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I NOV 12 1982 i nside. . . Eagles face A&T here Saturday , m W. .VniVA o rave John Avery Boys Club page 4 . Area students plan for , ' European Trip page If ,. Patrice Rushen "saves Homecoming show Entertainment Front . National SceneMagazine supplement - "- (UhPS091-380) : Words Of Wisdom It b often easier to fight for principles thaw to live op to them.; : . ' Adlai Stevenson Mnch of oar so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. V James Harvey Robinson . VOLUME 60 NUMBER 45 DURHAM,' NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, .1982 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 30 CENTS A Bozep. Macks ToSil Ip State LegisMteft Durham Plans For 'New9 Water By Milton Jordan Executive Editor 1 When the N.C.;, -General Assembly con-'1' venes in January, it will make history. ; s1; For the first time j at? least since Reconstruc tion, 11 black legislators will take their seats in the State House, and one black will help make laws in the State Senate. In addition to black ; legislators, Democrats overall did well, captur ing nine new legislative seats in the House. "The ?v increased l number of blacks in the state legislature should give the black communi-' ty a bigger voice in the shaping of state laws," said Warrenton attorney Frank Ballance,, one of the newly elected black lawmakers. - "The number elected is not nearly enough, but at least we are not as under represented as we were." One of the major reasons for this new legislative success was redistricting - mandated by population change in' the 1980 cen- ' SUS. .' . i -V About 25, per cent of. North Carolina's ;5.5 million people are black, ' and there are 170 state lawmakers, 120 in the State house and 50 in the By Joseph E. Green ' Smr$l&V&r. Charles Taye; deari'f According to Kenneth Central's law school, is Spaulding, the senior one of the four finalists black legislator from c in the f search , for so Durham, a more meone v to succeed equitable number of, .chancellor Albert black elected officials in whifinc ' CJ ' , .; , , " ' -' Sup' 1 V; k fc,v4i lit--' ' ' !": POLITICS '82 - Dr. E. Lavonia Allison, cnairman of the political sub-committee of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, was a central figure in Politics '82. She was one of the principal supporters of the controversial civic center bond referendum, though . emphasizing that the black community was to "get something" for its support. She was also one of the main backers in the Durham Committee's endorsement of the Michaux write-in effort. 'o u sttwi Faculty Analysis Students Want Day e jo Stay continued. There were exacerbated .racial . ten sions.'; Some '. faculty the legislature would be about 30. Spaulding Was recently elected to his third term. "But by the same token," he said, "this in crease in our numbers will give us more votes to assist us in matters about .which we should be especially concerned." Previously, there were only three blacks in the house and one in the Senate. In addition to Spaulding, the other two black house members were Daniel Blue of Raleigh, who was elected to his second term last week, and Melvin C. Creecy of Northampton J County who was also re elected. - In the Senate, Henry Frye of Greensboro was the lone black member, but he retired reoently. When the Senate reconvenes, Frye will be replaced by "William N. Martin, also of Greensboro. In addition to Spaulding, Blue, Creecy and ' Ballance, other blacks elected to the If he is selected to the post that Whiting is leav ing next year, many see it as a tremendous plus for the university as a whole. But students, faculty arid staff at the law school say that it would be a disaster" for them. When Daye became dean of the law school two years ago, that branch of the university was in chaos, according to a university source. It had suffered under poor leadership, the source members openly argued wnn one, anomer in ine hallways and students had little access to the dean's office. Now, many at the law school say the situation is dramatically different: Daye is accessible. He has put a curriculum in place. He holds regular faculty meetings and has attempted to deal with racial differences at the law school that is nearly fifty per cent white. One professor, who asked not to be identified said that he would con sider leaving the institu tion if Daye left his post as dean. ' "For the first time in years we have had some stability around here," 1 " t I T4!0n Daye he said during an inter view, "Charles has given us a sense of direction and a sense of purpose. If he leaves, we will have to start all over again," Rumors that Daye was being considered had surfaced on the campus as soon as Whiting an- Charges Dropped Against Times Reporter legislature were: . Phil Charlotte, County C.R. F a y e 1 1 last week Berry of Mecklenburg of Edwards e v 1 1 1 e , Cumberland County ; Luther R. Jeralds of Fayetteville, Cumberland County Herman C. Gist of Greensboro, Guilford County C.B. Hauser of Winston-Salem, Forsyth County Annie Brown 1 Ken-" nedy of Winston-Salem, Forsyth County - 'Sidney A. Locks of Lumberton, Robeson County. All of the elected blacks are Democrats. One Republican, John Hawkins of Warrenton, was defeated for a seat in the state legislature. , One black Democratic candidate, James Polk of Charlotte, : was also defeated in his bid (or a (Conitnued on Page 12) By Isaiah Singletary WARRENTON -Last week, about 200 of us crowded into a second floor district courtroom in the Warren County Courthouse waiting to see the judge. Most had come to face charges of obstructing traffic andor resisting arrest filed . during demonstrations 1 that many considered to be a matter of life or death. I was there to face similar charges, filed on a warm, sunny day ' in Afton, a community just outside Warrenton, as I tried to tell another part of the story of the people of Warren County versus the State, the federal government and the PCBs. Most of my fco defendants had either sat down in the roadway or stretched out there to prevent state trucks from hauling PCB-laced soil to a state-owned landfill. The y problem is that PCBs, or polychlorinated , blphenyls, are con sidered to be a cancer- causing agent. All I had done that day was stoop down to interview D.C. Con gressman Walter Faun troy, who was one of the demonstrators. But as a North Carolina High Patrol sergeant told me later in an interview, the officers "thought" I was breaking the law. ' Last week's crowd of defendants was typical of the crowds that had demonstrated at the landfill day ' after day, beginning September 15. There were blacks and whites, young, old, even teenagers and children. Over the past : two days, the presiding judge had dismissed charges against about 200 demonstrators, but still we waited anxiously, because judges can be unpredictable. But the prosecutor eased our fears when he stepped up to the bench, and said he didn't par ticularly enjoy his job that day, and that he didn't mind prosecuting criminals, but not decent Leadership Conference, an Atlanta-based civil rights organization. Charges against Fred Taylor, coordinator of SCLC chapters and af filiates, were also drop ped. They also dropped charges against me.. But the problems have not ended, and the strug gle is far fron over. Most , recently, . the issue has focused on a large pool of rain water collected in the landfill, following several days of heavy rains. The people fear that the rain water, con taminated with the PCBs, will run from the pond and seep into the ground water, and-then into their drinking water. The state, as it has from the beginning, con-" tends there is no danger. And tht people of Warren County retort, nounced his retirement. ;yhi?n it was confirmed :itt 'The, Carolina Times, paye,was a ssenous fe efldeFT many; at the;. school began to panic. Open discussions' ; began to take place in -some ' classrooms and'f' among small groups of students and professors. : Concerned abdut the . impat that his' con-. siderajtion was having on the law. school, Daye wrote and distributed : a notice; informing students, faculty and staff that the reports were true, but that there was no certainty that he would be leaving. In the posted notice, he said that he did not place his name in nomination, but that others on the campus had insisted that he be included. Those who favor Daye believe he would be better for the university . than a. chancellor from outside of the university. On the campus there is tremen dous concern that so meone from outside the university might march to the tune of the General Administration in Chapel Hill and disregard the concerns and needs of the tradi tionally black institu tion. NCCU is a campus (Continued on Paee 11) By Donald Alderman It takes a lot of water to run a city like Durham about 19 million gallons a day right now. That works out to about 3,040 eight-ounce glasses of water each day for each of Durham's 100,000 citizens. And that 19 million gallons each day is just two million gallons short of what the city's current reservoir on Lake Michie "can provide. So the city hits been planning since 1975 to build a new reservoir. City officials expect the current reser voir to reach its capacity by 1985. Last week, city of ficials hurdled the hardest part of the job when Durham voters ap proved a $21 million bond issue to build the new reservoir. The city can now sell general "! obligation bonds, that will be backed by local taxes. But there's still a lot of work left before an addi tional 21.4 million gallons of water are available to Durhamites each day. The new reser ' voir is expected to cost about $26.4 million. Work includes: - Takinut oictures of old cotton, grist and tex tile mills dot the area. Some of the area's old houses also qualify as historic places of : significance. For that reason, the city entered an agreement with the state Division of Ar chives and Historical Preservation to "docu ment" the area's history. Slade said to get the documentation, workers will talk with people who live there, will take pic tures and write reports. He said photos of the area have already been taken and the- process will resume immediately as almost daily another old structure falls, victim to mother nature. Slade said the agree ment also calls for ojd structures to be sold, with the current owners' approval, of course, to buyers who will agree to relocate and rehabilitate the old houses according to historical preservation standards. He said city officials haven't decided which reservoir will be in use on any given day after Little River is completed. Cur rently the city's water! comes from Lake Michie, built on the Flat River -in the 1920s. It generates about 21 million gallons of water daily, but city use is cur rently about 19 million. Currently, Durham's two treatment facilities, one on Infinity Road and the other on Hillandale, can treat or flouridate and chlorinate up to 33 million gallons of raw or lake water daily, about 12 million gallons more than Lake Michie can generate. Slade said the treat ment facility on Infinity Road will be expanded to (Continued on Page 12) Blaqk Contractors Could Get In On City's Water . By Donald Alderman Money I still , standing in the Orange Factory com munity in Durham County where the new Little River reservoir will be built. Choosing contrac tors for each phase of the ' actual construction. Relocating three roads and raising a cou ple of bridges. The next step, accor ding to Bob Slade, city finance director, will be to photograph the historical structures that surround the reservoir site. After that, three roads will be relocated and a couple of bridges will be raised. Then, he said, the area will be cleared and grad ed for the final phase, the actual construction of the dam and water lines. Slade said the project should be finished in about four years. He said the "big" construc tion contract should be awarded in about a year. The reservoir will be built in the Orange Fac tory community noted as a milling neighborhood, in northern Durham County. Historical struc tures that are over 50 years years old, such as city officials will begin awarding con tracts to spend ' more than $26 million to build a new reservoir for the city. According to city of ficials and officials of the Durham Business and Professional Chain, black contractors will be invited to bid for work on the project. "We have given direc tion to our engineering rm and it will be ex-, pressed to all firms to look for minority and women-owned firms in doing this job," said Bob Slade, city finance director. "We'll stress to all contractors doing this job the need for this kind of participation. Slade noted that the new reservoir project won't have any federal money, so there are no requirements for "set asides" and "quotas" for black contractors. He said the city just wants to make sure that everyone gets a crack at helping to do the job. It is not clear at this point just how the city will determine what percentage of the available sub-contracting money will go to black . : firms. In fact, the city h- any percentages, out rather to encourage in volvement T by black firms, and simply let them compete with other sub-contractors for the. available money. Prwin Allen director of the Durham Chain, said his organization will provide the information that will enable black firms to take advantage of this opportunity. "When this thing comes in, well get specifications on it . who the contractors are and what kind of sub contracting work'll . they'll need," he said. "From our list of firms, we'll alert minority firms of the project." Allen went on the say that he Chain, a federal ly contracted business assistance center, will alert potential sub contractors, help the firms with bonding and take them to the site. "We'll provide the in formation," Allen said, "dnd it's up to the firms to decide what they'll want to do." Allen also said the Chain is one of several agencies across the coun try set up to hdp black' (continued on Page 16) iv- citizens, trying to protect , M they nave been saying their lives With that, the pro secutor began dismissing charges. When he finish ed, charges had been dropped against more than 150 people, in cluding Congressman Fauntroy, Mrs. Evelyn Lowery, wife of Joseph' Lowery, president of the Southern Christian for almost four years "You gotta be kidding Last" week's trials represented what some Warren , County leaders call the third stage of a four-year struggle. And, according to them, the struggle is not ending, simply entering a new phase. . ir nil J' ' " '"'" K . ... set- X -':'". POLICE PRESENCE - A Durham Public Safety officer have complained about Inadequate police protection, me : walks on patrol at the Boykin Shopping Center in the? Increased police presence comes in the wake of a fatal 2500 block of Fayetteville Street where black merchants i shooting near the business district. " 1
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