I _ . ...... _ ^ ( w IMI '?< ^ r*-,^^-.>"7 - Vn ,iri*". --r-. -- u v fc im t ., ; * "inYini'ij' ~~i Wins Vol. IV No.4 Saturday : r^' Dr. Olivt t By Sharyn Bratcher office in an investigation -?1-? ?mrwwfe? " [njif^"v4 the Monday, and the reports developer who purchased show that they are Parcel 129-C from the spending an average of Redevelopment Commisnearly $4,000 to land an sion; and ten executives of $8,000 a year job. Wachovia Bank, of which * As expected, Wayne Corpening is a senior Corpening collected and vice-president. spent the most money in William . Pfefferkorn the campaign: $13,137, of ranked second in camwhich he has spent paign expenditures, with $9,828. Most of the money contributions totaling was collected in amounts $5281 of which $4,339.20 exceeding $50, requiring has been spent. Most of him to list the donors by Pfefferkorn's contribuname. Corpening's contri- tions come from himself butors included execu- and his family. tives from R.J. Reynolds Carl "Russell reported and Hanes Corporation, the sum of $1199, the attorneys from Worn- including $150 from_ St?. ble, Carlyle, the law firm See Candidates, Page 2 W achovia's Patterson Ave. Branch Completed Sunda/, September 18, work began in early marked the 24th anniver- June, "the customers sary of Wachovia Bank's have been very underNorth office at the corner standing," said Mrs. of Patterson Ave. and Georgia Smith, branch Glenn Ave. and the manager. "Their patience completion of a renovation enabled us to conduct program that has trans- business as usual. Every formed the branch into a one seemed to just ignore Urnn^ r-iotir Kanlr. tKo nnioo nf Kommoro on/4 VUbUOUJ Ultuiu 11V tt ucuin- wi nuiiuuuio cuiu ing facility. saws. Many have comThe renovation, during mented they are pleased which the branch re- to see Wachovia make this mained opened, is one of contribution to their the most extensive Wa- neighborhood." chovia has performed on The renovation was any of its branches in the undertaken because the state. office had begun to age Although the interior of and better utilization of the building haa been space was needed. ,"We completely gutted since See Wachovia, Page 2 * V O ? ?Z- ~~-J7--.AW - aj. ^ nr-w-y. --^^ , TON SALl September 24, 7 977 Suite erAppea lopment Commission. wrongdoing in the Redev- i - Wilt. Sutherland -^"gtopnmnt "Commt83lon"r l ^m'TrrulTUiij' j]!iuui for the HUD office in Oliver maintains that Greensboro, statec^ that a favoritism was shown in 1^4.* I 11 1 ? I H Hv?NJ II '^Bfc fl C^v 9k^HK^^BP^ ^1 n, sBB^^*? Governor James Hunt has lots of help craft lesson in hir visit to the Winstoi Club last Friday. 4 Attorney Julius Cham ben campaign banquet boat* candidate for alderman i Wagner Proposes New G by Sbaryn Bratcher Ten;" and James A. Staff Writer Webster, a professor of Attorney David Wag- law at Wake Forest ner, a Democratic candi- University-Wagner's Aldate for alderman in the ma Mater. Northeast Ward, The theme of the "brought out the big banquet was "New Dimino ' ' of Vno rJ--* ? -?' " " 6u,,j ***? i nuajr nignt mensions in Law and campaign banquet at Politics." Local attorney Benton Convention Cen- R. Lewis Ray served as ter* master of ceremonies, and The fund-raising func- both black mayoral candition featured three illus- dates were seated at the trious North Carolina head table--at opposite attorneys: Julius Cham- ends. bers, of the NAACP legal Webster cited David defense fund; James E. Wagner himself as a new Ferguson II, who deferft^ dimension in the law ed the " Wilmington^ profession: a black school \ / v "*"'' "?> ' rivr.-.". .'i. ii? vv zs&mm :\t chroi 603 Pepper Bldg. Winston-Salem, N.C. is hud i an inter-racial company negotiate with him. An wit! an#??" -Wifeoin-CovThgton'^B^'Ktlw^o^l^pface^lBe pro white firm. the priority tenant named higl Dr. Oliver was awarded % the . Redevelopment v Lhe._La.nd. but .was unable Commisslon offe uu uCiv^p m*'. * jiiVHi ciauaa that tilG ABC Board refused to ABC Board broke faith son ^tirjfnr Thr Jr.-lu I Northwet T * Barbara West, who was * fired from? her job as r HI Assistant TJutritionalist f v H| with the Northwest Child I 0 f "Development Association * * says that she will take the s m- ' < matter to court, after Ar receiving notice from the c ' Northwest Child Deve- c lopment Council, stating \ T(R*? ?T - ? that she would not be ^ X f Ms. West filed charges b HV'' with the Equal Employ- h I Urn u 3 ^ ment Opportunity Com- fc v- mission following ^ her q B ^ dismissal from Northwest h . - Vj Child Development on d March 17, 1977. On May tl ? 3rd she went before the q executive council to ap- a peal that decision, and in k a letter dated July 11, m Douglass ?Gilbert; the I council chairman, in- r ^ formed Ms. West that * ^--after?consideration, the ^ I council had decided to uphold the decision to I terminate her. ? * "I don't >think it was B-fairT? says Barbara West,?P "Most of the members of < the council who had been 1 there when I first went * ' in his arts & before the board had been ; i-Salem Girls'*^? replaced ^= because their { b addresses the guests at a P *d by David Wagner, a , n the Northeast Ward. P e ammission At Banquet J principal who finished law strongest campaign ^ school and seems to be in points: a human relations . a the process of founding a commission. legal dynasty: his eldest He pointed out that ^ daughter Brenda just Winston-Salem is the only ^ passes the state bar exam, major city in North and daughter Davida is Carolina which does not ^ now a law ^ student at have such a commission. Wake Forest. There are sixty such Webster teased Mrs. counciled in the state, 1 Wagner: "With all those says Wagner, thirteen of lawyers in one family, which operate with paid each wanting ten minutes staffs and budgets ranjust to make opening ging from $13,000 to remarks, you are going to $150,000 per year. ^ have to lay down the Wagner's proposal calls law." for a ten-member staff to 11 At the banquet, Wag- be appointed by the Board ^ ner stressed one of his ? See Wagner, Page 2 ^ \ ^^Wgta8ra* * "1"' '"r"'" ' : NICLE ??* 20 Cents -". j ? ****> sx.-.'..v. >: v^: :y>.v.-. v: v.* ** .. v-:-:-*- v - v>jok > I revision; n him, and that it had only bidder. Oliver and a J mised to negotiate to hest bidder. were not notified of the | /hen the land was a tele hone 1 red for sale again ,n yiew W R Sutherknd I gnmci M.T0t VVil- toJd the ^hHONICLE that I Covington was the See Oliver. Page 2 _J eatens To Sue it Child Dev. f V t * erms had expired. The lew members weren't Queenesther Jeffries -as amiliar with the situation. Assistant to the Nutrition? think the ones who had ist. She requested a salary >een on the board before ihould have been there." $750 per month, the budgeted salary for the They also made that position, but the gri?lecision without having a Vance committee, review[uorum present, Ms. [ng per petition, said that Vest went on. "OnS time she did not meet the ny lawyer and I were requirements for the upposed to meet with the position and denied her >oardt and they told us we request, although they did Lad to postpone it, gjve her a salary increase. ecause there wasn't a [uorum present. But in , J. , . The salary question was he meeting when they as of March 14th ecided not to rehire me, , . Xyf xxr . n , , but Ms. West was called tiey didn t have a . . j j u , - . , into the office and fired by "0^-but -they-voted Northwest ChiJd * ment diiector Susan Law Asked how she knew three days later. yho had attended the The reasons given for neeting, Ms. West stated her dismissal werp- ^nlnncr hat she had received the other employees for connformation from?one of fidential personnel and he council members. payroll records, threaBarbara West was tened other employees, originally hired by North- called the other employwest Child Development ees at home in an Association as a secretary annoying manner, and on August 15, 1974. She made slanderous remarks ivas later transferred to Antral Kitchen to replace West, 2 Charlotte Three Appeal Is Set By Sharyn Bratcher from the State. Their Staff Writer imprisonment was thwarThe?appeal of the ted when defense attor Siarlotte 3 defendants, neys immediately aponvicted in 1972 of the pealed Jones' decision to lurning of 1968 ^f the Judge J. Braxton Craven azy B Riding Stable, is of the Fourth Circuit, and et to be heard October 5 thousands of letters, ?y the Fourth Circuit telegrams and telephone /Ourt of Appeal in calls were made to Craven Lichmond, Virginia, ac- from across the country on ording to chief defense behalf of the three r.mven ttorney for the defend- heard the appeal on rife James Ferguson of December 31, 1976, overcharlotte. Two of the ruled Jones and ordered hree defendants have that Grant and Reddy een out on bail since remain free until their une of 1976; Dr. James appeal was decided rrant, Jr. and T.J. Reddy. Earlier this summer 'he third defendant, Judge Craven died of a Iharles Parker, was heart attack. Recently a aroled earlier in the committee submitted to ame year. President Carter five The appeal before the candidates from which to ourth Circuit Court is choose his replacement: ased on the failure of the* U.S. District Court Judge rosecution to disclose James B. McMillan; vidence vital to the Kenneth Pye, Chancellor efense during the trial, at Duke University; J. lany consider the three Dickson Phillips, former ivil rights workers vie- UNC Law School Dean; ms of a frame-up by the Civil Rights Attorney uthorities, most graphi- Julius Chambers of Charally exposed by Charlotte lotte; and William Van observer reporters who Alstyne, Duke University iscovered U.S. Justice law professor. department pay-offs to It is possible the new le only witnesses who appointee may be made istified in the trial before the October 5 gainst them. , hearing, but any three of On December 28, 1976, the remaining 8 members rrant and Reddy were of the Circuit Court can rdered back to jail by hear the appeal. This civil f.S. District Judge Wood- rights case will again be 3w Wilson Jones, after placed before North Caroudge McMillan who had linians, at a time when l June approved their public interest in the civil elease pending appeal rights case of the isqualified himself from Wilmington 10 is similarly ie case after pressure escalating. (CCNS)