Campaign Notes The Black Political Awareness League dorsed presidential hopeful Jesse Jack Page AIO. T>fZ VV1 VOL. X NO. 34 U S Klan-Nazi No one's s By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Staff Writer Related editorial on Page A4. After only three days of deliberations, an all-white federal jury found nine Klansmen and Nazis not guilty of violating the civil rights of five Communists Worker's Party members killed in a shootout in Greensboro on Nov. 3, ~1979~ Found not guilty on all 14 counts were Virgil L. Griffin, 40, of Mount Holly; Edward Dawson, 65, of Greensboro; Raeford Milano Caudle, 41, and Jack Wilson Fowler, 33, of Winston-Salem; "The Klan is done. They have had it. "~ -- Edward Dawson David Wayne Matthews, 29, of Newton; Coleman Pridmore, 42, of Lincolnton; Jerry Paul Smith, 36, of Maiden; Roy Clinton Toney, 36, of Anderson, S.C., and Roland Wayne Wood, 39, of Winston-Salem. The verdict, said Dawson, one of the nine defendants, was a relief but came as no surprise. "It (the not-guilty verdict) was great," Dawson said earlier this week in a telephone interview. ,4It was like a ton of bricks being lifted off your head. It was a tremendous ordeal to go through and I'm glad it's over. From now on, I will be minding my own business." The final arguments in the threemonth-old case were given last Thursday U"* Ir m H HJr KiH Hp ? ^5 m v ^ff!'tet- -| Aspiring, But Safe, Ac Susie Vickers and Lashonda Fields holci fire safety slogan they're helping to mat are part of a skit titled "Stop, Drop and F youngsters under the direction of Larry Schools * vol X By AUDREY L. WILLIAMS Chronicle Staff Writer Only after it was brought to^is atte Deputy Superintendent Jim Dew, did he most of the students hired for the city-coi system's summer employment program a of school system staff members. Parents of the students hired are emplo tions that range from the administrative custodial level. "I just didn't recognize those names," n ?BLACK CC Election 2 son5 Year '84 inston >.P.S. No. 067910 verdict: surprised and the $1 million trial concluded with Judge Thomas A. Flannery reading the jury 78 pages of instructions. Last Friday morning, the jurors began their deliberations at 8:30. The five-person prosecution team tried . to prove that the nine men interfered with the demonstrators* rights to free speech at a government-sanctioned march, that they were motivated by racism and that their actions led to the deaths of five of the demonstrators. Killed were Sandra Smith, Cesar V. \\/:11: c p ? \.auic, vviinaiu c,. aampsun, ivncnaei Nathan and James Waller. The nine defense attorneys based their argument on the same one used during the state trial four years ago in Greensboro,? when five Klansmen and Nazis charged with murder were found not guilty: that the Klansmen and Nazis acted in selfdefense and were motivated by patriotism to go to the rally. In the end, the defense team prevailed. The jury has been silent since the decision, saying only that the prosecution did not prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the nine were guilty. While they were not particularly surprised by the verdict, say 'local black leaders, the trial's outcome will give the Klan a green light to continue its racist activities. (After the reading of the verdict, defendant Virgil Griffin, who serves as grand dragon of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said he would continue fighting communism and that the "KKK is here to stay.") Please see page A3 |P^ i^BT> . ? ?9? -- -v?rw t-?^S- ^ stresses I their positions before moving out of tl te during Fire Education Awareness W toir that was presented at Hanes Mall h Leon Hamlin, who also wrote the skit i icy of hiring e 4LLEGE SPORTS REN Cookies Evelyn Burney hi I family recipe intc I Magazln# Sutton, Salem The Twin City's Award-Winning Week/ Winston-Salem, N.C. ThursC J I I ^? *%? ? .... ^ 11 Hr-' v~ J Eddie Knox: "I'm the only candidate who I know what it's like to run a governmen | By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Staff Writer ^| WSMX-AM, a lo< plagued by money pro B ment, has teetered on t cent months. But Rodnev Sumler. marketing. We will im| tion." Those goals won't b lem as part of the human no more money than i eek. Susie and Lashonda True Vine Pentecostal ast Saturday by a group of station's owner, defau (photo by James Parker), secured to buy WSM' rnnlo vees' childr m. re all the technicalities and are hired mainly bee I went through the list, I including painting housekeeping. m said he didn't initially Of the 67 studer of city-county school black, said Steve CI le. personnel, veral teachers are usually "We don't enco ummcr employment, said from local emplo> uperintendent for person- "There are no la members can't be \ tudents on summer break School board me \ flEW INSIDEHI^M , _ _ I Chronic. y lay, April 19, 1984 35 cents The Road To J ^ The State House | V Knox - <., BE. ;/ < -'*' ; u'. * hi to?*. i%)css^ J 31 a campaign regimer Winston, says his his track record women justifies hii The 47-year-old perience, sensitn management as att most qualified can "In ft&Mier. ~ ^ Moreover, he sa has been a chief e: like to run a goven Knox then point grams, his strong s appointments of b which totaled 36 p< has been a chief executive.... Charlotte's populai t " (photo by James Parker). PI ially-troubled rad lie back strong, s mortgages to sevei ? - tuary, and purcf :al church-owned radio station (formerly Skyland blems and inexperienced manage- Two months age he brink of financial disaster in re- "This was done ; and pay debtors of president of Gospel Media Radio "We don't have i and operates the station, insists kinds of problem; c strong. mismanagement. I :tors of Gospel Media Radio Inc. norant managemen 4iui lrrt% frUnfridwfi that ii Nation as a business ought to be What has chang< We will stop all the begging and station's owners, are going to put forth the position "We are a licens us and we have the same oppor- start acting like tf mun mai anyoouy eise in me raaio positive tnings." One of the firs it we have to sell -- radio time and manager Bea Swisl prove on every facet of our opera- Next, WSMX's < the church on Old e easy to achieve. The station has When the churcl t had last June, when Macedonia and a management Holiness Church of God Inc., the of Roseville, Calif, lted on a $1.4 million bond it had tion's day-to-day K at a cost of $600,000, pay off F en: Standardpn :ause of the heavy work required, jor concern isn't \ 5, grounds maintenance and how many black 5 "I wasn't tryinj its hired, 14, or 20 percent, are hired," he said. " lodfelter, the system's director of of blacks hired. I and I don't under; urage or discourage applications because I was tol< ees' children," said Sanderfur. plied got a job. iws that say children of staff "I just wonder i tired." said, "especially v mber Beaufort Bailey said his ma- P f ^Jl I le 54 Pages This Week : Proofs record / IS AND JOHN SLADE ITS ded gubernatorial race may not be as the Senate battle between Jim jlms -- or as inspiring to the black :kson's quest for the presidency -ire still there. ;aders in Winston-Salem, former Eddie Knox and state Attorney nisten have rallied large numbers 5, and in fact, appear to have split olitical leaders roughly down the loarse and a bit weary from his i during a recent stopover in long list of accomplishments and of being fair to minorities and 5 support among black voters. Davidson County native cites ex it y, "caring" and economic ributes that he feels make him the didate , J ys, "I'm the only candidate who Kecutive ... and I know what it's nment." s to his minority economic protand on housing and his political lacks while mayor of Charlotte, ?rcent, though only 26 percent of :ion is black, ease see page A12 io station ays Sumler ral local banks for the church sanclase Macedonia Arms Apartments Place Apartments). >, the church filed for bankruptcy, as a protective move and to reorganize T," Sumler said. the money. We still have the same >. But the problem has never been t ha<; hf?pn npw inpvnpripnppri io. . ---? it. We have learned. We are using the -d. Sumler said, is the attitude of the ed, profit-making station and we will tat," he said. "We are going to do t things the station did was to fire ler, Sumler said. office was moved from Link Road to Greensboro Road. h lost control of the station last May firm -- Flessing, Pirtle and Associates , ? assumed responsibility for the staoperations, four WSMX employees Mease see page A12 ~ i jcedure | i -vhose children had been hired, but students were hired, g to make an issue out of who was lMy main concern was the number just wasn't satisfied with 20 percent stand why more blacks didn't apply i that every black student that ap4 f it was advertised enough," Bailey vith as many black folk as there arc lease see page A3