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Taxi from page AI tion and peace of mind when travel ing by taxi and not to penalize would-be entrepreneurs. "It w-as felt by the board that the minimum level of coverage was inadequate to cover the cost of dam ages today," Brent McKinney said. * Taxicabs are also more prone to costly accidents because they are on the road for as many as 20 hours a day, McKinney said. But other major cities in the state have not followed suit - at least not yet. Al Moore, the taxi inspector for the city of Greensboro, says taxicabs there are only required to be insured for the state minimum. Moore says he doesn't believe the city council has any immediate plans to change the liability rates tor cabs in Greensboro. Charlotte also only requires the state minimum, according to Taxi Inspector Joanne Miller. Miller added that the possibility of increas ing the minimum did come up at a recent city council meeting. As recently as a year ago, Win ston-Salem's Public Transportation Safety Committee reviewed and turned down a request to lower the rates. McKinney says a $3,000 per year insurance premium is doable for even the smallest of cab companies. According to McKinney, small companies can work out a "dis patch" agreement, in which the smaller company would pay a fee to have some of a larger company's business channeled to them. Larger cab companies also offer potential cabbies the option of leas ing taxis for a daily fee. But Allen Lewis, owner of Lewis Cab Co., says he'd never be able to prosper if he has to rely on another company for his business. "If someone is dispatching calls to me. how do 1 know that they are going to be fair," he said. "No one is going to give you all his business." ' * Many of the cab, owners are Unabashedly pointing the finger of blame at not only the city but ajso WinstOn-Salem's oldest and best " known taxi company. Blue Bird Cabs. They say Blue Bird - which has always insured its cabs at the city's current rate convinced city officials to hike insurance rates under the guise of public safety. But, they say, the company wanted the higher rates to kill off smaller competitors. Herman "Duffy" Mazzeo, who's been the owner and president of Blue Bird for the last three years, says his critics are dead wrong. He said his intentions ^have always been to raise the bar for the industry. "It has nothing to do with*com petition. I am not in a war with any body," he said. "I'm trying to raise, our standards." Mazzeo says that when the board of aldermen was floating the idea of the insurance hike, he told city staffers that it would be a good idea. He says the states minimum just do not offer the type of protection that consumers expect. "You take Ali Shabazz...What if he picks up an executive from Pied mont Airlines and they get into an accident. What is a measly $25,000 going to do for that (executive) and his family?" Mazzeo said. But Mazzeo adds that it's also the city government s responsibility not to allow too many cabs on the streets. He says if the city doesn't use some type of controls to reduce the number of cabs, the qualify of the taxi business could deteriorate. . Mazzeo claims that he runs background and random drug test on all drivers who operate his cabs to insure that all of them are up to par. He says by using such safeguards he has been able to lower his insurance premiums Mazzeo says if anyone is being bullied in this controversy, it's him. He says he is prepared to take Willard's Cab Company - his arch rival in this market - to civil court for property damage. Mazzeo claims that the compa ny's owners were involved in the van dalism of several of his cabs The incident was investigated by tbe police, but the District Attorney's office concluded that there was no link to Willard's Coy Willard - the owner of the company - denies any involvement with the incident. Willard - whose father started the company five years ago after leaving his job of 25 years at Blue Bird - is one of the six owners ask ing for lower rates * Although he has more than 50 cabs and claims to be the largest cab wt>i|yu>i^ ui vnv m? u HMV IIIUI Mazzeo also claims, Willard says he is supporting the decrease to help out the little guys. "I don't see how the small com panies survive," he said. "We try to help our competition out." Willard said he thinks the city is helping Mazzeo recreate a monop oly for Blue Bird, and he says he is sick of it. "There isn't a taxi war, but there is a taxi conspiracy, and its between the city and Blue Bird," Willard said. Willard said he is contemplating lodging some type of compliant of his own to address what he contends is a cozy relationship between the two. "People use us (cabs) to get out there, to get their food and to sur vive. It's not fair to them. The public isn't making the insurance go up, the city is," Willard says. Vivian Burke - an alderwoman and chair of the Public Transporta tion Safety Committee - says she has asked Assistant City Manager Tom Griffin and McKinney to gath y" er data on accidents involving taxi cabs Burke says she wants to know if the accidents arc a widespread problem or merely isolated cases! She hps also asked Griffin to poll other board members to see if there is enough support to bring the issue back to the table. Shabazz is keeping his fingers crossed. He says he is old enough to remember when several minority owned taxi companies flourished here during the era of segregation. Those companies began to fall * one by one in the late 60s - casual ties of integration. Shabazz - who has added a white camel to the doors of his cab to pay tribute to the legendary Camel City Cab Co. - says although he is fighting a totally dif ferent battle, he fears that the results will be the same. "My goal is to have 12 operators working for me," he said. "The other independents want to branch out too...We just pn't afford it." 364th frontpage A2 The troops disobeyed rules at the segregated service club, broke into equipment rooms and visited Centreville, a nearby town of only 1,200 citizens, "with an air of defi ance," Kryder said. In May 1943, a soldier from the regiment was shot and killed on a Centreville street by a white sheriff who had come to the aid of a military police officer. The MP had confronted the soldier for not having a pass. Tension peaked in early July when hundreds of 364th soldiers crashed, a dance at a Service club for blacks, coming in through win dows in order to avoid an entrance fee. The regimental guard, mili tary police and a battalion of the 99th Division were needed to quell the disturbance that followed. The Army's Inspector General looked into the unrest at the Mis sissippi base and found that "Negro troops voiced consider able resentment toward Jim Crow laws and the attitude 6f wt civilians." The Inspector General's inv ligation found civilian attitik toward black troops also pose? "danger of racial disturbance However, it found relatii between black and white spldi to be generally good. The IG's report noted I there were no major disturban among the other 3,653 bh troops at the camp, and called 364th a "threat to the don peaceful conditions at camp > Dorn." One of the biggest complai by the soldiers was that they w not getting their fair share of cc bat assignments and were rca ing little credit for the fight they did. "In the news notes and cc mentaries on battles overseas, seldom see or hear anything ab Negro soldiers," one black off is quoted as saying in the repot Some things, Blatcher not never change. Blue Bird Cab* and other large tab companiei have an unfair when it come* to ktturanee rate*, toy* WSard Cab Co. owner Coy IWard, "...there w a taxi comtpirarcy and it* bOiwn the aty and Blue Bird," he gold. <*&?/TRIPLE STRENGTH for severely breaking hair ... my hair has grown 3" - 4" since I've started using DOO GROI L. Jones 0i I Mtdlcitod I Hair Vltalizar U Triple Stfngtti Pi?l"Ul?lMglwi^h?Wn. Discover what so many already knowI Guaranteed Results Use the whole family of OOO GRO* produt ? Triple Strength Medicated Hair Vltallzer ? Extra Light Original Medicated Hair VKali; ? Anti-Itch Medicated Hair Vttaliaer ? Creme Complex? Medicated Hair Vital la ? Tingling Growth Shampoo wen dandruff conn ? Growth Repair Conditioner ? Leave - In Growth Treatment ? Deep Down? Intonee Penetrating Conditio! AvaiiaDie at mesa area oeauty supply stores BMuty World 3427 N Patt*r*on Ave Winston SaUam BMuty World . A.. 676 Patar* Creek Pkwy .. 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The documents can be reviewed at i Forsyth County public libraries, each municipal town hall, the Not Carolina Department of Transportation Division 9 office at 21. Cloverdale Avenue, and the City of Winston-Salem Department Transportation office (Room 380) in City Hall, 101 N. Main Street Winston-Salem. All request for appropriate auxiliary aids and services to review ai comment on the draft MTIP and the draft air quality report should made to Greg Errett, City of Winston-Salem Department of Trar puliation, P.O. Box 2511, Winston-Salem, NC 27102 or by phone (336) 727-2707, TDD 727-8319. ONLY WRITTEN COMMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED. TE DEADLINE IS MONDAY MARCH 1, 1999 AT 5:00 P.M. Written comments may be mailed or faxed to: Loretta Barren, TP Secretary, City-County Planning Board, P.O. Box 2511, Winsto Salem? NC 271-2. Fax Nuitiber (336) 748-3163. The TAC will review both documents at their Wednesday February and Wednesday March 24, 1999 meetings. The general public encouraged to attend the TAC meetings, which will be held in the 21 Floor Council Chambers of City Hall, 101 North Main Street in Wi ston-Salem. The TAC meetings will be held at 4:15 p.m. Take your education higher We're committed to diversity. UNCA offers: ? Programs to help students of color succeed academically and socially ? Nationally recognized academic programs ? Small classes, close faculty-student contacts ? A quality education at a reasonable cost Join us for a Reception near you Thursday, Feb. 4,1999 - ? 7 p.m. ? Brookstown Inn, Winston-Salem i <? , * * u ?.# For reservations or more information, please call the Office of Admissions 828/251 -6481 or 1-800/531-9842 (toll free in n.C.) Visit our home page at http://www.unca.edu UNcS t>* owivimrrr or No?th Cajuxxa at ajmtvtu i 1999 Arts Council - CAMPAIGN r KICKS-OFF Wednesday, February 3, 1999 Art Is Lite Support The Arts! ARTS COUNCIL Ecumenical service Special to THE CHRONICLE As hundreds of people across the city gathered Jan. 18 for com memorative celebrations of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, two churches ? one black, one white ? gathered for their own celebration. First Baptist Church and Wake For est Baptist Church joined each other for, an evening of fellowship and sharing, Monday evening at the Hawthorne Inn. Approximately 200 members from the combined church congregations were in attendance. From 5:30-8:30 p.m. the room was full of energy and optimism. Members dined and discussed vari ous topics and issues. To keep the dialogue going each table was assigned a facilitator, selected from one of the two congregations. Par ticipants engaged in "get acquaint ed" activities and each person was encouraged to ask questions and provide feedback. ? Thought provoking discussions 'continued as ideas and suggestion^ ".were generated. Kenneth Siming ?ton, a member of First Baptist, attended the dinner with his wife " .'Velvet and their three children, [Joshua. Julian and Jasmine. Siming -ton says, " the evening was very organized and the informal atmos phere helped to encourage healthy dialogue. It was appropriate to have the dinner on Monday to commem orate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday." The Rev Wendell John son. pastor of First Baptist Church, and the Rev. Richard Groves, pastor ;of Wake Forest Baptist Church, [agreed. They used the occasion to [announce that the two churches will ?hold the dinner annually. As the group reflected on the [King holiday and issues facing our ?community and nation, a common >theme echoed throughout the [evening. As churches and as a body ;of believers in Jesus Christ, the two. ?congregations agreed that they must xio more to exercise their spiritual [authority. If Martin Luther king Jr. The Revs. Wendell Johnson, pas tor of First Baptist Church, and Richard Groves of Wake Forest Baptist Church, lead an open dis cussion between their congrega tions as part of their celebration of the King Holiday. agree. In his 1963 book titled "Strength to Love,*" King writes: "The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recap ture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority." As the evening came to a close, members from both congregations agreed that although barriers can not be tom down with a fellowship dinner, it was a very good start. Sarah Catron of Wake Forest Bap tist Church said, "It was a great opportunity to gain some informa tion and share a meal with other Christians who want very much for the barriers to come down." The fellowship dinner was not the first time the two congregations have come together. The two churches built a Habitat for Humanity house; sponsored joint Youth Ministry activities, joint women's prayer breakfasts, joint book discussions; and worshiped together on a regular basis as God's
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