Ill] THE CHARLOTTE POST RIF - — Charlotte s Fastest Grouing Coniniunity \% ^kly * _ t ■ ^ MISS PATRICIA BUFORD ...1961 West Charlotte graduate Patricia Buford Is Our Beauty nyruiLJ MANNINU Post Staff Writer The Post has the pleasure this week to introduce as it's Beauty. Mrs. Particia Buford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Houston of 205 S. I.inwood Ave. ..She is married to Grover Buford and resides at Route 6, Box K77-B with their two children, Grover Jr. and Pamela. Our Beauty is a 1961 grad uate of Plato Price High School. While attending Plato Price she w as a member of the Glee Club, Girl's Basketball team, and the 4-H Club. • Mrs. Buford and her family attend New Zion Baptist Church where the Rev. B. R. Robinson is the pastor. • Our Beauty is employed with radio station WGIV where she is a switchboard operator. She has been work ing there for five years now and says of her job. “I love it. It's oula-sight. I have the chance to meet a lot of inter esting people in person and over the phone.” Paticia has only one hobby and that is listening to music. "I like all modern day music, smiled Patricia. I could just sit and listen for hours.” .. Although Mrs. Buford feels Ihr world is In a turmoil and the end doesn't seem to be anywhere in sight, she isn't worried. “The way things are now it wouldn't benefit one to worry. I've learned never to give anything too much thought, especially when it's nothing you can do about it.” ..Our Beauty is born under the sign of Taurus. In describ ing them one would have to admit they are very slow thinkers, they are very limited in mental outlook and inter ests, once they form an opin ion they seldom change it, they have a very good sense of humor, are slow to anger, hut takes a long time to forgive, and they are great lovers of the arts, especially music. Patricia admits that with her job and her family she doesn't have much time for outside activities such as so cial clubs and community af fairs. “I would like to eventu ally join some of the commun ity clubs, smiled Patricia. Getting involved would make me feel as if I was doing something for the betterment of my surroundings." ..There’s a great deal of things that need to be bettered here in Charlotte, but I feel one must first start at home bettering themselves and their surroundings. At home means to me. the community. Bahakel Seeks funds for Secondary Roads ..Senator Cy N. Kahakel of the 22nd Senatorial District has Introduced in the Senate a bill providing for a new state wide formula for allocating funds for secondary roads. The bill would revise the for mula for distribution of funds for secondary roads by taking into consideration paved roads as well as unpaved roads as an allocation factor. m .The existing formula is structured to favor counties with unpaved roads only. The revised formula is. said Sena tor Rahakel. a step in trying to aid counties with paved roads that are serving heavy traffic. It would also aid many counties to widen and improve existing secondary roads. Senator Bahakel said the bill, if enacted, w ould provide road relief to both Cabarrus and Mecklenburg Counties, lie also anticipates other legisla tion to be introduced soon dealing with secondary road needs. TURTLE-TALK 4 IF THOSE SPACE MEN are ao SMART, why do they all C OUNT BACKWARDS???..... Black Jobless Rate Continues ,-J To Rise • The black unemployment rate increased from 12.5 in December to 13.4 in January, it was reported by the U.S. Department of Labor's • Bureau of Labor Statistics. ..On a national basis, unem ployment increased sharply in January, pushing the Nation's unemployment rate to 8.2 per cent, its highest point record ed over the entire post-World War II period. Kmployment declined for the fourth straight month. ..Unemployment totaled 7.5 million in January (seasonally adjusted), an increased of 930.00(1 from December. The unemployment rate was a full percentage point above the previous month and 3 points above January 1974. The high est levels previously reached by the jobless rate were 7.5 percent in July 1958 and 7.9 percent in October 1949. .(As is usual at this time .f d I_ __ .■ .. i uic .MTdauiuim adjusted household survey data have been revised on the basis of experience through December 1974.) ..Total employment (as measured by the monthly sur vey of households) declined by 640..oim first grand prizes. ..Mrs. Polk said she has been practicing Iter recipe and bus ily preparing her "main dish" recipe lot the competition. Mrs. Polk is Charlotte's only finalist in several years. . .She loves working with dis advantaged children and would like to use any prize money won to open a day care nursery school. She is married to Arthur Polk. Iler hobbies are cooking, reading and traveling She entered the Bake-Off in .197:1 for ihe first time lint was not a finalist. Saturday, the contestants will have registration activi ties, and. enjoy a "light buffet lunch," and have dinner to gether in the Kegency-llyatt House w hich w ill be the center for all the Bake-Off activities On Sunday the contestants will have an orientation brunch from 9 to 10:30 a.m. and range orientation from 10:30 to 1:30 p.m. At 1:30 p.m. the contestants will cruise around San Francisco Kay and enjoy the sights of the (•olden Gate Bridge and 'the table cars. At 7 p.m. that night a dinner will he given in I he hotel's San Francisco room for the contestants. Monday will consist of breakfast at 7:30 a.m. and the 26th annual Bake-Off will be conducted from 9 a.m. until I p.m. At (i p.ni . buses will leave for dinner at Far Fast restaurant. The Awards program will be held Tuesday. February 23 at 9 a.m. and .Mrs. Polk is hope ful that she will be a winner. .Mrs. Polk will lie operating as range number si during the competition. She is a member of the University Park Kxten sion Homemakers Club. Por her rfforts. she has already recehed $100. a microwave oven, an electric mixer, and will have all her expenses to the contest paid. The Charlotte housewife has been cooking and enjoying it since her high school days when she used to get up and cook breakfast for her daddy before he went to work She was visiting hrr great granddaughter in Washington. I). ('. when she was notified of her selection as a finalist. .."I like to do creative cook ing," said the retired nurse who worked in hospitals for 23 years. She admits that until she retired four years ago she was too busy raising a family and working to do any creat ive rooking. Bark in Tune, she filled out a Bake-Off blank with hrr "main dish" recipe on it and sent it to contest officials. ..Pillsbury will assume the rights to the recipe when the contest is over." added the grandmother of four and the great-grandmother of one. .."When it ends. I will pro bably visit a good friend in l.os Angeles", said the lady who anticipates an exciting time and a thrilling experience. 26 Cars Withdrawn By Local Automobile Dealers . ICconomic troubles affecting the automobile industry are causing serious problems for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' driver education pro gram. ..Since Christmas. local automobile dealers have withdrawn .tti cars that they Mere providing the ( MS driver education program, resulting in a shortage of cars that is seriously hampering on -the-road instruction. . . Beginning nest week, more driver education students will be taking their on-the-road instruction after school or on Saturday to make better use of the few cars the program has left. Normally, most on-the road instruction is offered during school hours. .."We should be able to get the eligihle students properly trained with this new double shift arrangement if we don’t lose any more cars." said Brumit Del.ainek director of the local driver education progra m. • But Del.aioe wanted thai ii the program’s car shortage worsens, "students could very well he older than lti before they complete the necessary driver education training to obtain a learner’s permit or a urivci s license. 11 worse comes to worse,” Del.aine said, "we’ll serve the oldest students first and just do the best we can with what we have." State law requires that all persons under IH must com plete a driver education course before they are issued a ■ learner's permit or a driver’s license. The state's public school driver education program offers this training. Locally there are 7.1*00 pub lic and private students and non-students under IS years of age who are eligible for driver education training. The CMS driver education program usually serves about fi.f.lto students yearly. Del.aine explained that normally local auto dealers provide most of the cars for the driver education program. The dealers, who get a small rebate from the auto manu facturer. provide cars at no cost to the school system: the Slate pays for maintenance, operating expenses and insur ance. "The high interest rates (all dealers pay interest on money they borrow to purchase cars from manufacturers) and slumping sales are really hurting the dealers." Del.aine said. "They couldn't afford to keep providing the cars. High interest rates were bad enough, hut the had sales made the situation even worse." Del.aine said the local cars for an efficient program. With the loss of the 2fi dealer provided cars, CMS now has 30. Fourteen of those are own ed by the state; all are 1972 models or older. The stale legislature last provided money for the purchase of driver education vehirles in 1972. Fight of the :<0 vehicles are used on the school system's two driver education ranges, leaving 22 for use by the 39 driver education teachers for on-lhe-road instruction. In addition to more alter school and Saturdav on-lhe road instruction. Del.dine said CMS will try other w«vs to name the most efficient use of available cars. Attempts will be made when possible to schedule driver education teachers so (hat some wiil hr teaching in the classrooms » liilc others are giv ing on-tin - road instruction. This will allow more teachers to use one car ’ He ll also try l" make more use of our two driver education ranges at night." I>el.nine said On the ranges, one teacher can inslruil several students cniiimutiit a ling by radio, lie said. Driver education students are required to take at least :io hours of classroom instruction and si\ hours of on-the-road instruction. Two hours on a driving range counts for one hour of regular on-the-road instruction. * ..Currently some CMS students spend up to s:\ hours on the range and three on-the road. "I guess we can incre-asr the time on the ranges " De l.aine said, "hut the students need as much time in aitua' driving situations as they can get " Del aine said if flic situation gels worse. Ihe stale legisla ture may he called on In pro vide additional funds. —mrc-ei -i iidrsi .v DAVID HKI.TON I 'NC-Ch senior Iklton ( IIkmti ('heerlcadcr All-American David Helton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph ('. Helton of 1700 Washington Avenue has been chosen to the eight-person H*7A Cheerleader All-American first team. David, a 21-y ear-old senior at the l niversity of North < aroiina at Chapel llill. Mas the only Atlantic ( oast Con ference cheerleader picked to the FIKST TEAM. The 1971 graduate of Independence High School Massselected for the team bv the Hoard of Trustees of the International ( heerleading foundation, affiliate member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Holshouser Appointee Mrs. Beckwith Named To Sickle Cell Council Itiivrrnor Jim noisnouser last week announced the ap pointment of three new mem bers to the Council on Sickle Cell Syndrome. The new members are Ms. Ivestia II. (Peggy) Beckwith of Charlotte, Nathaniel Lea Itumph of Winston-Salem, and Leo Bradshaw of Greensboro. ..Members on the Council serve at the pleasure of the Governor, rather than fixed terms. .Ms. Beckwith has been exe cutive director of the Associa tion for Sickle Cell disease for Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Inc., since 1972. She attended Ben nett College in Greensboro. Brooklyn College, City College of New York, and Miles Col lege in Alabama. She has also completed a training course for sickle cell counseling at Central Piedmont Community College and a post-graduate course on sickle cell disease at Howard l/nlversity. relations and secretary to the director jof public relation* at Johnson C. Smith I niversih. She is a member of the Hoard of Directors of the National - Association for Sickle t ell Disease'and the First t 'nited Presbyterian Church. She assisted in the production and appeared on a Charlotte tele vision special entitled "Sickle Cell - A Closer l.ook." Humph is program director for the sickle cell disease screening program al Forsyth Memorial Hospital. He at tended the Fort Valley State College in Georgia. Northwest Institute of Medical Techno logy. and F'orsvth Technical Institute. He serves ott the Board of Directors of the For syth Mental Health Associa tion. and the Hoard of Direc tors of the Council on Drug Abuse, and is a member of the St. Stephen's Kpiscopal Church. MRS. PEGGY BECKWITH ...Executive Director ..Mi. Beckwith formerly worked as a research assis tant with the Charlotte Model Neighborhood Commission and as assistant in university