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Moves To Motown Doris Massey Leaves ABC Records By Jacquie Levister Post Staff Writer One man's loss is another's gain. Such is the case with the move by ABC Records promo ter Doris "Kitt" Massey to Motown. "ABC, a big conglomerate, like all big businesses has its bottom scale; promotions is it," the vivacious Ms Massey stated. "There are several reasons for my move to Mo town. The most important I would say is the fact that Motown is both smaller and black owned and operated," she continued. A career minded individual, Ms. Massey feels that in the environs of a smaller compa ny she has a greater chance for advancement. A very im portant immediate result, a chuckling Ms. Massey added, "is of course the money." "I must admit that I enjoyed working with ABC and did very well with them. (She has received several gold albums, denoting her contribution through promotion to an al bums' success.) However, O tis Smith, my former boss at ABC who was a Vice President with the company, moved to Motown. When he needed a promoter he called and asked if I were interested in a move. Because of personal changes at ABC and the aforemention ed reasons I jumped at the chance to join him at Mo town," she volunteered. As a promoter for Motown records, Ms. Massey will be promoting the recordings of such stars as Stevie Wonder, (her personal favorite), Mar vin Gaye, High Inergy, (a new group recording witn uie com pany) Diana Ross, Thelma Houston and, of course, the high flying Commodores. Included in her responsibi lities is the coverage of both North and South Carolina ( promoting artists on the com pany label), frequent trips to Atlanta, Miami or other East coast cities where Motown artists may be appearing or meeting with the press. Ms. Massey's career as a promoter began nine years ago as a stock clerk with southeastern record distribu tors. There she was introduc ed to the idea of sales and returns of products but re ceived no actual sales experi ence. From there she moved to a local radio station where she had contact with promo ters servicing that station. She applied with ABC and was hired. A very personable Ms. Mas sey advised, "I don't recom mend promotions to anyone unless they are willing to put in a lot of hard work and long hours. Those who do try it should know the moet import ant thing is to establish them selves with the various per sonalities without trying to become friends or con anyone into buying their products." Doris "Kitt" (a name of enearment bestowed by a fri end) Massey, a Charlotte na tive, lives in Hidden Valley with her 11 year old son "Bill." Unlike some career women, she anticipates giving up the career world (maybe after the next five years) and becoming a "wife" and mo ther. A licensed real estate broker, "Kitt" is maintaining options for whatever the fu ture may hold. Could be that the record industry loes will be one man's gain. In the interim, Motown has gained themselves a win ner. MS. DORIS "ΚΓΓ" MASSEY -A Career Minded Invidivual /iDout lour Health "Marijuana To Combat Glaucoma" uj iuiici^ii π. ojriiulll, O.D., M.P.H., F.Α.Α.Ο An accidental discovery du ring research into the effects of smoking marijuana sug gests that pot may be effective in treating glaucoma, a major cause of blindness, research ers say. The ultimate problem will be to develop a nonintoxicat _ ing derivative for use as regu lar medication in treating gla ucoma-an eye disease cha racterized by excessive fluid pressure in the eyeball, ac cording to Dr. Ira M. Frank, an assistant professor of psy chiatry at UCLA. "We Can't have people walking the streets high be cause of their glaucoma medi cine," explained Dr. Stephen Szara, a collaborator with Frank. Szara, a National Institute of Mental Health researcher, addressed the Internation Congress of Pharmacology re cently. Marijuana's effect in reduc ing pressure levels within the eye was discovered last Nov ember during a UCLA study on how marijuana smoking affected driving ability. Advertisements in the Daily Bruin, UCLA campus news paper, attracted a flood of volunteers for the pot smoking tests, Frank said. The study was carried out with 30 healthy subjects, aged ζι ίο η, who were selected after a strict psychological and medical screening pro cess. Frank said the test results demonstrated that marijuana smoking did not affect visual clearness, color and depth perception, or peripheral vi sion. . During the intensive eye effects testing, a UCLA op thalmologist, Dr. Robert S. Hepler, determined that mari juana significantly reduced intraocular - internal eye - pressures. The normal pressure ranges from 10 to 20 millimeters of mercury. In the test group, the average pressure after mari juana smoking dropped from 14.3 to 9.2. Hepler followed up with a marijuana test on a patient with severe glaucoma and peak pressure level of 56. The 42-year-old woman puf fed her marijuana after stan dard eye drop durgs had low ered the pressure level to 20. An hour later the pressure reading was 17. "Preliminary evidence from one glaucoma patient suggests that pathologically increased intraocular pres sures can be reduced to nor mal levels for a few hours by the administration of mari juana, Szara said in a paper on the project. UNCLAIMED FURS FROM STORAGE BEING SOLD "Over 200 New & Used Fur» To Choos· Froml" W· Accipt Mutif Charg·. Bank Aatriurtf or AmmIcw Eqrm #· ■*'·' ■" Small Deposit Holds Your Layaway • TRADE-INS ACCEPTEDI Here is the story of these furs: Furriers from time to time get "stuck" with furs unclaimed from storage, pre-owned like-new fur stoles, jackets, collars, bubbles, scarves, & full length coats. These valuable furs are on sale by Ascott Furrier and are aug mented with brand NEW furs, all at tremendous savings and luxury trade-ins that look like NEW but must be labeled "second-hand used." Imagine buying a pre owned fur stole for only $69 or a line couturier MINK STOLE for just S139! Imagine beautiful LIKE-NEW full length MINK COATS for just $399. Expensive furs, yes, but now yours at ridiculous prices. It makes good sense to buy a Tine used fur. Dollar for dollar you get a better buy for your money. So if you want to buy a good $69 and up bargain in a fur, if you want to spend nun dreds of dollars instead of thousands for the very finest MINK, better come early. In addition, you'll find a large selection of NEW one-of-a-kind furs from regular stock. FUR COATS, JACKETS, STOLES and SCARVES will go at low, low prices. No interest or carrying charges on the LAW AWAY PLAN we have for you. A small down payment will hold any item SNOW WHITE CLEANERS due to limited plant space sale will be held at SHERATON CENTER 555 South McDowell Street Off Independence Blvd., Charlotte <3®oùû@ Wds8o1 IW78oGd He's Waiting For You In Try on Mall's Santa Village With A Special Treat For All The Boys A Girlsl Κ1<ΣΝ7@ tf&SC? \}Λ:,νθΊ> ûefc(âOu êcmjOsfi Sunday 2 to S p.m. Thursday - Saturday 4 to 9 p.m. , %Es... —^ Just around the corner... TKYON MALL t Sugar Creek &! North Tryon J The Raw Facts Blacks And The Energy Crisis By Mark Hyman Mark Hyman Associates, Inc. Note: The National Energy Bill has passed the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in two opposite versions. A conference com mittee is planned. The National Energy Act as proposed by the Congress flu nks the test of workability. In the first place, the House sponsors of the bill do not know how much it will cost consumers as taxpayers and as users of electricity. Also, to complicate matters, the U.S. Government proposes to get into the retail electric rate regulation business for the first time when there are already 280 energy bills on the books in the states as recent as last year. Today, 31 states are studying rates with some plan for energy conservation. Yet, Washington, with abeo m itjm τ— proposes to regulate rates. To do this will cost the taxpayers millions of dollars to finance a new federal regulatory agen cy. A study by the Tennessee Valley Authority has proved that the bill would bring about an "increase" in poor people's bills rather than a decrease.. but would reduce the bills of the well-to-do. The bill's Ume-of-day rates would demand that new elec tric meters be installed at $120 each. Multiply this by 75 , million meters now in use and the sum of nine billion would be passed on to the consumer, or the customers. The auto matic fuel adjustment clause would be banned by the Gov ernment. This means that uti lities would have to borrow money during this long burea ucratic process propoeed and the customers would pay the inter—t cfaarg—. Mainly the bill does nothing to increase energy supplies and resources. It does nothing to help conservation. However, all is not lost for tiie poor and the black. The President's office, the Con gress are both responsive to the letters and the voices of the people back home. Espe cially if the voices are loud and the letters come by the hundreds. Enough voices can amend the bill and change it to favor the poor and those on fixed income. Enough letters will melt the red tape so that additional electric plants can be built to supply the great energy demand of the very near future. The people, thousands of them, can ex plain to congress and the President that: 1. The impact of the energy shortage on the poor must be softened. The freezing this winter and starvation of people in the inner city this winter must be averted. 3. 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