Hearing Set
To Amend
Housing Han
By Susan Ellsworth
Post St|ff Writer
The Mayor and City Council
will hold a public hearing
Monday, August 27 to consider
amendments to the City's
Housing Assistance Plan.
The meeting will be held at S
p.m. In the Council Chamber
of City Hall, 800 East Trade
Street.
Changes under considera
tion for the plan include elimi
nating census tracts or using
census tracts to influence the
location of “assisted housing"
for row and moderate income
families.
Reducing the distance be
tween "assisted bousing" pro
jects from one mile to three
quarters of a mile will also be
discussed.
The Council will consider
permitting housing projects
with 80 percent market rents
and 20 percent Section 8 rents
to be located without restric
tions except in racially im
pacted areas.
A reconsideration of the
method for ranking neighbor
hoods on a scale from Best to
Depressed which affects the
eligibility of neighborhoods
for locations of ‘ ‘assisted hous
ing," will be examined.
City Council will also consi
der any other proposed
amendments which might be
presented at the Public Hear
ing.
. Copies of the proposed
amendments of the Housing
Assistance Plan may be ob
tained from the Community
Development Department at
301 South McDowell Street,
Suite 510, Charlotte, N.C.
28204.
Persons wishing to speak at
the hearing should notify the
Office of the City Clerk, City
Hall, telephone 374-2247 by
noon August 27.
Those unable to attend may
send their comments to the
Director, Community Deve
lopment Department.
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Open House
Stonewall Jackson School in
Concord will have an Open
House on Sunday, September
16. The public is invited to tour
the school from 2 - 4 p.m. on
that day.
A luncheon will be held from
12:90 -1:30 for special invited
dignitaries and the press with
a tour to follow from 1:30-3
p.m.
Dr. Wilbert Greenfield, president of Johnson
C. Smith University, his son and members of
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the Orientation Committee are welcoming
two freshmen who are seated.
I o Johnson C. Smith
Summer Quiet Came To A Halt
When 400 Freshmen Reported
The summer quiet of John
son C. Smith University came
to a halt Sunday when more
than 400 freshmen, many ac
companied by parents arrived
on campus with travel bags,
boxes, luggage and questions
about the University’s opera
tion.
Faculty and staff began
their special orientation ses
sions on Monday. Upper class
men will return to campus on
August 26, with classes start
ing on August 31.
The week-long freshmen or
ientation began with a Convo
cation service at the Univer
sity Church under the direc
tion of University President,
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Parents and students later at
tended a reception where all
were given an opportunity to
meet and talk with university
officials.
The class of 1963, some
eager, some skeptical and all
full of questions and anticipa
tion of what college life will
be like.
“Where can I purchase a
meal ticket? Where will con
vocation service be held? Can
I purchase all the books I need
on campus?” An orientation
committee was set up to assist
students and to answer most
of their questions.
HOUSING A MAJOR
PROBLEM:
With an average enrollment
of 1500 students per year and
only 812 spaces, the University
must turn to the community
for assistance in housing, said
Dr. C. A. Hood, director of
Student Life at JCSU.
“We are really hurting in
the area of housing,” Hood
said.
“Many students choose not
to attend the University be
cause on campus housing is
not available," Admissions
Director, Moses Jones said.
Each year, Jones said,
about 1,200 applications are
received. Between 750 and 800
students are accepted and a
little over 400 students nor
mally enroll. Three-hundred
sixty spaces are allocated to
freshmen.
An average of 100 transfer
i
students enroll at JCSU each
year.
“We know many students
choose not to attend here
because of the limited hous
ing," Jones said.
To help ease the housing
problem, Hood said families in
the community who have
extra rooms accept students
into their homes. The students
pay the family instead of the
usual on-campus housing fee.
Some students get together to
rent apartments.
“The community has been
very receptive in accepting
families into their homes. We
try to match students with
good families.
In Big Apple
30,000 PH Shriners Will Spend $12 Million
Special to the Poet
NEW YORK - Delegates
and officers, along with mem
bers of their immediate fami
lies, relatives and friends, are
represented at the annual
Imperial Council session and
the annual Imperial Court
meeting of the Imperial Court,
Daughters of Isis, as the
Ancient Egyptian Arabic
Order Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine of North and South
America and its jurisdiction,
incorporated, Prince Hall
Shriners, worldwide, is meet
ing here through August 25,
1979,
A Prince Hall shrine spokes
man said that pre-registration
and hotels confirmation
figures indicated that the
attending delegates and their
families would spend more
than $12,000,000 of their hard
earned cash during their
seven-uay stay
Delegates to the annual
sessions have come from
cities and towns all over
America and from localities
overseas worldwide.
Official hosts and hostesses
for the meeting in New York
are the officers and members
of Medina Temple 19, PH
shriners and Medina Court 11,
Daughters of Isis members.
The officers and members
in these two PH masonic
bodies predicted before the
NYC convention began that it
would be one of the best and
largest attended meetings
ever held within the USA in
recent years.
Reasons advanced for this
optimistic outlook were that
the convention city is tradi
tionally a great city filled with
historical places and sights to
be seen, and it has the type of
entertainment and offerings
that are always pleasing to
families and delegates alike.
In this connection, the
Imperial Council of Shriners
and the Imperial Court for
mulated an extensive pro
gram of activities to keep
everyone busy and happy dur
ing the week-long meetings
Past Grandmaster Bossie
Benjamin Simmons of
Virginia said in a recent inter
view that the Imperial Poten
tate of this order, the honor
able Eugene Dickerson Jr of
Washington, D C. and Mrs
Anne M. Bolden, imperial
comma ndr ess of the Imperial
Court, the women's auxiliary,
worked out a program of
activities designed especially
for the youths of our nation
who would be attending their
NYC sessions. The two leaders
are strong on the fact that all
members of the order should
always project a strong effort
in the involvement of young
people in all areas of local,
state, and national community
life. They noted that the Im
perial Council and Court are
already listed on record for
projecting a strong program
of social action for the youth in
order to be able to assist local,
state, regional and national
law enforcement agencies to
eradicate crime, delinquency
and poverty from the itreets
of our cities and towns in these
days and time.
"The strong members of all
Black Fraternal Orders must
bear the infirmities of those
who are weak, both in and out
of the accepted society of
America if we are to survive,”
the two leaders said. They
further added that PH
Shriners and Daughters of Isis
members firmly believe that
their years of heritage have
been rich in accomplishments,
customs and traditions and is
unequaled by any other fra
ternal order in the world in
terms of aid, benevolent and
charity.
The Order gives financial
assistance and grants plus
scholarships to needy young
men and women, worldwide,
for them to attend institutions
of higher learning to further
their formal education;
awards financial grants to
prestigious organizations such
as the United Negro College
Fund, National Urban
League. NAACP and its legal
defense fund, and to health
and medical research pro
grams and colleges and uni
versities to upgrade academic
and scholastic achievements
of many of its students
In the order, PH Shriners
are called "Nobles, " and Dau
ghters of Isis members are
called "Daughters " Its
membership represents some
350.000 Prince Hall Masons
and Order of Eastern Star
sisters in appendant and adop
tive rite bodies of PH Freema
sonry, worldwide Its criteria
for membership is very
simple In order to be a PH
Shriner. you must first be a
PH mason, holding member
ship in one or more of the
appendant bodies in the PH
family of Freemasons
The criteria for member
ship in the Imperial Court is
that you must first be a daugh
ter, mother, sister, widow, or
wife of a PH shriner who is
first a PH Mason.
Unlike many of its prede
cessors or contemporary fra
ternal bodies, the PH organi
zation accepts membership
into its order without regard to
race, color, creed, religious,
or national origin. Some 10 to
15 percent of its members at
the present time are non
black.
Some of the highlights of the
Shrine Convention this week
end in NYC are:
Thursday, August 23rd.
The annual election of offi
cers, Imperial Council and
Imperial Court, 9 a m.'
The annual Roscoe C. Wash
ington Student Aid Banquet.
6:30 p.m.
Friday, August 24th
The annual Imperial Poten
tate's Ball, 9 p.m.
Saturday, August 25th.
Post Sessions meeting and
conference, starting at 9 a m
thru 2 p.m.
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