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LOVELY GLORIA OLERY
...Vivacious young lady
Miss Gloria Olery
Is Beauty Of Week
—_By Polly Manning
Post Staff Writer
A career in Graphic Arts
-and Industrial Designiifg"rs
the ambition of our Beauty for
this week, Miss Gloria Olery.
"My interest in this field
stems from a course I’m
taking now at school," sated
Miss Olery. “It deals with
off-set printing. I find it very
interesting and I am really
looking forward to finishing
training and get to work. I
really don't have a preference
as to what city I work, just as
long as it’s some place where I
am needed. I have the exped
ience.”
Our Beauty, the daughter of
Mrs. Dorothy Taylor, resides
at 901-A Lynn Street.
She is a Senior at Harding
High School where she is
treasurer of the Executive
Council, assistant editor of the
senior section of the yearbook
staff, secretary of the Student
Action and Educational Club,
and a member of the Drama
Club. As assistant-editor of the
senior section for the year
book Mis Olery’s duties in
clude choosing the best pic
tures of the various services,
making the senior section
creative as well as unique and
outstanding, and making sure
. «v«irything is ready for the
deadline. _£ ,
I As a member of the Student
Action and Educational Club
her duties inlcude going to
| various elementary schools
tutoring the slow learners in
things such as math, reading,
gnd spelling. “I enjoy this
because it makes me feel as if
I’m being useful. Also it gives
me a chance to realize just
how much help some kids
really need,” smiled Gloria.
Gloria is born under the sign
of Aries. She describes Aries
people as being easy going to a
certain point, they mostly like
to have their way and are very
friendly.
The most important person
in the life of our Beauty is her
daughter Jelavonda. She cele
brated her fourth birthday
Sunday and celebrated in
grand style with a birthday
party. About eight children
attended. “Everyone seem to
enjoy themselves,’’ stated
Gloria. “It was a lot of fun,
and when it was over I had a
,terrible headache.”
Miss Olery explained that
she first became familiar with
the Post during a Festival In
The Park that was held in
1974. Her daughter was made
up by one of the clowns there
and her picture was taken by
Mr. Peeler, who also included
a story. “I was very proud
when the story and picture
appeared,” she smiled. "Of
course I saved the article.
Miss Olery has only one
hobby. She loves music. She
loves all kinds and doesn’t
have a preference of singers.
Aside from her active school
life, Gloria also holds down a
part-time job at K-Mart De
partment Store on Freedom
Drive as a cashier. She states
that she enjoys her work
especially meeting all the in
teresting people that come in
and out of the store.
Traffic Deaths
Down 19 Percent
In November
Raleigh_Edward L
Powell, Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles, announced
Tuesday that traffic deaths
in November of 1975 were
down 19 percent from Novem
ber 1974. This month’s "High
way Accident Perspective”
published today by Charles
Hensley, Director of Traffic
Recorda-of the North Carolina
Division of Motor Vehicles,
revealed that 102 persons lost
their lives in November 1975
compared to 126 highway
deaths in November of last
year. To date this year North
Carolina has 1327 traffic
deaths compared to 1,446 fata
lities for the same period of
1974, a decline of 8 percent.
Powell said the fatalities for
November include 22 deaths
during the long Thanksgiving
holiday and represent a signif
icant difference in the lower
ing of our highway death rate
October deaths were down 34
percent over last year. Powell
stated that during this Holiday
Season special caution should
be exercised, particularly on
the interstate highways where
accidents in November were
up 34 percent over last year.
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TUKTLt-W*
The EASIEST WAY to pick
out the host at a COCKTAIL
PARTY is to find the one who
is MEASURING the DRINKS.
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Congress Urged To Authorize_
600,000 New Housing Units
More Liberal
Food Stamp
Program Due
New more liberal food
stamp regulations going into
effect on January 1 will not
only allow North Caolinians
with low incomes to purchase
more food from their grocers,
but more people will be able to
participate because of in
creased maximum income
eligibility standards.
The monthly arqount of food
stamps a four-person house
hold will be allowed to pur
chase will be increased from
the current $162 to $166.
The maximum monthly net ■
income level for a family of
four will increase from the
present $540 to $553.
The Federa'l Food Stamp
Act requires the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture to adjtlst
the monthly coupon allot
ments every six months to
reflect changes in fond nriray;
as published by the Bures^fr
Labor statistics.
The new scale developed by
USDA is more generous for
households of six or more
persons than it is for smaller
households.
In North Caolina, county
departments of social services
administer the food stamp
program and determine eligi
bility.
The amount a household
pays for food stamps is based
on its net income. Under the
scale going into effect the first
of the year, a family of four
with $100 monthly net income
will pay only $25 for $166 worth
of food stamps, but if its in
come is $550, it would cost $142
to purchase the same $166
amount of stamps.
Persons not participating in
the food stamp program who
need help in purchasing ade
quate food should contact
their local social services de
partment to see if they are
eligible.
JCSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
for the 1975-76 school year,'installed last
Wednesday night at Excelsior Club are: left
to right, R. Douglas Spears. President;
James I. Melvin, First Vice President;
1 nolo l>> Heeler.
Glenda Pyant. Second Vice President; Myra
Maxwell, Secretary Zoel S. Hargraves Jr..
Historian; Grace Stevenson. 'Corresponding
Secretary. Horace Gaines. Treasurer and
Joe Major. Chaplain.
i,. Smith Mutsim Re-Elects
Rufus Spears For Second Term
By James Peeler
Post Feature Writer
The Charlotte Chapter of
Johnson C. Smith Unversity
installed officers for the 1975
76 school year last Wednesday
night during the organiza
tion’s regular monthly meet
ing at the Excelsior Club, 921
Beatties Ford Road
The Nominating
Committee, Chaired by
William McCombs, was com
posed of Zoel S. Hargraves,
Jr., Mabel Cunningham,
Gayle Bell, and Glenda Pyant.
Re-elected to one-year
terms were: R. Douglas
Spears, President; Myra
Maxwell, Recording Secre
tary; Grace Stevenson,
Corresponding Secretary,
Zoel S Hargraves Jr., Histor
ian: and Horace Gaines.
Treasurer: Joe Major was
elected Chaplain by the 48
members present at the meet
ing and w ill be serving his first
term.
In an interview last Tues
day, re-elected President
Spears noted that, during Ins
previous tenture in office local
membership has increased 35
percent and mere are 690 local
paid memberships in the
Charlotte Chapter of the JCSU
Alumni Association. Of the 690
total, 287 also paid their Gen
eral Alumni Dues. Spears
added. "JCSU received the
Grand Chapter Award for
having contributed the most
money to JCSU last year."
President Spears .said that
plans for the ensuing year
inlcude Increase in total
membership. the additon of
another fund raising activity
(a paid dance at Commence
ment to accomodate classes in
reunion, alumni, and friends 1:
doubling the amount of tunds
given to the Unix ersity yearly,
getting more recent graduates
to become more involved with
alumni affairs, and aid the
University in recruiting more
students in all departments
and interests
Spears concluded, saying,
"We sponsored the Tip-Off
Tournament hut it was not as
successful as we had hoped."
A Fellowship Hour followed
Iasi Wednesday s installation
service and concluded the
night's activities
January 21-24
Benjamin L. Hooks To Keynote
Black Press Mid-Winter Workshop
Washington (NNPA) -
Commissioner Benjamin L.
Hooks of the Fedeal Commun
ications Commission will key
note the three-day Mid-Winter
Workshop of the National
Newspaper Publishers Asso
ciation - the Black Press of
America - Dr. Carlton B.
Goodlett, NNPA president,
announced this week.
The event is scheduled for
January 21-24 at Frenchman's
Reef Holiday Inn in St.
Thomas of the U. S. Virgin
Islands where Gov. CyriLKing
will open activities with a
reception at his mansion.
Commissioner Hooks, the
first black to be appointed to
the FCC, is a lawyer and a
minister with churches in
Memphis and Detroit. Before
assuming his present post
three years ago, he served as
a judge in Memphis. His wide
ly read newspaper column is
syndicated to 141 member
papers by NNPA.
In addition to the address by
Commissioner Hooks on the
22nd, Dr. Goodlett said that
other highlights of the pro
gram will be a series of sym
posiums on new approaches to
circulation building , news
paper management, advertis
ing salesmanship, news and
feature writing, the role of
journalism schools in develop
ing new professionals, and
also the role of black execu
tives in corporate white
America, as well as a round
table on the black business
community and the Black
Press.
Key participants, he added,
will include: Dr. Lionel C.
Barrow, dean of the School of
Communications at Howard
University; Samuel Adams of
the University of Kansas; Jay
T Harris, Medill School of
Journalism; Dr. Berkeley G.
Burrell, president of the Na
tional Business League;
David Harper, president of the
National Bankers Associa
tion; C. Mack Higgins, assis
tant administrator of the
Small business Adminstra
tion.
Samuel J. Cornelius, deputy
director of Office of Minority
Business Enterprises; George
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Norford, senior vice presi
dent. Westinghouse Broad
casting; Ms. Brenda Joyce,
Washington representative of
Gulf Oil; Maceo Sloan, presi
dent of the National Insurance
Association; and Bill Johnson,
publisher of The Charlotte
Post.
One of the concluding fea
tures of the program will be
the presentation of plaques to
the longt#ie sponsors of merit
awards for publishers and
staffers of NNPA member
newspapers. Companies that
are to be honored are: Alumi
num-Company of America;
American Tobacco Company,
Brown & Williamson Tobacco
Corp , Carnation Company;
Coca-Cola USA; Exxon Oil
, and Refining Company; Gen
eral Electric, Great Atlantic
and Pacific Tea Company;
Gulf Oil Corporation. Heinz
USA.; J.C. Penny Company;
Miller Brewing Company;
Pepsi-Cola Company, Philip
Morris, Inc., PPG Industries.
Sears, Roebuck and Com
pany, Sterling Drug, and U S
Steel Corporation
Benjamin L HooV*
FCC Commissioner
, The other feature is a bead
picnic on Saturday. Jan 24. a
Magen Bay Workshop host n
Ariel Melchior. Sr . publishe
of the Daily News of the Virgil
Islands
Minorities, Women Face
Housing Discrimination
Congress should authorize
at least 600,000 new units of
low-and moderate-income
housing each year from now
until 1978, the U. S. Commis
sion on Civil Rights said in a
report released today.
Titled "Twenty Years After
Brown: Equal Opportunity in
Housing, " the 188-page report
criticizes the President and
Congress for abandoning the
goals of the Housing and Ur
ban Development Act of 1968.
which called for the product
ion or rehabilitation of 6
million units of federallv-sub
sized housing by 1978.
The Commission pointed out
that minorities and women
encounter discrimination in
the housing market and face
disproportionate hardships
because of a shortage of low
cost housing
"The effect of discrimina-'
tion in housing has caused
untold suffering for minorities
and women, especially those
at the lower end of the econo
mic scale. It has kept a- much
large proportion of minorities
and women from acquiring
■ any but the worst housing
available." the Commission
said.
The Commission charged
that Ihe Federal government
has been “timid in its
approach" to stimulating the
production of low-income
housing in areas in which
whites reside. It said that
Fedoal agencies have failed to
enforce strongly laws against
discrimination in housing and
that Fedeal policy has been a
major factor in creating se
gregated neighborhoods.
Stating that a metropolitan
remedy for segregation in
central-city public housing is
“both feasible and neces
sary," the Commission criti
cized the Justice Department
for failing to support this
policy.
“The position taken by the
Solicitor General indicates
that the Fedeal government is
still unwilling to take effective
action to promote residential
desegregation,” the Commis
sion said
in addition to recommend
ing Fedeal financing of new
low-cost housing, the
Commission also urged
Thai the Department of
Housing and Urban Develop
ment (HUD) implement the
provisions of the Housing and
Community Development Act
of 1974 whch provide funds for
lower-income home owner
ship
That Congress establish a
special mortgage insurance
and loan program for middle
income minority families and
families headed by women
That the Federal govern
ment step up its enforcement
of laws against housing dis
crimination and that HUD be
given power to issue cease
and-desist orders against
discriminatory practices
That the Kqual Credit
Opportunity Act, which prohi
bits discrimination on the
basis of sex and marital
status, be amended to include
race, color, religion, national
origin, and age
That states be required tc
establish a metroplitar
housing and community deve
lopment agency in eacf
metropolitan area withii
their borders to ensure opei
, housing choices for womei
and minorities
Thai the Justice Depart
merit change its position to
support a metropolitan solu
tion for segregated public
housing
That HUD provide financial
incentives for a family to rent
housing in a neighborhood
which is not predominately of
the same race or ethnic group
as the assisted family.
That responsibility for coor
dinating housing on Indian
reservations be vested in a
single Federal agency.
The new report is the last
volume in a series reviewing
the status of women and
minorities in the 20 years
since the Supreme Court's
decision in Brown V. Board of
Education. Other volumes
have covered' economics
education, and the historical
bac-keround of the decision
The Commission of Civil
Rights is an independent, bi
partisan. fact-finding agency
concerned with the rights of
minorities .and women. Chair
man Arthur S Flemming is
^lsbCommissioner ol Aging of
the Department of Health, —
Education, and Welfare
Other Commissioners are
Vice Chairman Stephen Horn,
president of California State
University, Long Beach.
Frankie M Freeman, an
attorney specializing in estate
and corporation law in St
Louis. Manuel Ruiz, an attor
ney specializing in interna
tional law with offices in Los
Angeles; Robert S Rankin
Professor Emeritus of Politi
cal Science at Duke Univer
sity, Durham, North Carolina
and Murray Saltzman, Rabbi.
Indianapolis Hebrew Congre
gation, Indianapolis Hebrew
Congregation. Indianapolis
Indiana. John A Buggs is staff
director.
CMS Officials
Plan For
Bad Weather
Charlotte Meckelenburg
School officials hope to avoid
confusion when schools have
to be closed for snow or other
inclement weather this year
To help avoid confusidn, the
officials have issued
communications to the news
media requesting their coo
peration In these statements,
it was explained how these
officials make the decision to
close or reopen schools when '
bad weather hits town
Schools are closed and re
opened as soon as possible, but
safety is the main concern of
the officials, said the state
ment
All schools are closed or no
schools are closed is a general
rule Individual schools arc
closed only for such things as
heat or power failure
School officials maintain
contact with city and county
police, highway department
and the weather bureau The
Superintendent's decision to
close the schools follows the
recommendation to him made
by the Transportation Depart
ment When the decision is
made, school staff members
immediatedly notify the news
media
It is hoped that the use of
this plan will limit the number
of calls from parents to the
1 education center on bad
weather days School officials
1 say no news announcement
means school as usual