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ALLURING ALINE HANCOCK
....Graduating WCHS senior
Miss Aline “Cookie” Hancock
Is “Beauty Of The Week”
by bherleen McKoy
Post Staff Writer
Our beauty for this week is
(Aline “Cookie" Hancock, a
graduating senior at West
Charlotte High School.
Cookie’s immediate post
graduation plan is to go into
nursing for about two years.
By June 18, she hopes to be
working at Memorial Hospital
and taking nursing classes.
I’ve always wanted to be a
nurse, “Cookie said,” I like to
help others if I can.”
Nursing won’t be entirely
new to Cookie because she’s
taken nursing classes for
three years while still in high
school.
Cookie is also interested in
modeling. After two vears of
nursing she plans to try her
hand at modeling and if things
don’t work out she can always
fall back on her first love
nursing.
Cookie describes herself as
a very nice young lady who
can get along with anyone,
slow to anger but is really
angry once she’s reached that
stage, likes meeting all kinds
ot people and respects anyone
who shows respect to her.
When asked if she will miss
school, Cookie replied,“Well,
in a way, but I’m really
looking forward to the future
and going into nursing."
Her hobbies are swimming,
dancing, and playing basket
ball and tennis.
(Joome credits her mother £
as being very influential in her
life. "She shows me the way to
be and not to be and the things
to do and not to do," she
explained. “She tells me to
keep my head up whether
situations are good or bad. I’m
thankful for everything that
my mother has done in bring
ing me up and I hope that
someday I will return the
favor to her, no matter what it
takes.”
Cookie recalls that the most
exciting time of her life was
when she and a girlfriend sang
some songs in the Senior
Follies.
“I felt like a movie star,
dressing up and performing on
stage in front of a big crowd
and not being afraid,” she
said.
Adding to Cookie’s happi
ness in life these days is a
young man named Dennis
Young. “He’s one of the nicest
and most respectable young
men I’ve ever met,” Cookie
said fondly,“and I love him
very much.”
Cookie would like to make
her future home out West,
somplace like Los Angeles or
Hawaii.
“I want to do a lot of
traveling," she said, “See the
world and what it’s like.”
The youngest child of Mr.
and Mrs John T. Hancock,
Cookie has four brothers and
four sisters.
She will graduate from West
Charlotte on Thursday, June
14 at S p.m. at the Coliseum
Black Nominated For .
Maryland Judgeship
Washington -- President
Jimmy Carter has announced
he will nominate Joseph C.
Howard, Sr., of Baltimore,
Maryland, to be U.S. district
judge for the District of Mary
land. This is a new judge
ship created by the ( nnibus
Judgeship Act of 1978.
Howard was bom December
9, 1922, in Des Moines, Iowa.
He received a B.A from the
Motion Receives
Federal Solar
Design Grant
The US. Department of
Housing and Urban Develop
ment (HUD) has awarded a
$5,000 solar design grant to
MO^)N, Inc., a non-profit
housPg development corpora
tion in Charlotte. The grant
was made to develop a design
for solar systems in a turn-of
the-century building located
,at 1001 Greenleaf Avenue^^
University ot Iowa in 1950, and
an LL.B. (1955) and M.A.
(1957) from Drake University.
He served in the U.S. Army
from 1944 to 1947.
From 1958 to 1960 Howard
was a probation officer in
Baltimore. From 1960 to 1964
he practiced law with the
Baltimore firm of Howard &
Hargrove. From 1964 to 1968
he was assistant state’s attor
ney for Baltimore City. Since
1968 he has been an associate
judge on the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City.
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During NNPA Convention
Black Publishers To Cite Andy Young
Ambassador to the United
Nations Andrew Young has
been chosen "Man of the
Year" by the National News
paper Publishers Assn
NNPA) - the Black Press of
America.
Announcement oif the results
of the mail balloting was made
last week by John H.
Sengstacke, president of
NNPA and editor-publisher of
the Chicago Daily Defender.
New Pittsburgh Courier.
Michigan and a half-dozen
other newspapers
The Distinguished Service
plaque, honoring the "Man of
the Year,” will be presented to
Ambassador Young during the
39th annual NNPA convention
June 11-m in Tulsa, Okla , at
the new Williams Plaza hotel,
said Sengsta'-kc
Other main highlights of the
convention, the NNPA head
said, will be addresses by
former Gov. Ronald Reagan
of California, NAACP Execu
tive Director Benjamin L.
Hooks, Dr. Leon Sullivan of
Opportunities Industrializa
tion Center (OIC) and ITT
Continental Baking Co. Vice
President Robert W. Morrow.
But the focal points of the
convention, Sengstacke em
phasized, will be two sympo
sia: "The Black Unemploy
ment Problem" and "The
Racial Implications of the
Energy Problem ”
Speakers on the unemploy
ment problem will include
Charles Brown, chairman of
the board of AT4T; Lloyd N
Hand, president of the Nation
al Alliance of Business; Direc
tor Alexis Herman of the
Andrew Young
...UN Ambassador
Women s Bureau. Konald
Brown, vice president of the
National Urban l>eague, and
Rudolph Oswald, chief econo
mic advisor of the AFL-CIO
Blacks and the energy pra
blem will be discussed by Cito
Chinn. Robert Sellers, Hooks
of the NAACP and Williams
Co President Barry Galt The
latter firm laid a large seg
ment of the Alaska pipeline
Others who will discuss the
energy crisis will be Or Ber
nard Anderson of the Rocke
feller Foundation, Wilson
Goode, chairman of the Penn
sylvania Public Utilities Com
mission. and Thomas D Wal
ker Goode, chairman of the
Pennsylvania Public Utilities
Commission, and Thomas D
Walker of Gulf Oil Corp
Presentation of $20,000 in
merit awards to publishers
and newspaper staffers and
plaques to six major adverti
sers in the Black press will
climax the convention
For 80(1000 Families
New Welfare Reform Bill
Seeks Additional Income
President
Appoints
Two Blacks
Washington - President
Jimmy Carter has announced
the appointment of two blacks
among 17 persons to be 1979-80
White House Fellows, the fif
teenth group since the crea
tion of the program They
are:
Kenneth A. Jones, 32, of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
who is manager of Functional
Analysis I, Systems Engineer
ing Department, Pressurized
Water Reactors Division, of
Westinghouse Electric Corpo-1
ration in Pittsburgh;
Paul W. Sweeney, Jr., 28, of
Chevy Chase, Maryland, who
is attorney-associate for the
law firm of Arnold and Porter
in Washington, D.C.
The Fellows, who were
chosen from 1,346 applicants
and screened by 11 regional
panels, will begin their vear of
service with the Federal
government on September 1.
The President’s Commis
sion interviewed 32 national
Finalists before recommend
ing the 17 persons to the
President.
The White House Fellowship
program was established in
1964 to provide outstanding
Americans with firsthand
;xperience in the process of
governing the nation. It is
)pen to U.S. citizens, early in
heir careers, from all occupa
ions and professions Em
ployees of the Federal govern
nent are not eligible, with
he exception of career Armed
forces personnel.
In addition to their job
issignments with the Vice
President, members of the
"abinet, and with the White
House Staff, the Fellows parti
:ipate in an education pro
?ram that includes off-the
record discussions with top
level government officials,
journalists, and leaders from
various other segments of pri
vate life.
Leadership, intellectual and
professional ability, and a
commitment to community
and nation are broad criteria
employed in the selection pro
cess
Applications for the 1980-81
program will be available in
August 1979
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AME Zion Church giving a musical selection Williams. Second row: Lawrence Turner and
for the Youth Recognition Program.” From Carmen Nelson
left to right, first row: Yvonne Nelson. Reba
City To Celebrate Its Roots
by Eileen Hanson
Special to the Post
“Roots of Charlotte’ -a
weekend of festivities June
15-17-will celebrate the contri
butions blacks have made to
humanity and to the city of
Charlotte.
The three-day cultural festi
val will include original
drama and dance presenta
tions, sporting events, artistic
displays, a street march,
booths by organizations and
spiritual contributions.
According to festival
chairman Harold Parks,
Roots of Charlotte was adopt
ed after the Northwest
Committee withdrew from the
city-wide Celebrate Charlotte
program over controversy in
scheduling of events that con
flicted with the Northwest
Side’s already planned
program.
"Refusing to allow hours of
planning already invested to
go down the drain, we are
continuing our efforts for a
community celebration
through the ‘Roots' festival,"
said Parks. "There is room
for everyone to show what
blacks have contributed."
The Afro-American Cultural
Center will co-sponsor the
festival in place of its annual
Afro-Festival in Marshall
Park
The date chosen for the
Roots Festival coincides with
the celebration of “June
teenth” also known as Negro
Nation Day, celebrated in
many parts of the South as the
day the slaves were guaran
teed their freedom by union
troops landing in Galveston.
Texas on June 19, 1865 The
event spelled the effective end
of slavery in the South.
"This day should mean
more to blacks than July 4th,
Independence Day,” said
Carrie Graves when the Equal
Rights Council celebrated
Juneteenth last year with a
picnic in Hornet's Nest Park
This year's Roots Festival
begins Friday, June 15 with a
performance of "God s Trom
bones: A Tribute to the Black
Preacher" by Ebony Group
and Company at Ovens Audi
torium, 7 30 p m This is a
repeat of Ebony's smashing
performance last February to
kick off Black History Month
On Saturday at 9:30 a m a
Street March will start from
two points on the Northwest
side: Willie Stratford Bridge
'Beatties Ford Rd and I 85)
and Statesville and Oaklawn
Avenue The two parades will
merge at Beatties Ford and
Oaklawn for a grand march to
Johnson C Smith University
Churches, businesses,
schools and organizations are
invited to enter the parade
with floats, banners, bands,
choirs or marching units
Throughout the afternoon
there will be booths and exhi
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churches, civic, fraternal and
social organizations The
Metrohna Artists Association
will display and sell their
artistic works, and senior citi
zens groups will have special
arts and crafts booths
The affiliate groups of the
Afro-American Cultural
Center will entertain with
dance, music and drama
Sports and recreational activi
ties will be held for all ages
On Saturday evening, June
18 a group of young dancers
will perform a dance-drama
written especially for Roots of
Charlotte by Henrietta Rhe
drick The performers are
under the direction ot Rffie
Waterman and John C Young
The performance will be at
West Charlotte High School at
7 30pm Admission is tl 00
"Faith” is the theme for
Sunday's celebrations All
black churches are asked to
have their worship services
include the contributions of
blacks to humanity and to the
city of Charlotte.
In the afternoon, church
choirs and ensembles will
present an "Afternoon of
Black Music" at Hornets Nest
Park on Beatties Ford Road
from 2-6 p m Covered dishes,
picnic baskets and church
spreads will give a sense of
community and add to the
afternoon of spirituals.
Cos pel, traditional, jazz and
contemporary music.
"We anticipate a festive
atmosphere to prevail over
the black community for the
entire weekend." said Parks,
urging organizations and
churches to participate in
large numbers "Your parti
cipation will re-ernphasize to
the greater Charlotte commu
nity that we have ‘unity’ in our
'black) community."
Members of the planning
committee for Roots of Char
lotte include Parks 'chair
man), I. C Coleman
'co-chairman), Sarah Cole
man 'secretary), Harold
Winston (parade coordina
tor), Katherine Chapman
'Senior Citizen displays) and
Thnmesina Massey For more
information contact Harold
Parks '333-5116-days) or
Sarah Coleman (392-3149'
Morticians To
Stage (ionvention
In Asheville1
The Funeral Directors and
Morticians Association of
North Carolina. Inc will hold
their 52nd Annual Convention
in Asheville, N C at the Inn on
the Plaza. June 12. 13 and 14
from 9am 1pm each day
Donald Jordan. Funeral
Director from Cincinnati.
Ohio will be the keynote
speaker at an Awards Ban
quel on Wednesday evening at
8pm
An Education Program on
Thursday at 9 a m will fea
ture Fred Baker. Assistant
Director of Fayetteville Tech
nical Institute's Department
of Mortuary Science and
Charles Perinchief of Ttates
ville Casket Company on
Retail Planning and Manage
men!
The western district
Funeral Directors Association
is hosting the Convention
400,000 New
Jobs Will Be
Created
by William J Crutchfield
Post Staff Writer
The AFL-CIO NEWS report s
that President Carter has sent
Congress a welfare reform
proposal that he said would
result in more adequate ass is
tance to those who cannot
work and improved job oppn
tunities for family heads who
"can and should work.
The news report said “Its
thrust is in the direction urged
by the AFL-CIO but its assis
tance standards fall short of
an Executive Council recon
mendation that benefits be not
less than the poverty cutoff
level.”
On the plus side, the news
sighted that the Adminis'ia
tion proposal would result m
additional income for 800,ow
families in states with lower
benefit levels and create
400,000 new job and training
opportunities through an
expansion of the Comprehen
sive Employment & Training
Act (CETA). The report said
“It would make two-parent
families eligible for assistance
in all 50 states Twenty-four
states now deny welfare bene
fits to families with two
parents living together."
In scope and cost, the report
said, the program is smaller
than a proposal Carter mad
two years ago. which never
reached a vote in either the
House or Senate The cost of
the new plan is estimated at
$5.7 billion in its first full year,
of which $2.7 billion would be
the net cost of new job and
training programs and $5*mj
million would be the savings to
states from federal assump
tion of a larger share of
welfare costs
According to the report, th~
Administration's welfare r*‘
form bill would establish a
federally-financed minimum
family benefit of 65 percent of
the povety level through a
combination of cash payments
plus food stamps The report
said ' That's higher than 1.1
states now provide and it
would narrow the wide gap
that now exists " It added
that the current national
poverty level is $7,200 for a
family of four Present bene
fits for welfare families of that
size, combining federal food
stamp allotments and state
determined cash payments
range from $3,540 a year in
Mississippi to $6 540
in Vermont
The news report said “A
separate Work A Training
Opportunities Act is propose*'
by the Administration to
generate jot* and training for
able-bodied heads of welfare
households, those who are
expected to work.” The
federal government would put
up 90 percent of the funds for a
state administered job search
program that would combine
referrals to private-sector
jobs with arrangements for
supportive services such as
child care, transportation and
medical care
if. after eight weeks of
active job search, the welfare
family heads were still unem
ployed, the report said that
jobs or job training would be
provided under CETA pro
grams that in most cases
include a mix of jobs and
training