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NEWS/The Charlotte Post
March 14, 1996
Community Notes
• The N.C. Center for
International
Understanding is looking for
informal ambassadors to
Ghana.
The center, a statewide
exchange program, is looking
for N.C. citizens to go to
Accra, Ghana July 24-Aug. 6.
Single adults and families
with children age 6 and above
are encouraged to apply. The
cost is $2,268 for adults and
$1,853 for children under 11,
which includes round-trip air
fare from New York, visa fees,
five-day homestay, tour,
hotels and breakfasts.
For more information, call
Joanne Woodard at (919) 515-
4559 or (919) 733-4902.
• The Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Head Start
program is taking applications
for the 1996-97 school year.
Families with incomes below
the poverty level can register
their 3- and 4-year-old chil
drens bom between Oct. 16,
1991 and Oct. 16, 1993. Head
Start also serves a limited
number of disabled children
whose family incomes may be
above the poverty guidelines.
For more information, call
371-7420, 371-7421, 371-7436
or 333-0203.
• The N.C. NAACP is spon
soring a statewide voter regis
tration campaign for the next
two months.
From March 16-May 16, the
NAACP is looking for church
es, Greek organizations, civic
groups and other organiza
tions to participate in voter
registration as part of the
NAACP’s major campaign for
1996.
For more information, call
the N.C. NAACP at (910) 275-
0851.
St. City Council will make
nominations on April 8 for the
following vacancies:
Auditorium-Coliseum-
Convention Center Authority;
Certified Development; Civil
Service; Clean City
Committee; CMUD;
Community Relations;
Historic Districts; Historic
Landmarks; Neighborhood
Matching Grants Review;
Parole Accountability;
Planning Commission; Sister
Cities; Spirit Square Board of
Directors and Storm Water
Advisory Committee.
• Charlotte City Council
is looking for people to serve
on 14 boards and commis
sions.
Applications must be
received by April 1 and are
available at the Office of the
City Clerk, 600 East Fourth
Union meets with local ministers’ group
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Greensboro in 1992 and
employs about 600 people.
Wages range from $6.75 to
$8.50 per hour. The average
wage for workers performing
identical jobs in other cities is
over $13.50 per hour, Hensler
said.
According to the union’s
analysis, Kmart distribution
centers in cities such as
Lawrence, Kansas, Warren,
Ohio, Ocala, Fla., and
Newnan, Ga., pay workers
more though the cost of living
is about the same. Workers in
Lawrence earn a top wage of
$13.95 and those in Warren,
$13.60. The top wage in Ocala
is $10,20 and in Newnan its
$14.
Workers have demonstrated
outside K-Mart stores in
Greensboro and at the distrib
ution plant. Several have been
arrested. Demonstrators halt
ed play at the nationally-tele-
vised GreaterGreensboro
Open, a golf tournament spon
sored by Kmart. At that
demonstration, 64 protesters
were arrested.
Hensler said the Greensboro
distribution center has the
greatest percentage of African
American workers, as many
as 60 percent of the more than
600 employed there. It is the
only such facility with a
majority non-white workforce,
he said.
Compton-Holt and four other
Kmart employees have filed a
lawsuit against Kmart alleg
ing racial discrimination in
court and have filed a class
action discrimination com
plaint with the Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission.
In September, 1994, the
NLRB ordered Kmart to rein
state four workers and pay
$76,000 in back wages.
Henderson said the workers
had contacted Rev. David
Baker at Gethesemane AME
Zion Church in December.
“He was calling together
some pastors for individual
efforts,” Henderson said. “We
decided the best way to do it
was to go through the
Christian Ministers group.
“We will discuss in our April
meeting as to how active we
would be. We are real sensi
tive to their concerns in terms
of their treatment at Kmart.”
Barber shop serves up cuts, talk
A.D. Neal, on left, cuts a customer’s hair in Neal’s Barbershop,
in 1946. He’s cut hair more than 60 years, starting when he was
13. Styies are about the same, just named differently, Neal says.
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license and got a permanent
license.”
Neal’s first shop was at 1118
Beatties Ford Road. He
opened that one in 1946 and
except for three months while
that one was being renovated,
he remained until about 11
years ago. That’s when he
moved around the corner to
his current shop, 2108-C
Oakiawn Ave.
The place is not very
remarkable. Just four barber
chairs, mirrored walls and
seating for customers on the
opposite side. Neal’s chair’s in
the back, near the cash regis
ter. There’s the obligatory
pictures of Martin Luther
King and Jesse Jackson and
the Stop the Killing bumper
sticker, but there’s also a pho
tograph from the Million Man
March.
Other than the fact that he’s
open on Monday, closing
Sunday and Tuesday, his
operations are about normal.
Of late, reporters have taken
to dropping by Neal’s place
when issues of major impor
tance arise. The Rodney King
incident, for example.
He and his customers spend
a great deal of time discussing
the issues and even non-issues
of the day.
West Charlotte and its foot
ball team gets a fair share of
the attention. After all, Neal
was the school’s first football
quarterback, back in 1939.
The team was 14-1 that year.
He graduated from West
Charlotte in 1943, then
entered the Army, serving in
the Pacific Theater in World
War II and attaining the rank
of staff sergeant.
He studied some at the now-
defunct Carver College.
Business courses at night
mainly while he ran his shop
during the day.
He’s seen west side changes
close up.
“There was a baseball field
where the (city water) treat
ment plant is now,” Neal says.
“It was a cotton field. Then a
ball field.
“The street car stopped on
the corner. And there was a
woodyard where this shop is
now.”
But now it’s time for Neal to
slow down a bit. He’ll only
work Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, as soon as he can
find another barber.
“That ain’t easy,” Neal said.
“I don’t know why young boys
don’t want to make money.”
He adds, smiling slyly,
“Young boys don’t want to
work here because they know
I’ll make them toe the line.”
When he isn’t cutting hair or
singing with the choir, Neal is
a yard man.
“I’ve got flowers in the yard
from back in 1952,” he says
proudly.
And, he cooks. “I’m a rib
man,” he says. “I make my
own barbecue sauce and sea
soning salt.”
His biggest meal was an
Easter breakfast over at
Friendship, country ham and
red-eye gravy. “That’s the first
time I ever cooked for that
many people,” he said. “I don’t
know how many people it
was.”
Looking back on it all, Neal
wouldn’t change much of his
life. He’s had to bury two
wives, but his children, a son
and a daughter, are doing
well.
And, so is his barbershop.
“You can get too greedy,” Neal
said. “I could have six barber
shops if I wanted them, but I
can’t work in but one.”
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