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VIEWS OF WARREN COUNTY DUMF SITE UNDE CONSTrtlTfo-M
By Joseph E. Green
Nationally and locally,
the Republican Party
wants to get blacks hv;
'volved in its political
organization Which
; blacks ' abandoned, en
masse, when Franklin D. "
Roosevelt was elected
1 and offered blacks a slice
of the "new deal." - '
Well, the Republicans
are saying that they have
, a new "new deal" of
their own for blacks and
' that the Democrats have
, been playing with blacks
with bad dice.'
'i Richard Richards, the
Republicart Party na
tional chairman, told a
recent conference of the
National Urban League
in Los Angeles that his
party offers blacks a
greater opportunity' than :
do the Democrats: He
f said that blacks should
jiot only be workers for
the nartv. but should be
candidates as well. tninKs mat tne oiacKs
, . Locally, Bill Cobey, a would get more from the
'.'Beniihliean candidate Republican Party than,
i athletic director at the
University - of ,: North
Carolina and a former,
candidate for Lt. Gover-.
, nor said "politics is a1
two-way street- The '
I Republican Party has.
something to '"' ' offer
Jbjacks and blacks haye
omethiiig to. offer the
' Republican Party."
Cobey said that there
is black participation in
his campaign. His press "
secretary, Claude Allen;
is a black graduate of the ;
University. of ; North -Carolina.
"We are looking for
ways to reach out to the ?
black community,"
Cobey said. "I want to
hire more blacks fpr my
staff. I want blacks to be
, involved in my effort."
Like Cobey, Jack
Marin, the Republican
hppeful for Congress
from the 2nd district,
which includes Durham,
for Congress in the 4th
district which includes j
Orange County, said, "I ';
agree with Richards and
I think that he is right."
Cobey said that he had
"been meeting with black;
Republican leaders
: throughout his district
and that he plans to par
V ! ticipate in a September
fund raiser sponsored by
-the Greensboro
Republican Party. f -Cobey,
a t former
Dumping Of PCB
V: By Milton Jordan (
1 ' Executive Editor t
t In explaining Why he's
totally opposed t6 state
-plans to dump toxic
PCB-laden soil in a pro
posed landfill, about a
' half-mile from his home,
piece of their effort to ' mont groundwater levels
halt state plans to build is 5 to 10 feet,anct vana-
The
Warren County
the PCB-dump in bar
ren County. , '
But the court has dealt
them repeated setbacks,
arid oil Tuesday a federal:
judge, Ear Britt, denied
Edward Sumerville them a temporary inunc
reduces the equation-to tion that . would, have
Jtits simplest terms
"They arc, going to
cost me about $50,000
and ruin my health," he
sgiil in a recent telephone
interview from his home.
'?And the only reason
they chose this county,
and this particular area
'ofrthe county is because
halted construction of
the landfill, . . : . '
Now state plans are to
begin dumping the PCB
laden soil in the Warren
County landfill by the
end of the month.
According . to '( Rev.
Brown, the residents ten
tatively ' plan to appeal
nipstly black people live .'the decision. -, .
here. It's clearly a racial Thus the issue appears
to . revolve around a
issue
, Sumerville, a lifelong
resident of ' Warren
County, whose, great
. grandmother - walked
from , Tennessee 1 more
than a century ago and
settled in what is now
called the Shocco
,f township, owns a home
ahd a 50-acre farm that
he values at about
traditional axis: the con
sistent inconsistency of
tions as much as 25 feet
have been observed....
What this means is.
that there's a better than
average chance that the
chemical (aden. soil will
contaminate the ground
water around the landfill '
site(n the application to
dump the pBs in Wat
ren.. County state of
ficials conc?ded that the
site does not qualify on
this point. ,;. ,
"the l proposed'
disposal site does not ,
meet the Reparation re
quirements of 50 feet
between the Site and the
groundwater table,"
wrote state officials in a
J97JJ prpripsal. But they
went on ito . say: "The
.site also doesnt have the
quality of soil called forf
by EPA guidelines for
this type of toxic landfiflV
But that has not phased
the state. They just asked
for another waiver, and
promised ! to build ?'a
mound over the toxitf '
soil, Covered'; with 11 &.
plastic liner that, accord
ding to state officials
"will effectively prevent ,
any rainwater infiltra-'
tion irito the landfill."
With so many things i
wrong , witn s; tne site
where the state is cur
rently; working with
plans to- begin dumping
the toxic PCBs by the
end Of the month, black
they are receiving, from
the Democrats. 1 '
'. "The economic pro-,
gram that ; ? the
Republican Party is ad
vocating hoWs more pro
mise -' for blacks and
everyone , etse in the
country than what the
Democrats are
pushing," said Mike
HarreU, a Marin
spokesman.
Harrell called U.S..
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Frank Weaver Foundation Offering North Carolinians
To Retire
Page 9
Student Loans
Pager
Page 4
Durham Citizens Get Nothing From
Police On Complaints Against Officers
government ; t officials State pf North Carolina
when it comes to apply-1 has requested in the EPA
Isaiah Singletary
On a cold December -night
about a year ago, a
Durham public safety of
ficer stopped a driver on ;
suspicion s of drunken
driving. Seconds later,
an - argument started, ,
blows were, exchanged
"and the driver was ar-
Warren residents had to . rested. . .
determine why the state j: Later, the driver who
moved forward ' with i asked not to be identified
ing the laws to blacks
The central question in
this issue is: can tons. Of
soil along some 200 miles
of roadway in -North k
Carolina be scooped up ;
and deposited safely in a ,
(Environmental-, protec
tion Agency) permit ap
plicatfon a waiver of this
requirement."
But that's not all.
ptans'for that site.,?
Consider; :
Several other sites in
vestigated by state t of
ficials - had physical
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i for fear of reprisals, filed
a complaint with the
police . internal affairs
division. But because he
had been convicted of
.resisting arrest, accor
ding to a well-placed,
source, the police did not
investigate his complaint
against the officer.
. In another incident,
this on a mild spring day,
, a local police officer ar
rested an attractive
young woman, and, ac-
. cording to her, the of-
ficer hinted during a con
versation in an interroga
tion room that
everything would be all
, right "if you're nice to
; me."
;' The woman complain
ed to the internal affairs
. division, and as far as
she knows, that was the
end of that.
Many Durhamites
' who feel they have been
mistreated or
disrespected by Durham
police also feel that the
internal affairs division
I giants silent chasm
'that simply swallows
complaints". Once in in-'
; ternal affairs, a citizen's
complaint is relegated to
the ' murkey depths of
"an official investiga
tion," never to be heard
1 from again. -
The Cynthia - Bynum
$100,000 and grows landfill somewhere in the
tobacco.. He also works state? For the most part,
for an industrial plant in
Henderson. He and his
wife of 32 years,- Mrs.
FJorence Sumerville, say
the PCB landfill will pro-;
bibly cut their property'
value in half. They are,
the safety factor is based
upon being able to dump
the Chemicals without
polluting the ground
water.; ,
Black residents in
Warren County, a crew
Hooks: f Moving To Get Our Share'
ipolice recently decided to
do just that, j this minor ' "
policy change still does
inot address the basic
tissue, , , . ,
; That issue' is simply
should citizens have a
right to know the
disposition of their com
: plaints against police of
ficers. In Durham, and
elsewhere ' around the
country, police officials
'chorus aloud VNo".
But Robert
: Domalewski pf the
Southern Police' Institute
in': Louisville disagrees.
He says that copies of
case is an excellent exam- j the complaint and any
Ms. Bynum says she should be released under
1aA v lint uritK tn l aI t I t
just two oi tne more man v of experts and even
10,000 blacks who live in some of the state's own
water table in the Shocco
township area of Warren
County is too high for
the chemicals to be
JACKSON, MlSSr
Benjamin L. Hooks, exr
ecutive director of the
NAACP, ' said the
organization is "deter-.
mined to ; announce to
America that no matter
how large or small the
economic'; pic is in
Warren County,: many -officials note that the
of : whom believe, the
PCB landfill is being
built there because most
ly; blacks live there.
"When white
diatham and
counties complained : Gardner, a section chief Rrtr.m Court decision
about the, dump being' in the Department of :0f .juiv .2. which freed
Natural Resources . ana
America, we are moving
to get our share." .
Hooks' remarks were
maHo at an NAACP
folks in. Jumped safely. - press' conference during
Wake i For example. Charles , h - uhmatinn nf the
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American Gas Associa
.tion (AGA) Hooks said '
that Mississippi Power
and Light and other utili-
' ty companies across the
country would ' be
targeted for similar,
agreements. He said the
agreement with EEI and
- AGA was a "valuable '
first step ' toward a
greater minority share of
: jobs and contracts" in,
the utilities, industries.- -
Leading the effort to
obtain future agreements r
. would be Fred Rashecd
whom Hooks introduced
i as the new director of the
NAACP Fair Share Pro
gram, which is an affir:
mative action program, j.
Assisting Rasheed will be
L.R. Byrd. who wasl
named as the program j
field director for . the
nar their homes, the
state backed off," said :
Rev. Luther G." Brown,
pastor of Warren Court-;
ty's Coley Springs Bap- ,
tist Church. "But the.
state apparently believes
that they can come in
here ; with all that toxic
waste and dump it on top
of these black folks and
'nothing will be said or
Community Develop-'
ment, said in an r April
14. 1981 memo: "I have
some concern that,
seasonably high ground-J
water table could be at or
above the proposed pit
bottom, ; According to
data ; presented on the
plans, the measured
groundwater . levels are
the organization from a
$1.25 million lawsuit fil
ed in 1969 by Port Gib
son, Miss,, merchants.
ine Fayetteville as the first
focus would be in clos- . , ' .
ins the gao" between
Larry Shaw Appointed To
State Authority By Hunt
; i Governor : Jim Hunt
'. named Larry Shaw of
done about it," rouRhlv 10 feet below the
' ;VBrown and several proposed pit
t other blacks are, plain- bottom;..;The normal
itiffs in a federal court -range in seasonal varla
tJVLthat s the center-1 (tion for upland, pied-
median black and white
family 4ncbmes and
decreasing" the "alarm
ing" percentage of black
unemployment. - Hooks
'said...
As a result of a recent
oact with Edison Electric
.Institute (EEI) and the!
black person to serve on
the .state's Capital;
Building Authority. The
Authority awards con
tracts for capital im-
perty,
! vocacy Council.
- He replaces Ms, Judy
.M. Stephenson , of,
Raleigh, his term expires
I June 30, 1983. V
, The ; ; ;; nine-nember
Authority includes, two ,
persons named I by the .
Governor, one person by '
the Sepaker of the
Southeast Region.
In addressing the
political, implications of
the Supreme Court deci
sion, Mrs. Margaret
Bush Wilson, NAACP
board chairman, said
that ."Clairborne County
;is the best example of
'how effective a selective
buying campaign can be
! in changing the nature of
the county." She noted
:that prior to the boycotts
there were no black
elected or appointed of-
ficials in the county. Fur
: thermore, there were on
ly seven black registered
.voters with a 76 percent;
black poPulation- To '
day, blacks hold a ma
jority of these positions,
she said.
With this prototype
tiled a comDlaint with in
ternal affairs earlier this
year following what she
j called "remarks of im
propriety', an officer
made to her after he had
arrested her for disturb
ing the peace and
obstructing an officer.
I She didn't get a copy
of her complaint, and
; numerous calls to the in
ternal affairs division
have yielded rto informa
i tion, she said. "I just
don't know what hap
I pened, if anything." , , '
! Police say citizen com
! plaints against officers
provision or tne teaerai
Freedom of Information
Act.
"Since the complaint
, was generated oy tne
citizen," Domalewski
.said, "It wouldn't
'violate the privacy act to
give him a copy of it or
! any other document
:, made in connection with
I it. In Florida, for exam
; pie, the Sunshine Act
makes it ; possible for
citizens to get at least a
portion, of any record
that exists in the state."
But - with charges of
police brutality and
the N.C. Personnel Act
i makes the personnel
can i dc reiw .otner improprieties on
, the rise around the coun
' try, the question takes on
of.
records of public
ficials private.
But David Crump, a
N.C. Deputy ; Attorney
Shaw is president of ; House, one by v the
Shaw Food Services and Lieutenant Governor, ,
a member of the state's! and five y ex-officio 1
Small Business Ad-! members. .. .
of what can be done, the , : General, said in a recent
NAACP Is expanding its ;
goals to increase political ;
; participation of blacks
not only in uaioorne j
County, but in all of
Mississippi and .the na
tion," she said,..' I
explosive implications.
Historically, citizens
around the country have
tried to establish review
boards as a check and'
interview the police can balance against excesses'
release a copy of a by the police, but with af
citizen's complaint when i notable lack of success, i
it is made, and before it For the most part.
is filed in tne othcer's cons hate the idea. Thv
personnel record. , , contend that ; non-,
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