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August 7. 1975 The Past Reaches Nearly 75 Percent More Black Readers ■r w ; **· PRICE 20c Photo by Jim Biaclc ALLURING PRISCILLA SPENCER .^.^An engaging smile Lovely Priscilla Spencer Is Our "Beauty Of The Week" By Polly Manning Post Staff Writer "The most meaningful things in my life at this time are the happiness of my fam ily and being able to share and communicate with others," states our Beauty for this week, Mrs. Priscilla Johnson Spencer. Mrs. Spencer is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Johnson of 3708 Taganway Drive. She is married to Willie Spencer Jr. and in her words, "It has been a marriage of seven wonderful years." The couple lives at 6139 Castle Courts and they hpve one son, Raymond. Priscilla is a graduate of West Charlotte High School. She is 26 years old, weighs 115 Local Post Office Not Listed For New Vehicles By James Cuthbertson Post Staff Writer The United States Postal Service announced this week that the first group of non-pol luting, energy-conserving electric-powered vehicles are now operating in Evansvilte, Ind. However, don't expect to see any in operation in the Char I6tte area anytime soon, said Willie Stratford a spokesman for the local branch of the U. S. Postal Service. Stratford said that Charlotte is not one of four test sites for the new vehicles. They are Los Angeles, Calf., San Bernar dino, Calf., Washington, D.C., Charleston, S. C., Cherry Hill, N. J , Hartford, Conn, and New Haven, Conn. Ten of the conventional Jeep delivery trucks with the red, white, and blue Postal Service TURTLt-W* Life i· an EVERLASTING STRUGGLE to keep money coming in and TEETH and HAIR from coming out. Willie J. Stratford ..."We'll have to wait" an ipcs hi c in υμκπιιιυπ in Evansville on "park and loop" routes where a mailman drives to an area, parks and delivers mail on foot. Evansville thus becomes the first community to be served by the new electrical vehicles, which were manufactured by A. Am General Corp. Three hundred of them will operate in the Los Angeles-San Ber nardino area. "We anticipate reduced maintenance costs compared to internal combuston engine vehicles," said Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin Bailar. "Indications are that mile for mile the electric trucks will be cheaper to operate than gas driven trucks. And the Environmental Protection Agency has said that electric vehicles such as these are essentially non-polluting." Each vehicle has a cruising speed of 33 to 40 miles per hour. Counting 300 delivery See POST OFFICE on page 5 pounds and is 5-feet-4 inches tall. Her measurements are 34-25-36. Mrs". Spencer lists as her hobbies dancing, listening to good music, and hydrocaud which is a hobby she has making different things from ceramics. "It's an interesting hobby," she explained. "It's really fun seeing just how many shapes and forms you can develop." Our beauty has two favorite singing groups. They are Earth, Wind and Fire along with the O'Jays. "In my book, smiled Priscilla, I rate them both number one." The Spencer family attends Ebenezer Bapt. Church. They are currently without a pastor since the death of their pastor Rev. A. Jackson Ryan a few months ago. Priscilla was at one time involved with the choir and the missionary group. Priscilla is employed with Etna Life Insurance Com pany. She is an Administra tive Underwriter. "The duties of the underwriters, explained Priscilla," are to make up policies. I've had this present position for eight months and each day I learn something new. The job is interesting as well as a challenge. I've been with the company for quite a few years, but I had to woi'k my way to the position that I now hold " Besides from her other hob bies, Priscilla and her hus band enjoy watching and at tending basketball and foot ball games. Registration Set For Teamer's High School Registration for the 1975-76 term of the Teamer High School and Theological Semi nary will be held at the Teamer High School, 2600 Newland Road, from Tuesday August 12 through Friday August 15 from 5 to 8 p.m. Classes, 8th - 12th grades, and courses leading to the Bachelor of Theology and Bachelor of Divinity degrees will be offered. Racial Repression Under Fire In North Carolina Black Press Blast Arab Proposals Two of the nation's leading Black newspapers were criti cal this week of Arab propo sals to expel Israel from the U. N. Gneral Assembly. In an editorial, the Chicago Daily Defender said: "The Islamic Foreign Ministers' Conference calling for Israel's explusion from the United Nations was not only foolish and damaging but would bring no credit to the ministers themselves and no benefits to Arab interests." On the same day-July 22— the Philadelphia Tribune de clared: "The U.N. has acted irresponsibly throughout the Arab-Israeli crisis, but if they become so outrageous as to vote to expel Israel, it will be clear that they have complete ly outlived their usefulness." The Chicago Defender call ed the Islamic Foreign Minis ters resolution a crude and emotional gesture of contempt toward the United Nations and a deliberately rude and provo cative reply to Secretary of State. Kissinger's speech ap pealing for a more construc tive attitude by the smaller members of the world organi zation "That the United States might withdraw financial con tribution to the U.N. is an ominous contingency that should not be ruled out if the third world nations go through with the resolution to expel Israel,"-the Defender said, adding: "Without U.S. membership, financial support and influ ence, the U. N. would be an empty shell." The Defender, flagship of the ~5engstacke chain of papers, is published daily with an audited circulation of approximately 35,000. It is one of two Black dailies in the U. S. In its longer editorial, the Philadelphia Tribune, assert ing that a vote to expel Israel would be "an outrage and an injustice of monstrous propor tions," declared: "Most of the U. N. member nations hardly come to that august body with clean hands. Over half the nations are military dictatrshipe which do not have even the most basic freedoms. QUIET CAMPUS at West Charlotte Senior High wiU come to life as thousands of students return for the 1975-76 school year on August 23. Only prospective football players on " ■ ihjiu uy recier lookers, coaches, and administrative staff lr.pmbers pôjiii'.-itfvj 'be ^pttciuils i.vmipus :n northwest Charlotte last Tuesday Student Registration •f Schedule Announced Charlotte-Mecklenburg pub lic schools will open soon for the 1975-76 school year and school officials urge parents who have recently moved into the community or who have moved into a new school area to enroll their children in the assigned schools before the opening day. The school year will official ly begin on Thursday, Aug. 21, with a Teacher - Pupil Orient ation Day; the first full day of classes will be on Friday, Aug. 22. Principals and secretaries are now on duty in all schools. Teachers will report on Aug. IS. Parents new to the commun ity or to a school area who are "unsure to their children's! school assignments should call the CMS Information Cen ter (332-5114). School assign ments are based on residence street address. Once school assignments are known, par ents should make arrange ments to enroll their children in the assigned school as soon as possible before school be gins. Junior and senior high school principals urge new students to register at their assigned schools during the first week of August to avoid confusion and scheduling pro blems which may arise if stu dents Wait until the school year begins. Each senior high school will be open for this purpose from H a.m. to noon daily, through August tT This registration is for stu dents who will be in a CMS school for the first time this fall and for students who have moved into a new school assignment area since pupil assignments were made at the end of the last school year Parents are also reminded that by state law children entering the first grade must be six years old on or before Oct. 16. 1975, to be enrolled, children entering kindergar ten must be five years old on or before Oct. 16. 1975 Kindergarten and first grade pupils entering school for the first time art required to present certified birth certi ficates or other Sill isfai-tnri· cv idence of age North Carolina law requires piat each child entering school be immunized against disph thcria, tetanus and whooping cough ( DPT ι, has had three doses of oral polio vaccine; and be immunized against red measles (separately, or in combination with German measles vaccine ι School officials point odt that children will not be ad mitted to any Charlotte-Meck lenburg school this tall until proper evidence of immuniza tions is presented. State kindergartens will be operated in a number of ele mentary schools this fall, however, because of limited stale fupfls. not all five-year olds will be eligible to attend them Only five-year-olds liv ing in the assignments areas ol the following schools are eligible to attend this year Allenbrook. Ashley I'ark, Berryhill. Billingsville, Chan tilly. Clear Creek. Cornelius, Cotswold. Dilworth, Kastover, Knderly I'ark. Hickory Grove, Highland. Iluntersville, Hunt-. ^\ΐ·ι» V>"I'I ί I IT VTV i»n ·? At Ml Holly Station Richardson Named Post Master Donald H. Burch, Manager of the Charlotte District Head quarters of the United States Postal Service, announced the appointment of James F. Ric hardson as Postmaster at Mount Holly, North Carolina. This appointment was ef fective Saturday, August 2, 1975. ' Mr. Richardson entered the Postal Service as a Substitute Clerk at Charlotte, North Car olina and also served in the Postal Transportation Ser vice. He has served in many va ried positions in the Charlotte Post Office, having been Fin ance Gerk, Senior Postal Sys tems Data System Techni cian, Foreman of Malls, Assis tant Manager at Dilworth Sta tion and Acting Manager at Dilworth Station. In the Postal Service, he served on the following com mittee·: Chairman, Super visory Screening Committee; U.S. Post Office Representa tive, Metrolina Blood Pro gram; Chairman, Charlotte Post Office Equal Employ ment Opportunity Committee. Chairman, Incentive Awards Committee and Chairman, Charlotte, North Carolina Dis trict Equal Employment Com mittee. Mr Richardson is a gradu ate of Johnson C. Smith Uni versity, with a BS Degree in Physical Education and Gen eral Science. He also attended Tennessee A&I College in Nashville, Tennessee He served in the United States Navy from September 1M4 until June iM6. receiving an Honorable Discharge Mr. Ftic^rdson is a Fast Member and Chairman of the Board of Mecklenburg County Department of Social Service, President of the North Caro lina Association of County Bo ards, NAACP, YWCA, Ameri can Civil Liberties Union, Nat ional Conference of Christians and Jews, Black Caucus. Board Member of the Youth Service Bureau, and the Board of Directors of Youth Homes, Inc., Directions He is a Mason and a Shriner, and a member of the United Memorial Presbyterian Church Mr Richardson is married to the former Mary Ν Nixon of Columbia, South Carolina They have two sons, Gregory and James. Jr The Richardsons reside at 1739 Northbrook Drive J'm Richardson Served many positions NARPR Urges Congress To Investigate Sparked by a recent Con gressional speech by Rep. John Conyers ιΟ-Mich -, the National Alliance Against Ra cist and Political Repression has launccd a campaign to get Congress to investigate the recent wave of repression in North Carolina. Rep Conyers' recent speech calls attention to the case oi the Rev Benjamin Chavis and nine supporters known as the "Wilmington. Ν C.10." sen tenced to 282 years in prison for defending a church in the Black community of Wilming ton during a four-day armed siege by the Ku Klux Klan in 1971. The appeal of conviction goes before the L' S Supreme Court in the fall i ut- /Miidiiic s pre&t'iu cam paign for a congressional in vestigation 01 ' federal co:n plicity in the repression" in North Carolina, "could be conducted by current comm utes investigating the mtelli gence community," according to Charlene Mitchell, Alliance executive secretary Kepre sentatives Harren Mitchell <D-Md. ι and Walter Fauntroy x 11) Washington. L) (V> have joined with Hep Conyers in defense of the Wilmington 10 The Alliance, which organ ized a march of 10,000 on July 4. 1M74 in Kaleigh, N. C. to protest repression in that state, brought several thou jand protesters to Washing wty. 1) C. last May 31 to lobby for the Wilmington 10. The D C. City Council declared that day "Wilmington 10 Day" by official proclamation. Con gressman Fauntroy accepted 50.000 petitions to be given to the North Carolina congres sional delegation asking that state's attorney general. Ru fus Edmisten, to join the de fense in asking for a reversal of convictions Public libraries To Register ΙληήΙ Voters Effective August 15. all pub lic libraries in the Charlotte· Mecklenburg system will be come permanent voter regis tration sites The fiftjtfSeven library staff members'appointed deput> registrars will be able to re gister voters as well as make precinct changes for people who have moved Staff mem bers from the office of the Board of Elections will con duct two morning-long orient ation sessions August 12th and 13th to acquaint the new registrars with their duties This is the first time that the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County has been used as a voter registra tion location Although the library is undertaking the pro ject to comply with a law passed in the last General Assembly, the local library had expressed interest in re gistering voters prior to the bill's passage In announcing the new ser vice, Director of Libraries Arial A Stephens said, "We are eager to get involved in this way.