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Volume 13, Numbig Ig , , >,■_THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday, August 20, 1987 Price* 50 Cents
I Triple County Baseball
I Enters Final Quarter
f.Dora Mason's tarewell
Black Family Income } ’
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Thi« pest July, TLC and the oth
wa arid tat of thatr holdings to
an invateor group lad by tha Brit
Oroop to not total gains of $90 mil
lion, a 90-to>l cash return.
"The entire transaction was a
textbook leveraged buyout in
tunas of having done everything
well,* said Doan C. Kohler, a nun
aging director of Drauol Burnham
^^totaandngTTLCr# buyout of
Oran* said the buyout of Baa
trios International, while mush
involved in
distribution of feed* and
Dr. Mildred Bnterlkvii donates a major oontibution to Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition.
Jackson Tells Audience
To s Fight
%L«ttaEHdhard«(i
The community's political and
business lsadsrs war* there, local
candidates vying for office were
there. In fact the Fiesta and Gold
Rooms of MeDanald'a Cafstaria
overflowed with Charlotte's lead
have breakfast with Amr'dack
eoh, president of the Rainbow Co
alition and potential candidate
for the presidential seat.
Addressing an audience whose
number exceeded 200, Mayor
Harvay Gantt welcomed the
morning'o guest of honor, whom
ho affectionately referred to aa a
"homaboy.“
With those words Gantt then
talked about the excitement of be
ing a Democrat and on a larger
scale of being an American.
Gantt stressed that it waa his
sen's seeing Jesse Jackaon aa an
example that he waa able to aay,
’when I grow up I want to became
president.’
The audience rallied around
the welcome for Jackaon by Stan
Kaplan, president and publisher
of The Charlotte Leader who said
that it did not matter if Jeeee
Jackson was the next president or
if he won the Democratic nomi
nation. "All that matters is that
Jesse runs and that Jesse tries.
And it will have an effect on us in
'88. What Jease does, does mat
ter. It matters to us all and one
day„we wilL be freer fat his ef- ,•
forts."'' - / - - v
Before this audience who stood
applauding Jackson made his
way to the podium. The charis
matic black minister and found
er of Operation P.U.S.H. who lat
er that day would be attending a
Youth Rally in Greensboro and a
Rainbow Coalition board meet
ing that evening in Raleigh ex
pended little time in getting to the
heart of his message.
Jackson made it clear that
throughout his bi<t£r the presi
dency five paints would be the fo
cused on: l)etopping the importa
tion of drugs; 2) halting the ex
portation of jobe; 8) ceasing the
exploitation of workers; 4) re
structuring the debts of farmers;
and 5) the relieving of the budget.
On the topic of drugs, Jackson
was emphatic when he said, "We
Cummings Named NCAE
Executive Director
Frances McArthur Cummings,
a former president of the North
Carolina Association of Educators,
has been named Associate Execu
tive Director of the 45,000 member
organisation. The poet is the sec
ond most powerful administrative
post in NCAE.
Cummings, who was president
of NCAE in 1968-54 end who is
just completing seven years ah ths
NCAE Board of Directors as an
NEA Director, Is eepeeted t# be on
staff by September 1, Gladys
Qmtm, NCAE president,an
nounced. Cummings will also
serve with Executive Director
Tom Husted as an ex-oAdo mam
bar of the NCAE Board of Direc
tors ' ;
Ah ofOss occupations teacher st
Lumberton Senior High School,
Cummings woo the NCAE pest in
• national march . She was one of
ticipants did role playing invclv
ing duties His NCAE Associate Ex
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children, eight of wham are still
living, grew up on a Robeson
High Schod in
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196ft. She was active in her profes
sional organisations from the be
ginning and was president of the
North Carolina Association of
Classroom Teachers in 1976.
Cummings said the is looking
forward to Joining the NCAE staff
and to helping to lead the educa
tional reform movement which is
sweeping across the state and na
tion.’' flfhe said she is extremely
pleased that North Carolina la
leading that reform movement, is
upgrading tha affective echools for
children, and "is raising tsachsrs'
salaries at the same time that the
stale is undertaking the vastly im
She added: "I have a lot to learn
in my new career, but I am Joining
whet I consider the snoot outstand
ing otata education association
staff la the nation, and I am sxeit
ad about helping that staff do its
Job."
must not learn to live with drug
distribution." Jackson insisted
that if the country can defend the
borders of other countries like
Nicaragua and Vietnam, then it
must be willing to defend the bor
ders of America from drugs, ad
ding that the government knows
-where thf> drugs are and where
Hhdy are grown Comparing the
drug situation to lynch mobe and
rope, Jackson remarked, "At
least the KKK came by night in
robes, sheets and hoods. A drug
pusher is just a hood who comes
dressed as a friend. And we have
lost more lives to dope than we
SeeJaakaonon Page4A
NAACP Investigates
Derek Barnes Story
By Jalyne Strong
Post Managing Editor
The story of Derek Barnes, the
14-year old black student who was
rejected from McClintock Junior
High School's charter of the Na
tional Junior Honor Society, has
initiated a NAACP query into the
policies and procedures of the
NJHS, as administered in the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg School
System.
Preliminary investigation
into the Charlotte charters of
NJHS will be conducted by Dr.
Audrey Fisher-Brown, NAACP
Education Specialist for the
Southeast region. Dr. Fisher
Brown will arrive in Charlotte
from Atlanta, Ga., on Monday,
August 24.
"She has decided that the best
thing to do is to come to Charlotte
to talk with people about specific
incidence or beliefs concerning
Charlotte children who have been
kept unfairly from the NJHS,"
explains Kelly Alexander Jr.,
Executive Secretary of the local
branch and President of the North
Carolina State NAACP.
Alexander's assistance was
Alexander
sougnt Dy
Richard and
Mamie
Barnes, the
parents of Der
ek, following
the Charlotte
Mecklenburg
School Board's"
decision to up
hold Derek's
rejection from
his school's
NJHS charter.
trior to a hearing with the school
board, the Barnes has been
through a lengthy process with
their son's teachers, his counse
lor, the school s principal, the
area superintendent and others,
questioning why there son was
not admitted to the honor society.
When the Barnes were given
no plausible reasons for their
son's exclusion, they concluded
that Derek had been treated un
fairly in the McClintock's NJHS
selection process.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg
School Board voted five to two,
white members to black mem
bers, to uphold McClintock's deci
sion to exclude Derek from the
NJHS.
Alexander claims, "I've
learned the system protects itself.
Even if they make a mistake and
do not induct someone who should
be inducted, the system forms
ranks to justify its decision. That
makes it hard for any parent to
have justice. "
Alexander, who was present at
the school board hearing at the re
quest of the Bameses, relates, "1
don't think the Bameses had a
fair chance at the hearing. I was
appalled at what I heard.
That is one reason why I
See NJHS on Page 4A
Bill Haftrfoun (center), MoDonold's Region
al Manager, presents check to Julia Taylor,
Chairman, President and CEO of Mechanics
and Farmers Bank. Others participating are
Stanley Green Jr. (left), Senior Vice President
of Mechanics and Fanners Bank, and Eddie
Maxwell and Bill Pretty (right), McDonald’s
Owner/Opera tors.
McDonald's Deposits In Black Bank
Raleigh, N.C., - McDonald's
Corporation recently announced
that a $90,000 deposit was made
recently to Mechanics and Farm
ers Bank of Raleigh, North Caroli
na, as part of McDonald's National
Minority Banking Program that
has deposited over $1 million in
banks nationwide.
Bill Hagerman, McDonald's Re
gional Manager, mad* the deposit
to Ms. Julia Taylor, Chairman,
President and CEO of Mechanics
and Farmers Bank.
"At McDonald's w* do our best
to put something back into the
community where w* de busi
ness," Ha^rman said. "Making a
deposit in an area bank is on* of
the most direct ways w* can do
Just that" p.
McDonald's National Minority
Banking Program targets savings
institutions who, like McDonald’s,
make extra efforts to work tokens
fit the community. Mechanics and
Fanners Bank i's an excellent cor
porate citizen that serves the peo
ple of North Carolina.
McDonald's is the world's lead
ing food service organisation,
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serving 20 million people a day in
more than 9,500 restaurants in 46
countries. Seventy-five percent of
McDonald's restaurants are local
ly owned and operated by inde
pendent entrepreneurs.
Enrollment Increase
In Charlotte Schools
9chool Oprnm Augmt 94
A total of 650 buses will roll as
Chariot te-Mecklenburg School a
open far students Monday, August
M.
Total projected enrollment is
78,901, an increase of 646 Arum
last year. This is the fourth
straight year of an enrollment
increase Charlotte-Meckleuburg
now is the nation's 29th largest
school system, having moved up
Arum 90th last year.
This year, there will be a total
of 102 schools and five, special
programs.