Two Local Black Groups Vie For
Government Business brant
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1332-THE CM.ZWiA Tl-CS-J
Howard Aycock, a j It is also not dear
Price-Waterhouse senior what general overall ef
: manager and state ad-1 feet this change will have
ministrator of the grant on the program, but it is
project, confirmed Mon--fairly certain that some
day that two of the com- businesses that could
: pany's offices have not; .take advantage of affree
- reapplied for " the newi program, might not be
"grants.. He ' also! able to afford program
acknowledged that the. fees. '
firm has not served the, Ms QiIlen alsQ id
mimM of rlipnt re- . . ..
" "vr." , r :77V , tnat unaer tne new ar-
month by the Minority ) quired by, what federal, . OTgerocntt the programs
Business - Development 1, officials; - j calU- f will focus more on mat-
By Donald Alderman ;
. Two local black
groups, one ; a private
business, the other a
longtime' black business
assistance agency, ap
parently lead the field in
competition for a large
black .business develop-
ment federal grant.
, The ' federal, granti to 1
" he awarded later tms
' Agency, a division of the
U.S. Commerce uepan- j
ment, pays an organiza- J
; tion a to. : help black .
businesses prosper and
grow by providing them
; with various technical;.
assistance
The Durham Business V clients."
monerative asreement'
,t"..".wcre going to end t
up serving the number of
clients required by the
contract," Aycock said,
"and the. .'. required
number is somewhere
between 40 and 50
of . effects, i- depending
upon which of the two
local groups get the
grant.
if "the Chain gets the
grant, one immediate ef
fect is that it will breath
'new ' life Into i the
organization. The Chain
died last year when it lost
the- federal program to
Price-Waterhouse. It
strueeled back to life;
: earlier, this year under a
will focus more on mat- ;sjx.month, $40,000 coh-
cning iirms wun ousiness , tract with the citv of
than simply providing
technical .. assistance,
mostly in the areas of
loan packaging and
management.
and Professional Chain,
an organization noted
for its more than 40 .
: years of working , with J
i local black firms, and
Garrett, and Sullivan, a ,
black accounting firm, ,
, have both applied for the v
' federal grant; slated fori
' the Raleigh-Durham.1
area. . ' ' '
According to Dewitt
Sullivan, a principal ,
partner in the Durham
- accounting firm, the ;
company , has also ap
plied for . the North ;
i Carolina MBDA grants
earmarked for Winston-'
Salem, Fayetteville and
Charlotte. The Chain ap
parently filed only for
the Raleigh-Durham ,
grant. The size of the
grant for this area could
not be determined.
According to MBDA
officials in Atlanta, . a
fifth grant will be award
ed in the Cherokee area
in the western section of
the state.
Apparently, a decision
by a large, international
ly known accounting
firm Price
Waterhouse cleared
h the way for the local
i; groups to vault to the top
of the heap in tne com-
Avcock would not
elaborate on why his .
firm has not served the ,
number of clients re
quired by the agreement,
or how the firm proposes
to meet the quota before
the end of this month.
He also refused to say
how many f irms his com
pany has worked with'. !
Federal MBDA of
' ficials in the agency's j
: Atlanta office were even
more tightlipped about ,
the subject. Ms. Dorothy
Kennersen, a MBDA ofri tral graduates scheduled
. ficial in Atlanta, refused to take the exam that will
Durham to assist eight
black businesses that
have yet to be per
manently relocated
under the old urban
Tenewal oroeram. That
Locally, the changes'! contract is in its fourth
could have a wide range ' month.
Studying For N.C.
Bar .Exam A Lonely Trial
By Edward Bishop
Karl Rudd is a Central
law graduate who recent
ly sent his wife and one-year-old
daughter away
so that he can study for
the North Carolina Bar.
Rudd. who graduated
in May is one of '.
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is operated by the hous-! a second phase of the! Galloway, district court
1 il 'a... I . :h1ja nA oVi a iliac UPfU
to confirm that the
Price-Waterhouse ser-:
vices under the agree-!
ment have not been up to
par. She also refused to
release a list of com
panies that have been)
served under the con- ,
tract. ;
Aycock, also, would
not discuss specifics con j
cerning the federal grant,
saying only generally
that the firm assisted
businesses it served with
business planning, loan
assistance and financial
planning. According to
Aycock, his firm worked
with three types of black
companies: established
businesses that are fairly
petition for the grant in stable, businesses that
this area. " ' . are struggling to survive
It is not clear how.v and newly developing
man v other; firms : or ' businesses. ' . ,
i : aeencies hav aoDlied for 1 Both Avcock and Ken-
ine naieign-uuriidiii - nersarrsaia mere i uu - must 'DC pumng in"
grant or grams lor me question aooui mc quaii- sixteen hours eacn aay,
ot - services rrice-
determine whether he
can practice law in the
courts of the state. The
exam will be given on the
27th and 28th of this
month.
"I am.confident that I
will pass the bar." said
Rudd, an Enfield native,
"I study from seven each
evening until seven the
next motfning. I need
total concentration.
That's why my wife and
daughter went to stay
with her parents for a
while."
Like Rudd, Ms. )Van
. da Byrant, a Supply,
N.C. native, will also be
taking the bar. She has
been promised a job with
the district attorney's of-:
fice in her home town,
but it is contingent upon
& her being1, successful on
the examination.
t
ine authority
The strategy they ;
developed centered
around two major objec
tives. One objective, ac
cording to Warren, was
to arrest as many drug,
dealers, especially major
distributors, as possible. ;
The other objective was
to change the police
department's image
among the residents in
these neighborhoods.
Ms. Bryant
t other areas.
" , Price-Waterhouse has .
the current Vl North
r Carolina contract, : but
, the company" recently
decided not to reapply .
for the grants earmarked
V for the Raleigh-Durham
; and Winston-Salem
areas where the company
has offices.
Only the Price
! :. Waterhouse Charlotte
-office has reapplied for ,
- the new grant that will be
. .awarded later this year
. . and will run until next
:..juy.
According to a Price
. Waterhouse official, the
. Winston-Salem and
. Raleigh offices have not
applied for the new grant
- because the added opera-
lions 'didn't fit their
practices'!.
The Carolina Times
has learned that one of
the contributing factors
. . influencing , the Price
: .' Waterhouse decision 'is
: r dissatisfaction by federal
officials over the number
of clients the large ac
counting firm worked
..: . with under provisions' of
the grant,
tv
Waterhouse rendered to
the small -companies it
worked with.
In a related develop
ment, Ms. Valeries
Gillen,. Commerce ,
Department spokesman
in Washington, said that
beginning next month,
the MBDA program will
be restructured.
Included among the
changes will be a
refocusing of efforts in ;
the MBDA grant pro
gram. Instead of
business development '
centers, the grants will
then finance general
.business service centers.
About 100 of them will
be financed throughout
the country, according to
. Ms. Gillen.
Another major switch
is that under the new
operations, the centers:
; will charge fees for their '
services. The fee struc
ture has not been deter
mined, and it is not clear
if the fees will be.
established, by MBDA,
Or by the firm or agency
operating the various
centers.
she said, "I studied for
three straight years at
Central's law school and
now is the time to pull it
nil TllOrH 10 tint :
much more to my life-you can succeed at
rieht now than DreDarine anything. All of us stand
received was sent to all
recent Central law school
graduates. It said inpart:
"The faculty and I stand
firm in the belief that
mvself for this bar."
Ms. Byrant, who. went
" to undergraduate school
at Duke University and
law school at Central ,
said that she has wanted
to be a lawyer since the
time that she was nine
years old.
"My mother is a
seamstress and my father
is a longshoreman" she
added "and I want to do ,
this for them and the rest
of my family." .
More than 500 people
will be taking the North
Carolina Bar in July, 37
of thetri coming from
Central and the others
from law schools
throughout the state and
across the country.
Rudd said a letter of
encouragement he
received recently from
Central's law , school
dean. Charles Daye,
really boosted his spirit.
The letter that Rudd
with you. We believe in
you."
Rudd said the letter
made a "world of dif
ference" to him. "Right
now,, it is just what I
needed. I think that I can
speak for all of the other
students when I say that
"The dealers and
pushers appeared to feel
pretty secure because'
they were operating on;
turf they felt would be,
off limits, to us," he said.
"And residents of the '
area viewed the police as
a hostile force."
Initially, the police
launched an intensive
undercover operation
that netted more than ;
two dozen major drug "
arrests. At about the:
same time, under the.
auspices of the special
project, police officers ,
walked and rode bicycles
on patrol through the
neighborhood. They
talked with residents and
'worked , to- help them
with manv nrohlems.
.such as how to get more '
street '?hts for the area .
and where to piace them
for maximum effec
tiveness.
"We found from the
arrests we made," War
ren said, "that most of
the people selling drugs
in the area didn't live in
either of the
neighborhoods."
In noting the
program's effectiveness,
Warren says a person
can now drive through
the area without being
anti-drug program.
"I talked to Lt.ar-1
ren," said Ms. Burton,
"and he and I camejipj
with an idea of a pro
gram not so much geared
to arrest offenders, but
designed to educate kids,
to the futility of a drug1
oriented lifestyle."
Warren views the
renewed effort op
timistically. "After my talk with
Joan, he said, we
judge) and she was very j
talked with
Galloway
Judge
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Drug
Problems
(Continued From Front)
Warren said to fight ,
the problem, he met with
officials of the, Durham ,
Housing Authority and a
local drug abuse agency f
to develop a strategy
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drive throueh the
neighborhoods searching ,
for a deal, he continues,
adding that his depart
ment hears almost no'
drug trafficking com
plaints from the area
now.
'I feel that our Dro-
gram made a significant
impact on the problem
over there," Warren
said, "and that is why I
was surprised to hear to
Ms. Burton feels the pro-
, - blem has not been solv-
. ed."
Ms. Burton agrees that
the coalition's program
worked for awhile.
"While the policemen
were in the area there
"was a change in the way
things happened around ;
here," she said. "The
police;-were stopping
people for periodic
license checks, and the"
increased police presence
was definitely a deterrent
for some of the criminal
acts that took place;
around here."
But Ms. Burton
believes that when the '
police left, mainly due to
higher priorities in other
sections of the city, ac
cording to Warren, the
problem - returned. She
believes the drug pro-,
blem in . the
'neighborhood now is
just as deadly, just as
much , a threat to
residents, but only less
.visible.
- Warren concedes that
the problem could be
operating underground.
After discussing their
views, Warren and Ms,'
Burton concluded that
the neighborhoods need.
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