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By Bob Johnson
POLICEMAN'S Β ALL...The Charlotte Chap
ter of the North State Law Enforcement Officers
Association in a concentrated effort to become
more involved in the community, are doing a
number of positive things. In putting the better
part of their being into force, these men have
turned a number of after work hours into
uicciiungiui experiences.
One such experj,
was a social held
ly at Char
Centeiv^fïie secont
nual Policeman's
which y hosted somV
fjfhere near 1,300 pa
rons was~aT5Iàsing suc
cess in wbrds of
officer T.C. BarretfT^
president of the local
oreanizatinn
The Magnificents, a
super band from Gas- Bob Johnson.
tonia, rendered the mu
sical sound that surrounded the gaiety of this
affair. The features included the crowning of the
beautiful Joyce Wilson as Queen of the ball.
Prizes were awarded to George Funderburke,
Mane McMahon and Robert Richardson. Plus a
whole lot of boogieing by people like Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Howey, Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Williams, Harvey
Gantt, Mr. and Mrs. George Funderburke, Mr.
and Mrs. Randy Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. John
Goodman, Eli Tillman, Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Mobley, Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Coley, Mr. and MrS.
Milton Gaines, Mr. and Mrs. Curt Ardrey, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Allison, Rudy Torrence, Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Walton, Julius Lloyd, Carolyn Hailey,
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Goodman, Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Erwin, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reeves,
Charles Hodges, Metter Collins, T.C. Barrett,
Wesley Everett, William McCullough, Brenda
Mansel, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Johnson, Jack Moore
and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Brown.
SIP AND SNACK FUN...The fantastic Omega
Psi Phi Mardi Gras will be coming our way soon,
complète with queens and all.
Group 4 of the. Ways and MeansCommitteé of
Pi Phi Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
sponsored a Tea last Sunday evening to assist
their choice for this year's queen, Mrs. Willette
Harvell.
The Elk's Lodge on Tuckaseégee Rd., consi
dered the tea house by many, was chosen as the
place for this event.
The Pi Phi Brothers responsible were Charles
Bell, Peter Bell, Gilbert Donald, John Blackwell,
Charles Gillespie, Dan Cunningham, John
Green, ΖοβΓ Hargraves Jr., Elo Henderson,
Edward High, Gerald Johnson, Richard Max
well, Oren McCullough, Dan McLaurin, Jo
Matthew Murphy, Harold Shuford, Matthew
Shute, L.A. Warner, James Woods, Milton
Young, Ernest Cherry and Joseph Gaston.
Many people participated in the fun, and hated
to depart when the time came. But as fate would
have it, all good things must come to an end,
even the counting of the money made by the
brothers of Group 4. -
WEDDING TIME...Breon Hasfcétâftd Delores
McClure, two very beautiful people were united
in wedlock last Saturday afternoon. ^
After the private wedding this brother and
sister used the facilities of Jimmy McKee's
Excelsior Club to have their disco typjp recep
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Many friends and relatives helped them
celebrate the embarkation into their new life
together.
I woultj personally like to say to them that
marriage is not a union merely between two
spirits; and the intention of that bond is to
perfect the nature of both, by supplementing
their deficiencies with the force of contrast,
giving to each sex those excellencies in which it
is naturally deficient.
As a closing note, may the bluebird of
happiness never let them out of his range.
EBONY FASHION FAIR.. .Whorling, whirling,
wheeling down the runway of Ovens Auditorium,
the elegantly sleek models of Eh ny's "Care
Free Life" fashion parade shov._d off some
fantastic designs last Monday night·.
The Auditorium was jammed packed with
ooher's and aahher's as the performers graceful
ly glided through fashions of the showcase
variety, the city lifestyles, the traveler, easy
living, summer wear, casual, evening and
wedding attire.
Pamela Young was still on cloud 21 this
morning, dreaming of when and if and quite
possibly with whom.
ARTS FAIR...Saturday, October 30, from 11
a.m. til 6 p.m. at the Civic Center, Charlotte will
host its first indoor arts fair.
There will be approximately 200 artists,
craftsmen and performers, demonstrating and
selling work in pottery, sculpture, jewelry,
woodwork, painting, macramé, printmaking,
weaving, drawing, photography and leather.
There will be continuous performances of jazz,
choral music, dance, Broadway music, mime,
and classical music.
Photo by Peeler
1946-57 Class President Rudy Torrence presents trophy to
W'CHS Senior Class President Sharon Covington.
W. Charlotte Cited F or
30 Years Of Progress
By James Peeler
Post Staff Writer
Rudy Torrence, class of '46,
President of the combined
West Charlotte High School
graduating classes of 1946 and
1947, formally organized in
June of 19,75, presented a
plaque to Senior Class Presi
dent Sharon Covington, class
of 1977, in commémoration of
the school's 30 years of pro
gressive change, growth, and
highly beneficial influence on
the citizenry of northwest
Charlotte.
The presentation was made
during halftime ceremonies at
West Charlotte High School's
Homecoming game with East
Mecklenburg High School.
Approximately 40 members
from the two classes actively
participate in various func
tions -since their June 1975
organization.
Their activities in 1976 have
included a Wine Sip at Tega
Cay Club on Lake Wylie, a
boat ride on "The Outrigger"
pleasure craft at Lake Nor
man anH a Pnokniit at Cove's
Cove in the resort community
of Dixie Shores on Badin Lake.
The organization plans a
Breakfast Dance at Excelsior
Club on November 19, which
will end this year's social
calendar, and a cruise on the
"Carribean" to the Bahamas
in June of 1977 as part of their
bi-annual Class Reunion Acti
vities.
The combined classes, who
meet once a month at different
members homes, at 7 p.m., is
headed by Rudy Torrence,
President; Mae Burns, Vice
president; Rudy Johnson, Se
cretary; and Walter Holsey,
Treasurer.
Ixourley To Head Carolina** MBAC
«iiidiu uuui iiry jr., execu
tive vice president of NCNB
—Mortgage in Charlotte, was
elççtud-Pciday as president of
TÏÏeMortgage Bankers Asso
ciation of the Carolinas Inc.
(MBAC) for 1977.
Elected at the group's fall
meeting in Asheville. Gourley
was vice president for North
Carolina of the MBAC during
the past year.
A native of Greensboro,
Gourley has worked with
NCNB since 1951.
Also elected by the MBAC
Friday were: Watson Cham
blin, Mid-South Mortgage Co.,
Columbia, S C., as vice presi
dent for South Carolina; Ro
ger L. Earnhardt, Cameron
Brown, Co., Raleigh, as vice
president for North Carolina;
W. I. Henderson III, Home.
Realty & Management, Co.,
Charlotte, as secretary-tres
urer; George Hayworth, Wa
chovia Mortgage Co., Win
ston-Salem, to the board of
directors; Dee McCandlish,
First Atlantic Co., Charlotte,
to the board of directors, and
Richard Kay, Carolina Na
tional Mortgage Investment
Co., Charleston, S C., also to
the board of directors.
In Tuesday's Election
12 Million Blacks Don't Plan To Vote ?
Special To The Post
National elections are upon
us but the warnings from
every direction indicate that
the black vote will be far
below par Congresswoman
Barbara Jordan, in a short but
powerful speech to the recent
annual Congressional Black
Caucus dinner, predicts that
12 million blacks "are goint to
the back of the bus and don't
plan to vote this fall."
A consortium of black lead
ership that is called the Na
tional Coalition on Black Voter
Participation, has been decry
ing the "alarmingly low"
turnout of black voters, and is
busy cranking up their Ope
ration Big Vote" to help com
bat this negative situation.
In "Operation Big Vote,"
black leaders in 36. target
cities have developed local
coalitions seeking to increase
black registration and. most
important, turnout For it does
little good lo mount a massive
voter registration drive to put
folks on the rolls and not
follow up on election day wif?r~
massive "turn out the vote"
drive.
ti acciua muitruiuiL* mai just
a little over 11 years ago, Dr
Martin Luther King. Jr. stood
on the capital steps in Montgo
mery, Ala., at the end of a
historic Selma-to-Montgo
mery March to proclaim that
Black Americans would
"march to the ballot box, until
we send to our city councils,
state legislatures and the U.S.
Congress men who will not
fear to do justice." Twenty
five thousand folks, black and
white, rich and poor, followed
Dr. King on that hot, muggy,
rain spattered march in 1965,
as Army helicopters buzzed
overhead and federal troops
lined the black macadam road
that snaked like a ribbon
through "Bloody Lowndes
County" and the flat stretches
of the country-side to Montgo
mery.
They sang "We Shall Over
come" on that march and they
were vividly aware that thou
sands of blacks had gone to
jail, some beaten and hosed,
countless numbers were mur
dered and maimed throughout
the south in the long, bloody
fight of blacks to secure the
ballot.
As they marched and sang,
they were urged on by the
knowledge that obstructionist
sheriffs and county clerks who
insisted thev count the num
ber of bubbles in a bar of soap,
or pass some complicated
written test in trigonometry or
calculus as prerequisites to
registration, were everywhere
in the south blocking entry to
the voter's booth. And they
I
were determined to pass
through and exercise their
God-given franchise
What has happened to that
dream'' Why are black people
after this historic sturggle.
turning cynical or indifferent
and disdaining the ballot box
that so many had suffered and
died in quest of for so many
years'' Don't we know "that
those who forget history are
doomed to repeat if"
Why do black people, too
many black people, shrug
their shoulders and say "My
vote won't count for anything
anyway"? Other races say the ,
same But black voter en
franchisement is of too recent
vintage to be shrugged «ff so
quick)ν and dismissed so light
ly
Black people cannot afford
to permit cynicism or apathy
to keep them from registering
and from voting, once regis
tered And I do not believe we
will permit these negative
attitudes to keep us from
exercising our franchise as
free men and women
Nobody gave us the 1965
Voting Rights Law We earned
it We earned it b> paying our
dues in blood, in sweat, in
^ tears, in sacritice and in humi
liation
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A leader who'll bring
new jobs to our state.
The average North Carolina
worker earns S2.800 less than the
average worker tn the rest of the
United States. Jim Hunt will lead
a new and dynamic program to
attract industry, create better jobs,
and make a real change inpur per_
capita income
Jim Hunt.
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Black America has
paid a high price for the
vote. From the un-kept
promises of recon
struction. to the vio
ence that threatened
; voter registration of the
60s. Blacks have filled
history pages with
pleas, confrontation
ι and finally struggle to
' win their franchise as
l! American citizens
Willie Starqell
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Now, as a result of voting power. Blacks
have become a viable political force in
America. The 1970s have witnessed the
Nlkki Giovanni
eiecnon οτ numerous
officials on every level
of government Blacks
have won mayorships
in many cities And. per
haps the most signifi
cant of all achieve
rpents. the creation of
one of the most impor
tant congressional
powers in history The
Black Caucus
It's a fact of Ameri
can life that real ch.
in terms of politics only
comes through voting
Whether it s getting a bill
through Congress, or
having the sanitation
department do a better
iob at collecting the gar
bage It s the people you
put into office that make
these things happen be .
cause they represent
you and your willing
ness to shape your
environment "
Willa Benqe
reopie iiKe vvnia oenge uommuniry Me
lations Specialist for the Gulf Oil Corporation.. '
Ossif Davis
Ossie Davis. Actor/Di
rector Willie Stargell
one of Baseballs greats
and Nikki Giovanni. Au
thor and Poet urge you
to vote They are all in
fluential in their own
right and their knowl
edge of the American
system has helped
them get over But when
it's time to make a per
sonal political state
J ment , they vote Do you9
Gulf
Gulf Oil Corporation.
nrcaoftt It * homan fnrrqy that rr ally counts
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