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Volume 8, Number 20 ____
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Alston Named
^Director Of
Urban League
Robert M. Alston Jr. has
been named Executive Di
rector of Charlotte-Meck
lenburg Urban League,
Inc.
He became the official
director Monday, October
18th.
Alston is the former di
rector of the Staten Island
Branch of New York Urban
League, where he served
for six years. During that
time Alston was respons
ible for the development of
a coalition with St. Vin
cent’s Medical Center.
other achievements in
clude development of the
New Dorp High School
Community Advisory
Council following the racial
disturbances in Staten Is
land during the 1980s; and
the development of the
New York Urban League
Teenage Pregnancy Out
»reach Program which led
▼to the development of an
Island-wide Teenage Preg
nancy Task Force of social
service providers, youth
serving agencies and com
munity-based organiza
tions.
In addition Mr. Alston
has represented the Staten
Island Chamber of Com
merce, the New York City
Board of Education Chan
cellor’s Commission on
Equal Opportunity, the Na
tional Conference of Christ
ians and Jews Leadership
Training Programs, the
Staten Island Council on
Child Abuse and the United
Negro College" Fun? New
York Council.
Callman To
Head JCSU
NAACP Chapter
jThe Johnson C. Smith
University NAACP Chap
ter has recently become an
active participant of the
local and state chapters of
the NAACP of Charlotte
and North Carolina, re
%pectivelty.
The Exeuctive Board
was recently elected by the
student body of Johnson C.
Smith Unviersity recently.
Benjamin F. Gallman III
was elected president.
Gallman is a native of Phi
ladelphia, PA, vice presi
dent is Len Baxter of Char
lotte; Secretary Deborah
Byrd of Greenville, S.C.
and treasurer is Sherri L.
Carpenter of Sicklerville,
N.J.
Student Government As
sociation (SGA) is Rod
Smith of Winston-Salem.
Thus far the NAACP at
Johnson C. Smith is off to a
good start for the upcoming
year and excitingly awaits
the many services mem
bers can perform.
Currently members have
conducted a massive mem
bership drive on the cam
pus. Within four days $295
in membership dues was
collected
Rod Smith, the SGA re
presentative and other
members attended the re
cent convention in Fayette
ville and brought back a
»port of what the NAACP
doing nationally as well
as locally. Members of
JCSU NAACP will continue
to strive for the causes and
the excellent reputation the
NAACP has attained.
RKTLt-WjT
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Conscience warns us as a
friend before it punishes as
judge
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LOVELY MICHELLE HAGINS
...Strong “willed person”
Michelle Hagins
Is Beauty Of Week
By Teresa Simmons
Post Managing Editor
Being a peaceful person
herself Michelle Hagins
wishes that same blessing
upon the entire world.
“Socially I would like the
world to be more people
oriented and less color
oriented,” she stated.
In addition to that calm
persona Ms. Hagins is also
a strong willed person. One
striving for excellence with
the necessary faith. “I
believe one should do the
very best one can with the
resources you have...and
pray a lot.”
So far Ms. Hagins, 28, is
showing that her pioneer
ing attitude is not in vain.
She is presently working as
a Lady Love consultant
supplementing her educa
tion at Central Piedmont
Community College. She is
studying to become a
nurse.
“I like the field of me
dicine. Maybe a little fur
ther down the road there
will be a much greater
need for black nurses. As
the money runs out in our
country we will need po
licemen and nurses so we
will be able to take care of
ourselves,” she comment
ed.
A native of Baltimore,
Maryland Ms. Hagins has
found Charlotte to be more
economically feasible in
comparison. In her opinion,
"The cost of living here is a
lot less. . .and in addition the
trees are nice, too.”
Ms. Hagins is an avid
reader. She enjoys the arts,
basically drama, horse
back riding, needle point
and the fascination of cook
ing Various dishes
In the musical phase of
her life she enjoys the con
temporary tunes of Maze
and the talents of the
group’s lead singer, Frank
CPCC Plans Forum
With Candidates
For Stale Lqpfefci*
Citizens may question
candidates seeking to re
present Mecklenburg
County in the N.C. General
Assembly in a forum Octo
ber 20 at Centra) Piedmont
Community College.
The forum will be at 10
a.ift. In Room 120 of the
Music Building on Eliza
beth Avenue
«V
ie Beverly.
There are many positive
characteristics our beauty
possesses. In addition to
being a peace maker she is
a fair individual who views
both sides. Being artistic is
also a part of Ms. Hagins’
make-up.
Many of her attributes
have been encouraged by
her favorite individuals,
Florence Martin and her
mother, Ernestine Robin
son.
“I admire Florence be
cause of her helpfulness.
She understands what am
bition means and she shows
it constructively."
"And my mother is a
strong woman. She has
helped me to be that way,
also,” Ms. Hagins con
cluded.
Ms. Hagins is a young
lady filled to the brim with
enthusiasm for life and en
joyment of simple beauty.
But yet she still has that
important foresight and
balance to remain serious
and happy at the same
time.
With Heating Bills
250,000 Low Income
Households To Get Help
Workfare
Program
Announced
Special To The Post
• WASHINGTON - Final
regulations which will
allow state and local juris
dictions the option of in
corporating a job-oriented
workfare program into the
food stamp program were
announced today by an
official of the U S Depart
ment of Agriculture.
"This innovative pro
gram is designed to pro
vide many of our food
stamp recipients with on
the-job training as they im
prove their job skills and
employability,” said Sam
uel J. Cornelius, admin
istrator of USDA’s Food
and Nutrition Service. “We
are hopeful that skills
learned in this program
will enable more recipients
to graduate to private
sector employment.”
under the workfare pro
gram, able-bodied food
stamp recipients between
the ages of 18 and 60 can be
required to do public ser
vice work in return for food
stamp allotments. Qualifi
cations for entry into the
program will be considered
on a case-by-case basis. If
an eligible recipient re
fuses without good cause to
comply with the workfare
process, the entire house
hold will be ineligible to
receive food stamp benefits
for two months.
Cornelius said workfare
pilot projects, in operation
since July 1979, already
have been successful in
training recipients for per
manent employment in a
variety of professions.
The recipient’s work will
be valued at a rate equi
valent to the federal or
state minimum wage,
whichever is higher. A
maximum of 30 hours work
per week may be required
of any recipient.
J. CHARLES JONES
••Hold and articulate
J. Charles Jones Opens
Neighborhood Law Practice
By Hohert l.ane Jr.
Post Staff Writer
J. Charles Jones is the
only neighborhood lawyer
in Charlotte. He may be the
only neighborhood lawyer
in the U.S. for that matter.
Jones resides at 2014 W
Trade Street in Charlotte
His residence is also the
location for his practice.
“It's not only convenient
for me,” he reasoned,
“its’s also convenient for
people in this area (Five
Points community) to see
me if the need arises.”
It seems that Jones has
spent a great deal of his life
working for the best in
terest of others. As a stu
dent at Johnson C. Smith
University in the late 1950s
he spent a great deal of his
time participating in “Sit
Ins” and making public
statements in the area of
civil rights
Looking back on those
days, he explains, “Char
lotte has always been pro
gressive in the area of civil
rights And it wasn’t be
cause the governing body
necessarily liked black
folks," he suggested, it
was largely because Char
lotte was beginning to
make progress economic
ally and the city didn’t need
the problems that a violent
movement would bring."
While at Johnson C.
Smith, Jones majored in
religious education and
psychology. He decided on
Uj Championship Bowl (kune
Gantt Named Honorary Chairman
By Teresa Simmons
Post Managing Editor
Coordinators of the up
coming CIAA North and
South Championship Bowl
Game to be held in Char
lotte’s Memorial Stadium
Novembe 20, have an
nounced that Harvey Gantt
is the Honorary Chairman
of the game.
Gantt is Mayor Pro-Tern
of Charlotte.
“It’s certainly an
honor," Gantt told The
Post, "because the people
who are sponsoring the
event are doing such a
great Job not only encour
aging the playing of the
CIAA game in Charlotte
but because they do so
much for young people. It’s
a great pleasure to be the
honorary chairman ”
The West Charlotte Op
timist Club and the
Rameses Temple No. 51
AEAONMS are sponsors of
the Charlotte CIAA bowl.
Gantt's dream for the
bowl includes filling the
stands If so, he stated, we
will find that the city will
reap economic rewards.
"Perhaps in four to five
years Charlotte can show
that the CIAA, say with
Harvey Gantt
Cl A A honorary chairman
25,000 people attending the
bowl, is significant and it is
a major sporting event."
The time of the game is
1:30 p m with tickets, $5 in
advance and $8 at the gate.
Advanced tickets will be
sold by members of the
Rameses Temple No. 51
and the West Charlotte Op
timist Club, both civic
organizations.
The CIAA parade will
begin at 10 a m on North
Tryon St. from the Meck
lenburg County Building
Parade participants will
then go south on Tryon,
take a left onto Trade
Street and from there go
. «
towards Memorial Sta
dium
Shriners from surround
ing areas and as far away
as Washington, D C. will be
featured in the parade
Local and out of towns
bands; college bands;
queens from 14 colleges
and local high school bands
will also be in the parade
Co-project coordinators
ire Walter Holmes of the
Ramoses Temple No. 51
and Zoel S Hargrave Jr of
the West Charlotte Opti
mist Club.
Holmes is past Imperial
Potentate. He is a graduate
of Second Ward High
School where he played as
an outstanding athlete in
football and basketball. He
is also a graduate of NC
AAT State University in
Greensboro where he ex
celled in both baseball and
football.
He is an officer in the
United States Army Re
serves, a member ofthe
Elks, Omega Psi Phi Fra
ternity and of East Stone
wall AME Zion Church
where he is a trustee.
Holmes has served as
Chairman of the Shrine
Youth Bowl Football game
for the Prince Hall Shrin
ers of the State of North
Carolina, which produced
such stars as Bobby Bell.
Carl Eller, and Dickie
Westmoreland
The organizer of Ra
meses Temple No 51
Patrol Drill teams which
won 17 state champion
ships and was in the top
three teams of the U S.,
Holmes is also director of
Rameses Court No 78
Isiseretts which is one of
the top three drill teams in
the nation
This marks the second
year Holmes has been the
co-coordinator of the CIAA
Classic.
Zoel S Hargrave Jr is a
ruling elder in the - First
United Presbyterian
Church, member of the
Board of Directors of the
American Cancer Society;
member of the board of the
National Conference of
Christians and Jews and
co-chairperson of the
NAACP Legal Defense and
Education Fun<jl
Married to the former
Esther Y. Perkins, the
couple has one daughter.
Curtine.
religion as a major w ith his
father's, who is a minister,
best interest in mind
“Sure 1 wanted to please
my father but I soon found
out I didn't always, need his
approval," he remem
bered.
After a year of mental
and physical burr. out.
Jones decided it was lime
to reorganize hss life A1
bany, Georgia at that 'ime
seemed to be as good a
place as any. That s where
Jones met attorney (.’ B
King.
According to Jones.
“C.B. was bold and articu
late." King also spoke the
"language” very* well.
Jones translates this lan
guage as power “Law ap
peared to be the language
of power, therefore. I had
to learn that language." he
pointed out
Jones’ aspirations led
him to Howard University
where he studied law and
later received a degree
His advice to anyone with
an interest in attending law
school is to remember that
law school is "no picnic,
she is very jealous and will
demand all of your lime “
Aimougn jones granuai
cd from law school in 1966
he wailed a full decade
before .taking (he bar
exam ‘‘I had been arrested
several times in connection
with civil rights situations
and personally I didn't
think I stood a chance
before the board during
that time,” he reasoned
The year 1976 proved to be
the turning point in Jones'
life, he passed the bar and
began his legal practice
Being a lawyer hasn't
changed Jones much, for
instance, words like "cool
ing out" seem to be right at
home with legal terms and
Jones' philosophical views
about current economical
and social issues He hasn't
moved to Myers Park nor
has his circle of friends
changed and of course his
law practice is located in a
low income area And he
sees the Jesse Jackson
See JONES Page (
$29 Million
Authorized
For JYogjum
Special To The Post
RAl.KKiH - An estimat
ed 250.000 low-income
households across the state
will be eligible for financial
help with their heating bills
this winter through the fe
deral Low-Income Energj
Assistance Program
Bonnie Cramer, assist
ant director for program
administration in the De
partment of Human Re
sources' Division of Social
Services, said the program
provides a one-time pay
ment to help eligible
households pay their heat
ing bills ’“It is not the
purpose of the program to
pay all of the household’s
heating bills, hut to pro
vide some relief from the
high costs of energ>. .•die
pointed out.
Last year, approximate
ly 145,000 hou (“holds re
ceived assistance u ’ ler the
Low Income Energy \>
sistanoe Program with
payments averaging ?14R
per household The amount
of payment a household
receives under the pro
grain depends upon the
number of people in the
household, their income,
the region of the state
where they live, and the
type of healing fuel they
use.
North Carolina's share of
the $1.8 billion in federal
funds authorized by Con
gress.for this year's Low
Income Energy Assistance
Program is $2‘J-I million
Cramer said that since
Congress has not yet a[>
propriated any funds for
the program, she hopes this
amount is not reduced
when funds are appropri
ated. '
The Department of Hu
man Resources has been
designated as the slate
agency responsible for the
administration of the pro
gram County social ser
vices departments across
the state will determine
eligibility
i ne only household eh
gible for financial assist
ance are those that have
heating bills Applicants
also may be eligible if their
heating bills are included
as part of their rental
payment Households that
live in public housing or
receive a utility allowance
from the HLD Section 8
F'rogram will be eligible
for a partial payment if
their utility allowance does
not cover all their heating
costs.
Eligible households must
have total countable in
come at or below the 1980
non-farm poverty level.
The amounts paid for Me
dicare and hospital insur
ance premiums are deduct
ed from income House
holds that have working
members may deduct work
related and child care
costs from their earned
income Some other types
of income are not counted
at all such as loans, in
come of children under 14
and in-kind contributions
A one-time payment will
be made in early February
after all low income house
holds have applied and eli
gibility has been deter
mined, Cramer said.