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PETITE SANDRA CARTER
...Our Scorpian beauty
Sandra Carter Is
Beauty Of Week
By Teresa Burns
Post Staff Writer
Get ready. Get set, ant
the Charlotte Post is on thi
fjfcvith track star beauty
Sandra' Carter. She has
many talents, ranging
from intelligence to physi
cal agility.
As a 1980 graduate oi
East Mecklenburg High
School, Ms. Carter was
co-head cheerleader in the
10th grade and head cheer
leader in the 11th and 12th
grades. She was co-captain
of the basketball team and
named the most valuable
track star in the llth grade.
In addition to a $50C
basketball scholarship, Ms.
Carter was granted a four
year scholarship in basket
ball from Wingate College
in Monroe. Once she ar
rives at college, basketball
will not be the only subject
she’ll concentrate on.
“I may go into the field of
human relations. And I’m
thinking about becoming a
lawyer, but I also want
something to fall back on
part-time - something to
relax me. I like a variety,"
she expressed. ’ :
It is a fact our Scorpian
beauty has a variety of
interests-she is working
this summer at Goofs
Pants Place; she has mo
deled in school and com
munity fashion shows, and
is a member of the Leschie
Dancers. Along with three
other ffeung ladies, Ms.
Carter^w first place in a
Committee Meeting
The Ad Hoc Huntersville
‘ Hospital Study Committee
will meet on alternate Wed
nesdays in July. Meeting
dates are set for July 2, 16
and 30 in the Executive
Dining Room at Charlotte
Memorial Hospital at 4
D.m. _
Carowinds talent program
last spring, and first place
in a 4-A Club talent hunt.
She also attends University
Park Baptist Church.
Her mother, Mrs. Faye
Lee Carter, happens to be
our beauty’s favorite
person. “She is always
here when I need her - I
think that is something
special,” Ms. Carter ad
mitted.
With three sisters and
two brothers, Ms. Carter
says she has enjoyed the
relationships. “It’s good to
have someone to come
home to. We have fun and
they cheer me up when I’m
down."
She enjoys playing house
games with her sisters,
swimming and playing
tennis. When it comes to
music, the Commodores,
Patti La belle and Larry
Graham are a few of her
favorite performers.
Ms. Carter is 18 now, and
hopefully future years in
her life will be as produc
tive as the preceeding ones.
With a philosophy like hers,
she will definitely make
this hope come true: ‘Jjf
there is a goal you really
want, strive for it, and you
are bound to succeed.”
MIDDLE AGE It when a
person starts thinking a
bout resigning from the
^ETSETjnd joining the
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Census Bureau Begins Review
T o Complete 1980 Count
Minimum
Wage Is
Now $2.90
North Carolina’s mini
mum wage went up to $2.90
an hour Tuesday, (July 1),
N.C. Labor Commissioner
John C. Brooks noted this
week.
The base wage had been
$2.75 since passage of the
1979 North Carolina Wage
and Hour Act just a year
ago. A provision in that law
had assured Tuesday’s 15
cents-an-hour hike, Brooks
said.
A subminimum wage al
so in effect for the past
year - $2.45 an hour for
full-time students, learn
ers, apprentices and mes
sengers - will move to $2.60
on Tuesday.
Brooks announced the
new student wage today
and set the effective date to
parallel the increase in the
overall state miniumum.
The state labor com
missioner is authorized un
der the wage and hour law
to change the student mini
mum after holding a public
hearing. The department
conducted a hearing in
Raleigh in June.
Brooks said that, in
general, the state mini
mum applies to state and
local government employ
ees and to non-exempt em
ployees in small retail
establishments which have
a gross income under $275,
000 annually and which
employ four or more
workers.
Persons with questions
regarding the minimum
wage should contact Skip
Easterly, director, N.C.
Department of Labor Wage
and Hour Divison, ill E.
North St., Raleigh, N.C.
27601. (919 ) 733-2152.
Gty Seeks
Consultants For
Energy Audit
The City of Charlotte is
seeking proposals from
qualified teams of engin
eers and architects to per
form an energy audit on 27
City buildings. As a result
of the audits, these teams
will identify energy con
servation measures for
each building.
Alice torn Says:
“Company Owes You Somediine
By Eileen Hanson
Special To The Post
For 15 years Alice Ford
has been spinning cash
mere yarns at Woonsocket
Spinning Co. She was one of
the first black women to
get a production job at the
woolen plant when the go
vernment ordered integra
tion in the mid-1960's.
But this week Mrs.
Ford’s daily trip to the
plant on Monroe Rd. stops
at the front door.
“On strike. Unfair labor
practices," reads her sign
as she and fellow union
members walk the picket
line in front of the mill
where the Amalgamated
Clothing and Textile Work
ers Union Local 2351 has
been on strike since Sun
day, June 22. About 175 of
the 210 employees were out
on Monday.
"After 15 years of bad
feet and stiff fingers, the
company owes you some
thing,” said Mrs. Forc^
who says she joined thej
union to get better wages, a
pension plan, and a senior
ity system.
“Now when you retire
the company gives you a
measely $100, period. That
won’t even buy a month’s
groceries,” she said. | *
Even thou?*- Mrs* Ford
was one ol the first black
women hired by Woon
socket, she has never been
offered a better paying job
“They will hire a male
supervisor off the street
and make me train him,
but they would never offer
the job to a woman already
working here. They say we
aren’t qualified, but I’ve
been working this same job
for 15 years. I know how it’s
done," said Mrs. Ford.
There is only one super
visor at Woonsocket, and
only a couple of black men
have managed to get these
jobs.
"They offer you no
thing," said Eva Mae Port
er, an 18 year veteran of
Woonsocket's warehouse.
“I was out sick for 6
months and all I got was a
flower from my depart
ment. The company never
called. I didn't get a dollar
of sick pay.”
The year-old union has
tried to get a pension plan,
sick benefits, family health
insurance and better wages
for the employees. Wages
average $4 12 an hour, but
for most of the women,
wages are $3.65-$4.00 an
hour.
"It dosen’t matter if
you've been here 15 years
or three months, you get
the same low pay,” said
Mrs. Ford.
After 13 years in the
plant Amanda Russell feels
there is no equality be
tween workers and fore
man. "We work here 13
years for no benefits, but
they hire a foreman off the
street and give him in
surance. pension and sick
pay," she said "What are
we going to do when we get
old and have to go out?"
The strike began Sunday
evening after negotiations
broke down between the
textile workers' union and
the company.
"The company didn’t
even show up for negotia
tions on Friday,” said
Nancy Walker, a member
of the union committee.
"They already had a letter
in the mail threatening to
replace workers who didn't
come to work.”
The union says it will file
more unfair labor practice
charges against the com
pany.
Woonsocket's General
Manager Normand Picard,
and the parent company.
Amciale Industries in New
York, refused to comment
to the Post on Tuesday.
Under the National La
bor Relations Act, a com
See company on page 14
Willie Holmes Urges Blacks To “Get
Involved With Property Management”
By Anthony Hayes
Post Staff Writer
The Certified Property
Management designation
is the highest professional
designation given in pro
perty management. Willie
Holmes has become the
first black in the city of
Charlotte to receive this
designation, which took six
years to complete. Holmes
noted that blacks represent
no more than one percent
to five percent of the total
CPM’s in the nation, which
is estimated at (.500.
Holmes, in expressing a
need for more blacks to
pursue the CPM designa
tion, said: “It is absolutely
necessary for blacks to set
Involved with property
management. It’s a lonely
feeling to be the only one in
a field like this." Making
Willie Holmes
Certified Property Manager
reference to Charlotte’s ef
fort to revitalize the down
town area, Holmes com
mented: "Blacks need to
become involved so that we
can take part in the de
velopment of areas such as
the Third and Fourth Ward
communities. We need to
be involved so that we can
have the knowledge and
input as to how these areas
can best be constructed.”
In reference to the low
percentage of blacks in
volved with property man
agement, Holmes explain
ed that course studies,
prices and locations are
deterrents. He also said
that many blacks are not
aware of this type desig
nation. He went on to ex
plain that he became in
terested after meeting Mr.
H. R. Crawford in 1974.
According to Holmes, “we
sat down and talked about
its possible advantages
However, I wanted to go
beyond merely selling real
estate. I knew it would't be
easy, but I realized it was
worth It. I took classes in
Phoenix. Arizona, Toronto,
Canada, San Francisco,
and Florida, while paying
$350. a week, (the price is
now $450. a week.) I did my
final thesis on a property
case study in Phoenix, en
titled ‘How To Finance and
Refinance Property.'"
Holmes and his wife
Laura are members of Mt.
Moriah Primitive Baptist
Church, and the proud
parents of two children -
Carol and Lynn. He is a
graduate of AAT State Uni
versity where he received a
bachelor of science degree
in sociology, and Southern
Illinois University where
he studied housing man
agement. Holmes, who is
an unlimited general con
tractor and realtor, is also
a member of the Charlotte
Business League, and the
only black VA appraiser in
the citv of Charlotte.
Holmes expressed his
deepest "thanks" to Dr.
Reginald Hawkins (Man
ager, Parker Heights
Apartment Complexes),
Ernie Alfred (Executive
Director, Motion, Inc ),
and Walter Tucker (Pre
sident, Mechanics and
Farmers Bank), for their
assistance in his career
According to Holmes,
“blacks should increase
their awareness of IREM,
which is the group that
confers management de
signations It takes deter
mlnatlon, but once you get
it - you’ve got something
that very few people
have.”
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Officials To Check
Accuracy Of 1980 Count
A major new effort by the
Bureau of the Census and
top officials of the Na
tion's local communities
is underway to help assure
the most accurate and
complete count possible in
the 1980 Census of Popula
tion and Housing
Census Bureau Director
Vincent P. Barabba an
nounced the start of the
innovative Local Review
Program at a press confer
ence this week in the
Bureau's Suitland, Mary
land headquarters.
The program will enable
local officials to check the
accuracy and complete
ness of housing and popu
lation counts provided to
them by the Census
Bureau. Local govern
ments then will have the
opportunity to point out
possible problems for re
view and correction, as
needed, before the 409 tem
porary census district of
fices close
Barabba said the pro
gram was 'initiated "in the
belief that the review by
local. officials before cen
sus offices close will con
tribute significantly to the
accuracy and success of
the census.
"We have been working
closely with these officials
since early last year in
preparing for this pro
gram Technical manuals
have been sent to the Na
tion's 39,500 local govern
ments (cities, counties and
townships) and Bureau
staff people have conduct
ed workshops for local
officials.
in laie /\prn ana early
May detailed instruction
booklets and packages of
census maps were sent to
the highest elected official
of each of the nation's
39,500 cities, counties and
townships The officials
will muse these materials
as a basis for summarizing
their own population and
housing unit estimates so
that they can be compared
with the Census Bureau's
counts. Most local govern
ments will receive these
counts this month.
“The Local Review Pro
gram is a massive under
taking which has not been
attempted formally in any
previous census," Barabba
said. “While its success
will ultimately depend on
the cooperation of local
officials, the Census
Bureau is committed to
reviewing potential pro
blems uncovered by the
local officials' reviews of
our counts.
"In order for the Bureau
to review the areas where
there are problems, de
tailed supportive evidence
must be provided to the
Bureau by the local govern
ments. This documentation
will be required before any
detailed rechecking can be
done. It will not be possible
for the Bureau to recheck
an area solely on a person
al feeling that a count is too
low or too high.”
Among the types of evi
dence local officials are
expected to use to support
their estimates are:
1) Residential Building
and demolition permits,
2) Residential Utility
(electricity, telephone,
water) connections.
3) Aerial photos, field
surveys, and land-use
maps, and
4) Tax assessor records.
The local governments
wilt have an average of
four weeks to get ready for
the review and two weeks
to comment on the Bu
reau’s counts. The tem
porary census offices will
remain open up to six
weeks in order to complete
the checking of these local
comments.
During the last census in
1970. some local govern
ment complaints about the
counts could not be investi
gated fully because local
governments often did not
have clear evidence of al
leged mistakes, and the /
concerns were raised after y
the temporary census of- f
fices had already closed '
Local officials are vitally
concerned with the accu
racy of the census of their
communities for several
reasons:
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Harvey Gantt
...Replaced Jenk'"'
l*antt Named
To Architecture
Board
Governor Jim Hunt
named Harvey B. Gantt of
Charlotte last week to the
N'.C. Board of Architec
ture He replaces Edward
Jenkins of Greensboro who
resigned Gantt will serve
the remainder of his term
which ends April 8. 1985
Gantt is a partner with
Gantt-Huberman Associ
ates, an architecture firm.
He is a member of the
American Institute of Ar
chitects and the National
Organization of Minority
Architects. He is a member
of the Charlotte-Mecklen
burg Community Relations
Committee and is on the*
Board of Directors of the
'Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Urban League
The board consists of
seven members, all ap
pointed by the Governor.
Five members must be
licensed architects and two
are at large members The
board is responsible for
licensing qualified archi
tects.
Black Lawyers
Elect New
Officers
The Charlotte Chapter of
the North Carolina Asso
ciation of Black Lawyers
has elected the following
people as officers
members of its
Committee for, {
They are Karl
president, Hu
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Members of the Amalgamated Clothing
and textile Workers Union, Local 2351
are on strike this week at Woonsocket
Spinning Co., in an effort to settle unfair
labor practices. (Photo by Eileen
Hanson)