"Hr CHARLOTTE POST I'fir
"Charlotte's Fastest Growing Community W eekly*'
Photo By Jim Black
MRS. BERNICE GRIER
'■ —Practicing CoNmotologv
Versatile Bernice Grier ls
Our “Beauty Of The Week”
By Polly Manning
Post Staff Writer
A 1964 graduate of West
Charlotte High School is this
week’s Charlotte Post Beauty.
Mrs. Bernice Grier, the wife
of Larry Grier, recalls playing
on the girl's basketball team
while at West Charlotte. She
was also a member of the
softball team and the Modern
Dance Group.
Also while at West Charlotte
Bernice completed a course in
cosmotology under Mrs. Lilis
tine Moore. She has now been
a licensed beautician for 13
years.
During these 13 years she
has given demonstrations at
both East and West Mecklen
burg High School. Mrs. Grier
is now in the process of be
coming a licensed instructor
in cosmotology In order to
become an instructor in cos
motology one has to take and
pass the cosmotology practi
cal and theory examinations
Mrs. Grier is presently the
manager and owner of Trend
Setter Beauty Salon located at
3202 Beatties Ford Road in the
Bounty Center. Bernice stated
that having her own business
is something that she has
always dreamed of but never
thought this dream would
come true.
"I saw the place," she con
tinued, "and felt that it was in
a good location. With the help
of my family and some others,
my dream was made into a
reality.”
The Trend-Setter employs
at the present time two beaut
icians, Hazel Miller and Betty
Ashbrook. It also has a recep
tionist, manicurist, and a ped
icurist. Bernice doesn't have
any major changes in mind at
the present.
"Right now I’m only inter
ested in making the best of
what I have, maybe later I can
expand and feature a charm
school.” she stated smiling.
When asked what advice she
would give to any woman
planning to go into business
for herself she stated: “First
of all she should really have
her mind made up as to what
she really wants. She should
also get to know people that
will be of the most help to her,
she needs to save money and
not be mislead by the so-called
See BEAUTY on page 12
Carolina reaper races
Discrimination Charges
By Sidney Moore Jr.
Post Staff Writer
Pay discrimination by em
ployers can be a costly
mistake as some Charlotte
companies are finding out.
One such company, Caro
lina Paper Board Corporation,
recently lost a suit by six of its
black employees. A federal
judge ruled the company must
pay back pay from June 30,
1967 to September 18, the date
the order was signed, accord
ing to published reports
For the eight year period,
the total amount with interest
will be $21,219.80, the report
said. Each employee would
receive an average of
$2,569.95. It is likely the em
ployees would have to pay
legal expenses.
In addition black employees
who work for the company In
the next three years will get
an extra $1,221.67 per year.
This is how much less black
employees working for the
company were paid compared
to white workers.
This case began as many
others have with a complaint
filed with the U. S. Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission. Willie White, a
63-year-old employee of Caro
lina Paper Board filed a com
plaint in 1969. White, who has
now been with the company
for 26 years, told the commis
sion that he and other blac k
employees were made to work
in the company's lowest pay
ing and hardest jobs
A ruling from the commis
sion verified White's com
plaint. But the company ig
nored the report. So a court
suit was filed November 7,
1973.
Now that the suit has been
won, the employees have yet*
to receive any money. The
company is appealing the case
and lawyers do not anticipate
the case will be heard before
June. The case may even be
appealed again to a higher
court.
The other black employees
are Jake Taylor, John
Lowery, Blair Huntley, Step
hen Shipman and Charlie
Hudson.
Attorney Julius Chambers
said his firm is handling a
number of such cases He said
this case is somewhat typical
of employee discrimination
cases he has encountered in
North Carolina
See CAROLINA on page 15
TUCTIMMK
♦
Folk* call it ‘TAKE
HOME" pay because there is
no other place you can.afford
to go with it.
$250,000 Debt May Cause
Vital NAACP Program Cuts
Donald Byrd
To Lecture
In Schools
Jazz musician and educator
Donald Byrd will visit the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Schools Nov. 17-19 to conduct a
series of clinics and lectures
for student musicians.
His three-day stay will cul
minate in a concert with stu
dent musicians on Wednesday
night featuring the premiere
of a work entitled “Sunday
Sermons,” written especially
for Byrd by local composer
musician Loonis McGlonhon.
The concert will be at 7:30
p.m. Nov. 19 in the West
Cl id i lultf Hlgll School auditor
ium, 2219 Senior Drive.
“Sunday Sermons" features
Byrd who will be accompained
by a jazz ensemble composed
of students from several local
high schools. They will be led
by Bill Hanna, dilator of the
Cochrane Junior High School
band and the Independence
ouiuui uiuicMia.
Byrd's visit to CMS is made
possible by a matching grant
fund the National Endown
ment for the Arts. The ex
posure of students to artists
such as Byrd is planned by the
Creative Arts Committee of
CMS.
Byrd’s schedule while in
Charlotte will include a prac
tice session with the student
jazz ensemble at Cochrane on
Monday. Nov. 17, at 3:30 p.m.
On Nov. 18, ne wm conduct a
session with the Olympic High
School stage band at 9:30 a.m.
and a session with the com
bined band classes at Inde
pendence at 1:30 p.m. On Nov.
19, he will conduct a clinic
with the band at South Meck
lenburg High from 9:44-10:38
a.m. and a session with the
West Charlotte High School
stage band at 11:35 a.m
The 42-year-old Byrd, son of
a Detroit Methodist minister,
joined the Air Force at 18 after
a brief enrollment at Wayne
State University. He played in
an Air Force band in New
York from 1951-54
After discharge, he returned
to New York and played with
Thelonious Monk, Kenny
Clarke, Oscar Pettiford, Art
Blakey's Jazz Messengers and
Max Roach.
Mrs. Mattie Grigsby
Mrs Lena Sammon
Phonothon Planned
To Raise!INCF Funds
Plans are well underway for
the First Annual Charlotte
Area Phonothon for the United
Negro College Fund which will
be held on November 17-21.
For five consecutive nights,
graduates of the' Six UNCF
colleges located in North
Carolina will be manning 10
telephones from the campus of
Johnson C. Smith University
in an effort to raise $25,000 for
the tuna.
Contacts will be made with
at least 5,000 prospective don
ors who will be asked to make
pledges or direct contributions
to UNCF. It is anticipated that
the contributions will be in the
$5 to $100 range.
According to Lena M.
Sammons, who, with her co
chairperson Mattie S. Grigs
by, has been instrumental in
planning the phonothon. "This
effort is a part of a joint
statewide campaign launched
in the late spring and culmina
ting on December 31”. Barber
Scotia. Bennett, Livingstone,
Shaw, Saint Augustine's, and
Johnson C. Smith are the
North Carolina schools invol
ved. "There are a total of 41
institutions in the UNCF ",
Mrs. Sammons stated "The
funds collected are distributed
among the colleges on the
basis of a formula which they
agree upon
The formula takes into
account factors of the schools'
financial, needs, student popu
lation. endowment and income
record. The colleges spend
their distribution money on
scholarships and student aid
programs, upgrading faculty
salaries, development of re
medial programs, purchase of
new teaching equipment, lib
rary books and general oper
ating costs.”
Ih"1974 Bennett College re
ceived $163,313 from the fund;
Barber Scotia. $155, 360,
Livingstone, $161,258; Saint
Augustine's $166,602; Shaw.
$144.788and Johnson C. Smith.
$169,651 The United Negro
College fund ended 1974 with
close to $12 million, the largest
amount ever raised in its 30
year history.
"It is imperative that the
Charlotte community back the
College fund through corpor
ate and individual contribu
tions to help the 41 member
institutions meet the chal
lenges of these times and give
48,000 young people a chance
to succeed”, Mrs. Sammons
said. "The phonothon is de
signed to reach individuals
who are able to make personal
contributions. Corporations,
businesses, churches, civic
and benevolent groups will be
contacted through other
means.
Visiting the phonothon each
night will be several of the
college presidents and such
prominent citizens as Eliza
beth Hair, Chairperson of the
Board of County Commission
ers; Ben Tison, State Repre
sentative, Harvey B Gantt,
City Councilman; State Sena
tor Fred D Alexander and
local members of the Johnson
C. Smith University Board of
Trustees.
Kelly Alexander Believes
9
Problems Not Perilous
Publishedreports indicate tbat~ttn? National Assocm-Ton
for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP is :r:
financial trouble The organization may have a budget deficit
as high as $250,000.
A source within the national office was quoted as saying
that debts are "reaching a point where it could imperil
critical programs that are the life-blood of the organization
Some Branches are report
edly "barely staying alive "
The association is said to be
barely meeting its payroles.
lax in payments for legal ex
penses around the country and
unable to pay creditors
Local officials do not seem
to think the deficit is serious
enough to stalemate the pro
grams pt --
When asked about the re
sults of the deficit of the 66
year old organization, Kelly
Alexander Jr. said. "What
happens when your budget at
home is in the red."
he indicated that whatever
was necessary to be done to
solve the deficit problem
would be done.
"We don’t think it's a pro
blem we can't lick." said the
local branch president.
Alexander said the national
budget is close to $5 million.
His brother Alfred Alexan
der. national youth work
committee member, feels that
the dedication of the youth will
prevent the deficit from inter
forino u ilk i'/ii il k antu’itioc
"I should never think that
the NAAPP will die. ' he said
In the recent annual conven
tion of the State Conference of
Branches of the NAACP.
Alfred Alexander said the
youth group donated about $65
against the deficit and the
conference raised about $600.
Kelly Alexander Sr . a
member of the national board
of the NAACP attributed the
deficit to the depressed state
of the economy He said an
effort is now being made to
increase NAACP contribu
tions to ease the deficit pro
blem
' We re going to be success
ful with it.’ he predicted
The elder Alexander said
most local branches are viable
and solvent. He said people
who have benefited from the
NAACP but are not members
should make contributions to
the organization
Kelly. Alexander Sr ,
Heads state NAACP
PO Announces*
Examination For
Stenographer
The I'mtt-d States-Postal
Service announces an exa
mination for the pos.tion of
Clerk-Stenographer for the
Charlotte area Starting
salary is $11,298 per annum
Applicants must have
appropriate education or
experience, pass a written
test, and demonstrate posse
ssion of manual skills
Applications and further
information may be secured
from Examinations Spec
ialist General Mail Facility.
2(101 I 85. South, i harlotte
Nr 2822H. or may be obtained
by calling 704-U72 0711. Ex
tensions 655 or fiSfi
Closing date for receipt of
applications is November 14
1975 Applications received
after this date must be recei
ved by mail and must fie
postmarked on or before
November 14. 1975 ‘
Freni dent Ford
To Visit
Raleigh Friday
Zach Smith Mecklenburg
County Republican I’art'
Chairman tms week armour
ced details of President Ford's
visit to the North Carolina
Republican Slate Convention
in Raleigh on Friday. Novem
her 14th President Ford will
be the first President ot visit a
party convention of either
party in North Caorlina's
historv
The North Carolina Republ
ican Party President Ford
Luncheon Reception will be
held from 12 to 1 30 p m on
Friday, November 14th at the
Royal Villa Inn on Highway 70
in Raleigh Ticket subscrip
lions are $50 per person--the
lowest priced event featuring
the President in the United
States this year
The White House has con
firmed that the President will
break with tradition and spend
the majority of his time at the
reception on the floor, ming
ling with the attendees to the
reception
Ticket sales are open to the
public.
44 Black College Presidents Tell HEW Of
Need For Parity Of Educational Facilities
Washington (NNPAi - The
presidents and aides from 44
black colleges and universi
ties met last Tuesday with the
new Secretary of Health, Edu
cation, and Welfare, Dr.
David Mathews, to press for
parity of education facilities
for their students.
While they received no de
finite promises from Secre
tary Mathews, former presi
dent of the University of Ala
bama who knows many of the
black colleges heads personal
ly, his office has indicated that
there will be followup meet
ings with these colleges to find
ways of meeting their needs.
Speaking for the colleges
were: Dr. Charles A. Lyons,
Jr., president of the confer
ence sponsoring body, the
National Association for
Equal Opportunity in Higher
Education, and also chan
cellor of Fayetteville, N. C.
State University, who presid
ed; Dr Roy D. Hudson, vice
president Of the association
and president ol Hampton In
stitute.
Dr Milton K. Curry Jr.,
president of the United Negro
College Fund and head of Bis
hop College; and Dr. Charles
L Hayes, president of Albany,
Ga., State College and chair
man of the Office for Advance
ment of Public Negro College
Advisory Committee. All of
the colleges represented are
members of association. Mark
Fisher, IV, is its executive
secretary.
Goal set by the speakers
was for a leadership partner
ship between their colleges
and the federal government to
achieve parity for the histori
cally black colleges by the
year 2000. If such a partner
ship is not set in motion, the
college heads expressed fear
that the relative gap between
the number of whites and
blacks who finish college will
continue to widen The gap.
they said, widened from seven
percent in 1960 to 13 percent in
1974
Major emphasis was placed
on the need for more opportun
ities at black colleges and
universities for their students
to pursue professional and
technical education. For
example, there are only two
black medical colleges with a
third being developed at
Morehouse
Also the college heads
pressed for more funds for
student aid programs They
said they now need $250
million for such aid. instead of
the $100 million they are re
ceiving.
Dr Mathews, who indicated
a great understanding of the
prbblems of black colleges,
was introduced by Dr. Joffre
T._ Whisenton. a former
teacher of educational psycho
logy at the Unviersity of Ala
bama. whom he has brought -
here to serve as his special
assistant for educational
policy. For the past several
years, I)r Whisenton has been
with the Southern Association
of Colleges
The following black colleges
and universities were repre
sented at the conference: Ala
bama A&M, l.omax Hannon
College, Miles College. Oak
wood College, Stillman
College, Tuskegee Institute,
Delaware State, Federal City
College. Howard. Washington
Tech, Edward Waters College,
Albany State, Atlanta Univer
sity, Fort Valley Slate, Morris
Brown, Paine, Southern,
Bowie State, Morgan State,
Shaw College at Detroit,
Alcorn, Kust, Liica Jr.
College, Lincoln University of
Missouri, Barber-Scotia,
Fayetteville State, Johnson C.
Smith, Livingstone. Shaw, St.
Augustine's College. Wilber
force, Cheyney State, Lincoln.
Benedict. South Carolina
State, Fisk, Lane. Tennessee
Dr Wilbert Greenfield
Attends HEW meeting
State University, Bishop.
Texas Southern, Wiley, Ham
pton. St Paul's College, and
Virginia Union