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VU* .... "^rlott012 St S&*1 -THE CHARLI ITTE PI 1ST [iBIS I CALL 392-1306 | “Charlote’s Fastest Growing Community Weekly” black consi mers Black Votes Key Factor In Jimmy Carter’s Victory Jim Hunt Wins Big Over David Flaherty By Hoyle H. Martin Sr. Post Executive Writer Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer-former governor of Georgia, captured 51 percent of the popular vote - some 33 million plus votes - to win the presidency of the United States. North Carolina contributed to Carter's victory by giving him more than 55 percent of the popular vote and 13 electo ral votes. Democrat Lt. Go vernor Jim Hunt had conside rably less difficulty in winning the governorship of North Carolina as he routed Repu blican candidate David Flaher ty with a victory margin of nearly 2 to 1. Hunt received 846,190 votes to Flaherty's 443,415. With victories in all but two southern stales, plus the key industrial states of New York and Pennsylvania and aided by 91 percent of the black vote. Jimmy Carter claimed the presidency of the United States at approximately 4 a.m. <EST) Wednesday, No vember 3. After building an electoral vote total of 170 as a result of winning in 17 states as com pared to 10 states and 70 electoral votes for Mr Ford Carter's movement toward victor slowed considerably as ib states nan popular vote totals with 50 to 49 percent margins for eigher Ford or Carter. As voter returns came in these percentages hardly changed during the many hours of the vote tabulations on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning The uncertainty in these 15 states resulted in the major Northern industrial states be coming the pivotal arenas. As Texas became a part of the Carter victory bandwagon. Ford's need to win in the big electoral vote states became crucial. In New York, Ford had a narrow lead late on election night and Carter held a com manding margin in Pennsyl vania. However, by early Wednesday morning Carter had won by slim margins in both states and picked up two large blocks of 68 electoral votes and along with it the presidency. Carter was declared the winner early Wednesday morning with 272 electoral votes while the votes totals in the stores of California, Ore gon and Ohio were still un known. Carter and his family watched the election returns from his Atlanta campaign headquarters After his an Lowry Are Career Day Participant* Bob Lacey and Clara Lowry are among the participants in a career day for junior and senior high school students planned for 3-5 p m, Satur day, November 6 at the Main Public Library uptown. Vocations represented will include architecture, banking city planning, cosmetology data processing, modeling nursing, printing, radio broad casting, religion, science, ant television Students will be able to talk with these career represents tives and ask them questions The program is free and open to the public. nouneed victory. Carter gave a short victory speech and noted that he would spend the next six weeks making plans for the transition to a new Democratic administration In other developments of the national level, the Democrats retained their control of the House of Representatives as they won 219 seats to 144 for the Republicans Included in the Democratic party's House majority are the 17 seats held by the Congressional Caucus. They all won reflection In the Senate, the Democrats w on 21 of 33 races Jim Hunt's sweep of David Flaherty made him one of nine Democrats to win governor ships in a total of 13 races The Democrats now hold 37 of the nations 50 governorships Hunt's victory over Flaher ty was apparent almost as soon as the polls closed. In Mecklenburg County Hunt beat Flaherty by a vote of 74,808 to 47,294, a pattern similar to his state-wide mar gin. Dr. Jerome H. Holland Holds 18 honorary degrees Dr. Holland Named Trade Fair Speaker Jerome H. Holland, husi ness consultant and a profes sional public director'of cor porations, will speak at the banquet of the Second Annual Metrolina Minority Trade Fair Thursday. November 11, at 9 a m Local minority businesses and major corporations will set up booths at the Civic Center Wednesday, November 10. They will man their dis plays during the fair, Novem ber 11-12 Booths are $50 each The fair will be open from 9 a m to 5 p m on the llth and from 8 a m to 3 p m on the ^ 12th Fair participants will also attend seminars Tickets for the banquet are *10 Holland, a native of Aubuihi, N Y., received B.S and M S. degrees from Cornell Univer sity He was a football All American for two years, play ing end The speaker also holds 18 honorary degrees He is presently a board member of such corporations as American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The Con tinental Corporation, The Con tinental Insurance Compan les, Chrysler Corporation. Fe derated Department Stores. Inc , Culbro Corporation, Ge neral Manufacturers Hanover Corporation, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, New York Stock Exchange. Inc , Union Carbide Corporation and Zurn Industries. Inc CAMPAIGN-HAT-WEARING POLL WORKERS — Drumming up votes for Bob Walton Black Lcuididates Walton, Alexander Win; L.C. Coleman Loses By Hoyle H. Martin Post Executive Editor Incumbent State Senator Fred Alexander and Mecklen burg County Commissioner candidate Robert Walton won the seats they sought while Lewis C. Coleman fell short by only 1,951 votes in his quest for a county commission seat. — Alexander, 66, was one of three Democrats and one Re publican, all from Charlotte, who won in Tuesday's nine candidate race for the state senate district comprising Ca barrus and Mecklenburg counties. Alexander, a first-term in cumbent, was the third high est vote-getter with 81,369 votes. He is a Charlotte native and a former five-time Char lotte City Council member. including one term as Mayor pro tern. When Alexander was elected in 1974 he was one of the first blacks to serve in the State Senate since Recon struction. Joining Alexander in the Senate will be Jim McDuffie (D), 46, also a first-term in cumbent and a one-term member of the Charlotte City Council; Craig Lawing (D), 51, a three-term state repre sentative; and Carolyn Mathis (R), 34, a two-term state representative. Robert Walton (D), 31, won a seat on the County Commis sion with the third highest number of votes, 61,566, in a field of 11 candidates, seeking five seats. Defeated for a seat on the Charlotte City Council two years ago, Walton receiv ed wide voter support from all the 107 voting precincts in building his voter total. Walton’s victory was signifi cant to Democratic control of the Commission and thus vital to front-runner Liz Hair’s op portunity to retain the chair manship of the Commission. The two winners behind Wal ton in the voting were Republi cans Ed Peacock, a commis sion incumbent, and William Booe, the former controver sial school board member Since both of these men have previously held public office it took considerable effort in Walton’s campaign to finish ahead of them. Significantly, had these men and Tom Moore, another Re publican and former District Attorney, all won handily Wal ton would not be a newly elected commissioner and therefore, Liz Hair would not be chairman for the coming term. Lewis C. Coleman’s 48,478 votes was the highest vote total behind the five winders. It was a similar pattern of voting that forced him into the September run-off primary where he received 10,925 votes - the highest among those running. He has been identi fied as a grass-roots candidate who represents the interest of West Charlotte's black and white communities. This was evident by the fact that in black and white precincts Coleman received large vote blocks but in southeast Char lotte he got only light support. V A Allowances Available For Veteran Families ramines ot veterans should be made aware of the VA burial allowance available to former servicemen and wo men, the Veterans Adminis tration said today. For example, according to VA Regional Office Director H.W. Johnson, a payment of up to $250 toward the burial expenses may be paid to fami lies of eligible veterans. An additional $150 is available as a plot or interment allowance wl. tl burial is not in a Nation al Cemetery or other cemete ry under jurisdiction of the Federal Government. VA burial or plot allowances are not paid to the extent that payment has been made by the veteran's employer or by a State agency or political sub division of a State, Johnson said. When the veteran’s death is service-connected, payment of an amount not to exceed $800 will be made in lieu of the usual burial and interment allowances. With the exception of Arling ton National CemeteryL burial is available to eligible vete rans at all National Cemete ries having space. Burial in these cemeteries may also be authorized for an eligible vete ran’s wife or husband, minor children and, under certain conditions, unmarried adult children, Johnson noted. Since 1967. burial in Arling ton National Cemetery has been limited to persons dying while on active military duty. Medal of Honor winners, for mer service personnel on offi cial service retired lists who are eligible for compensation stemming from their active service; certain high officials of the Federal Government and certain members of the immediate families of those listed above or those already buried there. A headstone or grave mark er is available from the VA for eligible veterans, and memo rial markers are provided for certain members of the armed forces who die on active duty and whose remains are not recovered or who are buried at sea. VA will also, upon request, provide an American flag to drape the casket of the vete ran. Veterans eligible for the plot allowance are those who were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable and who served in the Spanish American War, Mexican Bor der period. World Wars I and II, the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam Era, or peacetime veterans entitled to service connected compensation at time of death or discharge, or who were retired for disability incurred in the line of duty. Full information concerning these allowances and eligibili ty criteria for them is avail able at any Veterans Adminis tration Office. Clemency Sought For Charlotte 3 Raleigh - CCNS - The North Carolina Alliance Against Ra cist and Political Repression announced a petition drive last week in Raleigh to get bail for the Wilmington “10," cle mency for the Charlotte 3, and to stop re-enactment of the death penalty in North Caro lina. Ms. Anne Mitchell, coordi nator of the North Carolina Alliance, said the drive to get signatures of North Caroli nians en masse to U.S. Magis trate Logan Howell, demand ing he set bail for the Wilming ton “10”, follows the recent "Admission by key prosecu tion witness Allen Hall that he was pressured by authorities to commit perjury on the witness stand in order to guarantee conviction of the 10.” The Wilmington “10” v.aac 10 uuw ucluic uic u.o. District Court of the Eastern District of North Carolina on a petition of writ of habeas corpus. Motion to amend the writ with the recanted testi mony of Allen Hall and possi bly bail for the ten defendants will be heard Friday, Novem ber 5th in Raleigh. Ms. Mit chell urged letters and tele grams be sent to Logan Ho well, Federal Building. Ra leigh, N.C. The petition drive for cle mency for the Charlotte 3 is directed to lame duck Repu blican Governor James Hol shouser, Jr., to ‘correct the wrongs that have been inflict ed on these freedom fighters,” Ms. Mitchell said. T.J. Reddy, Charlie Parker, and Dr. James Earl Grant were con victed in 1972 for burning the Lazy B Stables in Charlotte, almost 11 months after efforts were made to desegregate the all-white facility. State wit nesses against the three young “freedom fighters" were later found to have been paid more than $4000 each by order of Watergate conspirator Robert Mardian. Ms. Mitchell de nounced the involvement of Mardian and the federal go vernment “as part of the FBI COINTELPRO operation aim See Clemency on Page 2 MS. CONNIE DAVIS ...First Union teller Ms. Connie Davis Is Beauty Of Week By Melvetta Jenkins Post Staff Writer "Being an independent wo man is important to me. It's been a long time since I've had to do things on my own. It's hard, but I’m making it.” These are words from our smiling Beauty, Ms. Connie Davis. Connie graduated from O lympic High School in 1969 and is now employed at the First Union National Bank as a teller. “I enjoy working with the public," Connie said. ”1 have it hard sometimes, but it makes me feel good to make people smile." She is scheduled to go to school in January to take some AIB courses which will help in her work at the bank. “From there I plan to stay and build a future here and learn all I can," she said. Connie is the mother of two children • Mandrey, aged 2, and Melleka, aged 5. She says that rearing her children right is the most important aspect of her life. She spends a lot of time with them, which she feels is one way to concentrate on that aspect. “I admire my mother very much because she raised us alone,"Connie stated. "Things were hard, hut I can admire any woman who can rear her children by herself and do it right." Ms. Davis was born under the sign of Cancer on July 2, 1951. She says that Cancer women are characterized by their love for family life and home. "We tend to be emotional and we are quiet and sort of settled." Being a person who is "quiet and sort of settled," Connie enjoys reading and likes to listen to modern Black jazz and drover Washington. But she also has a side of her personality that can appre ciate Earth, Wind and Eire and sports. She started taking tennis lessons last year and enjoys playing, but says, “I can volley the ball, but I haven't gotten as good as 1 want to be." She loves bowling and says she plans to add playing chess to her long list of hob bies. "I’ve found a new ‘interest' in the fire department who's going to teach me to play," she explained, adding "Of course, I'm looking forward to that.” Connie attends Moore’s Sanctuary AME Zion Church, which is located on Morris Field Drive and is pastored by Rev J M McCall Our Beauty is 5'6" and weighs 125 pounds "I believe in taking life as it comes I believe in trying to be good to people and hope they do the same to and for me I believe faith in God will help me make it," Connie said, explaining her optimistic out look on life, which apparently helps her get ahead in her every day life The POST takes pride in introducing Ms Connie Davis an independent young woman with a sunny view about life, as our Beauty of the Week state President North Carolina NAACP Reelects Kelly Alexander Deborah Gates Post Staff Writer Kelly Alexander Sr., direc tor of Alexander Funeral Home, was recently unani mously reelected president for th$ North Carolina NAACP, the largest NAACP branch in the nation. Alexander, who has held the position as president since 1948, was elected at the state conference of branches at their 33rd annual convention. He has been a member of the NAACP since 1939, and Vice Chairman of the National Board of Directors of NAACP since 1950. "The NAACP basically is the organization I selected to endeavor to improve condi tions of minorities in North Carolina, to eliminate segre gation and discrimination in the body politics of this state because of it's philosophy, procedure, and policy, and because the NAACP works within the framework of the Kelly Alexander ...NAACP leader United States Constitution and never resorted to violent means to achieve goals,” Alexander said. Alexander said when he be gan in the NAACP in the 30's, "blacks were living under the system separate but equal Segregation was the custom of living during that period with low voter registration in N.C., apathy as far as blacks run ning for office, and black school children being educat ed in inferior educational pro grams and facilities." Alex ander continued. "But the NAACP has been instrumen tal in increasing voting regis tration in the state, incourag ed more blacks to run for public office and has worked consistently in making public education before the U S. Su preme Court in 1954 unconsti tutional and illegal." * Alexander said the recent law suit filed against the NAACP has opened the eyes of many blacks as to the impor tance of the NAACP. and has made them realize the need for the NAACP now more so than ever. Alexander said, "I am encouraged by the support the citizens of N.C. have given the NAACP in their period of economic crisis, and it is an indication of inHuence of the N.C. NAACP as to supportive efforts ” TURTlMAt# } ...Good eye sight is a good thing to have, but WISDOM is a thing to be SOUGHT . II you are truly wise you possess good vision and the WISDOM to know that TRUE VISION IS NOT SHORT SIGHTED
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