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CHARLOTTE.NORTH CAROLINA 28216-Thursday, June 26. 1975
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Photo By Jim Black
PAMELA STINSON
..Enjoys quiet moment in Murshall l'ark
1975 North Graduate
Captivating Pam Stinson
Is "Beauty Of The Week"
By POLLY MANNING
Post Staff Writer
"I enjoy helping people and
nursing is one way to do it,"
stated Pamela Stinson, the
Post Beauty of the Week.
Pam has plans of attending
A&T State University in the
fall to major in Nursing.
She s the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James A. Stinson of
9442 Feldbank Drive.
Our Beauty lists as her hob
bies swimming, bowling, and
playing pool. "I've taken
swimming lessons at the
McCroery Branch YMCA un
der the direction of Mr. Harris
for one summer and part of
the fall," she explained.
Miss Stinson is a 1975 grad
uate of North Mecklenburg
High School. While attending
North she was a member of
the Junior Achievement Club.
DECAA Club, French 1 Club^,
and the Red Cross.
"In the French I Club every
one raised money and gave it
to the Student Council to use
for various emergencies,"
stated Pam.
The Stinson family attends
University Park Baptist
Church where Rev. James E.
Palmer is the pastor. Pam is a
member of her Church's
Young Adult Choir.
Miss Stinson was recently
presented in the Debutante
Ball sponsored by Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority. She
was sixth runner-up to "Miss
Debutante".
She is the only daughter in a ,
family of four. "This doesn't
present a problem," smiled
Pam. "My brothers don't
really hassle me."
Pam is born under the sign
of Aquarius. She is very proud
of her sign. Aquarius being the
first sign of the zodiac makes
her feel as if she has a head
start on everyone. She also
feels that all Aquarians are
happy or at least they should
be. "We have so much to be
happy about/' she beamed, ι
She is 18 years old. weighs
145 pounds and stand 5-feet-6
inches tall. When asked what
would be the biggest adjust
ment she would have to make
when leaving for school, she
stated. "I have to get away
from being a mothers baby.
I'm going to have to learn to
make it on my own without the
help of my parents or
friends "
She has plans of getting
married next year to Melvin
Morrison. They have been en
gaged for six months.
"When asked if she agreed
with the North Carolina Death
Penalty Law Miss Stinson
stated, "1 don't feel as if the
death law is necessary. Long
term imprisonment would be
sufficient punishment.
Pam considers her parents
as the most important people
in her life. "I care for them a
great deal," stated Pam She
feels that people should live
one day at a time, this way
they will not be rushing
things"
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HAPPINESS is the SENSA
TION you feel when you are
too busy to be MISERABLE.
Nation's Welfare Rolls
Held Steady In March
The growth rate in the
Nation's welfare rolls held
steady for the second month in
a row in March at 0.8 percent,
HEW Secretary Caspar W.
Weinberger reported last
week.
Recipients of aid to families
with dependent children
(AFDC)--the biggest U. S.
cash assistance welfare pro
gram-numbered a record
11,346,994 in March, 94,947
persons or 0.8 percent hgher
than in February.
However, the March growth
rate~the same as in February
was well under the January
increase of 1.4 percent.
John A. Svahn, Acting Ad
ministrator of HEW's Social
and Rehabilitation Service,
expressed confidence that the
growth rate in the rolls would
taper off, citing present signs
of improving economic condi
tions.
Noting that the rolls began
rising last August, Mr. Svahn
said "clearly, the increase
over recent months would
have been greater if the
Federal-State error-reduction
program had not been pursued
vigorously at the same time."
This "quality-control" pro
gram is aimed at reducing the
number of inéligibles on the
rolls and minimizing payment
errors. The program is one of
a number of major initiatives
begun by SRS to improve
AFDC.
Recipients under the unem
ployed father segment of
AFDC totalled 532,327 in
March, up 23,391 or 4.6 percent
over February, and up 1β.β
percent over March a year
ago. Twenty-five States pro
vided such aid in both periods.
Some had declines in the Un
employed Father category in
March 1975-Hawaii, 7.5 per
cent, Michigan, 1.7 Minnesota,
0.7, New York, 1.7, Oregon,
2.5, Rhode Island, 4.1, Wash
ington, 3.7, and West Virginia,
3.3.
Total Federal State public
assistance expenditures, in
cluding Medicaid, were
$2,033,746,000 in March. Of
that amount, AFDC money
payments totalled
$749,810,000, an increase of 1.6
percent over February and
16.1 percent over March a
year ago During that same
period, 48 States increased
their average welfare pay
ments because of increased
living costs.
4
Total payments to vendors
for medical assistance came
to $1,180,908,000 in March. In
February, they were
$1,119,984,000 In March 1974
they were $924,999,000. The
March-to-March increase was
27.7 percent, due in part to the
fact that medical costs have
risen in disproportion to the
rest of the economy.
To Staff Manager
North Carolina Mutual
Promotes Mr. Ramseur
Charles Ramseur of 3201
Dawnshire Drive has been
promoted to the position of.
staff manager of North Caro
lina Mutual Insurance Co.
Ramseur came to North
Carolina Mutual Insurance
Company in February of 1965
He qualified for the Presi
dent's Club Convention that
year, leading his company in
industrial sales, winning the
top honors in the Cloudburst
Program
The next year he won the
President's Club convention
and in 1974, he was named
"Agent of the Year" for the
Charlotte District. Ramseur
.has won the South Carolina
Underwriters' Convention
four times plus a number of
other district trophies
"The ability to work with
and motivate other agents
Charles Ramseur
.. Top awards winner
with ideas, and to inspire them
to get out and get the job
done.'· said Randseur. are the
personal qualifications that I
attribute for being promoted
to the new position
His hobbies are golf and
furniture making Bom in
Laurinburg the 48-year old
Ramseur is the son of Mr and
Mrs. Thomas W Ramseur
who are now retired and still
live in Laurinburg
He is married to the former
Miss Lothell McLaurkin, a
classroom teacher and has
three children, Vaughn Μ , 27,
Dorcus F . 23, and Charles Jr..
a 12-year-old seventh grader
at Coulwood Junior High
School.
Ramseur is a 1946 graduate
of Oaklawn High School in
Lincolnton
He is a member of Greater
Gehtsemane Α Μ Ε Zion
Church and sings on the Senior
Choir
Political Studies Shoic
Urban Black Mayors F ace
Many Difficult Problems
Council
Eliminates
Transfer Fee
Effective Tuesday, July 1,
riders on buses operated by
Charlotte City Coach Lines
will no longer be required to
pay a 10-cent transfer fee. City
Council has appropriated
$125,000 to eliminate the
charge for fiscal year 1975-76.
Even though the fee has
been eliminated, bus passeng
ers will still have to obtain a
transfer slip from the driver.
The number of slips will deter
mine the amount of reim
bursement to the bus company
and transfer data will assist
City transportation officials in
future route studies.
The elimination of the trans
fer fee is one of many adjust
ments being planned by thf
City's Transportation Plan
ning Coordinator since City
Council signed a le<ise-man
agement agreement with the
local bus company. Under the
plan the City can maKe adjust
ments to existing routes,
schedules and fees to improve
thç "overall level of service.
Eddie Battle
Named Top
Special Agents
.Spécial Agent Eddie B.
Baille, who is a representative
of the Ε L "Jim" Morton and
Associates Agency of the
Prudential Insurance Com
pany is attending the Presi
dent's Club Conference in
Bermuda The conference at
the Southhampton Princess
Hotel begins June Z2 and ends
the 26 is an annual meeting
honoring the company's top
ranking Special Agents, Divi
sion Managers and Managers.
Battle will be honored as a
member of the President's
Club, President's Honor
Guard and the Ha" of Honor
which is composed of Prud
ential's"4e^iding Oridinary
Agency Underwriters in the
South-Central territory
Police Officers confer shortly after two gun
men robbed Elder's Super Market on Beatties
Ford Koad Saturday night The store was
Photo By Jim Black
crowded during the bold holdup, but no one
was injured.
Two Charged In Elder's
Supermarket Robbery
According to police report,
Jimmy Leon Garhn Jr.. 21
of 1029 McArthur Avenue,
Apartment Number Two and
Lester Lee Artis of 543 Kent
brook Drive have been
charged in connection with
Saturday's robbery at Elder's
Supermarket. 2115 Beatties
Ford Road.
Reportedly about $6,500
were taken from the super
market in the bold holdup
which occured between 4:30
p.m. and'4:45 p.m. The Secur
ily Guards who normally
patrol the store were not there
at the time of the robbery
Approximately 4 0
customers and employees
were in the store when the twn
robbers walked in "and
shouted obscenities and told
people to lie down on the
floor " said employee Howard
Norman
An alert employee in the
back of the store heard the
commotion on the P A. Sys
tem and alerted police in the
area Luckilv lor Elder's
Supermarket officials. the
police were a block away al
One-Hour Martinizing
• "We were very fortunate
We make several night deposit
and daily deposits and do not
keep much cash on hand,''
said William D Elder, owner
of the store
•"That was the tirst robbery
in the two year history of the
store said Elder, who has been
in the grocery store business
for 40 years.
In April
1.8 Million Household
Heads Were Unemployed
Washington - About 18 mil
lion more household heads
were unemployed in April 1975
than in October 1973 (when the
unemployment rate dropped
to a post-1970 lowi, the U. S
Department ol Labor s
Bureau of Labor Statistics re
ported
The jobless rate among
household heads reached 6 0
percent in April 1975. double
the average rate for the 1963
74 period (2.8 percent) and
half again as high as the
previous peak <4 0 percent)
recorded during the first half
of 1963 The overall unemploy
ment rate in April 1975 was 8 9
percent.
Household heads accounted
for 39 percent, or 3 2 million,
of the unemployed in April
1975, up from 34 percent, or 1 4
million, in October 1973.
Men heading fahiilies of two
or more persons accounted for
about three-quarters of the
household heads in the labor
force and women who head
families for about one-tenth,
the remainder were persons
living alone or with others who
are not related to them
The unemployment rate for
male family heads increased
2'i times since October 1973 to
5.3 percent in April It was still
much lower than the 9 3-per
cent rate for women who head
families, a group that faces
high unemployment (7.1 per
cent in October 1973) in good
times as well as bad
The financial effect of un
employment on the family can
be cushioned by the presence
of other earners According to
the latest information avail
able on this subject, in March
1974 about 30 percent of the
families with an unemployed
family head had another fam
ily member, usually the wife,
as a full-time earner Because
of the sharp increase in unem
ployment over the past year,
this situation may now be
quite different
Total employment in
creased for the second month
in a row. rising by 320,000 to
84 4 million, seasonally ad
justed Since March, employ
ment has expanded by 550.000,
after registering 6 consecutive
monthly declines that totaled
2 6 million. Adult males ac
counted for more than two
thirds of the April-May job
gain
After showing little move
ment from last October tc
February, the civilian laboi
force rose for th thrid consecu
tive month, increasing bj
680,000 to 92 9 million in May
All of this increase cami
among adult males and teen
agers
Alter showing iittie move
ment from last October to
February, the civilian labor
force rose for the third con
secutive month, increasing by
The civilian labor force
participation rate the propor
tion of the civilian populatior
either working or looking for
work- surged to a high of 61 (
percent in May
130 Blacks
Head Major
Cities
According to the Joint On·
ter for Political Studies, thirt·'
are today 130 black mayors, in
1973 there were 82; in 1970
there were 40 As the chances
grow for a black politician to
make it to the top in municipal
government, so do the pro
blems he will face as an urban
mayor Header's Digest, in its
July issue, examines both fa
cets of this significant political
story
Written by loriner United
States Information Agency
Director Car! Τ Kowan and
David M Mazie. the article
points out that black mayors
do not operate exclusively in
southern and border states.
Ohio. Michigan and New Jer
se> have nine each. Illinois
has eight. California, live
While the while (light to lli·»
surburbs has to be counted «-■·
a factor in the emergence μ
black mayors in cities the
authors also credit a nev.
white trust in black poii'i
cians In almost every case
blacks have won against white
opposition. ' the article says
( in the plus side for thi- new
breed ol urban politician art
the tremendous morale facto
his election engenders lor tb·
city 's black population and .
new sense of confidence π»
municipal government Th<
minus side, however is
weighty "He must «..Ik
tightrope between the (it
mandsof the blacks, wno have
■been shortchanged for centu:
les, and the concerns of the
-iiary whites, who stiil are ηο
certain how to react to a blacK.
mayor and who still wiel :
economic, il not polifit .
power." the articl· to
ments
In addition, the black ; <tv ι
faces the same difficult ρ
blems his white colleagues ,i.
struggling with -inadequ; '■
education systems, dm not.
ing housing and tax bas··, ai
a tight job market son·,
crucial urban problems ;>·
beyond immediate solution,
matter what the skin color ·
the person in the mayor
chair," The Digest observes
Human Development
Center To Hold
Open House Sunday
The Charlotte-Mecklenburtf
Council of PTA's will co-spor
sor with the PTA of the Center
for Human Development an
OPEN HOUSE at the Centfr
for Human Development 3500
Ellington Street, Sunday June
29 from 3 til 5 p.m.
The public is invited to visit
the center at this time to see
how the Center provides for
the needs of the development
ally handicapped and dis
abled The PTA at the ( enter
involves parents in a special
education setting working
with staff in the solution of
their problems
PTA invites the public to
come out Sunday. June 29 to
observe first hand how the
needs of mental retardates and
multiple handicapped child
ren are being met in Mecklen
burg County