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News And Notes From Charlotte
And The Rest Of The World.
North Stitte
liail
The North State Law En
forcement Officer's Associ
ation Is sponsoring Its 16th
annual policeman's ball
Nov. 30 from 9 p.m.-l a.m.
at the Charlotte Conven
tion Center.
Music will be provided by
Sweet Dreams of Greensbo
ro. Tickets are $10 and can
be purchased at Shazada's
Freedom Mall or North
Park Mall or East Town
Market.
UNC'F Hoad At
Livinustono
United Negro College
Fund president William
Gray will be the keynote
speaker at Livingstone Col
lege UNCF banquet Dec. 3.
The banquet will be held
at the Aggrey Student Un
ion Hall at 7:30 p.m. Tick
ets are $25 and may be pur
chased In advance from the
college's Institutional ad
vancement office from 8
a.m.-5 p.m. daily.
For more Information,
call (704) 638-5548 or 638-
5549.
Wo.st (’hai'lotto
.\liiinni Hafflo
The West Charlotte High
School Class of 1962 will
sponsor a class scholarship
raffle on Dec. 14. You don't
have to be present to win.
First prize Is a CD player,
second Is $75 and third
prize Is $50.
For more Information,
call John Love Sr. 392-1036
or 873-1485.
dCSlI Alumni
Hash
Johnson C. Smith Uni
versity alumni will spon
sor a free holiday bash Dec.
6 from 9 p.m.-l a.m. at the
JCSU student union.
Music and refreshments
will be provided and
brown-bagging is permit
ted.
Schularship
And lii'eakfast
The Charlotte Housing
Authority Scholarship
Fund's ninth annual
breakfast meeting will be
held on Dec. 6, at the Gov
ernment House Hotel, 201
South McDowell Street.
The 7:30 a.m. event Is
hosted by the CHA Scholar
ship Fund Committee and
the Foundation for the Car-
ollnas as the kick-off of the
aimual fund-raising drive.
The CHA Scholarship
Fund was established In
1983 to award scholarships
to deserving young people
who reside in public hous
ing and who, without this
form of assistance, would
be unable to attend college.
Currently, the Fund as
sists 42 students enrolled at
16 colleges and universities
throughout the U.S. Since
the program's inception, a
total of 251 scholarships
have been awarded totaling
$307,905.
Guest speaker for the
event will be Robert Thom
as Dooley, Jr., a member of
th,e officiating staff of the
National Football League.
The CHA Scholarship
fund Is administered by the
Foundaton for the Caroll-
nas, and contributions may
be mailed to the Founda
tion at 301 South Brevard
Street.
Despite Voices On Council, Blacks Still Ignored
By Herbert L. White
THE CHARLOTTE POST
Although Charlotte will
have three Blacks on city
council Dec. 2, It won't neces
sarily make life better for
African Americans.
Incumbents Hoyle Martin
and Ella Scarborough wUl
be Joined by newcomer Nasif
Majeed when the new board
Is sworn In next week, giving
the city three
Black repre
sentatives.
The last time
three Afri
can Ameri
cans were on
the board
was 1983-87
when Char
lie Dannelly,
Majeed Leeper
and former
mayor Harvey Gantt served.
Bdartin
Fhcte/CALvra ratouaoN
Political activist and former presidential candidate Jesse
Jackson met with Avante Nursing Home pickets Monday in
Charlotte before attending rallies in the area.
But as mayor, Gantt could
vote only to break ties.
"I think there will be a
greater sensitivity to the
Black community," said Ted
Arrington, Chairman of the
political science department
at UNC Charlotte. "But I
would say It would be more of
an Incremental change."
Even with African Ameri
cans on council. Black
neighborhoods have lagged
behind White areas in terms
of facilities and services, Ar
rington said.
Because of the redrawing of
city districts to reflect an In
crease In Black population
In District 4, Majeed beat
Darryl Broome Nov. 5 to win
his seat. Without bashing
previous representatives of
mostly-Black districts, he
acknowledged Blacks have
been neglected by the city.
"I'm not Indicting anybody,
but somehow the proof is In
Zoning Snafu
Has Fraternity
Singing Blues
By Joy Williams
THE CHARLOTTE POST
A Charlotte fraternity can't seem to find a new home after a
city council committee recommended a rezonlng request.
PI Phi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. purchased a
9.8-acre parcel of land at Hamilton Court on Beatties Ford
Road extension In October 1989 to build a new fraternity
house, but has faced problems.
District 2 City Council representative Hoyle Martin said res
idents In the mostly told him they did not want the house
built because they feared too much noise and traffic from the
use of plaimed tennis courts and pool. Martin sided with the
neighbors and said they had good reasons to not want the
house built.
Omega Psi Phi bought the land aboouut two
I weeks before Martin was elected. He said nei
ther he nor the neighbors knew what the
Omegas were planning to do with the Ismd.
When the Omegas first bought the l£ind they
thought there were no problems with building
the house, said Dr. Melvin Plnn, basileus of
the chapter. Orlgnlnally told the land was
zoned for fraternal use, the Omegas got a sur
prise: then-Charlotte-Mecklenburg Land De
velopment Manager Walter Fields told them
the area wasn't.
'The only reason we (city council) haven't
taken a vote is that they wanted a delay to try to change the
neighbors minds," said Martin. The group met with area resi
dents, but did not convince them the house would be an asset
to the community.
A decision whether or not to approve the Omegas' zoning re-
See CMEGAS On Page 2A
Shabazz On Malcolm:
He's Misunderstood
By Juana Jordan
SPECIAL TO THE POST
Atallah Shabazz, daughter of Black nationalist Malcolm X,
believes African Americans need to do some growing up.
"We can't allow differences of opinion to separate us," she
told Johnson C. Smith University students on a recent vlst to
Charlotte.
Shabazz, a producer, writer and conversationalist, ad
dressed the Smith family and left them with words of wisdom.
"How many of you like yourselves?", she asked. "How many
SseAEAUAHCklFti^ZA
Lending Support To Strikers
Pb«to/CALVIK risoinoN
R&B master Luther Vandross thrilled thousands Saturday
at the Charlotte Coliseum. Also on the program were come-
dlan Sinbad and Sounds of Blackness. See story on page IB.
Former Charlotte
Official Returns To
New Assignment
By Rose Cummings
SPECIAL TO THE POST
A former Charlotte Com
munity Development Direc
tor is coming back to Meck
lenburg County.
Harry L. Jones Sr. has been
named Assistant County
Manager for Administration
Community Services. He
starts Dec. 11.
Jones, 42, has worked In
public administration since
1975. He has for the past year
been Housing Compliance
Director for the City of Dal
las, Texas.
Prior to that position,
Jones served as Assistant
City Manager of Dallas. He
was responsible for housing,
neighborhood and commu
nity concerns. He oversaw
the departments of housing
and neighborhood services,
health and human services,
and street and sanitation
services. He was also respon
sible for health and human
services, cultural affairs,
and community develop
ment — total budgets exceed
ing $126 million and nearly
2900 employees.
"I believe my experiences In
Dallas as an assistant city
manager have adequately
prepared me for this position
with Mecklenburg County
government", says Jones.
Jones
In announcing Jones' ap
pointment, County Manag
er Fox said, "Harry Jones
brings to his
new posi
tion a solid
educational
background
and exten
sive and re
sponsible
local gov
ernment ex
perience. I
am pleased
to have Har
ry join our management
team."
Jones Is no stranger to
North Carolina and Char
lotte. He served as Commu
nity Development Director
for the City of Charlotte
from 1981 to 1984. Prior to
that he held housing au
thority positions In Fay
etteville (executive director)
and Raleigh (director of op
erations.)
A graduate of Leadership
Charlotte (1983), Jones Is a
membr of the International
City/County Management
Association (ICMA, the Na
tional Association of Hous
ing and Redevelopment offi
cials (NAHRO): and the
National Forum for Black
Public Administrators.
Jones, a native of South
ern Pines, and his wife
Becky, have four children.
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the pudding," Majeed said. "It
hasn't produced the right
type of results."
Although Black voters are
more likely to be distrustful
of City Hail, an extra district
representative may ease
some concerns.
"(The Black community)
will now feel council Is a bit
more approachable," Arring
ton said. "Their Interests and
concerns will be llstend to.
See BROKEN On Page 2A
Advocate
Fears For
Her Job
DSS Trying To
Silence Critic?
By William J. Brock
POST CORRESPONDENT
The Mecklenburg County
Department of Social Servic
es has moved swiftly to try
and silence an outspoken
critic of Its Permanency
Planning adoption arm.
Sylvia Grier said she was
Informed that she Is to
"make no more negative re
marks to the media about
DSS or adoption of Black
children." Grier, president of
community-based Friends of
Black Children Council, at
tributed that Instruction to
employee Faye Harris, who
acts as liaison between
Mecklenburg DSS and FOBC.
Grier also said DSS Is trying
to get her dumped as FOBC
president.
"She said this came
straight from John Walton,"
Grier added. "She also said
that FOBC would continue on
without me as president."
Walton Is the supervisor of
Laurie Bettlnghaus, who
heads Permanency Plan
ning. There has been appar
ent bad blood between Grier
and Bettlnghaus since their
Church
Wants Bush
Counsel Out
FROM STAFF REPORTS
CLEVELAND — A national
body of the United Church of
Christ last week called for
the resignation of President
Bush's counsel, C. Boyden
Gray.
The call came in a resolu
tion passed by the 17-
member directorate of the
United Church of Christ's Of
fice for Church In Society,
meeting at the denomina
tion's central offices in
Cleveland.
The resolution called upon
President Bush to request
Gray's resignation, citing
Gray's attempt "to mount a
new attack on affirmative
action" even as Bush pre
pared for his Nov. 21 signing
of the Civil Rights Act of
1991.
The resolution referred to a
presidential directive, draft
ed by Gray and made public
this week, that would have
ended the use of preferences
for minorities and women In
federal hiring. The directive
brought criticism from
members of Congress and
civil rights leaders on Nov.
See CHURCH On Page 3A