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VOLUME 60 NUMBER 11 '."
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY. MARCH 20. 1982
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By Milton Jordan lot more cautious in characterizing the group's pro-
Now that Durham seems to have its first phase of , ximitv. i i
dowJtown development financially together, and I "We havcesolved some matters," White said
- has Softened the black community's potential recently, "but there is still a lot mor? talking: we
pohtjcal punch on the issue, thinking appears to , haveto dd"
havd; quickly turned to the second phase. But "much more to do" might be too much,
''In'an. announcement this week, the Durham Pro- because with the Progress Group's announcement.
Demonstration - West.
gresa Group, the organization that originally car
ried he downtown development ball, said it has
' turned its eye to developing housing in the central
; city.ijThe Progress Groupheaded by Duke Univer
sity president Terry Sanford, appears to be the
; "chess master", pulling together the pieces design
1 ed tp Ijff Durham from the depths of economic
doldtums to an aggressive gfowth posture.
Bojh'the timing and the scope of this launching
for phase two to revitalize downtown Durham is ex
tremely; significant in light of a number of recent
events iiwirling around the downtown civic center
proposal.
- fo about two months, the downtown civic
centifr proposal teetered on an abyss of sketchy
details, and no firm financial: figures. Everyone
knows that the proposed project is a gamble, a
caldiilated toss of developmental dice that if it
works .will bring 'the city $50 million or more in
downtown investment. But no one knew how much
the'(ake was. -Now city officials say the stake is
While another demonstrator is led away (left), the Rev. Cecil Williams (right), a well-known minister, is
hnnrlrilf flfi al lh llnlvortilv it f alifrkrnia'u I aurani'a I ivormnrn I ahnralnn hs fact uook MnVo lhiitf
thirty demonstrators, protesting the laboratory's work on development of nucicar weapons for the Defense ' SljUt ated to before vot? in a June 8 bond
Department, were arrested on charges of obstructing traffic when Ihev tried to block the main gale. Some .reierenuum. . s
150 people, mostly seminarians and ministers, took part in the demonstration. mm. Initially, the black community warned that their
; ' . , traditional support of progressive bond issues.
Would be withheld this. time unless the city made :
LTillrtisJst r)rxs4 I U J r. , some firm plans regarding Hayti.Hayti, the former
HI SlUC Drtlin nfiSfj hfir . bWcl, community, was razed about twenty years
I IfllUIUV; UUIIU I I y&U O I Ul - ago?make way for downtown revitalization. Last ;
- weeKitv ofin;iais saia tney.wouia ask voters to ap
h Ttrove V;$9 million bond for the proposed civic
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Disney World t Hopefully!
erV Mnct in choosing;, t Cine rnn snonsCTr a aru..r "The bandfs sch
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Community "Hillside's bahds "were;, naturally Or-one can send' a con- - Wednesday,- May
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.But. the' Durham, City Council shot that Idea in
world famous band
needs your help. They
need you to donate
ab6ut $25,000 to pay for
the band's upcoming trip
to play a( the 1 0th an
niversary celebration of
Disney World in Orlan
do, Florida.
Hillside's 160-member
band recently received a
special invitation from
the Disney World Resort
Complex to play during
the anniversary parade
and to perform a ten
minute concert in the.
sprawling theme park.
If the community fails
to produce the money
that will pay for four
buses, three nights of
lodging and some meals
for. the globe-trotting
band , then the k ids
might be left to sulk in
Durham in the "dumps"
rather than frolicking in
Florida's sun.
"The selection com
nittce had to be very,
chosen, said- Clarke
Egerton, director of the '
band since 1967. "If we
even blink bur eye like
we're not going, another '
band will be in our slot."
The tenth-year birth
( day party for the Walt
Disney World Resort
Complex in Orlando, '
Florida that opened in,i
October, 1971,; runs
from January lo
December. It is dubbed j
"a year long and a smile :
wide".
Hillside's band will be
presented as part of the
Walt Disney World Bir
thday Party at 1 p.m., on
Friday, May 7.
Parents ' of band ;
students, the Hillside
High ' School Band
Parents ; Organization, .
are soliciting contribu
tions that will help
' defray the cost of the ,
trip; Community citizens
; can aid in two-ways. .
ing' oupget requests, tor tyz-3. it appears,
however, that the city councir has managed to. use
that money ,.as bait rather than a goodr faith,
assurance, because there are no obvious guarantees
that thi money will be appropriated if the bond
issue is defeated. ' '
Still the black community has one more trump
that if played will come from, the sidelines. If state
legislators set the 1982 primary elections within thir
ty days of the proposed bond referendum, ten-
tatiwfelu crliAltiloH fnr tuna St' thfn fnA Knnrl vrtf
also olans to - maugura faraae tor tne '"" v"'
m Sds ;, 3oVernor-elect of North Wl11 have t9 be postponed, according to one city hall
Carolina as it did in ' ' l'1i ,ue" lu" vuic va. u
iQ7. tmu-ut7' tA i July, after the budget is approved.
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tributton in any amount
Checks -should be
made payable to the
Hillside Band . Parents ;
Organization and should !
be mailed to: Mrs. :
Medessa Justice, the i
group's treasurer, 2109
Concord St., Durham, ,
N.C. 27707.
According to Egerton,
the band
visit the 1982 World
Fair in Knoxville, Ten
nessee on the return trip
from Orlando, and the
two trips ' should be
educational and enter
taining. "It's a real high honor
to perform at Disney
World," Egerton said,
besides the fun, you're
getting a great deal of ex
posure. "We thought we'd try
to get the World's Fair in
also because there's no
telling where it will' be
the next time; it may be
out of our financial
reach."
5 and
return Sunday, May "9,
spending most of Sunday
in Knoxville. ' :
Wf-rf ufU'Monday ibto
W i TO.S million ftsuev lfW$oek for the
the "chess master" gave up a pawn the. civic
center dan and moved a powerful "aueen" into
place.
The "queen" is Charlotte's powerful NCNB
Community Development Corporation. No one will
officially, confirm any hardnosed discussions with
the Charlotte nonprofit organization that is one of
the nation's foremost experts on developing
downtown housingi but a series of interviews and
other research indicates that the discussions have
taken on specific parameters.
, Nationally,-downtown housing is a must for in
ner city revitalization because to resurrect thetcen
tral business district, it' must have a 24-hour daily
life span. No organization knows more about how
to do that, or has a bigger pool of resources, in
cluding money and developers than does the NCNB
Community Development Corporation.
The Development Corporation was launched by
NCNB, one of the southeast's biggest banks, in
1978, the first of its kind in the country. Its princi
ple purpose was to spur housing development in
Charlotte's Fourth Ward, an inner city
neighborhood characterized by creeping blight and
decay.
Today, Fourth Ward is called "the residential
showplace of downtown Charlotte." It took about
. $25 million in lowriMerest mortgage money and
about $2.3 million from the city in streets,
sidewalks, parks and lighting to transform Fourth
Ward from a delapidaited disgrace to a showplace.
. " Now the Development Corporation is working in
Greensboro in a similar project, but Us eyes . are
lurned steadUS f toward Durham., M. - & ,
lAuanuu . i jeveinnraeni t.urnuiaiiun iiiai iuuk citiv. lciuct
tOiirictude the $1.5 miUlon rbrHaytHnthcMpcom- ? lateral 'fronfthe . Progress Group and scooted
History reveals the,
Hillside Band has racked .
up similar achievements.
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Most recently the band
participated in the 1980
Inaugural Parade for the ;
Flags Over Georgia in'
1980 and gave a concert
on Stone Mountain;
represented North
Carolina in Washington,
D.C. at the nation's 1976
Bicentennial celebration;
received a certificate of
appreciation from PresU
dent Gerald Ford during
his visit to Durham in
1975; and, accepted the
Harry Mendelson
Memorial Plaque at the
1974 and 1977 Mardi
Gras festivals.
Rollout Garbage:
' ipasiek ' But Fewer Jobs
puts up for Hayti is not nearly, as important as the
question of a final development plaii for the area.
There are two protagonists in thisjsegment of the
urban drama; the city and the Hayti Development
Corporation,. Each has vested interests. Each has a
list of priorities. Winning will boil down to clout.
The city's plan, unveiled several months ago,
originally featured housing -as the? centerpiece of
Hayti redevelopment. The Hayti Development Cor
poration on the other hand leans, toward more
economic development in the area, more in line
with the neighborhood's history. (The two groups
have been "negotiating quietly for several weeks now
to resolve the differences. I
Recently, Durham City Manager Barry Del
Casulho said the negotiations have been fruitful
and that the two organizations are .closer together.
Nathaniel White, Jr., head of the HDC agrees that
several issiies have been worked out, but becomes a
downfield until die goal was close enough that the
ball could be passed to local government; says
about the Charlotte Corporation: "WeW had
some preliminary discussions, byt certainly nothing
concrete has developed."
City Manager Del Castilho says: "We've talked,
but no specifics were discussed.
Says Dennis Rash, president of the NCNB Com
munity Development Corporation: "There is no
question fn my mind but that Durham could be an
interesting project. But while we've met with
Durham officials, we have no firm plans at this time
for Durham.
But in the NCNB Corporation quarterly report,
dated March 31, 1981, there's the following state
ment concerning future plans for the Community
Development Corporation: "NCNB Community
Development Corporation is also involved in
development phases for Charlotte's Third Ward
(where work is currently getting underway) and
other projects in Durham: . '.," .:'.'. ,
Apparently, there are three approaches for
downtown housing being discussed in Durham. One
considers the possibility of putting apartments on
the uppermost floors of high rise office buildings.
Another looks at condominiums and townhouses.
while yet another considers rehabilitating historic
districts and other salvagable neighborhoods.,
In an interview from his Charlotte home, Rash
mentioned three specific Durham neighborhoods as
possible downtown housing sites: Trinity Park,
North Durham and Hayti.
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By Milton Jordan cans into rolling carts
D u rh a m ' s thai arc then dumped by
predominantly black hydraulic lift into gar-
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a lot easier and more at
tractive if the city adopts
a proposed rollout gar
bage collection program.
Additionally, city of
ficials project that gar
bage collection will also
be significantly less cost
ly and much more pro
ductive under the new
program.
A rollout program
would have city residents
pushing city-furnished
refuse containers to the
curb on collection days
where they - will be
dumped by a hydraulic,
lift on the garbage truck,
.This reduces . the heavy
lifting traditionally
associated with collec
ting garbage.
Currently,. 'city refuse
collectors pick up gar
bage twice - weekly .' in
residents' backyards,
dnmp'ng the garbage
City sanitation direc
tor, Robert Mitchell said
the proposed rollout pro
ways to best provide this
service more cost effec
tively," said Mitchell.
"It alt boils down to
the city's affirmative ac
lion policy. ; , ; '
But easier work, cost
reductions and increased
productivity not- t money." -
withstanding, Durham Currently, the city's
citizens seem td ovef- ffarhace collection is
gram if implemented will whelmingly oppose the v costing more than $3.2
improve worker morale : change. Reasons appear million. To initiate the
and reduce turnover. It ; to center around not rollout program will cost
wanting to roll garbage about $1.3 million, but,
to the curb, not wanting I according to Ms. Ellen
garbage cans lined along Goldman, a city budget
front yards, ruining j analyst, the . program
neighborhood aesthetics could save the city fronv
one or two days a week,
questions about how
oldcf people will handle
(he large rolldut con
tainers, and the; ap
pearance that the city as
'"rin,":.-:'
i fit i ... mt r
will also, according to
Mitchell, hold down
costs and increase pro
ductivity, because it will '
cut the lime of each
residential ;. ' . pickup,;
allowing fewer people to
cover more territory.
It is not clear yet ex-,
actly what impact the
rollout program will
have on job security for
black refuse collectors.
Mitchell says that work
force reductions will be
handled by attrition, that
s, not filling jobs as
workers quit, But a
related effect of the pro
posed program might be,
to attract ; more white
men and Women to the
work; which is a goal of
$355,000 to $420,000
each year. ' '
"We feel that the
' $355,000 projected sav-
. tngs is extremely conser
vative. Ms. Goldman
reducing the level of its ; said.l'And if wc take the
garbage collection scr' ' larger ; savings k as ')' a
vice.
City officials,1 on the
other hand; say that all
these objections have
reasonable answers, and
the ' proposed program
involves larger issues.
a "From - an ad
measure, almost
$3 1 0,000 6 f t he red uc
tions would be personnel
related." , , - - -,
She also said that
about $14,000 could be
saved in workman's
compensation premiums
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. . .Demonstration - East
Some of the crowd of counter-demonstrators who forced about a dozen Ko Kluxjdan members to seek
sanctuary In the Duval (Florida) County Courthouse. The KKK was protesting the firing of one of Its
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