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Hacks Hedge
$2^00 To
MLK Drive
by SUSAN ELLSWORTH
■a Pool Surf Writer
Members of Charlotte's
black community pledged
$2,300 for the completion of the
Martin Luther King statue at a
meeting held here Monday.
The Martin Luther King
Memorial Commission gave
its first public accounting of
funds raised for the statue at a
meeting held at Friendship
Baptist Church, 3301 Beatties
Ford Road.
More than $30,000 has been
raised in almost two years,
but is not enough to finish
King's statue that will stand in
Marshall Park when com
pleted, according to the Rev.'
Mr. Coleman Kerry, pastor of
Friendship Baptist Church.
Original commission
estimates put costs at $51,000
to build the 8 foot bronze
statue, Kerry said. Current
estimates are $16,000 higher.
Although the commissiot
raised $46,073 from business
organizations, the public anc
churches, it spent a total o
51,356 through Dec. 31 foi
sculptor’s fee, fund raising
and advertising.
Aside from budgeted ex
penses, the commission was
required to pay for items ii
thought were free, com
mented Kerrv.
“The WBT Radiothon cosi
us $1,201,’’ he said. “1 don’l
know exactly how $*nueh
money it brought in. I’m sure
we didn’t break even,’’ he
continued.
* Having $5,700 in the bank
and $11,000 in unconfirmed
pledges from local businesses,
the five member commission
needs about $1,000 more ir
addition to the 2,300 pledged
Monday to get the sculptor’s
clay model of King sent to the
foundry for completion in
April.
Food Stamp
Recipients To
Receive ATP
Food Stamp recipients will
receive ATP (Authorization to
Purchase) on different days,
beginning in February.
In response to a request
from the U.S. Postal Service
that first-of-the-month cards
not be mailed the same day,
the Food Stamp Office will
mail ATP cards in four bat
ches instead of all at once.
Hopefully this will give people
access to better service when
they go to cash their cards.
The following schedule will
help to determine when to
expect the ATP card: if a
person's last name begins
with A, B, C, D, or E - first day
of the month; F, G, H, I, J. K,
or L - second day of the
month, M, N, O, P or Q - third
day of the month; and R, S, T,
U,V,W,X,Y,Z -fourth day of
the month.
For more details, call the
Mecklenburg Food Stamp
i
Nothing brings the
TRAFFIC regulations to mind
quite like spotting • POLICE
CAR in the REARVIEW
MIRROR ,
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ALLURING ROSE MARIE RAMSEY
...Computer Operations student
nose Mane Kamsey
Is Beauty Of Week
uy aneneen nacivoy
Post Staff Writer
Rose Marie Ramsey, 18
-years-old computer opera
tions student at Central Pied
mont Community College, is
the beauty for this week.
After graduation from South
Mecklenburg High School
last year, Rose said that she
decided to study in that field
because of its broadness and
benefits.
Now in the second quarter of
her studies, she said. “I aver
aged straight “A’s” last
quarter. I like it though at
times it's very hard work. The
school is very nice.” she
added.
During the fourth quarter of
her studies, Rose said that
through the school she will be
given a job with a prospective
employer for a year, at which
time if she performs satisfac
tory work, the employer will
hire her.
As a part of her class load,
Rose is enrolled in a karate
class. ‘‘A person needs as
much self-defense as he can
get,"she said. “I’m taking it
to protect myself from those
bad men out there in the
world."
A cheerful person, Rose said
matter-of-factly, "I never
meet a stranger." How does
she account for that? "I
believe my personality is very
outgoing," she reasoned, "I
have a smile on my face all the
time. People look at me and
they just start talking. ’’
Rose's hobbies are disco
dancing (mainly), swimming
and reading mysteries. The
City HaD Offers
New Services
For Elderly
f6e Postal Alert Program ,
and Senior uiumu Discount
Cards are new serv ices now
available for the elderly at
Charlotte's Mobile City Hall.
The Alert Program relies
oo mcai man ca. i ,ers to notify
authorities of any irregular
itiss noted at the homes of
registered persona. Informs
tion auu . tor this
program may be obtained by
visiting the mobile unit.
New 'jaTating hours for
Mobile < >ty n ill 10 u.m -
4p m dairy, will run to March
2.
rest of her time is spent with
her boyfriend, Fred Culp, who
is in the Marines.
Commenting on the respon
sible influences of her present
disposition, Rose said that it
was a toss-up between her
mother and her pastor.
"My mother encouraged me
to really finish school," she
reflected. "She used to tell me
what she had to go through
and it made me determined to
finish.” She continued. *
‘whenever I have a problem, 1
can always go to my pastor
(Rev. Fred A Griffin, Galilee
Baptist Church). He tells me
to keep going further in life
and it really motivates me."
Rose's life philosophy is,
"do what pleases you. Don't
try to live for others, live for
yourself. If you try to please
everyone, someone will get
hurt.”
For all senior high school
students who are thinking a
bout dropping out of school.
Rose leaves this vital survi
val message: “Don't be in
such a hurry to get out of
school. The world is not all
peaches n’cream. It’s hard to
find a job with a diploma and
it’s much harder without
one!”
The second oldest of six
children. Rose is the daughter
of Mr and Mrs Robert Lee
Crank
CAACC Launches Hack Hkory Month
■_c<ii prkiutkiOAki SmiorA tin IT nt%* Ci All
Charlotte’s Afro-American
Cultural Center will sponsor a
full program of events to
celebrate Black History
Month.
Beginning with “God’s
Trombones As A Tribute To
The Black Preacher" on Feb
1, each day in February will
he devoted to an educational
or cultural activity.
According to Afro-Center
Director Jim Jeeter, the
program will focus on the
many resources available in
Charlotte’s black community
"This is our third annual
celebration of Black History
Month," said Jeeter. "But it
is the first time we’ve at
tempted to do a program
every single day.”
T.J. Reddy, artistic coot
dinator for the A fro-Center, is
organizing the program, in
cooperation with the Center's
affiliated groups The Afro^
Center is located in 8ptrit
events are open to the public
and free unless otherwise
indicated. Events for the first
week are:
Feb. 1 - "God's Trom
bones," Ovens Auditorium.
8:15 p m. (85)
Feb 3: Community Forum
Meet Charlotte's Afro
American Senior Citizens,
also a quilt exhibit 4 p m.
Afro-Center. Coordinated by
L.C. Coleman.
Feb. J - Community Forum:
Children's Art Program. 10
a m. • Noon. Afro-Center
Coordinated by JoAnne
Morehead.
Feb. 3 ft 4: Display and Sale
of African and Afro-American
artifacts; half prick sale Afro
Festival T-Shirts, AACC
memberships 10 a m. • 6
pm., Civic Center, Coor
dinators Khadijah Abdullah.
T J. Reddy (81)
Feb 5: Open House. 9 to 5.
Afro-Center. Community
Forum with Oswald Ndanaa of
Poet T. J Reddy
...BHM coordinator
Zimbabwe African National
Union (AZANM) 7 p m Afro
Center
Feb. 6: Community Forum:
Consumer Information and a
history of the Charlotte Post
Newspaper, with Julia Prince
»nd Post Editor Bill Johnson
7 30 pm , St. Marks United
Methodist Church. 917 Clanton
Kd
Fob 7 Africa Film Series,
Main Library. 7 30 p m 'I^asl
Grave at Dimbaza"
"Discovering the Music of
Africa." and "Heritage in
Black ’
Feb 8 Community Forum
Councilman Ron I^eeper and
other black elected officials
voter education and
registration 7 30 pm Afro
Center
Feb 9 - An evening of
spirituals, gospels and blues,
with Children of the Sun Choir.
All-City Spiritual Singers.
Pervis I>ee. James Putmon
and T.J Reddy 7 p m .
Greater Bethel AME Church.
201 Grandin Road
The Center is open 9 to 5
weekdays on the third floor of
Spirit Square, and on Salur
day mornings during the
Children's Art Program
Membership is $5 a year All
activities are open to the
general public For more
information call 37«-1SSS
weekdays. 9am to 5 p m
Representative FromWan-Tom
Zimbabwe Will Speak Here
ms To
Provide Free
Tax Advice
The Internal Revenue Ser
vice will provide free tax
advice to some 44 million
citizens before April 15, but its
information 'may only be
worth as much as it costs -
no thing
Dr. Robert S. Holzman, pro
fessor of accounting and a
specialist in tax matters at the
University of Connecticut,
charges that IRS agents and
their publications frequently
offer conflicting and erron
eous advice, while accepting
no responsibility for their act
ions: courts have repeatedly
ruled that if a mistake is
made, it is the taxpayer's
fault.
Writing in the February
Reader's Digest, Holzman
says; “The shocking truth is
that agency employees can
and do make mathematical
errors, distribute the wronp
romift, uucr incurred anvice.
overstep their own bounds and
even change the rules retro
actively." In evidence, he
cites among others a study
made last year by the Gen
eral Accounting Office, where
staffers posed as puzzled tax
payers at various IRS offices
and discovered an error rate
of 13 percent.
Two examples illustrate the
scope of misinformation the
taxpayer is apt to receive:
“Your Federal Income
Tax,' published by the IRS
was distributed to 2.7 million
individuals in 1977. In it, one
couple found an example on
deduction property losses
closely analagous to a loss
they themselves had exper
ienced. Following the ex
ample, they claimed a casual
ty loss deduction of $2400 The
IRS refused to allow the de
duction is not a source of
authoritative law in the tax
field."
Incidentally, a taxpayer
was notidied that he owed
additional tax. Since he want
ed to have the matter review
-ed by a U.S. Tax Court, he
asked the IRS how much time
he would have to appeal.
Two different IRS represents
lives gave him the same dead
line, when he filed, however,
the IRS threw his petition out
on the ground that it was late.
p/\RDON THE
INNOCENT
CHARLOTTE UllMlftTOT,
3 10
Rev. James Barnett, Kathy Sparrow and
Laurie Graybeal are among thousands of
North Carolinians who have urged Gov. Hunt
to pardon the Wilmington 10 and Charlotte 3.
/"I > mm
mam 9* A
A strategy conference will take place Sat .
Feb. 3 at University Park Baptist Church
(photo By Eileen Hanson)
zaiuraay morning
Supporters Of “10”, “3”
Plan Strategy Session Here
bv Ell.KEN HANSON
Supporters of the
Wilmington 10 and Charlotte 3
will meet Sat., Feb 3 for a
strategy session in the
struggle to free the 13 political
prisoners. The conference is
open to the public and will be
held at University Park
Baptist Church, 2156 Senior
Drive beginning at 11 a m
Wilmington 10 defendant
Ann Shepherd Turner will
speak followed by workshops
on gaining community support
for the prisoners' cases
Ben Chavis of the
Wilmington 10, and T J
Reddy, Jim Grant and Charles
Parker of the Charlotte 3 case,
are still in prison. The others
are on parole. Supporters
want Gov Jim Hunt to grant
them pardons of innocence
They claim the 13 were
framed by perjured
testimony
Conference participants will
have a sneak preview of a
documentary film about the
Wilmington 10 case _A
western North Carolina
premiereof "Wilminglon- 10;
US A. 10.000" is planned for
early March in Charlotte
Saturday's conference is
sponsored by People United
For Justice. N C. Political
Prisoners Committee and the
Wilmington iO Defense
Committee Registration is $2
which includes lunch.
For more information
contact Kathy Sparrow 1399
248(ii or Rev James Barnett
(832-2250 >
lucker Earned lo Housing Agency f'ost
From the White House
Press Office
Special To The Post
Washington — President
Carter has nominated Sterling
Tucker, who in 1975 became
the first elected chairman of
the Council of the District of
Columbia, to be assistant
secretary of Housing and
Urban Development. His
responsibility will be fair
housing and equal op
portunity.
Tucker was born December
21, 1923, in Akron, Ohio He
received a B A. and an M A. in
social psychology from the
University of Akron
Tucker served as assistant
executive director of the
Akron Urban league, and as
executive director of the
('anion (Ohio) Urban league
In 1956 he became executive
director of the Washington
Urban League, a position he
held until 1974. During that
time he also held various
positions with the National
Urban league, and served as
special assistant to the late
Whitney Young, Jr
Tucker has been active ip
both local and national affairs
in Washington, serving as a
consultant to the ' War. on
Poverty" program the Peace
Corps, and President Ken
nedy's Commi,,ee op Juvenile
Delinquency and Youth
Crime He is the author of
several books, and has held a
number of teaching and
consulting assignments.
In another appointment of a
hlack official, the President
nominated Jessie A Woods of
' im ap^'» i" i <1 iiirimn i tu uir
National Council on the Arts
Woods is now executive
director of Crhan Gateways in
Chicago and a member of the
executive committee of the
Chicago Council on Fine Arts
and Ihe Community Arts
Councils Panel of the Illinois
Arts Council
Workshop Set
For l/N'al
BiiHineKmnen
A workshop for men and
women who are considering
starting a business, improving
their new business or buying a
new business will be held on
Wednesday. February 7 at
8 TO a m on the second floor of
the Charlottetown Mall
Request.-, for registration
material should he mailed to:
small ’'.nsuiess Workshop.
I’d I toy ft*,i «liar lot I e.
N ( jK.'tt, t.r call Ray John
«wi at '7-t 4"I' j>> A'c*, Anne
lames at >7 l w-'
Community
Forum To
HearNdanga
by EILEEN H ANSON
A representative from
Africa s war-tom Zimbabwe
)swald Ndanga. will be in
Tharlotte. Mon Feb 5
peaking at a community
orum at the Afro-American
'ultural Center in Spirit
/iiiarp 1 in IT *7*^ C» Tk..
rogram is free and begins a;
pm
Africans in Zimbabwe, their
name for Rhodesia, have been
fighting a war of national
independence for 13 years In
Nov 1965 Ian Smith
established his illegal white
supremacist regime in
Rhodesia, breaking away
from British colonial rule
There are 220.000 Europeans
in the Southern African
country and 8 million
Africans Smith wants the
white minority to retain
economic control, while giving
a lew .Africans token positions
in the government
The independence
movement is led by two
nationalist groups -• the
Union ZANU' and the
Zimbabwe African Peoples
Union (ZAPU). now working
together in the Patriotic
Front
According to Ndanga. a
representative of ZANU. the
war has created over a million
refugees, uprooting them
from their homes and
livelihoods
"Clothing, food, medicines
and reading materials are
desperately needed.." said
Ndanga. At Monday's form he
will announce plans for a
clothing and book drive to take
place in Charlotte from Feb 5
to 14
"The liberation forces now
control over BO percent of the
countryside We must provide
basic services for people."
said Ndanga. a teacher at
Lewis College in Columbia
SC
"There are people in
refugee camps who haven't
seen a newspaper or magazine
in months, school children
who have no book*, women
and children with only the
clothes on their backs," he
said
The Afro-Center will serve
as a collection point for
clothes and books, which
should be delivered to the
Center in bags or boxes
marked "refugees " The
materials will be taken to
Durham by Feb 19 for
shipment to Africa by Church
World Service
Clothes should be clean, in
good condition and suitable for
adults and children Sturdy
shoes, boots, blankets and
pants are especially needed.
Simple first aid equipment •
bandaids. aspirins, bandages
and scissors • are also
requested
The project is coordinated
by members of the Charlotte
Committee on Africa. For
more information call the
Afro-Center. J74 IMS week
days Sam to 5 p.m.