11=1 THE CHAR ,1ITTE PI 1ST [=1 The Foie*' Of The Mark Community- ; m.ATK c-qxsYmkks the CHAKLOTTE POST Thursday. .Man li ^ -- ~ ___ I’ru c in I'^nis SOC To Fight Spending ★★★ ★★★ ★★★ Black Groups Host Mobilizers ANGELA WALLACE ...Ninth grader at AG Lovely Angela Wallace Is “Beauty Of The Week” By Teresa Burns Post Staff Writer During her 16 years An gela Wallace has gained much poise and concern for others. One of her strongest concerns appears when young people drop out of school. "I wish that teenagers could see that they should stay in school. Staying out in the streets is not better than school - they’ll need their education in the long run," Ms. Wallace contend ed. As a ninth grader at Alexander Graham Junior High, our beauty plans to complete her high school education and enter one of three occupations: kinder Cutback In Food Stamps Challenged Reprinted from The AFL-CIO News Cuts in the food stamp program will penalize the unemployed and the needy and Congress should reject Sm. the AFL-era-toM-a ise Agriculture subcom mittee on nutrition. Legislative Rep. Kenneth Peterson termed the feder al food stamp program the "principal defense" against hunger for the poor and the long-term jobless. The Administration's misguided efforts to cut benefits to those who are receiving food stamps should be directed instead to reducing the number of poor who need them,” Pe terson emphasized. The size of the food stamp program is directly related to the lack of growth in the economy, he pointed out. Each addition al 1 percent of unemploy ment increases food stamp program participation by 1 to 1.2 million persons while every l percent increase in the rate of inflation adds $100 million to the pro gram's costs, Peterson noted. Participation in the pro gram, which provides an average of 44 cents a meal for food, are already below the poverty line, Peterson toid_ Jtte.. lubcommj ttee, either because tfiey" have low incomes or because large numbers of depend . ents and high expenses for shelter and other necess ities bring their net in comes below the official poverty level. In the light of those statistics, the Admin istration's claims that its proposed cuts in the pro gram will not hurt the "truly poor" are "patently false," he declared. Anyone fulfilling the strict income and asset eligibility requirements of the food stamp program WdMAU * If you think the world owes you a living, hustle out and collect it should be entitled to re ceive its benefits promptly, Peterson said. The pro posed "retrospective ac counting’’ system that would determine whether a person was eligible for food stamps based on past in come rather than current need would lead to serious hardship, he said. "Using this method for determining eligibility," Peterson pointed out, “would mean that a worker who has suffered a recent job loss or who has run out of unemployment insur ance would have to suffer a period of several weeks with no income before be ing eligible for food stamps with which to feed his or her children. ” This system would also penalize migrant workers and others with low, fluc tuating incomes and could be used to deny food stamps to strikers and their families who would otherwise qualify on the same basis as other needy Americans, Peterson observed Although strikers ac count for only two-tenths of 1 percent of food stamp recipients, they are repeat edly singled out for attack, he noted The proposal to make -families already getting food stamps maTT in a'~ monthly income report or face automatic loss of their benefits would be a “se rious hardship" for the elderly, the blind or dis abled, and people who speak no English or are functionally illiterate, he pointed out. With inflation continuing to push up the costs of necessities such as shelter and fuel - a fact beyond the control of the poor - Pe terson branded as unjust the Reagan Administra tion's proposal to drop the shelter and energy infla lion adjustments from the formula for determining eligibility for food stamps. ’ He gave low marks to the Administration's plan to reduce food stamp benefits to all families with child ren enrolled in schools with subsidized lunch pro grams. This proposal along would cut the amount of food stamps available to an estimated 43 percent of recipients, Peterson point ed out. a garten teacher, cosmetolo gist or registered nurse Her favorite subject in school is mathematics mainly she said because it interests her One of her favorite peo ple is Alexander's gym teacher Londell McClary. “I can sit down and talk about problems with him.” Ms. Wallace stated. "He gives the best advice - better than my girl friends’." When it comes to enter tainment our Sagittarius beauty prefers the tones of Larry Graham while “White Shadow” ranks as her most watched tele vision program. "'White Shadow' has a lot of basketball and I enjoy looking at basketball on television rather than see ing it in person." " Ms. Wallace also enjoys traveling, cooking - she bakes a lot of cakes • and skating. The youngest daughter in a family of 12 (four sis ters, four brothers, two half brothers and one half sis ter) Ms. Wallace says she is not spoiled. “I like grow ing up in a large family. There are more people to talk to,” she explained Her parents are Patricia Fuller Wallace and the late James Wallace. Running track, attending South Tryon Presbyterian Church and working a CETA job keeps our busy beauty on the run. Whether our beauty .winds up as a cosmetolo gist, a teacher or a nurse she desires to be a success. “I try to live a successful life. I can’t wait for some one to hand anything to me on a silver platter.” Silver Mount Will Collect Funds A~spw:iat-memai ial und— collection of donations will occur at Silver Mount Bap tist Church in South Char lotte (Pineville) 7 p m. Sunday. March 29 Rev Russell Moore will deliver the 11 a m. sermon. Not only will funds be collected on this date but throughout the church's week-long Revival Cru sade. Monday - Friday, March 30-April 4. dona tions will be accepted to aid the families of the slain children. Services each night will begin at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to contribute During the 7 p.m Sunday ■ service ‘March Judge. Michael Todd will be key note speaker Dr. C. W Petress, president of Friendship College. Rock Hill, S.C., along with the College's Drama Team will participate in this special memorial Sunday Special funds will be designated to aid Friendship College which recently suffered from fire. The drama team will present the story of Dr Cameron Alexander . Convention president “Black History - From A to Z." Guest evangelist for the week-long Revival Crusade at Silver Mount will be Rev Dr Cameron M. Alex ander He is president of the General Baptist State Convention of Georgia and pastor of the noted Antiocn Baptist Church. Atlanta. i _Iia. All fiends collected at Silver Mount will be public ly presented to Dr Alex ander He in turn will de posit the monies into the special fund to aid the families of Atlanta's dead, according to Rev William Lee Jr., pastor of Silver Mount Dr Alexander, born in Atlanta where his father still serves as a dedicated pastor, received his B A degree and MDD from Morehouse College and School of Religion He received his Doctor of Divinity from United The ological Seminary and did further studies at Florida A£M University before. serving four years in the U.S. Air Force. Dr. Alexander will share such sermons as “The Edge of Night, ’ “As The World Turns," etc. "He is considered as one of the nation's greatest gospel preachers and singers who has a timely message for the age in which we live," Rev Lee shared “He will be most ap peanng to tne youth and young adults who are spon sors of both the memorial and the crusade Or Alexander has preached in Charlotte be fore. “When he was in Charlotte during 1973 and 1974," Rev Lee remem bered, “he preached to overflowing crowds each night ." Dr Alexander is not only a dynamic speaker with valuable messages he is also a w-orker He is vice president of the National Baptist Convention. USA, Inc.; chairman of the Con vent ten* Budget Comma, tee; treasurer of More house School of Religion Board of Trustess; mem ber of the Board of Direc tors, Atlanta Researchers, and member of the Ad visory Board, Citizens and Southern Bank of Atlanta The public is cordially invited to see and hear Dr Alexander and witness his moving sermons Anti-War Mobilization Planned BROOKLYN - Two hun dred and fifty people re presenting over :i0 organ izations met at the House of the Lord Church in Wash ington, D.C., last week to carry forward concrete plans for a massive, na tionwide anti-war mobiliza tion in Washington. D C., in May. The meeting overwhelm ingly endorsed the call by the People's Anti-War Mo bilization for a march on the Pentagon on May 3rd. and set up organizing fo cuses in 15 different areas, including labor, students, cultural workers, veterans. Third World communities, religious groups, women gays and lesbians, the dis abled, and the elderly. Speakers at the mobiliz er*’ meeting repeatedly called for a united demon stration on the 3rd with the participation of all sector of the anti-war and pro gressive movement Km phasized in the remarks of all who spoke was the im portance of the participa Tion 61 Black. Latin and - other oppressed people in the demonstration and in the organizing for it Today’s mobilizers' meeting was called one week ago at a meeting of a CARD (Committee Against Registration and the Draft) committee empowered to help build a spring mobi lization. Over 40 national organizations attended the CARD meeting in Washing ton, D C., and overwhelm ingly voted to endorse the May 3rd action. Hosting today s gather ing were Job Mashiriki of Black Veterans for Social Justice and Minister Mi chael Amon-Ra of the Na tional Black United Front; Dennis Serrette of the Na tional Black Commumca tions Coalition and Larry Holmes of the People's Anti-war Mobilization chaired the meeting. For Slain Children Families •MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE James k. Polk Sr.. President of Manage ment Manpower Associates. Inc , of Charlotte contract with Floyd D Lowe Sr. of Madison while MBE trainee James W. Bennett of Raleigh looks on Polk is a consultant hired by the North Carolina Department of Transportation i NCDOT) to help administer the MbE program Lowe is to train Bennett as a highway contractor under the MBK internship program Bennett Will Be Trained As Highway Contractor RALEIGH On March 5 Floyd Lowe, owner of Lowe's Plumbing Com pany of Madison and a ■prime contractor on North Carolina Depart ment of Transportation's (NCDOT > pre-qualified bidders list, signed a con tract with the department to train James Bennett of Raleigh as a highway contractor under the de partment's Minority Busi ness Enterprise < MBE» internship program This is believed to be the first instance of an MBE prime contractor providing such training in Region IV i Region IV includes North Carolina. South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Geor gia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky.> Eight years ago. Lowe himself was receiving training as a highway con tractor. In 1973 the Equal Em ployment Opportunity . <»ur people saw the po tential in such training and with the help of those con tractors, planted the seed that is now our MBE in ternship program." said State Secretary of Trans portation Tom Bradshaw "The partnership we have with the private sector must continue if we are to move ahead in this endeav or/' he said. Interdenominational Memorial Service Set A city-wide interdenom inational memorial service for the slain children in Atlanta will be held in- the Johnson C Smith Univers ity Church on 'March 27 at 7:30 p m The service is one of a series of activities planned by the Atlanta Children The MBE internship pro gram is a federally funded project initiated in 1978 by the department to increase the number of minority business 1 iFins' in federal aid highway construction The first interns began training in 1978 and to date 18 have been or are in the process of being trained • Lowe’s Plumbing has grown from a small com pany. since its beginning in 1988. to one that currently has over one million dol lars under contract lor highw ay construction Awareness Committee of Charlotte 1 AC ACC to raise community support lor 'he eflorts to solve tin m> stery of the murdered children The “Call lor Action ' address will be given by Kev Thomas Samuels pastor of Mt Moriah f’ri mitive Baptist church Music will be provided by an interdenominational choir representing church es from throughout the community under the direction of Christopher W -knif! ,11 wl »..■■■■■■.. [irull I sor Neely Smith. Charlotte's missing child, will be re membered in silent pray er, and a candle will be lit for each murdered child in Atlanta An offering to aid in .the investigation of the murders will be collected by County Commissioner Bob Walton AC’ALt is a local inter denominational group which seeks to unify and incorporate the efforts of all groups that are sponsor ing campaigns to show con cern over the tragedy in Atlanta The organization. CPpiprised of several inter ested groups ancT indlvi duals, encourages citizens to take action by signing petitions and letters asking for more federal funding to Atlanta, and by holding prayer vigils in their own churches Each citizen is also asked to wear a green ribbon daily as a symbol of hope that the tragedy will soon be ended Drive To Oppose Violence Special To The Host .BIRMINGHAM. AL. The Southern Organizing Committee for Economic & Social Justice (SOCl is launching a campaign to mobilize people across the South to oppose the in creases in U.S military spending that are destroj ing programs designed to meet human needs The organization said it will also mount a new drive to organize w hite and black people in Southern com munities to oppose the cur rent rise in racism and racist violence. '"The United States is lacing a racial and eco nomic crisis that can only be averted by the building ol a freedom movement at the grassroots in this country." SOt; said in a statement issued here Plans lor the new cam paigns were made by the sue executive committee •which met in Birmingham on the weekend ot March It SOU is a Southwide network of black and white activities working for the goals sluled in its name economic and social justice The organization devel oped in the imd-1970s. growing out of earlier nvif rights organizations Its co chairpersons are the Rev Ben Chavis ol North Caro linn and Anne Braden ol Louisville. Ky The* Rev. Fred shittlesworth, former' leader oi the civil rights movement in Birmingham, is a member of its execu tive committee. • I resident Reagan an< the right wing are deter mined to take fo.«l. cloth mg shelter, health care and education away Iron the poor and working pco pic of this country at the sam<* tune they pursue ai insane policy of increasing our nuclear arsenal that already has our planet tot tcring on the brink of fina destruction SOC said And the organization saic the crisis is intensified by the fact that people in the country are being divider anew by racism "Blacks and members m other minority groups arc being terrorized and mur try by groups like the Ku Klux Klan and in many places by the police And in too many communities there is a tragic silence on the part of white citizens in fhe face of these atroci ties. SOC s statemenl said The SOC leaders said they feel Reagan and hi supporters have "miscal culated the level of toler a nee of people in this coun try." They predicted grow ing resistance everywhere to the cuts in social pro grams They said they es penally feel there must be a Southern response to the crisis "The South is the cradle of racism in this country*, but it. has also been the cradle of the people's movements that in the past have pushed forward the struggle of all of our people for democratic rights," SOT said "We feel that Southerners who believe in freedom must now lead the nation again."