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=s TUP PITS] 111TTP m 10*0 =syss“" I llXi tiXl/lJ U f X X Jt* Jr ! fo x “The Voice Of The I Hack Community" MISS CANDACEWALKER ~ .."Concentrates on school ivork Our Beauty Miss Candace Walker Plans To Attend N.C. Central By Teresa Simmons Post Staff Writer For some there are al ways barricades blocking their ambitions or crushing desires long awaited. Our beauty Candace Walker has found the means to dissolve - those mysterious barricades that crop up. “My mother always told me there’ll be people who will try to stop me. But she ~f**l* nv» to do what I feel Jr right," expressed our U> year old beauty. So far Miss Walker has set her mind to concentrate on her studies in school. As a tenth grader at West Charlotte High School where she is also a member of the ROTC, Miss Walker’s main concern is keeping her mind on her school work. “I’d like to attend North Carolina Central Univers ity to study and become a Computer Analyst. I don't want to go too far away from home. I like the field , «»cL-U>e mooc'' it has to. f of.'er," she continued. Miss Walker, who has two brothers, Chris and Colin, is the daughter of Mrs. Bernice Walker. OGB Developmental Center To Assist Minorities The Charlotte-Gastonia Business Development Center recently began ope ration to assist the creation and expansion of minority business enterprises. Boone, Young and Asso ciates established a co operative contract with the U.S. Department of Com merce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). The minority owned consulting firm now provides heavily subsi dized consulting services to socially or economically disadvantaged businesses. Carolyn Linyear, a pro ject manager for the Busi ness Development Center, informed the federally funded center can now "assist firms in general business development as well as construction, man agement, contract procure ment, market and financial planning." Federal guidelines allow MBDA to subsidize 90 per cent of the cost of con sulting jrvices for quali fying firms grossing less than $500,000 a year, and 75 percent of all costs for firms grossing $500,000 or more a year. According to Linyear, projects range from small, one person entrepreneurial ventures to multi-million dollar firms. Current fund ing levels will allow Boone, turnt-itf-* The time to start saving for your old age is today; you will never begin at some time in the future. Carolyn Linyear ...Project manager Young and Associates to assist about 50 businesses in the Charlotte-Gastonia Standard Metropolitan Area. This area includes Mecklenburg, Gaston and Union Counties. Ninety-nine Business De velopment Centers like the one in Charlotte are lo cated in cities throughout the country with the largest minority populations. Each maintains vital contacts with major corporations to identify new business op portunities for minority owned firms. Linyear invites minority business persons from the Charlotte-Gastonia SMSA to visit the Business De velopment Center. It's located within Boone, Young, and Associates, Inc., 230 S. Try on Street, Suite 1030. Golden Bulls Meet Catawba Monday Night In Coliseum Small college basketball powers Johnson C. Smith and Catawba College will clash at the Coliseum here Monday night. The contest will follow a girls’ contest, between JCSU and Barber-Scotia, which is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Ticketa for the double header are on sale at 15 for adults and $3 for students. There is also a special uncle in our beauty’s life whom she considers as one influential person in her life. “I like my uncle’s, Wilch Walker’s way of living. He talks to me about life and right and wrong. He describes things to me. I look up to him and when ever I need to know some thing he is there to advise me.” P«a)cetbaU» tennis and. W/leyaal! area fe'~ of Mtos Walker’s favorite pas times. She enjoys studying especially algebra, a sub ject she has become quite proficient in. She also en joys the phase of her life which brings her closer to God. She attends the Rod of God Ministry Church. When she is not studying or enjoying sports our beauty is conversing with her cousin, Robin Miller. "She’s a year older than I and I can talk to her,” she stated. A Capricorn Miss Walker is an honest person who admits openly her short comings. “Sometimes I can be mean and it’s some thing I want to change. But I can also be nice and I like people,” she asserted Honesty, coupled with the desire to succeed repre sents well a frame our beauty easily fits. The seriousness of her dedica tion and her realizations are iwo assets to always, be admired. In Observance Of Thanksgiving Area Churches To Hold Spedal Prayer Services SCLC’s Stretching Its Wings The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is stretching its wings of faith and civil rights into Charlotte. The membership drive for the local chapter will begin 5 pm. November 28 at 1534 West Blvd. This service entitled Na tional Church Day will also feature a cultural pro grafn. Members of the Tchula Seven Will be pre sent. Guest speaker will be Rev. Albert Love of SCLC. Visiting members of the Tchula Seven of Tchula Mississippi include: Percy Dean; • James Pigford; Tom Cammon; Sam Cala han; and Robert Matthews. Sponsored by the Client Council of Charlotte-Meck icnburj',, Carrie Graves president, Marcia Dean, project coordinator, the November 28 service was set in a time of thanks giving. But members of the council also believe that members of the Tchula Seven and Mayor Eddie Carthan (also of Tchula) have been given a raw deal as /V as civil rights is concerned. Elected Mayor of Tchula in 1977 Eddie Carthan has since been acquitted of murder charges but placed in jail for three years for simple assault. Also the state wants to transfer Ma yor Carthan to Parchman State Penitentiary imme diately. Citizens of Charlotte can send telegrams to the Mis sissippi Supreme Court Justice, West and High Streets, Jackson, MS 39205, £01-354-6021 asking that Eddie Carthan be released on bail or at least kept out of the Parchman State Penitentiary where harm is sure to befall him Rev. Fred McCullough To host service' --marnmm \_ Rev Dr. A B Sutton, . ..Shiloh speaker Rev Dr Humphrey To deliver sermon Making Way For Transit Mall Poses Many Problems By Terri Byrum Special To The Post Probably the largest pro blem facing planners of the uptown plaza and transit mall is that of money. Voters approved $1.2 mill ion for the plaza, and re cently , it was announced by the city manager's office1 that Estimated costs had doubled, now expected to be a minimum of $2.6 million. And this is only for the plaza itself, which will en compass the Square and house several boutiques and food kiosks The transit mall itself is estimated at over $6.5 million. As to how planners will raise the additional dollars needed for completion of the plaza and mall is yet undetermined. City Man ager Wendell White and the Project Management Team have entertained se veral proposals which sug gest that private develop ers contribute the money In exchange for this re venue, the developers would hold the leases of the retail and foqd shops. Hen ry Faison, developer of the office-hotel complex now in construction across the street from the planned plaza, has offered assist ance. as well as Dennis Second in a series Rash for the NCNB Com munity Development Cor poration and SYNCO, Inc This would create a pri vate-public cooperative, unprecedented in the up town area. Some ether problems have been small by com parison to the financial worries. Both a statuesque clock and a lush fountain have been proposed as cen terpieces for the plaza. To date, neither is included in the final plans. Originally, the transit mall was to have spanned eleven blocks. Because of escalating costs, planners trimmed it down to eight blocks. Two weeks ago, it was announced that per haps the transit mall could be eleven blocks long rffter all As it is curently planned, the transit mall will run from Stonewall Street to Eighth Street There has been some mihor bickering about what types of trees to plant along the mall and plaza_ Oak and elm trees were proposed, but officials of the fire department said large trees could create safety hazards. The ques tion of foilage is still un decided. Should specially made hornets' nest street lamps be ordered'1 Should adver tising be placed on the lamp posts? Given Char lotte’s recent history with sculpture, should a new work be placed on the Square? Should wooden benches be movable? Should they face each other or line the street? The above questions w ill be answered within the next several months. But the one question w hich will linger until after the plaza and transit mall are com pleted. is this Will this deluxe remodeling of our uptown renew interest in uptown visitors and will bus ridership be in creased’’ Next Week: \n Kmotion al Issue: Brownlee Jewel ers and the Transit Mall. Boosters dub Indian River citrus for Christmas is being sold by the Myers Park High School Boosters Club and school service clubs. The boxes of oranges and grapefruits will be sold in advance between now and December 8 Small boxes start at $7 Act now to be assured of delivery for Christmas Shirley Fulton Is City’s First Black Assistant DA By Karen Parker Post Staff Writer Shirley Fulton is the first black female to serve as an assistant to the District Attorney in Charlotte. She has been working as assistant to the D A since September 27, 1982 A native of Kingstree, S.C., Attorney Fulton did her undergraduate studies at AAT State University. • While in Greensboro, she also worked in the city’s Register of Deeds depart ment where she gained considerable expertise in city and county law. It was at this time that Attorney Fulton made up her mind to enter law school. In 1977 she was at Duke University in one of the most competitive law schools in the country. "1 remember my class very well," reminisced Attorney Pulton. "Eighteen students were in my class and three of them were black." At Duke, Attorney Ful ton dealt with law’s major concepts: reason and analogy By standing be fore classmates and in structors to plead a case, Attorney Pulton got a more indepth understanding of Shirley Fulton . Duke graduate that body of rules estab lished to govern society. She was no longer on the outside of the Judicial sys tem looking in, but ac tively formulating and practicing her own ideals The next rung up the ladder of success for At torney Fulton wa» Joining I,oflm and Loflin law firm in Durham Sixty-five to 70 percent of this firm’s cases are in criminal defense, according to Attorney Ful ton. "At first 1 was ner vous when I stood in a courtroom before other lawyers, the Judge and Jury, and many spec tators,’’ she informed But with experience comes confidence Attor ney Fulton pointed out, "Now my presentations don’t bother me. My con cern is what’s happening at that particular time, and the present circumstances around me.” That’s probably why Attorney Fulton, as assist ant to the D A., can aide in handling with professional ism anywhere from 50 to 225 cases each day. Pre sently she is working in the violations bureau, where she prosecutes criminal cases in District Court Attorney Fulton noted most of the traffic viola tions against people are for driving under the influence of alcohol. In North Carol ina, Governor Hunt has initiated a Task Force On Drunken Driving urging the legislature to imple ment stricter laws and sentences as a means to combat a state problem that is worsening One sug gestion by the Task Force is to raise the legal drink ing age to 19. rather than leave it at 18 Attorney Fulton did not imply raising the legal al coholic drinking age will be ineffective, but sbe did point out in Charlotte, "the majority of the cases she handles concerning driving under the influence involve adults older than 18 and 19 ." It won't be long before Attorney Fulton rotates to another District Court de partment. After serving a little longer in traffic court, she still has Juvenile and Domestic Court to de monstrate her skills She explained the purpose of rotation is to gain basic training in the court system In Durham, Attorney Fulton was a member of the Legal Redress Com mittee for the NAACP, Legal Services Board of Directors, and the Aeade my of Trial Lawyers, The mother of a 10-year-old son, Kevin. Attorney F'ulton aspires to enter private law practice Thanksgiving Week Ptockumed Adoption Week Special To The Post ..RALEIGH Thanksgiv ing week, November 22-27, has been proclaimed Na tional Adoption Week by the North American Coun cil on Adoptable Children and Adoption Week in North Carolina by Govern or James B Hunt Jr. "The purpose of this spe cial observance is to honor the many close knit fami lies across our state and nation that have been formed through adoption, and to focus attention on the vast number of child ren who are still in need of permanent homes with loving parents to call their own," Governor Hunt wrote in a special procla mation announcing adop tion week. Dr Morris said there are currently 4,722 children in foster care in North Carolina with 518 ol these already legally cleared for adoption Another 1,257 of these children are already in the process ot being legally cleared for adoption by county social services departments across the state Some Will Deliver Food Baskets h> Teresa m in minis Post Managing Kditor "1 am thirsty " A ve st*! full of vinegar stood there so the\ put a sponge soaked tr. vinegar ort H\ sop and iielri it to his mouth When Jesus had taken the vinegar. Me said. It is finished' Then, bowing His head. He yield ed up His spirit John 19:29-30. These and other things we have to be thankful for for Jesus died for our sins Taking time out from your busy schedules isn't • asking too much If voo do decide to attend a Thanks giving service, here are a few you may choose from. The Annual Thanksgiv ing Service wul be held at the Shiloh Institutional Paptis< rhu'-oh '>'%a South Bruns A ve on ihaiiksg!1 ing Day a! in a n . Hev. Dr A « Sutton, pastor of Kbem / r Baptist Church, will o< iiver the message This service is jointly sponsored by the Shiloh Institutional. El<etiezer and New Hope Bap' .st Church es The public is invited A Pre-Thank giving ser vice will hf- he'd at No zarene Baptist Lurch. Breezewond I >r Nnvem her :’l at 2 :to p »r. Hev H Graham pastor of Kim St AM' Zion Church, will hr t;g the ser mon Rev I. P Nelson is pastor of Na/.ii>-ne You are warmly . .. -ted to attend Weeping VftiC ' MK Zion < hurch Imgs ley Bri wili -■ i i're Thanksgivmg -or < «• W ed nesday Novf-nh*' 'i.aj-7 p m The public i> ordtniiy invited to emm -ut and join with others thunk ing the Lord for IL many hlessing* Rev in-v derson is pa.Mot A Joint Thank vi? < service will h( i id at Grace \.\1E /. >i church. 210 South Brava- ' -dp-et. November ,»; i a m Greater Bet he1 \ME Church mern x-r-- !i oin the Grace tarn in ihis special service fLv Levi Brown Jr paVor .{ Great er Bethel 'Mk Church, will deliver ih< - nion of Thanksgiving h> Marion Jones is pastfir .t >irate AME Zion Chi; The public is invited The Senior Missionary Society of Second Calvary Baptist Church 114 \elson Ave , will presenl its An nual Harvest Program Sunday, Novemtx r ,’i at (> p.m. Rev L)r Lemar Foster is pastor The public is cordially invited to at tend Grace K.vangclical Lu theran Church announces its Thanksgiving Kve Ser vice to be held at 7 30 p m The service will he held at the James J Harris YMCA, 5900 Quail Hollow Rd The public is cordially invited First Baptist Church West. located at IBOI Oak lawn Ave . will hold its Annual Thanksgiving ser vice Wednesday, Novem See ARKA on Page It