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Billions Of Dollars Bypass Hands Of Blacks Continued from Page 1 Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., which keeps records on the rise and fall of businesses, states that last month busi nesses were failing at a rate of 600 a week with 14,084 businesses casual ties for the year. Consi dering the failure rate of most new firms, three out of five in five years going public showing a profit is a cause for clapping of hands. However, hardly any of this money chang ing ends up in the hands of '» black America. There is no record of any black Ame ; rican owned or controlled company going public in ! the last 12 months. The stock market has soared right past black America. Up some 40 per cent from the previous year to its all time Dow Jones average high over 1,200 until last week, it has not hit the pocketbook of black America. Black ’ Americans’ wealth where it exists, on average is a third of that of the aver age white American’s when it can be measured in money. Most of the assets are in real estate, a house - not commercial and apart ment complexes. Common . stock ownership is dis missed or missing entire ly from their investment holdings. Not having other assets working for you in a • captalist country is a definite poverty ditch. _Multi-million dollars go ing into white American individual’s bank accounts, . indeed into white con trolled corporation coffers, created by a bull rising . stock market is not saving Black Americans from po ; verty row. Companies ob taining these funds are principally in the low I black American employ ment areas of high tech ■ nology computer and ^ health care industries, in cluding DNA-genetic re ' search work. “Workers,” as defined by the President . of the United States, are those earning $60,00* or less a year, who lose their jobs can only contemplate these new industries. In the black American community with its 21 per cent unemployment there is little hope for economic recovery without expen sive and extensive retrain ing. Running the stock market up giving execu - tives and corporations quick profits by keeping down inflation and interest rates through recession pockets does not point to a resurgence in the Black American job market. Mere creation of money at the top has never guaran teed a trickle down ef fect. Everything points to an upward draft of wealth in the country. Comments about the economy going up are not too far off the mark if one judges by the direction of money in the stock market. Chamber Flans Luncheon For Mayoral Cancfidates Announced Charlotte mayoral candidates Har vey Gantt, Ed Peacock and George Seidon will square off for a question-and answer session at the Greater Charlotte Cham ber of Commerce’s Meet The-Mayoral-Candidates luncheon on Wednesday, September 14. The luncheon will be held at noon in the Chamber Ac tion Center, 129 West Trade St. Reservations must be made by calling Margue rite Rigdon in the Cham ber’s Public Affairs Office, 377-6911. Luncheon coat la 16.50 per person. The menu will feature boned chicken breasts in wine sauce. 1965 Om Hnmkn Members of the Class of 1965, Lincoln High. School, Bessemer City, N.C. will hold a class meeting Sun day, August 28, at 4 p m at the Elks Lodge on York Street in Gastonia. All class members please be present. Plans will be made for the 20th reunion. For additional informa tion, cal) Curtis Harris in Gastonia, 704-864-4490; or Brenda Houston (formerly Faye Sykes) in Charlotte, 376-5316 Suzanne Carothers .Luncheon speaker Good Samaritan Alumni Hold Triennial Reunion The Good Samaritan Hospital Alumni Associa tion recently held its tri ennial reunion at Quality Inn Downtown. The theme for the three day reunion was “Unity in the Eighties.’’ The keynote speaker at the alumni luncheon was Ms. Suzanne Carothers, daughter of the alumni’s treasurer, Mrs. Julia Carothers. Ms. Carothers’ speech consisted of facts gathered about Good Samaritan Hos pital School of Nursing. The West Charlotte High School graduate is an edu cational researcher for the Center of Law and Jus tice at the University of Washington, Seattle. Also a Ph.D. candidate, Ms. Carothers expects to re ceive her degree in Decem ber. Other facets of the lun cheon included recognition First Lady Continued from Page 1 “I've enjoyed learning about a city that I would not have known just living in one section of town,” Mrs. Knox revealed. She feels her children have learned a great deal as well. "Since our family has made it a point to visit needy families, the child ren have learned not to take their good fortune for granted,” Mrs. Knox continued. She and Mayor Knox are the parents of four children, Cindy Knox Parker, Brian, Ashley and Scott. When asked about the times when it’s not good to be in a politically-respons ible environment, Mrs. Knox had to think for a while. The absolute worse thing she could think of is when people call their home at 3 a.m. with a complaint that could wait a little longer. “That’s about the only drawback I can think of and that doesn’t happen too often,” Mrs. Knox pointed out. As difficult as it is to imagine, Mrs. Knox is in volved in activities other than those related to her husband’s work. She serves on the board of directors of the Family Support Cen ter. Possessing an interest in the youth, Mrs. Knox is also a board member of Child Care Resources. This agency locates day care for underprivileged families, making it possible for pa rents to continue work ing, and to avoid welfare dependence. Other personal dedica tions include serving on a board at Gethsemane AME Zion Church where Rev. George E. Battle Jr. is the pastor. The church has a successful tutorial pro gram which Mrs. Knox is proud of. Having lived in Germany for more than one year she was also pleased to have recently helped with the German exchange through the Charlotte Friendship Force. After two terms in the limelight Mrs. Knox is not only continuing her role as wife to the mayor but has extended to wife of a gubernatorial candidate “Though the demands seem to get greater, I find it easy to cope with be cause I know that all I have to do is be myself,” Mrs Knox assured. of three registered nurses who had served in their profession for 50 years; they were graduates of 1933. The scholarship reci pient was Barbara Blake ney. Presently she is at tending Central Piedmont Community College and studying in the Regis tered Nurse Program. Other activities which the Alumni Association and friends enjoyed were cock tail hour and dance, wor ship services led by Rev. Edward B. Newberry, a Charlotte tour, and mes sages from mayor pro tem Harvey Gantt, Basileus Betsy McLean of the Iota Chapter, Chi Eta Phi So rority, and Dr. E. L. Rann of the Charlotte Medical Society. The young adult choir of Mt. Carmel Bap tist Church also per formed. Qiariott&Meddenburg Schools’ Notes To Remember Parents of all elemen tary, junior high and mid dle school students in Char lot t-Mecklenburg Schools will receive a letter from school officials re minding them of their legal responsibility to insure their child's school atten dance. North Carolina law requires children from age 7-16 to attend school. For additional information, contact Dr. Laird Lewis, assistant superintendent of special programs and ser vices, at 379-7114. School Calender Modified Because of legislation al lowing additional annual leave (vacation) days for teachers in North Carol ina, the 1983-84 school ca lendar for teachers has been revised. Teachers with less than two years’ service will be granted 10 days of annual leave dur ing the school year. Those with more than two but less than five years of service will be granted 11 annual 111 ---- Harvey Gantt Campaign Party Thomas Springs, a mem ber of the Special Projects Committee for the Harvey Gantt mayoral campaign, recently announced a “Let’s Get Harvey Gantt Elected” disco. The party will be held Sunday, August 21, at Kings and Queens Club on Brevard Street. A $2 dona tion will be charged in ad vance and $2.50 will be charged at the door. leave days. Teachers with more than five but less than ten years of teaching service will receive 14 an nual leave days. Teachers serving more than ten but less than fifteen will re ceive 16‘* annual leave days. Those teachers with twenty or more years of service will receive 21 annual leave days during the regular school year. New Legislation Changes New Legislation (Senate Bill 603 which rewrote N.C.G.S. 115-C-364), rati fied by the 1983 session of the North Carolina General Assembly, established a single legal age for initital entry into the public school system of North Carolina. The law became effective as of July 1, 1983. In accordance with the N.C.G.S. 115C-288, upon ini tial entry the school prin cipal may assign the child, by reason of maturity, to the first grade rather than kindergarten without regard to his or her chronological age. Doctoral Program A Charlotte-based doc toral program in Education Administration has been created by the University of North Carolina at Cha pel Hill in cooperation with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) and the Charlotte Mecklenburg School Sys tem- The program, in which CMS participated in planning, is intended to support the system’s teach er career development program which was de signed as a pilot program this past spring by the North Carolina General Assembly. Faculty members from UNC-Chapel Hill and Unc Charlotte will cooperate to offer the graduate pro gram. Full enrollment and instruction for 20 candi dates should be underway by January, 1984. Immunization Required This is a reminder that North Carolina law re quires that all public school children show proof of having been immunized against a minimum set of childhood diseases before being allowed to enter school. The immunizations are 3 DPT (diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough); 3 OPV (Oral polio vac cine); 1 Rubeola (measles) shot on or after the first birthday) 1 Rubella (Ger man measles) vaccination. The law requires that all students be vaccinated within 30 days after en rollment in school. All of the required immuniza tions may be obtained from private physicians or the local health depart ment throughout the state. Optional Student Fees The Charlotte-Mecklen burg School System at tempts to see that all stu dents have a “free and appropriate education.” You'll recall that over a recent three year period, all required fees for in struction were totally eliminated in CMS. Option al fees are as follows: Insurance $6 (school time coverage)- $28 ( 24 hour coverage); Physical Edu cation uniforms $6.50 (in cludes shirt, shorts, socks); Lock for lockers nominal fee or student may provide his-her own; School annual $6 limit in junior high and middle schools. Cost is deter mined by each senior high school; Senior pictures $3 $10 (grades K-ll); and Senior pictures-cost de termined by each school 12). Rally A “Celebration of Learn ing” Rally will be held at the Charlotte Coliseum on August 19, 10 a.m. -1 p.m., especially for teachers and other educational person nel in Region 6. Exhibits will be open and perfor mances will begin at 9 a.m. The featured speaker will be Pearl Bailey, well known entertainer. Dial-A-Teacher The Dial-A-Teacher pro gram will begin Septem ber 6. The program will operate from 5-8 p.m. Mon day - Thursday when school is in session. Stu dents may call 375-6000 to receive homework assist ance in English-language arts, math, social studies and science. New Phone Numbers Merry Oaks Center: 567 6016; Textbook Office: 567-6019; and Teen-Age Parents Services (TAPS): 567-6010. .. Behold, I stand at theV door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him. 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