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VOLUME S3 NUMBER 28 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1981 TELEPHONE (919)632-2913 f fRSkfflCEKTfX ' II -?' V Expected Beok bt For fo Be Ready By 1983 N 3 MRS. YOUNG Mrs. Youyg Is SECME , g? S Teacher Of Year During the Fifth An nual Southeastern Con sortium for Minorities in Engineering (SECME) In stitute held recently at the University of Florida at Gainesville, Mrs. Mary Mason Young was honored at a banquet and received a trophy and an award.as "1981 Nationak SECME Teacher Of The . Year'. As a result of this distinction, Mrs. ; Young nas oeen ottered a posi At Durham . High School, pupils may enroll in Pre-Engineering Pro jects (PEP), a course which as SECME coor dinator, Mrs. Young developed and teaches. Through PEP and SECME instructions, par- ticipating students receive academic enrichment and -motivational experiences which help prepare them ; tor university , level pro grams in science, as well as : Jion ;iti-?f work,'' s;-:;"ah.',Tn';engineering.:-,s ;. $ engineer during the 'sum! -; "The, national -organize mer of 1982 with the Na tional Aeronautics ' andi Space ? Administration t (NASA) at ; Hampton, i Virginia. '-. - .,! Secondary school minority students are! prime targets of the SECME program; since, ! in previous years, engineering has ' attracted such a small percentage of this group of students. tiori, which includes twen ty schools of engineering; in southeastern univerr; si ties, receives its major, financial support from in dustries that are attemp ting to increase the number of economically: deprived minorities in the . area of engineering. Locally, similar funding and support are needed : and will be sought. By Donald Alderman , The proud , heritage of; one of Durham's former! leading medical institu-l tions was renewed Wednesday ; as ground breaking ceremonies were held for the new Lincoln Community Health Center. About 200 per sons were on hand to take part in the celebration. . The new facility is ex-: pected to be ready by 1983. The present facility j was built over sixty years ago as Durham's black j community hospital. It 1 will be demolished to make way for a parking lot. John S. Stewart, the: Center's Building Fund an-; additional! $500,000 appropriation Tuesday by the Durham County Commissioners. which insures the new facility. That brings the County's allocation for the center to $1.6 million. However; Stewart said, an additional $1 million is needed to fully equip the new building. He said the fund-raising campaign continues and the Center is still accepting' dona tions. ' Stewart declared the Center Va worthwhile cause" and congratulated everyone who has v made , . the new facility a reality - Larry S. Hinton, presi dent of thiCenter's Board f', of Directors, said: "The Center is a place to be pro-1 : ud of. It is an example of the best Durham has to ofr fer. Durham can be no better than the type of support that the Center has received." , Dr. Evelyn D. Schmidt, the Center's director, said trie occasion was a challenge for the Center's staff to, work morej vigorously in Seeking bet'i ter health .care for the; underprivileged. Noting ff the struggles the Center1' has weathered, she said, "when the chips are down Durham . knpws how td come together." .; The crowd, declaring the occasion "a great day for medical progress" in Durham Hospital Corporation. " " The present facility is aid not to be effective and efficient in the J 1 m , aeuvery oi clinical ser vices. It was designed for a 'hospital. Administrators tSay the new facility wtt have all patient services on ntlfl latral all..!..., n w. if vuv ivtvi, cuiuvruig a U1U1V efficient utilization of staff and delivery of s Health services. fnr auant citizen" , included v It is contended also that members of the Durham p the new building will help County Commission and;, attract and retain quality .-j the Durham County. 1 medical personnel. J Inside This Issue. . . " km- Soviet Perspective: "Drastic cutbacks in social programs in the United States' represent only the beginning of Reagan Administration attacks on the hard-won gains of America's minorities, women and 'working class". Raymond Boone's column, page 13. Exercise believed to help curb heart attacks. Otto McClarrin's column, page 15. City Said Committed To Housing Despite Criticism w: Heanh8jrtari '- - ' r ; II ' 1 i ' . ! n i ti-fz .Cf. Memories Joseph "Junior' Harper, 19, looks down while talking with UPI last week about Patrick Rogers, 15, with whom he; wrote songs in the! Tbomasville Heights' housing project, where they both lived. Rogers became one of the victims: of the 28 Atlanta slayings, and investigators are ques tioning residents of the project about a possible j link between Wayne' Williams, charged with the murder of the 28th vie tint, Patrick Rogers and Aaron Jackson. Harper said that he had never seen Williams and did not I know anything about Rogers' manager. Williams visited the hous ing project last fall pro moting a city-wide talent show. UPI By Donald Alderman Despite the City of Durham's alleged short-1 comings in carrying out its , housing assistance plan, a Diuguid, acting director of the city's Community .Development . Depart ment. The Greensboro office , r.nnvmunitv Development ff ah rvnartment of mmea to providing uuus ing" for its citizens as long as the City Council and the local community can decide project, sites .themselves. . ".:,' . "It is easy for federal officials in Washington or Greensboro to criticize ! Durham's housing pro gress, but there are many . factors involved that the local community should decide." Said Bill 0U?T k week that Durham his hot tion bt new rental units and rehabilitation of substandard rental units. The regional HUD office warned that the city's 1982 community development 1 funds could be reduced or ' withheld if the city's hous-: ing efforts are not greatly intensified. j Much of the controver-; sy centers around the pro posed Lynn Road site, for j Lynhhaven apartments, i The City Council is asking i HUD to review the site, ! saying traffic will create a ennoftstmt area arming number of black students, ing Authority Boards HUDf Bill Approved To Put Tenants On Housing Board Representative Kenneth B. Spaulding, D-Durham, has won final approval of - his bill which would allow in county schools. had refused to withdraw the Lynn Road site. N Diuguid said HUD im pedes the democratic pro-' cess when it insists upon a site to which Jhe local, community has expressed: opposition. He said if a proposed site brings con siderable protest from the community, then , com- , (Continued on Page 2) Buke Power Proposes To End Night Service By Trellie L. Jeffers H.E. Shoaf,1 district manager of Duke Power Company, has submitted a proposal to the Durham; City Council requesting permission to end all night, bus service on all routes. . If the request is granted by the City Council, all I bus service will be eliminated after 7 p.t and up to ten hours of 1 service will be cut. The letter accomr ing the proposal, dated June 9, is addressed to Mayor Harry Rodenhizer and states that . "Duke Power has experienced substantial losses in its transit operations for the past number of years. . . ' .and the proposal would; reduce its annual losses by i ny an estimated $43,000. The proposal also states that with the elimination of night service, Routes S, 6, 9, and 10 will be chang-, ed in the late afternoons and early mornings. John Plyler, from the office of management at Duke Power, says that the proposal is not new and. that it was first submitted in 1978 when the company , began losing money on night service. (Figures show that night Route S nets , $22 per night and Route 1 nets $34 per night.) . , Plyler said that an alter native to the eliminated; service could . be; "Dial-A-Ride", a system that he says is operating in Chapel Hill; however., such a system, he says,' would not involve Duke Power but would be ar ranged between a taxicab company and the city. Plyler said, "There are just too few people riding the buses at night and we are losing money." The People's Alliance, a .Durham community group that is now working; on some alternatives to the' elimination of night ser vicer says xthey are "upset over the proposal, par ticularly because it was, submitted just after Duke Power was granted a rate increase by the City Coun cil," but they say that they would favor vans or taxi service to substitute for the buses provided that this service does not ex ceed the cost of a bus ride. Members of the group say they feel, however, that Duke Power should reallocate the money sav ' ed from the eliminated service and put it into a marketing system,; in. newspaper advertisements; arid public service. One service suggested is that of maintaining the present bus fare. The group said that there are presently no maps for certain routes provided by Duke Power so that people who wish to ride the buses know what routes provide bus service and that this could ac count for the small number of persons using the buses. They suggested that Duke Power should use some of the money to print maps for those who wish to ride buses. Presently, the City Council has not decided when or how to handle Duke Power's proposal, and at press time, there had been no decision as to the proper method for disposal of the matter. It is also not clear i whether or not there will be another public hearing on the Duke Power re quest before the City Council acts on the matter. Spaulding says that he introduced the bill in April to clarify the present law and to make it clear that tenants or other recipients of housing assistance ffom a public housing authority . should not be automatically barred from serving on a housing authority board. The law now makes it possible for a local government to ap-. point a tenant, if it so desires. Due to a recent At torney General's opinion, prior to this legislation, some local governments have refused to appoint housing authority tenants to their local Housing authority Boards. The At torney General's opinion stated that it would pro bably be a conflict of in terest in violation of. North Carolina law if a housing authority tenant served on a Housing Authority . Board. Spaulding says his bill makes it clear- that there is no conflict of interest by providing that no tenant ' commissioner shall , be. Qualified to. vote on mat-. V tUUUUtl ilUU JUiS, uwn lu- . . dividual tenancy. The law? v now will allow mayors, cj ty councils, or county 'commissioners who want , 'to appoint a tenant to their Housing Authority ! Board to do so if, if they desire. Spaulding's bill had met with little opposition in the House, but ran into 'stiff opposition in the Senate where it was sent back to committee. After weeks of intense lobbying by Spaulding, the bill received a favorable report from the Senate Judiciary II committee and was sent to the Senate floor. The Senate amend ed the bill to provide that membership by tenants on the Housing Authority Commission would not exceed one-third of the total membership. The bill was then passed in the Senate and received final concurrence in the House this week. ' The bill became effec tive upon its ratification. ..-..-;. -,--7 i-naw'W"'" Judge Rules: Grand Jury Discrimination Not Grounds For Hobby. Dismissal By Elizabeth Ketelle A challenge, to the grand jury selection process in , the ; Eastern District of , slorth Carolina was re-' ected last Wednesday as awyers for Wilbur Hob by, state AFL-CIO presi dent indicted for CETA fraud; entered motions in federal court to dismiss charges of fraud and con spiracy against Hobby, . While approximately 45 of Hobby's supporters watched,1 U.S.' District , Judge W. Earl Britt re jected the defense at torneys' contention that the racial and sexual com position of grand juries In i the Eastern District bet ween 1974 and 1981" has not matched that of the population as a whole and ,that therefore the juries have been Improperly selected. Testifying at the federal court hearing, James M. , O'Reilly, an expert in statistics and-; demographics, stated that blacks, women, blue col lar workers, the less educated, and young peo-. pie havet been under-! represented on thd master j grand jury lists used in the (Continued on Page 2) H ' U , i i ',1 1 1 St Council Appointment May Become Political Issue 1 J 'J "r 'v 9 TkiIN.IA' uGf."" Sam Butl, racreatlon director tor thi Thomiivllli Heights housing project, where several of the wlctlmi In the Atlanti slayings either lived or had visited, said Mine .26 he remembers Williams asking him last fall to Remembers Talking With Accused Slayer distribute leaflets promoting city-wide talent show. In vestlgators believe that Wayne Williams, charged with the murder of the 28th victim in the Atlanta slayings.,. may have had contact with at least two of the otehr victims. UPI PHOTO ; By Donald Alderman Whether the Durham City Council is making ap pointments to its boards, committees, and commis sions in a socially biased manner is a question that will be pondered many times in the coming mon ths. This issue may even be made political since this is an election year. Two years ago, conser vatives swept ' themselves into power by making the east-west expressway and downtown development, political issues. This elec tion year, the council's, committee appointments issue will, more than like ly, be one of the most heated political debates in Durham. Several black communi ty members have recently found - it . appalling that Durham's black com munity is, many times, . blatantly ignored when the council is filling commit tee positions. Councilman ' ; Ralph Hunt, who has long ad vocated more black com mittee appointments, noting the latest census figures. Said Durham has a large black population arid that blacks are qualified in all areas. He said the council, in many cases, is simply overlook- v ing blacks when making appointments. A Durham Human. Relations Commission committee is examining 'the situation and is to release a report in August. At .least one councilman has expressed concern that. the report may be used as a political weapon in the jcoming November elec tions. . Some councilmen con- tend the only factorr (should be whether a nominee is qualified and "'that race should not be an issue. Willie Lovett, chairman f the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black r (Continued On Page 2) :
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