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V°l· 5, No, 39
"The Voice lii The Blaok Community**
THE CHARLOTTE POST, Thursday, May 1, 1980
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ADORBALE ELEANOR HOEY
...Dark room technician
HJeanor rloey
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Is Beauty Of Week
By Teresa Burns
Post Staff Writer
Becoming an independ
ent! soul is one of life's
many struggles. Yet, our
beauty Eleanor Hoey,
seems to have achieved
this despite her worldly
years of 23.
"I try to be independent,
Ms. Hoey began, "I enjoy
being independent. Do it
yourself - Don't get anyone
to do it for you. I don't like
to feel like 1 owe anyone
anything
Our 4pes beauty has
wdrked since she was 15
years of age Her career
interest in photography has
blossomed and she is now
being trained to become a
dark room technician at
Edison Searles Photogra
phy Studio. She also com
pletud two quarters of Gra
phic Art at Central Pied
mont Community College.
"It's interesting work,"
Ms. Hoey commented
about photography, "You
don't have to worry about
the work getting slow.
People are forever taking
pictures"
Ms. Hoey remarked that
she leads a rather simple
life. Her ambitions, how
ever, are far from the vein
of simplicity. "I seem to
have come a long way and
photography caught my in
terest the most. I would
like to become a profes
sional photographer and
own my own studio," she
commented," I want to
make a good future for
myself and my son."
Her future will probably
be spent in the Queen City.
"Charlotte is a great city,"
she said. "I wouldn't want
to leave it to live anywhere
else. I'm pretty satisfied
with everything. I'm thank
ful to be living."
A few of our beauty's
past times include listening
to pop and rock music.
"I'm interested in the out
side - I like the outdoors,"
she stated. Plus she stays
in good physical condition
by playing softball,
dancing, bicycle riding and
occasional jogging.
It's almost evident that
Ms. Hoey will achieve her
goals; if for none other
reason than her undeniable
independence. As long as
she possesses that inde
pendence her goals will
forever be within reach
because they are set by
none other than herself.
Bill Culp Predicts 10,000
Blacks Will Vote Tuesday
By Eileen Hanson
Special To The Post
Election Board Supervi
sor Bill Culp expects 80,000
votera to go to the polls on
Tuesday, May 6 for the
Democratic and Republic
an primaries and the
School Board election.
"I anticipate a 40-45 per
cent turn out, slightly more
tharf last year because this
is a presidential year,"
said CUIp This will be the
firsf time in N.C. that the
^•presidential primary and
Ρ local primaries are on the
same day.
According to Culp, the
hotte* races are for Meck
lenburg County Commis
sioners, Lieutenant Go
vernor and Insurance Com
misalOner,
Culp predicts 10,000
bladi v($rs - about a third
of thfae registered - will go
to thé polls. At latest count,
33,01» blacks are registered
to vote in the county.
Black voters will be es
pecially interested in the
race for State Senate. The
late Sen. Fred Alexander's
name will appear on the
ballot, along with 4 other
Democratic candidates.
Alexander was the only
black in the State Senate at
the time of his death.
To retain the possibility
of a black running for that
office in the November
election, voters would have
to elect Alexander
posthumously.
In the presidential pri
mary voters will cast their
preference for the next
U.S. president This vote
only binds the delegates to
the national party conven
tions to cast their first
ballot in proportion to the
votes cast for each candi
date in the primary.
Culp thinks the School
Board race is perhaps the
most importance race, but
it'· receiving the least at
tention.
"With 19 candidates run
ning for S seats, a runoff
election is almost a certain
ty," said Culp A candidate
must get a majority of the
votes cast to be elected. A
runoff would be held June
3. The School Board is a
non-partisan election.
Voting will take place
Tuesday, May β at 111
polling places throughout
the county. For informa
tion contact the Board of
Elections at 374-2133. The
see CULP on Page 2
X
Rev. Sullivan Joins President
Carter's Push For Fair Housing
May h Older
Americans'
Month
RALEIGH - Sally Lee is
78 years old and lives in the
same home she and her
husband purchased in 1935.
Her husband John died two
years ago. She has three
children who are all mar
ried and live in other parts
of the country. About the
only time she sees them is
at Christmas.
She has had arthritis for
quite a while, but it has
worsened in the last two
years. She is unable to do
many of the household
chores or drive a car to her
doctor's office or the gro
cery store. She has told her
children "I'm about ready
to give up my home, as
much as I hate to, and go
into a rest home." Her only
income is a $250 a month
social security check.
There are thousands of
elderly people in North
Carolina in about the same
predicament as Sally.
Their "nuclear" families
have spread to the four
corners and they have no
one to help them in their
later years when they be
come unable to function
independently.
These people are a part
of the aging phenomenon
referred to as the "Graying
of America". Today's aver
age life expectancy is 69 for
men and 77 for women. The
average life expectancy for
all Americans in 1940 was
only 63 years.
Today, 11 percent of the
nation's population is 65 or
older. It has been esti
mated that by the year
2030, 18 percent of this
country's population-55
million people -will be in
that age category.
One of the most obvious
results of these demogra
phic changes will be the
increased costs for pro
grams serving older peo
ple. National estimates
show that by 2010, the cost
of these programs are ex
pected to triple to $350
see MAY on Page 15
TOP LEVEL MANAGEMENT- show left
to right - Kelly Alexander Jr., Mrs.
▲ 1 * -
Theodora Witherspoon and Alfred L.
Alexander.
/uexanaer invest In
Downtown Revitilization
Home, Inc., has become
the first black business
during 1980 to invest in the
revitilization of downtown
Charlotte, with a 5,000 sq
ft. expansion of its Third
Ward facility and a change
in its top management, to
bring on line a third ge
geration of Alexanders
The new addition, when
completed during the sum
mer, will contain a chapel,
wake rooms, and merchan
dise display area Finan
cing for the project is being
handled by City National
Bank; design by Clary Ar
chitects, Inc., and actual
construction by Butler and
Sidbury, Inc. The con
struction phase of the pro
ject carries a $225,000 price
tage.
Additionally the com
pany has undergone a re
organization that brings on
line younger management
Under the reorganization,
Z. Alexander Jr., former
Secretary-Treasurer, be
comes corporate secret
ary, while Kelly M. Alex
ander Sr., former Presi
dent, becomes Chairman of
the Board; Alfred L. Alex
ander, a graduate of North
Carolina Central Univers
ity and Gupton Jones
School of Mortuary Science
··< nnouva, Ud., IldS UClill
elected President ; Kelly
M. Alexander Jr., a grad
uate of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, elected Vice Presi
dent; Mrs Theodora Alex
ander Witherspoon, elected
Treasurer; Louis F. Alex
ander of Rutherford. N.J
becomes Vice Chairman of
the Board; Mrs. Mauvine
Alexander, the widow of
State Senator Fred I) Alex
ander. was elected to the
Board
In other personnel
changes. Alfred L. Alexan
der appointed Mr. Robert
A. Walls, a veteran of over
fourteen years with the
company to the position of
Operations Supervisor
Alexander Funeral
Home, Inc., is an out
growth of a turn of the
century partnership be
tween Sid Coles and Z.
Alexander, Sr. The first
funeral home was located
in Howells Arcade Later,
A-nen me partnersnip was
formalized in 1925 as W. L
odes. Inc., the business
*as re-located to Brevard
St.. between Grace ΑΜΕ
Zion Church and the MIC
building In 1954 Alexan
der Sr died four years
later in 1958. the present
business was incorporated
by his sons Z. Alexander
Jr., Fred D. Alexander.
Louis Alexander and Kelly
M Alexander Sr
During the 50's and early
>0's the business operated
From a wood frame build
ing at 323 S. Brevard St..
just a half block from the
'-■enter of the old black
neighborhood of Brooklyn
Urban redevelopment of
Brooklyn forced a reloca
tion to the present site in
Third Ward. Still serving
the community after
seventy-five years. Alexan
rter Funeral Home. Inc., is
perhaps the oldest black
jwned and managed busi
ness in Charlotte
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Development and Learning
at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte will
present its first child and
family development con
day. May 2-3.
The two-day conference
titled "The Child and Fa
mily of the Eighties," will
ae held in the Cone Uni
versity Center at UNCC.
Hank Aaron, Gospel Choirs Will
Highlight "Get Out The Vote" Rally
by Eileen Hanson
Special To The Po*t
Homerun king Hank
Aaron and 10 Gospel choirs
will highlight a "Get Out
the Vote" rally and Gospel
sing Sunday, May 4 at Park
Center at 3 p.m. Admission
is free.
Harvey Gantt, former
city councilman, and Ron
Leeper, District 3 council
man, will share the speak
er's platform with Aaron,
retired baseball here of the
Atlanta Braves.
Candidates fer the May 6
primary will be on hand to
meet voters, but in keeping
with the non-partisan
theme of the program, they
will not give speeches
However, voters will be
encouraged to vote for the
late Fred Alexander in the
N. C. Senate race.
"We want people to vote
for Alexander because it is
the only way we can main
tain a black representative
in the Senate," said Lonnie
nk Aaron
...Ex-major leaguer
Graves of the Vote Task
Force.
If Alexander wins
posthumously, the Demo
cratic Party senatorial
committee will appoint
someone to fill that place
on the November election
ballot. Last week Gov. Jim
Hunt confirmed the ap
pointment of Rowe Motley
to fill Alexander's unex
pired term until Novem
ber.
Rally organizers include
the James Barnett Evan
gelistic Crusade and the
Vote Task Force. They
hope the appearance of
Hank Aaron will spark in
terest in the primary in the
black community, especi
ally among young voters
"Just as Hank Aaron set
a homerun record in base
ball. let's set a voting
record in Charlotte-Meck
lenburg on May 6," said
Rev Barnett
"Last September we lost
the opportunity to elect a
black mayor because we
did not vote our full
strength. This must never
happen again," according
to Barnett, referring to
Harvey Gantt who lost his
bid for mayor of Charlotte
by a thousand votes in the
September, 1979 city
primary.
According to Vote Task
Force vice chairman
Graves, "We now have
33,000 registered blacks, up
from 28,000 a year ago."
This represents slightly
more than half of the eli
gible black voters in the
county.
Among the Gospel
groups appearing will be
St Paul Hymn ('hoir, Rev
Don De Grate Delegation.
Dak Grove Mass Choir and
choirs from Gethsemane,
Kbenezer and Greater
Galilee Baptist Churches
Members of the John
McCombs, Jr Defense
Committee will also solicit
petitions asking Gov Hunt
to help the 24-year old
Charlottean secure a new
trial. McCombs is serving
65 years in Central Prison
because he shot and killed
a man who broke into his
college apartment 4 years
ago The intruder was an
unidentified policeman
McCombs' supporters
say the new U.S. Supreme
Court decision requiring
police to have search war
rants before entering a
private home will strength
en McCombs' case if he can
secure a new trial.
à
Fair t^msing Is Most
Important Legislation
special To The Post
Calling President Car
ter'sPush for Fair Housing
the most important civil
rights legislation in a de
cade, Rev Leon Sullivan
recently wired OIC Clergy
Support Leaders across the
nation in 150 communities
and 47 states to get the
support of their Congress
men and Senators
Meeting with President
Carter at the White House
last week, the Black Phila
delphia Clergyman who
heads OIC of American,
made a passionate plea for
all-out mobilization in sup
port of Clarence Mitchell,
Jr . Chairman of the Lead
ership Conference on Civil
Rights, who is spearhead
ing the campaign.
"It is time that the die
hard racist elements in the
Real Estate industry learn
that America is a demo
cracy and the land of the
free,where we can enforce
the laws that enable our
citizens to live in housing
a.nywhere that they have
the money to pay ...
I have wondered whether
we would ever get a Presi
dent and a Congress who
would go all out to change
the unfair housing prac
tices or whether we would
ever have the courage to
take on the Heal Estate
estaDlishment eyeball to
eyeball "
In response to Mr Louis
Martin's inquiry about Sul
livan's commitment, the
so-called "lion of Zior> '
practically roared:
"You can count on inl
and thi Ministers and
Churches who support <>|C
across rural and Urban
America "
The Bills currently
making their way through
Congress are H R >200 and
S. 506. The Fair Mousing
Amendments of l'JHO to the
Tille VIII of the Civil
Rights Act of 19βκ Intro
duced by Congressman
Don Edwards in the House,
and Senator Birch Ba>h in
the Senate, the Bills have
bi-partisan support from
Congressman Tom Rails
back and Senator Charles
McMathias. Republican*
The push now is to reach
143 targeted Congressmen
who- are uncertain votes
according to Mr Mitchell
and Marvin Caplan whose
leadership Conference has
been coordinating a lobby
ing strategy
Rev Jesse Jackson. Pre
sident of PUSH who en
dorsed Rev Sullivan's
statement as having ex
pressed his own views so
eloquently that nothing
more need be said, also
signed up to mobilize Ame
rican Public Opinion be
hind the President's Push
or Fair Housing
Rev Roy Allen. National
)1C Clergy Chairman said
hat Dr. Sullivan is person
illy "on fire" about this
ssue He has had personal
ixperience with the hate
nerchants had when he
noved into a previously all
vhite neighborhood He at
acked the Real Kstate Na
ional Convention for racial
liscrimination policies at
heir 1974 meeting in Las
,'egas where half of the
»ngry delegates walked out
)ii his address.
Political Κ<κ*4
Planned For
Hadisson Plaza
A. Political Koast and
disco dance will be hold at
the Hadissun Plaza's Car
rousel Room Saturday.
May :i at Η ρ rr Sponsored
)> Friends for Better
liovernment, the semi
ormal affair will feature
local candidates vying for
various offices.
Phil Berry. Charlotte
Uccklenlurg School Board
nember running for re·
•lection will be roa.->ted by
{ev George Battle of
Jethsemane AM Κ Zion
'hurch. and Bill Cunning·
lam. president of Charlotte
)istrict League
Bertha Maxwell will be
■oasted also As a eandi
late for the North Caro
ma State House she will be
oasted by Harvey Gantt,
'resident of Gantt, Huber
n.in and Associates, and
\elly Alexander, NAACP
IftlVisi
.luilge Τ Michael Todd,
fuming to retain his judge
•lap in the District Court
a ill be burned by Wayne
Mexander, U.S Assistant
Vtorney, and Howe Mot
appointee and candi
Jate for the N.C State
Ίι-nale
Kaleigh Bynurn candi
late lor Mecklenburg
ount> Commission, will
.»· roasted by Hon Leeper,
'ity Councilman and Bob
tValton. candidate for
harlotte County Commis
slOII
Donation is $10 and
funds will assist the candi
lutes' campaigns
INew Kesoluiions Could
Effect N.C. Motoriste
board of directors recently
adopted five resolutions on
laws which could drastic
ally affect North and South
Carolina motorists
The board voted to sup
port legislation allowing
each state to determine if it
wants an emissions in
spection and maintenance
program.
As part of the Clean Air
Act of 1970, states are now
mandated by the Environ
mental Protection Agency
to have a proeram bv 1981
legislation to increase
allowable truck size and
weight met with opposition
from the board Members
pointed out that rising
and accelerating highway
deterioration are linked to
vehicle size, according to
the Carolina Motor Club
newsletter
To minimize confusion
and frustration caused by
odd even gas rationing
plans, the board called for
uniform and simple state
emergency rationing pro
grams
Directors voted for rein
statement of the federal
fuel tax deduction which
was abolished in 1978 Prior
to 1978 motorists could de
duct "legitimate and rea
sonable coets of state taxes
on fuel from their federal
income tax*' the newsletter
said
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