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MISS DEBORAH DIANE BROWN
V ....K-Mart Apparel manager
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Beauty Of Week
SherleenMcKoy -
* Post Staff Writer
Our beauty for this week is
DeOorah Diane Brown, an
Apparel Manager for K-Mart
department Store in Rock
full, S.C.
, A native of-Chester, S.C.,
Diane graduated from tVin
tfirop College in Rock Hill in
yf. She majored in Fashion
Merchandising with an em
phasis in Business.
The department that she
npianages is run much like a
lease department, according
th Diane. “As Apparel Man
ager, I am responsible for
the hiring and firing of all
rlepArtment personnel,
merchandise planning, pay
roll administration, inventory
control and everything else
that involves the Apparel De
partment,” she said.
After graduating from Win
throp, Diane moved to Char
lotte to work as an Assistant
Apparel Manager in the K
Mart Store on Freedom Drive.
Later she was promoted to
her present position and was
transferred to the store in
Rock Hill, where after search
ing unsuccessfully for an
apartment there, she decided
to stay in Charlotte.
- Describing herself as a
friendly person, Diane said
that she likes to read, dance,
listen to music, play tennis,
and most of all to sew.
“My biggest desire at one
time was to become a fashion
designer,” she said. “But the
schools were too far away and
too expensive."
Diane credits her family
and friends as having been the
driving force in her life.
“My parents helped a lot
_and encouraged me to, pursue
a career," she said. “My
friends and I would sit around '
and talk about what we were
going to do and then we set out
to prove we were going to do
it.”
A person who tries to look at
the optimistic side of things,
Diane said that she always
likes to go into a situation with
a positive attitude so that the
end result might be positive
too.
Diane’s future plans are to
continue in her career and to
someday become a Buyer. “In
fact, I intend to become a
Buyer,” she stated most
assuredly.
She also hopes to start a
family someday along with
her career.
During her senior year at
Winthrop, Diane was the
President of the undergrad
uate chapter of Zeta
Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
The daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Brown Jr., Diane
has four brothers and one
sister. She is the fourth child
and the oldest girl.
Vote task force io
Stage Gospel Sing Rally
Under the banner “Pro
mote that Vote,” the Vote
Task Force will hold a Gospel
(tinging and Rally on Sunday
September 23 at A may James
Presbyterian Church, 2400
West Blvd. beginning at 4 p m
The public is invited.
After leading a successful
campaign that registered
2,500 new black voters in
Charlotte, Task Force is
now working to get that vote
out for the Sept 25 primary
elections. t
According to Task Force
vies chairman Lonnie Graves.
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Courtesy Is too cheap for
some people to be interested in
it.
"We expect a good turnout in
the black community, We
want people to be part of
what’s happening in our city.”
Sunday's program will draw
attention to the importance of
voting. The Task Force is a
non-partisan orrganizatlon
and will not endorse any can
didates. Its primary purpose
is getting voters to the polls.
To assist those who need
transportation on Tuesday,
the Task Force has a special
number to call for rides :37V
9537. Phones are staffed from
9 a m. to 10 p.m. daily, and
from 6 a m. to 7 p.m. the day
of the primaries.
Sunday's program will feat
ure Gospel choirs from sev
eral churches, including St
Paul’s baptist Church Choir.
Invited quest speakers are
Rev. James Palmer, Univer
sity Park Baptist Church, and
Rev. James Barnett, head of
People United for Justice.
Samuel Reid, chairman of the
Vote Task Force will also
speak
Pastor of Amay James
Church is Rev. M.A. Coch
rane.
Culp: “Charlotteans Will Go To
Polls In Large Numbers Tuesday”
Joblessness
Climbs To
6 Per Cent
Unemployment rose
three-tenths of 1 percent
to 6 percent in August as
the ongoing economic
downturn began to
make itself felt in the
job market.
The increase showed
“the first statistically
significant” rise in
overall unemployment
since July 1978 when the
rate recorded a one
month rise of three
tenths of 1 percent to 6.1
percent, BLS Commis
sioner Janet L. Norwood
told the congressional
Joint Economic Com
mittee.
Much of the increase
in joblessness last
month was due to a
sharp jump of 20,000 in
the number of worker
layoffs.
Unemployment
among adult women'
rose substantially, from
5.5 to 5.9 percent, and
for teenagers, from 15.3
to 16.5 percent, while the
adult male unemploy
ment rate rose slightly,
from 4.1 to 4.2 percent.
Black unemployment
remained at a high
level, rising two-tenths
of 1 percent to 11 per
cent.
The monthly BLS
survey of employment
and unemployment
showed a continuing .
rise in the employment
of service workers and a
slight decline in employ
ment in construction,
manufacturing,
transportation and
utilities.
Democratic Voters Will
Decide Between Gantt, Knox
By Eileen Hanson
Special to the Post
Charlottes ns will go the the
polls in large numbers Tues
day September 25 to select
their city’s future leaders.
The key primary race will
decide who will run for mayor
of Charlotte in the November
general election. Democratic
voters will have to decide
between Harvey Gantt, Bren
da Hilliard or Eddie Knox as
their candidate. Republicans
will vote for Barry Miller or
Carl Payler.
In the at-large City Council
race 7 deomocrats are running
for four slots. They are Dave
Berryhill, Betty Chafin,
Franklin (Stuff) Durham,
John Harding, Willie (Bill)
Payne, Marnite Shuford and
Herbert Spaugh, Jr.
There is no contest on the
Republican side of the City
Council ticket.
Two district seats on City
Council are being contested in
the primaries. In District 2
currrent councilman Charles
Dannelly faces Sylvia McCall
Jordan. In District 6 James
Breneman faces Sandy Jud
son. There are no primary
contests in Districts 1, 3, 4, 5,
and 7.
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ty affiliation will have an
opportunity to vote on two
bond issues, $8,175,000 to ex
pand and extend the sewer
system and $3,825,000 to ex
pand and extend the water
system.
Election Supervisor William
Culp expects a large voter
turn-out in Tuesday’s pri
mary.
“I anticipate 45-50,000 vot
ers or about 30 per cent will go
to the polls,” said Culp. A
usual primary turn-out is 20
percent. “This race has gain
ed more attention than usual
and we have a large number of
new voters.” according to
Culp, who says 6,000 have been
added to the rolls in recent
weeks.
About 2,500 of those new
voters are black, giving the
city a total of 28,019 black
voters, 18 percent of the total.
“This substantial increase
is due in part to the coordinat
ed efforts of the Vote Task
Force, ” said Culp.
The non-partisan Vote Task
Force held voters registration
drives in several black neigh
borhoods throughout the sum
mer around the theme,
"Come Alive and Vote.”
The Task Force will provide
rides to the polling places on
Tuesday for anyone who needs
one. Voters should call 375
9537. Volunteers are also
needed to staff phones and
give rides .
i ne uuy s ni voting pons
will be open from 6:30 a.m. to
7:30 p m on Sept. 25. Curb
side voting will be available
for the handicapped if they
can get someone to bring them
to the curb outside the poll.
All other voting will be by
machine. Instructions are
available at every voting poll,
and voters may request assis
tance from a friend, a relative
or judge
For information about
where to vote, contact the
Elections Office 374-2133 be
tween 8 a m and 5 p m.
It is not too late to register
for the Nov. 6 general election.
The deadline is Oct. 8.
Registration is available at
the Elections Office, 710 E 4th
Eddie Knox
..Popular candidate
Street, the Mobile City Hall, or
any branch of the Public /
Library, Mechanics and
Farmers Bank or First Union
Bank. _____
Local You tli To
Appear In New
Alex Haley Series
by Valerie Lynch
Post Staff Writer
Hollywood Scouts for
the CBS mini-series
“King of the Hills,”
chose 10-year-old Gar
rett Nash of Charlotte as
one of the finalist to ap
pear in Norman Lears
Production of the new
Alex Haley series.
Garrett, along with
Craig Barris, of
Monroe, Simon Kahn
and Ranee Arron, Jr. of
Charlotte have been to
Durham for further
competition with four
other North Carolina
undldiHi Harvey Gantt (Mayor) and
Marnite Stauford (City Council at-large) dis
cuss politics on the campaign trail, city pri
mary elections are Tues. Sept. 25. (Photo by
Eilene Hanson)
Affirmative Action Means
Active Efforts To Cure Under
Representation Of Blacks
by Gerald C. Horne
Director-AACC
Affirmative action means,
among other things, active ef
forts to cure the under-rep re
servation of Blacks at all levels
of U. S. society-from doctors
to skilled laborers to engine
ers.
But at the same time we
must be aware that Blacks are
over-represented in certain
areas of U.S. society—and I’m
not talking about the National
Basketball Association. Like
recently deposed U.N. Am
bassador Andrew Young, I’m
talking about the over-repre
sentation of blacks in U. S.
prisons-specifically political
prisoners.
necenuy, me national in
ference of Black Lawyers
(along with the United Church
of Christ-Commission for Ra
cial Justice and the National
Alliance Against Racist and
Political Repression) spon
sored a delegation of distin
guished international jurists
who investigated the severe
conditions in this nation's pri
sons and allegations of gross
violations of human rights.
The delegation’s tour was a
follow-up to the historic peti
tion presented to the United
Nations on December 11, 1978
by NCBL and the other co
sponsors.
Though reams of news print
are devoted in this country to
rcwjjic, .soviet
dissidents," and the like, there
was a virtual “white-out” in
this nation’s press about this
highly significant investiga
tion-which by the way captur
ed the rapt attention of the in
ternational press.
Such self-imposed censor
ship is even more shocking
given the distinction and re
nown of the jurists. Included
the panel were:Chief Judge
Per Eklund of Sweden; Sir
Arthur Hugh McShine, former
Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court in Trinidad; Sergio I.
Barrios, former Minister of
Justice under the Allende Gov
ernment in Chile; Ifeanyi
Ifebigh, attorney and editor of
the well-known political jour
nal “Taxaw” from Senegal;
Justice Harish Chandra,
Judge of the High Court of In
dia; and Richard Harvey,
barrister and Executive Com
mittee member, British sec
tion of the International As
sociation of Democratic Law
yers.
TTKio nKiont Inn
to this country with no biases
and no preconceived notions
was shocked at what they
termed "a consistent pattern
of gross and reliably attested
violations of the human and
legal rights of minorities in
cluding policies of racial dis
crimination and segregation.’’
Their final report speaks of
thousands of ‘‘political prison
ers” in this country but sin
gles out for special attention
names that while unfamiliar
to many in this country are a
"cause celebre” abroad:
Rev. Ben Chavis and the Wil
mington 10, the Charlotte 3,
Assata Shakur and Dundiata
Acoli, the Republic of New
Afrika Defendants, Ed Poin
dexter and David Rice, El
mer Pratt, Ted and Russell
Means, the Four Puerto Rican
Nationalists (imprisoned long
er than any other political pri
soners in the Western Hemis
phere-over 25 years), Tommy
Lee Hines, George Merritt and
Gail Madden, Gary Tyler, the
Napanoch Defendants, the
Reidsville Defendants, Imani
.See ACTIVE on page 5
residents for a film clip
ping that has been sent
to Norman Lear. Gar
rett said after looking at
the clips, “I think I
might have a good
chance at getting the
role. We’re still waiting
for the results.”
Over 280 boys were in
competition I^abor Day
at WBTV’s studio for the
roles of Booker T and
David. Garrett said that
he really didn’t wanf to
go to the studio for
tryouts but his mom in
sisted. The eligibility re
Siirements were that
ese boys be ag
gressive and energetic
and possess charisma to
catch the audience's
eye. Booker T. should be
a black boy and David,
should have blonde hair
with blue eyes. Both
stand 54 inches tall.
Mrs. Addie Nash,
Garrett’s mother said,
that as soon as she
heard about the
Hollywood Scouts being v
in town her son was ad
mitted to competition
“He wasn't happy about
it at first but now that
he's a finalist his feel
ings have changed.”
Here October 20
Charlotte Business League
To Hear Coleman Young
By Eilene Hanson
Special To the Post
The Honorable Coleman A.
Young, Mayor of Detroit and
Vice Chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee,
will be the guest speaker at
the second annual Awards
Banquet of the Charlotte Busi
ness League, October 20.
The dinner will he held at
ftadisson Plaza Hotel Ball
room. A dance wifi follow the
program. Tickets are $20.
Samuel Young, Jr., pro
gram chairman for the din
ner said Coleman young was
selected as keynote speaker
because he represents ener
getic leadership in the revita
lization of one of America's
largest inner city areas. May
be he'll give us some ideas on
how to get more black Invol
ment In the resurrection of
Charlotte ”
Under Coleman Young's
leadership Detroit has under
gone some major changes, in
cluding the building of Ren
aissance Plaza, a large shop
who made their contributions
during the UMO's and 1950’s.
The nominees will be announc
ed in October 18 edition of The
Charlotte Poet.
The Charlotte Business
League was ogranized two
years ago to eliminate the
isolation of black businesses,
from the business community
at large, to stimulate black
business opportunities and to
eliminate racial discrimina
tion. It has also worked to
educate black business per
sons through its educational
program. The League was
active in securing more mi
nority business involvement
in the new airport expan
sion William ••Bill” Cunning
ham is president of the 75
member organization.
Last year's dinner, attended
by 350 people, featured
Atlagla’s Mayor May
nard Jackson, organizers
hope to draw a crown of 500
this year.
Samuel Young Jr.
...Program chairman
ping and buaineaa area design
ed to attract people back into
the center dty area.
The League will also induct
five new members into its Hall
of Fame, begun last year as a
way of recognising the out
standing achievements and
contributions of individuals to
the City of Charlotte This
year’s awards will be to those