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ANGELA CARTER
—Enjoying the single life
Angela Carter Finds Charlotte
“Excifzjg City With Many Activities”
By Jalyne Strong
Post Staff Writer
This week’s beauty is Angela
Garter, a native of Havelock, North
Carolina. “It’s a very small town
where everyone knows each other
and pitches in to help each other,”
she describes her hometown.
When she moved to Charlotte ih
1977, Angela found that this city’s
communities are not as close-kait.
But Charlotte is a big, exciting city
with many more activities going on.
A graduate of Fayetteville State
University, Angela made good on
K her accounting degree by landing
the job of accountant for Charlotte
Memorial Hospital. She’s held this
position for six years and finds the
work enjoyable, especially what is
called, “the end process”: closing
the books at the finish of each
month. < . if?} c ' &% ifyLt
Angela spends leisure time visit
ing friends and attending many
social functions. She’s an active
member of Fayetteville State Uni
versity Alumni Association, having
served as the secretary for the
association in the past. She also
reign«i as Miss Fayetteville State
Alumni ’Si ’82.
Much of her time is also given to
her church, Greenville Memorial,
where she ia a member of the
Greenville Memorial Mam Choir
and ia an intermediate Sunday
School teacher. Involved with tedch
at times she does offer the teens a
little advice to help them over some
rough spots.
At 30 years of age, Angela is
enjoying the single life. What she
likes best about it is, “freedom!”
she readily admits. The freedom to
enjoy one of her favorite pastimes
which is traveling. “I’ve visited New
Orleans, Florida, Atlantic City, and
Massachusetts,” lists Angela. “And
I have plans to visit Charleston to
see a few of the historical sites next
month.”
Other hobbies for Angela are:
reading, “preferably, true stories,”
she says; shopping. "I love clothes,”
Angela admits; and going to the
movies, j
To stay active appeals to Angela,
who’* a Sagittarius. Other charac
teristics of the Zodiac sign, which he
she admits apply to her, are “out
going, friendly, warm, and caring.”
This young lady says her mother,
Barbara, is the person she most
admires. “I’m just like her.” Angela
discloses “We look alike and act
alike. I have most of her ways,
which is very good. She’s an Aqua
rius and they are very sweet peo
ple.”
Though Angela knows a good deal
about astrological signs, she dis
claims that she is an avid follower of
the pseudo-science. She says she
only picks up tidbits about the signs
here and there.
Angela has one sister, Greta, who
lives in Durham. “We are very
close. We visit most holidays and
call at least once a week.”
Since moving to Charlotte, Angela
has met many people and she also
maintains the friendships she de
veloped while at Fayetteville State.
One thing that bothers this week’s
beauty is the fact that “some people
are so phony,” she says. “The
greatest lesson I've ever learned is
to be yourself,” Angela concludes.
CHOP Organizing To f
Fight Duke Power’s
Proposed Rate Increase
By Teresa Simmons
Post Managing Editor
Duke Power Company’s request
for a 19.6 percent rate increase is,
according to opponents, the biggest
rate increase ever asked for in North
C arolina and will cost the average
family over $150 per year.
One such opponent, the Char
lotte Organizing Project (C H O P ),
with Project Director, Melvin Whit
ley, is finding it easy to locate others
who oppose the rate increase. Twen
ty-five hundred Charlotteans,
mainly from low-income, labor, and
peace groups, and churches, signed
a circulated petition recently pre
sented to the N.C. Utilities Com
mission. j,
“But we need more signatures,"
Whitley explained. “Those who op
pose the rate increase have to have
their voices heard loud and clear.
It's something yre don’t want and It
shbuld be stcppied! ”
Reports have inclined readers to
believe that industries will suffer,
the city will suffer in paying $1.8
million to Duke Power per year and
the poor will suffer
The latter factor is what C H O P,
wants the N.C. Utilities Commission
to slumber over as they make the
final decision.
The rate increase, if granted, is
intended to recover costs of the
Melvin Whitley
.....Project director
newly operating Catawba nuclear
plant of which one eighth is owned
by Duke Power Company, according
to Media Projects Director, Joe
Maher of Duke Power.
"Unlike other plants the Catawba
nuclear plant is not completely
owned by Duke Power Company. We
only own one-eighth Investors have
given us money to build the plant
and to supply the electricity to the
customers. Like any other investor
owned company, when people use
the product, in this case, the elec
tricity. the fuel, the poles, and the
wire, they should pay returns to the
investors who have put up the money
for the cost of the project. The
stockholders have already paid for
the plant. It’s like putting your
money in the bank. People expect
interest to be paid on the money they
haye in the bank So it is with
investors in the Duke Power Com
pany Investors are entitled to earn
returns on their investments and in
turn people receive economic bene
fits from running their hair dryers to
running a factop' if they wish.’’,
In addition, in two years Duke
Power will ask for another sub
stantial increase. “It’ll probably be
about the same rate increase,"
Maher stated, “if we get over these
two big hurdles, and I know they are
no fun for anyone.
If Duke Power does not receive the
expected 19.6 percent rate increase,
the results will be “disastrous for
the company,’’ advised Maher
"From an economic point of view,
the effect would be disastrous for
Duke Power. We would not have
enough money to run the business or
give adequate and reliable service ”
Does this mean that on cold winter
nights someone in Charlotte may not
See CHOP On Page 6A
Michael Jordan Coming To
Charlotte
By I^oretta Manago
Post Staff Writer
Are the professional basketball
players invading Charlotte? First,
there was Julius Erving's visit to the
city. Now, on Saturday, July 20,
NBA “Rookie of the Year," Michael
Jordan, will be making a guest ap
pearance to the Queen City.
Jordan, who is being brought to
Charlotte by Coca-Cola, will make
guest appearances at locaf retail
grocery stores to sign autographs
and encourage the youth to sign up
for the forthcoming one-on-one
basketball clinic.
According to Ceasar Wallace,
minority affairs director at Coca
Cola, the one-on-one basketball cli
nic is one of Coke’s ways of getting
involved with youth.
From 2-5 p.m. Jordan will be
appearing at Smith, also encourag
ing the youth participation in the
basketball clinic.
o
Wallace stated that the clinic will
be open for boys anct girls, be
tween the ages of 13-18 He also
added that competition will be held
August 3, 10, and 17 at the follow
ing centers: Sugar Creek Recrea
tion Center, 943 W. Sugar Creek Rd ;
Albemarle Road Recreation Center,
5027 N. Idlewild Rd.; Tuckaseegee
Road Center, 4820 Tuckaseegee Rd ;
Hawthorne Recreation Center, 345
Hawthorne Lane; and Marion Diehl
Recreation Center, 2219 Tyvola Rd
Registration forms can be obtained
at local grocery stores at Smith on
Saturday or other sites will be aired
on WPEG-FM
After Jordan appears at Smith, he
will also be attending the sixth
annual banquet of the Hidden Val
ley Optimist Club At the banquet,
Jordan will be presenting special
certificates to the recipients of the
Optimist Club's various youth award
winners Julius “Dr J” Erving-is
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Bob Jordan To Attend Post’s Banquet
By Audrey C. Lodato
Post Staff Writer
Lieutenant Governor Bob Jordan
has accepted an invitation to attend
the 1985 Charlotte Poet Church
worker of the Year banquet, ac
cording to Poet publisher, Bill
Johnson. As a special guest, Jordan
will probably be called on to mafee a
few brief remarks, according to his
special assistant, Rachel HawOMT,
in Raleigh. FL ,
"We are indeed honored to have a
man of Bob Jordan’s stature pre
sent at the Churchworker of the
Year banquet.” noted Johnson "It
will be a pleasure to have the op
portunity to meet and talk with the
Lieutenant Governor."
As the "number two man” in State
government, Jordan's position Is a
full time one. Chief among his many
posts is the presidency of the North
Carolina Senate
Although lie has been In office less
thdn a year, Jordan has already
accomplished some goals in the
areas of education and children’s
issues. '<*
l "Education is definitely one of hie
special Interests, Hevnasr re
marked "He's been active in that
type of legislation Children are the
future of our State."
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.Post's special guest
The Lieutenant Governor also
makes committee assignment* for
the Senate and determines to which
a
committee each bill goes.
Among the boards and commis
sions he sits on are the State Board
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of Education, the State Board of
Community Colleges, the Board of
Economic Development, and the
Southern Regional Education
Board
The Lieutenant Governor can also
fill in for the Governor at the Go
vernor's discretion
Jordan previously served eight
years as a state senator from
Montgomery County. During that
tifhe, he was co-chairman of the
base budget, administrative rules,
and housing committees.
Born in Mount Gilead, Jordan
attended public schools in Mont
gomery County He graduated from
the North Carolina State Univer
slty School of Forest Resources
The Lieutenant Oovermr has
served as a member of the Board of
Trustees of the Consolidated Uni
versity of North Carolina (19S1
1971), the University of North
Carolina Board of Governors
(1971-1976), and the Bishop’s Com
mittee on Higher Education (North
Carolina Conference. United Mo
thodlst Church)
As a member of the Mount Gi
lead United Methodist Chtrch,
Jordan has served as chairperson of
Its administrative board as well as
• many ef Its programs
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Michael Jordan
.To attend basketball clinic
Tickets to the banquet are $25 aqri
to the reception are $10 Proceeds
from the banquet and reception will
go towards the support of various
youth programs and activities spon
sored by the Hidden Valley Op^
timist Club
Although much has been said gnd
written about Michael Jordan, there
aren’t enough words to express ih«
energy and awesomeness of watch
ing him on the basketball court ;;
By his truly Incredible perfor
mance, Jordan has won almost
every award and title possible forla
professional sportsman. He merits
praise from his teammates, as well
as his competitors.
A native of Wilmington, NG.
Jordan was drafted in the first round
of the 19S4 NBA draft by the Chicago
Bulla. He was co-captain of the IM4
Olympic team that won the gold
modal at the Loa Angeles Olympic
Games.
While in collage at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Jordan was named the ninth highest
career scorer In the school’s Ms
tory, with 1,7M points
Beginning his professional career
with the Bulb, Jordan has cap
tured the admiration of millions and
has been featured in nearly every
major daily newspaper, as well As
the popular magatines. in Ms short
professional career, Jordan has be
come a superstar.
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