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VOLUME 60 NUMBER 36
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA-, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 1982
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Two Questions Highlight Manslaughter Trial
Clement-Committee
Not Be The Main
Event, But It Rages On
May
Analysis
By Donald Alderman
A.J. Howard Clement HI says he's
made several big mistakes since com
ing to Durham, and one of the biggest
was "putting too much faith" in the
Durham Committee on the Affairs of
Black People. .
On the other side of this word war
that has raged for several years now,
officials of the Durham Committee,
one of Durham's most powerful com
munity organizations, say -Clement
"sold out" .the black community and
works against its better interests.
4 Caught in the middle of this fracas
are average black citizens, the
grassroots they're called whose lives
are often affected by decisions made
by the Durham Committee and to a
lesser extent Clement.
; : During Durham Committee can
didate endorsement meetings over the
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(in f r.A- !
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Robt, Grimes Goes On Trial
For Death of Chester Reams
' By Isaiah Singletary
When Robert B. Grimes goes on trial next week for the death
of Chester Reams, two questions will dominate the proceedings.
One, of course, isr the guilt or innocence of Grimes, 19, who is
charged with involuntary manslaughter and hit and run in the
May 3 death of Reams.
Reams, 37, was killed as he walked along Guess Road about
10:30 that night when he was struck from behind by a car driven
by Grimes. -f'W".t;-:r-'
In many respects, ' the case appears to be a tragic but simple
traffic accident. Reams, hot properly dressed for walking along a
busy thoroughfare at night, was also walking with his back to
traffic. Except for speeding away from the scene with his lights
off, Grimes could fce seen as the innocent yictim of nightmarish
circumstances. , 7 '
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1
v
( I.F.MKNT
ment, Clement hardly stood a chance
to unseat the incumbents. With the
endorsement, it is conceivable thai he
past couple ot months, talk increased could be preparing to take his seat in
of "bringing Clement back Into the Raleigh.
.fold," -and of mending differences
between Clement and officers of the
Durham Committee,
r Some people who support the en
ding of this long and often bitter
ideological and personality struggle
say that Clement may have been
wronged, and that the Durham Com"
mittee should extend the oUve
branch. ' of who wronced whom, this Mex
Other;ThowevefrSS rCteVrieitt- st5ndofr "liet weerrTTemehrand
It is doubtful that Clement could
have beat Spaulding who . received
18,416 votes, or Pulley, who polled
14,130 votes. But if he had .done bet
ter in the city's ten predominantly
black precincts, he may have upset
Miller, who .- received 13,99? votes.
Clement got;9. 126 votes.
' j And so in addition to the quesilon
Mexican
But Reams', a black publicized
man, was walking with a suspected
white woman Ms. motivated
Patricia Reid - and
Grimes is white, thus
enter the complications
in this case, factors
which raise the second
Question.
Was Reams, a former
truck driver and loading
dock worker, victim of a
growing rash of violence
against black men,
examples of
racially
violence was
the ambush shooting of
Vernon Jordan, who, at
the time, was director of
the National Urban
League.
Jordan was seriously
wounded in May of 1980
outside his motel room
in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Joseph Paul Franklin, an
country.
Examples include:
In St. Louis, 'a
20-year-old white
woman and her 28-year-old
black male friend
were waiting for a bus
when they were accosted
by two white men. The
white men allegedly ask
ed the couple why they
were together. Then they
doused the couple with
gasoline and set them
afire.
White youths at
Wesleyan College in
Connecticut posted
flyers portraying their
perception of an ugly
William Reynolds, sentences ' for the black man. all inked in
racially motivated murders of four vouna black; with wirv hair
violence has been on the blaX!nen til T separate in- standing all over his
MISS TERRY MORRIS
avowed racist. was
especially black men who recently acquitted by a
appear to ( be involved jury n the Jordan
with white women? shooting. But t Franklin,
In the past two vears, who testified that, he!
according to Assistant hates the black race as a
U.S; Attorney General whole' is servina four life
Reynolds, sentences ':for the
Miss Terry Morris
To Present Research
Project At NIH
should make the first Gesture of
friendship because, as they see it, he
shouldn't have spoken against the
Durham Committee, even if he was
wronged.
But a seldom discussed central
point in this whole issue is who needs
whom the most?
One Durham Committee sup
; porter, who asked not to be identified
; for fear of being embarrassed, said,
'When Howard was working with
the Committee, the political commit
tee brought the organization much
better information than it is bringing
:now. One of his top skills is political
analysis," the source said. '.'We need
that skill now more than ever."
Neither Mrs. Lavonia Allison nor
Clarence Brown, co-chairmen of the
f political committee, could be reached
to comment on that assertion.
But on trie other hand, Clement,
who still harbors aspirations to hold
elective office, needs the committee,
and that was clearly demonstrated in
the most recent Democratic Primary.
; Clement, along with incumbents
Kenneth Spaulding, W, Paul Pulley
and George Miller, were running for
Durham's three seats in the North
"Carolina House of Representatives.
: Clement lost, and when the dust
cleared, he cried foul, He said that he
could have been elected to one of the
' three seats if the Committee had en
dorsed him for the office. He likened,
the Committee's refusal to endorse
him.jpjan "unloving kiss of death
from a bitter lover." j
Without the Committee s endorse-
t he"'",P
Committee also boils down to who
needs whom.
Regardless of who should right the
wrong, a close examination of this
rift shows blame on both sides.
It appears that Clement is a victim
of circumstances in many ways, and it
also appears1 that the Durham Com
mittee's pragmatism denied Clement
the fruits of his labor which caused
him to want to retaliate.
Consider.
Clement came to Durham in
February, 1961, from South Carolina
where he practiced law. He went to
his first Durham Committee meeting
in March, starting what was to be
nearly two decades of work with
Durham's principal black political
organization.
In 1968, Clement headed a group
called Black Solidarity Committee for
Community Improvement. That
grdup stagedLa successful boycott of
white business demanding the hiring
of blacks. During Christmas of 68,
the group blocked off downtown
streets, staging a black Christmas
parade with a black Santa Claus.
"I've never seen the black com
munity as unified as it was then,"
Clement says of his days with Black
Solidarity.
Clement's involvement with the
group gave him the label of a "black
radical" and later helped-break the
bonds of unity between him and the
Durham Committee.
Here's how it happened.
In 1977, H.M. "Mickey" Michaux
before the House
Judiciary Subcommittee
on Criminal - Justice,
Reynolds said the Justice
Department has in
vestigated more than 350
cross-burnings, van
dalism complaints and
other violence in the last
two years. . ' ,
One of the most
Miss Terry Morris,
daughter of Mrs.
Missouri Morris, 1713
Alfred Street, Durham,
participated this summer
in the Minority Access to
mt-jma-uascu , a cai i t puwi purdue University, West
An
organization Task
Force on Racially
Motivated Random
Violence has compiled
a list of more than 50
reports of racially
motivated violence
against blacks that have,
occurred oir the past
two years around the
Dead or Alive." Other
flyers carried terms such
as "jigaboo" and claim
ed blacks are "led by
Communist Jews in a
conspiracy to destroy
America and the white
race.". ..Still another
: (Continued on Page 8)'
Republicans Hope To Win
Seats With Black Support
By Joseph Green professional baskeball
In 1980, the player and a former
Republican Party put a 'athletic director to Con-
(Continued on Page 4)
former sports reporter
and actor in the White
House. This year they
plan to send more
Republicans to the
Democratic-dominated
House of Represen
tatives. It would be ideal,
some think, if they could
find candidates who, like
their standard bearer,
Ronald Reagan, called
football scores over the
radio. . But in North
Carolina, they have not
been that fortunate.
Thus, among others,
Republicans in this state
hope to send a former
gress. ;
In the state's Second
Congressional District,
with the Democratic Par
ty fragmented mostly
along racial lines after a
vicious run-off election
between I.T. Valentine
who is white, and H.M.
"Mickey" Michaux,
who is black, the
Republicans smell vic
tory in November.
Under, normal condi
tions, it would be farfet
ched for Republicans to
be optimistic in this state
simply ; because
Democratic voters out
number Republicans by
an almost 7 to 1 margin.'
But these are not normal
conditions.
For one reason, many
black voters in the Se
cond District are think
ing about going fishing
in November because
they don't believe either
Valentine or Jack Marin,
the Republican can
didate, are worth voting
for.
Many other blacks are
launching a write-in
campaign for Michaux,
and yet other black
voters say they will vote
for Marin in protest
against Valentine.
In many political
races, black voters often
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Lafayette, Indiana.
The nine-week pro
gram is designed to com
plement the special
MARC program in
which undergraduates
participate at their own
schools, and offers the
students the opportunity
to work in a research
laboratory at various
. universities.
, Miss Morris, a senior
biology major at
Tuskegee Institute,
worked in the laboratory
of Dr. Stanton B. Gelvin
in the Department of
Biological Sciences at
Purdue University. Her
experiments were in the
new and fast-moving
area of , molecular
biology known as genetic
engineering: the directed
movement and modifica
tion of genes between
organisms. Miss Morris' specific
project was to move a
gene from a corn plant to
a sunflower plant. The
gene she used was one
that codes for the major
corn protein called
"zein." Zein is an im
portant constituent in
the diet of many farm
animals, and makes up a
substantial part of
animal feed. It is also the
major protein in the corn
humans eat.
Using recombinant
DNA technology in
which genes are taken
from one organism and
spliced into the .DNA
' " troih others; MlssMbrrfs
isolated the zein gene
and spliced it into the
DNA from a soil
bacterium called
ciens. This bacterium is
known for its ability to
transfer DNA to plants.
The newly engineered
Agrobaeterium cell con
taining the zein gene was
used to infect sunflower
plants, and in the process
of transferring its own
DNA to the plant, also
brought the zein gene in
to the sunflower.
Further work in Dr.
Gelvin's laboratory will
characterize the :. new
plant Miss Morris made.
She plans in the future to
continue her education
in the, biomedical
sciences. '
Miss Morris will pre--sent
the project
September 10 at the Na
tional Institute of Health
and Science in
Washington, D C.
Miss Morris is a
daughter of Mrs.
Missouri Morris of
Alfred Street, Durham.
ForXhe Story
Behind The Story
Read The
Carolina Times
City Officials
Attempt To Save Plan That Is Apparen
. inff nuMiic uniiiu
. By Donald Alderman
; Attempting to short
circuit concerns that a ci
ty contract may be deem
ed a failure, the city's
chief planner said recent
ly if the Durham
Business and Profes
sional Chain can bring
eight black, business
owners to the negotiating
"! table, then the agency's
work with the city wilVbe
successful. '''
Paul Norby, ' flbo
directs the city's plann
ing department, said in a
. recent interview that the'
purpose of the contract
with the Chain was to see'
. how these businesses can ;
best; fit into a Hayti
redevelopment proposal.
: Back in January, when
. City planners , werei
preparing1' a Hayti
redevelopment proposal,
city planners suggested
the City Council contract
with the Chain to
relocate eight businesses
"left over" from
Durham's urban renewal
effort.
At that time, city plan
ners said the chain would
work with the businesses
to finally solve the 20
year old municipal
headache.
? But . in a recent
Carolina Times story,
I Ervin o Allen, 1 Jr., . ex
ecutive director of the
chain, said he is disap
pointed . withf city of
ficials ' because y the
businesses weren't in
volved in the contract
planning process. Allen
said that process lacked
foresight. Allen also said
it would be impossible to
' fulfill the terms "of th
contract in six months
because it would take
that long to get the
businesses into discus
sions.
Under the six month,
$40,000 contract that the !
Chain and city entered in
'April, the Chain was
supposed to assess the
businesses financial con
dition and determine'
how much money it
would take to relocate
them. The Chain was
also to determine which j
businesses , needed help,
Where that help might
come from and which
businesses are beyond
saving. .
4 Norby 's statement
that discussions will
mean success is a step
back from the contract's
'goal of solving the
relocation" problem.
When the Chain first
started ' contacting . the'
businesses, the 40 year
iold business assistance
agency met wiuV
resistance. :
The businesses refused
to let the Chain see their,
financial books. These
same businesses had con
sistently refused to let ci
ty planners 1 see their
books as a requirement
for relocation.
The businesses are:
The Carolina Times, Im
perial 1 . . Barber Shop,
Dreamland Shoe Shine,
Thorpe's Barber1: Shop,
Green , . Candle
.Restaurant, E.N. Toole
' Electrical Contractors,
Service ; Printing ..ConK
pany and Midway Sport
Shop.
, The businesses said
they wouldn't be opemo
discussions . until
chain designed a pro
posal that would show
how they would fit into a
redeveloped Hayti
So the Chain started
developing- a shopping
center proposal. Allen
said that proposal should
be finished in about a
week. -
All of the businesses
fitted into Hayti during
the I960's before the ci
ty's urban renewal pro
gram got underway in
addition to . about 100
more businesses and 600
homes.
All. of that is painful
history now to the black
community as many ride
down Fayetteville or Pet
tigrew streets only to see',
54 acres of weeds and
wild flowers covering
what used to be a teem- '
tly Failing
But the citv wants to
change that; in fact, the
city wants to redevelop
.Hayti to help broaden
'the city's tax base. But
for many who feel the
destruction of Hayti rob
bed the black communi
ty, the only question is
how will Hayti be
redeveloped.
: That's one of the main
reasons the businesses
want to see how they fit
into a Hayti develop
ment scheme. The eight
businesses remain in
Hayti and all want to
stay there.
According to Norby
and Allen, the chain's
proposal will at least give
the businesses an idea of
how they will fit into a
redeveloped Hayti.
the notion that the city is
trying to close the
businesses, the city is
"open minded" to
whatever can be worked
out to help the
businesses.
"We don't have any
philosophical problems
with going beyond the
minimum relocation
standards," Norby said.
"The purpose o--the
contract was to get at the
relocation problem."
In light of history,
Norby said the city, is
willing to go the "extra
mile
to help . the
businesses stay alive. He
jsaid the city and .the
businesses aren't to be
blamed for shortcomings
in the - federally-
sponsored urban renewal
program, but that both
solving the problem.
He said -the city will
wait until the Chain
finishes - the contract
before deciding the next
steps. After the contract
ends in October, the
Chain will . prepare a
final progress report and
make recommendations.
Norby said he hopes
the businesses will be
responsive because, "I
fear HUD is going to
"say close out your
relocations."
j The federal. Depart
- ment of Housing and Ur-
ban Development super
' vises the relocation ef-
fort. Norby said the
agency wants the
businesses relocated .so
(that the books -can be
flosed on Durham's ur ,
v; .Norby said contrary. to, . should work together in. ban renewal effort;"
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