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SANDRA “PEACHES” ALEXANDER
...J.C. Smith freshman
Sandra Alexander
. Is Beauty Of Week
By Jeri Harvey
Post Staff Writer
Sandra (Peaches) Alexan
der, is the POST Beauty of the
Week arid she’s a 19 year old
freshman at Johnson C. Smith
majoring in psychology. In
addition to being a full-time
student at Smith, Peaches, as
she is called by family and
friends, works evenings as a
receptionist at Greenville
Neighborhood Center off Oak
lawn Ave.
The daughter of Mrs. Doro
thy Feamster, Peaches grad
uated from West Charlotte
High in 1976. At West Char
lotte she was in the Disbribu
tive Education Program
(DECA) and worked for the
Public Library for three
years. She also worked for
United Parcel Services before
going to Greenville Center.
I’ve always liked to have my
own money,” this independent
miss said, “and I’ve been
A working since I was 14 years
'# old.”
During high school years
Peaches remembers her Eng
lish and homeroom teacher
Ms. Lawrence, as being her
favorite faculty member.
Asked who she most ad
mires, Peaches promptly
said, “Well, it isn’t anyone
famous, it’s my big sister
Wanda. I admire her because
she’s a very strong person who
doesn’t let anything stop her
from achieving what she
wants. She’s smart and she
works hard and she’s doing
really well. ” Wanda is a 1978
Smith graduate employed in
the engineering department at
WBTV.
In addition to Wanda, Pea
ches has one other sister, 17
year old Carolyn, a senior at
Independence, and a brother,
JO year old Andrew, who is
stationed with the U.S. Army
in Hawaii.
Peaches and her one year
old son, Jeton, live with her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ola Alexander, and she parti
cularly asked that they be
mentioned because she is so
fond of them.
She said, “Most young peo
ple think their grandparents
have old fashioned ideas about
life, but mine have helped me
a whole lot. Even though I’m
still hard headed sometimes
and won’t listen, the advice
they give me is good. My
grandmother keeps Jeton for
me while I go to school and
work and she also happens to
be the world’s best cook," she
added. Mr. Alexander is a
retired railway mail clerk.
There’s very little spare
time in Peaches’ life but when
she is free she tries to spend as
much time as possible with
Jeton.
After college she said she’d
like to work as a court counse
lor or probation officer for
juveniles. “I’d like to try to
help youngsters who haven't
had a chance for some of the
things I’ve had,’’ she explain
ed.
Greater Providence Baptist
is the church Peaches attends
and Rev. Johnnie W. Wallace
Jr. is her pastor.
In case you guys are wonde
ring, Peaches has a steady
fellow. His name is Alton
Williams and he's a student at
Livingstone College in Salis
bury but he’s home every
weekend so don't get any
ideas!
Carter Backs
Amended Full
Employment Bill
President Jimmy Carter
has formally endorsed a re
vised draft of the Humphrey
Hawkins Bill, which esta
blishes for 1963 an oveail
unemployment goal of 4 per
cent for the nation
The draft was worked out
after lengthy and detailed dis
cussions between the Carter
Administration and Congres
sional leaders, including
members of the Congressional
Black Caucus The bill is to be
known formally as the Full
Employment and Balanced
Growth Act.
Report Says Blacks Harassed
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Food Stamp Allotment To Increase
Keep Pace
With Rising
Food Cost
WASHINGTON-Food sta
mp allotments for low-income
families will be increased Jan.
1 to keep pace with rising food
costs, Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Carol Tucker
Foreman announced Monday.
Monthly net income eligibi
lity standards also will rise for
most households on Jan. 1
because, under current regu
lations, income limits in moat
cases are tied to the size of
food stamp allotments. Under
the regulations, income eligi
bility limits rise when food
stamp allotments are increas
ed.
Assistant Secretary Fore
man said monthly stamp allot
ments in the continental 48
States and District of Colum
bia will increase by at least
two dollars for all households
except single persons. For
example, the allotment for a
family of four will be increas
ed from $170 to $174. Food
stamp allotments are based on
the cost of the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture’s Thrifty
Food Plan.
Next income cut-offs also
will be higher, except for one -
and two-person households
The monthly net income limit
for a family of four, for
example, will rise from $567 to
$580. However, the income
limits for the one - and two
person household will not
change These income stand
ards ($262 and $344 respective
ly) will remain at USDA’s
poverty guidelines. Food sta
mp regulations currently in
effect require USDA to use
either allotment-based calcu
lations or the poverty guide
lines, whichever are higher, in
setting income eligibility li
mits.
New food stamp legislation
recently signed by President
Carter Changes the proce
dures for setting income li
mits. The new legislation is
not yet in effect. USDA is now
developing proposed regula
tions to implement the new
law, and plans to put it into
effect next summer.
The table below lists new
income limits, effective Jan.
1, for the 48 states and the
District of Columbia:
VOLUNTEER WORKERS WINTERIZING HOUSE
.LdMt ueek in Third Ward Community
"W -v -m
<£UU V olunteers Help Elderly, Poor
To Live More Confortably This Winter
Hy Jen Harvey
Post Staff Writer
Barbara Neely lives in a six
room frame house in the 1500
block of Manson St. The house
is heated with wood and coal
heaters and on really cold
days its a constant job just
keeping the fires going toward
off the chill winds that seep
through the cracks around the
doors and windows.
Last Saturday morning an
estimated 200 families invad
ed Manson and other streets in
Third Wart, armed with ham
mers, nails, staple guns and
elbow grease. By the end of
the day Ms. Neely’s house had
been insulated with plastic
over the doors and windows
and today she said, “It sure
made a big difference these
past cold nights we’ve had.”
In the 1500 block of South
Church Street Mrs. Lillian
McAfee and her husband, both
in their late 60s. also had
plastic placed over the win
dows of their small home and
so did Mr and Mrs John
Johnson of the same block. All
these people slept a little
warmer and more comfort
ably because their neighbors
and the Charlotte Area Fund
care.
The Neelys, McAfees and
Johnsons were just three of 60
Third Ward families whose
homes received attention last
Saturday in the first of many
planned projects of this kind
Spearheaded by the Char
lotte Area Fund with a federal
grant, the project aims to
touch all areas of Mecklen
burg County, fixing homes
against the cold.
Bob Kiley, Chief of Plans for
the Area Fund, said in an
interview, "The response last
weekend was fantastic! Pe<v
pie turned out in droves to help
their neighbors Our five man
crew organized and supervis
ed the volunteers and we were
able to meet our goal of 60
homes in one day.”
Kiley said there is a $200
limit to spend on each home so
most of the improvements will
be in the nature of caulking,
weather stripping windows
and doors, insulating attics
and putting plastic over win
dows and screen doors.
"Up to now," he said, "we'
ve been doing the work ac
cording to the date the request
was received, sort of first
come, first served, but in
order to assure that the most
needy or pressing cases are
helped first, we are going, to
use a point system in the
future. Points will be assigned
according to the number of
children in the family or the
age and physical condition of
the residents We are particu
larly concerned about the el
derly who are unable to do for
themselves," he added
Most of the work is being
done to private homes, ac
cording to Kiley, and he said
that where rental property is
reparied the landlords are
being asked to sign a state
ment promising they will not
raise rents after the improve
ments have been done.
In addition. Kiley pointed
out that CAP has, around
$17,000 in Fuel Assistance
Funds that are available for
those who qualify. For infor
mation about these funds call
373-3010 and someone will ans
ui»r vnnr niifKhfinc
Third Minority
Trade Fair
WelJ Attended
By Jeri Harvey
Post Staff Writer
The Third Annual Minority
Trade Fair held in Charlotte
November 16 and 17. by the
Metrolma Minority Purchas
ing Council, drew vendors and
buyers from distant cities a
cross the United States as well
as local participants There
were representatives from
major U S Corporations and
fledgling entrepeneurs promo
ting tiny enterprises All of
them came together to see and
be seen
The Trade Fair allows the
minority businessman an op
portunity to exhibit his goods
and services to a large num
ber of prospective buyers than
he or she could under ordinary
circumstances, thus enhanc
ing chances for success
The fair also gives minority
businesses an opportunity to
show their own community
what they are doing and to
acquaint themselves with po^
tential customers within their
neighborhoods This is ex
tremely important since Ame
rican Minorities are the ninth
largest consumer market in
the world
.See THIRD on Page 12
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Motley Wants Assurance City
Housing Plan To Benefit Blacks
djt ucn narvcy
Post Staff Writer
Rowe R. Motley, chairman
of the National Democratic
Black Political Caucus ex
pressed concern Tuesday over
a proposal which would per
mit the city to buy and reno
vate substandard housing and
then turn the dwellings over to
the Charlotte Housing Autho
rity.
The Housing Authority wou
ld then rent the houses to
certain low-income tenants
City Council member Jim
Whittington, who proposed the
plan on Monday, expressed
the opinion that it could pro
vide many of the 1,500 homes
which he and the Community
Development Department
have estimated to be needed
for the poor
"It sounds like a beautiful
mum, money s*ia, uut i m
not so sure who will reap the
most benefits. Of the $18 mil
lion in funds the city is slated
to receive from the federal
government over the next five
years, I want to know just how
much of it will go to buy or
lease the property of minority
owners," he continued.
When the POST goes to
press Wednesday morning.
Motley was scheduled to be in
conference with Vernon Saw
yer, director of the Communi
ty Development Department,
and three Housing and Urban
Development (HUD; officials
out of Greensboro to discuss
the new proposal
Whittington feels that many
of the houses condemned for
housing code violations could
be renovated to supply hous
ing quickly Building Inspec
tion W.H. Jamison said ne
Rowe "Jack" Motley
...NDBPC chairman
gleet, rotted door or window
sill* and other minor things
often cause a house to fail to
meet housing code standards
and these things are easily
corrected
Sawyer has said that Whit
tington s plan is similar to one
already under study by his
department and which he will
report on to City Manager
David Burkhalter It is not
known when the report will be
made
The Community Develop
ment program, established by
Congress under the housing
and Community Development
Act of 1974, provides federal
money to the cities to improve
rundown neighborhoods
Charlotte has received $30
million since the program be
gan in 1974 and expects to
receive and additional $18 mil
lion through 1981
Sawyer admits one of the
problems with the buy and
resell plan is being sure that
residents of homes are able to
buy them back Often ano
ther investor comes in and
makes a higher bid," he said
Report Cites
Over 100
Blade Victims
(WASHINGTON, D C.) Sys
tematic and nation-wide ha
rassment of black elected offi
cials is charged in a report
released recently by the Na
tional Association of Human
Rights Workers tNAHRW).
The report, entitled THE DI
LEMMA OF BLACK POLI
TICS: A REPORT ON HA
RASSMENT OF BLACK E
LECTED OFFICIALS, is the
result of a two year study by
NAHRW's Committee on the
Status of Minority Elected
Officials.
The report cites over 100
black officials who have been
victims of various forms of
harassments by police, gov
ernment and the press. The
officials cited represents, all
regions of the country, ail
levels of office, and both urban
Anri rural arnac
Research findings indicate,
though, that "the higher the
level of office, or the more
outspoken the officials, or the
greater the influence and po
wer. the higher the incidence
of harassment," the report
states.
Black officials identified as
having been targets of attack
include the late U S Repre
sentative Adam Clayton Po
well, L.S Representative Wil
liam Clayton Powell, U.S. Re
presentative William Clay,
Lieutenant Governor George
Brown, Lieutenant Governor
Mervyn Dymally, and Secre
tary of State Delores Tucker;
Mayors Maynard Jackson. Ri
chard Hatcher, Coleman You
ng, "Jay” Cooper, and Char
les Evers; former Mayors
Carl Stokes, Clarence Light
ner and Charles Joseph; State
Senators Julian Bond and Cla
rence Mitchell; former State
Senator Leroy Johnson, State
Representatives Alvin Hol
mes. Thomas Reed and Hosea
Williams; and Sheriff Lucius
Amerson
Principle perpetrators of
the attacks on black elected
officials are identified as 1)
the white press; 2i the intelli
gence community and enfor
cement agencies. 3) the cor
porate structure, and 4) re
presentatives and allies of the
corporate structure positioned
in the executive and legisla
tive branches of the United
Stales government
The research did not deter
mine that a single national or
international conspiracy e
xists to destroy the institution
of black DoiiUcs; however
NEITHER DID IT DETER*
•ii.'ir, i ha I IMEKEISNOT
SUCH A CONSPIRACY Do
cumentation was obtained of
distinct patterns of harass
ment, and in at least some
instances the harassment is
without doubt the result of
conspiratorial activity.
The studies provide evi
dence of conspiracy "within
certain news papers, among
certain businesses and corpo
rations, between Federal a
gencies and among intelli
gence, law enforcement and
judicial operations
Further, the media, corpo
rate intereeu. the govern
ment, and intelligence agen
cies - as a matter of routine -
cooperate with one another in
a manner that discredits and
contains" the efforts of select
ed black officials
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