; Mrs. Francine Gibson
.The former Miss Francine Gilliam
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Weds Brian J. Gibson
Francine Gilliam and Brian Jef
frey Gibson exchanged wedding
vows at St. Marks United Metho
dist Church recently. Rev. C. H.
Ewing, of Rock Hill AME Zion
Church, officiated.
. The bride was given in marriage
?>y her father. The maid of honor was
•the; bride’s sister, Doris Gilliam.
.’Bridesmaids included Shirley Gill
iam, Sharon Gilliam, Frankie Stur
d*v»nt, Lisa Hopkins, Lavern At
,'cherson, and Catby Dyson.
The groom chose his brother,
Jimmie Gibson, as best man.
«verette GUliam, Lamont Gaskins,
ilerry Glover, Bobby Sea brook,
Jtaynard Sturdivant and Tony
Sexual Trauma
Bionthly seminar for survi
“The Exploration of The
Involved In Surviving The
e Dilemma of Sexual
” will be Monday, June 24, ;■
i p.m. at the WomanReach
Pat Heard will facilitate this
£ For more information and to re
call a WomanReach peer
•counselor, Monday through Satur
day, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at
334-8614. All women are welcome at
WomanReach, where all services
afe free and facilities are access
ible to the handicapped. A United
Way agency.
Miss North Carofina
North Hills Mall & Plaza will
present the 45 contestants of the
Miss North Carolina Beauty Pa
geant on Monday, June 24, to the
public. Andy Parks from WTVD,
Channel 11, will make the pre
sentation of the 1985 contestants and
Miss North Carolina 1984, Fran
cesca Adler will perform in Center
Court at 11:30 a m. The 45 con
testants will be In the mall from
11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
TGIF For Teens
The Charlotte YWCA will sponsor
Thank Goodness It’s Friday for teen
girls ages 11-15 beginning June 21 at
the Park Road Center. Each Friday
from 9 a m. to 5 p.m. there will be a
different topic...but all will include
physical fitness, personal growth
and a lot of fun! Scholarships are
available.
For more information, call
Katrin Gomillion at 333-7553 or
Donna Arrington at 525-5770.
Project Excel
They are high school students who
spend three weeks studying, play
ing and living on local college
campuses. Their classes are taught
by college professors, and they are
faced with academic and physical
challenges they've never before ex
perienced. They are participants in
Project Excel, a summer leader
ship conference for rislfllg Juniors
and seniors from CMS high schools
and area private schools. Project
Excel, which was established six
years ago by CMS, is held at UNCC
-and Queens College.
This year, 134 students (71 at
UNCC and 63 at Queens) are taking
part. At UNCC, students have a
choice of concentrating on writing,
science, math or jazz At Queens,
students choose from art, drama,
computer programming and Spa
nish.
Project Excel got underway June
10 and will end June 28 Tuition is
$200, and CMS provides some scho
larships for students with financial
need For more information, contact
£>r. Stan Patten, campus coordln
Ator at UNCC, or Dr. Joseph
Lammers, the Queens coordinator.
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Wright served as groomsmen.
Miss Chasity Diggs was flower girl
and Master LaVarjea Gilliam, ring
bearer.
Music for the ceremony was pro
vided by organist, Calvin Huff, and
soloist, Jackie Simmons, both of
Washington, D.C.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Leroy Gilliam Jr. of Charlotte, the
bride is a graduate of Myers Park
High School and Rutledge College.
She’s employed with CAP Tele
phone Company in Washington,
DC.
The groom’s parents are Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin Atcherson of Wash
ington, D.C., and Mr. Marc Gibson
of Oakland, Ca. A graduate of
Rousweet High School, he is cur
rently employed with Mutual and
Life firm.
Following a wedding trip to
California, the couple will reside in
New Carollton, Md.
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PhilBp Morris Executive Warns
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“We are experiencing the corp of
intolerance in this country,” a
Philip Morris U.S.A. executive
warned the Carolines' international
trade community this week. “To
lerance is a powerful force for good.
Replacing tolerance with restriction
unleashes a destructive force on our
fellow citizens, on our business en
deavors and on our country.”
Guy L. Smith, vice president for
corporate affairs at Philip Morris,
U.S.A., urged the Metrolina World
Trade Club in Charlotte to be on
guard for bad ideas that breed
intolerance. “We have been wit
nessing in this country over the past
couple of decades a decidedly bad
trend that government must control
and direct every phase of our lives,”
be said.
Excessive taxation, advertising
restrictions and nuisance laws are
jeopardizing private businesses and
industry in the Carolinas and in the
world. Smith told the group of im
porters and exporters. “Tobacco
problems are our problem-but
tomorrow your product or service
could be faced with as serious a
problem,” Smith warned.
He said, “The threat to the free
and affordable use of our products
come from social engineers and
"neb-prohibitionists in and uut of go
vemment who feel that it is un
American to make your own choice.
“The neo-prohibitionists exploit
the legislative process to engineer
yours and my social behavior. At
Philip Morris, where we have been a
target of opportunity for more than
two decades, we see examples of this
in excise tax laws promoted by
zealots who openly state that they
want to see the cigarett business
shut down...and in unreasonable
restrictions.
“Today’s social engineers are not
harmless cranks. They are organ
ized and they have the attention and
sympathy of the media and influ
ential members of federal, state and
local governments. They are ab
solutely reckless in their disregard
for the truth. They cite scientific
studies without attribution and or
substantiation of any kind and fling
numbers around with equal aban
don Yet because they have been
getting so much press and public
attention, their untruths take on a
dangerous authority.
“Bad government in the U S. be
comes as much a barrier to world
.trade as the highest tariffs or the
most exclusionary quotas. The neo
prohibitionists who promote legisla
tion that would engineer our social
behavior with excessive taxation,
advertising restrictions and nui
sance laws, have exported their
zealotry. Taking their cues from the
success of anti-tobacco legislation in
the U.S., an increasing number of
foreign governments are pressing
active anti-smoking campaigns,
banning advertising and restrict
ing smoking in public accommoda
tions and in the workplace.
"The impact of those laws lands
most heavily on the cigarette in
dustry and tobacco-North Caro
• lina’s number one cash crop (va
lued at around $1 billion) and lead
ing agricultural export (worth
$750 million). With tobacco generat
ing one out of every 30 North
Carolina private sector jobs, how
much longer can our economy con
tinue to be viable if the people who
choose to use North Carolina’s pro
ducts cannot buy them inexpensive
ly or use them freely?”
Philip Morris is the nation’s lar
gest cigarette manufacturer. The
company’s newest cigarette plant,
and the world’s most technological
ly advanced, is located in Cabar
rus County NT It pmplnVS l.235 _
workers.
“Clearly all government controls
and involvements are not bad. Some
are absolutely essentia], like air
traffic controller,” Smith said. “But
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everywhere It is pervasive.”
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