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Ease Up And Save On Gas Special to the Poet Take it easy: the gu you Mve may be your own! These days everyooe seems to be In a hurry to get some but with fuel prices ss as they are we can’t afford to rush. “Rushing increases your chances of getting into an accident and wastes gas,’’ said Bob Checkley, Chrysler * fuel economy expert. It is dangerous and costly to <hrag race the parson next to you to an upcoming stop light. The ago boost you get by winning the race will not be as Ugh as the price you will have to pay for the gas yet) used, or the tickets you gat When you (hive aggressive ly you waste gas and money. “Rapid acceleration can cote tg> to a tan percent lose in fuel economy,” Checkley said. “In an economy bar Ska the Dodge Omni wtech has an EPA city pergaDom tUs ia a U miles Community Staff To Sponsor Attic Sale Saturday The staff of Charlotte Com munity Hospital la an Attic Sale on July 14 from 9 a.m. ta 7 pm, on the grounds behind the Hospital on Mint Street. Free parting in this arm will be pivvMod. In case of rah*, tbe sale will be cancelled and rescheduled for a later date. Proceeds from the sale will be umd to purchase activity materials and fumtaMagi for the newly opened Stroke Unit. Anyone wiaktng to donate items for tale (no clothing, piaaae), may bring them to the front entrance of the hospi tal, 101 South Graham Stroat, from July hrd to July 17th, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday, July 14th, is tbe day on which you can get a bargain at tbe Attic Sale while, at the same time, aid ing a stroke patient in reach ing his [Wwtui for rohabiU tatton. Hospital employees during the sale to answer any gumtlona abort our Stroke Unit and-or about Charlotte Community Hospital. Our patients need your information you may call 377-3141, leave your nemo and phone number and someone wUl contact you Samuel Reid and Local* Graves of the Vole in rhrWte, July 6-7. Task Force provided a volar education (Photo by EUeen Haneoo) workshop at the N.C. Client Cowell meeting tor Poor People. Client Council Seeks Legal Aid by Eileen Hanson Special to the Past There are 1.4 million poor people in North Carottna eligi ble for free legal services, but many of them don’t even know it. Lest weekend, 00 represen tatives Of local Client eemrth met at the Radiasoc Hotel in Charlotte to disease legal problems of low-income peo ple and how to educate them to legal services and their rights. Workshops ranged from practical discussions on bow to conduct a meeting to issues of competency tests, juvenile programs, housing, health care and voter education. "The central task of the cHent councils is to teach poor people to know the law and how to use it to their advan tage,” said Carrie Graves, , Chair nf the Chant Council of Southern Piedmont Legal Ser rices. "Poor people are always running into legal pro blems with the Department of Sods! Services, the landlord, the school system, the unem ployment office.” , v Cheat councils are active in anitorina cogsumer issue. * • } * licenses Renewal y fiave Changed RALEIGH—Renewal of chauffeur licensee has been changed by the 1979 General Assembly. As of last week, ail chauf feur licenses will expire on the birthday of the licensee in the fourth year following the year of issuance. Previously, the chauffeur license expired on the second year after issuance. The new fee for this Bcecne is 119; previously it was |i. Chauffeur license renewal cards for July and August showing expiration da tea of two yean were nulled prior to pftfigft of this legislation in June. Division of Motor Vehicles personnel will retype all renewal cards presented on or after July 1 at tMver license examining stations. An information flyer is being mailed with the renewal cards to chauffeur Beenes as to explain these changes. Keep your out-of-town friends Informed on what’s happening in Charlotte by sending them a copy of the Charlotte Post each week. The coat is only 913.53 per year. and training clients about the law to they can solve their own problems without s lawyer. The cheat j—Mi are affiliated with tfaa Legal Services Corporation, a pri vate, non-profit organiration established and funded by Oongraae in 1974 to provide quality legal services for the nation’s 39 million poor. In the Charlotte area, ser vices are provided by Legal Services of the Southern Pied mont (Lapd AM) located at 403 S.Tryon(37*-ieQ9). Clients are according to in come and family fine. A person in nsed of legal assist ance <*n for iq inter view to determine ehgifaUity. Inability to use the legal system can be dtaasteroua for low-income families where lack of education and job insecurity lead to a marginal wtplwrw. For many the law is orudal far survival. Tenant unemployment benefits, sodal eervkee and family law arw the chief areas of concern of Legal Services. Criminal cases are not ahgMa. > I “We worked bard on the 1977 Landlord-Tenants bill and the 1979 Retaliatory Eviction Defense bill,”, she said. Both state laws expanded and clari fied the rights of tenants. Since political muscle is needed to change laws, the voter education and registra tion session was one of the key workshops last weekend. Organized by Samuel Reid and Lonnie Graves of the Vote Task Force, the message was “your vote does count.” Graves reminded partici pants, “District representa tion in Charlotte passed by only S8 votes two years ago. Every vote was important” The Southern Piedmont Client Council will actively work in voter registration dur ing the coming months. “This is top priority,” said Hattie Harris, local treasurer. “Our main push is to get the lS-year olds to register and to vote.” According to Ms. Graves, there are 25 local active mem bers in the council and they are looking for new members. Anyone eligible for legal ser vice* or their “allies” am *eWon*y« Join. _Contactj Currie Graves at 374-0*57 for Here August 3-5 Belton Family Reunion Planned by Hoyle H. Martin, 8r. Post Editorial Writer An entourage of approxi mately 1,000 family from about 01 states will visit the City of Charlotte to partici pate in die Seventh Annual Belton Family Herndon to be held oo August 3, 4 and S, 117*. The 3-day event win be boated by the Charlotte Bolton Family District and will bo headquartered at the Sheraton Motel. Highlighting the echo dule of events will be a bus tour of the city, a visit to Carowinds, a fashion-talent show, a business misting, e disco, and religious ofaew vances. The keynote speaker for the banquet will be Robert Belton, a professor of law at Vanderbilt University, Nash ville, Tennessee. The coming together of the Belton clan is more than a reunion • it is more a unique family institution extraordi naire. There is a — tfawi board of directors, family dis trict representatives, a family emblem, a motto, family dues, a constitution and a family chaplain. Research by Belton family members has traced the family’s existence in America as far back as IMS, the year Levi Belton, the grandfather of Joe and Moses Belton, was bora. Joe Bolton, 66 and a rati rod Chariot te-Mecklen burg School administrator, Mid “Tha family’s origins are uaclsar due to the slave trade. . However, several of the eider*' in the Belton clan behave the family originated from the tribes of the Sooghai Empire in what is now Central Nige ria. It is believed that Sounl Belton was a pure African who is a descendant of Sonni All, King of the Sooghia Empire from 1464 to 14B2. Sonni, we believe, was brought as a ■lave to Maryland and even tually transported from Virgi nia to the Belton Plantation in eastern rairflaidCnmty, S.c., in a section called Longtown. From these roots, the Belton Family of over 1,700 has spread to about 46 states today.” Joe Belton added, “The old est living member of the Belton Family la believed to be my first cousin, Mrs. Annie Jackson of Winnsboro, S.C., who was born in Fairfield County. S.C.” Mark Belton, 55, a Charlotte resident and the arrange ments chairman for this year’s family reunion, pointed to a statement in the family’s 6th reunion booklet program that says, “The late S. B. Belton^remarke^many times before he (had, 'It would be a Joyous hleeeing U all of the family member* could congregate and Just be toget her end love one aaottMr.’” Mark Belton uid “From that beginning many yean age informal family dtaMn wm held until tha first formal Bel too Family reunion waa held in Columbia, S.C., in 1979. In 1974 approximately 9,799 Beltons attended the reunion, also held in Columbia.” Mark and Joe Beltoa told the Post further that the Beltoa constitution, adopted at the 1979 family reunion, has as its purpose the promoting of the annual reunion, foetaring ftaMMtr aed g—rational ttan and developing research records on family genealogy. Albert MrPnMal, a 38-year old Beltoa family member of Akron, Ohio, said at last year’s reunion, “Belton Fam ily Reunions are the epitome of family organization and cooperation.” Among those participating in this year's Belton Family Reunion will be the 35 local or Charlotte area Belton house holds, according to the Rev. Moses Belton, 69, and former public relations director st Johnson C. Smith University. With a gleam in Ms eye and a proud expression on Ms face, JOMpO tt0fetOD ...Retired educator Joe Belton said, “The annual reunion Is like a convention, we look forward to it to fellowship and see and feel much of our past and a part of future,"_ Q - - -* support Our Advertkero! St ART EVERY THURSDAY .WITH THE CHARLOTTE POST Call Bonner Sadler Circulation Director 376-0496 - \ Throughout the years, countless schemes and outright rackets have deprived the Black community of millions of dollars of gross income. They’ve wasted the talents and skills of legions of Black youths. We’ve had more than our share of pimps, hookers, grafters, pushers, boosters, and bunco artists. oui, wmenuw, we ve survived. However, as I travel today to many of the cities in America, I am frightened by what I see happening to Black Americans. Blacks are so busy doing their Own thing, ' they fail to recognize the big rip-off being perpetrated by the power structure. Not racism. But rather, how our greed and stereotyped self-image blind us to the tricks of "the man.” Instead of using our God-given minds, too many Black people shrilled "right on” when the National Administration and certain cities pushed for the decriminalization of marijuana possession. Like lambs being led to slaughter, too many Blacks smiled approval. Because it strengthened their rationale that grass isn't harmful I can t give an opinion baaed on personal experience, but baaed on statements from former addicts who appear at drug abuse seminars sponsored by my employer, marijuana users can develop a ■ psychological dependence on the drug. Which can lead to harder stuff. And a harder road. We have a hard enough time getting a first chance. When you leave it to the discretion of the police to arrest or reprimand an individual, how many Blacks do you think will get a second chance. Let's get smart and resist all programs that will make it easy for any pusher to operate in our neighborhoods. The life yo save may be your son's. I Your daughter's. Your brother’s. Your sister’s. Or, your own. 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