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In The POST!
THE CHARLOTTE POST
Dedicated To
Good Will Between
The Races!
CHARLOTTE. NORTH CAROLINA 28201-THURSDAY. September 2. 1971 PRICK 10 CENTS PER COPY
Charlotte
Native Die»
Getcherl Carl Caldwell, one
»f Philadelphia's wealthiest
Black businessmen and a pio
îeer in the now popular one -
jour and three - hour dry
cIeanin£T~meifi^>d, «tied last
week at Nazareth Hospital in
Philadelphia following an ill
ness of undisclosed nature.
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He was 57 years old.
A native of Charlotte, Cald -
well started with a single dry -
cleaning plant and built his
business into a successful -
chain of 11 establishments
located throughout North
Philadelphia. His assets were
Kiow Your Black
x'^fflcer
JèwTstfÎMri
John T. Staley le a veteran,
■lth 14 yehra of aerviee· with—
M OterMtt Police Depart -
Loves Community Work
"i ' ^
niunity Relations
_ portion of- his
time ia spent with the Pojjce
Athletic League, which <or -
ganizes and supervises Lit
tie League, Pony League and
Senior League activities dur
ing the summer. This season
more than 300 youths in 20
sections of the city participa
ted in the baseball leagues.
•He attended Reid High School
In Belmont where hé gradua ted
with the claaa of *51 and Saint
Auguatine's College in Ra -
lèigh. Staley is also a grad -
uate of Carver Junior College.
He la married to the former
Misa Velma Davie and has
three children, all boys, Wes -
ley 15, Kevin 13, and Eric
10.
Staley will be involved with
football teams and 20
teams which will
more than 300 youths
They are members of the
University Park Baptist
Church.
worth an estimated half -
million dollars at the time of
his death.
His dry cleaning establish -
ments, known as "Carl's One
Hour Cleaners," enjoyed a -
booming business and he liv
ed, with his family in a fash
ionable home at 10090 Roose -
velt Blvd.
He is survived by his wife,
the former Julia Moreland, a
daughter Cheryl and three
sisters, Mrs. Effie Johnson,
Mrs. Lenora Hennant of Phi
ladelphia and Mrs. Louise
Parham of Cranton, N. J.
Also surviving are two broth
ers, Luther Caldwell and Ham
pton o( Charlotte, and a ije -
phew, Venton "Buddy" Cald -
well of Philadelphia.
"Buddy" Caldwell, whocre
dits his uncle for starting
him in business. ..is—one—ef
Philadelphia's most success
ful housing contractors.
Funeral services will be
held Sunday at 7 p.m. at
Perry's Funeral Home in
Philadelphia.
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Pallbearers were Alexan -
uer nooeris, jonn iNeison,
John Jones, Melvln Johnson,
Phil Tone, Dick Guions. Mit
chell Harding, J. Β. Pinkney
and John Meredith.
Apprtcictio·
Certificate
R A LEIGH ! N. C. - A certifi
cate of appreciation was pre -
sented to Misa Netter L.
Murphy, of Raleigh, North
Carolina, In ceremonies <al
the U. S. Navy Recruiting
Station in Raleigh on August
13.
Miss1 Murphy was employee
during the Summer at the re -
cruiting station un-t?r_ th«
Neighborhood -Youth Corps
Program. .While at thestatior
she assisted personnel it
the Officer Programs ant
• Publicity Sections. GROW Inc
of Raleigh coordinated th<
federally - funded progran
which provided summer em
ployment for underprivilegei
high school students in thi
Raleigh area.
Commander Bruce G. Good
win, Commanding Officer ο
the Navy Recruiting Station
made the présentation.
If You Don't
Read The
Charlotte Post
You Don't
Know What's
Happening!
MISS ANN STURDIVANT . Loves
To Visit All CHlirches In Charlotte.
Ann Sturdivant Is
Ait interviewer with the Em- ·
ploy ment Security Commie * <1
sion has been named "Beauty
of the Week "
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She is Miss Ann Sturdivant,
daughter of Mrs. Irene Stur
divant of îyadesboro. Shé Γ~
- now lives at 1531 - Beatties
/Ford Road.
Miss Sturdivant is a graduate
of McRae High School in
Marven.· She attended Johnso.i
C. Smith University where
ι she earned a degree -in
I Elementary Education.
, Our Beauty is a member of
, the Charlotte Alumni Chap -
. ter of the Johnson C. Smith
I University. Alumni Associa -
. tion and the International As
sociation of Personnel in Em
ployment Security. She serves
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
[ and is affiliated with the
North Carolina State Em -
ployees' Association.
m Miss Sturdivant has lived
here since 1964. Although Me
thodist by denomination,' our
Beauty loves to visit all
churches. She lists as her
hobble* "dancing and listen -
ing to all types of popular mu
sic."
m Miss Sturdivant is 5 - feet,9
l-incnes xaii ana weigne in
pounds.
lodge McMilliai
Orders New
School Hoariig
U. S. District Judge Jamet
McMilllan has set Septembc
the 22nd for a hearing on com
plaints from white parent
and civil rights attorneys ove
the Charlotte Mecklenbur
School desegregation plan
The school»- open Tuesda
under a modified feede
plan adopted by the scho<
boards ■——
The plan is aimed ., ι
Keeping classes together a
they progress through seci
dary and high school gradei
L
White parents from five ■<
the school systems non
side areas contend the at
signment plan Is unfair ar
inequitable to their childri
who would be bussed out ι
their neighborhood all ι
their junior and senioi1 hi|
school years. ·
U.S. Denies
To Eliminate Blacks
Alliance Makes
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Allegations
J
Washington - A high ranking
official of the Federal Postal
Service this week denied allé-,
gâtions that Black employees
were being harassed and "sub
jected to sophisticatedelimin
ation from the new system."'
The charges were made dur
ing aTwo-day hearing initiated
by the National Alliance of
Postal and Federal Employees.
The Alliance is seeking evi
dence from its membership
that Blacks are being harassed
by all levels of management
throughout the entire Postal
Service.
A district official of the pre
dominantly Black independent,
union, which is conducting the
hearing here, said "people are
being laid off by many devious
means'* despite contract pror
visions barring layoffs for two
years.
Although no evidence was
produced of anyone's having
been dismissed, the district
official and> others among the_
25 attending the hearing rejai
ted a number of cases in which
they said. employees were
m )(f ·
7~
They cited euch things as the
„ Infraction of rules governing
I coffee breaks and the use of
■. profanity."
Kenneth Hamilton, vice
president of the union's Wash
ington local accused the Postal
Service of reducing the work
ing hrfurs of substitute clerks,
many of whom are blacks,
as a means of prompting res
ignations. '
r — . .
This was the tactic, he said,
ι rather than^outright dismis -
r sals, that the Postal Service
I was using to trim the work
. n foréë.
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Y BARGAINING AGENTS
r Last January, the alliance
Ί and two other independent un -
ions challenged the right of
the ^even craft unions that
t. negotiated last month's con -
s tract to be the bargaining ag -
«· ents for the postal workers,
ι. The alliance accused manage
ment and the seven craft
►f unions of working "hand in
h glove against Blacks."
• I
d Under the postal reform, it
η is not clear whether th<
>f alliance is still empowered to
>f represent workers. Court
h proceedings initiated by the
alliance are pending.
Ambulance attendances are
making truck-driver Robinson
comfortable shortly after the
tractor-trailer . MrL Robinson
was driving collided with an au
·· tomobile at the corner of Mint
anct- Bland Sts. here Monday. _
Mr. Robinson, who suffen
brôken leg from the acci
says the brakes gave
his trailer. No one
jured in the car. (PI
Peeler)
t,
on"
in
by
I con SiUHvan^
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Black Leader Supports
Nixon's Economic Plan
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NEW ORLEANS, LA . - Rev.
Leon H. Sullivan told a press
conference at the 72nd Na -
tional Elks Convention in New
Orleans that President Nix
on's price - .wage freeze ac
tion was "a good move."
Meeting the press with the
Grand Exalted Ruler of the
Elks, the Honorable Hobson
Reynolds, Rev. Suljtivan"said:
"We had a runaway economy,
a wild horses economy. We
had to put on the reins or we
would' go slam bang over
the cliff."
Dr. Sullivan was in New
„ Orleans to receive the Love -
joy Leadership Award from
the Improved Benevolent'. £
Protective Order of Elks of
the World.
At the press conference. Or.
Sullivan surprised his listen
ers by charging that Mr.
George Meany, President, *
AFL-CIO, "should get his ntf|
er and Board Chairman ofOIC
of America was even more
emphatic. "I am pleased that
the President is taking a trip
to China and hope that he
will help them get into the
United Nations. I also hope
that he can take .a trip to
Mississippi, Louisiana and
Alabama and help get Black
"American citizens into the
United States.
"I am neither for nor
against Mr. Nixon. I am
for America. I am for help
ing poor people get out of
poverty and hungry people get
food to eat and freedom for
Black people. I am for help -
ing Mexican.- Americans.
American .Indians and poor
whites get a fair share of the
American economy.
"Mr. Nixon seems to be
moving In the right direction.
I hope he will continue. We
will be watching and judging
«Éfcim in the next year.
—ill -—ι —IIIU.
the greatest leaders our
race has produced." _
Calling on the
President Nixon to help
to get $100 million to
and place on jobs 100,000'JËÊtf J
employed and under
persons in 100
Sullivan said: "1
phasi/.e the
Nixon has alreactd^^^ to
move in the
but not enough
enough. Ninety
Blacks are in
service unskilled
need training to
technical jobs and
welfare.
"Training is a matterofsur -
vival for my people because in
20 years most of the unskilled
jobs and many bf the eemi -
skilled jobs will no longer
exist," Dr. Sullivan said.
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From The... Editor's, Desk
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• *T-^f5T;s ν* -
RED BROWN
President Nixon has committed the biggest
political blunder of his career. No, it has
nothing to do with the proposed trip to the
people's Republic Of China, or the dramatic
90-day anti-inflation move..It has to do with
children and busses and segregation. It also
has to do with Mr. Geqrge Wallace and per
sonal ambitions and the tempers of the times.
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When Mr. Nixon issued his latest anti
busing position, civil rights leaders were
quick to jump all over it. Mr. Nixon no
doubt has declared strong opposition to bus
ing children to achieve racial balance. To
support his position he tacked on an amend
ment to his proposed $1,500,000,000 billion
school desegregation bill, barring the use
of any funds for busing. What was dishearten
ing was the fact that the president pulled
the rug from beneath many southern school
4J < ,
I -
boards who had actually moved to obey :
the law.
The subject of busing has long been a sen-""!
sitive orte. Families feel that they can in- :
sist on the neighborhood school concept :
without appearing to be bigoted. Of course ;
black families learned about busing early :
when their children, prior to the supreme
court school desegregation decision in 1954,
were bussed past "white" schools to' in
ferior black ones. β ' :
Mr. Nixon probably feell that he has made
real political hay, with the busing issue,
but remember Mr. RichardMilhouseNixon is
a political horse. My definition of a poli
tical horse is one that runs on both sides
of the fence and wins no race. Black Ameri
cans should stand up and make this political
horse eat the hat that he thinks he has
manufactured.
Λ
runaway norses siraigm as '
the unions have contributed to
the poverty of Black Amer-*
icans by keeping them out oP
jobs and out of craft unions "
In response to a reporters
question about Mr. Meany's
[ opposition to the Nixon Flan
[ and the Implication that
ί Backs would be hurt more
I than other working men, he
stated: "The Black can't be
hurt any more. He has noth-·
in* to hurt. The masses
I on welfare and below the pov
; erty level can't . even get Into
the unions. White businesses
haven't given them jobs
and for that reason I have
boycotted businesses. But
Meany'· unions have been
hurting Black people for
year·, keeping them off
building trades jobs andother
; Jobs. with segregated, ra -
; cist discrimination."
Asked about Mr. Nixon and
> the 1972 election', the found
^Brk voters to be elected.
Democrats will' be unit
Pea against him as never be -
Jbre. The unions will be united
against him as never be
fore. Most of the 18 to 2C
year - old votes will go Dem
orratic. He will need Blacli
votes to get elected."
Honorable Hobson Reynolds,
who joined in the conference
with Dr. Sullivan', told the
preis that his convention of
50,000 delegates, represent -
ing more than 500,000 mem
bers, was throwing its consi
derable «trength and 100%
support behind Dr. Sulll -
van and his Job development,
economic development pro -
gram, ΟΙΟ of America (Op -
portunitles .Industrialization
Centers).
Dr. Sullivan gratefully ac
knowledged this support and
expressed appreciation for
Mr. Reynolds' national lead -
ership, calling him "one of
m νοι ■■■ y*
On September 26 th, the
Greater Gethscmane ΑΜΕ
Zion Church will observe Wo
man's Day, Mrs. Alice Jon··
Is the General Chairman.
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October lOUi, the Good Sa
maritan Club will have a
special program at the Geth
sernan·. ΑΜΕ Zion Church. ,
on Campus St. Mrs. Mattie
Green Is the president. Rev.
F\ M. Allen, pastor.
The Shiioh Institutions I Choir
Anniversary will be held
on .September 5th at the
Churrh on Bruns Ave., the
Rev R. M Young, the pa· -
tor of v the St. Paul Commu
nity Baptlat Church, will
be the speaker.
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