• 5'„, 28Zrz ; ip | PUBLIC LIBRARY OF ■ “vertITngmedia I ja*P¥IX> /^THf H. TTIT i rp*y»v* ty Anrn n—■— -1 — ssft'v! vHAKJLI 11 x» POST ss® ^^ISIZSSL——_“Oiarlotte’s Fastest Growing Community Weekly" BLAC K c °^SUMERS Fhoto by Jerry Curry 16-YEAR-OLi) WANDA MOBLEY —Olympic basketball star Attractive Wanda Mobley Is Post’s “Beauty Of Week” L.. cnrni r*c*kt Post Staff Writer Wanda Mobley, a 5'7” basketball guard on the women’s team at Olympic High School, is the Post’s beauty for this week. A junior, 16-year-old Wanda has been playing varsity basketball since her sophomore year and is an ticipating playing another season during her senior year. A sports enthusiast, Wanda said that playing varsity basketball is^o.k.’’ As far as winning is concerned, she said, “we haven’t won yet - the season's just now getting started really!” Wanda said that she is not involved in any other ex tracurricular activities. “I’m too busy with basketball,” she said, "we i To Prepare ■'V*. jjTax Returns For Poor ay ousaim KLLSWORT11 Post Staff Writer The Charlotte Chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants is offering to prepare state and federal income tax returns free of charge for low income families and individuals. Persons are eligible for this service if their gross income is $7,000 or less for single in dividuals, or $10,000 or below for individuals filing jointly. The service will be offered on alternating Saturdays between Belmont Regional and the Greenville Neigh borhood Centers, according to Ann James secretary of the Charlotte Chapter of the NABA. Information necessary to prepare tax returns will be collected from taxpayers on Saturday and returned as follows: At the Greenville Center information will be collected Jan. 20 and returned Feb 3j collected Feb. >3 and returned Feb. 17; collected Feb. 17 and returned March 3; collected March 3 and returned March 17; and collected March 17 and returned March 31. The Belmont Regional Center will have information collected on Jan. 27 and returned Feb. 10; collected Feb. 10 and returned February. 24, collected Feb. and returned March 10; e acted March 10 and __ March 24; Collected Ma 24 and returned March a has his mcmucia ui UK Will be at the Belmont Regional Center from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and at the Greenville Center from 12:3Qa.m. to 5:00 p.m. No information will be collected or distributed by the neighborhood Centers Department personnel. The NABA prepared 1,000 .returns last year while working in conjunction with the Charlotte Neighborhood Centers Department. Will Carter , Approve Higher Wage Contracts? Indications that the Carter administration will approve labor contracts that promise wage hikes higher than seven percent is welcome news and ! hould be duly noted by North Carolina General Assembly members, C.Stewart Stafford, NCAE president, said last week. Alfred Kahn, the Pre sident's chief anti-inflation ad viser, has quietly ruled that wage hikes higher than seven percent are all right if Inflat ion continues at double-digit levels. “Inflation,” said Stafford, “gives every indication of doing just that.” Kahn made his ruling in a case involving Pako Corpor ation of Minneapolis, Min nesota.The .nm was negoti ating a new contract with its employees and asked the fed eral government if it could agree to offer to raise salaries more than seven percent in the last two years of a three year contract if inflation ex ceeded that figure the Los Angeles Times News Service reports. Pako proposed to raise sal aries as much as the rate of inflation, up to It) percent a year Kahn’s offi'-e approved He said the record clearly shows that NC'Afc members have lost a considerable a mounl of purchasing power over the last three years and that if "it is permissible to anticipote inflation in the fu-] lure it only makes sense to make up for its pasl ravages ” practice a lot in the af ternoons." She also plays on her school's volleyball team. Playing tennis is also another favorite sport of hers. Wanda's favorite subjects in school are French and English. “I’m pretty good in English," she remarked “I’ve been taking advanced English since the third grade I like French because it is easy tq understand.” Afifrr high school, Wanda wants to matriculate at college, preferably an art school. “I do art," she commented. “I’ve been doing it for about four years but I’m just really getting into it this year.” "I want to be a commercial artist," she stated, “because they draw almost anything and do quite a bit of travelling." She added, “I like being creative.” An alternate career choice would be to engage in the extensive area of sports. “I’d probably become a gym teacher," she said. Wanda describes herself as a quiet, hardworking, cheerful person who acknowledges her parents as having the greatest influence in her life. “Both of my parents en courage me in sports and with my drawing (particularly my father),” she said. Wanda said that she did not make any resolutions for this year, however, she hopes to “pass all my subjects and do pretty well in my basketball.” The second oldest of four children, Wanda is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mobley. Senior Citizens’ Confrontation ****** • Surprises Memorial Hospital Staff by Sherleen McKoy Post Staff Writer Members of Senior Citizens United will wait 60 days to give the staff of Charlotte Memorial Hospital time to begin working out the prob lems presented to them in a meeting last week Johnsie Evans, spokesman for the local group united to secure benefits for the elderly as well as others, said that the most important issue centered around the Hill-Burton Act which provides funds for hos pitals and other health facil ities to construct new build ings "In return for this money, hospital officials agree to pro vide persons who cannot af ford medical services with free or reduced service,” Ms Evans explained "Once a hos pital receives this money, it is required by law to provide a certain level of free or below - ^ • ,vv V^IILS Black Ministers Call For Compromise To End Strike Food Aid Important Public Issue WASHINGTON--Food prices, food safety, human nutrition and food aid will be important public issues in 1979, said economist Thomas A. Stucker of the U S.Depart ment of Agriculture. "The price of food is of primary concern to con sumers.The rapid rise of retail food prices, averaging 1.4 per cent per month in early 1978, outpaced average price rises of 0 8 percent for all items.By year end, food price increases will still be greater than for prices generally. Meat products are the lar gest single contributor to con sumer food costs. They ac count for more than 32 percent of the overall food-at-homp Hoy, Palmer: “Our People Have Suffered Long Enough” By Sl'SAN ELLSWORTH Rost Staff Writer Ministers Conference No. 2 called for compromise and an end to the bus stnke on local television. WBTV, Channel 36 on Mon.. Jan 15 "The 25 year old Minister's Conference speaks only when the situations within the city, county or state become a crisis announced Rev. James E. Palmer, president of the Conference and pastor of the University Park Baptist Church in Charlotte. Fifty pastors and ministers comprise the Conference which is one of the most active groups of black ministers in the city Lr his remarks Rev Palmer reflected the consensus of the Minister's opinion "Rev. William Lee Jr , chairman of the program committee with its members have mapped out our plan step by step against I he strike However, we hope that we don’t have to execute all of them.” Rev Palmer stated "Our concern comes because of the many appeals made to us by our members and concerned citizens throughout the city telling us how inconvenient the city bus strike has made their way of living They were faced with this problem during Christ mas Some have lost jobs, many have been docked pay because of being late for work, low income families and people living on a fixed in come can't pay the special cab fare to get to places for special help, medical attention or even to«get ' medicine from the uptown drug stores," he continued 3 "We feel that our people have suffered long enough, because it is our people who roll the buses in the first place - especially when 80 percent A hundred idled city buses and 12,000 passengers await the settlement of Char lotte's bus strike. A March to get the bus - ri o . i i c. rolling again will begin at 3 PMSaturaay at The bus garage.707 N.Brevard (Photo’ by Eileen Hanson) iirif numruuy siju'rriiMtn Aroused Black Groups To March To Get Buses Rolling price index. A large food grain harvest in 1978 will provide moderately priced food for livestock and poultry produc tion in 1979.The expected re sult will be larger broiler supplies and a large increase in pork supplies, he said. Beef prices are expected to increase again in 1979.Re duced supplies will again be the primary reason unless the breeding herd is reduced fur ther than expected, which would lead to even tighter supplies later. “But commodity prices are only part of the food price picture,” Stucker said.“The remaining 6 percent of retail food costs are attributable to marketing-costs for process ing and distribution.The ad ministraton’s wage and price guidelines may help hold marketing cost increases to lower levels than would other wise be the case." These factors point to smaller food price increases in 1979 unless unfavorable weather conditions reduce ag ricultural commodity produc tion, as happened in early 1978.The forecast is for food prices to average 7>-i percent higher, he said. “Food safety will continue to be an important policy issue in 1979.Scientific evidence linking food and feed additives to human health condition is growing. Oy EILEEN HANSON A march to support bus riders and drivers will be held Sat. Jan. 20 at 3 p.m The march will begin at the city bus garage (707 N. Brevard > and go to City Hall (600 E Trade). "We are marching to call on City Council to get the management company to negotiate, not just stand pat," according to march organizers. "What’s the sense of voting people into office if they don’t work for us." Saturday's march is called by People United for Justice, Charlotte’s Central Labor Union and the Equal Rights Council. According to Rev. James Barnett, president of People United for Justice, “If the union was all white this would have been settled long ago But because most of the riders and drivers are black, the city is in no hurry to get it over with." Approximately 90 percent of the bus riders are black; 70 percent of the drivers and 45 percent of the mechanics are black. "We re the lemons and they keep squeezing us.'* said Barnett. In a related action, the Black Ministerial Alliance urged City Council to take action to reach a settlement in the 7-week strike. Speaking for the Alliance. Rev. James Palmer of University Park Baptist Church, said. ‘‘If City Council sits on the bus strike, they may find themselves sitting out after the election." Palmer said he plans «o participate in Saturday's march, but- the organization took no official position Petitions will be circulated in the churches Sunday calling on City Council to take action I>ast Monday 100 bus riders and drivers turned out for the City Council meeting, but were not allowed to speak They were told to return Jan 22 at 2 p m ✓ One rider. Mary Lay no of Piedmont courts said she was there to suDDort the drivers' effort for a good contract "1 want the bus to start. I'm 75 years old and can't go anywhere without the bus," said Ms. Laync. "I’m here to help the drivers." she said, giving a hug to her bus driver, James Davis on Route No 4 “Why should the man downtown hold up the buses while we walk." Many people at the meeting wore buttons "I support the bus drivers' strike" issued by the Equal Rights Council. Representatives of several unions and community groups are urging their members to march on Saturday "This affects all unions," said Bill Brawley. head of the Central Labor Union "They're trying to cut the guts out of the union - make it powerless " Hattie Harris, President of the Residents' Advisory Council of public housing residents wants to see the buses rolling because the poor people are suffering “You seldom see a rich person ride the bus unless it's to use the free pass down town," she said "But it's not a black and white issue Being poor has no regards for color " Senior citizens groups are also participating on Saturday according to Harris Bus drivers' families are also feeling squeezed by the long strike "I'm feeling it hard, said Mildred Harrison a driver's wife "I'm the only one working and the bills are piling up We were turned down for food stamps " The Harrisons were among 2(1 people who held a vigil outside Mayor Ken Harris' church Sunday. Jan 14 The strike began Nov 2