Rev. Janies Painter .Chapter president < SCLC Celebrating Its Third Anniversary The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is celebrating its third anniversary this month. In recognition of the anniversary, the Rev. James Palmer, chapter president, thanka all who have supported the organi zation and participated in its boycott of those stores selling foods pack aged in South Africa. The boycott is now over, he adds, and urges sup porters to feel free to shop at any store they wish. Fountain Odom Hires TcplVfeda Consultant A Texas' media specialist who has won almost every race he’s put his hand to will design television and radio advertising for Fountain Odom, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. Michael R. Shannon of Dallas, TX, was hired by the Odom campaign for the primary and general election. The first television ads will be aired beginning March 10. "Fountain is a candidate running on a record of recent achievement, not a reputation,” Shannon said. “His record speaks for itself. My - task is to expose people to it ”_ Odom said he was pleased at acquiring Shannon’s talents. "He’s won all but four of 31 political campaigns in the last six years and I’m confident he’ll help win this one for us,” Odom said. Shannon's past and present clients include Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox; U.S. House Majority Leader Rep. Jim Wright, D-Texas; Rep. John Bryant, D-Texas; Rep. Martin Frost, D-Texas, Rep. James R. Jones, D-Ok.; Rep. Bill Richard son, D-N.M.; and Houston Mayor Ka^iy Whitmire, Self-Motivation WomanReach will offer a work shop called “Introduction To Cybernetics: Tapping Your Inner Resources For Self-Motivation,” Saturday, March 8, from 10 a.m. to noon at the WomanReach Center. Luz Vickers will facilitate this ses sion. The WomanReach Center is a United Way Agency. The facilities are handicapped accessible and ser vices are freely given and freely received. For more information, call a WomanReach peer counselor Monday - Thursday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at 334-3614. Absentee Ballots Registered Mecklenburg voters who are physically unable to enter the voting places, are ill, disabled, or feeble due to age, or will be out of the Country on May 6, are eligible to vote by absentee ballot. Write the Mecklenburg County Election Office, 741 Kenilworth Avenue, Charlotte, N.C. 28304, for an absentee ballot. Deadline for filing a written absentee ballot for the May 6 primary is Tuesday, April 26. May 6 balloting includes Demo cratic and Republican primaries for U.S. Senate, Democratic and Republican primaries for various Board of County Commissioner seats, four Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board seats, and two state wide questions. For more information, call 336-2133. West Meek Barbecue The West Mecklenburg High School PTA would like to invite the public to its annuel Barbecue, Thursday, March 30, from 11 a m. to 8 p.m at the school, 7400 Tuckasee ge^ftoad. The coat of the barbecue la IS 50 pr par plate (or three sandwiches). Other coats are sandwiches fi.gg, drinks ».S0, potato chine, I SO, and pie $.40. Platen include pit cooked barbecue, slaw, potato chips, and breed. Baas arts are antra. There wtB be delivery far Ml or sin ticket order. Per ordsre, you can caD w i mi for outside pickup. The barbecue Is sponsored by the West Mecklenburg High School PTA; oookod and prepared by PTA • patrons. To Place A Oamified Ad, , Can 3760496 Study Shows Black Growth Bate Twice That Of Whites The nation’s black population grew at twice the rate of whites between 1900 and 1984, according to a report from the Commerce . Department’s Census Bureau. The bureau's latest annual po pulation estimates by age, race, and sex indicate that blacks totaled 28.6 million in July 1984, up 1.8 million or 6.7 percent over the 1980 census count. The white population rose from 195.1 million to 201.4 million, up 3.2 percent The total U.S. population was 236.7 million (including the armed forces over seas), up 9.6 million or 4.2 percent. Census Bureau analyst Louisa Miller attributes the difference in growth rates to moderately higher fertility among blacks, who increased their share of the popu lation from 11.8 percent in I960 to 12.1 percent in 1984. The black population’s median age rose from 24.8 in 1980 to 26.3 years in 1984. (Median age means half the population is older and half is younger than the states figures.) The 1984 median for whites was 32.2 years, compared to 30.9 in 1980. Here are other findings from the report: -The fastest growing black population groups in 1980-84 were those age 85 and over (26.9 percent), 35 to 44 (18.1 percent), and 25 to 34 (17.7 percent). -The only black population group experiencing a decline was those age 14 to 17, down from 2.4 million to 2.2 million. -The black median age has in creased each year since 1967, when it was 22.1 years, and the trend is expected to continue as the baby boom generation approaches middle age. The black female median age in 1984 was 27.6 compared with 24 9 years for males. -Black females outnumbered black males by 1.4 million in 1984 15.0 million to 13.6 million. Males outnumbered females only through age 17, reflecting more male births. Among blacks age 65 and over, women outnumbered men by almost half a million (464,000) because females live longer. The report gives estimates by sex and race for single years to age 84 and for those 85 and over. 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