Floating Away Ail The Floatarium might help with eve from ridding yourself of a bad habii ing your nerves. Mogaiin* taction, B1. W w w VOL. X NO. 42 U _ Says Parmon r Democn white ms By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Staff Writer The local Democratic Party may violate its own policy to keep him from assuming the county commissioner's seat made vacant by the recent death of Fred Hauser, said Winston-Salem NAACP President Pat Hairston late last week. And if it does, Hairston said, he won't go down without a fight. According to an unwritten party policy, said Earline Parmon, chairman of the Forsyth County Democratic executive committee, the party normally recom// I have to go to court, I will. " ? Pat Hairston mends the runner-up in the most recent election held prior to the death or resignation of the Democratic board member in question to nil WvffeafttT That was the case when John Wood was chosen to fill the school board seat resigned by state Rep. Tom Womble in 1982. In 1984, however, the runner-up is local NAACP President Pat Hairston, who placed fourth in the May 8 primary, 125 votes short of a spot on the November ballot. Hairston said he wants the office and plans to battle for it. But Parmon said the prevailing sentiment among the party's members is that they would prefer to fill the seat with a person similar to Hauser, who was white, male and from the county. Hairston only fills one of those criteria; he is male. "There has been some consensus among private individuals that they think it (the vacancy) should be filled by a white male and some want a white female," said Parmon, the first black woman to head the county party's executive committee, in an interview last week . But exactly who that individual will be won't be determined until a meeting of WSSU appoin first white to p n. . nnniil A n A UC Dy nUDMN ^U/"MVIO Chronicle Writer Pending approval by the University of Board of Governors, Winston-Salem Stat< appointed the first white vice chancellor history. Robert Fenning, who currently serves chancellor of business affairs, has been r< permanently fill the position vacated by of Willie Grissom. Grissom resigned 1, become WSSU's internal auditor-systems Last Thursday, at the request of WSSU H. Douglas Covington, the school's boar< proved asking the board of governors to a appointment. The board also approved the appoin others to fill key administrative positions Taylor Cox Jr. has been appointed business division. Cox comes to WSSU fr Smith University. Abraham L. Davis has been appointed social science department. Davis had bee Morehouse College since 1972. He will vacated by Michael Montgomery, who re mer after it was discovered that he posse Please see page A5 -7*' ? FATHI ry thing t to relax- Ik mston.S.P.S. No. 067910 iJJW>-^Mt^^llllllll>11" iff lfflP'T~"llliminp'IWIl I'll I if n Til II mi > its prefer * 0 in for seat local Democratic leaders June 26. Persons other than Pat Hairston who have been mentioned as possible successors to- Hauser, who died June 1 of cancer, include Forsyth Tech Board of Trustess Chairman Robert Joyce, former Winston-Salem Mayor M.C. Benton; city-county planning board Vice Chairman Irene P. Hairston, former president of the National Council of Negro Women Thelma Small; former state legislator Ned R. Smith, and Bonce Williams, who placed last as a candidate for county commissioner in the May 8 primary. Only Pat Hairston and Williams were candidates in the last election. And, of the seven potential nominees, only three -- Pat Hairston, Irene Hairston and Small - are black. In telephone interviews last week, both Irene Hairston and Small said they aren't interested in the job. 4Tm thinking seriously of withdrawing my name now that I see the names of * "" "riiusr- desiring the nomination,'* Small * said. 44In the beginning, there were only two names -- now I see seven and I see efficiency there. They (the other potential nominees) are wise and it is not necessary that I run." Said Irene Hairston: "I would like to say that, while I am pleased and honored at this point, I am not interested and do not choose to run at this time. 1 have too many responsible jobs." On the other hand, Pat Hairston said he wants what should be his. "I'm going to fight it all the way," Hairston said. "If I have to go to court, I will." In addition, Hairston said he plans to send letters to the 100 NAACP chapters across the state telling them that he has been discriminated against by the local Democratic Party. If he still gets no satisfaction, Hairston said, he intends to advise blacks in Winston-Salem and across the state to vote for the "other party" in the November general election. "I was the top votegetter," Hairston PloaQQ coo none AO f iwuwu www no Ls &hrenieh lOSt LIUUMi The Chronicle will be c move to its new office bi St. Regular business hoc North Carolina ^une 18. i University has The paper, whose i in the school's publisher is Ernest H. Pit N. Trade St. for the pasi as acting vice the 10-year-old black w< ^commended to Pepper Building on Four the restgnation The n?w buj|djng wjn ast summer to reception area, newsrooi *"a ySt;, darkroom. The building Chancellor Dr. , * storage space ana a pnnti i of trustees ap- 0?0 .. . . \ are among his long-range ccept Fenning s Effective Monday, th tments of four phone system will include i: Business Office: 722-8< director of the ment: 722-8628; Cir om Johnson C. 722-8628; News Depa 723-8448, and Black ( chairman of the 723-9026. n a professor at The paper will hold a fill the position summer to acquaint its signed last sum- with the new building. :ssed neither the A community news wo scheduled for Saturday, 9 ER'S PAY SECTION Going F Winston native on the Olympics Sporftw*?k, Salem The Twin City's Award-Winning Week Winston-Salem. N.C. Thurs I Mm Hv *^^BL ?*$&* r'fl H ? Mpllte^ H 1HU jj/wj jjfiy The Siege In Retrospec Newscenter 12 reporter and weekend ar made the news herself last week when sh police plan to persuade an alleged murderi The day when i By JOHN SLADE r Chronicle Assistant Editor t Routinely, say many journalists, the t business of covering the news is far less c glamorous than it seems. t On rare occasions, however, it can be < dramatic, nerve-rending and tragic. And those r whose job it is to cover the news can, in the \ process, themselves become newsmakers. s . A case in point is last week's hostage drama at WJTM-TV, Channel 45, in which one man 1 was killed and a woman abducted at gun- j The si HW*HIIW?H?II?uutaLJuwuaw I That's :losed Friday, June 15, to jilding at 617 N. Liberty By ROBIN ADAM! irs will resume Monday, Chronicle Staff Writer , , , , A scant twenty-t major stockholder and Mr- i or t-j , , , ,,, General Rufus Edn t, has been located at 516 V4 .. _ r , Mayor Eddie Knox t five vears. Before then. . . . _ , - , " last week's Democn ?ekly was housed in the A , 1 According to resu 'th Street. . . . in the 23 precincts 1< give the paper a larger I m, production area and will also^allow for more I CIp^tiOT ing press, which Pitt says I IvWIIWI : plans. I Year '8' e Chronicle's expanded I \ the follov ing numbers: 524; Advertising Depart- I by black aldermen, culation Department: I in the hard-fought rtment: 723-8428 and I 3,363. College Sports Review: I But Victor John dinators, said Knc in open house later this where the majority readers and advertisers where Edmistei. sc responsible for the rkshop also is tentatively I "In precincts liki July 28. I tion Center, Kimb I Memorial Coliseun INSIDE? or The Green William Kennedy has gisen up ; and decided to make a go at Chroni :ly day, June 14, 1984 35 cen< Uk^ _ ^b H H ^HsiiL^I 11 II * * ** it i^K^r gnrnn Pr..^Q rabaco hie hnctano = IVI WUWOI I Ul UV/U I v 'VMWV ?1?W I b e became part of a on the other side of th er and kidnapper to aid when we can be c newsmakers m >oint. < Not only would WXII, Channel 12, cover I he event, but the station and its personnel I jecame parts of it. Reporter and weekend an:hor Susan Bruce played the most visible role, 5ut technicians from the both the station and I Summit Cable Services ironically used the l nedium that may have spurred the gunman's < muzzling behavior to calm him and perhaps j ave a life. j "Even though it was handled well, obviousy it was a conflict," said Bruce four days I ifter the incident which began at Channel 45's kin of his teeth '' wcfria.T>fcT?i*wj3>ncwtuM.'a

x was the winner in the inner city, That h y of the voters are black. In wards ner. ored big, Johnson said, whites were "Peop margin of victory. and they : Carver, Skyland, 14th Street Recrea- sincere a erly Park, Paisley, St. Stephens and wanted tfr 1, Knox won," Johnson said. "And in p cle ts 30 Pages This Week VP l^^yg 222r~$*?- .... _ ' > & i j ind surrender. Bruce's opinion on being le news: "It's our human responsibility to >f help" (photo by James Parker). ade the news offices on Linville Road and ended several hours later on East 12th Street. "It's hard to be objective once you become a part of the situation." Last Tuesday morning, 32-year-old Ronnell Leverne Jackson entered WJTM and complained that a religious program, "The 700 Club," as well as stations that carry the program, had been spying on him. Both WJTM and WXII air the show. After a brief argument with William Siorbert Rismiller, the station's general sales Please see page A12 'n won among local blacks he other center-city precincts like Lowrance, we votes and by 17 at Martin Luther King Recreaer. ian Larry Womble, Edmisten's Forsyth County ign coordinator, said Edmisten's win was i an endorsement from the Black Leadership )le Coalition. Johnson disagrees, ffort behind the Roundtable really wasn't that aid Johnson, who is himself a Roundtable t4In the center-city area, where the Roundtable ive had an effect, the voters chose Knox. And general did not support Edmisten. The mature, t U1o/-L-t uorc nr?f f rsr^ I hv Frlmntpn " I U law r\ ^ ? VI V, IIV/V I UVIVU W J ^umujivh . less of the margin, Womble said, Edmisten is a id increased his local black support in the pronight remember in w Mas 8 primary that Knov antial black voter si.pi m," Womble said. "We hat we had to offset thai so we concentrated ts into black precincts and Ha-k areas ard work, Womble said, made Edmisten a winle realized that this was down to the final wire looked at Rufus' record ... looked at how ind aggressive he was," Womble said. "He ie black vote and he worked for the black vote." Please see page A5