The Chronicle 76Th Year, No

The Chronicle 76th Year, No. 129 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Tuesday, April 7, 1981 Duke Power's rate hike sparks city council ire By Alison Seevak National Council of Senior on the side of the consumer." The Durham City Council Citizens, "I am aware that Duke Power voted last night to send the Reed quoted from Duke needs an increase . but the North Carolina Utilities Power's earnings statements right thing is to oppose it," said Commission a statement for 1979 and 1980. He stressed Eula Miller, president of the expressing its concern about that Duke Power reported a net Coordinating Council of Senior Duke Power Company's income of $311,091,000 for 1980, Citizens. A number of senior proposed 19.7 percent electric up from $274,760,000 in 1979. citizens who can't afford to rate increase. The utilities Earnings per share of common "loan" money to Duke Power commission will hold hearings stock were $3.08 in 1980 and will suffer, she said. in June. $2.88 in 1979. Dividends on Jeffrey Wyckoff, a representa The city council adopted the common stock were $1.95 in tive from the People's Alliance, resolution after hearing from 1980 and $1.83 in 1979. called the rate increase representatives of various civic "Duke Power cannot justify "unjustified" and "unsound groups. putting this heavy burden on its economic policy." "The increase is a result of consumers," Reed said. Those "They're breaking our backs greed more than need," said on fixed incomes, particularly by stacking up rate hike STAFF PHOTO Samuel Reed, president ofthe the elderly, will suffer, he added. increases," he said. James Dickey ...noted poet speaks at Duke. Durham chapter of the He urged the council to "stand "Although the motion passed expresses the concern of the council, it will not have any great effect on anything," CE. Dickey enthralls 300 with poems, tales Boulware, president of Durham By Christopher S. Smith sometimes genteel and always Laughing along with Dickey at evoked the freedom of racing on Congregations in Action and James Dickey, author of emotional Southern drawl the fantasy, the audience the country roads with Junior, former member of the city Deliverance and one of traceable to his "native north became part of the "second and had the audience wishing council, said after the meeting. America's leading poets, read Georgia," Dickey read seven world of life, of sleep and to free Junior so it could fly with Ideally, a motion instructing several of his works at Duke last poems and an extended scene dreams," that Dickey had him some more. the city attorney to intervene in night and demanded more ofhis from the novel Deliverance. spoken of in his preface to the the proposed increase should audience than simple attention. poem. The prefaces and independent have been enacted, he said. stories with which Dickey laced Dickey, whose popularity The poems included a derives mainly from the movie his reading had the audience "shamelessly sentimental In another selection, from "a laughing and wondrous for the A motion instructing the city Deliverance, read before an doggerel" created for and with big book about the South" attorney to intervene in the appreciative crowd of 300 in entire hour-and-a-half presenta his grandson, Tucker. "The called Jericho, Dickey took the tion. increase was voted down by the Social Sciences. His appearance Hunt of Tucky," a dream-fable audience along on a trip with council. The motion to show its was part of the Archive's 1981 of hunting adventures from "Junior Sprewel," a good-ole- The writer continued his concern wa William Blackburn Literary "the time in childhood just boy bank robber and fast-car "explications, explanations substitution. Festival. before it becomes impossible to driver. Dickey did this by and explorations" in a selection Reed agreed that the council's Dickey's critical acclaim, con the child." Dickey paused as "asking the audience to become from Puella, a new collection action was insufficient, saying however, is for his poetry, and it he reached the end of each invisible," placing them in the Dickey said would be published that the city attorney should was on that form that he couplet, allowing the audience front seat of the car and, later, next fall. have been asked to intervene. concentrated. In an easy, to complete the rhyme. in jail with Junior. Dickey See Dickey on page 6 See Increase on page 6 U.S. agency stalls Greensboro investigation First of two stories 17 decision by an all-white jury "We're in the process of doing By Jon Rosenblum of six men and six women: an investigation into whether On a balmy afternoon less justice had not been served. And or not the federal government than five months ago, students they agreed what needed to be has jurisdiction," Mickey and activists from North done: demand a U.S. Justice Michaux, U.S. attorney for the Carolina Central University Department investigation. middle district of North poured into the Durham streets Since the protests calling for Carolina, said in an interview to express outrage at the an investigation, the most Wednesday. Michaux and "Greensboro decisions" — six conspicuous government officials from the civil rights Ku Klux Klan and Nazi reaction has been silence. The division of the Justice members found innocent of Justice Department still is Department will make the final charges they murdered five debating whether to file federal decision whether or not to file members of the Communist charges against the Klansmen, federal charges. Workers Party at an anti-Klan Nazis and officials the CWP rally Nov. 3, 1979. claims conspired in the In order to make that At Duke, students held a shootings. decision, Michaux said he has silent vigil and delivered The only continuing investiga been reviewing "number one, speeches in a campus-wide tion of what happened Nov. 3, what the courts have decided [in show of concern. Main quad 1979, is in Greensboro where the past] and number two, the resounded with inspired and attorneys for the Greensboro best route to take. angry voices. Justice Fund have pressed "This is not a clear-cut civil At Duke, at NCCU, at the ahead with a $37 million suit rights situation. This is two University of North Carolina- against 88 organizations and groups of people who fought Chapel Hill, at N.C. A&T, the individuals they say helped each other. There weren't any protestors cried out about what bring on the Greensboro racial overtones." MOURNING INJUSTICE...a number of demonstrations had not happened with the Nov. shootings. See Officials on page 4 marked the announcement of the Greensboro verdict. Page Two The Chronicle Tuesday, April 7, 1981 OurWorld A rally on main quad will be held 12:30 p.m.-2:30 will present a 10-minute speech and then the floor will Teller to lecture on energy p.m. Wednesday. There will be several speakers at the be open for questions. The forum was prompted by the rally followed by an open microphone. Among the response to the PISCES survey. Nuclear physicist Edward Teller will give the 21st speakers will be James D. Barber, James B. Duke Fritz London Memorial Lecture at 8:15 p.m. tonight in professor of political science; the Rev. Bill Finlaytor, Gross Chemical Laboratory Auditorium. He will from the North Carolina Civil Liberties Union; and speak about "Energy From Heaven and Earth." Pat Bryant, associate editor of Southern Exposure ASDU to discuss professors Teller, a native of Budapest, Hungary, and currently magazine. Other Duke professors, Duke students and a senior research fellow at the conservative Hoover members of the Durham community are scheduled to The ASDU legislature meets tonight in 136 Social Institute at Stanford University, came to the United speak at the rally. Sciences at 7 p.m. to discuss, with Ernestine Friedl, States in 1935. In 1942, he joined the Manhattan Bruce Cameron, a national foreign policy lobbyist dean of Trinity College and Arts and Sciences, the Project and was involved in the development of the for Americans for Democratic Action and a Latin subject of evaluating teachers and a bill concerning American atomic bomb. American specialist, will speak about "U.S. physics professor John Kolena. Nominations for new Teller has played an important role in developing Involvement in El Salvador" 3:30 p.m. Friday in 226 legislative officers will also be taken tonight. peaceful uses of nuclear reactions, safety measures for Perkins. nuclear energy and wind power energy. He is active in fusion research and plans to publish a book about the subject soon. Senior perspectives solicited The lecture series is named for Fritz London, a Venezualan expert to speak professor at Duke from 1939 until his death in 1944. Seniors! It's your last chance to share some senior London was considered one ofthe founders and most perspectives, to take a long look back and put together successful theoreticians of modern physics. Marcel Roche, from the Venezuelan Institute for the memories. These senior perspective columns Scientific Research, will speak about "Social and should be no more than 300 words, typed neatly and Historical Trends of Science in Latin America" 8:15 double spaced. They are due no later than Wednesday, p.m. Wednesday in Gross Chemical Auditorium. He is April 15,'in the Aeolus box, 301 Flowers. We will try to founder and former director of the Venezuelan run all submissions in the last Aeolus, April 22. El Salvador vigils continue Institute. Discussions about American involvement in El Salvador will continue this week on campus.

Load more