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VOL. 2 NO. 10
Charlotte's Fastest Growing Community Weekly
CHARLOTTE,NORTH CAROLINA -28216-Thursday. September 4, 1975
The Post
Reaches Nearly
75 Percent
More Black
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Black Caucus Ιο
Hold Political
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Workshop
The Black Political Caucus
will hold a Voter Education
Workshop on the campus of
Johnson C. Smith University
from 10 a.m. to noon in the
New Science Hall on Satur
day, Sept. 6.
Robert Davis, the president
of the caucus, will be on hand
to help register Charlotteans
to vote at the workshop.
Also on hand will be William
Hill, James Richards, Ms.
Phyllis Lynch, Willie Strat
ford and special guests Mayor
Howard Lee of Chapel Hill,
ivho is running for Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina,
and Harvey Gantt and Robert
Walton, who are running for
the Charlotte City Council.
Women Caucus
To Hear
Claiborne
"Behind Closed Doors" or
how newspapers endorse
, political candidates will be the
theme of the Charlotte Wo
men's Political Caucus meet
ing 7:30 p.m., Monday, Sept
ember 8 at the Park Road,
Y.W.C.A.
Jack Claiborne, Associate
Editor of the Charlotte Obser
ver, and Stewart Spencer,
Editor of the Charlotte News,
will explain what is involved
in the endorsement procedure.
In announcing the program
Caucus First Vice President
Bobbi Snipes said, "Since
many of our members are
very interested in political
campaigns as well as being
curious about how endorse
ments are made, this seemed
a very timely topic. We are
pleased to have two people
involved in that process ex
plain what makes a candidate
'endorsable'," she added.
CDD Plans
Neighborhood
Meetings
The Community Develop
ment Department has sche
duled three Citizens Partici
pation Neighborhood meet
ings for the week of Septem
ber 15-19.
The meetings are for the
purpose of presenting final
proposals of the Community
Development Plans for the
three neighborhoods. The
dates and locations for the
Grier Heights - Tuesday,
September 16, 7:30 p.m.
Grier Heights Presbyterian
Church, Sanctuary 325 Sky
land Avenue
Third Ward - Wednesday,
September 17, 7:30 p.m.
Mt. Moriah Primitive Bap
tist Church - Education Build
ing 747 West Trade Street
North Charlotte - Thursday,
September 18,1975, 7:30 John
ston Memorial Presbyterian
Church Education Building.
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Photo by Jim Black
SINGER NATALIE COLE
...Arrives For short visit
Pretty Natalie Cole
Is Very Contagious
By JIM BLACK
Post Feature Writer
In 1950, when Natalie Cole
was born, her father, Capitol
recording artist Nat "King"
Cole, was one of the industry's
true "giants". Within the con
fines of her L. A. home, Nata
lie was inadvertently exppsed
to the spry jazzy sounds of
Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vau
ghn, and Lamberts, Hendricks
J. Ross. To her, music was an
environmental facet of her
daily childhood, as natural as
sunshine and blue skies, but
never overt.
Natalie's naturalness, her
ease and grace, are contag
ious. She is confident without
pretention. And yet the way in
which she has grown up leads
one to comprehend this and
appreciate it...and be thankful
that Joy has found its' way into
the performing arts, and been
translated onto her debut
Capitol album Inseparable.
Manv "heaiitifnl nonnlo''
passed, through the Cole
household. Pearl Bailey,
Nancy Wilson, Count Basie,
Harry Belafonte they came
and went without much ado.
She recalls being awed by
Belafonte, her first idol, and
watching him swim from a
hiding palce behind a curtain.
in 1973 she opened at the
Lâtin Casino in N. S. for Jerry
Butler and the Stylistics. Of
that gig the Courier Post re
po-ted:" A bright new star is
on the horixon at the Latin
Casino this week. Her name -
Natalie Cole.
It would be totally unfair to
compare her with her famous
tamer, Nat "King" Cole, be
cause in time Natalie will be a
star in her own right.
Ms Cole was in Charlotte
Sunday to help promote her
new album, Inseparable. Her
stops included a half hour
taping session at WCCB-18,
with Val Grigg. A stop at the
new Eastland Mall for a live
appearance on the Jerry
Lewis telethon on WSOC-9. A
visit to radio station WGIV
and an on the air conversation
with disc jockey Slack John
son. She said she doesn't get a
chance to visit her New York
apartment too often, but in
time she hopes to be able to
look back on her success and
say it was fun and worthwhile.
Incidentally, she's not
married but anticipates that
happening when the right man
comes along. At the present
however, her marriage is to
Capitol records and her flight
to stardom.
NCAE Wins Overwhelming
Y ictory For N.C. Τ eachers
Mecklenburg
Republicans
Set Meeting
The Mecklenburg County
Republican Pary will hold its
biennial precinct meetings at
8 P.M. on Monday, September
8, Zach Smith, Party Chair
man, announced today.
The meeting for each of the
107 precincts in the City and
County will be held at one of
six designated locations
throughout the County. Smith
said that six senior high
schools had been selected so
that registered Republicans
would have to travel only a
short distance to attend their
precinct meeting.
The precinct meetings will
be held at the following high
schools: Myers Park, Garin
ger, North Mecklenburg,
South Mecklenburg, East
Mecklenburg, and West Meck
lenburg. *
Precinct meetings will be
held to elect precinct officers
and to nominate members for
election to the Mecklenburg
County Republican Executive
Committee for the next two
years. Each precinct will also
elect its delegates and alter»
nates to the Mecklenburg
County Republican Conven
tion which will be held on
October 4, 1975.
amun aiso saia tnat any
registered Republican who is
unable to attend his precinct
meeting may be nominated
for election as a delegate or
alternate to the County Con
vention by making written re
quest to him at Mecklenburg
County Republican Head
quarters, 917 East Morehead
Street, Charlotte, N. C. 28204
by 5 P.M. on Friday, Septem
ber 5, 1975.
Republicans who know the
number of their precinct can
determine'the location of their
precinct meeting by referring
to the chart below or by call
iifg Republican Headquarters
at 334-9127.
Smith ufged that all Rep
ublican Headquarters for the
location of their precinct
meeting.
Director Herbert Thomas says NCAMC
should become the spokesman for all minor
Photo by Jim Black
ity contractors
Help's On The Way For
Minority Contractors
By JIM BLACK
Post Feature Writer
The Construction industry,
even in an off year, will realzie
a great profit. Those who work
in this particular industry are
going to be the beneficiaries.
For many years however this
industry closed it's doors to
minority contractors. It was
because of this and many
other facts that NCAMC came
into being.
The North Carolina Assoc
iation of Minority Contractors
is a non-profit, educational
association organized to help
minorities enter me main
stream of American economic
life through the construction
industry
It's director Herbert
Thomas says it was born of the
need of a local organization to
provide education, training,
and to speak in behalf of
minority group builders
throughout the state. It serves
Black. Puerto Rican, Mexican
American, Indian and Orient
al American enterpreneurs in
the building and construction
industry as well as the crafts
men they employ, and the
minority communities in
which they have their roots.
Thomas contends that
NCAMC is at the core of the
most practical movement for
upward economic and social
mobility in this state. Through
planned and cooperative
effort, the NCAMC mobilized
financial and human resour
ces to make a vast contribu
tion to local economy and
eliminate many of the econo
mic and social burdens asso
ciated with poverty and se
cond class status for minor
ities in urban communities.
Some of NCAMC's goals are
to increase minority partici
pation within all segments of
the construction industry; to
act as a national spokesman
for minority contractors and
to provide assistance to min
ority builders in obtaining
bonding as well as to actively
initiate and seek out alterna
tive methods of meeting per
formance · guarantee require
ments.
The association, located at
347 N. Caswell Road is a
relatively new one, but Tho
mas thinks that it can become
a viable force is the Construc
tion Industry.
United Way To Set/Goal
Goal for the 1975 United Way
Campaign will be set by the
United Community Services
Board of Trustees at a 9 a.m.
meeting Thursday, September
4, at the YMCA, 400 E. More
head.
The annual fund-raising
drive provides support for
over 50 agencies and services
in Mecklenburg and Union
Counties. Last year's cam
paign raised $3,170,469. -
General chairman ol tne
1975 effort is B. Franklin Skin
ner, vice president and gen
eral manager of Southern
Bell. President of United,
Community Services is Leroy
Robinson, executive vice
president and general man
ager of Belk Brothers.
Members ol the 350-person
UCS Board of Trustees include
representatives from both
United Way agencies
Three Judge
^Raiiel Rules
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Against ΝΤΕ
Ε R Palmer, associate
executive secretary of the
North Carolina Association of
Educators announced Tues
day the first North Carolina
statewide ruling concerning
the National Teacher Exam
ination ι ΝΤΕ)
According to Palmer, the
long fight waeed against the
ΝΤΕ by the NCAE and the
National Kducation Associa
tion has finally ended in the
overwhelming victory for the
teachers of North Carolina
int.' decision ιο eliminate
tjie ΝΤΕ as a criteria for
certification was handed down
by Judge J Braxton Craven
representing a three-judge
panel. Braxton, along with
Judges Hainsworth and Du·
pree. declared the practice ot
certification of North Carolina
teachers based upon ΝΤΕ.cut
ofl scores unconstitutional and
discriminatory ·
The decision by the panel of
judges provides an injunction
for the stale to issue regular
licenses for the plaintiff inter
veners and all other educators
who are qualified for licensing
except for their -failure to
attain the minimum ΝΤΕ
score requirement.
ιι ι uriner requires tne state
to issue regular certificates to
each teacher holding an "ΝΤΕ
permit" or "Non-standard"
rating Cetificates will also be
issued to any teacher who was
denied certification or rating
since the adoption of the
minimum cutoff score re
quirement
However, the landmark de
cision does not prevent the
state from reinstating a
written test which may re
quire a cutoff score. If the
state wishes to establish such
a written examination, it must
have a cutoff score which has
been deemed valid in measur
ing the minimum knowledge
needed for competent teach
ing performance.
Palmer said he "has been
working since 1964 to elimi
nate the ΝΤΕ and that this
decision is one of the high
achievements of his career."
The issue of back pay will be
decided at a later date, said
the state education leader
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a while he KNOWS SOME
THING.
Masons Plan
Special Meeting
A special call meeting of the
following lodges and chapters
of the Modern Free and
Accepted Masons of the World
Scottish-Rite will be held at
the Greenville Center at 4 p.m.
on September 7.
All old and new members
are urged to be present, by
Grand Worthy Matron of
North Carolina Sister Dorothy
A. Howard.
scnool Administration
Robert Davis Says Rejection
Of ΝΤΕ "Is Great Ruling"
An eleven-year fight by E.
B. Palmer haa resulted in the
state of North Carolina's re
jection of the requirement that
all North Carolina teachers
pass the National Teachers
Examination (ΝΤΕ) and a
prominent Charlotte School
administrator is happy with
the decision.
The crusader, Palmer, is
the associate executive secre
tary of the North Carolina
Association of Educators
(NCAE).
And the administrator is
Robert Davis, the principal of
John Taylor Williams Junior
High School in Charlotte.
"I think II was a great
ruling," said Davis adding
that "I have always felt it was
unfair to base a teachers com
petence on an examination."
The exam is the key and
Davia thinks that the ΝΤΕ
along with other standard
tests such as the College
Boards (PSAT and SAT) and
the Graduate Entrance Exa
minations (GRE> are cultur
ally biased towards experien
ces of the white middle class
populous of our country thus
cause many minority candi
dates to fall.
Davis thinks said that a
better way to judge a teacher
is on his liking for children and
his subject matter compet
ence.
"Number One Priority Is the
liking for children. You can
determine this in conversation
with a potential teacher by
using key words and phras
ing." Ke said
"This is even more impor
tant than In the teachers
knowing the subject area. He
or she must have a good report
with the students to be able to
teach them the subject mat
ter," he said.
What will the immediate
effect of the ruling be?
"It will make more teachers
available ajld there is surely
going to be an oversupply in
certain key areas, next year,"
said Davis
In reflexing on teachers den
ied certificates because they
couldn't pass the ΝΤΕ, Davi*
•said that the had two physical
education instructors who
were very good teacners tun
could not make the required
950 out of a possible 1600 on the
ΝΤΕ.
were very good teachers but
not make the required 950 out
of a possible 1600 on the ΝΤΕ.
"The ΝΤΕ has always been
discrimnatory and North
Carolina is one of the last
states to require It," said
Davis adding that the new
ruling should place several
Kobert Davie
. Local principal
competent teachers back in
the business
Young Black Males Most
Likely Victim Of Crime
According to a recent re
lease of the Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration's
report on a 1973 poll of 60,000
households and 15.000 busi
nesses in the United States,
you are the most likely victim
of a violent crime in the U. S if
you are male, young and
Black
The poll also showed that
you are more likely to be
dissatisfied than anyone else
in the U. S,
Blacks were more likely
than whites to have been vict
imized by rape, robbery and
assault, whereas whites were
most likely to have been vic
tims of personal larceny or
thefts without the threat of
violence, according to the re
port which added that most
Black victims were young
Black
The report also showed (hat
of those polled in the survey,
13 2 percent of the Black popu
lation were crime victims
while only 12 7 percent of the
white population were victims
of the same crimes.
The report also showed that
Black women were victims of
rape at a rate of 3.1 per 1.000,
compared with 1.7 per 1.000
women for whites
In households headed by
Blacks, the report found, a
"substantially higher rate of
victimization exists for bur
glary. motor vehicle theft and
household larceny." The rates
were 21.6 percent for whtie
households and 27 percent for
Black households