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Wmia>ns: Better Airport MWis Better Charlotte Poat Staff Writer "A better airport means a better Charlotte,’’ according to the Airport Bond Commi ttee. Neil Williams, an attorney, chairs the 50 member group organized to seek passage of a $47 million airport bond issue in a referendum on Tuesday, June 20. The money will be used to build a new airport terminal and for general im provements of facilities at the airport. Williams and Mayor Ken l ' black citizens on Sunday, June 4, at St. Paul Baptist Church. Among those attending the meeting were Rev. Harold Diggs of Mayfield Memorial Baptist Church, Rev. William Lee of Silver Mount Baptist Church and Alan Rouseau, president of the Charlotte Branch NAACP. ‘‘I had mixed feelings about it,” said Williams, "I would have liked an endorsement on the spot.” Another meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 13, at 8 p.m., at Simpson-Gillespie Winston St. The bond commi ttee is showing a film, passing out printed literature and making speeches to any group that requests information, Williams indicated. While no special effort is being made to especially culti vate the black vote, according to Dot Presser of Presser Advertising Agency, adverti sements will appear in the minority oriented media. Presser anticipates support from the whole community. “People understand the need a little bit more this out; Btua. • Published reports indicate that Rev. H. S. Diggs quest ions whether other concerns may be as pressing as a new airport. Meanwhile, Rev. William Lee Jr. wants to support the issue because he believes district representa tion on city council makes the future look brighter. Lack of support in the black community is one of the rea sons a 1975 bond referendum failed, said Williams. He observed that only two of five referendum issues received voter support. i* mat situation voters approved a bond issue to purchase the city bus system and to provide sidewalk im provements and additions Citizens turned down bond issues to expand the airport, build bicycle paths and autho rize property tax increases to pay for these projects. Williams cited poorer econo mic conditions, and general disenchantment as reasons why the public did not include the airport bond referendum among its choices of services it wanted the city to provide. The former city council member, cited three changes ' in the situation in 1975 and the situation now. They are dis trict representation, an affirmative action program for the city and neighborhood facilities being operated by the city such as Amay James Center. Campaign manager Jerry Green also points to differ ences in the situation now that will result in passage of the bond proposal "The difference is that this time the terminal is well thought-out and wen planned and thoroughly investigated," said Green. He is a represent ative of Mayor Harris and ran the mayor's election camp aign Green is working with a $15,000 budget to persuade the public that the referendum should pass He noted “tre mendous support and activity in the black community." To Green, who runs camp aigns as a hobby, airport expansion is “a serious invest ment." Williams agrees "The risk of taxes ever having to pay for this is so low <'**e Williams on Paee 11 Allan Rousseau NAACP nrpciriant is™ THE CHARLOTTE POST l>IB — “Uiarlotte s r astest Growing Community Weekly” black consumers * ■■■■ •. _ _ PRICE 25c h ALLURING PHILLISTINE TURNER Independence High Junior Miss Phillistine Turner Is “Beauty Of Week” ay ueora bamey Post Staff Writer Phillistine Turner, the daughter of Ms. Ruby Jewel Turner, is the Post Beauty of the Week. Originally from Washing ton, D.C.. Phillistine moved to Charlotte with her family and at Independence |bbool. A sparkling i Phillis (as she is mes called) enjoys ... „ i as a favorite because it seemingly comes natural to her. A receptionist for the Open House Outpatient Depart ment, 17 year-old Phillistine is very intrigued by her job and the services provided by Open House. When she graduates from high school, she plans to go to college to become a counselor, such as the ones at Open House, or a teacher of the handicapped, she stated, “because I like helping people.” She also wants to attend some of the counseling sessions at Open House. Phillistine is still undecided fruh (_bage Pick-Up Problems Neighborhood Group Seeks City’s Help Garbage pick-up and redents are problems that a (jdtew neighborhood group grants the city to help them solve. Smallwood-Seven ville Community Organization will meet on Tuesday, June 13, at Clinton Memorial AME Zion goals the organization wants to achieve, according to a statement from the group. The group reports that action has already been taken on one complaint It made to its district representative Charlie pannelly. Use of Turner Way by a trucking firm seemed unauthorized by some membera of the organization. A check by dty.potfce proved ftem right. firm’s trucks have H— mmSBBmm TOO since been receiving tickets for traveling illegally on this route, the firm is expected to ask the community group to back its use of State Street, according to the explanation at a member at the group. The organization la organi zed to prevent deterioration and to preserve the neighbor hood so that it is safe and desirable. Public Hearing Set For New City Budget The Charlotte City Council will hold two public hearings to hear citizens’ comments and suggestions on the pro posed 1076-79City budget. The hearings will be held on Mon day, June 12 at 3 p.m. and Tuesday, June 13 at 7:30 p.m. Both meetings will be held in the Council Chamber at City Hall. Persons wishing to speak at either hearing should contact the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 600 East Trade Street, Charlotte or telephone 374-2247. Comments may be made orally or submitted in writing. Copies of the proposed bud get, capital improvement pro gram, pay plan and revenue sharing projects are available tion Department and Office of the City Clerk both located at qty Hall on a college but its obvious that this benevolent Beauty will do well wherever she goes. , In her spare time, Phillis tine enjoys being with child ren, and jogging. She partici pated in the mile track event at Independence. Her love of running is excellent exercise to keep her in shape for all the modeling she does. A student at the Livingstone Modeling School, Phillistine has worked with Lerner's. PCA and has participated in various fashion shows at schools and churches. She plans to go to New York this summer, she affirmed, to see if she has a chance to go professional, which she hopes to do someday. Between studies, track, modeling, and work, a sedu lous young lady, Phillistine still finds time to be with her boyfriend, and entertainment. She likes to listen to all types of music and lists soul as her favorite category, with favo rite artists being Stevie Won der, Sun, Funkadelies, and Barry White. Phillistine is one of four children. She has an older sister, Gwendolyn, a 19 year old who will be attending Howard when she finishes Central Piedmont Community College; and two brothers: Archie, 16 and Gregory, 13. The Turners reside at 2329 Rachel St. To South Africa Rally To Protest NCNB Loans Special to the Poat The Charlotte Committee on Africa will sponsor a rally to protest North Carolina Nation al Bank's (NCNB) loans to South Africa at noon on Fri day, June 1« at the NCNB Plaza on the Square. Hie purpose of the rally is to draw attention to NCNB’s role in propping up the white mino rity government in South Afri ca. A number of individuals and organizations will with draw their accounts from the bank following the rally to protest the bank loans to South Africa. June IS is the second anni versary of Soweto Day. On June IS, I97S, high school students in the African town ship of Soweto rose up and said "No! ” to the white supre mist South African govern ment. The government had tried to impose its language on the students by requiring some subjects to be taught in Afrikaans. The student demonstrations were count ered with massive and brutal force, leaving a thousand young Africans dead and many in Jail. In spite of this repression, African resistance grew Dur ing the next year, hundreds of protests, boycotts, and strikes*1 rocked South Africa. Last October the government moved to outlaw 18 organiza tions and arrested ail the remaining protest leaders, in eluding Steve Biko, the young founder of the Black Con sciousness movement. Biko died of beatings while in police custody, adding fuel to the fire. The repression continues, but it is becoming more ex pensive for the South African government,' which is in creasingly dependent on inter national credit and capital to finance its defense and securi ty system. This financial support for apartheid, the South African system of racial separation, comes mostly from Western Europe and the United States. Some 4M U.S. companies have a total of $1.7 billion invested in South Afri ca. U.S. bank loans to South Carrie Graves Community leader Africa add another (3 billion North Carolina National Bank ha* made several loans See Rally on Page 11 President Announces Plan To Reduce Unemployment " i New Meat Center To Open Here By Sidney Moore, Jr. Post Staff Writer Cookout enthusiasts will love Ranchmen's Food Outlet of 1512 West Boulevard in Westover Shopping Center. Owner Carl Hardiaa is stocking the new business with 10,000 pounds of frozen beef, seafood and barbecue He plans to sell restaurant* style packages of individually wrapped meat items. His packages start at four pounds. The former president of Simons Commercial Products Company, a leading manu facturer of hospital beds and equipment, moved to Char lotte from Chicago last year. Although he spent 16 years with Simons, he is no stranger from the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Hardigg decided to go into the food business after meet ing people who are successful because of it. He and two employees will man the 2,400 square feet store, making sure that sales of rib eyes, T-bones, spare ribs, hamburger, perch, bass, shrimp, flounder and other items, run smoothly. The store opening is tenta tively scheduled for Thursday, June 15. Last minute details, such as installing three large compressors on the roof to run a row of meat freezers, may delay his opening, said Hard igg. He has already spent three months putting the busi ness together. Now that his idea is nearly realized, the small business man enthusiastically antici pates serving customers. He explains that his products can be readily stored In home • freezers or thawed for imme diate use. i Mrs. Elizabeth Chavis, mother of Ben Chavis of the “Wilmington 10,” spoke to those who attended a rally last Saturday, June 3, sponsored by People United for Justice. Shown in the background are County Com missioner Bob Walton, James Palmer of University Park Baptist Church, J. A. Frier son of Nazareth Primitive Baptist Church and Dr. N.C. Calhoun of New Emanuel United Church of Christ. Walton pastors at St. Paul United Presbyterian Photo by Eileen Hanson Black Press Convention lo Honor National Council Heads »» aoiiuigii/ij v n)— LJvi uuiy vciiuuu win uc gi eriingb uy I. Height, president of the Gov. James A. Rhodes of National Council of Negro Ohio, Mrs. Martha Mitchell of Women, has been chosen to the White House, Ambassa receive the Distinguished Ser- dors Krancis A Dennjs and v,ce Award of the National olumirni Jolaoso of Liberia ,SherS(tt and Nigeria, and Boxing Pro ciaUon (NNPA) during its 38th moter Don King (;on|ress Annual Convention June 21-24 man Louis |tokesDr inCleveland, Ohio at the Park Plaza Hotel. Michael R. Winston, director, Announcement of the reci- Moorland-Spingarn Research pient was made jointly last Center, Howard University; week by Dr. Carlton B. Good- Dr GoodJett; and Richard lett of the San Francisco Sun Ferris, president of United Reporter, president of NNPA Airlines, and RichardTullis of and Jerrel W Jones of the Harrris Corporation will ad Milwaukee Courier, first vice dress the convention president and chairman of the In addition, there will be Awards Committee seminars on the Black Press Other highlights of the con- and the Federal Government, rrooiems ot me macs t'ress and iV.Vpa and How These May Be Remedied, and two seminars on advertising con ducted by Amalgamated Pub lishers and Black Media. The awards banquet on Fri day evening will climax the convention Twenty-three members newspapers will re ceive awards for best editori als, best columns, best news and features stories, best news photos, general excel lence. and other categories The awards, totaling $1,000 in each of the 19 categories, are sponsored by ALCOA, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co., Carnation, Coca Cola, A&P Stores. General Klectric, Gulf Oil, Hein/. J C Penney. I^ever Brothers, Miller Brew ing Co., PepsiCola, Philip Morris, PPG Industries, Schlitz, Sears, Roebuck, Sterl ing Drug, US. Steel, and Westinghouse Scholarship awards by K J Reynolds and Anheuser Busch. along with plarjues for Congressman Phillip Burton of California and the Distin guished Service Award to Dr. Height, will be made on Thurs day evening, June 22 Dr Height, the first woman to receive the coveted NNPA Award, has been president of the National Council of Negro Women since the death of Mrs. Mary Mcl,eod Bethune. its founder, in 1955 She is a renowned social worker who was associated with the YWCA for many years as an executive director and as a member of the national board Promises Jobs For Youths, Minorities Washington-President Car ter has announced the forma tion of a new partnership between government, the pri vate sector and labor to pro vide jobs for young people and minorities. "I pledge the wholehearted support of my entire Admini stration in reaching the conti nuing and often moving goal of putting Americans back to work," the President said at a special event in the White House. The President announced plans for the Private Sector Initiative Program, which immediately will go into act ion once Congress approves $400 million authorized in a bill to revamp the Compre hensive Training and Employ ment Act (CETA). The funds will encourage private busi ness to provide on-the-job training of unskilled, un employed people. 4 I iv i lui iiiiiiuvi uuvii| a a VO a dent Carter said, would work closely with the National Alli ance of Businessmen in imple menting the program. President Carter said that, even though the unemploy ment rate has been reduced from 8 percent to 6 percent, with a net increase in the last 16 months of 5.5 million jobs, many Americans have not benefited. These are known as the structurally unemployed. “We still have 6 percent of the American people who don’t know that we have made progress with unemployment because they are still un employed. And quite often they are the ones most difficult to employ and to keep on a job permanently Part of the problem is, 1 would say, inadvertent discrimination. We hire young people, women, minority groups last. And when economic necessities fall on us, or when we make a routine change, they are the first ones that are discharged from their jobs,” President Carter said. ■ iic ■ i comeiit iia.'* Vice President Walter Mon dale to head a high-level task force to concentrate on nation al efforts to employ young people Under the Private Sectof Initiative Program, funds will be allocated to local and state government bodies-or "prime sponsors" under a formula determined by Congress. Funds for the program will be used only for employment and training programs in the pri vate sector and federal red tape will be kepi to a minimum. The prime sponsors will work with locally formed Pri vate Industry Councils (PICsi, composed of people from local business and labor groups