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h. Marun sr. FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Since President Carter will soon appoint 60 district and circuit in the 11 Southern states, it's time for these facts to be known said Steve Suitts, executive director of Southern Regional Council. A report of "displaced homemakers"-widows and di vorced women-says that one thlrd 61 Sucn women lack jobs or sufficient educational skills ίο secure gainful employment. The report, written by the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Pro grams, say such disadvan taged women need training for well-paying jobe that offer advancement opportunities. Considerably more blacks oppose the state's high school competency test now than 18 months ago, according to a statewide survey conducted by The Charlotte Observer. Statewide, the survey says, 69 percent of the population thinks all graduates should be required to pass the test in order to receive a diploma beginning in the spring of 1960. Fourteen percent oppose such requirements and 17 percent are undecided. The 1977 poll showed a 70 percent support rate for the test by both blacks and whites. In the 1978 poll, white support for the test rose to 73 percent while black supporis declined to 56 per cent. have reduced the federal trea sury by as much as§44 billion, three separate government re ports indicate. The reports, prepared by the General Ac counting Office (GAO)^ the investigative arm of Con gress, has led two Senate committees to begin investi gations into ways to stop the dollar drain. State senator Fred Alexan der an<l Bob Davis, president of the local Black Political - Caucus, were among a group of black political and commu nity leaders who visited with President Carter at the White House last week. "I don't think it's fair to continue to put money into these schools and let them die at the same time," said Char lotte Eddie Knox, Chairman of the advisory Budget Commis sion. Knox was referring to uie extremely poor cooouuoos on the campuses of the state's, five predominately blade state universities. He said building should be comparable on all campuses. The City of Baltimore has approved a $50,000 contract to build a bronze statue of j®zz singer Billie Holiday. Miss Holidayjfcas reared as a youth in the Maryland Port City. Sculptor James Carl Reid will design the larger-than-life sta tue. City obligations and court action is requiring the location of housing for the poor in areas that may create new racial imbalances in some local schools. The CM school Board expressed concerns a bout this on Monday evening. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to examine a Massa chusetts veterans preference law that is similar to statutes in the federal government and in 46 of the SO states. The court might delete the veterans pre ference. Howard University Profess or Frank Davis notes that most of the welfare payments in America go to whites. He said, "there are three times as many whites as blacks , welfare, some six or seven percent of the population. But Of\ η«ΓΛοη( ni »Ka KIamU WGIV Names Lee Michaels New Operations Director by Sberleen McKoy Poet Staff Writer Lee Michaels is the new Operations Director for WGIV. He succeeds Mannie Clark, who resigned from that position but still works at the station as a radio personality in the mornings from 6-10. Michaels is not a newcomer to the communications field; he has beên m radio for the past 13 years. Previously, he worked as music director and —air -personality on morning shows in San Francisco, Loe Angeles, St. Louis, Norfolk, Va. (his home), and Atlanta.. He comes to Charlotte from Los Angeles. At WGIV, he has entered into a new dimension of radio-management-one that he hopes will and should ad vance his career in the radio industry. He is in charge of everything that goes on the air; commercials, news or whatever. Commenting on his new pos ition, he said, "Financially, it's quite a drop in salary..but my goal is to get into manage ment and eventually owner ship in radio." So far, Michaels likes his job and said that "it's been a lot of hard work." Michaels hopes to bring WGIV and the community up to date on what's happening in the country. "We definitely will deal with the community and their prob contemporary and more com petitive. "1 consider WGIV to be in direct competition with WBT and WAYS." be said, "what I mean by this is that anyone who listens to those stations and then listens to WGIV should not be offended and vice versa." To. the community, be said. "Charlotte can expect WGIV to be better and closer to the rommunitv m their voice. We intend to give them a sound they can be proud of." Michaels said that Charlotte is one of the nicest cities he has ever been in and he is looking forward to a coopera tive relationship in the future. In dosing, he said that Mannie Clark did a spectacu lar Job during the time he was in charge of the station. "I have the deepest respect for him," he stated. I Blacks represent 28 percent of the Mecklenburg County Dooulation but onlv 16 percent >f them are registered voters, tese are not too startling facts based largely on 1975-77 voting iata, ft among the facts pub lished in the voting Atlas of Mecklenburg County. The 48 page booK is tne latest in the UNC-Charlotte Monograph series on geography Federal courts in the 11 southern states employ few blacks and have a very limited number of women in profess ional positions, according to the Southern Regional Council the Atlanta-based nonprofit organization. Of 112 federal district judges, only one is black, none of the 26 circuit judges are black, only three U.S. mars ha lis are black and only two percent of the district judges in the South are fe males the Council reoorts Poor management and theft Ho»i is on welfare.1 ' RE-ELECT gus ECONOMOS N.C. HOUSE VOTE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 Mr. Fred Alexander has requested that his name not be used in the ad below. However, on the advice of our legal counsel, under present laws and regulations as it relates to political adver tisement, it is in the best interest of this newspaper to run the ad as written. To assure Continued " * I . v*· Representation In Raleigh Vote Only For Senator Alexander \ and Senator McDuffie Paid for by Sen. McDuffie, Treasurer, McDuffie for N.C. Senate. Re-elect Liz Hair z- h Jeti. j| Democrat Tuesday, November 7TH Poid for by th· Hz Hoir Campaign Committee
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