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-Illlflf *11, | I, 1™*-THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday, March 22, 1984 —
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j - Nine For
IC-ommunity Leadership
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Professional Ballerina
Beads School For
“Underprivileged”
Story On Page 3A
Federal Deficit
And The Poor!
Story Ob Page ZA
CAF Plans
Public
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Hearing
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The annual public hear
ing for thq Charlotte jtrea
Fund, Inc. will be held
Friday, March 30 a^ the
Double Oaks Com
munity Service Center.
From 1-4 pin., members of
the board . of Directors
and staff will meet with the
public concerning the
agency’s work plan for the
program year. Copies will
be available for review and
comment, j
The 1984-86 plan of work
of the Charlotte Area
Fund focused an the third
year of a three-year ef
fort to address com
munity problems in per
sonal income manage
ment, employment itad
Mills training. Other edu
cational opportunities will
also be available such as
high school completion.
During the next year the
agency expects to work
witt a total of 1,500 peo
vices Bloch’Grant ap
proved by the Division of
Ecotignlc Opportunity in
the WC Department of Na
tural Resources and Com
munity Development. This
is A decrease of >24,088
under the Current prth
gram year
ofltbe annual
planning process, the
Board of Directors and the
Planning aiid Evalua
tion Committee invite any
interested citizens to re
view the plan and discuss
proposed objectives with
the staff.
The Charlotte Area Fund
is located at 1328 Wood
ward Ave., and the phone
number js 372-3010. For
more information, call K.
T. Grosch, Executive Di
rector.
Tlie Democratic
Causa To Hold
Annual Meeting
The Democratic Cause
will hold its first annual
1 night and annual
t p.m., Thure
.. . h 29, in the
YMCA, too E. Morsbead
St The meeting is free and
open to the public.
The Democratic Cause, a
political action committee
supporting moderate De
modAtlc 'candidates for
fedffal office, will honor
seven patrons, Including
Henry Hall Wilson, in, the
immediate past president,
for exceptional service
diddng the past year.
Unocal, state and national
Democratic candidates
have bean invited to par
odpete in the meatfcg.
I
Kimberly Hall
.Smith Junior High student
Kimberly Hall Is
__ Of Week
By Teresa Simmons
Post Staff Writer
“It’s important to let
people know what is going
on in the world,” stated our
ninth grade beauty,
Kimberly Hall, “and I
would like to be the per
son to do that”
Her favorite subject at
Smith Junior High School is
Journalism, and her am
bition to become a news
caster, has been prompted
not only by her skills as a
writer but also by her hu
manitarian nature.
“If I could make a
change, I would bring
about peace in this world.”
this world.”
Ms. Hall is a member of
East Stonewall AME Zion
Church and i$ active in
various school activities in
cluding being a member of
the Executive Committee,
member of the Student
Council and secretary of
the Explorer’s Club.
“I love to cheer, to look
at clothes and to model. I
stay busy collecting stuffed
animals also,” Ms. Hall
announced.
Born under the sign of
Aquarius, her birthdate is
February 12. “I am the
type of person who never
looks back. I believe one
should always think posi
tively and this will make
you a better person.”
Ms. Hall has had many
positive influences in her
life also. Her mother
Nancy Tate, is the first of
the people Ms. Hall ad
mires. "She is always
there to turn me in the right
direction. I couldn’t live
without her.”
Another person Ms. Hall
BEEP Conference'
..The Black Executive
Exchange Program
< BEEP) sponsored by the
National Urban League
will conduct a three-day
conference on the JCSU
campus, in conjunction
with the JCSU Office of
Career Planning, Place
ment and Cooperative Edu
cation, March 24-27. -
Job Readiness t
A panel discussion on
“Job Readiness” wiB be
held at 2 pro., Monday,
Man* U, in SHA-107. A 4
p m panel will address
"Career Planning" at the
same location. A list of cor
porate participants la an
-i-a
CiOMQ.
m
greatly admires is her
godmother, Rudell Wash
ington. “She has always
told me to put my life in
the Lord’s hands and let
Him lead the way.” She
also admires a friend of
hers, Darric, who is “al
ways around when I need
him.”
Entertainment wise, Ms.
Hall is thrilled by Michael
Jackson. “He has a certain
style about him. He can
turn one record into pla
tinum in two years. He has
a sort of shy manner that
appeals to me.”
Keeping up with politics
is essential to our beauty.
As a potential journalist,
one never knows when she
might be called to cover a
future Presidential elec
tion. “But I don’t believe
this is the correct time for
Jesse Jackson to run for
President. There is still a
lot of prejudice and his
candidacy has caused
much turmoil between the
races and within the
races.”
For a freshman in high
school, Ms. Hall has an
extreme amount of insight
into not only worldly know
ledge but also spiritual en
lightenment. She is one
lady bound for acclaim.
Alleged “Hit Team” Out
To Kill Jesse Jackson
CPCC To
Aid Voter
Registration
In an effort to boost
interest and involvement in
government, Central Pied
mont Community College
students will find a voter
registration booth in their
next class registration
line. Several faculty mem
bers, who will be donating
their time, have been
trained and qualified to
administer the registration
oatn there. *
, And campus clubs will
compete for the highest
percentage of members as
registered voters. “Re
gistration will not be a
college or club require
ment,” said Michele
Dorsey, editor of the stu
dent newspaper, “but I
expect many of our 36 clubs
will have 100 percent par
ticipation.
Koss Surphlis, Director
of Student Activities, said,
“We’re excited to see so
many students involved. I
imagine CPCC will have
the highest percentage of
registered students of any
area college.”
JCSU Appomtmente
Dr. T. H. Cox, head of the
business and economics de
partment at JCSU, has
been appointed to the board
'of directors of Friendship
Trays, a private organiza
tion that delivers meals to
the elderly, handicapped
and ill citizens of Char
lotte who are unable to
prepare proper meals for
themselves. Over 400 vo
lunteers per month deliver
approximately 200 meals
daily.
REV. AND MRS- LEMAR FOSTER
—~Accept neu pastorial responsibilities
At Second Calvary
Rev. Lemar Foster To
Preach His Final Sermon
By Teresa Simmons
Post Staff Writer
Often it is difficult to
express what is within an
other’s heart, especially
when it is of a spiritual
nature. In the case of Rev.
Dr. Lemar Foster, Sr., it
will be even more difficult
for the members of Second
Calvary Baptist Church to
grasp reality when he
preaches his final sermon
there March 25.
Rev. Foster described
what led him to accept a
pastoral position in San
Bernadino, California, as a
“spiritual mandate and
bacially a challenge.”
Perhaps Rev. Foster’s
calling can be compared to
what brought him into the
ministry in the first place.
"'I entered this profes
sion because of a sense of
divine calling. One’s par
ticular awareness grows by
whatever means God
chooses. The Lord has
ways of making His will
known.”
At an early age, Rev.
Foster dedicated his life to
God. As a child, many
thought that he would enter
the profession of min
istry. Life, however, has a
way of turning people's ob
jectives around. First, he
entered school with the am
bition of becoming a doc
tor, but there was that
tugging at his heart which
ultimately turned him
down a different path.
He graduated valedicto
rian of his class in 1959
from York Road High
School. After obtaining
an A.B degree from
Johnson C. Smith Univer
sity in 1963, his intel
ligence and charisma
made him stand out. Dur
With LDE Fund, Inc.
Chambers Was First Legal In tern
By Karen Parker
Post Staff Writer
Julius L. Chambers was
the first legal intern with
the Legal Defense and Edu
cational Fund, Inc.
Now. president of the na
tional organizations,
Chambers and other mem
bers will host their 15th
annual fundraising dinner
in Charlotte.
Chambers Is the senior
partner of the law firm
Chambers, Ferguson,
Watt, Wallas, Adkins A .
Fuller, P A He also lec
tuns at the University of
Pennsylvania and Colum
bia Law School In 1M4, the
LDF president came to
Charlotte where he has
been involved primarily in
civil rights esses.
A graduate of North
Carotins Central Univer
sity, Chambers received
his Bachelor’s degree fas
History. After receiving
Julius L. Chambers
.National president
the Woodrow Wilson Scho
larship to study at the
University of Michigan, he
received a Master's In
History as wen. From
T-l&t.r 4s/ t
1959-62, Chambers studied
at the University of North
CaroUna School of Law
under the John Hay Whit
ney Fellowship, and re
L 1 . - - ,
ceived the LL M. from
Columbia University
School og Law He was also
a teaching associate at the
university, and taught first
A member of the Ame
rican and National Bar
Associations, Chambers
won the W.E.B. DuBois
Award of Scotland County
in 1973. One who has re
ceived several awards and
honors, he is a member of
Alpha Phi Alpha Fratern
ity, as well as many
honorary societies.
The trustee at Friend
ship Baptist Church is
married to the former
Vivian Giles. They have
two children
The LDF fundraising
dinner will be held at the
Holiday Inn, North, April 4,
and begins at 7 p m Prior
to the dinner, a 5:45 p.m.
reception will take place
For tickets, contact Zoel or
See Chambers Page ISA
ing that time in history,
fellowships were being
granted to promising
young black leaders to
further their educa
tions. Rev. Foster ac
cepted a fellowship and
completed his Doctor of
Divinity studying at the
Neotarian College of Phi
losophy in Kansas City,
MO, the University of
Chicago and the McCor
mick Theological Sem
inary in Chicago.
Rev. Foster was actually
licensed in 1959 as a min
ister. Between this time
and 1969 when he became
an ordained minister, he
called on much of his spi
ritual strength to aid the
civil rights movement. He
has worked with Jesse
Jackson, The Operation
Bread Basket and the
Black Panthers. As a
freedom rider irfthe 1960’s,
Rev. Foster was often
blacklisted. He was fight
ing for justice while ex
posing: “We should accept
every man on his own
merit and try not to be
prejudical.”
Locally, Rev Foster's
campaigns for civil rights
to the building of the
Regional Community Cen
ter presently located in
Charlotte on Park Wood
Ave.
In many ways, you
could compare Rev. Foster
with the late Rev Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr As
God used Rev. Foster as an
instrument of peace, mono
mental advances In ctvll
rights were being formo
la ted As minister, his
message to individuals'
would contain one message
- love “First of all to be
motivated for this profes
sion, one must be God
sent,” Rev Foster offered
“You must act with God as
your partner and the Holy
Spirit as your enabler
Then, and only then, can
you accomplish that which
See Rev. Foster Page ISA
Farrakhan:
Threats Must
Be Taken
Seriously
Citing reports of alleged
‘‘Israeli hit squads" sent to
the U.S. to assassinate
Rev. Jesse Jackson, and
the recent firebombing of a
Jackson campaign office in
California, Minister Louis
Farrakhan has warned
that the threats against the
Democratic Presidential
contender must be taken
seriously.
At the.Israeli consulate
hr Philadelphia, theie weie—
no officials available to
comment on the charge. A
Tribune reporter was told
that no comment would be
forthcoming until Friday
• March 9). Calls to the
Jewish Defense League
went unanswered
Speaking before 70 black
journalists at his first press
conference in seven years,
Farrakhan, leader of the
Nation of Islam, said there
have been “over 100
threats" against Jackson’s
life already 10 whites
have been arrested. He
made his comments at the
Abyssinian Baptist Church
in Harlem, the church of
the late Adam Clayton
Powell, who was a min
ister and Congressman.
A spokesman at Jack
son’s Pennsylvania
Headquarters confirmed
the firebombing of the
headquarters.
“Someone threw a ke
rosene Molotovcocktail
into our Orange County
office, at about 3 a m .
about two weeks ago," said
Curt Richardson, spokes
man for the campaign.
"Nobody was in the office
at the time and there was
very little damage.”
Two persons arrested
and charged in the incident
were allegedly members of
the Jewish Defense League
of the Jewish Defense
League (JDL), said
Richardson
Berry Morrison, spokes
person for the local B’nai
B'rith 'Anit-Defamation
League (ADL) condemned
the bombing of Jackson's
office.
"Those responsible for
firebombing the office of
Jackson in Garden Grove
earned the contempt of de
cent people The use of
violence in the political
areana can never be con
doned It excerbates ra
ther than solves pro
blems. Regardless of dif-_
ferences, violent solutions
are unacceptable.”
Morrison also added that
reports of an Israeli hit
team are proposterous He
said he doubted the Israeli
government would approve
such actions
Richardson agreed with
Farrakhan that the nation
al news media virtually
Ignored the entire Incident
while playing up Jack
son’s "Hymte” com
ments.