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By ROBIN ADAMSChronicle Staff Writer

The local Democratic Party may violateits own policy to keep him from assumingthe county commissioner's seat made vacantby the recent death of Fred Hauser,said Winston-Salem NAACP PresidentPat Hairston late last week.And if it does, Hairston said, he won't

go down without a fight.According to an unwritten party policy,

said Earline Parmon, chairman of theForsyth County Democratic executivecommittee, the party normally recom//

I have to go to court, I will. ". Pat Hairston

mends the runner-up in the most recentelection held prior to the death or resignationof the Democratic board member inquestion to nil WvffeafttT

That was the case when John Woodwas chosen to fill the school board seatresigned by state Rep. Tom Womble in1982.

In 1984, however, the runner-up is localNAACP President Pat Hairston, whoplaced fourth in the May 8 primary, 125votes short of a spot on the Novemberballot.

Hairston said he wants the office andplans to battle for it. But Parmon said theprevailing sentiment among the party'smembers is that they would prefer to fillthe seat with a person similar to Hauser,who was white, male and from the county.

Hairston only fills one of those criteria;he is male.

"There has been some consensus

among private individuals that they thinkit (the vacancy) should be filled by a whitemale and some want a white female," saidParmon, the first black woman to headthe county party's executive committee, inan interview last week .

But exactly who that individual will bewon't be determined until a meeting of

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Pending approval by the University ofBoard of Governors, Winston-Salem Stat<appointed the first white vice chancellorhistory.

Robert Fenning, who currently serves

chancellor of business affairs, has been r<

permanently fill the position vacated byof Willie Grissom. Grissom resigned 1,become WSSU's internal auditor-systems

Last Thursday, at the request of WSSUH. Douglas Covington, the school's boar<

proved asking the board of governors to a

appointment.The board also approved the appoin

others to fill key administrative positionsTaylor Cox Jr. has been appointed

business division. Cox comes to WSSU frSmith University.Abraham L. Davis has been appointed

social science department. Davis had beeMorehouse College since 1972. He willvacated by Michael Montgomery, who re

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Persons other than Pat Hairston whohave been mentioned as possible successorsto- Hauser, who died June 1 ofcancer, include Forsyth Tech Board ofTrustess Chairman Robert Joyce, formerWinston-Salem Mayor M.C. Benton;city-county planning board Vice ChairmanIrene P. Hairston, former presidentof the National Council of Negro WomenThelma Small; former state legislator NedR. Smith, and Bonce Williams, who placedlast as a candidate for county commissionerin the May 8 primary. Only PatHairston and Williams were candidates inthe last election.And, of the seven potential nominees,

only three -- Pat Hairston, Irene Hairstonand Small - are black.

In telephone interviews last week, bothIrene Hairston and Small said they aren'tinterested in the job.4Tm thinking seriously of withdrawing

my name now that I see the names of* "" "riiusr- desiring the nomination,'* Small *

said. 44In the beginning, there were onlytwo names -- now I see seven and I see efficiencythere. They (the other potentialnominees) are wise and it is not necessarythat I run."

Said Irene Hairston: "I would like to

say that, while I am pleased and honoredat this point, I am not interested and

do not choose to run at this time. 1 havetoo many responsible jobs."On the other hand, Pat Hairston said

he wants what should be his.

"I'm going to fight it all the way,"Hairston said. "If I have to go to court, Iwill."

In addition, Hairston said he plans tosend letters to the 100 NAACP chaptersacross the state telling them that he hasbeen discriminated against by the localDemocratic Party.

If he still gets no satisfaction, Hairstonsaid, he intends to advise blacks inWinston-Salem and across the state tovote for the "other party" in theNovember general election.

"I was the top votegetter," HairstonPloaQQ coo none AOf iwuwu www no

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glamorous than it seems. tOn rare occasions, however, it can be <

dramatic, nerve-rending and tragic. And those r

whose job it is to cover the news can, in the \process, themselves become newsmakers. s

. A case in point is last week's hostage dramaatWJTM-TV, Channel 45, in which one man 1

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, , , , A scant twenty-tmajor stockholder and Mr- i or t-j, , , ,,, General Rufus Edn

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in the 23 precincts 1<give the paper a larger I

m, production area andwill also^allow for more I CIp^tiOTing press, which Pitt says I IvWIIWI: plans. I Year '8'e Chronicle's expanded I\ the follov ing numbers:524; Advertising Depart- I by black aldermen,culation Department: I in the hard-foughtrtment: 723-8428 and I 3,363.College Sports Review: I But Victor John

dinators, said Kncin open house later this where the majorityreaders and advertisers where Edmistei. sc

responsible for therkshop also is tentatively I "In precincts likiJuly28. I tion Center, Kimb

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Not only would WXII, Channel 12, coverhe event, but the station and its personneljecame parts of it. Reporter and weekend an:horSusan Bruce played the most visible role,5ut technicians from the both the station andSummit Cable Services ironically used the lnedium that may have spurred the gunman's <

muzzling behavior to calm him and perhaps jave a life. j

"Even though it was handled well, obviousyit was a conflict," said Bruce four days Iifter the incident which began at Channel 45's

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about by how much Edmistedsome of tllost by 14

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race, totaled 3,386 votes to Knox's had substrealized t

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ade the newsoffices on Linville Road and ended severalhours later on East 12th Street. "It's hard tobe objective once you become a part of thesituation."

Last Tuesday morning, 32-year-old RonnellLeverne Jackson entered WJTM and complainedthat a religious program, "The 700Club," as well as stations that carry the program,had been spying on him. Both WJTMand WXII air the show.

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votes and by 17 at Martin Luther King Recreaer.ian Larry Womble, Edmisten's Forsyth Countyign coordinator, said Edmisten's win was

i an endorsement from the Black Leadership)le Coalition. Johnson disagrees,ffort behind the Roundtable really wasn't thataid Johnson, who is himself a Roundtablet4In the center-city area, where the Roundtableive had an effect, the voters chose Knox. Andgeneral did not support Edmisten. The mature,t U1o/-L-t uorc nr»f frsr^ I hv Frlmntpn "

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id increased his local black support in the pronight

remember in w Mas 8 primary that Knovantial black voter si.pi m," Womble said. "Wehat we had to offset thai so we concentratedts into black precincts and Ha-k areas

ard work, Womble said, made Edmisten a winle

realized that this was down to the final wirelooked at Rufus' record ... looked at how

ind aggressive he was," Womble said. "Heie black vote and he worked for the black vote."

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