With $20,000Grant
AEAONMS Supports
Higher Education
The Ancient Egyptian Ara
bic Order Nobles Mystic
Shrine (AEAONMS) demon
strated their willingness to
continue to support higher
education for Black students.
This year's scholarship grant
of $20,000 is the largest single
contribution ever made to the
—National Scholarship Service
and Fund for Negro Students
(NSSFNS) Supplementary
Scholarship Fund.
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urch of 531 Campus Street,
program is an Apprecia
Public Meeting for sup
irtive efforts of the "Save
NAACP" Campaign. Over
,000 was raised locally to
ards a national effort to
$1.6 million.
Court rulings have subse
itly eased the impact of
e legal suit which created
crisis.
Guest speaker for the ap
preciation program will be
Phillip O. Berry, the first
•lack chairman of the Char
ptte-Mecklenburg Board of
Education.
■ Local NAACP officials are
jjflso urging people to become
members of the organization.
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Check the ads in the Char
Post each week for the
bargains in town.
loaay, a couege education
is as necessary as a high
school education once was.
The need of funding sources
for Black students seeking
post-secondary education is
more acute now than ever.
AEAONMS is meeting this
need in addition to other e
qually important programs
which they support.
Marshall Johnson is Impe
rial Potentate of the 82 year
old organization of Shriners.
Carl Wilson, Imperial Oriental
Guide directs the Student Aid
Program. He has been instru
mental in developing and
maintaining this supportive
aid program.
Nurturinff Rlark minrls is a
responsibility that should not
be taken lightly. For seven
years AEAONMSandNSSFNS
have been working together
to provide access to higher
education for Black students.
NSSFNS serves 40,000 to
50,000 Black students annual
ly. It is the largest counseling
and referral agency in its field
and the only such agency
geared specifically for Black
students.
David B. Kent, Jr., Presi
dent of NSSFNS, called , on
other Black organizations to
follow the Shriners' example.
"This Fall thousands of
needy Black students around
the country will be seeking
and struggling to find funds
for college admissions. Many
of them will be the first in
their family to go to college.
This is important to the survi
val of all Black organiza
tions," said Kent.
Working with some 3,000
colleges and 8,000 high schools
throughout the country, NSS
FNS counsels Black high
school students and directs
them to colleges most likely to
offer admissions and financial
aid. The service is free to all
Black high school students.
NSSFNS is headquartered
at 1776 Broadway; New York,
New York 10019.
Main Library To
Siow "Second
Friday Flicks"
The Main Library's "Second
Friday Flicks" is back bigger
and better than ever. And it's
free, too.
This year, in addition to the
two Friday showings at 3:30
and at 7:30, the library has
planned a Saturday matinee
at 3:30 p.m. The third showing
was scheduled because of the
strong popular support for the
series.
Movies featured in this
year's "Second Friday
Flicks" are all films from the
fabulous forties.
Fliers describing the series
are available at any of the
sixteen libraries in Mecklen
burg County.
Photo by Harold Lucas
JOHNSON C. SMITH CLOCK
...In need of repair
Old Age Silences Chimes
Of Community Time-Piece
By Melvetta Jenkins
Post Staff Writer
It's been about six to eight
years since the clock has been
in working condition, accord
ing to Mrs. Inez Parker, En
glish instructor and Curator of
the newly formed Archives
Building at Johnson C. Smith
University.
The clock that Mrs. Parker
refers to is located in the
tower of Biddle Memorial
Hall, the administration build
ing at Smith.
According to Mrs. Parker's
book on Smith's history, the
clock was installed in the
tower in 1925 when Smith's
Alumni Association, through
gifts and solicitations, raised
money to pay for it. It cost
approximately $6,025 to install
the clock which, in its working
condition, chimed every fif
iMxni iiiiuuica.
It was heard throughout this
vicinity, according to Mrs.
Parker. "It was called the
vicinity time-piece.
Biddle Memorial Hall,
which stands on the highest
spot on the West side of
Charlotte, can be seen from
"many distant elevations in
and around Charlotte."
Mrs. Parker reminisced
that the chimes from the clock
were very beautiful. She says
that it hurts her that the clock
isn't working because Univer
sity Park Baptist Church, on
Beatties Ford Road, has just
installed a clock that chimes
and it is very similar to the
chimes that once came from
Smith's clock in the tower.
Dr. Wilbert Greenfield, Pre
sident of Smith, says the clock
hasn't been working since he
came to Smith.
Greenfield said that an esti
mate was made last year to
determine the cost of renair
ing the clock and it came to
about $25,000. He said the only
way he sees that the clock
could be repaired now is for
the school to sponsor a fund
raising drive specifically for
the purpose.
"But I don't think that a
drive right now would be
successful," he said, citing an
unsuccessful drive last year
that was held to raise funds to
repair the University Church.
The Biddle Memorial Hall
was designated a historical
site by the Charlotte-Mecklen
burg Historic Properties Com
mission and listed in the Na
tional Registry of Historic
Places in 1976.
At the time of that designa
tion it was revealed that the
building was in need of repairs
totalling approximately $1
million.
ureenneia saia that appli
cations for a Federal grant
were filed to help pay the costs
ofrfhe needed repair, but that
if and when the grant is
approved, it will not include
funds for the repairing of the
clock.
I—
Minority Enterprise
Facing Uncertain Future
The development of minori
ty business enterprise in Ame
rica faces an uncertain future
due to steady deterioration of
the nation's commercial cen
ters, according to the head of
the country's oldest national
business organization. Dr.
Berkeley G. Burrell, tenth
President of the National
Business League, today warn
ed that unless minorities can
produce a healthy economic
climate in their communities,
efforts to achieve economic
parity may well be doomed.
Said Burrell: "Among the
great maladies which now
stalk this land, the one, I
think, which most threatens to
undermine and destroy the
foundation of a free society is
the absence of a national
economic program for the
revitalization of America's
centers of commerce. Thus,
turning our commercial cen
ters around and restoring
them to patterns of productivi
ty growth must become a
national priority."
Addressing the 8th Annual
Business and Cultural Exposi
tion, jointly sponsored by the
Cincinnati Small Business De
velopment Foundation and
NIP Magazine, Burrell de
cried the steady deterioration
of our urban communities and
UNCC To Offer
Courses On
New South
Southern Universities have
long taught courses on South
ern history. Now Jimmy Car
ter's election as the first Pre
sident from the South since the
Civil War has inspired a
course on the new South at the
University of North Carolina
at Charlotte.
It will be taught at UNCC in
the spring semester beginning
in January 1977. The course
will be team taught by three
geographers, Dr. James W.
Clay, Dr. Douglas M. Orr, Jr.
and Dr. Alfred W. Stuart.
Clay and Orr are editors of
an innovative regional geogra
phy, "The Metrolina Atlas,"
about the 12-county area sur
rounding Charlotte.
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noted the impact of persistent
economic stagnation on the
Black community, saying:
"Our current problems of in
flation and increasingly slug
gish recovery from the worst
recession since the Great De
pression, place tremendous
pressures on unstable income
areas. As a result, the Black
market is seriously depleted
High unemployment, poor
housing conditions and inade
quate training and experience
in the labor field combine to
disintegrate their (Centers of
Commerce) already decaying
financial base.",,
Dr. Burrell 'Tailed upon
Black Americans to unite in
declaring that their communi
ties can no longer harbor the
symptomatic illnesses and
constitute the economic scape
goats of an insensitive society.
Moreover, he warned that
majority America must un
derstand that Blacks are seri
ous about their communities
to the business of restoring
economic stability to Black
and other minority communi
ties.
Emphasizing the unecono
mic environment in which
Blacks are forced to operate,
Burrell continued: "Add to
this the unusually high rates of
unemployment and other pat'
terns of decay and you end up
with communities that can
attract neither capital re
sources nor people with a
sufficient financial and econo
mic base to support a realistic
implementation of free enter
prise."
Noting the relationship be
tween the plight of commer
cial centers and minority ef
forts to achieve economic pa
rity by the turn of the century,
Burrell concluded: "In seek
ing to turn our communities
around, we recognize that the
fundamental task is still eco
nomic development. Revitali
sation of our commercial cen
ters is a necessary ingredient
in the parity struggle. The
strength of our unity appeals,
on which success depends, is
dependent in turn on our will
ingness to meet our basic
commitment: eliminating the
barriers to minority economic
development."
The National Business Lea
gue was founded in 1900 by
Booker T. Washington. It cur
rently boasts an at-large
membership of more than
5,000, plus 120 chartered local
chapters in 37 states and the
District of Columbia, -and
more than 50 national busi
ness, trade and professional
associations that are affiliated
through the League's National
Council for Policy Review.
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in prayer and give thanks
for the abundance in our
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NAACP To Elect
ew Officers
X
In
Here Sunday
: The election of officers will
■be the primary order of busi
s in the Friday, November
meeting of the Charlotte
ecklenburg County Branch
i the NAACP.
A nominating committee
as elected in the October
ieeting of the branch. This
tmmittee will report its no
linations to the branch. Other
«ninations cari~be made by
itten petitions signed by
■ee or more members of the
*anch in good standing, said
ι recent meeting notice.
It was also announced that a
ipecial program will be held
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