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Home prices are increasing while inventory is decreasing nationally, which presents a challenge for first-time homebuyers who might not have the cash for a hefty down payment. When you consider the ideal down payment is 20%, in markets where housing values are rising, that goal only gets harder and harder to achieve.
A new study by LendingTree, a leading online loan marketplace, ranks the nation's 100 largest cities to determine the best options for first-time homebuyers.
Although Denver, San Francisco and New York City might be hard real estate markets to break into, other cities such as Little Rock, Ark., Birmingham, Ala., and Grand Rapids, Mich., are ready to roll out the red carpet for folks who want to purchase their first home.
In the study, LendingTree Chief Economist Tendayi Kapfidze used several down payment variables, among other criteria, to determine how favorable each city's housing market is for first-time homebuyers.
Here are the factors that contribute to a favorable housing market:
- Average down payment amount: Putting down a big sum of cash up front isn't easy for most first-time homebuyers and it could take years to pull the funds together.
- Average down payment percentage: The down payment is one of the biggest hurdles on the path to homeownership. Lower down payments make it easier for first-time buyers to take that first step.
- The number of buyers financing with an FHA mortgage: Buyers using an FHA mortgage sometimes put as little as 3% down. This and other FHA benefits increase the likelihood of being approved.
- Percentage of buyers with less than prime credit (below 680): Since first-time homebuyers might have a lower credit score than a current homeowner, they're likely to be more competitive in a market where many potential buyers also have credit scores below prime.
- The "Housing Opportunity Index": Some cities are just too expensive for the median income family. The Housing Opportunity Index, which measures the number of homes sold that the median income family can afford, improves the ranking of cities that are still affordable for families with median incomes.
- Average FHA down payment versus average down payment for other kinds of loans: This measure helps determine how much FHA borrowers are really saving on their reduced down payments.
So, what did the study reveal? Let's start with the bad news first.
The worst cities for first-time homebuyers:
- Denver
- New York City
- San Francisco
- Austin, Texas
- Las Vegas
- Los Angeles
- Oxnard, Calif.
- Boston
- Sacramento, Calif.
- Miami
Many large, popular cities are the toughest places for new homebuyers.
New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami and Boston are all great to visit, but if you're looking to buy your first home, go elsewhere. All five are in the bottom 10 of the LendingTree study rankings, scoring poorly across the board.
These areas have high income inequality and higher home prices than the national average. This makes home loans inaccessible for many first-time homebuyers who already are stretched thin from paying high rental prices.
Denver is the worst of the worst for first-time homebuyers, earning low scores in every category. Its crushing down payments average out at a whopping $66,806. Even the FHA down payment is particularly high at $22,841. New buyer, beware.
The best cities for first-time homebuyers:
- Little Rock, Ark.
- Birmingham, Ala.
- Grand Rapids, Mich.
- Youngstown, Ohio
- Winston, N.C.
- Dayton, Ohio
- Indianapolis
- Scranton, PA
- Pittsburgh
- Cincinnati
Little Rock wants you
While Little Rock didn't finish first in any of the six categories, it was in the top 20 in every category, earning it the best overall ranking. Its best attributes are an average down payment of just 12% and its share of non-prime homebuyers, which was at 50% of total buyers.
Birmingham is a close second
Birmingham scored well in the down payment category with an average down payment of 12%. It was second to Little Rock because the 12% down payment amount averages just over $27,000 versus Little Rock's average of $24,896.
Grand Rapids is great for FHA borrowers
Buyers with non-prime credit scores make up an impressive 59% of the FHA borrowers in Grand Rapids. FHA down payments are just 22% of the amount paid by other borrowers.
Opportunities abound in industrial states
Twelve of the top 15 cities are in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana. The economies in these states are growing, but the homes have remained remarkably affordable, making cities like Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Detroit and Dayton, Ohio, more accessible for first-time homebuyers.
What does this mean for you?
Limited home inventory leads to skyrocketing prices in many markets. First-time homebuyers also are seeing their buying power diminished by rising interest rates.
But don't despair.
If homeownership is your goal, several programs are available to assist you. Be sure to consider all your options, including FHA loans.
"The down payment is the biggest obstacle to homeownership for first-time buyers, so it's best to start saving well ahead of the intended home purchase," said Tendayi Kapfidze, LendingTree's chief economist and author of the report.
Always shop around among mortgage lenders to compare rates and loan terms, and get the best offer. And take time now to improve your credit score, which can dramatically impact the rates you are offered.
MagnifyMoney is a price comparison and financial education website, founded by former bankers who use their knowledge of how the system works to help you save money.


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DURHAM, N.C. - Duke's Jon Scheyer, Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith continued to receive postseason honors with the USBWA, Wooden Award and NABC all making announcements on Tuesday.
Scheyer was named a second team All-America by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA). Scheyer and Singler were each named to the final ballot for the Wooden All-America teams and the Wooden Award. The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced its All-District teams with Scheyer earning All-District 2 first team recognition and Singler and Smith being placed on the second team.
Scheyer has started all 34 games and is averaging a team-high 18.6 points and 5.0 assists per game. He also leads the team with 56 steals, 94 three-point field goals and an .875 free throw percentage. He adds to his list of honors that also include, All-ACC first team, ACC All-Tournament first team, Sporting News second team All-America, FoxSports third team All-America and USBWA All-District III team. He is also a finalist for the Oscar Robertson Trophy, Bob Cousy Award and Lowe's Senior Class Award.
Singler is averaging 17.6 points and 6.9 rebounds per game in 34 starts this season. He leads the team with 28 blocks and is tied for second with 14 games with 20 or more points. He was named the ACC Tournament MVP after averaging 21.7 points and 8.3 rebounds while leading Duke to its ninth ACC Championship in the last 12 seasons. He has also been named a Sporting News fifth team All-America, first team All-ACC and to the USBWA All-District III team.
Smith has increased his scoring average from 8.4 points per game last season to 17.3 points per game this year. He has 14 games with at least 20 points after just one in his first two seasons combined. He is also second on the team in assists (91) and steals (41). He has also been named to the All-ACC second team, ACC All-Tournament first team and USBWA All-District III team.
USBWA All-America Teams
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There are 2 types of ARMD. Around 10% of cases are called "wet ARMD," as new, but fragile, blood vessels try to regrow in to support the macula. These fragile new vessels sometimes leak (hence the name "wet") causing rapid vision loss in the center of 1 eye. The other 90% of cases are called "dry ARMD," and these have a very gradual progression.
A number of studies have shown that good nutrition can slow or prevent the development of macular degeneration. For example, it has been proven that people with diets high in fruits and vegetables (especially leafy green vegetables and colorful berries) have a lower incidence of macular degeneration. This is associated with high levels of the nutrient flavonoids, as well as lutein and zeaxanthin (both found in egg yolks), and lycopene (in tomatoes). In fact, those with high levels of these nutrients had only half the risk of ARMD. Fish oils and nuts were also protective. Red wine is protective, but beer can worsen ARMD.
Research suggests that a mix of nutrients is more effective than individual ones for ARMD. I recommend a product called "Ocudyne II" capsules by Nutricology (easily found in many online shops), along with:


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We're two days away from the 2013 NFL Draft, and general managers around the league are burning up the phone lines.
The Miami Herald's Armando Salguero reported Tuesday that the Miami Dolphins have been talking with teams for the "past couple of days" to unearth potential trade partners interested in the No. 12 overall pick.
That's hardly a unique stance in this deep draft, according to a story from NFL.com's Albert Breer. Everyone is looking to move. ESPN, meanwhile, reported Tuesday that no fewer than five teams -- the Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills and Dolphins -- have made calls about trading down in the first round.
The Dolphins' interest in moving down makes sense, considering general manager Jeff Ireland is eyeing a trade with the Kansas City Chiefs for Branden Albert. The Chiefs seek a second-round pick for the offensive tackle, and shopping a first-rounder presumably would allow the Dolphins to recoup that second-round selection. As it stands, the Dolphins have plenty of firepower, with five picks in the first three rounds, and 11 overall.
Predict the Pick:
Create your own mock draft and you could win a trip to Kickoff 2013.
NFL.com's Daniel Jeremiah told the "ATL Debate Club" last week that teams drafting lower in the order are thrilled with the talent near the end of the first round. Teams up top, he said, are "melancholy" with their fate.
Moving down makes plenty of sense, but moving up? Good luck finding a team thinking that way.
Follow Marc Sessler on Twitter @MarcSesslerNFL.


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Interview with Clyde Cook, July 10, 1977.
Interview H-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Interview Participants
CLYDE COOK, interviewee
ROSEMARIE HESTER, interviewer
[00:00:00 - 00:01:51]
No, I was born in Norwood.
When did you move to Badin?
About 1915, I believe it was.
How old were you?
About four or five years old. I was born in 1912, and I was about four years old when my Daddy moved me here. That would have been about 1916.
And why did they move?
It was a better living opportunity here at Badin then than there was at Norwood. It was just sort of a small farming section. And the plant was beginning to take shape here at Badin at that time, and my Daddy came here and started working here, and then he moved his family shortly into Badin.
What did he do when he came?
I guess more or less he was sort of an attendant for Alcoa at what they called the clubhouse.
Didn't he work for Alcoa until he retired?
Yes, he did.
Did you go to school in Badin?
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Do you remember the principal E. G. Harris?
I do.
What do you remember about him?
Well, really the name
more than anything else. I really wasn't old enough at that time to know anything about what kind of administration he was actually carrying at that time. I remember Harris mighty well, because Badin was in the… I guess you'd call it the reconstruction area in the old school buildings, and it was an overcrowded town, and so he had quite a bit of problems trying to control the school along the blacks along in those days. But what type of leadership he had as a principal, I'm not able to say that. I really don't know.
How did you feel about the school where you attended?
I felt… Let me say I never was completely satisfied about the school situation. Because you know at that time there was two separate schools, a white school and a black school. And of course, as the courts know and everybody else knows, the black schools were the less fortunate schools. When I say the "less fortunate," we was cut short. I recall mighty well that I never did get new books for my class; I'd get books that they'd moved from the white school to the black school. And if the pages of the lesson were torn out, I would have to try to get it out of some other schoolmate's book. I didn't have no way to look forward to. And so I always had a resentment and had a feeling in me that has followed me all of my life, that it was unfair. Of course, at that time I didn't see the day that integration of the schools was taking place, but I still said that I was very concerned and I was in no way satisfied with the way that the school was being operated at that time, with a white school and a black school.
Who did you feel was responsible?
Well, at that time the schools in Badin belonged to the Alcoa Aluminum Company. I don't know; they changed names two or three times. They might have been Light and Power Company, or they could have been… I don't recall just now. But it wasn't a county, it wasn't a state-operated school. The Alcoa hired the teachers and they paid them and they paid the school administrators and all themselves at that time.
So you held them pretty much responsible.
Yes, I do. Well, that was just sort of general for basis for schools at that age anyway, for white and black, not only in Badin. That was practically the principle that was being laid down and followed in the other areas, that you found practically the same thing, that whatever the whites left would be in the black schools, is what they would have to use to make our [UNCLEAR].
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When did you leave school?
I completed the seventh grade in school. And back at that time in most of the black [UNCLEAR] I didn't see too much further opportunities, not of going to college or anything that way. We was a poor family, had to live by cheap means. And so I started working at an early age. And [UNCLEAR] called to me to leave school when [UNCLEAR], not because I wanted to—I always wanted to go farther—but it really… The opportunity wasn't there.
What was your first job?
Well, as I recall, the first job that I took, I went to work for Badin Drug Company as an errand boy, carrying out drugs, Coca-Cola's or whatnot, whatever was called in that they would want to deliver it out, because I was the errand boy to carry those things out for Badin Drug Company. That was my first job leaving school that I took. Then I tried to go back to school and start over again, and I found out it was still difficult and too hard, too much for me, and I just gave it up then and finally decided to just go, because most of the other blacks was going, just go to laboring.
How old were you when you had your first job as a laborer in the plant?
For Alcoa?
I think I was seventeen years old, and I think the age requirement was eighteen. I might have been sixteen; I don't recall. But I do remember that I set my age up about two years older than I was, and later on I went back and corrected after I passed the age limit requirement. I wasn't the eighteen limit that I was supposed to have been to go to work when I went to work.
In some of the old Badin
's, it talks about how young men were encouraged to finish their high schooling even if they had to work in the plant, and that there were a couple of hours a week off that you would get from a plant so that you could finish your education. Do you remember that at all?
Yes, I remember. I wasn't that far along, but I had a brother that was in high school at that time. In fact, he finished high school. He was older than I was. He would leave and go to work at the plant, and some of the older before me that was in the high school, they could leave the school. If it was what they called the three-to-eleven shift, I think maybe about two or two-thirty they could leave, time enough to go to the job and go to work.
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How did you feel about working as a laborer in the plant?
It was on the same pattern that the school was; it was a dissatisfaction to me in working for them as a laborer in the plant. I guess more or less that it was born in me, because I never did feel that all blacks should have been dominated by white superiority, and that's what I had to contend with. That was what the Badin at that time. You didn't see nothing. Everybody—all the superiors or overseers or whatever you wanted to call them—was white, regardless to whether they had the ability or not. If they had the color of the skin, they was able to be my superior, and that was the kind of thing that's brought about a lot of… It didn't bring any hate in me toward the white people because I don't have any hate toward people because of the color of their skin, but I do have a resentment to those that enforce those kind of rules [UNCLEAR].
How were people promoted in a plant?
Mostly by… I think I was just about saying it whenever I said the color line. That was strictly… You didn't get any promotion… It wasn't even, for several years of which my, after the union came in; then there were some changes. We got a great number of blacks that had been able to go into the Twenty-Five-Year Club down at Alcoa. But back in the early stages they didn't allow blacks… A black didn't stay long enough… If he got close enough to be eligible for membership in the Twenty-Five-Year Club, they would just about find some reason to get shed of him or to take his time. They'd say that he violated some of the rules and put him out of the plant and take his seniority and cut him back. I think maybe Tom Thomas might have been the first black that went into the Twenty-Five Year Club, and I think maybe he might have went in up in the forties. I think [UNCLEAR] the first was somewhere in that period.
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Were you laid off during the Depression?
Yes, I was for a short period. [UNCLEAR] fortunate enough that… I don't know whether you would call it luck or what you would call it. It wasn't exactly luck, but… There 's a white family, and the gentleman is still living today, Mr. Floyd Culp. He was what we called at that time the walking boss over the construction department. And me being the youngest coming along, he taken an interest in me, and he let me work and kept me working during most of the Depression. I'd work fifty hours of the week for ten dollars. I worked sixty hours of the week for twelve dollars [UNCLEAR] That's work ten hours a day and work on Saturday, when we'd make sixty hours. And I had my mother; I had two sisters and my three brothers, was all at home with nothing to do, and I worked and supported them and kept them going out of ten and twelve dollars a week. And I can recall mighty well Mr. Fickes, who was superintendent of the construction department. We had to live so close till… I would need to buy my sister maybe a pair of shoes. My mother would say that they needed shoes or she needed a dollar and a half or two dollars to buy them dresses. Well, I couldn't get that far ahead, and I'd go to his home at night, and Mrs. Fickes would meet me at the door, and she'd say, "Walter, it's Clyde." "Well, tell him to come on in." And so he was a Yankee, and he'd go to bed at sundown. And so whenever I'd go in, sometime he wouldn't wait. He'd say, "Clyde, sir, what's the matter? You need money? Them girls need some shoes or something?" I'd say, "Yes, Mr. Fickes, I do. I need some money. I need to get them a few things, and I don't have the money." He said, "Would you want five dollars?" Five dollars was a good bit of money then. I told him, "Yes, let me have five dollars." And he'd tell me, "Well, now, don't you try to pay it all back at one time. You just pay a little bit of it back at a time. Don't try to pay five dollars back." And I really wasn't able, out of ten dollars a week, and you could figure it. If you ate, and what I was doing was keeping my sisters in school, and both of them graduated from high school.
Who was Mr. Fickes? Was he a superintendent?
Yes, he was the superintendent of the construction department.
Did Annie Mae Hampton ever work for Mr. Fickes?
I can't recall. Now I won't dispute that. But back in the early days, Lela Kendall lived in what they called the garage. When you'd say the garage, the cars came in underneath, and she lived above. She lived in what we called Fisher's Garage and worked for him through that early age. I don't remember Hampton working. Now I don't dispute that, but I don't recall it.
What was Mr. Copps like, S.A. Copps?
Mr. S. A. Copps in his time, I guess he fitted in, but I come back to say again that I saw the unfairness toward the black that his administration was carrying, and regardless what the circumstances might have been, the black was always in wrong if they had to go before him, for him to make a decision who was right and who was wrong. Every time it would be the black man would be wrong, and he'd probably wind up firing the black man and keeping the white man. And Mr. Copps was a Georgian by birth. And it was much different in the Georgia white man of that day and Mr. Carter that we've got in the White House up there now. A negro would have just about fled the United States if possible, if he could have got out, if it could have happened back in the twenties and thirties that a Georgia white man was going to be President of the United States. Because it was just about a general feeling among all blacks; it was a resentment, it was a hate, serving a Georgia white man that felt that a black man should still be under slavery, that he wanted to hold him to that degree to a certain extent as long as he could.
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Who first started calling West Badin "The Quarters"?
Really, I don't know. Now maybe it's kind of reversed: it was called "The Quarters" before it was ever called West Badin, and why and how it inherited that name as "The Quarters", I really couldn't yield the correct answer, not at this time. Probably I have known, but I can't think right now.
Wasn't that like a throwback to slavery, just the label "The Quarters"?
I don't think so… I think that inherited its name along at the beginning of the building of Badin, whenever they had all blacks housed over—and they still do
—on that side of town and in that area, and they more or less called that the black quarters over there. And they had what they called shack rousters then. Instead of calling them cops, as you know of them now up and down the street, they had shack rousters that would go around, and his job was to run the laborers out and force them to go to work in the afternoon or whatever time of day. If he really didn't want to go, they'd try to force and see that he did go. And they would usually use the term that they was over in the "nigger quarters." So I don't believe there's any connection between slavery and its getting named that.
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When did things start to improve during the thirties? A lot of people were laid off during the middle part of the thirties, and then when did things start to pick up again at Alcoa?
I'm not much of keeping a record in mind of what year. But let me say this
: I remember mighty good if you want to know the change of Presidential administration, the change that taken place. I won't ever forget it. I was a youngster, working hard, as I've told you, ten and twelve hours a week [sic]. And Election Day came up, and there was only three construction workers working for Alcoa in the construction department at that time, and I was one of them. And we was working on the railroad out there, another black by the name of Will Sturdemire, John Biggs, and myself, the three of us. Mr. Culp [UNCLEAR], the walker boss, came out that day and said to us… Mr. Herbert Hoover was President of the United States, and that was Election Day, and he said, "You boys better pray that Mr. Hoover be reelected the President. If Roosevelt's elected, the company will close this plant down." And I never will forget it. I stopped. I was driving spikes, and I stopped and set my hammer down. And I stood up and I told him, "Mr. Culp, there's one thing I wants to say, and I'm going to say it. I don't care if they'd close the plant down and throw the damn key in the lake down yonder. I pray God that Herbert Hoover won't be reelected the President of the United States." He looked at me, and he said, "You ain't got good sense, and you ain't never had." And I said, "I never will have if I have to pray for Herbert Hoover to be a President for another term." And he turned around and walked off from [UNCLEAR]. And Herbert Hoover lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt. And as soon as Roosevelt got in office, the wheel of industry started turning. They started the calling in and putting more people back to work and started raising the wages. I believe that's when N.R.A. Johnson brought in the forty-hour work week. And they started making some changes in the working man's position under the early stages of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Do you remember when the union was first organized?
Did you help in the organization of the union?
I joined the union in its early stages, when it was just beginning. You were supposed to hide; the company had Chief Melton, and the policemen would sit around and keep a tab on who were going to union meetings. And blacks was afraid to be seen going to the union hall and those kind of things, was afraid to let it be known that they was members. And I remember mighty well; I was janitoring at that time at what they called the wash house down there. That's the entrance where they'd change clothes and go in to work at. Whenever it was before the employees to vote on whether they would be represented by a union or not. And Chief Melton for Alcoa came in and said to another old black that was working there as I was, Eli Matthew, and said to myself, "You people are in a position to talk to these colored people whenever they come in. And the company has taken care of you down through the years. You know you can depend on the company. Now if you want to vote and let certain people, this Robert Kearns and them kind of people, run your business, it's up to you. The best thing you can do is to try to advise all the black people to go vote against that union." And I listened to him make the statement, and I went right the opposite direction. Every black that came in that consulted and some that didn't, if I felt that it wasn't a direct contact back to the office, what I was doing or what I was saying, I was using my influence for them to vote for the union for better working conditions and better opportunities for blacks.
What type of impact did it have?
In the terms of influencing blacks? Well, the union won. They won and have, but of course they was weak for a good many years. But the union won out, that the employees would be represented by the AFL-CIO.
What kind of impact did it have for blacks, though? Did they have greater opportunities in the plant?
In some respect, in the wages, but they had a division line, a color line that was well understood between the company and between the union, certain lines that they held for white, and certain they held for blacks. At that time there weren't even any blacks could go in for crane operators or truck operators or nothing of that king. That came in way years later, that blacks began to gradually improve.
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Were there separate washrooms?
They did have, one side for the white and one for the black.
When did that change?
I don't recall what year, but that's been since the Supreme Court has handed down the rules that separate is not equal, and they had to make a change in it, started gradually adding a few blacks in …
Have you ever filed a grievance with the union?
No, I haven't. Not with the union, no. In fact, the most of my work after then with Alcoa was, I did a lot of janitor work. And we was eliminated from the common being members of the union. In some of the work I did I wasn't eligible for membership.
Janitors are not eligible for …
Well, at that time, in some cases if you had contact with the office and all, the work around the office and all, you couldn't be a member of the union.
Did you fight in World War II?
No, I didn't go. I went and was examined, but I was exempted. I did not go.
Do you remember that during the 1950s there was a person running for head of the union who campaigned on a promise that if the blacks voted for him, he would see that there'd be more equal opportunity in the labor union?
Do you recall the name?
I don't know his name.
I think maybe I do. I think more or less. It seems like to me that that Carl Lee Drye was president along in the fifties, and that most possibly could have been his promise, that there would have been better opportunities.
Were there?
In some respects yes, and some no, because they still followed the color line. And let me say this: at that time I had left Alcoa and was a journeyman bricklayer. And I tried during that time at Peerage whenever I knew that they was wanting bricklayers—and I livedhere in a couple miles of the plant down there—and they never would give me a job as a bricklayer down there. In fact, they gave no blacks a bricklayer job. They gave it all to whites.
Where did you live during these years?
Well, mostly right around in this area. My wife said that we've been living right in this section about forty years or a little more. So I've been generally… For about twenty-some years when I was following the brick trade, I was in and out. I worked away from home a lot, so I had to go away from home to get work to do. It was sort of hard. After you left Alcoa, there wasn't too many places in Stanly County and other areas that they would mix the races, white and black bricklayers work together.
Why did you leave Alcoa?
I got laid off. And rather than to go back and start back as a common laborer where I had started at, I thought that I had some better potentials good enough that I could do something else, that I started taking brick… Back in the early days when Alcoa had the schools, that was the kind of training they was giving, was black bricklayer training and giving white maybe carpentry or some other kind of training over on the white side. I didn't have enough training from the Alcoa school to qualify as a bricklayer, but I decided I wanted to go back and get started again, and I did do it.
And what year did you go back to Alcoa?
I don't recall. I came way on. I followed bricklaying, and after I couldn't get on for a bricklayer's job, then I went back down there and started back at doing some janitor work back for them again.
After people were laid off, if they were rehired did they start at the same level that they left at, or did they go down to lower levels and then have to go up again?
They'd hire them back according to the seniority. The older ones would get called back first. That was supposed to have been the rule. There was a right smart of complaining that they were manipulating the records and all in order to call back whites whenever blacks was eligible to go back. I've heard that complaint from the union side of it.
Did you participate in any community activities or political activities in Badin?
You mean in my early days, now, or when?
In your early days or all through your life.
Yes. I was active in AME Zion Methodist Church. I was a very active member in the church. I was Master of the Masonic Lodge in Badin for a good many years. And I have been a member of the Badin Civic League. And unfortunate…For the less fortunate black people in Stanly County, I am supposed to represent them as being the President of the NAACP in Stanly County now.
When did you start that?
As President, this is my second year.
How many people in Badin belong to the NAACP?
I really don't know. We have a membership committee, and the secretary has… We don't have a large attendance unless it's some special event to bring them out. And really I'm not able to tell you right now how many members in Badin, but we cover the whole Stanly County; we don't cover Badin. And we're always reinstating and some dropping out and new members coming in, and right now I haven't had the record and don't know just what is the total. But we have a right good membership in the NAACP.
Do you know how old the NAACP is in Stanly County?
Not the exact date, but I recall that I was carrying an NAACP card back in the thirties. It was the latter part of the thirties or early forties, I was carrying an NAACP card. I was a member.
Have you been active since the thirties?
Yes. I don't recall. It could have been … in the forties when I became active in the NAACP. It's so long that I kept no record of it, and there wasn't any record kept locally much at that time. But I haven't been out; I've been a member ever since.
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What sorts of things does the organization do now?
Well, one of the most bothersome things that we have to complain about right now is job opportunities for blacks. I hate to make that statement, but Stanly County is just about at the bottom of the list whenever it comes to job opportunities for our young black people. And for that reason, I spoke a few times in my meeting with the mayor And the country officials… I think about the days of
, Alex Haley's novel, whenever they were separating families by selling the daughters off and all, they don't sell them all off now and they don't have the whipping pole. But they had a way of separating them at the economic level. If a black child goes and gets a college education, if he wants to get a job comparable to his education, the most of them has got to leave Stanly County and go in other areas. Most of our better young material now is in the northern states, where they could get better job opportunities. And it makes it mighty difficult for me now if I'm called on to produce a qualified young black to take a better position right now; it's hard to find one, because they done drained them out. And some got discouraged, didn't want to leave home, and dropped out of college and out of school, and just taken common jobs and went to work here to start with. I don't know how long you have been in this area and how much you will visit around throughout the county, but it's not any problem for you to see the thing that I'm talking about. And the thing that's grieving me is, when you walk into banks in Stanly County you find no blacks. I think maybe the Cabarrus Bank has started by bringing on the token one or two blacks in the teller department. You go into the big chain stores that's operating in Charlotte and Greensboro, whatever city you go in, you go there and you'll find that they're well represented with both black and white, and there's a good relation. You come here to Albemarle, and you walk in those same stores and you can't find a black in there nowhere. Well, that's disturbing to me. I'm personally dissatisfied with it. And my people are dissatisfied with it. Now I have done met with the city management; I've done met with the county management in good faith, hoping to resolve, and they promised me that they would work towards improving the situation. But seemingly, they have forgotten about it. Don't nobody need to tell me, and don't nobody need to tell my people, that we can get federal assistance; we can file complaints and we can file suits against these kind of things that's going on, because they're long past due. And I'm not the person to threaten any, and I hope it's not going as a threat. But I'm certainly looking forward, before my administration comes to an end, of making some changes in Stanly County.
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Where is the NAACP office in Stanly County? Is there one?
No. The only thing we have is a meeting place that we meets. It's a city building, the Amherst Garden Recreation Center in Albemarle on the second Tuesday night of each month.
Do you know anything about the poll tax that they had in Stanly County?
No, not too much. That's coming in sort of under the political system, and really I'm not too much of a politician that I feel that I'm in the position that I could just give you the actual facts about what is the consequence about the poll tax in Stanly County.
Were you happy to see the schools integrated?
Yes, I certainly was. If I may emphasize, because I knew that was a better opportunity for the young blacks for a better education. And then there was a certain other thing I knew, that it should be some help towards closing the gulf of division between the races. It wasn't going to happen… It couldn't put me and the whites that came along whenever I did… I lived in sight of the white school, and I couldn't even go by there on the way going to school; I had to go a back way and walk two or three miles to a black school. They didn't want us to even come by, for fear that there would be trouble. Well, these blacks my age, they couldn't put us in school together; but they could take these youngsters and start training them that all people are created equal, down at that level, and you won't have no problems. One of the things that was most touching to me was, and I was a little bit afraid …
I was afraid that it was going to bring about a resentment whenever Alex Haley's novel came out of what happened in the
, that it was going to stir up animosity and create a division wherein that we were going to have somewhat of the same thing that we had when Dr. King was assassinated. Riots and hatred. But it didn't develop that way. Why? I noticed when Alex Haley visited some areas, he was covered by young whites that admired him. They didn't stand back and hate him, and that was touching to me to see that they had respect for Haley and his novel, where a majority of the blacks [sic] back in my age would have been saying, "They ought to kill the so-and-so." That was taught in them back in separate institutions. But now, since they're in the same institution and going to the schools together, they are not taught that kind of thing, at least that we find it out. Or I think if the administrator found out that, they are not there too long before they are gone, because they've got to be able to get along with each other. There ain't going to be no division in these children that grows up down here together. They love Alex Haley and over- crowded him, just forgot about what color he was, and that was very touching to me to see it that way, and that's the way I think it ought to be. I don't see people by the color of their skin; I see them for what they are and who they are as individuals. If he's a white individual, well, I think just as much of him… If he's the right-principled individual, I'll protect him with all of my life, just as quick as I will the black, more so than I will one with the blackest that hasn't got any of the principles that I think that I'd like to see my black people have. And we've got them both white and black. We can look in the papers and on the news and see the crimes that are being committed, that I'm not proud of and you are not proud of. But I don't see them as black and white; I see them as individuals that I just don't appreciate.
Blacks were not allowed in the white section of Badin when you were growing up?
I wouldn't say that they wasn't allowed. It was limited a lot. You could come over and shop most of your dry goods stores. They had a good many stores when Badin was what they called "in its bloom" then. You could come over. And the post office was in Badin and all. But no blacks could live on the white side, and they still don't. And then, at a certain time after dark, there were Badin cops and they had a good many of them around on the streets, prowling around and watching then. If they saw any black youngsters in the white area, they wanted to know, "What's your business? You'd better get back over on the black side." And if they saw any white over on the black side, "You ain't got no business over here among these niggers at night. You'd better go on back over town." Those kind of things were what they used to tell you.
How do you feel about the condition that the school in West Badin is in now? The building's not used any more, and it's vacant, and it's sort of falling apart.
Yes. Well, unfortunate for Badin, whenever they quit using it for a school, it had served its purpose then. There was nothing else they… Some foreign organization—when I say "foreign," from out of the northern states—came in and bought it and was going to make some big thing out of it. But the community is not large enough to support that kind of thing over there. We've got a small community. What's happened to Badin over the years, there used to be a time everybody that worked for Badin practically lived in the Badin area; now I think, if you would check it out, you've got as many or more people coming and going that's migrating in here and coming from, oh, some down the edge of South Carolina in and going back every day that don't come here. And for that cause, all business has gone bad. We've got no business, no dry goods stores in Badin; nothing, practically, pays off. The days that I spoke about I was an errand boy for the drugstore, they had one of the finest theaters sitting there where the post office is at now. And whenever that theater would turn out on Saturday night… The Badin drugstore is the old building that's sitting right over to the right. Well, if you're coming this way, it's to the left of the post office over there from what used to be Dr. Lassiter's office there. And it would be so crowded, the streets around there at night, I'd always have to stay there till about ten o'clock on Saturday night and do whatever they needed me to do around the drugstore. And the whole town was just flourishing. The same thing was on the black side over there. Everybody [UNCLEAR]. But after they started letting people come in from far and near and work and migrate back and forward, well, then business started slumping. Eventually, I think they paid somebody to tear down one of the nicest recreation buildings, I had heard it was called between maybe Washington and Atlanta at one time, was the Badin Theater. It was a fine building. It had to be torn down.
Do you know any of the blacks who were originally recruited from South Carolina, from Georgia towns, to work in the plant in its very, very early years? Do you know if any of them are still here?
The most of them is dead. They used to have a recruiting station down in Florida, in Georgia, in Mississippi, around in that area, back in the early stages. They brought them in in what they called "transportations." They transferred them here. And they had to live here. They had several boarding houses on the white side and black side for those people that they didn't have families to live [UNCLEAR]. And in some cases on the black side, two families had to share the same little small apartment, a little building, to live over there. But now they've tore down more of Badin than they got left over there, and so that's not the case anymore. And so I really… There is two blacks that I can point out that came in here in the recruiting days. One of our old blacks by the name of Herbert Curtis up there, he was recruited out of Georgia or Florida area and brought in here back in the teens or early twenties. T.L. Smith, one of our oldest citizens, he was recruited and brought into this area, too. I think that's correct. I can't recall; the most of them is done dead now.
Is there anything else you would like to say?
I don't know of anything. Maybe I've done already talked too much as it is.
And so I think maybe that I've been bothersome or worrisome enough to you. Really, what I've said, I don't feel like it's worth your time to come out here.
Well, I don't feel that way at all.


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NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Dr. James Rhoads, professor of political science, served as Conference Host for the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity 28th Annual Meeting Sept. 5-8 in Pittsburgh, and Dr. Timothy Cuff, associate professor of history, delivered the keynote address.
Rhoads welcomed roughly 90 delegates, from various academic disciplines, to the four day conference, which focused on research using Q Methodology. Q Methodology was invented by the British physicist/psychologist William Stephenson (1902-1989), and is a means by which the subjective can be systematically studied.
In addition to hosting the conference, Rhoads presented "Finding Structure in the Sitcom about Nothing." Rhoads used Q Methodology to reveal the structure of opinion of audience members who had just witnessed an episode of "Seinfeld." The study revealed two segments of opinion revolving around the plots of this particular episode. The presentation was part of a panel on "Popular Culture and Q Methodology."
Rhoads, who joined the Westminster faculty in 1992, earned an undergraduate degree, master's degree, and Ph.D. from Kent State University.
Cuff presented "'From Hell with the Lid Taken Off' to 'America's Most Livable City': A Brief and Selective History of Pittsburgh, 'City at the Point.'" Cuff's presentation gave the group a history of the city and the region highlighting the manner in which the region's geography and natural resource endowments have influenced economic, social and political developments.
Cuff, a Westminster College graduate who joined the faculty in 2000, earned a master's degree from Bowling Green State University and master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
Presenters and attendees at the conference were from all over the world, including: Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. The International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity will meet again next year in Amsterdam.
Contact Rhoads at (724) 946-7255 or email for more information.


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|October 2012
|OKLAHOMA'S eGOV NEWS REPORT
Welcome to Oklahoma's eGovernment News Report. We hope you enjoy the monthly report providing you with up-to-date information on Oklahoma's eGovernment achievements.
Oklahoma eGov News
OKLAHOMA CITY – October 1, 2012 – Public sector web and communications professionals convened Oct. 16 in Oklahoma City's Metro Technology Center for the Oklahoma State Webmanagers Group (OSWG) Fall Conference 2012: Innovation and Modernization. The conference featured a keynote address by State of Oklahoma Chief Information Officer Alex Pettit and State Representative Jason Murphey, House Government Modernization Chair.
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Students at Comanche Nation College in Lawton utilize the Internet for everything from conducting extensive research for reports to creating high-tech graphics for movies and advertisements. Currently, Internet projects can be time-consuming for students, due to slow connection times for Internet users without access to Oklahoma's high-speed networks. That will soon change thanks to a new network designed to offer high-speed broadband services to rural and underserved Oklahoma. This network, the Oklahoma Community Anchor Network (OCAN), reached its year-two construction milestone July 31, 2012, and construction of the network is now 88 percent complete.
For years and years, governments have been feeling the pressure to communicate more effectively with the public. Social media and other readily available tools have been a big factor in changing citizen expectations, and some governments have done a better job than others at meeting the increased demand for transparency and real-time information. Some governments have chosen to bring in outside expertise to modernize their communications. One of the biggest players in this emerging market is GovDelivery, a St. Paul, Minn.-based company providing automated messaging solutions, social networks and other tools that are tailored to the needs of government.
Government Technology caught up with the company's CEO Scott Burns about the present and future of government-to-citizen communication. What he had to say might surprise you.
State CIOs Balance Innovation and Legacy, Survey Says
At the 2012 NASCIO Annual Meeting held in San Diego, the association, along with TechAmerica and Grant Thornton LLP, released a survey that discusses how state CIOs deal with the continual introduction of new technologies, such as mobile devices and applications, social media, big data, cloud computing and public safety broadband, while simultaneously providing essential IT services to states.
"More than ever, state CIOs must keep up with the old while continuing to bring in the new," said NASCIO Executive Director Doug Robinson in a press release. "It's a real balancing act for CIOs who are trying to be responsive to governors, legislators, state agency heads and citizens."
This year's survey, Advancing the C4 Agenda: Balancing Legacy and Innovation, finds that CIOs are confronted with a variety of responsibilities and leadership challenges, and they're working to advance that agenda in a fast-changing environment where budget hardships and uncertainty overshadow everything.
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Metal Slug 2 and Metal Slug X also planned
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The story I am about to relate is my very first brush with things paranormal.
It happened when I was sixteen years old. Up to that time, I had never given things paranormal a second thought. I was not interested in ghosties and such, nor had I any reason to be, other than perhaps sitting around a campfire with a bunch of friends and scaring the bejee*e out of each other with rather silly ghost stories.
I visited the house in which I was born and where I spent the first four years of my life, but which was now occupied by an elderly relative who lived alone, and basically in only two rooms. (It was heated with a wood stove, so the fewer rooms he used, the fewer rooms he had to heat.) I was curious to explore this house, remembering the time when I lived there, and checking out the artifacts that were still there, much as I remembered them.
The living room door was closed and likely had been for a very long time. It was likely I was the first person in that room in years, since the gentleman who resided there had absolutely no reason to enter that room. But my curiosity demanded that I check it out, so I opened the door and stood there, scanning the inside. I was immediately struck by a musty smell, old wood and furniture that hadn't been disturbed in ages. and by a distinct chill. Everything was covered by a layer of dust. and I had a sense that I was intruding to the extent that I was somewhat hesitant to enter. This puzzled me, so I informed myself that I had every right to be there, and stepped into the room. Immediately, I was hit by an energy that was absolutely negative and evil, totally unlike anything I had ever experienced in my life. I stepped about 5' into the room and stopped dead in my tracks. It was as though I had encountered an invisible wall that I MUST NOT, under any circumstances, cross. I was terrified, largely because I had not a clue what was happening, and that I had no reference points whatsoever to help me make sense of it. I remembered that room as being bright and cheerful and that I was perfectly happy playing there, but always with adult supervision because I tended to touch things I shouldn't and I tended to break things. It was still bright, but cheerful, it wasn't.
I told myself again this is nonsense, to get a grip and get on with exploring. I immediately envisioned something dreadfully malevolent in a corner watching me and creeping ever closer. I likened it to there being a big, nasty dog crouched in the corner, teeth bared, growls emanating from deep in its throat. It never took its eyes off me, and I knew at any moment it would be on top of me, tearing me to bits. The entity came ever closer, and I could feel it breathing on my neck. I didn't turn around because I didn't want to actually see what was there. As long I didn't see it, I didn't have to deal with the fact that something horrid really was there.
I turned and bolted!
Outside that room, everything was calm and blissfully normal. Within a few minutes, I had decided that this was nonsense, and what the heck had come over me anyway! I was hell bent on getting back in there, so I strode in as though I owned the place. Again, whatever was in that room made it clear I was an intruder and that I was in its space. Again, I envisioned that dreadful dog in the corner, and again, whatever was there crept ever closer to me until I KNEW it was right behind me.
Again, I turned and bolted.
Rinse and repeat.
Over the next few years, I visited that house several more times, and never, ever got more than 5' into that room, even though I kept telling myself this is all nonsense.
Then, five years or so later, I was married. My husband and I visited that little town on our honeymoon, and again I ventured into that room. It was utterly clean! Whatever had been there was totally and utterly gone! I walked all the way into the room, a feat I had never done before, and was perfectly comfortable.
I have never made sense of this. Years later I mentioned it to a gifted psychic who told me that this entity was certainly real, and not a figment of my fertile teenage imagination; that it was a driveby entity who had drowned and had chosen that space because it was totally unused and never, ever occupied until I came along. It resented my being there because I was intruding in a space it had claimed as its own. As for the dog, I think that was just the way my brain interpreted this very threatening presence.
So there you have it! I tend to rattle on, so I shall stop now.
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good knows our team doesn't look good.
teams looking to trade include:
New York (for the lebron sweepstakes)
Kings (Miller)
Utah (boozer let go for free)
any thoughts? who we need to trade? post 'em here
New York
Real GM's Wiretap wrote:"If Donnie Walsh is able to trade Eddy Curry it would make it much easier for the Knicks to re-sign David Lee and Nate Robinson this summer.
Walsh declined to offer extensions to Lee and Robinson last summer, but a decision will likely be made soon with the trade deadline a little more than a month away.
If Walsh decides he isn't going to re-sign either player, he may be moved to trade them now, rather than risk losing them for nothing in July.
Trading Curry, who is set to attempt a comeback this week, would give Walsh more time to evaluate Lee and Robinson."
assuming no one wants curry's fat ass...
Brandon Wright and Marco Belinelli
Nate Robinson and David Lee
both have two year contracts with team options... which is nice for New York because if it looks like they can't get LeBron, they can keep these guys.
i think it's a pretty even trade...
this one would probably never happen, but it works financially
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=378~3242~1703&teams=26~26~9&te=&cash= maybe throw in a pick...
basically just before boozer can cut and run from the mormons... although seeing jax in utah would be hard to deal with. I'd feel bad for him. plus he just doesn't see like a Jerry Sloan type of player - ok this is an awful trade for utah, but good for us.


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A stunning view of the Vancouver marina, the North Shore mountains and downtown are only a taste of the upsides of living in this floating home. Owners Doug McClelland and Anthony Tucker plopped their newly built floating home in Coal Harbour Marina in Vancouver, British Columbia. This harbor is considered one of the best in North America, and is full of gorgeous yachts of the rich and famous. The sleek modern design stands out as the newest floating house built in this harbor. McClelland and Tucker made sure that their home was full of windows and light and built a roof deck to take advantage of the 360-degree view. "Our favorite thing about our home is the fact that it moves," says McClelland. "The subtle movement makes it feel like a living thing. You feel connected to the water around you." All furniture in this home provided for staging by Tracey Mills from Dekora.
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Rumor has it that Emma Watson's ethical fashion aspirations are on hold—that is, if gossip from the Daily Mail is to be believed. An unnamed source claims that the Harry Potter actress, who co-designed three seasons' worth of styles for People Tree, is disappointed by lackluster sales. "Even at knockdown prices, the clothes were still sitting on the shelves," the mole told the British tabloid on Saturday." Despite appearances, Watson's involvement with the fair-trade pioneer wasn't your average celebrity vanity project. Watson helped select the fabrics, colors, and silhouettes; modeled the finished looks; and even flew to Bangladesh to visit the slums homes of Dhaka with Safia Minney, People Tree's founder and CEO.
It was in India that the Hollywood ingenue witnessed firsthand the impact fair trade can have. "Fair trade gives families the option to stay together, rather than one or both parents having to move to cities, and they are paid a fair wage," she said in August 2010 after a tour of Swallows, a fair-trade women's community in Thanapara that People Tree supports. "It empowers people and doesn't take away their dignity."
It was in India that the Hollywood ingenue witnessed firsthand the impact fair trade can have.
It was in India that the Hollywood ingenue witnessed firsthand the impact fair trade can have.
A month after her final People Tree line hit stores in February 2011, Watson debuted a sustainable capsule collection with Italian designer Alberti Ferretti. The young actress, it seemed, was on a roll, even talking to her bosses at Lancome, the cosmetics firm she fronted, about a possible eco-friendly makeup collection.
Any reined plans on the fashion front could be the result of time constraints. Watson, after all, isn't just a working actress. She's also commuting between Brown and Oxford Universities, where she's pursuing her bachelor's degree. On that account, the Daily Mail source agrees: "She's… stalled on plans to do more with Ferretti because she doesn't have time."
Minney and People Tree, for their part, see little to be disappointed about. "Emma is a very good actress and a sensitive person with an ethical and ecological vision that perfectly embodies People Tree's vision and philosophy," Minney tells Ecouterre. "The collection was amazing, was received very well by clients and press, and sold well. We are very happy about this opportunity with Emma." Not only did People Tree close 2011 with a 10 percent increase in online sales, Minney adds, but it also increased its orders of fair-trade and organic cotton by 150 percent in 2012 alone.
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I love that little bird print.
I'm so pleased with how it turned out! It was a quick and satisfying project so that I think I'll make some more soon. This is one of those projects where you piece the strips right to the batting and back. I then quilted a few more lines before binding while I watched American Idol.
So easy!
I also like this back. I've had this for a few years now. Happy to finally put it to use.
While I was taking pictures I also discovered this new addition to my table. I think this is thanks to the 2 1/2-year-old boy who lives in our house. Scrubbed it a bunch, but it's not showing any signs of fading anytime soon. It's moments like this that I remind myself, "This is why I didn't buy my table from the Pottery Barn." We'll be sticking with this cheap beauty for a few more years at least.
I've been surprisingly bloggy this week. I guess that's possible when you don't have a child with a birthday, class report/project, or major illness that week. And you pretend the pile of socks that desperately needs to be sorted doesn't exist.
Update: Here is a cute quilted bag giveaway at a new-to-me blog: GreenFairyQuilts. Plus more Shangri-La fabric. (I love that collection!) Check it out!


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Civil cases
This information has been filed in civil division of Marion County District Court.
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, vs. Kevin J. Bartel, 108 N. Cedar St., Hillsboro, et al.; dismissed Sept. 4.
Dillons Corporation vs. Melissa Scott, 10299 N.W. U.S. 77, Burns; dismissed Sept. 5.
FIA Card Services LLC vs. John C. Masson, 307 Marion, Lehigh; trial continued from Sept. 12 to Oct. 24.
Small Claims
Paul Frederick, et al., vs. Justin Tighe, 851 140th, Hillsboro, et al.; Aneshia Tighe, 226 S.W. Second, Newton, dismissed from case Sept. 5.
Marion County Emergency Medical Service vs. Tiffany E. Colson, 929 Winwood Drive Apt. 3, Junction City; dismissed Sept. 5.
Old Wynn LLC vs. Brenda Martin, 1196 E. 150th, Hillsboro; judgment of $1,281.50 made Sept. 5 in favor of plaintiff.
Last modified Sept. 13, 2012