6HMLIITTE P( 1ST “Tlw lour Of T!w Black (bmnnuiity "_ 1 THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday, November 8 1984 , g---. ! Price: 40 Cento World By Jalyne Strong Post Staff Writer pawn Shropshire wants her own business. She aspires to one day be a business tycoon. Dawn states, “After I graduate from college, I plan to enter the field of apart ment management." Then she fore casts^ “I'll expand this enterprise aero* the country." A junior at Myers Park High School, Dawn’s concerned with getting a head start into the busi ness world through her involve ment in Junior Achievement. This program is an intfoduction for young people into the realm of business management: "At thts point we’re learning how to affect a business person’s attitude,” explains Dawn. Soon the members of J.A. will be given products which they will have to sell, she elabo rates. ■» J At her high school, Dawn is a member of the NAACP and the Computer Club. A member of Salem Baptist Church, she participates as an usher. Dawn’s other interests are wide and varied. Ahe likee drama and has been involved in two drama groups in cluding FOCUS and Drama with Direction, a program of PTL. She enjoys reading science-fiction and mystery novels and Jacques Cou steau is one of her favorite tele vision shows. “I like anything that is new and interesting," Dawn claims. She also models with the Zodiacs, a modeling group under the direc tion of Tim Cotton. Her work with the Zodiacs has taken her to At lanta where she participated in and helped coordinate a fashion show. Dawn also represented this mo deling troupe in the Johnson C. Smith Homecoming Parade. “I’ll always strive to do different things and not be left out,’’ Dawn .attests. "My mother and dad taught me that if something becomes available, and I have the qualifi cations, I should want to be there to grasp It.” Her father, Dawn adds, taught her to be competitive. Dawn maintains a special re lationship with her parents and her plans to attend CPCC and UNCC are for a reason. “I don’t want to go too far from home," says Dawn, adding that she'd like to stay near her parents. "That way I can tell them about what I learn each day We like to share information.” An only child, Dawn further ad mits that her relationship with her mother is special. "We communi cate so well," she states. "We go everywhere together. She’s a real pal," Dawn concludes. Harvey and Cassandra Shropshire are Dawn’s parents. 3 Blacks Gain State Seats Walton Wins; Bynum Loses In » County Commissioners Race By Audrey C. Lodato Post Staff Writer With a healthy-margbv of votes, - Democratic incumbent Bob Walton won reelection to the Board of County Commissioners. The only other black running for a seat on the Commission, Charlotte optometrist Raleigh Bynum, finished ninth in a field of 10 candidates. Also reelected was Commission chairman, T.L. (Fountain) Odom. The two incumbents were the only Democrats to win in the County election. Several other blacks were on the ballot. Unopposed for State Senate District 33, Democrat Melvin Watt was selected by Party officials to replace the late Phil Berry, whose 'name' 'appea'i*e'd b'h "the' ballot"." District 33 was recently redrawn as a predominantly black Senate district. Also unopposed were Democrats Jim Richardson in District 59 and Howard Barnhill in District 60. - In the only contested race for 26th District Court Judge, as of press thnerJudgeT Michael Todd trailed challenger Marilyn Bissell. If elected, BisseB-will Jje-the only Republican among the County’s 11 District Court judges. Judge Todd had been criticized by his opponent for being too liberal. He character ized himself as “conscientious.” If Todd is defeated, that will leave only one black out of 11 District Court judges. In the hotly contested Ninth Congressional race, results were still not in at press time. A spokes woman for the D.G. Martin campaign said she had heard Poll volunteer Tanya Dean, left, shows unidenUIled voter a list of candidates endorsed by the Black Political Caucus. Ms. Dean, a sophomore at West Mecklenburg High School, was one of several students distributing literature and explaining the ballot to ' voters outside Metropolitan United Presbyterian .. > ■ I -—Church at West Blvd. and Old Steele Creek Rd . the polling place for Precinct .1!). MS. Dean's mother— Marcia Dean, stated the students were there "to get them used to the process. We’re trying to get them primed. This should he as natural as washing their faces." (Photo By Audrey Lodato) rumors that there were some disputed tabulations in Iredell and Lincoln Counties, "But that's very unofficial," she hastened to adcj Overall. Republicans appeared to be the big winners in Election '84 In what's got to be one of the worst campaigns on record, incumbent Jesse Helms glided past challenger Jim Hunt for the U.S. Senate seat, giving the arch-conservative another six years., _The State can look forward to a Republican governor for the second time in this century Jim Martin's Council of State, though, may turn out to be heavily Democratic, if earlv trends continue Charlotte bond issues and the Constitutional amendment requiring a law license for district attorneys and the State's Attorney General were all approved by voters “For Tremendous Jobn Local Black Leaders Commend Republican Party By Audrey C. Lodato Post Staff Writer With Republicans gamering a lot of important positions in this week’s elections, it may be tempting for some on the far right to claim a moral victory. It may perhaps be more accurate to explain the elec tion results as a swing of the pendulum from left to right No doubt, the political pendulum will swing in the other direction again. Perhaps one day it will stabilize in a more central position. On the election results as a whole, Mayor Harvey Gantt commented, “Obviously, I’m not very pleased The people who won swept out a lot of very progressive people who were serving the country, the state, and this area very well.” Describing himself as “troubled” over Hunt's defeat in the Senate race, the mayor Mayor Gantt went on to say that he is pleased with the substantial voter turnout, es Robert "Bob" Davis pecially among blacks "They should keep the faith," he de Local Entrepreneur9 Agree: t_irx^SaIC , . >- 1- * According To Small Business Administration ■Vj^liority-Owned Businesses Haye Record Y ear I Audrey C. Ledato fcpt Staff Writer l^ccordinWO Miller Wldemfre, the m Smaliywlnew Admlniatra w; ■treat deal of what we see Kris on what we are looking for tion’s Regional Administrator tor the Southeast, the 1984 fiscal year was a record year for the region’s minority-owned small businesses, The Southeast region surpassed for the first time the ttOO million level in contracts and contract modi fications. This was an increase of 33 percentover the previous year, and far exceeded the goal of 3239 / million. ' This accomplishment can be attributed to a tremendous ef fort oo the part of the Minority Small Business Team throughout the Region, great cooperation and support from fellow ^ideral agen cies in providing contracts, and ef fective seif-marketing by 8 porting minority small businesses Among the corporations were See MINORITIES On Page ISA * « I-1 Hubert Jefferson dared "Their vote does count " Former.Democratic Party chair man. Bob Davis, when asked his opinion on the election results, remarked. “I must commend the Republican Party for the tremen dous job .they did ” He explained that the Republicans had apparent ly planned well and achieved their goals "I am greatly disappointed in the behavior of the Democrats." Davis lamented, "white Democrats in particular, because there are not enough white Republicans to elect a dog catcher White Democrats be came' 'Republicrats' and voted straight Republican tickets *' He also commended black registered voters for standing by their principles" and exhorted black leadership to "regroup and reevalu ate how best to overcome the ma laise we find ourselves in.” Republican Hubert Jefferson, who ran for the County Commission in 1974, a year that "very few Repu blicans won," reflected on the voting results this way: "I think we told the people what was happening Blacks should look into the Republican Party. We need to become an in tegral part of the Party becau^Mk may become the majority PartBj need’ to be an integraV^^) .American society, and thaB I jm\