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- V n^H « YOUR BEST --- ADVERTISING MEDIA OflYYY^ /\VV V V\ V k ^ ^ _ BLACK NEWSPAPERS ssr6 THE PuSflT ITTP PAQT CAM 376^496 | X AlJj VlUjOUllJj " X X Ij X V/O X HI.ACK CONSCMERS Carter Is Not To Blame Special to the Post The National Executive Board of the Nation’s oldest and largest black-led in dependent labor union, the National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (NAPFE), meeting in Chicago early this month, drafted the following state ment concerning President Carter’s low standing in the polls: We believe that to lay the blame for all the country’s ills on President Carter would give him more credit than he has earned. Futhermore, our system of checks and balances pro hibits the placement of so much power in one man. W'e must give at least a little credit for runaway infla tion, unemployment and the energy crisis to our 435 members of Congress and 100 Senators and Mr. Carter’s predecessors in the White House. Carter’s apparent inept ness in the White House and his flip Hop stand on major issues is not in dispute. In the wake of the post Watergate era, it is little wonder that American voters were willing to elect a Ixwi-again Christian who had a case against the in siders in Washington, for the highest position in the free world. Many are now saying that Mr. Carter belongs in Sun day School - not in the White House. Whether Mr. carter belongs m the White house or not, he must be judged on merit. The National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees applauds Mr. Carter for the appointment of minority persons to the federal bench and cabinet level positions. We were similarly pleased when he recommended that sanctions against Rhodesia be main tained. He is to be com mended for the appointment of Andrew Young as the u. a. /vmoassaaor to the United Nations. For his domestic budget cuts, his 5.5 percent pay cap for federal employees, his voluntary wage-price guidelines, and most impor tantly, his handling of OPEC, President Carter ieserves very low marks. In deed. At no time in history has our nation been at the mercy of developing nations. We believe that our problems with the Oil Producing Ex porting Countries could tij^e been avoided with pro per leadership and support form Congress. Harvey Gantt I)i*co A Gantt Gathering, fund raising disco, will be "held at the Excelsior Club on Beat ties Ford Road Sunday, September 2nd from 9 p.m. until I a m. Donations are $2 for the event to raise funds for Flarvey Gantt’s mayoral TUKUMN* Some minds are uke con :rete - They're either all mix sd up or permanently set. (Photo by Jerry Curry) ALLURING WANDA DAVIS ...Myers Park Junior Miss Wanda Davis Is Beauty Of Week by Sherleen McKoy Post Staff Writer Our beauty for this week is Wanda Davis, a rising junior at Myers Park High School At Myers Park, Wanda is a letter girl and manager for the varsity girls’ basketball team. She also served as captain of the Derita Drill Team for three years and as a cheer leader for one year. Last year, Wanda was selected as “Stu dent of the Day” at Myers Park. Wanda is also engaged in various activities at her chur ch, New Zion Baptist, where she serves as president of the Youth Department, secretary of the Junior Usher Board and president of the Mount Peace Association’s Youth Department. In 1977, she was crowned “Miss Mount. Peace in July of this year, Wanda attended the Woman's Baptist Home and Foreign Missions Convention held here in Char lotte. She won second place in a “ Have A Heart contest” in the Youth Department during convention. She recited a poem entitled, “Climb Until Your Dream Comes True.” Describing herself. Wanda said “I am easy to get along Gty Government To Observe Labor Day Holiday All offices of Charlotte Ci ty government will be closed on Monday, September 3, in observance of Labor Day. Regular business hours will be resumed at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, September 4. Due to the holiday the Ci ty Sanitation Division will not collect curbside trash during the week. Homeowners are requested to keep all trash off the curb until Tuesday, September 11 for collection on Wednes day, September 12. Each household will still receive two backyard gar bage collections. Pick ups will be made on a Tuesday - Thursday and Wednesday Friday schedule. The York Road Landfill will operate on a regular schedule Monday through Saturday. The Department of Animal Control located at 2700 Toomey Avenue will provide emergency services only on Labor Day. There will be no meeting of the Charlotte City Coun cil on Labor Day. The next regular meeting will be held on Monday, September 10. with, I like 10 talk to people who have problems and most of the time 1 like to encouragr people.” Her hobbies are playing tennis and bike-riding. Wanda’s plan after graduat ion is to attend either North Carolina State University in Raleigh or Winston-Salem State University. Business minded, she desires to become an-executive secretary. wanda credits her parents as being the mo6t influential persons in her life. "They always encourage and support me in everthing I do,” she explained. Recalling the time that she was captain of the Drill Team, Wanda said that was one of her most exciting happenings. "I was the only black on the team and I was made contain because I was the best., ” she reminisced, adding, "I felt that I was important because everyone was watching me.” When asked to cite some thing that she has always wanted to do, Wanda replied that she wanted to become a millionaire, but seeing how the times are she quickly_ remarked "I was just dream ing.” instead of becoming a mill ionaire, she has opted to take a trip to Paris someday, “just to see how it looks and to get in on some of the styles.” The oldest of two children, Wanda is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd A. Davis. Dr. Maxwell To Participate In African Diaspora Studies By Susan Ellsworth Post Staff Writer Dr. Bertha L. Maxwell, Di rector of Afro-American stud ies at UNCC, will participate in the African Diaspora Stud-, ies Institute, to be held Aug. 26-30 at Howard University in Washington, D C. One hundred representa tives from Africa, the U.S., Europe and the Carribean will discuss how to research the migration of blacks through out the world, and the status of teaching and research in the diaspora field in African coun tries and the United States. How to inromorato AMcin and Afro-American history in courses and texts, the availab ility of courses for diaspora research and ino./idual Afri can countries will also be examined. Divided into four sections, the workshop will consist of discussions on content, con text, methodology, and cur rent and needed research stat ...A.A.A. studies director us of diaspora programs in Africa. Dr Maxwell, who will par take in the roundtable talks, said she was chosen as a participant because of UNCC’s exceptional Afro American studies program. ‘‘UNCC’s a national model for Afro-American studies. It’s one of the best in the country,’’ she asserted. Other members will include Victor Uchendu, University of Illinois, Urbans; Leonard Jefferies, The City college of N.Y.; Richard Long, Atlanta University; and Russell Adams, Howard University. Among those delivering spe cial lectures will be Dr. Saint Clair Drake, Professor Emeri tus, Stanford University; and Dr. John Hope Franklin, chairperson, The University of Chicago Mayoral Candidates To Be Queationed At (Community Forum A community forum, featur ing Democratic maydrai can didates Harvey Gantt utd Eddie Knox, will be held Wed nesday, Sept 12 at 7 p m in the Excelsior Club, 921 Beat ties Ford Road. National Black Leaders Score Young’s Resignatioi Changes In School Lunch Pattern Set Students and parents will have a stronger voice in school lunches under U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations to take effect this fall. The regulations an nounced this week also pro vide new menu options for school lunch managers, ac cording to Assistant Secretary Carol Tucker Foreman. Foreman said the regula tions are part of a major change in school lunch pat terns proposed almost two years ago. Based on interim regulations published las: August, the department has conducted Field tests of the new patterns and schools have been free to use them on a voluntary basis. The department planned to publish final regulations as a unit. However, contrac tor delays in providing results from the Field tests made this impossible. Also the department prefers to pected revision in the Recommended Dietary Allowances published by the National Academy of Sciences that may effect pro posed portion sizes. “We need complete infor mation on the impact of new meal patterns on nutrition, administration and cost,"' before any further regula tions are issued," Foreman said. In the meantime, based on comments received, the department has issued the following rules in Final form: -Rice and pasta and cereal grains such as bulgur and corn grits may be served as bread alternates. This will increase menu choices, par ticularly in areas where rice or pasta arc staples of ethnic see Changes on page 12 j GATORADE GOES GOOD WITH GOLF! i piajrcu guu au lu&ru, oaioraae is me only thing that will cool me off," five year old Kennet h Moore means to communicate in this , D'cture Kenneth, the non of Carolyn^Moore of Charlotte, borrowed photograpuei je»ry Curry’s clothes tnd golf equipment to pose at Revolution Park here with one of Curry s favorite thirst quenchers "He’d folios Jerry anywhere to have h:s picture la«.. '•3;.?. Kenneth's grandmother. Ruth I illy < wry began photographing Kenneth four years ago President Carter Authorizes Additional Food Stamp Funding “Legislation signed last week by President Carter will enable us to continue food stamp operations in September without closing the program down or reduc ing benefits,” Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland said today. The legislation also in cludes several administration proposals to further reduce error and fraud in the pro gram, along with special pro visions to increase benefits for the elderly and disabled with high medical or shelter costs. The new law authorizes an additional $620 million for food stamps in fiscal year 1979. The U.S. Department of Agriculture exnerts that up to $500 million of this amount will be needed to avoid closing the program entirely or reducing benefits in September; the last month of the fiscal year. Action to cut benefits because of a fun ding shortfall would be un ' precedented in the history of the 15-year-old program. Bergland said the addi tional funds are needed primarily because an unan ticipated increase in food prices, to which food stamp benefits are indexed, has pushed program costs above the ceiling on spending con tained in the 1977 Food Stamp Act. When the spen ding ceiling was enacted, food inflation was nrr>i#»rt/rl at between three and four percent a year. But, in the two years since, food prices have risen nearly 20 percent. To a lesser extent, in creases in food stamp par ticipation have raised pro gram costs, too. The pro gram has recently undergone sweeping reforms. Administration pro posals enacted by Congress have tightened and simolifted oroeram imnosed tarter Pick* Black For Impact Program Washing ton-President Jimmy Carter has announced the appointment of Franklin L. Lewis to be a member of the Commission on the Review of the Federal Impact Aid Pro gram. Lewis is a member of the Nebraska State Legislature and a former chairman of its Education Committee He is a former classroom teacher The Commission was creat ed in November, HITS. lougn penalties ioi n.uia and reduced or terminated benefits tor higher income households. \t the same time, the admmisiiation's proposal to eliminate the re quirement that households buy their food stamps has brought into the program several million new par ticipant s w ho had pres iousls been eligible lor food stamps I nit lad smiph been unable *<> attord them. Man; ot these ;xi-ons are the elderly and rural poor, whose participation rate has historically been vets low Because thes have entered the program at a lastei rate and are poorer than predicted, they base reach ed larger Ixmeti's |.«i more months id the fiscal scat Grirr Heights Coalition To Honor f lir«*«* The Grier Heights Coalition, it community group will pre sent a I-abor Day Reunion and Homecoming on Monday, September 3 This affair will begin with a parade at 10:30 a m on 201 Fannie Circle and Orange Street An all day affair, the day will consist of baseball games, horseshoe pitching, gospel singing, hands, disco dancing and food The three oldest members of the Grier Heights community will also f>e honored at this time - Mrs Carrie P Reid, Mrs Marry Wallace and Mrs Molly Grier Mrs Zelma R Sullivan is the chairman of the Coalition We’re Sorry! Your Charlotte Poet I* being delivered late thie week due to mechanical problem*. We ruret the Inconvenience-~ Black Gr<»i*>s A Support Young Special t NEW YORK . called by Exe • Benjamin L * , NAACP headqu.- s < leaders from uer<.s the .3 • arrived at a h ■’ ,--ai '•oui sus They deline-' ther lonshipwith Arne, u nr. • in the wake of \i, ,r Andrew Young as U S Permani itepn ■ e: • ative to the Ci ?d Natter while expre- sing the inhere - rights of tracks to tie involve ' in all aspects Of l S lnrpi{;i-, policy Ouring the four hour ;tv:•*. Ing. the 200 leaders and < sentatives of civil right- -d fraternal organize' are churches and other group. adopted statements supply ing Ambassador Ycie-g well as the .H* .i.n - Lowers head of t'.i-> <o< :t' - Christian Leaders!)';; < > ence. and on Black- -j . -n Relations and Black? Foreign Affairs " Join.ng Mr Hooks in co ven ng the meeting were Ve non E Jordan Jr or- ,-v - National Urban League '■ die Williams, president .'enter for Political St in- e* Mrs Coretta Scot* King pr • sident, the Martin Liith" K -,i Jr Center for Social Chanye Rep Parren Mitchell of M.-r land and a member of gressional Black Caucus the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head ‘ PUSH, the Rev Leon Sullivan head of OIC in Philadelphia. Mrs Dorothy Height, presi dent, National Council of Ne gro Women, Franklin Willi ams. president, the Phelps Stokes Fund. Dr. Kernt th Clark, psychologist M Cur Holman, president, Na.onoi U’rban Coalition, Mayor Ri< h ard Hatcher of Gary, Ind , “... Maxine Waters, California a semblywoman, Ms Veid. ’ come. Mary land State Senator and Ms. Vel Phillips. Wiscon sin Secretary of State Central to the meeting was the concern that Mr Young had aroused undue and unfair criticism, especially from some Jewish groups and the news media, because he ha* met with a P I, o represent ative in an attempt to obtain » postponement of a IN v curity Council meeting on th" Middle East question "We must take into consid eration forthrightly 'he ,ou man component" in -attempt ing to judge whether Am I»n.y.->ainii I 'HJMK min 3 Jl. cause in meeting had a Jlid P L O representative ' Mr Hooks said in the opening statement He felt that the key to a peaceful world it a resolution of the profound diff erences that separate and ow ide peoples for whatever rea son " Consequently, an enlighten ed foreign policy must equate the rights of the Israeli child, the Palestinian child and oth ers in this “International Year of the Child" with “our own children." Ambassador Young, he said, sought to achieve this objective. The continuation of the search for peace in the Middle East, he said, must he “evenhanded and fair-mind ed." “This is not the limp for arrogance or Intransigence, hut a time for mutuality and see Black on pag« U
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