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LOVELY GINA GATES
....Wrapped in a package of elegance
Adorable Gina Gates
Is “Beauty Of The Week”
By Teresa Burns
“ 1*o st Staff-Writer -
"I feel one can be any
thing one wants to be and
be a success at it," ex
plains our energetic
beauty, Gina Gates
And if she believes in her
talents, enhances her thrill
to become good at what
ever she chooses to pursue,
then her eminent success is
inevitable.
Ms. Gates' ultimate goal
_ is to attend Morgan State
riuvcrsity and tu major in ■
one of three areas: com
munication, business man
agement or accounting
Her interests are both
interesting and versatile,
ijpd her love for music,
beauty, excitement and
people dominate her cha
racter.
Born in Charlotte, Ms.
Gates moved to New York
at the age of two. She cut a
record on the Atlantic City
• label recently with two
other young ladies in the
singing group Sapphire.
Their record “Tom Cat"
an,d Thinking of You" (on
the flip side) will be re
leased.
In addition, our Leo
beauty has been modeling
-suice-the~age_of-U_She
attended Barbizon Model
ing School and finished at
People’s Choice Modeling
Agency. She has modeled
runway in both New York
and Charlotte and recently
modeled in the Winston
Salem Hair Show Conven
tion.
Her skills of modeling,
singing and even as a beau
tician are wrapped in a
package of elegance. An
—Olltfininp person who love-i
to work with the public,
especially young children,
Ms. Gates is one with an
inner charge that never
fails.
‘ I think everyone should
try to live, love and help
one another,” she smiled.
Much of her inspiration
comes from her parents,
Mrs. Willie Grant and
James Gates.
"They have always
wanted me to be some
thing. They have been my
inspiration in this life; and
when they leave they will
know that 1 will be able to
manage. Whatever I want
ed to be they just wanted
me to he good at it.”
Hearing Set t or
Citizens’ Input On CD
The Charlotte City Coun
cil will hold a public hear
ing on Monday, November
23, at 3 p.m. in the City
Council Chamber, City
Hall, 600 East Trade Street.
The purpose of the hear
ings is to receive citizens'
comments on the appro
priation of unencumbered
funds and program income
of the City’s Community
Development Program.
Charlotte has approxi
mately $1,533,000 in pro
gram income and an unen
cumbered funds that must
be appropriated prior to
December 31. 1981.
Person wishing to speak
at the hearing should con
tact the Office’of the City
Clerk, City Hall, 600 East
Trade Street, telephone
374-2247, by noon on No
vember 23' Comments may
be kde orally or in
writing, and speakers are
M
A merry hearth doeth
good like a medicine, but a
broken spirit drieth up the
bones.
asked to place their sug
gestions in writing for the
record.
Our beauty's love for her
family js immense She has
three brothers - Orfandis. ~
Perez and James; one sis
ter. Pamela, and a sister
in-law. Jackie.
She stated that she would
like to congratulate her
newlywed mother and step
father, Mr and Mrs
George Grant. "I also want
to say congratulations to
my mother on behalf of her
new business, "I'm Coming
Out Salon of Beauty," Ms.
Gates remarked.
Despite her singing per~
formance in the Tropicana
and the LB Supper Club in
New York. Ms. Gates has
not lost touch with the
world and the people who
inhabit this earth. Her
longings are for improve
ments for people - lower
prices and taxes. "It would
be nice if more black peo
ple would enroll in more
schools and colleges also.
We need more recreation
for children - more play
grounds and centers for
afternoon study.
"Parents can take more
time with their children
and show them exactly
what is out here in the
world today," she con
tinued.
With the strength and
will of a lion, our beauty
continues to soar to heights
of achievement For Gina
Gates, convictions are
steps toward enchanted
success
Clarence Mitchell Blasts
Federal Deposit Bill
^
“Job With
Peace”
WoAshop Se*
A statewide ".Jobs with
Peace" workshop will be
held November 14-15 in
Charlotte at 15:14 West Bou
levard 1 Westover Shopping
Center, at Remount Roadi
The weekend conference,
planned to kick-off a cam
patgn to get a ".Jobs with
Peace" referendum on the
ballot in Charlotte in 19H2.
will include speakers, dis
cussions. films, music and
strategy sessions on local,
national and international
implications ot the arms
race and the threat of nu
clear war A Saturday
night banquet will feature
two speakers. Carrie
Craves, coordinator ol the
workshop will narrate a
slide presentation about
her recent trip to the Soviet
Union and to Prague,
Czechoslovakia, where she
was a member of the
United States delegation to
the World Congress of Wo
—men-_ji representative
frorn the African National
Congress will speak about
the liberation struggles in
Southern Africa.
I he workshop is spon
sored by the North Caro
lina Project to Cut Mili
tary Spending and to Fund
Human Needs, a project of
the Southern Organizing
Committee for Economic
and Social Justice, in co
operation with Charlotte
Central Labor Council.
Charlotte Equal Rights
Council. Charlotte Peace
Network. Charles SANE,
Clerhy and Laity Con
cerned. Client Council of
Southern Piedmont. GiM
Productions. Institute for
Southern Studies, North
C arolina Hunger Coalition
and War Resisters League
Registration is at it a m
on Saturday, November 14.
Registration for the full
workshop is $5 employed.
$2 unemployed, plus $6 for
the banquet
wimam s Kest Home, formerly know n as
Aery's Kest Home, is experiencing ne
gative affects due to budget cuts in
various social services Here Willie Allen
is shown on the grounds of the rest home
Will needed rest homes survive0
YDNC Platform Convention
To Debate Four-Year Term
Representatives Pa.k
Heims i D-.Mecklenburg i
and Martin Lancaster <D
Wayne> will debate the
merits of a four year term
lor legislators at the 1981
Platform Convention of the
Young Democrats of North
Carolina i YDNCl
North Carolina voters
will vote in May on a
proposed amendment to
the North Carolina Consti
tution to elect legislators to
four year terms North
Carolina legislators now
serve two year terms.
The YDNC Platform
Convention will be hefd
Saturday. November 14. at
the Ramada Inn in Gas
tonia. The debate will be
gin at 11 Saturday morn
ing and will be before a
panel composed of journal
ists and of Young Demo
crats. Approximately 800
400 Young Democrats are
expected to attend
Lancaster, considered by
many to be a future can
Are You Satisfied With Black
Leadership At The Local Level?
..EDITOR’S NOTE: Dur
ing the first two weeks of
the series < 10 blacks who
are active in North Caro
lina political life were
asked ten questions re
lating to the status of Afro
Americans in North Caro
lina and the nation The
following article is an ana
lysis of those responses
Responses to the questions
will appear here during the
next four weeks. We en
courage reader reaction to
the series and the views
expressed in these co
lumns. The interviewer.
Pat Bryant, is an editor at
Southern Exposure Maga
zine, P. O. Box 351, Dur
Tiaih, N.C. 27702. —
QUESTION: Are You Sa
tisfied With Black lead
ership at the laical. State
and the National levels?
..T. C. Jerv ay-publisher
of the Wilmington Journal,
the oldest black newspaper
in North Carolina.
“Somebody said some
time again ‘if you are
satisfied with SO percent of
any church, don't get out of
it.' I think a lot of the
leadership, the top leader
ship, is out of step with the
grassroots people This So
lidarity Day (September
19) you will find a great
many of these people going
up there are hard working
people who are sacrificing
to go The leadership em
phasizes that it's going to
l)e a crowd regardless Of
the airports and the
PATCO strike But how
many of us go up there in
the planes to start with?
The majority of us are
going up there on buses "
Carrie Craves, memberof
the Charlotte Kqual Itights
Council and organizer of
the North Carolina Project
on .Military Spending and
Human Needs of the South
ern Organizing Committee.
"We have some’dyna
mite black leadership but
too many of them are being
pulled into that whole
structure of compromising
certain blacks out of their
benefits Black leaders that
We have now don't have
enough guts to really stand
for what's the problem in
the black community I
think that they have for
gotten how to talk to that
brother on the street They
cannot be bothered with the
folks who live in public
housing or in the inner city.
To me leadership cannot be
afraid to do what they are
expecting others to do
leadership cannot always
wait for some formal invi
tation to come into the com •
munity. You do not wait for
■someone to call you when
you know their problem
exists You get involved
because it's your people "
Jennifer Henderson, di
rector of the North Caro
lina Hunger Coalition, Fay
etteville.
"I'm not particularly dis
satisfied with black lead
ership I think that it’s very
difficult for one person or
even a group of people to
represent M> million people
across the country or i-_
million people across the
state. That just is impos
sible What has to happen is
that we have to develop
credible people Not parti
cularly leaders but cred
ible spokesmen for the
community in various
areas of expertise When
that happens we ll have a
core of leaders People that
are in control, that we can
be proud of . "
Leonard Dunsion. presi
dent of the North Carolina
Association of the National
Association ol Itlack Social
Workers.
“I'm very dissatisfied
with the leadership as per
ceived by the media The
leadership that's projected
by those who wish to con
~ti*til us does nut represent
the masses They purport
to speak for the masses of
black people, yet they have
not gone through any kind
of election to lie authorized
to speak for us The con
cept espoused by the Na
tional Black Independent
Political Party has been
building from the bottom
up Leadership has to come
from the masses of people
It should be coming from a
-mass -based -kind of struc
ture where you have an
opportunity for all mem
bers in the black commun
ity, irrespective of their
economic and education
status, to select and elect
those who they chose to
represent them ”
t'larence l.ighlner. form
er mayor of Kaleigh and
former state senator.
.“We have good leaders
coming along and I think
that the main thing we need
to do is support them What
See "Are You ." Page It
ilidate for Speaker oi trie
House, was House sponsor
of the proposed amend
ment. Helms is considered
a likely candidate for At
torney Generaly in itm-t
The draft platform to be
considered at the conven
tion contains alternative
planks, one favoring the
four year term and one
opposing it
In other plans, the draft
platform describes the
Keagan administration's
economic program as "en
gulfed in a crisis of con
fidence."
"It now seems clear that
the administration consci
ously closed its eyes to
many of the problems with
its program." that draft
plattform says
The draft platform cri
tieizes the cuts in social
programs now proposed by
the Keagan Administration
as "stingy and mean.”
Again and again, the
(imposed cuts in social pro
grams fall most heavily in
the working poor." the
platform says "Again and
again, it is households that
have some earned income
that lose the most in bene
fits."
The platform also op
(Joses the "Human Life
Amendment" sponsored by
Republican Senator John
Hast.
UNCC To
Sponsor OneTkiy
Workshop
The University of North
Carolina at Charlotte is
sponsoring a one-day
lumns. The interviewer.
Hat Bryant, is an editor at
and deal with depression
Scheduled from 8:.'M) a in
to 4 p m at Myers Hark
Presbyterian Church, the
workshop will center on the
cnnTcai lealures of depres
sion, its major causes and
consequences, intervention
and treatment planning,
and a discussion of indivi
dual cases The purpose of
the workshop is to help
ministers respond effect
ively when asked for help
Workshop leaders will be
UNCC psychology profes
sors Dr Lawrence G. Cal
houn Jr.. Dr James W
Selby. Dr Richard G Te
deschi and graduate stu
dent Joann Wolfe
The proposed conslitu
tional amendment known
as the Human Life Amend
ment' severely threatens
the right ol women^ to
choose whether and vvhen
to bear children." the plat
lorm says "That decision
is an intimate, personal one
in which government can
lave no proper role
The proposed "Human
•ife Amendment" would
Mine the beginning of life
vith fertilization The
imendment is aimed at
canning abortion
A reception and a ban
|uet will lollow discussion
»f the platform. The re
option w ill begin at (i p m
md the banquet at 7 Both
■v ill be held at the Long
lorn Supper Club at the
iixie Trail Shopping
'enter Tickets for the re
ception and banquet are
615.
The public is invited to
ittend
Minority (Career
Fair Scheduled
Special To llie I’ost
( IIAPKI. till I Minor
ity students al the Cm
versity ot North < arolina at
Chapel Hill will have <i
chance to meet w ill) repre
sentatives from the husi
ness and financial worlds
when the Cniversity holds
its first Minority Career
Fair Thursday and Friday.
November 12 11
More than 20 businesses
Will pail',cl|Mlc in pi m life—
career opportunity inform
at ion
The fair is open to all
students, but mi norites
are specifically targeted,
because they traditionally
have not l>ecn exposed to as
much career related in
formation as others, said
Thomas 1) l.uten. the
career lair originator and
coordinator
l.uten associate director
oi Cm versity Placement
Services at CNC-CH. said
students attending the fair
will meet the business re
presentative they can call
or write to for career in
formation
The fair will last from 1-5
p m on Thursday and from
Ham to 5 p m. Friday.
l.uten said he hopes the
career fair will become an
annual event ' The fact
that CNC-CH has a good 1
reputation and good stu
dents has lured the com
panies here." he said
Bottle Bill
ToUiirt
Blacks
Maryland Slate Senator
Clarence MitchelL III I)
Baltimore* has told the
Senate Commerce Com
mittee that black Amen
cans can't afford' the
negative impacts of a pro
posed lederal law that
would lorce consumers lu
pay a minimum deposit on
beer and soft drink con
tamers.
Mitchell, president of the
National Black Caucus of
Slate Legislators, spoke
out against (lie mandatory
deposit regulation during a
November 5 hearing tn
Washington, D.C
"1 am here to tell you
w hy black Americans can't
afford S-7IW the bottle bill."
'aid Mitchell who said he
was also speaking as a
hoard member lor the
t enter for I rban Environ
ment Studies, a non parti
san group which gives en
vironmei lal planning and
research assistance to ur
ban lawmakers, rontmun
ity leaders and average
citizens
.Mitchell, who has helped
defeat statewide manda
lory deposit legislation in
he Maryland legislature,
old the committee that a
ederal deposit hill would
lave a negative impact on
>oth employment and in
lation
‘ No one - not even the
generally well to-do. white
proponents ol bottle bills
will deny that thousands of
'killed jobs would be lost it
i five-eent deposit bill were
ipplied to all earns and
pottles. Mitchell said
Bottle bill supporters tell
js that the loss ol skilled
|ofis would he offset by
iome bottle-sorting jobs,
put this is a sacrifice we
•annot make in these times
>1 high unemployment
"We cannot., support go
vernment regulations or
programs^hich take away
employment opportuni
lies. Mitchell added, "es
pccially when we are only
talking about soli drink and
beer containers not nuts
uni bolts environment; !
issues such as toxic waste
clean air and drinking
water.
Mitchell also told the
committee that a federal
deposit law would create
havoc for retailers, parti
cularly small, independent,
urban grocers.
"There is no constitueri
cy bit narder by ma!Ida lore
deposits than the retailer,"
tie said "It is plain unfair
to force that businessman
o cope with all those ire
turned' cans and bottles
I’he majority of black
iwned private enterprise is
n the retail business, and
many of these operations
ire "mom and pop" stores
hat do not have the capital
o cope with mandatory
ieposits
"The hardships were
•choed by a Michigan
member of our Black Gau
ms of Stale Legislators,
vho told our organization,
n conference last year,
hat the higher prices
jassed on by retailers, were
staggering for beer and
10ft drinks," Mitchell
idded
Six states - Michigan,
"onnecticut. Iowa, Maine,
iregon and Vermon - have
mplemented statewide de
posit regulations