The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 07, 1983, Page 2, Image 2
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.