City Councilman
Harvey Gantt
—Able Politician
Harvey Gantt INever SeLHis
Sights On Being A Politician
As the only black member of
the seven-man Charlotte City
Council, Harvey B. Gantt is a
pioneer.
But, if you ask him, he will
tell you that he never set his
sights on being a politician. He
has wanted to be an architect
and he is one.a good one.
, “I always thought the
closest I’d ever get to govern
ment would be as an advisor
for city planning,’’ Gantt said
in a recent interview. He has a
wide, far-reaching back
ground in architectual plan
ning in Charlotte and through
out the state.
The 33-year-old architect is
a rising star on the political
scene in Charlotte and his
presence on city council is
being felt.
Blacks comprise about 22
per cent of the city’s 300 thou
sand population and Gantt
feels that he may be the lone
black representative for
sometime because council
membersare elected at-large.
He favors district elections,
but believes his fellow six
council members do not
support such a move.
Gantt said there is a move
underway to consolidate the
Hazel J_lis To Serve
With Recreation Board
Hazel Ellis, a 21 year postal
service employee and Station
Manager of University Park
Post Office, has been appoint
ed to serve on the Mecklen
burg County Recreation
Board.
Ellis, of 1813 Trentwood
Place, is expected to confirm
his appointment by the County
Commission soon. He was
notified in a letter mailed to
him on Monday, February 2,
according to a spokesperson in
the County Manager’s office.
The new appointee is
pleased about the offer. He
will serve a three year term as
one of nine board members.
Other blacks who have
served on the board include
Jack Brayboy and Joe Harper
III.
Ellis indicated that he is not
fully knowledgeable about his
Hazel EUis
...University Park manager
duties with the board and is
not yet ready to set goals he
expects to achieve during his
term.
He is married to Dorothy M.
Ellis and they have two sons,
Eric and Scott.
Hearing Set For Third Ward
The Charlotte City Council
has scheduled a public hear
ing for 3 p.m., Monday, March
1 in the Council Chamber at
City Hall, 600 East Trade Str
«it. The Purpose of the Hear
g is to give citizens an oppor
tunity to review and comment
on.th* Community Develop
ment and Redevelopment Pl
ans for the Third Ward Comm
unity Development Target
Area.
Persons wishing to speak at
the hearing should contact the
Attend Church
Sunday_
City Clerk at City Hall or call
374-2247 no later than noon
March 1. Copies of the plans
are available for public in
spection at the office of the
City Manager and the Comm
unity Development Depart
ment, Cameron-Brown Build
ing, 301 South McDowell
Street.
Charlotte is scheduled to
receive approximately $10,051
million in second year Comm
unity Development funds for
physical and social improve
ments in nine target areas
including First Ward, Grier
Heights, North Charlotte, Che
rry, Third Ward, West More
head, Southside Park, West
Boulevard and Five Points.
city and county governments.
He said a vote on this question
is expected in 18 months.
The black councilman is
doubtful that such a plan
would win his support without
a provision for a new election.
By virtue of the public office
he holds, Gantt represents a
large segment of Charlotte’s
blacks community, but, he
does not presume to speak for
all blacks.
“There is no one monolithic
group of black leaders. I per
sonally think that is danger
ous,’’ Gantt said. He added
that many blacks in the city
have followings in many diff
erent areas.
“Everybody’s doing his own
thing, but not together,” Gantt
said.
"1 don’t think we’ve ever
had very -strong black leader
ship in Charlotte. We’ve never
had a crisis behind which we
coalesced,” he said. “We’ve
always had moderate leader
ship,” he added.
Gantt acknowledged that his
victory, in the city election was
due to a coming together of
many black groups. However,
he said since the election,
black political power has not
been significantly felt in
Charlotte.
If Gantt sounds like a daring
pioneer, it's only because he is
one.
As a youngster in 1960’s he
braved hostilities and resist
ance of state and local school
officials to break the color
barrior at formerly all-white
Clemson University to become
its first black student.
He finished with honors.
As an architect, Gantt has
worked as a partner in two
firms before his own in 1971.
He also has worked as a staff
consultant for the Boston
Model Cities program and
Urban Development Pro
gram. He directed some
planning activities for Soul
City and he is a visiting Urban
Design critic for the College of
Architecture at Clemson.
Gantt is a member of the
Board of Trustees at Friend
ship Baptist Church. He is
married and the father of two
children.
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BlackNeurosurgeons Urge Limited Use Of Operation
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Special to the Post
BLACK NEUROSURG
EONS URGE LIMITED USE
OF OPERATION: Behavior
altering brain surgery should
be permitted on violent or
disturbed mental patients
when nothing else will help,
two prominent black neuro
surgeons said recently. Such
operations, called psycho
surgery, have been under
attack in recent years by bla
-cks and other groups as a
potential weapon, according
to critics, to murder the mi
nds of minorities.
Dr. Jesse Barber, chif of
neurosurgery at Howard Uni
versity Hospital, estimated
that 500 to 600 psychosurgery
operations are quietly per
formed each year in the Uni
ted States. Speaking along
with Dr. Barber at a National
Monority Conference on Hu
man Ecperimentation held
recently in Reston, Va. Dr.
Ernest A. Bates, also a neur
osurgeon, called for govern
ment controls or guidelines
for performing psychosurgi
cal operations which are the
more sophisticated succes
sors of lobotomies performed
in the 1940's and 1950’s.
Bates, assistant clinical
professsor at the University
of^aliiornUun^anJ^rancis
co, said psychosurgery is
done without adequate con
sideration or follovOl-up by
most of the surgeons per
forming it. Nevertheless, he
said, "it is not possible for
me to give a blanket condem
nation of all psychosurgery.
I and other physicians have
seen those who are under
such great personal distress
that they would profer psych
osurgery if all other methods
(of treatment) have been
given an adequate trial (and
failed).'' Bates added that
such operations should not be
done on persons under 21 or
on prisoners.
Dr. Barber acknowledged
that there have been good
reasons for disadvantaged
groups to fear operations
that affect their brains. But
he said that black opposition
is "unfair to black patients,"
and "has prevented neuro
surgeons and psychiatrists
from developing knowledge
and techniques." Both Bar
ber and Bates said there is no
evidence that the operation is
performed on blacks to any
greater extent than on whites
In fact. Barber said, “it is
_ not done on blacks,” partly
because of black opposition.
parity because government
officials will not finance it for
weltare patients. And poor
blacks don't have money to
pay for it," he said Barber
said a common charge is
$1,000.
BLACK MALES DEVEL
OPING MOKE CANCER
THAN WHITES Black mal
es are developing more can
-cers than whites and their
survival rates are poorer,
according to a new analysis
of cancer statistics The fig
ures showed that the cancer
rates for black males jumped
36 percent between 1947 and
1969 while the rates of cancer
developing in white males
increased 6.7 percent in the
same period Cancer in wo
men in both races dropped by
13 to 15 percent.
The report, published in a
Journal of the American Can
cer Society, said the rise in
cancer inci'dence rates in
black males was largely due
to increases in cancers of the
lung, colon-rectum, prostate
and esophagus.
Herbert Seidnian. chief of
Statistical Analysis for the
Cancer Society, said part of
the reason black males have
been develping more cancers
probably can be attributed to
exposure to extra environ
mental factors. Also appar
ent, the report said, is that
cancer is diagnosed earlier in
whites than in blacks
Early diagnosis and treat
ment increases survival rat
es. The overall five-year sur
vival rate was 31 percent for
white males and 21 percent
for black males. In women,
the survival rate for all can
cers was 47 percent in white
and 37 percent in blacks.
The statistics showed that
cancer rates in black males
were lower in 1947 than in
whites, with 282 cases per
too.ooo in white males and 241)
cases per luo.oou in black
males In 1969, 301 cancer
cases were being reported in
the same population size for
white males and 337 for black
males NNPA>
Miss Steele INanied
“Teacher Of The Month”
A Charlotte native has been
named the “1976 February
Teacher of the month" in the
Greenville S.C County School
System.
Miss Gertrude Steele,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Steel, received the
honor, recently .. .She is in her
third year at Berea High
School in Greenville, S.C.
where she is one of the coun
selors of the Junior class,
representative for SCEA, and
sponsor and founder of
B.A.C.T. (Berea Action Club
for Togetherness t.
The oldest daughter among
Steele family, Miss Steele is a
1969 graduate of West Char
lotte High School who gradua
ted from Winston-Salem State
University in 1973. She curren
v.ns-Lvii .w. -.
Miss Gertrude Steele
...An English major
tly is working towards her
M A degree at Clemson t'ni
versity. She is an English
major
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