KINO COBRA LADY • Ramona Burr, a Los
Angelas modal, raoaives a check from A1 Cum
mWii King Cobra brand manager, for win
ning the title of national King Cobra Lady. Hie
28-year-old beauty waa selected in a national
contest sponsored by the King Cobra Premium
Malt Liquor.
Georgetown Coach Thompson
Receives Drum Major Award
Congressman Michael Espy,
from Mississippi, and John
Thompson, Georgetown Universi
ty's illustrious head coach, are
among the noted and exciting per
sonalities scheduled to be honored
at the eighth annual Drum Mqjor,
For Justice Dinner, Friday, April
3, at Colony Square Hotel in Atlan
ta. The dinner has become a land
mark event held yearly on the an
niversary of Dr. King’s assassina
tion. The event draws its name
from the slain leader’s nomination
of himself as "a drum major for
justice!^ Awards are given to peo
ple in several areas who have been
'drum majors’ in their respective
fields.
Women who are national relig
ious leaders will also receive hon
ors. Among them are the Rev. Dr.
Johnnie Colemon, pastor of the
Christ UnJxmgjL
Temple Church. She has the larg
est, single religious complex in
. Bishop Leon tine Kelly of
tadsco will also receive an
i . She's the only black female
Bishop in the 10-million.member
United Methodist Church.
8hirley Ceasar, popular gospel
singer will perform and receive an
award for her contributions to re
ligious music. Noted jest artist
Roy Aysrs will provide after
dinner entertainment
John Thompson will receivs an
award for his leadership in com
bining sports and academics for
his players.
"He fields a team that achieves
excellence in both athletics and ac
ademics," sad Joseph B. Lowery,
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference president.
While the Drum Major for Jus
tice awards dinner gives 8CLC a
■pedal chance to spotlight those
who hear 'different drum
mer s'....Friday night is only one
segment of an action-packed,
SCLC-sponsored weekend.
Friday morning more than
2,000 teens will hear noted ex
drug users and professionals tell
them to steer clear of abusing
chemicals. Ron LaPread, formerly
of the Commodores, and Cliff
Austin of the Atlanta Falcons will
give personal testimonies about
the terrible things that can happen
to someone who abuses drugs.
The Conference on "Youth and
Drug Abuse” will run from 9:30
a.m. - 2 p.m. at the West Hunter
Street Baptist Church.
Saturday morning two SCLC
activities will take place. Eight
a.m. is tee-off time for the fourth
annual Drum Major for Justice
~G©lf Tournament held »t Tup
Holmes Golf Course. A press con
ference at 10 that morning will in
troduce some of the players and
list prises available to the golfers.
Chi the other side of town, at the
Martin Luther King Center for
Nonviolent Sodal Change, the
first hearing of SCLC's Poor Peo
ple's Crusade will take place. The
hearing starts at 9 a.m. at Free
dom Hall and will deal with how
poverty affects housing, health,
the homeless and welfare. Repre
sentatives from governmental,
church, and private agencies will
talk about, not only the obvious as
pects of poverty, but also the new
phenomenon which 8CLC Presi
dent Joseph Lowery describes as
those 'one paycheck away from
being poor*.
The hearing will end at 12:80
p.m. That's when a special
wreath-laying and re-dedication
Networking: An Exchange
Special To The Post
"Networking is an exchange
and the exchange has to be valua
ble to all persons involved," ac
cording to Assist City Manager
Don Stager in a speech last Friday
night to members of the Charlotte
Civic League. Members of the
Charlotte Civic League, braving a
spring rain, hosted their spring re
ception at the Afro-American Cul
tural Center.
Keynote speaker for the event,
Don Stager, urged the group to
understand the importance of net
working and what networking
really is-an exchange. H's impor
tant for black people to network
with each other because "we all
need each other," according to
8teger. In urging League mem
bers to bd involved in the commu
nity, Stager suggested that each
pereon should determine what Ms/
her motives are for becoming in
volved. "Not knowing why you're
Involved will result in dissatisfac
tion and dropping out," added
Stager.
Members of the League were
encouraged to become involved in
1 organisations such as the Char
lotte Urban League and other or
sanitations working to solve some
L of the problems in the Mack com
rnunity. Stager told members to
consider joining such groups as
the Rotary, Kiwands, and United
Way beeause "you can’t beat the
system from the outside." "If you
Don Stager
went to beet the system, you must
be In the system. Once you’re in,
open the door for someone else,”
'concluded Stager, -f •■*.
The program also included e
performance by Catchin' On
Dance, a local dance company led
by Chris Thompson and Barbara
Howse Meadows. Together since
1086, Thompson and Meadows
choreographed the routines as 1
well aa danced in several of them.
Debra Williams, a Charlottean,
author and member of the Inter-,
national Black Writers Confer*
ence, read three of her original
works. Wiliams' book, "Life Ain't
Easy," is scheduled for publication
later this year.
ceremony will take place at the
Martin Luther King Memorial.
8unday will be considered
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference Day in Atlanta.
Churches are asked to collect a
special offering for the 30-year
old civil rights organization and a
special Gospel Tribute honoring
Dr. King will take place that even
ing.
Anyone wanting more informa
tion about any of the events men
tioned should contact the SCLC of
fices, 622-1420.
USDA Needs
Sponsor For
Food Program
Atlanta - The U J3. Efcpertment
of Agriculture is seeldng spon
sors to operate the 1987 summer
food program in North Carolina.
The summer food program pro
vides nutritious meals to children
in needy areas, without regard to
race, color, national origin, sex,
age, or handicap, during extend
ed school vacation periods. In
most areas, the program operates
from June until August. Under
the program, meals and snacks
are served to children in such
places as schools, playgrounds
and parks.
Public or privata, nonprofit
schools and units of local, munic
ipal, county or state governments
may qualify as sponsors of ths
summer food program in areas
whore at least 80% of the children
are eligible for free or reduced
price school lunches. Residential
summer camps whose enrollment
Includes needy children may
also act as program sponsors.
Qualified sponsors are reim
bursed for program operating and
administrative expenses up to the
current rates of reimbursement.
To be eligible, sponsors must:
-provide continuing service to
the community;
—serve meals on a regular
schedule to children or provide
meals as a part of an organised
program for enrolled children at
camps; and
-show they are financially and
administratively capable of oper
ating the program.
For more information, potential
sponsors in North Carolina
should contact the Division of
Child Nutrition, State Department
of Public Instruction, Education
Bldg., Raleigh, NC 27611. Tele
phone 919-783-7162.
Crime Stoppers
Crime Stoppers is seeking in
formation on a suspect's identity.
On Wednesday, March 11, 1987,
at approximately 4:46 p.m., the
suspect entered the First Union
National Bank located at 1628
South Boulevard and committed
the robbery. The suspect is a black
male around 30 years old, 6' tall,
weighing 170 pounds, with a mus
tache and unshaven appearance.
At the time of the robbery he was
wearing a dark baseball cap with
red letters, a tan trench coat, tur
quoise sweat pants, white running
shoes, and dark sun glasses.
Cafi Crime Stopper./ 384:
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Prophets CoLumn
Blindness Of Mind And Heart
By J. M. Little
Special To The Poet
I hope that you are continuing
to listen to the VOICE OF TRUTH
with our late Pastor, L Jt Shelton,
each Sunday morning over WAG I
at 7:30 and over WAGL at 8:00. If
you and I ever needed to listen and
turn to the Lord, it is now. God's
Word is true and will be fulfilled
just as God said. You cannot get
around dealing with Almighty
God. And you’ll have to deal with
Him through the Son. Deny the
Son all you please, in the end, He is
the One you will have to face and
deal with. It would be funny, if it
weren't so tragical, to see infidels,
atheists, modernists, agnostics and
unsaved religionists take the Son
of God so lightly and even deny
Him. The very Lord you are deny
ing is the One keeping you out of
Hell, right now. Your atheism
doesn't do away with Hell.
Our subject at this time is: "THE
BLINDNESS OF THE MIND
AND HEART." I feel so helpless to
accurately describe what I know,
experimentally, taught by God's
Holy Spirit, of the blindness of the
mind and heart of totally de
praved men. There really are no
words in any human language to
really describe in full, the true con
dition of man's mind and heart
since the Devil has blinded and
captured both. Nevertheless, by
God's grace, all I can do is set forth
what the Lord as taught me on this
very grave subject. It is one which
very few in the ministry or any
other walk of life know very little
about. For if you knew at this very
moment how the Devil has your
mind and heart blinded, it would
frighten some of you into violent
actions, and even suicide.
Your mind is your reasoning fa
culty: your perception, remem
brance, reasoning, feelings, de
sires, imagination, etc., etc. Your
heart is the seat of your innermost
I
J. M. Little
Part II
being; out of incomes your issues
of life: adultery, affections, doubts,
fears, hatreds, love, lusts, medita
tion, pride, sorrow, etc., etc. There
is a difference between the mind
and heart, even though at times
the two can and do overlap in evil
desires. The Apostle Paul said;
"...walk not as other Gentiles walk,
in the vanity of their
mind...because of the blindness of
their heart." (Eph. 4:17-18). The
heart does not grow out of the
mind, but the mind grows out of,
or is a child of the heart, note that
the Apoetle said; "because of the
blindness of their heart." By nature
man is totally depraved and can
only produce that which is evil,
continually. Listen again to the be
loved apostle; "In whom the god of
this world HATH BLINDED THE
MINDS of them which believe
not..." (II Cor. 4:4). Tho "god" of
thia world ia Satan, or thrDavfl. It
is Satan who, at this vary moment,
has blindsd ovary soul out of
Christ. How doss Satan blind
minds? Ha first started with man*
kind back in the Garden eastward
there in Eden. He first began to
question the Word of God with the
woman, Eve. Then she began to
question and doubt God's Word.
Second, Satan lied to her on God.
When Satan successfully gets you
to doubt God's Word, and you be
gin to question God's Word, he has
blinded your mind and your heart.
And he has you right where he
wants you. Now you think serious
ly about it, my friends. The reason
the world is in the mess it is in to
day is because men the world over
have been blinded by Satan and
are his captives, going and coming
at Satan's call and command.
That's right, I don't care how
much you deny that truth. Paul
said that ever unbeliever is blinded
by Satan. I wish I could describe -
the blindness of your mind and
heart as I know it. But once the
Holy Spirit begins to shine the
light of the glorious gospel of
Christ into your mind and your
heart, you come to realize just
what a lost, blinded, deceived, and
helpless child of the Devil you are.
I can’t show you these things, nei
ther can any other man. It is the
work of the blessed Holy Spirit to
shine the light of the glorious gos
pel of Christ into your heart, to re
veal yourself unto you, in order
that He may REVEAL Christ to
your heart. Listen to how God
saves a sinner; "For God, who
commanded the light to shine out
of darkness, hath shined in our
hearts, to give the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in
the face of Jesus Christ." (II Cor.
4:6).
The Prophet's Column is a paid
advertisement.
Philip Morris USA recently presented $7,000 to
Barber-fiootia College toward its Freshmen Inoen
tive Scholarship Program. According to BSC Pres
ident Dr. Mable McLean, this donation "is in
tended to give financial recognition to freshmen
students who have achieved a minimum of 5M) aV
•rage in their high school program." Philip Mor
ris continues its investment in higher education
in the local community," adds Dr. McLean, "and
we are grateful tor this support."
Keen Speaks At Marriott i
Charlotte - Silas Keen, presi
dent of the Federal Reserve bank
of Chicago, will be the speaker for
the fifth distinguished lecture
sponsored by the College of Busi
ness Administration Alumni of the
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte.
'Ihe event at noon, Friday, April
10, at the Charlotte Marriott City
Center is open to the public, with
seating limited to the first 200 per
sons making reservations.
Keen s topic will be, "Monetary
Policy—A Time of Challenge and
Change."
A native of New York, Keen ia a
graduate of Hamilton College and
holds the MBA from Harvard. Hit
banking career began at Mellon
Bank where he served 23 years,
rising to become vice chairman of
the board of the bank and its par
ent company.
In 1980, Keen became chairman
of the board of Pullman, Inc., in
Chicago and became president of
the Federal Reserve bank there in
1981.
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