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APRIL 16 - APRIL 23, 1997
New proposed bill could affect many Ts lifestyles
by Tony Jones
The United States Congress is
currently working on legislation
every worker in America needs to
be consistently informed about,
business and labor interests say.
Not yet law, it is known as the
oComp Time Bill, ? the actual title
of the legislation is oThe Working
Families Flexibility Act of 1997. ?
It is headed now for the Senate
floor for final consideration, hav-
ing passed scrutiny by the U. S.
House of Representatives.
Amending the 1938 Labor Stan-
dards Act, the Comp Time Bill is
the omost important legislation
affecting the employer-employee
relationship ? of the modern era.
The country Ts largest labor
union, the AFL-CIO and leading
Democrats say if made into law, as
is expected, the bill will rape
worker Ts paychecks. Its Republi-
can sponsors say the bill repre-
sents wise adjustment to the reali-
ties of the modern business world.
All sides agree that it will affect
every paycheck in America.
The pending legislation will al-
low companies to make an agree-
ment with employees to trade paid
time for time off. As with cash
overtime pay, compensatory time
would accrue at a rate of one-and
one-half times the employee Ts regu-
lar rate of pay for each hour worked
over 40 hours within a seven day
Dr. Ruth Peterson, Pastor, and co-Pastor, Helen Williams were honored recently as the
Anointed Ones Church celebrated their oAnnual Founders T Day ? observance. Shown above:
(L-R), Co-Pastor Williams, Rev. Lilly of Chocowinity, Dr. Peterson, and Pastor Barbara
Dellano of the Gateway Christian Center. God bless you sisters...Continue to spread God Ts
word. See oFaces & Places ? Page for more.
(Staff Photo: Jim Rouse)
period. '
Comp time supporters say the
bill falls directly in line with the
concern of working mothers. Their
information states, oA 1994 U.S.
Department of labor report found
that the number one concern for
sixty-six percent of working women
with children under the age of 18
is the difficulty of balancing work
and family responsibilities ?.
The bill Ts opponents feel that it
will give too much leverage to
employers, allowing them to pres
sure employee to take time off in-
stead of paying them for working
overtime.
Passed March 19, the Bill passed
on a partisan vote of 222-210. Op-
posing the bill were 191 Demo-
crats, 18 Republicans and Inde-
pendent; Bernie Sanders of Ver-
mont.
The United Auto Workers has
Continued on page 2
A spectacular season
Extraordinary lives often reveal
ordinary truths. Jackie Robinson
was born in 1919 and died in 1972.
He crammed into his too few fifty-
three years alegacy of accomplish-
ment, acclaim, controversy, and
influence matched by few Ameri-
cans. Even before his historic base-
ball breakthrough, he was an ath-
lete of legendary proportions. He
won fame and adulation as the
first African-American to play in
the major leagues in the twentieth
century, launching an athletic
revolution that transformed
H American sports. He garnered
f) baseball Ts highest honors; Kookie
of the Year, Most Valuabie Player,
and election to the Hall of Fame
the first year he was eligible. Even
more significant, Robinson became
a symbol of racial integration and
a prominent leader in the civil
rights struggle of the 1950s and
1960s. His half-century among us
illuminates not only the contours
of an exceptional life but also the
broader African-American experi-
ence of these years.
Hospital's Privatization will limit health
care for Elderly, Young, and poor
by Cliff Hickman
I am not a medical provider or
employee of PCMH, but as a citi-
zen, taxpayer, and part owner of
PCMH, I am opposed to PCMH
changing from its present status
to a private non-profit institution
because of the following reasons:
1. I strongly believe that the
quality and cost of health care will
be adversely impacted and access
to adequate health care for the
elderly, young, and poor will be
very limited. These concerns of
mine are supported in a recent
study conducted by Drs. Steffie
Woolhandler and _ David
Himmelstein. The results of this
study will be published in the next
issue of the New England Journal
of Medicine. The results of this
study also indicate that when hos-
pitals change from public to pri-
vate, upper hospital management
are the ones who benefit ~most with
more than 25% of revenues being
budgeted in this area.
2.1 am also quite concerned with
unfair labor practices at PCMH.
While I was a member of the City
of Greenville Ts Human Relations
Council, we received a number of
complaints from PCMH Ts employ-
ees in this area.
Another reason of concern is the
re-organizing and downsizing that
has been going on at PCMH in
preparation for the move to
privatization. I am personally
aware of a recent situation where
an emergency meeting was held
with a certain department at
PCMH. At this meeting, a section
within this department was ad-
vised that as of 10-1-97, they no
Continued on page 2
National Infant Immunization Week Is April 20-26
People with questions about vac-
cinations can call the National
Immunization Information
Hotline, a new toll-free service
providing information about vac-
cine preventable diseases and im-
munizations to protect against
them. The hotline is operated by
the American Social Health Asso-
ciation under contract with the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention Ts National Immuniza-
tion Program.
Hotline counselors, who began
serving callers on March 17, are
preparing for increased calls dur-
ing National Infant Immunization
Week, April 20-26.
The hotline is expected to an-
swer 52,000 calls each year on its
English service (800/282-2522) and
5,200 calls annually on its Span-
ish service (800/232-0233).
Callers can receive information
about 12 vaccine-preventable dis-
eases: chicken pox (varicella), diph-
theria, haemophilusinfluenza type
B (Hib), hepatitis B, influenza,
measles, mumps, pneumococcal
disease, polio, rubella, tetanus and
whooping cough (pertussis).
The hotline gives information
on whoshould beimmunized, when
to be immunized and sites where
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vaccines are available. It also of-
fers free publications.
Hotline hours are 8 a.m. to 11
p.m. Eastern time, Monday
through Friday. Mary Stuart,
hotline director, said the service Ts
most vital role is encouraging par-
ents to have their children vacci-
nated on time. According to the
CDC, one-fourth of children in the
U.S. have not been fully immu-
nized against childhood diseases.
One of parents T most common
misconceptions is that vaccina-
tions are necessary only when a
child is old enough for school, ?
Stuart said. ~In fact, children need
80 percent of their vaccinations
before they are two years old. Most
child care providers and schools
will not accept children who have
not completed the necessary vac-
cinations.
oSome parents assume that
childhood vaccines are no longer
important because diseases such
as measles are not as common as
they once were, o Stuart contin-
ued, oHowever, immunizations are
responsible for the decline of these
diseases. When parents stop hav-
ing theirchildren immunized, new
outbreaks occur. ?
For example, she said, a major
/
cause of the measles epidemic of
1989-91 was failure to vaccinate
children against measles at 12 to
15 months of age. The epidemic
infected more than 55,000 Ameri-
cans, accounting for about 11,000
hospitalizations and 120 deaths.
The immunization hotline also
answers questions about recom-
mended vaccinations for adoles-
cents and adults.
The new hotline joins the Na-
tional AIDS Hotline (800/342-
2437) and National STD Hotline
(800/227-8922) as toll-free services
operated by ASHA under contract
with CDC.
These hotlines answer more
than 1.2 million calls each year.
Jackie Robinson, the grandson
of aslave and the son of sharecrop-
pers, was born in Georgia in the
heart of the segregated South.
When Jackie was an infant, his
father, Jerry Robinson, abandoned
the family. His mother, Mallie,
seeking a better life for Jackie and
his four older siblings, joined the
post World War I Great Migration
of African-Americans out of the
South. Most blacks traveled to the
Eastern metropolises or to Mid-
western manufacturing centers
like Chicago and Detroit. On the
advice of a brother, Mallie
Robinson headed West toCelifor
nia.
African-Americans were rela-
tively rare in California in the
1920s. Although Mexican-born
blacks had figured prominently in
the settlement of the region, by
the early twentieth century blacks
ac counted for only around one
percent of the state Ts population.
They confronted a pattern of dis-
crimination common to the Ameri-
can West Few hotels, restaurants,
or recreational facilities accepted
blacks, and restrictive covenants
and other less formal practices
barred them from living in most
neighborhoods. Job discrimination
impeded economic advancement.
ertime pay could be at risk
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have worked at least 1,000 hours in
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with the employer in a 12-month
perioc preceding the date the
employee agrees to receive como
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time would accrue at the rate of
one-and-one-half times the employ- |
ee Ts regular rate of pay for each
hour worked over 40 within a seven-
day period.
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at almost every turn from strang-
ers, neighbors, and police.
Thus Jackie Robinson grew up
in ary environment similar to that. =
of other children of the Great Mi
gration. Raised in a family with-
out a father and sustained by their
mother Ts income from domestic
work, the Robinson children lived
in poverty but were held together
by their mother Ts indomitable
spirit and strong Methodist mo-
~rality, As a teenager in Pasadena,
Jackie ran with local street gangs
and had inevitable confrontations
with the easily provoked local po-
lice, resulting in at least one ar-
rest.
However, if Southern California
offered a harsh existence, it also
held opportunities unavailable in
Continued on page 5
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oTHAT TS MY DAUGHTER ?... words from a proud Mom...
Sister Annie B. Watts praises the accomplishments of her
daughter, Ashley "a student at Bethel Elementary School.
who was the winner of a recent Spelling Bee. With the
continued support of mom and pop Ts (Mr, Charles Watts)
love and encouragement... we predict a successful future for.
our young sister "Ashley.
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irs. Beatrice
Mrs. Beatrice Maye
To the editor
Fifty years ago, April 15, 1947,
Jackie Robinson, the legend, hero,
Hall of Famer, and the Most Valu-
able Player of the National League,
broke barriers. Who will break
barriers of crime and violence to-
day? But it took courage and re-
straint for him to play for the Dodg-
ers in 1947 with people shouting
insults athim, some throwingeggs
and other things. Spectators even
threw a black cat unto the playing
field. He along with other Black
athletes suffered prejudice when
they traveled with their teams.
Black players could not eat at res-
taurants with White teammates
nor could they stay in the same
hotel as their white teammates.
Why not continue to honor his
life by living his words from his
book, I NEVER HAD IT MADE
when he wrote, oI always strove to
learn as much as I could so I would
not be just a figurehead ?. He con-
tinued his words, oA life is not
important except in the impact it
has on other lives ?.
Let us work to make Greenville/
Pitt County specifically, and the
world, a better, stronger, a more
equitable society/world by work- |
ing together and givingeveryonea
chance.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ts
lines from oThe Psalm of Life ?,
challenges all Americans, thusly:
oLives of great men all remind
us,
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing leave behind us,
Footprints on the sands of time ?.
Why have Bald Heads
become so Popular?
Bald is in!
It seems Black men in every
field - movies, sports, television
and music - are taking a bald step
forward and sporting the bald
head.
Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls
superstar is a trendsetter with his
clean cut, shaved head. Bald heads
have become popular in e T90s.
To name a few: Cuba Gooding,
Jr., movie star; R. Kelly, superstar
singer ( oI believe I can fly ?); Louis
Gossett, Jr., Oscar-winning actor;
TV Star Malik Yoba says women
find bald heads sexy.
Jim Brown, former football star
and actor says the bald look is
popular because it Ts oclean and
natural. ?
New TV star, James Black,
George Foreman, former heavy-
weight champion, Charles
Barkley, basketball great, Donell
Jones, new singer, notes that bald
is in because it Ts a sexy look.
James Black notes, oIt Ts a cool
look that has stood the test of time. ?
Question: Why do you have a
bald head?
From: JET Magazine, April 14,
1997
Some Truths:
1. oAre you an embarrassment
to your parents or an accepted
part of the human comedy? ? Henry
Louis Oates, Jr.
2. You must have long-ranged
goals to keep from being frustrated
by short-ranged failures.
3. It does not matter the hours
you putin, but home much you put
in the hours.
4. Man cannot discover new
oceans unless he has the courage
to lose sight of the shore.
5. Efficiency is doing things
right. Effectiveness is doing the
right thing.
6. When you can Tt have what
you want, it Ts time to start want-
ing what you have.
oU.S. News and World Report, ?
for February 21, 1997, printed for
its readers the following listing of
ten African-American works that
every educated person should read
as determined by a dozen Black
literature scholars for this maga-
zine.
oNarrative of the life of Frederick
Douglass, an American Slave,
Written by Himself, ? 1845.
oIncidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl, ? Harriet Jacobs, 1861.
oThe Souls of Black Folks, ?
W.E.B. Dubois, 1903.
oCane ? Jean Toomer, 1923.
oTheir eyes were watching God, ?
Zora Neale Hurston, 1937.
oNative Son, ? Richard Wright,
1940.
oInvisible Man, ? Ralph Ellison,
1952.
oSelected Poems, ?
Hughes, 1959.
oThe Fire Next Tim, ? James
Baldwin, 1963.
oBeloved, ? Toni Morrison, 1987.
Langston
Quotes worth remembering
1. Talk low, talk slow, and don Tt
say too much.
2. Comedy is simply a funny
way of being serious.
3. You can Tt expect to make a
place in the sun for yourself if you
keep taking refuge under the fam-
ily tree. Claude McDonald.
4. Becautious, Opportunity does
the knocking for temptation too.
5. Gossip needn Tt be false to be
evil - there Ts a lot of truth that
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rating of 98 percent on its survey in March and earned a designation
A Tribute
to Our Staft
A Trium
for Our Hospital
Congratulations to the employees, medical staff
Organizations (JCAHO).
hospitals in the country. The hospital received a
f oAccreditation with Commendation. ? Of the 5,200 hospitals across
members of our staff and demonstrates their commitment to providing
quality health care to residents of Pitt County and beyond.
We can say proudly that one of the best hospitals in the country is
right here in eastern North Carolina. We sincerely appreciate the
outstanding efforts of the employees, medical staff and all the others
who made it possible for our hospital to achieve this distinction.
Board of Trustees
umph
and others at Pitt County Memorial Hospital
whose extraordinary efforts have helped us achieve
special recognition in a recent survey by the Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
PCMH has been judged as one of the very best
the nation surveyed by JCAHO, only 10 percent receive this distinction.
This exceptionally high ranking underscores the dedication of all
Pitt County Memorial Hospital
of University Medical Center of Eastern Carolina
o60 TO THE HE. HEAD OF THE CLASS
shouldn Tt be passed around.
6. Question authority, but raise
your hand first.
7. We cannot.make people over.
Our business is to make ourselves
better and other happy, and that
is enough to keep us busy.
8. Don Tt keep saying, oI don Tt
know where the time goes. ? It goes
the same place it Ts always gone
and no one has ever known where
that is. Andy Rooney.
9. Keep the volume down on
everything. It Ts like salt. You can
get used to less of it.
10. You Tre almost always better
off keeping your mouth shut, but
don Tt let that stop you from pop-
ping off.
11. In a conversation, keep in
mind that you Tre more interested
in what you have to say than any-
one else.
12. There Ts seldom any good
reason for blowing the horn of your
car.
13. Be careful, but not too care-
ful.
14. At age 20, we worry about
what others think of us. At 40, we
don Tt care what they think of us.
At 60, we discover they haven Tt
been thinking about us at all.
15. The richest man in the world
is not the one whostill has the first
dollar he ever earned. It Ts the man
who still has his first friend.
16. The bitterest tears shed over
graves are for words left unsaid
and deeds left undone. Harriet
Beecher Stowe.
17. Don Tt follow others, let other
follow you.
18. Spite is never lonely; envy
always tags along.
19. The day is a shoe to be
walked in. Steve Onlon.
20. If you take something that
doesn Tt belong to you, you are steal-
ing.
21. If you cannot win, make the
onein front of you break the record.
22. There Ts a kind of victory in
good work, no matter how humble.
Rep. Jack Kemp.
Iam the resurrecton and the
life: he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall
he live:
Jesus
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longer had ajob with PCMH. This
announcement was a total shock
to the affected staff. And this
incident was an continues to be
very traumatizing to these staff.
The affected staff also asked about
other available employment with
PCMH and asked for information
on PCMH Ts reduction in force
policy. They were told by their
superiors that they needed to get
with the personnel department
with these concerns. I wonder
why there was not a representa-
tive from personnel at this meet-
ing to address staff questions/con-
cerns.
I have been in management for
more than 15 years, and this is no
way to notify valued staff espey-7
cially when the decision will have T ,..
such a long term impact on their °
livelihood. I also understand that.
these positions are being phased
out so that two upper |mapage
ment positions can be fe,
also understand that these T deci. o4
sions were made with
knowledge or approval of P g
CEO. This is very scary, andit.,.
seems like PCMH Ts top manage-
ment and hospital board is very
trusting of its lower level manag-
ers or very remiss in their duties.
It has been reported that PCMH
has spent more than $300,000.00
ofour money in advertisement try-
ing to convince the public that
privatization is the best way to go
and it Ts a shame that some of this
money could have been used to
establish job opportunities for
some of these staff.
3. I am also quite concerned
about African-American represen-
tation within the top management
group at PCMH. African-Ameri-
cans represent over 30% of Pitt
County Ts population but we only
represent some 7% of top adminis-
trative positions at PCMH. Ifthese
inequities exist under the public
status, I foresee it worsening un-
t the;
der privatization.
4. The privatization of PCMH
has been discussed for months in
privacy without a lot of public
knowledge or input. If
privatization is truly a win-win
situation for Pitt County, I cannot
understand why a quick decision
is needed without adequate public
disclosure so that the majority of
the citizens can gain a full under-
standing of the pros as well as the
cons of such an important decision
as this one. The necessary time
must be allotted for full disclosure
to the owners of PCMH (Citizens)
and allow for a more diverse input
from the owners. We have mostly
gard from the potential benefac-
ivatization.
o8. Lastly, it appears that PCMH
oig be een opérating like a private
cor ion for some time without
proper ooversight from its Board
~and our elected officials. PCMH
was paid for by the health care
pers and the citizens of Pitt
Bid n Xs We/the owners, are the
ootieg ould decide its future
and ? ypthy particular governing
yard who has so much trust and
confidence in PCHM Ts manage-
ment that allows for abuse of power
and allocation of resources.
This proposal should be placed
on the ballot for approval/disap-
proval by its owners just like the
school funding issues were decided.
I encourage all citizens regardless
of their status to contact our com-
missioners and just say no to
privatization for PCMH. You can
contact them at the followingnum-
bers:
Mark Owens, 749-4081; Edward
Bright, 524-5253; Farney Moore,
758-1047, Thomas Johnson, Jr.
752-1796; Kenneth Dews, Jr., 355-
2276; Eugene James, 752-6336;
Charles Gaskins, 758-3314; Jeff
Savage, 758-5770; Edith Warren,
753-4198.
From Page One - WAGES
notified its members of the bill in
scathing terms. oAlthough Repub-
lican leaders have publicly por-
trayed the measure as opro fam-
ily, ? the New York Times (March
20) noted that oanother political
bonus of the bill, at least for re-
venge- minded Republicans, was
the sharp opposition of the AFL-
CIO. ?
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islation. At press time, whether he
plans to veto the bill if passed into
law had not yet been released.
Shelby County Ts federal repre-
sentatives split on the bill. Demo-
crat Harold Ford, Jr. voted against
it. Republican Ed Bryant sup-
ported it. Ford wrote an amend-
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Fuhrman Puts On Halo But It Won Tt Fit Him
by James Alsbrook, Phd
If black people don Tt like M ark
Fuhrman, they certainly do not
understand him. Fuhrman him-
self emphasized this idea repeat-
edly on his book-selling tour and
wrote it clearly in his book.
He says he did not use the N
word in real life. But he did use it,
he says, only in a tape recorded,
imagined dialogue to help a fe-
male friend create an exciting po-
lice drama for a proposed movie
script..
While discussing her in his re-
cent book, oMurder in Brentwood, ?
Fuhrman calls her name and says
he had sex with her while they
dated for a short time. Now she is
married, with husband and two
children.
But if you like Johnny Cochran,
according to Fuhrman, you are
misled because oJohnny Cochran
was going to get his client off no
matter what it took, no matter
who he hurt or even ruined, ?
Furhman writes, Cochran owas
behind the entire use of race de-
fense and responsible for turning
the trial from an examination of O
J.Simpson Ts guilt or innocence into
acampaign of slander against me. ?
Fuhrman names several of his
black ofriends ? who he says would
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(,349) and runs scored(118).He
most other places. The absence of quitted him of all charges, butthe face of local political pressure, ooffensive to some white people. ?
tenements and the ance episode left its mark andintensi- never considered signing Rickey believed that Robinson Ts finished second in stolen bases
of single-family houses allowed fied his commitment to racialjus- Robinson. Shortly thereafter racial pride and combativeness, if and had the highest st
Mallie Robinson to buy ahome for _ tice. Rickey quizzed Smith about po- consciously curbed, would not of- percentage of any secon _ "
her family. Thelackofrestrictions UponhisreleasefromtheArmy, tential players forthe Brown Dodg- fend whites but rather rally them baseman. Anchored by his in- African-Amer:
on black participation in athletics Robinson faced a predicament fa- ers. Smith, who might have sus- to his cause. _ 8pirational play, Montreal won ir standar
opened to her sons an avenue of miliar to African-Americans. Al- pected Rickey Ts true in tentionns Other elements of Robinson's theleague pennant by nineteen- ught against
success. First Jackie Ts brother though at the peak of his athletic recommended Robinson. history and personality appealed and-a-halfgames.Theteamre- tion. Whites discovered in him
Mack starred in track and field at talent and good enough tostarin | Branch Rickey offered various to Rickey. Robinson boastedacol- turned to the South to defeat individual who won their admiration s
Pasadena Junior College andthe any major American team sport, reasons for his historic decision to lege education and had been an the Louisville Colonels in the not only as an athlete but as a man,
1936 Olympic games, where he he, like his brother Mack and desegregate baseball. Sometimes Army officer. He was in telligent, Little World Series, securing compelling them to reassess their
won a silver medal; then Jackie Kenny Washington before him, hespokeofhisneedtomake peace articulate, and comfortable inthe the championship of the minor views both of African-Americansand
himself won renown in four sports had few professional options. Nei- withthe memory ofablackcollege limelight. Unlike most Negro leagues. of American race relations.
at Pasadena Junior College andat ther organized baseball nor the playerhehadcoachedin1904who Leagueplayers,hehadhadexten- | Although Robinson Ts spec- Although few people realized it at
the University of Californiaat Los National Football Leaguenormost had wept when barred from stay- sive experience in high-level in- tacular season at Montreal dis- the time, Robinson had launched a
Angeles. major basketball teams accepted ing with his teammates at a Mid- _terracial competition. In addition, pelled doubts about his rightto revolution in American athletics.
Robinson Ts years at UCLA in-
troduced him to high-level inter-
racial competition. He was not the
first African-American athlete at
UCLA; he was preceded by the All-
black players. Robinson Ts best al-
ternative was to cast his lot with
baseball Ts Negro Leagues, and in
the spring of 1945 he signed with
the Kansas City Monarchs.
western hotel. At other times he
expressed moral and religious con-
cerns. Just as frequently he de-
nied any noble intentions and in-
voked his desire to field the best
he had the athletic skills Rickey
admired in aballplayer: speed (the
only crucial skill that Rickey be-
lieved could not be taught), dar-
ing, and a fierce competitive drive.
play in the major leagues,
Branch Rickey kept him on the
Royals T roster throughout
spring training in 1947. Rickey
embarked on several strata-
Only two other major-league teams
signed African-American players in
1947, and the pace of integration
seemed agonizingly slow. Yet within
a decade blacks from the United
American Kenny Washington " There can be little doubt that possible team. oThe Negroes will Before signing him, however, gemsthathe hoped wouldease States and Caribbean countries had
another extraordinary athlete, at their best the Negro Leagues makeuswinnersforyearstocome, ? Rickey elicited a promise from Robinson Ts way onto the Dodg- appeared on all but one team and
who starred in football, baseball, played first-class baseball, featur- he accurately predicted. He also Robinson. Regardless of the sav- ers. He avoided the pitfalls of emerged as the stars of the game.
and basketball " and the future ing some of the game Ts greatest surely recognized that by attract- age insults he might face from Floridasegregationbydispatch- This pattern proved even more pro-
movie actor Woody Strode.
Robinson Ts childhood friend Ray
Bartlett was a fourth black starter
on the 1939 UCLA football team.
While most black athletes of the
stars. In 1945 the Monarch Ts ros-
ter included two standout pitch-
ers, Satchel Paige and Hilton
Smith. On opposing teams were
the future baseball Hall-of-Famers
ing fans from New York City Ts
growing African-American popu-
lation and by fielding winning
teams he would boost Dodger at-
era played for Negro colleges, in
the Negro Leagues, or on clown
teams like the Harlem
Globetrotters, Robinson achieved
his initial stardom on integrated
playing fields.
In his senior year at UCLA
Robinson met his future wife,
Rachel Isum. She was three years
younger than Robinson and came
from a more secure black middle
class background. She was a third-
generation Californian, a rare sta-
tus among African-Americans, and
she had earned an academic schol-
arship to UCLA and maintained a
straight-A average. Her calm,
warm, thoughtful manner comple-
mented Robinson Ts fiery impetu-
ousness. They formed an endur-
ing bond of mutual love and sup-
port that girded them for the chal-
lenging years ahead.
Robinson and Isum found their
courtship interrupted by World
War II. Robinson Ts Army career
typified the African-American mili-
tary experience. Drafted in April
1942 and assigned to Fort Riley,
Kansas, he ran an endless gaunt-
let of racial discrimination. He was
barred from Officer Candidate
School, blocked from playing on
the camp baseball team, and re-
stricted to segregated facilities.
But he used both his aggressive-
ness and celebrity to demand bet-
ter treatment. He rose to the rank
of lieutenant and waged a cam-
paign to improve conditions for
black soldiers at Fort Riley. After
his transfer to Fort Hood, in Texas,
he refused to move to the back of a
military bus and defied the offic-
ers who tried to discipline him,
precipitating a court-martial that
might have led to dishonorable
discharge. A military tribunal ac-
ee FN Soe
promise
Leagues.
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Buck Leonard, Josh Gibson, Roy
Campanella, and Martin Dihigo.
For Robinson, however, the Negro
Leagues proved a distasteful ex-
perience. Accustomed to the highly
structured training of major col-
lege sports and hostile to any com-
with
Robinson considered the Negro
Leagues astep down rather thana
leg up. The long, hot bus rides
through the South, the degrading
treatment at gas stations andother
white-owned facilities, and the
players T informal approach to most
nonleague contests frustrated him.
An intensely private individual
who neither smoked nor drank nor
enjoyed what Paige called the oso-
cial ramble, ? Robinson never re-
ally fit in among the Monarchs.
Although he performed well with
Kansas City and gained invalu-
able training and exposure to top
flight baseball competition,
Robinson, unlike most of his team-
mates and rivals, always dispar-
aged his stint in the Negro
Unbeknownst to Robinson, his
performances with the Monarchs
had attracted intense scrutiny. The
Brooklyn Dodgers T president,
Branch Rickey, had secretly de-
cided to bring blacks into the ma-
jor leagues. With the pretext of
forming a new black squad, the
Brown Dodgers, he had assigned
his top scouts to evaluate
Negro League talent. From the
start Robinson had been high on
Rickey Ts list of prospects. In April
1945 the Pittsburgh Courier
sportswriter Wendell Smith ar-
ranged a tryout with the Boston
Red Sox for Robinson and two other
Negro League stars. The Red Sox,
who agreed to the audition in the
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tendance. In the end it was prob-
ably a combination of these fac-
tors "and a desire to make a mark
in history beyond the boundaries
of baseball "that motivated
Rickey.
What is often forgotten in light
of the success of the Rickey-
Robinson alliance is the extraordi-
nary risk Rickey assumed in sign-
ing Robinson. Although Rickey
correctly guessed that integration
would bring profits, most major-
league owners believed that lur-
ing more blacks to the ballpark
would, in the words of the New
York Yankees head Larry
MacPhail, result in lessening the
value of several major league fran-
chises. ?
Furthermore, although a sea-
soned athlete, Robinson had had
minimal baseball experience.
Other than his one season serious
competitive baseball since leaving
UCLA five years earlier. Few con-
sidered him the best player in the
Negro Leagues. Even more omi-
nous, Rickey, who had traveled to
California and done research on
Robinson Ts background, was well
aware of the athlete Ts tempestu-
ous nature and capacity for con-
troversy. oJackie had a genius for
getting into extra curricular
scrapes, ? remembered one Los
Angeles sportswriter. Robinson Ts
problems in the Army, also known
to Rickey, reinforced this image.
Rickey discounted many of these
reports, noting that most of
Robinson Ts difficulties arose from
asserting his nghts or responding
to discrimination. If Robinson had
been white, Rickey said, his ag-
gressiveness both on and off the
field would have been opraised to
the skies. ? This behavior in an
African-American, however, was
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opposing players and people in the
stands, when off the field he was
not to respond. He was to curb his
naturally combative instincts and
turn the other cheek. Robinson,
who understood and welcomed the
challenge confronting him, readily
agreed.
In February 1946 Robinson mar-
ried Rachel Isum in a Los Angeles
church. Shortly thereafter they de-
parted for spring training in
Florida. The South that the young
couple entered in 1946 was a land
of rigid segregation, lynchings, and
racial oppression; the dismantling
of Jim Crow seemed a distant
dream. Two years later President
Harry S. Truman would order the
desegregation of the armed forces.
Kight years would pass before the
U.S. Supreme Court issued its
landmark Brown v. Board of Edu-
cation decision. Seventeen-year-
old Martin Luther King, Jr., was
attending classes at Morehouse
College. Robinson thus became
what one writer has called oa one
man civil rights movement. ?
From the moment of their ar-
rival in Florida the Robinsons en-
countered Jim Crow. In Sanford
threats of violence forced the couple
out of town. In Jacksonville and
De Land public officials refused to
let Robinson play. On one occasion
a local sheriff marched onto the
field and demanded his ouster in
midgame. Yet Robinson, assigned
to the Montreal Royals, of the In-
ternational League "the Dodgers T
top farmclub "participated freely
in games at the Dodgers T base in
Daytona Beach, and both black
and white fans greeted his appear-
ances enthusiastically. Local busi-
ness leaders in many Florida com-
munities, aware of the profits and
publicity generated by baseball
training camps, courted the inte-
grated Dodgers for future seasons.
Although Rickey did not bring
Robinson and the Dodgers back to
Florida in 1947, the team had es-
tablished an important precedent.
Within three years cities through-
out Florida and the rest of the
South would clamor to host the
Jackie Robinson Dodgers.
Throughout the 1946 season
Robinson, in the words of the New
York Amsterdam News columnist
Joe Bostic, oascended the heights
of excellence to prove the right-
ness of the experiment. And prove
it in the only correct crucible for
such an experiment "the crucible
of white-hot competition. ? During
the Royals T opening game, in Jer-
sey City, New Jersey, Robinson
unveiled his ability to convert chal-
lenges into transcendent moments.
The Montreal second baseman
garnered four hits, including a
three-run home run; scored four
times; stole two bases; and twice
scored from third by inducing the
opposing pitcher to balk. This
extraordinary debut proved a pro-
logue to an equally remarkable
season. Despite a rash of
brushback pitches, spiking at-
tempts, vile harassment by oppos-
ing players, and threats of race
riots in the league Ts southernmost
city, Baltimore, Robinson led the
International League in batting
ing the Dodgers and the Royals
to Cuba and Panama, and he
transformed Robinson into a
first baseman, the Brooklyn
nounced in other team sports. By the
late 1960s African-Americans pre-
dominated in the National Football
League and National Basketball As-
sociation. The black influx into col-
club Ts greatest need. Rickey
believed that a demonstration
of Robinson Ts undeniable skills
would generate a ground swell
of support for his promotion
among the Dodgers T players.
Robinson responded with a
.429 spring batting tear, but
rather than demand his ascen-
sion, several Dodgers, led by
the Southerners Dixie Walker,
Kirby Higbe, and Bobby Bragan,
circulated a petition to keep him
off the team. Other key players,
however, notably the Kentucky-
born shortstop Pee Wee Reese,
rebellion. On April 10, five days
before the start of the season
and with no groundswell yet in
evidence, Rickey simply el-
evated Robinson to the parent
club as the Dodgers T first
baseman.
Around the National League,
Robinson Ts arrival produced un-
dercurrents of dismay. The
Philadelphia Phillies, under the
leadership of the manager Ben
Chapman, subjected him to a
stream of racist abuse. Oppos-
ing pitchers regularly targeted
him with brushback and bean
ball pitches, hitting him seven
times " a league record "in the
first half of the season. Hotels
in Philadelphia and St. Louis
barred him; one in Cincinnati
compelled him to take his meals
in his room, fearing his pres-
ence would offend other guests.
Against this backdrop of pres-
sure and challenge, Robinson
carved out not just an extraor-
dinary rookie season but a
monument to courage and equal
opportunity. After an early
slump, he removed any remain-
ing justifications for the exclu-
sion of blacks from baseball. He
batted above .300 for most of
the season, led the league in
stolen bases, and trailed just
one other player in runs scored.
He paced the Dodgers in home
runs and led them to the pen-
nant. Sporting News, which had
consistently opposed the inclu-
sion of blacks in organized base-
ball, named him Rooke of the
Year.
Yet Robinson Ts rookie-year
statistics and honors, impres-
sive as they are, fail to capture
his achievement. By introduc-
ing the more aggressive and
flamboyant base-running and
batting styles of the Negro
Leagues, he transformed major
league baseball. In the process
he changed the nation Ts outlook
as well.
Robinson began the 1947 sea-
son as a curiosity; he emerged
as a national phenomenon.
Wherever the Dodgers played,
fans turned out in record num-
bers to witness the spectacle of
integration. While he doubtless
benefited from the more liberal
racial attitudes that had
lege football and basketball forced
Southern Universities to abandon
policies barring competition against
integrated squads and ultimately to
recruit African-Americans them-
selves. Sports became the primary
symbol of social mobility in the black
community, eventually prompting
concern about an overemphasis on
athletics among young African-
Americans.
In the wake of his triumphant
rookie season, Robinson transcended
baseball and sports to become an
American icon. Numerous articles
refused to sign the protest,and showing Jackie and Rachel n
Rickey and the manager Leo living in integrated nei, rhoods
Durocher quickly quashed the and their children attending predomi-
nantly white schools portrayed the -
family as the vanguard of the new
racial enlightenment. As the nation Ts
foremost representative of interra-
cial improvement, Robinson found
himself embroiled in 1949 in a Cold
War confrontation with the singer
and actor Paul Robeson, whose pessi-
mistic assessment of American race
relations had led him to a flirtation
with Soviet communism.
Robinson Ts dynamic playing for the
Dodgers reinforced his charismatic
appeal. In 1949 he led the National
League in batting, won the Most Valu-
able Player Award, and began astring
of six consecutive All-Star Game ap-
pearances. With the addition of the
catcher Roy Campanella, the pitcher
Don Newcombe, and other former
Negro League stars, the Dodgers con-
tinued to showcase the benefits of
integration. Equally important was
the fact that Robinson, the African-
American firebrand, was clearly the
leader and dominant personality on
the National League Ts most-accom-
plished and celebrated squad.
Yet amid these growing achieve-
ments, Robinson Ts ogenius for getting
into extracurricular scrapes ? reas-
serted itself. In 1945 he had prom-
ised Branch Rickey that he would
ignore insults and assaults. By 1949
both men agreed that this chapter
had ended; Robinson nolonger needed
to restrain his instinctive responses
to opposing players or anyone else.
Thereafter Robinson seemed for-
ever surrounded by controversy. He
complained that some umpires had it
in for him and warred with the Gi-
ants T manager, Leo Durocher. He
objected to the Yankees T failure to
sign black players, protested the con-
tinuing discrimination faced by black
athletes during spring training, and
demanded that blacks be considered
as candidates for managers. His un-
repentant outspokenness and civil
rights militancy attracted criticism
and acclaim both inside and outside
baseball.
In January 1957, after ten tempes-
tuous seasons, Robinson retired. Itis
fitting testimony to his baseball prow-
ess that his career record alone, with-
out any consideration of his pioneer-
ing social role, merited his first-bal-
lot election to the Hall of Fame five
years later. His lifetime batting aver-
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Sacramento, California... In the fall semester 1996, bestowed upon Dr.
West Shields, Jr., three Doctorate Degrees, for the Dissertation: oThe
History of the Black Churches in the United States:
Dr. West Shields, local minister, has earned seven degrees in the past
25 years. These have included: 1 Bachelor, 1 Masters, 2 Honorary
Doctorates, and 3 Academic Doctorates.
One of the first Blacks to have been in business, 42 years, with the
exception of his mentor "Brother D. D. Garrett, who has 50+ years.
One of the first black ministers to teach Bible History ata Community
College, Extension Services.
The first Black resident Shelter Pastor of the Greenville Community
shelter.
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Former member and Board of Director of O.1.C. in Greenville.
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One of the first blacks to become an assistant manager of a major
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impairment/blind, learning disabilities, autism, traumatic brain injury, and
other impairments for children who require special education and related
Head Start is a comprehensive developmental program for children ages 3-
5 yeas old. This program is based on the premise that children share certain
needs and that children from low-income families, in particular, can benefit
from a program designed to meet those needs. Head Start operates nine (9)
months of the year, - September through May. The centers are open Monday
through Friday and the hours of operation are 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Head
Start has been operating in the Martin County area since 1965, currently
there are 192 children. Nine (9) classrooms are comprised 4-5 year old and
one (1) classroom consists of three year old must become three by October
16th; Beaufort County has been operating since 1977 and presently serving
99 children. Five (5) classrooms of 4-5 year olds are accommodated in this
Pitt County originated in 1985 and serving 222 children in twelve (12)
classrooms accommodating 4-5 year olds.
Funding for Martin County Community Action, Inc.
Project Head Start is received from the Administration for Children,
Youth and Families Unit, Department of Health and Human Services. In
order for children to qualify, they must meet the family income guidelines.
1996 FAMILY INCOME GUIDELINES FOR ALL STATES (EXCEPT
ALASKA AND HAWAII), THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND PUERTO
For Family Units with more than 8 members, add $2,560 for each additional
member. Please contact the Family Service Worker at the Head Start center
For more information or to enroll a child, please call Ms. Teresa Greene,
Social Services Coordinator or Ms. Gloristeen Matthewson, Disability
Services Coordinator at (919) 792-7141 or come by the Martin County
Community Action Head Start Administrative Office at 106 South Watts
Street in Williamston, North Carolina.
From Page Five - Jackie Robinson
age was .311, and his .410
on-base percentage puts him
among the top twenty-five players
of all time. In addition, the Dodg-
ers won pennants during six of
Robinson Ts ten years with the club
and finished second three times.
Moreover, he accomplished all that
he did after discrimination had
robbed him of at least five years of
prime productivity, for he was al-
ready twenty-eight years old when
he joined the Dodgers.
Unlike most athletes, Robinson
did not retreat from the public eye
after his retirement. He accepted
a job as vice president of Chock
Full O T Nuts, a chain of New York
City fast food restaurants thatem-
ployed many African-Americans.
He chaired the NAACP Freedom
Fund Drive and became one of the
organization Ts primary spokesper-
sons and fundraisers. He im-
mersed himself in the civil rights
movement as an ardent supporter
of Martin Luther King, Jr., raised
funds for the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC),
and marched in many of the major
demonstrations of the 1960s.
Yet he also became engulfed in
the shifting racial and generational
tides of that decade. Always defi-
antly independent, he forged his
own distinctive path in politics and
protest. In 1960 he endorsed Rich-
ard Nixon for President over John
F. Kennedy, the favorite of most
civil rights activists. Although the
majority of African-Americans
supported the Democrats,
Robinson allied himself with New
York Ts governor, Nelson
Rockefeller, and became the
nation Ts most prominent black Re-
publican. As white and black radi-
cals increasingly attacked the
American economic and political
system, Robinson reaffirmed his
faith in oblack capitalism ? as the
vehicle for African-American
progress, establishing the Free-
dom National Bank and investing
in other black owned enterprises.
In 1960 young SNCC activists
successfully approached Robinson
for assistance, seeing him as a
kindred spirit. By the late 1960s,
however, he had publicly feuded
with Malcolm X and other Black
Power advocates and split with
King over the latter's opposition to
the Vietnam War. Indeed
Robinson, who came to be regarded
by many militants asa pillar of the
mainstream establishment, was
even called an Uncle Tom. Ironi-
cally, these attacks coincided with
his resignation from the NAACP
because, he said, it was dominated
by a oclique of the Old Guard ? and
had failed to incorporate oyounger,
more progressive voices. o
Accustomed to contention,
Robinson confidently navigated
these controversies. Personal trag-
edy, however, took a far greater
ohealth impairment,
Income
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toll. Twenty-one-year-old Jackie
Robinson Jr., wounded in action in
Vietnam, had returned addicted
to heroin and turned to life of
crime. On June 4, 1968, police ar-
rested him for possession of drugs
and a firearm. Where Jackie Sr.
had been a herald of the onew
Negro ? of the civil rights move-
ment, his son became a harbinger
of the devastation that awaited
many African-American males in
the 1980s and 1990s.
After a stay at Daytop Village, a
drug rehabilitation center, Jackie
Jr. emerged cured of his addiction
and devoted to helping others af-
flicted by drugs. Fate allowed him
little time to savor his triumph. In
the early morning hours of June
17, 1971, the sports car he was
driving veered out of control and
crashed on the Merritt Parkway,
near the Robinson home in Con-
necticut. J ackie Robin son, Jr.,
was dead at twenty-four.
His son Ts ordeal and death trans-
formed Robinson. The tragedy had
been played out, as had so much
for the family, in public view. oI
guess I had more of an effect on
other people Ts kids than I had on
my own, ? he remarked, after Jackie
Jr.'s arrest, as unsparing in self-
criticism as in his attacks on oth-
ers.
Around this time Robinson Ts
physical condition declined pre-
cipitously. Plagued for several
years with diabetes, he found his
eyesight fading. He suffered a
heart attack, and poor circulation
made walking difficult. He was
told that one of his legs would have
to be amputated. After King Ts as-
sassination, in 1968, and the elec-
tion of Richard Nixon, with whom
he had long since parted company,
the troubles of Jackie Jr. led
Robinson "like many other Afri-
can-Americans "to re-evaluate his
faith in America Ts ability to over-
come its history of racism.
This reassessment culminated
in the publication, in 1972, of
Robinson Ts remarkable final tes-
tament, his bluntly titled autobi-
ography, I Never Had It Made.
Characteristically frank and out
spoken, he expressed pride in his
accomplishments but acknowl-
- edged his errors: his castigation of
Robeson, his endorsement of
Nixon, his split with King over
Vietnam, and other episodes. He
wrote honestly and movingly about
Jackie Jr. Having for a quarter of
a century symbolized the possibil-
ity of integration in America, he
now sounded a profoundly pessi-
mistic note. oThere was a time I
believed deeply in America. I have
become bitterly disillusioned, he
wrote. oPersonally, I have been
very fortunate [but] I cannot say I
have it made while our country . .
. speeds along a course toward
more and more racism. ?
Yet the image of Robinson in his
final years as broken and dispir-
ited belies the reality of his in-
domitable personality. The publi-
cation of Roger Kahn Ts book about
the Brooklyn Dodgers, The Boys of
Summer, in 1971, awakened anew
generation to the power and the
glory of the Robinson saga. Those
who saw and spoke to Robinson in
1972 describe him as ebullient
despite his personal grief and
physical difficulties. Ina final tele-
phone conversation Kahn found
him oas enthusiastic as a twenty-
year-old ? while discussing his lat-
est business venture. When, dur-
ing the 1972 World Series, Major
League Baseball celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary of
Robinson Ts debut, he joked with
his former teammates about his
impending amputation, needling
Pee Wee Reese by saying that he
would return to best him on the
golfcourse. Then, before a national
television audience, Robinson of-
fered America one final, enduring
memory. After accepting the acco-
lades of the dignitaries, he chal-
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lenged organized baseball to fulfill
his legacy by hiring black manag-
ers.
Nine days later, on October 24,
1972, Robinson died of a heart,
attack. He was only fifty-three T
years old. To deliver the eulogy
Rachel Robinson, who had shared
her husband Ts triumphs and heart
breaks, chose not someone from
Robinson Ts baseball past nor one
of his long-standing allies from
earlier civil rights struggles but
the thirty-one-year-old Rev. Jesse
Jackson, an African-American
leader who embodied the hopes of
the future rather than the disap-
pointments of the past.
Jackson, like Rachel Robinson,
understood Robinson Ts final testa-
ment. Robinson, preached Jack-
son, had ocreated ripples of possi-
bility, ? oturned stumbling block
into stepping stone, ? and be-
queathed the ogift of new expecta-
tions. ?
In his autobiography Robinson
vented his disappointment with
the state of race relations in the
1970s, but he also reaffirmed the
message that has made him an
enduring figure: that individuals
of courage and commitment can
confront bigotry and create change.
He tempered his disillusionment
with an uplifting epitaph: oA life is
not important except in the im-
pact it has on other lives. ? By that
measure, a quarter-century after
his death and half a century after
his historic feat, the import of
Jackie Robinson Ts life continues to
resound.
Jules Tygiel is a professor of his-
tory at San Francisco State Uni-
versity. He is the author of
Baseball Ts Great Experiment:
Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
(to be reissued this year by Oxford
University Press) and The Jackie
Robinson Reader (Dutton / Signet,
1997), for which this article is the
introduction.
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Obsessions
~Larry Bottone, a coavii, teacher, and pri-
vate tutor of kids for almost 20 years in
Norwalk, Connecticut, pleaded guilty to a
charge of child pornography based on a
videotape of himself with a teenage boy.
According to police, other videos showed
Bottone whipping nude boys, sticking
objects under their fingernails, and rubbing
their bodies with hot olive oil. Bottone said
that he was conducting serious research on
how much punishment one child could
endure when requested to do so by an
authority figure.
Hey man, not me!
In Wausau, Wisconsin, Kurt Iron, 28,
was arrested and charged with vehicular
homicide. Reportedly, Iron was drinking
heavily and crashed into another truck,
killing a 37-year-old woman. According to
the Marathon County Sheriff Ts report, Iron
was surprised that he was arrested, saying,
oDudes, it Ts just a girl, man, nothing but a
girl. ?
Not my fault
Credit union manager Cathleen Byers,
charged with 83 counts of embezzling a
total of $630,000, told a Eygene, Oregon,
jury that her hands may have taken the
money but that her oheart, mind and spirit ?
were innocent because another personality
within her did it. According to the prosecu-
tor, only a handful of multiple-personality
cases has ever been diagnosed in Europe,
as Opposed to otens of thousands ? in the
United States. ?
Not very dignified
Police in Dahlonega, Georgia, said
ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20, was
stabbed to death by fellow cadet Jeffrey
Hoffman, 23, he was trying to prove that a
knife could not penetrate the flak vest
Berrena was wearing.
Sore head
In Burney, California, Jeremy Dean and
his parents, filed a lawsuit against Shasta
County for at least $700,000 for Dean Ts
total disability that resulted from a car
crash. Dean and some friends had been out
drinking. He was in the back seat of a car
and had stuck his head out the window to
vomit just as the driver veered off the road,
ramming Dean Ts head into the tree. The
lawsuit claims that it was the county Ts fault
that the tree was so close to the road.
Loves his name
In Fremont, California, Jason
Christopher Zepeda, 19, i a holding tank
following his arrest for graffiti vandalism,
was booked on new charges when sheriff Ts
deputies noticed that he was wnting his
name all over the cell.
Bad eating habit
A mother in London, England said treat-
ment at a children Ts hospital had finally
cured her seven-year-old son of her three-
year habit of eating nothing but jam sand-
wiches (strawberry or raspberry on white
bread). His fear of other foods was such
that he would tremble, sweat, and become
nauseated at the mere sight.
Underwear fetish
Carlton Bradley, 56, was indicted in
Pittsburgh and New York for stealing
Underwear from a woman. Stealing one
item at a time over a three-year period, he
amassed 42 bras, 41 pairs of underpants,
and 14 negligees.
Bad TV shows
The New York Times reported on a recent
spate of what it called really bad Japanese
television shows, among them one in
which bikini-clad young women attempted
to crush aluminum cans by squeezing them
between their breasts, and another in which
a young child was brought on-stage and
told that his mother had just been shot to
death - the producers wanted to see how
many seconds would elapse before he start-
ed crying. Said a leading TV critics: oThe
more nonsensical the programs are, the
more interesting | find them. ?
Tough luck
In New York, a 14-year-old would-be
thief thought he was escaping a raving 60-
year-old woman whose purse he had just
snatched, when he ran attempted to beat
traffic across a busy intersection. He didn Tt
make it. He was struck by a speeding cab,
and was thrown nearly 60 feet. Police said
the youth suffered several broken bones
and bruises, but survived. Now he Ts going
to stand trial for theft and possibly face a
two-year jail term.
Non-driver
yIn Hollywood, Florida, a 78-year-old
woman drove her car accidently off a rais-
ing bridge. Fortunately she was rescued.
Police said the woman who stands five-feet
even and drives a 1978 Cadillac, was sitting
(60 low in her car seat to see the flashing
lights warning drivers that the bridge is lift-
ing. She apparently drove through the warn-
ing signal and reached the bridged as the
Opposite side had lifted just enough for her
Car to crash down into the Intracoastal
Waterway, oHell, | doubt if the poor woman
Could even see over her steering wheel, ?
Qne officer reported. oIt Ts common trait
among the elderly here. They drive cars big-
ger than they are and get into accidents. ?
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Mobutu fires new PM
In an attempt to
reassert his control over!
his crumbling country, 3
President Mobutu Sese o
Seko fires hisnew. #2
prime minister after sol-. *
diers seized him during *
a protest march. Mobutu immediately named
an army general to replace him.
Defense Ministry spokesman Leon Kalina 3
said the charges were ordered because of othe .
gravity of the situation. ? Soldiers fired tear
gas to break up a march by thousands of
Prime Minister Itienne Tshisekedi Ts supporters:
and there were reports that rebels had entered-:
and possibly captured Zaire Ts second-largest
city. Meanwhile, the White House increased
pressure on Mobutu to leave office.
o oMobutuism is about to Tbecome a creature of -
history, ? White House spokesman Mike
McClurry said this week.
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Rebel leader gets powers
Jonas Savimbi, the
former rebel leader who;
agreed to share power °.
with the Angolan gov- :
ernment, was given ae
cial powers this week
by Parliament. He will also be provided with °
bodyguards, all paid for by the state. ~
Lawmakers hope the moves, which also +}
include and undisclosed salary for Savimbi, ~
will pave the way for a functioning coalition ;*
government that formally ends two decades of, +
civil war. The joint government of officials ~a
from the current administration and Savimbi T si!
UNITA would not join the government unless +4
Parliament approved a special role for him as
opposition leader. Parliament agreed - 120
votes in favor, none against and six absten-
tions - to give Savimbi the status oleader of
the largest opposition party. ?
SOMALIA
Opposition to meet
President Hussein Mohamed Aidid Ts opposi-
tion factions have agreed to get together in
June to plan a coalition government for
Somalia.
Ending a five-day congress this week, alii
man Adan Abdullahi Gabyow said there Gi
would be another meeting in the capital city
of Mogadishu this weekend to put finishing
touches on a national conference scheduled
for June 10 in Basasso, a north-eastern port,
town on the Horn of Africa. Participants in the
congress, some of whom came from Canada
and the United States, drew up a-proposal for -,
a national parliament of 151 seats. They didn Tt
decide, however, whether constituencies
would be drawn up along regional or clan
lines.
RWANDA
Aid groups rap genocide trials *
An international aid °
. organization this week «
criticized Rwanda Ts
genocide trials, saying
the judges and prosecu-7
tors are ill-trained and
defense lawyers overburdened.
oThe fact that trials are being held at all rep
resents a significant step towards restoring
justice in Rwanda, but the serious flaws put at
risk the lives of those charged and the
attempts at rebuilding the Rwandan justice
system. ? Amnesty International said. In addi- '
tion, they add, the judges ignore defendants T
claims that confessions were tortured out of
them and suspects have little or no opportuni-
ty to prepare their defense - overall, a situa-
tion that makes fair trials impossible. Rwanda
has about 100,000 people in crowded prisons
awaiting trial in the 1994 government-spon-
sored slaughter of a half-million Tutsis. Since
the trial started Dec. 27, courts have sentenced
at least 13 people to death.
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~Magic T is-Still Not AIDS Free, Doctors Warn
Magic Johnson says his
faith in God and the prayers
of friends and family have
helped his body push back
the AIDS virus to undetect
able levels.
oIf it wasn Tt for the Lord Ts
blessing, I wouldn Tt be as
healthy as I am now, ?
Johnson told KCBS-TV Ts Jim
Hill in an interview broad-
cast Friday.
Earlier in the day, his doc-
tors credited powerful drugs
with reducing the virus in
the former Los Angeles Lak-
ers star Ts body "but they
added that he is not cured.
oKarvin is doing very well, ?
Dr. David Ho and Dr.
Michael Mellman, physi-
|
cians for Johnson, said in a joint
statement.
oHowever, we must emphasize
that ~undetectable T doesn Tt equal
~absent. ~ It would be premature
and incorrect to say Earvin is ~vi-
rus free. T We are very pleased he
has adhered to his daily drug regi-
men, and that is reflected in his
good health. ?
oHis viral activity is infinitesi-
mal, ? Johnson agent Lon Rosen
said. But he acknowledged that
did not mean the virus was gone.
Johngon Ts comments were in re-
sponse to his wife Ts comments to
an Ebony magazine article that
she believes low viral activity in
Johnson Ts bloodstream means he
has been healed by God.
oThis is the First time we ~ve
ever said anything about the viral
activity within my own system, ?
he said.
o... So when she came out and
said, because there Ts no viral ac-
tivity within my body, she feels,
and we both believe, that we've
been healed, by our faith in God
and by his blessing, ? Johnson said
during a break in a practice with
his touring basketball team.
Johnson, who played for the
Lakers from 1979 to 1992, dis-
closed in November 1991 that he
was HIV positive. He coached the
team for the final 16 games of the
1993-94 season and came out of
retirement to play the second half
of last season before retiring for
good. He now owns a small portion
of we Lakers,
At 37, Johnson maintains
a strenuous exercise pro-
gram and plays basketball
with the Magic Johnson All-
Stars, a touring team that
competes in exhibition
games, mostly in Europe.
Johnson was not taking
calls about his condition,
Rosen said.
Just as Johnson Ts an-
nouncement that he was
HIV-positive catapulted the
issue of AIDS into main-
stream social discussions,
activists hope that his
progress encourages people
to get tested and take ad-
vantage of improved treat-
Continued on page 8
\
Rebel leader says war is over
Sudan Ts leading rebel
leader, John Garang,
stood outside in the
failing light and pointed
at a map of southern
Sudan hanging beside
him. He smiled broadly.
oI can, for all practical purposes, declare the
war in the south is over, ? Garang said this
week. But Garang has been in this position
before and let success slip through his grasp.
In an earlier attempt to win autonomy from the
Islamic government in Khartoum, he nearly
succeeded in taking Juba, the regional capital
in 1992. But he lost ground because of poor
planning and divisions in the rebel leadership,
The southerners are largely African, Christians
or animists. They resent their Arab rulers and *
the increasing Islamization of Sudan since it
won independence from joint British and
Egyptian rule in 1956. This time, the rebels
have tanks - some of them captured from the ;
Sudanese army - and surface-to-air missiles.
As Garang spoke, soldiers of his Sudan
People Ts Liberation Army + most of them
teenagers - milled about, wearing new looking
uniforms and carrying AK-47 rifles. Garang
won't say how he pays for these things, The
government accuses Sudan Ts neighbors -
Eritrea, Kenya and Uganda - of supporting the
rebels, But they and Garang deny it. Since the
rebellion first began in 1983, an estimated 1,3; °
million people have died in fighting.
or
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pach or auction April 22 to
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sion of Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
A date with some of the community's
most eligible single men will be available
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: by Larry Aubry
: The perception many Americans have
ef the nation Ts health care system has
been heavily influenced over the last forty
years by popular television programs de-
picting overworked, compassionate phy-
bicians applying heroic measures to save
the lives of their patients. However, the
truer picture of how health care is admin-
istered would include far more nurses T
assistants and home care aides changing
the bedpans of home-bound cancer pa-
tients.
Changes in how and where health care
is provided has had a significant impact
on the type of jobs being created by the
health care industry. The Joint Center for
Political and Economic Studies held a
forum late last year which focused on job
creation within health-care industries. It
emphasized the health care in dustry as a
major generator of new jobs.
The growth in health care jobs is espe-
cially meaningful for African Americans,
New Health Jobs Pay Mostly
since the proportion of black workers in
health care is much higher than in the
overall workforce . However, and this is
critical, we must recognize that many of
the new positions generated by the health
care industry will be at the lower end of
the wage scale.
The healthcare industry employs
roughly one of every eleven workers in the
country, more people than the construc-
tion industry, the auto industry, the steel
industry or the transportation sector. With
the disappearance of manufacturing from
most urban communities, health care has
become a major source of entry-level em-
ployment for workers without college de-
grees. For example, the health sciences
field accounts for 9.9 percent of total em-
ployment in St. Louis, 9.1 percent in De-
troit, and 7.1 percent in Los Angeles. In
Brooklyn, New York, the two largest em-
ployers are Kings County Hospital, witha
workforce of 6,800 and Brookdale Hospi-
tal, with 4,500.
nesses are supplying the couples with
odream date ? packages.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects
that the total number of health jobs will
continue to increase . This means new
employment opportunities in a broad
range of occupations, from high-skilled,
high wage professionals, to low-skilled,
low-wage jobs. Most of these jobs will
occur among the lower-wage categories.
Currently, the Service Employees Union
reports that the average health-care
worker earns about $22,000 a year, and
many are under stressful and hazardous
conditions.
Apart from the division of labor, an-
other change has been in the types of
institutions that provide care. Twenty
years ago, two-thirds of all health care
jobs were in hospitals. Today, just under
half are located in hospitals, and by the
year 2005 hospital jobs are expected to
drop to little over one-third. Care today is
provided at an array of sites, including
nursing homes, community-based clinics,
group homes, and home-care agencies.
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oThe home buyer desires and deserves
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Atlanta.
oWachovia Ts Decision Now loan approval
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From Page Six - Magic Johnson
Ebony magazine in an interview published this
month. Doctors othink it Ts the medicine. We claim it
in the name of Jesus, ? Cookie Johnson said.
oT honestly feel that the Lord is going to heal him
and that we are going to live together forever and
have more children and be happy. ?
ments.
Thousands of HIV patients also
have seen their infections recede
to undetectable levels after taking
drugs called protease inhibitors,
approved last year by the Food
and Drug Administration.
oI speak on behalf of David Ho
when I say one of the drugs in the
combination (used by Johnson) is
a protease inhibitor. I cannot say
anything beyond that, ? Ho Ts
brother and spokesman, Sidney
Ho, confirmed Friday.
oMy concern is that people are
going to think that Magic Johnson
is the only person this is happen-
ing to... that he Ts cured .. . that
there ~s acure for AIDS, therefore,
I don Tt have to worry about being
infected, ? Lee Klosinski, director
of educa tion at AIDS Project Los
Angeles, said.
A patient with undetectable vi-
rus levels can still infect others
and even if the virus is undetected
in blood or semen, it can be present
in other areas such as the intes-
tines.
oI hope people get the message
about how important treatment
is, Klosinski said. Protease in-
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patients. The drugs are taken with
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strict schedule. The regimen some-
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' Nearly 90 percent of the people
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oI commend Mr. Bryant for his
unselfish support and tremendous
dedication which spans three de-
cades, ? said Correction Secretary
Mack Jarvis at a Wednesday lun-
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Bryant, who teaches Sunday
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Caledonia Correctional Institution
in Tillery. also volunteers at Odom
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son. When an inmate raises a per-
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If you miss the warning signs of
abrain attack, you may be putting
your senses, speech and memory
in danger in a matter of minutes.
Brain attacks, commonly known
4 as strokes, affect different people
@ in different ways. When a brain
@ attack occurs, severe injuries in
7 mental andbodily functions "even
| death "can result. Knowing the
7) warning signs of stroke and seek-
@ ingimmediate medical treatment
+ if you notice any signals are criti-
@ cal in avoiding the No. 3 killer in
@ the United States, according to
+ the American Heart Association.
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~larly during Stroke Awareness
+ Month in May, to reduce the inci-
brings the conversation back to
the scripture lesson.
Bryant, from Roanoke Rapids,
is a mentor for several rookie vol-
unteers. His presence takes the
edge off their initial concerns about
being in a prison. oBryant Ts guid-
ance and assistance with new vol-
unteers is like sowing seeds that
will bear fruit for many years to
come, ? said Henry G-regory, a
chaplain at Caledonia. Bryant
was one of eighteen volunteers
nominated for Volunteer of the
Year in the Division of Prisons.
Others recognized during the lun-
cheon T included: Harvey
Duningham Barron, Foothills Cor-
rectional Institution; Virginia
Wright Buchanan, Black Moun-
tain Correctional Center for
Women; Karen Campbell, NC Cor-
rectional Institution for Women;
dence of brain attack. The theme
for this special month is oStroke Is
a Brain Attack. Know the Warn-
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AHA volunteers nationwide are
pooling their efforts ~o conduct
awareness campaigns about brain
attack "the leading cause of seri-
ous disability in the United States.
Stroke Awareness Month is de-
signed to alert the public about
stroke Ts warning signs, how it
might be prevented and resources
available through the American
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tics.
A brain attack occurs when the
blood supply to the brain is cut off.
Both brain attack and heart at-
tack are diseases of the circulatory
system caused by rupturing or
blocking of arteries. Duringa brain
attack, the brain is starved for
oxygen and brain cells begin to die
within minutes. That is why im-
mediate medical attention is cru-
cial.
oMuch of the general public is
unfamiliar with the warning signs
of a stroke, ? said I)r. James R,
Harper, Jr. MD, president of the
American Heart Association North
Carolina Affiliate, oStroke must
be treated with the same sense of
urgency asa heart attack. In order
to receive immediate treatment,
people must be able to recognize
the warning signs of stroke. ?
The warning signs associated
with stroke are:
¢ Sudden weakness or numb-
ness of the face, arm or leg on one
side of the body.
¢ Sudden dimness of loss of vi-
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sion, particularly ill one eye.
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If you experience one or more of
the warning signs of brain attack,
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Karly intervention can minimize
brain injury, and preventive care
may reduce the risk of stroke, ac-
cording to the American Heart
Association.
oAbout 10 percent of brain at-
tacks are preceded by ~temporary
strokes T, ? said Dr. Harper, oThese
can occur days, weeks or even
months before a major stroke. ?
Temporary strokes, also known
as transient ischemic attacks or
TIAs, result when a blood clot tem-
porarily clogs an artery and part of
the brain doesn Tt get the supply of
blood it needs.
oThe symptoms are like those of
a full-fledged brain attack. They
occur rapidly and last a relatively
short time, usually from afew min-
utes to several hours, ? Dr. Harper
said.
High blood pressure is one of the
risk factors of stroke. The higher
your blood pressure. the greater
your risk of stroke. Some groups
are more prone to developing high
blood pressure than others. In this
country, African-Americans, Mexi-
can-Americans, Cuban-Ameri-
cans, Puerto Ricans, and Asian-
Americans often have higher blood
pressure than other groups. Com-
pared to whites, young African-
Americans have a two-to-three-
fold greater risk of cerebral infarc-
tion, and African American men
and women are 2.5 times more
likely to die of stroke.
Millions of people arechallenged
by the devastating aftermath of
stroke. Until recently, no formal,
national network linking members
of the stroke community existed to
aid in their emotional and physi-
cal recovery. The American Heart
Association Ts Stroke Connection is
a grass roots network of alliances,
coalitions, outreach programs and
more than 1,000 stroke support
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quality of life for survivors and
caregivers. If you or someone you
know has had a stroke, you can
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chair and a picnic basket to this
unique event, which is sponsored
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©1907 CITY OF GREENVILLE, NC
By
Staff Writer
é: Freedom from "slavery." To be
. counted as first class not second
class citizens. To be counted as
citizen's period. Equal represen-
tation in goyernment and foreign
policy. Fair and equal distribution
of wealth. Acknowledgment of
~ contributions and achievements.
o Fair and equal opportunities to
, pursue the American dream - not a
hand out but a hand. A chance to
, speak for ourselves instead of
.. allowing others to speak for us. A
~ chance to be heard...
Are these the goals of Black
oAmericans in 1827 or 4997.
~ Sometimes, given the slant of
mainstream media and mainstream
_ American, it can be difficult to tell.
_ Leveling the playing field and
championing the cause however, is
the collective voice of the Black
Press of Amerita. This year
commemorates the 170 anniversary
of the Black Press of America with
Freedom's Journal, published by
Samuel Cornish and John B.
Russwurm, was the first African-
American owned and edited
newspaper to be published in the
United States. This editorial,
printed here in its entirety, illustrate
the Journal's aim at bringing an end
to slavery and discrimination.
To Our Patrons
In presenting our first number to
our Patrons, we feel all the
difference of persons entering upon
a new and untried line of business.
But a moment's reflection upon the
noble objects, which we have in
view by the publication of this
Journal; the expediency of its
appearance at this time, when so
many schemes are in action
concerning our people -- encourages
us to come boldly before an
enlightened public. For we believe,
that a paper devoted to the
dissemination of useful knowledge
among our brethren, and to their
moral and religious improvement,
must meet with the cordial
approbation of every friend to
humanity.
The peculiarities of this Journal,
renders it important that we should
advertise to the world our motives
by which we are actuated, and the
objects which we contemplate.
We wish to plead our own cause.
Too long have others spoken for
us. Too long has the public been
deceived by misrepresentations, in
things which concern us dearly,
though in the estimation of some
mere trifles; for though there are
many in society who exercise
towards us benevolent feelings; still
(with sorrow we confess it) there
are others who make it their
business to enlarge upon the least
trifle, which tends to the discredit of
any person of colour; and
pronounced anathemas and denounce
our whole body for the misconduct
of this guilty one. We are aware
that there are many instances of
vice among us, but we avow that it
is because no one has taught its
subjects to be virtuous; many
instances of poverty, because no
sufficient efforts accommodated to
minds contracted by slavery, and
deprived of early education have
been made, to teach them how to,
husband have been made, to teach
them how to husband their hard
earnings, and to secure to
themselves comfort.
Education being an object of the
highest importance to the welfare of
society, we shall endeavor to
present just and adequate views of
it, and to urge upon our brethren
the necessity and expediency of
training their children, while
young, to habits of industry, and
thus forming them for becoming
useful members of society. It is
surely time that we should awake
from this lethargy of years, and
make a concentrated effort for the
education of our youth. We form a
spoke in the human wheel, and it is
necessary that we should understand
our pendency on the different parts,
and theirs on us, in order to perform
our part with propriety.
xy Rerch 7 1997
Black Press, peakie up for the people
the observance of Black Press
Week, which took place March 19 -
22nd.
The Freedom's Journal, the
pioneer of this distinguished tradi-
tion of protest and empowerment
was launched on March 30, 1827.
by John Russwurm and Rev.
Samuel Cornish. Its aim was to
put the plight bf Black Americans
before the public. Circulated on the
streets of New York City, the paper
called for freedom and equal rights
for Black Americans and demanded
an end to slavery and injustice.. It
emphasized education, self-im-
provement and industry. The first
front page editorial read, ~We wish
to plead our own cause. Too long
have others spoken for us."
The editors of the paper, John
Russwurm and Samuel Cornish
were both young educated black
men born to free parents.
Russwurm, who served as editor
from 1827-1829 was born in
Jamaica, West Indies and was the
~first black person to graduate from
Bowdoin college in Maine. Samuel
Cornish born in Delaware in 1795,
established the first black
Presbyterian church in New York
City before starting the Freedom's
Journal with Russwurm.
Following the success of the
Freedom's Journal, hundreds of
other black newspaper began to
spring up all over the country.
Including, the Christian Recorder,
in Philadelphia, PA, in 1852
(which is still in print today).
These newspapers, addressing some
of the same issues that we face
today as a people, became not only
a viable source of protest but also
commerce. Known - as the first
means of black enterprise in
America, these papers created an
economic base that wielded power
all the way to the White House.
During the 1940's over a century
after the first black newspaper was
started, black newspaper publishers.
recognizing the power in unity,
came together as a conglomerate,
forming the National Newspaper
Publishers Association (NNPA). oA
meeting of eleven publishers of the
most prominent black newspapers
of the day, headed by Robert Abbott
Sengstake (publisher of the
Chicago Defender, the most widely
circulated black weekly), came to
order. The group committed to the
traditions began by publishers a
century before, called for an end to
segregation in the military. The
group (NNPA) took their cause to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
and eight years after that initial
meeting, President Harry Truman
formed a comynittee on which
Robert Sengstake served, that drew
up guidelines that eventually led to
an end of written segregation in the
military.
- Today, the black press contihues
to carry on the traditions started by.
black publishers over a century ago;
reporting from a cultural
perspective and providing a voice
,
that presents both sides of the
issues. This year the annual
meeting between the NNPA and
President Bill Clinton met on
behalf of the National Coalition for
Fairness to Nigeria to address the
issue of foreign policy and
economic sanctions imposed upon
Nigeria.
Recent statistics from the NNPA
report that afro centric newspapers
are read by 10 million people of
color annually. However, the
challenges facing these papers are
surviving the onset of attacks by
white owned publications that are
"skillfully" competing and eating
up market shares that rightfully
belong to the black press. In some
cases for instance, magazines like
"Heart and Soul", Vibe and Legacy,
(publications that are white owned)
are marketing to the black
consumer under the illusion of
being a black publication. ~So
reader be ware."
Unlike mainstream media, the
Freedom Ts Journal 1827
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During the long and bitter period of
slavery, many free Negroes turned to their
own churches and publications to
provide them with a sense of community
and a measure of hope. Black-owned
newspapers and magazines like the one
above were filled with news about slave
conditions and the fight for abolition.
Many of the active leaders in the struggle
against slavery came from the ranks of
Negro clergymen. Free blacks, who were
often required to sit in segregated pews in
white churches, had long since organized
their own congregations " like the
African Methodist Episcopal Church of
Cincinnati, at left. Such churches,
said a Negro leader, offered each member
the oopportunity to be himself, to |
think his own thoughts . . .
in the exercise of the faculties of
his own soul, trust and achieve. ? T
and thus,
We wish to plead our cause. Too long, have
others spoken for us. "Samuel Cornish and
John Russworm, Founders,
Freedom Journal
Though not desiring of dictating,
we shall feel it our incumbent duty
to dwell occasionally upon the
general principles and ruled of
economy. The world has grown too
enlightened, to estimate any man's
character by his _ personal
appearance. Though all men
acknowledge the excellency of
Franklin's maxims, yet
comparatively few practice upon
them. We may deplore when it is
too late, the neglect of these self-
evident truths, but it avails little to
mourn. Ours will be the task of
admonishing our brethren on these
points.
The civil rights of a people
being of the greatest value, it shall
ever be our duty to vindicate our
brethren, when oppressed; and to
lay the case before the public. We
shall also urge upon our brethren,
(who are qualified by the laws of
the different states) the expediency
of using their elective franchise; and
of making an independent use of the
same, We wish them not to become
the tools of party.
And as much time is frequently
"#f
lost, and wrong principles instilled,
by the perusal of works of trivial
importance, we shall consider it a
part of our duty to recommend to
our young readers, such authors as
will not only enlarge their stock of
useful knowledge, but such as will
also serve to stimulate them to
higher attainments in science,
We trust also, that through the
columns of the Freedom's Journal,
many practical pieces, having for
their bases, the improvement of our
brethren, will be presented to them,
from the pens of many of our
respected friends, who have kindly
promised their assistance.
_ It is our earnest wish to make
our Journal a medium of
intercourse between our brethren in
the different states of this great
confederacy; that through its
columns an expression of our
sentiments, On many interesting
subjects which concerns us, may be
offered to the public; that plans
which apparently are beneficial may
be candidly discussed and properly
weighed; if worth, receive our
cordial approbation; if not, our
marked disapprobation.
Useful knowledge of every ied
and everything that relates to
Africa, shall find a ready admission
into our columns; and as that vast
continent becomes daily more
known, we trust that many things
will come to light, proving that the
natives of it are neither so ignorant
nor stupid as they have generally
been supposed to be.
And while these important
subjects shall occupy the columns
of the Freedom's Journal, we would
not be unmindful of our brethren
who are still in the iron fetters of
bondage. They are our kindred by
all the ties of nature; and though
but little can be effected to us, still
let our sympathies be poured forth
_and our prayers in their behalf,
ascend to Him who is able to
succor them.
From the press and the pulpit we
have suffered much by being
incorrectly represented, Men whom
we equally love and admire have not
hesitated, to represent us
disadvantageously, without
becoming personally acquainted
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with the true state of things, nor
discerning between virtue and vice
among us. The virtuous part of our
people feel themselves sorely
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our friends, to whom we concede all
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religion, from these very causes
seem to have fallen into the current
of popular feeling and are
imperceptibly floating on the
stream-actually living in the
practice of prejudice, while they
abjure it in theory, and feel it not in
their hearts, Is it not very desirable
that such should know more of our
actual condition; and of our efforts
and feelings, that in forming or
advocating plans for our
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understanding? In the spirit of
candor and humility we intend by a
simple representation of facts to lay
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view to arrest the progress of
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growth as o a people and our
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know the source of our news. To
challenge the things we disagree and
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persevering in our efforts.
If ignorance, poverty and
degradation have hitherto been our
unhappy lot; has the Eternal decree
gone forth, that our race alone are
to remain in this state, while
knowledge and civilization are
shedding their enlivening rays over
the rest of the human family? The
recent travels of Denham and
Clapperton in the interior of Africa,
and the interesting narrative which
they have published; the
establishment of the republic of
Haiti after years of sanguinary
warfare; its subsequent progress in
all the arts of civilization; and the
advancement of liberal ideas in
South America, where despotism
has given place to free
governments, and where many of
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The interesting fact that there.are
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half of whom might peruse, and the
whole be benefitted by the
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publication, as yet, has been
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authors, which are within the reach
of few, may occasionally be made --
and more important still, that this
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to offer Registered Nurses in Wake
County an opportunity to work
toward the Bachelor of Science in
Nursing degree through the de-
partmentofnursing at North Caro-
lina Central University.
Classes are expected to begin in
August, 1998, at Wake Technical
Community College and the neigh-
boring Wake Area Health Educa-
tion Center facility. The proposal
approved by the Board of Gover-
nors Friday (April 11) anticipates
the use of odistance learning ? tech-
nology, primarily computer net-
Dr. Lana Henderson, Associ-
ate Dean of the North Carolina
Central University College of
Arts and Sciences, and Dr. Fran
Jackson, Associate Professor of
Education at NCCU, have been
awarded a $47,000 grant from
the Fulbright-Hays Group
Projects Abroad Program of the
U.S. Department of Education.
They will use the grant to con-
duct a four-week study program
in three Caribbean countries for
12 North Carolina arts teachers.
The grant will take the two
NCCU professors and the 12
teachers to the Leeward and
Windward Islands of the West
Indies, and the Dominican Re-
public from June 29 through July
28. They will visit Guadeloupe in
the Leeward Islands, and
Martinique in the Windward Is-
lands.
The program will focus on Af-
rican-Spanish and African-
French traditions in the cultural
arts of the Caribbean. The
Universite des Antilles and dela
Guyane will provide lecturers
and assistance with field studies
at Guadeloupe and Martinique,
and the Universidad Nacional
Pedro Henriquez Urena will pro-
vide similar assistance in the
Dominican Republic.
The schedule will include
guided study tours of museums,
as well as productions in dance,
theatre, and music.
Eligible to participate are full-
time teachers of the cultural arts
in North Carolina, as well as
NCCU Faculty members
receive Fulbright funds
college and university students
who will engage in practice teach-
ing in 1997-98 in art, music, the-
atre, or dance.
The Fulbright-Hays Group
Projects Abroad Program grant
of $47,000 will cover a part of the
costs of the four week seminar
Each participant will be asked to
pay $800 as a registration fee.
Costs covered by the fee and the
grant include scheduled confer-
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well as the costs of international
travel, room, and board. Partici-
pants will be expected to attend,
at their own expense, a two-day
orientation and a one-day post-
seminar session at NCCU.
Applications should be made
to Dr. Lana Henderson, Associ-
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Sciences, PO Box 19467, N.C.
Central University, Durham NC
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ter expressing interest in the
program, acopy of the candidate Ts
resume, a statement of the
applicant Ts beliefs about multi-
cultural education in his or her
field of study and work, a de-
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proposal for the development of
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to reduce travel time for the Wake
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members.
Appropriations of approximately
$23,000 for fiscal year 1996-97 and
$92,000 in 1997-98 are expected to
be provided by the UNC system to
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Dr. Beverly Washington Jones,
professor of history at North Caro-
lina Central University, has been
invited by retired General Colin L.
Powell to be a delegate to the Presi-
dents T Summit for America Ts Fu-
ture, to be held in Philadelphia,
April 27-29.
President William J. Clinton and
his immediate predecessor, Presi-
dent George H.W. Bush., are the
honorary co-chairs of the event, of
which Powell is general chairman.
Powell served as Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff under both.
Dr. Jones is one of ten delegates
to the convention from the Re-
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The deaths of Tupac Shakur and
Biggie Smalls, and the fear of re-
taliation on other ogangsta rap-
pers ? that have caused many of
the obig names ? to go into hiding,
have caused many of us to stop
and reflect on the dilemmas facing
the rap industry. This is not a
discussion to be rushed into be-
cause it requires some serious con-
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flip off after the song has played.
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course scheduling is expected to
be flexible.
Registered nurses without
bachelor Ts degrees are still the larg-
member of the Durham Public
School Board and directs two pro-
grams at NCCU, the Institute for
the Study of Minority Issues and
the Community Service Program.
Other delegates to the April 27-
29 meeting from this area are Joe
Capowski, a member of the Chapel
Hill Town Council who represents
Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary
Waldorf; Tom Dugard, president
of the Triangle United Way; Tom
Fetzer, Mayor of Raleigh; Scott
Gardner, District Manager of Duke
Power Co. in Chapel Hill; Carl
Kenney, minister of Orange Grove
Missionary Baptist Church and
chair of Durham Congregations in
I Tve received over 100 calls to
write about this issue. In one of
the most insincere (and hypocriti-
cal) acts in recent history, I had to
bite my lip to keep from laughing
my a** off as one of the biggest
exploiters of gangsta rap, Los An-
geles T KKBT, decided it was going
to have one morning of dialogue,
talking about orap music is out of
control. ? The entity that drove
this madness into the airwaves
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est single group of nurses in prac
tice in North Carolina. The plan-
ners of the new program told the
Board of Governors that 533 nurses
in Wake Coun ty requested courses
leading to the gona ce ina
1997 AHEC survey. The county
has no baccalaureate nursing pro-
grams. The NCCU department and
Action; Mayor Sylvia Kerckhoff of
Durham; Wake County Commis-
sioner Vernon Malone, represent-
ing Cary Mayor Koka Booth; Eric
Pristell, Director of the Youth
Credit Union Development Project
in Raleigh; Waltye Rasulala, Pub-
lic Affairs Director for Capitol
Broadcasting Co. of Raleigh; Julia
Scatliff, director of Southern Com-
munity Partners in Durham; Bill
Shore, Director of Community Af-
fairs, Glaxo-Wellcome, Inc. , Re-
search Triangle Park; and Lucille
Webb, Chairman of the Manage-
ment Team of Strengthening the
Black Family, Inc., of Raleigh.
rappers, and not the music. Rap
radio Ts hands are as dirty as the
triggermen that killed Tupac and
Biggie.
It Ts like giving a child poison,
they take it and die, then saying
the child should have known bet-
ter. There has been an abdication
of personal (and public) responsi-
bility in FCC-regulated public ra-
dio when it comes to these rap
radio stations. It seems like there Ts
almost some oexemption ? given to
those who play more filth. This is
nolaughing matter, but sometimes
you have to laugh to keep from
crying when you see the level of
insensitivity some of these sta-
tions demonstratein the aftermath
of these tragedies. Everybody that
appeared on othe Beat Ts ? little
peace talk, promised to bring the
peace. But othe Beat, ? which is a
major outlet for this music, a lit-
eral 24 hour forum for filth, never
promised to stop playing the mu-
sic, which is the drumbeat for the
violence gangsta T rap propagates.
After the show, (not fifteen min-
utes later) it was back to paying
the bills and raking in the cash,
playing the next generation of orap
madness. ? Fast-tracking the next
oTupac ? or the next oNotorious
B.I.G. down the same path of de-
struction. As a vehement critic of
othe Beat, ? this could be a chance
to slam them, but this is bigger
than my obeef ? with othe Beat ?
because every major city now has
oa BEAT ? station, that propagates
filth for profit.
If rappers and their music are
sion program, without the distance :
learning component, through "
Vance-Granville Community Col-
lege. ~
Dr. Jones named to Presidential Summit delegation
Powell Ts letter of invitation de-
scribed the Presidents T Summit as
an effort to create a national part-
nership to improve the lives of
children and youth.
Gov. Jim Hunt invited the North
Carolina delegates to the summit
to an April 8 meeting in Raleigh as
a preliminary to the Philadelphia
meeting. The Raleigh meeting was
chaired by Robin Britt and Les
Boney of the Governor Ts staff.
The three other North Carolina
areas from which delegates to the
Philadelphia meeting were invited
are Asheville, Charlotte, and Pitt
County.
out of control, they Tre only the pas-
sengers in a gangstermobile gone
awry. Greedy, urban-targeted
ogangsta rap radiois definitely the
driver.
The most serious conflict facing
youth and young adultsin America
(not black America, but America)
today is discerning the difference
between self-destructive music
that promotes self-destructive be-
haviors and reality-based themes
that manifest themselves in a self-
destructive culture. They may
seem like the same, both are highly
negative and have questionable
benefit to the society at large, and
the differences are minor in scope.
However, the differences are
major in impact and the finality
that results from the lack of re-
straint these activities bring about.
And for the past few years, we Tve
allowed the ocommoditizers of this
filth, ? record companies distribu-
tors going after big profits) and
radio stations (going after ratings
and ad revenues) to deny respon-
sibility by saying, oit Ts not the -
music. ?
oThese artist have first amend-
ment rights to express them-
selves. ? That Ts partially true. They
do have a right to express them-
selves, but their music promotes
mayhem and destruction that is
not socially appropriate for public
consumption.
Gangsta rap is more than mu-
sic, it Ts a culture now, a part of the
way this society has chosen to ac-
cept how our youth view them-
selves.
Ike and Tina Ts Son
Arrested for Fraud
The ex-convict son of Tina and Ike Turner is accused of using a stolen
credit card to buy orange juice and condoms from a drug store and faces
a criminal trial.
Ricky Turner, 41, was scheduled for a preliminary hearing this week
in Los Angeles Superior Court and is expected to be charged with
burglaryandcreditcardfraud,pros ecutors said.
He was arrested March 20 outside a Thrifty Ts drug store in Los
Angeles after using a credit card that did not belong to him, said Deputy
Tiiatriet Attarnev David A. Augh.
Turner was on parole for a 1995 car theft conviction he had already
served 18 months in jail for when he was arrested. He has remained at
Men Ts Central Jail with bail set at $80,000 since his recent arrest.
Turner's lawyer said his cocaine addiction is the basis for his unlawful
ways, which includes a 1988 conviction for receiving stolen property,
two burglary convictions in 1990 and the 1995 car theft.
Prosecutors will bring him to trial instead of granting him admission
to a drug diversion program because of his past record.
His musical parents, Ike and Tina, have both written books about
their tumultuous relationship with each other. Tina Turner Ts book, oI,
Tina, ? was made into the movie oWhat Ts Love Got to Do With It? ? and
portrayed a marriage of drugs and sexual abuse.
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7, four survivors of the
Tuskegee Syphilis Study asked the
honorable President Clinton for
an official apology because black
men in Tuskegee, Alabama were
used by the Federal government
as guinea pigs in a syphilis experi-
ment decades ago. The men, who
had syphilis, were denied treat-
ment for many years as the Fed-
eral government was studying the
disease and its implications. Peni-
cillin, a drug discovered by
Alexander Fleming, could have
been used to treat the disease at
~V~ THE"M" VOICE - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16 - APRIL 23, 197
-African-Americans Used As Guinea Pigs
the time thé men needlessly suf-
fered from the dreaded illness.
Dr. Marcellus Barksdale, a dis-
tinguished professor in the Afri-
can-American Studies Depart-
ment at Morehouse College in At-
lanta, Georgia, offered some can-
did, insightful comments on the
infamous syphilis study: oIt was
one of the tragedies of African-
American history. The men were
allowed to live with syphilis all
that time. The men who were part
of the experiment were all Afri-
can-American. ? The professor con-
tinued, oThis really highlights rac-
ASK THE DOCTOR
To Salt or Not to Salt, That Is the Question
(NU) - Question: Dear Dr.
Neutel, [have high blood pressure
and am confused about all the dif-
ferent opinions I read on salt use.
What advice should I follow?
Answer: This is an interesting
question because it addresses the
salt controversy, a topic of discus-
sion in the medical community.
Doctors have increasingly voiced
their concern for Americans T salt
intake. Sodium, one of the main
ingredients in salt, is an impor-
tant mineral that helps maintain
a proper fluid balance in the body.
Americans on average consume
about three teaspoons of table salt
each day, about twice the amount
recommended by the National In-
stitutes of Health (NIH). But the
question remains, how much salt
is too much?
Answering this question has re-
sulted in studies attempting to
determine the effect of sodium on
people who have, or are at risk for,
heart disease and hypertension
(high blood pressure). Most stud-
ies have shown that a diet high in
salt correlates with a rise in blood
pressure and may counteract the
effects of blood pressure lowering
medicines. About 50 million Ameri-
cans, 25 percent of the U.S. adult
population, have high blood pres-
sure,
In an article in the Journal of
the American Medical Association,
some scientists questioned the
long-held belief that sodium-re-
stricted diets are an essential part
of high blood pressure manage-
ment. Their report indicated that
salt-restricted diets helped older
hypertensive patients, whileit was
difficult to determine the effect on
other patient populations.
On the other hand, NIH contin-
ues to recommend that all patients
with high blood pressure cut back
on salt. The NIH says that despite
the studies that question the need
for salt-restricted diets in people
with high blood pressure, most
scientific evidence still points to
the fact that at least moderate
reduction in sodium would improve
the public health. The NIH and
the American Heart Association
recommend no more than 2.3
grams of sodium, or about 1 1/2
teaspoons of salt, per day.
The bottom line is that the bal-
ance of evidence suggests that in
people with a family history of
hypertension or a blood pressure
above 140/90 mm Hg, reducing
salt intake is most likely to be o
beneficial. In a survey of physi-
cians, 99.5 percent said that so-
dium reduction is important to the
dietary management of high blood
-
ism that was involved. It also
speaks to how some of us would
just buy into asystem that fraudu-
lently and falsely presents itself
as something legitimate. ? When I
asked about the related litigation
of the 1970s, the professor sug-
gested, oI assume that people
thought that the experiment would
be detrimental to those involved.
The settlement reached could not
compensate for the suffering. ?
The educator mentioned the
movie, oRosewood, ? as another
example ofhow African-Americans
have been used, abused, accused,
pressure. As the saying goes, oall
things in moderation. ?
People have been trying for years
to find an alternative to salt that
actually tastes like salt. A new
product called Cardia?"? Salt Al-
ternative fits the bill. In fact, 99
percent who tested Cardia agree
that it tastes just like salt. Be-
cause it has 54 percent less so-
dium, plus the essential minerals
potassium and magnesium, Car-
dia helped lower blood pressure
when used instead of salt in a
clinical study. Both reduced so-
dium and adequate intake of these
two minerals are recommended by
the NIH as part of a heart-healthy
diet. Cardia can be found in your
local drug store.
My advice to people with high
blood pressure is drop the heavy
hand on the salt shaker, limit the
,use of processed foods with high
sodium levels, try a salt alterna-
tive, and eat foods high in potas-
sium and magnesium. If you have
high blood pressure, always con-
sult your doctor to see what Ts right
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MEMORIAL DAY
Monday, May 26, 1997
The Anointed Ones Church
600 S. Edge Road
Ayden, NC 28513
One Night and One Night Only!
Doors will open at 6:00 p.m.
Concert will begin at 7:00 p.m.
Dr. Ruth Peterson invites the public.
and confused for centuries. More-
over, the professor gave the fol-
lowing closing remarks: oThe
Tuskegee experiment shows our
victimization and more than that,
it speaks to a deep-rooted racism
visible in the American fabric. ?
Nevertheless, though Clinton Ts
apology will not right the wrongs
of the despicable syphilis experi-
ment, it will be a major step in the
right direction. I wish former presi-
dents had offered an apology. Afri-
can-Americans, through vigilance,
should insure that similar experi-
ments do not become future reali-
ties. ,
for you.
Joel M. Neutel, M.D., is chief of
the Hypertension Center, Veter-
ans Administration Hospital, Long
Beach, Calif., and director of
research,Orange County Heart
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Enrollment Announcement
- Head Start Program
Martin County Community Action, Inc, Project Head Start is now
atcepting applications for the 1997 Fall Enrollment for children and includ.
ing children with disabilities. Eligibility is determined by HHS Income
Guidelines, family needs, disabilities, and/or special conditions of the child.
Children who will be enrolled will be exposed to a broad educational
curriculum that will prepare them for preschool social and educational
experiences. Health, nutrition and mental health are also important factors
in the development of these children. These areas are also facilitated in the
daily routines of the children. Parent Involvement and other program
services as mandated are required and are fully utilized by the program. Ten
percent (10%) of Head Start Enrollment is identified as: "health impairment
emotional/behavior disorders, speech/language impairments, mental
retardation, hearing impairment/deafness, orthopedic impairment , visual
impairment/blind, learning disabilities, autism, traumatic brain injury, and
other impairments for children who require special education and related
services.
Head Start is a comprehensive developmental program for children ages 3.
5 yeas old. This program is based on the premise that children share certain
needs and that children from low-income families, in particular, can benefit
from a program designed to meet those needs, Head Start operates nine (9)
months of the year, - September through May. The centers are open Monday
through Friday and the hours of operation are 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Head
Start has been operating in the Martin County area since 1965, currently
there are 192 children. Nine (9) classrooms are comprised 4-5 year old and
one (1) classroom consists of three year old must become three by October
16th; Beaufort County has been operating since 1977 and presently serving
99 children. Five (5) classrooms of 4-5 year olds are accommodated in this
county.
Pitt County originated in 1985 and serving 222 children in twelve (12)
classrooms accommodating 4-5 year olds.
Funding for Martin County Community Action, Inc.
Project Head Start is received from the Administration for Children,
Youth and Families Unit, Department of Health and Human Services. In
order for children to qualify, they must meet the family income guidelines.
Below are the guidelines.
1996 FAMILY INCOME GUIDELINES FOR
HEAD START PROGRAMS
1996 FAMILY INCOME GUIDELINES FOR ALL STATES (EXCEPT
Reo AND HAWAI]), THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND PUERTO
Size of Family Unit Income
1 $7,470
2 $10,030
3 $12,590
a $15,150
3 17,710
° $20,270
7 $22,830
8 $25,390
For Family Units with more than 8 members, add $2,560 for each additional
member. Please contact the Family Service Worker at the Head Start center
in your area:
Martin Co: North Everetts 792-5353
Pitt Co: St. Gabriel (752-9755)
Ayden (746-4298
Farmville (753-8036)
Beaufort Co: 264 Washington (946-5632)
Aurora ( 322-5543
Beihaven (943-3006)
For more information or to enroll a child, please call Ms. Teresa Greene,
Social Services Coordinator or Ms. Gloristeen Matthewson, Disability
Services Coordinator at (919) 792-7141 or come by the Martin County
Community Action Head Start Administrative Office at 106 South Watts
Street in Williamston, North Carolina.
RRA COSTS
Presents
WILLIAM BECTON
& FRIENDS
William Becton, Jr. & Friends
Friday, April 25, 1997
Community Christian Church
1104 N. Memorial Drive
Greenville, NC 27834
7:30 p.m.
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