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I black bu Business Of The Week He Believes ] By ROBIN ADAMS Stuff Writer When he sees or thinks about a 1953 Corvette, James Barkley starts to smile. "I just get excited," Bark Icy says. "At the time they came out (he was only 9 years old), I really wanted one. And 1 told myself when I got able to, I was gonna buy one." ' Well, Barkley, now 39, never got that 1953 Corvette, but he has a shop full of other cars, all of which he loves dearly. But the cars at Barkley's Body Shop on Chapel Street are the kind of cars that probably no one else but a body * shop proprietor would love. All of them are wrecked and tu/o of th?m ?? t*\A*m than Barkley. But it'll be only a matter of time before Barkley gives them a new lease on their mechanical lives. :. "When a car comes in here wrecked and it leaves out, I fixed and shiny, I'm proud/' he says. : And making sure that each car leaves in perfect condition is a pet peeve of Barkley's. "It pays to do a job right the first time. Anytime you .have to repeat a job, you are losing money," he says. "II :you take a short cut, you will end up spending valuable 'time trying to make a bad job look good." Barkley says he firmly believes in doing quality work and the only way to do that is to stay in touch with new :technology and products. "1 attend clinics sponsored by various dealers to stay :up on the latest techniques and materials in the market," ;he says. "The clinics are free, and they usually last foui or five hours a night. But you always learn something. ; And that's the only reason I go. t "Sometimes 1 am the only black down there. But this is Tny livelihood. So 1 try to stay on top." Vpt RarVlcu o/lmUe V????. ? 1 L - ? mhi niv; Humus 11V ^1109 I1UI ttlWSyS DCCI1 SUCfl SI t stickler for quality. "I used to think that you have to buy \cheap (products) in order to make money," he says, "But I soon learned that, with a cheap product, you get a rfcheap job." T; Learning those lessons took time. After getting out of jkhe Army, Barkley went to Forsyth Technical Institute : find got a degree first in building illustrations and later in ?auto body repair. He then went to work for two local : body repair shops before opening his own place 15 years i ago on Trade Street. :[ "When 1 started out on Trade Street, I had a shop full : of work. And there came a tim? when all that mattered getting paid. But when you do that, you overlook tfnings. And instead of making rrioney, I Sfos losing ]money," he says. - 71 "If you do a fast job, you let a lot of things slip by and people will come back a second time to have the job done 'right." ; Although Barkley's learned his lessons, sometimes he I still has to educate his customers. MA4ot of times people ; (black and white) come to me because they think I am -cheap and do quick work because I'm black,*' he says. : VBut not me. I learned it takes time to do a job right." Barkley says he owes almost everything he knows to Business People , Firm's Attorney ATLANTA - M. James "Mack" Hunter, general tff ^ counsel or m&m Products . .. Co., was recently appointed ~ the firm's corporate. secretary. Continuing his W ;'l functions as legal representative, Hunter will serve the 10-year-old hair care products company as an of- JtL I ficer, along with four vice presidents. The appoint- I ment was announced by the M owners of M&M Products, I Cornell McBride and Therman McKenzie. i Before joining M&M, : Hunter practiced corporate J?me? Hunter : and labor law and handled : "civil rights litigation. He ment Opportunity Commis "also served the federal sion as an investigator : government in numerous public relations specialist official litigation. He was decision writer and lav production controller for clerk in Washington, D.C. : Robins Air Force Base in In 1973, Hunter was on< Warner Robins, Ga., from of the first attorneys tc '1968 to 1970, prior to join- open the Comission'j : ing the U.S. Equal Employ- Atlanta Litigation Center f Urban League's Jacob J John Jacob, president of executive vice president of the National Urban League, the Urban League and was will be the keynote speaker named president two years at the annual National later. He officially assumed * Association of Market that office on Jan. 1, 1982, Developers awards banquet succeeding Vernon E. Jor" on Wednesday, May 18, at dan, who presided over the | ; 8 p.m. in the Grand organization for 10 years, r. Ballroom of the Seelbach A trained social worker, Hotel in Louisville, Ky. Jacob has built a reputatior "J Jacob has worked with as a quiet NUL insidei )i the Urban League in several whose talents are for ad capacities for 17 years. On ministration and coalitior - Feb. 1, 1979, he was named building. He was described - - . .1 tsiness In Doing It Right' t - . M ^Si ' I gfl I i I r vMLi^nS Barkley An i James Barkley, owner off Barkley's Body Shop, I - by James Parker). i the other shops he's worked in. In the first shop, he learned how to handle the practical side of the job and in the second shop he learned the business end of the job. Barkley says he is equipped to handle all body repair i work, including painting, without having to contract part of the job to someone else. He also customizes cars, trucks, vans and motorcycles. And Barkley knows his cars. He can tell you, off the 1 top of his head, when a car waq intmHnroH ?? y ? ? * wvcvvm) nuvi V JV/U can get a part you need and how much it will cost. He says he knows drivers, too. v<. *, Nforffterri drfVirs^ Barkley says, expect to buy a new car every year. "If they wreck it, they get it repaired without I too much worry, because they know they will get a new one next year. "But Southern drivers are fussy about their cars. If you hit it, you gonna pay for it." t And that's where Barkley fits in. 14If it wasn't for the independent shops," he says, "the auto industry would be in trouble. And not only do we help them, we also help people. It's a whole lot cheaper to fix a car than it is to buy a new one." f Becomes Officer He served the center as a Who in American College: senior trial attorney and and Universities, and is < supervisory trial attorney, member of Alpha Kappi prosecuting civil rights Mu Honor Society and Ph I cases on behalf of the Alpha Delta Law Fratemi federal government. Hunter ty. first represented M&M Products as an attorney in Warren Appointed private practice before joining the company in January The appointment ol 1980. Oscar Wesley Warren to the 4<M&M Products is New York regional sale! grateful that Mack Hunter staff of the National Black has served this company as Network (NBN), was anlegal counsel the last three nounced recently by George years/' said McBride, Edwards, president ol president of M&M. "We NBN. are honored to have him Warren, who has had exserve as an officer as we tensive experience in broad begin a new decade of cast media sales, previously , growth." was an account executive , Hunter, recipient of the with WMCA radio, where r Al Knox Award and Omega he specialized or Psi Phi Award, is an honor cooperative sales tc ; graduate of Fort Valley manufacturers' represen) State College and Howard tatives of national pro\ University Law School. He ducts. has been listed in Who's Please see page 22 o Keynote Conference in a recent Washington rost munity. \ article as "the prepared A reception will be held i practical tactician." prior to the banquet at 1 1 During the banquet, p.m. Banquet tickets are , awards wiU^b^presented to $50. the Marketer of the Year, The National Association \ Communicator of the Year of Market Developers was and Minority Business of established in 1953. Its , the Year. In addition, the membership is found largei Plan for Progress Award ly in the areas of sales, sales ' will be given to the corpora- promotion, advertising and tion that has supported public relations. The annual i minority businesses and convention will be held May I marketing in the black com- 16-18 at the Seelbach Hotel. 1 The First Time inBir - ** * *. r "^5 tSII mp^^i*tfia4&-_jb hi -w^ob^bb&b ^ t ? 4-* d His 'Loves' relieves in giving old cars a new lease on life (photc I DEADLINE I . 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