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/ ^ YOUR BEST ._ ADVERTISING MEDIA lYlYm AVV w Y ^ _ BLACK NEWSPAPERS k=ve THK (.ilfiST ATTP DAQT i™sreach [CALL 376-04iW I A AAA* UXXjTAXIXJV X X Xf lUOI black CONSUMERS Mecklenburg County Claims 50,000 Illiterate People ROCHELLE SHERLENE BLACKMON ...Allen Brooke student Rochelle Blackmon Is Beauty Of Week dj t eresa tiurns Post Staff Writer There is something beau tiful about every child. And this is especially true about our 10 year-old beauty, Rochelle Sherlene Blackmon. She is the daughter of Shirley and Russell Black mon of 2SS1 Celia Ave. and is in the third grade at Allen Brooke Elementary fWlc subject there is gym,” Miss Black mon began, “When we go to the gym on Tuesdays I do a lot of exercise. My gym teacher says I am the best one of all!” Our little beauty' enjoys reading and many types of athletic hobbies, “r like to swim and skate,- and I like to do cheers. I like to do cartwheels and go into a split. ” In fact Miss Blackmon w6uld like to become a cheerleader. One day she may become a professional cheerleader. “I think I can make money being a cheer leader," she commented. “At first I wanted to be a teacher, but I changed my mind,” Miss Blackmon be gan, “Now I want to be a cheerleader and a nurse." Even her favorite tele vision program has cheer leaders on It - “The White Shadow.’’.“They do a lot of Having Trouble Answering Your Census Form? Having trouble answer ing your census form? Call the number on the form for help. Try to return forms by mall on April 1. Resi dents who do not send in their questionnaires can expect a visit from a Cen sus representative carry ing an official folder within two weeks. Census figures are used to determine how much government aid will go to programs such as CETA, Senior Citizens Hot Lunch Program, Head Start, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and Aid to Families with De pendent Children. xmo*m " irungs on mere, i use me cheerleaders. When a per son does some cheers then all the rest of them start over,” she noted. A typical week for Miss Blackmon includes playing outside. “At school I do cheers and baton twirls. On Sundays I go to Sunday School at First Baptist and I sing in the Children’s Choir," she explained. Last summer she parti cipated In the WGIV dance contest and won. And when she was eight months old she won a First Baptist baby contest. For right now our little beauty is concentrating on becoming an excellent cheerleader, She practices hard and regularly to reach this particular goal. This only goes to prove that whatever interest Miss Blackmon chooses in the future will probably W pur sued with just as much viffnr Buaneas League To Sponsor Political Forum Meet the candidates for Governor, Lt. Governor, Mecklenburg County Com mission and the School Board at a political forum being sponsored by the Charlotte Business League. Candidates will give brief opening remarks, then a question and answer session will follow at the Friday, April 11 forum to be held from 4 till 10 p.m. in Ovens Auditorium. A moderator and panel composed of CBL mem bers, media represent atives, and community or ganizations will conduct the session. Admission is free. Budget Cuts To Hurt Poor People Special To The Post WASHINGTON (UMNS( -“Poor and hungry people who already suffer most” should not have to bear additional burdens because of anti-inflation measures, 22 religious leaders told the President and the Congress last week. The proposed budget cuts being discussed would “disproportionately hurt poor and hungry people” in both the U.S. and other countries, according to the statement, signed by Pro testant, Catholic and Jew ish leaders. They included, for United Methodists, Peg gy Billings, Women’s Divi sion executive for Christian social relations, and Dr. George H. Outen, chief executive of the Board of Church and Society. The statement noted that many of the proposals con travene recommendations from the Presidential Com mission on World Hunger and Malnutrition, which urged the U.S. government to “make the elimination of hunger the primary focus of relationships with the developing nations, begin ning with the decade of the 1980s.” • ine religious leaders al so pointed out that “genuine national security, as the commission ob served, includes not only military and political ele ments but also active U.S. participation in coopera tive efforts to assist the world’s poor to achieve lives of dignity and fulfillment.’’ “Inflation is not a pecu liarly American difficul ty,” the statement stressed and, while American pro blems are serious, "they hardly compare with the extremity of need of per sons in developing coun tries.” And in this country, “the poor are hardest hit by inflation.” More On Statue Unveiling On Page 6 Central Piedmont Community College back in 1963. was first housed in Central High School 18 Years Ago CPCC, Had Humble r* WBSSE* Rrst Of A Series “ °°v"nor v-emrai t-ieamoni uom munity College began hum bly id years ago as a technical vocational center housed in the vacant Cen tral High School building on Elizabeth Avenue at the banks of Sugar Creek Rd Although CPCC was founded in the early 60s, the seed for a community college was planted before the Depression. Buncomb County Com munity College in Asheville (now Asheville-Biltmore Junior College) set a trend in 1927 as the first junior college which was not church-owned but support ed by the county. Despite a state court ru ling that the college PflllMn’t IICO nnunt l r to support it, a supreme court decision overruled the lower court, according to Raymond Mason, CPCC’s historian. "It opened the way for using public money for colleges,” Mason explained. When the Depression hit, funding became scarce for the state-owned and operated schools. Following WW II 70,000 applications flooded state colleges for 35.000 open ings. The North Carolina College Conference called for Education Centers in heavily populated areas Operated by the school board these centers “pre pared a student to enter a four year college as a junior,” Mason said. Dr. Elmer Garinger, the Schools and Bishop Her bert Spa ugh, a Moravian minister discussed trans forming education centers into one junior college called Charlotte College. After the idea became a reality blacks protested the segregated school and con sequently founded Carver College By 1955 the first state aid was allocated by Governor Luther Hodges for Carver, Charlotte College. Ashe ville-Biltmore and Wil mington. A Community College Act in 1957 declared that these four junior colleges plus Elizabeth City and Gastonia were not allowed to teach trade or vocational courses, Mason said. Industrial Education Centers then were estab lished for "people who couldn't attend college and were entitled to trade vo cational education," ac cnariotte college ex panded and relocated to become UNCC in I960, while Carver College be came Mecklenburg Col lege. After receiving state ap proval from Governor Ter ry Sanford and the Raleigh General Assembly, Meck lenburg College merged with the Central Industrial Center. The school became Cen tral Piedmont Community College in July 1963, the name derived from the location. "It was housed in the old Central Building in the Piedmont section of North Carolina,” Mason said. The next article will fo cus on the first years at CPCC, movement to its new location on Independ ence Boulevard and the growth of. student popula tion. JCSL) Flans Health Fair The second annual health fair will be held at the Johnson C. Smith Univers ity Plaza from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Thursday, April 17. The health fair, spon sored by the men of JCSU, is part of a week-long ob servance of Men's Week on campus “The week is set aside each year to show our appreciation for the coun seling and development of programs which helps to Will Attend Unveiling Saturday ' “Daddy” King Denies Allegations By Susan Ellsworth Post Staff Writer Dr. Martin Luther “Daddy” King Sr. will at tend the unveiling of the statue erected in memory of his son at the noon ceremony at Charlotte’s Marshall Park on April S. He is pastor emeritus of Ebenexer Baptist Church in.Atlanta, Georgia. According to Rev. Harold Diggs of Mayfield Me morial Baptist church, Dr. King denied allegations that the King family was disinterested in attending the statue commemora tion. Rev. Diggs said Dr. King told him that neither he nor Mrs. Coretta King were aware they were invited to Dr. Martin L King, Sr. ...Expresses regrets the services until Rev. Diggs invited them on be half of the Martin Luther King Commission. Dr. King expressed his regrets to Rev. Diggs that he would not be able to attend the candlelight me mortal service on April 4 because of a speaking en gagement that night at Duke University. The candlelight service will be held at 8 p m Friday at Covenant Pres byterian Church, 1000 East Morehead Street. Highlighting ceremonial activities, according to Rev. Diggs, the invocation will be delivered by Rev. Morgan Tanner of Ginton AME Zion Church. Dr. Douglas Aldenburg from Covenant Presby terian Church and William White from Little Rock AME Zion Church will read from the Old Testament The Friendship Baptist Choir will sing hymns before Rev. Mrs. Phinlsee Devia, the campus n^n ister of Johnson C. Smith University reads from the New Testament. Rev Diggs and Rev. Eu gene Owens from Myers Park Baptist Church will present the Witness of Gra titude for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Kev Edward Newbeiry from Memorial United Presbyterian Church will present a Litany of Thanks giving. Delano Racard will give a dramatic rendition of King's "I Have A Dream” speech Shuttle services will be provided from the Char lotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education parking lot to the church. facilitate individual and group development,” said Cleveland James a 1972 graduate of JCSU and as sistant director of Student Life. The theme of the week is, “Reaching for Tomorrow " Health services available will include: free blood pressure checks, sickle cell anemia testing, inform ation on drug education and alcoholism Other agencies and or ganizations that will be available for counseling and information will in clude: the Epilepsy As sociation, the Red Cross, The March of Dimes, the Heart Association, Planned Parenthood, Florence Crit tenton, the Cancer Associa tion and the Mecklenburg County Health Depart mpnt Other activities planned for the week include: an annual Men's Breakfast at 9:30 a m Sunday April 13, at the University Student Union. The speaker will be Dr. William Greene, director of Career Counsel ing and Placement. Monday, April 14 will be host day. Campus men will carry the trays of female students and staff in the dining hall Tuesday, April 15, is the day to meet school board candidates. Candidates will be addressing: “The place of Black Students in see JCSU on page 4 \b Volunteers Needed To Teach Reading Skills By Susan Ellsworth Host Staff Writer Millions of Americans cannot get or hold jobs because they cannot read Mecklenburg County along claims 50,000 illiterate people. If you can read you can help them, The Mecklenburg County Literacy Council is offering two tutor workshops - one in basic reading skills and another in ESOL (English Speakers of Other Lan guages). Volunteers are needed to donate time and a small amount of money to teach reading. •» ivuuuui WU1 AMiup IIC1U on alternate months, trains readers 12 years and older on how to teach basic read ing and writing skills. For ESOL the workshop is 15 hours. Laubach Na tional Affiliation for Li teracy Advance provides the training at a total cos! to the tutor of $20. Registration lor tne next ESOL workshop is sche duled for Wednesday, April 9from 6:30-7 p.m. at the St. Mark’s Lutheran Church at 1001 Queens Road. Classes will begin Thurs day, April 10 from 7-9:30 p.m and will continue on Wednesdays and Thurs days. April 10-2-i A $13 50 fee is '•equired for books and materials Within one or two years an illiterate person can reach a seventh grade reading and writing level, according to Milton Terte. Literacy Council Publicity Director Tutoring is done in a mutually convenient area such as a church, com munity center or a library. The student buys his own materials consisting of five workbooks Role-playing, dialogue and use of phrases all help boost the student's vocabu lary to 600 words, Terte said. Students are accepted on a first-come-first-served basis as the number of students is expected to ex ceed the number of tutors available. Students are anxious to learn. ‘‘They’re eager. They want to be assimilat ed" Terte explained If you are motivated to help the illiterate person overcome his frustration of not being able to read and help increase his self esteem, the Literacy Coun cil would like to hear from you. Call 334-6324 to enroll as a tutor. <rtorguiv rxixs High Interest Rates Are Not Solution To Inflation WASHINGTON-- Robert A Georgine, President of the Building and Construct ion Trades Department, AFL-CIO, last week charged that fighting in flation through high inter est rates and budget cuts spell disaster for construct ion workers. "What good is a remedy that is worse than the disease?" Georgine asked. "It is neither effective nor fair to fight inflation by throwing more people out of work, cutting real wages, and bringing on a recession Creating more human hardship to achieve abstract, economic goals is not a solution Trading in flation for unemployment is no answer.” Speaking at the annual conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department at the Wash ington Hilton Hotel here, Georgine described the economic plight of the con struction industry and called on the 4.1 million members of the building trades unions to become more active in the 1980 electoral camoaians "Every new percentage added to the interest rate means less construction activity” Georgine said “For the Building Trades member that will mean fewer jobs, fewer hours of work, and eventually, lower wages." He noted that construction workers comprise between four and seven percent of the U S. labor force. ‘‘Economic sacrifice must fall on all segments of society," he said Georgine also criticized proposed budget cuts for mass tran sit grants, general revenue sharing and me solar and energy conservation bank Along with proposed cuts of dam and water reservoir projects, sewer grants, highway and airport con struction and housing re habilitation loans, the new budget "could mean a de vastating year for the con struction industry." Geor gine warned “Home ownership is fast becoming an impossible dream for most Amen cans," Georgine said, "and along with the end of that dream go thousands upon thousands of construction jobs " Georgine outlined other legislative concerns, which include retaining wage pro tections for publicly funded construction, preserving the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from proposed cut backs; and demanding higher standards of ac countability for corporate abuses City Offices Wffl Be dosed Easter Monday Ail offices of Charlotte City government will be closed on Easter Monday. April 7. Regular business hours will be resumed on Tuesday, April 8 at 8 a m Due to the holiday there will be no meeting of the Charlotte City Council on Easter Monday. There will be no curbside trash collection during the week. Rems should not be placed on the curb until Tuesday, April 15 for col lection on Wednesday, April 16