S| THE CHARLOTTEPI 1ST pH7! - Charlotte s Fastest Growing Connfuinity Week |_ — II ----- - : Ml Mil .. l l t-.:Sl>HTIf CAHIH.IS ^ JS-’I.. n,„.^t ,v I ■■ BBgi!—■— 1,11 ^ *• • ' ll MRS. ANGELA MOTLEY ...Washington, D. C. native MEDCO Secretary Is Our Beauty By Holly Manning Host Staff Writer The Charlotte Host is very proud to present as its "Beauty Of The Week”, Mrs. Vngela Motley, a newcomer to the Charlotte area. Mrs. Motley is a native of Washington. O. C. who has been in Charlotte for approxi mately five months. Our Beauty is 25 years old. She is married, but as of vet she and her husband have no children. Angela is the daughter of Mrs. Grace Gray of SuiHand, Maryland. Our S'I'i, .105 pound Beauty has a great interest in astrology but says she doesn't live a life based on astrology. She is born under the sign of l.eo, one of the most dominating signs of the chart, if not the most. She has attended Business school for accounting in Washington. She wants to go back to school for maa^eting and fashion merchandising. Her ultimate business goal is to become a Fashion Coordin ator. Mrs Motley even hopes to eventually be able to open her own women’s boutique here in Charlotte. Stated Angela, ”! feel that Fashion Coordination has become an "in thing" for today's woman and I hope to be the person who introduces it on a large scale in the Charlotte area.” For past-time fun our Beauty enjoys writing poetry and playing chess. She admits her chess game is pretty good. ..Angela is now working as secretary to William Fer guson. {’resident of the Mlnor . . .. Bg— i TUKUMM* , ; There »a* a man who called • SPADE a SPADE UNTIL he Stumbled over one. I ity Economic Development Corporation. This corporation is better known as “MEDCO." • When asked how yshe likes her work, Mrs. Motley slated. •"I really enjoy my work with MEDCO. I feel that their ser vices are greatly needed in the community. We here at MEDCO. make every effort to help minorities in ihe Char lotte area. We try to help them realize the importance of their participation in the business aspect of their community. ..Angela concluded by saying that "once we as a minority understand and take advant age of the opportunities avail able to us. we can make them play an important role in the development of our commun ity. there by making it a community in which we ran be proud.” Alcoholism Awareness Week Set ..Citing the need for North Carolinans to be aware of (he problems and prevalence of alcoholism in the state. Governor Jim liolshouser has proclaimed the week of January 18 - 26. 1975. as Alco holism Awareness Week in North Carolina. ..At present, there are an estimated nine million alco holics in the United States, with between 1X0,000 and 200,000 of them in North Caro lina. Nationally, it is esti mated that the cost or the alcohol problem (in lost wages, expenses to families, cost of liquor, etc.) tops $25 billion annualljf. ..In announcing the procla mation, Governor Holshouser called on (he Department of Human Resources to "make extra effort In that week to cause the public to become aware of the ever present threat of alcoholism and f ask the Alcoholism Research Authority, recently created by the N. C. General Assembly, to sponsor research into the causes and prevention of alco holism and to encourage participation in this research by the institutions of higher learning in North Carolina." Black Unemployment Skyrockets Minority Business Enterprise Increases 1972 Gross Receipts Were Over $7 Billion ..Although still a small fraction of the total of Ameri can business, black enterprise is forgoing ahead, according to Secretary of Commerce Frederick B. Dent. ..Secretary Dent said there were thirty-two thousand more black businesses in operation in the I'.S. in 1972 than in 1969. a 19 percent increase for the period, according to the first of several new reports on minor ity-owned businesses released by the Census Bureau, which is part of the I’.S. Department of Commerce's Social and , Economic Statistics Admini stration. Reports on other minority owned firms, includ ing businesses owned by per sons of l.atin. Oriental, and American Indian descent, will be issued in the near future. . The new figures on black businesses were obtained as a part of the Bureau's 1972 Kconomic Censuses pro grams. In 1969 statistics were obtained as a part of a special study. .Dross receipts in 1972 from a total of 195,900 black business enterprises amounted to $7.2 nil lion. a 60 percent increase over the 196!) estimated total of $4.5 billion from the esti mated 163.000 enterprises in business at that time. The data in this report have not been adjusted for price in creases. ..The report shows that in 1972 black-owned firms were highly concentrated in retail trade and selected services as they were in 1969. These en terprises accounted for 64 percent of all black-owned firms and 56 percent of their gross receipts and showed the greatest increases in actual numbers of firms and re ceipts. There were 56,617 firms in retail trade with gross re ceipts of $2.9 billion in 1972 compared to 45.220 firms with gross receipts of $1.9 billion in 1969. There were 66.469 firms in selected services in 1972. with gross receipts of $1.1 billion compared to 56,077 firms with gross receipts of $663.2 million in 1969. ..From I960 to 1972. the greatest percentage increase in the total of firms occurred in manufacturing and trans portation. Manufacturing firms increased to 4.116 from 2.961 (36 percent) and firms engaged in transportation in creased to 21. 738 from 16.733 • 30 percent). The greatest percentage in crease in receipts was shown in transportation and whole sale trade. Receipts for trans portation firms increased to $125.5 million in 1972 from $210.8 million in 1969 (102 per cent t. In wholesale trade, re ceipts increased to $764.2 million in 1972 from $385.0 million in 1969 ( 98 percent). Some 36 percent of black owned firms (accounting for 36 percent of the $7.2 billion in gross receipts i were concen trated in fixe States in 1972 t'alifornia. Illinois. New York. Texas, and Ohio. In 1969. these fixe Stales accounted for 34 percent of both the total num ber of firms and total amount of gross receipts. . .California—with 19.282 hlack-oxx ned business enter prises and gross receipts totaling $701 million in. 1972 was the leading State both in number of black enterprises and total of receipts. Totals for the five leading Stales an shown below : The Next York Standard Metropolitan Statistical \rea (SMSA) ranked first among metro areas in total of black businesses with 11.282 enter prises in 1972. The next four SMSA, 11,057; the Washing ton. I). C. S.MSA. !l.72fi: the Chicago S.MSA, H.71K; afd the Philadelphia S.MSA. 6.27X. The Chicago S.MSA. how ever, led in gross rvyeipts totals with $s:t:t.ti million. The New York S.MSA was second with $:!!>:!.7 million and the I .os Angcles-I.ong Beach S.MSA third with 1358.5 million Students To Get Two-Day Holiday Students in Charlotte-Meek lenburg's public schools will have holidays.Thursday. Jan 23. and Friday, Jan. 21. The student holiday is slated to give teachers time without students to prepare end-of semester grades and reports. The first semester of the 1974-75 school year will end Wednesday, Jan. 22. Classes will resume on a regular sche dule on Monday. Jan. 27. the first day of the second semes ter. it 's' ** f l)\\ ARKKI) by .1 Moot-plus corn stalk plant in their den. Mr t or Inn (eel oi the plaul's iip must trim hori/nutalh alone the s foot ti i.mu ol Ihe W illi.ililsoi.'s home. Rllnlo h\ Reeler f h-vr i.itini riant Mrs. Will ianison Tickled Pink |t\ .Jil 111* s Iti Iim ' Post I ratlin* U filer • Ten years ago Mrs. Itobert Williams of i.Vii Ahlewood Koad in the l Diversity Park lie sidential section purchased a plant Ih.it looked like a miniature siatk of t orn, about a fool in bnl*4ii The plant lover still doesn't know the botanical name of the plant hut lie* tender loving care, pioper feeding, water ing. ample amounts of sun light. and return al to a much larger container with the propel soil composition has resulted in the phint growing lo its pt esent. healthv -looking height ot ov er '» feet. It is .mi tali that approxi mated 2 feet of it top must grow horizontally dong the H-fool celling in Mis William son's den Oil to root it. Now with the new growth, the tickled pink Mrs. N iIlia ms say s. **\\ hen I cut it I will still have a plant. When I uni iced the new giowth I was so proud I kissed il Mrs. Williams on has a var* iHv of plants in hei home and *avs tier plans for a iiurserv lor the plants are underway. \mong the varieties of plants in her home art- seven Mi ican Violets, all of which came Iroin a root or sprig given to her bv another avid gardnei. Mrs I amice five, of tonrion Street .1 vears ■see W illmnseii Page 2 Joint Scholarship Fund Established For Johnson C. Smith University ..r.vrrv year simp me neam of the Rev. Doctor Martin I,other King Jr., the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine has held a memorial service in his honor. ..It Mas soon realized that Mhile it Mas a sincere and honorable effort, an annual memorial service Mas far too temporary to fulfill the lofty purpose of paying tribute to l)r. King. What Mas needed Mas a longer lasting tribute, one Mhich had a far more significant bearing on the re cognition of his dream. ..January 13. 1974 is noM vieMed as a milestone in the history of the Cathedral and in the Johnson C. Smith Univer sity for It Mas on that day that a pact Mas formed betMeen these two institutions. Through the Ncm York Alumni Chapter anti the Cathedral the Johnson C. Smith Cniversity Choir pre sented its first concert there and the two institutions jointly established a scholarship fund in the name of Marlin l.uther King Jr. This year the choir per formed on January II in a concert-drama with a cast of noted Broadway actors. "Tell I’haroah" a play which con cerns the nature of the Black experience, written b> l.often Mitchell and featuring Hilda Simms. Frederick O'Neal and Gladys Brooks was only one of the outstanding programs in which the choir participated. A second performance held on Sunday. January 12. featured the choir under the direction of Christopher W. Kemp. Dr. Wilbert Greenfield. President of Johnson C. Smith I niversltv also pin i n ipated hi the service. In a statement issued by Ibe Dean til Ibe t n(h<;di;il. he staled. "Ilow lops\ -turvv are mir priorities in \merica On the one hand, the Klack . colleges are recognized as an indispensable resource In the spiritual integrity and the in tellectual freedom of our land. On the other hand, the very survival of the Klack colleges is now at stake." .."The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine is proud of its joint fund raising effort which, on behalf of the scholarship fund of Johnson ('. Smith Iniversily, is cele brated annually on the birth day of Dr. Martin l.ulher King Jr I call upon all \meri cans of good will to assist in this effoit-ahsolutelv nothing I)r Wilbert f.rrenfield •I I ^titilh president is more d»*s«*i \ ini; or m niotc critical nc« d ' . Black. W hite Jobk ‘ss Ratio Is At Historic 2-1 Level u :• shinijnii I h»- iin* n plnv menl i .1(1 — fboth ‘ ! k> Neill *i atld qtlie 1 ; .1 . « !nd whites rust subs' .iitia’I' its the Inin 1I1 quitter tnd ui>n well above tin 11 \eji raillei levels die 1 v I>epai*t 1111 nl •»! I.abni ‘s Mtm .t 11 of I alnu Si.11 isf it s |».! i t-pni-l ed I l oin the loin lb qii 11 lei ni I!l7.‘l In lilt louilh quarter nt I!i7l. (lie jobless 1 .in tnr hlaeks rust Imm s i; 1.. ||> perrenl. vv bib* Ibe ini reuse ini whiles was Imm I 2 In .“».!* pen enl a eouseqtirni e the latin nl those (wn rales re.mallied ai Us historii* I level; this ditlerert hum pie v inns slew downs in whit It liter* vv eft lempni 11 \ narrow - ini’s «t| iht* ratio I his Mo-I relationship dm s not pt evnil f.;r • .11 h id Hit itia |or a ;i s<*\ t’tnttpv* fttivv ever W Idle the ratio was J t*i 1 .111 onu adult men *he iiiiem pl*»v nielli rale lor hi.iek teen ay’l l s in the tiniilb quartet HW'.li pereeiil ■ was almost limes.the rate lor while let n .•Ui’P * IV.1 pel tent'. I •« W*o lllell. 01. .till olbel blind tire i . i'i tt.'t 1 H l.# t I liei • v . 01 ing the coveted position ol "thitsta nding t areer Woman lor lb7V . I hope the entiie < haiiolte commuoitx will join together doling tins event in fe<«»t*no linn td womans important role in the affairs ol the world." said Mis l.ouise fierv. (irnrral < ban -»in.*ii of the Ifiia '••flute < omiiulter Srroml W lM.'l.i ( Jaw I <> M«ti Sntiinlaf • • The c lass of I93S of Sec ond ' Ward High School is holding its regular mnnthls meeting on Satin da> ul 7:TO (i. in at the home of Mr. and Mrs l.euis flaw son of :tlol. I.title Hope ffoail The I’resldenl. Ilenrv swilt is urging all interested mein hers of this class to tie present in order In participate in the plans lor a minim this summei Macks 4 timpri'M ii i»« 11 «*?t( ».1 Im It>*•« lot if III#* Inurlii 1(11.11‘t4*1 1»»T4 ii (mi I rirn\ iiU*s .nt .ifi.il\sis lilaii pnverlv file.i li sidmits air ld.uk. and their rale, in • reused In fT permit It mu Mr.'» peiteill ;j war ealltel*. . Inuii tin* same pert efttn^r iiu i ease l ♦ J.:is|e| eil l< * \t hilts i*i me* i •, iitati t»»»v «*t! v ai. ;*s. I-tnplm tneiu dm lined h\ ►do.non lii- it tin* Usiid *,11*1111 :•» s*» v tuilliiii: c* Ik* hitiitk *|Ua» *«‘l t III IliphiV inn.• • limln-d It\ almiisi 1 million !•< '• '* million \s a ti*s»dc im Vatinn's uitetitph-v iiu iit iatr IIU’I . ased troll) In *» 1. pei • « »l. 1 In* liiuhost f | it a 11« ilv rate >iim the thud i|tiarter ol • di.i. 1 \ •* 1 e ported earlim . 1) # lliiemplov ineitt rate iea«hi d 7 I pel ••••ill III Itei eiuher •I nempluvmerit increases have heeit pervasive and sub stantial. afletliitj* men. vui mi'll and teenager** white* lda< l*v and prisons ol Spanish origin veterans and non vein.ms. and persons living 111 piiVi rtv as well ;i. hunpiu • ilv areas. Male tarnilv bends have miemplowneiit rates well he low (hi national average w lisle I e ••* a !•• fainifv heads ties Ui.ii .11 .• « box •• t be a * 1 hi*, •Tile nemhei of 'discoitr niU'd workers increased shaiplv in the loutlh <|tiarter lo a level of about x.'iii.ono Mlei a hai p ill* reasi .it I hi • lose ol uiT.i as a result ol energv shortages. iiiietnplnv ineiil held strait during the fust hall ol I‘i7l . a • a • * .osmrioitMnsi.H i o SjHnisor "1 radr Slum** I hr t harlnUc ( osmolnln gist's < haptor I'nui ( lull will 'I'oji'oi .1 "Super Trade show .it tho downtowner Hast Sundae through Tiles d.i \. Mrs. I luiso Irrgusnn a spokesman f«r Iho group saul ■ hut th< dent will feature ili'in onst i atlolis anil hair sifting shows. "It will he educational to a lot of heauli elans " she said, "to learn new st\ les anil trends " Manufacturers and artists are bringing the results, of their new techniques and re search, she added, urging beauticians to educate them selves attending the drill. - The dent wdl begin Sundae at s p m with a (let Wqiiaint ed Ira Ilnur for Beauticians onls. On Mondae a hanqnet and dance will he held with the puhlie united to hear "The Miul Squad During the dae Mondae and Tursdae exhibi tions will lie ennilnctt'il