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by Rudy Anderson
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, The Labor Committee of
the Winston-Salem chapter
of the NAACP revealed^
- recently that some 19
employees of the Northwest
Child Development Council
filed grievances with the
Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission in Charlotte
for what they termed
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Mildred Peyton, a fired
North Carolina Central
University (NCdU) law
professor, was found by a
five member grievance
committee to have been
discriminated against by
Chancellor Albert Whiting
because she is a woman.
Whiting, requested on two
occasions to appear before
the committee, did not, but
sent ? Vice-Chancellory Xeonard
Robinson and Special
Deputy Attorney General
Edwin M. Spears to
represent him.
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woman, was one of four
NCCU law professors last
spring who was requestecl to
sign new contracts although
the contracts under which
she and the other professors
were employed were permanent,
unless found by the
institution to be guilty of
incompetency, immorality,
NAACPEle
by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
Patrick Hairston, 52, was
elected Sunday as the new
president of the local chapter
of the NAACP by an 81-50
*vote with approximately 145
members voting at Goler
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Church.
Rev. J.T. McMillan, the
chapter's president for the
last 10 years, had openly
supported the loser, James
j\? Graham, 36, a job developer
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practices" on the part of the
Council's administration.
* Patrick" Hairston, then
chairman of the committee .
and now newly elected
President, said that as a
result of their" investigation
into the allegations made by
the employees, the committee
recommended that the
concerned parties file with
Chancellor
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insubordination, or other
offenses recognized as just
cause."'
Mrs. Peyton and Alexander
Bott, a white male
professor, also in the lawr^
School, refused to sign new
contracts contending that
they are tenured or permanent
employees. On September
30, 1976, Whiting
fired Peyton, but allowed the
white male professor to
continue to teach, although
Bott refused to sign the new
contract ili the same manner
as Peyton.
The grievance committee,
hearing was the second for
Ms. Peyton.
At the first hearing, Ms.
Peyton presented corres- ,
pondence between her and
Whiting and testified about
the events and circum>
stances relating to the firing.
The conllnittee found at a
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McMillan repeatedly discounted
Hairston's allegation
that Graham was his
handpicked candidate, saying/4'Graham
can stand on
his own qualifications." He
added that he felt Graham
had a lot more of them than
Hairston.
Hairston has been a
longtime critic of McMillan's %
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The charges filed by the
employees dealt with the
areas of hiring, pay,
advancement, the conducting
of grievance procedures,
and in some instances
harrassment and abusive
language to employees from
administrative heads.
The Council's Executive
Director, Mrs. Susan Law,
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The Forsyth District Attorney,
Donald K. Tisdale,
announced at _a press
conference Monday that he
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ran unsuccessfully against
hhn in 1^4. He contested
that election and sought to
establish a new chapter. The
national office in New York
hnwpvpr tfllkpH him out. nf
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Graham's major critism of
Hairston was that he was too
abrasive and brash to be an
effective leader. He said he
felt he was better able to
deal " with the power
structure than his opponent.
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bitterly denied the charges,
saying they were totally
unfounded. The attorney for'
the Councils Andrew Copenhaven,
said he had not
received any communication
concerning the matter from
EEOC. ?~
Part of the EEOC
procedure after- a complaint
has been filed against an
employer is to inform the
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Tisdale had earlier dismissed
the charge against '
Andrews at the request of
Larry Elledge. store manager
for Paul Rose department
Store at Northside
Shopping Center.
Andrews was arrested at
the store Dec. 11, find
charged with concealing
merchandise. He said he saw
Andrews concealing items in
the store. He'w,as arrested
by an off duty city police
officer, G.F. Ragland, who
was there shopping with his
family. He made the charge
and signed the warrant for
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employer and/or its counsel
concerning the matter within
10 days of the official filing
date.
Sources at the Commission
in Charlotte wereT
contacted but said they could 7
not reveal whether or not
they hadyeceived any of the
complaints or whether any***
action had been taken.
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Christmas Day, Officer
J.C. Robertson responded to a
call from 1141 Cameron
Ave. When he arrived, ^Jie
found a crowd hovering over
a man with a bullet^tfound in
the chest.
^ According to witnesses at
the scene, Ronald Smith, 21-,
of 1126 E. 19th St., was shot
with a small caliber pistol in
front of Bernard's Store, by a
man known to most of them
as Sam Lee Thompson.
They said Smith was shot
while leaving the rear door of
Thompson's car. Most indi
tairu viiat tiicit; appcwu to have
been?no?argument??
between the two before the
shooting occurfed. Although
one witness said that Smith
had been told by Thompson
that he had "too much
mouth/'
Witnesses to the shooting
incident directed police to
where t they could find
Thompson. He was found by
police in his home on Gray
Ave. He gave no resistance.
Upon the arrest, Thompson
reportedly told police
that the gun belonged to
Smith and that they had
been fighting over it, when it
went off. He said he dropped
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