By BILL JOHNSON
Post Manager-Editor
An aura of \xcitement fills
the air as Johnson C. Smith
University opens its new foot
hall campaign harp Saturday
night against Maryland-East
ern Shores at Memorial Stad
ium.
“We’re in great shape,"
coach Charley Cox, defensive
coordinator, said of the Gold
en Bulls early Tuesday morn
ing. The words were issued as
a warning to members ot the
Central Intercollegiate Athle
tic Association.
Johnson C. Smith is beginn
ing the campaign with season
ed veterans at each position
at most. Led by the elusive
Bruce Dukes, the speedy punt
return specialist and regular
slot back with the starting
offensive crew, the Golden
Bulls expect to be more explo
sive than last season when
they led the conference in total
offense.
ALL-CIAA quarterback
Luther Carter will again have
an able crew of Veterans
operating in his backfield.
The improvement this year,
however, will 'come from the
more experienced defensive
” unit of Cox. PopiilarTy~knoVn
Ss the "Headhunters." Cox's
crew will have cornerback
Willie Bailey, safety David
Green and middle linebacker
Ralph Collette in the running
for all conference honors and
senior Willie Moore and junior
Lawrence Faulkner rate with
best tackles in the league
Ends Steve Hogan and
Meredith Baker round out the
front four, a tough unit that
averages slightly more than
240 pounds. Hogan is an im
proving sophomore and Baker
Sophomore Tyward Jordan
will team with Bailey at the
corners and Jimmy Haigler
will line up opposite Green at
the twin safety. Billy Harris
and Dale Patterson are the
outside linebacker on a defen
sive unit that should become
one of the best in the school's
history
The offense is proven In
addition to Dukes, and all con
lerence selectee who did not
play a year ago because of an
BonfiamHvfn^roimd^out the
backfield. with the fleet Barry
McNeil stationed at the wide
receiver post A veteran line,
composed of center William
Bell, guards. Rickey Yates
and Dan White, tackles Lin
wood Spindale and George
Hill, and tight end Richard
son. will handle the blocking
chores for the bruising runn
ers in the baekfield
Johnson C Smith will have
to be at its very best to get by
the Hornets ot Maryland, who
l1 ^. r L st'ny)rs
Smith, the Hornets ire equip
ped with seasoned pertnrmers
at each position
Frankie Gregg who spelled
AI.I. MKAC Charles Boston at
the vital quarter baqfc position
last year, is the N« 1 signal
caller and John Parker Al
W X.
James and Frank Finks are
excellent backs to have
around for ball carrying dut
ies
The Hornets will also have
nine lettermen on their stand
defensive end Far! Hairston is
the leader Maryland has a
dangerous punt return threat
in Michael Hoyale. who
brought back 11 kicks a year
ago lor in? yards and a touch
down to lead the MKAF in that
\ ital category
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Associate Head Coach
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VOL.3 NO. 13CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA 28216-THl RSUAY.SEPTEMBER S.197I
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Miss Denise Kicharos
...Enjoys Latest Dances
Denise Richards
Is Our Beauty
Denise Richards, lovely '
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Elbert Richards of 9418 Feld
bank Dr., is this week’s Char
-lotte Post Beauty —
Denise is 15-years old and a
9th grade student at Ranson
Junior High. At Ranson our
Beauty jg_a member of_tj?e__
Executive Student Council,
Pep Club, Student Advisory
Committee, GAA, (Girls Ath
letic Association), and the
school band where she plays
clarinet and alto sax
I She is 4-feet, 11 inches tall
and her 138 pounds are distri
buted perfectly over her well
proportioned body. When ask
ed exactly what her measure
ments were Miss Richards
was very reluctant to say.
Denise says she maintains a
“A” average in her school
vork and lists her favorite
ivocations as bowling, swim
ning, and skating. Because of
he change of weather she
admits that swimming may be
:ompletely out along with
skating. “I may have to stick
to staying inside and sewing,’
admitted Denise.
Miss Kichards enjoys all th
lates dances and says she cai
do them all. Of all the man
fine singing groups she enjoy
the "Ohio Players’’ the most
She makes motion picture
theater owners happy by see
ing a movie at least once
week. “I have seen all th
Black movies", says Denis
Foxy Brown and Three The
Hard Way stand out most c
the long list of movies she hf
viewed as part of the ligh
hearted pleasures of life.
When she finishes hip
school our Beauty plans
enter college. “My career w
also include graduate school
stated Denise. She plans
become a doctor or a registr
ed nurse. They are bo
Challenging careers ai
Denise explaineo that this
what she likes about the
They also both require t
need to help someone a
generally just liking peop
this too. Denise enjoys "I I
doing anything that will be
fit others," she explained
Our beauty is a Scorpio S
is typical of her sign inasmu
as she enjoys helping peop
Scorpio's can become soi
very violent pieople when tk
are rubhed the wrong wi
Denise assured me that t
wasn't the case with her
•
'NttlMtf*
The reason some parents no
longer LEAD their children in
the RIGHT DIRECTION is
because the parents aren i
going • Ih®* wa^
THEMSELVES
Postal Workers Oppose
Proposed Pay Delay
In a statement Tuesday Robert L. (Bob) White,
President of the Independent National Alliance of Postal
and Federal Employees, vigorously opposed President
Gerald Ford’s surprise decision to delay a pay raise which
is due 3.5 million Federal and Military Personnel October
1st. _
President White commend
ed Mr. Ford for apparently
embracing the concept that
government must set an ex
ample In the fight against
inflation, but sharply quest
ioned the equity in the Presi
dent’s action which would
slant the burden solely towa: u
the shoulders of Federal em
ployees. President White
stated: “The formal decision
to block an inadequate 5.5
percent pay increase, which
his own agents had recomm
ended, seems inconsistent
with his public rejection of
formal wage and price con
trols.” President White cited
the 11 percent rise in the cost
of living since the last federal
pay increase a year ago, as
well as the large wage in
creases that have taken place
in the private sector since the
removal of price and wage
controls, as factors which
Congress must now consider
He displayed a keen aware
ness of the harshness of infla
lion on Blacks, females anc
minority employees on th<
government payroll who hist
orically are assigned to mos
of the low paying jobs.
In concluding his statement
, he announced, "The Natlona
’ Alliance Of Postal And Fede
, *ral Employees will increas
5 its efforts to have Congres
reject Mr Ford’s proposal t
delay the pay raise for thre
; months.’’
Bentley Named
City’s Chief
Accountant •
City Finance Director J.B.
Fennell has announced the
appointment of Gerald E.
Bentley as chief accountant
for the City of Charlotte:
Bentley, 32 comes to the city
from Cellu Products Company
in Patterson, N.C. where he
was employed for more than
six years in a variety of ac
counting and management
positions. He served most re
cently as corporate controller
for the firm.
As chief accountant, Bent
ley will be responsible for the
administration ^and
management of the Finance
Departments Accounting Div
ision The 46 employees under
his supervision handle all ac
counting activities for city
government. During fiscal
year 1974-7&, division personn
el will process receipts and
disbursements of approxima
tely $70 million. In his posi
j_non, Bentley will report dir
ectly to Finance Director J B
, Fennell.
s Bentley holds a bachelor of
> science degree in business and
s economics from Appalachian
State Universitv.
WALTER S. TUCKER
...Local Bank President
Tucker To Attend
Economic Summit
Walter S Tucker. President
of the National Hankers A
ssociation. has been invited by
President Ford to attend the
Summit Conference on Infla
tion which is to he held in
her 27th through 28th. 1974 "
/ -
Mr Tucker is Vice Presi
_dfiat-iM»d-C4y-£*eettHve Off
icer for the Charlotte Opera
tion of Mechanics and Farm
ers Bank
Mr Tucker and other lead
ers met with Secretary James
T. Lynn of the Housing and
I'rhan Development Depart
ment on September ti. lie will
meet again on September IZ.
with congressional leaders,
housing and finance leaders,
ei.-oiininic leaders and HI'D
officials in Atlanta. Georgia
The Atlanta meeting will
tnllataa*-*—it-eHects ■
housing.ind < onstruetmn It
will serve as a preliminary
meeting tor the summit ton
ference to tie held on Sept
ember Z7 Jit
: Minority Political Gams In Georgia
" 37 Of 89 Black Candidate* Won
i * ^
Atlanta,-Minority political
h gains were made in Georgia
0 as 37 of 89 black candidates
II won in the August primary
" and September runoff elect
lo ions, according to the Voter
r. Education Project,Inc. (VEP)
h VEP research director, Stan
id Alexander, indicated that
State House races reflected
•8 the largest gains for black
candidates as 22 victories
were recorded. Since two
blacks, on Democrat and one
Republican, face each other in
e the November 5 election, the
’*• total number of black repre
sentatives will be increased
he from the current number of 14
ch to 21 seats Thus, after Nov
le. ember. 1974, black represen
ne lation In the Georgia House
ey of Representatives will
iy. increase from 7.7 per cent to
his 11 6 per cent of total 180 posi
tions
The only black candidate (or
the U S House of Representa •
tives, incumbent Andrew
Young, was unopposed in the
primary, but will face opposi
tion in the November election
Young was the first black
elected to the U S House from
the Deep South since Recon
struction.
In the Georgia Senate, two
black candidates, Horace Tate
and Julian Bond, were win
ners. Tat's victory was a
political upset as he won the
position held by 12-year in
cumbent State Senator Leroy
Johnson, the first black elect
ed to a state legislature in the
South since reconstruction
Bond, currently a State Re
presentative, won the seat va
cated by Horace T. Ward who
was appointed as a Fulton
County Civil Court Judge
In the 1974 Georgia elec
I
lions, 44 black candidates ran
for 24 House seals. 19 of w hich
were majority black districts
Two of the 13 black incumb
ents running for reelection
were defeatd by black, chall
engers
^welve of 37 candidates for
county positions were
successful in the primary
races In Fulton County, two
blacks were elected to the
recently-expanded county
commission Eight otfjer
black countv commissioners
were elected in Talbot, Bibb.
Monroe. Hancock, and Twiggs
counties. Two blacks were
elected to positions as county
school board members
Voter turnout in the August
primary was generally iow tor
both black and white voters
In Fulton County, black voter
participation increased from
:j2 per cent to 4H jier cent from
Ithe • <ieneral Primary to the
'primary to the Primary Hun
off Election
John -Lewis. Executive Uir
ector for tin Voter Education
Project. described the
Georgia elections as yet an
other progressive step in
building the politics of hope
in the South
"We see black candidate
gaining ground, slowly bu
surely, in Georgia am
throughout the South In th
gubernatorial race in Georgia
a coalition of black and whit
voters rejected the candidat
who symbolized the segrega
tionist views of the Old Soutl
These are positive signs tha
we are moving farther awa
from the racially divisive er
of the past
William Ferguson
Black Man Named President Of
Minority Economics Corporation
N. C. Central Graduate
Is “Ideally Qualified”
The appointment of William W. Ferguson as President
of the Minority Economic Development Corporation
(MEDCOi was announced Tuesday by MEDCO Board
Chairman Walter tucker Ferguson is former Senior
Auditor for the Squibb Corporation, one of the nation's
largest pharmaceutical houses.
ITordiicnn ic a draHiiatP rtf
North Carolina Central Uni
versity in Durham and the
University of Minnesota
Graduate School of Business.
Prior to his employment with
Squibb, Ferguson was an
auditing examiner for the
Prudential Insurance
Company and a fiscal aide
with the National Bureau of
Standards
In making the announcem
ent, Board Chairman Tucker
said. "We are eminentaly
pleased that Mr. Ferguson has
joined Medco as president His i
skills, his personality and his
background made him ideally
qualified for this position " ' .
MEDCO is .funded by the
Office of Minority business
Enterprise, the Charlotte
Chamber ot Commerce and
the City of Charlotte-Model
Cities Department
MEDCO is the result of the
consolidation of two separate (
organizations involved in ]
minority economic developm- i
ent; the Charlotte Business
Resource Center, Inc., and the ,
Progress Association For .
Economic Development Loan
Fund. Inc
Ferguson sees, in MEDCO.
an effective instrument in
developing mmonty enterpri
se to its great potential
Said Ferguson. "The open
ing of this office is a new
venture in aligning capital
sources with the minority dis
advantage businessman and
il III* llllll -uppwi
them with sound managerial,
marketing, accounting and
other technical assistance
Hopefully, we will be able to
develop some basic courses in
business management and
bookkeeping in near future
I am convinced," Kergu
son concluded "that f'harlotte
has the leadership and the
resources to become a fertile
area for minority enterprise
MEDCtl's offices are local
ed in the Hast Independence
flora Building at McDowell
and Independence Boulevard
Suite 6fi0 ,
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Martin Opens
Re-election
Campaign
Margaret King. Chairman
>f the re-elect Congressman
Martin Committee has anti
>unced that an old fashioned
jolitical rally will kick off
"ongressman Martins
■e-election campaign on Sep
>mber 19. at 7 no p m in
’harlotte's Park Center Mrs
King welcomed prominent
'harlottean Grant Whitney
las taken charge to make the
-ally a success."
Many outstanding Kepubli
ans. including Governor Jim
lolshouser will be featured at
'ongressman Martin s
'Campaign Kickoff '74 in
neet and talk with Jim s
upporters “I'm pleased*to
pin Jim Martin as he begin'- _
lis 1974 campaign, said 1
Governor “he's carrying on
he fine tradition in the 9th
Charles H Jonas and Jim is
rapidly establishing himseli
as a leader in Congress
The rally will leature an
important campaign
statement by Congressmai
Martin hut the Congressman
has stated "I'm also looking
forward to an evening of goo i
old time handshaking and
(Kihtieking
Margaret King also annon
need. "Plenty of good and
entertainment will be on hand
for the entire rally TuJtets
arealriady available dl onl\
S:t on each with children Under
12 free
Student*
Two Day* Off
Next Week
Monday and Tuesday of
next week. Sept tfiand 17 will
be holidays for all Charlotte
Mecklenburg public school
students
Hut it will be work as usua'
for teachers who are staled to
use the two days for work
davs
Schools will reopen on a
regular schedule on Wednes
I day Sepl Ik