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PUBLIC LIBRARY OF '-7AX, - C^. :' - JUN Vj 01S8Q YOUR BEST "I CHARLOTTE and MECKLENBURG COUNTY ADVERTISING MEDIA fYfcYY Yfc AW V M *+**-+**. J^^TT, jj. 23202 I BLACK NEWSPAPERS bnlatchke^crrkaettive THE EIIfiB ATTP DAQT be^s'ekeach CALL 376-0496 | J. JUL JLt UXlill I j\J X X XX X IX O X I BLACK CONSUMERS GORGEOUS RACHELLE SWEETENBURG ."..Likes working with computers Raeiielle Denise Sweetenbm^ Is “Beauty Of The Week” By Teresa Burns Post Staff Writer Every once in a while you run into a person who brightens your day just because they are there. That’s the case of our beauty, Rachelle Denise Sweetenburg. Just her pre sence enhances the atmos phere. • She recently graduated from Olympic Senior High School and plans to attend Central Piedmont Com mumty College to concen trate on Computer Pro gramming. ‘‘I like working with com puters. 1 think they’ll take over the world and replace many things,” she explain ed. Eventually maybe everyone will have to ob tain the knowledge to operate computers. Our beauty is making sure she will be prepared. She would later like to transfer to Winston-Salem State Uni versity. Her grades in high school consisted of all A’s and B’s and one C in the tenth grade. She was the com mencement speaker at Olympic's graduation ser vices. Her speech was en titled “Thanks For The Memories. Executive Council, Red Cross, Interact Club, New Images and the Interclub Council just to name a few, were some of Ms. Sweeten burg’s high school activi ties. She enjoys singing and was a member of the choir, Olympic Singers, Girls En semble, and the Mixed En semble. She was also elected to the Homecoming Court and is presently a contestant in the Black Elegant contest scheduled to be held in .lulv Our Aries beauty be lieves that, “Nothing was ever achieved without en thusiasm.” And enthusi asm is certainly present in her character. Not only was she active in various ganisaUona, she also has a Job at Service Msrchandtoe Her concern for others is evident and she sees the gas situation as one of the country's pressing mat ters. W1 could change some thing." she began, "it would be the gasoline prices and the price of A few hobbies include dancing, discoing, movies, singing and modeling. She has modeled in several fashion shows for Helen Muhammad's Fashions. Soon she would like to design her own outfits. “I’m in the process of learning how to sew and I want to make my own clothes,’’ she confessed. Favorites of Ms. Sweet enburg include the tele vision program “The Jef fersons," singing artists Pri^e and Chic. Her favorite person is Earl Morris. “He's nice and helps me a lot when I have problems. I enioy his com pany," she stated. She attends First Baptist Church, and is the grand daughter of Mrs. Katherine Evans and Mrs. Fannie Mae Crosby. Ms. Sweeten burg has two sisters, Sha ron Renee, and Dana; one brother, Geoffrey. Her mother is Mrs. Pearline Morgan. 100 Senior Citizens To Attend Bus Fare Hearing nj c.iicen nanson Special To The Post Over 100 senior citizens and supporters are expect ed to attend the City Coun cil hearings on the pro posed bus fare increases, Tuesday, June 24 at 7:30 p.rtt. According to Senior Citi zens United coordinator, L. C. Coleman, “We expect seniors from Cherry, Grier Heights, Little Rock Apart ments, Boulevard Homes and Bethlehem Center. We also expect a number of handicapped citizens.” The Transit System is proposing a fare increase from 40 cents to 30 cents. Seniors and handicapped would pay 20 cents, except dflrtng peak hours, week days, 3-€ p.m., when they would pay full fare. Under the current sys tem seniors and handi capped buy ticket books allowing them to ride free during non-peak hours and pay half-fare (20 cents) during peak hours. The Transit System wants to eliminate tickets and issue photo identifica tion cards which would Local Bank Invites Gtizens To Test Sk3k Charlotte residente will have an opportunity to test their skills at detecting counterfeit currency this week at the Metrolina Na tional Bank, 4801 E. Inde pendence Boulevard, Chac lott, N.C., which will have an exhibit of real and coun terfeit money on display, according to William X. Wall, Jr., security officer for the bank. The exhibit, obtained from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, will continue to be on display through the remainder of the week beginning on June 14 through June 30. 1900. Denominations ot cur rency in the exhibit range from 15 to $100. uic uctua iu pay reduced fares. “We agree with the I D. card, but we want to keep the fares like they are,” said Mrs. Elizabeth Wig fall, President of Senior Citizens United. “Many el derly people just can't af ford the higher bus fare, and they have no other way to travel.” Coleman said, "These people have been working since they were kids. Many weren’t even covered by Social Security most of their working years. Now they get just a little bit to live on, maybe a $180 a month. It's just not right to make them pay full fare." The Transit System authorities want the in creased fare to meet operating costs and to dis courage reduced-fare ri ders from traveling during heavy periods Persons wishing to speak at the hearing should con tact the Office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 600 E. Trade St. (374-2247). Com ments may be made orally at the hearing or submitted in writing. Black Trade Unionists Focus On Voter Apathy Florida Asks NC Aid With Refugees Special To The Host Florida church people have challenged North Carolinians to become partners with them in meeting nearly over whelming needs of refu gees from both Haiti and Cuba. These are the United States' “boat people.” A letter in late May to Rev. Collins Kilburn, executive director of the North Carolina Council of Churches, appealed ur gently for money for hous ing and feeding Haitians, as well as asking that North Carolina settle a por tion of the thousands of Cubans who have recently arrived but have no rela tives to receive them. Haitians in Florida, com monly jailed on arrival in the past, are receiving somewhat better treatment since mid-May statements from the White House and State Department. It is now official policy that they and the Cuban boat people - both applicants for political asylum rather than offi cially recognized refugees - should be treated alike. Immigration services have begun to process the Haitian asylum applica tions, give a health screen ing, food stamps and a 60-day renewable work per mit, usable until their re quest for asylum is either granted or denied. But when the three days of processing end, the Hai tians are still turned into the streets of Miami to fend for themselves Many have no relatives to help them out, no sponsor, no place to go even for shelter. Without some cash, even the food stamps are useless. The Haitian Refugee Center, run in Miami by Church World Service, has been almost the only source of help. Some 2,500 new persons have arrived in recent months bringing the total number of Miami Haitians awaiting a deter mination of their status to nearly 25,000. The Center desperately needs added funds for emergency housing, food and other services. Mrs. Emmanuel Clark (center) is aided down the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral by Eugene Grier (left) and daughter Shanta Clark (right) following her hus band's funeral service. Emmanuel Manny’ Clark died Friday, June 13 of a heart attack while working in Charles ton, S.C. More than 500 people attended his funeral held at the Cathedral, includ ing numerous leaders from the Charlotte community, Motown executives from Detroit, Mich., and the Commodores. The burial of Manny Clark followed at Sharon Memorial Park and Mausoleum State, IN. C Central To Help Educate Minority Groups RALEIGH - North Caro lina State University and North Carolina Central University are establishing a joint program to help educate members of minority groups for state and local government management positions. The two universities will develop a public service career program which will coordinate the undergrad uate public administration program at N.C. Central with the graduate manage ment program at N.C State. The Mary Reynolds Bab cock Foundation of Win ston-Salem has given $47, 830 to the program and the Universities will invest an additional $45,000 in it during the next two years. University of North Caro lina President William C. Friday said: "We are deep ly grateful to the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foun dation for making possible this highly important joint endeavor by two of our universities. "We have great hope for the success of this under taking and for its benefits to our state.” NCSU Chancellor Joab L. Thomas said: “This pioneering effort joining the graduate resources of this campus with the un dergraduate resources at North Carolina Central University provides a mo del for inter-university co operation in a crucial area “The faculty exchange it provides, along with the system of minority train ing, is something we hope and expect will become a permanent feature of North Carolina State Uni versity.” NCCU Chancellor Albert Whiting said: “Philan thropy and public higher education are joining hands in a meaningful ef fort to improve the quality of public management in North Carolina. “NCCU is delighted to be a part of this pioneering effort. “The training in basic public administration stra tegies and skills provided by our baccalaureate pro gram in public administra tion, coupled with the ad vanced management train ing offered by N.C. State, will produce young women and men who are sensitive to the needs of all North Carolinians, who under stand the goals and limita tions of public agencies, and who have the skills to provide superior services as managers of govern mental units." Major elements of the program will include five fellowships for NCCU stu dents to do graduate work at NCSU, exchange of fa culty between the two cam puses and seminars NCSU officials noted "The need for more grad uate management educa tion by minorities and the placement of more minori ties in the management of state and local govern ments is documented by statements from govern mental agencies " After the two-year pilot program is completed. Uni versity officials will evaluate it to see if it should be continued under regular University funding North Carolina State Uni versity offers the Master of Public Affairs Program in its Department of Political Science under the direction of Dr. G. Oliver Williams. I From October 12-January 4 Mint Museum Will Exhibit Major Works Of Former Charlottean By Susan Ellsworth Post Starr Writer Duke Ellington, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Earl Hines and Jan Ver meer have something in common. They all influenced con temporary American artist Romare Bearden. This native Carolinian is said to combine elements of the 16th century Dutch Masters, 20th century cubism, and blues rhythms of the Harlem Renais sance. * Bearden, 66, will have an exhibition of his major works since 1970 at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, October 12-January 4. Romere Bearden .. Renowned Artie Sixty pieces will be in cluded in Bearden's first I exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It's being funded by Philip Morris, Inc and the National Endowment for the Arts. Although Bearden was bom in Charlotte, ho spent his childhJOd ia Pittsburgh and adolescence in New York City (Harlem) where jazz music was influential. His works use "visual orchestration.”. Music pieces and stjfes that he was exposed to earlier in life later influenced his work After he graduated from New York University with a degree in mathematics, Bearden decided to become one and one-half years of study under George Grasz at the Art Students League Following a two-year hitch in the Army, Bearden was granted a series of one-man shows in New York. In the early 50s he lived and worked in F^ris Bearden's works have appeared in gallery shows in the U.S., Canada and France. • - * He also designed covers for New York Times Maga zine. Fortune, and port folios of black American painting such as Contem porary Art of Afro-Ameri cans and Works by Black Artists Unionists Urge Huge Voter TumcHrt Black trade unionists must take the lead in mo bilizing a huge voter lurn out in 1980 to guarantee the defeat of conservative can didates for Congress and the presidency . President Norman Hill told more than 1,300 participants at the A Philip Randolph In stitute's Eleventh National Conference in New York City Thi> Inctitutfk ti-lti. Vi U 180 local affiliates m it; states, works closely with the AFL-CIO and civil rights organizations in or ganizing voter registration drives and labor support activities in the minority community. Hill criticized economic policy-makers for relying on measures that “carelul ly allocate economic suf fering by class. “We have workers, many . of them union members, being used as cheap and plentiful cannon fodder in the war against inflation We are lectured repeatedly by conservatives, business leaders and economists about the immense values of suffering and sacrifice But workers arc the only people suffering today lie declared Pointing to widespread disillusionment among blacks with President Car ter, Ronald Reagan and John Anderson. Hill warned that political apa thy could produce a sweep ing conservative victorc in November "If that happens, the dis appointments of the last three years will look like achievements as we arc* forced into a defensive bat tie against an onslaught of right-wing legislation, he said Hill said that black trade unionists can counter voter apathy by educating peo ple "about the real issues the economic issues." and by reminding people that "we have never had a perfect candidate, and w<* never will." Recalling the late A Phi lip Randolph's support for a black labor alliance. Hill insisted that "in defending the labor movement, we are defending ourselves "We do not look to labor simply because it is power ful We look to labor tie cause it uses its power to advance the interests of all workers, including blacks" "The labor movement is our home, it is the one stable institution in an un stable political environ ment," he said Kenneth Young, execu tive assistant to AFL-CIO president l.ane Kirkland, praised the Randolph Irtsti tute for being “the first among the major black organizations to tie civil rights to economics " “It doesn't do you any good to win the right to sit down in the lunch room if you don’t have the price of a hamburger in your jeans," he said. Young called upon Insti tute leaders "to build coa litions with other minori ties, with the elderly, with the young, with the church es, and with all others of good faith." VKIMM Nothing to more depress ing than to feel bod in the morning without having had any fun the night before.