Blinding Rains And
Wind Hit Durham
By Elson Armstrong, Jr.'
Blinding ' rains, gusty
winds, and even marble-
sized hail swept through :
Durham and much of
Central North Carolina
on Tuesday afternoon;
was flooded. '' ,-.'' -;.'
' '. High winds and heavy
rai ns were ' reported at
the ; Eno River State
Park.
; :. One resident reported
seeing what he thought,
The storm was part of f , may have been, a funnel
a . ; line of . severe cloud (the beginning
thunderstorms - which stage of a tornado) over
were caused : by - what ; f the southern section of
weather people call an Durham just before the
' upper . ' , level .v ipw -.
pressure system' V which
. was moving across the
, state. ' . ::
An upper level low is a
pocket of cold air which
forms at high latitudes
(over 18,000 ft.). While!
temperatures at ground
level in Durham on Tues-
day were approaching 90)
' degrees, Ihe reading in
this pocket of air was
below 12 degrees! Thus,
instability was created
because of the clash bet--"
ween the warm air on the
ground and the cold air
aloft. When such an '
event occurs, it is the
perfect breeding condi-
tion for thunderstorms. :
The storm line ap
proached the Triangle i
area about 2 p.m., when
it passed over Roxboro ,
half-inch size hail was
reported. i
A short time later, the
storm swept
southeastward into
Durham. Some sections .
reported marble-size
hail: The northern areas
of town seemed to be the
hardest hit. '
The parking lot at Eno
Valley Shopping Center1
on North Roxboro Road
main storm hit that area.
The ' storm's " major
fury, which lasted for
about 30 minutes, ripped
tree limbs and blew them
into streets all ; over
Durham. In some cases,
entire small trees were
blown over.
The. heavy rains,
which at times resembled
a hurricane, caused
branches and creeks to
rise rapidly and flood ,
low lying areas such as
Forest Hills Park.
Sharp, vivid lightning,
was also visible during
the height of the squall.
The Sheriffs Depart- .
ment in Warren County ;
reported a small tornado .
which caused some,
damage there.
The storm disrupted a
picnic for Northern ,
High's football team at
Eno River State Park.
Several large tree
limbs were downed in
Burton Park near
McDougald Terrace.
Winds during the
storm in Durham were
estimated to be as high as
50 mph during the height
of the storm. .
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 2r
CAHCUSATlXES-t
More Citizens Complaining
About Missed Garbage
; By Donald Alderman
A southeast Durham
homeowner, ; Nathaniel
Williams, 65, of
Ridgeway Avenue, notic
ed his garbage got picked
Working four 10-hour
days each week, they col
lect nearly six tons . of
garbage per day about
80,000 tons annually.
identified, said more
workers are needed to
curb the frequency of
missed neighborhoods.
Mitchell, not ruling
FARMER SELLS Dt RINC SUMMKR Curnel (Jlenn. a school teacher,
who farms during his lime off spends the summer selling his produce, closes a
closes a sale at.his location in the 2500 block of Fayetteville Street. Phoio b Silas
May field "
Young Farmer Thinks Blacks
Should Stick To Land
By Joseph E. Green
One young Durham
farmer thinks that young
blacks who are leaving
family farms are making
a tremendous mistake.
"Farming '.is the very
backbone of this
nation," said Curnel
Glenn, 25, a farmer who
teaches during the winter
months and sells his crop
during the summer. v
They (young black
Wednesdays,; Glenn is on
his family's 500 acre
farm in Rougemont,
where he and his brother
and his father pick the
crops "that they planted
in March.
From Thursday
through Saturday even
ling, "the young farmer is
on the corner of Fayet
teville and Burlington
with bushel baskets full
: of tomatoes, squash,
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Valentine Wants
Black Support In
Congressional Race
By Joseph E. Green
Tim Valentine cannot
win the fall election for
the 2nd district congres
sional seat without the
solid support of the '
district's blacks and he is
working hard to get'iu;
w-Valentine's first hur
dle is to win the support
of Durham attorney and
businessman H.M.
"Mickey" Michaux!
whom he defeated in a ;
July 29 run-off by 8,000 1
votes. . i
That contest between '
the two Democrats was '
laced with charges of :
race baiting, with'
Michaux supporters and
campaign workers saying
that Valentine, a Rocky
Mount lawyer, made the
color of Michaux's skin '
the major issue in the
election. Michaux is
black. Valentine is white.
Valentine insisted dur
ing an interview that he;
did not make race an
issue. He said that he
had black support in his
home district and that, if
elected, he intended to
, hire blacks for his con
gressional staff in
Washington and bis
district offices.
: ; When asked if he had
- said that the support of
Michaux's following was
viissential-"4o his effort,
Valentine said "yes". :He
added that he thought
that it was crucial if the
. Democrats were to main
tain the 2nd district seat.
"I have offered to
meet with "Mickey"
several times and I have
' not heard anything ffom
him," Valentine said. "I
have no idea why he is
avoiding a meeting. If he
had won the run-off I.
would have met with him
and offered him my sup
port." Sources close to .
Michaux have said that
they do not expect him to
conduct a write-in. It
youths) do nor unders- cabbage; peaches,
tand the value of staying ; watermelons and apples.
on the land, said
Glenn, a North Carolina
A&Ttgraduate who has
been working on his
family's farm since he
was a young boy.
Glenn said that each
year black farmers are
losing acreage. "We. do
not get the same type of
opportunities that the
white farmers do. We do
'. not get the same type p the grocery store. I think
treatment from the
federal agencies that deal
with farmers that they
tdo."
Monday . 'through
Last year Jie taught
agriculture in the
Henderson public school
system.
"The young people
seemed to be afflaid and
ashamed of farming,"
he said, " they wanted to
stay away from it. They
did not understand that
if it were not for the
farmers, they would not
be able to eat."
At the beginning of
the summer, Glenn haul-.
ed his crop in a small
blue car. Now he has a,
large green truck that
acts as his stall.
" I have four sisters
and five brothers,"
Glenn said, "we all '
worked on the farm, k
gives me an extra income
and its a very important
part of my life. I doh't
go to the banks x for
money, I take somexof
mv own money and in-
lt is better for them vest it into what I am do
also." ; imj, it is just that impor-
Glenn graduated from tant to me."
college in 1979 with a
degree in agriculture.
'I sell my produce
cheaper than the super
markets do," said Glenn
as he stood in the blister
ing , afternoon sun.
"Most of my business
comes during the late
afternoon when people
are getting off from
work. The food they get.
here is fresher than what
they can get if they go to
up only once one week
instead of the usual
twice. He later found out
that the Durham Sanita
tion Department 1 was
running a little short of
help that week. V
Another north central
Durham V homeowner
along Oak wood Street
wondered why the gar
bage collection crew was
skipping her house. She
later
crew
tainers up to 32 gallons
in size.
These are but two of
the things that can clog
the sanitation collection
system causing your
garbage and trash to stay
around three or four
days longer.
The large system with
more than 3 1 ,000
residential and 1,500
commercial pick-up
points breaks down oc
casionally, especially
during the summer vaca
tion months, according
to sanitation .officials,
who have noticed a re
cent rise in citizens' com
plaints. About 45 com
plaints are filed daily but
sanitation officials say
that's about right for this
time of the year.
"I wouldn't say it (the
system) works entirely
right every time," says,
sanitation director Bob
Mitchell who has ,
directed the department
since 1976, "but they
try."
The "they" is the col
lection division's nearly
90 employees that break '
down into 22 crews of!
two to three persons,
three supervisors and '
other administrative per
sonnel, operating on an
annual budget of about
$2 million.
On Monday and " out the necessity of more
Thursday, they collect
garbage from the city's
southern half, roughly
: south of Main Street,
while on Tuesday and
Friday, they pick up
trash north of Main
Street.
Each zone has 22
residential collection
routes worked by seven
different crews. Thus
there are three crew
learned that the 'groups with three super-
only empties con- : visors. This format
allows errors to be traced
i back to the responsible
supervisor and crew.
But, as efficient as it
may sound, the system
does break down.
According to Mitchell,
who has been with the ci
ty 32 years, garbage col
lection here doesn't get
off track until eleven
employees are absent at
the same time. That's
enough to cause one or
more of the 22 residen
tial routes to be missed.
When an area is miss
ed, say on a Tuesday,
then the crew responsible
js supposed to work that
area first the next day
before moving to
another side of town,
Mitchell said. But an in-1
formal survey shows that
in most cases, the crew
collects the garbage on
the next scheduled trip,
rather than on the next
day.
Absenteeism hasn't
reached alarming pro
portions, according to
Mitchell, who says he
still wants to see atten
dance improved.
Absenteeism, averaging
about five daily, can be
attributed to injuries,
vacation, sickness or
other leave benefits.
" A sanitation worker
. who asked not to be
employees, pointed more
to the personnel who
relieve the collection
crews when they are run
ning short of help. They
are about eleven workers
who usually wash trucks
and cut grass at sanita
tion's headquarters on.
Camden Road.
M itchell says the crews
attempt to rotate areas to
skip so "we won't be
picking on one
neighborhood."
That calls for good
communication between
the crews. Since the(
crews, except drivers,
work different routes
from time to time,
drivers must tell new
crew members what
areas have been skipped.
In the case of making up
a missed area, the driver
must tell the supervisor
about the missed area
and the supervisor must
tell the crew to work that
area first the next day.
Simply forgetting could
mess up the whole pro
cess. Residents who don't
know the sanitation
department's rules ap
plying to collection can
also cause the system to
break dowti;
For example, if you
'leave more than three
containers of garbage in
your backyard, workers
will pick up only two
unless you put the third
one besiJe the curb. Or,
if you have containers
that hold more than 32
gallons of garbage,
workers will skip your
house, leaving your trash
behind.
Vicious dogs and gar
bage scattered on the
ground will also cause
(Continued onPage ld
the campaign is already
more than $100,000 in
debt. 'vr-r
, Michaux workers in
' counties such as Warren
and Wilson have kept
their headquarters open
and are seriously think
ing of mounting their
own write-n effort on
behalf of Vur can
didate" as he is known
there. But it is unlikely,
according to astute
political observers, that
Michaux will endorse
such an effort. It is also
unlikely that Michaux
will endorse Valentine.
At least not in the near
future.
Valentine said that
Mrliribli Is
tliArp am nmmlnpnt
would be too costly and' biacks involved in his
PLEASE
Lett os K
At LEAST 3 weeks in ADVANCE!
Then we can keep your copy coming without Interrup
tion.' When you don't let us know and we have to wait for the
Post Office to notify us, you miss your copies and we
have to pay 25 C for every copy the Post Office returns to
us.;.' v , ,"
Quite often the Post Office , will not notify us im
mediately that you have even filed an address change j
with them. Sometimes It Is four months before they will l
notify us'and then they will send a big stack of returned i
papers for the same person costing us 25$ each. This '
drives up operating costs. We're asking you to help us'
idld costs down and serve you better at the same time. ,
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Ueineed your old address AND your new address. We
leed the name that appears on your label. If you want
hat changed too, give us the old name AND the new,
lame. Don't forget Zip Cpdes.
. Lett Us m wi
In Advance and well keep up with youl ,
By Donald Alderman
On the first Monday in
December, Roland Leary
becomes Durham Coun
ty's new 'Sheriff, and
already the scramble for
his ABC Chief's job is
heating up behind the
scenes.
'. Though none of the
principals are willing to
comment publicly about
their designs on the posi
tion, sources say there
are two interesting
possibilities . being
discussed. Both would
give Durham a "first" in
law enforcementi
' One possibility is that
Ronald Allen, the city's
only black ABC enforce
ment officer, will follow
Leary to the Sheriff's of
fice as chief deputy.
Allen has said private
ly that he would be in
terested in either the
chief deputy's slot or the
ABC Chief's post,
though he would not say
if he is actively cam
paigning for either job.
Allen as ABC Chief is
the second possibility
campaign efforts, but
said that he could not
release their names
because he did not want
t.3 cause any friction in
the black political com
munity.
' He said that he has not
contacted the Durham
Committee on the Af- '
fairs of Black People,
but that he intended to
contact the Durhami
based organization and
to solicit it's support.
The Durham Committee
is one of the most powerv
ful political organiza-5
tions in the state.
Valentine said that he
has been a supporter of
voting rights legislation
and that his opponent,
Republican Jack Marin,
was - opposed to such :.-;
measures.
I knew blacks in my
district who supported
Michaux and they were
my - friends. "I
. understood that," he
said," "but now I hope
that they will suppqrt me, 1
and I think that they
. 'will. I think that people
will be pleased with me i
as a congressman," he'
added, "all people."
under discussion, accor
ding to sources.
Though the positipn
has not be advertised yet,
!according to ABC Board
General Manager,
William Leathers, filling
the chiefs post is a
relatively simple matter.
It will be done by the
three-member ABC
board.
Leathers said the
board will soon an
nounce an application
period, and will accept
applications from
anyone with the required
law enforcement ex
perience andor educa
tional background
outlined for the job.
Leary, who has been,
with the ABC office for
21 years, the last eight of
them as chief, will take
part in the selection pro
cess and will make a
recommendation to the
board.
The board, whose
members ace appointed
by the Durham County
Commissioners, the
County Board of Health,
and the County Board of
Education, will then
make a decision and set
the new chief's salary.
It is not yet clear
which qualification
education or experience
will have the most
weight in selecting the
new ABC Chief.
'This decision could
largely determine if the
new chief will be hired
among the three current
officers, or from outside
of the office.
Allen, for example,
has been with the ABC
office since February
1977, and had worked
with the sheriffs depart
ment before them
Leathers says he
believes that ABC Assis
tant Chief James A.
Rivers would have "an
inside chance for the
job."
If Rivers, who has
been with the office since
March 1973, gets the
chiefs job, then the
scramble will shift to the
assistant chiefs position.
History is on his side.
Leary was assistant chief
before being named
Chief in1974.
But sources also say
that the ABC office
could undergo a com
plete personnel change,
particularly if Allen and
the other ABC officer,
S.P. O'Brien, follow
Leary to the sheriffs of
fice as some sources sug
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