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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
The skirt Ricky Wilson wore on the day of
the Democratic runoff election between Attorney
General Rufus Edmisten and former
Charlotte Mayor Eddie Knox has been packed
away.
Say some, the outfit with Knox's name
boldly embroidered on it has gone the way of
the rest of Knox's local supporters.
Since Knox lost the runoff election to EdA
tangled wet
Unraveling the city's hi
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If Betty Jean McFadden could pttfa hold
bulldozer, she says, Winston-Salenrs housing
would be over.
City officials hope, however, that other mea
less drastic than tearing things down and sta
over might solve the Twin City's substandard 1
ing problems.
"They did that (bulldozing) way back 1
"Subsidized housing on the federal lei
drying up, but we've begged, born
and stolen to get every unit we could.
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Corpening, 4'but now the cost of building is s
pensive. It's cheaper to make what you already
better. Where are the people going to live if yoi
down everything?"
McFadden lives on 20th Street, where mai
the houses like hers have been classified as un
live in - and where drug and liquor houses
her and others to stay inside after dark. Man)
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tied to Knox's bla<
misten, black Knox supporters have been conspicuously
absent from Democratic political
functions. For example, at a "unity party"
held for Edmisten at black businessman Jim
Conrad's house, none of the black Knox sud
porters who helped spearhead his local campaign
attended. Neither did many of them appear
at a Democratic Party Unity Rally held
here that featured statewide Democratic candidates.
Despite their obvious absence, the Knox
supporters say that they, unlike Knox's own
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apartment. What 1 was born in was beti
sures ,,
. one.
r ing Lettie Taylor lives on Cameron A
sparsely-equipped home. She has one
. electrical socket in each room and pla
when . ..
that are peeling.
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house I used to live in, the landlord wo
vel is up, so 1 moved, instead of having hard
)wed Gary Brown, director of Wins ton-Sa
" munity Development Department, says
substandard housing should voice the
openly, rather than overlook the prob
__ caring landlords and high crime rates.
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have says#
n tear Brown also recommends that tenant!
problems before the Human Relations <
ny and the Fair Housing Task Fc
A*to neighborhood associations and atteni
cause Aldermen meetings.
f who Meanwhile, Winston-Salem's may
ays. Please see page A11
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Their story appears on Page A6
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wife and brother, who have endorsed
Republican Jesse Helms for the U.S. Senate,
are loyal Democrats and will support the
Democratic ticket in November.
"The Knox people are going with the
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Democratic ticket/' said bast ward Aiderman
and Knox supporter Virginia Newell.
"We are going with the candidate (the term
Newell uses when referring to Edmisten)."
Victor Johnson, one of Knox's local campaign
coordinators, said he worked hard for
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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Battles quietly rage on in what
has appeared to become an
economic cold war - at least for
now.
On one front, the NAACP
voted to boycott all Food Lion
Inc. grocery stores at its national
convention on July 5. On the
other, Food Lion started an "I
Love Food Lion" campaign on
July 23 with winners receiving
from $5 to $1,000 worth of
groceries each week.
Eugene McKinley, vice presi"If
you tell poor people
they have a chance to win
free groceries, they are gonna
shop there no matter
what we tell them."
-TheNAACP'sPat
Hairston
dent of human resources for
Food Lion, said the grocery
giveaway did not haDDen as a
result of the NAACP's call for a
national boycott of the chain.
4 This is the third year we have
had the bumper stickers/' said
McKinley. 4 This is not a counter
measure. This was started way
before the boycott was called.
You don't just print thousands of
bumper stickers overnight."
To be eligible to win the weekly
grocery giveaways, customers
must register each week, including
their license number on
the registration form. Two names
from each market area are drawn
I Regarding
Alder
study
Chronicle Staff Writ
Reacting to co
policy linking cit
mance evaluation
Aldermen called f
Monday night.
review of salary <
tions resulting frc
year, after rep
employees that th
plemented.
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tabulation of the
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every Saturday night. People who
register get an "I Love Food
Lion" bumper sticker.
Pat Hairston, president of the
local chapter of the NAACP,
said Food Lion began the grocery
giveaway to counteract the
boycott.
"If you tell poor people they
have?a?chance?to win free
groceries, they are gonna shop
there no matter what we tell
them," Hairston said. "But I
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nave no aouDt tnat we nave made
a difference in their sales. They
must be scared of what we can
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"This is not a counter
measure. This was started
way before the boycott was
called."
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McKinley
do."
Although the NAACP executive
committee voted to begin
the boycott on July 5, the local
chapter spent the first two weeks
of the boycott passing out fliers
discouraging the public from
shopping at Food Lion.
On Thursday, July 26, the
local chapter started a picket line
at the Waughtown Food Lion
store. But three days after the
pickets began, Earl Shinhoster,
the NAACP's regional director
from Atlanta, called them off,
citing threats of violence to the
picketers as the reason.
Please see page A3
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r city raises
men request
of policy 4
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mplaints about a new personnel
y employee pay raises to perforis,
the Winston-Salem Board of
or a study of the policy's fairness
an Burke asked for a statistical
:hanges and performance evalua>m
the policy, adopted earlier this
>orting complaints from city
te policy was not being fairly imi
new personnel policy is now in
i the aldermen, "and I want a
people who have been evaluated
he four categories - that is, excepndard,
standard and below stan!
Ward alderman also asked that
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down further to show the percen
es, white males, black females and I
each category.
>ion of the policy at a June 28
n the 1984-85 city budget, Burke
raises with performance evalua
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