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MISS ALMA YVETTE GLOVER
...Independence High Senior
Miss Alma Glover
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Is Our Beauty
By POLLY MANNING
Post Staff Writer
This week the Post has as its
Beauty Miss Alma Yvette
Glover, the daughter of Mrs.
Elizabeth Glover of 2216
Cummings Ave. and June
Glover of I4Mi Wake Street.
..Alma is a sophomore at
Independence Senior High
School vt here she is a member
of SUE (Students Unite Equal
ity). an organization that is
open to the entire student
body, hut, at the present, only
has black members. It's pur
pose is to help unfortunate
children in the community as
well as the < iderly. She is also
a member of (he NAACP and a
Student Council Representa
tive.
..Miss Glover attends the
United House Of Prayer For
All People. The minister is
Elder C. Wilkinson. At the
church, she is a McCullough
Maid.
..Our Beauty has plans of
going into Computer Science
after graduation. She would
like to attend the Unix ersity of
New York. "I am interested in
working in the North and I feel
my chances are better if I
attend a school in the North,”
explained Alma.
..Miss Glover has as her
hobbies sewing, playing ten
nis. and riding the bicycle. "I
really enjoy Sewing the most,”
stated Alma. I love trying to
see how creative 1 can be. I
make the majority of my
clothes,"
•..The .VX", 135 pound Miss
Glover is born under the sign,
of Scorpio. She describes them
as being very independent,
having their own ideas, and
not easy to influence.
..Richard Rountree is the
actor that has captured the
heart of Miss Glover. “I love
all of his pictures and I really
enjoyed the series he had on
TV. 1 believe in the things he
stands for and I think he is a
super person.”
..Alma has an Orientation
class at school and very often
they become involved in de
bates. A recent debate
aroused Alma's interest. “We
were discussing the pros and
cons of abortions. I must ad
mit I was upholding the pros.
What really upset me was a
statement made by one of the
black students in the class. I
don't knock her for wanting to
keep her baby, but the reason
ing behind her wanting to keep
it was unreasonable. I feel
that too many blacks are de
pendent on Social Services,
when they should really try to
get along without the aid.”
..When asked how she felt
about Independence, Alma
stated that, "I enjoy school
here at Independence. The
students are really nice and
everyone seems to get along.
The fact that Anthony is here
makes it just that much more
enjoyable.”
VA Law Allows
Pension
Restoration
..The Veterans Administrat
ion this week reminded wi
dows of veterans whose pen
sion and compensation pay
ments were terminated after
their remarriage that a i#70
law allows restoration of these
benefits if they become wid
owed a second time.
.. VA officials noted that prior
to enactment of PI- 91-37*. VA
benefits for a widow were
permanently discontinued if
she remarried.
..This policy applied to VA
pensions paid to needy widows
of veterans who died of non
servlce-connected disabilities
and to dependency and
indemnity compensation
< DIO paid to widows of those
killed in military service or
who died of service connected
causes.
1 ,
TURTLE-TALK
: ' •'**
..There’s only one cure for ■
man in love—MARRIAGE. If
that doesn’t CURE HIM. no
thing will. s
Black Leaders Mobilize To Fight
American Criniinal Justice System
Campaign To End Trials
Of Wilmington 10, Others
..Washington. D. C.- A Tri
bunal of 13 black leaders, in
cluding three U. S. Congress
men and a New York City
judge, vowed here Wednesday
to call black organizations
from around the country into
an alliance against the Ameri
can criminal justice system.
..There will be a campaign to
end the trials and gain the
release of some three dozen
defendants in the Attica Pri
son rebellion case, the Wilm
ington (North Carolina) Ten
case, and the RNA-11 case.
The Tribunal will stay to
gether. lead the campaign,
and look into other cases.
. ."We have said something to
one another here tonight,”
Congressman John Conyers
Jr., who presided over Tues
day night's prestigious panel,
said. "Something that must go
out across the land.” The Tri
bunal and large audience had
been visibly moved and some
times shocked by the testi
; mony of lawyers and witness
es from the three cases. Mr.,
Conyers said he expects this
Black Tribunal to go to North
Carolina soon for further pub
lic hearings.
..Panel members and Hear
ings General Counsel Goler T.
Butcher met the press on
Wednesday morning to
announce that a report,
followed by the complete re
cord of the Hearings, would be
released within several
weeks. "But based on the test
imony, our study of the briefs,
and our questioning of
witnesses." Ms. Butcher said,
“the Tribunal is unanimous in
the opinion that there have
been gross violations of due
process - of simple fair-play -
Over One Third
Failed 1974
Auto Inspection
• Raleigh....Over one-third of
the 3,426,111 automobiles in
spected In North Carolina
during 1974, failed to pass
their original examination,
according to Jake Alexander,
Commissioner of Motor Vehi
cles.
..Figures compiled by the
Enforcement and Theft Divi
sion of Motor Vehicles, show
that 976,469 vehicles of the 1974
total had equipment defects.
Enforcement and Theft ad
ministers the automobile in
spection program required by
the state.
Lights, including headlight*
and others, topped the list of
defective equipment with a
total of 758.599. Directional
indicators ranked second with
136.127.
Other equipment found de
fective included wipers.
92,007; foot brakes. *2,777;
tires. 81,972; horns, 29.SI0 and
steering mechanisms. 16.653.
..Jim Wilson, an Enforce
ment and Theft official, points
out that repair corn were
slightly more than II.M for
each vehicle sticker Issued
during the year. Equipment
repair costs totalled
13.620.971.82.
. There were 5.974 stations
and 17.968 mechanics licensed
to Inspect motor vehicles In
North Carolina for the 1974
period.
in all three cases."
.Tuesday’s convening of
what was organized as an
"Advisory Supreme Court of
Appeals” marked the first
time that black leaders have
come together to act on alleg
ations that during the Nixon
era the l'. S. and several state
governments conspired to
smash the Black Movement.
In its final report the Tribunal
is expected to rule on charges
that “blacks had a role in
Watergate," as Mr. Conyers
summarized it. "and that role
was as Watergate’s most ab
ject victims."
■ .. In addition to Mr. Conyers of
Detroit, the Tribunal included
Congressman Ronald V.
Heliums of Berkely, Califor
nia; Congressman Walter I..
Pauntroy of Washington, D.
C.; Criminal Court Judge
William Booth of Brooklyn;
Dr. Aaron Henry. President of
the Mississippi NAACP and
Chairman of the Mississippi
Democratic (Loyalist) Party,
and Reverend Charles Cobb
Sr., New York-based Presi:
dent of the National
Committee of Black Church
men.
..Also on the Tribunal Here
Attorney Etta Kay Hearn of
Baton Houge; Dr. Vincent
Harding of Atlanta, founder of
the Institute of the Black
World; Journalist Emily Gib
son of Los Angeles; Attorney
Lennox Hinds. Executive Dir
ector of the National Confer
ence of Black Lawyers; Dr.
Ronald Walters, Associate
Professor and former Chair
man of the Department of
Political Science at Howard
I'niversity; Reverend David
Eaton, television commenta
tor and Senior Minister of All
Souls Church, where the
Hearings were held and Attor
ney Larry Jamison of Wash
ington. D. C.
..RNA President Imari
Abubakari Obadele, I. himself
one of the RNA-II and under
long prison sentence, had call
ed for the convening of the
"Advisory Supreme Court of
Appeals" because, he said.
“Without some new initiative
to gain public support, thou
sands of political prisoners in
this country - prisoners of the
war which the white power
structure wages against black
people - will remain shorn of
all real hope.’’ . /
President Imari and his
attorney. Raymond Willis of
Detroit, gave evidence pur
porting to show links between
the former U. S. Attornev
General John Mitchell, former
Mississippi Lt. Governor
Charles Sullivan, and others in
a pilot to assasinate him and
the RNA cadre in Mississippi
in August IP7I. Professor
Haywood Burns of the Law
School of the State University
of New York at Buffalo, who is
chief Attica defense lawyer,
and Brother Babatunde, a
wounded Attica massacre
survivor only recently freed,
reviewed the killing of 41 per
sons in the prison yard in an
armed assault ordered by
Nelson Rockefeller, then New
York Governor. They Ulked
about the impossibility of de
fending against the multiple
charges lodge against over
two doien persons and of the
continuing harassment. Rev.
Ben Chavis, a Wilmington Ten
defendant now free on a huge
bond, described the presistenl
Illegal effort of the State of
North Carolina to Jail and
crush civil rights activists in
that North Carolina town.
Roy Wilkins
Is NAACP
Speaker
..Roy Wilkins, Executive Dir
ector of the NAACP and Judge
Benjamin Hooks, Commiss
ioner of the Federal Commun
ications Commission, will
speak at the 23rd NAACP
Southeast Regional Conven
tion March 13-15, at the Hilton
Hotel in Macon, Georgia.
..Wilkins is scheduled to de
liver the keynote address at
the Public Meeting on Thurs
day evening and Judge Hooks
will speak at the annual
Freedom Awards Banquet on
Friday night.
..Both Wilkins and Judge
Hooks are nationally renown
ed leaders and they have
made outstanding contri
butions to this country.
. .unoer me leaaersnip 01 Wil
kins, the NAACP has helped
remove many racial barriers
lor black people in'America.
As a result, the NAACP is a
respected and influential or
ganization throughout the
world with a national mem
bership total of over 500,000.
..Wilkins joined the NAACP
staff in 1931 as editor for the
NAACP’s official publication,
THE CRISIS. Additionally, he
served as administrator and
executive secretary for the
organization and assumed the
directorship in 1955.
..Mr. Wilkins is also Chair
man of the Leadership Con
ference on Civil Rights and
was a member of the Presi
dent’s National Advisory
Commission on Civil Dis
orders.
. .Judge Hooks, the first black
FCC Commissioner in U. S.
history, was nominated by
former President Nixon to
serve on the Commission in
1972. A native of Memphis.
Tennessee, Judge Hooks be
gan practicing law in Memp
his in 1949. Since then, he has
held several responsible posi
tions in the areas of law,
business, the ministry and
television programs in the
citv.
. .Other noted speakers for the
conference are The Rev.
Richard Allen Hildebrand,
Bishop of the Sixth Episcopal
District of the AME Church in
Atlanta; and Attorney Mar
garet Bush Wilson, the second
woman to serve as Chairman
of the NAACP National Board
of Directors. Mrs. Wilson
practices law in St. I-ouis,
Missouri.
..Additional activities during
the three-day session will in
clude four workshops on
housing problems among
blacks; the Ministers Lunch
eon and the Life Membership
Luncheon.
..Information on scheduling,
registration and costs can be
obtained by contacting Mrs.
Ruby Hurley, Director of the
NAACP Southeast Regional
.Office in Atlanta at (404 ) 888
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1 FEATURES
I AS I SEE IT
I By Gerald Johnson
I What's Happening
* By Boh Johnson
J] SPORTS BEAT
jl JBy BUI Johnson
CHURCH MODEL UNVEILING - Bishop
William Milton Smith, fourth from left,
assisted by Thomas P. Johnson, Financial
and Building Consultant, left, unveils model
of soon to be constructed Southern City
A.M.E. Zion Church in East Spencer, N. C.
Also present for the unveiling were- left to
right. Rev. Melvin L. Tate, pastor,' Bishop
In East Spencer
John H. Miller, Tenth Episcopal District;
Bishop George J. Leake, 11th Episcopal
District; Julian M. Sides. Asst! Vice Presi
dent. Security Bank and Trust Company;
Harold Murray, foreground, architect, and
Hiram J. Cuthrell. V. P. Security Bank and
Trust Company. Photo by Peeler.
AME Zion Officials Unveil
Plans For $300,000 Church
By James Peeler
Post Feature Writer
..A crowd of approximately
150 persons braved inclimate
weather to be present for the
unveiling of a model of soon to
be constructed Southern City
A.M.E. Zion Church last Mon
day night at the Sheraton
Motor Inn.
..Bishop William Milton
Smith, Presiding Bishop of the
Second Episcopal District,
unveiled the architect model
of the 1300,000 project that is to
be constructed in East Spen
cer, N. C. and scheduled to be
completed in the spring of 1976
according to Building and
m r ir/ >
Financial Consultant Thomas
I*. Johnson of Philadelphia,
Pa.
..When completed, the 9,025
square foot structure of
modern and conventional de
sign will contain a 32 x 52
multi-purpose area that can
be divided into six class
rooms. It will have a men and
ladies room, two II x 13 men
and ladies choir dressing
rooms, a 62 x 62, 3,844 sq ft.
sanctuary seating 425 people,
a nurses office, an ushers’
office, a church office, a pas
tor’s office, a trustee and ste
wards' office, a 20 x 20 kitchen
and a 10 x 15 meeting room. It
will be fully air-conditioned
and will be located on the
southwest corner of Long and
Washington Streets.
■ Rev. Melvin L. Tate is pas
tor of the 500- member congre
gation which presently wor
ships at 706 South Long Street,
Hast Spencer. N. C. Rev. Tate
and his congregation are pre
sently in the process of a fund
rainsing campaign with a goal
of $50,000.00.
..The unveiling by Bishop
Smith was preceeded by a
program and sermon in the
Omni III Room of the Shera
ton Motor Inn that was partic
ipated in by Julian M. Sides,
Assistant Vice President of
See AMP- Zion on page 5
nvxi ween
UNCC To Host National
Black Studies Conference
By James Cuthbertson
Post Staff Writer
..A Black Studies National
Conference for the South
eastern United States will be
held at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte from
Tuesday March IS through
Friday March 22.
..The theme of the confer
ence, organised by the Black
Student Union and the Black
Studies Department, Is "Par
adox with a Promise".
■ ..Dr. Bertha Maxwell, Mrs.
j Mary Harper and Mrs. Bever
I ly Ford and Herman Thomas.
| all local Charlotteans, will be
| keynote speakers for the cou
I ference.
Prominent people will be
present from throughout the
hast. or. Nick Aaron, author
of the book. "Black Studies:
Threat or Challenge?” will be
present and workshops on
such topics as "Criteria for
Black Studies Programs” and
"Establishing a National
Association for the Evaluation
and Accreditation of Black
Studies Programs,” will be
held.
The event Is being coordln
MM. BERTHA MAXWELL
...UNCC Professor
■ted by the University's Insti
tute for Urban Studies and
Community Services.
. On Tuesday, Dr. Ford, from
'"Morgan State University, will
speak In the first general ses
sion presided over by Mrs.
Mary Harper. This will begin
at 7:M p.m.
• On Wednesday, from 9 a.m.
to 11:45 a.m. workshops will
be held. Present Black Stud
ent Union (BSU) Co-President
from Charlotte, Cynthia Ben
nett will speak on “Black
Studies:” Who?, followed by
former BSU President Hum
phrey Cummings speech on
“Black Studies: Why?” and
speeches by Dr. James Law of
Johnson C. Smith University
on "Where Black Studies pre
sently stands" and Dr. A. C.
Carver of UNCC on “How to
formulate a Black Studies
program.”
..The Trinidad Steele Band
will provide for the luncheon
followed by an afternoon of
workshop and an evening of
poetry reading.
Dr. Bertha L. Maxwell will
preside over the Thursday
session, which will be high
lighted by a 7:15 speech by Dr.
Nathan Hare the Editor of
“The Black Scholar” Maga
ilne and an SMS concert reci
tal by Mary Crawford.
..On Friday, the educators
and scholars will wrap up the
conference.