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were fired, including Sumler, who served then as general
manager.
Within the last two weeks, however, three new sales
representatives have been hired and positions for two
more are open.
Most importantly, Sumler said, for the first time the
station will have an operating budget. During the first
year of operation, WSMX had no budget and operated
on revenue from advertiser* and when thar wac nr?i
enough, monies from the church, Sumler said.
For the time being, Sumler added, the station w|jl
operate w ithout a manager and its board of directors will
serve in that capacity.
"For too long, the board was an advisory board,"
Sumler said. "But now the board has matured and is
ready to exercise the full options of carrying out the
responsibility of operating the radio station."
Although Sumler appeared extremely optimistic, he
admitted things will not be easy.
"Christians and the church are morally opposed to
beer, alcohol, wine and nightclubs and that's a major
chunk of the profit that major radio stations indulge in
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Knox: Proofs in his
"I could go on," says Knox. "It's a little
awkwara, out i nave a good record."
Still, there are skeptics. On the surface, says Alderman
Larry Little, who has not yet revealed who he
will support in the governor's race, Knox's record is
crystal clear. Yet, many of the appointments Knox
boasts of, Little says, were not his.
Some of the appointees were already in those positions
when Knox took office, others were appointed
by the city manager and not Knox, says Little.
Granted, Charlotte basically is run by its city
manager, says Knox, but he as mayor was influential
in making sure that minorities and women were
represented in all aspects of city government.
"When I came on board, we didn't have.any
blacks at the top," says Knox. "I can truly say 1 have
changed the. climate of the city. There were no
department heads (black), to my knowledge,
although there may have been some in the past.
Knox's form of appointing people is to place a
map of Charlotte near him that is marked with the
area, race, economic status and sex of each potential
appointee. When he appoints somebody new, he
says, he consults the map and decides what type of
person he needs.
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_ self-defensive. It's just fairness."
Two-thirds of the appointments in Charlotte are
made by the city manager and one-third by the
mayor, says Knox, noting that his record of minority
appointments was better.
As governor, and Knox constantly makes
references to when he is elected governor, not if,
Knox says he promises to extend his "mapping
method" to the rest of the state.
"I'm going to appoint blacks to top-caliber positions,"
he says. "My appointments will be reflective
of more than the population."
As for his position on other issues, Knox says he
supports the death penalty, because "1 think most
people in North Carolina believe it's a deterrent."
Knox also supports the limited use of second
primaries. "I would be in favor of doing away with
second primaries, except for the governor, Senate
and lieutenant governor races," Knox says. "There is
no reason for it (requiring second primaries for those
three offices)."
But Knox says he's still willing to listen to
arguments favoring the elimination of all second
primaries, "particularity since I'm facing one."
And he supports raising teachers' salaries in the
state to the national level. The average annual state
salary for a teacher in 1983-84 is $18,014 and the national
average is $22,019. Locally, the average
teacher's salary is $20,210.
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As far as his integrity is concerned, Knox says his
record is untarnished, though some of his critics'beg
to differ.
For one, it's been reported that, as a member of
the state Senate, Knox supported a bill that honored
Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
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something else," Knox says. "I was the 27th
signature on a resolution wishing George Wallace a
speedy recovery when he got shot. But I am also the
same man who wore a bullet-proof vest to help
dedicate the first Martin Luther King statue in this
country."
His critics also claim that Knox's relationship with
the Charlotte-based, and often controversial, PTL
Club is more than that of an attorney and his client.
In fact, Knox has been seen on the PTL Club's
religious television broadcast singing in the choir.
"I'm just their lawyer," Knox maintains. "The
PTL Club brings a lot of people to our city. They
have donated money to me for the Battered
Children's Workshops, and a lot of money to various
other projects. I am not a member. ... They deserve a
lawyer like everybody else, and I'm a good one."
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for support," he said. "They are the biggest bulk of the
major advertisers. Because of that, we are at a financial
disadvantage. But we are calling on churches to stop supporting
radio stations promoting those kinds of things.
"Churches that support those kinds of stations are
supporting the kinds of things that they preach against.
We are also calling on businesses owned by Christians or
businesses who understand what we are up against ... to
spend more money advertising with us."
Though some businesses have been reluctant to advertise
with WSMX because they were unsure of its future,
Sumler said, it now has a future.
"We want to assure people that we have corrected the
mistakes and we are forging ahead now," he said.
"We will be getting back to the innovative programming
we had started before the default. We have started a
new program for Mother (Mary) Brice. (Air personality)
Nancy Caree Wilson resigned, and we have hired her
back-. We are going back to the churches who were broadcasting
and asking them to come back. We are not izoinc
anywhere now. We are here to stay."
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Though Knox personally lists his accomplishments
quite effectively, Victor Johnson, Knox's local coordinator,
can do it even better.
Johnson, a vice principal at North Forsyth Senior
High School and a member of the Black Leadership
Roundtable Coalition, says Knox's track record is
what sold him.
"There was a poll taken in Charlotte in 1982, and
91 percent of the people were very much pleased with
his administration," Johnson says. "Charlotte was a
run-down city 15 years ago, but you don't see that
type of dispair, anymore in Charlotte._L don't think
you can look at any other candidate ... who has done
as much as this man in Charlotte."
As an educator, Johnson says, he wholeheartedly
supports Knox's stand on teacher salaries. "That is
about as much as anybody should be trying to do,"
Johnson says. "I don't want to be paid anymore than
any other teacher."
For him and his wife, Constance, Johnson says,
Knox stands above the other candidates.
"Other people, they don't have a track record,"
says Johnson. "They haven't done anything for us."
For a candidate who said as a child he only wanted
to be a good farmer, Knox has come a long way.
"If somebody told me while 1 was picking cotton
that I would run for governor," he says, "I wouldn't
(have) believed them."
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