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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK By Hoyle H. Martin Sr. Po6t Executive Editor Mayoral candidates Ken Harris (R) and Jim Wetting ton <D) appear to be frnstrat ine many voters bv \ their different points of view. At'one neighborhood meeting where the candidates spoke last week, a woman said to them, “1 haven’t heard anything about what’s different be tween you, why I should vote for one and not the other.” _1_ The two leading black news papers and 16 inter-racial or ganizations have been banned by the South African govern ment. The editor of one of the newspapers and 10 other black leaders were arrested in the biggest crackdown by the white-supermist government since the early 1960s. These developments by the South African government were designed to discourage any futher efforts by blacks to take power from the mino rity white government and give it to the majority black population. + + + By a vote of 236 to 187 last Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a 35-cents increase in the mini mum wage that raised the rate to $2.65 per hour. Two days earlier the Senate had taken similar action. The new wage rale will take effect in January of 1978 pending Pre sident Carter's signature. This congressional action represents the largest mini mum wage boost in history. It will mean raising minimum wage workers annual wages by $728 or to $5,512. The some bill calls for hiking the hourly base wage further in three annual stages until it reaches $3.35 in 1981. Reportedly, Republican Jim Martin was the only N.C. i ongressman to vote against tin* wage bill. North Carolina's hourly mi nimum wage was raised from $2 to $2 30 last July. However, the same wage bill requires boostine the state minimum “f* T “T Inspite of having the world's most rigid apartheid (racial segregation) policy, there are apparently no racial barriers to medical transplants in Sou th Africa. A white woman received the heart of a mixed-race woman in a “piggyback" transplant performed by the noted surgi cal team headed by Dr. Chris tian Barnard of Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital. + + 4* “Project Match,” a compu terized system designed to identify Washington area wel fare cheaters, turned up only 47 suspects, none of whom will probably 'be prosecuted for fraud, government officials said Saturday. + + + A “Ms” magazine sponsor ed seminar designed to get women to speak out on sexual harassment of working wo men revealed last Saturday what a meeting organizer cal led “raw exploitation in the work place.” One young woman, an alco holic, said she was hired by an executive who took her out for lunch frequently. Encoura ging her to drink alcohol, he would abuse her body as she became drunker. A Civil Liberties Union's Women's Rights Project spokeswoman said the courts are finally beginning to reco gnize sexual harassment, and the consequences of sexual refusal, as a form of bland job discrimination. Hoyle H. Martin Sr. to $2.au on tiie same date the federal minimum reaches or exceeds that amount. ....Sell Subscriptions For The... Charlotte Post And Make Big Money!!! Call 392-1306 JOIN THE CROWD Coining To The Cannon Cathedral SATURDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 30,1977 AT 7:30 pan. Elder James Turner The Elder James H. Turner Of Rockingham , N.C With His “ POWER FROM ON HIGH" Deliverance Crusade Ministry And The Asheboro District Churches Of God In Christ THEN ON SUNDAY MORNING THE E.G CANNON EVANGELISTIC CRUSADE REGIONS FELLOWSHIP ~ SERVICE You , Be Present As The Saints From All Of Pastor Cannon’s Churches And Crusade Workers From AD Over Unite In A Great Soul Saving And Deliverance Crusade Miracle Service BAPTISMAL SERVICE ALSO NEED TRANSPORATATION: Can (704)334-9879 Before 9:30 am Sunday Morning CANNON CATHEDRAL 200 TUCKASEE(.EE RD CHARLOTTE, N.C
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