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Black-owned firm
interested in being
park's first tenant
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
The fastest-growing minority-owned business in
the country is considering locating a facility in
Winston-Salem.
Joshua I. Smith, president and chairman of the
board of MAXIMA, a high-tech firm based on a
concept of computer and human communications,
may be the first tenant in the new Winston-Salem
Business Park, to be located adjacent to WinstonSalem
State University.
"Smith is considering a location in the Southeast
at this time and a number of people from WinstonSalem
have talked to him about coming here," said
Camille Jones, marketing coordinator for the Webb
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Park and the Triad Park office tower project,
formerly called Super block. "We haven't got to the
point where we can say it's definite he will locate
here."
Smith could not be reached for comment at his
Bethesda, Md., office. But Smith's secretary said he
was in Winston-Salem last week looking at the site.
Smith's firm has 12 -offices in 10 states and^
reports gross gnaual revenues of approximately $20 million.
MAXIMA is ranked among the top 100
black-owned companied by Black Enterprise
magazine and the top 100 contractors that do
business with the U.S Department of Energy. The
firm is also 98th on Inc. magazine's list of the top
500 fastest-growing, privately owned corporations
in the United States.
Smith, 44, started his business seven years ago.
Voters approved the development of the $3
million industrial park during the 1983 bond
referendum. Actual physical work on the park
should begin by December, said Jones. The Webb
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Hairston to resign:
Controversy brews
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Make no mistake about it, says NAACP President
Patrick L. Hairston. Regardless of whether he
is elected as North Ward alderman in Nov. 5's
general election,,he will not remain NAACP president.
Who would step in to succeed Hairston, however,
is not so clear.
On one hand, the Rev. J.T. McMillan, a former
NAACP1 president, says that, if Hairston wins in
the North Ward, the NAACP constitution says he
must resign as presiaenror the civil rights organiza- ~
tion.
Further, because of the amount of time left on
Hairston's term, should he resign, the membership
must hold a free election to pick the new president,
says McMillan. Hairston has served 10 months of
his fifth two-year term.
On the other hand, Walter Marshall, the local
NAACP's vice president, contends that, as is the
case with all other organizations, if the president
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Diane: You knew he
By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Diane Robinson was a chameleon of sorts.
The pieces of her short life resemble the tropical,
Old World lizard that changes colors to suit its surroundings
and to protect itself from predators. To
casual acquaintances and family, Diane was effervescent.
To her innermost circle of friends, she
was troubled.
Everybody knew Diane Robinson, says her
boyfriend, Curtis Johnson, but nobody knew her.
"She was cheerful in public, but behind closed
doors she was different," says Johnson. "She had
problems hanging over her head. Nobody on the
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Although she didn't make the cheerleading squad
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rooted the Rams on to victory. She was also a
member of the homecoming court last year,
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By ROBIN ADAMS
Chronicle Assistant Editor
Two members of a Charlotte law firm
have been hired by the Darryl Hunt
Defense Committee to represent the
20-year-old convicted murderer on his appeal.
Attorneys James E. Ferguson II and
Adam Stein, of Ferguson, Stein, Watt,
Wallas and Atkins, have been retained to
replace court-appointed attorneys Gordon
Jenkins and S. Mark Rabil. Theirs is the
same firm that noted civil rights attorney
Julius Chambers was a partner in before he
became head of the NAACP Legal Defense
Fund.
4'They are an excellent legal team and we
are happy to have them/* said Khalid Fattah
Griggs, a member of the Hunt Defense
Committee. 44I don't think we could have
gotten a better combination/'
Ferguson and Stein's firm has been in[
\ volved in civil, rights cases for the past 18
years. Ferguson, who worked on the legal
team for the Wilmington 10 and Charlotte
3, also represented Alderman Larry Little
on various criminal matters when Little
was a member of the Black Panther Party.
Since 1981, Stein has been the state appellate
court defender, arguing indigent
clients' appeals in criminal cases.
4'Based on what we have heard, we felt
there had been an injustice that took place
there," said Ferguson, when asked why he
and Stein took the case. "After talking
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11 rights firm
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lawyers who tried the case, we decided to
take it.*'
Ferguson said he and his partner are now
studying the trial transcripts and hope to
have a brief ready for the North Carolina
Appeals Court by Nov. 15. Because Hunt's
new attorneys are arguing for an appeal
and not preparing a new case as of yet,
Ferguson said the outcome of investigations
of the Winston-Salem Police Department's
handling of the Hunt case will have
little or no effect on the appeal.
"They are an excellent legal team ...
I don 7 think we could have gotten a
better combination."
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44We are limited to what appears in the
trial transcript," said Ferguson.
Ferguson would not reveal the fee charged
for handling the case, saying that it is a
personal matter/
Money for Hunt's appeal has been raised
by the Defense Committee, which initially
said it needed $50,000 for an adequate appeal.
Hunt was sentenced to life in prison in
June for the first-degree murder and rape
of Deborah B. Sykes, a copy editor for the
now-defunct Winston-Salem Sentinel.
Ferguson said he won't rule out a possible
bond for Hunt, but also said he doubts
Hunt will be granted one. Since Hunt's arrest
in August 1984, he has been in jail.
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Cleon F. Thompson's office at WinstonState
University is very formal,
uge, mahogany-colored desk sits in one
. A glass-front bookcase filled with
ant-looking books and documents covers
11 in front of the desk. A half-dozen bluetered,
straight-back chairs strategically
about the room complete the decor,
lis own office, Thompson looks out of
In fact, during a recent interview, WSSU's
tanceilor ref uses to talk there. Thompson
istead for the accompanying board room
he can relax on one of the couches and
smoke his extra-long Vantage cigarettes,
R.J. Reynolds' brands,
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)son, 53, tells this reporter as his 6-foot-l
walks hunched over to the back of the
"I'm going over here to the couch where I
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Hairston, president of the local
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im Oct. together as one," said Hairston.
>n Con- "We can trade ideas and learn
what others are doing."
vill con- The convention will open on
leetings, Thursday, Oct. 24, at 8 a.m. in
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