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Charlotte s Fastest Growing Community Weekly" __
VOL. I NO B ^
. ■ CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLlNA-28216-Thursday. August 21. 1975 pripf 20c
Photo by Jim Black
LOVELY ANN STITT
...Love simple things
Miss Ann Stitt
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Is Our Beauty
By Polly Manning
Poet Staff Writer
“I love the simple things in
life. In my spare time I just
love to walk through the
woods and enjoy nature.
These type things are free and
aren’t taken advantage of
enough," was the reply of our
Beauty of The Week, Miss Ann
Stitt.
When she isn't on the nature
trail Ann also enjoys roller
skating. ‘‘Although some
people think roller skating is
for kids, I enjoy it. It’s also a
good way to exercise,” smiled
Ann.
She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William Stitt of 6020
Carver Boulevard.
Hank WUmer
Announces
tor Mayor
Hank Wilmer, longtime Re
publican leader in Charlotte
and Mecklenburg County,
Wednesday announced his
candidacy for Mayor. The
municipal elections in Char
lotte will be held on a partisan
basis for the first time this
year under legislation passed
by the recently adjourned
General Assembly.
In announcing before a
group of friends at the Red
Carpet Inn, Wilmer said, “The
people of Charlotte are calling
for new leadership-leadership
that will steer the city on a
course of quality growth
growth that will enrich the
lives of all the people in Char
lotte.” Wilmer further stated,
“The people of Charlotte are
calling for a new openness in
government-where decisions
are made in public view, after
candid discussion. ”_
Wilmer promised the people
of Charlotte, “A forthright and
open campaign. I plan to
speak out on the issues as I see
them. I plan to take my cam
paign to the people. I plan to
visit the neighborhoods.
Miss Stitt is a 1974 graduate
of North Mecklenburg High
School. While attending North
Mecklenburg she was active
in the Girls Athletic Associa
tion, Booster Club, whose pur
pose was to promote school
spirit, and the school News
paper. “I was considered
somewhat as the feature
writer of the staff I wrote
stories on various topics that
were of interest to the student
body as well as the faculty,"
Ann explained.
Now out of high school our
beauty finds herself attending
Central Piedmont Community
College studying accounting.
She feels that the field is open
especially to women. After
completing her studies at
Central Piedmont Ann has
plans of going to UNC-Chapel
Hill to get her masters. When
asked why she chose UNC
Chapel Hill she replies, “I feel
that they have about the best
graduate schools of account
ing in the Carolinas and I do
want to stay within this area."
Ann is presently working
part-time at All-State Insur
ance Company in the Claims
Department. She handles
accident files and records. She
doesn’t have plans of keeping
this position after she com
pletes school.
uur Beauty is born under
the sign of Taurus. She states
that although Taureans are
suppose to be stubborn and
selfish, she wouldn’t associate
these traits to her own person
ality. She does feel that they
are independent people.
The person having the most
influence on the life of Miss
Stitt has been her Aunt, Linda
Nelson. "I admire her mainly
because of the way that she
carries herself and because of
the tidbits of wisdom that she
has passed down through the
years,” stated Ann.
The Stitt family attends
Morning Glade AME Zion
Church where Rev. C. C. Rev
ell is the minister. Ann is very
active on the Junior Choir.
West Charlotte’s
1962 Class To
Meet Sunday
The West Charlotte Class of
1962 will have a business meet
ing Sunday, August 24, at the
Greenville Neighborhood Cen
ter.
According to John Love,
Class treasurer, the purpose
of the meeting is to elect new
officers, to plan activities for
1975-76 and to finalize plans for
the 1977 class reunion.
The meeting will start at 6
p.m. All class members are
urged to be attend.
^ Urban League Says" .
^ ' _ ' ■ jt
ation
Facing Minority Americans
School Lunch
Price Same
As Last Year
Fees for Charlotte-Meck
lenburg public school students
will remain the same this
school year except for a slight
increase in the optional stu
dent accident insurance.
The insurance will cost all
students-kindergarten
through grade twelve~$3.2S,
an increase of 25 cents from
last year. Although the insur
ance is optional, school offi
cials strongly urge parents to
purchase the added protection
for their children.
The insurance fee is re
quired of all students partici
pating in junior and senior
high school athletics. In addi
tion, a separate insurance fee
is required of students partic
ipating in senior high school
football. The fee is $12.50 for
tryouts and an additional $16
for students who make the
team. The total premium is
$28.50.
mere are no required lees
at the elementary level.
At the junior high level,
there is a required instruc
tional supply fee which is $7
for seventh grade students
and $8 for eighth and ninth
graders. In addition, junior
high students may rent locks
for school lockers at 30 cents
per year or 15 cents per stu
dent if two share one locker.
At the senior high school,
required fees for all students
include $12 for instrucitonal
supplies and $1 for school
newspapers. Seniors must pay
a $3 graduation fee.
Othe£optional fees in senior
high school are a school
annual fee (to be determined
by each school) and a 25-cent
lock rental for school lockers.
Students at the junior and
senior high school level who
are taking physical education
must purchase uniforms. The
cost is $4.25 for boys' and girls’
uniforms.
Goode Named Vice
President Of 1975
United Way Campaign
Seddon Goode Jr., senior vice
president of Interstate Secur
ities Corporation, has been
selected as vice chairman of
the 1975 United Way Cam
paign.
Challenge Grant
GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONIES mark
ing the beginning of construction to a new
Temple Chapel First Baptist Church Assem
bly were held last Sunday at the 100 Septem
Photo by Peeler
ber Lane site in southwest Charlotte. Rev. F.
C. Pinkney, center, shovel earth at the
historic occasion as church officer and mem
bers of the congregation look on
UH) September Lane
Temple Chapel Church To
Build $325,000 Edifice
By JAME PEELER
Post Feature Writer
Approximately 200 persons
braved 93 degree that to be
present for groundbreaking
ceremonies at the 100 Septem-i
ber Lane site of the soon-to-be
constructed Temple Chapel
First Baptist Church Assem
bly.
The 46-year-old, 400-mem
ber church, pastored by Rev.
F. C. Pinkney, was located at
219 Remount Road when it
was destroyed by fire last
March.
According to church pastor
Pmkney, the new edifice will
be located on a 325 by 150 lot.
The two-story, 100 by 50
church will cost $385,000 and
will seat 800 persons in its
sanctuary, ft will have 6 Sun
day School class rooms, a
kitchen, a nursery, and a
Fellowship Hall on its lower
level.
Temple Chapel Baptist
Church's congregation is pre
sently worshiping at Kennedy
Junior High School and Rev.
Pinkney says the new facility
should be completed by
Christmas of this year.
With the 69-year-old Rev.
(Pinkney presiding, the
Groundbreaking Ceremony
began with a song by one of
the church's six choirs. The
musical selection was follow
ed by prayer by Rev. Pinkney,
another song by the choirs,
and a scripture reading of the
33 psalm.
Rev. Pinkney turned sev
eral shovels of earth breaking
the gound and he and other
members of the gathering
marched through a spray of
water symbolizing the cross
ing of the Red Sea. The Red
Sea ceremony was followed by
the forming of a hugh circle
and the pronouncement of the
Benediction by Rev. Pinkney
concluding the formal cere
monies which began at 3:00
and ended at 4:30 P.M.
Temple Chapel Baptist
Church Pastor Pinkney is a
native of Winsboro, S. C. The
widower married to the late
Sarah Stillwood who passed 4
years ago.
Rev. Pinkney is the father of
12 children;
Fred, of Detroit, Mich.; Joe,
of Charlotte; Mack of New
Port News. Virginia; Curtis,
of Virginia; Isiah, of New
York;. Elizabeth, of Detroit;
Jannie Myers, of Charlotte;
Beulah Henderson, of New
York, Ernest, of Charlotte;
Louise Caldwell, of Charlotte,
Eloise Boyd, of Charlotte, and
the late Missouria, of Char
lotte.
Also present for the historic
occasion were church Deacon
and Trustee Willie Dewberry
and church secretary Sarah
Funderburke.
B. F. Goodrich
Names Walter Blunt
EOE Manager
Wallen L Blount Jr. has
been named manager of equal
opportunity employment for
The B. F. Goodrich Company.
He succeeds William W.
Baughman, retired.
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J. C. Smith Receives $100,000
Dr. Wilbert Greenfield,
President of Johnson C. Smith
University, has announced the
approval of a challenge grant
of $900,000 from the Kresge
Foundation to be applied to
the construction of an educa
tion building. Payment of the
grant is conditioned upon the
raising of the balance of funds
needed for the project by
Novemeber 15, 1975.
The University hopes to
build a facility which will
house the entire Department
of Education including early
childhood, intermediate and
secondary education and pro
vide an area for an early
childhood center. The center
will serve as a laboratory
where Smith students can gain
first-hand experience in work
ing with young children The
estimated cost is approxi
mately $900,000.
Projects for the education
building have become the
number one priority for new
construction ar Johnson C.
Smith. The Department of
Education is presently housed
in Biddle Memorial Hall, the
administration building,
which was constructed in 1882.
The Early Childhood Center is
located in one of the campus
houses.
Dr. Greenfield expressed
his gratitude for the Kresge
grant and Further stated that
“Johnson C. Smith University
has moved a long way from its
historic but necessarily mea
ger concept of an education
curriculum. Changes are in
progress and long range plans
are being projected for cont
inued future innovations, not
only in this area, but in all
facets of academic program
ming".
The Kresge Foundation, one
of the largest in the United
States in size of assets and
appropriations, was created
• sojely through the gifts of the
late Sebastian S. Kresge. Al
though Mr. Kresge was also
the founder of the S. S. Kresge
Company, the Foundaiton and
the Company are not related
in any way
Most r oundation support is
in the form of challenge grants
to institutions in the field of
education, health services, the
arts, social welfare, and care
of the young and the aging
Construction and major ren
novation of facilities is the
Foundation's primary con
cern. A few policy exceptions,
confined to the Metropolitan
Detroit area where the
Foundation has its headquart
ers. have been made solely on
the initiative of the Trustees
Dr Wilbert Greenfield
J. C. Smith president
NUL’s Plan To Deal
With Unemployment
Voice News Network
Special To The Post
Atlanta--“Working, fight
ing, believing, dreaming, let
this conference begin. With
those words Sunday night
form the keynote speech of its
director Vernon Jordan, the
National Urban League ended
its first day of its convention in
Atlanta - an intensive four day
survey of the critical econo
mic situation facing Black and
other minority Americans.
Minority
Contractors
Overlooked
Of the more than *175 mill
ion spent in highway construc
tion in the State of North
Carolina in the first six
months of 1975, minority con
tractors received less than one
percent of the funds.
This and other problems
that minorities have in com
peting for contracts were
highlighted at the recent
meeting of the North Caorlina
Association of Minority Con
tractors (NCAMC) that was
held in Charlotte at the
NCMAC’s office on North
Caswell Road.
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14 was attended by minority
contractors from throughout
the state of North Carolina. It
was also noted that only 16
minority contractors who are
prequalified according to
state standards are allowed to
bid on state contracts.
This was the first meeting of
its type where prime contrac
tors on the state and federal
levels got together to discuss
problems and according to
officials it proved very profit
able.
Teddy Morawski, of the
Federal Highway Administra
tion said that his group has to
find minorities and have them
identified because there is a
provision in each contract to
the state that the state will
seek our minority contractors.
The executive director of
the N.C.A.M.C., Herbert
Thomas said that he did not
believe sincere efforts are
being made on the part of
majority contractors in seek
ing out minority contractors.
Ed Hagen of Barnhill Con
tracting Company countered
with the argument that all
this was due to the fact that
when a minority contractor
obtains a State license, there
is noway of identifying him as
a minority.
Thomas added that with the
help of the Department of
Housing and Urban Develop
ment more than 400 minority
contractors in the state have
been discovered.
I ennui Tourament
Set For September 6
Entries are now being
accepted for the Greater Cor
delia Park Open Tennis Tour
nament to be held September 0
and 7 at Cordelia Park in
North Charlotte.
The event was sponsored by
the Cordelia Park Players and
several Charlotte businesses.
Entry fees are $0. There will
be three flights for partici
pants. For more information
contact Charles Parker
597-3709 or Hal Seegars
334-S940.
The conference theme was
"Jobs, dollars and race,” and
each workshop and plenary
session for the estimated 7,000
delegates from Urban League
chapters throughout the coun
try has emphasized different
aspects of the economic de
pression now endured by mil
lions.
“It has been a year of great
turmoil, of terrible depression
and of hardship for black
people," said Jordan, a for
mer Atlanta resident. "Nixon
is gone but his legacy lingers
on.”
"That legacy of divisiveness
and of economic warfare
against poor and working
people must be exercised if
our nation is to recapture its
self-respect.
Jordan then unwrapped the
NUL's battle plan to deal with
unemployment it has dis
covered to be far worse than
official Labor Department
statistics (15 million out of
work, a 25 per cent rate of
joblessness among blacks).
Since the Republican ad
ministration and Democratic
congress "have both failed
black people on the economic
front,” said the NUL director,
the League is putting forth is
own income security pro;
gram.
c-i i, or me creau income
tax, would provide a "floor"
under the income of Ameri
cans below a certain income
level. It would take the form of
a cash grant to the jobless and
the poor and a tax credit for
the working class.
“No means tests, no work
requirements, no coercive lo
cal regulations or other stig
matizing elements would be
part of the system,” said Jor
dan. “Payments are automat
ic through the tax system and
would be a matter Of right..”
"The essential point is that
the universal, redundable tax
credit offers a way to rationa
lize an irrational tax system
that favors the rich at the
expense of working people and
a means of reducing the num
bers of the poor,” he went on.
The details and economic of
the credit income tax plan
must be worked out but in the
meantime, Jordan said, "we
call for an immediate emer
gency, federally-financed
floor under the present wel
fare system with cost of living
escalators and mandated
coverage for families in
need”.
CIT, is "a pro-world, pro
family. pro-dignity proposal
for a humane, responsive so
ciety," Jordan said.
Jordan, who served on the
presidential clemency board
which reviewed cases against
draft resisters and individuals
in the military who had re
ceived less than honorable
discharges, also sounded the
call for "complete, immed
iate, universal and uncondi
tional amnesty.”
*ne legal and economic
burdens placed on the backs of
millions of young men must be
lifted now," he said. "Those
who resisted the war should be
welcomed back without pena
lty. Those with less than
honorable should be restored
to their full rights and privile
ges."
"President Ford, who was
compassionate enough to par
dom Richard Nixon, should
also be compassionate enough
lo pardon those who were
right about an evil was and
those whose service for their
country has resulted In the
unfair, life-long punishment of
a bad discharge," the NUL
director stated.
MIDDLE AGE is when a
person starts thinking about
resigning from the JET SET
and joining the SET JET.