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Ms. Pamela Allison
Is Beautv Of Week
By roily manning
Post Staff Writer
"Although I've been beauty
of the week once before. I’m
just as thrilled now as I was
then. It's always a privilege to
be put in the public eye and
what better way to do this than
to have exposure in the news
paper.”
This statement came from
Miss Pamela Allison, who has
for the second time been chos
en at the Charlotte Post
"Beauty of the Week".
Pam is the daughter of Mrs.
Flora Allison of 2220 Augusta
St. She is a 1975 graduate of
Independence High School.
While attending Indepen
dence Miss Allison was a
member of the Girl’s athletic
association and of the Deca
Club, (Distributive Education
Association). Her favorite
subject was math.
The hobbies of our beauty
are dancing and playing bas
ketball. She admits that both
are good exercises as well as
something she enjoys.
Presently Pam is attending
Central Piedmont Community
College where she is studying
Physical Theraphy. She plans
to work in a near-by hospital
and work mainly with child
ren. "That was the main pur
pose for chosing the field of
Physical Theraphy," explain
ed Pam. I want to work main
ly with children, although I
will be glad to work with
adults.
Pam is born under th sign of
Leo. She describes them as
being brilliant people as well
as romantics.
The Allison family attends
St Paul Baptist Church where
Rev. Paul W. Drummond is
the pastor Pam is a member
of the junior usher board.
WrnE-WA
To some women BATHING
SUITS are more FITTING
than PROPER
ram s tavorite color is red.
Ham is her favorite food and
Chanel No. 5 is her favorite
cologne scent.
Pam Grier is the favorite
actress of our beauty. "I like
her style and we also have the
same name. I also wanted to
be an actress at one time.”
Sanford & Son and Welcome
Back Hotter are Pam’s favo
rite television shows.
Pam is the baby of her
family. She has two older sis
ters and one older brother and
admits that being the baby of
the family has both good and
bad points with the good points
out weighing the bad.
Miss Allison has done vari
ous modeling assignments for
such stores as Belk, Robert
Hall, and she has even model
ed some for her church.
She is very fond of the sing
ing group The Commodores
and states that their hit single
“Sweet Love” is her favorite
record. She also likes the O’
Jays, Temptations, and
Earth, Wind,& Fire.
When asked how she felt
about being a black woman
Pam had this to say. "I feel
good about being a Black wo
man, I feel that being a wo
man is a special tribute within
itself, and then to be black and
a woman is just about the best
thing that could happen to a
person.”
Walton Speak*
In Favor Of
Bond IflHue
The Rev. ‘'Bob" Walton,
pastor of St. Paul United Pres
byterian Church, made a last
minute effort Wednesday to
make sure Tbe Charlotte Post
readers know his position on
the upcoming hospital bond
referendum. Tuesday, May 18
Walton, a branch manager
at First Union National Bank,
is in favor of the bond pac
kage. He said. "Blacks tend
not to vote on issues like this
but should vote this time be
cause the issue is very impor
tant.
Among other reasons, the
recent but unsuccessful candi
date for city council pointed
out that most Blacks cannot
afford the high health care
costs that private clinics
charge. He said a public facili
ty like Memorial Hospital
should be supported by Blacks
for this reason
Union Official^ Says
Rate Hikes, Service Cutbacks
!
Will Not Cure “U. S. Postal Mess”
jKlacks Set
Leadership
Conference
By Sidney Moore Jr.
Post Staff Writer
An agenda of about 20 to 40
pages in length is expected to
be written in a statewide
Black Leadership Conference
at St. Augustine's College
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in
Raleigh on May 15, according
to published reports.
“No longer is the question,
civil rights alone,” said a
statement issued by the plan
ners of the conference, “We
are concerned with the broad
questions and issues facing
the entire population of this
state.”
In spite of this statement,
there are questions as to whe
ther the conference is design
ed to deliver a block vote to
candidates, that make the
right promises.
Conference chairperson
Clarence Lightner, former
mayor of Raleigh, said that
questionnaires will be sent to
various candidates in the state
to get their responses on vari
ous questions raised during
the conference by the black
community.
The responses and ques
tionnaires will also be provid
ed to various local commum
».vo wii vuguuui uicaiaic. 1 iitry
will be used to evaluate local
candidates.
On the question of a block
vote, Lightner said conference
planners have attempted to
steer clear of any such im
pression.
“We do not like the word
•deliver’, ” he said, "we are
going to try to get them (the
voters) out.’’
Lightner conceded that the
results of the conference and
the proposed "Black Political
Agenda" might be similar to
delivering a block vote.
The agenda will be readied
a bout 6 to 9 weeks after the 200
to 300 participants in the con
ference have made their con
tributions to it. Areas of in
terest to be covered by the
conference include education,
criminal justice, social wel
fare. political education,
health care employment,
housing and economic deve
lopement.
THE REV BEN CHAVIS REPORTING TO COMMITTEE
....With l)r. Charles K. C.ohh. Director Of CRJUCC
On The Chads
Grievance Commission To
Makes Recommendations Mav 21
^"^pecial to the Post
Rev. Ben Chavis, civil rights
activist, who has been sen
tenced to 29 to 34 years for
allegedly firebombing of a
Wilmington grocery store dur
ing racial unrest there in 1971,
has been on a hunger strike at
McCain Prison in McCain,
North Carolina since April
30th
Ben was transferred from
Caledonis Prison Farm in Til
lery, North Carolina to Mc
Cain Prison which is really a
prison hospital because he had
talked to prisoners about their
rights. However, the authori
ties at Caledonia Prison and
W L Kautzky. Chief of Pro
gram Services for the North
Carolina Department of Pri
sons, claim that he was sent to
McCain for his “safety".
In a hearing which was held
in Raleigh on Friday, May 7th,
evidence from Commission re
vealed that it was not for
Ben's "safety" but because of
what was claimed to be his
disruptive influence. When the
prison official was asked if
Ben had led any demonstra
tions or had caused any distru
bance at Caledonia, the ans
wer was "NO". The officials
feared that he might organize
the prisoners to express their
grievances.
In an attempt to isolate Ben.
the officials sent him to Mc
Cain where he is housed in a
hospital ward with tubercular
and mental patients Yet he is
not mentally or physically ill
nerp Sunday AJtpnuxm
Angela Davis To Keynote
Rev. Ben Chavis Rally
Angela Davis will be the
Keynote speaker at a Rally for
Rev. Ben Chavis and the Wil
mington 10 and the Charlotte 3
at Friendship Baptist Church
on Beatties Ford Road. Sun
day, May 16, at 4 p m The
admission will be free and the
public is invited to attend
The rally will be the high
light of events which will be
centered around the meeting
of the Executive Board of the
National Alliance Against Ra
cist and Political Repression
in Charlotte this weekend May
15- 16th. Local ministers, civic
leaders, and other national
speakers will be on the pro
gram. Dr. Helen Othow, sister
of Rev Chavis and Co-Chair
person of the North Carolina
Alliance tfill also speak
In conjunction with the
weekend activities, there will
be a Community Leadership
Angela Davis
...Black activists
Dinner, featuring Charlene
Mitchell. Executive Secretary
of the National Alliance from
New York City: Judge Claudia
Morcom and Wendell Adding
ton. from Detroit. Michigan,
members of the National Al
liance Executive Board, and
other local, state and national
speakers at Our Lady of Con
solation Parish Hall. 2301
Statesville Avenue, on Satur
day. May 15. at 7 p m There
will be entertainment by well
known gospel singers, musi
cians. and dance groups The
menu will consist of delicious
southern fried chicken with all
the trimmings The dinner is
being sponsored by the Natio
nal Alliance,
The National Alliance has
been at the forefront of the
struggle for justice in the cas
es of the Wilmington 10. the
( harlotte 3. the Joann Little
trial, the death penalty and
other cases in North Carolina
as well as throughout the Uni
ted States. The public is urged
to attend both of these impor
tant events
For further information call
394-6963 or 392-3321
He maintains that he has been
exposed to inmates with tuber
culosis, who he said take sho
wers in the medium-security
w ing where he has been assig
ned Kautzky said he believed
state regulations isolating tu
bercular inmates from the
healthy population were en
forced at the prison, but was
uncertain about th shower si
tuation.
Kautzky had evidence to
show that only one black in
mate out of a population of 600
at Caledonia had written a
threatening letter about what
he would do to Ben. Ben said
that he also had a letter from
the same inmate showing that
he had been forced to write the
threatening letter Kautzky al
so did not reveal to the Com
mission that members of the
Prison Staff at Caledonia had
threatened Ben rather than
the prisoners whom Ben got
along very well with
Kev Chavis' fast was begun
when he received food with
roaches in ft for the second
time in a week at McCain At
the end of the three hour
hearing in Baleigh. he fainted
from exhaustion and lack of
nourishment
(.MS Student* To
(»<•! One-Din
Holiday Friday
Charlotte Mecklenburg pu
blic school students will get
a one-day vacation from
school on Friday . May 14, but
it w ill l>e work as usual for
teachers
The vacation is scheduled to
give teachers an opportunity
to work without students in
school
This is the last student holi
day from school until the
school year ends on June <j
Classes will resume on a
normal schedule on Monday
May IT
Fibley Criticizes Ford’s
Election Year Budget
Special to The Post
Francis S. Fiibey, president
of the American Postal Work
ers Union, has charged that
further rate hikes and service
cutbacks will not cure the
nation’s "postal mess" that
has stemmed from misman
agement and the Ford Admi
nistration's refusal to fight for
adequate funding for the U.S.
Postal Service.
Appearing on a radio,"La
bor News Conference” of the
Mutual Broadcasting System.
Fiibey criticized President
Ford’s election year budget
hold-down as a short-sighted
move that has thrown the
Postal Service into the "politi
cal framework...in the presi
dential campaign" and put a
damper on congressional ef
forts to restore "the kind of
mail service that the Ameri
can public is used to and
deserves to have."
Long Flange Approach
Fie said further, that a long
range approach stands a
much better chance of giving
the Postal Service the ability
to meet Ihe responsibilities
charted by the Constitution
and statutes than stop-gap
proposals urged by Adminis
tration spokesman, such as
cutting mail service to as few
as three days a week
Filbey. who is also a vice
president of the AFL-CIO, said
the APWU and other postal
unions have mounted a cam
paign to focus public attention
and understanding on the real
causes of the "mess" that now
plagues the Postal Service
He emphasized that because
postal employees are those
most often in direct contact
with the public-at-large, they
are all too often blamed for the
ills of the system. But. he
added forcefully, poor ma
nagement that fails to use the
"Tremendous amount of fle
xibility" it has available bears
much of the responsibility for
mounting costs and deterio
ting service.
CBD Issues:
Jobs, Urban Policy
Editor's Note: The Caucus of
Black Democrats, meeting in
Charlotte April 30-\lay2, held
12 workshops to discuss "is
sues papers" on topics of con
cern to black Americans. The
issues, part of 1976 election
strategy, will be presented to
the platform committee at the
National Democratic Party’s
convention meeting in July.
This is the first of a six-part
series to be continued for five
consecutive weeks.
By Holyle H. Martin, Sr.
Post Staff Writer
As a historical first, black
Democrats from across the
nation assembled in Charlotte
to develop an independent par
ty platform and to assess the
suitability of the Democratic
candidates for the presidency
of the Unites States Although
the conference was on nation
al issues and concerns, feed
back to statehouses, county
seats, city halls and the black
electorate was recognized and
intended as an important fac
Iac
Full employment, as defin
ed in the Humphrey-Hawkins
Full Employment and Balanc
ed Growth Act legislation, was
without question the highest
priority of the 12 issues The
priority given this issues is
quite evident when it is realiz
ed that black unemployment
has been above 13 percent for
the past 17 months, according
to official estimates Yet, even
the staggering figure substan
tially understates the real un
employment rate which takes
into account those too discou
raged to continue looking for
work , those employed part
time but seeking full-time
work, those employed at jobs
which do not utilize their
skills, and those unemployed
who are simply not counted
Therefore, some estimates in
dicate that black unemploy
ment actually averages 25 per
cent with black teenage unem
ployment as high as 50 per
cent As the nation strains
under a 7 5 percent unemploy
ment rate, black unemploy
ment for the past 20 years has
never come close to this fi
gure
The Caucus of Black Demo
crats takes the position that
the Full Employment and Ba
lanced Growth Act is an or
first step in remedying this
intolerable situation The Act
secures the right to a job to
every adult person willing,
able and seeking work It
would require the President to
present a program to reduce
adult unemployment to no
more than 3 percent in four
years, with further reductions
thereafter.
The bill is a general econo
mic policy measure which
would make basic reforms in
the management of the econo
my. It would create a new
economic framework and pro
cess under which the Presi
dent, the Congress and the
Federal Reserve System
would be required to develop
each year common economic
goals and priorities The poli
cy would further underlay the
concept of the federal govern
ment as the employer of last
resort.
Finally, the Caucus of Black
Democrats strongly opposed
the trickle-down theory of job
creation which suggests that
See CBD on Page 16
Bicentennial To
Salute Small
Business Program
WASHINGTON. D C., April
M, 1976- America s ten million
small businesses will be salut
ed in a week long series of
conferences iir the Nation s
Capital, May 10-13. Small
Business Administrator Mit
chell p Kobelinski announced
today President Ford has al
ready proclaimed the week as
National ‘ Small Business
Week".
Mr Kobelinski said, "A Bi
centennial Salute to Small
Business" would bring na
tional leaders in education,
finance, business, and govern
ment together to review the
development and contribu
tions of small business during
the first two hundred years of
the nation s growth and to
discuss where small business
should go over the next cen
tury The conference will be
held at the newly-opened Hy
att Kegency Washington