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V 4 . -t . ..I -4. , J, ,, Lit, u.. ' Durham Man Selects Navy Life Rodney Williamson s Story - Aije. 9 . 77 Widening Rift On Campus , t African Students Feel Neglected Page $ . . (USPS 091,380)! - Words Of Wisdom Sock it mum wort! u he esteems klmseit. FraacobCabdais Ha easait of bu'i Bfc It tke wdl spe- ding of H, ind not tkc leaglk. f . Flatarefc , VOLUME 60 NUMBER 16 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATUROAY. APRIL 24. 1982 TELEPHONE (919) 682-29T3 WfCf! 39 CENTS' Duke Power and Citizens to Square Off 0 lo) o Mi By Donald Alderman The battle lines over bus service in ' Durham . have been clearly drawn. On one side, Duke Power Company at torneys and the City At- tqrney Bill Thornton argue "that Durham's bus .service is 'reasonable", and that night bus ser vice should be eliminated in, favor of special tax icabs, or "taxibuses" as,, they have been dubbed, running the jtwo former bus routes. On the other side, local citizens, including an organization called The Durham Citizens Roundtable Coalition, , argue that local bus ser vice should be restored to its 1973 levels, and that the only reason Duke Power is losing money on the bus system : is because 5 the utility company "does a lousy job of marketing transit services. The two sides will square off before the N.C, Utilities Commis sion"; at two public hear- , ings to be held in , Durham City Hall. Citizens who want to speak v will be given a chance April 29, 7 p.m., while expert testimony 1 will begin at 9 a.m. the next morning". ; But .citizens who can't make the hearing on the 29th can speak the next morn- . j ing,, ; according 10 , it act tt i est ess k It asx ess se a: as st i sx r sci txx seas wa )ttia:3Ssnttmnine(Ki nnwnMaiaiiBaiMM m an n vm am wax not at m M h am i Durham Resident To Receive Award From Mrs. Rosa L. Parks i 0h f . '. - i b J MS. ATWATER Ms. Ann Atwater of Durham, has been selected to receive the 1982 Rosa Parks Award spon sored by Women in Community Service, lnc.,oTie of the largest non-profit volunteer organiza tions in the country. Mrs. Rosa Parks, referred to as the "mother of the modern freedom movement", will pre sent the award tp Ms. Atwater at the 17th Annual WICS Board and Corporation Banquet in Dallas, Texas on May 4. The award is named in honor of Mrs. Parks who dramatically influenced the civil rights movement in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Ms. Atwater, herself a volunteer and civil rights activist, has promoted voter registration in North Carolina, fought for equal housing, and became the driving force that eventually reform ed Claiborne P. Ellis, a former president of one of the largest Ku Klux Klan chapters in North Carolina, into a noted union organizer and advocate of civil rights. "Ann Atwater was selected from many nominations submitted from across the country because of her extensive voluntary contributions to the poor and the disadvantaged which resulted in a positive influence on the lives of so many people," said Ms. Martha Villalobos, . WICS national president. From her relationship with former Klansman Ellis, she has received national attention, ap pearing, on the "David Frost Show" and "Good Morning America". She recently appeared in Reader's Digest in an article entitled, "The Klansman Who Quit Hating". Ms, Atwater has served as vice chairman of the Durham County Democratic Committee and is a member of the NAACP, The Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, and the administrative committee of Operation Breakthrough. A member of Church Women United and the National Council of Negro Women, she will soon be ordained as a deacon of her church, Mount Calvary United Church of Christ. The Rosa Parks Award, given "in recognition of extraordinary acts of ordinary people", is the highest honor bestowed by WICS, a coalition of five major national women's groups with a membership of several million. Founded in 1964, WICS is comprised of the National Councils of Negro Women, Jewish Women, and Catholic Women, Church Women United, and American Gl Forum Women. MRS. PARKS at svs sxt aa 5 : tat t ra a : ;w ess est i Michaux Wants Urban and Rural Areas i Partnership in North Carolina By Milton Jordan Michaux For Mickey Michaux, ming a . ,n8 according) to ; Atr- For Mickey Micha V " ,thc Commission's public j dictive and jdst a li t. staff, which was set up to protect consumer in , terests. - The ) hearing, . much like a eourt's, will be conducted before a panel of three , commissioners or a hearing examiner, according to Ms. Long. She j said expert testimony has been filed on Duke Power's behalf by a transit consultant. The citizens group fil ed suit against the city ,and Duke Power Com- . pany after night bus ser-, tion vice ended February 15, following the City Coun cil 7-6 vote to honor the ; company's request. The plaintiffs are four citizens who say they regularly use night bus service and the Coali tion. But Judge Anthony Brannon advised the group to file a formal complaint 1; " with the ' Utilities Commission after denying a tern-' porary restraining order motion. . ' After the complaint! was filed, the Commis sion ordered night, bus runs, or taxibus runs at the same cost. At its February 1 meeting, the council voted for tax icabs to run the former night bus routes at a cost double the fare of buses. Bus fare is fifty cents per trip. .Taxibuses charged Si tor a trip, from one bus stop to another' one. So Duke Power resumed night bus runs. j That contract isbn hold", according to Jerome Brown, a city ' transit planner. Depen ding on ' the Commission's decision, that contract could be made active or dissolved. Regardless of which interest loses the. deci sion, an appeal to; the full Commission and then to the Court of Ap peals are probable next steps, she said. The lawsuit is also "on hold", according 1 to Travis Payne, attorney for the coalition, What ' happens to the suit, .he said, depends on the out come of the hearing. If the Cornmissionjdecides at the level of service is little of Durham, with its ur- friahtening. but also ban flavor - and satisfies. And now; after technological 'sophistical, more than four years tion and thepeople, who away irom 10c uauy jive advocates for- ing situation ia the rest , lat a major corner of the; "new partner- at Jbe. distrj&J? Jrianglerf from the grind, " and the mind- numbing - pressures of elected office, Michaux wants back in. He's running for U.S. Congressman from the Second District, and says he wants to go to Washington to help stem the tide of what he calls "the new meanness in this current administra- To do that, in district ' rural. "Why together Michaux rhetorically, auickly to the rest that is of the mostly can't as a we work whole," asked . moving answer the question with a couple of examples. "Why not use the knowledge we have in high technology in Durham,, for example, to help improve the farm- v understanding that. -Per- , son County s unempioy- ment rate hovers around ; 17 per cent, urge a new industry that is looking tQ relocate in the area to consider that end of the district, rather than try ing to put everything in Durham?" x ' Michaux considers this approach, the cor nerstone of his campaign ; . theme, a "new idea" for ; a new district; Durham County, with its 150,000 people, its urban character and its position r-'!t ?-v;,f III Vi 'Wyj!!..i Am, a m ...I, J MK'KKY MICHAUX. THE' BUSINESSMAN, sludie doeumen in his Durham office. He Is both an attorney and a principal part of (ho family businesses, though his brother, Eric, actually runs the enterprises. flj4:B '.;' V; V 4'.asonabie, then the 1 ' -'"' " ' .. -...... m. coition will probably MICKEY MICHAUX, THE POLITICIAN, chats comfortably with sup ntinue hrough the ' Porters during a Durham political fund-raiser following his announcement for , (Continue On Page 12) ilhe Soni District Congressional seat. cond " Congressional - District, following a, tpiigh redisricting fight; in 'the Legislature. It joinsj ' Caswell, Edgecombe, Granville, Halifax, Nash, Person, Vande, Warren and Wilson counties, key areas in the state's large ly rural eastern crescent. For more than thirty years, L.H. Fountain represented the Second District in Congress, warding bff opposition with almost embarrass ing ease. Durham's addi tion' to the district, and presumably Michaux's entrance in the race changed the entire com plexion of Second District politics, and Fountain bowed out of the contest, throwing the field wide open. Quickly' the political rumor mills began pum ping out names of possi ble candidates for Foun tain's seat from one end of the district to another. But so far, only one hat, other than Michaux's is actually in the hopper. I.T. "Tim" Valentine, a Nashville attorney, an nounced last week he, too, will run for the Se cond District seat. , But no one expects the Second , District race to wind up being a Michaux-Valentine con test: The field is expected to get a lot more crowd ed with both Democrats and Republicans before the filing deadline passes. Many political experts consider this Second District race to be one of the most important in the country, mostly because Republicans might consider themselves as having a chance at the seat for the first time in thirty years, and North Carolinians who back Reagan might not h want t to send Michaux to Congress, knowing that he's going to battle Reagan over the so-called f; New Federalism concept. Michaux looks at all this with his usual con fidence. He really relishes the excitement, the possible controversy, even the possibility that the contest could -boil in to an urban-rural con continued On Page 3) ' 2 ssx E33 tax Mil' Mi. .. W WWWWWWSi'WWIWWWWMMWWWWHWS! s 1 I Planning DR. FORT Class III Baines Tapped As Kellogg Fellow BATTLE CREEK, MICH. Dr. Tyrone R. Baines, vice chancellor for university relations at North Carolina Central University, is one of fifty outstanding young American professionals chosen for Class III of the W.K. Kellogg Foun dation's National Fellowship Program. The Fellowship Pro gram, initiated in 1980, is aimed at helping the nation expand its vital pool of capable leaders. The program is struc tured to increase dividuals skills and in sights into areas outside their chosen disciplines so they can deal more creatively and effectively with society's problems. Baines, 39, joined North Carolina Central University in 1972 after serving as a personnel relations specialist and assistant director of sum mer interns with the Of fice of Economic Oppor tunity, Washington, D.C., where he recruited, hired, and supervised employees for the QEq Youth Pro gram. .In 1978, he was selected as an American Council on Education Fellow in Education Ad ministration. Prior to that time, he was the recipient of a number of fellowships including the Ford 0 Foundation 'f Ad vanced Study Research Fellowship and a Woodrow Wilson Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellowship. A native of Exmore, Virginia, Baines earned (Continued On Page 3) New A&T Chancellor Says: Key to Survival of Black College rRNSBORd Leaning forwarlln his chair, his wiry frame taut with intensity, Dr. Edward Fort ticks off the superlatives he believes characterize A&T State University, making it, as he says, "representative of one of the top four university systems in the country." t Fort will be officially inauguarated as A&T's new chancellor Saturday. "Our school of engineering is one of only three in the state system," he said, "and through my office, our school sits on the governing board that establishes policy for the microelectronics industry in this state, and we have one of only twenty ac credited industrial technology programs in the state." Fort, 50, who became A&T's seventh chief ad ministrator in September, following the. retirement of Dr. Lewis Dowdy, preaches the university's story with an almost religious intensity. He cites facts and data, plans and objectives a great many of which are underway. He also talks candidly about the school's problems. When he came to A&T from Wisconsin, where for the past seven years, he'd headed the University of Wisconsin system, Fort inherited a sprawling 181-acre urban campus, more than 5,000 students, and a solid academic program that now includes .seven schools and a division of industrial technology. But all was not roses. The university's fiscal affairs were a mess, such a mess in fact that the State auditor once said he felt that things were so bad that the books would never be straightened out well enough to determine what had gone wrong, or exactly whose' fault it was. Graduates of A&T's nursing program almost tradi tionally fare poorly on the National Nursing Ex amination, and the school is under a mandate to im prove the passage rate or lose the program. Undaunted by these problems, Fort jumped right into what he calls "the most challenging job of my professional career." He describes his new role this in- j way: "I view myself as an educational evangelist. I see my prime role as that oi building programs for students who have been historically denied access to secondary and post-secondary opportunities. I view my latest challenge at A&T as being the personifica tion of that role.' So Fort, a Detroit native and former public school superintendent in Inkster, Michigan and. Sacramento, California, , believes A&T is thoroughly prepared to give its students the strong academic foundation they will need for jobs and careers in a highly technological society. But he quickly notes that A&T'S emphasis on technical education, which includes schools of -engieering, nursing, business and economics, as well as a divi sion of industrial technology, does not negate the need for a strong general education. 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