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__i BLACK NEWSPAPERS . ■— s?5shs“ THP PHSBTATTP DAQT zss&ss*.™ BLACK CONSUMERS 1 II Xj IJUjOLHIjU I X X» lUO i SLE? K''* “Charlotte’s Fastest Growing Community Weekly" CALL 37fi-049« Prire in rnmary Reading Program In 1975 a special program was initiated to improve the reading achievement of North Carolina students in the pri mary grades. The program was designed to establish an effective means of teaching reading in the first three grades. The Legislature app ropriated 2.75 million dolla.-s for a two year period to im plement and evaluate the primary Reading Program as a demonstration project. Dur ing the first year, $750,000.00 was allotted to operate and evaluate the program in 234 classes in 40 schools across the state. In 1977, the General As sembly appropriated the sum of $15,910,647.00 for the oper ation of 2,681 classes and in 1978 the program was the re cipient of an appropriation of over $33 million to be used in establishing 5,401 classes in the Primary Reading Pro gram. This year, the Legis lature appropriated over $47 million dollars for the operat ion of 7,690 classes. Addit irinallu nlono/w. __e_i ed through the Comprenhens iiuwEmployment Trail ing Act (TOTA) making a tola of 8,290 classes. That s approx imately. 80. percent of the states’ primary grade stud ents. According to State Supertendent Craig Phillips the program should be fully implented bv the fall of 1980 The Primary Reading Pro gram is evaluated through the states’ Annual Testing Pro gram under the direction of the Division of Reasearch. In the Spring of 1980 all students in grades l and 2 will be ad ministered a form of the Pre scriptive Reading Inventory. Students in grade 3 will be ad ministered the California Achievement Test also in the Spring. Since the program was started, the evaluations have revealed improvements in reading comprehension, parti cularly in the first two grades. By using test results obtained through the Annual Testing program had higher average scores than students enrolled in the regular classes The program specifically had a positive impact on minority and low income students, the students who have traditional ly scored the lowest in the statewide testing programs. I-1 By Teresa Burns Post Staff Writer To become successful and wealthy is the American dream for many. And our 20 year-old beauty, Barbette Crawley would like to make her dream come true by the time she is 25. “My goal is to be a millionaire by the time I am 25," Crawley said. And what will she do with the millions? “After that, I want to help Blacks get jobs so they can be self sufficient. They can become job makers - not job takers.” Well, there you have it, a beauty who is young, witty and ambitious. She now sells Dudley products and travels to cities such as Greenville, Spartanburg, Columbia and Hock Hill, S.C. This weekend she will travel to Norfolk, Virginia and she felt excited about the venture. “There are no disadvan tages to my work. I meet new faces and I like selling Dudley products," Crawley said. Crawley has established her own style of selling, and because of it she was chosen as the top new salesperson last month. She reads business books like “The Magic of Thinking Big," and watches “Dallas" -a television drama depicting a wealthy family- to familiarize Correct Preparation Of Holiday Mail Postmaster 0. B Sloan is reminding coustomers that for the best service this Christ mas season they should use ZIP Copes, Place their return address in the upper left com er of the envelope and proper postage “By following these suggest ions,” Postmaster Sloan says, "Customers will be assured good mail service this holiday season." It is important, the Char lotte postmaster says, that families “Double check” en velopes and cards to be cer tain that proper postage is affixed. Envelopes without postage will be. returned to senders, if possible, or delay **1 by postage-due procedures herself with financial prosperity and how to achieve it. To achieve her goals, Crawley has techniques of her own that are sure to make her a business wiz. “You have to help your neighbor. If you help lift someone up, you have to get up yourself to do it,” she said Crawley feels she has gained much through selling Dudley products. In fact, she most admires the knowledge and success of Betty Crawford, the manager of Dudley’s Beauty Center in Charlotte. Standing 5’11”, our beauty enjoys swimming, tennis and reading. Basketball was one of her activities at Hickory High in Hickory, N.C. She is a graduate of Caldwell Community College were she studied secretarial work. The parents of Crawley are Gladys and Otis Crawley of Hickory, N.C. There is an excellent chance our beauty will have the success she is seeking. With the determination, optimism and self-confidence she radiates, there’s no telling how wealthy Crawley will become. A * S l a Bill Culp Predicts 9,000 Blacks Will Vote Tuesday Voting Closely Linked To Homeownership Homeowners voted at twice the rate of renters in the November 1978 elections, ac cording to a report by the Bureau of the Census , U.S. Department of Commerce! The report is the first compar ing homeownership and vot ing. The report notes that in November 1978, 59 percent of the owners said they voted compared with only 28 percent of renters. The difference occurred regardless of age or race and apparently reflects owners’ stronger community ties and interest in govern ment decisions. Voting was also higher a mong long-time residents. Six ty percent of the people who had lived in the same house for at least six years voted compared with 26 percent of those who had been residents for less than a year Voting was particularly low among new residents aged 18 to 24; only 15 percent reported votina last November. Education also played an important role in voter turn out; 64 percent of people with four or more years of college voted in 1978 compared with 52 percent of those with one to three years of college. Voter turnout among high school graduates- was 45 percent; for those with one to three years of high school the figure was 35 percent. Only 29 percent of those with less than eight years of school said they voted The report indicates that white-collar workers tend to vote more than other occupat ional grobps (55 percent) and blue-collar workers vote the least (35 percent) uiccmuiKWS L,OCai 0141 “Fighting For Livelihood” Dy Eileen Hanson Special To The Post "We’re fighting for our live lihood," said Evelyn Sanders, striking member of Steelwork ers Local 6141. Since Oct. 1 the 200 union members have been picketing 12 hours a day in front of Everlock’s Pineville plant They say their pickets have been 100 per cent effective, that is until Oct. 29, when one production worker went into the plant. The main strike issue, ac cording to local president Ernest Benfield, is money. "We’re trying to keep our heads above water," he said. "Last year the company in creased wages 5 per cent while inflation rose 12 per cent. This strike is so we won't have to go to the poor house working." The plant of 220 workers makes rods for door locks and is the major supplier for the auto industn “No other plant does this work," said Benfield “Their stocks must be exhausted by now and they can't fill their contracts The company thought the auto workers would strike in October, but they didn't." General manager of the Pineville plant, Kuss Johnson, refused to comment to The Charlotte Post about the strike and the nature of fcverlock's business. Everlock is a division of Microdot, which is owned by the giant conglomerate North west Industries of Chicago Northwest employes 42,non people nationwide and had revenues of $1 88 billion last year It is listed as the ll'Hh largest corporation on For tune magazine's '500 top com panies” list Gene Sanders of Charlotte's Westside, has worked at the plant since it opened 18 years ago The union has helped pe ople a lot We have more money, better benefits and a retirement plan But we need a cost of living allowance just to keep up." said Sanders, a former union steward in th» plant Bui a union is no stronger than its members " Another picketer, Dorothy Poole says the union has helped women to get better jobs "We h.v e two women in set-up and >nc in keystone They bro'.e the barrier." she said ' i he company knew the union would fight for it " The union wants internal training programs to upgrade the skills of the tem.de employees. On Oct 28 after four weeks on the piiketline. union members voted by 85 per cent to continue their strike Be ginning this week strikers will begin receiving limited strike benefits from the l nited Steel workers International /n jotn lAmvenuon NAACP National Leaders To Project Priorities In Economic Crisis” GREENSBORO - National NAACP leaders will attend the 36th Annual Convention when the North Carolina NAACP convenes beginning Thursday Nov R. The annual "Ministers & Church Emphasis Day" «mn Rev. l.O, Saunders, Chairman of the State Con ference Religious Affairs Committee, presiding, will kick off activities National NAACP Director of the Department of Religious Affairs, Rev J.C. Hope, will be luncheon speaker for the Minister's Luncheon. The Religious Affairs Committee will also announce the "NAACP Minister of the Year". The keynote address will be delivered by the director of the NAACP Washington Bureau, Ms. Althea TL Simmons, on Friday evening, at a public meeting at the United Institutional Baptist Kelly Alexander Sr .. Presiding officer Church Dr. George Simxins, Jr., president of the Greensboro branch will pre side The public is invited The Friday morning plenary session will be held at Convention Headquarters, the Golden Eagle Motor Inn. 201 E. Market St. The president of the State Conference, Kelly M Alexander, Sr., will preside and deliver his annual address to the convention. There will be a Fellowship Luncheon on Friday, Attorney Margrett Ford, Assistant General Counsel NAACP and Staff Coordinator for Project Rural She will provide information about government and private programs aimed at assisting black land-owners in the areas of legal and financial assistance, (taxes, etc.), estate planning assistance, (wills, trusts), cooperatives (soy bean, cucumber, water melon, etc.) mineral surveys and restoration programs A conservative estimate, Atty Ford states, of the value of black land and mineral products lost between 1910 and 1970 is approximately 6 million Friday afternoon, Mrs Ina Boon. Director of the NAACP National Membership Depart men! will discuss the NAACP Membership Program for the RO's and explore problems branches are having with membership production Saturday’s activities will begin with an in-depth discus sion of plans and programs to increase the voting strength of Blacks in North Carolina There is a drop in the number of young Americans who register to vote and the NAACP is cooperating with other groups, on the national level, to sign up high school senior classes at schools f across the nation This is a s non-partisan effort l.eslie Myrie, Chairman of the N C. | NAACP Political Action Task Force, of Southport, N C will t preside Joseph E Madison of g .See NAACP on page 12 I Hooks Applauds Homo Fuel Assistant* Bill Benjamin I. Hooks. Execu tive Director of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored people. hailed the United States Senate vote which will provide 12 billion dollars to help poor and low income families pay winter heating hills Hooks noted that (he NAACP had played a major role with the Administration and the C ongress in passing the measure The NAACP Executive Di rector said his organization had sought a much larger subsidy, and had called for the jse of "fuel stamps " He noted low-over, the present measure should be supported as the lest alternative we could hope ir this late into the winter ph son ’’ The bill voted on had been ied to a w indfall profits tax neasure. which will now have i be w orked out in conference etween members of the enate and members of the louse of Representatives ; Black Vote An Important Influence? by Eileen Hanson Special To The Post Who will lead Charlotte into the 1980's? That question will be decided Tues . Nov 6 when voters go to the polls to choose a new mayor and city council. Voters will also decide on bond ssues to improve school and nospital facilities. Election superintendent Bill Culp predicts that 8 - 9,000 black voters will go to the polls. While this prediction is down from the 13,000 blacks that ^voted in the Sept 25 primaries, the black vote w ill have an important influence especially in the mavorai ani at large council races. T ft rscnivt Ain IL.. . ._a . ... iL *-- tvic III tilt black community, the Vote Task For-e and the Black Political Caucus will be work ing to get voters to the polls on Tuesday. Any one needing a ride should call 333-0907 be tween 9am and 9 p m daily, or on Nov 6from6am to7:30 p.m Facing off in the mayor's race are Democrat Eddie Knox and Republican Barry Miller Knox, 42, is a lawyer and former State Senator t97l-74i While in the Senate he headed the Advisory Bud get and Correctional Pro grams Commissions. Miller, 54. is a dentist with years of experience in civic and youth affairs. He recently headed the Mayor's Crime Commiss ion Running for the four at large council seats are Demo crats Dave Berry hill, Betty Chafin. Marnite Shuford and Herbert SpaughJr.; and Re publicans Linwood Bolles, Hub Butler. Rudy Hendricks and Pat Locke In the three districts with Hie largest percentage of black voters. Democratic council members Don Carroll ‘List. II, Charlie Dannelly i List 2) and Ron Leeper ' Dist3) are running un opposed f n rv.l.l i •_ I - —• IIIV.UIII UCII l I-aura Freeh Dem » face* Klliott Newcomhe (Rep > In District 5 incumbent Minette Trosch < Rep ) faces John Q Burnette (Dem >. In District 6 it's incumbent George Selden 1 Rep ) against Sandy Judson Demj, and in District 7 incumbent Tom Cox (Rep) faces Gene Goldberg (Dem ). The two bond issues on the ballot are a *15 million health care bond for Charlotte Mem orial Hospital and a *28 million bond for improved school facilities The polls will be open Nov 6 from 8:30 a m to7 30 p m in 87 precincts For information about polling place* voters should consult the voting cards mailed to each register ?d voter in September, or call Ihe Board of Elections at 174-2133 Curbside voting for the handicaped will again be tvailable at each polling >lace The Black Political Caucus innounced it* endorsements **** BLACKS on page 8 CHARMING BARBETTE CRAWLEY ...Dudley salesperson Barbette Crawley Is Beauty Of Week THE NJ_1 IS CRITICAL Vote YES * for Health (^are November 6 -— IttUMN* Folk* call It ‘‘TAKE HOME" pay because there is no other place you can afford to go with wm . '■** Company. Elizabeth Reid, Eamestine Fe well, Alice Watts, Mary Jordan, Gail Hall, _1_1 T °€ne Sanders and Dorothy Poole (photo bv Eileen Hanson)