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Special To Tbs Po*| *, ^ By Optimist Park { I Commanlty Organisation ;i Member* of the Optimist Park Community Organisation have decided to upgrade and beautify ; their neighborhood by the dem olition of several abandoned {Buildings In the neighborhood, -dwned by landlords who live elsewhere. Several pf..theae {buildings have stood empty for years and are not onfy eyesores '.but a haven for rats and'street {people. • the organization Is approach- . {ing these landlords one-at a {time and asking them ter tear 4helr unsightly and hazardous {buildings down. ;, The first property owner ap ^property records as 2818 Beat dies Fora Road, met with mem ;bers of OPCO. and within. 24 ‘hours had begun to tear down <«n abandoned store at tht ccjr- * ;ner of Davldaon and ,18th •Streets. This building was a .landmark In the neighborhood: 'Its doors and-windows-were gone, a car had run Into It and knocked a hole In the brick wall. , and It was filled with trash and mother debris such as old mat tresaea, parts of appllan ces. etc. The neighborhood was delight . «d that Mr. Campbell cooperat ■ ed in removing this eyesore. .‘ . The second property owner, ; Ms. Angeleks Kostakes of 401 .Queens Rd.. did not come to meet with the residents but sent # messenger in her place whose name eras Father Theodore, a member of the local Greek . 4 ■ Orthodox community. Father Theodore Indicated that, Ms. Kostakes was too old to come out but that she would be glad Septima Clark Continued From Page 1A the same board two decades lat She worked at the Hfghlander Folk School in Tennessee in the " late 1950s and later was active In the. school's citizenship edu cation program which sought to v teach blacks to read and write well enough to pass literacy . Mrs. Clark accompanied King , .to Norway In 1964 when he re cetvea tne Nobel Peace prize. : She received numerous hondvs herself including a Living Lega ' the Palmetto from Riley in 1982. ; The latter Is the highest award the state can give a civilian. Her autobiography “Echo In My Soul" was published in 1962. In 1974. she was elected to the Charleston County School Board and, during a later inter view. said she tried to be ‘the conscience of the board." “You're not working with a piece of clay that you can mash and figure and fix your way," she ' said. “You’re working with a hu-. man being who has a mind of I his own and who you have to see ’that he thinks in the right direc rtidn." •• g Martin, Jordan Spar For Gubernatorial Vote [[ Continued From Papa 1A ►[gram but had considered It ^flawed In the earlier stages. [1 Martin's Department of Com -[merce put forward a "Blueprint \4ar Economic Development." ;anri the Jordan-appointed Com i mission on Jobs and Economic [[Growth crafted Its own leglsla ■ ;uve program. [• Jordan said hts plan was more detailed than Martin's, although the governor said they dliMed little and endorsed some of the Jordan commission's proposals, Including creation at a Rural Ec onomic Development Center. ; They did disagree over offering ■taxIncentives to hue Industry to deprived areas of the state. With Jordan's backing, the Legisla ture voted to give Income tax credits to businesses that create [new Jobe In the 20 poorest coun ties. Martin said that would :puntsh Ineligible companies and set a bad precedent > Jordan and his allies repeated Jy criticized Martln'e eWmomtc development efforts, pouncing on the closure of several plants Therenre, of the dOspstsd property located on the Corner of Darideon slid 18th 8t. responded to ths far residents of Optimist Park to tear this building down as she could not afford to do so. Ms. Kostakes owns two buildings adjacent to each other on the comer of Brevard and 18 th Streets, and It is the one on the comer, an abandoned store, that residents want removed. They are also unhappy with k group called Hie Club which rents the building next door - they would like Ms. Kostakes to And another renter such as pos sibly a grocery store that would be an asaet to the neighborhood rather than bringing In people who make noise late at night and litter the nearby lots with beer cans. Residents feel that It Is the responsibility of Ms. Kos takes as the property owner to attend to her property rather than turning the responsibility over to the Optimist Park resi dents^ l V . v A third property, an aban doned house at 1304 North Day Idson Street, is boarded up but ^_I provide services throughout the West Trade-Beattlea Ford area once the project establishes it self. Majeed said. V The dijt of Charlotte has ear marked $400,000 In start-up money for the Incubator. Majeed. said, and a committee headed by former Mayor Harvey Gantt and NCN8 senior vice president Joe a Martin Is leading efforts to raise ' Mother $150,000 for opera tions and equipment. The Jundraislng effort has Al ready passed the $35,000 math j and local organizations are ex pected to add grantoto toe eflbrt tee) . ..... "It'll be a total team effort" Ma Jeed said of the project, which Is expected to produce new Jobs In the black community the mo ment it becomes functional. "What (the incubator) is pro viding is below-market Kents, computer access and secretarial < services" for minority-owned businesses. Majeed said. "It U Blacks Seek Rule Changes FAYETTEVILLE CAP) — The Fayetteville Cumberland County Black Democratic Caucus h«« asked the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners to change the way commissioners are elected. f In a Dec. 3 letter, the black cau-1 cus asked the mnunlialonetn to] change the cotinty board from an at-large system to district* representation. It also asked that the board be expanded from live to seven members. A substantial number of white voters In Cumberland County refuse'' to vote lor quali fied black candidates which re- s suits In black candidates being defeated and the black commu nity being under-represented on the Board," the letter said. "The black vote Is simply not strong enough to overcome the persis tence of white voters to vote for white candidates." The letter, signed by Glorious U« Fowler, a secretary of the black caucus, said the change would result In two or three of the seven commissioners elected by district being black. Jim Wicker, assistant director of the Institute of Government, said in North Carolina 51 coun ties elect their county represenr tatives at large. 42 have adopts*) some form of district nominal tlon or election; and seven offgg. some combination of at-large and district elections. Voting districts can be changed either through legislative action of the General Assembly or a ref erendum by county residents. Wicker said. A referendum would first have to be approved by, the county commissioners. Commissioners said Tuesday that they had mixed reactions to the request. Commissioner Virginia Oliver said she believed Cumberland Ceunty is small enough to func tion well under the current, at large system. She said black candidates in the recent paat have not had difficulty getting elected.- - A-*, and the decision of fUR-Nnbtsco to move Its corporate headquar ters to Atlanta from Winston Salem. ....“We have a silting governor who doea Just that _ he stt4 while thousands of workers lose their Jobs." Ken Eudy, executive director of the state Democratic Party, repeatedly said. Martin retorted that he appre ciated Democrats' raising the Is sue. saying It shone the spotlit on hla “excellent" economic record. He mid thousands more Job# had been creeled than last Later, Martin and Jordan clashed over how to finance a major' school construction pro For awhile, both supported a major bond issue, which the Senate approved. But when the House balked. Jordan aban doned bonds and put forward hla own program. An angry Martin blasted Jordan at a news confer ence. saying he had "punted on second down and long yardage." Being called Ineffective' by this governor Is like being called ugly by a frog." Jordan fired back. i $ C*. •Cute.- Martin said. Jack Hawke, state COP chair man. Jumped Into the fray, say ing Jordan was "more of a wimp than I thought. . , Eventually. Jordan, ami Hopae Speaker Liston Ramsey nego tiated a plan to raise $3.2 billion over 10 years for schools. In cluding $830 mlljlon la new sev enue through • I'perfcent'fln crease in the corporate Income tax. Martin said the plan was in adequate and ppfXfosJ an unne cessary tax boost, JI * • . VT(’ilif'v^r* - 'vi*' ‘-‘ t gff' j ~JL Hazel Eyes? Contact Lenses Can Change The Brown Eyes Your Parents Gave You T< Blue, Green, Hazel, Aqua, Or Even New Sanhire. This Vmt rHvo _» I NEEDED A JOB... SO I * DID SOMETHING ABOUT • wrr* 'rN->; : ** 4 "l ENROLLED IN THE MICROCOMPUTER m OPERATOR Vm SP PROGRAM AT RUTLEDGE... NOW I'M LEARNING A LIVING" SPECIALIZED TRAINING cr • Day and Evening Classe, • Financial Aid Available foi • Small Classes - Job Ptacemei«Kg&: rm Ready For A Jo _ACCREDITED MEMBER AICS I nevertheless has people Illegal ly living In It. This house has caught fire once before, and . . neighbors are afraid this will happen again. They have con tacted the owners. A. P. and Donna L. Preston of Inverness, Florida, and asked them to tear it down and sell it to Habitat for Humanity. ;? IT-- I
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