> • YOUR BEST ADVERTISING MEDIA I-———_ BNLIck MARKFT,VE BLACK NEWSPAPERS CALL EFFECTIVELY JtEACH ALL {76-°496_ BY FAR. MORE ■ '*'* .. .« .« , 4. ... | BLACK CONSUMERS '"Ta- ____ Luo- ill Cents MISS TAMMI COLEMAN ...An eighth-grade beauty Tammi Coleman Is Beauty Of Week uj i cresa nurns Post Start Writer Our beauty Tammi Cole man describes herself as a basically shy person. But when it comes to achieve ments she breaks out of her shell. “The ambition that 1 have is very high and if I really try to get there I’ll make it.” Our eighth grade beauty would like to become a lawyer and study at How ard University. "I’ve al ready written a letter so they can place me on their mailing list,” Ms. Coleman injected With a lot of forethought Ms. Coleman decided on this career because she feels this is one way to aid people. i like to help people out. I believe that many people don’t receive the right treatment and many are imprisoned who are not guilty,” she continued. Ms. Coleman feels every one can achieve in life. "If you really have a dream and you follow it, you can make it true. But if you say that dream is too difficult to achieve then you won't be able to reach your goals.” Pretty extraordinary statements from a 13 year old. But then Ms. Coleman can't be considered an or dinary person. Born May 23 as a Gemini she is the daughter of Mrs. Myrtle Coleman Coaldwell and Ray Coleman She has three sisters and one bro ther Her favorite person is her mother. “She helps me through trving times. She has done things that placed her in jeopardy and at the same time helped us. 1 love her very much.” Black Rlderly Thirty-five percent of all black elderly persons lived alone or with unrelated individuals in 1978, com pared with 32 percent of white elderly persons TUKUMAM Good examples have twice the value of good advice. — The uniqueness of Diana Ross strikes our beauty as outstanding. For her Ms. Ross has her own eminent style of singing and trans ferring messages to her au dience. Ms. Coleman attends St. Paul United Presbyterian Church and stays quite busy at Herbert Spaugh Junior High School She is an office assistant, in the Red Cross, a J.V Cheer leader and is in the first eighth grade Algebra class She enjdys reading a mul titude of materials and en joys her Reading Dialogue class at school. In 13 short years Ms. Coleman has managed to receive numerous impress ive awards. At First Ward Elementary School she re ceived an academic achievement award At En derly Park Elementary she was a Spelling Bee winner and received the Safety Patrol award. In the seventh grade at Spaugh Junior High she was pre sented the Science award. The practice of receiving honors is nothing new to Ms. Colemon. In addition to achieving her high goals our beauty will most likely secure many more spectacular honors. This is an easy prediction, for she is already a budding stand out. Black Americans Provide Nation With Key Innovations NAACP To Fight Budget Cuts NAACP Executive Direc tor Benjamin L Hooks an nounced today that the As sociation will carry the light against the Kcagan Administration's budget and fiscal proposals to the home office of the mem bers of congress during the Easter weekend. "We intend to mobilize our 'Operation Network’ established at our Wash ington Bureau," Hooks de clared," by sending our constituency representing more ^jan 2.UXJ adutt~aod youth branches to the home offices of their respective senators and congressmen next weekend to seek sup port for the NAACP's counter budget recom mendations for economic growth and combating inflation.” Hooks made the an nouncement at a press con ference held at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh following the National Board of Directors' quar terly meeting (April 10-13). The Board adopted the al ternative economic plan developed by the NAACP's Economic Advisory Unit in response to the challenge issued by OMB Budget Di rector David Stockman who urged groups that dis agreed with his economic plan to propose alter natives. Hooks blasted the Ad ministration's proposed budget calling it a "pitiful excuse for an economic plan. Stockman's .-budget implements an intehtional ly restrictive fiscal policy and supports a restrictive monetary policy - a com bination that induces high rates ol unemployment in 1981 and 1982 This admin istration spends all of its Ume simply whackingthe budget rather than trying to deal with the real causes of inflation and jobless ness " KFC Fledges support to Atlanta searchers - Kentucky Fried Chicken President William A Heady (far left! presents Atlanta City Councilman Arthur Langford with a $15,(HR) advance on U $68,000 pledge by KFC's parent company's Heublein Foundation. The money provides Kentucky Fried Chicken meals for volunteer searchers in Atlan ta s missing and murdered children case tor lAimnutnpnt lo Weekend Searches Mayor Jagkson Praises Kentucky Fried Chicken special ro The Post ATLANTA. GA.. Allan la Mayor Maynard Jack son today commended Ken tucky Fried Chicken for a $(>8,000 commitment to feed people who take pari in the weekend searches for evi dence in the cases of At-, lanta’s missing and mur dered children. The KFC Corporation, on behalf of its parent cor porations's Heublein Foundation, has pledged to provide the United Youth Adult Conference (UYACi with more than $68,000 in KFC meals over the next 18 months KFC began donating food to the weekend searches last October and so far has contributed B,r>00 chicken dinners valued at nearly $15,000. At the press conference. KFC Corporation Presi dent William A Ready pre sented City Councilman Ar thur Langford, head of the U'YAC organization, w ith a $15,000 check to cover the cost of chicken dinners from 'March through June*' 30. In turn. Mayor Jackson and Councilman Langford thanked the KFC officials, including Ready and KFC I'rban Affairs Director Walter J Simon, and pre sented them with a resolu tion commending KFC for its efforts. Mayor Jackson earlier sent Ready a letter thank ing KFC for the weekly donations. “Being the mayor of a large and complex city like Atlanta is often a tough and demanding job." the ma yor wrote "Our success depends on a good working relationship between city government and the pri vate sector It is always encouraging to know that we have your support Councilman Langford also sent KFC officials a letter expressing his appre ciation for the donations, and. at his behest, the Atlanta City Council passed a resolution com mending KFC lor its con tributions Ready thanked the ma yor and City Council. ~s.i> uig:—“KenttK'ky--Feied Chicken and the lleuhlcin Foundation are honored to receive these commenda lions from the City of At Ianta We wish the people of Atlanta Godspeed in end ing their appalling crisis We all continue our support until that day." KKC is one of a number of corporation supporting different facets of the miss ing and murdered child tens' cases A number of individuals and companies have donated money to further the police investi gations of the case.' and some have given directly to the families of the victims Others, like KKC, have made donations to support the work of the volunteers in the weekend searches KKC employes 300 Atlan tans in its -17 Kentucky f ried Chicken stores here * Studentf Workshop Would you like to vo lunteer a little of your free time to teach illiterate adults to read and write0 A two-day workshop teaching volunteers how to teach illiterate adults will lie. field m.room 211 of the Rufus Kerry Science flail at Johnson C Smith Uni versity April 24-25. rA torts 1 o Desegregate Public Schools Have Caused Major Problems npriidi iu inr hjm Atlanta, GA. - The Voter Education Project, Inc. <VEP> has released the results of a survey of black school board members in 10 southern states The survey, done by VEP's Research Depart ment, showed that al though black school hoard members make up the se cond largest number of black elected officials tn the South, blacks are un derrepresented (in propor tion to the black student population) on 73 percent of the school boards VEP Research Associ ate, Richard Hudlin, com mented, "Of those respond ing to the survey, a major ity saw themselves as In strumental in fighting racism in their school dis trict.” He continued, "The respondents expressed con cern over the discrimina tory treatment of black teachers and students Phillip Berry senooi Hoard chairman which manifests itself in black teachers not being promoted according to merit and the higher rate of suspensions and expulsions of black students as com pared to white " Fifty-eight percent of the respondents to the survey said that the effort to dese gregate schools in their community had caused major problems These problems include the esla blishment by whites of pri vate academies, “white flight” to segregated school districts, and an increased rate of expulsion of black students A small number of those surveyed said resegrega tion was occurring within desegregated schools This is accomplished by such means as classifying many black students as r>edu cabfy mentally retarded” "learning disabled” and placing them in predomi nantly black special edu cation classes On issues other than those related to race, it appears that most black school board members are ideologically compatible with their white counter parts. with 63 percent voting generally with the majority While 90 percent felt that voting took Dlace 'f along racial lines. 66.7 per cent saw this as a rare occurrence The majority of those responding to the VEP sur vey were males, reflecting the preponderance of black males over black lemales sitting on school boards; also, they were 46 years old and older, had a history of active involvement in edu cation or civic affairs, were well educated, and had annual incomes of $15,000 or above Commenting on the Re search Department study, Sherrill Marcus. VKP's executive director, ^aid. ‘ This survey reveals the vital service rendered by black officials on school boards Their commitment to quality education for all and their representation of the black student popula-' tion is important if dese gregated schools are to function at their* peak level The Voter Education Project is a non profit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization working to in crease minority political participation in the II sou thern states. JCSLT Workshop A workshop for students interested in finding out more about opportunities available in the media will be held at Johnson C. Smith University April 25 from 10 a m • 12 noon. The workshop, sponsored by the Black Media Asso ciation. w ill be held in room 107 of the Rufus Perry Science Mall on campus General session speaker will be George Miles, sta tion manager at WPCQ, C hannel 56 Following the speech, workshop conductors will divide into four groups newspaper, radio, televi sion and public relations i Important Innovations Came From Blacks WASHINGTON. !>.(.. What would life be like without electricity, frozen loods. cars and the other conveniences Americans now take (or granted" I hose and countless other inventions were the ideas of independent small business people, who have been responsible lor hull the country's innovations since the turn of the cen tury During Small Business Week. May Hi-in. the I S Small Business Admin istration < SBA i is encour aging all Americans to be come more aware of the importance ol small busi ness to our economy and our lives. Many of the important innovations that we depenc on today, such as traffic - -signals.—riirtx-iir^s signal: on cars and truck refri geration, have come fror Black Americans such a these: nnorew j Heard, win worked on the railroads foi years, had seen co-workers lose their limbs, and some times their lives, trying to link train cars together He lacked formal training in engineering, but knew there had to be a better way In 1897 he invented the "Jermy Coupler' w hich allowed train cars to he linked mechanically and safely Granville T Woods, long lascinated by steam and electricity, invented the steam boiler furnace, pa tented in 1884 That year he also invented a telephone transmitter he sold to the Bell Telephone Company A number of Woods' in ventions were related to the railroads, no doubt m spired by his years of work ing as an engineer on the Danville and Southern Kailroad His list ol more than 150 patented inven lions includes the electric relay switch, an electro magnetic brake lor trains, and a galvanic battery -One of his most important inventions was a regulator that increased the efficien cy of electric motors He marketed his inventions through his own lirmThc Woods- Electric Company of Cincinnati At the dawning of the Industrial Age. the new heavy machinery of all types had to Ik- stopped periodically for lubrication until a Black man named Elijah McCoy of Ypsilanti, Michigan invented a device that lubricated ina chinery while it was in motion Patented in 1872. Me Coy's lubricator was adapt ed for locomotives, steam ers. transatlantic liners, and machinery of all kinds in U S factories His sys tern became known as the "McCoy system.” and later the "real McCoy " In 1920, at age 77, this invent or established his own firm the Elijah McCoy Manu facturing Company In 1923, a Hlack man. Oarrett A Morgan, invent ed the first automatic traf fic signal This device had stop and go arms that were raised and low ered to regu late traffic, and w-as first installed in Willoughby. Ohio. Prior to this, Morgan had won honors for a gas mask he had developed 1 lis m vent ion was pul to practic al use when workers dig ginga tunnel beneath Lake Krie were trapped when their shall sunk t'sipg the mask. Morgan, his brother and several volunteers were able to rescue several men t an you imagine driving and having to use hand signals when turning'* Neither could Richard Spikes, and his love of motor vehicles and some spare time resulted in auto directional signals in' im.i He went on to invent the automatic gear shift and other devices related to automobiles, but he was most proud of his tail safe brake for motor vehicles, which was patented just before he died in ;_ In 1B7K. ,lan\ Malzeliger . w usrworktng-in-o shoe fac- „. i torv in Lynn. Mass Watch s mg the lasting being done by hand, he wondered if it , could be done faster and more . efficiently by machine He decided to try During the day he watched the las tors at work and at night using scrap pieces of material he tried to dupli cate their motions In six months Malzeliger had a working model, buflie had to work another lour years to refine the protot v pe His machine manufactured an entire shoe in one minute and revolutionized the shoe industry \ otv "\o" 7 iirsdn y Post Endorses District Representation Vote "No" for no change the billboards read Thai is what The ( harlotte Post is advising you to do. '1 he Post is endorsing district representation in the April 28th referendum, which w ill determine d ( harlotte will keep its current ;>ys lem or return to an all at large City < ouneil The vote is confusing A vote (or district represent ation is a vote against the -.at.large seats Currently. « harlotte has seven district seals and four at large ones Voting "yes" on this referendum would return Charlotte to a situation where all council members would be chosen at large from the community instead of from each dis trict as they are now Although the present sys tem has not been without controversy, more has been achieved for the indi vidual districts by having council members from each of those districts speaking out for their area's needs An entirely at-large council may once again draw together a majority of people from the south east community as it has done.in the past While their opinions and priorities may be more si milar. the chances in crease for some district's needs to become favored over others. Since the in dividual district spokes men would emphasize their area's needs, the present system brings about a more equitable distribution of funds for services and protection of interests.

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