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VOL. 2 NO. 21 CHAKl.OTTF. NORTH CAROLINA 28206 • THl'RSDAY, NOVFMBFR 8 1973 -------
• . _ , Price 20
CIA A Tourney
Tickets Go _
On Sale
Tickets for the 29th Annual
Central Intercollegiate
Athletic Association
Basketball Tournament went
on sale Thursday, November
1.
The tournament will be
played at the Greensboro
Coliseum Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, February 28,
March 1-2, 1974. Four big
sessions, featuring the eight
teams in the conference are
planned for the three-day
affair.
According to Com
missioner L.D Smith, there is
no price increase for tickets.
Premium reserve ducats
remain $18.00 per set and
other reserve seats $14.00 per
set. Special prices prevail for
students and these tickets will
‘-r'- mi aaic ai me inemDer
institution.
Tickets can be secured from
the CIAA Ticket Office,
Greensboro Coliseum,—
Greensboro, North Carolina or
from any member institution.
The 29th Annual CIAA
Basketball Tournament is
being dedicated to the
memory of T.L. Reeves,
former Head Basketball
Coach. Fayetteville Statd
University. Reeves piloted the
1973 Bronco team to the
- tourney title and was voted the
“Most Outstanding Coach”
during the 1972 and 1973
season. Reeves passed sud
denly in September.
Smith assured season
ticket holders that they will
have the first opportunity to
purchase the seine premium
seats that they held last Jear.
tflfflcations 'pofnl to more
than 40,000 persons ascending
oh Greensboro for the 1974
CIAA Basketball Tournament.
Business
Fellowships
Available
Graduate business
fellowships for minority
students are available through
the UNC School of Business
Administration in Chapel Hill.
Blacks, American Indians
and Spanish-surnamed
Americans are eligible for the
fellowships which provide
tuition and living allowance of
$2,000 for the first year of the
master of business ad
mi nist rat ionV'f MBA.)
program and $1,000 for the
second year.
Financed by grants from 135
U.S. corporations, the
fellowships are sponsored by
the Consortium for Graduate
Study in Management which
UNC joined in January. The
consortium is a six-university
program to encourage
minority meri and women to
enter management careers in
business. In addition to UNC,
it includes Indiana University,
Washington University in St.
Louis and the Universities of
Rochester, Southern
California and Wisconsin.
.Students may apply to the
, lvw ' program of any
—universities.
_ ... 'V s are enrolled
Credit ii
Cards t
Honored
v MISS CHERYLL BITTLE
•’* , ...Oldest Of Five Children
Beauty Of Week
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Post Staff Selects
Cheryll Bittle
J, Cheryll Bittle, the oldest of 4
sixers and 1 brother, is this
week’s Charlotte Post Beauty.
The West Mecklenburg High
School Junior i».the daughter
"ISt Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Bittle
of 2604 Remington Street in
the University Parfc
Residential Section.
Cheryll is -16 years old and
weighs 118 pounds She is 5
feet 8 inches tall and measures
33-23-34.
Miss Bittle is a member of
Le Charmentelles Social Club
and a member of the
Distributive Edication Clubs
of America.
Through her membership in
theD.E. Club, she has become
a working young lady and is
presently employed at a sales
clerk at Belk
Department Store in South
park, thanks to her D.E.
teacher, Miss Tomanchek.
says Cheryll.
Cheryll is a member of
Second Calvary Baptist
Church,pastoredby Reverend
J.M. Kennedy. She is a
member of the Junior
Missionary in the church
Our beauty likes all sports,
dancing and cooking She also
likes shooting pool, bowling
and modern dancing.
She shoots pool at Cavaliers
billiards on Morehead Street
and her bowling average is
- between 80 and 85.
Cheryll was in a dance
group at University Park
Elementary School that
performed at different schools
but she says she has learned
most of her modern dancing
skills “on her own". She likes
to do the "Bump" which she
learned from watching "Soul
Train" on TV. She says I
learned most of my dance
steps frorn watching Soul
Train.
Cheryll says she doesn't
watch TV muclfand gets most
of her news from reading the
rs,
; asked Cheryll is she
thought President Nixon
should be impeached and she
said “Uh huh " Why? -yie
shouldn't holj no o/fice
because 1 believe he is not
right." How? "Because he
wouldn’t give up the tapes "
fourth, respectively.
Cheryll says she would like
to attend modeling school and
become a fashion model
though she has not decided on
a school yet
She says she_ would like to be
an airline stewardess because
"I like flying and traveling "
Soul City Community
\*
Sets Groundbreaking
im wovemDer 9, 1973. at
11:00 a.m., ground will be
broken on the first con
struction of the free-standing
new community of Soul City,
North Carolina.
The develoRjnent dr fhe hew
town of Soul, City, planned
t eventually to house 50,000
^inhabitants and to provide
(Economic up-lift and social
n\d educational benefits to the J
["^k’essed rural Warren- I
"T™\e County area, is the f
ambitious and in
™""^ive project ever un
1 ^Aen by a miniority
£ developer, Floyd B
4 Iplr Enterprises, Inc
1 November 9th
iies will start with a
Vt Soul City at 9 no
rk^k w-i f :lowed at II 00 a m
Lev Eil.r Holshnuser will
1 A reception will be
*t the Governor's
Ve Wlltf
FLOYD McKIMHCK
Mansion in-Durham at 3 (to
pm. and at 8:00 pm. a
banquet and show will take
place at the Cameron Indoor
Stadium. Duke University.
Durham At the banquet
salutes will be given by the
ffbnored guests and Mr.
McKissick will deliver an
address
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Sunday Afternoon—2__ • _•_
Matthews-Mur' .land To
*
Fayetteville
Hosts Bulls
Saturday
Fayetteville State
University will close out its
1973 gridiron season- on
Saturday, November 10, when
they host the Johnson C Smith
University Golden Bulls.
The C1AA conference game
vill be played on the FSU
University Athletic Field and
he kick-off is set for 1:30 p.m.
Advanced tickets for the
:ontest can be purchased at
he University Business Of
[ice.
Fayetteville State will be
lut to salvage a break-even
season. Coach Raymond
McDougal has led his Broncos
to two successive winning,
campaigns and a win over
Johnson C. Smith would give
the Broncos a 5-5 mark for the
1973 season.
The Broncos are bruised
and baltered and Coach
McDougal is hoping to have all
his charges ready for the
contest Among those, 'suf
fering with injuries are Glenn
Me Coy, JaiTres Godwin,
Arnold Johnson Charlie Rovd.
James Glasson., and a host pf
others.
McDougal said that most of
the week will be spent on
polishing the Broncos' offense
and reviewing various
defenses to stop the J.C. Smith
Golden Bulls. *
J C Smith is the most ex
plosive team in the'CIAA
They lead the league in total
nffense, averaging more than
340 yards per contest and they
have the best passing team in
the league with 73 completions
in 157 attempts -for 1,456.
yards.
Quarterback Luther Carter
is their offensive leader. He
has connected for 14 touch
down passes and leads the
league in total offense with
1.114 yards.
Running bark Mike Gibsoh
is the Golden Bulls’ rushfng
leader with over 800 yards in
nine games. He has also
scored 11 touchdowns and six
conversions for 72 points.
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MRS. PEGGY BECKWITH
...Executive Director
sickle, L,ell
' \
Seminar Planned
For Wednesday
A seminar (o give a "clear
understanding about sickle
cell disease, problems of the
disease and what can' be
done,” will be held here
Wednesday, Nov. 14 at the
Sheraton Center, 301 S. Mc
Dowell St.
The. meeting, which is co
sponsored by the Association
For Sickle Cell Di'sease for
Charlotte, Mecklenburg, Inc.,'
The office of Continuing
Education at the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte
and The North Carlina
Division of Health' Services,
will feature some of the
nation's most outstanding
authorities on the disease
which primarily effects Black
people.
Mrs Dorothy O Black
burn. Public Information
Specialist of the National
Sickle Cell Disease Program
in Bethesda. Md., will address
the session at 9:15 a.rn. and
Dr. C W McMillan, professor
of pediatrics and head of
Division of Pediatric
Hematology at_the University
of North Carolina Medical
School at Chapel Hill
will speak from the
suBject: ' Diagnoses.
Genetics, Clinical
Manifestations and Treai ment
in Sickle Cell Disease" 'at
10:15 a in
Following a luncheon break.
Dr. E. Robert Neely Branch
Director of the Crippled
Children and Development
Disabilities Branch of the
Division of Health Services for
the State of North Carolina,
will discuss the Sickle Ceil
Disease on the state level
Sunday Morning
Little Rock Plans
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‘Men’s Day’ Program
Special to the Charlotte Host
“Men of Destiny" describes
both the theme and the setting
of Little Hock AME Zion
Church's II am worship
service for Sunday. Nov 11.
For on this day the men of the
Church, past and present, will
be honored and appreciated
for the part each has played in
shaping the destiny of the
Church
"The purpose of the
program is to recognize the
many contributions the men of
Little Hock have made and to
set iwo focus the real virtue of
man." said the Rev William
M White*, pastor of the
Church
*
"Our effort is also to bring
more men into the Church and
to inspire more men to
commit their lives to the
jChristiaVi way." he said
BISHOP LEAKE
f.uest Speaker
The featured speaker for the
11 o'clock worship service will
I
be Bishop Ceorge I. I,eake of
the 11th Episcopal Area
Bishop Leake, who has
himself been instrumental in
shaping (he destiny Of Little
Rock, served there as pastor
for nearly 10 years prior to
being appointed fo ■
Bishopship
"Bishop 1/eake will not only
be our speaker." White said,
"but he will also be honored at
the program in an effort to
express our gratitude for the
services he has rendered in
the development of our
Church "
The men of the Church will
conduct the entire worship
service and each has been
asked to make a special
financial contribution on that
day
R ev. Cuthbertson
Is Guest Speaker
The congregation of the a
historic Matthews-Murkland .■>
United Presbyterian Church v
will celebrate their fourth c
annual Homecoming at the
109-vear-old church on tilde A
Providence lid inside 1
Providence Township here e
Sunday afternoon, beginning ii
at 2 o'clock n
And. unlike on the first
three occasions for observing g
homecoming during which ,S
time most of the attention was S
trained on the fund-raising c
efforts of the membership to l
build a new church. Sunday's
celebration will be a happy t
occasion during which time 1
most of the atten|jon will be (
focused on the successful t
completion of the campaign
The new , Matthews
Murkland Church is presently
betng constructed on an ad-,
joining site. It will consist of a
sanctuary that will seat 300,
an all purpose unit with
complete kitchen facilities
and a day .care. center and
W nrlan vuViirVi w l\\ hi'
commodate 100 children.
■ It will also house eight class
rooms, complete office and
study for the pastor, child care
facility for worshipers, five
rest rooms and a bell lower
"fhe total cost of the 200 .
thousand dollar structure
includes landscaping, parking
area and play ground It is
scheduled to be completed in
the fall of 1974
Rev. .1 Andrew Cuth
bertson. pastor of the New
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church,
will be the guest speaker and
the music will be rendered by
the choirs from Pleasant Hill
and other churches in the
area.
The son of Mr. and Mrs I.en
Cuthhertson of Matthews.
Rev. Cuthhertson is one of tin
four members of, Matthews
Murkland who left the
congregation to go into the
ministry He is a former
deacon of the chui'clf
In its beginning hark in 1HH4.
. under the leadership of the
Rev. Sidney S Murkland.
Murkland withdrew from the
Concord Presbytery in order
to minister to the ex-slaves
nd their children. l)r SC
lexander and Willis I. Miller
ere the co-founders of the
hurch.
Murkland .merged with
latthews Chapel Church in
*69 The congregation fins
xperienced a stead) growth *
i the community singe the
lerger
Hev 1) O Menmg.in .1
raduate of the Johnson C
mith I'niversit) Theological
eminary. has served the
tingregaticn as pastor since
*65.
James C Funderburke is
fie chairman of the
lomecoming Program
ommittee and James Stic is
tie co-chairman
Ijovernor
Proclaims
Soul City Day
Firday. November 9. 197.’)
has been designated “Soul ’ ■
City Day" in North Crolina in
a proclamation issued by
■Governor Janus F
Holshouser. Jr . on Oefobei tin.
197.!
In the proclamation.
Governor Holshouser states
that "This creative and in
novative conceptual creating .i
lew town foc-fhe purpose of
"stahlishing jobs, hope and
ipporlunity and a new w ay of
ifeis worthy of recognition by
ill NnrthCarolinians "
Soul City Day will be
elebrated in honor of the
trnundbreaking of Smiltecb I
he new towns tirs' con
(ruction Soul tech'I is- an
ndustrial incubatc>r tacinty
lesigned to provide up to C>e
lew jobs ihus laying tin
groundwork for the industrial
tiase upon which th**
reestanding new community
■f Soul Citv wilLrise
Governor Holshouser will
give the kenynote address at •
the ceremonies
PAST PRESIDENT of the Charlotte Chapter of the JCSC
Alumni Association, Mr*.' Helena Cunningham, pin* orchid
bouquet of Mr*. II. Urernheld (luring annual alumni dance Ust
Halurdas night <PHOTO BY PEEI.ER)