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Candace La Vita Sarter
Is Beauty Of The Week
By Teresa Burns
Post Staff Writer
We have a surprise for you this
week! A junior miss beauty of the
week, 11-year-old Candace LaVita
Sarter!
Candace would like to be a doctor
htire her brother, and she is well on
her way to becoming one. She is in
the AT classes for the academicly
talented and is an Honor Student at
Hunteftvllle Elementary School.
Little Miss Candace is only in the
sixth grade, but already she aspires
to be the best in whatever she
attempts.She enjoys reading, listen
ing to music, and dancing.
When she was only 5 she was 2nd
runner-up in the "Little Miss AKA
Pageant ’Candace also danced her
way into the hearts of many and won
first place as “Miss Talent” in the
pageant.
Being a member of University
Park Baptist Church, Candace is
active as an usherette, a junior choir
member and attends Sunday School
faithfully. Her proud parents are
Odell and Hazeline Sarter. .
Our little beauty gleams a bright
smile and radiates the happiness of
youth But most of you might agree,
Candace's best years are yet to
come.
Under biiel Assistance Program
Financial Relief Forthcoming
For Elderly Charlotteans
By Susan Ellsworth
Post Staff Writer
As winter approaches, many
elderly Charlottes ns won’t be able
to pay their fuel bills.
Financial relief is forthcoming,
although the exact date assistance
will be available is undetermined.
Federal funds will be allocated,
pending congressional and presi
dential approval, for each state to
organize a fuel bill assistance
program.
After congress approves the $2
billion program for a national fuel
crisis program, the states can
initiate their own plans.
“This program intends to insure
that a person has heat throughout
the winter,” according to Thomas
Sanders, director of the Charlotte
Area Fund. “It isn’t just paying the
person’s bill once for the entire
winter.”
Human Services agencies in
Charlotte have received numerous
(f^nplaints from persons claiming
they are unable to afford fuel and
may face shut-offs.
The Charlotte Area Fund and
the Department of Social Services
have waiting lists for when the
program goes into effect.
Churches, the Salvation Army,
Crisis Assistance Ministries and
Goodfellows are also ottering
assistance.
These organizations have their
own criteria for determining
eligibility.
Until the funding program is
approved, Sanders recommends
wearing layered clothing, keeping
the thermostat as low as possible
and calling Human Resources
groups for information and
referral services.
Sanders expressed optimism
optimism that the program would
soon be approved, but added, "We
don’t know when it’s going to
happen.”
Sanders said that the best course
of action is for agencies to coope
rate. “It’s the only choice we have
now.”
When the allocations are approv
ed, he said, North Carolina will be
gin plans immediately to imple
ment the program.
CPCC Receives
$42,332 CETA
Contract
Raleigh - The Office of Veterans
Affairs, Centeral Piedmont College
Charlotte, has been awarded a
CETA contract for $42,332 by the
Office of the North Carolina Em
ployment and Training Council.
The groups to be targeted by the
project are veterans, with particul
ar emphasis on minority, handi
capped and disadvantaged Viet
nam-era veterans.
The program is designed to est
ablish an outreach mechanism to
achieve the maximum of veteran
employability and job potential in
both the private and public sectors,
to increase the quality of jobs and
job training positons available to
veterans, and to assure that all
veterans, in particular the mino
nority, handicapped and disad
vantaged Vietnam-era veterans,
are afforded every possible
advantage in their pursuit of in
dividual goals as productive
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The Office of the North Carolina
Employment and Training Council
administers the Governor's Coor
dination and Special Services
Grant of the Comprehensive Em
ployment and Training Act
(CETA).
The Governor's Special Grant is
responsible for the funding of pro
jects which provide supplemental
vocational educational assistant,
encourage coordination and estab
lishment of linkages between
CETA prime sponsors and appro
priate educational agencies and
institutions, conduct coordination
and special services activities, pro
mote the Governor’s Youth Em
ployment and Training Program
activities, and support the state
Employment and Training Council
activities
Sunday Evening's
Performance Canceled
The 7 p.m., Nov 18 Sunday
evening performance of "Eubie!”
has been cancelled due to
scheduling problems
Ticket holders for that
performance may exchange their
tickets at the Coliseum box office
for any other performance
Ken Bailey, Robert Corley, Hezachiah Miller, members of the
Charlotte Labor Council, picket the National Right to Work Committee
Meeting. (Photo by Eileen Hanson)
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Labor Louncil Lontronts
Right To Work Committee
By Eileen Hanson
Special To The Post
"Right-to-work, we say no! Slave
wages have to go! ”
Pickets with signs against
•'union busters" and "righl-to
work" laws chanted this slogan as
well-dressed businessmen and
wives in mink stoles hurried past
them into the Charlotte City Club.
This was the scene Tuesday
evening as members of the Char
lotte Central Labor Council and
their supporters confronted
members of the National Right to
Work Committee and their sup
porters in downtown Charlotte.
The unions claim the Right-to
Work Committee was in town to
plan new ways to weaken the union
movement. They called on local
citizens to oppose the right to work
laws which exist in every Southern
state. Union members say this law
is to blame for the low wages and
low unionization in North Carolina,
which occupies 50th place on the
national wage scale.
One picket from Harris Teeter
WarehouseJohn LeGrand, said “If
everybody has the right-to-work,
then why doesn't everybody have a
job?”
The state’s right-to-work law
made it illegal for a union to
negotiate for a "union shop”,
where everyone must join the
union “This means that a person
who works under the union con
tract does not have to pay dues
'but) they enjoy the wages and
working conditions the union has
won through collective
bargaining" The unions call these
Deoole "free riders".
But the problem goes deeper
than wages, according to Ken
Baily, membei^of Local 525 United
Food and Commercial Workers.
"When people are oppressed on the
job they tend to look at their fellow
worker as the enemy Bosses pit
blacks and whites against each
other. This kind of climate brings
about the KKK, Nazis, Wilmington
10 and Charlotte 3. Where there are
strong unions, people learn to work
together ”
Wadel Johnson, organizer for the
Laborer's International Union
Local 64 (City Workers) said
unions would help blacks in North
Carolina to improve their wages
and working conditions.
"Blacks have always occupied
the lowest jobs. Even now
companies pay white workers
more than blacks," said Johnson.
"With strong unions they would
have to pay black and white
equally." He said that among city
workers, blacks always hold the
dirtiest jobs. "But really, unions
will help every worker," he added.
The National Right to Work
Committee met at the Sheraton
Hotel They claim to be a group of
interested citizens opposed to
"compulsorary unionism '*
Charlie Dannelly, Ron Leeper Have
Varying Opinions About Charlotte’s Issues
By Teresa Burns
Post Staff Writer
Councilmen Charlie Dannelly and
Ron Leeper, both re-elected
unopposed in their districts, have
matching and varying opinions
about Charlotte's issues.
Concerning the past general elec
tion, both Dannelly and Leeper feel
that the Black turnout was low.
Dannelly said he was disappointed
that "The Blacks didn t turn out the
way they did In Birmingham,
Alabama (where 70 percent of the
Blacks voted), not only in the
primary, but in the general election
as well. As a result the council is
lacking two very knowledgeable
people.”
Leeper felt that the turnout was
good in the primary, but not in the
general election, ‘"lliis points up one
problem,” he explained, "We need
to improve on consistency if we are
to continue to have Black elected
officials. We need to encourage
voter participation "
Deeper also feels that perhaps
people ran still buv at large races,
but they can't buy a district race.
Charlie Danneily
. District 2 councilman
“There is some balance in a district
race," Leeper continued, "You can
still have an opportunity to reach
people in the district because there
is a much smaller constituency and
you don’t need a lot of financial
support to reach them."
"For instance, Leeper said
Rerryhill, an at large winnpr, spent
Ron Leeper
...District 3 councilman
about $14,000 while the most spent in
a district race was "two or three
thousand dollars ”
For a better chance of electing
Black officials, leeper suggested a
massive voter registration drive
"At least in the next two years I
would like to see five to six thousand
more Blacks on the registration
books.”
Dannelly also sees a need for
greater Black registration "We
should do all we can to help Sam
Reid and the Vote Task Force "
Reid has suggested that registration
books be placed at churches,
shopping centers and various places
to make it easy for people to
register. Dannellv continued
Dannelly and Leeper have
different opinions about the present
council. According to l>eeper the
council will be “.. a bit more conser
vative on social issues " But he feels
that since the incumbents have a
slight majority that six out of the 11
councilmen will be community
oriented.
On the other hand. Dannelly pre
dicts that the council will be more
unified under the new mayor “I
think that the new mayor’s approach
to the council will be on an individual
basis There will be more com muni
cation with the councilmen than
there was with the outgoing mayor.”
What about the loss of ex-council
man Harvey Gantt’’ Both feel he will
See Dannelly on page 15
“Service Of
Concern” Will
Be Held Sunday
By Eileen Hanson
Special To The Post
A bus load of Charlotteans will go
to Greensboro Sunday, Nov. 18 to
join in a national service of
concern, called by a group of
Greensboro ministers and civil
rights leaders in response to the
killings of five anti-Klan
demonstrators on Nov. 3.
The Interfaith, Interracial
Service will be held at Bethel AME
Church, 200 Regan St. beginning at
1:30 p.m. ( not at Mt. Zion Baptist,
as previously announced in The
Post) According to a statement
issued by the Greensboro Pulpit
Committee (Black Ministerial
Alliance) and the Greensboro
Committee for Peace and Justice,
“The Service will show concern
and will condemn the five killings
It will deplore the increasing
expressions of violence in our
community.”
The Charlotte Equal Rights
Council and People United for
Justice will charter a bus to attend
the service. Tickets are $5 round
trip, and may be reserved by
calling 333-2250,334-0601 or 333-1925
hollowing the Interlaitn service
there will be a brief rally, calling
for a federal investigation into the
killings and the alleged complicity
of the police with the Klan-Nazi
attack on the Nov 3 anti-Klan
demonstration, organizers of the
service and rally stressed that it
would be peaceful.
"Response is pouring in from all
over the country,” said Jerome
Scott, of the Southern Equal Rights
Congress and coordinator for the
service. “We have received
endorsements from religious, civil
rights and labor groups "
Keynote speaker will be State
Representative Henry Frye Other
speakers will include Dr. Katie
Dorsett, teacher at A and T
College, Chris Scott, a union
organizer; Rev. Emitt Floyd,
chairman of the Board of World
Ministries, United Church of
Christ; Rabbi Arnold Task,
Temple Emanuel; Father George
Kloster, St. Pius the Tenth
Church; and Rev 1 W. Knight,
Bethel AME Church, all of
Greensboro.
In a press conference last week
Carrie Graves of the ERC said,
“We must build a united front of
people who believe in human
rights This violent-action of the
Klan and Nazis could have
happened in Charlotte, or
anywhere. We call on our public
officials to disarm these right-wing
hate groups and to ban their
activities ”
Rev. James Barnett of People
United For Justice .said, "We must
be sure it doesn't happen again. We
must not let the Klan divide us.
Rather let us practice love where
there is hatred and show that all
people can work together,"
Rev James Frieson, head of the
Baptist Ministers' Conference No
I said his organization "condemns
violence against anybody This
cannot be tolerated in a civilized
society ”
The five people killed in Greens
boro were members of Workers'
Viewpoint Organization, which
called the rally to oppose the rising
activity of the Ku Klux Klan in
North Carolina and throughout the
South They were killed when a
convoy Nazi and Klan members
drove through the demonstration,
firing on the crowd Ten others *
were wounded
Fourteen out of »-50 men In the
convoy hove been arrested and
< narged Civil rights organizations
have questioned the role of the
•,.censboro police.
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Bus Load Of Gharlotteans
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