r C ^ Î · ■ ' Ζ I. The Post Reaches Nearly 75 Per Cent More Negro Readers CHARLOTTE POST U/~"l 1 » η — Charlotte's Fastest Growing Community Weekly** VOL. \ NO. 3G — CHARLOTTE. NORTH CAROLINA 2H206 · THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1972 Pl*ICe 20c LOVELY RHONDA KENDRICK ... W. Mecklenburg Junior Beauty Of Week . ___ Miss Kendrick r λπ engaging smue, ouooung personality and exceptional good looks are the attributes of our Beauty for this week. She is Miss Rhonda Ken drick, 16-year-old ^daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kendrick Jr. of 3116 Clearview Drive. Rhonda is a junior at West Mecklenburg High School where shé plans to' "get in volved." She plans to join the Girls Athletic Associ&tion and she has high hopes of ; becoming a member of the student council. Our Beauty is a sports en thusiast who list basketball as her favorite sport and Abdur Jabbar as her favorite player. "I think he's great because he's so cool and collected Salem Church To Observe Revival Week The annual , revival service of the Salem Baptist Church, 5318 Salem Church Rd., will begin here Monday, Sept. 11 and continue through Friday, Sept. 15. •Worship will begin at 7:30 o'clock each evening/ Rev. Lemar Forster, pastor of the Mt. Hebron Baptist Church in Ranlo, N.C., will be the revival leader for the week. Gospel choirs from various churches in the area will provide the music. "We would like to invite the public to join with us in this, worship," John A. Mc Cullough, chairman of the deacon board, stated Wed nesday. "We would like to make this our biggest and best revival ever." The LAZIER a man is the more he PLANS to do TOMORROW when he's playing," '«she in forms. Rhonda also spends a great deal of her spare-time listening to the radio. "I like good music," she explained. Her favorite performers are the Jackson "5", Sly and the Family Stones, Three Dog Nights and "most everybody with Motown." Reading also occupies a good deal of her time. "I read just about everything I can get my hands on," she stated. Rhonda lists the University of California at Los Angeles as the school she'd like to attend following her graduation from high school. She says she perfers UCLA "because it's in California." Miss Kendrick continued: "I like to change my mind from week to week, therefore, at the moment, I would say», that I'd like to become a lawyer or an interpeller « Our Beauty is a member of Friendship Baptist Church where she is active in the Debutantes for Christ and the Acteens, a youth group which plans various outings for the young people of-the Church. As the second oldest child in a family- of four children, RhnnHfl u/pidhfl Ι ΊΛ »V\un^· ««Ί 5-feet 6-inches tall. Her older brother Joseph III is a rising sophomore at North Carolinfe AAT State University. Thei'e is a younger sister Leah, who is attending Fourth grade classes at Oak dale Elementary School, and a younger brother Keith who is only four-years-old. Misa Kendrick declined to list her measurements. Howard Lee * L To Campaign Here Friday Howard Lee, black mayor of Chape) Hill, will come to town Friday to campaign for Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern. Lee will speak at the Johnson C. Smith University gym at 4 p.m. Friday af ternoon. He will visit a voter registration project at β p.m., and attend a cocktail fund raising reception for the McOovem Million Member Club" at the White House Inn at 6:30 p.m Stale WiM. Have JnaV »»i General Assembly can ci •"-cOmvent the federal court decision and erect ne< barriers to keep the votes c minorities, ipeludinj Republicans, from counting Lewis continued. "The question is whethei the white Democratic majority will devise new roadblocks to black political participation or demonstrate a willingness to share power in a more democratic and open society," Lewis said. Lewis and Bond have been deeply involved in the civil rights movement in the South since-the early 1960's when thçy both helped organize the Student Nonviolent Coor dinating Committee (SNCC). Lewis, a native of Troy, Ala, participated in the 1961 Freedom Rides and was arrested in Birmingham and beaten in Montgomery In 1965, he was attacked in Selma, Ala by highway patrolmen as he led a march from Brown's Chapel ΑΜΕ Church to the Edmund Pettus Bridge seeking the right to vote. The Voter Education Projett is a private, non profit. non-partisan cor poration which operates a program of voter registration and citizenship education throughout the eleven southern states ι the first three months of this year the birth rate dropped more than ά per centage pointy over the same three months last year These figures from the State Board of Health indicate there should be an increase in^the first grade enrollment in 1976 66 but the yeaHs between now and then will have first grade enrollments of about wfiat they are this fall." pr Dawson said "This has implications -that go farther than the first grade. The drop in elementary enrollment over the past few~ _years and this fall means there will be fewer high school seniors down the road And . fewer college students bev-ond that," he added The State Board of Health reported in its 1971 annual report that the bir!7r>»ie for that year was the lowest birth rate ever recorded· in the state. It was 18 6 resident , "births per 1.0(H) in population In 1970 the rate was 19 3 and in I960 it was 24 ο For the first three months ot 1972 the rate wa 17.7 compa/ed to 19.0 for the same three ■ · . « u·· hiiu a M < Wt/. A licjr totaled 97,656. " "When you lake into ac count the number of infant deaths, we're left with 4,642 fewer native Tar Heels who will be six years old this year than we had in 1971," he saick The 1971 annual report of the State Board of Health shows that North Carolina lost 72.8(H) persons through out-migration during the 196()'s. This will have some effect on school enrollment in the 1970 s. Dr Dawson said " * PriTOte. school enrollments have gone from about 18.300 in 1968-69 to 49.200 in 1971-72 according to statistics in the State Department of Public Instruction "Since most of the enrollment in private schools is in the elementary grades, this is having a substantial effect on public school enrollments." Dr Dawson said t "We believe that private schools could have as many as 65.000 students in grades Κ During School Days Death Can Be Winner J. C. Smith To Offer Two Black Study Courses School days ... the smell of new blue jeans, warm milk through a paper straw, and a row of bicycles lined up in front of the school house The picture hasn't changed too much for many years, but the row of bicycles has become longer and longer Bicycles in the United States numbered 75 million this year, an increase of 50 million bikes over 10 years ago. The projection is that 11.5 million will be sold this year alone. The figure reinforces the contention of cycle en thusiasts, both young and old, that theirs is becoming the fastest growing sport and exercise form in the United States. Bicycle sales are in creasing; but, unfortunately, the tremendous growth in the use of the bicycle has been accompanied by a similar increase in biking accidents and; fatalities. says the In surance Information Institute. In North Carolina last year, 6*9 bike accidents, resulting in 705 personal injuries and 28 deaths, were reported Statistics show that in most bicycle acctdants, the cyclist violates a traffic law Inat tention or failure to yield right-of-way accounts for the largest number of mishaps, according to the Institute. In less than one-third of bike accidents, the motor vehicle driver violates a traffic rule or regulation Rural bicyplirif^ accidents generally are the more severe type. Though most accidents occur on city streets, more than 50 per cent of the fatalities and a large per: centage of the serious injuries occur in rural areas The Institute suggests that bike riders should obey all traffij? laws, signs and signals; signal turns clearly and properly ; ride in a single file on the side of the road with the traffic; use lights, reflectors, and light colored clothing when riding at night; obey all rules that drivers of motor vehicles must observe, especially those pertaining to right-of-way; and maintain the bicycle in good condition so that it won't cause any accidents. The most important rule for bicyclists is to remember to tike the bicycle seriously. Thehrike is a form of healthy, pollution free transportation, and not a toy or a plaything Wilkens Named Outstanding Young Man Gordon M Wilkens Jr. son of Mr and Mrs Gordon M Wilkens of 2105 St Paul SC., has been named among the Outstanding Young Men of America" recently A graduate student at Columbia. University in Mfcw York City, Mr Wilkens studying towards his M A degree in Business Ad ministration He was an honor graduate of West Charlotte High School in 19W and Whiltier College in Whittier. Calif in 1965 He has been working the assistant venerah>logist at the New York City Health Department for the past seven years Mr Wilkens plans to attend Columbia University School of when he receives his Master's Two Black Studies courses and seven additions to the Johnson C Smith University faculty have been announced by JCS president Lionel H Newsom Among courses added to Smith's 1972-73 curriculum are Afro-American Art History, and African and Afro American Music "We are trpng to sup plement our offerings in Black Studies by making wider use of media in instruction, such as film, slides and sound tracks in the new music course." explained Dr JackS Brayboy. vice president for academic affairs Similar innovative courses listed by Dr Brayboy include Black Economic Problems. Afro-American Political Thought. Sociology of the Black Community Rhetoric of the Black Revolution, the Black Man - His Religious Institutions and Thought, niai-κ i.iieraiure in Modern America, and The Negrouia_ American History Pointing out that Smith participais in the. N.C. In stitute for Undergraduate Curricular Reform, ■ Dr Brayboy said the University anticipates scrutinizing of ferings at all levels, with special attention to transition from lower to upper levels "The revision means more flexible offerings, fewer required courses and more electives to give students more varied experiences and independent study," he continued "We are giving much consideration to providing adequate academic coun· seling to tailor education to individual objectives.'' Dr ι Brayboy added New full time faculty at JCS i include Dr Rufus G. Pettis .J Professor of Mathematics an1