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Gearing Up The players won't serve and volley until n August, but the job if organizing the Garber/Lash Open already is well under v Sport*, SI. Win VOL. X NO. 48 " U.S.P.S. No. 0 Food Lion among son By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Staff Writer Convincing the entire black community here to support a boycott against Food Lion grocery stores is a task local NAACP President Pat Hairston has grown to hate. Since the NAACP's national executive board voted to boycott Food Lion July 5, the Winston-Salem office has staged an "education campaign" to explain why consumers shouldn't patronize thcr 241-store chain. But CA far UnirrtnM J ^ ? * iai, tiaustiru saiu, nc iias encountered opposition from ministers, local citizens and even some members of the NAACP executive board who are against boycotting the store in the East Winston Shopping Center. In fact, Hairston received a letter from a local member saying that, if the East Winstonstore is boycotted, he will no longer financially support the local chapter and that his sentiments are shared by many others. But Earl Shinhoster, the NAACP's regional Meeting rallie By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Staff Writer ' The message was plain and clear: "Don't shop at Food Lion stores," said NAACP Regional Director Earl Shinhoster with all the fire of a Southern Baptist minister on the last night of a soul-saving crusade. Shinhoster, who was in town to kick off the local boycott of Food Lion Inc. grocery stores, held a mass meeting Monday night at St. James AME Church to tell between 75 and 100 black citizens why the national executive board of the NAACP unanimously voted to Administrator to leave post HH By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Staff Writer I Another member of the chancellor's cabinet at Winston- ^ ^ Salem State University has . resigned. Denise Purdie, who served as an assistant to Dr. H. Douglas ^8@|^p Oovnt^tCTVi has:;W!??gwjd*to::acocpl^" ^~a~X'pdst at Tex^SouTfiern (jniver-" sity's Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston. Purdie, who has been at WSSU for 14 months, JMBRI will become the assistant dean of Please see page A12 E Whatever Happened Wiley's back ir D?. QADIKI A HAiiC W/il#?vr Dy nuDin ITIO " "v; Chronicle Staff Writer Winston Before anyone knew it, the manage Rev. Howard Wiley was gone. manic ca tie in 19" Wiley, 36, who served as an organize associate minister of Galilee Neighbo Baptist Church and was an ac- member tive member of a number of ship Ro political and neighborhood member associations, left Winston- jsjat . Salem last summer to attend dent seminary school at Union Winston Theological Seminary in New York City. Plea 1 ' ITHE MICHAEL Ji 'ay. ston-Si The Twin >7910 - Winston-Sale boycott sti ie in black < director who is based in Atlanta, didn't waver when he Arrived in town Monday morning. "Nrt cforo ic Avamnt '' 1 IV Jiviv u VAVllipi II Will 11113 UUJVUll, Shinhoster told a group of reporters at a press conference. "This isn't a boycott against one store. This is a boycott against a whole chain that refuses to deal fairly with us. " ? Earl Shinhoster, NAA CP regional director think it is sheer folly to attack a chain that took the risk to come in here. " Virginia Newell Shinhoster, who^waTin Winston-Salem 40 kick off the local Food Lion boycott, said the East Winston store should not be exempt just because it has a black manager and employs a number of black workers. s support for ] c boycott Food Lion. "We have tried to negotiate a Fair Share agreement with Food Lion for two years and they won't listen," said Shinhoster. "Now it's come to this. We have got to teach our dollars some sense. We don't have to go to the Lion when we can go someplace else. "Kroger (a company that has signed a Fair Share agreement with the NAACP) didn't have to be brought down kicking and screaming.... The Lion will understand." The NAACP called for a nationwide boycott of Food Lion after the company would not agree to a Fair Share pact that call That's ho DADIKI AHAUC ay nuuiii nunivio Chronicle Staff Writer Despite the televise* ^ and repeated displays 1 at its national conven not be well in the Den ' ->-? ' -~-44ei^P^|' "The Httpanttt got ^<w" 1 * 1,1 tiai iiuniiiitc v<' party won't support Wt ^ ^ Bill, women got (Gen V ~ /"** **X ^ 4 Jews got an apology I said Walter Marshall, teniae Purdle "But for minorities porters, the conventio '7, was a founder and kN of the Citywide' rhood Coalition, a fij of the Black Leader undtable Coalition, a and co-convener of ional Black Indepen- 8 Party's chapter and a IHHHHHHH ise see page ai2 Rev. Howard 1 % I VCKSON SYNDROM mm Taking It To The S If you won't go to church, the Rev. Fields just might bring the church tc I Religion, B7. ilem CI City's A ward- Winning Weekly >m, N.C. Thursday, July 26, 1S i s utuait community "This isn't a boycott against one store," he said. "This is a boycott against a whole chain that refuses to deal fairly with us." One of the NAACP's major complaints against Food Lion is that the chain does not employ enough blacks in management posi Hons. Of the 241 stores in the Carohnas, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and Maryland, only seven employ black managers - one of them at the East Winston store. And one black store manager locally is not enough, considering the large percentage of black people that shop at the store, Hairston said. According to an informal survey conducted by the NAACP, 36 of the 42 employees at the East Winston store are black. However, 30 of those 36 are part-time employees. Six of the store's employees are white~and five~of those are full-time employees. Black store manager Waverly Martin also works full time. The NAACP estimates that 99 to 100 perPlease see page A3 1.1 T^T A A nil local i> AAcr ed for increased management opportunities for blacks and for the company to do more business with black vendors, contractors, insurance companies, banks and advertisers. Food Lion officials said they could not accept a plan that would give preferential treatment to one group, saying the key to their low prices is a competitive bidding process. The standoff resulted in the call for an "economic direct action campaign," or boycott. While the local audience listened patiently, Shinhoster was not, however, addressing the Please see page A3 1 for blacks * >w one black delegate tei Marshall, who attend* convention as a Jackson of three black delegates f d pomp and pageantry said blacks went into the of unity and good will to get at least some res tion last week, all may emptyhanded. nocratic Party. "We were received we {Democratic preskbi- Marshall 1 irat wed tfrfc11 wtnt then nygctvi.?? the Simpson-Mazzoli "We were defeated or ildine) Ferraro and the sidered key issues, like from Jesse (Jackson)," primaries," he said.'Tf was a watered-down ver and black Jackson sup- firmative action policy. n^as^^^Tojs." key person on the Mondi |H 'Them big wh By JOHN SLADE Chronicle Staff Writer This article is the second in a seri "I don't believe we've lived in a since we liv^d in Winston-Salem," s I Mary Battle. I Mrs. Battle, her elderly mothe I daughter and 10-year-old son have I 21st St.- since last summer. They mo> I down house on Cleveland Avenue stopped paying rent until the owner fix the kitchen sink (which had fallen sion), the leaky roof and holes that enter the house at will. I l ?T L . 1 L : _ ...1 f .. (? | | i ncy wa?> irieni Dig wnari rais, I tie. i4They liked to run us out of th< Wiley She considers the house she and h ?J ed to on 21st Street no great impro\ 4E:B4??? Verlie A ^ i ronicle 4 >84 35 cents 26Pages This Week fiM?SS5?!I^58Sl mm* V v? ; 4K*^& Hk < ^Hk^: *y? ^Bk |PI|HpP^ '^H||H l g K JH Kk Jfl I :<-?? ill HL. K -^M ^Kr '- ^rf^ }i^^Pv^Hj^^^.'-v;feS ^f?| ^ ffi*&< ' I <?~?? iJBthLir* '' w >wm > ><>? %,; , .Jt* <..-<I With less than a month to go before her successor is crowned, Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America, has relinquished her title amid the controversy caused by nude photos of her in Penthouse magazine. Our editorial reaction appears on Page A4. rms the Democratic Convention ?d the San Francisco kind of embarrassing. delegate and was one "We went down there with hope ... and rom Forsyth County, came back with very little of anything." convention expecting Even the emotion-packed speech delivered pect, but came back by Jackson last Wednesday night had its flaws, Marshall said, rll and treated well," "The speech didn't really move me," he idn'tgef anythiflf we saicL "He became not Jesse Jackson tbe civil 8,1 fighty-acEmgt -3 csa Juikygw i all the things I con- cian. He became a politician. the end of second "It was his best political speech. But he te only thing we got compromised. He did away with his threat, sion of Jackson's af- We are still locked out and locked in the We didn't even get a Democratic Party." ile team. It was really Please see page A12 arfrats liked to run us out: No place like home fin real nice house - ays 54-year-old ge Sreen "ouse? trimmed in green and accented by a porch that extends around the house's kr 28-year-old S^e' s'ts on east enc* l^e street amon8 lived at 927 E similar structures. When the Battles moved in, /ed from a run- weeds and brush had nearly taken over the land4 because they scaPe? which was a haven for snakes, says Mrs. Bat. , tie. She savs she even saw a 4"?ahv snaWe rnrled nn wouia agree to . ' ? y ? r down on occa- agamst the house last winler' allowed rats to Upon entering the living room of the six-room house, one eyes a pan sitting in the floor near the window facing the street. Savannah Dodd. Mrs. says Mrs. Bat- Battle's daughter, explains that, when it rains, ere." water leaks from the ceiling onto the living room er family mov- floor and the only way to stop it is with the pan, /ement. Please see page A2 \
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