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ESC To Operate
Summer Youth
Work Program
Tt»e Youth Work Experience
Program for the City of
Charlotte will be operated
"again this summer by the
Employment Security
Commission, according to
Charlotte office Manger
Claudle Lewis Jr.
The Summer Program, to
be effective June 18, is
designed to serve
economically disadvantaged
youth who are City residents
and are between the ages of 14
thru 21.
Participants in this
program will include junior
high, senior high, college
students and dropouts.
Applications will be ac
cepted until April 20 and may
be obtained from the following
locations: Belvedere Homes,
2212 West Trade Street;
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Pine; Bethehem Center, md
Baltimore Avenue;
Pinevalley (Rental Office),
1700 Longleaf Drive;
Alexander Street Center, 910
North Alexander Street;
Greenville Neighborhood
Center, 1330 Spring Street;
Employment Security
Commission, 316 East
Morehead Street; McCrorey
Branch; Y.M.C.A., 3301
Beatties Ford Road;
C.E.T.A., 401 East Second
Street; Belmont Regional
Center, 700 Parkwood
Avenue; Tryvola Mall,
Employment Security
Tommittion, 5341 Pineville
■toad; Windsong 'Trail*
(Rental Office), 9000
Shadowood Lane; Amay
James Neighborhood Center,
2415 Lester Street; Charlotte
Mecklenburg Youth Council,
501 East Morehead Street;
Boulevard Homes, 1620
Brooks vale Street; and Dalton
Village. 3050 Clanton Road.
Mecklenburg
County Road
dosing
Raleigh - The Division of
Highways of the North
Carolina Department of
Transportation (NCDOT) has
closed Gum Branch Road
(Secondary Rood 1775) in
Mecklenburg County to
through traffic for ap
proximately six weeks, ac
cording to Division Engineer
David B. Roberts.
The road, located in the Cool
Wood Community, will be
cloaed until March SO.
The temporary closing will
allow NCDOT maintenance
crews to build a new bridge
over Gum Branch.
Traffic will be detoured on
Mellwood Drive (Secondary
Road 1777), Coulwood Drive
(Secondary Road 1774) and
Cathey Road (Secondary
Road 1771).
T.R. Lemmond, bridge
maintenance supervisor, said
that every effort is being
made to complete the project
as soon as possible to
^minimise any inconvenience
'to the traveling public.
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BRUSH ...
LOVELY JANINE COALDWELL
—.Olympic High senior
J a nine CoaldweU
Is Beauty Of Week
by 8berlee* McKoy
PMtSUff Writer
A most unusual and yet
exciting adventure is being
undertaken by our beauty for
ttts week, Janine CoaMwett, a
senior at Olympic High
School.
Janine wants to make long
distance truck driving her
life’s career and she intends to
begin immediately after she
graduates this Spring.
As a matter-of-fact, she’s
already had firsthand ex
perience mxn her step-father,
that’s right, a long distance
truck driver. The only thing
that stands between her and
her proposed career is a
truckers’ license which she
will acquire once she’s
completed her training. She
intends to take a training
course this winter.
This summer she plans to
spend her time trucking with
her step-father. Last Summer
they travelled to Florida,
Tennessee and Oklahoma.
Guess who her trucking
partner will be once she’s
licensed to operate a truck?
Janine describes her ex
perience behind the wheels as
“scary and exciting at the
same time.'" The fastest she’s
ever driven so far is 45 mph in
an 18 wheeler.
“I Just like big trucks," she
exolained." and the ex
citement oi tiaveuing.
Janine hasn't always
wanted to be a truck driver.
“Before 1 decided to be a
truck tklver I wanted to be a
stewaftoess,” she said. “It was
a lot easier watching him (her
sten-fether) ”
Mecklenburg County
Commissioners
Meeting Postponed
NOTICE 18 HEREBY
GIVEN that, because of the
snow, the regular meeting of
the Mecklenburg County
Board of Commissioner!
scheduled for t o’clock, a.m.,
Monday, February It, 187$,
has been rescheduled for t
o'clock, a.m., Friday,
February 23, I97t, in the
Board Meeting Room, County
Office Building. 720 East
Fourth Street.
At such meeting the Board
will hold a Public Hearing at 8
o'clock a m. upon an Order
Authorizing 83,000.000 County
Building Bonds of said County.
At Olympic, Janine is not
involved in any activities.
From the seventh to the
eleventh grades, she was on
her school’s basketball,
volleyball and track teams.
"I decided I’d rest my
senior year,” she stated.
As for missing school once
she's out, she replied, “I look
forward to graduating, twelve
years of school was enough.”
Janine describes herself as
being very stubborn at times,
and easy to get along with
(however, it depends on the
mood she’s in.)
“I enjoy outdoors and
summer activities,” she
remarked, "and I love
travelling to different places
and meeting new people."
Janine said her step-father
is the most influential person
in her life. “Before he came, I
was doing everything I wanted
to do,” she recalled. “After he
came, he slowed me down a
lot. He showed me things that
v'ere right and things mat
were wrong."
Janine is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Goldie Mcllwain
and has a brother who attends
Morehead State College in
Minnesota.
Training Set For 10,000
Low-Income Area Leaders
Teachers
Got Very
Little Help
Teachers got very little help
last year from local govern
ment in the battle against
inflation, the North Carolina
Association of Educators said
last week. This fact is
revealed in the annual survey
of local educators' salary
supplements, according to
Lloyd S. Isaacs, executive
secretary for the North
Carolina Association of
Educators (NCAE).
The survey, which covers all
145 school systems in North
Carolina, is an annual project
of research staff of NCAE.
“The average supplement
paid went up 1.3 percent,"
Isaacs said. "This is ob
viously not keeping up with
innauon. it indicates to me
that only a few school systems
made any changes ui* their
local supplement."
Isaacs noted that 141 school
systems pay local sup
plements to superintendents
while only 89 school systems
pay supplements to classroom
teachers. Other positions
where supplements are paid
include: principals in 101
school systems; supervisors,
101 school systems; band
directors, 115 systems; and
assistant-associate
superintendents, 94 systems.
The average amount paid to
a classroom teacher who holds
a bachelor’s degree and has 13
years experience is $465 a
year for 1978-79, up from $459 a
year for 1977-78, the survey
shows.
The largest supplement paid
in the state to the teacher
above (an A-13 teacher) is
$1,991 annually paid by
Charlotte-Mecklenburg. The
least supplement is $69 a year
paid by Alexander County.
SNOWBALL THROWER. KeoSthEugene
Moore, winds up under the watchful, eye of
his Mother Carolyn Ann Moore of 2*29 Phillips
Ave. in south west Charlotte, near Bonnie
Brae Golf Coarse, as he enjoys some of |
Charlotte’s near-record 10-inch snOw fall, f
Photo by Jerry Curry.
Black Community Withdraws
From “Celebrate Charlotte”
by EILEEN HANSON
Special To The Post
Leaders of tne Northwest
community have withdrawn
support from “Celebrate
Charlotte" in protest over
schedule changes which they
feel will undercut the con
tributions of the black com
munity.
The 5-week cultural festival
planned for April and May will
present Charlotte’s diverse
ethnic and cultural history,
with each week devoted to a
different area of the city.
The Northwest side was
designated to kick off the
celebration on April 21, with
all festival events to take
place in that part of the city on
that weekend
The Northwest steering
committee chose "The Black
Heritage of Charlotte” as its
meme ana piannea a full
weekend of events including a
parade down Beatties Ford
Road, black artists and
cultural groups, sports events
and a musical concert.
But when festival
organizers endorsed two other
events for April 21 • a bike
race in Dilworth and the Jim
Beatty foot run in Freedom
Park - black leaders said it
would undermine the leading
role of the Northwest
celebration.
“We had one of the best
arranged groups in all of
Celebrate Charlotte,” said co
chairman L.C. Coleman, who
also heads the Northwest
Community Action
Organization "They saw it
was good and didn't want
blacks to have the opening
thunder."
“People are fed up with this
kind of thing," said Harold
Parks, chairman of the North
west steering committee
"People are saying This is
enough, we won’t have it any
more!"
Parks says a lot of people in
the black community have
expressed support for the
decision to withdraw. “This is
a sign of an anti-apathy
movement,” he said.
Festival organizers claim
the two endorsed races have
no connection with Celebrate
Charlotte and only wanted to
use the festival's name.
However, Parks thinks the
races on the first weekend will
be used to promote the other 4
area weekends at the same
time undercutting the black
contribution
Each area has one weekend
and people from all over the
city are to come to the
featured area to learn about
the people who live there,
their culture and history
Parks says tne rnxe race
and foot run should have been
planned for the Northwest
area or for another weekend
“Nobody ever asked us
about it We were told after it
was done," said Parks “Now
we’ve made our decision and
we can't go back "
The idea of Celebrate
Charlotte was also geared
toward building community
support for Discovery Place
and demonstrating the unity
and diversity of Charlotte's
cultural life Now a
significant contribution from
the black community will not
be present
The Northwest steering
committee has decided to give
its energy to the annual Afro
Festival sponsored by the
Afro-American Cultural
Center An open planning
meeting will be held Mon
March 5 at 7:30 pm at
Johnson C. Smith University.
Organizations are invited to
attend For information
contact .Sara Coleman <392
3I4«»i <>r Harold Parks <334
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HUD, NCPC
Will Conduct
Training
special to the Mack press
Special to the Post
The National Citizen Par
ticipation Council, Inc
(NCPC), recently entered into
a cooperative agreement with
the Department of Housing
and Urban Development
(HUD), and the Department
of Energy (DOE) to train
between 8,000-10,000 citizen
leaders from low-and
moderate-income areas to
more effectively participate in
Federal programs at the local
level.
The training will be con
ducted by NCPC-a seven-year
old Washington-based
citizens’ advocacy
organization.
The community leaders will
be selected from each of the 50
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Columbia, Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands.
Thirty-five three-d;. y
training workshops will be
held around the country and
will cover a broad range of
topics, such as
-Community Development
Block Grant
-Urban Development Action
Grant
Small Cities Programs
-Community probler.:
solving
-Assessment of neigh
borhood programs
Energy-related topics will
include weatherization
assistance, solar energy in
novations, and general con
servation training.
The first training session
will be held February 16- IB, in
Elizabeth. New Jersey, and
will involve about 400 com
munity leaders from the New
York and New Jersey areas
Other workshops will be the
first weekend in March and
will run through the end of
maj,
varl Johnson.
Executive Director, NCPC,
said the training is zeroing in
on the "grass roots" citizens,
whom he termed ‘the back
bone of America,' so they can
return to their communities
and work with locally-elected
officials in developing ef
fective programs to eliminate
slums and blighted areas.
Johnson, who is Black,
explained that since virtually
all slate and federally-funded
programs require citizen
participation in planning and
development stages, the
emphasis of the training '
sessions will be on
strengthening citlsen
government relationships so
that programs which affect
low and moderate-income
persona will be responsive to
their needs
"This is a sterling op
portunity for citizens to
establish a more com
prehensive understanding of
the government prnrwa and
how it works,"Johnson said.
He noted that, In addition te
the on-side training, t—
prepared “training packagaa"
will be distributed to ctttaa
represented at the V vkatwp
to encourage future
replication of tha program.
Film Benefit, March To Raleigh
Planned To Support Wilmington 10
by EILEEN HANSON
Special T» Tbe P*rt
a lilm benefit and march to
Raleigh are being planned U
build support for freeing Us
Wilmington 10 and th<
Charlotte 3, "prisoners o
conscience” who face loni
prison sentences.
A "Soul Spectacular’
featuring a film on th<
Wilmington 10 and top loca
talent will be held Fri. March
9 at West Charlotte High
School Auditorium at 7:M
p.m.
The feature film
"Wilmington 10: U.8.A.
10,000", made by Haile
Gerima of Ethiopia and the
Howard University Film
Crew, documents the con
troversial case of convicted
civil rights activists In
Wilmington, N.C. It took two
years to research and develop
the film, which opened In New
York City in November to an
audience of 3,000.
The program will also in
REV. IAMB BARNETT
chide a Jazz combo, gospel
choirs, drama and a dance
presentation.
The film program will
benefit the educational and
legal defense funds of the
Wilmington 10 and Charlotte 3.
Relatives of the prisoners
have been invited to attend
this Western N.C. premiere
showing
Tickets are 33 00. $1 SO for
RET. BCR CHATS
student* (with ID ). Spon
oring organizations are
isked to contribute *2S, in
Hvtdual patrons *5 00. Names
-eceived by March S will be
listed in the program.
MARCH TO RALEIGH
BEGINS MARCH IT
On March 17 suppnrier* of
the 13 political prisoners will
begin a second freedom
march to Raleigh to see the
Governor. According to Rev
James Barnett, who walked to
Raleigh to plead for the 13 in
Dec. 1977, the march will
begin from UNCC parking lot
at 9 a m.
Rallies will be held along the
way by supporters in High
Point. Greensboro.
Burlington. Durham and
Raleigh Barnett says he
wants a large group to walk
the first mile on the 17th. and
as many as possible to con
tinue the trip.
"Gov. Hunt is waiting to use
the Wilmington 10 and
Charlotte 3 as political
stepping stones for the 19X0
elections” said Barnett,
president of People United for
Justice
For tickets and information
contact Helen Othnw at 372
2370 Eat 242 (days) or 334-272X
(evenings), or June Daven
port. 392-3321 Sponsors and
patrons should reply by Mar 3
to Ms. Davenport. 3234
Banbury Dr . Charlotte. NC
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