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L( ITTE POST §== _“The Voice Of The Hark (strumunity " CAtl 376 0496 ' 1 » _ M, THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday, April 4, 1985 ~ __—-___Price: 40 Cents . 1 "i Small Excited l, • . About Bulls'Chances Al IlMMoUSwlMJa ww improving ■ TOtiKWBX —eatcmdor Leaves Trail Off Victories Story On Page 11A Alexander Vivacious Gina Scott Believes In Putting Her Priorities In Order” By Jalyne Strong Pott Staff Writer Gina Scott is “putting her pri orities in order" now that she’s completed the Urban League’s Job Training Center and has landed a ' Ji>b with LEAD Associates, a man agement consultant firm. A secretary-receptionist for the company, Gina says she’ll also re ceive extensive training in word processing on the job. She had some : '.clerical experience from attending Centra] Piedmont Community Col lege, however, through the job training program, Gina informs, "I brushed up my skills, plus developed math skills and was taught a great deal about the business world." M Ciena’s very excited about her new job and has big plans for the fu ture. "I’m looking forward to de veloping a career In word process ing and maybe one day moving up to a management-supervisor posi tion,” she projects. Gina also wants to buy a new car for her next birthday. She calls the opportunity gained through the Job Training Center “my lucky break. It gave me the direction I needed when I had no future outlook,” she reveals. For hobbies, this 23-year-old beauty claims she enjoys dancing, shopping, cooking and plants. “I like to get plants, though often I just watch them die,” laments Gina. "I don’t have a green thumb.” She also likes “good, long, mys tery novels,” listening to music, - swimming and working out at Wo man’s World three times a week “I can’t sit around doing nothing,” Gina smiles. “I like to keep my mind occupied.” She stays pretty active taking care of her three-year-old son, Terry “T.J.” Mackins Jr. “He’s all boy,” says Gina. T. J. is hearing im paired and his mother says he’s recently fallen in love with his hearing aids. “He’s realized that they help him,” Gina notes. She often works with her son and his speech therapist and explains, “If I’m there it seems to be an extra incentive for him'to try harder.” Gina's favorite person is T. J., of course. “He’s my little man,” she admits. Her favorite celebrity is Jayne Kennedy. “She’s a very suc cessful, beautiful black woman,” Gina points out. “And from what I’ve read, she’s had a few hard times but has prevailed. , ^ “I’m assertive, outgoing and I like to have fun,” Gina says about herself. “I’m just a people person.” Her interest in other people leads Gina to believe that ‘all prejudice, fighting and hunger in the world” should be ended. If it was in her power, Gina expresses, “I’d give more people the opportunity I’ve had, an opportunity to prove them selves. So many people never get the chance.” Also if it is possible, the one thing in the world she wants more than anything else is for her son to hear. Fauntroy Is NCLD Dinner Speaker • > m Special To The Post The North Carolina Legal Defense and Educational Fund will hold its annual fund raising dinner on Sa turday, April 13, at the Adam’s Mark v'. <’■] The event will begin with a recep tion at 8:45 p.m. followed by the dinner at 7 p.m. Congressman Walter E. Fa untroy of the District of Columbia will be the guest speaker. The noted civil rights activist and minister Is the first person to represent the District of Columbia in the House of Ftepre^ t sentaUves in more than 100 yean Also on the program will be form er Charlotte attorney Julius Cham bars who now serves as General Ctonaul far the national Legal De fense and Educational Fund. The ftod provides legal assistance to : Learning la a tonic which think' tag people take every day. minorities who are involved In dis crimination cases and also pro vides scholarships to aspiring young minority lawyers. According to Zoel Hargrave, co chairperson of the fund raising committee, “We are making an all out effort to make a good financial showing this year in support of Julius and as our vote of confidence in him and the work of the Fund. We expect a sell-out for the event and hope that the contributions will hit a new high, ” he said. Hargrave said that in addition to the leeal suppeet, persons in adja cent towns and counties are also good num WANT TO ATTEND? Ike reservations (or the LDF or to receive more informs Zoel of Esther Harfcrttfiif. Deadline for reservations fe Cost. $30 individual; $1(3 factor (8 tickets). Mayor Ford Urges War On Social Decay Special To The Post Hollywood Urging civic and reli gious leaders gathered at Celebrity Center International to join hands in wiping out illiteracy, drug abuse and crime in our cities, Mayor Johnny Ford of Tuskegee, Ala., and presi dent of the World Conference of Mayors (WCM) invited solutions which he could propose to Presi dent Reagan in a meeting at the White House. Ford’s distinguished audience at the opening of a weekend confer ence on global peace included State Senators Diane Watson and Charles Green, WCM International Director Sam Tucker and such civil rights leaders as Heber Jentzsch, presi dent of the Church of Scientology, and Rev. M. M. Merriweather, pas tor of the New Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Inglewood. Mayor Tom Bradley’s executive assistant, Wanda Moore, surprised Ford be fore the assemblage with a com mendation from the City of Dm Angeles Tor his humanitarian works Ford stressed the urgency of finding new solutions to old pro blems. “By combinding the forces of various religions, the world’s ma yors and other groups in a grass roots movement,” he said, “we can arrest the decline of social and moral values in our cities.” WCM, founded by Ford in 1984, is a non-partisan group which supple ments the work of the United Na tions and other organizations by John Ford .WCM president solv ing worldwide problems through “the' five T’s - trust, trade, techrfStogy transfer, tourism and twin city relationships,” he ex plained. Ford said he would be meeting with President Reagan soon to discuss the Youth Employment Act which Reagan is working on as well as some of the solutions dis covered during the weekend con ference. As president of the 600-member network of mayors, including ma yors from 16 nations, Ford -- who has been mayor of Tuskegee. Ala , since 1972 — said the problems of cities are growing worse each year In De cember. 1984. Ford said, WCM at its first annual meeting at Monrovia, Liberia, overwhelmingly resolved to adopt recent technical break throughs developed by L Ron Hub bard to solve these problems “Working together,” Ford said, “we are striving to achieve the aim which Mr. Hubbard stated so aptly: 'A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights...’” Hubbard, best-selling author and philosopher, developed technical breakthroughs in such areas as drug reform and rehabilitation, an inno vative learning technology to better educational systems and morals and mental health with proven results around the globe Ford urged others to join him in implementing all workable means for improving human-life “Whether you are white, brown, yellow, or red, and whether Catho lic, Baptist, Methodist, or Muslim.” Ford said, “it is time to stand up and reach out into our cities, seeking new friends with common inte rests,” Ford urged, "and work for the betterment of mankind.” For further information regard ing WCM and its programs, con tact Sam Tucker. 202-331 7532 Black Publisher Breaks Ground For Blacks In Newspaper Business Minorities comprise only 5.8 per cent of newsroom professionals, according to a 1984 study by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and 61 percent of the na tion’s dailies do not employ any minorities. Given those figures, Pam John son, president and publisher of the Ithaca Journal in upstate New York - and the first black woman to become publisher of a general market daily in the U S - has her work cut out for her. Johnson, who is the subject of a cover story in the April issue of Black Enterprise magazine, has a staff that has less than one percent minority representation, but rapid turnover in some areas such as the newsroom will give her a chance to improve that statistic, she told Black Enterprise. Her present staff, however, is making a noticeable effort to im prove Its .coverage of the black community. “The reporters are much more sensitive, careful, and respectful of the black community’s concerns in areas such as education Special Celebration To Highlight First Ward School’s “Rieh Past” Nancy Jtill count delightful and poignant tales dating back to the early 1900s An intricate 8x12’ wall hanging being stitched together with the help of dozens* of other present-day stu dents depicts First Ward scenes of the past, including the oldest sur viving. residence within Charlotte’s original four wards. Already 75 former students have been invited to return for the celebration and more are being heard from as the news spreads. "It’s not unusual for me to answer the phone and have some one say, ‘I went to First Ward in 1908.’ It's amazing how much they remember," says school adminis trative assistance Bettye Hutchison The Sakes Alive spirit is spread ing to many outside the school as well. More than 300 businesses have donated Rems for an auction fea turing treasures such as ooe of Arnold Palmer’s putters, labor to paint a room, a mink skin scarf, a white-water raft, a case of wine, a medical exam, aad a dazzling selec tion of resort weekends, restau rant dinners, hair cuts, make overs," and much more Items for an size pocket books will be offered, with a silent auction at M am and a live auction beginning at noon *•* SPECIAL On Page I4A or police relations than before," explains professor James Turner, director of the African Studies and Research Center at Cornell Uni versity. Gannett Co., Inc . onwer of the Journal and 86 other dailies, in cluding the national newspaper USA Today, is pushing for more mi nority involvement in the newspaper industry - 18 1 percent of Gan nett's newspaper work force are minorities. Jay Harris, a black columnist for the Gannett News Service, told Black Enterprise. "More blacks in the newsroom becomes even more important as we see a reemer gence of black and minority issues getting front-page coverage ’ "No matter what anyone says, it doesn't just happen," says Made lyne Jennings, senior vice presi dent of personnel and administra tion at Gannett "It takes effective college recruitment programs and management training seminars.” Mervin Aubespin, president of the National Association of Black '! Journalists, applauds Johnson’s \ promotion "Pam s appointment gives credibility to what black journalists have been proposing for years," he told Black Enterprise. "Blacks can indeed run a news paper, we can manage a diverse fied newsroom and produce a qua lity paper that will serve a diver sified community." Johnson was formerly a Journal ism professor at Norfolk State Uni versity She get her start in the newspaper business in 1M7 report ing race riots for the Chicago Tribune as one of only two Mack reportars. She was hired by the Gannett chain became, "we saw £mmI management potential in prise. "We liked her view of what a newspaper should be about and what its role should be within the com munity/’ Ausbeapin agrees with thoee c; teria. ‘ We must be hired in ail areas of newspaper publishing - advertis ing, promotion, circulation/’ he says.