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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,
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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
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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,"
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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.
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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.")
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toir that was presented at Hanes Mall h
Leon Hamlin, who also wrote the skit i
icy of hiring e
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legalities are clear. When
ntion, says just skimmed through."
realize that One of the names De^
Linty school recognize was the son
ire children Superintendent Zane Earg
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yed in posi- hired by the system for s
level to the Earl Sanderfur, assistant ?
nel.
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I know what it's like to run a governmen
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Chronicle Staff Writer
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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
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Winston, says his
his track record
women justifies hii
The 47-year-old
perience, sensitn
management as att
most qualified can
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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-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