-THE GABOUNA HMEB SATURDAY, JULY Mw IM 4B Wives React: 'lt's Fantastic!' EL LAGO, Tex. (UPI - "It's fantastic ... and I'm lust as excited as you all •re!" It was an ecstatic, smiling and visibly relieved net Armstrong who faced ISO newsmen in the front yard of her home a little more than two hours after her husband Neil reported be and Col. Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin Jr., had landed safely on the moon. IWxSUt&L _J* * HAPPY WIFE—Mrs. Jan Armstrong, wife of Apollo 11 flight commcncier Neil Armstrong, keeps her fingers crossed as she talks to newsmen after mean landing. Donors Can Give Blood Until 66fh Birthday WASHINGTON, D. C!, June 26 • - Americans in good health ■an be blood donors now until their 66th birthday instead of the 60th or 61st as In the past. A joint announcement of this liberalization of medical stand ards for blood was made today by the American National Red Cross here and the American Association of Blood Banks in Chicago. The two organiza tions together collect and proc ess 90 per cent of the more than 6,5000,000 pints of blood used annually for surgery and therapy in U. S. hospitals. Di, Tlbor i. Greenwalt. medical director of the Ameri can National Red Cross Blood Tffgam, emphasized that any healthy person can give a pint of blood without worry. He said, "We have many donors who have given 11,12 and even 13 gallons of blood without incident. Most of these are eager and able to continue giving. Hie change will permit them to do so except in jurisdictions where it is contrary to local re gulations." "This extension of the eligi ble age limit for blood donors is in recognition of two facta," explained Dr. Prank Coleman of Tampa, Florida, president of the Association. "First, that the need for blood is constantly in IMPORTED "RARE SCOTCH nn V «rM» !: fast } I m HSBB jfouset 7 6R3SSI]F!LME> I HARE XscorcHWHism J J mScM W fulf il «M |M» Klltl WSIT BMTT tm ■will ■ IHH IMU MIMW. IN. nu , Her eyes looked a bit tired. But the was laughing and bantering and trading light talk with tbe pushing, crowding, shouting reporters, photographers, and neighbors gathered around a six-inch* nigh platform with a pink rug provided by television. For Joan Aldrin, whose husband piloted the lunar lander, the touchdown brought tears. "I cried ... it seemed like creasing at a rate of about 12 per cent annually. Second, that thanks to better medical care, better nutrition and other fac tors, Americans are living longer also and keeping their health and vigor longer than in the past." Donors 66 years of age or over, under the new ARC and AABB policies may continue to give Mood if they obtain the written consent of their personal physician on the day of do nation. Donors must be in good health, have normal temper ature, pulse and blood pressure, and meet the other requirements for blood donors. Individuals should check with their local Red Cross blood center or Com munity or hospital blood bank relative to their elegibility to give blood. State laws generally require blood donors to be 21 years old or to have parental consent to give between 18 and 21, but a number of states, including California, Kansas, Washington, Columbia Univ. '69 Journalism Classes Expand More black college students see journalism as a viable career. More of them are qualified and are applying for entrance to journalism school. And more of them are be ing accepted. The Columbia University Graduate School Journalism is doubling its black enrollment for next year. "We had more Negro appli cants this year than ever before - 26 compared with last year's 13," Richard T. Baker, the school's acting dean, said in an interview. "It was the feel ing of our student-faculty committee advising on admis sions that we should take as many of the black applicants as possible. We have accepted 18 black students for next year, compared with this year's 9, and we have raised the school's total enrollment from 103 to 110 " A few years ago, Dean B>ker said, the school annual ly received applications from about five Nqgroes and accept ed one. Dean Baker gave three rea sons for the record-setting number of Mack applicants ~ intensified recruiting efforts by the Journalism School; the suc cess of new programs at the school to train minority group members for news careers, and growing interest in journalism among black college students. forever . . . tear* of relief," be said. A slightly graying and normally serious woman, Mrs. Armstrong was bubbling with excitement In the Aldrin home, tbe blonde, amateur-actress stood up two minutes before touchdown. She was unable to sit any longer. 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Pittsboro, N. C. Oxford, N. C. 801 Gilbert St. 308 Greensboro St. 105 W. Dogwood St. "123 W. Margaret St. 403 N. Main St. Durham, N. C. Carrboro, N. C. Silar City, N. C. Hillsborough, N. C. Creedmoor, N. C. and hugged him. In an interview outside later, she stood under an umbrella, flashing s smile and popping her eyes vkaciously, animated and happy. With her were her three children. "I'm still not able to believe it," Mrs. Aldrin said. "I concentrated on the smallest thing-like the numbers on the screen. I cried ... it seemed like forever . . . tears of relief." Her younger son, Andy, 11, was asked if he would like to go to the moon someday. When he replied "I really haven't decided yet," his mother said with mock shock: "I didn't know you had it in mind. I couldn't stand this twice." Pat Collins, wife of the command module pilot who remained in lunar orbit, met the press in her front yard. She wore a chartreuse dress. "I thought it was positively beautiful," she said, her green eyes twinkling. "I wasn't nervous. I was excited. Very, excited. As a matter of fact, those men up '"> re are a lot calmer than I am. "The kids thought it was great. They were telling us: 'They're down. They're down'.'* In a dramatic disclosure that Aldrin, a deeply religious man, had taken the elements of communion to the moon with him to perform that Sabbath ritual after the 'anding, his black-robed Presbyterian pastor held up two halves of a loaf of white bread at the start of communion at the church Sunday morning. CANADA & CIGARETTES Ottowa--The Canadian Medi cal Association has called for federal legislation to forbid all advertising of cigarettes and to require a warning on pack ages that smoking is a hazard to health. Effective control over sales to minors has also been sought. Jas. Brown b Named "Bus. Han of Year" WASHINGTON, D. C. - James Brown, "Soul Brother" artist number one, has been chooeen "Business Man of the Year" by the National Business Lreague. Berkley G. Burreil, president of the League announced the Brown selection this week in Washington at NBL headquart ers by saying, "James Brown is more than an artist. He has used the equity capital of his talents to establish a variety of enterprises, real estate, fran chising, record production, en tertainment management and broadcasting." Brown will be honored in Memphis, Tennessee at the 69th Annual Convention of NBL, August 20-23, 1969, at the Holiday Rivermont Inn. Others selected for awards are: Daniel Parker, Chairman of the Parker Pen Company, the Hu manitarian Award; Dr. Feeder ick D. Patterson, Educator (past president of Tuskegeee Institute and past president of NBL, the symbol of Service Award; and Ross Davis, Attorney and Civil Sarvant, the Government Man of the Year Award. This year's theme for NBL, "Black Business In The 70's- Tomorrow Is Now," will be addressed by nine workshop sessions whose participants are accomplished leaders in busi ness across the country. A large number of high level government executives will also appear at the Memphis meet ing. igm HMI [ JY IHhXSIIIVS A tffek JmS ■ IJB ■ HI lilt Of ■ ■ IKCDCAR gWS El ■ ■■ m AITTT ■ B Kfl W IT J I ASSASStNATtP II Nf »2- l%> ■ WW M / 1 IACISCN.*HSS ■ WT% ft I I nriD StfRFTARV MISSISSIPPI WM D 0 Eft MUNCHES IQV4 B ' JMI ■ UfCItO JULY 4. IQM ■ m ■ IV MISSISSIPPI STATE CONFERENCE I ■ NATIONAL ASSOCIATION fOR Tm ■ ■ ■ ■ ADVANCEMENT or COLORED PEOPLE ■ |V)fl muor mcheatnrrnoms ro Human !■ AUMYS OPPOSED ■ jS is mm of MCtAiis« ■ »y MI JOFFLO MNVIWFL mw... A DUPLY MOVING IVINT during the NAACP 00th An nual Convention in Jackson, Miss., June 30-July 8, wag the unveiling of a 2,200 pound Georgia marble memorial dedl cated: "To the Memory of Medgar Wiley Evers, Born July 2, 1928, Decatur, Mis*., Assassinated June 12, 1963, Jackson, Miss." As Mississippi NAACP State Conference President Aaron Henry removes the covering, members of Mr. Evers' imme diate family stand by. Left to right: son James Van Dyke in front of daughter Deniae, brother Charles (slightly ob scured by the monument), Mrs. Burreil said, "Minority en terprises has now become know as the 'Ashillies heel' of Ameri can business and thereon must be protected and improved, else all business stands in jepo ardy. This point will be express ed in Memohia. ' Medgar W. Evers and oldest son, Dsrryl Kenyatta. 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