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The remainder were held by such corpora tions as IBM. Amour, General Electric and Exxon A session held Friday morning of the fair gave minority businessmen a chance to comment on the fair Brendle said many ideas were offered as to how the lair could be improved next year and that his-committee is going to do what it can to see that many of these ideas are used "We re going to be bigger," the fair chairman predicted He hinted that the fair may grow from having one-third of the first floor of the Civic Center to having the entire floor Brendle said Civic Center officials seemed to be pleased with the fair fie said they were impressed with the number of people t-hat visited the fair and with fact that all the booths for the fair were sold. The center is said to have given fair sponsors a pre ferred rate as its contribution to the fair effort Crav Receives Accreditation From \(.C Andrew ,J Gray of 1342 Mul berry Avenue was recently accreditated by the Accredita tion Council for Accountants Gray, one of 3.000 account ants who are recognized by the council, was tested by the council to determine his profi ciency in the use of accounting rules and principles He will also be required to continue studying his profes sion in order to maintain his accreditation Johnson C. Smith Receives Grant To Sponsor Forums The Sociology .Social Work Department at Johnson C. Smith University has received a grant from the North Caro lina Humanities Committee to sponsor public forums with the theme "The Spirit of '76: The Heritage of the Black Man Too" in several North Caro lina areas through March 1976 Kach public forum is de signed lo bring residents of local communities together with historians, philosophers, scholars of literature and humanists to share knowledge and discuss the bicentennial Hoyle Martin Well-known economist theme in view ol the black man's contribution to the nation prior to I77fi and since A public forum i,s scheduled to take place at Johnson C Smith Unversityon November 21. in the Student Lounge of the University Memorial Union Building at 7 JO pm The discussion leaders will be Dr Bettye Verbal, a historian from Washington. D C , Dr winson K. Coleman, a philos pher. and Hoyle Martin, an economist, both from Char lotte Subsequent public forums will be' announced for the Shelby and Kings Mountain. See JCSU on page 6 -Family Planning Efforts Built-In Safety Valve Special To The Post An unpublished study by Doctors Castellano B Turner and William A. Darity on Black Organizations and Population Policy points to the prevasive suspicion of many blacks in regards to official l' S. conduct and funding of pro grams designed to systemati cally stablize the population Sanctioning such programs poses somewhat of a dilemna facing Black Americans, with TTie tUMglll being fill mui.l - heavily by the leadership of black organizations. The rapid growth rate of world popula tion and growth rate in the T S have long been the subject of concern of many of our foremost leaders in the l' S. For the most part, black leadership generally under stands and agrees that therels a clear connection between the capacity to partake of American affluence and the limitation of family size By being able to control the size of one's family, more resources are freed for expenditure on health care, education, decent housing for those >in the family. HoLsnouser I o Attend 1-77 Opening Here The Governor's Office anno unced Monday that Governor James E. Holshouser. Jr will participate in ceremonies opening a seven-mile stretch of Interstate 77 at Charlotte on December 1 Other officials scheduled to participate in the 2 p m rib bon cutting ceremony are Sec retary of Transportation J F Alexander, members of the N C Board of Transportation and Secondary Hoads Council, and local officials The construction of the se ven-mile stretch of 1-77 from Northwest Freeway to Kearns Koad which cost nearly ifi million dollars was started in the winter of 1971 The opening of this stretch of I-77 is expected to alleviate the downtown Charlotte bot tleneck of through traffic National ( jiimcil Of Black Studio* Organized Here Iir Bertha .Maxwell, direc tor of Black Studies at the University of Ni^k Carolina at Charlotte, is helping to organize the National Council of Black Studies She went to Colorado on Nov. 13 to help organize Region Eight of the Council at the University of Colorado at Boulder On Nov 22 she will be in Fayetteville for a steering committee meeting for the State of North Carolina The national organization grew out of a Black Studies Conference last spring at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Ms Cynthis Bennett and Reman Thomas of UNCC are on the steering committee Indeed, family planning efforts also serve as a built in safety valve for preventing an unwanted pregnancy that would interrupt the complet ion ol necessary education and training experience that pre pare individuals to cope with and compete in our super technological society Indeed, it is no coincidence that as groups expand their middle . lass and improve upon their standard of living, being able to control their fertility ->.. On the other hand, there is the fear that there are sinister motives in the larger white society's interest in population stabilization and its new enthusiasm for making family planning more accessible to Black Americans Most studies on this subject confirm that a large percentage of Black Americans are con cerned about the potential genoeidal implication c! family planning programs The fact that an increasing number of sterilization pro posals surfaced in slate legis in iiii u-y% \vdr? along with a marked upsurge of government funded family planning services being made more available in the black communities undergirds this feeling How often have we heard from conservative and right wing circles that we've got to do something about those growing numbers of un employed folks on welfare, and our increasing tax bur den'* One must therefore question the specialized interest in this phase of our lives when simi lar enthusiasm, is absent or meagerly found in programs designed to provide jobs, housing, education and other health services Perhaps this is what many of the Third World representatives to the' Bucharest Population Confer enee were articulating on a global scale Their position holds that efforts at fertility manage merit, birth control and gen eral family planning pro grams can only succeed when they are accompanied by de monstrated equal concern about widespread develop ment geared to improve the quality of life across the board for all humanity Th#» Hfim<*sl 1rpktmiKP this concern evidences itself in a significant amount of suspi cion and disapproval on the part of black leadership of any proposal on population policy that suggests extraordinary government control The black leadership cogn izant of these fears and con cerns. is also very high on making sure that quality ser vices are available for all and that there is a personal free dom of choice on matters of family planning minus any overt or covert coercion Finally, to insure that abuses in policy or program imple mentation do not occur and that fears are allayed, it be hooves Population and Family Planning Agencies, both governmental and non governmental, to make a con certed effort to include blacks in the decision making circles of their respective organtza tions Only then can the black leadership honestly and legit imately sanction these pro grams in their community < NNPA)