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Dn-Salem Chronicle
The Twin City's Award-Winning Weekly
UbLXtV, No. 32
U.S.P.S. No. 067910
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Thursday, March 31,1988
28 Pages This Week
Rose accuses Burke of personal vendetta
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*Poll:Brawley should testify
1 NEW YORK - TSwana Brawlcy, the black teenager
iwbo says she was assaulted by white men and has
4 refused to testify to a grand jury about it, should end
j her ^ence and cooperate with investigators, accord-
ing to the majority of respondents ta a new poll.
•j The poll indicated that 90 percent of those ques-
I boned think she should coc5)erate, while three percent
1 think she should remain silent and seven percent had
no opinion.
The 16-year-old former teenager has refused to
cooperate with investigators about the incident last
November. Family members have said she was
abduOed Nov. 24 and sexually abused over a four-day
period by a number of white men, including one who
flashed a police-type badge. Her attorneys, Alton
Maddox and C. Vernon Mason, have said she will defy
sid)|»oenas until a new special prosecutor is given the
case.
FHA hiring found deficient
W\SHINGTON — On-site reviews of Farmers
Home Admmistration operations in Texas turned up
sex discrimination and severe shortcomings in the
hiring of blacks and Hispanics in agency offices, an
A^oodlBe Department report said.
Mbiof the civil rights reports noted numerous
deficiencies in the employmcnf of women and
minorities, and shortcomings in outreach programs.
Corporate blacks make strides
. 7-TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida A&M Univer-
iSity alumnus who has become a vice president at
-Xerox said Wednesday blacks are m^ing large
strides in caporate America.
He said Xerox employed 121 blacks when he
joined that Organization in 1971, but that more than
56,000 now work for the company, which has 16
black vice pr^iidents, including nine from black uni-
vo^ilies.
Bernard Kinsey, one of five black corporate vice
presidents participating in a two-day university
imhistry cluster, praised black universities for devel-
t^ing Ment for the nation's corporations.
Racist joke line shut down
DALLAS -Southwestern Bell shut down a tele
phone 'service— titled 976-COON —started by a
black man and a black woman but featuring jokes,
^rogatory to blacks. The line was disconnected after
only three days of operation.
TTie service was started by Charles Ray Daniels,
37, and a woman he declined to identify. Daniels
said he did not like the racial jokes, but thought he
could make some money with the idea.
UNC students cite concerns
CliAPEL HILL - Black students at the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill feel they need
more direct and specific aueniion, assistant dean for
arts and sciences Donella Croslan said.
”We need ...not only black faculty, but black
administrators and people in suppon services in the
various schools." '
By ANGELA WRIGHT
Chronicle Managing Editor
One of the principals in the Versell
Fuller controversy has accused Aider-
man Vivian H. Burke of waging a per
sonal vendetia against her.
Mrs. Leigh Rose, one of the
women who accuse Fuller of theft, says
that the community support that has
been rallied around Fuller is being
orchestrated by Burke.
"I got a call from someone this
morning who didn't know me, and who
asked that I not identify them publicly,"
said Rose. "This person told me that
they had first-hand information that
Vivian Burke met with Dolly McPher
son at Wake Forest University in mid-
December, and that at that meeting, the
decision was made to support Versell
FuIIct."
Burke:
"...I excused
myself. I
told them I
I didn’t want
to be in a
position.»of
involving
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Dr. Dolly McPherson, associate
professor of English at Wake Forest
University, is the chair of Black Women
for Justice, a group of professional
Afro-American women who organized
in support of Fuller.
"Thai is absolutely untrue," said
McPherson. "We (the organization)
would know that that is improper." She
said that Burke was not in any way
involved in the Fuller case.
"I have never even seen Mrs.
Burke at Wake Forest," she said. "I per
sonally do not need the jKodding of a
political official to act on anyone's
behalf. 1 am an asuite, sensitive human
being who is fully aware of the situa
tion in which a less fortunate member
Stepping Out!
Contestants in last week's Little Miss Winston-Salem Black Beauty Pageant demonstrate the new dance routines
while modeling the latest in swimwear for little ones (photo by Santana).
of our community is being taken advan
tage of by a more fortunate member of
our community.
"Those women, who met initially,
joined together in common cause - to
see that Mrs. Fuller was fairly treated
and to provide the necessary legal
counsel," she said.
However, Burke did acknowledge
that she had been invited to a meeting
by McPherson. "When they introduced
Mrs. Fuller and I realized what the
meeting was about, I excused myself. I
told them I didn't want to be in a posi
tion, as a public official, of involving
myself in anything that's controversial
because I'm not part of the controver
sy."
Burke said the meeting she briefly
attended was not held on the Wake For
est campus, but she declined to say
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Bingham seeks
black support
By ROBIN BARKSDALE
Chronicle Staff Writer
J. Robert Bingham, a white candidate for the,seat
of North Carolina Labor Commissioner, is unapolo-
geiically going after the state’s Afro-American vote in
his bid for office and he said that he will make no
bones about iL Neither, Bingham said, will he apolo
gize for seeking votes from an important segment of
the state's population.
"If I have to apologize for going after black
votes, I have no business being in the race," said
Bingham, a real estate broker from Boone. "I don't
have any fear of being tagged as a 'black candidate.’ I
have been warned that there are risks but if it's a risk
for the Democratic Party to get black votes then
something's wrong."
The most visible plank in Bingham’s platform,
thus far, has been his outspoken lobbying for the
"Buy Freedom” campaign, a program which encour
ages Afro-Americans to trade with Afro-American
businessses and to stimulate the growth of the busi-
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Wil Jenkins, shopping center owners part company
By KENNETH RAYMOND
Chronicle Staff Writer
A contractual dispute between the
owners and managers of the East Win
ston Shopping Center has led to a part
ing of the ways, according to Wilbert
Jenkins, former shopping center man
ager.
The owners, East Winston Associ
ates, terminated their contract with the
management firm of All American
Associates last December, Jenkins said.
The contract was signed after the
shopping center was completed in
1982. Jenkins declined to comment
specifically on why the two groups
ended the contract.
"There was simply a disagreement
on several terms of the contract," he
said. "But I can’t talk about which
things they actually disagreed upon,"
The terms outlined in the contract
dealt with management fees, manage
ment actions, tenant defaults, binding
effect of the contract, indemnity, and
maintenance and repairs.
"There were several things both
parlies disagreed on," Jenkins said.
"East Winston Associates suggested
that the agreement be terminated and
our company complied.”
Jenkins did say that both parties
had initially agreed to try to improve
the shopping center, but that neither
side had followed through.
'We did have a lot of expectations
and talked about expanding," he said.
"But they never occurred."
The plans included adding 20,000
square feel to its already existing
45,000 square feet, helping to enlarge
the Bojangles restaurant, building a
walkway to give pedestrians better
access, painting certain areas, landscap
ing, and adding an ABC store near the
Mechanics and Farmers Bank.
The shopping center now does not
have any local management representa
tives. It is being run remotely by Her
itage Square out of Minnesota. Jim
Funk, who's handling the shopping cen
ter's management affairs, could not be
reached for comment
Jenkins said that business should
not be greatly affected by the interim
management.
"It could affect it, but not to a large
degree because it’s done that way all
the time," he said. "Although there isn't
anyone around to handle things involv
ing management which comes up daily,
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Joe Dudley: Late bloomer reaps success in business
By ROBIN BARKSDALE
Cj^icte Slaff Writer
.He had a smile and a "Glad
you're here," for everyone as he
milled about the crowd of more
than 2(X) beauticians and hair care
suppliers. And, as the suppliers'
convention came to an end, partici
pants waited anxiously in line and
jockeyed for position to steal a few
moments with Joe Louis Dudley
Sr., the man behind the enterprise
at Dudley Products.
Although pressed for time,
Dudley paused to shake hands and
pose for pictures with the distribu
tors of his products. He remem
bered, he said, the days when he,
too, was just starting out and look
ing for words of encourgagement
from a mentor. Now Dudley is the
mentor, a situation he said he never
even dreamed possible years ago
when he began a career in door-to-
door sales as a Fuller Brush sales
man in New York.
Today, Dudley has parlayed
his early sales experience into a
multi-million dollar business, with
its headquarters located in a
sprawling plant just off the 40 East
highway on the outskirts of
Greensboro. Dudley, labeled men
tally retarded as a teen-ager, admits
that he was "not a very good stu
dent." But, Dudley said, it took
only a severe case of jealously to
turn his life around for the better.
"I didn't do well in school at
Joe Dudley; "None of this has gotten me out of touch with reality."
all. Everyone used to look at my
mother, shaking their heads and say,
Tsk, tsk. You've got Joe and he ain't
going to be nobody.' But my mother
told me that she believed in me and
that I could make something of
myself," Dudley said. "But the
'turning point for me came when
one of the smart boys took away
my girlfriend. That bothered me so
much. I made up my mind that I
was going to study and nobody
could take that away from me. So, I
studied and studied and studied. It
hurts when someone takes some
thing from you. I found that smart
people were getting more so I just
kept on studying. I had to study
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