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TEMPORA MUTANTUR ET NOS MUTAMUR IN ILLIS

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MAR 0 3 1995

Volume 72 Number 25

Miami, Florida, Thursday, March 2, 1995

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:s5 cents 36 Pages

Murder-suicide claims life of
activist George Adams and wife

By MOHAMED HAMALUDIN
And ERICK JOHNSON

A well-known community activ-
ist, retired police colonel and stal-
wart defender of the rights of Black
employees in the city snapped
under the strain of marital prob-
lems and planned and carried outa
murder-suicide Tuesday morning.

George Adams, 64, revised the
beneficiary of his insurance policy
Saturday and even wrote his own
obituary, before putting a gun to

the head of his wife of four years,
Arlene Regulus Adams, 33, and
then shot himself, reliable sources
said.

The sources indicated that
Adams put a pillow to the head of
his wife as she sat at their dining
table at their home at 1055 N.W.
60th St. making up their joint
income tax returns and shot her in
the head.

He then climbed into his bath
tub; turned on the water and shot

himself in the head.

The tragedy ended a month-long
argument between the couple.

The sources said Mrs. Adams, a
teacher at Miami Springs Elemen-
tary School, suddenly confronted
her husband last month with a
demand for a divorce.

The sources said Adams agreed
and an amicable settlement was
reached. However, Mrs. Adams
contacted a woman attorney with
the teachers union and additional
demands were made on Adams.

That, the sources said, pushed
him across the breaking point and
led to the tragedy that shocked the
community and Adams's former
colleagues in the police depart-
ment who, only three weeks ago,
had honored him and other police
pioneers.

The news stunned relatives who
were already reeling from an earlier
tragedy. Adams's brother-in-law,

Trevor Moore, 27, was found shot * a

Continued on Page 2A

Arlene and George Adams in a recent photo

Musical pays
tribute to
superstars

A musical promoting
multicultural educa-
tion paid tribute to
Billie Holiday and
Bob Marley Feb.
21-24 at the Caleb
Center as part of
Black History celeb-
rations. It was writ-
ten by Alice and John
Johnson, directed by
Chantal Legros and
performed by Dan-
zare International.

State lawmakers hesitating over
giving Dade more housing funds

By MARGARITA DROGOWSKI
Times Staff Writer

The Documentary Surtax Loan
Program, which has helped thou-
sands of low-income people obtain
home mortgages, is celebrating its
10th anniversary. It should be a
joyous time but Florida legislators
have been hesitating over part of
an act which could mean $54 mil-
lion more to it.

They are “desperately needed
affordable housing,” resources for
Dade County, Bob Pollack, presi-
dent of Greater Miami Neighbor-
hood, said.

“We're talking about housing,
jobs and a tax base,” he said.

The act is part of a three-prong
statewide plan to encourage con-
struction of affordable housing for
low-income households. It con-
sists of the Sadowski Act, the State
Apartment Incentive Loan (SAIL)
Program and the Doc Stamp
program.

The Dade County Doc Stamp
program, which was the brainchild
of Congresswoman Carrie Meek,
then a State Senator, was created

in 1983. It sets aside 10 cents from
every $100 of commercial real
estate sales to affordable housing.

From October, 1984, to last
December, the Doc Stamp plan
helped ‘low-income ‘homeowners
build 1,705 units and moderate
income homeowners, 295. Those
2,045 units are valued at more
than $58 million.

Although Dade County is still
earning money with the Doc Stamp
program, Joan Tyler, assistant
director of the Surtax and Loan
administration, said that Dade
“definitely needs more money” to
build housing for low-income
families.

Continued on Page 2A

A new Miss Black USA

Sheila Rugege, Miss Black Louisiana, acknowledges the
applause after being crowned the new Miss Black USAin
Washington, D.C., Sunday night. She is a 20-year-old stu-
dent at Grambling State University. arwoe worp

Dire results predicted if BBE is scuttled

By ALISON HIBBERT
Times Staff Writer
Dire consequences will be the
result of what Black-owned
businesses will face if the lawsuit
filed by six White contractors to
terminate Dade County's set-aside
program is won on May 15.
Attorney Don Horn, of Gallwey
Gillman Curtis Vento and Horn,
said the lawsuit is vital to Black
contractors and subcontractors
and everyone must unite to fight
against it.
“We have to-counter the allega-
tions in this case. We have to put

School Board pays
tribute to educators

of the past

By MARGARITA DROGOWSKI,
Times Staff Writer

In wheelchairs, with walkérs 1969

and with canes they came, Black
educators with more than 900
years of teaching experience
amassed among them and 2,500
years of life experience.

decades

._ Theoldest honoree was 91-year-
“# old Eunice Liberty, who retired in
969 from L.C. Evans Elementary
School after 37 Joa of 0 service.
She has spent the last 2

helping Northwestern Sen igh
enhance its curriculum.
She is also still an activ ie mem-

Sixty men and women through- berof the National Coun

out Dade County, over the age of’ Women. po
80, are alive and well and overflow- :

ing with history. They all dedicated:
their lives to teaching and 30 of
them were honored by the Dade

County School Board last week as
part of Black History Month =Â¥

observances. :

“These people made it through
the struggle. I know that if it wasn't
for them I wouldn't be here,” Fre-
derica Wilson, school board mem-
ber, said.

0 x

“Please let us work weother. It's
the only way we're going to make
“this education valid,” Liberty said
when she addressed the School

from her wheelchair last

“and 1 want you to help me.
Dade County is only as good as you
who represent it.”

Liberty said what children are

Continued on Page 2A

© Some 4,000 businesses will be directly impacted if

they win this lawsuit. Get an attitude about this and
stop sitting there like you don’t have a problem —
because you have a hell of a problem. ®

our stories together,”

— Les Pearson

he said. Commerce's Black Economic

“There's going to be dire consequ- Development arm, said the lawsuit
ences if this suit is won. I'm going is nonsense and everyone affected

to need information.

should understand more about

“If 1 don’t have any evidence, 'm what it would mean if the BBE is

not going. to be effective.”

Les Pearson, vice president of

taken away.

“Some 4,000 businesses will be

the Greater Miami Chamber of directly impacted if they (the white

COUNTY
CHOOL: BOARD
DMINISTRATION
BUILDING

Inesday. “I want to work with - :

This group of educators, seen with some adm
ored by the Dade County School Board last v

Be Bh Ws AR

contractors) win this lawsuit,” he
said. “Get an attitude about this
and stop sitting there like you don’t
have a problem — because you
have a hell of a problem.”
Pearson said out of approxi-
mately 80,000 businesses in Dade
County, less than 10 percent are
Black-owned. The ripple effects of
the lawsuit, if the plaintiffs win,
will decrease the number of those
Black businesses, he said.
“Nobody looks at the market
power of the Black community,” he

Continued on Page 2A

a. in a A bin Wa HTL Ww

Clash at
high school

blamed on
CG police

By MARGARITA DROGOWSKI
Times Staff Writer

A clash between some students
at Coral Gables High School and
Coral Gables police Monday sent
six cops to hospital for treatment of
minor injuries and resulted in six
teenagers being arrested on a vari-
ety of charges.

The incident immediately
sparked widespread criticism of
the police for being too quick to use
force and, according to some
reports, for uttering racist
remarks.

The day started out like any
other, except that students
assembled in the auditorium,
where a presentation was being
staged in honor of Black History
Month.

During the show, two represen-
tatives from the University: of
Miami were angered when their
portion of the show was cancelled,
due to time constraints. They
threw a chair, which hit a nearby
student. The two then left the
school but police had been called
because of the chair-throwing.

Police detained the two across
the street from the school. As stu-
dents came out for lunch, they
stood behind the fence on the cam-
pus and watched what was going
on. It is at this point that there are
conflicting versions about what
happened next.

Assistant Principal Alicia Green
said the police crossed the street
and approached the students to
question them about the two sus-
pects. The students say the police
never asked, or had any intention
of asking, any questions,

“They saw a large group of Black
students and automatically
assumed we were going to cause
trouble,” Georgette, a student,
said. :

Chauka Hunt, 19, one of six stu-
dents involved, was arrested and
charged with inciting/

Continued on Page 2A

srs, was hon- Black History Month, in a tribute for their many decades of
k as part of service to the teaching profession. rnonces

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‘Coral Gables Police get heat over clash with students at high school

Continued from Page 1A

encouraging ariot, batteryon alaw
enforcement officer and resisting
arrest with viqlence. His mother,
Carolyn Hunt, is outraged at the
way the situation was handled.

“I'm angry at the police and at
the school,” she said. “They (the
police) jumped on my son for no
reason and the school did nothing
to prevent it. Police saw a bunch of
kids in a crowd and figured they
were up to trouble and just rushed
them. The police over-reacted and
Chauka just happened to be
there.”

Carolyn Hunt went to the school
after receiving a frantic call from
her daughter, Keisha, 17, also a
student. The daughter was crying
about police “beating up” her
brother.

When Hunt arrived at the
school, she said, everybody acted

as if they didn't know anything.
One woman told her she had no
idea what was going on or what
happened to Chauka. Later,
watching the video of what hap-
pened at home, she recognized the
same woman helping an officer put
Chauka in a patrol car.

Keisha told her the woman was
the school principal, Mandy Offer-
le.

“She told me she didn't know
anything about Chauka,” Carolyn
Hunt said about Offerle.

“I'd love to know if they teach
them in boot camp to come at a
group of kids with sticks and just
start hitting them,” said one stu-
dent. “We were watching them
from behind a fence and they just
felt the need to come try to break us
up and the kids didn't like that,”
said a student named Nyema.

Tarvis, another student, was
standing next to an officer when,
he says, he heard the officer say,

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“Move, Black bitch”.

It was also around that time that
officers tried to move Chauka. A
number of students felt he was
being treated unfairly and that
worsened an already tense situa-
tion.

“If my son was the type of kid
that got into trouble, he would've
stayed in jail and paid the price,”
she said. “But, he's a nice kid. He
doesn’t give anybody any trouble.
Even the kids were yelling at the
police saying,'No, not the Little
Man'," a reference to Chauka's
nickname.

Octavius Veargis, 18, Rachel
Dukes, 17, and Frederick Gooch,
17, face the same charges as Chau-
ka. Lorenzo Woodley, 18, was
charged with aggravated battery
on a law enforement officer,
inciting/encouraging a riot and
resisting arrest with violence.
Lolyndo Bethel, 14, was charged

with battery on a police officer and
resisting arresting arrest with vio-
lence.

The minors were under house
arrest. They were released into
their parents’ custody at a hearing
on Tuesday.

School Board member Frederica
Wilson blasted the behavior of the
police.

“Ihe Coral Gables Police need
human relations 101 in dealing
with African American youth. They
need to be more sensitive,” Wilson
said. “They were judged soley on
the basis of the color of their skin.
They were behind the fence on
school property. The police came
over and told them to go inside and
the kids tried to tell them that they
were at lunch.”

Wilson added that many stu-
dents said that this is part of an
ongoing problem with Coral Gables
police and most parents don't

think the police acted wisely.

“Even the non-Black parents too
are upset at the Coral Gables police
for coming on the campus and
attacking the children,” Wilson
said.

According to Wilson, even
though the hearing was only for the
three minors, more than 50
parents showed up to show their
support for the children.

“There were non-Black parents
speaking out on behalf of the Black
students. They witnessed the inci-
dent and they wanted Black stu-
dents, and Black parents, to know
they were not alone. They want to
work out the problems as a com-
munity,” she said.

Chauka, Octavius and Lorenzo
were released on bail.

As a result of the clash, about
170 parents, students and school
officials met Tuesday morning at
the school to discuss what hap-

According toa memo from Offer

le about the meeting, among other
issues, people expressed concern
about the way officers “acted
strongly.”
Three other meetings were
planned. One took place Wednes-
day between Offerle and students.
Another will be held this Thursday
at 7 p.m. at 3700 Douglas Road
and will be led by veteran civil
rights activist John Due of the
Black Affairs Advisory Board. The
third with police is yet to be sche-
duled. 3
Now, the main concern is wha]
is going to happen to the children
who were arrested. :
“1 know what can happen to
Black children when they get
involved in the juvenile justice sys-
tem as young children. It haunts
them for life. I want to make sure
that the children’s rights are not
violated,” Wilson said. ,

George Adams, wife dead in murder-suicide

Continued from Page 1A

to death the night before in his
burning Ford Explorer.

Police were looking into the pos-
sibility that the two tragedies may
be connected. But reliable sources
said there was no link.

Cynthia Jones, a close friend of
the couple, said at around 8:30
a.m., she noticed the couple's cars
parked outside their home. Since
that was unusual for that time of
day, she knocked on thedoorand a
side window but got no answer.
She called Larry Cochran, a former
colleague and close friend of
Adams.

Meanwhile, a co-worker of Mrs.
Adams, Loraine French, showed
up, along with three police officers.
Sources said the co-worker had
called police after Arlene Adams
failed to show up for work.

They were unable to enter the
home. Mabel Kirkland, a longtime.
neighbor and dear friend of Adams,
provided a spare key.

According to Jones, at 11 a.m.
the officers entered the home and
discovered Mrs. Adams's body
first. :

“I knew something was wrong,“
said Robyn Jolly, an officer on the
scene. “You can see from the front
door. We just turned back around
to make sure everyone was taken
care of because you don't know
what's there.”

Police didn't remove the bodies
until 3:57 p.m. Positive identifica-
tion was not announced until early
in the evening.

Neighbors said they didn't see
anything usual or hear gunshots.
Police found two guns in the rear of
the home but were unable to con-
firm their
signs of forced entry either, accord-
ing to Angel Calzadilla, police
spokesman.

News of the tragedy spread
throughout the community, from
the Satellite Lounge, which he fre-
quented, to BIDCO Liquors, which
he co-owned with partners.

“Everyone knew him,” said
Sheryl Jones, at Satellite Lounge.

Lawsuit against BBE denounced

Continued from Page 1A

said. “We will have no more eco-
nomic position than the Miccosu-
kee Indians and I can’t understand
why people are ignoring this.”

Horn explained the intervention
of the BBA on the lawsuit to over 60
members at Florida Memorial Col-
lege at the lawsuit meeting on
Saturday.

“The suit directly affects us and
the law permits people to
intervene,” he said. “If Judge (Ken-
neth) Ryskamp doesn’t allow the
intervention I don't know what
we're going to do... You need to be

frightened.”

Pearson urged them to become
involved and develop an interest in
the lawsuit.

“It's absurd that we allowed this

‘to get so far,” he said. “We don't

know what kind of games are being
played with us and we just sit back
and give people the impression
that we allow them to push us
around.”

Charles George, vite president
of construction and president of G-
Family Enterprise, said BBA mem-
bers need to fight this lawsuit on
one accord.

“We need to develop a strategy

Housing funds stalled

Continued from Page 1A

The Doc Stamp lay the blueprint
for the SAIL program, designed to
stimulate the construction of
multi-family, low-income afford-
able housing in 1988.

Developers receive low-interest
second-mortgage loans but, in
return, they must set aside 20 per-
cent of their rental units for low-
income families.

Since the SAIL program started,
it has lent $70 million to help in the
construction of 7,487 units of
housing, valued at $420 million. It
lent out an additional $21 million
in hurricane relief funds.

In 1992, the Sadowski Act was
passed, adding 10 cents on all real
estate transactions that would also
go towards affordable housing.

When the act was originally
passed, Dade County chose not to
participate because it already had
money coming in from the Doc
Stamp program. But the act also
earmarked an additional 10 cents
of existing Doc Stamp funds for
housing, to begin this year.

SAIL was funded by general

) y

revenues but, later, through the
Sadowski act.

Since Dade County didn't take
part in the act at first it couldn't
benefit from SAIL funds either.
But, because of the way the plan
was designed, the county is now
eligible.

Florida legislators have to

approve the additional 10 cents
and they are hesitating.

“I think that thisis a good ihing.
It will not take anything away from
the Dade County Surtax Program
and it will provide a larger pool of
money for Dade,” said Meek. “This
has the potential to increase the
number of available affordable
housing units in the county. For
people who need housing in an
affordable price range, this is a
very, very good thing.”

‘I'he additional 10-cent benefit
would mean another $7.2 million
in funds that would be divided
among Dade, Miami Beach, Hia-
leah, North Miami and Miami.

It would also mean that Dade
could participate in the SAIL prog-
ram and be eligible for tax credits.

and not be laid-back,” he said. “We
have got to bring some closure to
this nonsense.”

Horn said the plaintiffs’ attor-
ney, Herbert Schlanger, goes
around the country trying these
types of cases and has sued several
government entities seeking to ter-
minate their set-aside programs.
The intervention allows him to
fight for retaining the BBE, which
the county cannot do because it
has to defend the whole program.

Engineering Contractors Asso-
ciation of South Florida, Asso-
ciated General Contractors of
America-South Florida Chapter,
Construction Association of Flori-
da, Underground Contractors
Association of South Florida and
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
have sued the county, alleging that
the BBE ‘is not benefiting non-
white businesses. They also claim
they are being discriminated
against because they are being
forced to retain non-White con-
tractors who, they say, provide
inferior work at a higher price.

Beatrice Louissaint, executive
director of the BBA, said her orga-
nization has started a legal defense
fund, a lawsuit committee has
been formed and meets every Tues-
day and, on Friday, a luncheon will
be held at the Omega Activity
Center.

“Pick up the phone and each one
‘tell five,” she said.

The BBA, a non-profit trade
organization, includes more than
55 percent Black-owned contrac-
tors and subcontractors in the
construction industry in Dade
County. Its members regularly bid
on and perform construction work
for the county and are direct bene-
ficiaries of the BBE program,
which was designed to remedy
identified discrimination against
Black-owned construction compa-
nies in Dade County. =

types. There were no -

George Adams (center) with plaque from police. He is flanked
on the left by Chief Donald Warshaw and on the right by PIO

Delrish Moss.

“I just don't know (what to say).”
Ernest Gross, manager at BID-
CO Liquors, said he talked with
Adams Monday and he seemed OK.
“We just talked about family
matters,” he said. “We talked most-
ly about my family.”

Born, in. Charleston, S.C., in
1931, Adams grew up in Overtown
and graduated from Booker T.
Washington High School in 1949.
He spent three years in the Air
Force before joining the Miami
Police Department in 1958.

He rose through the ranks and
retired as Lieutenant Colonel in
1986 after 27 years on the force but
not before blazing a trail for other
Blacks. In 1971, he was among a

group of ofticers who sued the
Police Benevolent Association over
its refusal to admit Blacks. The
won the case in the Supreme
Court. j

Nicknamed “Cracker George*
because of his light skin tone,
Adams did not rest on his laurels.
On retirement, he was named to
the Civil Service Board by Commis-
sioner Miller Dawkins. He also
spent several years helping to
guide the Martin Luther King Eco-
nomic Development Corporation,
at one time assuming control, with
a group of directors, after the agen-
cy seemed headed for disaster.

He also led a fight to ensure that
the city did not renege on its affir-

© mative action plan and that city

employees, especially police and
fire personnel, lived within the
municipal boundaries.

The Miami Police Departmerit
honored him, along with other
Black police pioneers, three weeks
ago. He had been the first Black
promoted to colonel — and the post
was abolished after he retired. !

The Martin Luther King Eco-
nomic Development Corporation
had planned to honor him
Wednesday.

‘He was a beautiful person,”

- said Jean Lattimore, a Liberty City

resident. “All my life I knew him. He

was always a happy person.” ,:°

He and his wife were marriei
four years ago and only those close
to the couple knew they were
experiencing problems. of

Neighbors said Arlene Adams
had moved out of the home about a
month ago but had returned to do
the taxes, although neighbors did
not know the reason.

“That's what I couldn't under-
stand,” said Cynthia Jones, a close
friend who had been the Adamses'
neighbors for years. “Why did she
go back to him?"

Those were many questions
neighbors, friends and the com-
munity asked Tuesday as they
watched the bodies being carried
outofthe n-and-white home in
bright zipper bags.

Adams is survived by two sons,
Gregory, 42 and Corey 12; three
brothers, Arturo and Eduardo
Lopez of Charleston, S.C., and
Jaime Lopez of New York City; and
a niece, Lovett McGill.

Funeral arrangements were
incomplete Wednesday but sour-
ces said Adams left a request for an
inexpensive cremation for himself.

paras

Urban League program gives kids chance
to see launching of the space shuttle

The Urban League of Greater
Miami's Parents Involved in
Academic Excellence Program
recently hosted a group of Charles
Drew Middle and Holmes Elemen-
tary student participants to view
the launching of the Discovery
Shuttle at the John F. Kennedy
Space Center.

On board the Shuttle was Pay-
load Commander Dr. Bernard Har-
ris, an African American physician
from Temple, Texas. A Mission
Specialist 1, he has become the
first Black to walk in space.

While in the Orlando area, the
students went on the Space Camp
Action Tour which has as its prim-
ary goal encouraging children to
study more math and science.

The two-day field trip was
capped off with a visit to Epcot
Center in Disney World.

The Urban League's Director of

Special Projects, Ellen Bethel, has
many times visited the Space cen-
ter to view Shuttle launches. She
introduced NASA's educational
program to Dade County Public
Shcools 11 yearsagowhilea teach-
er on special assignment at the
Teacher Education Center. She
believes it is important to provide
youngsters with alternatives and
opportunities to expand their
horizions.

“Too often we provide these
kinds of involvements only for the
academically gifted students. We

miss many ‘turn around’ chances
for our borderline children,” she
said.

For this reason, the students
taken on the field trip were a “mix-
ed lot.” Along with the gifted were
those who need more academic sti-
mulus.

This was the second in a series of
educational field trips to be taken
by PIAE. In January, the group
took students to visit the Lowe Art
Museum at the University of Miami
in Coral Gables to see African and
Native American Indian exhibits.

Effort begins to repair
apartment in Overtown

ERICK JOHNSON
Times Staff Writer
Over ice cream and pizza, a

Education pioneers honored

Continued from Page 1A

learning is important — She was
concerned over lack of exposure
given to Mary Mcleod Bethune, a
pioneering Floridian educator and
administrator who founded
Bethune-Cookman College.

“You could take a group of
elementary school kids and ask
them who Mary Mcleod Bethune is
and they don't know," Liberty said.

Also among the honorees was
the sister team of Limmie Fannin
and Susie Francis.

Most of these teachers never
taught a White child because of
segregation. Even though Brown v.
Board of Education, the case that
desegregated schools, was won in
1954, it was another 10 years
before any government action was
taken. :

The 60 Lifelong Educators are:
Claretha Ball, Manatee Banner-
man, Mable Barlow, Isabelle Blue,
Verna Bryant, Whitlene Butler,
Geneva Collie, Lugusta Colston,

Antionette Conte, Ethel Counch,
Gladys Crawford, C. Sullivan
Culver, Louise Davis, Ossie Dos-
ter, Eugene Duncan, Dorothy
Edwards, Leatha Ellison, Maude
Ellison, James Everette.

. Also, Limmie Fannin, Susie
Francis, Mary Lee Generette,
Mabel Glover, Naomi Gooding,
Dorothy Graham, Naomi Grant,
Vivalora Green, Ethel Grice, Har-
riet Hart, Carrie Hill, Whitlean
Ingraham, Frederick Johnson,
D.A. Julius, Laurel Julius, J. Lang
Kershaw, Eunice Liberty, Dorothy
McKellar, Lemmie Mitchell, Willie
Mae Murray, Johnnie Patten, Eli-
zabeth Pittman.

And, Ruth Polite, Gilbert Porter,
Willie Porter, Madge Portier, Ethel
Primus, Ida Ratcliff, Mattie Reed,
Marjorie Rhodes, Jennie Roberts,
Albertha Rues, Constance Sandi-
lands, Timothy Savage, Joycelyn
Smith, James Taylor, Mabel
Thompson, Roberta Thompson,
Elizabeth Tomlin, Annabelle Ward,
Letha Williams, Rosetta i:
Pauline Willis and Eddie Wilson.

developer and frustrated residents
of an Overtown Apartment build-
ing met each other for the first time
Wednesday and began working on
the deteriorating complex by
patching up some holes in their
working relationship. vr
At a hearing with the City of
Miami Nuisance Abatement
Board, the two sides agreed to work
togetherand promised torid them:
selves of apathy and neglect, hop-
ing the result will be less drugs and
crime at the complex, located at
560 NW 7th St. ;
The building's owner Jose Sosa;
agreed to pay a $250 fine from the
city and pledge to enact measures
to improve the building, which
residents said is infested with
rodents and leaks raw sewage.
Those measures are: i
*Securing and boarding up all
vacant apartment units, which
often are used by drug dealers.
*Cleaning up the complex by
improving its infrastructure and
removing outside garbage and
debris. J
*Working with the Overtown
Neighborhood Enhancement team
in 'dealing with complaints from
tenants. Fda
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already out repairing light fixtures

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THE MIAMI TIMES

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Rio haircare lawsuit expands to.

bh. By ALISON HIBBERT
Times Staff Writer
“+ A class-action lawsuitfiled by
-customers of Rio Hair Naturalizer
System has grown considerably.
’- Miami attorney Lawrence Wein-
er said there are between 30,000
and 50,000 people who claim they
suffered hair loss and damage from
using the company's products.
“The product liability of $1 mil-
lion is still in effect,” he said. “Rio
“closed its doors and the claimants
‘should be able to get some type of
compensation.”
~. Weiner has been working with
‘Texas attorney Bobbie Edmonds,

Seven win Lotto

“i Seven Lottery players matched
the six-number combination last
Saturday's drawing and will share
the jackpot estimated at $19
million.

Lottery computer records
showed the tickets were sold in
Lakeland, Panama City, Pensaco-
la, Pompano Beach, Port St. Lucie,
‘Ruskin, Wilton Manors.

The winning numbers 03 - 09 -
14 - 21 - 32 - 38.

In addition to the Jackpot win-
ners, more than 381,000 tickets
won cash prizes. Here are the pay-
out categories: 386 winners
matched 5-of-6 and won $1,212,
19.984 winners matched 4-of-6
and won $56 and 360,758 winners
matched 3-of-6 and won $4.

* * This Saturday's jackpot is back
at $8 million.

a

who tiled the lawsuit against the
World Rio Corporation, the Los
Angeles-based company which
advertised an all-natural formula
from the extract of a plant found in
Brazil. The company claimed that
the product was vitamin-based,
non-toxic and used to straighten
hair gradually. Edmonds said that
is what lured the women into trying
the products.

Edmonds, who has approxi-
mately 900 Rio clients, said World
Rio answered the lawsuit and she
has filed an amendment to also
allege racketeering. The case, she
said, will probably end up in a
multi-district litigation.

“So many women from all over
the country have lost an excessive
amount of hair. They have scalp
damage. Some end up with heada-
ches and suffer from elevated
blood pressure, depression and
anxiety,” she said. “We don't know

what the long term effects will be.”.

Under the Organized Crime
Control Act, World Rio is guilty of
conducting operations through the
mainstream of commerce and
promoted illegal activities because
they knew the product was not
what they said it would be,
“chemical-free,” Edmonds alleged.

“They were delivering a defective
product and they knew they were
delivering a defective product,” she
said. “They made the consumers
believe the product was chemical-
free and that's the perfect term to
use for luring African American
women into buying the product.”

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Duane and Melanee Mallory are both Metro-Dade police offic-
ers. This photo was taken when they were both in uniform.

Photo/RICHARD JOHNSON

These married cops
are a perfect match

By MARGARITA DROGOWSKI
Times Staff Writer

The phone rings in the middle of
the night. It's the police station.
There's an emergency and every
available officer is needed on duty
immediately. Husband and wife
look at each other, sigh, get up and
dress.

* Such is life for Duane and Mela-
nee Mallory, Metro-Dade police
officers.

“It's the nature of our job. We
have the possiblity to be called to
work at a moment's notice,”
Duane, 40, said.

In law enforcement for 20 years,
he was the first officer Melanee
rode with in May, 1991, when she
graduated from the police
‘academy. They saw each other for
‘the next two years around the sta-
tion ‘but it wasn't until Melanee,
"33, started giving him advice on
weightlifting in the gym that they
really spoke again. That was
around August, 1993. Melanee
invited him to her church for their
first date that September and, by
December, they were married. Now
‘they're ‘almost inseparable.

. “We do everything together. We
shop together. We clean together.
We cook together. Everything,”
Melanee said. ;

*: Sometimes they work baseball
or football games at Joe Robbie
Stadium. They play co-ed softball,
lift weights and, in their house-
hold, no fights break out over
watching too many sports events
on TV.

“We both enjoy watching sports

‘events. I get to the TV before he
does,” Melanee said.
* Where their tastes are not simi-
lar,’ they complement each other.
He's an admitted “homebody” so
she's the “family entertainment
‘coordinator.”

In the beginning, she worked 6
a.m.-2 p.m. and he 8 am.-4 p.m.
Now, they both are on the 8-4 shift.
They go to work together but he's a
detective and she’s a uniformed

officer assigned to the front desk in
the soon-to-be Carol City station.

They are both, however, keenly
aware of each other. They listen to
the radio but when they hear each
other's voice, they tune in even
more.

“I would hear her asking for
something she needed and think to
myself if the other people were
responding as expeditiously as
possible,” Duane said.

Melanee monitors everything,

but tunes in to his voice as soon as
she hears it. Yet, neither doubts
the other's ability.

“I'm completely confident in
what Ido and confident in what she
does,” Duane said.

He moved to Miami from his
hometown, Detroit, in 1981. Mela-
nee was born in Miami and went to
Carol City Senior High School.
They both come from big families.

Duane was the third kid. There
was Gerald, Linda, then he, Frank,
Sherry and Michelle.

Melanee was the baby in her
family. There was Regina, Faith,
who is a Miami Police officer, then
Join. deceased, Hope, Derrickand
she.

In case you missed it, Duane
and Melanee each had five
siblings.

Even though they both come
from big families, they don't expect
to have children together. Duane
has been married three times
before and has three children, Val-
erie, 22, Duane Jr., 20, both from
his first marriage, and Chancy, 9,
from his second. He also has one
granddaughter, Nodja, who is 2
months old.

She has one son, Willard, 6,
from her previous marriage. He
lives with her and Duane.

They love to dance but don't “do
the club thing.” Neither smokes or
drinks and both love jazz music
and attend church re, ;

“I always put God first. Whenev-
er we have a problem, I go to the
Bible,” Melanee says.

include racketeering allegation

Edmonds said the company’s
infomercials also caught the atten-
tions of the women because of the
price.

Meanwhile though many
women have complained to The
Times, woman has expressed
satisfaction after using the Rio
products.

Darlene Young said she has
been using them for over seven
months. She said she tried relaxers
and other chemical treatments for
over 25 years and nothing would
help her weak, thin hair.

“The third time I used Rio, I was
very much satisfied,” she said.
“This is the best product that I had
ever used in my hair.”

However,a restraining order
against the company caused it to
stop all transactions and the Food
and Drug Administration has
seized its products.

World Rio Corporation owner
Hal Lederman (also known as Har-
old Lederman) could not be reach-
ed for comments. He is also the
owner of Pantron One Corporation
and World Rio was formerly Rio
Products. ?

munity Service Award.

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Marshall commended by Chiles

Preston Marshall Jr. (right), founder and president of the
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade and Festivities Com-
mittee Inc., was honored recently by Gov. Lawton Chiles
(left) and the Florida MLK Commemorative Commission,
with the 1995 Florida Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Com-

Youths shine at the NAACP’s
annual ‘olympics of the mind’

By ALISON HIBBERT
Times Staff Writer

The Miami-Dade NAACP recen-
tly sponsored the Afro-Academic,
Cultural, Technological and Scien-
tific Olympics, for grades 3-12, at
Booker T. Washington Middle
School, 1200 N.W. 6th Ave.

The ACT-SO — “Olympics of the
Mind” — is a project that encour-
ages and inspires youths to strive
towards excellence in academic
and cultural pursuits, while bene-
fiting from the support of their
communities.

Contestants in the Jr. ACT-SO
competition were from grades 3-8
and they chose a category of inter-
est to them, including architec-
ture, biology, chemistry, computer
science, physics and mathematics.
They had to submit an application
and one entry, and a written state-
ment of the project.

Each contestant presented an
oral presentation of five minutes or

Jess. The following are the winners:

MW Biology: two first places: fourth-
grader Mitchell Leggett and
seventh-grader Tiffani Knowles;
three second place, sixth-graders
LaShannon Petite and Jovanna
Burns and eighth-grader Antonio
Bryant; third place, sixth-grader
Kimberly Guillot; honorable men-
tions, sixth-grader Charissa
Humes, seventh-grader Wally Lora
and eight-grader Denillya Smith.
MW Physics: first place, seventh-
grader Mikaela Nix; second place,
eighth-grader Nicole Caruballo.

The contestants in grades 9-12
competed in 24 categories within
the subject areas humanities, sci-
ences, visual arts and performing
arts. The sciences include
architecture, biology, chemistry,
computer science, mathematics
and electronics, energy and gener-
al physics.

Each contestant was able to
enter one project in each area.
They had to turn a paper describ-
ing the project's principles. The
winners were:

HW Architecture: first place, 11th-
grader Neil Thorpe; second place,
12th-grader Joe Crooms; third

KKK fails to

place, 12th-grader, Cleveland
Morley.

HW Biology: third place winner,
11th-grader Luckson Mathied.

HW Computer science: first place,
12th-grader Ronald Demon

HW Electronics: first place, 12th-
grader Ronald Demon.

In the area of humanities, the

categories were music composi-
tion, original essay, playwriting
and poetry. The winners were:
MW Essay: first place, 11th-grader
LaKeitha Daniels.
M Playwriting: first place, 11th-
grader Alsiha Thomas; second
place, 12th-grader Angela Bruton.
BW Poetry: first place, 11th-grader
Tanner Pollard; second place, Sta-
cy Wilson; third place, 10th-grader
Kendra Bryant.

The categories in visual arts
included drawing, painting, photo-
graphy, sculpture and video. The
winners were:

BW Sculpture: first place, 12th-
grader Karl Mondesir; fourth
place, 11th-grader Kia Richie

MW Drawing: first place, 12th-
grader Karl Mondesir; second
place, 10th-grader Courtney Walk-
er; third place, 12th-grader Elvest
Sistra.

HW Film-making and video: first
place, 12th-grader Giselle Pole;
second place, 12th-grader Melissa
Mobley.

Mm Photography: first place, 11th-
grader Allen Hankerson.

BW Painting: first place, 1lth-
grader Lizette Gary; second place,
12th-grader Karl Mondesir; third
place, 10th-grader Courtney Walk-
er.

The performing arts category
included drama, dance, classical
and contemporary music instru-
mental, classical and contempor-
z1y music vocal and oratory. The
winners were:

‘HM Dance: third place, 9th-grader

Tyrone Johnson; fourth place,
11th-grader Onidis Lopez

HM Drama: first place, 11th-grader
Fredinna Barr; second place, 12th-
grader Jerry Clicquot; third place,
12th-grader Stacy Wilson

B Oratory: first place, 11th-grader

show up

for anti-abortion protest

By ALISON HIBBERT
Times Staff Writer

It was a warm afternoon in
Miami and the corner of N.E. 126th
Street and Biscayne Boulevard
was blocked off with pro-life pro-
testers and police from the City of
Miami and Metro-Dade.

The police were there to protect
the Ladies Center of South Florida,
12550 Biscayne Blvd., who were
demonstrating against the Ku Klux
Klan.

The KKK never showed up for
the demonstration.

Det. Kathleen Ruggiero said
Miami Police thought they
wouldn't but the department had
to take precautions.

“We contacted the KKK and all,
the official members we talked to
knew nothing about the press
release of the demonstration,” she
said. “We still had to take the
necessary precautions to protect
the people, property and entities in
the NationsBank building.”

Protesters stood behind the bar-
ricades and held signs in front of
them, saying, “Keep Abortion Leg-
al,” “Stop the Violence,” “NOW -
National Organization For Women”
and "This Clinic is Open.

Judith Williams, representing
Women of Miami Beach, said she
was there to let the KKK know that
they don't belong in Miami.

“] want women to know that it’s
all right to choose and the Klan to

know that they have no presence
here; they are not welcome,” she
said.

Susanne Derby, who has no

affiliation with any organizations,
said the New York Times reported
that most anti-abortion activistare
middle-aged White men and that
shows a “link between right-wing
anti-immigration ideas, anti-
women ideas and anti-Black
ideas.”
“I think murder at the abortion
clinics represents the desperation
of the people with right-wing ideas
and the desperation about the eco-
nomic situations in this country,”
she said. “The KKK is takingaway a
woman's right to decide when she
will have a baby and I will defend
an abortion clinic with my life if I
have to.”

Julia Dawson, representative of
the Miami Clinic Access Project
and NOW, said the KKK faxed a
press release to a media source
and the news got around from
there about a planned demonstra-
tion. She said she is as “mystified”
as the police are about why the
Klan did not show up.

“They should never make an
appearance anyway,” she said.
“We will do whatever we can to pro-
tect the clinics. Our purpose (at the
demonstration) is to represent the
majority in the country who are
pro-choice and to show that many
pro-choicers do defend clinics.”

Alisha Thomas; second place,
11th-grader Joi Soles; third place,
11th-grader Fredinna Barr

HM Vocal Classical: first place,
11th-grader Audrey Brutus; sec-
ond place, 12th-grader Lakeisha
Wood

HW Vocal Contemporary: first place,
12th-grader Olrick Johnson; sec-
ond place, 11th-grader Ken Char-
les; third place, 1lth-grader
Angelo Johnson

HM Instrumental Classical: first
place, 11th-grader Wilkie Fergu-
son III; second place, 11th-grader
Wesley Mathis; third place, 12th-
grader Andrell Howell

HM Instrumental Contemporary:
first place, 1lth-grader Wesley
Mathis.

The winners will go on to com-
pete with others from across the
nation in the ACT-SO finals during
the NAACP convention later in the
year.

Rude birthday
present for
student

By MARGARITA DROGOWSKI
Times Staff Writer

Yvenice St. Surin celebrated her
birthday in an unusual way, cour-
tesy of the City of Miami Police
Department. She and her boy-
friend stopped at Jacksons Super-
market on N.W. 12th Avenue and
58th Street.

The Northwestern High student,
who is an interm at The Times, got
out of the car, bought a pair of
stockings, then got back in the car.
She was in the passenger seat as
her boyfriend drove southbound
on N.W. 13th Avenue, when a car
sped past and got in front of them.
By the time they reached the stop
sign at N.W. 54th Street, two other
cars had surrounded hers and
undercover officers were every-
where.

“One of them opened the door
and ordered me to get out of the car
then started reading me my
rights,” St. Surin said.

Her purse and car were search-
ed, her boyfriend was frisked, she
was questioned, detained for about
20 minutes then released with no
explanation.

“They just kept asking
me, Where are the drugs? Where
did you hide them?'"St.Surin said.

A representative of the police
undercover narcotics division said
that if the car was stopped “some-
body in the car bought some
drugs.”

“There's a lot of heroine sold on
that corner. We have undercover
surveillance teams that know
exactly what's going on,” said Sgt.
Odell Jolly.

Suspects are observed then
allowed to place some distance
between themselves and the place
where the alleged purchase took
place, before officers approach
them, he said.

“These guys are trained. People
need to be aware that we're out
here and they'll never know where
we're coming from until it's too late
to cry,” he said.

“We try to get them as quickly as
possible,” he added.

St. Surin flatly denied that she
or her boyfriend bought any drugs.
She was shaken the whole day by
the unpleasant experience and is
still angry that not even an apology
was offered.

Corrections department
gets new training chief

The Metro-Dade Corrections
and Rehabilitation Department's
Training Bureau has a new
commander.

He is Gato Jackson, who was a
planner with the Metro-Dade
Police Department. He also gained
extensive experience while in the
Army for two years.

As an initial entry trainer and
training commander, the military
gave me the opportunity to person-
ally touch the lives of more than
5,000 soldiers. I have always
derived a tremendous satisfaction
from observing people become
more skilled and confident and I
look forward to may similar experi-
ences with the Department of Cor-
rections, he said.

He will provide training and pro-
fessional development services to
the department's more than 2,500
employees.

Jackson is a graduate of the
University of Mississippi, with
Bachelors’ and Masters’ degrees in
public administration.

Meanwhile, the department
announced a number of promo-

GATO B. JACKSON

tions. To Correctional Corporal:
Chenita Beck-Williams, Marcos F.
Martinez, Donica Momplaisir and
Betty Martin; to Correctional
Sergeant: Darlene Beasley, Kevin
Edgecombe and Wilner Marc; to
Correctional Lieutenant: Doris

'Albury; To Correctional Chief:

Ronald Kovacs.

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Spreading Larceny

department?

demonstration outside City

treated Curry.

BW Ifthe City of Miami is as committed to affirmative action
as we believe it is, how come we are hearing that the office
that deals with affirmative action issues and headed by
Hattie Daniels was downgraded and merged into another

w Camille Merilus is at a loss to understand why the City
of Miami has for three years rejected his appeal for funds to
help provide services to the Haitian community through
his Operation Save Eye Inc. He is planning to stage a

w When a big shot in Metro-Dade government reported a
black Jeep Cherokee stolen the other day, an entire police
squad of six to seven officers was dispatched, some of them
* pulled from other duties, while a helicopter circled over-
head. The vehicle was found 20 minutes later in Miami
Lakes and, instead of being taken to a tow yard, as usual,
was kept at the Miami Lakes station under a tree. The offic-
ers were even made to dust the vehicle for fingerprints,
which is usually done only in cases of homicide. If only
ordinary citizens, who pay taxes and the salary of the
county official, could get the same service. 5

w County Chairman Art Teeleand Jorge Mas Canosa,
head of the Cuban American National Foundation, were
brought together last Friday in an effort to patch up their.
differences following the rebuff of Cynthia Curry by Mas
and the Cuban community. Teele should try to patch up
his differences with his constituents first. He would then
hear exactly what they think about how the Cubans

Hall Wednesday.



4A THE Man March 2, 1995

Editorials

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Don’t rush into change

t was good that wiser counsel prevailed and the Dade Coun-
I ty School Board reversed itself and voted to allow for time to

study an important change in its Women /Minority Busi-
ness Enterprise policy last Wednesday. For a while, it looked as
though the board would have ignored the call by all who spoke at
the meeting and asked for a delay. Members voted against a
motion by Ms. Frederica Wilson, supported by Dr. Rosa Castro-
Feinberg, to table the agenda item and then approved the first
reading. They changed their minds before moving to the next
item.

The policy change appears deceptively to be simple whereas it
is a complex one that could be fraught with dangers for the affir-
mative action policy. The Superintendent, Mr. Octavio Visiedo,
and his staff have explained that the intention is to allow for “gre-
ater flexibility in the assignment of assistance levels for con-
struction projects.” They said that one construction project had
to be delayed because the lone bidder came in one percentage
point below the level set for Latinos. That, they said, prompted
the proposed amendment.

That is not a good enough reason. The policy on “assistance
levels” was formulated after protracted studies and consulta-
tions following recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that tightened
the scope for set-asides. While no rule can really be set in stone,
this one is too new and the matter too dear to the hearts of too
many people to be tampered with just yet.

In addition, no one would be surprised if the lack of bids for
construction projects is part of a deliberate plan by White con-
tractors to withold response so as to sabotage the set-aside prog-
ram by forcing changes such as this one being proposed. The
Superintendent last Wednesday hotly refuted suggestions that
there may be big prublems in the overhaul bid process and that
affirmative action was being made a scapegoat. However, that is
an understandable conclusion in the absence of any indication
that other areas have been explored and found to be satisfactory.

There is also great concern over the comments of some of the
Board members during their short statements before the first
vote last Wednesday. One said the business of the Board is to
build schools, implying that it is not to help non-White contrac-
tors and sub-contractors share in the billions of dollars of tax
money collected in a county that is over 70 percent non-White.
That is alot of hogwash and it certainly did not apply in the past
when the School Board ignored the existence of Black contrac-
tors and gave all its business to Whites.

That attitude makes it impossible for such Board members to
appreciate that providing an opportunity for “minorities” to ben-
efit from the contracting process also means setting up mechan-
isms to help bring these “disadvantaged” firms into the fold. Sev-
eral years ago, there were such initiatives but they are no longer
heard about. It just could be that some Board members are
aware that they will be voted out of office and are not particularly
interested in advancing the cause of such an important matter as
ensuring that every opportunity is given to the people who pay
the taxes to share in the projects funded by those revenues.

Thereis a full-scale, frontal attack on affirmative action across
the country, including one again directed at the Metro-Dade
Commission. But elected officials at all levels are expected to
ensure that such assaults are repulsed and they should look
with profound suspicion whenever any attempts are made —
from whatever quarter — to alter the policies which are the
foundations of the now much-maligned initiatives to help make
up for the rampant discrimination of the past.

The School Board in the recent past stuck its collective neck
out to defend affirmative action and its set-aside components, at
one stage, over 10 years ago, taking the fight all the way to the
U.S. Supreme Court at the urging of then member Dr. Barbara
Carey. Nothing has changed since then to warrant a softening of
the policy. There may be disputes in other parts of the nation but
anybody who is acquainted with the situation in Dade County
knows that there is still a far way to go before equality of oppor-
tunity becomes a fact of life here.

Just ask the 49 percent of Black Miamians who, according toa
University of Pittsburgh study, live below the poverty line.

Keep the SUS public

he former Speaker of the Florida House of Representa-

tives, Mr. T.K. Wetherell, recently garnered some

attention when he proposed that the State University
System be privatized, with the nine public universities which it
runs taken out of the public domain. It is not the first time this
has been proposed nor is Florida the only state which is hearing
it. However, it is a misguided proposal that completely ignores,
as do most of these neo-conservative and conservative ideas
now, the history behind public education.

As with public grade and high schools, the public universities
allow the children of the poor to obtain a college degree which
otherwise they would never be able to afford. Compare the fees
charged at these universities, which include Florida Internation-
al University and Florida A&M University, with those at the pri-
vate universities and the answer will be very evident. Private edu-
cation, by its very nature, is not intended to cater to those who
are not of some financial substance.

If the Wetherell proposal is based on the financial state of the
State University System, which it is — falsely — being made out
tobe, the answer is not to turn the universities to the private sec-
tor; itis to find better ways to use the state's financial resources.
At the same time that such a drastic step as privatization is being
proposed for the public universities, the Governor and others are
recommending that billions of dollars be directed to building
more prisons and hiring more prison guards, police officers and
judges.

Privatizing the universities would inevitably lead to fewer
children of the poor obtaining a college degree and generally
aggravate the conditions that produce young people prone to the
same sort of anti-social behavior that some are seeking to
address through more prisons and a bigger criminal justice and
law enforcement bureaucracy.

Surely there must be people in this state who can be smarter
and more creativity than this.

A loss to Miami

|

he tragic circumstances that surrounded the death of
retired Miami Police Col. George Adams robbed the city of
one of its pioneers and, to his last days, a fervent activist
for Black Miamians.

Mr. Adams, who, police said, was involved in a suspected
murder-suicide, was one of the first Black officers in the city
police force, battling the fierce discrimination of his day and then
the less obvious forms of bias that still persist. As a member of
the Civil Service Board, following his retirement, he put all his
efforts into ensuring that the ordinary city employee was not vic-
timized by the bureaucracy. '

He more recently won admiration — and became the nemesis
of the unions — for his insistence that residence in Miami should
be a requirement for those who work or seek jobs with the city.

His passing is a loss to the community.

The HE. SIGISMUND REEVES, Founder
Vo. Audit
Bureau

GARTH C. REEVES, JR., 1951-1982

MOHAMED HAMALUDIN, Editor

Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations

GARTH C. REEVES, SR., Publisher Emeritus

RACHEL J. REEVES, Publisher and Chairman

Member of National Newspaper Publisher Association
Member of the American Newspaper Publishers Association

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By BRADFORD E. BROWN

The Miami Times editorial on
Feb. 23 urged the NAACP to imme-
diately begin addressing the legi-
slative attack on African Ameri-
cans in Washington. Let me assure
everyone that the a
NAACP is on the
case. °

Immediately
following the
board meeting in
which Ms. Myrlie
Evers-Williams
was elected
Chair, the NAACP
on Feb. 20-22
convened a
national legislative mobilization
led by the NAACP Washington
Office under its director, attorney
Wade Henderson. With the assis-
tance of now acting executive
director Earl T. Shinhoster and all
regional directors, branch rep-
resentatives from all over the coun-
try — Florida to New England, New
York to California and many states
in between — studied legislative
issues, worked on strategies and

BROWN

é African Americans are being made a scape-
goat and our rights are under attack from legi-
slative districts with African American elected
officials to equitable recruiting for jobs, to col-

lege scholarships.

¢ African Americans are being made a scapegoat and
our rights are under attack from legislative districts
with African American elected officials to equitable
recruiting for jobs, to college scholarships. ®

visited senators and
representatives.

Currently, the House of Rep-
resentatives is ramrodding legisla-
tion with virtually no opportunity
for public consideration of their
full impact. Attention must be
placed on the Senate, where there
can be a more deliberative process.

The NAACP board has already
adopted policy opposing the
balanced budget amendment.
While not opposed to efforts to
move towards a balanced budget
and to reduce the burden of debt

payment which make it difficult to
appropriate funds for constructive
programs, the NAACP is against a
constitutional amendment as bad
economics. It will place those with
the least power in jeopardy
because that is where the draco-
nian cuts will be made. African
Americans, the first fired in eco-
nomic downturns, will be hardest
hit without the ability for the Fed-
eral Government to borrow funds
during the recession. The amend-
ment could have a devasting
impact on African Americans.

Letters To The Editor

Loss of Dr. Coats to Miami is gain for Texas

To the Editor:

Before the end of this month,
still another of “Miami's best and
bright” will have thrown in the tow-
el and moved on to more apprecia-
tive grounds, so to speak.

Dr. Sylvia Coats is unanimously
acclaimed as a professional profes-
sional. She is both hard-working
and productive and the quality of
her efforts is extremely high.

Dr. Coats moved here a little
more than 20 years ago from the
little known town of Hastings,
bringing with her the work ethic
and strong social and moral values
of rural North Central Florida. She
was determined to play by the
rules, rules which declare that if
you work hard, “keep your nose
clean” and professionally prepared
yourself, your efforts will not go
unrewarded. She had no way of
knowing that these are not the
rules which govern the reward sys-
tem of Miami.

While working full-time and
starting a new family, Dr. Coats
earned a Master's degree in social
work, which is a terminal degree
for people interested in social work
practice. She was very successful
as an MSW practitioner but,
because she strives for excellence,
she wanted to go beyond the termi-
nal degree and earned the highest
degree possible in the profession.

That winning edge

To the Editor:

Basketball is a game Black boys
have played for a long, long time.
They play in the streets, at the
parks, at school or anywhere they
can find a playing surface. Eighty
percent of the players in college
and in the professional ranks are
Black. Most of the big-name stars
are Black.

In Miami, the trends are the
same. Most of the players are
Black. The team with the best
record is Miami High; a Black team
with a Cuban coach; Miami Nor-
land, a Black team, White coach;
North Miami, Black team, Cuban
Coach; Miami Northwestern,
Black team, Black coach.

The team with the biggest —and
best players, Northwestern, can't
win the important games. They
always lose to the less talented
team Miami High.

Northwestern needs some help
to get over the top. Since there are
no plans to replace the coach, they
need to bring in the only man in
Dade that has been a winner
wherever he has been, regardless
of the talent.

He coached at Miami Central
and won a state championship. His
teams at North Miami Beach have
won with the worst talent in Dade.
Everyone knows whom I speak of.
Northwestern deserves a winner.
Anything less won't count.

Mark Anthony
North Miami Beach

Without relinquishing or even
diminishing her duties as a mother
and housewife, and while still fu
employed, she enrolled in a doctor-
al program and completed it in
record time — producing a brilliant
dissertation from her collection of
original data.

Upon receipt of her Ph.D, Dr.
Coat continued to work at the same
job. In spite of her new credentials
and long history of high level and
innovative performance, she was
summarily passed over for promo-
tion over and over again. Eventual-
ly, it became clear to her that, if she
remained in Miami, she would
stagnate. Miami seems not pre-
pared to relate to its “best and
brightest,” specifically if they are
Black.

Within weeks of circulating her
resume outside of Miami, very
lucrative job offers began to pour
in. Sincere and thinking people
were highly impressed by this
woman's credentials and work his-

tory and were paying for her to
make a personal visit to their

lly respective agencies for on-site

interviews. Dr. Coats is even more
impressive in person and it is little
wonder that many out-of-state
agencies heavily recruited her.

Not without tremendous agony
did Dr. Coats make the decision to
leave Miami, a decision she
thought that she would never have
to make and a decision which she
should not have had to make.
Miami's inability or unwillingness
to hold unto its competent African
American people should shame us
all and force us to take a closer look
at the part that decision makers
play in creating a community of
mediocre “professionals” who pro-
vide mediocre services.

So, I say good luck to Sylvia and
congratulation to Texas, the new
beneficiary of her genius, industry,
and motivating spirit.

GILBERT L. RAIFORD
Miami

Floyd Williams was the hero

To the Editor:

The real business hero from the
“Dream Team,” who successfully
strategized for election victory
through a block vote at Miami's
White House Conference on Small
Business, was Floyd Williams.

Mr. Williams, founder and presi-
dent of Electronic Key Inc, a
10-year-old telecommunications
company, gave up his seat on the
six-member small business group,
narrowing the number to an elect-
able five, the total number of bal-
lots and individual delegate could
cast.

Floyd grew up in Liberty City
and graduated from Miami North-
western Senior High, turned over
not only his vote but more than five
other votes of colleagues who had
come to support him.

Linda Cooks-Taylor had already
retreated the night before the con-
ference to join the National Associ-
ation of Women Business Owner's

voting slate. Linda is to be congra-
tulated for having the foresight to
make it easier for our team. But it
was Floyd who, mid-morning on
conference day, said, “I'll drop out,
so you guys can be sure to win.”
He did it willingly, as did Dor-
othy Baker and the Miami-Dade
Chamber of Commerce when they
first convened the group, along
with the Black Business Associa-
tion, the Greater Miami Chamber
of Commerce, Tools for Change,
Allied Minority Contractors Asso-
ciation, Contractor's Resource
Center and the Minority Business
Development Centers of Miami /Ft.
Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
Glenda McQueen and her hus-
band Mike of GM Communications
are also to be congratulated for
creating our campaign literature.
We thank you and all of those who
voted for us. ;
BOBBIE MUMFORD
Miami

Who are the ‘minorities’?

To the Editor: :

It seems to me that a few of the
very same people who are duly
elected to represent the citizens of
this great nation the United States
of America, fail again and again to
read the fine print.

In the not to recent past, the
leaders of this great nation were
moved to redress past wrongs com-
mitted against people of Japanese
ancestry, who were given monetary
rewards. It is my understanding
that affirmative action was insti-
tuted to redress past wrongs
inflicted upon the Black man in
America by the legalized institu-
tion of slavery. I assumed that to
mean to redress the past wrongs
inflicted upon the Black man in

America who is a citizen of this
great country.

The straw that broke the camel's
back was and is one word “minori-
ty.” In the confines of the United
States of America, that includes
everyone, with the exception of the
Anglo Saxon.

May I also state that numerous
numbers of these minorities are
non-citizens. Nor are they descen-
dants of slaves. Thus, scrutinize
the 10 percent set-aside policy and
decide which minority gets what
percentage. My question to the
law-makers is: Who gets the
remaining 90 percent?
JAMES T. ROBINSON
Miami

NAACP is on the offensive against attacks

The board passed a resolution
strongly supporting Dr. Henry Fos-
ter's nomination to be Surgeon
General. Dr. Foster's 30-year
career in the finest African Ameri-
can institutions — Tuskegee and
Meharry — along with his efforts to
reduce teen pregnancies by provid-
ing for the development of positive
self-image and life skills puts him
in the forefront on today’s critical
public health issues.

With regard to the crime bill
revision, the NAACP supports
keeping and strengthening the
crime-prevention measures,
opposing attempts to destroy
them.

The NAACP is working to deve-
lop a position paper on specific wel-
fare reform issues and opposes the
tenor of the current punitive
approach to change. We all know
the system is not working and,
while African Americans are made
a scapegoat in the media, African
Americans did not design the sys-
tem. From the NAACP's perspec-
tive, the key to getting people off

‘welfare must be the availability of

jobs, support in health and child
care and training to enable indivi-
duals to not only successfully
enter the working world but also to
stay there.

Foreign affairs are important
also, with attempts in the works to
ignore Africa and cut all aid fund-
ing. U.S. policy toward Haiti is also
in danger in this Congress.

There are attempts being made
to repeal the “Motor Voter Bill" to
keep it difficult for voters to regis-
ter. The NAACP will fight attempts
in Congress to repeal it. Obviously,
some folks don't feel people need to
vote unless they are well off. The
NAACP will also fight to get those
states refusing to implement the
bill to do so, including supporting
lawsuits. Florida has put the bill
into effect and voting roles are
increasing.

The NAACP is on record sup-
porting on increase in the mini-
mum wage. This is an important
component of efforts to provide
viable jobs for persons on welfare.

Affirmative action is under
attack. Delegates witness the
debate and vote to eliminate the
tax incentive for owners of media
stations to sell to minorities. Witha
tax write-off, minority ownership
increased from 0.5 to 2.0 percent
— scarcely a tax over. Greed com-
pels some folks to want it all. With
the tax write-off, sellers seek out
minorities who otherwise would
never even find out a station was
for sale. The NAACP will be working
across-the-board to defend affir-
mative action. It is very interesting
that, while the greatest beneficiar-
ies of affirmative action have been
White women, it is on race that the
attacks are being made.

This current period is similar to
the effort in the 1820s leading to
the Dred Scott Decision of the Sur-
preme Court, saying African
Americans had no rights under the
Constitution, to the efforts to
establish segregation after Recon-
struction and to the backlash after

World War I. African Americans are
being made a scapegoat and our

rights are under attack from legi-
slative districts with African
American elected officials to equit-
able recruiting for jobs, to college
scholarships.

The Miami-Dade branch was
represented at the mobilization by
attorney David Honig and myself.
The branch will be an active part-
ner with the NAACP’s Washington
Office in the desperate struggle
against these attacks.

The branch needs help to work
on these issues. Write to Senators
Bob Graham and Connie Mack.
Letters should be addressed to:
U.S. Senate, Was! on, DC,
20510-2203. Send a copy to your
representative: U.S. House of Rep-
resentatives, Washington, DC
20515-1101. : :

If you have questions and/or
wish to work on these issues, call
the Miami-Dade Branch of the
NAACP at 933-4332 and leave a
message of your interest so we can
contact you. :

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THE MIAMI TIMES

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Tomorrow’s history makers

‘Youth across the nation were given an opportunity once again
‘this year to enter an essay competition in hopes of becoming
:MacPonald’s Black History Makers of Tomorrow. Among
‘those who won was a Miamian. Here is her essay and those of
two other winners designated tomorrow’s leaders.

| Deliverance for our people

By EDIDIONG IKPE
Miami
. Since woman has always
. symbolized birth and new life, it is
» no wonder that she has the power

« to deliver her race from the evils of

oppression. Outofa
dreams, Black
people have risen.
However, the epi-
tome of Black his-
tory has not yet
‘been reached; §
African American
. society still suf-
fers in need of
direction.

I, Edidiong
“lkpe, am deter-
‘ mined to chal-

lenge the current path of African
Americans. By educating Black
« youth, serving as a role model for
society and striving to unite my
* people worldwide, I stand resolute
to my struggle to improve our
* future.

Knowledge is power, I firmly
beilieve that the first step to a suc-
cessful future involves education
of Black youth. As a Black female
in a predominantly White school, I

St of twisted

IKPE

realize the significance of educa-
tion. Many African American tena-
gers do not get enough incentive to
remain in school. In 1993, I started
lecturing Black youth on the
importance of leadership and edu-
cation. I visited a number of cities
with my message, “Follow your
dreams. The outcome is worth the
struggle.”

Unsatisfied with lectures alone,
I formed the Akwa Ibom Youth
Organization (AIYO). The group's
main goals are twofold. We raise
funds to build schools and support
hospitals in Nigeria. Furthermore,
the AIYO, which is strictly run by
youth, promotes a large education-

Val awareness program during

Black History Month. Through this
program and tutoring, I am helping
to create more Black leaders for
tomorrow.

What good is a leader who can-
not generate respect? A true leader
of tomorrow must be someone that
society can emulate. I strive tobe a
role model for my peers and an
asset to our society. A straight “A”
student since freshman year, I
aspire to first become a physician.

Later in life, I will stindy law and

attempt to influence politics. I feel
nothing is impossible with God's
grace, proper timing and true
determination. This zealous mind-
set has earned me respect among
even the most negative of my peers.
I feel compelled to have a positive
influence over people's lives. After
all, how can new leaders emerge
without strong examples?

I can change the course of Black
history by serving as a diplomat for
my race. As an American-born
Nigerian, I have the ability to join
the hands of people worldwide.
Because I speak English, French,
Ebibio and Spanish, I can act as a
liason between Blacks internation-
ally. African Americans need to
unite with one another and others
around the globe. This can be
accomplished through open com-
munication and understanding
between nations.

We have seen too many tears
and heard too many cries for help.
Only together can African Ameri-
cans light the darkness. Unity is
the strongest weapon we have.

Knowledge, Heroes and Unity
are the sole catalysts to change for
Black society in the future.

One who dares to be different

By HILDA “TRENISE" GAUTIER
Baton Rouge, LA
I plan to make an impact on
Black history through the minis-
tering of the celestial instrumenta-
tion of the harp. Because of a
Korean woman's ministry to me, I
have become the first African
American harpist in the southeast-
ern part of the country. I have also
inspired and encouraged four
other African American girls to be
different. They also desire to play
the harp and have proven to their
peers that daring to be different is
often: the key to success.

In today’s communities and
societies, parents must encourage
their children to find their talent,
this procedural task should begin
around the tender age of 3. At that
age, 1 was studying the piano, tak-
ing dance and voice lessons, mod-
eling, undertaking grooming clas-
ses and most, importantly master-
ing the harp. Because of the great
training I have been exposed to, I
have grown up to understand the
importance of educational and
instrumental success.

I am already making an impact
on Black history. I am currently
doing so by proving to my peers
and all of mankind that I can make
as much money playing the harp
for one hour as one can by selling
drugs on street corners all night.

I plan to continue making an
impact on Black history by encour:
aging other Blacks to show an
appreciation for the yirtuosity of
the harp.

By establishing the African
American Harp Academy, a prog-
ram designed to increase the num-
ber of Black harpist in the United
States. 1 envision increasing the
number of African Americans in

¢ I am already making an
impact on Black his-
tory...by proving to my
peers and all of mankind
that I can make as much
money playing the harp
forone hour as one can by
selling drugs on street
corners all night. *

the field from less than one percent
to a comfortable number of per-
forming harpists in the areas of
orchestral performance, ensemble
music, solo works, professional-
ism and semi-professionalism.
This performance-based music
education organization will pro-
vide talented young people oppor-
tunities to experience a varied
repertoire of orchestral, solo and
ensemble experiences. Students
also will interact both musically
and socially with youth of similar
talents and interests. These minor-
ity students will develop the skills
of musical reading, aural discrimi-
nation and performance tech-

niques; learn about the creative:

genius of minor and major com-
posers of all historical periods and
experience the joy of expressive
music making on a instrument
that dates back to Biblical days in
the “Mother Land,” Africa.

The academy would include an
elementary-level African American
Harp Junior Ensemble where bas-
ic harp technique is taught and
reinforced. Their music reading
ability will be expanded, chamber
music listening skills developed
and interaction with a conductor
extended in the context of music.

The County Commission last week granted approval to Aventura resi-
dents to hold a referendum on their demand that they be allowed to form

DEANGILIS GIBSON
Brownsville
I think it's a good policy. Alotof “I

our communities are giving these
tax dollars but are not reaping any
benefits. My parents in Leisure
City can't even get street lights in
their area. In cities, people have
more of a say in where their money
goes.” ;

their own city. The OK is being viewed as a victory also for other areas

JANET JOSEPH
Carol City

agree. I was complaining
about how they allow the grass
grow so high. I had a hard time get-
ting them to cut it. We should form
our own city because they're not
taking care of our area. There
should be more actions by ‘the
county in maintaining our
neighborhoods.” !

These young African American
harpists will achieve a characteris-
tictone on theirinstruments, func-
tion effective playing at both the
strong and soft ends of the dym-
namic spectrum and exhibit skill
or show progress in the tuning of
their instruments independently.

The African American Harp
Youth Academy will also consist of
advanced level high school har-
pists. I will teach basic techniques
as well as advanced performance
skills. Their music reading ability
will be expanded, as will their
chamber music listening skills and
interaction with a conductor. The
master class will focus on music
written by eminent composers and
noted arrangers. Exposure to sig-
nificant repertoire such as over-
tures, suites, symphonies and
tone poems — just to name a few —
are enhanced and extended
through actual performance of
individual movements, concertos
and solo opportunities.

The African: American Harp
Academy student would occas-
sionally work with nationally and
internationally recognized musi-
cians. Students would also per-
form special community concerts,
in addition to three major concerts
per season.

Every student completing the
African American Harp Academy
will be able to proclaim, “Not what
we have, but what we use. Not what
we see, but what we choose.” These
are the things that more or less
encompass our future.

My faith as an African American
harpist is like the light, simple and
unbending, while my love of music
is like the warmth from the sun in
the “Mother Land,” beaming forth
on my harp from every side.

A prince who would be king

By MICHAEL THOMAS McKNIGHT
Croften, MD

My given name is Michael
Thomas McKnight but, by my
achievement, I can be called Adey-
emi, which means “the crown suits
me well” in Nigeria. I plan to make
an impact on Black History by con-
tinuing tobe what I've always been,
a prince suited to wear the crown. I
am not conceited. With all the
attacks on young Black males
today, I just will not diminish a
single gift God has given me.

First and foremost, my family
has given me the values to know
right from wrong. I do not drink,
smoke, fight, do drugs, have sex,
and I have the courage to let every-
one else know that I do not. In a
White school within a White neigh-
borhood, a Black prince cannot
just do right; he must advocate
right. As Adeyemi, the crown suits
me well, I will lead my fellows tow-
ard glory.

The Lord has also blessed me
with intelligence and insight: With

these tools, I have built a com-
manding defense against racism
and oppression. In eight different
schools in three states and three
sections of the country, I have been
number-one in my grade. From
public schools to a military-run
school to even a private, Catholic
high school, 1 have not been
defeated by the White majority.
The work pays off when White stu-
dents come to me for help or when
the teacher uses me as an example.

Impressing my classmates is
important, because the future
leaders in my honors classes will
remember that they looked up to

an African American, sought help ~

from an African American.

The “A”s I earn will take me to
the forefront of any field I choose.
Dr. Ben Carson is considered the
leader in brain surgery; I am going
to be the leader in biochemistry,
nuclear physics, architecture or
politics. You ask how? By knowing
so much that the world needs me
and cannot afford to exclude me.

As Adeyemi, the crown of morality
and knowledge suits me well.
Whatever field I decide to go into,
I want to be king. Second place is
never enough for an African Ameri-
can; I have to be first. And that is
fine for me, because being number
one is the only way to crush ste-
reotypes. Being at the top is the
only way to be a role model. God
has given me the advantages of two
caring parents, a good education, a
safe community and an abun-
dance of opportunities. To thank
Him, I am going to lead my people
as Adeyemi; the crown suits me
well. :
Others have the same gifts and
opportunties but they won't make
animpact. I willmake an impacton
Black. and American history
because of my aspiration to stand
out above the rest. Whether it is a
test, a football game or racism, I
hate to lose, I hate to be defeated. I
will not be denied the responsibili-
ty of leading my people. I am Adey-
emi; the crown suits me well.

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School uniforms are welcome

By MARC MATHIEU

On Feb. 2, Dade County Public
Schools became the first public
school district in Flordia to make
school uniforms mandatory if
parents vote overwhelmingly in
favor of them. The
new policy is a
step further than
the previous rule
which made uni-
forms voluntary.

The rules in the
uniform policy
are as following:
Ninety percent of
a school's parents
have to be in MATHIEU
favor. The uniforms will consist of
the school's colors. Students still
may were buttons, arm bands and
other articles of clothing that illus-
trate free speech. Furthermore,
exemptions will be granted for stu-
dents to wear uniforms of national-
ly recognized groups (i.e., Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts) and those
whose religious beliefs would be
violated by wearing the uniforms.

The uniform code is long over-
due. Each year, hundreds of kids
in Dade County are victimized
because of an expensive pair of
shoes, ridiculed over their clothes
or alienated by peers on account of
what they choose to wear. Simply
said, students behave as if they're
not mature enough to wake up in
the morning, put something on

Should more cities be incorporated in Dade County?

that would like to secede from Metro government because, they say, of
poor services provided to their neighborhoods. They include a North Dade
area that residents want to incorporate into a city known as Destiny. Cri-

ZACHARY GARMON
Liberty City

“If it would make a change, yes,

community have theirs? If it will

LEWIS HARRELL
Liberty City

“They should because we will be
I'm for it. Key Biscayne have their able todeal with problems immedi-
own city, so why can't the Black ately at hand, rather than slowing

the pace down. Residents know the

make things better, then think we needs of the community and how

should have it.”

to react to those needs.”

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and focus on what's on the chalk-
board, rather that what's on their
peers.

But a policy of mandatory uni-
forms has negatives also. Mainly, it

would take away from the creativi-’

ty that a difference of clothes bring.
But the positive outweigh the loss
of personal choice.

School uniforms have been cre-
dited with improving attendance,
behavior and school spirit. Uni-
forms would also make it easier for
security guards to spot intruders
and they eliminate the gangs prac-
tice of identifying one another
through brands of clothes.

Economy-wise, parents pockets
would also benefit. The uniforms,
which are priced between $15 and
$45, would lower the amount of
money that parents spend per year
on clothes.

The new dress code would also
eliminte peer pressure to wear
expensive clothing, thus placing
the focus on school work — which
is (contrary to popular belief) the
purpose of school.

Of course, free-speech advo-
cates are lining up to oppose the
rule. They say the new dress code
interferes with students’ rights to
express themselves. Unfortunate-

Youth viewpoint

ly, these advocates have failed to
realize that, in today's public
schools, students’ safety, rather
than free speech, is the number-
one concern.

Each day, 16 students state-
wide are either knifed, jumped or
gunned down by delinquents who
walk the halls preying on the
innocent.

Administrators (who have their
hands ties by laws) are forced to
witness the bloodshed. Teachers,
in fear for their safety, lose power in
the classroom, where the hood-
lums are in charge. Students are
forced to mingle with those indivi-
duals heedless of the law; they risk
their safety five times a week, eight
hours a day, to receive an
education.

The mandatory uniform law is
the first step in putting the schools
back into the hands of parents,
teachers and administrators.

The issue is not one of free
speech versus oppression of the
First Amendment. It's safety over
the right to wear expensive name-
brand clothing. I'm confident if
polled most students would choose
the former.

Marc Mathieu is a student at
Miami Jackson Senior High School.

tics argue such moves will hurt the county's poor neighborhoods because
of the resulting shrinking of the tax base. The Times asked the community

about this issue.

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Little River

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6 THE MIAMI TIMES

Thursday, March 2, 1995

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African Americans and MDCC

Challenge Center is success
story that should be replicated

By BRIAN PETERSON
Second in a series
Miami-Dade Community Col-
lege has many outstanding faculty
Jnembers who provide challenging
courses which bring about
impressive gains in student
academic
achievement.
These faculty
members are
being deservedly *
honored with
endowed chairs
through M-DCC'’s
innovative
Teaching/
‘Learning Project
(T/LP). __ PETERSON
, This project, begun in 1986, has
improved faculty motivation by
-making tenure, promotion and sal-
‘ary improvements dependent on
‘improved teaching performance.
Many worthwhile innovations have
‘taken place in the classroom as a
result of this project. So far, howev-
er, it has not produced dramatic

ains in student academic
achievement. Many faculty mem-
‘bers and administrators at M-DCC
feel that the time has come for a
new set of curricular reforms
‘which more directly impact stu-
‘dent academic achievement levels.
Inspite of the T/LP, M-DCC still
has some burned-out faculty
members who put in minimal
effort. Too many courses are
taught by under-paid, part-time
adjuncts who have only a limited
‘commitment to the institution and
their students.
, M-DCC students continue to
complain that some classes are
‘taught by rote and with an empha-
sis on the simple regurgitation of
facts. Some humanities and social
science courses require no read-
ing. In the name of addressing bas-
ic skills, many M-DCC courses
-have been so watered down that
they are no longer interesting and
intellectually challenging for the
students.

‘The Challenge Center

~ Beyond academic concerns,
nationally, a key reason for stu-
dents’ dropping out of community
colleges is failure to find a secure
social niche on campus. M-DCC
has partially addressed this prob-

courses. Seattle Central Commun-
ity College has such courses in
humanities. They are team-taught
by two to four instructors. Stu-
dents sign up for an average of 15
credit hours. The whole class
meets together most days but each
instructor meets with a smaller
group one day per week.

Each inter-disciplinary course
is different from the others and
students have choice. For
instance, one class is on “Our
Ways of Knowing: The African
American Experience.” Classes
can integrate history, sociology,
art, music, political science, and
English around the course theme.
Readings are linked to films, lec-
tures, field trips, group and indivi-
dual academic projects, and crea-
tive artistic projects.

At M-DCC, such inter-
disciplinary courses could also be
created for pre-collegiate basic
skills and for an integrated
approach to math and science.

In these interdisciplinary
courses, both faculty members
and coorperative student learning
groups can provide assistance to
students falling behind. Close per-
sonal relations can be established
between students and their teach-
ers and between fellow students.

Seattle inter-disciplinary students
are 29 percent more likely to
remain in college during the sec-
ond year than are other students.

M-DCC could set up inter-
disciplinary courses which meet
on various schedules to accommo-
date a variety of student work and
family obligations. Each inter-
disciplinary course could generate
more active learning at a higher
level by students than is currently
being generated in five three-hour
courses. In other words, the stu-
dents would do more reading and
reading at a higher level. They
would do more writing and more
varied writing. In inter-
disciplinary science/math
courses, they would do more
experiments and math problem-
solving.

Through measures such as
these, M-DCC could establish a
new level of success on the CLAST
(College Level Academic Skills
Test, necessary in Florida to
become a junior in a State univer-
sity) and student retention, while
simultaneously, improving stu-
dent and faculty satisfaction and
intellectual fulfillment.

Dr. Brian Peterson is a history
professor at Florida International
University.

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Unfair criticism of the college

By DORETHA GRAHAM NICHSON

Brian Peterson's articles are
usually very enlightening. He has
used his research and policy
analysis capabilities to give a
community-oriented perspective
on school board issues that is a
great benefit to those of us who are
struggling with the challenge of a
school system where Black child-
ren continue to leave without an
education.

However, recently Prof. Peterson
has moved into other areas of
social commentary. Specifically,
his Feb. 16 column on Miami-Dade
Community College raises ques-
tions of objectivity and his opin-
ions seem strongly biased in favor
of his home turf of Florida Interna-
tional University.

Having been an administrator at
M-DCC for 15 years, I can speak
with authority regarding the bene-
fits of a comprehensive community
college to urban, under-prepared
youth such as many who graduate
from Dade County (‘inner city”)
Public Schools. Peterson points
out a number of textbook critic-
isms of the American community
college system. But, the realities in
the Dade County and M-DCC do
not necessarily fit the national
profile.

African American students who

attend M-DCC do so for a number
of reasons: low SAT or high school
achievement scores; lack of funds

In reponse

to pay higher tuition costs of four-
year colleges; unwillingness to
move away from home, job and
family responsibilities; lack of
commitment to higher education
orreadiness to pursue a Bachelor's
degree. It is not the “two-plus-two
system that causes the vast major-
ity of community college entrants
to fail to achieve the bachelor’s
degree.” Conversely, many stu-
dents attend M-DCC who do not
even have a desire for a four year
degree. It is the wide range of prog-
ram offerings, including, but not
limited to, the AA/transfer degree,
that makes a comprehensive com-
munity college attractive to urban
students.

Attending a community college
offers the student an opportunity
to overcome academic and even
some socio-economic obstacles
and prepare for a successful exper-
ience in employment and/or upper
division studies. Many of these
students would never go to a four-
year college or, if they chose to,
would not be admitted or could not
earn a degree. Those who succeed
at the community college (whether
it takes two, three, or four years)
will be able to take advantage of
transfer opportunities or may
choose to re-enter the educational
mainstream later, after a break for
work, raising a family, or growing
up.

For every African American stu-
dent who leaves M-DCC and does
not immediately transfer to upper
division, there are numerous
others who go to a four-year college
and drop out after one or two years.
To change community colleges to

If we accept that there is a place
for both community colleges and
four-year state universities, we can
then focus on the real issues
related to increasing the number of
Black students graduating from
high school with reasonably
adequate basic academic skills.
These well-prepared high school
graduates will then have the same
options as anyone else and can
choose the appropriate institution
for their continuation education.
Reducing the options by killing off
the community college serves no
one well, not even state university
system.

Finally, the argument that M-
DCC has low standards, inadequ-
ate curriculum and a lack of com-
mitment to retention is polemic, at
best, and certainly not true.
Improve the performance of K-12
public schools, adequately and
fairly fund the community col-
leges, ensure financial aide to all
students who demonstrate seri-
ousness of purpose and genuinely
create a learning support system
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The dog that barked and other tales; reflections on the O.J. case

A law professor’s view

By D. MARVIN JONES

Gene Hackman, in a forgettable
movie about another trial, stated
that “This is not a courtroom, it's a
rabbit hole and we, like so many
Alices, have fallen in.”

He might as
well have been
talking about the
0.J. Simpson
case. In this case,
we seemed to
have stepped into
a looking-glass
world which is a
caricature of the
legal world as we
have known it.
Here there is no
clear boundary between cour-
troom drama and soap opera,
between tabloid gossip and wit-
ness testimony, in which judg-
ments are made to depend on a
defendant's “spooky looks,”
whether a dog barked, and what
the defendant supposedly
dreamed.

Evidence appeared and disap-
peared. Leaks from shadowy police
sources that they had found an
entrenching tool that O.J. Simp-
son used and a bloody ski mask
that he had worn appeared in print
as authoritative inside informa-
tion. Later we learn that these
incriminating items existed only in
the realm of the imagination.

The door between official truth
and fiction swung both ways. In
June, two socks found in O.J.
Simpson's bedroom were exa-
mined jointly by defense and pro-
secution experts and found unre-
markable. In August, the prosecu-
tion “discovers” there is blood on
the socks, plenty to test for DNA.

JONES

Presumption of innocence
In this topsy-turvy place, consti-
tutional ideals were turned upside
down. Marcia Clark, began the
prosecution of O.J. Simpson
before any arraignment had taken
place, without presenting any evi-
dence, by castigating him as “the
sole murderer.” This, in a real
sense, stood the presumption of
innocence on its head. Subse-
quently, a chorus of -policemen,
agents of the state and the prose-
cution would nightly condemn
O.J. Simpson as guilty. Life imi-
tated film as Gil Garcetti portrayed

0.J. Simpson as the fugitive and
himself as Tommy Lee Jones,
speaking of Simpson's 30-mile-per
hour ride in the back of his Bronco
asa “wild chase.” The climaxin this
melodrama of inquisition, of
instant judgement, of trial by tele-
vision came with the playing of the
infamous 911 tapes.

There has, to this date, been no
evidence, much less proof, that the
911 call, the so-called terror tape,
was associated itself with an inci-
dent of actual violence. A woman's
seemingly frightened voice — a
voice that was assumed to be
Nicole's —and aman's threatening
mutterings which were assumed to
be those of O.J. Simpsons were
enough. This was the convenient
springboard for the court of public
opinion to reach a verdict of O.J.
Simpson, not just about the inci-
dent but the case itself.

A dog's wail

Because the police inexplicably
delayed calling the coroner for 12
hours, no effective determination
of time of death could be made. Yet
the time had to be fixed within a
small window to exclude an O.J.
Simpson alibi. So the prosectuion
has a witness testify that he heard
a dog's “plaintive wail.” A dog.
Sherlock Holmes in “Silver Blaze”
once solved a case involving the
disappearance of a racehorse. He
deduced from the watchdog’s fai-
lure to bark that the thief was the
trainer whom the dog “knew.” But
at least Holmes's deductions did
not require us to read into a dog's
bark a specific statement about
sorrow and loss.

Personification aside, Lassie
aside, can one attribute human
emotions to a dog's bark in the
night? Is the dog wailing at murder
or at the moon? How does this dif-
fer from hearing a cat caterwaul-
ing, or a pig squealing, or a cow
mooing? For a while, I wondered if
the prosecution would attempt to
bolster the wailing dog by calling
Old McDonald as an expert on ani-
mal sounds.

In a trial in which the issue was
who did it, the prosecution shifted
the focus to the seemingly irrelev-
ant question of whowas O.J. Simp-
son. It became difficult to discern
at times whether the prosecution
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your Life” — or engaged in a mur-
der prosecution.

Feminist spin

The images cascaded across the
screen, testimonial snapshots of
17 years of marriage, of bedroom
arguments over O.J.’s sexual esca-
pades, of allegations about O.J.’s
reference to his wife as a fat pig, of
boorish crotch-grabbing, of beat-
ings, apologies strung togetherin a
lurid, incoherent mosaic of marital
discord. While the prosecution
offered the radical feminist spin
that all of these items showed a
desire for domination and control,
the same interpretation is avail-
able in each of the 1.8 million mar-
riages in which domestic battering
occurs every year in the United
States. However, less than one out
of 100 people who batter also
murders.

Logically, “there's no there
there” to this argument. But, for
the prosecutor, it is not logic that
matters; it was the theater, the
Oprah-like storytelling of sobbing
witnesses, some of whom sobbed
on cue, that mattered.

Of course, none of this was even

remotely related to providing the
identity of the killer. To say that
this was gratuitous character
assassination is an understate-

ment. This trial had become a war
and O.J. Simpson's character was
being carpet-bombed. Making a
mild obeisance at the altar of the
rules of evidence, the prosecution
proffered that this kaleidoscope of
negative images had something to
do with motive. Marcia Clark's
nose should have been growing.

The element of race

0O.J. Simpson became the issue
because the prosecution had
appropriated his image as a meta-
phor for the social problem of
domestic violence. It is now possi-
ble for an abused woman to say,
“He O0.J."d me“! No matter most
domestic violence is committed by
White men, no matter there was
only one proven instance of domes-
tic violence in O.J. Simpson's life;
the eight calls to the house were
processed as proofof guilt. Accusa-
tion was received as fact, innuendo
and hearsay were credited as
truth; O.J. Simpson's face become
the face of spousal abuse.

Lurking, in the shadows of this
bizarre trial is, of course, the figure
of race. It sneaked into the case in
the way Nicole Brown and Ronald
Goldman have been portrayed, or
shall we say, constructed. They
have become angelic presences,
conjured up through sympathetic
photographs. Never is there an

inquiry into their background for
clues as to how the murder might
have occured. They are presented
two-dimensionally as figures in an
narrative about innocent White
victims. The policemen involved
dragged in a certain racial baggage
with them. This “O.J. Simpson
show” that we have been watching
is brought to us by “I am not a
racist” Det. Furman and the L.A.
police department — the same
department that brought us the
Rodney King affair.

Image of the beast

The incubus of race crept in also
through the deeply coded rhetoric
of the prosecutors and their wit-
nesses. Simpson was a Dr. Jekyll-
Mr. Hyde. On the outside, he was
the Hertz rent-a-car spokesman;
on the inside, he was a beast. I
would have hoped that, at this
point in our history, after years of
Black men being referred to as a
lower order of human life, as ani-
mals; after the Rodney King case,
in which racist referred to a Black
neighborhood as something out of
“Gorillas In the Mist”; after Willie
Horton; all America would have
stood up and denounced this latest
attempt to knot together, once
again, the image of a Black man
and the image ofa beast. There was
only silence.

Denise Brown talked about the
“dark look" she notice on Simp-
son's face. Darkness is in the eye of
the beholder. If Simpson appears
“dark,” it is part because of the ten-
dency in our way of speaking and
thinking to associate Blackness
and evil. Black day, black heart,
black mood, blackmail, blackman.
We black ball someone from the
fraternity; we blacken someone's
name.

The rhetoric of the witnesses
was crafted to invite the jury to
mediate on O.J. Simpsonn'’s phys-
iognomy, which, is, of course,
black. It was to exploit the mythol-
ogy we have built up about “dark
things,” a mythology which traces
back, in a Freudian sense, to the
black body itself.

Racial essence

This is, indeed, a trial about
blood — not merely that which was
found at the scene in Brentwood
but blood as river of racial essence.
It is about the link between blood
and suspicion and whether a Black
man can get a fair trial, charged
with the murder of his White wife.
The whole proceeding, in the media
and in court, has about it an atmo-
sphere of emotionalism and suspi-
cion that can only be likened to
hysteria.

I hear in the rush to judgment
the turning upside down of notions
of presumptions of innocence, the
racialized rhetoric, an echo of the
Scottsboro boys case. There is no
lynch mob physically outside the
courtroom but the theme that runs
through both cases is that every-
thing is driven by the identity of the
defendant, by the state's and publ-
ic's fear of a person because of who
he is, their fear of batterers, their
fear of dark things, their fear o
crime itself. !

I don’t know what the verdict will
be in this case but I know that, in
this travesty which has occured,
the media, the courts, the prosecu-
tors, society itself is far from inno-
cent. In a real sense, we cannot
pretend to be in Kansas anymore
— and we can never go home again.

Donald Jones is a Professor of
Law at the University of Miami,
School of Law where he teaches
Constitutional Law and Criminal
Procedure. He is presently working
on a book tentatively title Race, Sex
and Suspicion, a work exploring the
criminal cases of several prominent
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White speculators led the push for new housing for Miami’s Blacks

By RAYMOND A. MOHL
Fifth in a series

In the late 1940s and early
1950s, several other real estate
developers and builders became
active in the urban land market in
transitional neighborhoods. Two of
these men, John
A. Bouvier and
Malcolm B. Wise-
heart, were well-
known Miami
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Bouvier was also a member of
the Dade County Zoning Board
during this period and was thus in
a position to influence policy deci-
sions on housing issues. Through
several real estate development
companies, notably South Kings-
way Corporation and Fiftieth
Street Heights Inc., he and Wise-
heart were actively buying proper-
ty in transitional areas for Black
housing.

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ald in 1949 announced their
“Kingsway” project in Coconut
Grove. “Better Homes for Better
Negroes” read the ad. Located on
the fringes of existing Black deve-
lopment, the Kingsway project
pushed out the boundaries of the
ghetto.

Similarly, Fiftieth Street Heights
Inc. ultimately built 20 large two-
story apartment buildings on the
White edges of Brownsville.

¢ The opening wedge

Bouvier and Wiseheart were
also the owners of the Knight Man-
or apartment complex in the White
Edison Center area near Liberty
City. In 1951, they renamed part of
the complex Carver Village and
rented apartments to Blacks, with
the explosive consequences men-
tioned earlier.

Neighborhood Whites believed,
apparently with good reason, that
the movements of Blacks into
Knight Manor was the opening
wedge for designating the entire
area for Black residency, with the
landowners and realtors profiting
immensely. In fact, property-
transfer records indicated that
Bouvier and Wiseheart had pur-
chased a large amount of vacant
land in the Edison Center neigh-
borhood. They were well positioned
fo profit from any racial transition
of the area.

If Wesley Garrison was manag-
ing the racial transformation in

Brownsville, Bouvier and Wise-
heart were instrumental in facili-
tating the territorial expansions of
Liberty City.

A somewhat different form of
second-ghetto expansion was
facilitated by Luther L. Brooks,
who represented the interests of
Overtown slumlords for more than
30 years. He managed and later
owned the Bonded Collection
Agency, which, by 1960, repre-
sented more than 1,000 White and
Black landlords who collectively
owned more than 10,000 rental
units; mostly in Overtown.

A power broker
Managing a fleet of radio-
dispatched cars, Luther Brooks
was the best-known White man in
- Black Miami, as well as a power
broker of sorts in White Miami. He
. began collecting rents for Miami
slumlords in the 1930s, so he was
well aware of efforts to relocate
Blacks from the Overtown area.

Defending their investment in
Overtown rental housing, Brooks
and the slumlords bitterly fought
against the new Liberty Square
public housing project in the
mid-1930s.

In the late 1940s and early
1950s, Brooks led the real estate
interests in their fight against
urban renewal and public housing
and he initially opposed the Over-
town route of Interstate 95; all
these projects destroyed down-
town slum housing and threatened
the profits of the slumlords.

According to a Miami Herald
investigation of slum housing in
the early 1950s, those profits were
very high, averaging 23 percent
annually on invested capital.
Thus, the interests of these down-
town slumlords were quite diffe-
rent from those of such second-
ghetto builders as Davis, Garrison,
Bouvier and Wiseheart.

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around Liberty City.

Brooks and the slumlords had
come to recognize the profit poten-

‘second ghetto’

The making of the

The construction: of the Miami
expressway system, with its mas-
sive destruction of downtown slum °
housing, ultimately led Brooks and
the slumlords into the second
ghetto. Once they realized that the
expressway route was irrevocable,
they also recognized that thou-
sands of Overtown Blacks would

need new housing somewhere else
and that the slum owners could
transfer their activities to Browns-
ville, Liberty City and nearby White
areas of transition.

By 1960, Brooks and the
Bonded Collection Agency had
decisively embraced the second
ghetto. For years, the Overtown

slumlords had resisted the
encroachments of the central busi-
ness district. In 1961, however, in
a long Herald article about him,
Brooks publicly announced his
support for the expansion of the
business district into Overtown
and the consequent relocation of
the entire African American. .com-

Miami Herald's urban affairs
reporter wrote of Brooks in 1963,
he “helped break the boundaries of
the old Negro ghettos,” moving
Black families “into border areas,
then pushing the borders.”

In the absence of any official
relocation efforts until the
mid-1960s, the Bonded Collection

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Agency conducted an unofficial
relocation program of its own, pro-
viding the moving trucks as well as
the relocation housing in second-

tial of the second ghetto. As The ghetto areas. Through his role as a

rental agent for Black housing,
Luther Brooks emerged as an
important shaper of Miami's sec-
ond ghetto.

Dr. Raymond A. Mohl is chair-
man of the department of history of
Florida Atlantic University in Boca
Raton.

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Thursday, March 2, 1995

- Fashions for

the new season:

Tie-dye in savvy shades from
Le Cove

ith winter on the

way out and

spring and sum-

mer just around
the corner, the fashion-con-
scious are beginning to look
ahead to the change of sea-
sons and department stores
are keeping up with the trend
as usual.

JCPenney, for instance,
has softened its fashion mes-
sage. Silhouettes relax
around the body and fabrics
become more fluid.

“This season, the look is
simple and understated,
never fussy,” says Lucille
Klein, fashion director of the
store's women’s division.
“This is not about a fashion
revolution. In fact, the most
important styles are an evo-
lution from sesaons past. The
looks are new, soft and femi-
nine, without being extreme.”

Fabrics add necessary
ease. Silk, linen blends, crepe
and fine-gauge knits provide
gentle reminders of the sea-
son’s inspiration, according
to her.

“Lightweight fabrics also
have some subtle texture,”
says Klein. “Look for ribbing,
lace or crocheted touches.”

from Arizona

Details are more delicate
as well. Scalloping, faggoting
and pintucks create tempting
trims. Pleating adds welcome
motion. Self-fabric ties wrap
it up. Important buttons act
as tiny accessories.

Even colors take a softer
stance. Shades ranged from
very pale, sun-kissed pastels
to rich, rubbed darks. Blue,
from the traditional navy to
lively aqua, gets thumbs up
approval as a color to collect.

“We've been in seasons of
neutrals for such a long time

Continued on Page 2B

Sunny suits for pool or pavement

Perky plaid button-front dress from Arizona

Soft fabrics,
lots

Miami-Dade Community College:

Seeking reunion with community through mock marriage

iami-Dade community

College's North Campus

recently “married” the

Dade County community
as part of a major collegewide cam-
paign to increase the understanding o
the the public and legislators of the
importance of the Florida community
college system and its impact on the
state.

Some 800 North campus adminis-
trators, faculty and students, col-
legewide administrators and commu-
nity leaders witnessed the “nuptials”
in a pastel-decorated tent featuring all
the customary trimmings.

Dr. Robert H. McCabe, president of
Miami-Dade, was the father of the
bride; Georgia Ayres, community
activist and director of The Alternative
Programs, was the mother. Marilu
Santiestevez, a North Campus student
was the bride, representing the cam-
pus and James Thomas, a deejay at
WEDR was the groom, representing
the community. Dr. J. Terence Kelly,
campus president, was the best man.

Ana-Marie Fernandez-Harr, presi-
dent of IAC Advertising, was the maid
of honor and the bridemaids were stu-
dents from the North Campus Hialeah
Center, the School Film and Video,

Continued on Page 2B

'Marilu Santiestevez, student at Miami-Dade's North campus, was the bride, representing
the college, while James Thomas, program and music director at WEDR radio, was the
groom, representing the community at their mock wedding conducted by Darwin
Gearhart, director of the W.L. Philbrick School of Funeral Sciences, in a symbolic reason

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Section B

Florence Simkins Brown
New librarian of
North Miami Beach
‘too good to be true’

lorence Simkins Brown is a vet-
eran librarian. She's been in the
book business 35 years but
that's about the only thing tradi-
tional about this municipal manager.

She is a fun librarian. She effuses.
She cajoles. She comforts. She's always
on the go and is extremely intense, ener-
getic and interesting.

“The thing is library work can be very
exciting,” Brown, the new director of
North Miami Beach's city-owned library,
told the reporter recently.

She showcased on Tuesday the
improvements made to the North Miami
Beach library, when she hosts a black-
tie grand opening, at 1601 N.E. 164th
St. Elected officials from North Dade are
expected to attend, along with about
150 people.

Continued on Page 2B

Natalie Jackson is a model with the
Black Models Network. rhotosmn

So you want to
be a model?
Here’s your chance

hinking about a career as a
model? Would you like to look
and feel more confident about
your own beauty?

Most models are created an developed
and made more beautiful and confident
through education and the professional
models at Black Models Network will
host a series of four-hour workshops
focusing on a realistic approach to
entering the highly competitive field of
modeling.

The workshops will be held on
Saturdays and each class will be limited
to no more than 15 students to ensure
individual attention.

Black Models Network has, for the
past three years, provided the South

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THE MIAMI TIMES
Thursday, March 2, 1995

2B

Chatter That

Matters

Rev. Canon Fr. Kenneth Major
and his Mardi Gras dance commit-
tee played hosts to over 1,200 peo-
ple at the Mahi Shrine Temple, last
Friday night, for the Church of the
Incarnation's annual dance. It was
reported that Fr. Major was all
smiles from seeing the over-flowing
crowd, especially with the new
church under construction. The
occasion inspired all such folk as
LaClyde and Vernon Clarke, Flor-
ine and Richard Welch, Oscar
Jessie, Mildred McKinney, Sybil
Johnson and Lona B. Mathis to
take their ice chests loaded with
Bahamian delicacies.

VeraWyche, Helen B. Williams
and Delores Collie did not miss a
beat from the 9 p.m. beginning to
the 2 a.m. conclusion, because the
D.J. played the oldie goldies of the
Sixties, evident when Thomas L.
Albury, Fletcher Paschal, Judy
and Elliott J. Scavella demon-
strated “the Twist,” “Hully Gully”
and “Chicken Scratch.”

Others in attendance included
Annette and John Williams,
Cynthia and William Clarke, Bet-
ty Major, Mary Ferrell, Bloneva
Higgs, Bernice Danderhoudt,
Olga, Ethel Ingram, Lillie
Daniels, Iris Shirley and entour-
age, Berthenia White, Evelyn
Davis, Julia Smith, Vernell
Green, Geraldine Wright, Bishop
Michael Elden of Nassau, Baha-
mas, and Bishop L. Gomez of
Trinidad.

The Saturday morning program
at Second Caanan Baptist Church
included a Black History forum for
the young people in attendance.
Dr. Thedford Johnson, pastor,
opened it by introducing Dr. Pre-
ston Marshall. coordinator, who
made brief remarks and then intro-
duced Dr. R.J. Strachan, who

North Miami
Beach gets a
top librarian

Continued from Page 1B

The library has more than
doubled in size. thanks. in part.
to a state Library Grant, and has
been redecorated into a bright,
airy facility in soft art-deco colors
of teal and peach.

Brown replaces Marjorie Foley,
the library director for 10 years,
who died last fall.

Michael Roberto, city manager.
recalls interviewing Brown for the
$58.300-a-year job and conclud-
ing she was “too good to be true.”

The other candidat es. Roberto
says. “were very qualified people
but | couldn't find the personali-
tv with the energy to match the
opportunities — until Flo.”

Brown takes impressive cre-
dentials to North Miami Beach.

For eight vears, she super-
vised 28 : libraries and
bookmobile services in Baltimore,
MD. For five years before that.
rected the library system in
ngton Del.. and was the
librarian at the Maryland
State Department of Health.

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orancn

she di

She is on several policy com-
mittees of the American Library
ition and was an executive
Black
1 a delegate
'hite House Conference
Library and Information
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Library program

The North Miami Beach Library
on Monday began a week-long
series of cultural programs to cele-
brate its reopening and renova-
tion. They range from art displays
to seminars.

Events still remaining are: this
B Thursday. an estate planning
seminar, sponsored by the Dade
County Bar Association, and
Saturday. “Florida Girls and Yank-
ee Women.” a one-woman show by
Nancy Hasty.

Through March 31, there is a
mixed media artwork exhibition
courtesy of Bonnie Nielsen's com-
merical art class of North Miami
Beach Senior

High.
For further information, call the

library at 948-2970.

|

gave a presentation that took the
audience to Africa, New Orleans,
where jazz was born, and back to
Dade County, in recognition of out-
standing African Americans from
Congresswoman Carrie Meek to
Frederica Wilson, School Board
member.

Those present included mem-
bers of Boy Scout Troop #40, Jas-
per Finser, Master, T. Willard
Fair, Dr. Thomas Ferguson, Dr.
George Ellis, Jamal Marshall,
grandson of Dr. Marshall, who
gave a reading and Gladys Tay-
lor's granddaughter, who read “I
Rise” by Maya Angelou.

* ® - . - * * *

When Jessie Rutherford
decided to have an African Ameri-
can setting, she asked her guests
to wear an African attire to comple-
ment her planned dinner. Some in
attendance dressed as kings and
queens, princes and princesses,
were Ollie and Robin Rutherford,
Calvin and Jessica Farmer, Regi-
na and Martha Scott and Calla
Rutherford.

Lona Brown Mathis, director,
and Connie Dillard, assistant,
took the Isisexettes of Kazar Court
#117, Daughter of Isis, on an edu-
cational trip by Trirail to West Palm
Beach, recently. Also on the trip
went Girthia Cook Hart and Dr.
Charlie Albury, Commandress,
Alaina Puyol, Shameka Stevens,
Laketha Miles, Charline Smith,
LaToya Johnson, etc. They visited
the malls and took a tour through
the middle-class Black
community.

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THE MIAMI TIMES

3B

People

In celebration of Black History
Month, Dade County Alumnae
Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sor-
ority invited some of Miami's most
prominent pioneer women to share
their experiences and achieve-
ments with seventh-grade
and talented “Stars” of PROJECT
2000: S O S. The “Stars” enjoyed
interviewing Nancy Dawkins,
Martha Day, Dorothy Graham,
Wilhemenia Jennings, Ruth
Jones and Sheba Martin. Odette
Pitter Adderly was coordina-
tor.... The Alumni Track Group of
the Louie Bing Track Classic hon-
ored the following for “going the
extra mile to insure that young
people gain wholesome experi-
ences while participating in sports
on the high school level,” at its
recent annual awards banquet:
Samuel Burley, Richard Gaskins,
John Hammontree, Mary Jack-
son, Dr. George Koonce Jr., Mike
Phillips, Roosevelt Richardson,
Richard Reilly, Vernon Wilder
and Katie L. Williams. Gwendo-
lyn Maxwell and Wayford Davis
were cited at the track classic.

* * * * * * * *

As part of its month-long tribute
to African Americans, the Miami
Police Department honored 26
“Outstanding Black Women of the
Nineties Tuesday in the lobby of
Police Headquarters: Barbara M.
Carey, Vickie Frazier-William,
Daisy Black, Nancy S. Dawkins,
Jessie Trice, Georgia Ayers, Car-
rie Meek, Larcenia J. Bullard,
Elaine Black, Adora Obi Nweze,
Bea L. Hines, Beryl Roberts-
Burke, Thelma Gibson.

ALso, Betty Ferguson, Gwen-
dolyn Pittman, Frederica Wil-
son, Josie Poitier, Helen Miller,
Evelyn Hicks, Athalie Range,
Gwendolyn Boyd, Jane Carnigie
Tolliver, Thijuana Walker,
Francena Thomas, Marthenia
“Tina” Dupree and Rolanda
Dorancy.

*® * * * * LJ * *

Marilyn Annettee Lee, Maga-
lie Mardy Vallon and Sheila A.
O'Brien-Smith received their dip-
lomas with honors at the Jackson
Memorial Hospital School of Nurs-
ing commencement exercises.
They were among seven African
American women in the graduat-
ing class of 34. Other graduates
were Eda Lee Harriott, Coleen
Jennive Lynes, Mona-Lissa Pail-
liere and Chrystel P. Willis. Allare
Miami residents, except Pailliere,
who lives in Hollywood. ...Ten Flor-
ida Atlantic University first-year
students were selected for the
State University System's new
Minority Scholars Program. They
include Natalya L. Wilkins of
Miami, electrical engineering.
...Dr. Asa G. Hilliard, noted histo-
rian and expert on African and
African American history, visited
Florida Memorial College Tuesday
as part of the “Visiting Artists”
series and Black History Month.

Sister Souljah

Dr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Colston
(Lugusta) have houseguests from
Detroit. Charles Wells, an avid gol-
fer, and his wife, Zeralee, are
spending a week visiting; mean-
while, Ernestine and Deliford
Williams spent a few days before
sailing on a Caribbean cruise.
...Cynthia Curry, assistant coun-
ty manager, who is a new member
of the arts center's design selection
committee. ...Calvin R. Mapp,
Dade'’s first elected (now retired)
Black judge, was approved by the
Supreme Court of Florida for judi-
cial service effective Feb. 14.

* * * =» * * * *

The Coalition of 100 Black
Women will celebrate Women's
History Month with a tribute to the
talents and gifts of African Ameri-
can women — fine arts, readings,
quilt-making, jewelry making,
ethnic foods and music, March 26,
2 - 6 p.m. at the Historical
Museum of Southern Florida.
...Frederica Smith Wilson School
Board member will be honored at
“A Touch of Class” luncheon March
24, noon, at the Don Shula Hotel
and Golf Club, following a program
at 9 a.m. at Miami Carol Ci
Senior High School. For additional
information, call 624-2657.

* * * = * * * *

James Hall celebrated his
birthday Saturday, Feb. 25. He is
83 years young. ...Dr. Walter C.
Anders will be honored as “A
Human Service Giant” at a celebra-
tion upon his retirement from the
Metro-Dade Department of
Human Resources, March 13,
11:30 a.m. at the Rusty Pelican
Restaurant. ...Dalhia Major of
Nassau, Bahamas, is spending
three weeks in Miami with her sis-
ter, Dollie Kelly.

* * * =» * * * *

Danny Sue Pritchett was
promoted to principal of Broad-
more Elementary and Thirlee
Smith Jr. was been named assis-
tant principal at Douglas Elemen-
tary. ...The Miami Association of
Black Social Workers will sponsor
a Harambe Banquet at Florida
Memorial College, Saturday,
March 18, 7:30 p.m. African attire
will be featured. ... Terrie and Wen-
dell Rayburn are cuddling a
bundle of joy, Taylor Elayne, born
on Feb. 5. Marcia Saunders is the

proud grandmother.
* * * 2 = * * *

Gamma Omega Chapter
observed the 87th Founders Day of
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Sun-
day, Feb. 26. The observance
began with a worship at St. James
A.M.E. Church and culminated in
a dedication service and lunch at
the Biscayne Bay Marriott. The
guest speaker was the South
Atlantic Regional Director, Lucre-
tia Payton-Stewart. Jessie
Robinson was general chairper-
son and was assisted by the past
basilei. Alice Dean Harrison is
basileus.

coming

to promote her new book

By ALISON HIBBERT
Times Staff Writer

Rapper Sister Souljah, regarded
as one of the most eloquent and
articulate spokespersons of her
generation, will be in Miami March
8 at Afro-In Books-N-Things, 5575
N.W. 7th Ave., at 5 p.m. to speak
and autograph her new book.“No
Disrespect”.

The day before, she will be at at
Books and Books, 296 Aragon
Ave., Coral Gables, at 8 p.m.

Souljah, the activist and hip-
hop artist who had a public dispute
with then presidential candidate
Bill Clinton, tells her story in a
powerful, outspoken and often
angry memoir of growing up a
Black female in America.

Souljah, 30, describes coming of
age sexually and intellectually
through her encounters with those
people who made a lasting
impression on her life: her mother,
first love Nathan, Joseph and
Derek, boyfriends, and Chance,
the man she planned to marry.

She writes about about painful
issues that are not often discussed
in the Black community, challeng-
ing her readers to confront the sta-
tus of the African American family.

“Remember,” Souljah writes,
“no one will save us but ourselves.
Neither God nor White people will
do so. But first we must learn to
respect ourselves. That is the test
we must pass, the promise we
must make to each other, the chal-
lenge of all our lives.”

Souljah attended Cornell Uni-

SISTER SOULJAH

versity's advanced placement
summer program and Spain's Uni-
versity of Salamanca study-aboard
program. She later majored in
American history and African stu-
dies at Rutgers University.

In 1992, her rap album, “360
Degrees of Power”, and video,
“Slavery's Back in Effect”, cata-
pulted her to national attention.

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40th Anniversary Bash on Satur-
day, Feb. 25, at Arcola Park, 1680
N.W. 87th St., from 6 to 11 p.m.

The wedding vows were renewed
before the Rev. Dr. Aaron D. Hall
Sr. A large group of family and
friends were in attendance and the
beautiful affair was enjoyed by
each person present.

The family wishes to thank

everyone for kindness shown
through cards, flowers,gifts and
other acts.

The out-of-town guests
included Mrs. Jennie Mae
Ambrose and daughter Debbit of
Nassau, Bahamas; Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Biggett of Ft. Myers; Catherine:
Stubbs of Delray Beach; members
of the B.T.W. Classes of 1952 and
53 and the Ebenezer U.M. Church
family was in large attendance.

Margaret Joyner takes

on ‘The Slumber Party’

When actress-singer Margarette
Joyner got a call from a struggling
writer looking for someone to direct

her virtually unknown play, she

was a little hesitant, but curious. %

No stranger to South Florida theat-
re, she wanted to be sure she would
be involved with a quality piece of
theatre.

Joyner, now director of “The
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“It's funny sometimes, it pisses
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Joyner, who has performed with
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Assembled to carry off the char-
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Jayne Fastman, portraying the
character Charade, observes, “One
day you look up and realize you
don't really know these people
(friends) anymore."

As the character Gabi, Helena
DeTorres finds the play to be an
eye-opener.

“The thing is sometimes we're
not even aware that we've accumu-
lated much in the way of bigotry
and anger,” she says.

Joining the two on stage are
dancer-actress Eulyce Eason,
young actor Harvey Lockhart, Joy-
ner and Sherie Sturgis as Shari
Miller, who says, “It's refreshing to
be involved in a play that's about
people's lives today. It has all the
elements of life, it's funny, it's
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By ALISON HIBBERT
Times Staff Writer
It was a Black-tie “Celebration of

“That makes it special. They are
role models because they achieve
in their professions and doing a

Excellence” hosted by the Family good job at their jobs.”

Christian Association of America,
the 11th Annual Black Achievers
Program, held Sunday at the
Radisson Mart Plaza Hotel.

The event honored 28 communi-
ty leaders who also excel at the
workplace and chairperson Castell
Bryant said it is pertinent to the
community because it provides an
opportunity for the corporate
world and agencies to showcase

outstanding professionals.

“The achievers are matched up
with members of the FCAA's Teen
Club and give the teens an oppor-
tunity to see areal role model, com-
munity role model who lives in
their communities,” he said.

The Teen Leadership Develop-
ment Club is a co-ed program for
students in junior and senior high
school. One objective is to provide a
channel for the teens to increase
their awareness of educationaland
career opportunities. The teens
choose a career field that interests
them and they are matched with
the Achiever in that field. This
allows them to receive advanced
exposure in the field, Bryant said.

“By the Achievers being
matched up, the teens are reas-
sured that this is what they want to
do, or not what they want to do,”
she said. “The honorees are exam-
ples of committed people who cap-
ture the spirit of excelling by dis-
playing courage.”

Herman K. Williams, president
of the FCAA, awarded the Pres-
idential Award Excalibur to Jerry
Rushin of WEDR. The award is
given to a “magical” role model and
achiever.

“It's great that the organization
took the time out to give me the
award. I must have done some-
thing nice,” Rushin said. “The
FCAA is a great organization and
what makes the award special is
the people who you get it from.”

Rushin, a member of the FCAA,
said he was surprised when Wil-
liams announced that he was the
recipient and admires the organi-
zation for honoring ordinary peo-
ple who have done well in their
professions.

“People think that you have tobe
a lawyer, doctor or Indian chief to
be a role model but they honored
people in maintenance, food ser-
vice and police officers,” he said.

Media workshop

The South Florida Black Jour-
nalist Association and The Nation-
al Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
will hold a joint community forum
on how to access the mainstream
media — how to get your story told.

Any group that has tried to pre-
pare and deliver a press release or
desires to get South Florida media
to cover an event should plan to
attend the panel discussion at the
Joseph Caleb Center, Saturday,
March 18, at noon.

The honorary chairperson this
year was Frederica Wilson, School
Board member and founder of the
500 Role Models of Excellence.

“I think we need to always find a
way to spotlight people who are
making a difference and to encour-
age them and let them know how
much we appreciate them,” she
said. “This program is a mechan-
ism to encourage young people to
see that our community is viable
economically and make contribu-
tions to our community.”

The FCAA honorees are: from
Baptist Hospital, Shredwin Beard,
Elois McCloud, Joseph Smith, Leo-
la Williams and Agatha Ramsey;
from North Shore Medical Center
Lilly Brown, William Donley,
Georgena Ford, Carol Lawrence
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Record companies find special niche in music industry with reggae

By HOWARD CAMPBELL
Caribbean News Agency

KINGSTON, Jamaica — To say
these are exciting times for reggae
music is probably an
understatement.

Since Achieving Grammy status
in 1988, much has been done to
transform the Jamaican music
industry from a hustler’s paradise
to a sophisticated business
venture. '

Reggae music is now accepted
by a greater audience worldwide.
Many are hooked on dancehall,
others are researching the roots of
the music. And it's not just Jamai-
cans who are reaping the rewards
from Reggae’s spreading populari-
ty. Promoters abroad are making
millions annually, many as inde-

- pendent distributors.

These are the best of times for
small companies who make it their
business to ship reggae to fans in
the most remote parts of the world.
Many of these distributors, cash-
ing in after years of playing second
fiddle to the more established
markets of rock-and-roll and
rhythm-and-blues, are now feed-
ing trees to the bigger companies.

Ras Record, Heartbeat, VP
Records, Shanackie, Hightone are
just some of the bigger companies
prepared to sign numerous Jamai-
can acts.

Ras Record, based in Washing-
ton, is probably the best known
and, arguably, the most successful
of these companies.

Founded by Gary, Himmefarb,
an ex-disc jockey who goes by the
pseudonym “Dr. Dread,” Ras
reportedly rakes in $5 million sell-
ing mostly cultural reggae, distri-
buting to major record labels like
Warner Brothers, Polygram and
Virgin.

According to 40-year-old Him-
melfarb, who started the company
14 years ago, Ras, like its counter-
parts, came of age when reggae
went mainstream.

“When we began distributing
reggae, it reached mostly a White
college audience but things have
taken off considerably with the
wave of success the dancehall
sound has had. It has benefited
Ras because we're riding on that
wave,” he said.

Ras leans towards the Marley
line of reggae. The company’s first
release was in 1980, with Peter
Broggs's “Rastafari Liveth” and it
have stood by the roots tradition by
promoting the music of former
Marley proteges Black Uhuru,
Inner Circle and Freddie
‘McGregor.

The company’s bias towards the
roots medium can be seen in its

commitment to acts that have been
left out in the cold. For example,
Himmefarb points to the case of
Israel Vibrations, a band that
would have to look as far back as
1979 for their last Jamaican hit,
“All Got To Sing The Same Song.”

“They've got a huge following,”
says Himmefarb. “A lot of people
don't know that. We got the same
reaction when people heard we
were handling Inner Circle; they all
thought that group was done for.”

Ras released the first batch of
Inner Circle's groundbreaking
“Bad Boys" album which won it the
Grammy awards this year.

“Sweat”, one of the record's hit
singles, was already on its way to
being a big seller when Ras nego-
tiated with Atlantic to promote
“Bad Boys” on a wider scale.

Like Ras, VP Records of New
York and Boston-based Heartbeat
Records have seen a remarkable
upturn in sales, though both cater
to differing markets.

Jamaican-owned VP Records’
catalog is dominated by dancehall
material. Established in 1981 by
the husband-and-wife team of Vin-
cent and Pat Chin, it success in
marketing the modern technobeat
has caught on in predominantly
Black areas such as Washington
D.C., Atlanta, Miami and New York
— their most lucrative markets.

According to VP's label manager
David Sanguinetti, things are
starting to open in a big way with a
more diverse crowd being turned
on to reggae.

“Ten years ago, the only one peo-
ple associated with reggae was Bob
(Marley) but, in the last five years,
the music has gone mainstream
and really gotten big,” Sanguinetti
said.

The ability of VP artists such as
Barbadian-born deejay Rayvon to
cross over into the heavy-selling
hip-hop market has been an added
bonus.

His “No Guns, No Murder,” says
Sanguinetti, is “big on mainstream
radio” with Bounti Killa, Capleton
and Buju Banton, commanding
the “underground” market.

Compilation releases are also
popular.

According to Sanguinetti, VP's
latest various artists effort,
“Strickly The Best,” has been “sell-
ing like mad.”

The company shipped 15,000
copies of that disc alone in Decem-
ber to established retail outlets
such as Tower Records and
Stawberry’s.

Heartbeat specializes in the
Rocksteady sounds of the sixties
and the “cultural vibe" of the
seventies.

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“The demand has. grown con-
siderably. We've definitely made
headway in the last two years by
signing bigger names. Heartbeat is
still not a major label, but we are
definitely a major Reggae label,” he
said.

Like Ras, Heartbeat's catalog is
a diverse one. It has control of the
extensive Studio One (Rocksteady)
catalog and counts roots rockers
like Burning Spear, Bob Marley
and Black Uhuru as its leading
sellers.

Heartbeat's biggest coup came
last year, with the re-release of
Dawn Penn's “No, No, No” single,
which was first recorded at Studio
One in the late sixties.

Featured on a showcase record
two years ago, “No, No, No” gained
prominence on reggae radio in the
state before being snapped up by
Big Beat Records, an affiliate of
Atlantic Records.

The success of the independents
has benefited the smaller Jamai-
can distributors that provide those
companies with material not readi-
ly accessible overseas. Ras or
Heartbeat then expands on that
product, shipping either on com-
pact disc, cassette or, to a smaller
extent, vinyl to various parts of the
world.

Sudanese say
thanks for gift

Broward Community College
donated medical supplies to the
State of Juba in Sudan as part of its
Black History Month celebrations.

Mirghani Salih, First Secretary
in the Embassy of the Sudan,
attended the ceremony to thank
Dr. Carl Crawford, provost of the
South Campus in Pembroke Pines,
and others who helped him secure
donations of books, teaching aids
and other supplies for the Univer-
sity of Juba.

Crawford said after his a to the
Sudan he was presented with a list
of supplies needed by the universi-
ty. After returning to BCC last
April, he gave the list to the com-
munity and appealed for goods.

“Several areas of the community
donated teaching aids to the uni-
versity and many people helped us
with the shipping,” he said.
“They've been experiencing civil
war for a long time and that takes a
lot out of a people.”

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As lucrative as this all sounds,
there are always the snags of the
music business. The biggest hitch,
as far as reggae music is con-
cerned, is the functioning of the
copyyright system which Jamai-
can performers say has proved a
nightmare for them in the past.

Vandermolen, while conceding
that the matter of royalties is a

“knotty issue,” claims that Heart-
beat has dealt with legal affairs ina
forthright manner.

“As a growing label, we are more
equipped to deal with such mat-
ters” he says. “Heartbeat are not
into this business to make a quick
buck.”

Dr. Dread, who was introduced
toreggae through the movie “Hard-

er They Come” and by Marley's
“Catch A Fire” album, echoes Van-
dermolen’s statement.

“Some companies are definitely
init for the glamorbut I think most
independent distributors have
become more professional,” he
stated. “All I can say for Ras is that
we are deeply committed to
reggae.”

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Thursday, March 2, 1995

Dear Reva

Kids need a father’s support

Dear Reva:

I have a brother who has two
kids on the way and he already has
one girl. And it is hard for him to
take care of her. I want to know
why he is going overboadred with
making more kids. — Unsigned
Dear Unsigned:

“Out of the mouths of babes”!

I, too, would like an answer to
this question but not only from
your brother. Countless adults are
making similar
choices and the
rationale for
these decisions is
bey ond
comprehension.

This is the
1990s. It is diffi-
cult to believe
there are adults
who aren't ABI
informed about REED
choices and children. While the gift
of a child is among the most pre-
cious and celebrated, the future of
that child and the means of provid-
ing support should be considered
before the child is born.

Clearly, there are instances
when children are not planned but,
by the time these precious miracles
open their eyes for the very first
time, the parents would have had
an average of nine months to
prepare.

Coming from a single-parent

Kids get chance
to learn about

African culture
at mall festival

By MARGARITA DROGOWSKI
Times Staff Writer

Dancers, storytellers and vol-
umes of information were featured
ata Black History Month presenta-
tion sponsored by the Miami Alum-
nae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority Saturday at the Mall at
163rd Street.

The event was aimed at involv-
ing young people in Black history.

In one segment, there was a quiz
in which the leader would give
hints about a person and the kids
had to say who it was. Some of
those mentioned included Mary
Mcleod Bethune, Langston Hugh-
es, Sidney Poitier and Lena Horne.

“We want kids to know their his-
tory. We're spreading knowledge,”
said Pamela Daniels, a member of
the sorority.

The theme, “Uplifting the past,
celebrating the present and visua-
lizing the future,” was reflected in
the festivities.

Dancer Janine Thompson did
an old spiritual dance during
which she invited kids to join her
on stage.

The Palmetto Senior High
School Aristocrats, a group of eight
16-18 year old students, stepped
to contemporary music. According
to their advisor, Sharon Scruggs-
Williams, the girls did their own
choreography.

“Step is a form of expression and
we wanted to use it to express
Black heritage,” said one of the
dancers.

Shoppers couldn't pass by the
opportunity to participate in the
celebration either.

“Anything that promotes Black-
ness is a good thing,” Valerie Irish
said.

“This is a way for the Black com-
munity to get involved. Anyway,
the more other cultures see our
culture, the more stereotypes will
be taken away,” added Michael
Clarington.

The 250-member chapter
focuses on “the development and
implementation of programs
which enrich the community.

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turing and a visible, hands-on role
model as well.

Since it takes two to tango, let's
not forget the role that mom plays
in having children with no visible

Delta chapter

The Miami Alumnae Chapter of
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
announces its annual “Jabber-
wockâ„¢ will be held Friday, March
24, 7-10 p.m.

“Motown and Mo™ is the theme
of this gala event being presented
at Burdines-Downtown for the fifth
consecutive year. It will feature a
champagne buffet, fashion show
and an awards program honoring
five African American women who
have made, or are making, out-
standing contributions to the

means of support. Countless
mothers have said that they sur-
vive only through prayer and faith.
Still other mothers must seek sup-
port and assistance from state and
federal agencies (support that cer-
tain members of the government
are desperately trying to cut).

At some point, we must start to
take full reponsibility for our deci-
sions. Certainly, if our children
recognize that there is a problem,
can't we?

“Dear Reva” is written by Reva
Reed. She encourages readers to
send questions and comments.
Write to “Dear Reva,” The Miami
Times, 900 N.W. 54th St., Miami, FL
33127.

Black women show low interest
in UM study of common ills

A historic project is beginning at
the University of Miami School of
Medicine to study the best ways to
combat today’s most common dis-
eases affecting women. The project
has received hundreds of inquiries
from women looking to improve
their health but interest from the
African American community has
been surprisingly low.

“A project of this magnitude is
very rare, which is why the
Women's Health Initiative is a won-
derful opportunity for African
American women to participate.
For the first time, we will be able to
closely gather information that
be beneficial to the health of Black
women,” says Selina Smith, Ph.D.,
U.M. assistant professor of epide-
miology and public health and

member of the recruitment com-
mittee. “In addition to receiving
free medical exams in particular
areas as part of the study, the
women who participate will be
helping to improve the health of
future generations.”

Sponsored by the National Insti-
tutes of Health, the project will eva-
luate promising treatments and
preventive steps such ailments as
heart disease, cancer and osteo-
porosis — the leading causes of
diminished quality of life, illness
and death among post-
menopausal American women.
Participants will receive free annu-
al physicals, gynecologic exams
and mammograms, as well as free
transportation or parking at the
study site.

schedules Jabberwock for March 24

South Florida community.

The honorees are: Business, M.
Athalie Range, owner, Range Fun-
eral Home, community activist and
first African American Commis-
sioner, City of Miami; Community
Service, Commissioner Betty T.
Ferguson, Metro-Dade Commis-
sioner, president and founder, UP-
PAC (Unrepresented People’s Posi-
tive Action Council); Education,
Hyacinth O. Johnson, supervisor,
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“Jabberwock,” which began
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In addition to the awards pre-
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artist influenced by the Motown
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Thursday, March 2, 1995

A 4 For THE week oF Fes. 28 THROUGH MARCHS

TOURNEY
ACTION
CONTINUES aes ond NSU's Blitz

V AFTER CIAA 50TH, 61ST SIAC AND
23RD MEAC TAKE CENTER STAGE

BATTLIN'": VUU'S Luther

50TH CIAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT (Results and Outstanding Players) :

MEN

FIRST ROUND
Va. St. 77, St. Aug's 56

ALL-TOURNEY TEAM

GUARDS
Jay Butler, Va. Union

MOST VALUABLE
PLAYER

WOMEN

FIRST ROUND
Va. Union 98, JC Smith 86

ALL-TOURNEY TEAM

GUARDS
Lisa Rice, Norfolk State

MOST VALUABLE
PLAYER

Cornell Penn, Norf. St.
Patrick Herron, WS St.
Reginald Frisby, Va. St.

NC Central 69, Bowie St. 61
WS St. 66, Hampton 65
St. Pau's 79, Fayv. St. 73
Shaw 77, Elix. City 64

Nort. St. 84, L'vngstone 71 FORWARDS/CENTERS

Luther Bates, Va. Union
Corey Williams, Norf. St.
Blitx Wooten, Norf. St.
Ben Wallace, Va. Union
Derrick Bryant, Norf. St.
Thomas Meredith, Va. Union

QUARTERFINALS

WS St. 77, St. Paul's 72
Norf. St. 83, Shaw 62
Va. Union 72, NC Central 64
Va. State 78, JC Smith 73

Hampton 51, NC Central 31
Va. State 79, WS St. 58
St. Aug's 69, St. Paul's 58
Fayv. St. 82, Eliz. City 64
Bowie St 66, L'vngstone 38

QUARTERFINALS

Va. State 83, St. Aug's 78
Fayv. St. 73, Bowie St. 72
Norf. St. 89, Hampton 51
Shaw 77, Va. Union 72

Wanda Wade, Shaw

FORWARDS/CENTERS
Kristi Greene, Norfolk St.
Stephanie Greer, Shaw

" Marqueeta Randolph, YUU
Danielle Hill, Norfolk State

Latina Bullock, Norfolk State

Ben Wallace, Lisa Rice,
Norf. St. 79, Va. State 56 3 games Shaw 82, Fayv. State 68 3 games
Va. Union 83, WS State 68 49 points, 16.3 ppg. Nori. 3t. 116, Va. iste 76 James Sweat, 35 assists, 11.7 apg.
FINALS Dave Robbins, 40 rebounds, 13.3 rpg FINALS Norfolk State 15 steals, 5.0 spg.
Virginia Union 61 Ron 13 blocks. 4.3 bog. Norfolk State 84
ina nk 21-30 FG, 60%
Norfolk State 56 Shaw 59

UNDER THE BANNER

WHAT'S GOING ON IN AND AROUND BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS

MISSING DOGS: The South Carolina State

Bulldogs will enter the MEAC tournament without head coach

Cy Alexander or second leading scorer and rebounder, Desi
McQueen. Alexander has been re-
lieved of his duties until further notice
and McQueen, a 6-8 junior from
Bennetsville, SC has been ruled ineli-
gible. The action was taken by the
university Feb. 24, as jt conducts an
internal investigation of alleged
NCAA rules violations involving the

recruitment of a student athlete in

ALEXANDER: Re-
lieved of duties until
further notice

men's basketball. Benjamin Betts, Jr.,
has been named acting head coach to
replace Alexander, who has declined
commenting on the action. The university says no decision has
been made about the future leadership of the men's program.

MEAC AWARDS: coppin State 6-5, 230 Ib.

forward Stephen Stewart is a repeat winner as the MEAC Player
of the Year. Stewart averaged 15
points and 6.5 rebounds to lead the
first-place Eagles to a 15-1 confer-
ence record, 18-8 overall. Natalie
White, a 5-5 senior guard from Florida
A&M earned the Women's Player of
the Year award. White led the coun-
try with 6.4 steals per game and set a

new NCAA career steal record. She os

STEWART: Repeat
winner as MEAC
player of the year

helped the Rattlerettes post a league-
leading 14-2 conference mark, aver-
aging 12 points, 4.4 assists and 6.4
rebounds. Coach of the Year Awards
went to Claudette Parker (women) of Florida A&M and Maurice
Sheals of Bethune-Cookman. Rookies of the Year are Delaware
State's 6-8 center, Chris Nurse, and Alisha Hill of Howard. Other
all-conference selectees:

MEN - Derrick Patterson, SC State; John Floyd, NC A&T,
Sidney Goodman, Coppin State; Latroy Strong, Bethune-

Michael

were presented to the conference's 14 presidents.

Coke/CIAA relationship
part of the celebration

Lut Williams
BCSP Editor

The longest running partnership between a corpora-
tion and any black athletic conference reached new heights
this weekend as Coca-Cola USA President, Jack L. Stahl,

~ and top company executives made a visit to the 50th CIAA

tournament in Winston-Salem.

Stahl, who oversees the $13 billion worldwide soft
drink giant, made the unprecedented appearance to take part
in the week-long activities and solidify Coca-Cola's 28-year

Coca-Cola USA President, Jack Stahl (I) presents Winston-
Salem State University President, Dr. Cleon H. Thompson, with a
15-piece commemorative pin set honoring the CIAA tournament's
50th anniversary and the 14 conference institutions. The sets

CIAA packs the house; Celebrates 50th

Va. Union men, Norfolk State women win; Others to advance

Lut Williams
BCSP Editor

WINSTON-SALEM N.C. - The
men of Virginia Union and the
women of Norfolk State grabbed
the titles in the 50th annual CIAA
basketball tournament and gained
automatic berths to NCAA Div. II
national play.

The Panthers of Virginia Union
made all the key plays down the
stretch to hold off Norfolk State
and claim their unprecedented
fourth straight CIAA tourna-
ment title, 61-56, before a
packed house of 13,996 at
theJoel Coliseum.

Earlier, the Spartanettes of
Norfolk State spanked Shaw,
84-59 solidifying their national
and regional ranking and assur-
ing themselves of a berth in the
playoffs.

Union, who battled the Spar-
tans all year for CIAA Northern
Division, NCAA South Atlan-
tic Region, and National Divi-
sion II honors, thus gained the
rubber match of their season-

long battle. The teams had split
two earlier meetings with each
team winningonit's home floor.
But they may meet again as both
will advance to the six-team
South Atlantic Regional to be
held March 10-11 in
Fayetteville, NC. The regional
winner advances to the Elite
Eight, national quarterfinals to
be heldin Louisville, KY, March
22-25. :

The question is what confer-
ence teams will join the Pan-
thers and Spartans in the re-
gional playoffs. Johnson C.
Smith, the third-ranked team in
the region, and Shaw, the fourth
ranked team, both fell in the
quarterfinals. Fayetteville State,
rankedsixthintheregion, fellin
the opening round. The bids, to
be announced March 5, will
likely go to JC Smith and Shaw.

Union center Ben Wallace,
who had a dominating 33 point,
18 rebound, eight blocked shots
performance in the semifinals,
was again a force inside, tally-
ing 9 points, grabbing 10 re-

FOUR-PEAT: Victorious Union
squad celebrates finals win.
bounds and recording 3 blocks.
He was named the tournament's
Most Valuable . Player.
Meredith's 19 led the Panthers
in the finals.

CIAA Women's Player of the
Year Kristi Greene scored a
game-high 28 points while
Spartanette playmaker and all-
conference teammate Lisa Rice
dished out 11 assists in their win.
Rice's three game totals of 35 as-
sists and 15 steals earned her the
Most Valuable Player honor.

The Spartanettes are prob-
ably the only conference team
that will receive a bid to the
regionals. Shaw, which entered
the tournament ranked eighth in
the region, has an outside shot.

Cookman.
SECOND TEAM

Ricky Davis, Florida A&M

FAMU; Denique Graves, Howard; Nisha Watson, NC A&T.

SECOND TEAM

Del State.

Art Crowder, Howard; Chris Nurse, Delaware State; Lamont
Parrish, Bethune-Cookman; Keith Carmichael, Coppin State;

WOMEN - Rene' Doctor, Coppin State; Cathy Robinson,

Ericia Turner, Coppin State; Scherrie Jackson, BCC, Angela
McPhaul, FAMU; Renee Walker, SC State; Alfreda Jefferson,

STAT CORNER

WHO ARE THE BEST PERFORMERS IN BLACK COLLEGE SPORTS

FINAL REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS FOR
MEAC AND SIAC
SWAC STANDINGS ENTERING FINAL WEEK

MEAC SIAC
(thru 2/27) (thru 2/27)

CONF ALL CONF. ALL
Coppin 15-1 18-8 EAST

Morris Brwn 8-7 13-11
Clark Atl 7-8 9-17

SC State 11-5 14-12
NC A&T 10-6 12-14

Md-ES 9-7 13-13 Paine 6-9 11-15
Beth-Ckmn 9-7 11-15 Albany St 69 7-18
Howard 8-8 9-17 Ft Valley 5-10 9-15

Morgan St. 5-11 5-21 Sav. State 4-11 7-19
Del State 3-13 6-20

FAMU 2-14 4-21
WEST
s Ala A&M 13-1 24-2
SWAC Miles 95 189
(thru 2/26) Morehouse 9-5 18-6
LeM-Owen 86 17-8
GONF ALL

Tuskegee 59 9-17
Tx Southern 11-2 19-6

Miss Valley 10-4 16-10
Alabama State 8-5 11-14
Southern-BR 7-7 13-12
Jackson State 7-7 10-18
Grambling 5-9 10-16
Alcorn State
Prairie View 3-11 5-20

(thru 2/25)

Tenn State 17-8
Ky State 2-18

OTHER BC TEAMS

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relationship as the major corporate sponsor of the confer- 1995 MEAC BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
ence. The company's only sponsorship of longer duration is Baltimore, MD, T. L. Hill Field House MEN'S PAIRINGS
Coke's over 70-year relationship with the Olympics. March 1-4, 1995 Thursday. March 2
"Coke's involvement in this tournament allows us to hrsoay,
give back to the schools something like $50,000," said SCHEDULE OF EVENTS :
CIAA Commissioner, Leon Kerry. "That's more than half- Tuesday, February 28 Coppin State
amilliondoflars.” | ; TIPOFF BANQUET ~~ Mariott Inner Harbor Hotel 7 pm 1:30 pm
The involvement includes Coke's major sponsorship Wednesday, March 1 Del. State/FAMU winner
of the CIAA television package, the week-long presence of Goering Round (Bamests). 51 C 112,120 33 50470
the travelling Coca-Cola Road show, sponsorship of the Pering o {Oamest-5) oa Smpus lian Bethune-Coomkan
Presidents' Banquet, Men's and Women's Tip-Off Banquets, Junior High School Day 10-2 pm 7:30 pm
High School Days where area high school seniors get the Thursday, March 2 Maryland - ES
opportunity to meet with admissions officials from each Session Il, Games (6-10). Hill Field House 11.30, 1:30, 330, 5:30.79
school and see the exciting hoop aciton and an essay contest Delegate Assembly Breakfast 8:00 am N.C. A&T
whose winners get Coca-Cola/CIAA warm-ups and get to High School Day 9:00 am
serve as ballboys and ballgirls during the tourney. Chedi o 9:30 30 pm
i : : erleader Competition :30 am Howard |
In addition, the arena was lined with Coca-Cola post- Friday, March 3
ers, the streets of Winston-Salem were lined with banners ion II Hill 4 ld H 12 2.4:30.6:30 S.C. State
noting the 50th tournament and Coke/CIAA T-shirts were Session ; i) rig house a 3:30 pm
on everyone from photographers to the championship team. President's Breakfast 8:00am Morgan State
Coca-Cola has also solidified the relationship by hiring Officials Hall of Fame Brunch 10:00am :
graduates of conference schools for positions in the com- Pre-Championship Party Omni Inner Harbor Hotel 10:00p \woMEN'S OPENING ROUND
pany. And it sounds like the company is ready for another 28 Saturday, March 4 Wed., March 1
years with the tournament. MEAC Women's Championship Game 11:00am Morg. State vs. UMES - 11:30 am
"This is one of the smartest things we can do," said Gary MEAC Men's Championship Game 2:00 pm NC A&T vs BCC - 1:30 pm
M. Azar, vice president of the Atlanta Account Group. "It's MEAC Conriissioners Breaklzst. - Mariott ione? Harbor Hold far bowarivs Del. 31, - 330 0
good business and this great event is worthy of our support." Coppin gL. vs SCSI. - 5:30 0
BCSP TOP TEN
; ; ET 1995 SIAC BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
1. COPPIN ST (18-8) - Hottest team in black college Birmingham, AL - Fair Park Arena MEN'S PAIRINGS
basketball with 15-game winning streak. Top seed in MEAC March 1-4, 1995 Thursday, March 2
tourney. a
2. ALABAMA A&M (24-2) Top seed in SIAC tourney from SCHEDULE OF EVES Nala AZM
the West. Nationally ranked and sure bet to go to Div. Il - Wednesday, Watch 1, 1505
playofs ; : Women's Quarterfinal Games Fair Park Arena 2,4,6,8 pm 6 pm
alin a High School Senior Day 12noon Ft Valley/Albany St. winner
3. VIRGINIA UNION (254) - Touma ment championship. Thursday, March 2, 1995
finehes off sparkling rebuilding season. Automatic bidin hand, 0 Men's Quarterfinal Games Fair Park Arena 2, 4, 6, 8 pm Llark-Atanta
A TEXAS SOUTHERN (17-6) - Looks to #1 out season oo SIAC Awards Breakfast Radisson Hotel 9:00 am Moreh 4pm
atop SWAC standings. Will be SWAC ourney favorite. on : Friday, March 3, 1995 orehouse
5. NORFOLK STATE (24-4) - Gallanteffortin CIAA fir Women's Semifinals Fair Park Arena 2,4 pm Morris Biowh
Men's Semifinals Fair Park Arena 6, 8 pm
: 2pm
Saturday March 4, 1995 Le A
Women's Championship Fair Park Arena 4:00 pm
Men's Championship Game Fair Park Arena 7:00 pm Mies.
SIAC Greek Show Miles College 10:00 am ; _ 8pm
SIAC Hall of Fame Luncheon Sheraton Civic Cntr 12 noon —Paine/Sav. St, winner
WOMEN'S OPENING ROUND Wednesday, March 1
Alb. St vs Morris Brown - 2 pm Lem-Owen vs Ft, Valley.- 4 pm Sav. Stvs. Tusk /Miles winner - 6 pm
Al A&M vs. Clark/Paine winner - 8 pm
} BASKETBALL THIS WEEK : )
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1995
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1995 Alabama St at Texas Southern - 7:30p
Kentucky St at IU/PU-Ft Wayne - 8:30p Kentucky St at Ashland - 7:30 pm



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IN THE BLACK

of the African American Community

Thursday, March 2, 1995

@he Miami Times

Section C

4

Business group links up with mayors in plan to rebuild inner cities

A strategy for rebuilding Anieri-
ca's cities was proposed and
enthusiastically received at the
recent Leadership Institute of the
National Conference for Black
Mayors (NCBM) in Miami.

Presented by Global Team
America (GTA), a new organization
of primarily African American bus-

iness owners, it calls for unprece- J

dented cooperation between Afri-
can American entrepreneurs and
African American mayors in edu-
cation and manufacturing.

GTA is built upon the under-

standing that the revitalization of
the inner cities must involve
businesses. It was founded to
orchestrate establishment of suc-
cessful manufacturing ventures in
inner cities, thus creating jobs and

planting seeds of entrepreneurial *

dreams in our children.

Mayor Johnny Ford, of Tuske- .

gee, Alabama, the founder of the
World Conference of Mayors com-
mented, “This is the concept that
can work worldwide.”

He invited GTA to the African-
African American Summit in
Dakar, Senegal, in May.

Mayor Henry Espy of Clarks-
dale, Mississippi, who recently
stepped down as the president of
the NCBM, was elated to see Black
business persons join together to
make a difference in the inner
cities.

Espy was succeeded as NCBM
president by the Mayor of Opa-
locka, Robert Ingram.

Global Team America is the
brainchild of O.J. Webb, an entre-
preneur who has a long-standing
relationship with the NCBM as one
of the sponsors of its activities. At
the 1992 conference in Kansas
City, Webb first promised the may-
ors that he would bring jobs and
manufacturing to the inner cities.
Webb, who is from Chicago, was
one of the coordinators of Harold
Washington's successful mayoral

Some of the members of Global Team America (GTA) are joined by the president and execu-

tive Director of the National Conference of Black Mayors at the NCBM Leadership Institute
in Miami. L-R: O.J. Webb, founder and chairman of the Board of Global Team America; May-
or Robert Ingram, Opa-locka, NCBM president; Ray Callender, president Corporate World
Public Relations/Communications Inc; Samuel Whiteman, president The Whiteman Com-
pany; Gary Montgomery, vice president, Community Education Council, TransEd Inc.;
Charles Colbert, president/CEO, CMC Inc.; James Turner, executive vice president, Com-
munity Education Council, Benton Harbor; James Miller, president American Water Corp.;
Dr. Joseph Russell, vice provost, special projects, Ohio State U; Michelle Kourouma, execu-
tive director, NCBM; Stephen Hightower, president Highmark Corp.; John Ruffin, J/D Ruf-

fin & Assoc. Inc.

campaign. He took his first step in
pursuing the promise to the Black
mayors when he joined with his
Chicago associates, Steve Ander-
son, Jim Wallace and Andy Kovari
and an associate from San Lean-
dro, CA, Jim Miller, in purchasing
a plastic injection molding plant in
the Chicago area. They added a

corrugated box manufacturing
business. -

The next step was a bottled
water business in Auburn, Califor-
nia, and the American Water Cor-
poration was formed.

Webb, as the chairman, and Jim
Miller, as the president, of Ameri-
can Water Corporation then met

with the 355 mayors at their
National Conference in April last
year and assured them they were
continuing to pursue the promise
of rebuilding the inner cities
through manufacturing.

In June last year, Webb
attended the NAACP National Con-
ference and met with Charles Col-

NationsBank chief calls for ‘commonsense’
approach in debate over affirmative action

Calling recent ideological
attacks on affirmative action dis-
turbing, NationsBank Chairman
Hugh McColl recently urged both
the private sector and the govern-
ment to recommit to a partnership
that achieves a “pragmatic,
common-sense approach” to sup-
porting advancement in the work-
place for non-Whites.

While underscoring the impor-
tance of affirmative action, McColl
criticized federal agency initiatives
in this arena that focus on process
rather than results and are
counter-productive to meaningful
progress in the shortcomings affir-
mative action is designed to
address.

“Iam bothered,” he said, “by the
recent ideological siege against the
purpose of affirmative action. Its
opponents claim that it has
fulfilled its mission and should be
abandoned. “I disagree. We. all
want to reach the ideal of a society
whose members are judged by the
content of their character and not
the color of their skin. And we are
closer to that ideal today than ever
before. But deep-seated inequities
remain — and will not correct
themselves."

But, he argued, when the gov-
ernment overreaches in its convic-
tion todo the right thing, it can lose
sight of the intended objective and
fail to deliver results. :

“Process overtakes purpose —
or, worse, becomes its own pur-
pose. Government stops serving

Entrepreneurial

the people and starts serving
itself,” he said.

McColl’s remarks were delivered
in Washington, D.C., during Blue-
print 2000: Communities for the
21st Century, a forum for com-
munity leaders to evaluate and
debate existing community deve-
lopment strategies, while identify-
ing resources and opportunity for
community development.

He urged the private sector and
the government to work hard to
uphold each end of the private-
public partnership, which, he said,
is important to the economic deve-
lopment communities.

“The success of the (private- :

public) partnership hinges on two
conditions,” McColl argued. “First,
that the private sector assumes
more responsibility for the welfare
of its communities, its employees

and its customers. Second, that

the government remains commit-
ted to its role as partner by truly
serving the interests of the people,
by remaining constructive. by
using good judgement and by
focusing on results, and not
process.”

He said he believes the private

sector will be a powerful force in

correcting the inequities of the
workplace on its own.

“But, as the private sector seeks
to go further than the original pur-
pose of affirmative action, its part-
ner in government appears to be
abandoning the terms of the part-
nership,” he said. “As government

Center honors

has pursued this issue, there has
been a tendency for affirmative
action to be transformed from a
useful - business principle and
share objective, to a regulatory
requirement.

“The irony is that the mean-
spiritedness that has character-
ized some attacks on government
now characterizes some of the gov-
ernment’s own tactics. And this
raises the very real possibility of
driving companies that would
otherswise be allies of the govern-
ment into the camp of the oppo-
nents. This threat can be reversed

if government returns toa pragma-
tic, common sense approach to
ensuring the objectives of affirma-
tive action.”

McColl further challenged the
business community to live up to
its side of the private-public part-
nership, not out of some sense of
“do-goodism, but becauseit simply
makes business sense.”

“Our experience at NationsBank
proves that a company can be
enlightened and caring and
human and, in so doing, serve its
own long-term best interests.”

Cosmetics firm gains its
own foothold in Miami

By MARGARITA DROGOWSKI
Times Staff Writer
Revlon and Maybelline have
cosmetics for Blacks. Fashion Fair
was created for Blacks. But Aular-
ale, a Black-owned cosmetics line,
is breaking into the Miami market.
Aularale was created 10 years
ago in Atlanta by Alton and Joanne
Trawick. It's aloe vera-based pro-
ducts are for men and women.
The Trawicks used to work for
Xerox Corporation. When they
realized the potential of their idea,
they quit their jobs and decided to
build their company.
“We had dabbled in cosmetics in
the past. We saw a void and knew
we could make money at it,” Alton

cosmetology

pioneers with first spot on Wall of Fame

By ALISON HIBBERT
Times Staff Writer
Miami-Dade Community
College's Liberty City Entrepre-
neurial Education Center unveiled

a Black Business Pioneer's Wall of

Fame Monday with Mr. and Mrs.
David A. Julius, the first honorees.

Assistant to the Associate Dean
Vicki Augustus-Fidelia said the
idea for the wall of fame came after
the street disturbances, when the
market showed an increase, and to
help revitalize the business
community.

“We wanted to honor people who

have helped to pave the way for the

' Black community,” she said. “The
Juliuses were the first Black peo-
ple licensed to teach cosmetology
here in Miami and in the State of
Florida.”

y

The couple built the local beauty
industry in Miami after moving
from New York in 1936. They have
two daughters who are also
licensed cosmetologist but decided
to go into education.

‘I'm 89 and I'm not moving,"
Mrs. Julius said on a taped inter-
view. “David is 95 and he is
moving.”

The business, Sunlight School
of Beauty and Culture, was located
at 1011 N.W. 2nd Ave. for over 30
years. D.A. Dorsey helped the cou-

ple obtain the place for the school,

giving them space in one of his

buildings.
Inge a conference because

he wanted to know what beauty
culture was,” Mrs. Julius said. “He
said as long as it was going to help
other Negroes, he would be in it."

oy)

When the school opened, three
teachers taught 12 students who
graduated in the first class in
1946. The school's graduating
class eventually grew to more than
275. :

“l always considered that the
students came here to learn,” Mrs.
Julius said. “For an individual to
learn, you have to give them what
is best in the business. You must
serve the people, service is the
most important thing.”

Mrs. Julius gave a word of
advice to those who are in busi-
ness: “Be honest, regardless of who
the individual is. Be a friend and let
them understand that they are
welcome.”

The Juliuses could not attend
the ceremony because they were
il.

Trawick said.

That hunch started them out
with a seven-item cosmetic line
that grew to a 150 in a company
that has been growing steadily by
about 30 percent every year.

Aularale is now known:in 35
states and the Virgin Islands and
its line is sold through direct sales.

“We really didn't want to depend
on a retail chain,” Alton Trawick
said.

In direct sales, there is no heavy
advertising. Most of the sales are
accomplished through word-of-
mouth referrals, which, said Tra-
wick, is the best way to sell.

Miami has one distributor so
far, Kim Lee. She started with the
company in 1991 on a part-time
basis because she needed extra
money to help pay for babysitting.
Two years later, she was selling
Aularale full-time.

Lee, 33, was born and raised in
Liberty City. She says there are
some salespeople in North Florida
and Central Florida but that Miami
is an untapped market loaded with
potential.

“We need distributors. The
ethinic cosmetic industry is esti-
mated at about $5 billion. We want
to make sure that a portion of that
gets circulated back into the Black
community,” Lee said.

To help return some money to
the community, Aularale has set
up a campaign which donates
funds to Black causes.

The firm has a moisturizing
lotion that comes in a bottle which
features listings of historically
Black colleges. Every time a bottle
is ‘sold, 50 cents goes to the United
Negro College Fund, The Thurgood
Marshall Fund or directly to a
Black college or university.

{dr

bert of CMC Inc. and Ray Callendar
of Corporate World P.R. Inc. It was
during that conference that they
raised the idea of reorganizing a
national coalition of business own-
ers that would provide jobs for the
inner cities.

Global Team America was born
at last year's Congressional Black
Caucus, when 15 business owners
came together at Webb's encour-
agement to “participate as a collec-
tive in a business environment.”

The objectives of the organiza-
tion are intended to:

BH Help rebuild the inner cities by
creating jobs

HB Promote quality standards, pro-
ductivity and profit

BW Provide members with giobal
marketing opportunities at mini-
mal costs

MH Establish a single national
marketing source for member Afri-
can America businesses, providing
quality products and services

HB Enhance competitiveness
through team contract bidding
HB Conduct research, evaluation
and policy analyses to enhance
personal development, economic
growth and job creation

BH Provide opportunities for disad-
vantaged and special populations
to succeed in education, training
and work environments
HM Serve as positive role models
and resources for African Ameri-
can youth

A key component is the Global
Team America Entrepreneur
Council, a non-profit organization
designed to “broaden the develop-
ment of our youth through
businessownership training.”

The council will be responsible
for integrating education about
business ownership into the public
school system, developing mentor-
ship and internship programs for
students and influencing public

JOSEPH NICHOLS: owaer of JSN

JSN Mortgage

Amidst a highly competitive
market, located in the hub of the
North Miami Beach business dis-
trict, JSN Mortgage has found a
niche in the world of financing.

In the early 1980's, Joseph

Nichols, then an independent
insurance broker and financial
planner, decided to pursue addi-
tonal means to generate revenue
for his business. Heeding the
advice of an associate; he ventured
into the arena of mortgage bank-
ing. Obtaining a mortgage license
and acquiring business experience
from several South Florida banks
and mortgage companies were two
avenues that have placed the JSN
proprietorship on the road to
success.
' “Although my tenure in the cor-
porate sector was short-lived, I
always had an itch to be indepen-
dent. Independence provides a
proprietor with more flexibility and
latitude,” says Nichols.

Unlike most retail banks and
finance companies, which often
use a nominal number of lenders,
JSN Mortgage deals with a number

(

Fy

policy in support of youth.

Since its inception, GTA has
doubled in size (in spite ofa $1,000
membership fee) and has also
expanded its vision. It is now global
in scope (its original name was
Team America) and, although still
primarily African American in
membership, it includes other his-
torically underutilized businesses,
such as those owned by Native
Americans.

Benton Harbor, Michigan, has
been selected as the site of the first
GTA project, scheduled to start
this year and include a cosmetics
distributorship (15 jobs) and con-
struction of a 100,000-square-foot
facility to store corporate exhibits
(15 jobs).

Based on the response by the
mayors, this will be one of several
projects that GTA will be engaged
in this year. Of the 55 mayors pre-
sent at the recent Leadership here,
21 expressed an interest in GTA's
developing projects within their
cities.

Webb, who is chairman of the
board, said that he was most
moved by the reaction of the
85-year-old mayor of Carlisle,
South Carolina, Janie Goree, who
asked GTA to go to her town to help
her purchase a fire truck she has
been trying to acquire for the last
four years. She said that although
there weren't any hotels in town,
she'd be glad to have the GTA team
to stay as her guests in her own
home.

With national headquarter in

Washington, DC, and offices in 26
states, GTA says it is positioning
itself to address the vital problems
of the inner cities.
HB Anyone wishing additional
information on Global Team
America and its activities may call
the executive director, Dr. Joseph
Russell, retired vice provost of
Ohio State University, at (614)
431-9900.

mortgage

finds niche

of lenders and offers a variety of
financial programs and services.

“We utilize both conforming and
non-conforming loan programs to
assist those clients with tarnished
credit or financing problems,” says
Nichols.

A person who has filed for bank-
ruptcy or who has been rejected for
a loan by other lenders may be
approved through JSN due to its
large lenders’ pool, he said.

A native of South Florida and a
product of Dade County Public
Schools, Nichols holds a business

. management degree, has affilia-

tions with several organizations
and is an the Peoples Credit Union
board of directors.

He believes that his business
acumen will be a vital asset to
South Floridians, as well as people
nationally and internationally.

“A successful business. must
expand its market to a board clien-
tele if it expects to thrive and flour-
ish. We at JSN are swiftly climbing
the rungs of the financing ladder,”
Nichols said.

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Thursday, March 2, 1995

New threat to Black businesses
Civil Rights Journal

It's ironic. At the same time that
there are efforts to eliminate or
drastically cut welfare payments to
the poorest of the poor, there are
also attempts to :
end government &
programs which |
were established
to help people of
color who own
businesses.
These programs
encourage gov-
ernment contrac-
tors to set aside a y
certain number of JACKSON
contracts for businesses owned by
people of color, many of whom
would find it difficult or impossible
to compete for these contracts
otherwise. It feels like we are under
siege from all sides.

According to the National
Minority Suppliers Development
Council, the number of businesses
owned by people of color in this
country is rising. They estimate
there are 1.5 million such busines-
ses nationwide, with annual
revenues that could go as high as
$100 billion. That's good news, not
only for these business owners but
also for their communities and for
our country, because most jobs are
in small businesses and busines-
ses owned by people of color are
often located in their own com-
munities and employ higher per-
centages of their own people. More
businesses owned by people of col-
or mean more jobs for our
communities.

But a case now before the U.S.
Supreme Court endangers many
small businesses owned by people
of color. In Adarand Construction
vs Pena, Adarand Contracting
Company of Colorado is challeng-
inga U.S. Department of Transpor-
tation program that encourages
large contractors to subcontract

with disadvantaged businesses’

through financial incentives.
Under this program, members of
so-called minority groups and
women are presumed socially and
economically disadvantaged and
other small non-minority owned
businesses can be included, if they
establish that they are socially and
economically disadvantaged.

In this case, Adarand, a White-
owned business, did not receive a
contract for providing highway
guard rails; it went instead to a
Hispanic busifiess because the
prime contractor received a
$10,000 bonus for using a disad-
vantaged business. The suit
charges that this violates Adar-
and'’s owner's right to equal protec-
tion under the 5th Amendment to

- By Bernice Powell Jackson

the Constitution.

The government argued that
federal law is a means of effecting a
national policy that was adopted
by Congress and supported by
presidents of both parties and that
the federal government can engage

"more freely in affirmative action

than states and localities, which,
in the past, have not been allowed
by the Supreme Court to sue set-
aside programs for racial/ethnic
businesses. It also pointed out that
this program was based on disad-
vantaged business categories,
which also can include business
owned by White men.

Thousands of those businesses
owned by people of color which are
now doing so well are watching this
case with fear and trepidation.
They are fearful because the
Department of Transporation
alone set aside $2.2 billion in 1993
for diadvantaged businesses. They
are fearful because private indus-
try watches government policies
carefully and adjusts their policies
accordingly. So, not only could
minority-owned businesses’ gov-
ernment contracts be jeopardized;
so too could their contracts with
private industry.

But these businesses are fearful
for another reason as well. They
remember the days of “old boy net-
works” which excluded people of
color for generations. They remem-
ber when people of color busines-
sess were red-lined by banks and
lending institutions and it was
impossible for them to raise the
dollars for the large bonds often
required of contractors. They
remember when prior work
requirements and other so-called
qualifications were used to keep

‘them out.

This country needs strong
businesses owned by people of col-
or. This country needs government
to take the lead in supporting these
businesses and we need private
industry to make areal effort to use
them as well. Maybe one day
racial/ethnic and women-owned
businesses won't need that special
help, but that day certainly hasn't
yet arrived.

Bernice Powell Jackson is execu-
tive director of the Commission for
Racial Justice of the United Church
of Christ, based at 700 Prospect
Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44115.

Firm to pay for hiring bias

MILPITAS, Calif. (AP) & Solec-
tron Corp., recipient of the nation’s
top quality award, must pay
$237,715 in back wages for discri-
minating against nine Black and
Hispanic job applicants.

The Milpitas-based electronics
company’s records show it had far
fewer non-White workers than
those available in the local labor
force, said Alice Young of the San
Jose office of the U.S. Department
of Labor.

“The company had an oppor-
tunity to hire Hispanics and
Blacks who applied,” Young said.
“They were qualified. The jobs
remained open and the company
hired Asians and Whites.”

But Young said Solectron acted
quickly when notified of the prob-
lem during a routine audit.

Solectron officials acknow-
ledged non-White applicants were
passed over but blamed the prob-
lem on poor record keeping, not

intentional discrimination. The
company has now put a better
affirmative action program into
place, said spokesman Jeff Cox.

One beneficiary of the settle-
ment was Aaron Woodson, a Black
manufacturing engineer with 20
years of experience at Internation-
al Business Machines Corp. He
applied at the same time as a simi-
larly qualified Asian colleague, he
said.

The colleague was hired at
$70,000 a year plus incentives.

“They didn't even acknowledge
receiving my application,”

Woodson said. -

Solectron won the coveted Mal-
colm Baldrige National Quality
Award in 1991.

The company grew from 600
workers and $130 million
revenues in 1989 to a $1.5 billion
company with 7,500 employees
today.

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holds no meaning for many people

WASHINGTON — Well, well. It
turns out that the opponents of
affirmative action are really look-
ing out for us chickens.

They are
troubled, they tell
us, that if non-
White and non-
male persons ;
continue drawing Wg
special notice,
folks are going to
think our jobs
and titles and
such are just the
products of chari-
ty — that, without
intervention, we would not, could
not, possibly have attained what-
ever it is we have attained.

The critics say that is the horri-
ble but inevitable conclusion born
of a practice that registersraceasa
qualification.

They abhor the stigma, they tell
us. So, for our sakes, they have
taken up the campaign to stop this
backlash, which can only be done
by stopping the alleged flim-flam
whereby everyone gets hurt.

Since I was taught it is only
polite to greet good intentions — or
even the guise of good intentions —
graciously, I cannot tell these
would-be defenders to put there
sympathy where the sun don't
shine.

Instead, I will presume they are
earnest agents of equity, I will pre-
sume that their concern for our
imagery, their disdain for ste-
reotypes and their love of equality
are not just handsome covers for
what is actually a nasty and selfish
objective — namely, to secure
advantages for the folks who, for
too long, had the only horse in the
race.

This is the dubious exercise but
since I'm unable to prove that the
AA critics have anything but the
honorable intentions they
espouse, | am morally bound to the
presumptions — and duty-bound
to tell these people why their sup-
posed thoughtfulness is
misplaced.

To this end, it's necessary to
recall why affirmative action came
into being.

Certainly, employers and col-
lege recruiters didn't go out looking
for Black, Hispanic, Native Ameri-
can, Asian and female prospects

MATHIS

Deborah Mathis

because they had so many of them
already but, rather, too few; quite
often, none.

We must remember, too, that
the Great Minority Treasure Hunt
that began in the late 1960s and
took off in the 1970s was not trig-
gered by a sudden collective grip of
conscience but, rather, by a little
something written in 1968 by
then-Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner and
10 distinguished government and
civil-rights leaders, convened in
the aftermath of riots the year
before.

What came to be known as the
Kerner Commission Report
lamented that “Our nation is mov-
ing toward two societies, one
Black, one White — separate and
unequal.” Among its recommenda-
tions: recruitment of Black jour-
nalist, Black police officers and
various ways of enabling Black
people to catch up with Whites in
education, housing and small
business.

Such was the birth of something
called “affirmative action” — two
words old to the language but new
as a couple and, thus united, pow-
erful, jolting, norm-busting words.
Combustible words that blew the
lid of the status quo.

Suddenly, having more than
just White men on board was good
for business, good for society, good
for appearances, good for good-
ness’ sake. Affirmative action
helped clear the last frontiers of
integration: executive suites and
Ivy League campuses and cham-
bers of commerce membership
rosters, racquet clubs, judge's
chambers and Rotary Clubs, police
academies, principal's offices and
NEewWSrooms.

There was a string of firsts —
often first and only — always cele-
brated by people who, theretofore,
had been shut out, often noted by
the rest, who put the news in the
paper to document what we all
called progress.

Bear in mind that these achiev-
ers did not awake one morning
suddenly qualified to break the
barriers. Rather, in all likelihood,
they were educated, skilled, per-
sonable, honorable or whatever-

able enough already, having lo
before armed themselves with

what it takes.

But, until affirmative action”
became a policy, no one had
noticed these able-bodied people
because no one cared to look for
talent in their communities.

Affirmative action required the
powers-that-be to acknowledge
that what they were looking for just
might be available in a black,
brown, red, yellow, or female
package.

To the country’s everlasting dis-
grace, the practice has been
abused just enough to give the cri:
tics something to chew on. Just
enough to distract us from all the
good it's done.

Yet, even in those cases where
the less qualified candidate got
preference based on race or gen-
der, affirmative action is defend-
able, considering that one can
hardly blame the policy if some
practitioners believe there's
no such thing as a qualified (All-in-
the-blank), so, cynically, they
accept the first comer who looks
the part.

Therefore, if affirmative action
has a foulness, it is its indictment
of White and male domination.
which did not yield when it had a
chance to do so voluntarily. For-
give us if we suspect that it might
be no more hospitable it left again:

. to its own devices.

Meanwhile, the critics need not
cry for us over the rueful possibility
that some one will think we can't
compete, all things being equal. We'
can and do, when all thing are
equal, but that has yet to become: 2
regular occasion.

Better that they save their teats,
for the ones who still believe in the
inherency of superiority and birth-
right. They're the real victims —
doomed to agony, I suppose, every
time some other one makes a little
headway.

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Claud Anderson is wrong on capitalism but righ

By KENNETH SNODGRASS
NNPA Feature

You are only what you read and
what you don't read. “Black Labor,
White Wealth” is so important a
book that every African American
‘should read it. For me, it was like
‘having a summary of many of the
‘things 1 have been learning, deve-
loping and projecting over the past

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* But while this book is very well
written and enriched with quota-
‘tions from well-recognized African
historians, it will not change
America. We will have to change
America by organizing ourselves to
resolve the problems Dr. Claud
Anderson and other historians and
activists have been saying for
years.

After reading this book, you will
realize why the myth African peo-
ple had little or nothing to do with
the growth of wealth and power in
America is historically a lie.

“Black Labor, White Wealth” is
more than a history lesson. It is
more than anauthor pointinga fin-
ger, blaming Whites. It is a histori-
cal analysis of the unique develop-
ment of America and the unique
role African people played in its
development of power and wealth.
It further makes a excellent
attempt to project solutions, to
change the dilemma African people
continue to find themselves frozen
in.
' As in reading any material, we
need not limit ourselves only to the
proposed solution of the writer.
Although Dr. Anderson makes a
Brilliant attempt to offer projection
and solution, he limits himself to
only liberal and conservative
thought, saying, “when in Rome,
do as the Romans do.”

©. Dr. Anderson must recognize
that the profection of Black capital-

Real Estate Corner

¢ The solution to our powerlessness can’t be
packaged in the old language or in the old
mind frame. They are more complex than just
adopting the same methods our oppressors
used to build wealth and power.

ism alone will not resolve our prob-
lems asa whole. Infact, Black capi-
talism doesn't have a chance of
competing against White capital-
ism, which opeartes on a national
and multinational level.

The solution to our powerless-
ness mustbeas challenging and as
radical as Dr. Anderson's analysis.
The solution we need can't be
packaged in the old language or in
the old mind frame. Our solutions
are more complex than just adopt-
ing the same methods our oppres-
sors used to build their wealth and
power. As Dr. Anderson quotes
Martin Luther King's solution,
“American society must have a
radical redistribution of wealth
and economic power to achieve
even a rough formofsocial justice.”

Dr. Anderson points out that we
must become efficient capitalists
but it has been capitalism that has
failed us in the past. It has been
capitalism that enslaved us and
created America’s African Holo-
caust. Capitalism didn't work for
us in the past and it won't work for
us in the future. We must struggle
to build a new economy that will
see human beings as the center of
all future. We must struggle to
build a new economy that will see
human beings as the center of all
economic development, not just
economy for profit. An example of
this would be in our trading with

The fourth step to wealth

- By FRED BETTELHEIM Jr.

In earlier columns we discussed
Steps 1,2, and 3 of our four step
program: Step 1; Buy Real Estate;
Step 2, Build Equity; Step 3,
Transfer Equity. To continue on
Step 3: The idea is to expand one’s
real estate holding by using the
increased equity as a down-
payment on a larger income prop-
erty, preferably by using Section
1031, described last week.

This is sometimes just a two-
way exchange but, mostly, by a
“three-legged” exchange, which
involves selling to a third party and
using the proceeds as the down-
payment on a larger income prop-
erty from a seller.

This is a legally complex proce-
dure to comply with IRS require-
ments and must be handled by a
lawyer and a real estate agent with
1031 experience.

Step 4: Repeat Steps 2 and 3.
Allow the property to increase in
value and trade up again after
enough equity increase to justify
trading up again, maybe in two or

Citrus firm agrees to pay out

three years but, probably, about a
five year holding period.

It will take too many such trade-
ups to be working with properties
in the million dollar range. This is
not a get rich-quick program but,
rather, a get-rich-slowly-but-
surely procedure.

1. Buy a four-unit apartment
building (or a triplex or duplex) and
live in one unit and rent the other
units. This can be done with a very
small initial investment on a
government-insured loan.

2. Make improvements to the
property and allow it to appreciate
in value. Good condition and good
rental income are keys for proper-
ties to increase in value.

3. After equity has increased
about 20-30 percent of the original
value, trade up for larger rental
unit complex or for strip stores,
office or professional building or
warehouse — any income
property.

Next week we will discuss how to
get started on this program with
little or no money of your own.

$13.5 million to settle racial

bias lawsuit over employment

INDIANTOWN (AP) — More than
700 workers should start getting
checks totaling $13.5 million this
month in a settlement of a racial
discrimination lawsuit against a
Martin County citrus company.

Checks were set for distribution
March 13 and 14 to current and
former workers who sued Caulkins
Indiantown Citrus Co. more than a
decade ago, said Peter Helwig,
exc cutive director of Florida Rural
Legal Services.

The class-action suit was filed in
1983 on behalf of Black employees
who say they were subjected to ver-
bal abuse, racial harassment, dis-
criminatory reprisals, racial jokes
and other abuses while working for
Caulkins in the 1970s and early

1980s.

The case went to trial last year in
federal court in Miami. A nine-
person jury rendered a verdict for
the plaintiffs last May after more
than two days of deliberations.

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distributing the settlements was
approved by a judge.

Stories employees gave of har-
assment at the company were
chilling, such as of a supervisor
using a pit bull to “motivate”
workers.

“There were a number of stories

about an employee in a supervis-
ory capacity who drove around
with a pit bull in his truck and
threatened workers,” said Jack
Scarola, a West Palm Beach attor-
ney who assisted FRLS with the
case.
Helwig said an employee told of
being attacked by the dog and
being left in the groves to bleed.
Such incidents, he said, were
accepted by company employees
as a way of life.

Today, the mentality has
changed, for the most part, Helwig
said. Caulkinswas sold toa French
company in 1988 and since has
adopted an affirmative action plan.

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Africa, as Dr. Anderson projected.
We must create a win-win situa-
tion, where both Africans in Ameri-
ca and Africans in Africa benefit.

There were many excellent situ-
ations that Dr. Anderson pointed
out, like building an economic
base, controlling our wealth, using
selective voting, demanding sepa-
ration, developing a new leader-
ship, becoming empowered.

He showed how our government
falsely said African Americans
were making progress in America,
while, in reality, they were being
systematically kept in a state of
being a permanent underclass.

“Black Labor, White Wealth"
shows how the English, French,
Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, the
Arab nations and five nations of
Native Americans all took part in
perpetuating the enslavement and
African Holocaust by buying, trad-
ing, owning and fighting in the Civil
War to maintain enslavement in
the South.

Dr. Anderson points out how
two-thirds of the Africans captured
never made it to the new world
because many were killed by Euro-

peans, many died because of
unhealthy living conditions on
slave ships and by new diseases
Europeans brought to the new
world.

He shows how Whites were so
afraid of Black people they passed
laws to define who was White and
who wasn't. If you had “(1) one
drop” of Black blood in you, then
you were considered a Black per-
son and, according to the Consti-
tution of the United States, you
were only three-fifths of a man,

Because Whites have systemati-
cally exploited African people for
16 generations in America, eco-
nomically, politically and socially,
Dr. Anderson points out how Afri-
can people today control only one
percent of America’s wealth and
power. The other 99 percent of
America's wealth and power con-
tinues to remain under the control
of White America.

He further points out that Afri-
can people, after emancipation,
had to go back into “quar-slavery”
(which I call neo-slavery) in order
to survive because of no support
from the U.S. government, corpo-
rate America or White America. As
amatterof fact, America continued
to pass laws that denied African
people their democratic rights as
Americans.

Dr. Anderson further explains
myth of progress through voting.
He showed how, in the last 30
years, even though African people
have elected over 78,000 more offi-
cials to office, things have gotten
worse. Unemployment in 1964 was

DR. CLAUD ANDERSON

10.8 percent for African Ameri-
cans. Today, it has increased to
over 14.6 percent. The percentage
of Blacks in prison in 1964 was 33
percent. Today, it has increased to
over 45.3 percent. The number of
African people living below poverty
in 1964 was 34.0 percent; today, it
has increased to 34.4 percent.

Surely our ancestors who were
enslaved didn't die just for the right
to vote. They died fighting to be free
men and women. They died for the
right to be treated as human
beings, to be treated as citizens of
America. They died trying to build
a society where they could raise
their children free of prejudice and
racism.

t on self-reliance

Dr. Anderson's analysis of the
women's movement is also impor-
tant and I have been explaining
this for years. While the women's
liberation movement is important,
the women’s movement, as Dr.
Anderson pointed out, has helped
to keep the power and wealth of
White America in the hands of
White America.

He shows how our pursuit of
integration, led by groups like the
National Urban League, the
NAACP and SCLC have further led
to the breakdown of the African
community, its economic base and
our voting strength.

He further shows how we have
lost out by letting White America
define us as an ethnic group
because Whites now could over-
look African people, giving benefits
needed to Whites that continue to
benefit White society.

Dr. Anderson shows how Afri-
can people have an annual income
of over $300 billion and only two
percent of it remains in the African
community. He said we need Black
businesses, Black store owners
and, because of not having our own
wealth and power, we have been
doomed as a race to oppression.
We must empower ourselves by
taking action to gain power and
wealth in America.

I believe it important for us to
understand that while the prob-
lems we have discussed will have to
be resolved by leadership and
struggles of African Americans,
this is not a Black problem; it is
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Thursday, March 2, 1995

Nation buys land in
Georgia for a farm

By ELLIOTT MINOR
The Associated Press

ALBANY, Ga. — In a major
expansion aimed at making Blacks
more self-sufficient, the Nation of
Islam bought 1,000 acres of Geor-
gia farmland to grow vegetables.

The land is near Bronwood, a
farming town of 500 about 130
miles south of Atlanta in south-
western Georgia.

The Chicago-based Nation of
Islam owned a 4,000-acre farm
there in the 1970s but sold it
because of management problems.
The 1,000 acres it has now
acquired was part of that property.

The acquisition is part of an
overall plan by the organization to
expand in several states in busi-
ness ventures to help Blacks
become self-sufficient.

Dawson attorney Wilbur T.
Gamble III said Minister Louis Far-
rakhan Farrakhan and 15 to 20
aides visited Terrell County in
December to buy the land.
Gamble's partner, Jim Collier,
handled the purchase and met pri-
vately with the Nation of Islam

leader.

“He was as pleasant as any
you'll ever meet,” Gamble said.
“You see some of the fiery speeches
being made but, for whatever rea-
son, he didn't come across that
way at all.”

He said members of the Nation
of Islam plan to grow vegetables
and expressed an interest in start-
ing a program to encourage young
people to stay in school.

Gamble's father, Wilbur T.
Gambledr., chairman of the Terrell
County Commission, said his
board will assist in every way
possible.

“I just wish them well,” the elder
Gamble said. “If they can do some-
thing to keep young people in
school, there's nothing better than
anyone could do.”

Steve White, 47, of Bronwood
said he doesn’t agree with some of
Farrakhan's often controversial
views but is not concerned.

“Of course, we don't want any
problems and we don't expect
them,” he said. “They used to own
this land and I think they just

Shaun Davis heads

Hollywood

By ALISON HIBBERT
Times Staff Writer
The Hollywood Chamber of
Commerce in Broward County has
got a Black president, Shaun

Davis. He said, he plans on :

expanding a small business prog-
ram which filters out into the mem-
bership of close to 1,000
businesses.

“We will be giving seminars and
workshops to inform the member-
ship on how to deal with lawyers
and accountants,” he told The
Times. “We will also do programs to
try to get funding and financing for
the businesses.”

Davis, who was installed at the
annual dinner last Saturday, said
if the small businesses get funding
from the Small Business Admi-
nistration and from Metro-
Broward, they would help with the
economic development of
Hollywood.

A prominent certified public
accountant and managing director
of Shaun M. Davis, CPA, he has
also been appointed vice chairman
of the Board of Accountancy, the
regulating body for over 21,000
CPA's within Florida.

Kay Silver, executive liason for
the Hollywood Chamber of Com-
merce, said Davis is more than
qualified to be president.

“He's been a member of the
Chamber for many years and I
think he will do a great job,” she
said. “He’s going to direct his atlen-
tion to.small and minority busines-

Chamber

SHAUN M. DAVIS

ses to find out what the needs are
in the community and try to
encourage them.”

A graduate of Florida State Uni-
versity, Davis has since been very
active in the community. He has
been a member of the Chamber for

four years and has served as Trea-
surer. He has also been chairman
for the Small Businesses Commit-
tee. He is a member of the Ameri-
can Instituic of Certified Public
Accountants, Florida Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and
the Miami-Dade Chamber of Com-
merce. He is also on several boards
and committees and has been the
past president of the National
Association of Black Accountants.
His success has won him the honor
the Price Waterhouse Up and Com-
ers Award.

Drew students tops
in history contest

By MARGARITA DROGOWSKI
Times Staff Writer

Erick DeLeon, 12, of Charles
Drew Elementary School came
away with a $50 money order, the
first-place trophy and a certificate
in the Allapattah Post Office's first
Black History Art Contest.

The winners were announced at
a ceremony on Tuceday. This post
office was the only one out of 32 in
the area that held a contest. The
aim was to “accentuate the accom-
plishments of Black people, to get
students involved in Black history
and to get the community
involved.”

Erick, who is in the visual arts
magnet program, said he got the
idea for his entry from a book.

“I knew I was going to win,” he
said.

Students from nine elementary
schools submitted first, second,
and third-place winning entries of
their own competitions to be dis-
played at the post office. Then, the
community was invited to vote for
their favorite.

“We need a lot more of this in
every aspect of our lives,” William
Durroughs, president of South
Florida Letter Carriers, said.

Opa-locka CDC to

Post Office Area Manager Ed
Coppola presented the awards and
Miami Vice Mayor Miller Dawkins
praised the post office for its com-
munity service.

“It's amazing to me how all of you
find the time to do these things and
still deliver the mail. The commun-
ity should just donate money to
you, knowing what you're doing.
You're a perfect role model. You're
it,” Dawkins said.

Second place went to a class
project of Bethune Elementary and
third place went to Luis Carmenate
of Kelsey Pharr Elementary. Both
received trophies, certificates and
$25 money orders.

Bethune was the surprise win-
ner because no one thought a
bunch of pre-schoolers could com-
pete with the older children.

“We thought they were going to
have a separate category. We're
very proud,” Bennette Quarles,
teacher at Bethune, said.

The other schools that partici-
pated were Olinda Park, Orchard
Villa, Earlington Heights, Floral
Heights and Lorah Park.

All the students participating
received certificates.

break

ground on housing complex

The Opa-locka Community Cor-
. poration and Greater Miami Neihg-
borhoods will hold the official
: groundbreaking of Park City
Apartments, a multi-family hous-
ing development at N.W. 7th
Avenue and 155th Lane (Street),
+ 11 a.m., Friday.
, The complex on a six-acre site
! will provide housing for 180 fami-
: lies in North Dade.
, “Our families need more afford-
able housing and we are apprecia-

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tive of the Opa-locka CDC for its
vision in providing homes for our
people,” said Dade County Com-
missioner Betty Ferguson.

The project received over $3.9
million in equity through the sale
of federal low-income housing tax
credits. Three equity funds —
Nations Housing Fund, Enterprise
Housing Partners 1992 and Enter-
prise Housing Partners 11-1992 —
provided the equity financing.

4

LOUIS FARRAKHAN: Minister of
the Nation of Islam

wanted it back. Everybody just
hopes they come in and work
hard.”

The Nation of Islam held a world
conference at the farm about 12
years ago that attracted thousands
of followers, including boxer
Muhammad Ali, White said.

The first step in the group's
expansion, a restaurant on Chica-
go's South Side, opened to the
public last week.

“With the climate of the country
as it is — welfare reform, the attack
on affirmative action — our people
in America are going to have to
learn ... we must stop depending
on others to do for us what we
could, what we should, and what

[we must to for ourselves,” Farrak-

han said.

His plans include opening
mosques, schools and restaurants
in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York
and Houston. He also hopes to
open performing arts centers in
Chicago and acquire up toa million
acres of farmland to provide pro-
duce, meat and dairy products for
supermarkets in Black
neighborhoods.

The Nation of Islam already
publishes a newspaper, markets
books and tapes, operates a health
and beauty aids venture and runs
a security firm.

Business growth must match
changing conditions in market

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Black-
owned businesses throughout
South Carolina and the country
are growing rapidly. But growing
almost as quickly is the need for
such owners to find new ways to
boost their market share.

Desegregation has brought new

' opportunities and new dilemmas.

Black business owners once could
count on the exclusive patronage
of Black people. In a freer world,
that's no longer the case.

Non-White business is “growing
by leaps and bounds,” Columbia
business consultant S. Duane
Everett said in The (Columbia)
State. “Every industry has some
growth.”

South Carolina has one of the
largest Black business classes in
the country, relative to its popula-
tion. Yet, Everett acknowledges
entrepreneurs can't rely on the
support systems that helped non-
White firms grow the past few
decades. The future, he said, rests
on how well “we grab on to basic
service principles. It has tobe a tot-
al customer service.”

Brendolyn Jenkins has been
helping customers ever since she
was kid growing up in Barnwell.
She buried the pets of playground
friends, digging tiny graves while
others made mud pies.

“God gives us a vision very
young in life of what he intends for
us to do,” she said.

Jenkins, 42, has turned that
vision into a successful business.
Jenkins Memorial Chapel opened
in 1993 in the rural crossroads of
Barnwell County.

“The whole family had to sacri-
fice to make this happen,” she said.

Jenkins, though, is focused
intensely on her company. She
speaks of a commitment to service
and quality that would make an
IBM engineer proud.

This is not just a living. It's a

calling. This, she said, “is my
time.”

There are other successes, like
Columbians Oscar Prioleau, who
founded the first African
American-owned steel fabrication
company in the Carolinas last
year, and John E. Brown, chief
executive of AmPro Protective Ser-
vices, a nationally known security
firm

Charles Brooks started in the
charter bus service a decade ago.
Now, he's looking for capital to
invest in new equipment for
Brooks Transit. But problems he
had with back taxes continue to
haunt.

He's making the payments but
can't get a lender to overlook his
past troubles. He has a plan to
expand his service.

“I think the way the system is
structured, if you're Black and
small you're going to stay Black
and small,” he said.

Brooks, 45, notes the irony that
he had trouble raising funds a
decade ago because, while he had
perfect credit, he had no business
experience.

Black small businesses pros-
pered in the years of segregation in
South Carolina, when Black peo-
ple had few other shopping
choices. But much of that culture
is gone.

Freedom for Black consumers
meant searching out the best price

and quality.

“A lot of the successes of African
American business communities
came when there was isolation,”
said L.R. Byrd, a business develop-
ment coordinator for the NAACP
Community Development Resour-
ce Center in Columbia. “When the
gates opened up, people went for
first-class service at the most con-
venient price.”

Byrd and others say it's stil]
important to encourage Black
entrepreneurs, who are increasing
as many people tire of big compa-

~ nies. But they also say that suc-

cess in the next century depends
on the entrepreneur making his
business colorblind: hiring
employees on merit, not color, and
selling to a broad market. It also

depends on White people patroniz-

ing Black businesses.

“Historically, you almost never
had a White crossover to a Black
business,” said John W. Gadson,
director of the small-business
development center at South Car-
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Thursday, March 2, 1995

Edison capture Girls State title

By EUGENE C. THOMAS
: Times Sports Writer

It was a long, tough, exciting
season for the Lady Red Raiders of
Miami Edison but they capped it by
capturing the Girls’ State Class 6A
Champibnship last Friday, beating
Orlando Evans 69-54.

Edison earned the right to play
in the championship game by beat-
ing Jacksonville Sandalwood
72-52 the previous Wednesday
night.

At the beginning of the Dade
County District tournament, it
looked as if Edison, ranked No. 1 in
the state for half the season, would
not survive the sub-regionals.
They made a lackluster effort
against a Northwestern team that
was peaking at the right time and
had to face a Norland team that
was anxious to prove it belonged in
the state tournament. But Marie
Ferdinand led Edison over Norland
and combined with a win over the
Vikings in the GMAC tournament,
the school completed a sweep of
the Lady Vikings this season.

Northwestern continued its
excellent play, as Lawanda John-
son paced a balanced attack to
lead the Lady Bulls over Carol City.

South of Flagler Street, Stepha-
nie Whittlesey, the best point
guard in the county, scored 26
points to lead Southridge to a mild
upset over District 15 champion
Miami High and Crystal Jenkins,
Dade County's most complete
player, helped District 16 Killian to
an easy 71-24 win over District 15
runner-up Coral Park.

Edison took care of Southridge
and Northwestern shut down Kil-
lian's Crystal Jenkins to set up the

fourth game between the District

14 rivals. In this one, Edison
guards Ferdinand and Nichole
Hearns took full advantage fo their

City team wins
gold tourney

The Urban League of Greater
Miami's Theodore R. Gibson Unity
Golf Tournament at the Melreese
Golf saw 64 players teaming up to
compete for the Mayor's Cup
Challenge.

The winner in the Governmental
Division was City of Miami Admini-
strative, comprising Alex Martinez,

Charles DeLucca III, Catherine

" Hadley and Johnny Ruffino.
i Runner-up was City of Miami
+#Police Department, comprisingJoe
Distasi, Phil Bradley, Milko Brito
and Dan Bradley.

The winner in the Corporate
Division was the Southern Bell
team of Wilbert T. Holloway, Willie
Herriot, Jim Sears and Johnes
Turner. Runner-up was the Coors
team of Ary Velasco, Juan Simone
and Ray Flores.

In the Ethnic Unity Division, the
{+ winner was the Palmetto General

Hospital; squad of George Elson,

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to. Runner-up was the Hudson
General Corporation team of Gary
Watson, Rick Rhea, Ron Russell
and Ray Rossman.

Other participating corpora-

,+ tions were Eric R. Sisser Inc., Hia-
leah Chamber of Commerce. Grea-
ter Miami Convention and Vistors
Bureau, Parrott Jungle, Florida
Power and Light, Doral Ocean
Beach Resort, Dade County Youth
Fair Ryder System, PCA and Bay-
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ment benefit the Urban League's
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foul shots, combining for a total of
24 points from the free throw line
and 44 points overall. Three of
Northwestern's players fouled out
in the fourth quarter and Edison
went on to a 73-68 win.

All year long, Edison coach
Denise Novak said she didn’t have
a true point guard. She finally
admitted that Hearns and Ferdi-
nand were the best guard tandem
in the county and she probably
didn’t need that point guard after
all.

The game was especially
rewarding for Edison forward Kies-
ha Evans; Feb. 24 was her
birthday.

The Lady Red Raiders then
travelled to Lakeland for the start
of the state tournament and used
their superior height to defeat
Jacksonville Sandalwood 75-62.
Twana Wright led Edison in the
semi-final game with 24 points.
The championship game saw Fer-
dinand and Hearns, who have
played with consistency all season,
starting out poorly, committing
numerous turnovers and fouls.
After sitting out a good portion of
the second half, they came back to
lead Edison on to the victory.

Much of the credit for Edison's
success this season goes to assis-
tant coach John Burke, who drilled
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sure defense created turnovers
and scoring opportunities for them
all season.

The bad news for Dade County
and the rest of the state is that
there are no seniors on the team.
That's good news, though, for
Coach Novak, Coach Burke and
the Edison Red Raiders.

Marley quitting
the Hurricanes

Rohan Marley, who injured his
knee and was bumped from the
starting position on the University
of Miami football team, has quit the
Hurricanes and is spending time in
Kingston, Jamaica, at the Bob
Marley Museum, dedicated to the
memory of his reggae superstar
father.

The Sun Sentinel reported that
Marley is hoping to play profes-
sional football, probably in Cana-
da. He declared his eligibility too
late to make the NFL draft.

As a sophomore in 1993, he led
the ‘Canes with 93 tackles and was
a first-team All-Big East selection.
However, he missed the last four
games of the regular season last
year.

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Inventions show
moving to the
Caleb Center

An exhibition of more than 30
inventions by African Americans
received an overwhelming
response while on display during
last month as the Stephen P. Clark
Metro Center.

“l Too Am An American” fea-
tured exhibits of inventions as the
portable weight scale, air condi-
tioner, typewriter, and the
elevator.

Samaki Variety of Unique Cul-
tural Variations, said the show has
moved to the Caleb Center, where
it willbe until March 15, then to the
Dade County Youth Fair, then to
the South Dade Government Cen-
ter, April 3-17.

County Commissioner Dennis
Moss was so impressed with the
exhibition that his office developed
a brochure listing all inventors and
their inventions. It is available at
the exhibition sites, as well as
through his office and the offices of
the sponsors.

Variety said she is developing a
similar show of more than 100 Afri-
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INVITATION TO BID

Metropolitan Dade County
Metro-Dade Transit Agency
Metrorail Key Stations ADA Signage
Contract No. TA95-MR9 (663003)
Metropolitan Dade County, hereinafter known as MDC, will receive bids for the Metrorail Key Stations
ri Signage, Contract No. TA95-MR9. The project will be located in Metropolitan Dade County, State
of Florida.
The Federal Transit Administration is funding 90 percent of the total cost ($737,000) of this project,
which results in a Federal Contribution of $663,300 (This total project cost includes design, con-
struction and administration). The remainder of the project is funded by Metropolitan Dade County
(10%). Bidders are advised that this is a Federally assisted project subject to Standard Federal Equal
Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications, and prevailing wage rates estab-
lished by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Metropolitan Dade County will receive bids for the construction of ADA approved signage at seven (7)
Metrorail center platform stations. This work consists of the installation of ten (10) signs per stations
mechanically fastened to the guideway columns by adjustable clamps, except at the Government
Center station where the signs shall be bolted to the existing superstructure. The location of these
signs shall mirror the placement of signs presently located on the center of the platform. All work
shall be performed during nighttime hours and as per drawings and specifications.
DADE COUNTY CONTRACTOR'S CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED IN: General Engineering, General
Building, Non-Electric sign, Paving Engineering or other categories as applicable to Chapter 10 of the
Code of Metropolitan Dade County. Other Certificates of Competency, if required, shall be provided
by subcontractors prior to beginning work.
As part of this contract, the County may, at its sole discretion, issue miscellaneous changes covering
all construction disciplines at any of the twelve (12) Metromover Extension stations, guideway seg-
ments, ancillary facilities or public right-of-way. Such miscellaneous changes are estimated not to
exceed fifteen (15%) percent of the contract award amount. The contractor shall be capable of expe-
ditiously performing this change work either with its own forces or with subcontractors. The direct
or indirect cost of these changes and time extensions, if any, will be negotiated at the time the
changes are issued and payment will be made in accordance with Article 36 of the General
Conditions. As the nature or extent of these changes can not be ascertained prior to notice-of-pro-
ceed, the contractor shall not include an amount in his bid in anticipation of these changes.
MDC will receive Bids at the Office of the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, at the Stephen
P. Clark Center, 111 N.W. First Street, Suite 210, Miami, Florida 33128 until 1:00 p.m., local time,
on April 5, 1995. Bids received after that time will not be accepted, nor will qualified, segregated
and/or incomplete Bids be accepted. Bids may not be revoked nor withdrawn for 120 days after the
bid opening date. The Contract, if awarded, will be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible
Bidder.
MDC has scheduled a Pre-Bid Conference at 10:00 A.M. local time on March 28, 1995 at the Stephen
P. Clark Center, 111 N.W. First Street, Suite 18-1, Miami, Florida 33128. The Pre-Bid Conference is
being held to answer any questions regarding this project.
MDC has scheduled the Bid opening at 1:00 p.m., local time on April 5, 1995 at the Stephen P. Clark
Center, 111 N.W. First Street, Suite 210, Miami, Florida 33128. Received Bids will be publicly opened
and each Bidder's Total Bid Price will be read aloud. Interested parties are invited to attend.
Bid Documents will be available on or about March 1, 1995 and may be examined at the Public Works
Department, 15th Floor, Stephen P. Clark Center, 111 N.W. First Street, Miami, Florida. Copies of the
Bid Documents may be obtained either in person at the Public Works Department at the above
address or by mail addressed to Public Works Department and Specifications Section, 15th Floor,
Stephen P. Clark Center, 111 N.W. First Street, Suite 210, Miami, Florida 33128. One copy of each
document, will be required to prepare a bid.
Requests must be accompanied by either a check or money order drawn in favor of the Board of
County Commissioners, Dade County, Florida.
The following is a list of available Bid Documents and their respective costs:

Contract Drawings, Contract Specifications---------- $35.00 Each set
(NONREFUNDABLE)
Construction Safety Manual------------------ No Charge

Bid Security must accompany each Bid and must be in the amount of not less than five percent of
the Total Bid Price. MDC reserves the right to waive irregularities, to reject Bids and/or to extend. the
bidding period. :

The agreement entered into by and between the successful Bidder and MDC will be subject to the
requirements of a financial assistance Contract between MDC and the U.S. Department of
Transportation. Each Contractor, and his subcontractors performing work at the Work Site, will be
required to comply with the Contract Work Hours Standards, the President's Executive Order No.
11246 and No. 11375, and the MDC Resolution of Equal Employment Opportunity. Each Contractor,
and his subcontractors performing work at the Work Site, will be required to pry basic hourly wages,
health, welfare, pension, vacation and apprenticeship training benefits, at rates not less than those
established by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Each Contractor, and his subcontractors performing work at the Work site, will be required to pay
Florida sales and use taxes and to pay for licenses and fees required by the municipalities in which
the Work will be located. Each Contractor will be required to furnish a Surety Performance Bond and
a Surety Payment Bond in an amount equal to 100 percent of the Contract price, and to furnish
Certificates of Insurance in the amounts specified in the Bid Documents.

Metro Dade County, in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C.
2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transporation, Subtitle
A, Office of the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federally-Assisted Programs of the
Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such act, hereby notified all bidders that it will
affirmatively insure that in any contract entered in to pursuant to this advertisement, minority busi-
ness enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will
not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an
award.

MDC is committed to providing equal opportunities to minorities wishing to provide goods or services
for this project. Minority entrepreneurs who need assistance in the preparation of a bid package for
this Contract should contact, for federal requirements of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises includ-
ing those owned by women, the DBE Administration, MDTA, 111 N.W. 1st Street, Suite 910, Miami,
Florida 33128, telephone (305) 375-1962.

A goal for the participation of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises has been established for this con-

that a condition for the award of this contract is that it must meet that contract goal or submit infor-
mation sufficient to MDC that it has made good faith efforts to meet that goal in accordance with
Section III. C of the Affirmative Action Requirements. The provisions of the section entitled Affirmative
Action Requirements are an essential part of this contract.

Any firm proposed for use as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise to meet the DBE goal for this con-
tract, must have a valid certification from the Metro Dade County Department of Business and
Economic Development (DBED), at the time the bid or proposal is submitted and a copy of the certi-
fication document must be submitted with the bid or proposal.

Those responding to this RFP/ITB/RFQ shall comply with the provisions of the Americans With
Disabilities Act of 1990 and 49 U.S.C. Section 1612 and other related laws and regulations.
Bidders must certify that he has examined the Bid Documents and the conditions affecting the Work;
that he is not listed on the U.S. Comptroller General's Consolidated List of Persons or Firms Currently
Debarred for Violations of Various Public Contracts; and, should he become the Contractor, that he
will not prosecute the Work using facilities which have been listed on the Environmental Protection
Agency's List of Violating Facilities.

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY
METRO-DADE TRANSIT AGENCY

Harvey Ruvin, Clerk
Kay Sullivan, Deputy Clerk



isiness Renta

8652 N.W. 22nd Avenue
Zoned for Beauty or Barber
Shop or Office.Call 693-9486

8321 N. W. 22nd Avenue
Small Church will share, $200
plus 1/2 of the expenses.

NORLAND
Nice clean room. For more
information call 651-0974

NORTH MIAMI
Furnished room for rent. Good
location. Call 652-5735

NORTH MIAMI
Furnished room, air condition,
privileges to cook, security
bars. Call 652-6705.

Church facility to share . rea-
sonable. Seats approx. 75
or so. 691-2467.

NORTHWEST AREA
Rooms for Rent.
Call 696-3064.

Will share equipped, store front

church building with another

congregation. Reasonable

congregation. Reasonable
price. 681-4101.

10949 N.W. 22nd Ct
Unfurnished room for rent.
$300 a month,1 week deposit.

685-0987

12605 N.W.10th Ave
N. Miami area, clean and quiet.
Gall Richard 685-3869

3

8275 NW 18th Ave
References
1 757-7776

1341 N.W. 68 Terr. Excellent

room with security bars and

doors. Cooking. $65 weekly.
Call 638-9047.

1401 NW 70 St., furnished
room, cooking allowed, $65
week, 759-9171.

142 NW 27th St
Beautiful furnished room for
rent, close to fashion district
and bus line.$70 weekly see
manager in Apt. 7. Call

573-3580

1449 NW 15th St
1 block walk to VA Hospital. Full
kitchen,$75 weekly.326-7995

1465 N. W. 113th Terr. $65 and
up. $130 to move in. Fine loca-
tion. Call 754-6344.

1625 NW 66 St. furnished
rooms, cooking allowed, $65
week, 759-9171.

1782 N.W. 44th St
Furnished room for rent in pri-

NORTHWEST AREA
Furnished Room. Kitchen
privledges. 691-2467.

NORTH WEST SECTION
FURNISHED ROOM
Call 691-0718

North Miami Beach Area
Share kitchen, baths, $60 a
week, $120 to move in. Call
Mrs. Bryant 949-9620.

North Miami Beach _
and Carol City.
963-3521 or 623-6888

N.W. AREA
Furnished room with or without
bath. T.V., refrigerator, house
phone and laundry room.

621-7302

N.W. AREA
Nice clean quiet room.
628-4134 or 625-2880

N.W. AREA
Nice room with privileges like a
home, including telephone.
696-2451

N. W. Area
$60 and $75 a week. Furnished
rooms, cable ready. Call Al,
836-9852.

N.W. Area. Room in clean quiet
Rooming House with security
bars. $55/wk. 769-3347.

N. W. Area
Room for rent , $60 a week, for
more information call
633-0600.

Opa-Locka Area
Rooms-Rooms $60 weekly, no
security. Call Spud 685-8308.

RICHMOND HEIGHTS
Room for rent with full use of
house. And washer and dryer.
Call 235-4334 no deposit.

vate home. With kitchen pri-

vileges. 638-0226

1435 N.W. 60th Street
1 bedroom apartment, security
bars, free water, stove, refriger-
ator. $275 mthly. 635-0394.

148 N.E. 55th Street
1 bedroom, stove, refrigerator,
carpet, come with bars, $300
mthly, $600 to move in. No
Section 8. Call 754-5100.

1545 N.W. 8th Ave.
Large 2 bedroom apartment,
one block to JMH, all ap-
pliances. 324-0101.

1718 N.W. 2nd Court
1955 N.W. 2nd Court
1 bedroom, $225 mthly.

1744 N.W. 1st Court
2 bedrooms, $350 mthly.
See manager at 1955 bldg. or
Call 573-2457.

17600 NW 5th Ave
Golden Glades Rental apart-
ments. Spacious 1, 2 and 3’
bedrooms available. Call

652-7858

1865 N.W. 45th St
1 bedroom apartment, large
and spacious. $425 monthly.
For further information contact
Chuck 621-5421 .

190 N.W. 69th St
1 or 2 bedrooms available at
nice location and neighbor-
hood. Near school and transpo-
ration. Please Call 754-2192 for

appointment.
We accept Section 8.

2121 N.W. 36th St
1 bedrooms and efficiencies for
rent, appliances included. Call
‘Ms.Irvin. 637-2090/696-4111

2430 N.W. 99th Street
541-2855
Big 3 bedroom, 2 bath Duplex,
lots of closets, quiet area, $725
monthly.

2605 NW 135th St. Apt. #201
1, 2 bedroom, $420-500, cen-
tral a/c, laundry. 854-2467.

3090 N.W. 134th St
Beautiful one bedroom apart-
ment for rent. Section 8 tenants
welcome. Beep 837-3940

3401 N.W. 212nd St
1 bedroom furnished, bath-
room, kitchen, living room and
own entrance. $350 utilities in-
cluded, $200 deposit and first
weeks rent. 621-4223 during
Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

. 1825 N. W. 59th Street
Furnished and use of house.
660-3657 beeper.

+ 18815 N. W. 19th Court

1148 NW 47 St, efficiency,

private, kitchen and bath. $90
week (includes lights and wa-
ter), 759-9171.

Furnished room for rent. $150
every two weeks, use of kitchen,
for more inforrmation call
620-8358 after 5 p.m..

1220 N. W. 31st Street (Rear)
$300 per month with $150 sec-
urity.

Call Mr.
638-4733.

Johnson

1902 NW 89th Terr
Private entrance, use of
. kitchen, a/c.996-8543

2365 NW 97th St
‘9119 NW 25th Ave
Call 691-2703 or 691-9786

1361 N.W. 58th St

$295.00 plus $295.00 security

Stove and refrigerator.
Drive by and see
Fenster Realty 967-8711
Owner/Broker

2453 NW 56th St
634-6251
Beeper 658-0933

1865 N.W. 45th St

2 efficiencies, $325 a month a
piece. For further information

call 621-5421

. 2525 N. W. 47th Street
Nice room for rent. Apply at
ove address.

271 N.W. 59th St.

2120 NW 100 St., efficiency,
private, kitchen and bath. $30
week (includes lights and wa-
ter), 759-9171.

Clean house. Free Utilities.
$60 weekly. 696-4526.

, 3185 N.W. 75th Street

2552 N.W. 92nd St

Extra clean, very large effi-

ciency. 696-7423

Furnished room with security
bars. $140 to move in $70
weekly. Call 653-3698.

45 St Near N Miami Ave

Large furnished efficiency re-
ferences. 576-5241

421 NW 59th Terr
Clean room with kitchen pri-
vileges. $250 monthly all utitili-
ties paid. 754-1183

650 N.E. 88th Terr

Large efficiencies, good neig-
borhood, $345.00 monthly.
First last and security.

6540 N.W. 25 Ave. Clean room

in quiet, clean home. Light
kitchen and phone priviledges.
i 696-7084.

751 N.W. 207th St

Furnished efficiency with cable.
Beautiful neighborhood. $350 a

: month, first last. 651-8534

710 N.W. 200 St.
FURNISHED ROOM in home.
Call 770-9362,

Carol City Area

Unfurnished, Efficiency. Keep
calling 620-0611.

912 NW 55th Terr
Olean furnished room weekly
759-2068/624-5277.

Fairmont Area

Nice efficiency, stove, refrig.
etc. call 688-7160.

' 9245 N.W. 25th. Avenue

Beautiful furnished room for
rent. Ten blocks from Miami
Cade Community College. Ten
blocks from Northside shop-

N.W. AREA

$350 monthly including water
and light, also first and last.Call

696-2363

ping center. Close to bus line.
$65 weekly. Call 696-2024.

: CAROL CITY
Nice clean room, all utilities
; included. Call 623-2677

1 CAROL CITY
Xoo room for rent, on Bus
Â¥ ute, must see. 625-3350.

' Carol City Area
at, clean, room for rent, great
area. Call 628-2806.

N.W. Area
1 bedroom efficiency for rent.
696-9859

115 S. Dixie Hwy
Coral Gables
1 and 2 bedroom apartments
available. 1 bedroom $285 per
month, $285 security deposit. 2
bedroom $300 per month, $300

security. Apply at 3737 Charles
Terr, or call 448-4225

1385 N.W. 58th Terr
2 large bdrms. $575.00 plus
$575 security. New stove and
refrigerator, central a/c.
Fenster Realty 967-8711

410 N.W. 35th St #2
Section 8 only. 2
bdrm, appliances. Mr. Reddick

696-0603

4240 N. W. 27th Avenue
Best Locations, ready to move-
in on site. Management.

N. W 42nd St. at 27th Avenue
N. W. 72nd Street at 14th Av-
enue
N. W. 60th Street at 12th Av-
enue
. and many others. Priced

right.

one bedroom from $225 and 2
bedrooms from $310. Call
638-1475 CPG Rentals.

50 N.E. 84th St
Lovely one bedroom apart-
ment. Air conditioning,carpet,
window bars, parking.

1-407-398-1331

50th St Heights Apt

BROWNSVILLE AREA
One bedroom apartments
$275 monthly. 2 bedrooms
$320 a month. Free water and
gas, security bars and iron
gate doors. Apply at 2651
N.W. 50th St, or call 638-3699.

533 N.W. 2nd Ave
1 bdrms, 1 free month. SAFEST
area. Police Station, Metro-Rail
at corner. Jitney and bus at your
door. Walk to Bayside, Down-
town, Dade Jr. College. Call
after 4:00 p.m. 377-3832

6020 N.W. 13th Ave
1 bedroom $230 a month. 2
bedrooms 2 bath $320 a
month.Free water, gas, sec-
urity bars, and iron gate doors.
Apply at: 2651 N.W. 50th St. Or
call 638-3699

6415 N. W. 17th Avenue- Apt. 3
$450, first/last, $200 security.
Call 836-9306 between 4-7
p.m.

655 N.W. 27th St
2 bedrooms 1 bath, small build-
ing. Section 8 welcome.
232-3700

6813 N.W. 2nd Ct
541-2855
Large 2 bedroom duplex, lots or
closets,carpet, security bars,
quiet area. $495 monthly.

ARENA GARDEN
GRAND OPENING
100 N.W. 11 Street
(Near Metrorail Station)
Brand new 2 bedroom apts.,
A/C, appliances, security,
Laundry, Cable T.V. barbecue,
Picnic Area. Section 8 Wel-
come.
Manager #101, Tel. 534-5788

ARENA SQUARE APTS.
2101 NW 3 AVE
305) 573-8505

1 bedroom apt, stove and
refrigerator included. $315
monthly.

ARENA SQUARE APTS.
1023 NW 3 AVE
(305) 372-1383

1 bedroom apt., $315 a month,
stove, refrigerator included.
Now accepting Section 8 and
Hurricane vouchers.

ARENA SQUARE APT
1217 NW. 2nd AVE
(305) 372-1383

1 bedroom apt., $250 monthly,
not including stove and
refrigerator.

J.R.S AREA
1 % bedroom apartment,
stove, frig, tile, carpet, ceiling
fans. $500 monthly $500 sec-
urity and references. 621-2310

LITTLE HAVANA
Waiting list application for Sec-
tion 8 apartments available
from 9 am-11am for elderly.
Monday thru Friday
handicapped/disabled. Apply in
person at 225 Aragon Avenue,
Coral Gables.

EQUIL HOUSING

OPPORTUNITY

HET

LITTLE HAIT/IOVERTOWN
2 bedrooms available.
433-3674 or 369-5882 Bpr

8475 NE 2nd Ave
1 and 2 bedrooms, newly reno-
vated. Section 8 welcome.
754-7776

Norland
Small one bedroom apartment
for rent. For further information
call 652-1733 anytime after 4
p.m.

N.W. AREA
1 bedroom apartment for rent,
$350 mthly, $700 to move in.
3047 N.W. 92nd Street.
691-2059, ask for Dot.

NW AREA
Quiet 2 bedrooms. 151st Street
37th Ave $485 mthly.
829-2424.

N. W. Area
Two bedroom, 1 bath, carpet,
stove, yard care. 522 N. W.
107th Street. Call 751-6159
after 5 p.m.

OMNI AREA, Pleasant safe
Studio apt.,$325 monthly util
ties included. Call 379-2520

OPA LOCKA
1 bedroom apartment, $350 a
month. First last and 1 month
security. Call Ann 688-2082

OPA-LOCKA AREA
Clean just painted. 2 bdrm.
3031 N.W. 134 St. $420
monthly. $840 to move in.

1 bdrm. 3040 N.W. 135 St. $425

monthly. $850 to move in.

1 bedroom. 598 Douglas Road.

$425 monthly. $850 to move in.
Call 939-0864, beeper.

OVERTOWN APTS
Eff., 1/2/3 bdrm ,$245-$525
Sec. 8 Welcome. PH:375-0745

OVERTOWN/LIBERTY CITY
1 bedroom, Boarding House
Rooms. 573-7715

OVERTOWN
1624 N.W. 1 Court
Remodeled Efficiencies
1 and 3 bedroom apts.,
Appliances, Security,
Laundry. Section 8 Welcome.
From $250, 10 AM - 3 PM
Tel. 534-5788

SANFORD APTS

1907 N.W. 2nd Ct
2 bedrooms apartments, freshly
painted, stove and refrigerator,
ceiling fan, window shades,
free hot water. $300 per month
plus $200 security. See mana-
ger Ms. Lily #4. 665-4938

UNIGO WORLD APTS
5200 N.W. 26th Ave #4
2 bdrm 1 bath apts.
Section 8 welcome call
634-4555

th kitchen priviledges. $100
n posit. $75 weekly. 628-2606.

DOWNTOWN, 277 NW 9 St.
5 week! Unable free! Food!

in City. Clean, quiet, room

1192 N.W. 65th Street

2 bedroom, stove and refrigera-
tor, comes with bars. $400
mthly, $800 to move in. No
Section 8. Call 754-5100.

Phones! Cable TV! 358-2387

t+ Miami Gardens Drive
Fhmishd room for rent in es-

121 N.E. 80th Terr
2 bedrooms, air condition. $500

amonth. 545-6485 or 538-7676

ntial area. Home 652-3102
wk. 623-6888, Bpr. 334-8395.

Near Joe Robbie Stadium
sy and bathroom pri-

ages. 621-0998.

13240 N. W. 32nd Avenue

One and two bedrooms, in-
cludes water, A/C, first and last
to move in. Call Ms. Shaw
835-2447 or 833-8041 beeper.

W. 7th Ave., use of refrigera-

139th St. NW 27th Ave. (rear of
Mandy's Car Lot.) 1 bdrm.
deposit. 696-4526.

and microwave oven. Beep

ar NW. 154th St, and in
lking distance to bus stop on
843-6356

} N.MIAMI
Share large home, good North
lami location, close to every-
ng. Reference and deposit.
il 681-8414

N

14230 N.W. 22nd Ave. #1

1 bedroom 1 bath apartment for
rent. Free water, HBO Cable
ready. $260 per month $500 to
move in. Stop by or call 759-770

4693 N.W. 18th Ave

2 bdrm, air, fenced, bars. $550
monthly. $1500 total 687-2117

v J ‘

737 N.W. 12th Street
2 bedrooms, central air, sec-
urity bars, appliances. $525
mthly. 758-7817.

930 NW 96th St
2 bdrm, 1 bath, all fencing,
refrigerator, stove, a/c, very
quite area.Call 751-2995 or
beeper 478-5967

ALBERTA HEIGHTS APTS
1 bedroom $295 month. 2
bedrooms 2 $345 month.Free
water, security bars, and iron
gate doors. Apply at: 2651 N.W.
50th St. Or call 638-3699

ARENA SQUARE APTS.
1217 NW. 2nd Ave.
(305) 372-1383

2 bdrm apartment stove and
refrigerator included. $355
monthly.

1144 N.W. 65th Street
3 bedrooms, 1 bath. $435
mthly, First Last and Security.
620-9009 892-6006.

11th Ave NW 30 St Area
References 754-7776

1235 (rear) NW 68 Terr., 2
bedroom (Section 8 accepted),
$650 month (includes light and
water). 759-9171.

15632 N.W. 47th St. 1 bdrm, Air,

stove, refrigerator, washer,

security bars. $350 monthly
plus security. 758-3923.

1549 N.W. 53rd St.
2 bedroom 1 bath.
Call 464-7143 or 693-9118.

1740 NW. 41st St
1 bedroom duplex. For further
information call 621-8866
Section 8 Welcome

rooom, (Section 8 accepted),
$500 month 759-9171

1861 N.W. 55th St
4 bedrooms, Section 8 wel
come.$975 a month 326-7995

1750/52 N.W.41st St
2 bedrooms duplex up and
downstairs. For further informa-
tion call 621-8866

Section 8 Welcome

1896 N.W. 94th Street
1 bedroom, security bars.

430-0849 or Bpr. 352-4892. |

2371 N.W. 71 St. (rear)
and 5300 N.W. 25 Ave.
Call 693-1017.

283 N.W. 55 St.
2 bdrm 1 bath. $550 monthly.
$1400 move in. No Section 8.
995-1613 or 694-8097.

321/323 N.W. 48th St
3 bdrms 1 bath, 2 bdrms 1.bath
for rent. 235-1900/855-5528

3350 N. W. 51st Street
3352 N. W. 51st Street
3360 N. W. 51st Street all 2
Bedrooms, first/last and one
month security required.
Monthly Rental $425. Beep
540-3701 only after 6.00 p.m.

3710 NW 23rd Ct
1 bedroom, carpet, air condition
and heat, dining room area,
refrigerator and stove. Nice lo-
cation large back yard. $425
monthly, first last and security.
556-5076 or beep 291-0817

3737 Charles Terr
Coconut Grove
2 bedrooms duplex. Rent $395,
security deposit $395. Total to
move in $790. Security bars
and free water. Call 448-4225

3907 N.W. 163rd St
Like new, 2 bedrooms, central
air, bars, $580 a month. Plus

$1200 security.

6745 N.W. 4th Court
2 bedrooms, stove, refrigerator,
carpet. $500 mthly, $1000 to
move in. No Section 8. Call
754-5100.

743/745 NW 114th St
2 bdrm, 1 bath.$500 monthly,
must have own stove, refrigera-
tor, first and last month rent,
plus $300 deposit required to
move in. 628-9554

8451 NW 19 Av 1 bed $450
9375 NW 30 Ct 1 bed $400
Terry Dellerson Bkr 891-6776

Allapatah
Two bdrm/1 bath, fenced, sec-
urity bars, A/C, gas range, re-
frigerator. $450 mo/$300 sec-
urity. 3511 N. W. 11th Court
(front). 652-2054.

COCONUT GROVE
3270 McDonald
2 bedroom duplex, a/c., carpet,
walk to Grove. $600 854-2467

N.W. AREA
Rent to own a duplex. 2 bed-
room 1 bath on both sides. Live
in one side collect rent from the
other. 305 628-2848

NW Area. Fenced, appliances.

2 bedrooms, upstairs duplex.

Air. 4 bedrooms 2 bath house.
Section 8 Only. 759-6689.

N. W. Area
One bedroom, bath, security
bars, fenced in yard. 693-4756.

FOR RENT

1800 N.W. 119th St #124
2 bedrooms 2 baths, overlook-
ing a lake. $670 monthly, first
last and security. 651-1702

21389 N.W. 39th Ave
2 bedrooms 1 bath, $550 a

month. Call Eric.
Anita Berger Realty Inc.
932-0828

21130 N.W. 39th Ave
4 bedroom 2 bath, 2 story. $550
a month. 267-9449

11729 N. W. 2nd Avenue
Large two bedrooms, 1 bath.
Call 688-7358.

125 N.W. 193rd Street
3 bedroom 2 bathroom with

garage. Asking
$850.00/Month.
All Points Realty
Investments, Inc
(305) 621-5800
12720 East Randall Park Drive
For rent house, alc,
carpet.$700 monthly, Call
737-6127

128 N.W. 49th Street
3 bedrooms, 2 baths, with bars,
screened porch. $670 mthly.
$2100 to move in. Call
770-4004 6pm.

1326 NW 55 St
Nice one bdrm apartment with
new carpet, on a quuiet street,
$375 per mo...651-9689

1044 NW 29th. Terr
One bdrm one bath in a four unit
apartment building S-8 wel-
come... 651-9689

1810 NW 50th St
2 bdrm 1 bath, nice Place $475
per. month references re-
quired...651-9689

1555 NE 153 Terr 4 bed $700
3411 NW 172 Terr 3 bed $700
3000 NW 151 Terr 3 bed $700
1045 Curtis Dr 4 bed $750
5700 NW 6 Ave 2 bed $500
WE DO NOT ACCEPT SEC-
TION 8

Terry Dellerson Bkr 891-6776

7928 N.W. 14th PI
541-2855
Big 2 bedroom house with Fla
room, fenced, security bars,
$550 monthly.

18624 N.W. 46th Ave
4 bedroom, 2 bath, 1 story
Townhouse, tiled floors
throughout, nice area. $895
monthly Section 8 OK voucher
only drive by then call Owner.
935-6600. Leave message.

1865 NW 45th St
3125 NW 59th St
3 bedrooms houses, com-
pletely renovated. $700 a
month. For further information
call 621-5421

19686 N. W. 33rd Place
Three bedrooms, central air,
Call Vince at 624-3673.

420 N.W. 46 St.
Beautiful 3 bdrm 2 bath.
Fenced back yard, central air
and heat. Section 8 Welcome.

651-4166, 9 am. - 7. p.m.

785 NW 69th St, 1 bedroom
house for rent. Refrigerator,
stove, Air-condition.
$300 monthly. 836-7105.

80 NW 53 St
Located near 1st Ave and 53rd
st. 3 bdrm 1 bath ready to move
in $550 per mo. $1650 to move
in call...651-9689

212 NE 26 Terr
4 bdrm 1 bath nice and clean
Section 8 welcome drive by
then call...651-9689

80 N.W. 92nd Street, Miami
Shores, 3 bedroom, 2 bath,
pool, $900 a month, very spa-
cious, beeper 312-6488.

Brownsub Area. 3 bdrms, 1
bath. Large patio area. Call
581-2843 or beeper, 459-2722.

FT. LAUDERDALE
Rent to own special. No credit
necessary. Low money to move
in easy qualifying. Dade
628-2848 Broward 986-1110

HOLLYWOOD
Rent reduced, nice 3 bedroom
1% bath. $600 a month. No
section 8. Sharon 576-0404 or
305 433-9355

LITTLE RIVER HIGHLANDS
3 bedrooms 1 bath plus In-law
quarters - 2 bedrooms 1 bath.
Zoning 57-RU 2
Call Barbara Baumgardner.
Bpr.948-1306/Res. 751-9914

CAUSEWAY PARK
Three bedroom one bath,
fenced yard, security bars.

Call Juanita Chamber

Residence 899-1064

ERA DO RIGHT REALTY, INC.
(305) 751-8516

N.E. AREA
Beautiful 3 bedroom 2 bath
Tri-level in desirably NE area.
Rental $900/mo. Call Velma
Levy/ERA Pride Realty

759-9167

N. E. Dade
Three bedrooms, two baths, in
move in condition. Section-8
welcome. 366-5897 beeper.

NORTHSIDE
3 bedrooms 1 bath, $750 per
month. First last and security.
Call Ann 688-2082

NORTHWEST AREA. Large
Florida room, security bars,
large yard, air-condition.
$400 monthly. Call 699-1770.

N. W. Area
Two bedrooms,bath, security
bars, fenced in yard. 693-4756.

Opa-locka Area. 2 Handyman
Specials. “Fix Me Uppers.”
Large 3 bdrm 2 bath. Move in
for $700. Medium 2 bdrm 1
bath. Move in for $500. Call
688-9247 or 430-1274.

Rolling Oaks
Lease/Purchase- No Qualifying
with $18000 down. 3 bed-
rooms, 2 baths, Fla. room, 2 car
garage. 430-0849 or Bpr.

2871 N. W. 196th Street
Washer, Dryer, Stove, Refrig.,
Central Air. Carpet. $38,000. or
Best offer Call 769-9748

N.E., N. W. and Broward
Three and four bedroom
houses for rent with options to
buy, also furnished rental prop-
erties. N N.E., Broward/

Coral Spgs. Call 758-2906,

344-8878 and 753-9437 Br.

|

We sell Government Homes

and other great deals. Free pre-

qualifying. Call Eric or E.Z

Anita Berger Realty Inc.
932-0828

FOR SALE

MISTY LAKE
2 bedroom 2 bath Villa.
Remax Ultra Realty
Helen Green Assoc. 932-1771

NW 185th St
Assume 2 bedrooms town-
house. $388/mo payment. Like

new cul-de-sac
Family of Realtys 888-2477

2240 NW 171 Terr 4 bed $76K
413 NE 162 St 3 bed $69K
14160 NW 22 Pl 2 bed $45K
Terry Dellerson Bkr 891-8776

2357 NW. 55 Terr. Large 4

bedroom. Big front porch, car-

port. Fenced yard. Owner helps
with financing. 891-0082.

11 NE 51st Street

4 bedrooms, 2 bath, plus 1
bedroom efficiency, nice yard.
$64,000. Little money down.
Call 378-0185, Owner.

12720 East Randall Park Drive

For sale house, alc,

carpet.$700 monthly, Call
737-6127

1330 N.W. 190 St.
Norwood. 3 bdrm 2 bath, cer-
amic tile , new roof, new win-
dows. Pre-qualify and rent until
closing. A bargain at $79,900.

17930 N.W. 5th Ave.
Starter Home. Close to every-
thing. Many upgrades. Space
for extension. Only $63,900.

DUPLEX

13535 N.E. 6 Ave.

2 bedroom 1 bath each side. An
investors’ dream at only
$83,900

450 N.E. 168 Terr.

2 bedroom 2 bath each side.
Recently painted. Assume
$75,000 mtg. PITI $874. Owner
will hold 2nd. $125,000.

BUY NOW and Get 7.3 Fixed
Rate Interest. Good Credit and
3 years tax return required.
First Time Buyers Dream. Max-
imum price $99,000.

Call Lascelles Patterson,
Homes 2000 Real Estate,
947-2493, beeper, 543-3249.

13800 N.W. 2nd Ave
Excellent starter home low
70's.

1970 N.W. 153rd St
3 bedroom house $49,900

1101 N.E. 213th Terr
3 bedroom 2 bath low 80's

12630 Country Club Ln
3 bedroom house on extra big
lot

12701 Bunker Dr
2 bedroom house $49,900

737 N.W. 46th St
5 bedrooms 3 bath, extra big
family home. $62,900.
Buyer take advantage of the
Community Home Buyers
program. Only 3% down. For
more information call:

Hallea Hall Realty

651-5172

1507 N.W. 98th St
NEAR NORTH
SHORE HOSPITAL
LIKE NEW 4 BEDROOMS 2
BATHS. CENTARL AIR, CER-
AMIC TILE FLOORS, RANGE,
FRIG, LARGE YARD. ONLY

$5500 TOTAL DOWN.
CALL DAVE GILBERT
945-0566.

FREE. 1 YR.
FULL WARRANTY

1650 N.W. 126th St

City of North Miami
CBS 2 bedroom 2 bath Fla.
Room., carport, living and di-
ning room, new roof.

Reeven D. Kalman

Realtor 854-8691

17600 NE 6th Ave
Drastically reduced financing
availabe. Owner relocated. 2 or
3 bdrm 2 bath, Lg. patio. Fried-
ler 433-3534. Fernandez
923-9869. Keyes C0.931-8920

1775 N.W. 84th St.
2 bdrm Frame House, updated
kitchen and bath plus C.B.S.
Efficiency. Needs Repairs. Ap-
praised at $17,337. Now only
$13,500. Large Lot with fruit
trees. 681-2426.

1900 N.W. 129th Terr
5 bedrooms 3 bath, $3,900.
$5300 needed.

19011 N.W. 44th Ave
3 bedroom 1 bath, big yard, only
,900.

3106 N.W. 203rd Lane
3 bedrooms townhouse,
$49,900. $35,000 needed.

3866 N.W. 213th St
3 bedroom 1 bath townhousem,
$39,900. $28,000 needed.

2930 N.W. 163rd St
3 bedrooms 2 bath, $63,900.
$46,000 needed

Great Deals
Anita Berger Realty
932-0828

20420 N.W. 23rd Avenue
Only $56,000. 3 bedroom 2
bath, central AC, alarm system.
Sales Alvin Inc. 430-0849 or

Bpr. 352-4892.

2220 NW. 190 Terrace, 3
bdrm., 2 bath, pool, central air,
$665 monthly P&l....4304 N.W.
202 Street, 3 bdrm., 2 bath,
pool, new paint, $525 monthly
P&l...100 NW 189 Street, 4
bdrm., 2 bath, family room,
garage, corner lot, $665
monthly P&lI....1198 NE 158
Street, 3 bdrm., 2 bath, family
room, $629.30 monthly
P&l....771 NW 167 Terrace, 4
bdrm., 2 bath, Scott Lake, $629
monthly P&l.....Call 774-0760
or 774-0201 (anytime)

2363 N.W. 41st St
$2500 down $500 a month. 3
bedrooms 2 bath. Eat in
kitchen, totally renovated. Mike
672-1122 beeper 521-0820.
Owner will help you buy.

23rd Ave N. W. 179th Terrace
Three Bedrooms, two baths,
pool nice area, Owner anxious.
HA-VA low down payment,
priced $69,000 or best offer.
hr owner/agent 624-0451.

a. wt

DS

Ha N.W. 51st Terr

an special, 3 bedroom
1 bath $26,000. No qualifying
$4000 down. 891-2323

3201 N.W. 212th St
FOR SALE 4 bdrms 2 baths,
totally remodelled! NEW roof,
kitchen, tile. J. Dahan Realty,
Owner/Bkr. 663-6429

3950 N.W. 194 St. 3 bedroom,

garage, large fenced yard.

Owner helps with financing.
$600 month. 891-0082.

518 NE 163rd St
3 bedroom 1 bath, Fla. room,
remodeled, move-in condition,
Owner will help arrange for
financing, $69,900. 940-0290.

80 NW 53 St
House Plus Duplex, Real Steal
for only $59,000 and get this. A
A free stove and fridge to quali-
fied buyer. 651-9689

212 NE 26 Terr
3 Units Ideal for income and
Tax shelter and investment pur-
poses or live rent free drive
by...651-9689 ”

4699 NW 7th Ave
Rooming house all ready in
operation making $3,000 per
mo. |deal for day care, Battered
Women, People with Aids, Ba-
bies born addicted to Drugs,
ACLF or any commerical use
651-9689

9025 N.W. Broad Manor Rd
(33rd Avenue)
3 bedroom, 1 bath, on a big
corner lot, beautifully remod-
eled. $69,000. Little money
down. Call me 378-0185.

Dania 40 NW 13th Ave
3 bdrm 2 bath, carport, Fla.
room, new roof, central AC.
Owner will help arrange financ-
ing. $49,900. Call 940-0290.

MIAMI SHORES

A GRAND HOME
IF YOU HAVE A TOTAL OF
$9500 TO INVEST. AND CAN
AFFORD A SUPERIOR HOME
IN A SUPERIOR LOCATION,
YOU MUST SEE OUR HOME
AT 95 N.W. 96th St. BEFORE
YOU BUY. SEEING IS BE-
LEIVING. YOU GET A FREE 1
YR. FULL WARRANTY. CALL
DAVE GILBERTY 945-0566.

MOVE TO HOLLYWOOD
4414 SW 22 ST

4 bdrm 2 bath, den and family

rm. 2000 sq. ft of living space.

$2,000 rebate to a qualified

buyer...651-9689

2932 NW 57 st
3bdrm 1 bath with A/c and more
new stove and fridg and carpet
ata perfect price $55.000 take a
drive by...651-9689

1324 NW 55 St
HOUSE + INCOME
3 bdrm one bath house plus a
one bdrm one bath apt. this is a
perfect way to live almost rent
free. You should drive by and
see this one.651-9689

DUPLEX DEAL
2 bdrm 1 bath on each side this
is a terrific byy for only $5000
down and no qualifying. “AS IS”
651-9689

N.E. AREA
3 bedrooms, near Barry Univer-
sity, corner lot, carport. Please
call Velma Levy/ERA
Pride Realty 759-9167

N.E. AREA
Quick, Quick - Steal This Deall!!
4 bedroom 3 bath, single family,
plus Duplex. Only $85,000. Call
Velma Levy/ERA Pride Realty
759-9167

NORTH MIAMI
RENT WHILE QUALIFYING
TO BUY

1546 N.E. 154th Terr.
2 bedroom, 1 bath as little as
$1350 down, no previous credit
needed. $450 mthly.

1400 N.W. 41st Street
4 bedrooms 2 baths as little as
$1650 down no previous credit
necessary. $600 mthly.

18201 N.W. 2nd Court
4 bedrooms, 2 baths, as little as
$1800 down no previous credit
needed. $650 mthly.
Also available HUD/VA proper-
ties as little as $500 down.
491-7491 566-6117. Summa
Properties ask for Peter.

NORTHWEST AREA
$200 DOWN—VETS $0
DOWN

NO CLOSING COSTS

MOVE IN 2 WEEKS

NEW GOVERNMENT

PROGRAM
REMODELED HOMES
4 Bedrooms
3338 NW 49 St $525 Pays All
3759 Florida Ave $525 Pays All
(COCONUT GROVE)
1557 NW 66 St $500 Pays All

1567 NW 68 St $500 Pays All
26454 SW 139 Ave $525 Pays
All

(NARANJA)

3 Bedrooms
744 NW 65 St $525 Pays All
778 NW 42 St $525 Pays All
3008 NE 132 Terr $525 Pays All
29 NW 60 Terr $500 Pays All
165 NW 68 Terr $500 Pays All
8 NW 61 St § 550 Pays All

2 Bedrooms
4530 NW 12 PI $400 Pays All
- Richard 557-2462

Sunrise/ N. W. Area. Must Sale
Four bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths,
Central airheat. Call 748-1356.

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FOR SALE |

North, South, East, or West
OWN YOUR DREAM HOME
FINANCING PROBLEMS
SOLVED

Bill Sernaker at Russom Realty
232-1903 pr 729-9061 BPR

N.W. AREA
4 BEDROOMS
18511 N.W. 39th Ct
2 Bedrooms, 2 baths, tile floors,
Fla room, central air.
2840 N.W. 171 St
4 bedrooms, 2 baths, plus 2
extra rooms
3 Bedrooms
1431 N.W 1723rd Terr
Clean 3 bedrooms, 2 baths,
security bars
842 NW. 171 Terr
Spotless 3 bedrooms, carport
910 N.W. 203 St
Magnificient 3 bedrooms, 3
baths, tri-level Italian tile floor,
42 x 17 Fla room, 2 car garage,
gourment kitchen, 2 central air
units, sunken living room
525 N.W. 133 St
3 bedrooms, 2 baths, big
fenced yard
12435 N.W. 20th Ave
Precious 3 bedrooms, 2 baths,
tiled hugh fla room with fire,
place
1080 N.W. 151 St
3 bedrooms, 2 baths, Fla room.
garage, big yard
2 bedrooms
16936 N.W. 55 Ave
Clean 2 bedrooms, 1% bath,
Townhouse
260 N.W. 50 Ave
2 bedrooms, 1 bath, $39,000
235 & 245 N.W. 55 St
2 Duplexes, 3 bedrooms, 2
baths, & 2 bedrooms, 1 bath,
each

2331 N.W. 100 St
Duplexs 2 bedrooms, 1 bath
each side.

12825 N.W. 15th Ave
Just painted 2 big bedrooms, 20
x 18 Fla room.

BEAUTIFUL HOMES
BROWN REALTY
685-6275
14624 N.W. 7th Ave

A A Mortgage Broker
Home Equity Loans and Mort-
gages available for fast closing.
Bad credit OK. Call Todd Lic.
Mtg. Bkr. 756-1177.

FAST CASH - 921-2241 or
652-6411 or 920-1806
Bad Credit - No Income OK -
Equity Required - Home Im-
provements - Ask for Mr. Barron
R.L Schmidt Mortgage Lender

Money available to solve Real
Estate problems by private in-
vestor. 326-7995

NEED CASH? Mortgages and
equity loans. Credit and in-
come. No problem! Essential
Mortgage Licensed, Mortgage
Broker. Business 623-9988

Personal Loans up to $5000.

Answer in 48 hours. Advantage

Financial Associates, Inc.
944-3005 Fee.

Office and Warehouse 3500 sq.
ft., great location. Great poten-
tials being offered at $1994 of
appraised value. Security shel-
ters, air conditioned office
Shaheed Realty
625-3127

8644 through 8648
Glass shop fully equiped, is for
sale or rent.Call 693-9486

Beauty Salon must sell reason-
able. N. Miami area 886-7492
bpr. 981-8066 evenings.

A home away CE home.

Licensed 24 hour elderly care.
Also elderly daycare.Call Mrs.
Jones 625-2666

Al's Construction Co. Certified
General Contrators. Complete
Construction Service. Carpen-
try, Roofing, Masonry, Plumb-
ing, Additions, Electrical, Paint-
ing, Fencing, Tiling. Large or
small jobs. Financing available.
769-2354 beeper 369-3364

‘You won't have time to write him
all the news from home every
week, so let us send him The
Miami Times. He will be able to"
keep up with what's happening in
the old hometown - and he’ll love

“you for it.

Just fill in the blank below and

SERVICES

Business Plans
County Proposals
Grant Writing, Business
Mailing Lists 234-5445

Cheap Mover. Let me move
you. $25 a load. Rev. Jones
635-7145 beep 231-1334

Electricians R Us Inc.
Fuse box and water heater
repairs, AC, Stove and dryer
lines installed. Visa or Master
Card accepted. 621-4046.

Free Purified Drinking and Bath
Water.

Guaranteed weight lost prog-
ram. 25% discount on long
distance calls. Beepers from
$5.95 monthly. Call 983-4287
or 810-6868.

HANDYMAN'S SERVICES.
Painting, lawn care, lots
cleaned. minor roof repair,

hauling and more.
Call 864-3614.

Free Seminar. Earn extra in-
come. Holiday Inn, (near Pal-
metto Gen'l Hospital. Thur. 3/9
and 3/16, 7:15 p.m.
628-9141-6238736.

R & G TILE AND MARBLE
FREE ESTIMATES. 892-8602,
Beeper, 352-3847.

Solution to your credit prob-
lems. Contact Cookie at
621-0240 for appointments.

TURNER LAWN SERVICE
FREE Estimates
Beeper 465-1944

REPAIRS

Air Conditioning Refrigeration
Mechanic Repairing Washers,
Dryers, Electric Range, Hot
Water Heaters,etc. All work
guaranteed. Call 835-0964.

APPLIANCE REPAIRS
Washer - Dryer - Stove and
Refrigerator. 758-8608 or Beep

Joel 352-7422

Speciales in: All types of Front

End Repair. C.V. Joints, Ball

Joints, Bushing, Tie Rod End,
etc. Beeper, 465-1944.

2 EWpLO IMENT |

Are needed for WHQT/HOT
105 a local RADIO STATION
* A 30 hour work week
* Coordination of station
events,
remotes, contests
* Must highly organized, detail
oriented, creative problem
solver.

Fax Resume to:
Darryl Davis
795-8418

EXQUISITE COIFFURES
Needed: Experience/licensed
Hair Stylist, Barber and Nail

- Technician. Booth rentals avail-

able 633-3070 ask for Nakita.

Experienced Assistant Director
Needed for Daycare Cen-
ter.Apply in person at:
Sasame Street Daycare
5605 NW 32nd Ave

FREE JOB
TRAINING

GED or Vocational classes.
Choose from 23 out of town
schools. We pay travel and
living expenses, and provide
spending money. Immediate
openings for females: Short
waiting list for males, MUST be
16-24 years old. Out of School,
out of work. MUST LIVE ON
CAMPUS. Job placement
assistance/graduation. PLUS
MORE!! N.Miami, 758-2133;
Hialeah/S.Miami/Westchester,
265-9029; MIAMI 634-7122,
Hollywood, 485-7090; Ft.
Lauderdale 791-8113

HAIR STYLIST
NEW SALON
CUTLER RIDGE MALL
Great opportunity
688-4600

Hair stylists, barber, nail tech
needed with follows: A new
shop near Barry's College. Re-
ntals starts at $50 weekly.
Beeper 737-7403 ask for Chin
or call after 7 p.m. 949-5170

Got a friend in jai

we will do the rest.

EMPLOYMENT

HOUSEKEEPER/NANNY
ONLY SERIOUS PERSON
NEED APPLY!. Large home. 1
adult and 5 yr. old son. Work 6
days. Must be a take charge
individual. Cooking, Cleaning,
Shopping, Laundry. Must drive.
Current FL License. If you fit
this description, call 757-1147,

for an appointment.

LICENSED
COSMETOLOGISTS. For
booth rental. 3 Chairs Open.
Please contact Nettie. 8317
N.W. 22nd Ave., 693-4555,
996-8690 or 694-9010. Nice

working area.

Need someone to live-in retire-
ment facility and take care of
seniors. Must be mature and
knowledeable with cooking,
cleaning, etc. Please
call 696-5652.

Part time, full time, Telemarket-
ing, Sales Reps. Draws and
Commissions.Call 621-0240.

Part-time Real Estate Agents
needed. Please call 751-4117.

Part-time Real Estate Agents
needed. Please call 751-4117.

PROJECT STOPPP
Activity and Counselor Aides
needed by non-profit preven-
tion agency. Call 751-7061 for
futher information. Funded by
Dade County Office of Com-
munity Development and De-
partment of Human Resources.

An Equal Opportunity

Employer.

Progessive Day Care is seek-

ing part-time teacher. With 2 or

more years experience. For

more information contact Mr.

Findley at 694-1244 or
693-1398

S.W. MIAMI
Musician Wanted, must be able
to play gospel music. 238-7852

Tupperware Reps needed
Excellent opportunity, full time
pay, part time hours. 655-1183

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

GET TRAINING
NOW
DON'T WAIT
-Barber
-Cosmetology
-Nursing Assistant
Grant NO Loans
(If you qualify)
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Miami, FI 33125

GOOD JOBS AWAITING
YOU

Learn to take Blood Pressure,

take care of New Born children

and elderly. Become a C.N.A.

Home Health Aide, Bookk-

eeper. 754-4035 or 758-9344.

PRIVATE TUTORING - FTCE,
SAT, READING, MATH & GED.
Maj. L. Smith, 635-0868.

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ATTENTION ALL NIGHT
WORKERS:

We will Babysit your children,

nightly from 10pm to Sam.

625-6080 or Bpr. 369-1064.

Progessive Day Care is except-
ing registration for children be-
tween the ages of 6 months thru
5 years of age. The first 20 gets
half price. For further informa-
tion contact Mr. Findely at
694-1244 or 693-1398

SCE LANEO

2294 N.W. 54th St. Beds, Cribs,
Bassinett, Walkers and many
other items, 6 days 9-6

Construction Company looking
for a partner, withy money to
help move an enlarge com-
pany. 843-0227 Dade beeper
and 875-7362 Broward beeper.

LOSE 8 to 100lbs.
Its So Easy. No Hunger. Eat
Real Food. Great Energy.
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Call Now! 681-3689.

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MERCHANDISE
©1986 Honda Accord LX, loaded

with extra's. 1 owner very
clean, $3800. 635-0989

1987 Nissan Maxima Station
Wagon, loaded with extra's.
Sun-roof, super clean.
$3700.Fianancing available.
635-0989

1990 Chevy Caprice loaded
with extra's. 1 owner $2700.

Computer Programs as low as
$2 each. For information,
please call Digitech Interna-
tional (305) 892-9659.

DESIGNER Mens’ Shirts,

Jeans, Sweaters, Jackets

NEW. Med/Lrg. 866-1653 8am-
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LEGAL NOTICE

ABSOLUTELY FREE LEGAL

ADVICE BY PHONE. 539-1700

Mr. Sobel, Attorney, Miami,
Florida Bar since 1955.

FICTITIOUS NAME STATUTE
State of Florida
County of Dade

The undersigned under oath,

says it is the intention of the

undersigned enterprise under
the fictitious name of:
ISLAND WATER SPORTS
8067 S.W. 73rd Avenue
Miami, FL 33143

In the City of Miami, Florida

Dade County, Florida those in-

terested in said enterprise and

extent of the interest of each of
the following:
Michael A. Myrie
8067 S.W. 73rd Avenue
Miami, Fla 33143

1 am enclosing a check or money order for $35.00 (plus $2.28 Florida state sales tax for Florida

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Bids are to be placed in the “BID BOX", in room 352, by 2:00 PM. Bid forms on which the bids must be
submitted are available upon request to the DEPARTMENT OF PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT,

room 352, address above, telephone (305) 995-1380. The results of bids awarded at the official School
Board meetings will be available in the DEPARTMENT OF PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT on the
Monday following the meetings.

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RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

The University of Miami Department of Psychiatry has an opening for a Research Associate in it's
Center for Family Studies. This position requires a Bachelor's degree in psychology, counseling, social
work or related field. At least one year’s experience in clinical research methods and assessment to
include working with both African Americans and Hispanic individuals. Send CV to Daniel
Santisteban, Ph.D., University of Miami Department of Psychiatry; Center for Family Studies; 1425
N.W. 10th Avenue 3rd Floor; Sieron Bldg. (D-22); Miami, FL 33136.

PROGRAM ASSISTANT I
Seeking a high-energy individual for the position of Program Assistant I, to work with the National
Hispanic Leadership Initiative on Cancer “Unidos For La Salud” project. Bachelor's degree in public

work-related field, including working with community groups, community based organizations,
health-related institutions, and/or volunteer organizations within the Hispanic community of Dade
County and/or Broward County. Experience in working with cancer data, excellent interviewing
skills, and familiarity with research projects. Excellent skills in English/Spanish (oral and written)
required. PC Computer experience required. Submit resume to Desiree L. Uptgrow, Sylvester
Comprehensive Cancer Center, P.O. Box 016960 (D4-11), Miami, FL 33136, AA/EOE

PROGRAM ASSISTANT III

The Department of Epidemiology & Public Health is seeking a candidate for the position of Program
Assistant III. This position will assist in program development, recruitment, and administration and
will serve as administrator and assistant to the Program Director. Master's degree in communication,
marketing, business, education, public administration or related field with three (3) years of relevant
experience. Experience in academic programs preferred. English skills (verbal and written). P.C..

Box #016069 (D-93), Miami, FL 33101.

PROGRAM SPECIALIST III/FAMILY THERAPIST

Candidates must have a Master's degree in psychology, social work or related field. Four years effec-
tive work-related experience (must include two years’ structural family therapy and experience with
Hispanic inner city family population preferred. Excellent bilingual written and verbal skills

systems therapy with families of Hispanic drug abusing adolescents; and collaboration with the,

er and a smoke/drug free workplace. We offer an excellent benefits package including tuition remis-
sion and thirteen paid holidays.

Send curriculum vitae to: Sergio Aisenberg, M.S.W., Center For Family Studies, Department of
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences (D-22), 1425 N.W. 10th Avenue, Room 309, Miami, Florida 33136,
Phone: (305) 548-4592, FAX: (305) 547-5577.

FACILITIES PLANNING & CONSTRUCTION

The Department of Facilities Planning & Construction is seeking an individual with 4 years’ con-
struction-related experience and Bachelor's degree. Ability to read blueprints, light drafting and Cad
training, must be computer proficient with basic IBM-PC, experience in estimating, contracting and
coordinating commercial remodeling projects. Salary low thirties. English skills (verbal & written)
Send resume to: Gabriel Dominguez-Nunez, U of M, Facilities Planning & Construction, School of
Medicine, P.O. Box 106960 (R34A), Miami, FL 33101.

PROGRAM ASSISTANT II

Individual needed for the position (FOUR POSITIONS) of Program Assistant II in the Division of
Florida Cancer Data System (FCDS). High School diploma plus two years’ college work. Formal certi-
fication (CTR) or eligible (must be certified within 2 years’ of employment) required. Valid Florida
Driver's License and car insurance. Two years’ health-related experience in position demonstrating
extensive knowledge of anatomy, medical terminology, modalities of cancer treatment and ICD-O
Coding. Working knowledge of computer-based data system. Tumor Registrar experience preferred.
English skills (verbal and written) required. Please submit resume to Jill Mackinnon, 1550 N.W. 10th
Ave. (D4-11), Miami, FL 33136.

COORDINATOR

Coordinator for innovative programs at the Department of Family Medicine. Responsibilities include
grants management, program coordination and evaluation. Bachelor's degree required. Four years
work-related experience, with at least one year in a health care environment witli grants management
experience and PC skills. Experience in academic medicine preferred. Strong English skills (verbal
and written). Please send resumes to M. Butler; University of Miami School of Medicine (R103); P.O.
Box 016960; Miami, FL 33101.

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

The University of Miami School of Law seeks to appoint faculty members at either senior and junior
levels effective August 1995. Permanent and visiting positions are available. Applicants should pos-
sess a record of excellence in teaching and scholarship, distinguished academic credentials, or other
evidence of high promise of achieving such excellence. Rank and compensation will be determined on
the basis of qualifications and experience. The School of law also invites applications from highly
qualified persons interested in teaching in the first year legal research and writing curriculum. Send
resumes to Vice Dean Laurence M. Rose, School of Law, University of Miami, P.O. Box 248087, Coral
Gables, Florida 33124-8087.

ACADEMIC ADVISOR

B.A. required. Experience in student affairs/records preferred. Responsibilities include academic
advising and credit checks, maintaining student records, mail registration. Interpersonal skills a
must. Working knowledge of WordPerfect. Salary $19,500-$22,500. Send resume (no phone calls,
please) to Mrs. Barbro Vegara, School of Communication, P.O. Box 248127, Coral Gables, FL 33124-
2030. DEADLINE March 3, 1995.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIAN II

Responsible for the installation and repair of telephone equipment, telephone cable installation,
assist with data communications and inventory control. A.A. degree required with formal technical
training or 2 years related experience. Send resume and salary history in confidence to: University of
Miami, Information Resources, Attention: Business Office, P.O. Box 248011, Coral Gables, FL 33124.
A pre-employment drug test is required.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
The individual in this position will be the data custodian of the Career Planning and Placement com-
puter systems. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems, management Information

is needed. Thorough knowledge of PC's, PC applications, specifically DOS, Windows, WordPerfect, MS
Excel, MS Access and FileMakerPro are required. Experience with Novell networks, Internet,
WorldWideWeb also needed. Some knowledge of mainframe systems and data-based management
preferred. Very good communication and interpersonal skills required. Send resume to: University of
Miami, Department of Career Planning and Placement, Attention: Cynthia M. Swol, P.O. Box 249175,
Coral Gables, FL 33124-5220.

EXCELLENT BENEFITS INCLUDING 100% TUITION REMISSION ;
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY /AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER i

health, epidemiology, nursing or equivalent health care field. Three years’ experience in an effective }.

Skills. Send resume to: Valerie Keir, Assistant Director of Administration, University of Miami, P.O. |

(English/Spanish) required. Duties include conduct of home-based multisystemic, structural family-

research evaluation team. The University of Miami is an equal opportunity affirmative action employ- .

Systems, or related area is required. Minimum two years experience in a technical/business setting Jv

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Thursday, March 2, 1995

Overtown police

offer job training

If you need a job, the Miami
Police Department's Overtown
Neighborhood Enhancement
Team may be able to help you.

First, you have an opportunity
to go to school to study in an area of
your choice at no cost to you. This
training is provided by the Private
Industry Council (PIC). Your tui-
tion, books, bus pass and day care
will be provided.

Ifyou have been unemployed for
15 weeks for more, you are eligible.
You must have a picture I.D. and a
Social Security Card at the time of
application.

Secondly, the agency is present-
ly sponsoring a series of seminars
on employability skills, preferring
to refer you to jobs with the confi-
dence of knowing that you are well
prepared when you face an
employer.

Anyone interested may go by the
Overtown N.E.T. office, 1490 NW

3rd Ave., or call 372-4550.

| LAKE LUCERNE

*IMMEDIATE
OCCUPANCY**

EFFICIENCY $350 PER MO.
FREE AIR COND. & ELECTRICITY
ONLY $399 TO MOVE IN
1-BEDROOM $325 PER MONTH
FROM $399 TO MOVE IN
2-BEDROOMS $480 PER MONTH
FROM $699 TO MOVE IN

Section 8 Tenants Welcome
OPEN 7 DAYS
Sunday 11—5 PM
N.W. 207 ST. & 27 AVc.

625-6586

CLOVERLEAF

*IMMEDIATE
OCCUPANCY**

Efficiency $395 PER MONTH
FREE AIR COND. & ELECTRICITY
ONLY $495 TO MOVE IN
1-BEDROOM $385 PER MONTH
from $599 to move in
2-BEDROOM $525 PER MONTH
FROM $790 TO MOVE IN

OPEN 7 DAYS
Sunday 11-5 PM
N.W. 2ND AVE. & 177 ST.

651-4108

MIAMI DADE
COMMUNITY COLEGE

WOLFSON CAMPUS
Faculty /Chairperson,
Architecture/Interior Design
Director of Alumni Affairs
Program Support Specialist
Director of Business & Finance
Academic Advisor

HOMESTEAD CAMPUS
Faculty /Data Processing

KENDALL CAMPUS
Staff Associate Sr.

Associate Instructor
Electronic Technician

Formal appl. required: call
(805) 237-0595 for an appl.
form. Copies of transcript(s) &
3 work related references must
accompany the appl. For spe-
cial accommodations, call the
Fla Relay Service TDD at 1-
800-955-8771. Only completed
appl. pkgs will be considered.

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Right now, we have many opportunities avail-
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bilingual? All the better.

This is a career opportunity not to be missed.
Our compensation and benefits program includes
travel privileges for you and your immediate family.
First year compensation is approximately $21,000.
So, no matter where you want to go, take a good
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Reporter-Writer

DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT I,
TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS

QUALIFICATIONS: High school diploma with Associate of Arts pre-
ferred. Minimum of three (3) years work experience in a school bus
transportation department, municipal transit department, or oper-
ations section of a large school district or comparable experience in
a private sector. Ability to communicate effectively as evidenced by
clarity and conciseness of oral presentation and submitted docu-
ments.
SALARY: $28,152 - with Liberal Benefits

Deadline to apply: March 9, 1995

Lateral deadline: March 2, 1995
Incomplete applications will not be processed.
Submit letter of application (include title of the position of interest),
resume, copy of transcript or diploma, and two sealed letters of ref-
erence to: Mrs. Marta Leyva, Executive Director, Division of
Management Selection, 1500 Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 144,
Miami, Florida 33132. Please call (305) 995-7060 March 10, 1995,
after 3:00 p.m. for screening results. A veteran of active military
service during World War II, Korean Conflict, Vietnam Era or
Persian Gulf War or the spouse of a veteran killed or disabled by
such service should include a copy of DD Form 214 or similar state-
ment of service. DRUG SCREENING AND FINGERPRINTING ARE
REQUIRED PRIOR TO EMPLOYMENT. An Equal Opportunity
Employer.

The Miami Times has an immediate opening for a Reporter-
Writer. The successful candidate will have at least a Bachelor's
degree, with emphasis on print journalism, with some
experience, along with an enthusiasm for working in the
demanding environment of the Black Press. If you are
interested in joining a small, dynamic team of professionals
dedicated to covering the Black community and are not turned
off by long hours and hard work, fax your resume, along with the
names and contact numbers of at least three references, as well
as samples of your published work, to 757-5770. If you need
further information, or would like to schedule an immediate
interview, call the Editor, Mr. Hamaludin, at 757-1147.

RESIDENTIAL SECURITY OFFICER:

Responsibilities include operating a guard gate which provides
security to a residential neighborhood. You must have good-inter-
personal and communication skills. You must be willing to work
flexible hours (shift work) and weekends. This will be an Unarmed
Security Guard post. Full-time and part-time positions available.
These positions will pay $8.50 an hour with no benefits.
Applications will be accepted until March 10, 1995. Apply
Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. in person at:
CITY OF NORTH MIAMI BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT,
17050 N.E. 19th Avenue NMB, 33162.

RICHMOND-PERRINE
OPTIMIST CLUB

A private/non-profit organization is currently
hiring a Social Worker I.
Forward Resumes by March 17, 1995 To:
9955 West Indigo Street

Perrine, Florida 33157

233-9325

CHILD CARE WORKER

Must possess a CDA (Child Development Associate)
Certificate or its equivalency. At least two (2) years
related experience preferred. Those persons in
training for CDA certification are encouraged to

apply.

Apply in person at: Economic Opportunity Family
Health Center, Inc.
490 East Hialeah Drive
4TH Floor — Personnel
Hialeah, Florida 33010

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

The NAACP has an immediate. opening for an Executive
Secretary. This is a full-time, 12-month position. Minimum
qualifications is a Bachelor's degree; however, a Master's
degree or higher is preferred. Individual must be energetic,
capable, computer literate, have knowledge of executive
office procedures and general office equipment. Oral and
written communication skills are a must. Good organiza-
tional skills and excellent public relations skills are
required. Good human relations are essential.

Send resume, a copy of college transcript, and samples of
your work to: NAACP, P.O. Box 315, Opa Locka, FL 33054.

ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY

The NAACP has an immediate opening for an
Administrative Secretary. High school diploma or equiva-
lent and post-high school training are required. Excellent
clerical skills, including typing, computer knowledge, tele-
phone usage, and composition of written communication
are a must. Knowledge of administrative office procedures
is essential. Good human relations are essential.

Send resume to: NAACP, P.O. Box 315, Opa-locka, FL
33054.

@he Miami Times
Employment Opportunities
In-House Advertising Representative

Ideal candidate should have experience working within busy customer
environ. Should be computer literate. Knowledge of general office
equipment. Oral and written communication skills are essential. Type
45 wpm. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. 32 hour work
week.

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Executive Assistant

Energetic, competent individual, capable of providing assistance on a
supervisory level. Competent typing skills accurate grammar and
spelling. Dictation a plus. Must be computer literate. Knowledge of
administrative office procedures. Responsibilities will ‘consist of,
accounts payable and all coordinating reports, organizing the
executive office, correspondence and preparation of departmental
budgets. Strong client relations is a must.

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Part-time Clerk Typist

(Mornings)
The Editorial Department has an opening for a clerk
typist. Must type minimum of 40 wpm. The position requires a high
school diploma.Part-Time Advertising Traffic Clerk

LSI OE BE I A

Part-Time Advertising Traffic Clerk

Computer knowledge required. Minimum typing speed 40 wpm
and a self-starter. Will train. Hours of employment would be
Monday, 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Tuesday, 7:50 a.m.-5:30 p.m.;
Wednesday-Friday, 12:30-5:30 p.m.

Route Drivers

The Miami Times is seeking drivers to deliver newspapers to retail
stores on Wednesday evenings and Thursday mornings. No compact
cars. Must have reliable, insured vehicle.

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Join our innovative and progressive TEAM. Far over 70 Years we have:
consistently served our community. We offer a comprehensive
company paid benefits package.

Mail your resume today to: The Miami Times, Inc., Personnel Dept.,
P.O. Box 270200, Miami, FL 33127-0200.

Include with your resume, salary history, past employer contact and
current references. Resumes will be received in the office on a daily
basis, but no interviews will be granted without an appointment.

900 NW 54th Street

Equal Opportunity Employer

City of South Miami

6130 Sunset Drive, South Miami, Florida 33143
“AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER”
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
HIRING FOR THIS POSITION HAS BEEN
SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED BY THE CITY MANAGER'S
OPEN COMPETITIVE QUALIFICATIONS.

Administrative Secretary
SALARY: $17,000 TO $19,896

VARIED RESPONSIBLE CLERICAL WORK AS SECRETARY TO A
DEPARTMENT HEAD. PREPARES AND MAINTAINS STATISTICAL
AND TECHNICAL REPORTS, ATTENDS DAY AND NIGHT MEET-
INGS, PREPARE MINUTES OF VARIOUS COMMITTEE MEET-
INGS, MAINTAINS DEPARTMENTAL RECORDS, AUDITS AND
PROCESSES INVOICES FOR PAYMENT, MAINTAINS TIME AND
ATTENDANCE RECORDS, PERFORMS OTHER DUTIES AS
REQUIRED. KNOWLEDGE OF MODERN OFFICE EQUIPMENT
INCLUDING WORD PROCESSING, ABILITY TO PREPARE
DETAILED RECORDS AND REPORTS, ABILITY TO MAINTAIN
EFFECTIVE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER EMPLOY -
EES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE, EXPERIENCE IN A VARIETY OF
SECRETARIAL AND CLERICAL ASSIGNMENTS RELATIVE TO
MUNICIPAL FUNCTIONS, OR ANY EQUIVALENT OF TRAINING

‘| AND EXPERIENCE WHICH PROVIDES THE REQUIRED KNOWL-

EDGE, SKILL, AND ABILITY.

APPLICATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT
MAY BE OBTAINED AT SOUTH MIAMI CITY HALL, 6130 SUNSET
DR. DEADLINE FOR APPLYING IS 12 NOON FRIDAY, MARCH 3,
1995. THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
EMPLOYER AND COMPLIES WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DIS-
ABILITIES ACT.

CITY OF MIAMI BEACH

E.M.S. TRAINING COORDINATOR
$36,297 - $50,923 Annually

REQUIRES: Current certification as a Paramedic, Paramedic
Instructor, ACLS Instructor, and BLS Instructor Trainer. Five (5)
years experience as a Paramedic including two (2) years experi-
ence as a Paramedic Instructor or equivalent. Familiarity with
and ability to teach Paramedic/EMT training modules. DESIRES:
Associates Degree in Emergency Medical Services or R.N. Degree.
Current Instructor status in Pediatric Advanced Life Support
(PALS) and/or Advanced Pre-Hospital Trauma Life support
(PHTLS).
Two (2) detailed resumes must be received by 5PM, 03/30/95. NO
FAX ACCEPTED. Send to: City of Miami Beach, Human
Resources Dept., ATTN: EMS COORD - T, 1700 Convention
Center Dr., Miami Beach, FL 33139.
NOTE: If you wish veterans’ preference per Florida law, please call
(805) 673-7520 for instructions.

HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR I
$18,081 - $24,898 Annually

REQUIRES: Have a combined total of three (3) months full-time
verifiable experience in the operation of two or more of the follow-
ing: backhoe, crane, front-end loader, grader, road roller, or
trencher. Successful completion of City of Miami or equivalent
heavy equipment operator training course on two of above pieces
of equipment may substitute for experience. Florida Class “B”
Commercial Driver's License valid for air brakes with “N” endorse-
ment prior to appointment. Ability to read and write.
Apply 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM by Friday 3/10/95, City of Miami
Beach, Human Resources Dept., 2nd FL, 1700 Convention Center
Dr., Miami Beach. ’

PUBLIC SAFETY SPECIALIST II
$18,156 - $26,270 Annually

REQUIRES: Driver's License. Ability to lift heavy objects up to
approximately 30 pounds. Shift work including nights, weekends,
and holidays. Complete training courses.

Apply 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM by Friday, 3/10/95, City of Miami
Beach, Human Resources Dept., 2nd FL, 1700 Convention Center
Dr., Miami Beach.

DISPATCHER
Part Time
$10.80 - $13.27 Hourly

REQUIRES: 1 year in a Police/Fire dispatch capacity, or related
filed. Type 30 CWPM.

Apply 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM, City of Miami Beach, Human Resources
Dept., 2nd FL, 1700 Convention Center Dr., Miami Beach.
EOE/AA/NO HANDICAP DISCRIMINATION/VET PREF PER FL

POLICE OFFICER

ENTRY: $940 - MAX: $1,425 Bi-weekly
This is general law enforcement & public safety work in the pro-
tection of life & property & in the execution of orders issued
through the authority of the Director of the Metro-Dade Police
Department. Grad from an accredited HS. GED or HS equivalence
is acceptable. MINIMUM AGE: 19
REQUIREMENTS: The following must be presented at the time of
application: :
* Acceptable photo I.D., such as a Driver's lic.
* Proof of all formal edu, including official college transcripts
* A valid Driver's lic.
* Proof of U.S. citizenship.
Applicants must meet minimum County medical standards. Must
possess visual acuity not exceeding 20/100 uncorrected, correct-
ed to 20/30 or better. Contact lenses are permitted. Applicants
must be able to distinquish between the colors red, green, & yel-
low. Weight must be in proportion to height. Applicants qualifying
on the written exam & successfully completing a background
investigation will be administered a psychological evaluation to
determine suitability & compatibility to perform the basic job func-
tion. The written exam will evaluate the ability to follow written
instructions, written communications, basic math skills, & map
reading. DEPT: METRO-DADE POLICE/LOC: N.W.
Preference will be given to veterans and spouses of veterans when
applicable. Those claiming this preference must submit documen-
tation of eligibility for preference, such as a copy of a DD214 from
the armed force(s) (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, ‘and/or
Coast Guard of the United States) with wartime dates of service
and an “honorable” discharge or a recent letter (within one year)
from the Veteran's Administration, and complete a Veteran's
Preference Claim Form at the time of application.
As a condition of employemnt, applicants qualifying for positions
requiring a CDL will be reqd to sign a Release of Controlled
Substance & Alcohol Test Information Form. The signipg of the
release form authorizes previous employers to provide to Metro-
Dade County information regarding positive controlled substance
test results, alcohol test results of 0.04 or greater, and/or refusals
to be tested for alcohol/controlled substances. Additionally, if one
of the above occured in prior employment, proof of negative retest,
documented evaluations by a substance abuse prof., & proof of
rehabilitation will be reqd. This information is limited to 2 yrs pre-
ceding the date of inquiry.
APPLY IN PERSON AT:
' METRO-DADE POLICE DEPARTMENT
HUMAN RESOURCES SECTION
2105 NW 25TH STREET
MIAMI, FLORIDA
FROM: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1995
TO: TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1995
8:30 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.
MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

DATE AND TIME OF EXAMINATION: TO BE NOTIFIED AT THE
TIME OF APPLICATION
Employment required meeting medical/physical standards and residence in Dade
County within six months of employment. “It is the policy of Metro-Dade County that
hiring decisions will be made contingent upon the results of a physical exam, includ-

ing alcohol and drug screening.” “EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER M/F. WE DO
NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF DISABILITY."

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The following RFP will be opened at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 7
1995 Deadline for submission is Tuesday, March 7, 1905 at 1:00

.m. :
Bid #RFP000035 Master Property Insurance Program
See Attached Ad. perty

Request for Proposal

: RFP-000035
Metropolitan Dade County is seeking proposals for the Acquisition
of a Master Property Insurance Program for County Properties.
The Request for Proposal document is available at the following
address: Metropolitan Dade County General Services
Administration, Procurement Management Division, Stephen P.
Clark Center, 111 N.W. 1st Street, Suite 2350, Miami, Florida
33128, Attn: Bids and Contracts Section. The telephone number is
(305) 375-5289. The Issuing Department for this Request for
Proposal is Metropolitan Dade County General Services
Administration, Procurement Management Division. The contact
person is Carlos R. Nicot, (305) 375-4435.
A pre-proposal conference will be held on Thursday, February 16,
1995 10 AM on the 18th Floor, Conference Room 18-1, of the
Stephen P. Clark Center. Attendance is recommended but not
mandatory.
The deadline for the submission of proposals is Tuesday, March 7,
1995 at 1:00 PM EST at Metropolitan Dade County Clerk of the
Board of County Commissioners, Stephen P. Clark Center, Suite
210, 111 N.W. 1st Street, Miami, Florida 33128.
Black/Hispanic/Women Business Enterprise measures will be
established and furnished to prospective proposers via addendum.

CITY OF MIAMI

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed bids will be received by the City of Miami City Clerk at her
office located at City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami Florida
33133 for the following:
Bid No. 94-95-069 To establish a short term contract for the fur-
nishing and installation of three (3) industrial air cleaners as or equal
to Model Trion T2002, one (1) commercial air cleaner as or equal to
Model Trion M1100 AM. three (3) electronic air cleaners as or equal
to Model Trion Space Saver CAC1000, and one (1) air purification and
surface disinfecting instrument as or equal to Kleen Air, Model King
11 Air Purifier. :
OPENING DATE: 10:30 A.M. MARCH 13, 1995
BID NO. 94-95-078 Printing 2000 copies of the Police Department's
1994 Annual Report.
OPENING DATE: 11:00 A.M. MARCH 13, 1995
Bid No. 94-95-089 M/WBE Hauling and disposing of approximately
fifty (50) loads of Rubble Stored at the South Fork storage area
OPENING DATE: 11:00 A.M. MARCH 15, 1995
THIS BID HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS A SET ASIDE FOR BLACK
VENDORS CERTIFIED “WITH THE CITY OF MIAMI'S
MINORITY/WOMEN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (M/WBE) PROGRAM.
Detailed specification for these bids are available upon request at the
City of Miami, Procurement Division, 1390 N.W. 20th Street, 2nd
floor, Miami, FL 33142 Telephone No. 575-5174. ny
Cesar H. Odio
City Manager

Ad No. 1969-1977-1978

AMENDED NOTICE TO STREET VENDORS |

PLEASE ALL TAKE NOTICE THAT the Downtown Developient Authority’s Notice to
Street Vendors, which was published on February 9, 1995, inviting vendors to sub-
mit applications to participate in a lottery in connection with selection of 75 vendors
for specific designated areas within the Downtown Miami Special Vending District,
referenced City of Miami Ordinance “No. 11211,” which number was in error. THE
CORRECT NUMBER ASSIGNED TO SAID ORDINANCE IS NO. 11212.
Please note and correct your records accordingly.

(CITY SEAL) :
(#2282)

MATTY HIRAI

CITY CLERK

CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA

BID NO. 94-95-079

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed bids for “CITYWALK SIDEWALK REPLACEMENT PROJECT
PHASE-12 (SECOND BIDDING) B-4576, will be received by the City
Clerk of the City of Miami, Florida at 10:30 AM on the 21th day of
March, 1995, at the City Clerk’s Office, first floor of the Miami City
Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive, Dinner Key, Miami, Florida, 33133,
at which time and place they will be publicly opened and read. Any
bid submitted after the above appointed time will not be accepted
by the City Clerk.
The project consists of the removal and replacement of approxi-
mately 75,000 square feet of concrete sidewalk in the area bor-
dered by N.E. 36th Street, the northern City limits, N.E. 2nd
Avenue and Biscayne Bay. Construction includes the following:
clearing and grading, pruning and removing tree roots and limbs if
necessary, constructing new concrete curb & gutter, constructing
new 4” and 6” concrete sidewalk, and flexible pavement restoration
or construction. Bidders will furnish a bid bond in accordance with
Resolutions No. 86-983 and No. 87-915. For clarification of techni-
cal issues as presented in documents and specifications, please
contact Leonard Helmers, P.E. Chief Civil Engineer, Project
Manager, at (305) 579-6865. Prospective bidders will be required to
submit, with their bid, a copy of the appropriate Certificate of
Competency, as issued by Dade County, in accordance with
Chapter 10 of the Metropolitan Dade County Code, which autho-
rizes the bidder to perform the proposed work.
All bids shall be submitted in accordance with the Instructions to
Bidders and Specifications. New City regulations will require each
bidder to submit proposals in duplicate originals. Plans and speci-
fications may be obtained from the Office of the Director of Public
Works, 275 N.W. 2 Street, 3rd Floor, Miami, Florida, 33128, on or
after March 2, 1995. If bidders wish, a set of specifications will be
mailed to them by writing to the Department of Public Works and
including a separate check for $8. There will be a $20 deposit
required for the first set of specifications. Additional sets may be
purchased for a fee of $20 per set and this is not refundable.
Deposits will be refunded only upon the return of one set of speci-
fications to the Department of Public Works, unmarked and in good
condition within two (2) weeks after the opening of the bids.
Bidders are alerted to the provisions of Ordinances Nos. 10062 and
01538 regarding allocation of contracts to minority vendors, con-
tractors and subcontractors. All bidders must submit an
Affirmative Action Plan with their bids. (Ordinances are contained
in Specifications)
The City of Miami has adopted Ordinance No. 10032, which imple-
ments the “First Source Hiring Agreement.” The object of this ordi-
nance is to provide employment opportunities to City of Miami res-
idents on contracts resulting in the creation of new permanent
jobs. Contractors may be eligible for wage reimbursement under
this program. For further information contact the Department of
Public Works, City of Miami, at (305) 579-6856.
Proposal includes the time of performance, and specifications con-
tain provisions for liquidated damages for failure to complete the
work on time. The City Commission reserves the right to waive any
informality in any bid, and the City Manager may reject any of all
bids, and readvertise (B-4583, Req. 2588).

Cesar H. Odio

LEGAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF BIDS

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
Metropolitan Dade County, Florida is announcing the availability of
the following bids which can be obtained through the Dade County
G.S.A. Procurement Management Division, 111 N.W. 1st Street,
Suite 2350, Miami, Florida 33128-1989, (305) 375-5289. Bid
Proposals from prospective vendors must be received in the Clerk
of the Board Office located at 111 N.W. 1st Street, Suite 210 by no
later than 1:00 p.m. on the Bid Opening Date in order to be con-
sidered.

The following Bids will be opened at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday,
March, 22, 1995: .

Bid # RP7181-2/98-OTR Repair of Personal Computers and
Peripheral Equipment

Bid # 1540-1/97-OTR Traffic Cones

Bid # 1625-2/98-OTR Golf Shirts

Bid # 2169-2/98-OTR Janitorial Services for MDPD Headquarters
Complex

A Pre-Bid Walk-Thru Tour is recommended on March 2, 1995 at
various locations.

Bid # 2715-1/97-OTR Demolition

Sub-vender goal of 5% participation among Certified Black
Business Enterprises, (BBE's) and Sub-vendor goal of 5% partici-
pation among Certifed Hispanic Business Enterprises (HBE's).
This bid is County-wide.

Bid # 3077-1/97-OTR Power Collector Shoes and Electrical
Carbon Brushes

Bid # 423-063 Furnish and Install Parking Garage Signage at
Miami International Airport

This contract includes Bid Preference provisions for Certified
Hispanic Business Enterprises (HBE's) and Certified Women
Business Enterprises (WBE's)

Bid # 424-063 Industrial Shredder

Bid # 4313-1/97-OTR Rainwear

Bid # 4917-0/96-CW Guard Houses, Custom Built

This contract includes Bid Preference provisions for Certified Black
Business Enterprises (BBE's), Certified Hispanic Business
Enterprises (HBE's) and Certified Women; Business Enterprises
(WBE's)

This bid is County-wide

Bid # 4919-2/00-OTR Interlata and International Long Distance
Telephone Services

Bid # 4922-0/95 Fire Extinguishers Inspection, Recharge, Testing
and Repair

The following Bids will be opened at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April
5, 1995:

Bid # 143-075 Painting and Waterproofing, Exterior, 39 Units

A sub-vendor goal of 30% participation among Black Business
Enterprises. .

CARE AND PROTECTION/DISPENSING
WITH PARENTAL CONSENT TO ADOPTION
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

THE TRIAL COURT .
SALEM DISTRICT COURT
65 WASHINGTON STREET

SALEM, MA 01970
In the matter of MANUEL O'BRIEN, minor(s) To CYNTHIA
O'BRIEN AKA CYNTHIA PEDROSA 182 LAFAYETTE ST. APT.
#12 SALEM MA 01970 and/or MANUEL DEVERGE FLORIDA
and JULIO CARRION UNKNOWN and any unknown or unnamed
father, parent(s) of the above named child(ren).
A petition has been presented to this ocurt by THE DEPART-
MENT OF SOCIAL SERVICE 810 MEMORIAL DR. CAMBRIDGE
MA 02139 seeking, as to the subject child(ren) MANUEL O'BRIEN
that said child(ren) be found in need of care and protection. The
court may dispense with your consent to the adoption of said
child(ren) if it finds that the child(ren) is/are in need of care and
protection and that the best interests of the child would be serv
by said disposition: , da
You are herby ORDERED to appear in this court, at the court
address set above, on MARCH 16, 1995, at 10:00 for a PRETRIAL
CONFERENCE. l
You may bring an attotney with you. If you cannot afford an
attorney, the court will appoint an attorney to represent
you.
If you fail to appear, the court may proceed with a trial on the
merits of the petition and an adjudication of this matter.
For further information, call the Office of the Clerk
Magistrate.
Witness: SAMUEL E. ZOLL,Esquire, First Justice of said
Court.
Date: 2/3/95
A: Cynthia Pedrosa O'Brien
Manuel DeVarge
Julio Carrion

Al
Una peticion ha sido presentado a este Tribunal por el
Departmento de Servicios Sociales de Massachusetts, buscando
que el nino interesado, Manuel Roberto O'Brien, sea declaradoen
necesidad de cuidado y proteccion y consignado al Depar-
tamento de Servicios Sociales. El Tribunal puede dispensar con
su consentimiento para la adopcion del nino interesado si decide
que el nino esta en necesidad de cuidado y proteccion y que esta
disposicion servira los mejores intereses del niffo.
Usted esta BAJO ORDEN aparecer en estetTribunal en 65
Washington Street, Salem, MA 01970 el 16 de marzo, 1995, alas
11 am. :
Usted puede traer un abogado consigo. Si no puede pagar un
abogado, el tribunal conseguira un abogado para
representarle.
Si usted no aparece, el tribunal puede proceder con el juiciode la
peticion y una adjudicacion de este materia.
Para mas informacion, puede llamar el Clerk Magistrate en el
tribunal mencionado si dentro. !

| No. 87-915. For technical questions regarding plans and specifi-

| will be mailed to them by writing to the Department of Public

| | of all bids, and readvertise (H-1085, Reg. 2590).

BID NO. 94-95-099

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed bids for “GARCIA BROS — SEAWALL REPAIRS H—1085"
will be received by the City Clerk of the City of Miami, Florida at
11:00 AM on the 14th day of March, 1995, at the City Clerk's
Office, first floor of the Miami City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive,
Dinner Key, Miami, Florida, 33133, at which time and place they.
will be publicly opened and read. Any bid submitted after the
above appointed time will not be accepted by the City Clerk.

The project consists of the furnishing of all labor, materials and
equipment for the repair of existing hurricane damaged seawall
including, but not limited to, the replacement of the concrete slab,
backfill, steel sheet piling, etc. Bidders will furnish performance
and bid bonds in accordance with Resolutions No. 86-983 and

cations, please contact Alberto Corrales at (305) 592-7275.
Prospective bidders will be required to submit, with their bid, a
copy of the appropriate Certificate of Competency, as issued by
Dade County, which authorizes the bidder to perform the pro-
posed work.

All bids shall be submitted in accordance with the Instructions to
Bidders and Specifications. New City regulations will require each
bidder to submit proposals in duplicate originals. Plans and spec-
ifications may be obtained from the office of the Director of Public
Works, 275 N.W. 2 Street, 3rd Floor, Miami, Florida, 33128, on or
after February 28, 1995. If bidders wish, a set of specifications

Works and including a separate check for $8. There will be a $20
deposit required for the first set of plans and specifications.
Additional sets may be purchased for a fee of $20 per set and this
is not refundable. Deposits will be refunded only upon the return
of one set of plans and specifications to the Department of Public
Works, unmarked and in good condition within two (2) weeks
after the opening of the bids.

Bidders are alerted to the provisions of Ordinances Nos. 10062
and 10538 regarding allocation of contracts to minority vendors,
contractors. and subcontractors. All bidders must submit an
Affirmative Action Plan with their bids. (Ordinances are contained
in Specifications)

The City of Miami has adopted Ordinance No. 10032, which
implements the “First Source Hiring Agreement.” The object of
this ordinance is to provide employment opportunities to City of
Miami residents on contracts resulting in the creation of new per-
manent jobs. Contractors may be eligible for wage reimbursement
under this proj . For further information contact the
Department of Public Works, City of Miami, at (305] 579-6856.
Proposal includes the time of performance, and specifications
contain provisions for liquidated damages for failure to complete
the work on time. The City Commission reserves the right to waive
any informality in any bid, and the City Manager may reject any

Cesar H. Odio

BID NO. 94-95-086

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed bids for “CITYWIDE SIDEWALK REPLACEMENT PROJECT
PHASE-13 B-4583, will be received by the City Clerk of the City of
Miami, Florida at 10:30 AM on the 28th day of March, 1995, at
teh Clty Clerk’s Office, first floor of the Miami City Hall, 3500 Pan
American Drive, Dinner Key, Miami, Florida, 33133, at which
time and place they will be publicly opened and read. Any bid
submitted after the above appointed time will not be accepted by
the City Clerk.
The project consists of the removal and replacement of approxi-
mately 75,000 square feet of concrete sidewalk in the area bor-
dered by the Miami River, Interstate 95, S.W. 8th Street and S.W.
27th Avenue. Construction includes the following: clearing and
grading, pruning and removing tree roots and limbs if necessary,
constructing new 4” and 6” concrete sidewalk, and incidental sur-
face restoration if necessary. Bidders will furnish a bid bond in
accordance with Resolutions No. 86-983 and No. 87-915. For
clarification of technical issues as presented in documents and
specifications, please contact Leonard Helmers, P.E. Chief Civil
Engineer, Project Manager, at (305) 579-6865. Prospective bid-
ders will be required to submit, with their bid, a copy of the
appropriate Certificate of Competency, as issued by Dade County,
in accordance with Chapter 10 of the Metropolitan Dade County
Code, which authorizes the bidder to perform the proposed work.
All bids shall be submitted in accordance with the Instructions to
Bidders and Specifications. New City regulations will require each
bidder to submit proposlas in duplicate originals. Plans and spec-
ifications may be obtained from the Office of the Director of Public
Works, 275 N.W. 2 Street, 3rd Floor, Miami, Florida, 33128, on or
after March 9, 1995. If bidders wish, a set of specifications will be
mailed to them by writing to the Department of Public Works and
including a separate check for $8. There will be a $20 deposit
required for the first set of specifications. Additional sets may be
purchased for a fee of $20 per set and this is not refundable.
Deposits will be refunded only upon the return of one set of spec-
ifications to the Department of Public Works, unmarked and in
good condition within two (2) weeks after the opening of the bids.
Bidders are alerted to the provisions of Ordinances Nos. 10062
and 01538 regarding allocation of contracts to minority vendors,
contractors and subcontractors. All bidders must submit an
Affirmative Action Plan with their bids. (Ordinances are contained
in Specifications)
The City of Miami has adopted Ordinance No. 10032, which
implements the “First Source Hiring Agreement.” The object of
this ordinance is to provide employment opportunities to City of
Miami residents on contracts resulting in the creation of new per-
manent jobs. Contractors may be eligible for wage reimbursement
under this program. For further information contact the
Department of Public Works, City of Miami, at (305) 579-6856.
Proposal includes the time of performance, and specifications
contain provisions for liquidated damages for failure to complete
the work on time. The City Commission reserves the right to waive
any informality in any bid, and the City Manager may reject any
of all bids, and readvertise (B-4583, Req. 2589).

Cesar H. Odio

City Manager

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BID NO. 94-95-100

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

(SECOND BIDDING)
Sealed bids for “CITY OF MIAMI MOTOR POOL MAINTENANCE
SHOP PROJECT, B-3250 (SECOND BIDDING)” will be received by |.
the City Clerk of the City of Miami, Florida at 10:00 AM on the |
21th day of March, 1995, at the City Clerk's Office, first floor of |-
the Miami City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive, Dinner Key, |:
Miami, Florida, 33133, at which time and place they will be pub-
licly opened and read. Any bid submitted after the above appoint-
ed time will not be accepted by the City Clerk. :
The project consists of the construction of a new motor pool and
communications maintenance building totaling approximately
28,250 square feet, some utility relocation and site work. The
building consists of a 2-story precast structure which includes,
but its not limited to, cast-in-place concrete work, prestressed
concrete load bearing and non-load bearing wall panels, precast
concrete columns, prestressed floor beams, prestressed roof dou-
ble tees, roofing, plumbing, HVAC, electrical work, roll up doors,
fire sprinkler system, lightning protection, fire alarm system and
other incidental and ancillary work as necessary to complete the
building and equipment storage areds. The bid proposal is divid- |'
ed into three (3) sections allowing bidders to submit separate bids
for the entire project (Bid “A”), the shell structure and foundation
(Bid “B"), or the remaining balance of the entire project bid
including work in the trades and other areas of construction (Bid
“C"). The project location is along the east side of the City's Heavy
Equipment Facility located at 1390 N.W. 20 Street. Bidders will
furnish a bid bond in accordance with Resolutions No. 86-983 |.
and No. 87-915. For clarification of technical issues as presented
in documents and specifications, please contact Post, Buckley,
Schuh & Jernigan, Inc., at (305) 592-7275. Prospective bidders
will be required to submit, with their bid, a copy of the appropri-
ate Certificate of Competency, as issued by Dade County, in
accordance with Chapter 10 of the Metropolitan Dade County
Code, which authorizes the bidder to perform the proposed work.
All bids shall be submitted in accordance with the Instructions to
Bidders and Specifications. New City regulations will require each be
bidder to submit proposlas in duplicate originals. Plans and spec-
ifications may be obtained from the office of the Director of Public
Works, 275 N.W. 2 Street, 3rd Floor, Miami, Florida, 33128, on or
after March 1, 1995. If bidders wish, a set of specifications will be
mailed to them by writing to the Department of Public Works
which must include separate checks for $100 and $25 each.
There will be a $100 deposit required for the first set of specifica-
tions. Additional sets may be purchased for a fee of $100 per set
and this is not refundable. Deposits will be refunded only upon
the return of one set of specifications to the Department of Public
Works, unmarked and in good condition within two (2) weeks
after the opening of the bids. Bidders are alerted that a pre-bid
conference will be held on March 13th, 1995 at 11:00 AM at the
City of Miami Public Works Department Conference Room, 4th
Floor, 275 N.W. 2nd Street, Miami, Florida 33128.
Bidders are alerted to the provisions of Ordinances Nos. 10062
and 10538 regarding allocation of contracts to minority vendors,
contractors and subcontractors. All bidders must submit an
Affirmative Action Plan with their bids. (Ordinances are contained
in Specifications) ¢
The City of Miami has adopted Ordinance No. 10032, which
implements the “First Source Hiring Agreement.” The object of
this ordinance is to provide employment opportunities to City of |:
Miami residents on contracts resulting in the creation of new per-
manent jobs. Contractors may be eligible for wage reimbursement
under this program. For further information contact the
Department of Public Works, City of Miami, at (305) 579-6856.
Proposal includes the time of performance, and specifications
contain provisions for liquidated damages for failure to complete
the work on time. The City Commission reserves the right to waive
any informality in any bid, and the City Manager may reject any
of all bids, and redivertise (B-3250, Req. 2591).

Cesar H. Odio

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Request for Proposal: 94-5030
Preposal Conference Date: March 15, 1995
Deadline for Receipt of Proposal: April 3, 1995

TITLE: Optical Imaging Information Management System for the
Public Health Trust.

Jackson Memorial Hospital
Purchasing Services
Central Building
Ground Floor
1611 N.W. 12th Avenue
Miami, FL 33136-1094
Telephone (305) 585-2289
Fax (305) 585-6445

CITY OF NORTH MIAMI BEACH
PUBLIC NOTICE OF CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1995

COUNCIL CONFERENCE MEETING: 4TH FLOOR CONFER-
ENCE ROOM, 6:30 PM
REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING: 2ND FLOOR COUNCIL
CHAMBERS, 7:30 PM
LOCATION: 17011 NE 19 AVENUE, NORTH MIAMI BEACH
ALL INTERESTED PARTIES ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THIS
MEETING.
(NOTE: A COPY OF THE AGENDA CAN BE OBTAINED AT THE
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE, 1STFLOOR, CITY HALL, 17011 N.E. 19
AVENUE)
SOLOMON ODENZ, CITY CLERK
HOWARD B. LENARD, CITY ATTORNEY

SHOULD ANY PERSON DESIRE TO APPEAL ANY DECISION OF
THE CITY COUNCIL WITH RESPECT TO ANY MATTER TO BE
CONSIDERED AT THIS MEETING, THAT PERSON SHALL
INSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS
IS MADE INCLUDING ALL TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON
WHICH ANY APPEAL MAY BE BASED (F/S 286.0105).

wt) NOTICE OF MEETING

U.S. HUD has issued a super NOFA (Notice of Funding Availability)
for funding pursuant to several federal homeless programs,
including Supportive Housing, Section 8 SRO, Shelter Plus Care,
etc. Nationwide, $900 million is available, and proposals are due on
April 7, 1995.

The Dade County Homeless Trust will take the lead in preparing a
county-wide application for funds pursuant to this NOFA. We invite,
and strongly encourage participation from all providers. In order to
initiate the preparation process of this coordinated application, the
Dade County Homeless Trust in cooperation with the Homeless
Providers Forum and the South Dade Homeless Task Force will
host a workshop on:

Wednesday, March 8, 1995 - 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Court House Center
175 N.W. 1st Avenue, 11th Floor Conference

This will be a working meeting. In order to facilitate the process of
developing a collaborative application, interested entities are invited
to the meeting and must bring a one page outline of the project you
would like to see incorporated into this coordinated proposal.

This one page outline should include: name of proposed sponsoring
organization, population to be served, type of project, project
location or area to be served, cost of project if known, and role of
sponsoring organization (e.g. provision of transitional housing).

We have requested Housing and Services of South Florida, our
technical assistance consultants, to facilitate this meeting. Should
you have any questions before March 9, 1995, please call Mr.
Robert Berman at (305)358-9443. Please notify the Homeless Trust
of your attendance by calling Mike Pimentel at 375-1490.

THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA

NOTICE COVERING OPENING OF BIDS

Sealed bids will be received by the School Board of Dade County,
Florida, for the projects listed herein, until 2:00 P.M. local time,
Tuesday, the 14th day of March, 1995 at 1450 N.E. Second
Avenue, Room 352, Miami, Florida, following which time and
place, or as soon thereafter as the Board can attend to same, the
said bids will be publicly opened, read and tabulated in the Board
Auditorium, Dade County School Board Administration Building,
by an authorized representative of the Board. Award of the con-
tract will be made to the lowest responsible bidder for the actual
amount bid considering base bid and accepted alternates (if any)
as listed in the bidding documents. The board will award the con-
tract based upon the result of the tabulations as covered by
applicable law and regulations.
PROJECT NO. 1E016/1E017
6A-2 DISCREPANCY CORRECTION TO THE ALARM
SYSTEMS
VARIOUS (2) LOCATIONS
DEVON AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CLAUDE PEPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
A Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference has been scheduled for
Tuesday, March 7, 1995 at 9:00 AM at Devon Aire Elementary
School, 10501 SW 122 Avenue, Miami, FL 33186
PRE-BID CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE BY THE BIDDER OR HIS
QUALIFIED PREPRESENTATIVE IS A MANDATORY PRE-REQUI-
SITE FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF A BID FROM THE CONTRAC-
TOR
Minimum licensure requirements of PRIME BIDDERS:
State of Florida Department of Business and Professional
Regulation General Contractor, or EC-Unlimited Electrical
Contractor, or EF-Alarm Contractor I, or an ER-Electrical
Registered Contractor.
Prime Bidders may obtain one or two sets of bid and contract doc-
uments from the firm of THE RC GROUP, INC., 9655 SOUTH
DIXIE HIGHWAY, SUITE 307, MIAMI, FL 33156 (305) 661-8087
on or after 27 February 1995 with deposit of $50.00 per set.
(Cashier's Check or Money Order). Payable to The School Board of
Dade County, Florida). Deposit will be refunded when documents
are returned in good condition no more than 10 days after award
or rejection of Bid. Deposits will be retained by The School Board
of Dade County, Florida, if documents are not returned within the
above stipulated time and/or condition.
The Board reserves the right to waive informalities and to reject
any and all bids.
THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By: Octavio J. Visiedo
Superintendent of Schools

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JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST
MIAMI, FLORIDA 33136

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Sealed Bids will be received on behalf of the Public Health Trust
of Dade County Florida in the Office of the Purchasing Manager,
Jackson Memorial Hospital, 1611 N.W. 12th Avenue, Miami,
Florida 33136 until 1:00 P.M. Thursday on the date indicated
below. Minority vendors are encouraged to participate.

The following Bids will open: March 30, 1995

1. Bid#95-4022 4/30/97 Packs; Delivery Room/OB for the
Stores Department for a two year period with option to renew
annually for two additional years.

2. Bid#95-4343 4/30/97 Non-Medical items for the Stores
Department for a two year period with option to renew annually
for two additional years.

3. Bid #95-4703 4/30/97 Fracture braces for the Prosthetic Lab
Department for a two year period with option to renew for one
additional year.

4. Bid#95-3096 4/30/97 Uniform rental service for the Security
Services Department for a two year period with option to renew.

Vida Addison
Purchasing Manager
Purchasing Services

THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA

NOTICE COVERING OPENING OF BIDS

Sealed bids will be received by the School Board of Dade County,
Florida, for the projects listed herein, until 2:00 P.M. local time,
Tuesday, the 21st day of March, 1995 at 1450 N.E. Second
Avenue, Room 352, Miami, Florida, following which time and
place, or as soon thereafter as the Board can attend to same, the
said bids will be publicly opened, read and tabulated in the Board
Auditorium, Dade County School Board Administration Building,
by an authorized representative of the Board. Award of the con-
tract will be made to the lowest responsible bidder for the actual
amount bid considering base bid and accepted alternates (if any)
as listed in the bidding documents. The board will award the con-
tract based upon the result of the tabulations as covered by
applicable law and regulations. :
PROJECT NO. A-0471 (REBID)
ADDITIONS/REMODELING/RENOVATIONS
MIAMI PALMETTO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
7460 SW 118 Street
Miami, FL 33156
A Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference has been scheduled for
Tuesday, March 14, 1995 at 10:00 AM at DCPS's Omni Plaza
Bldg., 35 NE 17 Street, Room 218, Miami, FL 33132
PRE-BID CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE BY THE BIDDER OR HIS
QUALIFIED REPRESENTATIVE IS A MANDATORY PRE-REQUI-
SITE FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF A BID FROM THE CONTRAC-
TOR
Prime Bidders may obtain one or two sets of bid and contract doc-
uments from the office of CRA/CLARKE ARCHITECTS, 7400 N.
Kendall Drive, Suite 415, Miami, FL 33156 (305) 670-0290 on or
after 27 February 1995 with deposit of $150.00 per set. (Cashier's
Check or Money Order). Payable to The School Board of Dade
County, Florida). Deposit will be refunded when documents are
returned in good condition no more than 10 days after award or
rejection of Bid. Deposits will be retained by The School Board of
Dade County, Florida, if documents are not returned within the
above stipulated time and/or condition.
The Board reserves the right to waive informalities and to reject
any and all bids.
THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By: Octavio J. Visiedo
Superintendent of Schools

THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA

NOTICE COVERING OPENING OF BIDS

Sealed bids will be received by the School Board of Dade County,
Florida, for the projects listed herein, until 2:00 P.M. local time,
Tuesday, the 14th day of March, 1995 at 1450 N.E. Second
Avenue, Room 352, Miami, Florida, following which time and
place, or as soon thereafter as the Board can attend to same, the
said bids will be publicly opened, read and tabulated in the Board
Auditorium, Dade County School Board Administration Building,
by an authorized representative of the Board. Award of the con-
tract will be made to the lowest responsible bidder for the actual
amount bid considering base bid and accepted alternates (if any)
as listed in the bidding documents. The board will award the con-

| tract based upon the result of the tabulations as covered by

applicable law and regulations.
PROJECT NO. SAF-013
IMPLEMENTATION OF PHASE I RAP & EDI PACKAGE
PREPARATION AND SUBMITTAL
MIAMI EDISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
6161 NW 5 Ct.
Miami, FL 33127
The Pre-Bid Conference has been scheduled for Tuesday, March
7, 1995 at 10:00 AM at Materials Control, 7040 West Flagler
Street, Miami, FL 33144.
PRE-BID CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE BY THE BIDDER OR HIS
QUALIFIED PREPRESENTATIVE IS A MANDATORY PRE-REQUI-
SITE FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF A BID FROM THE CONTRAC-
TOR
Prime Bidders may obtain one or two sets of bid and contract doc-
uments from the office of MATERIALS CONTROL, 7040 West
Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33144 (305) 995-3290 on or after 27
February 1995
The Board reserves the right to waive informalities and to reject
any and all bids.
THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By: Octavio J. Visiedo
Superintendent of Schools

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ADVERTISEMENT
FOR BIDS

DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
Sealed bids for furnishing all labor, materials and equipment for
the following project will be received in the Office of the Clerk of
the Board of County Commissioners, Room 210, Stephen P. Clark
Center, 111 N.W. 1st Street, Miami, up to 1:00 p.m., Local Time,
March 15, 1995, where they will be publicly opened and read
aloud by the Clerk.
PROJECT NAME: Annual Local Drainage Improvements
Contract #20
PROJECT NUMBER: 693100
LOCATION: Countywide
DESCRIPTION: Annual Contract for Installation of Exfiltration
Drains, Catch Basins, Cross Drains, Drainage Structures and
other miscellaneous drainage items.
DADE COUNTY CONTRACTOR'S CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED
IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES: General Building,
General Engineering, Paving Engineering Contractor and/or other
categories as applicable to Chapter 10 of the Code of Metropolitan
Dade County.
A Bid Preference for Black Business Enterprises and Hispanic
Business Enterprises and Hispanic Business Enterprises has
been established for this project in accordance with Ordinances
94-96 and 94-95.
Ordinance No. 90-143, The Responsible Wages and Benefits
Ordinance, Ordinance No. 91-142, Family Leave Ordinance,
Ordinance No. 92-15, Drug-Free Workplace Ordinance and
Ordinance No. 93-129, Contractor Debarment Ordinance, as well
as other Ordinances currently in effect apply to this project. The
requirements are spelled out in the contract documents.
All bids must be submitted in sealed envelopes bearing on the
outside the name of the Bidder, his address, the number of the
project for which the bid is submitted, and the date of opening.
Specifications and Contract Documents are open to public
inspection and may be obtained from the Contracts and
Specifications Section, Public Works Department, Telephone No.
(805) 375-2930 at Stephen P. Clark Center, 111 N.W. First Street,
Suite 1510, Miami, Florida 33128-1970 upon deposit of $35.00 in
check or money order payable to the Board of County
Commissioners of Dade County, Florida for the first set of docu-
ments. The full amount of the deposit will be refunded within thir-
ty (80) days after the date of opening of bids upon request of the
Bidder and return of the documents, if any, in good condition, to
the above address after which time all remaining checks will be
deposited in the General Fund of Dade County, Florida. All addi-
tional sets of plans and/or documents will require a separate
deposit by check of $35.00 per set, which is not refundable.
The County reserves the right to waive any informalities in, or to
reject any or all bids. Bids from any person, firm or corporation
in default upon any agreement with the County will be rejected.
Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check or acceptable
bid bond in the amount of Forty Thousand Dollars ($40,000.00)
of the base bid as guarantee that the Bidder, if awarded the
Contract, will within ten (10) consecutive calendar days after
being presented with the prescribed contract forms, enter into a
written contract with the Board of County Commissioners of Dade
County, Florida in accordance with the accepted bid, and give a
performance bond satisfactory to the Board of County
Commissioners, Dade County, Florida, in the amount of Two
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00).
No Bidder may withdraw his bid within ninety (90) days after date
set for the opening thereof.

ARMANDO VIDAL, P.E. COUNTY MANAGER
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY

HARVEY RUVIN, CLERK
KAY SULLIVAN, DEPUTY CLERK

THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA

NOTICE COVERING OPENING OF BIDS

Sealed bids will be received by the School Board of Dade County,
Florida, for the projects listed herein, until 2:00 P.M. local time,
Tuesday, the 14th day of March, 1995 at 1450 N.E. Second
Avenue, Room 352, Miami, Florida, following which time and
place, or as soon thereafter as the Board can attend to same, the
said bids will be publicly opened, read and tabulated in the Board
Auditorium, Dade County School Board Administration Building,
by an authorized representative of the Board. Award of the con-
tract will be made to the lowest responsible bidder for the actual
amount bid considering base bid and accepted alternates (if any)
as listed in the bidding documents. The board will award the con-
tract based upon the result of the tabulations as covered by
applicable law and regulations.
PROJECT NO. 1E020
CORRECTIONS OF 6A-2 DEFICIENCIES IN ELECTRICAL
SYSTEMS
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
45 SW 13 Street
Miami, FL 33130
A Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference has been scheduled for
Tuesday, March 7, 1995 at 1:00 PM at Southside Elementary
School, 45 SW 13 Street, Miami, FL 33130
PRE-BID CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE BY THE BIDDER OR HIS
QUALIFIED REPRESENTATIVE IS A MANDATORY PRE-REQUI-
SITE FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF A BID FROM THE CONTRAC-
TOR
Minimum licensure requirements of PRIME BIDDERS:
State of Florida Department of Business and Professional
Regulation General Contractor, or EC-Unlimited Electrical
Contractor, or EF-Alarm Contractor I, or an ER-Electrical
Registered Contractor.
Prime Bidders may obtain one or two sets of bid and contract doc-
uments from the firm of THE RC GROUP, INC., 9655 SOUTH
DIXIE HIGHWAY, SUITE 307, MIAMI, FL 33156 (305) 661-8087
on or after 27 February 1995 with deposit of $50.00 per set.
(Cashier's Check or Money Order). Payable to The School Board of
Dade County, Florida). Deposit will be refunded when documents
are returned in good condition no more than 10 days after award
or rejection of Bid. Deposits will be retained by The School Board
of Dade County, Florida, if documents are not returned within the
above stipulated time and/or condition.
The Board reserves the right to waive informalities and to reject
any and all bids.
THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By: Octavio J. Visiedo
Superintendent of Schools

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THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA

NOTICE COVERING OPENING OF BIDS

Sealed bids will be received by the School Board of Dade County,
Florida, for the projects listed herein, until 2:00 P.M. local time,
Tuesday, the 21st day of March, 1995 at 1450 N.E. Second
Avenue, Room 352, Miami, Florida, following which time and
place, or as soon thereafter as the Board can attend to same, the
said bids will be publicly opened, read and tabulated in the Board
Auditorium, Dade County School Board Administration Building,
by an authorized representative of the Board. Award of the con-
tract will be made to the lowest responsible bidder for the actual
amount bid considering base bid and accepted alternates (if any)
as listed in the bidding documents. The board will award the con-
tract based upon the result of the tabulations as covered by
applicable law and regulations.
g PROJECT NO. BB-0159
ROOF REPAIR/REPLACEMENT
NORTH DADE MIDDLE SCHOOL
1840 NW 157 Street
Opa-Locka, FL 33054
A Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference has been scheduled for
Tuesday, March 14, 1995 at 9:00 AM at The School Site, North
Dade Middle School, 1840 NW 157 Street, Opa-locka, FL 33054
PRE-BID CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE BY THE BIDDER OR HIS
QUALIFIED PREPRESENTATIVE IS A MANDATORY PRE-REQUI-
SITE FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF A BID FROM THE CONTRAC-
TOR
The Mechanical and Electrical scopes of work have been set aside
for Minority owned and operated businesses.
Prime Bidders may obtain one or two sets of bid and contract doc-
uments from the firm of BROWN & BROWN’ ARCHITECTS, 360
Greco Avenue, Suite 101, Coral Gables, FL (305) 444-6080 on or
after 28 February 1995 with deposit of $50.00 per set. (Cashier's
Check or Money Order). Payable to The School Board of Dade
County, Florida). Deposit will be refunded when documents are
returned in good condition no more than 10 days after award or
rejection of Bid. Deposits will be retained by The School Board of
Dade County, Florida, if documents are not returned within the
above stipulated time and/or condition. ;
The Board reserves the right to waive informalities and to reject
any and all bids.
THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By: Octavio J. Visiedo
Superintendent of SchoolsCheck or Money Order). Payable to The
School Board of Dade County, Florida). Deposit will be refunded
when documents are returned in good condition no more than 10

The School Board of Dade County, Florida, if documents are not
returned within the above stipulated time and/or condition.
The Board reserves the right to waive informalities and to reject
any and all bids.
THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA
. By: Octavio J. Visiedo
Superintendent of Schools

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Thursday, March 2, 1995

Section D

Seattle minister on campaign to correct ‘Curse of Ham’ reference

By DAVID BRIGGS
The Associated Press
“Cursed be Canaan, lowest of
slaves shall he be to his brothers,"
Noah says after being discovered
drunk and naked in his tent.
Yet from this passage in the
Book of Genesis somehow emerged

_ the infamous “Curse of Ham" —

the theory that Noah cursed Ham
instead of Canaan.

Since Ham is often considered
the father of the Black race, the
passage has at times been used to
justify generations of oppression
endured by Blacks under slavery
or colonialism or to explain away
their unequal treatment in more
recent times.

Even if the idea is rejected in

contemporary Biblical scholar-
ship, it endures in the backs of the
minds of many Black and White
church-goers, says a Seattle
minister campaigning to remove
the last vestiges of the curse of
Ham from churches and scholarly
works.

The Rev. Wayne Perryman,
author of “The 1993 Trial of the
Curse of Ham”, says major
publishers such as Thomas Nelson
and the Encyclopedia Britannica
have agreed to make clear in future
editions of books that refer to the
curse that it was Ham's son
Canaan — not Ham — on whom
the curse was placed.

In January, Zondervan Publish-
ing House agreed to remove the

curse of Ham interpretation from
future editions of six of its titles,
including “The Nave's Topical
Bible” and “Commentary of the
Whole Bible by Matthew Henry".

“I only hope that other
publishers will follow in their foot-
steps,” said Perryman, an associ-
ate minister of the Mount Calvary
Church of God in Christ in Seattle.
“Acknowledging wrongdoing and
embracing what is right is the only
way true reconciliation between
Blacks and Whites in America can
happen.”

In the Biblical account in Gene-
sis 9, Noah becomes drunk from
wine and lies uncovered in his tent.
Ham sees his father's nakedness,
which was considered sinful in the

A right time for everything

By GIGI TINSLEY
Times Religion Writer

Wisdom is what, positively,
guides an individual to properly
apply the information he or she
knows to the right situation, ques-
tion or problem. In the realm of
Christianity, it is “4
not enough to
have knowledge;
one must ask God
for wisdom in the
application of]
that knowledge. @&

No matter how
intelligent or edu-
cated one is, if the
right thing isn't
done orsaidat the
right time, a chaotic situation is
usually the result.

The Book of Ecclesiastes, Chap-
ter 3, verses 1 through 8, clearly
tell us that there is a right time for
everything.

“A time to be born, a time to die™
When a baby is born, the parents,
relatives and friends are usually in
a rejoicing state of mind. It should
be just the opposite. Tears should
be flowing because the baby is
coming into a world filled with rac-

ism, sexism, malice, jealousy,

envy, drug addiction, economic
deprivation and strife.

When death comes, the tears are
flowing constantly. That is the time
we should be rejoicing, not mali-
ciously but because our loved one
has gone to be with our Lord — no
more pain, no more heartache, no
more struggling and no more
suffering.

“A time to plant, a time to
harvest”: The scenario of a farm
clearly depicts one's life, the way
God planned for it to be. The farmer
has to prepare the land for plant-
ing. He cultivates it, digs the rows,
plants the seeds and fertilizes it.

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Then he waits to see how many of

the seeds will take root and grow.
Aftr a time, the harvest is much or
very little.

So it should be with our lives.
The way should be prepared, nur-
tured and disciplined by our
parents. Parents must be good
examples; if not, most of the time
what you are will be reflected in
your children.

“A time to kill, a time to heal”: We
must “kill” those bad attitudes,
negative thoughts and scheming
ways and not one another. We
must become more friendly and
kind towards one another. Give
accolades when they are due. For
the wrongs you may see in
another's life, tell him or her about
them humbly but be sure your
lifestyle warrants your telling
someone else about his or hers.

If by chance you have a broken
relationship, try all that you can to
mend it. Friends are not born, they
are made and are worthy of your
trying all that you can to keep
them.

“A time to destroy, a time to
rebuild”: Destroy all the ways and
means the “enemy” has of controll-
ing you. Be honest and exhibit high
moral standards, at all times.

Rebuild your character. If you
have a reputation of being a liar,
start telling the truth. If you are
borrower and never pay your bills,
start paying what you owe. If you
are an arrogant and selfish indivi-
dual, stop thinking that your way
is always right and start listening

Miami talent gets chance
to shine in Gospel choir

By MARGARITA DROGOWSKI
Times Staff Writer

Savoy Records has given
songwriter-producer Marc Cooper
the go-ahead to create a Miami
Mass Gospel Choir showcasing
local talent.

The next rehearsal is scheduled
for Monday at The Cooper Temple
Church of God in Christ at 7:30
p-m. Cooper, 23, is hoping for 300
voices for the ensemble.

Born in Miami, Cooper started
performing in his father's church
when he was 5.

After graduating from Carol City
Senior High School, he decided to
pursue a career in music. He
organized Marc Cooper & Friends
in 1993, developed his own record
label, Together Records, and
released the album, “My Search is
Over.”

That record took him to Atlanta,
where he performed in the Bobby
Jones Gospel Explosion during
last summer, and arecord contract
with Savoy Records.

“When I met him, I was so

impressed with him as a writerand
coordinator, I asked him to help me
make a dream come true,” Rev.
Milton Biggham, executive director
of Savoy, said.

Biggham had lived in Miami fora
time when he was a small boy. He
says he has always wanted to show
off what Miami has to offer.

“I'm very partial to Miami. I
wanted to give the talent that I
know is in Miami a chance. There
are people there who wouldn't ordi-
narily get the chance to record an
album.” he said.

Cooper and his choir will record
an album of 14 original songs writ-
ten by Miamians. Such as Avery
Jones, Craig Walden, Rev. Melvin
Dawson, Keith Childrens and Rev.
A.J. Wright.

The recording session is sche-
duled for May 6.

“This will help show people that
Miami is-a gospel city. This is to
give us national attention. We have
the talent and we have the skills,
said Cooper.

St. Matthews holding youth revival

Youth and Young Adult Fellow-
ship Revival: “Youth — it's Time to
make a change” (Eccl. 3:1-9).

The Youth and Young Adult
Department of St. Matthews
Freewill Baptist Church, Elder

- Terry V. Williams, Youth Minister,

would like to invite you to their
upcoming Youth and Young Adult
Fellowship Revival, March 6
through March 12, beginning at 7
p.m., Monday; Rev. Carl Johnson,
Tuesday; Rev. Joe Turner and
Youth Choir, Wednesday; Elder
Wilbert Randall, Thursday; Rev.
Tony Brown and Youth Choir, Fri-

day; Rev. Jeffery Mack and Youth
Choir; and Sunday, 7:30 a.m.,
Elder Wilbert Randall, and 11
a.m., Minister Jason A. Williams.

Jordan Grove

Jordan Grove will host the
.Faithful Few Singers, four out-of-
town groups and the Crowns of Life
Singers of Albany, Georgia, on
Sunday, March 5, at 3:30pm.

The church will celebrate the
Lord's Supper at Corinth Baptist,
1435 N. W. 54th St., on Sunday
evening at 5 p.m.

to what others have to say and,
sometimes, put them first; it might
become a habit.

“A time to cry, a time to laugh”:
Don't feel that every tear that's
shed has to be in time of sorrow.
Try being so happy for someone
else that the tears that flow are
because of a positive situation that
has been wrought on another.

Laughter is good for you. But,
don't laugh at another's expense.
Don't laught at a person's physical
or mental condition. If not for God's
mercy, you too could be in that
situation, also.

“A time to grieve, a time to
dance”: Grief is usually brought on
by a personal loss and is a normal
thing; however, some people use
their griefasacrutchand lean on it
for a lifetime.

Because you have lost a loved
one does not mean that you must
remain in a sad state for the rest of
your life. Go through your period of
grieving and then get on with your
life. If the individual lived accord-
ing to God's plan of salvation, and
so do you, then the two of you are
only separated for a season. But
even if she or he did not, there is
nothing that you can change by a
prolonged grieving period.

The other 16 examples of “a time
to” are equally informative and
need to be read and followed. God's
message is the same today as it was
yesterday and wil be same tomor-
row as it is today. It never changes.
What changes is the person apply-
ing what he or she has learned.

Everything is appropriate in its
own time. Though God has planted
eternity in the hearts of men, many
cannot see the whole * scope of
God's work from beginning to end,
says Solomon, the man of wisdom.

So be happy and enjoy life. There
is joy in the Lord.

PASTOR KENNETH A. DUKE

New Jerusalem

Elder Duke of New Jerusalem
Primitive Baptist Church will be
having special early morning
Evangelistic Services at the New
Canaan Baptist Church, 901 N.W.
183rd St., beginning March 5, and
continuing each Sunday through-
out the month of March at 7:30
a.m.

“Please join us,” he says.

Spring Revival

It's Revival time at New Hope M.
Baptist Church, 1881 N. W 103rd
St. The dates are March 13
through March 17, at 7:30 p.m.

nightly.

Evangelist Rev. Melvin Dawson
of Greater St. Matthews Holliness
Church in Florida City will be the
revivalist.

For more information, contact
Sis. Sandra Lott or Bro. Torence
Wimberly at (305) 696-7745.

Rev Randall E. Holts is the
Pastor.

culture at the time, and tells his
two brothers. The brothers avert
their eyes and cover Noah.

When Noah wakes up from his
drunken sleep, he curses Canaan,
the son of Ham.

The transfer by later interpre-
ters of the curse from Canaan to
Ham has no basis in either the
Biblical text or early Jewish
thought, according to the Anchor
Bible Dictionary. The popular
expression “the curse of Ham" is
also not found in post-Biblical
Jewish literature.

The New Revised Standard ver-
sion of The New Oxford Annotated
Bible says in its notes on the pas-
sage that, since the curse was put
on Canaan, it is likely that Canaan

was the one who saw Noah's
nakedness. It also notes that the
curse implies Canaan's subjuga-
tion to Israel was the result of
Canaanite sexual practices.

However, despite the objections
of scholars throughout history,
since it was considered wrong for
Ham to observe and report on his
father's nakedness, the tradition
somehow developed that the curse
was placed on Ham.

Misplacing the curse on Ham,
whose name is associated with the
Egyptian name for ancient Egypt
— “the Black land” — contributed
to the later justification of slavery
and colonialism, according to the
Anchor dictionary.

Still, today, the idea that the
problems and unequal treatment
Black people face are somehow a
result of the curse of Ham persists
in different forms, Perryman says.

He commended the publishers
for making the changes.

Stanley N. Gundry, vice presi-
dent and editor-in-chiefof the book
group at Zondervan, said the curse
of Ham was found only in older
works that were being reprinted
and there was nothing that would
raise a red flag for a White editor.

“When Perryman called it to our
attention and pointed out how
offensive it was to African Ameri-
cans... it was no big deal for us. We
said, ‘Fine, let's eliminate it."

Mrs. Andel W. Mickins, an
ardent member of Memorial
Temple Baptist Church, Rev.
Ellise Cox, pastor, was recently
elected president of the
Women's Convention, Auxiliary
to the Florida East Coast Mis-
sionary Baptist Association,
during its 92nd annual session
in Ft. Pierce.

Mrs. Mickins takes to the
office of president of the
Women's Department a rich
background, in leadership and
administrative experience.

She is a retired Dade public
school administrator and past
president of the Florida State
Association of Ministers’ Wives.
Also, she is active in and pro-
vides leadership to many reli-
gious, civic and social organiza-
tions on the local, state and
international levels and is rec-
ognized for her ability to organ-
ize and turn ideas into action.

Currently, she is chairperson
of the Board of Directors,
Woman's Auxiliary, Florida
General Baptist State Conven-
tion, member, Board of Direc-

Mrs. Andel W. Mickens is elected
head of Baptist Women’s Department

MRS. ANDEL W. MICKINS,
new president, Woman's Con-
vention Auxiliary to the Flori-
da East Coast Missionary Bap-
tist Association.

tors, Black Archives History and
Research Foundation of South
Florida, president, Baptist
Women's Council of Greater
Miami and Vicinity, instructor,
Department of Education Inter-
national Association of Minis-
ter's Wives and Ministers’
Widows Inc. and anti-basileus,
Gamma Zeta Omega Chapter,

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
Her new duties will include
working with officers, directors
and women's groups through-
out a district that extends south
to Homestead and north to Day-
tona Beach, advocating the
importance of “Religious Princi-
ples and Doctrine and Practis-
ing What they are Guided by —
the Holy Spirit,” which is the
theme of the Florida East Coast
Missionary Baptist Association.

Her agenda will also include
emphasis in the areas of Mis-
sion and Education.

The Florida East Coast Bap-
tist Association consists of some
125 churches and is the largest
African American religious
group in Florida and the third
largest in the nation.

Mrs. Mickins is the widow of
the late Rev. Isaac C. Mickins,
founder, pastor and builder of
Memorial Temple Baptist
Church. She is the mother of
one son, Isaac II, whose wife is
Rockline, and has five grand-
children, Patrice, Rebecca,
Isaac III, Samuel and Theiry.

Minister of the Week

Rev. Cora Lee Palmer:
The Lord’s warrior

By GIGI TINSLEY
Times Religion Writer
As one enters Faith Deliverance
Center Church at 301 N.E. 62nd
St., one can see, vividly displayed
on the wall, a sign that reads, “You
Have Now Entered Into A Place

. That Was Once Known As The

Bucket of Blood, Death Valley.”

This church is under the leader-
ship of a lady that quickly informs
you that “10 years ago, God spoke
to me and commissioned me to
come into this territory.”

“I am a prophetess, pastor and a
widow, called, ordained and
anointed by God to walk and tread
on this area called the devil's territ-
ory that was controlled by wicked
men,” says Rev. Dr. Cora Lee Tho-
mas Palmer.

Being led by the Spirit of God,
she was used to possess the territ-
ory, formerly known as the “bucket
of blood and death valley.” It took
prayer and fasting.

“It took dedication to the service
of God and his will. I began to tread
the territory and inform the people
that only one business would be
run at Rainbow — and that would
be God's business,” she said.

In 1984, Dr. Palmer read an
advertisment for a 66-unit motel
that was being sold. She didn’t find
out until much later that the motel
was being sold because the owners
were fed up with the drug lords,
pimps and hustlers in the area.
They wanted to get out as quick as
they could because it had become
too dangerous for them.

Indeed, there were four to five
murders a week in the area, some-
times more than one over a

. weekend.

Willie Sims, a community activ-
ist and himself a pastor, who had
personal knowledge of the evil deed
perpetrated on the residents and
non-residents, said, “The under-
takers would line up on the

Unto whomsoever much is
given, of him shall be much

required.
Luke 12:4

weekends and on holidays for the
dead bodies.”

Police officers would tell Dr. Pal-
mer how afraid they were to go
there. They informed her that they
had families and wanted to stay
alive. When they did go, it would
always be in more than one squad
car.

Dr. Palmer recalls the time she
went to the Miami Police Depart-
ment and had a meeting with the
ChiefofPolice, his assistantand an
aide. She informed them that God
had sent her into the area “todo a
work — to bring deliverance and
help change lives, to make a differ-
ence in the community.”

She wanted them to be aware of
her being there and that she
needed their assistance. They
informed her that they were very
glad that she went to see them and
that was what they wanted to do
with the previous owners but those
owners would not cooperate. They
stated that they would work with
her and respond to her calls for
police help.

Dr. Palmer stated that God
would reveal to her each time the
killers and drug pushers would
attempt to attack her business or
her family. Many would be busted
by the police or would simply van-
ish from the area.

The drug lord, she said, hired a
known hitman to kill her. The kill-
er, she said, was one of the devil's
chief killers. She said when she
saw him, she hugged him and told
him, “Jesus loves you.”

His testimony was that no one
had ever said those words to him. A
change took place in his life and he
became her bodyguard, she said.

There was another incident that
tore at Dr. Palmer's heart. Word
had been sent out that the drug
dealers were going to “rain” on
Rainbow. When she heard this, she
said, she asked her children,
“What does rain on Rainbow
mean?” They informed her that it
meant a “shoot out.” She said she
telephoned the police department
to report what had been said. The
police, she said, did not respond to
her calls and began to hang up on
her.

“I began to pray and God gave

REV. DR. C.L. THOMAS PALMER

me the 54th Psalm. It talks about
the enemy coming out against the
people of God and how God causes
it toboomerang on them,” she said.

She said the drug lords came in
with large overcoats on with rifles
under them. They had men all over
the area ready to take her and her
family’s lives. But she moved as the
Holy Ghost led and not a curse
word, or loud voices, were ever
heard.

Finally, after much talk and her
showing much love and wisdom,
they walked out. The police never
arrived.

Just, she said, as the word of
God predicted, their plan back-
fired. Their own people set them
up. Many were killed, amomg them
those who ordered her death, she
said. God was at war for his ser-
vant, she said.

Dr. Palmer has started many
ministries at Faith Deliverance
Center Church. Among them are
Outreach, Couseling for Youth and
Adults, Street Ministry, Prayer and
Intercessory, Bible Talk, Food
Ministry and House-to-House
visits.

Dr. Palmer is the mother of nine
children but only three are alive.
Annette Hollins, the eldest, is a
well-known evangelist. Cindy Tur-
ner is the Youth Minister at the
church and her son, Leonard Hol-
lins. Estelle Hollins, her daughter-
in-law, is an elder at her church.

Dr. Palmer's motto is: “I am here
to make a difference in the lives of
God's people.”



THE MIAMI TIMES

2

Thursday, March 2, 1995

PASTOR TIMOTHY FLEMING

Pastors Cecil and omar: Lamb
Spirit of Christ

Pastors Cecil anc Regina Lamb
of the Spirit of Christ Church, at
18801 W. Dixie Hwy., North Miami
Beach, are presenting Pastor
Timothy Fleming of Atlanta, GA,
and the God Is Strength Crusade.

Services will be held Sunday,
March 12, at 10:45 a.m., and Mon-
day, March 13, at 7:30 p.m.

Come out and be strengthened
by the power of God's word and his
anointed vessel.

PASTOR BENNY HINN
Join Pastor Hinn

Come and join Pastor Benny
Hinn in Orlando, on March 5,
departing from 2335 N.W. 89th
Terr., at 8:30 a.m.

The trip is being sponsored by
the New Testament Pentacostal
Church. For more information, call
694-1939. Seats are going fast, so
don't hesitate.

Women’s Day at
Greater Bethel

The 99th anniversary of the |}

organization of Greater Bethel Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal Church is
on March 12. On that day, the
women of the church will remem-
ber the founding as they celebrate
the 48th Annual Women's Day
observance on the theme, “Women
Becoming True Handmaidens of
God” (Acts 2:18). Their story will be
revealed in speech and song.

During the 7:30 a.m. services,
Mandella Smith, an aspirant to the
ministry, will be the morning
speaker. She is a member of Mt.
Herman A.M.E. Church, Fort
Lauderdale.

At the 11 a.m. services, Dr. Dor-
othy Peck, a candidate for the
Women's Missionary Society for
the AME Connection, will be the
speaker.

Women of other community
churches will join the women of
Greater Bethel on this historic
occasion.

Pastor John F. White and Mrs.
Penny White extend a warm wel-
come to all and invite you to “the
‘Downtown Overtown Church’ that
serves.”

Mrs. Gladys Edwards is

chairman.

EVANG. SHIRLEY CALLAHAN
Gospel in Action

Gospel in Action Revival Center
Inc. will present the Challenging
Christian Women 7th Annual
Women Conference/Seminar, in
the theme, “Women of Distinc-
tion," at the Crown Sterling Suites
Hotel, 3973 N.W. S. River Dr.,
March 9 - 11, at 7:30 p.m.

The seminar will be at 8:30 a.m.
-4 p.m. March 11. Speakers will be
Evang. Bessie Gressett of Coco,
Evang. Mildred Callahan, Lake
Placid, Pastor Martha Ferguson,
Vero Beach, Pastor Betty J. Hud-
son, Casselberry, Minister Joyce
Henderson, New Birth, Dr. Pater-
icia Whitelocke, St. Louis, Mo., and
Pastor Louis Gilmore. For more
information, contact 814-0947.
The hostess will be Evang. Shirley
Callahan.

Rev. Thomas Callahan is the
pastor.

BH GOSPEL IN ACTION REVIVAL
CENTER, Rev. Thomas D. Calla-

han: Challenging Christian
Women's seventh annual Women's
Conference and Seminar, entitled
“Women of Distinction,” at the
Crown Sterling Suites Hotel,
March 9 - 11. Speakers: Mildred
Callahan, pastor, Lake Placid, Pas-
tor Martha Ferguson, Vero, Pastor
Betty Jones Hudson, Orlando.

BH NEW JERUSALEM P.B., Elder
Kenneth A. Duke: Men's Day Ser-
vices, March 12, 10:45 a.m. and
3:30 p.m.

BH ST. MATTHEWS M.B., Rev.
Phillip Clarke Jr.: Thursday, 8
p.m., Missionary/Gospel Choir
rehearsal. Meetings: Saturday, 11
a.m., Youth Ushers; 3 p.m., Lay-
man Department and Building
Fund Committee; 4 p.m., Trustee
Board; 5 p.m., Deacon Board. Sun-
day, communion will be given after
11 a.m. Morning Worship; Sunday
School, 9:30 a.m.

BH NEW HOPE M.B., Rev. Randall
Holts: Revival with Evangelist Mel-
vin Dawson of Greater St. Matth-
ews Holiness Church, Florida City,
March 13 - 17, 7:30 p.m.

BH HOLY TEMPLE, No. 4, Elder
Hunter: Gospel Singing with the
Woods Singers, Saturday, 8 p.m.

HB MT. OLIVETTE M.B., Rev.
Franklin Clark: Communion will
be administered during the 8 a.m.
and 11 a.m. services. Pastor Clark
will speak. Musical, March 12,
3:30 p.m., sponsored by Deacons
Board and the Pastor's Aide Board.
Guests; Sister Virginia Bostic, for-
merly of the Christian Voices.
Prayers for Sisters Angie Johnson,
Parkway Hospital, and Mae New-
ery and Robin Rowe.

HB GREATER NEW MT. ZION
A.M.E., Rev. William J. Green:
GED classes Tuesdays and Thurs-
days, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. Contact Rev.
Green, 245-8761 or Harriett
Greene, at 247-8788, morning
hours.

HB NEW MT. PLEASANT M.B.,
Rev. W.R. Roundtree: Sunday, 11

1 ¢

a.m. and 4 p.m. services. Com-
munion will be served at both.

EH TRIUMPHING FOR JESUS
CHRIST, Faith Holiness, Rev. R.
White: Revival continues with Pro-
phet Spry, 8 p.m.

EH HOLY TEMPLE BAPTIST, Rev.
Joseph Kelley: Building Fund
Committee's dinner sale Friday, 11
a.m. - 5 p.m.; breakfast sale,
Saturday, 7 - 11 a.m. Church
bazaar, Saturday, 7 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Each auxillary will sponsor a table.

H ST. MARK M.B., Rev. Johnnie
W. Cooper: Annual Youth Revival
March 8 - 10, 7:30 p.m. Speaker:
Gerald Hines, associate minister,
First Deliverance Church of God in
Christ.

HB GOD'S WAY HOLINESS, Rev.
Ann Abraham: Youth Night Ser-
vices, Friday, 8 p.m.

HE CHURCH WITH A VISION, Rev.
Dorothy Mickens: Revival with
‘Bishop George Thomas, March 7 -
10, 8 p.m.

BH COMMUNITY M.B., Holly-
wood, Rev. B.L. Mack: March 17,
Youth outing. See Sis. Howell for
details.

BH GOD IS LOVE PRAYER AND
MISSION CENTER, Rev. S.M.
Hughley: Bazaar and dinner sale
Saturday, 9 a.m.

H NEW SHILOH M.B., Rev. A.
Jackson: University of Florida
Gospel Choir will perform at the 5
p.m. Service Sunday.

EB HOUSE OF GOD, Keith Domin-
ion, Liberty City #2, Elder LL.
Baldwin: “A Night of Praise,”
Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Speaker:
Evangelist Shirley Townsend.

HE NEW MOUNT MORIAH M.B.,
Rev. Charles L. Dinkins: Male
Chorus rehearsals today, 6:30
p.-m.; 8 p.m., Gospel Choir rehear-
sals; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Voices of
New Mount Moriah will meet. Dur-
ing the 7:30 am. and 11 a.m.
Divine Worship Services, Holy
Communion will be administered.

REV. WALTER T. RICHARDSON:
pastor of Sweet Home.

Sweet Home

On March 10, Sweet Home's
Married Ministry will hold a special
seminar, entitled, “Understanding
God's Purpose and Plan for the
Marriage.” Open to all married
couples, it will begin at 7:30 a.m.
Speakers will be Rev. James W.
Byrd Sr., associate minister, Bible
Baptist, and Mrs. Elaine Byrd.

Both are Sunday School teach-
ers at the Bible Baptist Marriage
Enrichment Ministry. Rev. Byrd is
also Special Assistant for the
Assistant Chief of Support Ser-
vices, Metro-Dade Fire Depart-
ment. The Byrds, involved in the
Family Ministry since 1991, are
chairpersons of the Miami Urban
Life Family Life Conference, spon-
sored by the Legacy and the Family
Ministry of Campus Crusade for
Christ, an international
organization.

Married for 23 years, they are
founders of The Byrds of Paradise
for Christ Marriage and Family
Ministry and have conducted
workshops and seminars in Miam-
i, Savannah, Baltimore and New
Orleans.

Also, this Sunday, Sweet Home
will begin its “Sweet Home 2000"
project. Each member has been
asked to pledge $500 to the build-
ing fund used to reduce the indebt-
ness for the present church struc-
ture. “Sweet Home 2000" will end
December.

Rev. Walter T. Richardson is
pastor.

Battle of the
Hymns

TEXACO will present “An Exten-
sion of Black History Awareness,”
Saturday at 6:30 p.m.

The choirs of the South Dade
Male Chorus Union will be holding
the third annual “Battle of the
Hymns" concert, featuring a gospel
contest between a group com-
prised of five southern-most and
five northern-most choirs.

It will take place at Richmond
Heights Middle School, 152nd
Street and 103rd Avenue.

The south choir will be drawn
from Sweet Home Missionary Bap-
tist Church, St. John Missionary
Baptist Church, William Chapel
Freewill Baptist, Morningstar Bap-
tist Church and Covenant Baptist
Church.

The north choir will come from
Mount Moriah Baptist Church,
Second Baptist Church, St. Paul
AME Missionary Baptist Church,
Martin Memorial AME Church and
The New Beginnings Missionary
Baptist Church.

There will be special guest
appearances by the Florida
Memorial Gospel Choir and the
Royal Trumpets of Miami.

The concert is a fundraiser on
behalf of the Bruton Family
Foundation's Annual Scholarship
Drive. It is free and open to the
public.

ending a decades-old rift.

tions can work together.

in propagating the Gospel.”

tion,

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) —
Leaders of two of the nation’s
largest Pentecostal denomina-
tions say it's time to discuss

The Rev. Ithiel Clemmons, a
Church of God in Christ bishop,
met with the Rev. Thomas
Trask, general superintendent
of the Assemblies of God, to dis-
cuss ways the two denomina-

“We are sincere about the
reconciliation of these two fine
organizations — the Church of
God in Christ and the Assemb-
lies of God,” Trask said. “I felt it
would be beneficial for the
bishop to come to Springfield
and to explore ways to partner

The Assemblies of God, a pre-
dominantly White denomina-
has about 2.5 million
members in the United States.
The Church of God in Christ,
which has five million members
nationally, is a predominantly
Black denomination based in

Pentecostal churches holding
talks to end decades-old rift

Memphis, Tenn.

The two denominations deve-
loped out of the same Pentecos-
tal movement, with a strong tie
from 1907 to 1914, Clemmons
said.

“But (by 1914) we felt thatour
white brethren were succumb-
ing to racism in America,” he
said.

So the one group became two,
with each developing its own
strengths and areas of
emphasis.

“Even though it appeared to
be abreach, there was a need for
the Black churches to develop
their own focus and there was a
need for the White churches to
develop their own focus,” Clem-
mons said.

While the Assemblies of God
has concentrated heavily on
foreign missions, the Church of
God in Christ has primarily
been interested in reaching peo-
ple in the United States, Clem-
mons said.

other things.

The men met Feb. 21 and
hope that, by starting a dialogue
and working together, their
churches can extend their
evangelistic outreach, among

The meeting came after
what's called “The Miracle of
Memphis,” where, last October,
Black and White Pentecostal
denominations gathered for
reconciliation talks.

During the meeting, the pre-
dominantly White Pentecostal
Fellowship of North America
dissolved and the multiracial
Pentecostal /Charismatic Chur-
ches of North America was
formed.

Clemmons is chairman, Trask,
second vice chairman.

Exchanging professors
between their respective learn-
ing institutions is one example
of how the two denominations
can work together, Trask said.
The production of publications
is another.

LCAA urges love among people

By ALISON HIBBERT
Times Staff Writer
“Love Your Neighbor”, the theme of
the last Liberty City Christian
Association event, was a success
for Pauline Gibbons, the founder/
director, and those attending.

About 30 people gathered at the
El Portal Village Hall to accept
awards, hear motivational speech-
es and build friendships.

“Love Your Neighbor’ was an
effort to bring the community
together to unify the people in the
community,” Gibbons said. The

keynote speaker was Ray Faun-
troy, president of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference.

PAULINE GIBBONS, totados/
director ofLiberty City Christian
Association

Bethany SDA

Bethany Seventh-day Adventist
Church announced that the
Bethany Bible Institute of Lay
Evangelism meets Sundays, 8:30
a.m. - noon.

Also, the Adventist Youth

Department will present Pastor

Antwoyn Mells of Lakeland as
Youth Week of Prayer speaker,
March 11 - 18, 7 p.m. The theme is
“Countdown to the Showdown.”

And Stephen P. Ruff, editor of
Message Magazine, will be the
speaker Saturday.

Lawsuit says Muslims are
denied rights in prison

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials
at the state correctional center in
Cottonport are violating the consti-
tutional rights of Muslim inmates
to practice their religion, the

Christian

On Monday at 7:30 p.m., the
Christian Fellowship Missionary
Baptist Church family will begin a
week of Appreciation Services for
their pastor, Rev. Charles E.
Coleman.

Rev. Randy Holts and congrega-
tion of New Hope Baptist Church
will close out the services at 4 p.m.
on Sunday, March 12.

American Civil Liberties Union
says.

Joe Cook, director of the ACLU's
New Orleans office, said a suit con-
taining the allegations was filed
last Wednesday in U.S. District
Court in Alexandria on behalf of all
Muslim inmates at the Avoyelles
Correctional Center.

Warden Baron Kaylo declined
comment, saying he would have to
see the suit before speaking on the
allegations.

Clarence Vincent and John Wil-
liams claim Kaylo refused to allow
them to hold the weekly Islamic
prayers on Friday unless they
made up the time on a Saturday
disciplinary work crew. That con-
stitutes punishment for religious
beliefs, the ACLU said, noting that
Christians who participate in Bible
study faced no such requirements.

The ACLU said Vincent and Wil-

~ liams also were denied the right to

conduct “open callouts” in which
anyone interested in their religion
could attend. An inmate must indi-
cate an Islamic religious prefer-
ence upon entering the corrections
system to participate in Islamic
services, the organization said.

The suit claimed various other
deprivations involving Kevin Jack-
son, Andre Smith, Eddie Charles
and Charles Varnada.

“We must love ourselves first
before we can love others but true
love comes from reaching out to the
Lord,” Fauntroy told the audience.

Gladys Brown, James Edward
Hilbert, attorney Mark Morris,
Shirilee Robinson, Estella Foster
and Judge Jeffrey Rusinek were
honored at the event.

The LCAA will next host a moti-
vational gathering for 1,000 child-
ren at Gibson Park, 401 N.W. 12th
St. April 1, at 11 a.m.

“We want to encourage our kids
to continue to do positive things,"

Gibbons said. “We would like vari-
ous organizations to come out to
say “we can make it" to our
children.”

Gibbons wrote a letter to Presi-
dent Bill Clinton introducing him
to the idea she had for the children.
He replied with a postcard saying
he will consider it carefully.

“He said he will think about it
but he hasn't heard the last of me
yet,” Gibbons said. “I want to do
this nationally as well so I will be
calling up the talk-shows and I
know one will say yes to the idea.”

Church Directory

SOUL SAVING STATION
1880 Washington Ave., Opa-locka

Order of Services

* Sunday School.......... 10 am.
Morning Worship. 11.45 am.
Sun. Eve. Service..6.45 p.m.
Mon.-Sat., ..noon Day Prayer
Tue., 7.45 p.mMid-Week Ser.
Wed., 7.45 p.m...Bible Study
“New Believers, Youth Ser.
Fri, 7.30 on

Pastor: Rev. Carolyn Sheifield

MEMORIAL TEMPLE
MISSIONARY BAPTIST
CHURCH
16600 N.W. 44th ct., Carol City
624-2502
Order of Services:
Early Morning Worship
EVery Sunday ..........cocidemenmaminsiiniie
Sunday School ..
Sunday Worship .........
Mission Study- Monday...
PrayerMeeting-Thursday .. 7:00 PM.

Bible Study-Thursday ........ .r.8:00 PM.
REV. ELLISE COX, PASTOR

7:45 AM.
9:30 AM.
...10:45 AM.
.7:00 PM.

MT. NEBO
MISSIONARY BAPTIST
CHURCH

A Church Where The Anointing
Makes A Difference

Sun. Morning Service..7:30 AM

Sun. School & Orientation

9:30 AM

Sun. Worship (Svc)......11:00 AM

ur. Prayer & Bible Study

7:30 PM

Tues.. Intercessory Prayer

6:00 to 7:00 PM.

6075 S.W. 64 St.

So Miami, Fl 33143

667-3696

New Birth Baptist Church
Church Office: 13230 N.W. 7Ave.

N. Miami, FL 33168 (305) 685-3700
Fax (305) 685-0705

Victory T. Curry, Senior Pastor/Teacher
ORDER OF SERVICES
7 a.m. Service (First Sunday Only)
EACH SUNDAY
7:30 am. & 11 a.m.. Services
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Thursday, March 2, 1995

Carey-Royal Ram’n

MERLINE SAWYER, 91, Miami,
died Feb. 22 at Parkway Regional
Medical Center. Survivors include
son, James; sisters, Essie Gibson
and Muriel Colebrook; daughter,
Amy; grandchildren, Errol, Mia,
Kevin, Robeyt Alexander, Robert
James, Candace Monique and
Crystal Antoinette. Services will be
held Saturday, 11 a.m., at New
Bethel Baptist Church; interment,
Lincoln Cemetery.

EUNICE MASON, 56, Miami,
died Feb. 20 at Aventura Hospital.
Survivors include daughters,
Desire Wilks and Mischelle Bowen;
son, Robert Taylor; sisters, Mavis
Johnson, Iona Sutherland and
Diana Gordon. Services will be
held Saturday, 10 a.m., at Open
Bible Baptist Church; interment,
Dade Memorial Park.

B.J. ROBERTS, 85, Miami died
Feb. 26 at Florida Club Care Cen-
ter. Survivors inlcude wife, Hazel;
daughter, Regina Vaughn; grand-
sons, Clifton and David Vaughn II;
granddaughter, Danielle Vaughn.
Services will be held Saturday, 10
a.m., at New Providence Baptist
Church; interment, Lincoln
Cemetery.

HERMAN VANCE, 62, Miami,
died Feb. 24 at the VA Medical Cen-
ter. Survivors include wife, Norma;
daughters, Tameka, Yvonne and
Deborah; sons, Rev. Romeo Vance,
Worrecas and Grady, Glenn and
Eric; brother Sanford, Silas, How-
ard and Alvin; sisters, Evelyn and
Gerry Pitts; aunts; Viola Burke,
Ardell Berry and Cora Ashley;
brothers, Alonzo and Willie Dyer.
Services will be held in Cordele,
Georgia.

Taylor Washington

FRANKLIN E. TURBE, 47,
Miami, died Feb. 20 at home. Sur-
vivors include children, Karon,
Frederick, Jamel, Normon, Shana,
Clint, Jarrod, Shenika, Tanya,
Tashara, Sharnarma, Joanne.
Services were held Saturday. Final
rites and burial in St. Thomas, Vir-
gin Islands.

JOHN R. BROWN, 64, Miami,
died Feb. 5 at the V.A. Medical Cen-
ter. Survivors include friend, Janie
Hall. Services were held.

Barrett-Fryar
Thompkins

ROBERT CARLISLE, 76,
Miami, died Feb. 24. Survivors
include wife, Carrie Carlisle;
daughters, Louise Williams, Shir-
ley Craine, Edith Pyton, and Eula
Carlisle; son, Sammie Carlisle.
Services will be held Saturday, 11
a.m., at Greater St. Paul AM.E.
Church.

EVA LEE GIBBONS, 73,
Goulds, died Feb. 22 at Baptist
Hospital. Survivors include
daughters, Netter Wallace, Betty
Gibbons; son, Bennie Jr. and Mar-
tin; sister, Netter Dixon; brother,
Preston Lee. Services were held
Wednesday at Mt. Pleasent Baptist
Church. :

ALMETA G. BURGESS, 57,
Richmond Heights, died Feb. 24 at
South Miami Hosptial. Survivors
include husband, Kenneth
Burgess; sons, Larry, Chris and
Glen Harris, Patrick, Michael and
Desmond. Services were held.

DAVID MONTGOMERY, 36,
South Miami, died Feb. 20 at
home. Survivors include mother,
Elease Jackson; father, John L.
Brown; brothers, Herbert Butler
and John Michael McCoe. Services
were held.

Card of Thanks Card of Thanks Card of Thanks In Memoriam

The Familyof the late,

DERRICK
BURROUGHS JR.
extends “Thanks” to all
the Churches, family

members, friends and
neighbors for all your
kindness and benevo-
lence shown during our
time of sorrow. We want
to extend special thanks
to Mrs. Prater of CAA and
all the Headstart Centers
that contributed and the
Teachers of Bethune
Headstart and Adell-
Range and friends and
the Burdines Merchan-
dise Accounting Staff
and the Stephenson-
Thompson Funeral

. Home and Bishop David

Arline for your assis-
tance, prayers and words
of encouragement.

May God bless each
and everyone of you.
The family.

In Memoriam
In loving memory of,

of iN
LEO MOSES

6/11/17 - 3/01/94

No farewells were spo-
ken, no time to say good-
bye; you were gone before
we knew it and only God
knows why.

It broke our hearts to
lose you but you did not
go -alone. A part of us
went with you, the day
God called you home.

Your loving wife, Mary
Francis; son, LeRoi,
daughter, Brenda; and
family.

Card of Thanks

The family of the late,
EARNEST A.
SAUNDERS
wishes to express their
heartfelt appreciation for
the many prayer’s home
visit, cards and phone
calls. Special thanks to
Poitier's Funeral Home
staff. Greater St. James
Baptist Church, Rev.
Wiliam H. Washington
Sr., Pastor, The Division
of Magnet Innovative
Program office staff.
Comstock Elem School,
The Women's Detention
Center, Clark Brothers
Die Center, V. Tech of
Cooper Cove Texas.
Many thanks to the won-
derful neighbors of 47th
Terrace, 5th and 6th Ave.
To the family members
and the many friends we
thank you. May God

bless each of you.
The Saunders Family.

\

The family of the late,

DOLLIE F. ZEIGLER

extend sincere thanks to 4

everyone for your pray-
ers, cards, flowers and all
gestures of support and
concern shown during
this time of loss.

Our thanks to Minis-
ter Freeman Wyche and
the members of the Lib-

erty City Church of

Christ; Family Health
Center/Men's Residen-
tial Facility; the faculty
and staff of Bright/
Johnson Elemnetary
School; and the neigh-
bors of 28th Court for
your loving envolvement.

May the blessings of
God be upon each of you.

Dollie F. Zeigler,
mother;

Gloria, Eddie, Arthur
and the family.

In Memoriam

In loving memory of,

«r

"ELIZA J. STURRUP
(MA LIZA)
5-1-1898 - 3-3-87
Precious memories

| from your children.

Juanita Hopkins,

daughter; Sheryl Hutch-

ins, Deborah Hopkins,
granddaughters; Brian
and Jason, grandsons.

In Memoriam
In loving memory of,

EZELL AUSBY
5/24/30 - 3/4/83
These thoughts are for
you... A special person so
warm and true You'd al-
ways show us how much

you cared. In times of
trouble you'd always be
there. And for your child-
ren you did all you could.
you made or life happy
and good. You may be
gone but you'll never be
forgotten. You may be
gone but we still think
about you often. The
stairway to heaven you
have now climbed Eter-
nal peace we hope you'll
find. We love and miss

you.
Your wife Josephine and
your girls.

The family of the late,

JERALD HOWARD
MANLEY, SR.
BK “Pedy” “Short”
September 7, 1962
February 15, 1995
extend their heartfelt
gratitude and “thanks” to
all of you who did so
much to make their bur-
den lighter. We will
never, ever forget you.

Special thanks to Rev.
Douglas Cook and the
Jordan Grove Chuch
family and Portier Funral
Home staff.

The Family.

In Memoriam

In loving memory of,
t

PATRICK COLLINS
BROWN
2/22/64 - 7/24/94

Thirty-one years ago
today, a seed was planted
and blossomed into a
beautiful flower. A flower
that bloomed to be alov-
ing husband, father, son,
brother and friend.

Pat, there is an empty
space in my life that can
never be replaced. Unlike
a flower, my love for you
will never die. Sleep on
my dear and precious
angel. We miss you and
love you, dearly. Happy
Birthdayl my love.

Love, your wife, and
kids, Latonia, Erica and
Brittany Brown.

In Memoriam
In loving memory of,

WILLIE FRANK
JOHNSON
AKA “FRANKIE J"
01/20/61 - 02/16/93

‘Daddy I miss you very

much. I have dreams ab-
out you I wake up in the
night and cry. Mommy
say it's OK because you

live in heaven with Jesus

and I'll see you again one
day.I'll always Love you
daddy. Diamond

In loving memory of,

JOSEPHINE POWELL
VICKERS
05/12/85 - 03/01/91
Dear Granny the mem-
ory of you will always be a

part of our lives.
Your Family, The Jones
& Powell's.

In Memoriam

In loving memory,

h

JESSICA LOUISE
PEARSON
of our beloved mother.

You will always be our

hearts. May God rest
your soul, until we meet
again.

Love forever, Yvonne
Ash, C.t. Taylor, Mae
Francis Jiles, Charles
Marks, Rev. Alice
Greene, Eurika Parker.

In Memoriam
In loving memory of,

MAGGIE G. SCOTT
who departed this life on
February 25, 1979.

Many souls have been
enriched

Because you trod this
earth.

Many doubting hearts
can trust

And realize their
worth.

If one soul turned to
Christ

Because you shared
your joy and eased their
pain.

We know beyond the
slightest doubt,

You've not lived in van.

We are blessed by the
memory of our beloved
mother who dwells ar-
ound the throne of God.

Georgene Taylor,
daughter; Leclair Lam-
bert, son: Kevin Taylor,

grandson.

A

Community

BEVERLY WHITEHEAD, 36,
died Feb. 21 at Jackson Hospital.
Survivors include daughter, Sheri-
na; son, Robert; grandson, Teeu-
wuan Robinson; sisters, Cynthia
White and Rosemary Butler;
brothers, Theodore Williams, and
Michael Ivey. Services were held
Tuesday in Thomasville, GA.

Fritz Monestime, 46, con-
struction worker, died Feb. 15 at
Broward Medical Center. Survi-
vors include wife, Laria; father,
Louisias; mother, Vita Monestime.
Services were held Saturday at
Notre Dame Catholic Church;
interment, Southern Memorial
Park.

LOUIS PIERRE, 68, bus-driver,
died Feb. 15 at Parkway Medical
Center. Services were held Satur-
day a Notre Dame Catholic
Church; interment, Evergreen
Memorial Park.

ALLIE MAE HOWARD, 81, died
at 19000 N.W. 8th Ave. Carol City.
Survivors include children, Curly
Louise, Nonie and Leamon. Ser-
vices will be held Saturday, 11
a.m., At Bible Baptist Church;
remains willbe in repose at Greater
New Cannan Baptist Church, 914
N.W. 183rd St., 4-9 p.m., inter-
ment, Sunset Gardens, Ft.
Lauderdale.

EDDIE LEE FRIERSON, 160
N.W. 40th St. died Feb. 27 at home.
Survivors include children, Dor-

i othy, Elaine, Linda and Tracey,

son, Aronn; sister, Karlean,

* brother Cleveland. Services will be

held Saturday, 1 p.m., at the St.

, Matthew Freewill Baptist Church;
i interment, Southern Memorial

Park.

Royal

COLLIS J. CONLEY STE-
PHENS, 47, died Feb. 25 at Jack-
son Hospital. He was a gardener.
Survivors include mother,
Evangelist Lenoria Conley;
brother, Rev. Ernest Cobb; sisters,
Susan and Joyce Conley; aunt,
Evangelist Josephine Boyd;
uncle;, Dr. Hollis Mills; god-

brother, Rev. Ricky E. Kelly. Ser- |

vices willbe on Saturday, 2 p.m., at
Fields Ministries, 3362 N.W. 152
St.: interment, Dade Memorial
Park, North.

FRANK DANDRIDGE, 58, died
Feb. 16 at Hollywood Memorial
Hospital. He was an engineer. Sur-
vivors include son, Kenneth;
daughter, Patricia, grandchildren,
David and Dacia Reen. Services
were held Saturday at the chapel;
interment, Florida National
Cemetery, Bushnell.

HETTIE GREENE, 70, died Feb.
25 at home. She was a retired pro-
fessor. Survivors include brother,
Lloyd Hawkins; nieces, Carolyn
White. Arrangements are
incomplete.

LAVERNA JOLLY, 81, died Feb.
27 at Golden Glades Hospital. She
was a domestic worker. Survivors
include brother James Stephens.
Arrangements are incomplete.

Caballero

ANTHONY A. BROWN, 36,
handyman, died Jackson Hospital
Feb. 22. Survivors include uncle,
Waymon H. Brown (Mildred). Vis-
itation will be on Friday, 7-9 pm, at
Mt. Olive Baptist Church, 6316
S.W. 59th Pl.; service, Saturday, 1
p.m., at the church; interment,
Dade Memorial Park, South.

In Memoriam

In loving memory of,
SAMUEL JAMES
WILCOX
08/31/31 - 02/23/94
one year have passed my
brother, I love you and, I

miss you so dearly.

God saw the road was
getting rough, the hills
were hard to climb. He
gently closed his loving
eyes and whispered
“Peace be thine”.

I. will always love you and
will never forget you.
Your sister, Ida White
and family.

In Memoriam,
In loving memory of,

FRANKLIN
MCCULLOUGH
12/02/44 - 02/20/93
gone but not forgotten.
Greatly missed by your

loving family.

Range

TANGELA DENISE GORDON,
22, Miami, cosmetology student,
died Feb. 25 at home. Survivors
include mother, Thelma Gordon;
father, William Gordon; sisters,
Yvette, Arvetta and Wanda;
brothers, Tyrone and William;
uncles, Leroy and Graham John-
son; aunts, Retha Eubank, Maggie
Presbury and Mary Lee. Services
will be held Saturday, 1 p.m., at
Greater New Bethel Baptist
Church.

ELLEN V. RAHMING SWEET- a

ING, 77, Miami, died Feb. 24 at
Aventura Hosptial. Survivors
include brothers, Samuel and
Lawrence; sisters, Vernell, Elerka
Tillman and Vera Lee. Services will
be held Saturday, noon, at the
chapel; interment, Dade Memorial
Park, North.

JOHN MOORE Jr., 88, Miami,
carpenter, died Feb. 27 at home.
Survivors include nephew, Louis
Jr. Arrangements are incomplete.

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ESSIE MAE DAVIS, 70, Miami,
died Feb. 22 at home. Survivors
include mother, Lillie Moss; sons,
Bill and Milton, Ricky, Roger and
Kerry T. Martin; daughters, Mary,

~Juanita Horne. Services will be on

Saturday, 1 p.m., at New Hope
Baptist Church, 1881 N.W. 103rd
St.; interment, Dade Memorial
Park, North.

ANNIE B. NICKENS, 68, Miami,
died Feb. 21 at the North Shore
Medical Center Vitas. Survivors
include daughters, Shirley Wal-
lace, Robbie Johnson and Kemba
Davis; grandsons, James Sanders,
Kamani and Kobie Major; grand-
daughter, Latavia Andrew; niece,
Clara Kyle of Morristown, TN;
brothers, John Henry Walker Jr.
and Willie James Walker of Savan-
nah, GA. Services were held Wed-
nesday at New Gamble Memorial
Church of God in Christ; final rites
and burial Saturday, in Savannah,
Georgia.

JOHNNIE MOORE Jr., 49, died
Feb. 10 in New Jersey. Survivors
include children, Shonteaka and
Johnnie Jr.; sister, Norma Harris;
nephews, LeRoy Jr. and Emory
Grant; stepfather, Henry Moore;
aunts, Mary Wilson, Adale Murray,
Collien Phillips, Deothoa and Ninel
Holmes; cousins, Willie Holmes;
Sharon, Carole, Collien Gaither,
Hamp Gaither, Milton Murry, Thel-
ma Holmes Lee, Ruthis Holmes,
Jessie Holmes Lathan, Christine
Lester, Freda Holmes, Darliene
Duhart, Jeanner Duhart, Bessie
Anderson. Services were held
Saturday at the chapel.

Coconut Grove

GERTRUDE M. TAMPLIN, 98,
Goulds, died Feb. 23 at Deering
Hospital. Survivors include niece,
Emma Sams Frazier; nephew,
Arthur Frazier; cousins, Angeline
Sams, Leon Walker, Raymond
Walker and S. Wilson. Services
were held Tuesday at New Bethel
AM.E. Church, Goulds.

E.A. Stevens

LLOYD WILLIAMS, 63, 529 N.W.
3rd Ct. Hallandale, died Feb. 23 at
Memorial Manor Pembroke Pines.
Survivors include daughter Angeli-
na McCoy; sister, Verdella Wilson;
brothers, Rev. Charles Williams,
and Lonnie. Services will be on Fri-
day, 1 p.m., atthe Church of God of
Prophecy, Hallandale; viewing,
Thursday, at the funeral home, 2-9:
p.m.; interment, Hallandale
Cemetery.

JAMES W. BILLINS, 80, 516
N.W. 10 St., Hallandale, died Feb.
26 at Parkway Regional Medical
Center. Survivors include sons,
Claude, Fred, James Jr., Edward,
Raymond and Elmus; daughters,
Annie Ruth Samuel, Nazell Ram-
sey and Olivia Smith; brothers,
Edward, William, Albert, Roosevelt
and Charlie; sister, Ruby Kay
Arnold. Services will be on Satur-
day, 11 a.m., at Ebenezer Baptist
Church Hallandale; viewing, Fri-
day, 2-9 p.m., at the funeral home;
interment, Hallandale Cemetery.

Hall-Ferguson
Hewitt

TARA J. LOFTON-FLEMINGS,
30, data entry clerk, Miami, died
Feb. 24. Survivors include hus-
band, Otis Flemings; daughters,
Nakia and Takia; parents, Earland
Dell Shephard; sisters, Robynn
and Sheri Lofton; brothers, Pat-
rick, Thurmen, MannyBo and
Wesley; step-parents, Sidney and
Earlie Tillman. Services will be
held this Thursday, 1 p.m., at Mt.
Calvary Baptist Church, 1140
N.W. 62nd St.; interment, Dade
Memorial Park, North.

ARTICE LEE LAWSON, 60,
construction worker, Miami, died
Feb. 25. Survivors include wife,
Betty Lawson; brothers, Jake and
Herman; sisters, Gertrude Pross-
er, Corean Perice, Louise Ingram,
Mildred Jordan, Lois Hooks.
Remains will be shipped to San-
dersville, GA.

MELVIAJ. MERRELL, 49, hos-
pital unit clerk, Miami, died Feb.
26. Survivors include son, Stewart
Jr.; mother, Nina Carswell; grand-
children, Chelsey, Rashawn and
Raheem, former husband, Stewart
Merrell Sr. Remains will be
shipped to Dublin, GA.

BISBY ESTELLA TAYLOR, 87,
retired nurse's assistant, Miami,
died Feb. 18. Survivors include
daughter, Doris Williams,; grand-
daughters, Harolene Byrd, Rosa-
lyn Lonon, Valerie Holmes;
nephews, Kenneth and Billy;
great-grand children, Keysla, Jer-
ome and Kelvin Byrd, Kenneth and
Harold Holmes, David Coleman.
Services were held Saturday at Mt.
Sinai MB Church; interment, Dade
Memorial Park, North.

WILLIAM T. ROUNDTREE, 78,
chef, Miami, died Feb. 17. Survi-
vors include wife, Johnnie Mae
Roundtree; daughter, Edith Ste-
phens; sons, James and William;
grandchildren, Dreta, Devvie,
Warrick, Dino, Corey, Shawn,
Ruye. Services were held Saturday
at Christian Fellowship MB
Church, interment, Dade Memor-
ial Park, North.

MIKE COOK, 87, mining labor-
er, Miami, died Feb. 20. Survivors
include daughters, Josephine
Anderson, Lula Longley, Naomi
Jordan; sons, Samuel, David and
Leroy. Services were held Wednes-
day at the chapel; remains were
shipped to Brooksville.

. NAOMI CARROLL, 82, laundry
silk finisher, Miami, died Feb. 17.
Survivors include daughters
Cynthia Taylor, Yvonne Gaitor, Ali-
cia Mooore, Noel Cobb, Denovica
Simpson; adopted daughter, Alyce
Clapp. Services were held Wednes-
day at the Episcopal Church of the
Incarnation; interment, Dade
Memorial Park, North.

DAIVD FRANKLIN, 64, garden-
er, Miami, died Feb. 21. Survivors
include wife, Erkrie Franklin;
mother, Annie Marie Brouadus;
father, Isicel Franklin, children,
Marie Blackshear-Alcime, Scar-
lett, Stephen Watson, Patricia,
Belina, Dwight, Alvin; sister, Annie
Laura; brothers, Rosabel, Willie,
William Robert. Services were held
Thursday at the chapel.

Death notice

“Death, where is thy sting?”

Robert Earl Sawyer, well-known
playwright, died in Northern Cali-
fornia. He was best known for his
plays, “Good Bread Alley" and
“What's Good for the Goose”.

He leaves to mourn Kevin
Sawyer, Mia Sawyer, Alex Sawyer
and Erroll Sawyer.

His family in Miami includes Mr.
and Mrs. James Sawyer, Robert
and Crystal Sawyer and many
other relatives and friends.



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Thursday, March 2, 1995

Poitier

MARIE GINA ABEL, 36, 13855
N.W. 22nd Pl., died Feb. 24. She
was a teacher. Survivors include
father, Jean Baptiste Abel; mother,
Evena; daughter, Johnne Freed;
brothers, Jose, Jacquelin, Jean
Robert, Andre; sisters, Lilotte A.
Valbrun. Services will be on Satur-
day at the Church Eden; inter-
ment, Southern Memorial Park.

MATTHEW NASH, 49, 6712
Camelia Dr., Miramar, died Feb.
24 at University Hospital. He was a
truck driver. Survivors include
wife, Diano; mother, Bernice Tay-
lor; sons, Johnny, Dwayne;
daughters, Shirley, Felicia. Ser-
vices will be on Saturday, noon at
the chapel; interment, Southern
Memorial Park.

FRANKLIN D. THOMPSON, 54,
6626 N.W. 30th Ave., died Feb. 22
at Jackson Hospital. Survivors
include brother, Willie; sisters, Eli-
zabeth Tynes, Dorothy Scott, Lillie
Mae Cooks. Services were held
Wednesday at the chapel.

HATTIE MAE SHINGLES, 68,
7620 N.W. 2nd Ave., died Feb. 20.
Survivors include sons, Theodore
Norman, Homer, Larry Hall;
daughters, Carolyn Harris Nancy
White, Patricia Clayton; sisters,
Lillie Mae Watson. Services will be
on Saturday, 10 a.m., at Mt. Cal-
vary Baptist Church.

STIVIENNE D. THERESIAS,
60, 1300 N.E. 110th St., died Feb.
26 at Jackson Hospital. Survivors
include wife, Jannic Mae; sons,
Johnnie, Calvin, Tony; daughters,
Joanette Mondsir, Marie L. Our-

des. Services will be on Saturday, 2 *

p.m., at Mt. Carmel Baptist
Church; interment,
Memorial Park.
ALMERTHA LARNETTE
JACKSON, 43, 3017 N.W. 203rd
Lane, died at Glades Hospital. Sur-
vivors include husband, Robin;

mother, Louise Stanley; son,

Jovan Smith; daughter, Juwanna
Moss; sisters, Sandra Stanley,
Andrea. Services were held Tues-
day at Greater New Bethel Baptist
Church; interment, Dade Memor-
ial Park.

FREDDIE LEE, 61, 2911 N.W.
154th Terr., died Feb. 23 at the
Veterans Medical Center. Survi-
vors include wife, Retha; brothers,
Sammie Johnson, Rev. Seabron
Lee, Henry,; sisters, Daisy Graddy,
Minnie Lee Jackson, Catherine:
aunt, Laura Ealey. Services were
held Wednesday at Jordan Grove
Baptist Church; interment, Dade
Memorial Park.

SHELDON L. WHITEHEAD, 22,
2530 N.W. 121st St., died Feb. 25.
Survivors include father, Johnnie
Merritt; mother, Annie; sons,
Matthew Everett, Ralph Myres;
daughters, Jaquita Harris, Char-
lene Myers, Sheakelia, Shontavia;
brothers, Robert, Albert Bryant,
O'shum Brown, Vachel Hinnant;
sisters, Faisha Thomas, Shirlen
Lassiter, Yolande Rolle, Francine
Lassiter; Fiance, Antwanetta Har-
ris: Services will be on Saturday, 1
p.m., at St. Luke Cousin Memorial
AM.E.

ANNIE LOU GOODING, 87, 930
N.W. 95th St., died Feb. 22 at
North Shore Hosptial. Survivors
include niece, Pearlie Mae Gay.
Services will be on Friday at St.
Paul AAM.E. Church, 10 a.m.,
interment, Dade Memorial Park.

BOBBY K. CLARK, 38, 855
N.W. 126th St., died Feb. 26 at the
V.A. Hospital. Survivors include
mother, Carrie Clark; daughter,
Angelic; brother, James; sisters,
Wilma Jacobs, Barbara Nottage,
Brenda Hunter, Burnita Kirkland,
Theresa Hunter, Beaulena Not-
tage, Lisa Hunter. Services will be
on Monday, 1 a.m. at the chapel;
interment, Lincoln Memorial Park.

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BRENDA FAYE BRINSON, 34,
1850 N.W. 83rd Terr., died Feb. 24
at home. Survivors include hus-
band, David; father, Willie Burch;

mother, Ellean; son, Lawrence
Gunn Jr., daughter, Alexis Ben-
nett; brothers, Willie Jr. Ricky,
Anthony, Patrick; sisters, Willa
Jackson, Patricia Dolphus, Barba-
ra Whithers, Theola and Michelle
Burch. Services will be on Satur-
day, noon at Friendship M.B.
Church; interment, Dade Memor-
ial Park.

SAMUEL CLOARE, Jr. (a.k.a.
DAG), 31, 1067 N.W. 65th St., died
Feb. 23 at home. Survivors include
father, Samuel Sr.; mother, Carrie
Wims Peetluk; brothers, Patrick,
Anthony, Gregory; sisters, Yolan-
da, Jackie, Jeanette. Services will
be on Saturday, 11 a.m., at St.
Luke Cousin Memorial A.M.E.
Church; interment, Dade Memor-
ial Park.

GIRIE JONES, 68, 7019 N.W.
4th Court, died Feb. 24 at North
Shore Hospital. Survivors include
son, Leroy Barry; daughters, Mae
B. jones, Lorraine Mitchell; sister,
Leila Edwards. Services will be on

Saturday, 11 a.m., at Christian
Fellowship Baptist Church; inter-

ment, Crossroad Cemetery,
Madison.

JOE MILTON PLUMMER, 77,
160 N.W. 11th Terr., died Feb. 19.
Survivors include wife, Prenella
Shannon; son, Joseph; daughter,
Juanita; sisters, Lillie Beassley,
Ann; aunt, Henrietta Madison.
Services were held Tuesday at the
chapel.

MARY JACKSON, 58, 353 N.W.
7th St. died Feb. 19 at Jackson
Hospital. Survivors include father,
Wade Pooler; son, Donnell Brew-
ton; daughters, Belinda Peacock,
Tamara, Shannon Brewton. Ser-
vices: were held Saturday at the
chapel; interment, Dade Memorial
Park.

CLEO C. FINCH, 66, 955 N.W.
75th St., died at North Shore Hos-
pital. Survivors include husband,
Samuel; son, Andre; brother,
Arthur; sister, Katie Cane. Ser-
vices were held; interment, Dade
Memorial Park.

JACKIE JUDGE Sr., 68, 1743
N.W. 66th St. died Feb. 21 at
Cedars Hospital. Survivors include
son, Jackie Jr.; daughters, Felicia
Mosley and Valle Guyton. Services
will be held Friday, 1 p.m., at the
chapel.

PATRICIA PRICE, 33, 6791
N.W. 22nd Ave; died Feb. 24 at Hia-
leah Hosptial. Survivors include
father, Eddie Price; son, Anton;
daughter, Shamika; brothers,
Roosevelt, Walter, Robert and
James; sisters, Shirley Smith,
Gladys Davis, Alice, Letha Bel-
lomy; nieces and nephews, Tracey
Turner, Octavius and Joanne Bel-
lamy, Jeffrey Davis and Gareta.
Services will be held Friday, 2 p.m.,
at the chapel.

Mitchell

CHARLIE DAVID PRICE Jr.,
67, Miami, died Feb. 22 at Cedars
Medical Center. He was a fork lift
operator. Survivors include son,
Raymond; nieces, Esther Withers
and Queen Bellton; nephew, Knox-
ie Withers; uncle, Walter Edwards.
Services were held Tuesday, inter-
ment, Lincoln Memorial Cemetery.

RUPERT ANDRE GALLIMORE,
26, died Feb. 25. He was an atten-
dant at a service station. Survivors
include father, Rupert Anthony;
mother, Eva; brother, Patrick; sis-
ter, Cheryl; cousin, Janet. Services
will be held Wednesday at the
chapel; final rites in Kingston,
Jamaica, Saturday.

MARGUERITE HOLMES WIL-
LIAMS, 78, Miami, died Feb. 25 at
Cedars Medical Center. She was a
domestic worker for a private
home. Survivors include sons,

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Bertha Watson and Mary Samp-

son; sisters, Lenora Swain of South .

Miami and Mary L. Hinson of Rich-
mond Heights; brothers, George
and Audrey Holmes. Services will
be on Saturday, 1 p.m., New Provi-
dence, Baptist Church, interment,
Dade Memorial Park.

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SMH Homestead Hospital. Survi-
vors include husband, Johnnie
Brown; daughter, Doris Johnson;
son, Joseph Lindsey; sisters, Mau-
die Johnson, Annie Mae, Lucille
Johnson, Josephine Hill, Ada
White and Geraldine Grant;
brothers, Fess Johnson Jr. Jonas

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Napolis White. Services will be at 1
p.m., Saturday, at Covenant Bap-
tist Church, Florida City.

SONTONAX JEAN CHARLES,
4, Homestead, died Feb. 22 at
home.
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Charles. Serviceswillbeat 10a.m.,
Saturday, at Sacred Heart Catholic
Church, Homestead.

MAEBELL GRIFFIN, 72, Nar-
anja, died Feb. 26 at Deering Hos-
pital. Survivors include husband,
Jessie Griffin; son, Willie Davis
Johnson. Services willbeat2 p.m.,
Saturday, at St. John Baptist
Church, Naranja.

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. Merline Sawyer passed away
Feb. 22. ;

She leaves to mourn her son,
James Sawyer, and his wife, Amy;
her grandchildren Robert James
Sawyer, Crystal Sawyer and Can-
dace Sawyer; her loving sisters,
Mrs. Essie Gibson and Mrs. Muriel
Colebrook and many nieces and
nephews.

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Thompson

CHARLIE WILLIAMS, 35, auto
mechanic, Miami, died Feb. 17 at
Jackson Hospital. Survivors
include daughters, Latoya and
Kezra; mother, Frances; father,
Willie; sisters, Lessie Walker,
Joann and Francenia Eason;
brothers, Jesse, Freddie, Leroy,
Tommy and Larry. Services were
held Wednesday at New Shiloh
Missionary Baptist Church.

WILFRED JAMES GLASS, 94,
custodian, Miami, died Feb. 24 at
North Shore Medical Center (Vit-
as). Survivors include daughter,
Rowena Glass Wilson; sons, Cleo-
phus, Thomas and Rudolph; sister
Gwendolyn Smith. Family will
receive friends, Friday, 7-9 p.m.;
viewing at the church Saturday
8:30 a.m. to funeral time; services,
Saturday, 10 a.m., St. Peters
Orthodox Catholic Church, 1811
N.W. 4th Ct.; interment, Dade
Memorial Park.

MARTHA A. ELLIOTT, 91,
maid, Miami, died Feb. 23 at Jack-
son Hospital. Survivors include
Joe Sweet and Queen Starr. Ser-
vices will be on Saturday, 2 p.m., at
the chapel.

KEYONNA NICOLE JOSEPH,

8, student, North Miami, died Feb. -

28 at Jackson. Survivors include
mother, Janice; father, Wilfort;
grandmothers, Emma Simon and
Joceline Dantiste; grandfather,
Dupont; great-grandmother, Ruth
Kirby; aunts, Brenda Collier, Pris-
cilla Jean Pierre, Dorothy Carter
and Inez Simon; uncles, Rand and
Leslie Simon. Services will be held
Saturday, 1 p.m., at Rock Of Ages
Missionary Baptist Church, 2722
N.W. 55th St.; interment, Dade
Memorial Park.

Olinda students say thanks
for help on Eatonville trip

By ERICK JOHNSON
Times Staff Writer

On Friday, a group of Olinda
Elementary School students paid
tribute to two role models who
didn't show up.

The leaders helped send them
on an unforgettable trip to historic
cities and sites and all they wanted
to say was thank you.

With Metro Commission Chair-
man Arthur Teele and business-
man Jacques Thermillus absent,
they thanked them anyway with

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Laughlin

KETLY JOSEPH, 24, restaur-
ant manager, died Feb. 21 at
Parkway Regional Medical Center.
Survivors include father, Joseph
Cius; mother, Gertrude; sons, Wil-
son, Timonthy Noell; sisters, Alice,
Jenny Coopert, Lakeycha Sius,
Esther Cambell, Janice Harmon,
Iasdora; brother, Michael Sius.
Services will be held Saturday 1
p-m., at Miami Christian Ceuter;
interment, Southern Memorial
Park.

MATTIE GRIMES, 73, died Feb.
26 at Meadow Brook Manor. Survi-
vors include daughters, Maxine
Daphnis, Louise McGruder; sis-
ters, Emma Perryman, Sarah Van-
over. Services will be held Thurs-
day (today) 11 a.m., at the chapel;
interment, Forest Lawn Cemetery.

ANTOINE NEPTUNE, 59, land-
scaper, died Feb. 24 at Jackson
Hospital. Survivors include
daughter, Daninala; brothers,
Jean, Alphonse. Arrangements are
incomplete.

ROOSEVELT DAVIS, 38, City of
Coral Gables maintenance worker.
Survivors include nephews, Trum-
mie and Alton Hudson; nieces,
Rose Mincey, Gwendolyn Hudson
Christain. Janie Walker, Jeanette
Hudson Hurley, Anna Robinson.
Services were held Wednesday.

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GLADSTONE L. YOUNG Jr.,
28, roofing laborer, 520 N.W. 73rd
St., died Feb. 26 at Aventura Medi-
cal Center. Survivors include
mother, Barbara Brown; father,
Gladstone Sr.; grandmother,
‘Agliee Williams; aunts, Barbara
Ann Williams, Delray Mingo.
Arrangements are incomplete.

JERRY MOSES Sr., 75, retired
railroad cook, 1213 NW 1st Pl,
died Feb. 27 at home. Survivors
include daughters, Delores Walk-
er, Theresa Jones, Betty Self; son,
Jerry Jr.; sisters, Elelia Robinson,
Virginia Kelly, Pearl, Bessie Gli-
ford; aunt, Ruthie Mae Gin Wright.
Services will be on Saturday, 1
'p.m., at the chapel.

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inspirational words, heartfelt
speeches and gospel hymns.
Three weeks ago, Teele and
Thermillus responded to an appeal
after the trip coordinator told them
her group was short of the $500.

“The deficit came because the size of

the group dropped from 30 to 23.
Robinson said seven students were
unable to make the trip because
their parents couldn't afford the
$115 costs.

Without the $500, the whole
trip, part of the school's Black His-
tory Month activities, would have
been cancelled, Robinson said.

Thermillus and Teele led a suc-
cessful fundraising campaign to
save the trip. Also contributing
were Jay Funeral Home and
residents.

“She made it clear that if she

didn’t get help with this trip, they
wouldn't go,” said Alexis Snyder,
Teele’'s administrative aide, who
was also honored for her help with
the campaign.
According to Snyder, Teele had
been sick that day. Thermillus,
who sent estimator Leonard John-
son on his behalf, was unavailable
for comment.

Like the trip itself, the students,
all participants in the school's self-
esteem program, rose above cir-
cumstances. Fourth grader Charia
Morgan recited of Maya Angelou’s
“I Rise” and the group-led version
of Kirk Franklin's gospel hit,
“That's The Reason Why I Sing,”
delighted the audience.

The students were encouraged
to persevere in their educational
pursuits by honoree, Lloyd Major,
executive director of the county's
Community Relations Board.

“(In the business world) you
don't get beat up physically; you
get beat up mentally,” he said.
“That's why you have to be on top of
your education.”

The student s picked Eatonville
for their trip. They visited the
114-year-old St. Lawrence
Church, the oldest African Ameri-
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Death notice

Mr. Curtis Jerome Johnson, 63,
died Feb. 19 in Orlando, Florida.

He was formerly employed by
Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Miami
Beach, Florida.

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24, 2-9 pm, at Mitchell's Funeral
Home. Funeral services were held
Saturday, Feb. 25, at 10 a.m., at
Zion Hill Missionary Baptist
Church, Orlando, Florida.

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6 THE MIAMI TIMES

Thursday, March 2, 1995

Community Calendar

H North Dade Chamber of Com-
merce will have its breakfast meet-
ing at Joe Robbie Stadium, 2269
N.W. 199th St. (enter Gate G) this
Thursday, 7:30 a.m. R.S.V.P.
necessary; call 949-3355.

H Sen. Daryl Jones has sche-
duled a Town Hall Meeting to dis-
cuss constituent concerns, prob-
lems and suggestions on local and
state issues, Friday, 7 - 10 p.m., at
the Joseph Caleb Center, Meeting
Room, 5400 N.W. 22nd Ave.

B The New World School of the
Arts, Dance Division, will present
an “Evening of Ballet” Friday and
Saturday, 7:30 p.m., in the New
World Dance Theater, 25 N.E. 2nd
St., 8th floor. The performance is
free but donations will be accepted
for the Patricia Olalde Memorial
Scholarship Fund which will
award a four-year tuition granttoa
New World School of the Arts stu-
dent. A contribution of $10 dollars
or more will receive preferred sea-
ting. Call 237-3341 for
reservations.

HB Miami Jackson Class of 1970
will meet Sunday at the Joseph
Caleb Center, 5400 N.W. 22nd
Ave., 3rd floor conference room, 4
p.m. Contact Jannis Johnson Tay-
lor, 691-9910.

HB The Howard University Alum-

ni Association of Miami will meet
March 8, 6 p.m., Room 2106 (The
Red Room), Miami-Dade Com-
munity College, Wolfson Campus,
300 N.E. 2nd Ave. Call 444-5286
(after hours).

1985 will meet March 11 at Arcola
Lakes Park, 1301 N.W. 83rd St.
3:30 p.m.

HB The Florida Regional Minority
Council will present

free information about “Do's and
BW African American Military Don'ts to Enhance Your Credit”

Veterans will have “Muster”
March 9, 7:30 p.m., at Louis’ Fam-
ous Foods, 8309 N.W. 22nd Ave.
Contact 696-1035.

HB The Miami Chapter of Florida
Memorial College Alumni Asso-
ciation will meet 7 p.m. March 9 in
the William Lehman Auditorium,
on the main campus, 15800 N.W.
42nd Ave. Call Jan Phillips,
626-3657.

H Hunter College High School of
New York will hold a Florida reun-
ion March 11, noon, at La Quinta
Inn, 3701 North University Drive,
Coral Springs. Call (305) 978-9824
or (305) 920-7301.

HB Turner's Kindergarten is look-
ing for alumni, parents, former
employees and well wishers to cele-
brate its 50th anniversary with a
50th-year reunion. A meeting will
be held at the school, 7168 NW
16th Ave., March 11, 3 p.m. Con-
tact Mozell Roberts or Oswald Tur-
ner, 691-6772.

HW The Miami Central Class of

Caldonia

(March 2 - 8)

3-11-16-25-30

ARIES — March 21-April 19 —
You may be asked to reappraise
your values. Stick to your sense of
tried and true. Recent develop-
ments have no bearing on the
truth. :

1-4-16-22-30-46

TAURUS — April 20-May
20 — Do not be afraid to admit
your mistakes. Saying “I was
wrong,” takes courage; learn-
ing from them takes
intelligence.

2-10-17-29-33-41

GEMINI — May 21-June 20
— Take time to understand
your feelings. When you realize
your destiny, the rest will fall
into place.

5-11-27-39-43-48

CANCER — June 21-July
22 — Don't stay cooped up at
home this winter. Get out and
enjoy the company of others.
You have much to offer.

15-21-37-38-41-45

LEO — July 23-Aug. 22 —
Seek out those who share your
intellectual interests. Avoid
persons that tend to “use” you.
Indulge your fantasies.

9-14-21-26-38-40

VIRGO — Aug. 23-Sept. 22
— Show concern for one who is
“down and out.” Listen to his
point of view before voicing
your opinion. You may be
wrong.

1-8-10-20-33-42

LIBRA — Sept. 23-Oct. 22
— Your genius is recognized.
Whatever you plan will work;
your projects will all succeed.
You have the Midas touch.

12-18-20-30-44-45

SCORPIO — Oct. 23-Nov.
21 — Older person confides in
you. Do not be shocked at his
revelations. Remember that we
are all human.

7-13-25-32-36-40
SAGITTARIUS — Nov.
22-Dec. 21 — Love is right in
front of you. All you need do is
reach out and take hold of it.
Don't be upset by petty
jealousies.

7-17-23-35-38-46

CAPRICORN — Dec.
22-Jan. 19 — A busy schedule
has allowed few interruptions.
Take time out for “play.” head
for the gym, movies, library or
spa.

3-9-17-24-36-42

AQUARIUS — Jan. 20-Feb.
18 — Do not allow conflicts to
interfere with a long-standing
friendship. Differences of opin-
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Thursday, March 2, 1995

THE MIAMI TIMES

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(A weekly digest of the news
about race relations in America
compiled from dispatches by The
Associated Press.)

Alabama

# MONTGOMERY — A Black
Democrat said Alabama's new
Republican administration
showed its true feelings about
Blacks when it cut the number of
Black voter registrars by 75 per-
cent. “I don't see how Republicans
can keep talking about how more
Blacks ought to be in the Republi-
can Party and not the Democratic
Party and then they do this,” said
Jerome Gray, field director for the
Black Alabama Democratic
Conference.

Arkansas

HB BLYTHEVILLE — Black Ameri-
cans have made progress in Arkan-
sas, although things haven't
changed much politically, accord-
ing to the head of the Federal High-
way Administration. Marianna
native and former Arkansas High-
way Commission chairman Rod-!
ney Slater spoke Feb. 19 at the
Mississippi County Black Cultural
Association here.

California

HB SAN JOSE — The police chief's
office was looking for the writer of a
flier that suggests the department
is promoting non-Whites, women
and gays despite what the flier said
was their “ineptitude.” “It was an
unauthorized publication,” Lt.
Allen McCulloch said of the leaflet
distributed in the police locker
room. Called the “Outsider”, a play
on the department's “Insider”
newsletter, the flier targeted Chief
Lou Cobarruviaz's establishment
of a “protected classes” promo-
tions policy meant to diversify the
department's workforce.

Illinois

BH OAK PARK — A school mural
that depicts Blacks carrying
spears and wearing loincloths and
American Indians with feathers
and ponchos will be removed from
Hatch Elementary School. The
school board voted 7-0 last Wed-
nesday night that the mural
should be removed and stored
somewhere in this western Chica-
go suburb. Board members had
not decided when the mural would
be removed or where it would be
stored. The board planned to build
a curriculum around the
Depression-era mural to explain
why it is important in history.

Michigan

HB LANSING — A state investiga-
tion got under way into whether
race played a part in the hiring of a
coordinator of a jail services prog-
ram for three counties in northern
Michigan. The investigation came
on the heels of comments allegedly
made by Roscommon County
Sheriff Tom McKindles at a Feb. 9
hiring meeting to approve hiring
Detroit Police Sgt. Raymond Roar-
ty. “Is he White?” McKindles
asked. Told yes, McKindles was
quoted in the Ogemaw County Her-
ald as replying, “White is right.”

Ohio

BH COLUMBUS — The Union
County Young Democrats asked
for permission to clean upastretch
of highway denied to the Ku Klux
Klan. The Ohio Department of
Transportation denied the Knights
of the KKK Ohio Realm permission
to participate in the adopt-a-
highway program.

Oregon

HB GRANTS PASS — In its drive to
make the Pacific Northwest a
“homeland” for Whites, the supre-
macist group Aryan Nations
launched an Oregon recruiting
drive based in Josephine County. A
meeting of White supremacist
groups was scheduled for an

undisclosed location in Grants
Pass, the Grants Pass Daily Cour-
ier reported. “Our goal is to have a
strong organization of thousands
in Oregon. Not hundreds, but
thousands,” Tim Bishop, an Aryan
Nations official, said.

Pennsylvania

HB PHILADELPHIA — A cartoonist
says suburban Philadelphia high
school students misinterpreted a
drawing she intended to criticize
racist attitudes, not perpetuate
them. In the cartoon, published in
the Philadelphia Daily News by
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist
Signe Wilkinson, a pupil offers sev-
eral reasons for failing to turn in
homework, including “My dog ate
my homework.” The teacher
rejects all proposals, until the stu-
dent tells her, “A big Black man
stuck a gun in our car and
kidnapped my homework.”

HB YORK — A Penn State student
targeted in racial graffiti spray-
painted on campus is suspected of
writing the messages himself, pro-
secutors said. A state police hand-
writing expert compared the mes-
sages painted on the sidewalk out-
side the Penn State-York
administration building to Aaron
West's writing and found “strong
indicators of identity," according to
a petition filed by York County
prosecutors.

Wisconsin

HB MILWAUKEE — Complaints of
harassment and unequal treat-
ment of Black employees at Mil-
waukee area post offices prompted
areview by the U.S. Postal Service.
More than three dozen complaints
have been filed with Sen. Russell
Feingold, D-Wis., and the Milwau-
kee office of the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Col-
ored People, officials said. “We are
going to review the material and
see if there's any merit to the alle-
gations being made,” said Bruce
Gentile, program manager for the
U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

By JENNIFER S. JOHNSON
The Associated Press

CARLOCK, Ill. — Candi Ipsen
and her fellow blue-eyed third-
graders learned first-hand what
discrimination is all about as part
of a Black History Month exercise.

When they got to school recen-
tly, teachers Fran Brandau and
Peg Parmley told their classes that
some students would no longer be
treated as equals. The brown-eyed
students are smarter, more trust-
worthy and more civilized, they
were told.

The experiment incorporated
separate drinking fountains and
bathrooms. Blue-eyed students
sat in the back of the classroom
and were alternately ignored,

berated and not allowed to play
with their brown-eyed friends.
They also were given yellow yokes
to wear.

“At first it was ‘Yahoo!’ time but
they're not happy little campers
now,” said Principal Libby Burns,
who oversaw the experiment.

Privileges were to be reversed
the following day but no one looked
forward to continuing the experi-
ment, especially the teachers.

“I'm very shaken by today. I
wanted them to have the opportun-
ity to experience this firsthand but
I didn't realize how upset I would
be,” Brandau said.

The teachers took it upon them-
selves to accentuate divisions
whenever they could.

Prosecutors asked to drop
charges against Sbazazz

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Members
of the Twin Cities Black communi-
ty called for conspiracy charges to
be dropped against the daughter of
Malcolm X.

Men from secular and religious
groups, including the local Nation
of Islam representative James
Muhammad, delivered their mes-
sage to the U.S. Attorney's office in
Minneapolis.

Qubilah Shabazz, 34, is facing
federal charges that she tried to
hire a hit man to kill Louis Farrak-
han, leader of the Chicago-based
Nation of Islam, last year. Farrak-
han has denied widespread
rumors that he had a hand in the
slaying of Shabazz's father, Mal-
colm X, in 1965.

The statement, read by the Rev.
Devin Miller of the Missionary Bap-
tist Church, accused the govern-
ment of trying to divide the black
community against itself.

“I stand here today strongly urg-
ing that the charges against our
sister, Sister Shabazz, be dropped
and that she be allowed to live her
life as the creator will see fit for her
to live it,” Miller said.

He also called on the govern-
ment to stop “trying to stir up
something that just is not true and
only causes confusion in the minds
and manipulates the emotions of
our young African brothers and
sisters.”

Thorwald Anderson, head of the
criminal division of the U.S. Attor-

Gangs enter Chicago politics

CHICAGO (AP) — Alderman
candidate Wallace “Gator” Bradley
has a unique slant on the gang
crime that has sent Chicago's
homicide rate soaring and buried
some neighborhoods under drugs.

As he freely admits, he was once
a leader of Chicago's biggest street
gang, the Gangsters Disciples,
blamed by police for hundreds of
street-corner shootings and a big
share of the drug trade.

“I have no problem being part of
the gang,” the convicted burglar
and armed robber said between
hugs and well-wishers as he
schmoozed through City Hall. “I
belong to the Democratic Party —
that's a gang. Churches I've joined
— that's a gang.”

The winner in the non-partisan
primary in Bradley's ward on Feb.
28 is more likely to be one of the two
other candidates — incumbent
Dorothy Tillman or former alder-
man Tyrone Kenner.

Even so, Bradley's candidacy
cannot be written off as mere oddi-
ty. In Chicago, where street gangs
are everywhere and corruption
often seems tobe a spectator sport,
Bradley is the most prominent
example of a growing movement.

Current and former Gangster
Disciples, from teen-agers to old
hands with long prison records,
are climbing into the political are-
na, registering voters and passing
out campaign leaflets They claim to
be blazing a trail toward Black
empowerment and saving young
people from falling prey to drugs
and guns. They have won allies at
City Hall and the Statehouse.

But gang experts warn that the
movement likely represents a
renewed effort by gang leaders to

carve out a share of the political
spoils for themselves.

“You wouldn't choose an arson-
ist to head your fire-prevéntion
committee. Why choose people
associated with drugs and violence
as your political leaders?” asked
Chicago State University gang
authority George Knox.

While Bradley has gained the
most attention, the core of the
movement that he is part of is a
two-year-old group called 21st
Century V.O.T.E. (Voices of Total
Empowerment).

The group is highly secretive
about its affairs but its leaders are
infuriated by claims that they are
nothing more than a gang front.

Blacks, Whites
differ on O.J.

NEW YORK (AP) — The racial
split over whether O.J. Simpson is
guilty appears to be growing,
according to a Harris Poll
published.

The poll last week said 68 per-
cent of Blacks think he’s innocent,
while 61 percent of Whites believe
he killed his ex-wife and her friend.

Overall, poll respondents
believed Simpson guilty by a 2-1
ratio, or 53 percent to 26 percent.
That was virtually unchanged from
Harris Polls in September and
November.

But the racial rift widened: Only
eight percent of Blacks thought he
was guilty, down from 15 percent
in November.

The poll of 1,250 adults was
taken by phone Feb. 6-9 during the
first full week of testimony.

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ment and told the delegation the
department welcomes their inter-
est in law enforcement activities.

Anderson said his office hopes
to sit down with Black leaders and
“bat this around” some time after
the case is closed.

Brandau asked the brown-eyed
children to vote on which group
should receive cookies for a snack
and which group should get carrot
sticks. The children magnanim-
ously opted to give the cookies to
the blue-eyed group.

“This just goes to show me over
and over again what superior peo-
ple the brown eyes really are,”
Brandau said. “And because you
showed such compassion, it's only
fair that the brown-eyed people
should have the chocolate-chip
cookies.”

The experiment was patterned
after one first done in 1968 with a
group of third-graders. The results
then were immediate and shock-
ing, with the brown-eyed children

Kids get first-hand lesson on racial bigotry

taking part in the prejudice.

The brown-eyed Carlock stu-

dents madeit clear they did not like
their friends being singled out.

“It seems to occupy all their

thoughts to the point where they
cannot work,” Parmley said.

Alex Idleman, a blue-eyed stu-

dent, said he wished his eyes
weren't blue, but that he under-
stood the lesson involved.

“We're supposed to feel like it's

30 or 40 years ago with Blacks and
Whites,” he said.

The classes were emancipated
late in the day and asked to record
how they felt in their journals. For
some, taking their yokes off
brought the first smiles of the day.

Court rejects vote appeal

By LAURIE ASSEO
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme
Court has let stand a ruling that
said a Maryland county's at-large
method of electing commissioners
violated Black voters’ rights.

The court, without comment,
turned down Worcester County
officials’ argument that the plan
did not violate the federal Voting
Rights Act.

Voters in Worcester County on
Maryland's southeastern shore
have never elected a Black person
to county office. All five members of
the county Board of Commission-
ers are elected at-large.

Four members had tolive in spe-
cial “residency districts," while the
fifth could live anywhere. Starting
in 1993, all five must live in resi-
dency districts.

A group of Black voters, the
NAACP and the Worcester County
Voting Rights Coalition sued the

county in federal court in 1992,
saying the election system illegally
diluted Black voting strength.

A federal judge ruled for the vot-
ers, saying the county's Black
population is large enough and
geographically compact enough to
form a majority in a single-member
district. The judge also said Black
voters were politically cohesive and
there was enough White-bloc vot-
ing to defeat Black candidates.

The judge turned down a prop-
osal to create separate voting dis-
tricts, instead adopting a “cumula-
tive” voting plan in which all five
members would run at-large. Each

voter could cast five votes, dividing
them among candidates or giving
all to one candidate.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals upheld the finding that

the Worcester County election sys-
tem violated the Voting Rights Act
but ordered the judge to restudy
the remedy.

Ferguson guilty in shooting

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Colin Fer-
guson was convicted Friday night
of murdering six passengers on a
Long Island Rail Road commuter
train, ending a trial in which he
refused an insanity plea and then
offered a bizarre defense as his own

lawyer.

He said he would appeal the
verdict.

The jury deliberated for more
than 10 hours before returning its
verdict in a courtroom packed with
survivors of the attack and families

of the slain victims. Even Ferguson
who defended himself in a case
widely regarded as bizarre antici-
pated the guilty verdict; only the
length of the deliberations sur-
prised him.

In addition to murder, he was
convicted on 22 counts of
attempted murder, weapons pos-
session and reckless endanger-
ment. However, he was acquitted
of 25 counts of civil-rights viola-
tions charging he targeted the
shooting victims because of their
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WORLD

Zimbabwe-type affirmative action
failing to boost Black businesses

By JULIUS ZAVA
Gemini News Service

HARARE, Zimbabwe — The con-
tinued dominance of White-run
businesses in Zimbabwe has
become a controversial issue in the
forthcoming election.

President Robert Mugabe's rul-
ing party is almost certain to be
returned to power but the cam-
paign has provided a focus for peo-
ple discontented with the influence
of the country's 100,000 Whites.

Legislation has been introduced
to give the government power to
buy up White-owned agricultural
land, which will help head off some
of the grievances about the way
Whites still dominate commercial
farming 15 years after
independence.

So, some of the attention has
shifted to business, where Blacks
own only 10 percent of key sectors.
The rest is controlled by the people
of European descent, who ruled
the country they called Rhodesia
until majority rule was won in
1980, and by foreign-owned com-
panies, particularly transnational
corporations.

For nearly a century, Blacks
have been discriminated against
by banks and other businesses. To
help rectify the imbalance, in 1991
Mugabe set up the Indigenous
Business Development Center
(IBDC), with the ambitious objec-
tive of transferring about 70 per-
cent of the economy to Blacks with-
in a decade. But its performance
has been marred by an internal
power struggle which has neutral-
ized its work for the last two years.

Two executives are claiming to
be the rightful governing body and
two men — Frank Lupafya and Ben
Mucheche — are both claiming to
be the properly elected president.

The organization's director-
general, Mercy Zinyama, recently
resigned and it lost a $25 million
grant for the Norwegian Interna-
tional Aid Organization which felt
its money would not be used wisely
by the “squabbling IBDC
leadership.”

The affair is an embarrassment
to Mugabe, who has said that the
organization would not achieve
much as long as it was divided but
pledged to continue supporting
indigenous businesses. There are
an estimated 800,000 small-scale
enterprises, such as shops, legal
firms and consultancies, small
mines, export-import ventures
and transport operations.

Mugabe has also expressed dis-
appointment that the govern-
ment's affirmative action is not
being taken seriously by Black
businessmen.

“Some of them, when they get a
government loan, the first thing
they do with the money is to go fora
Hyundai or whatever,” he said.
“This has happened and we do not
accept that kind of irresponsible
behavior.”

Last September, with an eye on
the election due when the govern-
ment’s five-year term expires next
month, Mugabe appointed a five-
member ministerial committee to
“work out a comprehensive indige-
nization program.”

Disillusioned with the IBDC,
some business-minded Zimbab-
weans have already taken action of
their own. An Affirmative Action
Group, a United Indigenous Pres-
sure Group and an Indigenous
Business Women's Organization
have been set up.

They all aim to rectify the imba-
lances caused by institutionalized
racism and to speed up indigeniza-
tion. And they put particular
blame on White-controlled banks
for ‘discriminating against their
loan applications.

The banks, supported by the
powerful Confederation of Zimbab-

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Blacks are faced
with entrenched
racial discrimina-
tion in their efforts
to secure loans and
other financing
from banks.

we Industries, the Commerical
Farmers Union and the Chamber
of Mines, argue that small busines-
ses present a high level of risk
because of poor management and
lack of capital, which makes it diffi-
cult for them to pay back loans.

Banks also point out that they
have set up small-scale lending
bureaus and appointed Black
managers to run their branches.
Critics, including the IBDC, say
the African managers have no
decision-making powers and that
the bureaus are under-staffed,
under-financed, poorly managed,
offer only small amounts of money
and are essentially a ploy to avoid
dealing with real Black demands.

The rift between banks and
Black businesses widened when a
$100 million government credit
facility for IBDC members was con-
verted by banks to cover IBDC
members’ outstanding loans and

overdrafts.

Former IBDC president Chemist
Siziba has pressed for the estab-
lishment of indigenous finance
houses and a prominent business-
man has now set up the United
Merchant Bank of Zimbabwe, with
a share capital of $20 million, to
cater for Blacks.

However, Ariston Chambati,
chief executive of the government-
owned conglomerate T.A. Hold-
ings, and the man tipped to
become the next finance minister,
says it is not loans which indigeni-
zation needs but equity capital.

The government offers credit
facilities and equity funds to
Blacks through organizations
such as the Small-Scale Develop-
ment Corporations, Zimbabwe
Development Bank and the Ven-
ture Capital Company of
Zimbabwe.

But Black businesses say the
measures are not enough and are
lobbying for more concession from
the government and for the aboli-
tion of monopolies which restrict
market accessibility.

Mindful of the government's
desire for foreign investment and
need to be seen by the World Bank
and International Monetary Fund,
as running an open economy, they
argue that foreign companies set-
ting up joint ventures with local
Black entrepreneurs would also
benefit from the concessions, thus
promoting investment.

Chemist Siziba emphasizes that
successful indigenization would be
“a dependable barometer for
attracting foreign investment. For
investment can only be encour-
aged by renewed indigenous
investment.”

In addition, IBDC wants the gov-
ernment to give Blacks priority
when selling its shares in the pri-
vate sector and when privatizing
public sector enterprises such as
railways, energy, telecommunica-
tions, agricultual marketing, min-
eral marketing, steel and car
production.

The problem is that few Black
businesses have the funds and
expertise to buy and manage these
enterprises, which are thus likely
to be brought up by local White
businesses and by the big foreign
companies.

Caribbean optimistic over trade preference

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP)
— Trinidad and Tobago’s ambas-
sador to the United States said she
feels optimistic about a proposed
bill to enhance U.S. trade prefer-
ences for Caribbean-made pro-
ducts.

Ambassador Corine McKnight
said Trinidad's Finance Minister
Wendell Motlley made a “favorable
impression” on Capitol Hill during
a hearing on the matter Feb. 10,
when the House Trade Subcom-
mittee of the Ways and Means
Committee began hearingsto draft
a bill increasing the list of 6,000
products given duty-free access
into the U.S. market under the
decade-old Caribbean Basin Ini-
tiative.

Motlley urged lawmakers to
expand that list to include key pet-
roleum and petroleum products,
textiles, garments, parts for watch-
es, tuna and footwear.

“Those are of special interest to
the Commonwealth Caribbean,”
McKnight told Associated Press in
a telephone interview from
Washington.

The present legislative bill,

according to McKnight, differs
from the Interim Trade Agreement

the Clinton Administration failed
to get past the last session of Con-
gress. The ITA sought to expand
the CBI list to include textiles but
excluded everything else, she said.

“This bill gives us access to the
American market on identical con-
ditions as Mexico for petroleum
and petroleum products,” she
said.

But the Clinton administration
is not fully supportive of the prop-
osed bill and wants to attach cer-
tain conditions in exchange for an
expanded market access,
McKnight said. Congress wants
Caribbean beneficiaries to sign
treaties, prohibiting the unauthor-
ized use of goods or services with
U.S. patents and to be members of
the World Trade Organization.

They also want beneficiaries to
open up their markets to U.S. tex-
tiles, a provision that would hurt
the fragile Caribbean economies.

The legislative measure, accord-
ing to McKnight, won't stop Trini-

dad from seeking membership into .

the North American Free Trade

Association (NAFTA), the free trade
bloc formed by Canada, the United
States and Mexico.

“We will still proceed to NAFTA

for the simple reason that this bill
allows for NAFTA parity for a maxi-
mum of 6 years during which the
beneficiaries would seek and be
granted access to NAFTA," said the
ambassador.

Workers spared
further pay cuts

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP)
— Public employees whose salaries
were slashed by eight percent in
1991 as part of government auster-
ity measures won't face any more
pay cuts, under a constitutional
amendment aj proved by the
parliament.

After two days of heated debate,
the House of Assembly voted 20-6
Feb. 8 to amend the constitution to
protect the salaries of the more
than 20,000 government workers
from cuts.

The amendment fulfilled a cam-
paign promise made by Prime
Minister Owen Arthur, who took
office last September.

His predecessor, Erskine Sandi-
ford, was forced to call elections
two years early after he lost a no-
confidence motion in Parliament.

Campaign to end slavery picks up
growing support in U.S. Congress

By WILLIAM REED
NNPA Feature

During Black History Month, as
many African-Americans spend
time discussing their continuing
status as second-class citizens in
this country, a small band of peo-
ple are trying to show Americans,
and their Congress, that Blacks’
being held in slavery isn't just
“history.”

Responding to the small, but
vocal, group proposing that the
U.S. help abolish the African slave
trade system, Eleanor Holmes Nor-
ton, Congressional Delegate from
Washignton, D.C., joined with
Congressman Frank Torricelli
(D-NJ) and Barney Frank (D-
Mass.) in sponsoring House Resol-
ution #49 requiring the U.S. to act
against nations where slavery is
still being practiced.

A member of the Congressional
Black Caucus (CBC), Norton is the
first Black lawmaker to speak out
against the modern-day practice of
human bondage. She says, “Our
own history commands that the
U.S. led the way to the worldwide
eradication of slavery.” Citing the
economic stronghold that America
has over most nations of the world,
Norton has also stated, “The U.S. is
in a strong position to work with
other nations to completely elimi-
nate slavery before the year 2000."
Congressman Frank, who is White,
originally brought the resolution to
the House in October but it died
with the close of the 103rd Con-
gressional session. He re-
introduced the resolution on Feb.
1.

Frank was motivated by reports
from the American Anti-Slavery
Group (AASG), an organization of
African and American researchers
which documents and publicizes
modern day slavery. AASG’s news-
letter, “The Anti-Slavery Report,”
explains that, despite the “prog-
ress” of Blacks in America and
South Africa, human bondage is
still with us and currently takes
may forms around the globe.

HB In the Dominican Republic,
Blacks are brought from Haiti and
forced into hard labor cutting
sugar cane.

HB In Asia, girls are sold into
brothels.

BH In India, children are shackled
to looms and forced to weave orien-
tal carpets.

HM In Brazil, men are still being
forced at gun-point to labor in
forests.

But, according to Mohamed
Athie, AASG's executive director,
“To find ‘classical’ chattel slavery,
where people are bought, sold,
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turn to North Africa, where an Arab
Islamic civilization dominates
Black Africans and where slavery
has sometimes been a result.”

In July, 1994, Athie, a former
diplomat from Mauritania, and Dr.
Charles Jacobs, AASG's research
director, published a report in the
New York Times on modern-day
slavery in North Africa, describing
how Sudanese Arabs capture and
sell African women and children —
some foraslittleas $15 —as part of
the Arab vs. African civil war. They
also detailed how Arab-Berbers in
Mauritania continue to enslave
their Black countrymen.

The Sudanese slaves, they
report, are Christians or animists
(those who attribute spirit or soul
to inanimate things), while Mauri-
tiania’s Black slaves are Muslims.
(Athie is himself a Muslim.) In a
responding letter to The Times, the

Embassy of the Sudan denied
AASG's charge but well-respected
human rights groups — Africa
Watch and London Anti-Slavery
international — confirm AASG's
story. Also, a special UN observer
returned from the Sudan last
March to report the existence of
modern-day slave markets.
Athie, an Afrian with a long
record of courting African Ameri-
cans and the Black press, was the
keynote speaker at Martin Luther
King Day at the University of Chi-
cago. He beamed as he told the
audience that Norton was joining

. his group's anti-slavery effort.

“We now have our first African
American leader. As an African, I
am overjoyed,” he said during the
speech.

He told the audience that Black
Americans were the natural and
obvious people to lead the fight.

“American Blacks led on apar-
theid; we must not lag on slavery,”
he said.

“Slavery has been a nearly taboo
subject in the Western media,”
said Jacobs. “The facts have been
relatively easy to document; get-
ting the story out and followed up
on by the media has been our
toughest struggle.”

Frank called AASG's persis-
tence “in the face of indifference,
admirable.”

Comments about modern slav-
ery in America’s Black press
prompted Torricelli to co-sponsor
the resolution and call for Congres-
sional hearings on the matter. In
November, PBS's “Tony Brown's
Journal” broadcast an interview
with Athie and Jacobs, who
explained the slave trade and
showed photos of slaves. Audience
response was such that the show
re-aired in January and Athie and
Jacobs have been on talk radio
around the country, urging grass-
roots action.

Jacobs said, “In the past, Black
History Month celebrated and sor-
rowed over the suffering of every
group of Black victims throughout
history, with one glaring exception:
modern-day Black slaves. We hope
to give them a voice.”

w Copies of AASG's “Report” are
available for $2 by sending a self-
addressed, stamped envelope to:
P.O. Box 441612, Somerville, MA
02144, phone (617) 278-4324.

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