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First of Two-Part
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By EDWARD SHANAHAN
. ^Special To The Chronicle
Two men, E. Vernon Ferrell ar
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multiple residential rental prof
Winston.
Another 20 property owners e*
anywhere from 10 to 40 parcels of
perty in Winston-Salem's la;
American neighborhood, where sc
single-family rental housing in th<
The Chronicle's examinatior
ownership records also confiri
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By MARDELL GRIFFIN
Chronicle Staff Writer
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The pregnant former secretary
of two Winston-Salem attorneys
who brought assault charges
against her former employers last
week is still under a doctor's cafe
following the incident, her
mother says. But one of the
lawyers involved says the case is
unjustified.
"She's not doing too good,"
said Mrs. Margaret Reid of her
daughter, Beverly Reid Corpen
ing^'I just hope and pray to the
Lord thaTsfie will be OKt"
Mrs^ Cqrpening, 31, of 1582
Longview Drive was admitted to
Forsyth Memorial Hospital
following an incident resulting in
charges against Robert Ernest
Winfrey, 36, of 2860 Deerwood
Drive and Gary Devon Henderson,
37, of 1244 W. Fourth St.
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criminal summonses June 26
charging them with assault on a
female.
The summonses say . that
Henderson held Mrs. Corpening
while Winfrey twisted her arm,
slapped her face and hit her twice
with his fists. Mrs. Corpening
was bruised on the arms as a
result, one summons states.
"There's no merit to it whatsoever,'
said Winfrey of the case
brought against him and his law
partner.
New bill extei
term for 18 m
From Staff and Wire Reports
Two weeks ago, Special
Superior Court Judge James A.
Beaty Jr, wasn't sure whether he
would be returning to a private
law practice or keeping his
judge's robe.
His term as a special judge was
to end June 30. With the recent
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passage ui a new uin mai is iiKciy
to increase . the number of
African-American Superior
Court judges in the state, Beaty
will get to don his robe for at
least 18 more months.
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But if Beaty has his way, it will
be for even longer.
The bill creates new Superior
Court judgeships in 10
predominately African-American
areas and does away with staggered
judicial terms.
The bill was enacted Friday
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justified,
iwyer says
He refused to comment further
about the charges on the advice
of his attorney, Joe Williams of
Greensboro.
He did not want to sound
abrupt, he added, but as an attorney
he knows how important
it is to follow the advice of
counsel. So, he is going to follow
the advice of his.
"Any further statements will
be handled by my attorney, " he
said.
"I have had a thorough interview
with both of my clients,"
Williams said. "1 am convinced
that they are absolutely innocent
of all charges.!' And he has
evidence to prove it in court, he
added. He would not elaborate
on whether or not there were
witnesses to the incident. Hender
son could not be reached for
comment.
Mrs. Reid said her daughter
was home from the hospital but
still suffering lower stomach
pains and taking medication to
"make her rest."
Mrs. Corpening, who stated
that she is entering her sixth
month of pregnancy, said, "I've
been advised by my attorney not
to make any comments." She
said James Ferguson of Charlotte
is her lawyer in the matter.
Ferguson is counseling Mrs.
Corpening about the case, he
said. But he also declined to
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after a bitter Senate debate. It,
however, cleared the Senate 35-6.
One of the areas to benefit
from the bill is Forsyth County
where the new Judicial District
21-A consists of Winston-Salem's
South, Southeast and Northwest
wards and Precincts 4-1 and 4-2.
Beaty said Monday that he
would like a Superior Court
judgeship. Superior Court judges
are elected to eight-year terms in
statewide elections.
He said that he is pleased that
the bill passed and that it will
provide African-American
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serve as judges.
But as far as he is concerned,
Beaty said he plans to start
organizing a campaign committee.
"I'm really looking forward to
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By MARDELL GRIFFIN
Chronicle Staff Writer
The little guys won at the
Board of Aldermen special
meeting Monday night.
Or at least that is the way some
of the 14 small business owners
felt when the proposed transit
center site across form the old
post office was dropped - permanently
- by the Aldermen.
Amid a swirl of controversy
surrounding the selection of a
location for a downtown bus
center city planners will try to
make a Third and I.ihertv
site work instead of the highly
contested Fifth, Liberty and
Trade location.
The site controversy included
charges of racism made in the
June 25th issue of the Chronicle
agains^ federal judges. An article
claimed that some of the judges
threatened to tie up the plans for
a center in lengthy law suits if the
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Bias claim
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By CHERYL WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
Enough is enough, say three
former African-American
employees of the Noland Co. in
Winston-Salem.
t- Tyrone Cdvington, Sammie
O'Neal Jr. and Daulton Hill say
that they put up with discrimination
at the company for years,
but they had taken enough.
Covington and O'Neal quit
their jobs at the same time on
April 10. Hill left his job because
of a medical disability in
January.
The three charge that the company
openly discriminates against
African-Americans, not only in
hiring, but the treatment of them
on the job.
"There isn't a black out there
in a position other than emptying
trash cans or driving trucks."
Covington said. "There's no advancement,
no future there."
When contacted, Frank Hartis
I who's in charge of the branch
here, would not comment on the
three men's accusations.
The company, headquartered
in Virginia, is a distributor of
electrical, industrial, plumbing,
refrigeration, air conditioning
and heating supplies.
All three men say they have
seen white workers with less experience
and seniority than they
have come into the company and
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city tried to build the facility near
the Federal Building.
A Boston architect, David
Crane, contracted by the city to
formulate the Central Area Action
Plan, suggested that the best
location for the bus center was
between Main and Church streets
south of Third. The plan was
published in 1983.
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evaluation of his study, Crane
suggested that racism played a
role in the decision not to develop
the site he had chosen.
When reached this week at his
new office in Tampa, Fla., he
stood by his earlier conclusions
that racism was a factor in the
decision not to build the center
near the Federal Building.
"There was conflict when the site
' was picked near the court
house,'' he said. "There were
problems of that (racial) nature
at that time."
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housing, with the vast majority of
their housing rather than owning
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nent indicated that in 1980 there
ling units in the area covered by
i Area Plan and that only 1,704 of
29 percent - were owned by the
pared to an owner-occupied rate
r the city as a whole.
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ms of East Winston today. The ?
rcel-by-parcel examination of
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salesmen jobs within the com
pany.
"You have white guys come in,
start at receiving, shipping, then
counter sales and after that they
go upstairs as an office salesman
or on the road salesman," Covington
said.
The men say that they started
out in the warehouse as truck
?drivers and were in the same position
when they left.
Covington had worked for the
company for seven years, O'Neal
for five years and Hill for three
years.
One unfair practice the company
has is throwing all the dirty
work on African-Americans, the
three say.
Covington said that they are
told that the last man hired will
have to empty the trash can at the
warehouse. But that's not the
way it has been, he said.
"I've seen many whites hired
after me and they don't have to
touch a can," he said.
Hill said that AfricanAmericans
are not allowed to
load their trucks without supervision.
44 It got so bad that they hired a
- 19-year-old white boy for 30 days
to watch us," he said. "Can you
imagine, you^e worked there for
years and they don't trust you to
load trucks? It's so ridiculous."
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In recent weeks various groups
and individuals have stepped forward
to speak out against the site
across from the post office
chosen by a seven-member study
committee as the best place to
build a transit facility.
The site was opposed by the
predominantly black Ministers
Conference of Winston-Salem
and Vicinity. A group of
ministers representing the
organization were present at the
Board of Aldermen meeting on
the 27th.
The Rev. Serenus T. Churn Jr.
of Mt. Zion Baptist said, "We
were here to show our support
for the small merchants who
would have been driven out of
business by the decisions of the
city."
A letter from the local
Historical Properties Commission
was sent to the Aldermen
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