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Mm, I1UVOIIIUUI ' $ UV/V, VfMM.VWVV.^ w*. a black runs in mayor s race CHARLOTTE (AP) ? Two decades ago Harvey Gantt became the first black to enter Clemson University. Now Gantt, a 40-year-old architect, is seeking to become the first black mayor of North Carolina's largest city. One poll says he's got the edge but his campaign manager said. "I think the race will be close." Gantt, a Democrat, is running against a white Republican, PH pAOPAr?lr \iyhr\ HpcrriKpc ac a 4 4nr\mnaccinnntp L'W A VUVVWI\( ?? IIV V4V JV1 IfV^ IlllliOVI A ll.J U VVIIipUOJIVIIUlV conservative." The candidates, both members of the city council, differ primarily on their approach to development, with Gantt saying the city government should control it and Peacock saying development should be allowed to take its own course. But Peacock says the turnout will make the real ditterence tomorrow. "If the turnout is more than 50 (percent of the voters) overall or less than 40, Haivcy wins, based on what I've been told," the Republican candidate said. "Harvey needs to get one out of every three white votes cast to win," he said. "It's that simple." Neither candidate has made race an issue in the campaign to replace Eddie Knox as mayor of Charlotte, a booming commercial and idustrial center of 325,000 people. Blacks represent 23 percent of the registered voters and Democrats outnumber Republicans more than 2 to 1. Knox isn't seeking re-election because he is running for governor. Gantt graduated with honors in 1965 from Clemson. He had entered under a court order in 1963, after suing the school for racial discrimination. The segregated school had refused to admit him as a transfer student. Gantt, who has a master's degree in urban planning from MIT and is a partner in an architecture firm, ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic mayoral nomination in 1979. Peacock is a 41-year-old insurance agent. City tries seat belt bribery NATCH ITOCHE, l.a. (AP) ? Uncle Sam is spending $82,000 here to find out if bribery is the best way to encourage motorists to wear seat belts. The grant comes to $6.50 for every man, woman and child in this city of 12,500, which didn't have a single traffic death last year. Natchitoches is the smallest of six cities in a federal program to determine the best way to persuade motorists to buckle up. The money will be spent to hire people to stand at the town's 23 traffic lights and pass out prizes, including McDonald's restaurant gift certificates, to those who are properly strapped in. "It's sort of a bribery thing," said Marva Cunningham, the project's coordinator. "But if they get in the habit, maybe they'll stick with it." In addition, the names of residents seen wearing seat belts will go into a monthly drawing for $25 gift certificates at local stores. Then there will be a grand-prize drawing at the end of the two-year program for a trip abroad. The actual cost of the program is $43,000, which will come from federal funds administered by the state. Another $39,000 in federal money has been budgeted to evaluate the results. Firm files suit against TVA CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) ? The contractor for the Tennessee Valley Authority's $180 million solar office complex has filed a $270,000 suit against the federal agency. Blount Brothers Corp. of Montgomery, Ala., filed the suit Thursday in U.S. District Court, contending TVA has refused to pay for rock blasting, rock removal and excavation. The suit seeks $28,252 for rock blasting work, $41,660 for removing the rock and $200,000 in damages for work and expenses resulting from unexpected rock found during excavation. During excavation, the contractor said, it had to use small hand drills and bring in different equipment than planned when it encountered rock surfaces not listed in TVA's soil reports. The suit contends TV A owes $12 per cubic yard for the rock removal. Construction on the downtown Chattanooga comples ^gan in December 1980 and was originally scheduled completion in April 1984, but last June the d^ was pushed back io November 1984. TV A has crit?^|/ecj the contractor for lax management of the ^Oject and failure to meet contractural obligations, while Blount Brothers contends it's been plagued by lack of information, lack of solutions to problems and late approval of plans. TVA gnerates electricity for most of Tennessee and neighboring parts of Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. | USC today s CULTURAL SERIES ? "The Pirates of Peni zance."Township Auditorium. 8 p.m. INTRAMURAL ? Flag football playoffs continue. Blatt Physical Education fields. RH FILM ? Trailers of both good and bad movies. 7, 9:30 p.m. Free. WirE Southern Be (AP) ? Southern Bell Co., already charging telephone rates above state approved levels, will argue for a record $134 million rate increase today as the second phase of hearings on the request open. The request before the Public Service Commission would raise the bills of Southern Bell's 658,000 residential customers at least $2.60 more than they now pay. The average monthly residential telephone rate approved by the PSC is $12.80, but customers actually are pay ing jio.zd, wnicn includes 3>J.45 in bonded rates Bell continues to charge while it appeals earlier commission rulings. RATES FOR Bell's 85,000 business customers would also go up. Average bills would be $45.60 ? $2.70 higher than the current bonded rate of $42.90 and $9.50 higher than the PSCspproved rates of $36.10. Bell officials argue that shrinking profits ? caused by increased competition and "inadequate" rate in Grenada protest Members of the Anti-imperialist Contingei in downtown Chicago. More than 100 peo in front of the building. '.^PY-nPiitral' ii w #% V? L va BR (AP) ? Approval of "sex-neutral" rr South Carolina Insurance Commisssion large number of companies will be able t< differentiate between the sexes. The commission approved 90-day use < premiums and benefits for life insurance employer-related group policies. "We expect most companies that wr employers will go to this," jQhr chief insurance commmic;jl0ner -phe ta mortality charts f<37 m,>n ancj worrien to < listing TH? MEASURE was approved on ar the commission will ask it be made General Assembly returns in Janu Jackson optimi MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ? The Rev. Jesse Jackson, kicking off his campaign Friday in the birthplace of the civil rights movement, predicted - victory in Alabama's presidential primary through a racially split vote. "If we go to vote in March, we can win Alabama," the newly announced Democratic candidate told more than | 2,000 cheering students at predominantly black Alabama State University. Quoting from the Bible and shouting like a preacher, Jackson said he had no chance of capturing the Democratic presidential nomination unless blacks ? particularly young 1 _ ill wants rate creases from the PSC ? have "created an urgent need for improved earnings in this state." But 11 intervenors, including the PSC staff and the state Consumer Advocate's office, oppose a large part of the increase. Bell's request has been broken down into two areas ? $84 million in increased residential and business charges and services and $50 million in "access charges" to residential and business customers as well as competing long-distance phone companies. THE PSC already has held a hearing on the access-charge request. No ruling has been issued, but the state Consumer Advocate's office opposed $1.8 million in access charges to residential and business customers. The commission will consider the remaining $84 million request during hearings over the next three weeks. The increases in residential and business line charges would produce a total of $61 million in additional X>Ww **'' it protest President Ronald Reagan's invasion C pie attended the demonstration and rally Saturday isurance rates c V lortality tables by the eliminating the use o uiui rvj 11IV. nidi L111IV a type U1 1115UI cUlLC I(ll< 3 use tables that don't Approval cam^ att( cent U ^ Supreme C 3f the charts in setting employer to make c companies tha_*'wrlte benefits derived fro Richards said. We life insurance for He said life insurar 1 Bichards, deputy standard might be a bles combine existing premiums and benefi derive a "sex-neutral" sex and age. Richarc eliminate the probler The state lnsuran i emergency basis, and overall 18.3 percent i permanent when the ty and physical dai ary. A federal bill Office. istic about Alaba blacks ? registered to vote. "Previous generations fought to get equal protection under the law, our challenge is to fulfill the law," "Jackson said. "We must demand a return on our investment." Jackson invited students who had not registered to vote to march down the gymnasium aisle and stand at the foot of his podium. As dozens came forward to confess they hadn't registered, Jackson told them they could be the salvation of his candidacy. "Reagan won Alabama by 17,(XX) votes in 1980. There were 266,000 unregistered blacks. We can win," increase revenues, while another $23 million would be generated from increased charges for various services. These higher service charges would include connections for new or additional equipment, pay telephone use, emergency interruptions on a line, local and long-distance information and interchange channels (where an answering service, for instance, can answer a number from a different phone). PSC orders in both parts of the rate case are due Feb. 12. BELL SAYS it needs the $84 million to produce a 16.5 percent return on L'(.Mil III U II cijuiiy, int am u u ii i stockholders receive in dividends and reinvestment in the company. The Consumer Advocate's office recommends a 14.5 percent return on common equity and additional revenues of only $14.3 million. The PSC staff has suggested a range of between 13.75 and 15.25 percent return on equity but has not set a dollar figure on the amount of the increase. IIP ft*;. Photo by Johnny Boggs irenada in front of the Oaley Center afternoon near a Picasso sculpture lain approval f sex and differences in setting any ;s '.o oefore congress, Richards said, sr several firms voiced concern over a re^ourt ruling that makes it illegal for an :ontributions to a pension plan if the >m those contributions differ by sex, ice companies had worried that the same ipplied to their industry, which sets its I r V\ i f m ? rt 11# 11 1 ( U r> ? > rt i /> K l r iia uy iiiuiiaiuy uiuits iiiai vmy uuui uy is said the new ''blended" table should ce Department also has approved an ncrease in commereial automobile liabilinage rates for the Insurance Services ma primary Jackson said. Jackson, who officially announced his Democratic candidacy Thursday, said seven white Democrats have entered Alabama's presidential preference primary next March, and the crowded field should help his chances of winning delegates. "In the presidential primary in Alabama in 1984, there will be eight candidates running," he said. "All eight will hit the state on the same day, and I will win." Jackson said, however, his campaign is not a one-man show, its real purpose, he said, is to get blacks running for every office from the courthouse to the statehouse.