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RITA GARRISON
—Harding High senior
Outgoing Rita Garrison
Is “Beauty Of The Week”
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Post Managing Editor
As the New Year strikes
up a fresh chord we would
like to present a classical
melody, 17 year-old Rita
Garrison.
Ms. Garrison reminds
one of a whiff of fresh air or
a darting sunbeam. “I’m
outgoing and I like to meet
people,” Ms. Garrison
explained. “I like having
fun and going places."
On the more serious side,
however, you’ll find Ms.
Garrison attending- 'a
Future Business Leaders of
America meeting at Hard
ing High School where she
is a senior. Her long range
plans include opening her
business concentrating on
cosmetology.
“First I’d like to go into
the Air Force, save my
money and then open my
own shop. I want it to be a
big, nice shop...some place
you’d enjoy coming to.”
There’s a good chance of
Ms. Garrison achieving her
goal. She has already
completed one essential
step, her requirements of
becoming a fully licensed
bish click. “When some are
in high places they tend to
forget others.” But this is
one attitude Ms. Garrison
would like to avoid and in
general improve nation
wide.
As a businesswoman she
sees that providing jobs is
an important factor. "We
need more jobs for people
especially minorities."
Her philosophy in life and
business is the same: “I
shall pass this way but
once, if there be any good
thing I can do or any help I
can give'let me do it now
for 1 won’t pass this way
again.”
At Harding Senior High
School Ms. Garrison is a
member of the DECA Club
and the Future Business
Leaders of America. While
in high school in Dallas she
was a member of the
VICA, Student Government
and Spirit Club.
She also attends Second
Calvary Baptist Church,
enjoys reading poetry and
going out, playing Ms. Pac
Man and listening to music.
Luther Vandross is her
favorite musician.
“I enjoy living in Char
lotte. The people are
friendly and the pace is
real slow Much slower
than Dallas which is much
larger than Charlotte.”
The daughter of Ca
therine and Edward Gar
rison, our beauty has two
brothers, Tony and Eddie.
As a Leo Ms. Garrison
explains that she loves peo
ple. One of her favorite
people is her uncle, Calvin
Harris. “1 can talk to him.
He has good advice and a
calm way to talk to people
all the time. And he is fun
to be with.”
Ms. Garrison is not only a
sensitive individual but she
is intelligent and disci
plined as well. She has
received several Oratoric
al Awards and earned the
Jessie Owens Track Class
ic award running track.
Even though Ms. Gar
rison realizes that time is
ticking away, she never
wishes to relive a day. The
future is more important to
her and making her
dreams naturally occur.
Will You Be
A Holiday
Miracle ?
The holiday season is a
traditional time for giving
and receiving. Excitement
_ fill the air and pyprvrfpp
seems to share the feeling
that something special
might happen, like a mi
racle. In keeping with the
season, the local Red
Cross is asking you to be
come a “Holiday Miracle.”
From December 22
through January 5 fewer
bloodmobile visits are
typically scheduled by
sponsoring groups because
pfants close for the holi
days, people travel or host
family gatherings, and it is
generally a time already
committed to seasonal
activities.
Yet patients in the 104
hospitals in our Red Cross
blood region must have
blood every day. Approxi
mately 1,064 pints a day are
needed to fill orders from
doctors in these hospitals.
Volunteer blood donors
froih the 57 counties of the
region supply this blood
daily.
In order to insure a
blood supply during this
period, Red Cross is spon
soring a Holiday Miracle
campaign and asking peo
ple to donate a pint of blood
between December 22 and
January 5th
Donors can become a
Holiday Miracle by giving
a pint of blood at the Red
Cross Center, 2425 Park
Road, Charlotte. You can
make an appointment to
donate blood by editing Red
Cross at 376-1661.
ELDER E. C. CANNON
...With Bishop Joseph Sherman
E. G Cannon Evangelistic
Crusade Begins Saturday
About 20 years ago Elder
E. C. Cannon brought an
idea to Charlotte that
turned into a crusade. A
few worshippers gathered
years ago But the crusade
today has turned many
heads seeking the truth of
God’s Word.
Beginning January 1 and
lasting for nine days the E.
C. Cannon Evangelistic
Crusade, Inc. will involve
over 20 church conprepra
lions from north and
South Carolina and Vir
ginia.
The crusade will be held
at the E. C. Cannon Cathe
dral Church of God in
Christ, 200 Tuckaseegee Rd
Elder E. C. Cannon,
president and founder of
the crusade, pastor James
L. Moore, first vice pre
sident of the crusade will
both be in attendance and
presiding Pastor Moore of
Tower of Deliverance is
from Richmond. Va Se
cond vice president of the
crusade, pastor Laura Col
lins of Southern Pines. N.C.
will also be present. Presi
dent of the Women's De
partment, Evangelist Ruth
I. Moore, of the Tower of
Deliverance. Richmond,
Va., will also be present
The first meeting will be
held Saturday. January 1
at noon. Opening of the
Jobless Rate
Hit Double
Digit Levels
By Herald Horne
Special To The Post
As time passes it be
comes more and more ob
vious that the ReaganAti
ministration has proven to
be a major disaster not
only for the country as a
whole but Blacks in par
ticular.
Bankruptcies are at a 50
year high, with Internal
Harvester and perhaps
Caterpillar. Inc. on the way
to joining the thousands of
other former giants in the
corporate graveyard
Unemployment is at
double-digit levels with no
respite in sight. Black un
employment at some levels
is five times that of the
official 10 percent rate
The most recent indict
ment of the Reagan Ad
ministration has come
from a public interest
group, the Washington
Council of lawyers. Their
138-page study compares
the record of the Justice
Department's Civil Rights
Division to that of previous
Administrations.
Their conclusions are
blunt They assert empha
tically that “the Attorney
General's early promise to
vigorously enforce the law
has not been fulfilled
The study concluded that
the department “has seem
ingly gone out of its way to
ordinate minority groups"
and "has retreated from
well-established, bi-pa'rti
san civil rights policies that
were developed during
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“I came to Charlotte
about five months ago,”
Ms. Garrison began, “but
I’ve lived 15 years in
Dallas. There I attended a
School Career Develop
ment Center. During two
years of my high school
education I received my
license in cosmetology.”
At 16 Ms. Garrison was
set with a skill and gifted
with the talent to beautify.
“So many people don’t
have the opportunities. If I
could change anything I
would change that,” she
#ated.
When the day comes that
Ms. Garrison has a string
of salons it is doubtful that
she will be one of the snob
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A man who brags with
out shame will find great
difficulty in living up to his
bragging , _
Sometimes INew Year s Resolutions
Are Kept; Most Of The Time They Aren’t!
oy rvitrrn rimer
Post surf Writer
As this year s Christmas
slowly fades and registers
in the back of our minds,
the drum roll is on and the
countdown has started for
the arrival of the New
Year.
Ringing out the old year
and bringing in the new is
celebrated in a variety of
ways. Some people attend
church services, others
participate in family 'ga
therings, while many
attend extravagant parties
flooded with friends and
strangers. However, there
is one common custom that
can be expected to be
carried out regardless of
how a New Year is brought
in.
That general practice is
the New Year's Resolution.
Millions of people declare
on January 1, they will
begin to correct their faulU
and bad habits they pos
sessed during the previous
year. They resolve to
“turn over a new leaf” and
make the New Year the
very best for themselves
Lori Grier
...Miss NCCU
ana otners.
Sometimes resolutions
are kept and sometimes
they aren't. Lori Grier, a
senior at North Carolina
Central University, can at
test to that. She admits she
no longer makes New
Year's resolutions because
she usually breaks them.
But that does not keep the
Miss NCCU queen from
viewing the New Year as a
“time for continued peace
and prosperity for herself
(and her family.” Lori
doesn't plan to make it a
rniiup james
...To make big changes
resolution, but she does
know that during the first
part of 1983 she will be busy
applying to several uni
versities for graduate
school
Phillip James is looking
forward to 1983 because he
has some big changes in
mind. "My resolution will
be to make improvement
within myself in any way
that I can, Phillip pointed
out. "I don’t always make
New Year's resolutions
because I sometimes fail to
fulfill them,” he expressed.
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Demetriua Parker
...Disciplined individual
But this time he senses
success in achieving his
challenge for 1983. It's a
whole new outlook on life
for Phillip, a promise to
himself that he will not lose
out on.
It doesn't bother Deme
trius Parker to make re
solutions because as he
puts it, "When I say I'm
going to do something, I do
it. I pride myself on being a
disciplined individual,” he
commented
His main objective for
1983 is to become more
disciplined in his spiritual
life and in his physical
being A resident of Bronx,
NY, Demetrius is a public
affairs administrator for
the Children's Art Carni
val Included among the
good fortune which he anti
cipates in 1983, is the
opportunity to work in
public affairs with a major
television station
These were just a few of
the many thousands of peo
ple who either make reso
lutions or at least set ob
jectives for themselves on
the first day of January.
Other countries that cele
brate New Year’s Day do
not all recognize it as the
first day of the first month
as practiced in the United
States
In Egypt, New Year's
Day is celebrated in June;
while the Jewish New Year
is recognized in Septem
ber. In Iran the New Year
begins on March 21. Re
gardless of the time of
year, New Year's Day is
recognized at some point
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Asheville District Choir. At
8 p.m the crowning of Miss
E. C. Cannon will be held
On January 2 there will
be an 11 a m. service. The
opening message will be
delivered by pastor James
L. Moore Music will be
provided by the Cannon Ca
thedral Choir and the
Tower of Deliverance En
semble of Richmond, Va
On Monday, January 3,
Bishop Sherman of Pente
costal Temple Church of
Ood in Christ. Charlotte,
will conduct the service
At noon on January 4
Women’s Day will be ob
served Evangelist Ruth I
Moore will preside.
January 6 has a special
treat in store At 8 p.m.
pastor I.aura Collins will
bring the message Pastor
Collins will be accompan
ied by a choir and con
gregation.
Scheduled for January 8
is Youth Day with minister
Joseph Henderson, presi
dent
Pastor E C Cannon will
address the Youth Conven
tion. Also at 8 pm Rev.
Don Degrate, his choir and
congregation will lead the
service
Each day early risers
prayer service will be held
at 8 am Daily servicesi
will be held each day at
See CANNON Page 7
publican Admini.stra
ti ons’’
The civil rights division
under Reagan has not fill'd
any school desegregation
suits since the President
came into office and a
number of pending investi
gations have been dropped
or stalled
The Washington Council
of lawyers charge bluntly
that Reagan "has attempt
ed to return the law of
school desegregation to the
era of 'separate but equal'
aod has virtually denied
the continuing existence of
segregated schools."
The civil rights division
has filed only two housing
discrimination suits, as
against an average of 19 a
year from 1978 to 1980 The
report said that more than
32 new housing cases a
year were initiated under
previous Republican Ad
ministrations from 1969 to
1976
Pont Re/Sorter
Rachel Swann
finds Hal Harrill
Optimistic About
WGIV'n Future.
Please turn to cage 5 for
the first of a four-part
series