CHARLOTTE POST IIp™
uThe Voice Of The Black Community”
ANGELA SMITH
Olympic Sophomore
Angelic Angela Smith
Is Beauty Of The Week
By Teresa Simmons
Post Managing Editor
A soft-spoken young
lady, Angela Smith is hard
ly a softy when it comes to
making decisions about her
V renjoy taking mathe
matics because I know
wh«i I gs, to college I will
need a lok of lt ru have to
best now Vlrying to ^ my
Ms. Smith would like to
study conVputer acjence
once she haij completed her
Final two ye^rs at Olympic
Senior fflghjscbool. Even
as a tenth ft-ader she has
realized that *he present is
no better tl„e ^ 8tart
planning forjer future
Everyth^ will be com
puterized,/ Ms Smith
theo^63T“By majoring in
c^HJiuter science this will
elp me to know about
computers and how to use
them. Right now I am
putting forth a lot of effort
in leading to this goal. I
/ni _
would like to attend the
University of North Carol
ina at Charlotte.”
My mother, Rosa Smith,
and my grandmother,
Louise Smith, have both
influenced me positively.
My mother has set a good
example and my grand
mother is seeing to it that
my goals are carried out,”
Ms. Smith contended. “My
philosophy » to make the
most of my goals. . .like my
career. By watching others
and seeing their mistakes I
have learned and this is
how I set my standards.”
Ms. Smith, who is a
native of Charlotte, is in
volved in church activities
at the Holy Jerusalem
Holiness Church where her
grandmother pastors.
In church she sings on
the choir ^participates in
various programs, and is
learning how to play the
piano. “I want to play for
the church,” she com
senator Dale Bumpers
To Keynote Democrats
Senator Dale Bumpers of
Arkansas will be the key
note speaker for the 1983
Jefferson-Jackson Day
Dinner to be held in Ra
leigh on April 23. The an
nouncement was made by
Ninth Carolina Democratic
Pfcrty Chairman Russell
talker.
pumpers, a potential '
Presidential candidate, is a
former Governor of Arkan
sas. In the United States
Senate, be is a member of
the wSnergy and Natural
Resources Committee, the
Appropriations Commit
ted end t*»o Small Busi
ness Committee.
The Jefferson-Jackson
Day Dinner is the annual
Spring fundraiser held by
th# state Democratic
.«
We are very excited to
hate Senator BOmpers as
ou ‘ guest this year,”
Wi Iker said. “Our goal la
to >reaant as many Preai
dei tial hopefuls as possible
to Nortf^Carobna^Derru^
tUKTU-WK
crats before the 1964 pri
mary season.”
Walker said that Demo
crats from across North
Carolina attend the Jeffer
son-Jackson Day Dinner, to
be held this year at the
Raleigh Civic Center.
Bumpers, who has
served in the United States.
Senate since 1975, is
especially interested in
energy conservation, de
velopment of solar energy
and other renewable re
sources, control of nuclear
arms, balancing the feder
al budget, preventive
health programs, and a
strong national defense.
He graduated from the
University of Arkansas and
Northwestern Law School.
He served as a Marine
Corps sergeant during WW
II and was a small busi
neasman before entering
politics. ’
He and his wife, Betty,
have been awarded the 1963
Excellency in Public Ser
vice f ward by the Ame
rican Aba demy of Pedia
trics for helping to-develop
4.$ nationwide childhood im
munization program.
As a senior mem per of
the Energy Committee.
Bumpers has maintained a
dose Scrutiny of the In
terior {Apartment Secre
tary Jamas.
' Senator Bumpers has- re
cently been named among
the “ten beet" United
States Senators to a poll of
Washington correspon
ds!* and as the senator
"moat likely to succeed”
in a Public Broadcasting
Service "yearbook” poll of
his fellow Democratic Sen
ators
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mentea. sne is also a mem
ber of the Young People’s
Apostolic Union and at
tends Sunday School each
Sunday. In travels with her
church Ms. Smith has re
ceived numerous awards.
Recently she was named
“Student of the Year” at
the church in Sunday
School for 1981 through
1982.
~At Olympic Ms, Smith
continues her active role as
member of the Executive
Council, Red Cross, Peer
Council, Student Council
and the Discussion Making
Process Committee. She
also played a role in a
school play, “Guys and
Dolls.”
“I like to get along with
people, to go places and be
with a lot of people,” Ms.
Smith stated. ‘‘Other
things I like to do include
reading books, mostly
novels and going to the
movies. I also enjoy the
music of Donna Summer.
When I was younger I
listened to her songs and I
used to say I wanted to be
like her.”
Today Ms. Smith has
found her own identity,
sharing love with her
guardians, Caleb and
Louise Smith, and her two
sisters andthree brothers.
Even on her job at Bo
jangles and studying dili
gently at school Ms. Smith
has found that her position
in this world has meaning
and that her job is to fulfill
that purpose.
SB A Withholding Funds
From Black Businessmen
Area Fund
Sets Public
Hearing
The annual public hear
ing for the Charlotte Area
Fund, Inc. will be held
during an "open house” on
Friday, February 25, at tne
Double Oaks Community
Service Center.
From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
members of the Board of
Directors and staff will
meet with the public con
cerning the agency’s work
plan for the program year
May 3, 1983 - May 2, 1984.
Copies will be available
for review and comment.
The 1983-1984 plan of
work of the Charlotte Area
Fund focuses on the second
year of a three-part effort
to address community pro
blems in personal income
management and employ
ment (career exploration,
job seeking skills, skill
training, and educational
opportunities). During the
next year the agency
expects to work with a total
of 1,100 people in these
areas.
Funding for these ser
vices, totaling $397,628, is
under the Community Ser
vices Block Grant ap
proved by the Division of
Economic Opportunity in
the N.C. Department of Na
tural Resources and Com
munity Development. This
is a $2,270 increase over the
current program year.
As a part of the annual
planning process, the
Board of Directors and the
Planning and Evaluation
Committee invite any in
terested citizen to review
the plan and-discuss pro
posed objectives with the
staff. •
The Charlotte Area Fund
is located in the Double
Oaks Community Service
Center at 1326 Woodward
Avenue (just off Statesville
Avenue, north of Oaklawn)
and the phone number is
372-3010.
Linda Florence
...Recording secretary
Rev William Lee
Effective social change
Dr Herman Thomas
SCLC chapter president
^CLC Chapter Formed Here
By Karen Barker
Post Staff Writer
The national Southern
Christian Leadership Con
ference recently approved
a proposal to form an
SCLC local chapter in
Charlotte.
According to the Rev
William Lee Jr. who will
serve as vice-president of
the local chapter, a meet
ing was held last Sunday to
finalize organization
"Rev. Fred Taylor, na
tional director of chapters
and affiliates, and Rev.
Albert Love, administra
tive director of the na
tional organization in At
lanta, met with a large
number of charter mem
bers to form the Charlotte
chapter,” stated Rev Lee,
pastor of Silver Mount
Baptist Church.
Establishment of an
SCLC chapter in Charlotte
has been underway for se
veral months, according to
Rev. Dr. Herman Thomas,
associate minister at First
Baptist Church-West. Dr.
Thomas is president of the
newly formed SCLC.
"After Charlotte delegates
visited national headquart
ers in Atlanta, indicating a
need for a local SCLC
organization, it was decid
ed that Charlotte is a good
place to continue the work
that Dr. Martin Luther
King initiated.” Dr.
Thomas expressed.
“There is a large per
centage of blacks in the
Charlotte area and we
don’t want to let Dr. King’s
spirit die," he continued.
Dr. King founded the
Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference in 1957 Its
purpose is to give moral
initiative, spiritual under
girding, and mass involve
ment of people to the strug
gle against racial oppres
sion.
Rev. Lee expressed the
non-profit, interdenomin
ational organization is de
dicated to utilizing the prin
ciples of nonviolence to
bring about social, econo
mic and political justice.
Dr. Thomas is nopeful
that the Charlotte organ
ization will "bear all of
these good fruits." The fol
lowing were outlined as the
objectives of the Southern
Christian Leadership Con
ference: to serve as moral
conscience of the nation
and the world; to utilize
nonviolent direct action as
a means of effecting social
change and achieving jus
tice; to exercise indepen
dent moral advocacy on
behalf of the least of these
toward the goals of poli
tical, social and economic
justice and world peace; to
bring to bear the moral
imperatives of the faith on
the economic and social
order.
SCLC also promotes vo
ter registration and poli
tical education, citizenship
clinics and workshops on
nonviolence, housing and
community development,
cooperative business pro
jects, direct action pro^
Post Discovers Drugs Are Serious
Problem On High School Campuses
By Karen Parker
Post Staff Writer
The full names of the sub
ject* below have been
respectfully withheld to
prevent identification and
pesaJMe damage of cha
racter.
After speaking with high
•chool counselors last
week, The Peel discovered
drugs are a serious pro
blem on the campuses in
Mecklenburg County.
Net only do administra
tors feel this way, but a
recent discussion with
some high schoolers at a
local arcade, revealed
many students are also dis
turbed about drugs being
used by their classmates
Scott la a high school
Junior, and nearly every,
day he aeea a teenager
rushing into a bathroom or
ducking behind the eld
dumpster some distance
away to ‘toke’ on a Joint or
even pop the cap on an
alcoholic beverage.
“There’a a lot of alcohol
and marijuana at the
school I attend,” Scott
openly stated. “I think if
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these people are going to
smoke and drink they
should at least do it away
from school. School is a
place to learn; and if
you’re high you’re not
going to learn very much,’’
he continued.
Scott also feels that get
ting high in school is dis
respectful to the many
students who don't partake
of such actions. “Even if a
person doesn’t drink or
smoke marijuana, he or
she can still be distracted
by others doing It,” Scott
pointed out
John is a close friend of
Scott’s and after an im
pressive game of Pac-Man
he, too, presented his ideas
about drugs in school.
"Well, I only smoke ci
garette*, and Scott is try
ing target me to stop that,"
John stated amusingly.
John views drugs at
school as a problem, but he
estimates It’s not as bad as
it was last vear when he
was a sophomore. John
a
pointed out he has a few
friends who smoke mari
juana, but he is pleased
they do not try to influ
ence their habits upon him.
"I never have to be
bothered with peer pres
sure," he affirmed.
Making rounds in the
arcade, only one person
admitted to actually smok
ing marijuana and drink
ing alcohol. "Sometimes I
get high,” the young man
revealed, "but I can keep a
level head "
Undoubtedly this student
is not the only one using
drugs, who has not been
detected by high school
authorities. However,
nearly 200 students in
Charlotte are caught with
illegal drugs each school
year.
One person interviewed
has already completed
high school but had two
younger brothers still at
tending. "I know they have
at least experimented with
drugs,” the person re
vealed “I think the pro
blem at schools is a grow
ing one." he stated with
disappointment
Suddenly, a young lady,
who attends a local college,
added, “well, you know if
it's a problem in high
school, it's even worse on
college campuses I know
that for a fact.”
Strangely, just as the
interview came to a close,
one of the video games with
lights aglow had tossed
upon it a yellow and blue
pack of TOPS rolling
papers Sometimes these
are used to roll tobacco and
make cigarettes...some
times they’re not.
NEXT WEEK: Contin
uance of "Drugs In
Schools'' will feature Inter
views with members of the
Parent-Teachers Associa
tion and the Mecklenburg
Coanty School System.
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grams to end discrimina
tion, self-help economic
and political projects, and ,
the organizing of poor peo
ple with the support of
human rights at home and
abroad.
Dr. Thomas revealed one
project of the Charlotte
chapter will take place the
first week in March. “We
will conduct a voter regis
tration rally March 3-4," he
confirmed. On March 5, the
Charlotte chapter will be
visited by the SCLC nation
al president, Dr Joseph E.
Lowery.
Dr. Lowery is expected
to present the official
charter and install the local
chapter’s officers. They
are Rev. Herman Thomas,
president; Rev. William
Lee Jr , first vice-presi
dent; Lucille Petty, 2nd
vice-president; Robbie
Glien, 3rd vice-president;
Linda Florence, recording
secretary, Thelma McKay,
corresponding secretary;
Pearl Robinson, parlia
mentarian; Lonnie Graves,
treasurer and Rev Charles
Puryear, chaplain.
The next meeting of the
local SCLC will be held
February 24, at 1534 West
Blvd. in the Westover Shop
ping Center Dr Thomas
expresses he would like to
see all Charlotteans be
come involved by joining
the SCLC Charlotte chap
ter.
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JCSU
Host Career
Awareness
Representatives from
some 50 local and regional
companies and organiza
tions will be on hand for the
fourth annual Career
Awareness Conference to
be held at Johason C Smith
University February 17-18
The conference will in
clude classroom visits and
lecture* by company repre
sentatives, company re
cruiters with display
booths and a general as
sembly for all student*.
Assembly speaker will be
Don Steger, assistant city
manager for the City of
Charlotte. Steger received
his bachelor's degree from
Bethune-Cookman College,
his divinity degree from
Common theological Se
minary and his doctorate in
Urban Research from the
University of South Flo
■ida. Before coming to
Charlotte, Steger was as
listant city manager in St.
Petersburg, Florida
The assembly will be
held at 11 a m. on Febru
iry 18, at the University
Church.
For more information,
all the career counseling
»nd placement office,
178-1046
Minorities’
Concerns
Ignored
Special To The Post
New York Congressman
Joseph P. Addabbo, a rank
ing member of the House
Committee on Small Busi
ness, has charged that the
Reagan Administration,
through the Small Busi
ness Administration,
(SBA) is engaged in a
"deliberate effort” to keep
money allocated by Con
gress from black and His
panic businessmen
In a statement released
last week, Addabbo said,
"It is time for this Ad
ministration to realize that
it was elected to represent ~
all the people, not just the
rich. * •
“Direction must come
from the White House to 'i
order SBA to make assist
ance available to minority
businesses as intended by
Congress," said the con
giessman. it is both
illogical as a matter of
economic policy, and
unfair as a matter of sim
ple equity, for the SBA to
turn its back on the needs
of its minority constitu
ents,” he charged.
Addabbo presented data
to show that for the first
time in the 13-year-history
of the SBA, contracts to
minority businesses de
creased as compared to
previous years.
He pointeu out tnat in the
fiscal year 1982, the SBA
awarded contracts to black
businesses with a value of
$100 million less than the
contracts it awarded in
1981.
Addabbo also claimed
that, of $10 million in avail
able funds for manage
ment assistance to disad
vantaged businesses in fis
cal year 1982, SBA obli
gated only $57 million,
leaving a surplus of 43
percent of available au
thority unused
This will enable the
Congress to prevent SBA
from deliberately ignoring
minority business con
cerns.” Addabbo pointed
out. The New York Demo
crat said he was hopeful
lhat the new Congress
would give the legislation
favorable consideration.
Alternative
Energy Sources
To Be Discussed
The economics of alter
native energy sources will
be the focus of discussion *
for the meetings of the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
League of Women Voters
Thursday, February 24.
Two meetings, both open
to the public, will be held. A
luncheon meeting in sched
uled for ll :30 a m. at Ivey’s
Terrace Room uptown (m' ' :
serrations required by
February 22, call «*»-lMft.
8-9 p m.) The evetdi* unit
will meet at Monism's
Cafeteria at SouthPart «t ~
6:30 p... for dinner and 7:St
p.m. for the program
League energy dimeter
June Klmroei and fermm v
Utilities Commissiooar
Tenny Deane will laad the
presentations.
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