y i n s4 d e . DviKeUnwe . 1 K ... Durham v ufHubsidired housing residentsx t- - ' ' L . Pave Residential lots for sale in Soul City rage 3 fElson's Pigskin Picks . Page 5 Group fighting for better bus service strung- gling with internal rifts ' Page 8 Football action to rock the Triangle Page 5 t National Scene magazine Insert ' .... i hrarv 1 . ' . . .... I O7706 A SP 1Q 1982 (USPS 091-380) , Words Of Wisdom All Rood things are cheap; all bad iMaga are very dear. Henry David Tboreaa If a man is right he can't be too radical; if be is wrong, he can't be too conservative. Josh Billings 5 VOLUME 60 NUMBER 36 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA-, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 1982 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 31 CENTS 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 r v j " (in f r.A- ! Vl 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 ' .i-':-c'-t? ,i 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 (Continued on Page 8) 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;" 1

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