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Black Firm
Gets State
Contract
Baron Oil Company, a mi
nority firm based in Winston
Salem, North Carolina, has
been awarded an oil contract
by the State of North Carolina.
The company will supply 153,
000 gallons of fuel oil and
diesel fuel oil to State facilities
in Forsyth County. According
to Ike Howard, President and
General Manager of Baron Oil
Company, “this year will be
the company’s largest reve
nue year because of contracts
secured with the State govern
ment and commercial firms."
Howard went on to say that
the new contracts are a result
of company efforts to expand
operations into new market
ArPAfi
Baron Oil Company began
operating in 1957 primarily
serving the minority commu
nities in and around the Win
ston-Salem area. Servicing
homeowners with heating fuel
has been the company's life
line for almost 20 years. As
part of their new marketing
program, Baron Oil plans to
offer its customers complete
energy supply services for
home insulation, heating and
cooking, and solar energy.
Through its association with
the Mid-West Piedmont Deve
lopment Organization and the
North Carolina Office of Mino
rity Business Enterprise
(OMBE), Baron Oil developed
business visibility and expos
ed its services to a wider
market via the Minorty Pur
chasing Councils. Minority
Purchasing Councils are con
sortiums of corporate purcha
sing officers who are interest
ed in increasing business acti
vities with minorty firms. The
State contract awarded to Ba
ron Oil Company was, in part,
a result of the company’s
effort to qualify as a bidder on
the North Carolina State bid
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Firms must satisfy require
ments set by the Office of
State Purchase and Contract
before they can be listed and
thus eligible to bid for State
contracts. The Office of State
Purchase and Contract and
the North Carolina OMBE
have joined forces to deter
mine ways and means of
getting more minority firms
involved in the State bidding
process. OMBE Director, Jer
ry Dodson, feels positive about
the joint effort.
Dodson said, “should these
efforts prove successful then
ultimately minority owned en
terprises will receive a large
share of State contracts." The
Office of State Purchase and
Contract will be able to identi
fy minority contracts and pur
chases through their compu
terized recordkeeping system.
The information will be used
by State field offices to encou
rage minority participation in
the State bid process.
Julian Carter Named
Director of CMS
Maintenance
Julian G. Carter has been
appointed maintenance direc
tor for Chariotte-Mecklenburg
Schools. He works in the Auxi
liary Services Department.
A graduate of Western Caro
lina College, he is working
toward a master's degree.
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ATTRACTIVE FAYE BARNETTE
...Always loved clothes
Miss Faye Barnette
Is Beauty Of Week
By Jen Harvey
Post Staff Writer
Faye Barnette, the POST
Beauty of the Week, says she's
known what she wants to do
with her life ever since she
was a little girl and so far her
plans seem to be right on
schedule.
‘Tf»always loved clothes,"
•he said, “and always wanted
to work in the field of fashion.
Being only five feet tall, I’m
too short to be a model and I
don’t think I'd like the life of a
model anyway, so I decided to
go into the merchandising end
of the business."
On September 1, wmcn was
her nineteenth birthday, Faye
received an associate degree
in fashion merchandising
from the American Business
Institute of Fashion here in
Charlotte and began work for
Susie Causuals at South Park,
as their first black assistant
manager in the southeastern
district.
“I can’t think of anything I’d
rather be doing right now,"
Faye said. “The work is hard
and you have to have the right
attitude. Working with the
public requires that you smile
even when you’re tired and
your feet hurt. You have to be
level-headed and even tem
pered in order to get along,”
she continued.
Faye is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J.E. Barnette and
has one older sister, a set of
twin brothers and a younger
sister. She attended North
Mecklenburg High, where she
began career preparation by
concentrating on fashion cour
ses. Her hobbies are “buying
clothes and attending fashion
shows” and for fun she’s
taking a karate course. The
spare time left is spent listen
ing to music and reading.
“Marriage is not in my
plans,” this serious young
lady told us. “Eventually I’d
like to be a buyer,” she said,
“which requires a lot of tra
vel, and I think marriage
would interfere with my ca
reer. Later, when I’ve achiev
ed some of the goals I’ve set,
will be time enough for me to
think about getting married.”
We congratulate Faye on
her past achievements and
salute her as one more young,
beautiful black woman who is
determined to make her
dream come true by working
at it.
County Garage Will Hold
Public Vehicle Auction
The Mecklenburg County
Garage will hold a public
vehicle auction Saturday, Oc
tober 8, in the County Parking
Facility at East Fourth and
South McDowell Streets. The
auction will begin at 11 a.m.
Approximately SO vehicles,
including cars and half-ton
trucks, will be sold. The vehi
cles will be parked on the
fourth level of the Parking
Facility and available for in
spection, beginning at 8 a.m.
the day of the auction. Free
public parking will be avail
ble on the first, second, and
third levels.
The auction will be conduct
ed by Lawing Auction Com
pany.
The following County vehi
cles will be sold:
Seven 1973 American Motor
Corporation (AMC) six-cylin
der Matadors; seven 1973
AMC eight-cylinder Mata
dors; two 1972 AMC eight-cy
linder Matadors, and two 1971
eight-cylinder Dodge Coro
nets; five 1974 Ford half-ton
trucks; three 1974 Ford 12
pesaenger vans; two 1974 Ford
Torino*; one 1974 Ford Cus
tom 900; seven 1989 Ford
Falrlanes; seven 1970 Ford
Fatrlanes, and one 1962 Dodge
48-passenger bus.
These police-equipped ve
V will be sold: one 1972
S Polara; two 1974 Ford
wagons; and four 1974
Ford Custom 500’s.
For more details about th<
auction, telephone 374-2592.
House Of Prayer Celebrates
50th Annual Holy Convocation
By Jeri Harvey
Poat Staff Writer
Bands from at least seven
states will participate in the
annual Marching Band Com
petition to be held at the
Mother House of Prayer on
Beatties Ford Road Saturday
afternoon. The band competi
tion and the baptism Sunday
morning of approximately
2,000 new members will be two
of the main events closing out
the 50th annual convocation of
The House of Prayer For All
People, in progress here this
week.
Bishop Walter McCullough,
spiritual leader of the 8,000,000
member sect, is presiding
over the week long convoca
tion and will speak at some of
the services which begin each
evening at 7:30 p.m.
According to Elder Claude
Wilkerson, pastor of Mother
BISHOP WALTER MCCULLOUGH
...Spiritual leader
House of Prayer, more than
8,000 delegates from 19 states
are expected to attend He
added that, besides the nightly
music and preaching pro
grams. there will be daily
business sessions.
Bishop McCullough will bap
tize in the waters of the out
door pool at the rear of the
sanctuary on Sunday morning
at 11 am.
The band competition will
begin between three and four
Saturday afternoon and bands
from Georgia, Pennsylvania,
New York, Virginia, Mary
land, South Carolina and the
District of Columbia will par
ticipate. This event is one of
the highlights of the convoca
tion each year.
The United House of Prayer
was founded in 1919 by C.M
(Sweet Daddy> Grace.He was
succeeded upon his death by
Bishop McCullough.
Elder Wilkerson said that a
number of public officials
have been sent written invita
tions and that the general
public is invited to all sessions
Whittington Tops Black
2 Black Candidates Win In
Historic District Primary
Carter To
Enforce
Rights Laws
President Carter last week
issued a statement reiterating
his Administration's strong
determination to enforce all
Federal civil rights laws. The
President said, “I am deter
mined that my Administration
will remain committed, in
both spirit and action, to the
enforcement of the civil rights
acts that defend the individual
freedoms of all our citizens."
In his message, commemo
rating the 20th anniversary of
the creation of the Civil Rights
Commission in 1957, President
Carter affirmed his committe
ment to expanding equal op
portunity for all Americans
and ending all discrimination
in American life.
Clarence Mitchell, Washing
ton Director of the NAACP,
read the President’s message
today in Washington, D.C., at
a news conference sponsored
by the Leadership Conference
on Civil Rights. Also present
for the news conference were
the organizational member
ship of the Leadership Confer
ence and the members of the
Civil Rights Commission.
President Carter has direct
ed all Federal executive de
partments to double their pur
chases from minority Firms
during the next two fiscal
years, stating that “it is the
policy of this Administration
to promote the development of
minority business enter
prise.”
The President announced
his directive during a meeting
this week of the Interagency
Council for Minority Business
Enterprise, a group autho
rized by Executive Order in
1971 and which President Car
ter has reactivated.
The Interagency Council
will serve as an oversight
group to assure that the Pre
sident's efforts to assist mino
rity business enterprise are
carried out.
"This Administration will
actively support minority bus
iness development, and we
strongly encourage the pri
vate sector to increase its
, involvement in this area,” the
President said.
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REV. RALPH DAVID ABERNATHY
....With Rev. Janies Palmer
tiev. Abernathy Says
Charlotte’s Blacks Are Not
Aware Of Their Own Power
By Jeri Harvey
Post Staff Writer
'Chaflotte’s blacks are'not
aware of their own power
Banded together in a common
cause, the black people of this
city could attain any goal they
wished to achieve, from the
naming of boulevards, to the
election of officials who will
compassionately and intelli
gently work for the good of all
the city," said Rev. Ralph
David Abernathy last week.
In Charlotte to lead a revi
val at University Park Baptist
Church, Rev Abernathy spo
ke of his relationship with
Martin Luther King Jr., the
work of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference after
King's assassination, his de
feat as a candidate for the
congressional seat vacated by
Andrew Young, and gave his
views on several other topics
Explaining that he met King
first in 1951, Abernathy smiled
and said, “I was in Atlanta
ana he was home from school
visiting. We were both interes
ted in the same young lady at
the time so we had little
reason to become friends.
However, in 1954, on his first
visit to Selma, Alabama to
preach at Dexter Avenue Bap
tist Church. King had dinner
in my home and we began our
association.
VERY PERSUASIVE
“Dr King was a very per
suasive and very dynamic
person, and it would have been
impossible to be as close to
him as I was without being
influenced by him However,
I'd like to think I influenced
him too We were in agree
ment from the beginning on
the basic issues confronting us
and the methods to use to
bring about change He was
very calm and had a very even
temperament He seldom dis
played anger and was com
mitted to the teachings of
Jesus Both of us saw non-vio
lence as the only effective
means to deal with the injus
tices being committed in this
country," Abernathy continu
ed.
Bridling at what he termed
“inaccurate reporting,” Rev.
Abernathy denied there was a
decline in the achievements of
the Southern Christian Lead
ership Conference under his
leadership. “We never ceased
to be effective in the areas of
voter registration and voter
education. I also continued to
carry out Dr. King's program
of exposing poverty and orga
nizing poor workers," he de
clared.
Gesturing around his room
at the Radisson Hotel, he
continued, "What does it mat
ter if we have the legal right to
stay at a place like this and to
ride in the front of the bus if
we don’t have money to do it
with - and most blacks and
many whites do not. That's
what the 'Poor People's Mar
ch' that 1 organized was all
about - spotlighting for the
American public that all citi
zens are not sharing the eco
nomic pie."
"The most powerful force on
the face of the earth is the
tramp, tramp of marching
feet," according to Aberna
thy With this allegory, he
emphasized his answer to the
question of what direction the
civil rights movement will
take if the present course of
negotiating through the sys
tem does not prove successful
"We are ready," he said, “to
employ every legitimate
means to destroy the evil
system of racial discrimina
tion and injustice and bring
the poor into the mainstream
of American life We will
march and demonstrate when
ever necessary if negotiation
doesn't work. We are even
now organizing and if there
isn’t soon substantial reversal
in the unemployment rate we
will probably find ourselves in
the street .
Abernathy said he feels
King was killed in Memphis
because he had begun to "tou
ch the sore spot of the system •
economics " “Economics con
trol this nation," he said. "As
long as we addressed little
social issues we were tolerat
ed but the haves' are deter
See ABERNATHY on Page 7
Black Gets
Surprising
Support
By Hoyle H. Martin Sr.
Post Executive Editor
In a history-making event,
Charlotte's voters Tuesday,
moved closer to poseibly in
creasing-the number of blacks
on the city council as a result
of district primary election
victories by Charles Dannelly
in District No. 2 and Ron
Leeper in District No. 3.
Running in a district that is
65 percent black, Dannelly
defeated Joe Ross by a vote
margin of 2,006 to 532. Leeper
beat Grace Bailey by a nearly
two-to-one margin, 1,197 to 636
in a district that is only 50
percent black.
in reiaiea events, incum
bents Betty Chafin and Har
vey Gantt were the leading
vote-getters in Charlotte's pri
mary election on Tuesday. _
With a relatively low voter
turnout of only 22,927 of the
city's 120,361 registered vot
ers, Ms. Chafin received 13,265
votes and Mr. Gantt received
12,869 votes. Former five-term
city councilman Milton Short
received the third highest to
tal with 12,283 votes.
As expected, veteran city
councilman Jim Whittington
won the Democratic nomina
tion for mayor with 11,876
votes. His nearest opponent,
Jim Black, received 4,389 vo
tes. Architect Jim Johnson
and real estate man James
Kaperonis finished far behind
the front-runners with 2,632
and 420 votes respectively.
Black, a 29-year-old black
radio personality, received o
verwhelming support form the
city's 18 predominately black
precincts. Whittington was the
majority vote-getter in the
city's 60 other precincts
Black said. I'll hold my head
up high because I guess we did
as well as we thought we
might, but better than mo6t
others thought we could do.”
Black's comment is even
more significant considering
that the influential Black Poli
tical Caucus opposed him by
endorsing Jim Whittington.
Joining Chafin, Gantt and
Short on the Democrat ballot
as at-large candidates for the
November general election
will be John Harding or James
Pugh, pending a possible run
off election since neither can
didate received a voter majo
. .v.
Black candidates, all De
mocrats, were involved in four
of the seven district council
seat races. Mrs Willie Smith
an officer in the Black Politi
cal Caucus, was defeated in a
bid for the District No. 1
Democratic nomination by
Don Carroll, an articulate soft ,
spoken young lawyer Carroll
received 1,322 votes to Smith's
982 in a district that is 70
percent black.
In District No. 2 Charles
Dannelly defeated Joe Ross..
Ron Leeper's sincere hard
work in promoting voter edu
cation and registration efforts
was rewarded for his effort by
winning the District No. 3
Democratic nomination with
1,197 votes.
In a somewhat surprising
development, Arthur Lynch, a
black In a heavily white Dis
trict No. S, received only 382
votes compared to the front
runner Mrs. Billie Stickell’s
902 votes, but he can cal for a
run-off since no majority waas
received by Stickell
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HEREDITY is something
every MAN believes in until
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