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By James Hargrove
Special To The Peat
While stressing issues of health
and well-being, there are a number
■'j of anti-smoking ordinances being
pushed in many parts of the country
that will generally impact more
heavily and negatively on minorities
and the poor than on other Ameri
caoi
History has shown that these
nuisance laws are very hard to
enforce and that they also take
police officers away from other
police duties.
In addition, since they require
“selective” enforcement, that is the
enforcement against a certain group
of people - wankers in this instance
- these laws also tend to generate
iwanNct for the police, i*
I am compelled to speak out on
tbe*e matters as a 20 year veteran of
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ment, a former President of the
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Guardians Association and a former
Chairperson of the National Black
Police Association.
Some of the most dramatic proof
of the harm done by anti-smoking
laws has come out of the experiences
of the highly publicized and subse
quently discredited "Smokers’
Court” in Chicago.
While this court had ostensibly
been set up to protect the general
public by preventing riders on public
conveyances from smoking, the po
lice actually used the court as a
pretext to make countless searches
of citizens and to arrest persons they
called “suspects” for a variety of
crimes.
A survey of arrests during a one
month period showed that Blacks
made up more than 90 percent of the
persons arrested and brought before
,the Smokers’ Court. The--a**?.-,
showed that tte 279 persons
arrested for smoking, 255 were
Black, 12 were white, 7 Latin Ameri
cans and 5 were listed as "others.”
I refuse to believe that only Blacks
broke the law by smoking on public
conveyances in Chicago.
The truth is obvious. It was
mostly Blacks who were arrested
and brought before the Judge.
A Chicago-baaed NAACP leader,
Frank J. Williams, said at the time
that the analysis of the arrests
showed there is “a lot of validity to
the charge that Macks are picked on
more by the police” when such a law
exists.
And a Minneapolis newspaper
columnist, Will Jones wrote: “the
suspicion is strong that Chicago’s
Smokers’ Court has absolutely no
thing to do with promoting clean
public air. The enforcement cam
paign does provide the Law and
Order boys, however, with a good
excuse to arrest a suspect an an
innocent smoking charge and then
conduct a search for drugs, wea
pons, stolen goods, or whatever.”
While the Smokers’ Court, as such,
has been abandoned, the problem* it
dramatized are still with us and they
have grown in seriousness
Gewana Heath
...“Beauty of the Week”
Lrewana Heath Is A Very
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Interesting Young Lady
By Jalyne Strong
Poet Staff Writer
Gewana Heath is a Valentine’s
baby. She turns 13 today.
She says she may have a party but
she has yet to decide what she’d like
to receive for her birthday. “I’m
happy with what I have,’’ Gewana
admits. “If I didn’t get anything it
wouldn’t matter. But I know they’re
(her parents) are going to get me
something.”
If Gewana does have a party, the
music played will probably be
Prince. She claims, “Prince is my
favorite recording star. He’s origi
nal and has his own style. I like his
music.”
A few people who attend the party
may be members of Hawthorne
Traditional Junior High’s girls bas
ketball team. Gewana began play
ing ball with them this year. She is
also planning to run track in the
Spring.
If there is no party. Gewana may
spend her day running, or going to
the movies, or reading mystery
novels, or talking on the phone to her
friends. These are her favorite
activities. “My conversations are
interesting,” claims Gewana, when
asked why she "loves” to talk on the
See GEWANA On Page 4A
Black Press
Showing Strong
Upward Surge!
By Henry Duvall
Special To The Post
Maybe it can be attributed to the
information age. Maybe it’s better
management and production.
Today’s Black press is growing,
with newspapers numbering more
than 320 and circulation six million
in the nation, according to Dr.
James Tinney, a journalism profes
sor at Howard University’s School of
Communications.
In a five-year study of Black
newspapers, Tinney has. identified
double the industry estimate of some
160 such newspapers.
“There has been ‘a constant,
gradual upswing,’ ” he says discoun
ting the general notion that Black
press circulation has fallen off since
its heyday in the '40s.
Some papers have experienced a
marked increase In circulation and
readership during the last two
years, says Steve Davis, executive
director of the National Newspaper
Publishers Assn., with a member
ship of about 138 Black papers. He
points to the Philadelphia Tribune,
Cleveland Call and Post and the
Westside Gazette in Fort Lauder
dale, Fla., to name a few.
Greater Black interest in events of
the day may account in part for
the increase, he notes. “There is a
feeling of getting a complete story
from a Black perspective,” he ex
plained.
Moreover, Davis says generally
the quality of the product has
improved, national advertising is up
and “smart” management tech
niques are being applied.
Tinney found in his study, yet
to be published, trends that may
explain the surge in national adver
tising and overall growth.
A number of Black newspapers
today are relying on advertising
representatives “who serve as a
conduit” to major corporations The
representatives can guarantee that
an ad will run in several Black
papers rather than one, reaching a
large audience. Tinney notes that
At Predominately Black Colleges
“Good Black Faculty” Hard To Come By
By Jalyne Strong
Pori Staff Writer
Dr. Robert Albright, Preeidoot of
Johnson C. Smith University, saw it
coming.^ Dr. William Green,
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enough pool of faculty available We
get what we need. Though it to
difficult."
Dr. Green doee concede, "It la
especially hard to get qualified
black faculty in the fields of
computer science, mathematics and
science. They go into private
Industry. It pays more. The key,"
Dr. Green deduced, "is finding and
producing people with a commit
ment to higher education " s „
Dr. Albright’s solution appears
more direct than Greeb’s He has in
fact begun to work from within his
university to produce what is
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necessary. "The problem has been
recognized," says Albright. "We’ve
begun to face the marketplace
realities. Thanks to the support of
our board of Trustees, we have
begun to offer competitive salaries in
such departmentsas computer sci
ence, business and communication
arts.
"Soon we will be moving along to
provide research facilities for facul
ty and students. This will be done
through the addition of resources
to our library.” Albright points out
that Smith has acquired research
grants to aid its students such at the
NBRS and MARK. "The students
who participate in these research
programs, we’ve found, go on to do
extremely well,” he assures.
Dr. Albright has been actively
involved in securing grants to up
grade the status of J.C.S.U., specifi
cally in the field of computer sci
ence. "Proposals have been made to
major foundations for computers.
We’ve made the commitment to
become computer literate. We’d
like to supply each Individual faculty
member with their own personal
computer M
. Besides elevating the reputation of
the college through research facili
ties and computerization, thereby
increasing their chances of attract
ing qualified faculty, Albright Is
intent on siding the university’s
See BLACK FACULTY On Page MA
the corporations probably prefer
doing business this way and the
papers benefit from not having to
carry large sales and advertising
staffs.
Another trend is the advent of the
magazine supplement to serve as a
medium for national advertising.
Black magazine inserts, many of
which are entertainment oriented,
are “really proliferating,” he says.
Dawn Magazine, published by the
Afro-American Newspapers and dis
tributed to some 40 Black papers, is
an example of an insert that carries
national advertising, he points out.
Still another trend is an increase
m newspaper chains or groups. A
number of papers are publishing
separate editons for more than one
city within their respective states,
such as Hartford Inquirer (four
Connecticut papers), Sacrernento
Observer (three California papers)
and the Baton Rouge Community
Leader (five Louisiana papers).
Tinney has also found Black
owned bilingual papers in Texas,
California, Florida and New York.
“I think this is real positive,” he
says, regarding the formulation of
linkages between Blacks and other
ethnic groups.
Today, Black papers can be
See BI.ACK PRESS On Page 13A
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Jim Martin
. .Crime fighter
Gov. Jim Martin:
“Keep Crime On
The Decline”
RALEIGH-*‘Keep crime on the
Decline*' is the theme of this year’s
Crime Prevention Week. Governor
James G. Martin has proclaimed the
week of February 10-16 as National
Crime Prevention Week in North
Carolina.
The Exchange Clubs of North
Carolina and the Crime Prevention
Division of the N.C. Department of
Crime Control and Public Safety are
co-sponsors of this year's week of
activities.
Governor Martin encourages civic
groups, fraternal organizations and
citizens to actively -involve them
selves with lav enforcement offi
cials to prevent crime. He says,
“law enforcement needs the assis
tance of citizens to keep crime on (be
decline.1’
Crime Is down in North Carolina
by almost 7 percent. National and
state authorities attribute this de
cline to citizen Involvement. Tbero
are now 15,600 community watch
groups in the state.
The Governor says, "Community
Watch has proven to be one of the
most simple and yet effective ways
to fight crime Wherever tMs
program la organized, yon 866 • >
decrease in property crimes, espe
eiaDy bvr^aMee.”