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MRS. BEATRICE MAYE S This Week in GREENVILLE JOBHUNTING From Monte Williams, manager, McDonald's on Greenville Boulevard. ' 1 First approach: Ask for an application. When to ask and how to "ask are key factors even before the interview begins or if one considers. ■'■i, Appearance: Second factor as to whether or not an interview is even considered. .^. Availability: If the employer needs an employee. 4. Personality: Whether you act or seem to be friendly, shy, and facial expression during the interview. 5. Longevity: Whether you are the person needed at that particular time. ■‘-•8. Physical state of the individual: The physical state includes standing A8 hours or more and lifting 20-39 pounds as some examples. 7. Adaptability: Are you a fast learner? A slow learner would be a hindrance. {k.Responsibility: How well you respond to delegated tasks, the upkeep of company uniforms and the covering of shifts are major in the job market today. 9.'Trustworthy: Can the employer trust you to keep in mind that what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is yours? There are no second chances in this area and it will follow you everywhere. 19. Confidence and over-confidence: Never forget who is in authority whether you have been on the job one year or 15 years. 11. Communication Skills: How well you communicate to your employer other employees and especially a customer are essential to how well you get along with the job and other personnel. 12. Goal setting: It is important to you, the applicant, for only then can you feel the accomplishments that a job brings into play. VOUNG MEN, ADHERE TO ;■<? THESE: i:-Fear. Cold feet, panic, depression and violence are all symptoms of fear, when it’s out of control. Learn to control fear, make it work for you, it will become one of your best friends. 2. Educate yourself. School provides the key to your future. • 3." At home, you should learn about compassion and dignity and care. • You should learn that it’s you who are responsible for your future. • 4. Don’t be ruled by other people’s lj)w expectations of you. ; 5. Have pride in your own heritage. • 6. Be proud of ethnicity and language. ; 7. Instead of watching TV, read Ond write. ; 8. Lead a humble but useful and productive life, free of harm and most important, free of the influences that generate hate, murder, suicide and death. 9. Commit yourself to a lifetime of honest work. 10. Above all, know that there is a God who rules the universe and you. WHAT KIND OF PERSON DO YOU WANT TO MARRY? 1. If a guy or a girl is willing to save him/herself for marriage, then you know he/she really loves you. Sex belongs in marriage. 2. She will be beautiful' and kind, very smart and independent—a good worker. 3. He would not be embarrassed to call my father "Sir." x 4. Whe must not be a girl, but a woman. I have seen too many marriages messed up by marrying as a teenager. She must share my belief in Jesus Christ as my Savior and have Him in her life. 5. He must be independent, because I have too many plans for a career myself, and I refuse to support a man. 6. He will make my life whole and complete. 7. The woman I marry will stay home, clean the house, wash the dishes and clothes and do many other household tasks. Also, she will have the time to enjoy her favorite soaps, take the kids to practice (baseball, ballet, etc.) and prepare a home cooked meal for the family when I get home from work. My wife will derive more pleasure from watching our kids grow up than from money should she make from a career in the business world. 8. Someohe I can always talk to and who'll never hide anything from me (except maybe a present here and there). Someone who has values and moral conviction and who always takes time to be with our kids. And someone who’ll hold me tight on cold nights and love me for ever and ever. 9. If and when I marry, it will be to a guy who understands that marriage is a partnership and neither person is dominant, that everything is equal. I also want him to know that I am my own person, and I don’t need anyone trying to change me, and I won’t try to change him, either. Most of all, he should be a really good friend. 10. A loyal, trustworthy person who is affectionate, kind and considerate. I don’t want to compete with his mother. What is status? Status comes from the inside, not buying a $95 “status shirt." Bill Cosby said to his son Theo. Bill Cosby never drinks. He never did drugs. Married to the same wife, has five kids, well-spoken, articulate, sincere—My God, charismatic. What else could-you want? Your children will be your children for the rest of your life. That’s why there’s death. “Stop fighting things you can’t change and use your intelligence you were born with. By not using your brains, you’re committing a sin, a mental sin. Discipline yourself in both mind and body." “The time spend in acquiring a drug habit and kicking it is time you could have used to educate yourself. Every person I’ve known who developed a bad habit spent most of the rest of his life trying to kick it, staying with it, or never using it forever.” —From: “Cosby” by Ronald Smith Echoes Of Franklin County Ik BY ELIZABETH ARCHER now ve you Deen since last we met ' I’ve personally been so busy that when I look back, as the old spiritual goes, “My soul looks back and wonders how I got over." But it’s been a very good, busy time. The only thing, seemingly these holidays just seem to keep running into each other. This Memorial Day simply slipped up on me. Before I can fiqish writing about one holiday event, presto! There is another. Yet for the persons who must face the daily grind of the “same old, same old,” I’ll bet it seems like an eternity, huh? Thursday is always a big day for mo, in that that is “paper” day. Usually I have not found the time to get this “Echoes” or “Focus on Wake Forest” written and the first thing in the early morning, I must man the typewriter, and try to gather some worthwhile thoughts. My first thoughts this morning is with one of the barbers that I’ve talked so much about in Lotdsburg. Wilson Branch is the super salesman, and his partner, Clinnie Wjlftins, has always been the “life of the party” guy, that kept a laugh gqingalloftbetime. .Well, on yesterday, Wednesday, Mpy 29, I went into their Shop and foppd nobody there. Shortly thereafter, in walked T.O. Anderson, the shop owner. He gave me the very stocking news that on Sunday, Clinnie had had a very serious stroke, and was hospitalised, in Stanch had had that day off, so I didn't get to talk with him. My reson for going into the shop was to ask niiKins somettung about the old Perry’s School, to which I had gone on Saturday, May 25, to cover their program for the local paper. Not only had Wilkins, who had invited me to attend, been there himself, but so had many others, including many out-of state former students. The school reunion committee president, Oscar Williams, who lives in Raleigh, gave both the opening and closing statements. Ms. Barbara Alston was mistress of ceremonies. The invocation was given by Rev. Jorden H. Wilkins (brother to Clinnie). Ms. Levonia Taylor brought the welcome. A brief history of Perry’s School was done by Ms. Vernice Harris. Douglas Gupton and Ms. Ann A. Burwell both did the memorial tribute. The speaker’s introduction was given by Ms. Bernice Trader. For the record, Ms. Vernice Harris and Ms. Bernice Trader are identical twins that are hard to tell apart, regardless of how well you may know them. The speaker for the reunion was a former teacher there, Rev. John E. Hall. “Perry’s School: A Place Where Knowledge, Dedication, and Friendship Abounded and Flourished,’’ was the theme. On Thursday, May 16, “A New Beginning’’ for Tommy Scott, 1971 1M1. Thomas Eltis Scott, Jr., son of Thomas E. and Margaret Bernice Sp Spivey Scott, had funeral services from Phelps Chapel Baptist Church of Youngsville, with Rev. Eddie L. Barnes officiating. The services of this bright, 19-year-old, busy young man who died of a chronic condition were entrusted to the Richardson Funeral Home, <07 S. Main St.._ f Louisburg and 204 N. Alston St., Nashville. Tommy left to remember his devoted life, his loving parents, Tom and Bernice Scott; a sistger, • Crystal D. Scott of Charlotte; and k loving maternal grandmother, Margaret Spivey of Louisburg; 10 aunts, nine uncles, 18 great-aunts, 10 great-uncles, many cousins and a host of other relatives and friends. While at the Keryneys' near Youngsville on Saturday, I met Willie Teasley, Sr., who was telling me that he is now specializing in hill yard service, and grave digging. “I don’t want to take away any other person's job of digging graves,” he told me, “but if there is a time when extra help is needed, I'd appreciate it if anyone would call (910) 558-9453 and Teasley and Sons will give you professional service.” Howard Brodie of Professional Bail Bonding and Brodie Grocery on South Main Street in Franklinton, on the weekend was all smiles when I went into his store. Behind the cash register was his eldest daughter, who’d come home to visit her dear old dad for the holiday. Vanessa Brodie of Baltimore, Md. brought with her seven-year-old Tomika and 10-year old Keith, her son and daughter. Howard had a good time making pictures, that you will see in this paper if a copy can be made of his print. The children both agreed that “Granddad loves us to death.” Ronald Williams, hair stylist, formerly of Durham, is now back home in Franklinton, and working in the shop with his cousin Adrienne Ellis on South Hillsborough Street. Ronald specializes in hair weaving. The son of Ms. Edna Williams Dause thinks that once you have tried him you will return, time after time. The other week, at the home of James and Martha Kearney near Youngsville, their yard was filled with visiting adult children and grands. Lamont and Dorothy Debnam Kearney, James (Shane) and Dorothy Kearney Perry, and Wayne and Rita Bumpers were all having fun. I failed to get the names of the children. In Youngsville that day, I met up with and sold papers to Ms. Hattie Thomas and Ms. Ruby Alston. On that day as well, the Rev. Samuel Tunstall was telling me that he had just finished a stint of training at Vance-Granville Community College that has to do with his being a member of the county rescue squad. Rev. Tunstall is indeed a very busy young minister who pastors two churches, and just compl.eted holding week’s revival service at the Presbyterian Church in Franklin ton. At Cle’s Beauty Shop in Louis burg, where I leave papers, I met two ladies from my town, Edna Lynch an Therlin Kearney’s mother, Mozelle Kearney. I’d just written about Therlin "Pop’’ Kearney and his Gospel Music Show on WSHA-Raleigh each Tuesday and Thursday at 10:15 or 10:30 p.m. And if you start listening at 10 o’clock, you will be sure to catch it. His mother said that Therlin simply loves his job. I do know one thing. We both had breakfast together at Ann’s Place when we happened to be there at the same time, and I believe that 1 convinced him to become a weekly reader of The CAROLINIAN. We had such a good, long conversation about life in general. Therlin is eager to learn more about the wonderful, wonderful black media that is so vital to black life and progress. I’m so happy that I now sleep and eat black America, that I can literally burst. One thing for sure, we can do it together, folks. Just hang in there. Let me tell you just one funny story before I sign off for this time. Last night, I was told by Barbara Cooke, an employee at Variety Wholesalers near Raleigh, that she is the only black person in her department and The CAROLINIAN, Southern Changes and other black publications are received there, and when the mail is sorted, she is always handed "the papers.” She said that if she is out, when she returns her desk is piled high with any “black” material. What a joke! I personally have but up a very large following of white readers in our local paper, and 1 have wondered how on earth could they manage to buy the paper and be discreet enough to avoid the eyes or other whites. I’d make sure, though, whenever there was anything I wanted them to know I gave a copy to just the right person. As was the case this week when I spoke of the “Can Do” local First Citizens Bank... Please stay tuned, you’ll be next, I promise you. To the Black Children's Community Council, your story will appear in the next issue. Thanks for reading The CAROLINIAN. REINVEST (Continued from page IS) Not every mall hai cart* or kioelci to leaae to small merchants. Once you've called mall managers la your area and learned which ones Invite such business, a visit Is in order. Study the products lore sale, especially around major holidays. Talk with existing cart and kiosk operators about their experiences and their relationships with mall management. On what terms do they lease their carts? Rent can average from as little as |I7S a week for an outdoor location to fa,tee a week in a busy location during the Christmas season. II the rent is moderate, some maHs want an additional five percent from groos (Continued from page IS) A highlight of Um conference will be the Delta Alcohol, Drug Abuse and AIDS Community Education Worktop. Delta Sigma Theta is a public service aorority. When Phi Lambua *L*?*«e of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity holds its annual recognition program on Sunday, June 9, at 3 p.m., the men will be in charge of recognizing the youth that some of them have been big brothers to. The program will be held at the African-American Cultural Center located in the Student Center Annex. Many families are planning to hold their reunions during the summer months. According to the calendar, summer has not arrived, but it has according to the heat. The and annual Peebles Family Reunion will be held at the Sheraton Crabtree on Friday, July 5, and will continue through Sunday, July 7, with worship service at Baptist Grove Church, Leesville Road. Congratulations to my NAACP co-workers, Rev. H..B. Pickett, Jr. and Gertrude Pope, on their retirement inm the Wake County Public Schools. Gertrude has served as librarian and classroom teacher. Rev. Pickett has served as counselor. May they both have a happy life. The Drifters will hold a fundraiser for their human service project on •Sunday, June 9, at Gwendolyn’s on Curtis Drive. Ruby Dunston Green is the coordinator, and Marjorie Watts Person is president. ~ The members of Kabala Temple No. 177, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, observed Jubilee Day on Sunday, June 2, at First Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, where the Rev. W.B. Lewis is pastor. The ladies of Kabala Court, Daughters of Isis, were also present. That was indeed a thrilling game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls on Sunday, June 2, in the NBA finals. We were pulling for the Bulls, but we will still cheer for them on Wednesday. The St. Louis Post Dispatch carried a feature story on Debbie Yow who is athletic director at St. Louis University. Debbie, a former basketball coach at Kansas, is the sister of Kay Yow, the women’s basketball coach at North Carolina State University. They have another sister who is also a basketball coach. By the way, it is almost time to reserve those tickets and rooms for the 1992 CIAA tournament in Richmond, Va. The Raleigh Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity held its Kappa Scholars Program on Friday, May 24, at 7 p.m. at McKimmon Center. The banquet speaker was Rev. John Mendez of Winston-Salem. There were more than 300 honor students recognized during the evening. They included sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Samuel Greene was chairman and William J. Williams was master of ceremonies. I had a brief conversation with Ms. Saneva Riddick, a rising junior at Howard University. She stated that the school was great. Saneva is the daughter of William and Delores Riddick of Evers Drive. . Congratulations and best wishes to newlyweds Anthony and JesSane R. Johnson, who were married at St. Augustine’s College on Saturday, May 25. A reception was held at the North Raleigh Hilton. It was a beautiful wedding, and I was sorry that I had to be out of town. The bride is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. P.R. Robinson, and the bridegroom is the son of Lee H. Johnson and Selma Manning of Texas. The Ways and Means Committee of the Hargett Street YWCA sponsored its annual student piano recital at St. Ambrose Episcopal Church on Sunday, June 2. Among the participants were Pamela DeLoatch, Gregory and Reginald Springer, Joseph Webster and Kimberly White. The Madrigal Singers rendered several selections. This group consists of Alois Chalmers, James Burt, Lauren Jones, and Don T. Hough. The Raleigh Hampton Alumni Chapter will close out the year with its annual picnic. Hamptonians and their guests will gather at the home of Herbert and ERmine Barnes at 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 8. Special guests will be students from the area who are attending Hampton University. The Idle-A-While Civic and Social Club held its May 9 meeting at the home of Catherine C. Wilkins on Calloway Drive. Since this meeting was the final one before closing out for the summer, the group heard reports from all chairmen of committees. Members decided to hold their luncheon on Thursday, Junes, at the Red Lobster at 1 p.m. At the aid of the business session, Catherine served a delicious meal to the following members: Ardelle Battle, Esther Haywood, Phyllis Haywood, Catherine Holden, Dorothy King, Janie Mack, Elizabeth Pridgeon, and Hazel Williams. It is June. The American poet, James Russell Lowell, penned these lines about June: And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten. sales. Others forswear rent but take a commission of 15 percent or more of sales. If you’re considering a seasonal operation, ask the mall management what holidays are best for a given product in that location. Take note of what the stores are selling. Bob Dunlop, who runs the Rivercenter Mall in San Antonio, says the first criterion for any would-be cart operator is to offer a product that is not available in any of the mail’s stores. In that respect, a nonfranchise business may find a home more easily la a mall. A Picolo’s coffee cart? Dunlop's mall has a gourmet coffee shop, so that wouldn’t fit at Rivercenter. Mother Grimm's Bears, a teddy bear franchise? Rivercenter has ZooKeeper, a stuffed-animal store. What has worked well at Rivercenter? Silk-screened tee shirts, hand-painted Southwest-art ceramic tiles and small, handmade glass nicknacks. Dunlop wants merchandise to be of top quality, to fit the mall's image. YOUNG MEN (Continued from page 13) owner of White's Barber Shop; Tony Farrell, electrical engineer at WRAL-TV 5; Brent Timmons, doctoral student studying biological engineering at NCSU; Sg. Maj. Harry James, U S. Army, and others. The group visited WRAL-TV 5 studios, the Raleigh City Council, and attended the professional show, “Project,” at Stewart Theatre and met with astronaut Dr. Guion Bluford at Aldert Root Elementary School, who spoke with them. Some of the members attended A&T football games in Greensboro, appeared on “Let’s Talk,” the radio program hosted by Frank Roberts on WLLE, and attended Sunday School and church together. The group was featured in the Scene section of the News and Observer in December 1990. They also appeared on television in February. Because the emphasis was communication, the group also studied the rudiments of parliamentary procedure. Each of the young men conducted a segment of a meeting, detailing a project they wanted to Implement. They had their idea accepted or rejected by the group by entertaining a motion and carrying that motion through. The success of the group was due in part, to the support of the parent of the young men who offerei encouragement and a spirit o cooperation for each project. The group missed others who ha participated in its activities but wh were unable, to take part in the fuu program for various reasons. Thos who had been a part of the grou included Bryan Clark, Davi Harrington, Larry Harris, Koi Inman, Drey Latta and Travi Strickland. ROMADAN (Continued from page 13) theocentric approach can b< integrated into both public anc private school curriculums in ordei to prepare students to respect the on< world order that is in Ramadan': view dictated by God and facilitate) by the high-tech computer ant information age that has removed al barriers of water, mountains language, culture, ethnicity, etc. Or. Ramadan states that hi realises that this theocentrii approach may cause concerns am may even be rejected by some however, he is confident that it is th very approach used by the prophet of God (including Abraham, Moses Jesus and Muhammad), that is making God the center and the souro of everything and not separatin God's attributes from anything. Copies of Dr. Ramadan’ dissertation are planned to b available in book form in early 1998. BROWN (Continued from page 13) Creative Awards Committee of NAS! has the responsibility of reviewing summer programs that ari considered to be exemplary in natur and for recognizing such program during the national conference. A native of Council, )>e has beei employed with St. Augustine’s for li years. KAPPA (Continued from page 13) chapter at NCSU, and has beer chosen Advisor of the Year foi Kappa’s Middle Eastern Province it 1999 and 1990, and is also in charge a the membership intake program foi potential Kappa men for the Raleigl T League Of Women Voters Urge Closi NCs Tax Loopfiotfes Hie League of Women Voter* of North Carolina completed a study of the tax structure of North Carolina in 1969. That session the General Assembly addressed part of the inequities found by the study. The General Assembly adopted a more equitable individual income tax structure. This session, the league encourages the General Assembly to eliminate other inequities and at the same time provide funds for education and other needed services. The league recommends the following priorities: first, close loopholes; second, adopt a graduated corporate tax to reduce the burden on small business and make corporations pay their fair share; third, V\ ,’ixury items at the national average, fourth, increase the individual income tax on our three percent wealthiest citizens. The business community has the opportunity to participate' in supporting the education that is vital to the business community by paying their fair tax share. f ? In the last 50 ye'.rs ‘he tax burden has shifted frorr business to individuals. In 1938 business paid for 60 percent of the general funds. Today, business pays for about 23 percent. This shift has been partly due to the misconception that economic development depends mainly upon low business taxes. Study after study shows that economic development first depends upon education, roads, infrastructures, quality of life and environmental quality, all economic factors that are hurt by business not paying their fair share. Research does indicate that one tax does have impact—the property tax. North Carolina already has a low property tax that is beneficial to business, it also has other lower than national average taxes—corporate income, sales tax on manufacturing equipment, and the removal of nonrenewable resources. Those taxes should be raised to fund education, the league says. More than 40 bills that close loopholes, tax luxuries, and adopt fairer individual and corporate tax structure have been introduced for consideration this year. Together the bills could raise the $800 million needed to fund the budget this year, the group claims. Pooling Resources Must For Families Of the Nineties ^ NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP)-When one paycheck, or even two, doesn't stretch far enough, pragmatism dictates the rules. And these days, the rules are continually changing. | Ken and Daria Dolan hear it in the I calls they get on their New York f based national radio advise program: Family finances are more I than ever a sophisticated family , affair in which cooperation and ] compromise are key. » “My parents put their money in a j passbook savings account and that 5 was that,’’ Ken said. “In the 1990s, i it’s nretty much a survival mode. The s money foes on the table and couples are doing the best they can with it together.” t The notion of putting a wife on an allowance seems hopelessly outdated with 53 million women in the workforce. The old stereotypes no longer apply. “In some cases, it's the wife doling | out the money to hubby for buying lunches and maybe a new shirt once ! in a while,” Daria said. ! That’s pretty much how it’s worked . out for the Dolans. Ken turns his . paycheck over to Daria and she handles the family finances. But there are about as many ways , to manage a household budget as ; there are homes in America. The idea | is to find something that works—and 1 that can be difficult. ’ “The roles are in flux,” said Martin ' King Whyte, a University of Michigan sociologist and author of "Dating, * Mating and Marriage.” “It’s much ’ more ambiguous now that there 'ere ' two incomes and more deerftat 1 about whether the money should all go into one place. [ It used to be that dad’s paycheck was enough to keep most families going. He brought home the bacon, and she paid the bills with it. It’s not that partners didn’t collaborate. But even when consulting each other before making big purchases, it was clear who > usually did the advising on what: E mom investigated the new dining set, ! dad shopped around for the new car. ■ As with so much in American 1 family life several decades ago, the lines were more clearly drawn. Men i and women knew hotter* where to I stand. Today, more than 58 percent of married women have outside jobs. Alumni Chapter. Moore is courteous, cooperative, dependable, friendly, loyal, enthusiastic and patient. Moore has been married for four years to Trina B. Moore, and attributes a great deal of his succeas i to his supporting wife.