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---- CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday. October 7. 1982 ---
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TAMARA FORD
~.Cute as a button
Vivacious Tamara Ford
Is “Something Special”
By Teresa Simmons
Poet Managing Editor
^ Whatever that special
something that makes one
stand out in a crowd is our
-beauty Tamara Ford de
finitely possesses it.
“Cute as a button,” is a
phrase many have obvious
ly complimented our
beauty with. Ms. Ford is
the daughter of proud
parents Joe and Brenda
Ford. She has one brother,
Darryl.
A 10th grader at Harding
Senior High School she is a
member of the Marching
Band (she plays the clarin
et) and the RQTC.
In school she enjoys
studying mathematics.
“Sometimes I find it rather
easy, but my ambition is to
become a nurse. I like help
ing people. I would like to
attend the University of
North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.”
Fall Fun Day
Walx on the moon, ride in
a stagecoach or visit the
MASH tent at Eastover
Elementary School's Fall
Fun Day on Saturday, Oc
tober 16, from 11 a.m. until
3 p.m. Enjoy hot dogs,
drinks and snacks and 23
games and rides. The
school is located at 500
Cherokee Road.
Eastover’s PTA sponsors
the annual fun- and fund
raiser to provide a whole
some family activity and to
raise money for work
books, instructional mate
rial, library books, and
music equipment. This
year’s special goal is to
raise money to purchase a
computer for the school.
Everyone is welcome to
join iri the fun.
Eye Care
Lack of information, or
misinformation, keeps
many older people from
seeking eye care - or even
from mentioning vision
■problems.
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The future only fright
ens those who prefer living
In the past.
There are many facets of
life that Ms. Ford enjoys.
Bowiag and talking on the
telephone are two pastimes
that she has become pretty
good at.
“I enjoy the music of
Michael Jackson also. I’ve
always liked his music. I
also enjoy television pro
grams “Diff’rent Strokes”
and “The Jeffersons.”
Over the years Ms. Ford
has been influenced by the
intellect of her parents.
“They are the people I
most admire.” From them
she has learned right from
wrong and eventually
formed her philosophy
which the Bible so elo
quently states: “Do unto
others as you would have
them do unto you.”
Ms. Ford is also a person
with heart. Born under the
zodiac sign of Taurus she
describes herself as “nice
at times, understanding
and concerned about
others.”
“One of ,my main con
cerns are the poor people. I
wish it could be possible to
give all poor people more
money, just to get them
started,” she started.
Ms. Ford has already
acted in her pursuit to aid
others. While a contestant
in the Miss Blue Revue
pageant sponsored by the
members of the Delta Zeta
Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta
Sorority, Inc., Ms. Ford
will help raise money for
needed scholarships.'
"I think that I ylll en
joy being a part of this
pageant. I’ll be able to
meet people in various
walks of life,” she ex
plained.
There is so much our
beauty has to look forward
to. With her concern for
others, blessings are bound
to sway her way. But more
importantly Charlotte has
much to look forward to in
the frame of our beauty,
Tamara Ford.
Calahan
Seeks
Support
By Mac Thrower
Post Staff Writer
The first black mayor of
a town in the Mississippi
Delta in over 100 years,
Eddie Carthan, will go on
trial for his life beginning
October 19 in Lexington,
Mississippi. Carthan is ac
cused of murder, armed
robbery, and conspiracy
falsely accused-accord
ing to Sam Calahan, a
former Tchula. Miss,
policeman.
Calahan, in Charlotte
last week seeking moral
and financial support for
the nationwide effort to
free Carthan, said that the
former Tchula mayor was
guilty only of having chal
lenged the white establish,
ment fn a town where the
vast majority of citizens
are both black and poor.
‘‘There were poor living
standards for most blacks
in Tchula when Eddie be
came mayor in 1977,” Ca
lahan said. ‘‘He brought in
federal money and tried to
bring in new industries to
help the poor. This threat
ened the white power struc
ture because a lot of black
peoples' eyes were being
opened.”
A member along with
Carthan of the original
“Tchula 7,” (the Tchula 7
were convicted of assault
ing a police chief who was
selected by the white
dominated board of aider
men in Tchula to replace a
chief chosen by Carthan)
Calahan reported that he is
traveling the country try
ing to raise funds to pay
See CALAHAN Page 14
SCULPTOR SEYMOUR UPTON
—Discussing art works with Dr. Bynum
With Long-Range Plans
Charlotte’s Mint Museum
Is Tn The Limelight Again
By Augusta Bell
Special To The Post
Charlotte’s Mint Mu
seum is the limelight again
with the new show of an
other major American
artist, sculptor Seymour
Lipton.
And the limelight is ex
actly where Dr. Raleigh
Bynum, museum trustee
and civic leader, thinKs our
city museum should be.
“Our museum greatly af
fects the quality of life in
our community,” Dr.
Bynum said this week.
Dr. Bynum is glad to see
the Mint’s role changing as
it continues to organize
important art shows like
the current Lipton exhibi
tion and the earlier
Romare Bearden show.
Charlotte made national
art news when the inter
nationally known black art
ist came back to his home
town for that show two
years ago.
Now Dr. Bynum and the
rest of Charlotte have just
welcomed Seymour Lipton,
considered by many to be
the greatest postwar Ame
rican sculptor A “down-to
earth" man who likes to
talk, Lipton delighted Mint
visitors with an informal
discussion of his life and
work when his show opened
Sunday. All Charlotteans
can enjoy it until January
2. Then it will go on tour to
Greenville, S.C.; Nash
ville, Tenn.; Springfield,
Mo.; and Montgomery,
Alabama.
Lipton's metal sculp
tures have been winning
top prizes for 30 years from
San Paulo, Brazil, to the
Chicago Art Institute and
Philadelphia’s Pennsyl
Black Leaders Disagree On Methods
Tony Brown Views Economic Boycott
As “Private Sector Welfare Program”
By Mac Thrower
Pott Staff Writer
“PUSH recognizes that
we are taking on the giant
in the beer industry, but so
did David when he fought
Goliath. If we pool our
rocks (i.e., our dollars)
and, in this case, instead of
throwing them at Budweis
er simply withdraw them,
we can defeat Budweiser
just like David defeated
Goliath. Our strength is in
the rightness of our cause
and victory is in the disci
plined withdrawal of our
dollars. We are Anheuser
Busch’s margin of profit.”
-Rev. Jesse Jackson,
calling for a boycott of An
heuser-Busch products
by blacks
“...When they do, out of
strident necessity, ap
proach self-help, they do so
as an ‘economic boycott’ a
private sector welfare pro
gram to replace the go
vernment version. It’s still
begging.”
-Columnist Tony Brown,
rejecting the appeals of
Jackson and the NAACP
for black boycotts of cor
porate products.
The opposing views
quoted above represent
more than just a difference
Sam Young
...Endorses Jackson
of opinion among well
known black leaders. The
words of Brown and Jack
son reveal a fundamental
disagreement in the black
community about what me
thods to employ to promote
economic development
which has been defined by
nearly all black leaders as
the most serious issue
facing blacks in the M60s.
Jackson, an associate of
the late Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., speaks for many
who believe In the ap
proach established by the
civil rights movement in
the 60s: public protest to
generate support through
the media, the Identifica
tion of the cause with tra
Julius Cousar
. . Supports Brown
ditional religious values,
and the organized use of
economic pressure (boy
cotts).
Brown, on the other
hand, speaks for black con
servatives who oppose try
ing to force any further
concessions from the white
establishment; they favor
the use of "black consumer
power" to "develop and
support," as Brown puts
it, “Black businesses ex
clusively.”
The degree of difference
between the two groups is
evident even in the styles
of expression of Brown and
Jackson: Jackson’s flow
ing rhetoric and biblical
comparison; Brown’s
Omar Leatherman
...Owns rental agency
hard-edged assertions
This kind of division of
opinion is apparent in the
black community in Char
lotte. Leaders such as
Kelly Alexander Jr. of the
NAACP and County Com
missioner Bob Walton sup
port the concept of nego
tiating with corporate
America, while ojhers like
Dr. Reginald Hawkins
bluntly echo Brown’s de
scription of these negotia
tions as “begging." Black
businesspeople in Char
lotte, working now on the
cutting edge of economic
development, seem in
many cases to be uncertain
about how to make the
American Dream available
Second in a series
. to the mass of blacks
"As a businessperson I
don't like the idea of boy
cotts. But if they (large
corporations) are not going
to help us, why should we
help them by spending our
money on their products?"
asked Deanie Maxwell,
owner of Deanie Maxwell
Enterprises Mrs. Maxwell
said that she is in favor of
boycotts, like the one Jesse
Jackson has proposed
against Anheuser-Busch,
only if there is a clear
indication enough support
can be garnered to make
the boycott effective. "I’d
be supportive of Jesse
Jackson. .We have to get
enough information to the
people though, so that we
know why we're boycot
ting.”
Sam Young, a Charlotte
real estate developer, re
cently attended a meeting
of the Black Political Cau
cus in Washington and he
says the Caucus "whole
heartedly endorsed" Jack
son's call for blacks to boy
cott Budweiser. Young said
See RI.ACK On Page 14
Eddie Knox Says:
Community Colleges Can
Help Small Businesses
vania Academy of Fine
Arts. Among his many
commissioned works is the
monumental • Archangel’’
in front of the Philhar
monic Hall of New York’s
Lincoln Center.
Dr Bynum laughs when
he calls himself a “middle
of-the-road" art person."
But he is impressed with
Seymour Lipton. Unlike
most postwar sculptors
whose works are formal
abstractions. Lipton re
flects his strong feelings
about life as a challenge,
what he has called “A
search for a holy grail.”
Jerald Melberg, the
Mint's curator of exhibi
tions who organized the
Lipton show, stressed.
‘Each of Lipton’s sculp
tures is unique None is
ever cast "
Lipton creates a work by
welding and bending thin
sheets of Monel, a metal
alloy, and then with a torch
melting bronze of nickle
silver rods over the form
for a luminous finish
His longtime friend and
Princeton art professor,
Sam Hunter, will give a
free lecture at the Mint on
the show October 29
Hunter has said that Lipton
covers the full range of
man’s crises-birth, death,
love, fear Although ab
stract, Lipton's beak like
work “.Scream" is a face of
fear And his long, hori
zontal "Adventurer" sug
gests both a ship's prow
and the challenge of the
unknown.
Pleased as Trustee
Bynum and Curator Mel
berg are with the Lipton
show, they see it as only the
beginning of a new golden
era for the Mint if Char
lotteans approve the $3 5
million bond referendum
1 November 2. With another
$2 million in private funds,
the Mint can add a 30,000
square foot wing, doubling
its size.
Mary and Harry Dalton
have promised their multi
million dollar collection of
American and European
art If the money for the
expansion is ready by next
June
“A ‘yes' vote November
2,” Dr Bynum points out,
"will also mean a con
venient new entrance to the
Mint from Randolph Road
Small
Businesses
In Trouble
Special To The Post
Morganton - Small busi
nesses are in trouble in
today’s economy, but the
state’s community colleges
and technical institutes are
in a position to help them
out, Charlotte Mayor Eddie
Knox told community col
lege presidents in Morgan
ton at the quarterly meet
ing of the North Carolina
Association of Public Com
munity College Presidents.
“The small business
man’s questions can be
best answered through a
variety of programs in
business management pre
sented in a meaningful
format by the local com
munity colleges.” Knox
said. “With more diverse
knowledge and higher
management aptitude, the
small entrepreneur puts
the odds back in his
favor. This support is
needed, because small
business is the backbone of
our economy ”
Knox said the failure rate
of new small businesses is
"dishearteningly high"
and that nine out of 10
failures come as a result of
lack of management skills
rather than inadequate fi
nancing “Running a small
business requires such di
versity from an individual
that even the highly com
petent businessman has
difficulty managing all
areas," Knox said "But
mosf of our small business
es don't have the luxury of
staff or outside consult
ants for these special pro
blems "
While acknowledging the
efforts already underway,
Knox challenged the 58
presidents to take another
look at their programs for
small business managers
and see if they could
"package an instruction
program in such a way
that the carpenter or paint
er or mechanic can lv*l
comfortable and really
learn how to effectively set
up and manage a small
business before taking the
plunge and getting in over
their head "
Knox praised the role
community colleges and
technical institutes are
playing in helping econo
mic development in rural
areas as well as the slate as
a whole But. he said, as
Business ana maustry looks
more for help from the
community colleges and
technical institutes, the
funds needed to run these
schools are decreasing.
"It is difficult to update
programs when your bud
gets are cut to the bone,"
the former chairman of the
State Advisory Budget
Commi.ssion said.
To get a higher priority
with the state budget,
Mayor Knox urged the pre
sidents to have their local
county commissioners,
town council members,
mayors and legislators
visit their schools frequent
ly. "Keep them up-to-date
on what's happening at
your facility and the state's
community college pro
gram." he said