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Pharr To Head UNCC Student Bodj By Michael R. Davis Post Staff Writer Senior, Rickey B Pharr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pharr of 2338 English Drive, is pre sently preparing for his up coming year as the first Black president of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Student Body. Spending the majority of his time becoming acquainted with his administration and their occupations. Pharr says his main objective is to have a closer knitted relationship be tween the student officials and the administrative officials A member of the Epsilon Chapter of Omega Psi Phi and Keeper of Records and Seal, he recalls the presidential election as being a close one, ) winning by 50 votes. Pharr denotes, "There's no thing different about being Black, it’s how I serve the UNCC student body that counts.” The result of hard work is reward, and that is just what Rick received for campaigning while his oppo nent enjoyed the NIT tourna ment. A native of Charlotte, he graduated from West Meck lenburg High School and hopes to attend law school after the persues his degree in Political Science at the University. Dr. John Moore To Assist Dr. Ellis With THE EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY of Rev O'Dell Beasley, seated, 4th from rijzht front row, as pastor of Wilson Heights Church ot God at 2137B Ave. was celebrated last Photo by Peeler Sunriax Pictured with Rev. and Mrs. Beasley and children are guest speaker. Rev Lester T. Staton, and member's of The Pastor's Aid. sponsors ol the event. Wilson Heights Church Honors Rev. O’Dell Beasley Members of Wilson Heights Church of God celebrated their pastor's EIGHTH AN NIVERSARY last Sunday with a full day of activities beginning with the Morning Service and concluding at 7. Mrs. Willie Caldwell. Presi dent of the Pastor's Aid, pre sided at the 4 p.m. session of pastor Rev. O'Dell Beasley's Anniversary celebration playground equipment. We have expanded our physical plant to include a Multi-pur pose building, purchased an additional house and 2- other lots We also have 2 church buses tor transportation for the Day Care Center and the church." Mrs Hough says Rev. Beas ley^Uio^ias^^iroyp-an^^i^ Radio Station WGIV on Sun day, "is on call at all times for counseling of his members during sickness, trouble, acci dents. and death." Wilson Heights Chruch of God is presently engaged in raising funds for construction of a new sanctuary and the acquisition of a church-owned Home For The Aged. In Traffic Cases O’HERRON Calls For Swifter Justice * » u\'uuiv. uul I cl pjdN Ut'Slgfl* ed to provide swifter punish ment for traffic law violators and at the same time reduce congested criminal court doc kets was outlined today by Ed O Herron. Democratic candi date for Governor. The plan would remove from the court dockets traffic law violations, such as impro per turns, lesser speeding vio lations. improper lane change, tailgating, signal light viola tions, and failure to yield right-of-way. More serious violations such as vehicular homicides, drunken driving, reckless driving, driving after license has been suspended, hit-run, the major speeding violations, etc., would remain on the court dockets. i nose onenses removed from the courts would be handled administratively by a system of hearing officers. The officers could impose fines, place points on drivers' records, and other punish ment such as attending safe driver school, but could not impose prison sentences. Dri vers not satisfied with the verdicts of the hearing system could use an appeals process into the formal court system. The relief which could come to the courts from such a system can be seen in statis tics for 1975. During the year. 717,208 moving violations charges were sent to district courts. That meant a court record had to be set up for each of the 717,208 cases. In each case, the clerk of court had to do the paper work involved, receive the fines, record the judgement of the court, notify the State Motor Ed O’Her ...Democratic candidate Vehicle Department ot the result. This is a tremendous, but necessary, amount of pa per work. Of the total. 479.173 cases were handled by waiver, when the defendants waived their right to trial and pleaded quilty. These waiver cases didn't take up the time of judges and prosecutors, but did require the paper work by the clerk's office. If the waiver cases alone had been handled by a hearing examiner sys tem, the paper work in 479,173 cases would have been elimi nated from the court system. The simpler hearing examiner system would require less paper work. i There was no breakdown between more serious and lesSer traffic violations in the 717,208 cases during 1975, but it is safe to assume that the majority were charges of a less serious nature which could be handled in an exam iner hearing system. Police officers would lose less tjme in appearances in the hearing system than is now the case in court appear ances This would mean more time for officers to patrol the roads "li sometmug isn't done to relieve the crow ded dockets in our district and superior courts," O'Herron said, we will face the possibility of a near collaspe of our judicial system. The federal constitu ent demands speedy trails for a!i defendants, but crowded lockets mean delays ol months and even of years in some cases Much of the con gestion of dockets comes from the thousands ol relatively minor traffic cases Indore the courts." It would be less expensive, and more efficient. O Herron believes, to employ the hear ing officers and set up the hearings system than to in crease the number of judges and prosecutors needed to handle the growing court doc kets. Another advantage to the hearing system would be that police officers wouldn't be requirejcilo attend the hearing unless the driver requests his presence It would be easier, too. to schedule the hearings so that both the driver and the officer, if his presence is required, would have a great deal less waiting time. In the courts, participants in a traf fic case, both officer and defendant, may have to wait hours or even days for trail. "The regular court system would have more time to handle the really serious traf fic cases under this proposal,'' O’Herron believed. "The courts could schedule these cases more efficiently, and could avoid many of the de lays which are now so com monplace" New York has such a sys tem. and it has taken thou sands of cases from the crimi nal court dockets Their Broo klyn office, lor example, held more than 150.000 hearings in 107-1 with eight hearing offi cers and 2-1 support staff The New York system has computerized driver records The hearing examiners, after hearing the case and making the decision, can call up the driver's record and add points to it then and there North Carolina already has a system under which traffic charges are put on a comput er The computer capability is already available for use in a hearing examiner system Rodney Duy !Named l nit(‘d ay Quiirmun Announcement was made Monday that Rodney D Day. Ill has been named Chairman of the Public Service Division of the 1976 United Way Cam paign. Day is President of Johnson & Higgins Carohnas, Inc He currently serves on the Boards of United Community Services. Social Planning Council, and Planned Parent hood of Greater Charlotte He is married and has three • daughters. Mr and Mrs Day and daughters reside at 4034 _Beresford Road in Charlotte Check the ads in the Charlotte Post each week for outstand ing buys._ UNCC Programs Dr. John D. Moore has been appointed coordinator of con tinuing education and summer programs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He will assist the director, Dr. Seth H. Ellis, in the operation of the programs. Dr. Moore comes to UNCC from the Union County Schools where he was director of a career-based curriculum project, a federally funded nrntfram Rpfnrp that ho uiae dean of student personnel at Nash Technical Institute at Rocky Mount. He holds a doctoral degree and master's degree from N.C. State University and an A.B. degree from the Univer sity of North Carolina at Cha pel Hill. His wife, Libby, teaches at Monroe Middle School. They have three children. Dr. Moore is president of Union Toastmasters Club and a member of Monroe Rotary Club. Attend Church "milm icaiurtMi a sermon dy Rev. Lester T. Staton, pastor of the Church of God at Concord, N.C. Rev. and Mrs. Beasley re ceived presents and substan tial monetary gifts from the enthusiastic crowd of ap proximately 200 members and friends gathered for the occa sion. Others participating in the afternoon program, which fol lowed a 1:30 p.m. dinner; were Mildred Hough, who in troduced the speaker, and Rev. R.B. Phifer and Jeanetta Maxwell, who lifted the Offer mg. [Nancy l. Hough and Jeanetta Caldwell were ush ers for the affair. Brother Samuel Curry delivered the Morning Sermon. According to church spokes man Mildred Hough, “Rev. O’Dell Beasley came to Wilson Heights Church of God in 1968 following the sudden and un timely death of former pastor Rev. Columbus Crawford." 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