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■ €tutorials tak . SlI .uSLv. •: * *' * T«_ Election Had Few Surprises In a somewhat traditional off-year elec tion fashion of low voter turnout and the party in the White House losing in some vital areas, Tuesday’s general election apparently had few surprises, i President Reagan made mmdreds of brief television and radio political telling people that they could vote for him and his conservative policies by voting for (as the case of North Carolina) Jim Broyhill for the U.S. Senate. Reagan’s strong push for Republican conservative senatorial candidates was out of his concern to retain Republican majority control of the Senate. This would have assured that key commit tee chairmanships would have been held by . Republicans and assured an easier op portunity to fulfil a Reagan desire to appoint more conservative judges to the U.B. Supreme Court during his remaining two years. 1 ’ r - Well this did not happen as the Democrats recaptured the U.S. Senate with an ex pected 53 or 55 majority in the 100 seats. Terry Sanford’s win over appointed incumbent Jim Broyhill with a 724,043 to 677,201 voter edge was one factor in the change of the U.S. Senate party control. ::Howeyer, sinoe some Democrats are ^ideologically conservative too, Reagan may - still be able to gain Senate support for many of his policies afid court appoint ments. wv ■ final account of all returns, it is possible that the majority of the nation’s governors may be Republicans. This possibility as the Post went to press may be a mixed blessing for the Republican Party because many of the governors in their party are young and considered to be more moderate to liberal than conservative. In the Mecklenburg County Commission races, the first under the new district system, six of the seven seats were captured by the Republican Party" Carla DuPuy, Rod Autrey and Jerry Blackmon Jr ■ defeated the Democratic at-large candi dates Peggy Culbertson, Mike Gheesling and John Kelly Wall. Ms. DuPuy led all the candidates with 62,021 votes. Bob Walton, who was unopposed in District 2, will be the only Democrat on the new board to be expanded from five to seven members on December 1, 1986. Kidd Won By Small Lead In another small surprise, Mecklenburg County Sheriff C.W. Kidd who was trailing and apparently losing the election to Republican Marshall Moore, survived with a strong, late-night voter count surge that - enabled him to win by a slim 270 votes, or 51,613 to 51,343. In another election of interest, Democrat James Exum sought and won the N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice post he be lieves strongly should have been his last summer. With a 54 to 46 percent lead. Exum appeared late election night to be on his way to defeating incumbent Republican Rhoda Billings. Republican Gov. Jim Martin had appointed Ms. Billings to the Chief Justice post last summer. In so doing, Gov. Martin broke a long standing tradition of promoting the seven-member court’s senior associate justice to the top post. Exum was the senior justice at the time of Billings’ appoint ment. In the Mecklenburg County legislative races, Republicans held off efforts by Democrats who lost two years ago to retain the six-Republican, six-Democratic delegation. Already speculation has begun about the “shortened coattail” of President Reagan. As we have noted, in spite of his heavy 30-second ads to promote GOP election efforts, especially that of Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate, little suc cess is apparent from his effort. ABC News voter poll exists showed that an increasing number of voters believe that the quality of their lives is worse now than they it was in 1980, Furthermore, even those voters who felt that they had at least retained their 1980 status shifted back to voting for more Democratic candidates. Undoubtedly, too, many farmers have lost faith in the Reagan economic program as agriculture Ha&fac^d increasingly difficult times. ]/ ^Equally interesting in this matter of.voter beliefs at exist polls is that cross-over voting is becoming an increasing larger part of the American voters’ voter pattern and therefore party labels have less meaning. To, state it another way we don’t really have “Republicans” and “Democrats” anymore, instead we have conservative - both Republican and Demo crats, and liberals - both Republicans and Democrats. For example, in North Carolina by party affiliation the state is largely Democratic but by election results we have a Republican in the governor’s office, the 9th district congressional seat, and now seven of eight County Commissioners all basically conservative. /V » - ' • • - A HERITAGE TO PE PROUD OF t V£ MUSTOVE OUR CHILDREN I A SENSE Of PRICE IN BEING I BUCK. THE GLORY OF OURRAST b AND THE DHSNITY OF OUR PRESENT 1 MUST LEAD THE NAY TO THE I POKER OF OUR FUTUREf ACM CLAYTON POWELL kP. mimee pack By Gerald O. Johnson Special To The Post f Recently, I gathered four lovely, young, black profes sional women to share some of their work experiences with me. Prior to the gather ing, I had pre-conceived ideas of what I would hear. What I heard and what I learned was unexpected, interesting, and downright enjoyable. The victims,-sorry-, my guests vwere*. , Laura McClettie, Assistant Ma nager & QustomerTieiations* K^rSiS. £ it* Citylyi^ Attorney for the City of Charlotte; Christy Bryant, Assistant Vice President for NCNB; and last but surely not least Cynthia Randolph, Technical Sales Represen tative for Hewlett Packard. We got the session started with, “discuss how being a Black female has helped or hindered your upward mobi lity.” Evelyn decided to go first by citing an incident that happened while working as an Attorney for the City of Gastonia. “I was told that I jv <*€rald \ First in series was a young, attractive, Black female, you aren’t expected to be smart,” she said. Evelyn felt that prior to getting a position with the City of Charlotte, she experienced resentment .from other white females at lower levels. She had no one to give her encouragement. Christy, on the other hand, cited that being in the right Am* CHARLOTTE POST North Carolina's Fastest Growing >., 4-jv ;; • Weekly ;vWi+) ^ : ’ •' “The People’s Newspaper" 108 Years Of Continuous Service Bill Johnson Publisher Emeritus Gerald Johnson Co-Publisher Bob Johnson '7 Co-Publisher Bernard Reeves Geo. Mgr. Ixwetta Manago Mng. Editor Jackie Carr Copy Editor Fran Farrer-Bradley Adv. Mgr. Dannette Gaither Office Mgr. Published Every Thursday by The Charlotte Poet 7 Publlahiag Company, Inc. Main Office: ISA S. Camden Road Charlotte. N.C. 28203 Second Class Postage Paid at Charlotta Member, National Newspaper Publishers’ i 4 Association North Carolina Black Publishers Association National Avertising Representative: Amalgamated Publishers, Inc. One Yea# Subscription Rate One Year • $17.78 Payable In Advance USPSNo.M&SM POSTMASTER Send Change of address to Charlotte Post 1631 Camden Rd. , Charlotte. N.t.«BS3 Miller Says: . -y , -y* - y.. .. • /. / •_ • y 7 Speak The LanguageTo Corner A Foreign Market By Sherman N. Miller Special To The Post A Wilmington, NC, small businessman recently gave me a disquieting view on America’s trade deficit. He argued that foreign trade is ,v beyond the realm of small businesses because shipping rates are too high to be competitive. This chap’s assessment offers little hope that the devalued American dollar will translate into new opportunities for American small businesses. This small businessman’s comments suggest that there may be other elements in the trade deficit question that need closer examination. Recent reports reveal that the dollar is not universally weak. It may be weak in Western Europe but it is still very strong against curren cies in newly industrialized countries such as South Korea and Taiwan. This North Carolina busi nessman also vented his frustration at Americans’ ignorance in the internatio nal marketplaces. He ques tioned whether our school systems were preparing students with the proper skills to compete in a world market economy. Miller Our paths had crossed at a World Trade Conference in Richmond, VA; thus his comments called to mind two international business experiences, one of which corroborated one of his contentions. I once became distressed by an eerie sensation of solitude while riding on a train in the Republic of China (Taiwan). As the train ap proached the first station, the conductor’s words were not discernible nor could I read the Chinese font signs on the station’s walls. This was the first time that I had felt totally dependent on someone else, and as I glanced over at my interpre ter, I silently prayed nothing would happen to him. My business mission had been to give numerous tech nical presentations day after day. My interpreter trans lated whenever an audience had difficulty with English On occasion I posed an issue and heard my host discuss it amongst themselves, in their native tongue, for several minutes and merely reply, “No! ” or “Yes! ” These short replies left me feeling empty inside. This emptiness had caused many thoughts to shoot through my.mind on the way to the next customer. What had they been saying to one another? What had made them say yes or no? Could I have better addressed their objections Had I fully com prehended their words and emotions? Will this new group speak English or perhaps understand American? On another occasion I had a domestic responsibility for a company near Miami, FL, that employed many Latin America immigrants. Here I had found that the more Spanish phrases I learned on my own or from these Hispanic workers, the more problems I solved. In recounting my South Asia Pacific tours, I recalled that I had encountered few business people who did not speak and read some English. I also recalled hear ing stories of children being required to study English in some Asia Pacific school systems. The real American tragedy is we have a record trade deficit yet fewer Americans are learning foreign languages. Between 1975 and 1961 the number of students earning bachelor’s degrees in foreign language dropped from 17.6 thousand to 10.3. Further more, the number of students taking foreign languages in institutions of higher educa tion, between 1960 and 1900, peaked at 174.2 percent of the base year (1960 -100 percent) and fell back to 142.9 percent by 1960. Since a poor ability to communicate with and understand the values of the rest of the world is an Achilles Heel for American industry, we must take aggressive action to correct this business enigma. place at the right time has «. been- instrumental in her career development. She was assigned a white female manager early in her career at NCNB. The manager was instrumental in giving females opportunities to ." demonstrate their abilities. Once given the opportunity,' it was up to Christy to : perform. It was a concensus that one problem facing Blacks in the Corporate workplace is net: haying people I levels who cap ii you. Evelyn felts a lot of the discrimination' found tin the workplace is unintentional. It is created due to a lack of being able to identify with certain people.; The “buddy syndrome” locks out people who if given the opportunity could shine. Hence, they aH felt a mentor was a plus for getting ahead. Laura described an eight tier management level at Southern Bell where very few women or very few ‘ Blacks ever reach beyond the second level. Moreover,' there were few of either at the second tier. Currently, she is at the first level. Being both Black and female, Laura feels that her efforts have to be superior to her peers just to keep up. Getting ahead is nearly '* impossible, but that still is her objective. Laura con-1 tinued with "not having Blacks in upper level posi-l tions limits the possibility of other Blacks being lifted to upper levels.” ' 'V Both Laura and Evelyn have used their Corporate learned skills as spring boards to becoming entre preneurs. Laura owns and manages a cleaning service and recently opened a retail clothing store far children. Evelyn has a "Positive | Concepts” enterprise where; she gives motivational : seminars and lectures. "The training I have received: from Southern Bell has been extremely beneficial for me,” Laura said. "I felt that If I could do all these 1 positive things to enrich Southern Bell, I surely could do them for myself,” she continued. Cynthia finally woke up and said, "Prior to Joining Hewlett Packard, I saw ; limited opportunities for ' upward mobility in previous jobs.” Cynthia has a Mechanical Engineering ; degree from the University of South Carolina. Her first Job was with a utility com flee Black *t» page HA ;
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