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Volume 13, Number SO_THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thumday. December 24. 1987 Price: 80 Cent.
The Charlotte Post's Staff
jL Wishes All
rA Very, Merry Christmas
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Ten Hot Spots To Ring In New Year
Bntertainment/PMc IB
Black Honor Students Making The Grade
Education /Page 8A
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lAas Miracle _
The children came from the
Charlotte Housing Authority's
day care centers for children
from low-income families. The
. tots were treated to a big Christ
mas party at the Housing Au
thority's Hall House on North
Tryon Street In Uptown Char
lotte. The party featured all
kinds of, goodies. Including
stuffed bears and monkeys,
games, clowns, dolls and other
toys.
"All these wen brand new toys
given to us by the Children's
UQn.
brought lots of toy to their chil
dren. whose Christmas other
wise would not have been quite
so merry.
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Four-year-old. Anthony Harris receives a special gift from 8an
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! Septima Clark, Civil Rights Leader Dies In S.C.
: CHARLESTON. 3.C. <Afl —
Government official* and civil
■ rights leaders are mourning the
: passing of Septima Polnsette
Clark — a freed slave's daughter
who rose to national proml
| nence as a civil right* activist
and educator.
Mrs. Clark, a friend of the Rev.
; Martin Luther King and Atlanta
Mayor Andrew Young and coun
! selor to farmer Gov. Dick Riley,
died at a Charleston area nurs
ing home Tuesday. December IB.
at the age of 60.
‘“With the death of Septima
I Clark, the state ha* lost not only
, a leading cMl right* activist but
a legendary educator and hu
j manltartan," Oov. Carroll
(Campbell said Wednesday.
! “Just a* importantly, we have
/'• Clerk
loet • pert of our collective con
science which calls out against
Inequality and Injustice."
She had been In poor healln lor
some months, said her brother
Peter Potnsette. “Mrs. Clark had
a pacemaker Implanted earlier
this year and Buffered a mild
stroke in September, he said.
“She represented so much of
what was good and right about
people of any color," said Nelson
Rivers, executive director of the
South Carolina National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People. “She worked al
most until she died for the cause
of freedom and Justice."
Funeral arrangements had not
been finalized late Wednesday.
Bom In Charleston in 1806.
Mrs. Clark was active In teach
ing blacks how to read and write
so they could pass voting litera
cy tests during the civil rights
move mem.
She graduated from Benedict
College In Columbia and held a
master's degree from Hampton
Institute and began her long
teaching career at a black school
on John's Island.
In 191 she was Instrumental In
getting about 20,000 signatures
on a petition to have black
teachers hired by the Charleston
County School District. Later,
while teaching In Columbia, she
helped In a campaign to equalize
teacher salaries.
In 1956 she was fired from her
teaching Job by the Charleston
County School Board because
she was a member of the
NAACP. But she won election to
See Septima Clark On Page 2A
1 Martin, Jordan Gear Up For '88 Governor’s Race
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watched
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f* nSwTS» held MRS * raisers ana
took other step* to gear up their
organizations.
And they sparred repeatedly,
especially during the General
Assembly session Uist observers
had called crucial for both poli
ticians as they struggled to es
tablish reputations as strong
Jordan set the tone in hie open
ing-day speech, appearing to re*
for to Martin In urging the Sen
ale to cast aside the "status quo"
and move the state forward.
In his Stags of the Stats address
a weak later. Martin responded
with several “status quo" com
ments of hie own.
Ironically, the two disagreed
on relatively few issues and even
accused each other of “me
toolsm" and stealing each oth
er's Ideas. -*A
Martin made funding the Basic
Education Program the center
piece of his proposed 1087 bud
get. Jordan accused him of op
poelng the BEP. an eight-year
program begun in 1003. unUl he
realized it was popular. Martin
Mid he never opposed the pro
8m Martin On Page SLA
City Gov’t Holiday Schedule
All departments of Charlotte
City government will be closed
December 04 and 25 for Christ
mas and on January 1 for New
Year's Day.
Due to the holidays, the Char
' lotte Sanitation Division will
operate on an amended sched
uk. Regular backyard garbage
pick-up and curbside trash col
lection will be made on Thurs
day. December 24. There wlD be
no collection of any kind on
Christmas Day. December 25.
Friday's backyard garbags pick
up and curbside trash collec
tion will be made on Saturday.
December 25. Recycling pick
up will follow the same sched
Both garbage and trash col
lections will be made on their
regular schedule during the
week of December 28 through
January 1. with service being
provided on New Year's Day for
regular Friday customers.
Christmas trees placed on the
cast will be collected the week
of January 4-8 and the week of
January 11-15. Collection will
bs made from the curb only.
Buses operated by the Char
lotte Transit System will be on s
Saturday schedule on Christ
mas Eve. December 24 and a
Sunday schedule on Christmas
and NeW Year's day. Buaes will
rlfr on their regular ached
on an other days.
Business Incubator
Closer To Reality
By Herb White
Poet SUIT Writer
The proposed West Charlotte
Merchants Incubator, only
months from becoming reality,
promises to help minority
owned businesses survive and
bring Jobs to the black commu
nity.
Naslf Majeed. a founding fa
ther of the Incubator concept,
said Its goal is simple enough.
"It Is to stimulate business for
the purpose of Job creation In
the West Trade-Beattles Ford
corridor through the develop
ment of a business Incubator.
Everyone Is going to be proud of
the efforts of many people to
bring a valuable resource to our
community." he said.
The project. In the works since
1983, has received good support
from the local business and edu
cational community, Majeed
said. The West Trade-Beattles
Ford Merchants Association
has worked with businesses
throughout Charlotte to make
the Incubator a success. John
son C. Smith University has
leased two acres near Its campus
to house the Incubator, which
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JCSU Nears $120,000
Goal For UNCF Drive
By Herb White
Poet Staff Writer
Johnson C. Smith University's
United Negro College Fund drive
Is on target to meeting Its goal
for 1987, a school official said.
State Alexander, university re
lations director at JCSU, said
Monday the school expects to re
alize a mark of $120,000 In local
contributions by the time the
Lou Rawls Parade of Stars tele
thon ends Sunday morning.
The nationally-broadcast pro
gram will air from Las Vegas
•and Hollywood and will feature
entertainment celebrities.
Rawls, Marilyn McCoo and Ed
McMahon will co-host the tele
thon, to be seen on WBTV chan
nel 3. Saturday from 7 a.m. to 1
a m. Sunday.
The UNCF telethon helps sup
port 42 traditionally black pri
vate schools, including Smith.
Concord's Barber-Scotla and Sa
lisbury's Livingstone College.
All three schools will take part
in the local telethon and fund
raising efforts.
Alexander said the Charlotte
campaign, spearheaded by city
councllwoman Cyndee Patter
son and Rev. Leon Riddick, has
been shifting into high gear as
the deadline nears. Local groups
and Individuals have been in
strumental In the effort. Alex
ander said, raising money and
providing volunteers for small
fundraisers In addition to the
Parade of Stars.
Saturday's telethon will coin
cide with several local viewing
parties to help raise money for
UNCF.
“We're very happy with the way
the aub-programa have gone ao
far/ Alexander aald. "No pay la
Involved, but they work very
hard to help ue pull It off.*
The JCSU effort netted
$115.000 laat year for UNCF. ao
It waa a natural decleton to try
for a higher figure in 1067.
Thla year a campaign atarted
with planning aeaelona In Janu
ary and active hindralalng atart
ed In March.
*We upped our goal allghtly
from laat year figuring that we
could make our goal." Alexander
aald.
Community Involvement Is
the most Important factor In the
drive because all the money
Smith raises In the area will go
to the school.
The big push Is to aleri the lo;
:al community," Alexander
said. "It's especially Important
:o the black community because
jo many of our students can't af
ford to go to college and with
this being a private school. It's
important to us."
UNCF will match Smith s lo
cal total four-flold, so the goal Is
to meet the target and hopefully
exceed It.
"For every dollar the commu
nity raises, UNCF gives $4. so
the community Is actually mul
tiplying Its donation," Alexan-f
der said.
The local production of the tel
ethon, which will be broadcast
from WBTV's studios, will need
volunteers to man telephones to
take pledges and perform other
tasks. Alexander said. It pro4;
vides the public an opportunity'
to meet local celebrities In addK
tlon to working toward a worth.
whlle goal.
■Volunteers are always needed^
to help us out," Alexander said;
"Some folks just enjoy watching
the entertainment, but we'lr
really need people during the tel1
ethon's last hour, from 12 to 1 tot;
the morning. We always wel-^
come people who want to help.*.
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