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By Donald Alderman heyday of the civil rights movement came during '
About six weeks aeo. movement. 1 he move me ij tviarcn on
ment began in Alabama
when a black woman on
a public bus refused to
give her seat to a white
man. A highlight of the
77 y YLr ' n
mm.
Harrison Nash, III, his
. wife and three young
children left home to:
march', mOre than .2000
.miles from Tuskegee,'
Alabama to
Washington. D.C. i
; Nash, 3Qand his wife,
Janice, 23, of St.
Petersburg, Florida;-are ;
marching in a pilgrimage
in support of, among
other things, ; extension
of the 1964 Voting
Rights Act. - t
"1 understand the im
portance of something'
; like this more now than,
when I was younger. I
. have kids and I : want,
them to have a good
future. I want their kids
to have a good, bright
future. That s what we;
are fighting for. If blacks
generations . ago ; hadn't
.v fought - for' justice and
better-opportunities, we
might not even be here
today." '
. The Voting Rights
Act, passed during the
height of the civil rights
movement, overruled
most unconstitutional
forts to bar blacks from
voting. Up for renewal
the act has come under
I fire by some con
; gressmen who contend
that the act is no longer
r needed because- the pro
I blems have been solved
J Civil rights leaders and
many black politicians,- J
Washington ... when , the
late Dr. Martin Luther ;
King stirred more than '
200,000 people with. his
- famous speech, "! Have,
ef- 1 hi Is - I
. .-"7 'rt" r i -
4 .-v j
however, contend , lb?l ' Ji?;
failurejc renew the aw . ... , ,".v ' tV'r 1
will onch the door la f-yr' t-., ..--s. . rmrraTfTTTV
.A Dream , -
The - 1982 march,
featuring about eighty
people who have covered
most of the distance, hit
Durham Tuesday. Mart;
chers gathered at Duke '
Park in North Durham';'
and later x. trekked.
through downtown;-en-;-ding
at' the NCCUxam-i
pus. The out-of-towners v
were joined by about
1000 Durhamites.
. Nash and his wife
walked near the back of
the crowd while their
three young children got
to ride in one of the
several vehicles in the
long "parade".
Earlier, sitting in a
blue Plymouth at Duke
Park, waiting for the -march
to begin, Nash, a
robust, bearded man -talked
of the experience
and why he believes it's
important.
"Everybody can't sit
home and watch televi
sion," he said.
"Somebody has to be
committed to the strug
gle;" The struggle, accor
ding - to march
organizers, is not only
for the protection of
voting rights, but also in
support of creating bet
ter economic oppor
tunities for blacks. Nash
agrees.
' "The job situation " '
and outlook for blacks is
gloomy at best," Mrs.
Nash said, whije holding
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WEDNESDAY'S SCLC PILGRIMAGE MARCHERS NEARING
END OF IM RHAM SEGMENT
HitRun Driver Linked To Drugs
Death Case iVIay Go To Grand Jury
By Isaiah Sineletary .because he and her
The man charged with .brother, Allen Reid, had
been involved with
the hit and run death of a
Guess Road pedestrian
has also been linked with
local drug trafficking.
About seven months
ago, Robert B. Grimes
dope together".
The drug connection
fits.
High level sources say
that Grimes apparently
..,! LtMi.-i j. a ,w neara inenurt
f .... nit ,yv7uiijj,t4, nicinuyi ui s v-rk"
voting
M -
right
rampant
violations.
The Alabama to
Washington march sym
bolically returns to the
Mason,
THE HARRISON NASH FAMILY
"doing Ml TheH uy"
iii.i uiu diiiiidii. I tvu
other Nash children -George,
3.and Ayeshah.
2 played happily near
by. "We're notasking
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faced three drug charges both used and sold nar
in 1 Durham Superior cotics, and wasarrested .
Court. However, the last year following exten-'
state prosecutor in the sive undercover wor.
case ' accepted a volun- However, the Durham
tary dismissal with leave Public Safety Officer
before the cases were J. W. Piatt, who arrested
-i - Grimes last June, could
1pj(iUn;oe..eaiChed -Tuesday ,
an assistant tor comment.- - -
Durham County
Superior Court records
show that on June 14,
1981, Grimes was ar
rested and charged with
growing about severity
plants of marijuana in
pots on the roof of his
apartment building at
720 N. Gregson Street.
He was also charged with
possession for sale of
five ounces of mari
juana. Police also found
some LSD on the
premises.
past two weeks, Durham
police have answered
two calls at 311 S. LaSalle
St., Apartment 46-D.
The resident there,. Ms.
Barbara F. Grimes, told
police that Robert
Grimes, ' her estranged
husband, had broken her
apartment window on
one occasion and tried to
kick her door in on
another The first inci
dent occurred, according
to police reports, on Fri
day, May, 7 and the se-'
Durham Police Help Demonstrators
Through City
. By Joseph E. Green ,
More than thirty
.Durham City police of
ficers were - assigned - to
the Civil Rights
; demonstrators who pass-
cd through the city
-Wednesday on their
march to , Washington.
according to Durham Ci
. ty Police Major Thomas
A. Schooley. "' $
.'Schooleyv;said that
mot of the officers were
. assigned to traffic con-,
trol and that Durham of-'
ficials had been in con-
v tact with - public safety
officers - in Burlington
and .Greensboro, cities
where the marchers had
passed through, to dcter
min if they experienced
any problems with crowd '
control or with , counter
demonstrators.
"As far as we arc con
cerned, this is a peaceful
demonstration. ' '
Schooley said, "most of
our officers will be direc- '
ting traffic. We will have '
a car in front of the mar
chers and a car in the
rear,". Schooley said
during an interview at
Public Safety headquarters.
Schooley said that
ofificials in Greensboro
and in Burlington had
reported no incidents
and that Durham of
ficials did not expect any
here.
"We have worked
very closely with, the na-.
tional and local
organizers of the
march,". Schooley said,
"they have been very
Cooperative with us and
we have given them as
much assistance as possi
ble. ;
He said that the
department had
prepared for as many as
100 , marchers and. had
assigned police officers
to be with the marchers
at every intersection. He
did not know" just how
much the march would
cost the city, but some
police officers would be
working overtime.
"This group has a
religious philosophy,':
Schooley said, "we have
not had any threats
against them. Attitudes
arc different ' than they
were fifteen years ago."
City Human Relations Department
.Under;.i0rAgiih;-.--
? By Donald Alderman v
For the second straight
-year, talk of abolishing
i lie city's human : rela
tions operation cropped,'
. up during Durham City
Council's budget ses
sions. '"
t -This - time,, . Conn-.
I cilinail Harwood Smith
i' i thinks the human rela
tions department .has
outlived its usefulness.
"I'm serious about .
,";'rhis,"; "Smith told his
-v..i fellow elected officials.
. .1 "1 think human relations
ought to be done a Way r
? But Smith made no
. motion to that ' effect,
; tijd the item was "flagg--;
ed". for future discussion
'during the ; week -long '
. budget hearings.
on remain unsolved. t
a'f Tlie Human Relations
Commission investigates,
complaints of
discrimination in
employment, housing
and public and private
accommodation on the
, bases of such criteria as
race and se. It also
assists employers in cor
rectly applying Equal
Employment Opportuni-
ty Commission (F.EOC)
.regulations.
"What some council
'members don't unders
tand," Becton said, "is
that while some agencies
' understand t'EOCs
! regulations, they don't
; necessarily comply." t - ,
'Mir his discussion dur
ing budget hearings, one
much die same, as the J posed $48.5 million
criticisms raised last year budget for the fiscal vear
during budget., hearings
when, Council men Paul
Vick Kim Griffin and
Barney West led an ef
fort to abolish - the
department. They, like
Smith this, year, also at
tacked the city's iiffir
. mativc action office.
f The Human Relations
.Commission is a
:, 15-member volunteer
".board that operates with
, city staff. The Human
I Relations Division is a
; staff agency -with three,
full-time staffers. and a
parttime college. intern. ,
j This vear's budget is
$65.000, ' and the City
" ManagerV v- proposed
budget for the depart?
'. In a later interview ecutives understand the
with .The Carolina EEOO regulations, and
Times, city Human Rcla- 1 there no need now for
tions Director Joe Bee'-' "the Human Relations
ton said he believes the ' Commission 5 to explain
department's, work 'Cbn- them. ' !-
tinues to be effective and
necessary mostly because
of Smith V complaints ; menl in the commit fiscal
was that all local ex- :i year is S7I.000. a rcUucv
lh nrnhlo'ma thv uMtrb
tio;t of Beet on 's $86.(HX)
rquest for next year.
The budget; hearings
began Monday and con
tinued ' throughout the
week as the council's
This year's arguments J f inailcc. committee cont-
agamst the Human Rela-1 bed over City Manager
tions
that begins July
; l or - the mosj part',
discussions centered
around efforts' to trim
the proposed budget,
presumably to cut back
the manager's" proposed
one cent hike in (he pro
perly tav The tax in
crease is designed to help
underwrite operations of
a. proposed downtown
civic center that will go
before city r vol ers . in a
proposed $10.5 million
bond referendum next
month.
.tin the budget hear
ings, council members
appear to be trying to
reduce ,the 1 budget
enough to eliminate' the
lax increase, but to also
keep, money in the ,
budget for t the civic
center subsidy,; ' ;
As an ' example,
Smith's comments came
during discussions of the
general government scci
tion of the budget which '
is lunded mostly by city
district attorney, could
not be reached Tuesday
for comment,- But
sources close to the case
told rw Carolina Times
this week that the drug
charges were dropped
against Grimes because
". . , .his' girlfriend
agreed to take! the weight'
during a plea bargaining'
session." The, girlfriend
could not be reached.
Meanwhile,! ... other
sources' - say . that . the
Grimes -case." is likely to
go before the Durham
CoutjtyV; Grand Jury
when it convenes in two
weeks v for : a ; possible
murder , indictment.
Assistant District.';: At
torney, Michael Nifong,
who" is handling the
, Grimes "case, refused !tO
cither vco,n firm or deny :
that he intends ip present
the casei to the . Grand
Jury. He says simply, that .
the investigation is conti
ntiing; - - - '' ; ':''
Grimes, 19, who gave
his address as 2901
Carver St., is charged
with,; -involuntary
manslaughter and hi)
and run, charges stemm
ing from an incident on
Guess Road the night of
Monday,',, May 3.
Grimes',' driving a 1973
Buick, - plowed into
Chester Reams, 37, of
1416 E. Club Blvd.
Reams, . a 14-year
employee ; of a local
trucking firm, was walk
ing along the side of the
roadwith a white woman
Ms. Patricia Reid -,sho
told police she wasT;
his wife: Reams Was pro-";
nounced dead on arrival,
.at Duke Hospital.
Two witnesses to the r
fatality Ms. Reid and
Eugene Reams, the dead
man's brother, have said
that they 'saw the death
car swing around in the '
road, - and come back.
. swerving into- the curb
; side - lane, just before
striking Reams."
v Later, the Reid
'woman . told The J
'Carolina Times that she '
recognized Grimes
. ... v ;. :. . ..
An - vet ... anothercond mctdent occuned
devifdpmenr "ovef4hel qn vveanesaay.iviay iv.
.; ..Department ; are ! . Barry Del Cas4HhoJ::tinuedon
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Here's How The City Decides
How Much Of Your Money
By Donald Alderman
Durham's local government opera- budget, which comes to a total o
tions start with your house. about $23.2 million for the city s 1 2V
For illustration purposes, let s say workers. That works out to at
you live in a comtortaoie nome, average or just over iiv.ww pci
valued at $50,000. At Durham's cur- worker. In budget discussions, the
rent tax rate of 95 cents per $100 finance committee recommended a
valuation, your home is worth $475 three per cent hike isntcad, which will
per year to the city. . lower the overall cost slightly. ; .;
Under current budeet discussions 'Operating expenses and capital
.... . . t
on a proposed 34.3 million improvements take , anoincr zz
opcratine budeet for the citv's next million of the budget.
fiscal year that begins July I. local
government might take another live
dollars out of vout pocket for vour
home. ',
Durham City Manaccr Barry Del
Del Castilho says he expects
revenues from property, licenses, per
mits and investments to bring in
about $26 million; the water fund to
generate about $12 million and other
Castilho has proposed a one cent tax money collected by the city. to total
hike for the new buduet. with the in-about siu.5 million.
crease to help pay tor a proposcu
downtown civic center The civic
center subject goes before voters next
month in a $10.5 million bond
referendum.
According to Del Castilho, explain
ing his proposed lax hike. to-member these executives
of the Durham Citv Council's finance moncv they will
One way or the other,',all that
money. comes from you. Here's how
they get it. J: :
About September each year, the ci
ty budget office sends" questionnaires
to all department directors, asking
to, estimate D what
need to run their
committee Monday when midget departments tor tne next year. :
hearings opened, the new tax money A short while later, each director
will still be needed for new develop- submits a request to the city manager.
ment. even it the bond relerendum The. manager;, then studies the rc
lails. qucstsv With an'eyc not onlyio what
flic new buduet. when annroved. thd departments want to do. but also
will finance city operations until June watching where the money will come
30. 1983. ; and according to the Irom. Most ply operations money
manager s recommendations, prac- comes trom tne local property ia.
tically everything will cost more than
it did this vear.
For example: ,
lf you use about 800 cubit feel of
Water and sewer around1 your house,
as I he' average Durhamite does, your
monthlv water bill wilt cost vou about
$17.78 the next fiscal Wear,
than the currcnt $16.28.
In several instances, Ihc manager
lowered department requests, and in
a few. he increased them.. Then the
proposed budget, now the manager's
recommendation, goes to the council.
The council then studies the recom
mendations, cutting here, revising
rather there, shifting dollars around in ac
cordance with political preference as
Industrial and ; commercial, well as efficiency.
water and sewer users bills will go up Every once in a while they listen to
also, actually about eleven per ;ccnt, citizen , view on where the money
but . relatively speakma thev nav a should come Irom and how it should
smaller portion of the ciiywidcvater he spent. But for the most part, your
and sewer cost because large users major part with the budgeting process
pay less per cubit foot for water and is to start paying once the council tells
sewer services. vou how much it wants.
Ciiy employees arc to get a five . That ; decision, by law,; must be
r cent salary hike in the proposed made by June 30. ' ,
Glossary of Budget Terms '
Tax: a charge the government can cents per $100 worth of property.
levy against any property, personal
or real.
Tax base: the amount of property
to be taxed.
Tax rate: the rate at which proper- ;
ty will be assessed. For example. t
Durham's current tax rate is 95
At that rate, $50,000 worth of pro
perty; such as a house, would yield
$475 in tax revenue. .
Assessment: the actual tax bill.
Real property! land.
Personal property: all holdings
besides land.