the car monients
earlier. Second prize winner was J.W. Schooler who
received a Sylvania Color TV. The presentation climax
ed a fundraising effort to improve educational pro
grams.
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