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By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Chfonlcte Staff Writer
Patrick T. Hairston says thing
same. %
Since resigning in November ai
the local NAACP and winning i
Board of Aldermen in the North W
said he's still mad. And he still doe
Jng you about it.
"In the NAACP I was on the out
on the inside, and I see a lot of thin
he said while seated in the living
modest apartment off Indiana Avi
"I still have a burning desire tc
right for black people," he said, "1
has a job to do."
He calls his election to the pres
. NAACP in 1976 the most importai
life.
"The NAACP has done so
freedom and justice for black peo]
'They have always been in the foi
struggle for the rights of our peop
Contrary to popular opinion,.?
. his near 10-year stint at the helm of
tion did not include a healthy salai
"Some thought the NAACP pai
a year, because I did most of the
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McLean's Trucking Co. for 21 yeai
t , Jdtji a pension. I'm living off t
' keeping me up, but
Hairston, I can't sit idly by."
Hairston says racism among
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By JOHN HINTON
Chronicle Staff Writer
Approximately 30 local and state c
ed the basement of the New Bethel E
last Saturday afternoon to court vote
issues.
The mostly Democratic contingent
political forum sponsored by the Bai
Conference and Associates and spc
dience of roughly 100 people for twc
hours.
But first, one of the ministers spol
"You will be elected to serve us," 1
Churn, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist CI
candidates. ''You will be held accoi
No political party should take us foi
have come of age."
Each candidate was allowed to s
minutes. A question-and-answer pe
the speeches to the mostly black audi
"I want to try and represent the ei
said Beaufort O. Bailey, who is seeki
to the school board. Parents must be<
in the education of their children, he
Democratic candidate H. Lee Da
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By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer 1
The Board of Aldermen voted
unanimously Monday night to condemn
South African apartheid and prohibit
the city from doing business with companies
investing in that country.
The resolution, introduced by
Southeast Ward Alderman Larry W.
Womble, passed the eight-member
board with no discussion,
"This is a giant step for North
Carolina and a giant step for this city/'
Womble said after the meeting. "No
other city in North Carolina has passed
such a resolution, and very few cities in
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the South have done so."
Apartheid Is the system of racial
separation that forcibly subjects 24
million black Africans to the^ule of five
million whites. The country is now
engaged in a bitter and bloody upheaval
that has claimed more than 800 lives in
the past year.
The resolution states that the South
African government has made 4'no
significant efforts toward reform" over
the past few decades and has "consistently
and routinely ignored the moral
imperatives invoked by the international
community." '
"It has been shown through this vote
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I By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
I Chronicle Staff Writer
Why now?
That is the question many observers are
I asking after new murder charges were filed
I last Thursday against Darryl Eugene Hunt
land two others for a 1983 beating death.
I Hunt, 21, who was convicted amid conI
troversy last June of the rape and stabbing
I death of newspaper copy editor Deborah
IB. Sykes, was charged along with his
I friend, 30-year-old Sammy Lee Mitchell,
land Merrit William Drayton, 27, with the
Sept. 17, 1983, first-degree murder of Ar-*<
Ithur Wilson.
I < Wilson, a 57-year old black man who livI
ed at 3054 Patterson Ave., was found dead
I at 2:30 a.m. in the 1700block of Claremont
I Avenue. Autopey reports indicate Wilson
I died of trauma to the head.
Drayton, who was arrested March 19
I and was being held in the Forsyth County
I jail on $10,000 bond for manslaughter in
I the death last month of Mary Annette
[Smith, appears to be one of the key
I witnesses in the case. Reports published
tfcSrWilson murder three weeks a?o.
However, Mattie R? MM(lMN*rHO Mil
Patterson Ave., Mitchell's mother, said
Wednesday that Mattie Mae Davis came to
her house on Monday, April 14, looking
for her son and saying the police were
pressuring her. Mrs. Mitchell said Miss
Davis told her that the police had picked
her up, and were trying to charge her with
Wilson's murder. Miss Davis could not be
reached for comment. Police officials
would not comment on whether Miss Davis
is a witness in the case.
"She told me she was was going to put it
on Sammy because she was pregnant and
couldn't go to jail," Mrs. Mitchell said.
"She said her boyfriend (Drayton) was trying
to put the murder on Sammy and Darryl."
Mrs. Mitchell said Miss Davis returned
again that night looking for Mitchell, and
came back again Tuesday before she found
him. "She first said the police were trying
to get her to say something she knew
nothing about," Mrs. Mitchell said. "Then
later she said she had seen Sammy kicking
the man."
By ROBIN BARKSDALE
Chronicle Staff Writer
When he flew to f iW*
8 August to marry his fiaxx
Rosetta, Talmadge Colcy
Winston-Salem had big pi
of returning to his hometc
with his new bride and his
' fant daughter.
But his plans were stal
when, just two days bef
they were to leave Liberia,
Coleys were informed t
Mrs. Coley had not been
proved for immigration
America.
Coley, who had only b
granted a 20-day visa
Liberia, was forced to ret
to the United States with
his family.
The situation was a
plicated by the fact that N
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York as an illegal alien, 1
vino Mrs. Col- been deported to her nat
r). country in January 1985.
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Drayton has been held without bond
since March 27 on a parole violation. His
first appearance hearing was held Monday.
Harry S. Davis Jr. and Glen H. Davis were
appointed by District Court Judge William
Reingold to represent him.
Mitchell was arrested late last Thursday
niffht and had hie firct aniworon/** K?or?n?
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Friday. Laurel A. Boyles and George A.
Beds worth were appointed by Reingold as
Mitchell's attorneys* Preliminary hearings
rfV tttw May
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% Hunt, who was serving a life sentence at
the Southern Correctional Institute in
Troy, was brought to the Forsyth County
Jail on Monday. His first appearance hearing
was held Wednesday. Attorneys Roy G.
Hall Jr. and Carol S. Hebert were appointed
to represent him.
Wilson's case was reactivated in
December, when Police Chief Joseph E.
Masten reopened eight unsolved murders,
and announced a shakeup in the murder investigation
unit of the department. The
shakeup was ordered as a result of a city
manager's report criticizing the department's
handling of the Sykes case.
In the initial investigation, three
witnesses had been questioned who said
they saw three men beating Wilson on the
night of the crime. Police said recently that
none of the witnesses could identify the
assailants.
In a recent interview with the Chronicle
about the unsolved murders, police officials
said at least two new witnesses had
b^en developed in the Wilson case. Police
had said Wilson had been seen flashing
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again at last
Last week, seven months
and yards of red tape later, the
Coleys- were reunited in
Winston-Salem. But Coley is
angry about the experience. /
?* "I thought I was going to be
103 able to bring my family
T11 * back," he said in an interview
Saturday, "but I had to leave
them. We had our tickets and
everything, and we were all set
to go. The American Embassy
(in Liberia) gave me a runhat
around.
*P- "EveryJtime I went back,
t0 ^ they came up with something
new that I needed and that
would cost more money. So it
*n was just more money and
more papers. I didn't want to
ou* leave them, but 1 was not
financially situated to stay any ,
jm- longer, and my visa had run
Irs. out."
few Coley said he was given no
ltd indication of when Jiis wife
tfre would be allowed to join him
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