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WINSTON-SALEM
Vol. ni, No. 34
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
SATURDAY APRIL 23, 1977
Single Copy 20*
Files ^1,5 Million Suit
Charges SBA With Negligence
Staff Rssociated Furniture In- counts ot neglieence and t« ”
by Sharyn Bratcher
Staff Reporter
A local black business
claims to be the latest
victim of a government
agency presently under
investigation for ruining a
number of small compa
nies in the southeast
Associated Furniture In
corporated of Winston
Salem has filed suit in the
United States Court of
Claims against the Small
Business Administration
seeking $1,500,000 in
damages and charging the
SBA with numerous
counts of negligence and
mishandling of company
matters.
The suit, filed by David
H. Wagner, president of
the firm, and George E.
Hill, charges the Small
Business Administration
with: trying to force
Wagner to withdraw from
the company; forcing a
reduction in production by
refusing to make pay
ments pursuant to the
advance payments con
tracts; negligently allow
ing the insurance cove-
rage on the equipment
and inventory of Associat
ed Furniture to lapse; and
refusing to investigate the
fire at the company plant,
despite evidence that the
fire resulted from arson —
in short, the suit contends
that the SBA made every
See SBA, Page 2
agner
luns For
Goler Tenants Picket
® Seat
Wagner’s Candidacy
lavid Wagner, attorney
' NAACP vice-president,
)unced his candidacy for
irman of the North East
fd in a Tuesday press
'ference at the Goler
Irapolitan AME Zion
fch. Stating his intention
^ for Carl Russell's seat,
dier or not Russell chose
« again, Wagner listed
^even point platform,
'‘ding such topics as the
%ment of programs for
l«‘derly, equal employ-
I opportunity within the
jgovemment, the deve-
ot of one or more
‘ooity centers in the
feast ward, and a
''«ng system for fede-
^as received by the
Winston-Salem,
enforcement was a
of his listed
'^^gner called
, ? police protec-
ease crime in the
and the deve-
‘ss ® P°fice review
ler ofth'"® ^"^tality.
icatpH^® topics, is a
matter. “There
Dtai police to
»ver hit a
I head to be
use
.^age or treat
^®oourtesy.’’ He
the establish-
br Kenneth R. WiUiams, Chancellor at Winston-Salem
Assoda^“^’
Dr. WiUiams Honored At
Alimini Coalition Liinclieon
WSSU Chancellor Dr.
Kenneth R. Williams and
Attorney Henry Frye, a
representative in the N.C.
General Assembly, received
plaques in recognition of
fheir outstanding achieve
ments at the Higher
Education Luncheon of the
North Carolina Alumni &
Friends Coalition held Sa
turday in the Red and White
Room of WSSU’s Kennedy
Dining Hall.
The N.C. Alumni and
Friends Coalition represents
alumni organizations of the
five predominantly black
See Dr. Williams, Page 2
Demonstrators protesting the management of Goler
Apartments picketed outside the Goler Metropolitan AME
Zion Church during David Wagner’s Tuesday press
conference announcing his candidacy for alderman. Wagner
IS on the Board of Directors of Goler Apartments.
^ "P his own house before he runs for
office, said Mrs. Lee Faye Mack, president of Concerned
Citizens, who was one of the demonstrators.
Bertha Mitchell of Goler Apartments, spokesman for the
pro es ors, read a list of complaints concerning the
management of the apartment complex. The demands
included: a system of pest control, maintenance and repairs
for the apartments, play areas for small children, and
consistency by the management in following stated
procedure, such as rent collection.
Wagner, who conceived the idea of the apartment
complex owned by Goler Metropolitan Church, responded to
the demonstrators:
There are certain things I cannot do. I can’t pay the
tenets rent for them; I can’t go in and clean up their
apartments, I can t make them behave themselves. Give me
150 tenants at Goler who will pay their rent, keep their
apartments clean, and behave themselves and there’ll be no
tenant-landlord problems at Goler.’’
Smiley Wagner, manager of Goler Apartments and
nephew of David Wagner, said that of the 15 persons
See Goler, Page 2
66
Business League Honors 19
The Winston-Salem Chap- Economir
of
5 ^"^areness
Page 2
The luncheon featured Dr.
Albert H. Berrian, vice-
president of the Institute for
Service to Education, Wash
ington, D.C. as guest
speaker, with special re
marks by Dr. John Larkins,
special assistant to the
Governor on Minority Af
fairs.
The Winston-Salem Chap
ter Professional Business
League honored 19 women
who have achieved in
business and other related
professional careers at a
luncheon held this past
Saturday at the Reynolds
Health Center Cafeteria.
Mrs. Lillian Wesley Lee,
wife of Howard N. Lee, State
Secretary of Natural
Economic Resources and
former candidate for Lieute
nant Governor of
Carolina and Mayor
Chapel Hill, was
Luncheon speaker
spoke from the theme,
“Black Women: From Roots
to Harvest’’ and journeyed
from the roots of SoJoumer
Truth to the harvest
North
of
the
She
of
& outstanding black women
achievers of today.
Trophies and certificates
of recognition presented by
Mrs. Gloria C. King,
Program & Projects Chair
person, were awarded to:
Ms. Ernestine Alspaugh,
Section Chief - Western
Electric Company; Mrs.
Flonnie Anderson, Teacher/
Drama-Parkland Sr. High
See League, Page 2