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SCLC Convention
W1 Be Held
In Washington
The 26th annual Conven
tion of the Southern Chris
tian Leadership Conference
will be held August 24-26?
The convention, which will
be held in Washington,
D.C., is expected to be one
of the most significant in the
history of SCLC since it
preludes the 20th anniver
sary of the March on
Washington.
The theme for the SCLC
convention is "Jobs, Peace
and Freedom.” The SCLC
Washington chapter under
the direction of Rev. Terry
Wingate and Rev. William
Revely will host the conven
tion. They have reserved
black-owned-and-operated
Howard Inn as the hotel
headquarters. Church head
quarters will be New Bethel
Baptist Church pastored by
Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy.
The convention officially
opens Thursday morning
with the Presidential Ad
dress. The afternoon ses
sions will include the
Presidential Candidates
Forum and various
workshops. Friday, the
SCLC/WOMEN’S Lun
ohaoa. -wttl taka plao* at
noon. Following lunch,
workshops on peace, jobs
and voter registration will
be conducted. Finally the
annual oratorical contest
will precede the mass rally
and begin the kick-off for
the anniversary march on
Washington, August 27.
Urban League
To Meet At
New Mariott
The Charlotte-Mecklen
burg Urban League will
host its Annual Meeting
and Dinner oh Thursday
evening, September 22, at
7:30 p.m. at the Charlotte
Marriott Hotel Executive
Park on 1-77 and Tyvola
Road.
The keynote speaker will
be Mr. W. Hayne Hipp,
President and Chief Execu
tive Officer of the Liberty
Corporation in Greenville,
S.C. In addition, Mr. Hipp
is Vice-Chairman of the
National Urban League
Board of Trustees and a
long time active supporter
of the Greenville Urban
League affiliate.
The Charlotte-Mecklen
burg Urban League Board
of Directors will present
Equal Opportunity Awards
to the Allstate Insurance
Company, Mr. Harald Han
sen-Senior Vice-President
Retired, of the Celanese
Corporation and the Found
ing Committee that were
instrumental in establish
ing the Charlotte affiliate.
For tickets and reser
vations information, please
call the Urban League
office, 376-9834, Monday -
Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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The only mental exercis
es some people get is jump
ing to conclusions.
SHARON BING
...Enjoys little “beings”
Sharon Bing Is
Beauty Of Week
By Teresa Simmons
Post Managing Editor
If you know Sharon Bing
then you know how extraor
dinary she can be. But that
far oul, new wave attitude
of hers has a more serious
side, making our beauty a
well-rounded individual
who simply has a mind and
will all her own.
It often seems that the
famous are those who are
stand-offish and in a zany
world all their own. Like
Dolly Parton, who was
bleaching and teasing her
hair and looking different,
she says, because she felt
different. Or Albert Eins
tein who never conformed to
regular scholastic regula
tions or curriculums but
ended up as one of the
world’s most renown
theoretical physicists.
In addition to her avant
guard ways, Ms. Bing is a
human who enjoys little be
ings. "I like being around
kids and I would like to ma
jor in Child Psychology and
Computer Science. 1 feel
both will be worth my
time."
Presently Ms. Bing is a
rising 11th grader at West
Charlotte Senior High
School. She enjoys singing,
dancing and attending
movies, especially with
friends.
She is working this sum
mer as a cashier at Eckerd
Drugs and attends various
churches around the city on
weekends.
Our beauty realizes that
there is room in her life for
self improvement and she
has already started a
journey toward first realiz
ing her faults and then con
quering them. "I'd like to
obtain more patience. For
example, on my job at
Eckerds I have to learn to
be cordial to the customers
even if they are not nice to
me. My job has helped me
to change my attitude for
the better," she revealed.
Born under the sign of the
Scorpion, Ms. Bing con
siders herself "wild and
crazy" and at times she even
enjoys dressing in the punk
rock style. She listens to the
music of both Michael
Jackson and Prince.
"Prince’s music always has
a message. It says what so
many are afraid to say.”
Drawn from a close knit
family our beauty enjoys
recreation with the family
like watching television
together. "Preferably the
Jeffersons or Good Times."
she reflects.
Coleman Is Concerned
With Plight Of Elderly
Matthews
To Tioopere
‘‘Get ToughF
HALEIGH — In one
of his first directives as
commander of the State
Highway Patrol, Colonel
D. L. Matthews has told
all troopers to emphasize
detection, apprehension
and prosecution of DWI
offenders; reduction of
traffic accidents and
compliance with the 55
miles per hour speed
limit and encouragement
of the use of safety belts,
especially child restraint
seats.
Colonel Matthews told
the troopers, “Our en
forcement efforts in the
area of DWI and ex
cessive speed are well
established, and we
should continue to direct
our resources toward
controlling these viola
tions to the maximum
extent possible."
In 1982, the blate
Highway Patrol made
49,594 arrests for driving
under the influence,
more than half of the
some 96,000 DUI arrests
made statewide. The
Patrol consistently ranks
among the top three state
patrol organizations in
the nation for DUI
arrests.
On safety belts. Col
onel Matthews en
couraged troopers to
“place greater emphasis
on raising the safety belt
awareness level of the
general population."
Ms. Juanita Bundrige
....Community Action President
NAACP Pushes Dollar Days
Special To The Post
NEW YORK — With
slogans like, “we have to
teach our dollars to make
more sense." the
NAACP has launched its
Black Dollar Days
demonstration for the
upcoming Labor Day
Weekend to dramatize
the power of black spen
ding patterns in the
United States.
Officials of the
Association's six regions
and more than 18(H)
branches have been
alerted to build support
for the effort and a team
Here Saturday Night
A. Philip Randolph Institute To
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Present APRI Award To Davis
By Loretta Manago
Poet Staff Writer
At the first annual
awards dinner of the N. C.
Piedmont Chapter of A.
Philip Randolph Institute,
Saturday, August IS, at 7
p.m. Robert L. Davis, Jr.,
former chairman of the
Mecklenburg Democratic
Party will be presented the
APRI Award.
The awards dinner will
be held at the Best
Western-Coliseum Inn, 3024
Independence Blvd.
Given this distinctive
honor for his dedication to
educating the youth, for
community involvement
and his fight for the goal of
every citizen to become a
part of the political pro
cess, Robert Davis, In
many ways has lived up to
the character and philo
sophy of the organization’s
founder, A. Philip Ran
dolph.
Kobert "Bob” Davis
...APRI Award Recipient
A family man, a politi
cian a church worker and
an educator Davis has
worked as duty has called.
Married to the former
Francis Prioleau, Davis i>
the father of Sherry Davis
Young, a music teacher
a
and Robert L Davis III a
graduate of Howard Law
School.
His most recent political
affiliations include his an
nouncement as a candidate
for the At-Large seat on the
City Council. Before that
Davis was Chairman of the
Mecklenburg County
Democractic Party. He has
also served as vice
chairman of the Charlotte
Community Relations
Committee In 1962 he was
appointed chairman of the
board of directors of
Motion, Inc.
Davis is a member of Mt.
Moriah Primitive Baptist
Church where he is a mem
ber of the Board of Trus
tees and sings on the Gos
pel choir and the Robert
Herman Frazier Choir.
Educationally, Davis is a
graduate of Johnson C.
Smith, the University of
Maryland and he received
See Davis Page 12
of three top NAACP
economic experts with
the association's Fair
Share Program arc cur
rently on a tour of 23
cities to supplement local
efforts.
Commenting on Black
Dollar Days — from
September 1-3, l')H3 —
the Fxecutive Director of
the NAACP. Benjamin
L. Hooks, has said:
"This vitally important
national demonstration
can involve everybody —
it’s as easy as spending
money. It is a
demonstration is which
every participant will
count."
In reviewing the
"mechanics" of the pro
test demonstration. Fred
Basheed. National
Director of the Associa
tion’s Operation Fair
Share, has urged that
participants should take
ten dollars or more and
change this into either
$2-bills or Susan B. An
thohv silver dollars and
that all spending done
during Black Dollar
Days should be done
with money of these
demoninations.
I,. R. Byrd, a consul
tant to the N AACP from
L. R. Byrd and
Associates of Greenville,
S.C.. has said this use of
money in these
demoninations during
the period from Sept. 1-3
will help to show the im
portance of the black
dollar to the national
economy.
Mr. Byrd, Mri
Basheed and Kelly M.
Alexander. Jr.. National
Chariman of the
NAACP’s Operation
F'air Share will tour the
following cities during
August to promote the
demonstration:
Philadelphia. Boston,
Atlanta. Memphis. New
Orleans, Memphis,
H oust on / Beau m on t /
Dallas/Forth Worth.
Los Angeles, San Fran
cisco/Oakland. St.
Louis, Detroit, In
dianapolis,
Washington Baltimore,
Chicago/ Gary .
Richond. Birmingham
and Kansas City. Mo.
All persons wanting to
’’demand our fuir share
of the profits" and to
"trade in our walking
shoes for protest
money." should contact /
their local branches or
the NAACI* for further
information.
“American Blacks
make a great deal of
money in this country —
more than $ I ">0-billion a
year," said Kelly M.
Alexander Sr.. Vice
Chairman of the Board
of the NAACI’. ’ This
amounts to a con
siderable amount of
potential power. The
NAACP's National
Black Dollar Days is one
of our attempts at
harnessing this vast,
potential power and
making it work more ef
fectively for our own best
self-interest." Mr. Alex
ander said.
Harvey Gantt
fc Ffflidy
Hamifi Speaker
# Mayoral candidate
Harvey Gannt will be the
guest speaker at the Brad
shaw Family Reunion
which will be held at Holi
day Inn on Sugar Creek
Road.
The reunion, August
11-13 will have represen
tatives from at least 10
states. One ol the highlights
will be recognition ol the
two oldest .family
descendenta. ,
I
Groi^p Keeps
The Elderly
Informed
by Angela Chambers
Special to the Post
l.. C. Coleman is actively
in support of any program
that is designed to help the
elderly.
He organizer of several
committees in the Charlotte
area that are concerned with
the plight of many of the
senior citizens of Charlotte.
Two of these groups are
Senior Citizens United and
the Washington Heights
Community Action
program.
| Senior Citizens United
I has been successful in
I several areas of concern for
I senior citizens.
J Coleman explained, “We
I have accomplished a lot of
I things. Mostly in the line of
self-improvement. Our
gft'nip is responsible for pro
iding fans for homes in the
hot weather.
w e were also responsible
for flitting n proposal
before the count) con)mis
sion concerning the am
bulance fee. If you’re 65
and older and living on a
fixed income you're exempt
from the* fee that is charged
to transf>ort you to the
hospital.”
(.oleman gave one other
example of success of the
group. "\Xp were also able
to get the* c*it) to lower the
cost of bus fare to 20 cents
wi th the use of a special
l.l). card for the elderly."
The president for Senior
Citjzens United is Ms.
/ -Kfi/nbelh Wigfall.
The president for the
Washington Heights. Com
munity Action program is
Ms. Juanita Bundrige. who
stated that her committee
meets once a month and is
responsible for such ac
tivities as the Neighborhood
Watch in their community.
"These monthly meetings
sometimes feature various
speakers. Politicians, city
employees come to explain
different aspects of the city’s
operation or proposed plan
for the city, Ms. Bundrige
said.
“Attendance is not
always what it should be."
she continued, "but I hope
that the organization
continues."
i np H HHhington group ig
to meet with some of the
city s leaders to propose the
elimination of property
taxes for Charlotte's senior
citizens.
A lot of the elderly's in
come is well under $600 a
month. Coleman explain
ed. “Sometimes they have
just enough money to cover
necessities."
He cited one example of
an elderly couple. “Both of
them were sick. They could
barely afford their
medicine.”
He feels that no one
should have to worry about
trying to pay property taxes
when they ar* barely mak
ing ends meet."