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PATRICIA JANT WALLACE
.Philasitfthical young Indy -
Patricia Jant Wallace
Is “Beauty Of The Week”
By Teresa Burns
Post Staff Writer
“Life is what you put into
it.” advises . our beauty
Patricia Jant Wallace. She
is a philosophical young
lady with knowledge be
yond her years. What
makes her special is her
strong will and endurance,
yet- she is not indifferent to
the needs of others.
Mrs. Wallace has served
in various service organ
izations; Junior Achieve
ment, Young Explorers,
and Project Aries. Pre
sently, a senior at Harding
High Sehool she is in the
Band Auxiliary as Banner
Girl, a member of the
Executive Council and Stuv
dent Council, a member-i6f
the Z-Club and the COO I
work program.
Harding High School
voted Mrs. Wallace "Miss
December 1980”; she was a
nominee for “Ms. Harding
High" and a Homecoming
Sponsor Over the years
she has receivedlOOpercent
attendance certificates. If
she completes this year
without missing a day she
Will have perfect attend
ance during her senior high
school years
Being a full time student
and working two part-time
jobs keeps our Aries beauty
quite busy. She works as a
' typist at The Charlotte Post
and as a desk clerk for J. B
Ivey & Company.
Follow ing tier graduation
from high school Mrs. Wal
lace would like to attend
Kings College or move to
Anchorage, Alaska and at
tend the University of Alas
ka or Anchorage Commun
ity College.
Alaska is where her hus
band. Airman First Class
Zackary Wallace is sta
tioned If possible Mrs.
Wallace will attend school
ther£ but wherever she
resides she plans to com
plete her education.
“My ambition is to be
come V executive secre
tary,’ 'Mrs Wallace re
marked “I've always liked
any type of paper work and
typing It’s the field that I
am most qualified in.”
Apart from a profession
ji^arejMje^naJjj^j^r^
Middle age has arrived
when you have a choice of
two TEMPTATIONS and
you choose the one that
gets you home the earliest.
life is to lead a Christian
life. "I believga great deal
in God. If you just trust in
Him there’s nothing but
good for you.”
Her improvement of the
world would be for people
to overlook the skin com
plexions of others. "I wish
people would overlook
colors - white and black -
and look at people the
same. We all have feet and
toes and we are all the
same underneath We
should forget the color as
» people,” she
.
ace is the
Ir. and Mrs, .
d Jant. She
r, Annette
»iau« diiu one brother
James Jant Jr.
“My favorite person is
my mother, Bernice Jant,"
Mrs. Wallace announced.
“She taught me so much. I
would like to follow in her
footsteps because I admire
her for the things she does
and the way she carries
herself. She does things for
people and she doesn’t even
think any more about it.”
Our beauty also admires
her husband, “He strives
for better things each day.
Nothing is negative about
life to him - everything is
good to him.”
As a member of Silver
Mount Baptist Church,
Mrs. Wallace is on the
Junior Usher Board and
serves as secretary of the
Usher Board.
Modeling, shopping,
swimming, being with her
husband and going to
church are favorite past
times Mrs. Wallace enjoys.
The entertainers that thrill
her the most are Larry
Graham and Teddy Pen-,
dergrass The most enter
taining television program
is "The Jeffersons" while
the most educational pro
gram to our beauty is “Cell
Block H."
Mrs. Wallace is one who
strives to find a bit of
knowledge in each of her
encounters. In conjunction
with her ambition to
achieve and her positive
thinking our college-bound
beauty is apt to be an "A”
student.
Proposed Changes Affect
SSA Disability Benefits
HHS Monday announced
two proposed regulations
affecting Social Security
disability benefits.
One would place a new
‘ceiling on the total family
benefit a disabled person
mav receive.
The other would remove
an inequity in the method
for calculating benefits
which gives younger dis
abled workers a financial
advantage over older dis
abled workers.
The proposed regulatioas
reflect revised computa
tion methods contained in
Sections 101 and 102 of the
Social Security Disability
Amendments of 1980 The
proposals appeared in the
Dec 22 F'ederal Register
and have a BO-day com
ment period
The proposed ‘disability
maximum'’ rule would not
affect direct benefits for
the disabled worker, but it
could limit additional bene
fits to dependent family
members. The regulation
would limit total monthly
payments to a family to 85
percent of the average in
dexed earnings the worker
received before becoming
disabled or to 150 percent of
the worker's disability
benefit, whichever is
lower
The provision affects
families of workers who
became eligible for bene
fits after 1978Jatit who were
never entitled to disability
benefits before July 1980
The provision seeks to en
sure that family benefits
generally do not exceed the
level of earnings the work
er had before becoming
disabled.
I'nder the direction of
pgilvy and Mather, agency
specialists contributed to
more than 3,000 hours over
a two-year time span
In North Caroling
HUD Allocates $20
Million For Housing
Census
Participants
The Advertising Council
and the Bureau of the
Census have announced the
findings of three separate
research studies of its
public service advertising
campaign from January to
June on behalf of the
census.
These independent sur
veys were conducted by
Chilton Research Services,
Vitt Media International
and the Center for Social
Science Research. Each re
vealed the effectiveness of
the campaign in different
ways.
Initially the Chilton study
showed that 90 percent of
the public recalled Census
messages by March 31,
1980 '
In the Vitt Media ana
lysis. S:iH million worth of
space and time was contri
buted to the almost entire
U S. population was ex
posed to an average of loo
Census advertising mes
sages from media sources
between January and June
of 1980.
According to a study eon
ducted by the (’enter for
Social Science, research
response to hearing about
the campaign rose from 40
percent in late January to
70 percent in late March
among blacks
Vincent T. Barabba. di
rector of the Census Bu
reau recently credited the
public information cam
paign for encouraging peo
ple to send in their ques
tionnaires.
Bureau reports show
over 64 million question
naires were returned by
mail, which was almost
double the forms returned
in 1970.
Rates of mail returns
reached 86 percent. For
each percentage point of
mail returned the govern
ment served $2 million
Barabba also said with
such a good response, over
one million gallons of gaso
line were saved by enume
rators who otherwise would
have had to make personal
follow -up calls.
SISTER MARY JEROME SI*R ADEEY
.Wf'/vv Hospital /trrsitlrnt
Mrrcvs .S-l-M Milium l*rojr<‘l
Sister Spradley Turns
First Shovelful Of Dirt
Sister Mary Jerome
Spradley. president ot
Mercy Hospital. Monday
donned a construction hard
hat to turn the first shovel
lul of dirt in the hospital s
latest building project
Sister Mary Jerome,
with assistance from
Mercy Board of Directors
chairman Brevard Myers,
officially began the $4 H
million project at in a m
The project includes a
new emergency room. out
patient and in-patient sur
gery suites, a recovery
room, general and central
storage areas, a gilt shop
and an auditorium
Areas to be expanded
include the radiology de
partment. clinical labora -
tory. the cafeteria and col
fee shop Some vacated
areas will be renovated lor
other uses The entire pro
ject is scheduled for
completion in July 1982.
The project will be built
along Hast Fifth Street on
what is now an employee
parking lot Parking for
those employees displaced
by the new construction is
available in the three-level
parking deck. which
opened January 9.
Mercy officials began
planning the new emergen
cy room two years ago.
when patient loads in the
emergency room - ap
■ proached the planned ca
pacity of that unit.
The current emergency
room is designed to prov ide
service for H.ooo patients a
><ur in nscal 1980. nearly
-O.ooo emergency room pa
tients and ti.mu out-patients
were treated in Mercy's
emergency room
The new emergency
room is designed to handle
about .'Sl.ooti patients a
year
Mercy Hospital, founded
in 1906 by the Sifters of
Mercy of Belmont. N C , is
still owned by the Sisters
and governed by a 16-mem
ber board of directors
made up of business and
community leaders
The hospital will cele
brate its 75th anniversary
in February 1981
Merrill Lynch To Make I^oan.s
a .Merrill Lynch suhsidi
ar\ will make loans to
small businesses w hich will
be guaranteed by the Small
Business Administration
Merrill Lynch SBL. Inc.
AJC Urges Reagan To End
Affirmative Action Abuses
nre American Jewish
Congress has called on Pre
sident-elect Ronald Rea
gan to end the ‘‘abuses " of
"race-conscious" Federal
anti-discrimination pro
grams while retaining the
principle of affirmative ac
tion to promote equal op
portunity.
In a letter to the Pre
sident-elect, Howard M
Squadron, president of the
American Jew ish Congress
defended the affirmative
action concept as a "nec
cessary part of the national
commitment to full equal
ity." It would be a "serious
mistake for this society to
abandon these efforts
now," he said.
"The need to "do some
thing," however, has led to
abuses and overreaching
by the Federal govern
ment," Mrs. Squadron
said. "Government has
matte race, sex or national
origin the crucial deter
minant in a wide variety of
settings." he explained
and this approach is "in
herently divisive," and "an
important cause of the pal
pable intergroup tension
which exists today."
"Government cannot be
blind to the problem of
race," Mr. Squadron ac
knowledged And "it must
analyze all that it does to
insure that no group is even
inadvertently excluded
“It is our view that some
sort of affirnative action is
necessary," and that there
are "instances when it is
appropriate for the govern
ment to resort to race,
nationality or sex in de
signing remedial pro
grams." he told Mr Rea
(?an.
But “we believe that a
re-examination of affirm
alive action w ill show that
non-race specific affirm
alive action is available In
most cases in lieu of race
conscious programs.' he
said.
Mr Squadron noted that
several race-based Small
Business Administration
programs were less sue
cessful than similar state
and private programs that
had more neutral eligibility
requirements and dealrh
with problems more spe
cifieaily.
He cited, too. an Internal
Revenue Service ruling re
lating to discrimination by
private schools that hurt
Jewish and other religious
schools that were not guilty
of racial discrimination,
and the success of a non
race conscious affirmative
action admissions program
implemented by the Tern
pie University Law School
:md used by other institu
tion*™___
“These instances, and
there are others, indicate
that affirmative action has
ill too often been race
ronscious," .Mr Squadron
contended
The problems that have
resulted from ' thecontinu
ng failure to overcome
fully the effects of official
racial discrimination ur
gently demand solutions,"
fie said And while these
problems "cannot be as
*ured that the government
their government •• is
roncerned with their pro
tilems and is attempting to
remedy them."
"Non-discrimination
done is not sufficient" to
ivorcome past injustices.
Mr Squadron concluded
We believe that affirm
dive action must be aban
doned as a social policy ", 4
w;i> recently cert meet as a
non-hank lender and will
allow its borrowing clients
linancial services in invest
ments. corporate finance,
financial advice, real
estate and insurance
The company will use the
opportunity to prov ide for
term financing require
mentsot tne small business
market, according to Ed
mond Moriarty .Jr Mer
rift's Executive Vice Brest
dent
We look forward u,._
many benefits accruing to
the small business com
munitv from the com
l>any s efforts.'' SBA ad
ministrator A Vernon
Weaver said
Starting with selected re
gions. Merrill Lynch wiff
expand business nation
w ide eventually ,
It is the sixth Small
Business Lending Com
pany to be certified under
Subsection <bi of the Small
Business Investment Act
Other companies partici
pating in the program are
Allied Lending Corpora
tion. Commercial Credit
Financial Corporation.
First Commercial Finance
Corporation, Independence
Mortgage. Inc the Money
Store Investment Corpora
tion
Program To
Aid 5,175
Families
Betsy It Stalford. North
Carolina Area Manager of
the I S Department of
Housing and Urban De
velopment. last week an
nounced'the allocation of
funds available in North
Carolina lor the Depart
ment s Section K Housing
Assistance Pay ments Pro
gram and the Low Kent
Public Housing Programs
The Section H Program,
authorized by Congress in
1974. provides for pay
ments to property owners
on behalf of lower income
families The payments
cover the difference be
tween the market rent of
the unit and what the
family can afford to pay.
which may not exceed 25
percent of their gross in
come Assistance can be
provided to families living
m newly-constructed, sub
stantially rehabilitated, or
existing housing units
I he Low Kent Public
Mousing Program, re
activated by Congress in
1H77 provides the funds to
amortize the principle- and
interest payments on units
developed by Local Hous
ing Authorities through the
sak-of bonds or notes Low
income lamilu-s can oc
cupy these units by paying
no more than 25 percent ol
their gross income for rent,
which is used to de: ray
management and mainten
ante costs of the Project.
During die next several
months, local Public Hous
ing Agencies. Public Hous
ing Authorities, private
owners, and other interest
ed agencies will he invited
to submit proposals for
participation iri the pro
grams
The total allocation of
funds received for North
Carolina is $l'.i.!H5.o(K). in
cluding $8.fi:Uc(MK) (or
metropolitan areas and
$11 mil.oon lor non metro
politan areas Although a
number of factors must be
considered in converting
ihis dollar allocation into
the number of families that
could benefit. Mrs Stafford
indicated that the funds
could result in the provi
sion of housing assistance
payments lo approximate
ly 5.175 families in North
Carolina.
Mrs Stafford cautioned
that the allocations in no
way represent a commit
ment by HUD to approve
specific proposals involv
ing these amounts of con
tract authority The se
lection of proposals will be
the result of a competitive
process by which only pro
posals of superior quality
will he chosen
The basis for the alloca
tions to individual geogra
phic areas consists of ‘‘fair
share" factors, mandated
by Congress in the Hous
ing and Community De
velopment Act of 1974
Among the factors consi
dered were population,
poverty, housing condition,
overcrowding, housing
shortages, and other indi
cators of housing deficien
cies
Mrs Stafford indicated
that additional details re
garding the programs will
be released as they become
available