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--- - -“Charlotte's Fastest Growing Community Weekly" _
VOL. 3 NO. 43_ CHARLOTTE. NORTH CAROLINA 28216-Thursday. April 17. 1975 •' - ~ ~ °-— PRIClj: 21U
LOVELY MARY VAUGHN
...Central Piedmont student
Miss Mary Vaughn
■Y....
'* Is Our Beauty
By Polly Manning
Post Staff Writer
This week as our Beauty we
are proud to feature Ms. Mary
Vaughn. Mary is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Capers
of 1828 Maribel Avenue.
.. Miss Vaughn is a 1872 grad
uate of West Charlotte High
School. While attending West
Charlotte Our Beauty was a
member of the Art Club. The
Red Cross, and "Las Trin
cess.”
..Mary has as her hobbies
bicycle riding, skating, danc
ing, and sewing. Earth, Wind,
.and Fire, along with Kool and
| Tie Gang, are her favorite
Recording stars. “Their music
has a certain rhythm that
sbems to draw you to the
dance floor magnetically, ex
claimed Miss Vaughn,
j. .Mary and her family attend
\Friendship Baptist Church
Wfcere Rev. Coleman Kerry is
the
Wifcdway, Mr. and Mr
York. "I am really impressed
by the tremendous amount of
water that is in Norfolk. I
would just love to see it all.”
smiled our Beauty.
.. Mary is born under the sign
of Capricorn. She describes
them as being very quiet,
stubborn, and they enjoy
music.
..Miss Vaughn's favorite
actor is Redd Foxx. ”1 like
him, not because he's funny,
but because he's a good actor.
I admire him because
although he is an older man.
he hasn’t let his age interfere
with his performance.
..Mary comes from a family
of all boys. "I have three
brothers and I’m the only girl.
It is really terrible because I
have to do everything that is
considered women's work.”
. .The 140 pound, 5-foot-7, Miss
Vaughn is also the proud
mother of a 20 month old son.
Tyrone. Mary admits tb"'l>
,\**y hauatc, ^ufliette
s. John Price. Mr. and
Labor Department Says:
Black Unemployment Climbs
To Post World War Two High
Black Caucus Members
Worked For Bonds Issue
By James Culhberlson
Host Staff Writer
The Charlotte Host has
learned from reliable sources '
lhat while some officials of the 1
Black Holitical Caucus were
leading a publicity campaign
to oppose the April 8 Bond
Keferendum. a large number
of Caucus members were sup
porting the issue.
Walter Ricks
Joins Morgan’s
Committee
Walter Ricks, an Assistant
North Carolina Attorney Gen
eral, has been appointed to the
staff of the Select U. S. Senate
Committee which will investi
gate U. S. intelligence agen
cies’ activities.
.. Ricks, 28, will leave his pre
sent post next week to go to
Washington. He has served
since 1970 in the hands and
Contracts Division at the De
partment of Justice. '
..Ricks was named the first
black Assistant Attorney Gen
eral by Robert Morgan, who
was then Attorney General
and is now U. S. Senator from
North Carolina. It was Mor
gan. a member of the Select
Committee, who named Ricks
to the committee staff.
..A native of Atlanta, Ricks
attended Hillside High School
in Durham, the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
and received his law degree
from North Carolina Central
University.
..Ricks' wife is the former
Sybil Rajf of Di**-'in
structor- * member of Mt.
... ■•«! Primitive Baptist
.nurcb, pastored by Rev T
IV C._I. » ..
."I was one of those who
worked for passage of the
bond," admitted Charles Por
ter, a Caucus leader who is the
thairman of Precinct 12, **I
elt the bonds would provide
nore jobs for Black people.”
..According to Mr. Porter
some of the other Blacks in the
Charlotte community who
supported the bonds were
Charles Gillespie, Cedric
Jones, Leroy Polk, Mrs.
William McCombs, city coun
cilman Harvey Gantt, Dr.
Wilbert Greenfield, James
Polk, C. D. Rippy. the Rev.
Norman E. Kerry, Rev. Cole
man W. Kerry Jr., State Sena
tor Fred Alexander, County
Commissioner Rowe Motley,
Rev. J. Arthur White, Rev.
Morgan Tann, Dr. Harold
Pride, Mrs. Carolyn Gilmore,
Mrs. Ann Williams, Mrs.
Kathleen Crosby, Mrs. Gwen
dolyn Cunningham, and Mrs.
Lena Sammons.
..Mrs. McCombs, Willie
iiunman, Mrs. williams,
George Wallace, Joseph W.
Harper III are reported to be
members of the Caucus.
..When asked if the decision
to work in opposition to the
Caucus’s decision to defeat the
referendum would breed an
other political action group,
Mr. Porter said he has heard
nothing about a possible new
group, noting that “it remains
to be seen as to whether the
Black Caucus can mend its
wounds so that it will not have
so many individual members
voicing opposition to a group
decision."
.. Mr. Porter had no comment
when asked, “If it was poss
ible for such a disjointed
group to effectively lead the
masses of Charlotte’s Black
community.
..He seemed pleased with the
final reports that the respop
ses of the pred*
Slides
. ^’Alliance Francaise (The
French Alliance) will meet
Arpil 25th at 7:30 p.m. in the
COL. WILLIAM “BILL” POGUE
...Space Administration Astronaut
Col. Bill Pogue
Is JGSU Speaker
Johnson C. Smith University
will present Colonel William
"Bill'' Pogue, noted National
Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration astronaut, as the
keynote speaker for the
Annual Honor! nvocation to '
be held in ln«- University
Church on Thursday, April 24
at 10:00 a.m.
..Colonel Pogue is one of the
19 astronauts selected by
NASA in April I960. He served
as a member of the
support crews for the
history of manned space ex
ploration to date. He was ac
tifcuoanied on the record-sett
ingaT^Snillion-mile flight by
Gerald P. Carr (commander
and Dr. Edward, r. •<JI'
(science-pilot).'
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March Jobless Rate
Rose To 14.2 Percent
WASHINGTON - The black
inemployment rate rose to
4.2 percent in March, up from
3.5 percent in February, the
J. S. Department of Labor's
tiureau of l.abor Statistics has
■eported.
.The Labor Department re
ported that the March incre
>se in joblessness was shared
!>y virtually all worker groups.
Kates were near or above
recorded all-time highs also
ror women, teenagers, whites,
household heads and fulltime
workers.
Belmont Abbey
To Exhibit
Fair’s Painting*
Paintings by Charlotte art
ist. Preston Fair, will be exhi
bited in the Belmont Abbey
College Library from Wednes
day. April 16th. through Tues
day. April 22. Mr. Fair is a
1953 graduate of North Caro
lina A & T College and is one of
Charlotte's leading amateur
artists.
. .The exhibit will consist of 25
paintings, many of which have
been displayed in art contests
throughout the Southeast, and
(is spon&qred by the Black
I'nion of Belmont
'^ge. F’air’s work
•q gusto and
'lean primiti
•bleen
macus accounted tor annul
30 percent of "discouraged
workers"--workers who beca
me discouraged with job pro
spects and give up the search
for work.
..On a national basis, unem
ployment increased further
and employment continued to
decline in March.
. At 8.7 percent, the Nation's
unemployment rate was up 0.5
percentage- point from Janu
ary and February and 4.1
percentage points from the
October 1973 low . This was the
highest rate since 1941.
..Total employment (as mea
sured by the monthly survey
of households) declined by ne
arly 200.000 in March to 83.8
million. Though not as large
as in earlier months, this ma
rked the sixth consecutive
month of employment reduc
tions. which have totaled 2.6
million since last September.
With the unemployment inc
rease of 500.000 exceeding the
employment decrease, the la
bor force rose by over 300.000;
this increase partially erased
the large labor force drop in
February.
Total nonagricultural payr
oll employment (as measured
by the monthly survey of est
ablishments) also continued to
decrease in March, but the
325.000 drop-to 76.4 million
was not as sharp as in previ
ous months. Since last Octo
ber. nonagricultural payroll
jobs have receded by 2.5 mil
lion, with the manufacturing
and construction industries
bearing the brunt of the cut
'Wefeyse there was also
" **-\*etion in the
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