iiaa- ... - ;" ':'.rP:"i'"' IA Sat, Ftb. 17, 1WI 4B THE CAROLINA TIMES Sat, reo. w, , a HI SMbER If 1 11 j fPSS PREGNANCY PLANNING AND HEALTH ; by Mr. Gloria Riggabee WUU , . TTJT ( .... . , TOPHXrti. KftSSAS-Ho Irf imp blasts at. rwtw nis own me. yuc lives or viwlros IV V I1 his "WpK' j Prl"y Knl ,n WH.U scene here-kite Janiiin ' 2-J.' Ik rewrted al least tiw per- I I (j -gauge shotgun blast, sur- after in unidentified man ran ! sons were killed, including the vived and was hospitalized with from door to door in this sub- ' assailant who apparently took serious injuries. urban area of i Topeka pump- IkptiM:. The Beginning 0 Action for decades endless rhetoric- has bounced back and forth between 'Blacks, demanding their rightful place in commu nications, and whites, conced ing that right it only qualified Blacks were available." In May of 1972 in Washing ton, D jp. aBtack hand emerged from the combined resources of Black Journal and the Howard University School of Communications stopped the rhetorical bail in mid an , at least for a time. Granted, it did not put an end to yean of inactivity, but it did make an admirable score in that old game. It was named the "Black Careers lit Comm.unicatlons Conference" and for three days it brought together qualified Black applicants and prospec tive employers from the print and broadcast media. The end result Was She hiring of 100 Blacks and the realization that, indeed, action could replace rhrtorjc, ,erd work and scwridoigarrHKton. P Blacks in broadcasting! The order is simple .enough, but the task is formjttebla. Often con cealed beneath, ttte white rhe toric of "yes, we will hire, just give us flte skilled manpower" are those well-known, yet elu sive, obstacle fear, hatred, re-sistance-the step-children of racism. Such sentiments sur faced recently in a revealing TV Guide interview of repre sentatives of the white con trolled media. One unnamed top decision-maker of an im portant New York tele vision station, presenting his version of the situation, said this: "You're in there to protect that station license How many Blacks can you put on the tube before the public starts calling in a news department before the work begins to si nk? Our staff is loaded with medio crity. When it's Black medio crity, it feels as if somebody forced him down your craw. I grant you, UVractai." Had he attended the "Black Careers in Communication Con ference," he might have learned that he can better protect his Nation's license by hiring those who can bring the Black pers pective to his station's pro gram m me, thereby more ade ,uateh fulfffuaf the needs and interest otmn public namely New WbritiAkose Black popu- million naa ne Cwiference, he re found that want and are tokenism and sufficient num ber experienced Blacks from which he can draw, .s, Ofvthe 400 hopefuls who came to the Conference there were, ift addition to students from a cross-section of Black and white colleges around the country aod young profession als seeking to boost their car eers frjrard, a number of Old er professionals looking for 1 unities. department." M filed i of Robert Cot- to the (.or. i of a position m reporting Nowlefhis fifties. Cottrol has worked as a photo by Dassey Hagen Columbia University, yet has been working for $60 a week as a clerk-typist. At the Con ference she accepted a job as a still photographer for $50 a week just to work in the field. Chances are, however, that he would have ignored these and other talented Black peo ple because, after all, he is "used to white mediocrity" and would rather let racism lie in his "craw." The words of Rep. William L. Clay of Missouri, a mem ber of the Congressional Black Caucus, seem strikingly appro priate here: "The mass media, institutions that remind us con tinually that they are opposed to evil, corruption, deception and wrongdoing of every shade, have consistently failed to point out the hyprocriciesof their own extstevre in dealing with Blacks These experts at exposing the wton?Hvn" of our society use the same rhe toricaypklH to Hide their own failures." Their failures trans late into these figures accord ing to media research conduc ted by the Black Caucus: in the broadcast industry Blacks constitute only 2 of all offi cials and managers; 6 of all professionals; 3 of the sale workers; 15 of the laborers; and 46 of the service workers. Yet, there are 30 million Blacks in the country, more than 65 Black colleges with the faci lities to train students of media jobs, and countless schools which are attended by Blacks. The Conference, however, was not about the facts, the statistics, nor the reason why or why not Blacks are in or out of the media world. It set those abstracts aside momen tarily, replacing them with the concrete: "This was a show down. They said we didn't exist, but we produced the bodies," said Toney Brown, executive producer of Black Journal and Dean of Howard's school of Communications, who had organized the three day session. "It is significant to note," he continued, "that of all the commercial televi sion stations in America, not more than six or seven took the time to pretend they were looking for Blacks-but we've forced them into rtew game because from now on they will have to come or have it proven that they lied." One white editor has been reported as saying: "Listen, I want excellence, I've been look ing for competent Blacks for years and can't find one Where are the Blacks who can Continued on Page 6B Dear Mrs. Riggsbee: t j I am 13 years old and S have a few questioris. I want to know it a person could get preg nant if she bad intercourse only oiS minutes. Could a girl 'get pregnant at my age? Could a girl get pregnant the first time she had biterco urse? Qjjjflr think a person 13 years old is bid .enough to have intercourse? DeasH.NUiL;,' 1 imteonier for a womaiUo become pregnant the man's sperm must meet the woman's egg. All the man has to 4 deposit sperm inside the wo man's tubes where they could meet, an egg. Therefore, nio matter how long or how short the duration of the intercourse, if sperm were left inside the wo man's body, she could become pregnant. 2. Yes, many girls of 13 are capable of becoming pregnant. 3. Yes, a girl can get preg nant the first time she has sex. If an egg is in the tubes, a gill can get pregnant - no matter whether it is the first time she has sex, or whether she has sex only once. It only takes one time. 4. In my Opinion, 13 is dc finitely too young to be en gaging in sex. As you question indicates, you know very little " i i ii! u car' about how your body works, you have no idea how to pre vent unwanted pregnancy, ana I seriously doubt that ypu are ready to accept the responsi bilities involved in mature sex ual relationships, much less the responsibilities of a child, Am Sex is not a game. rlea 'jwith it many responsibili ties; responsibilities to yourself as an individual who has the right to plan and control her life; responsibilities to others, who nave the very same right; responsibilities to children -who have the right to be brought into the world by parents who are in a position to support, feed, clothe and(tf cate hbn, in addition to giving him a great deal of time and care and love. Being adult, be ing mature, doesn't mean that you engage in sex. It means that if and whan you do, you are aware of the responsibilities to yourself and to others and are ready to accept them. This is impossible at the age of 13. Dear Mrs. Riggsbee: I had my tubes tied about eight years ago. Now I'm plan ning on getting married again and I haven't told my husband-to-be that I can't have more choldren. I have two children by my first marriage. What are the chances that the doctor mm wptoi mi Vip;.:' omtitfefilaS mafSBrmB m&l vh jmmamiiiiwiiw- ATED FOR SUCCESS WASHINGTON- Members, of tire Task Force of "OfpP tion Homecoming" verify na mes of prisoners of war and missing in action as they are received from Paris here Jan uary 27. Standing, 2nd left, is 1'eur Admiral Daniel J Mur phy, senior mSitary assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Seated, right, is Major General Daniel (Chappie) James, USAF Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs). Standing next to James is Dr. Roger E. Sheilds (holding telephone), assistant to the As sistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs. Remaining persons are unidentified. For these Indian school boyx, the road to knowledge is still mapped out on old fashioned slates. You can help chalk up a victory for education by sending a dona tion to any Catholic church or to American Catholic Overseas Aid Fund, Empire State Building, New York, N.Y. 10001. Through Catho lic Relief Services, 39 cents will buy a Third World child a school kit' containing four notebooks, an inkwell and ink, a penholder and three points, a piece of chalk and a writing slate. will un-tie my tubes? BJvI. Dear Mrs. M.: I'm sorry to tell you that I don't think your chances of having more children are very good. Putting the woman's tubes back together again is a very difficult and quite ex pensive operation, and it is only about 20 successful. So, even if you are willing to spend the money and the time in the hospital for this operation, you would have only one chance in five that you would be able to have children again. I'm certain that when you AN IMPRESSIONABLE ml- jH HttEKgV ' ' mB Lw am. tL jH. jm JH - WfltL'A ';xO;':;:::;.::.';i:. Blacki to not that mere are a Yes, that's what a savings account is at this bank. Employers, busi nessmen and edu cators all know the worth of a savings account. It's an in dication of a per son's good habits. Open yours at this bank today . . . it's a worthy asset. Mechanics a Farmers Durhemv M- C 1 14 WEST P m mm IT, ; DURHAM. N. C. new mm Hinewe with the likes RECEIVES FUNDS - Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy, right, chancellor of A Ik T State University, receives $5,000 from Wayne Mabry, director of public relations at the Alcoa plant in Badin, N ( ' The Funds were given to the A & t University Foundation for use in the university's de velopment program. Ml e. had your tubes teid eight years ago, the doctor explained to you then that you would never be able to have children again: I'm sorry that you did not com pletely understand how diffi cult it would be to have the operation reversed. 1 suggest that you contact a gyncotogist and discuss the operation thoroughly with him. I also suggest that you tell your husband-to-be exactly what your situation is. Address letters and requests for free booklets on any of the permanent methods of birth control to: Mrs. Gloria Riggs bee, 214 Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. mm I Roasted Freshlr ! .... 7 WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO-LIMIT QUANTITIES NONE SOLD TO DEALERS PRICES GOOD THRU FEB. 17TH Thrifty Maid Green GARDEN PEAS lib. CANS Limit 7 With 5 Or More JSl ;"v;.; -?f 3e KKound STLAKjF- jkI.S. Choice $ fnr Life, Time, News- Q Hi M Wh'K'f ,v-.A. .. ST. i tiiialilv Dmniirk 1 UMUINI B I WWWVI ZENITH DUNLOP TIRES M AGNAVOX ') It FIRESTONE TIRES TAPPAN 'iiPELOO BATIBRIII I i KITCHEN AID I BRAKE SERVICE ,r.i tlUHil if . Morton Asst. AT DINNERS . i ' EEEff"" t, JM mm i Global Portraits By Lou LuTtmr "BE KIND TO PEOPLE WEEK" has come to Hie at ten ttonf GLOBAL PORTRAITS through the work of LEO SHULL who was honored. by, our Poetry Groups last year. . . Thi4fP KINO TO PEOPLE WEEK Is being readied for an off Broadway production by I KO SHULL who is known as a sliow producer, film pro ducer. of .New York's lead theatfje; phpii, SHOW pffii NESS, for 25 years, .' ffiW) is also known for his "One Man Campaign'' to dean uplfJj Square of that thing known as 'opea' Prostitutioii. ' MAURA HAYOEN, .the star of the show, has playedStfif' lead In more than' 35 TV shows, including BONANZA and GUN SMOKE. MISS HA YDEN has also starred in 3 films, includ ing THE ANGRY RED PLAN ET which is currently running on ABC Chanel 7 (NYC) Her leading men were Peter Lawford, Walter Brennan,Don Rickles, David Janssen and o thers. . SOME BACKGROUND ON THE STAR... ! One of the interesting things about' this production h that SHARES are availabel only 50; with a full share $1,000 - half share $500 and a quarter share $250 TV Producer, David Suskind was one of the first investors in the show and Mario Puzo (Godfather) is an ther. . Good tome folks want i i i to: be a part of such a wonder ful show as well as such a won derful practice as "BE KIND TO PEOPLE WEEK". . . Why nmlwhen there is "Be Kind Xttlinimals WeekM and other tech weeks? tjGj All money is held in an in-terest-bearing escrow, account until the production is started and the investors recover all their investment before profits autlior or aUr . f MbtV About "HE KIND TO PEOPLE WEEK" as, a show: It is an Alice in, Wonderland ntf. i Haye(yp;wlMeffsv what happened ti ; Alice after IwlpW' ' up and hgfii) compare the world she lives in with the one she saw as a child? Bet you have. . . Well, the grown-up Alice, played by MAURA HA YDEN again walks thru the Looking Glass and finds herself in another crazy world with incredible people, fighting each other - and you can easily guess where -- NEW YORK CITY of course. Remember the Queen said "Off with their Heads?" Here the Blacks say: "Off the Pits." The Hardhats fight the Hippies. The Gays fight the Establish ment. And after some show stopping music and lyrics, our heroine finds that kindness and LOVE is really what life is all about. During the course of her wanderings in. New- York City, .V- BHHgM iff BjaLi HSf JgW"w KiMgM. mWl WEnMMBiHipMfcM WB ..p IH -m i mm mm mm mm g. 'iinnBl warn irtlfljTBlEtB mmmi E SmvBSm I -Scores Continued From Front Page 1 1 1 '4 V I I 4 WW by LiaaBeo-nadette 4 m ALEXANDER TAKES OATH Alexander, Jr. Homed BRA For Had Where do the most beautiful girls in the United States come from? If von use the recent beauty pageants as an indicator, you'll find it's not California as the Beach Boys have so often sung about. The last two Miss Americas and the two most re cent Miss Teenage Americas all hail from east of the Mis sissippi. The winning states are Pennsyl vania, claiming the newest beauty, Melis sa Oalbraith 1973 Miss Teen age America; Illinois, and the 1972 Miss Teenage Amer i o a , Col leen Fitzrjat- r i c k; Ohio, Lisa Bernadette with Laurie Lynn Scnaefer as the 1972 "Miss America; and Wisconsin living us Terry Meeuwsen, the 1973 Miss America. Two of the music world's most popular young singers Joined hands and hearts re cently. Carly Simon, whose new album includes a super hit, "You're So Vain," and James Taylor, author of a "long-awaited" album, "One Man Dog" were married in a civil ceremony in New York. She's a daughter to the Simon of Simon and Schuster pub lishing fame, and he's one of the musical Taylor family, In eluding Livingstone, Alex and Kate. Girls, if you've been wonder ing where your allowance money has been going lately, here's a clue. A Seventeen ma gazine survey reports that we 13,000,000 American teen age girls, representing only ML. that; teenagers ' 12 b of the entire female pop ulation, spent $502,000,000 last year on cosmetics and toile tries! The reason the Wood stock generation girls are buy ing everything from nail polish to eye mascara is due to a strong desire to look "natu ral." In keeping with the natu ral look, it's important to have a clean, clear complexion before you apply a natural foundation. A medicated cleanser, like Fostex is great for cleansing the akin and helping rid It of embarrass!: pimples and blackheads often hamper a complexion. Fostrll lotion, a cover-up can be applied under makeup to hide blemishes while it works to control them. Remember, if your boy-, friend or brother is experi encing skin problems, remind him that he too should strive for the natural look no pimples! Talk about unique ways to earn money there's a travel ing teenage guy, who goes around the country looking for movie lines. Once he finds them, this accomplished acro bat performs all sorts of amazing stunts to the delight of the movie-goers, right out on the concrete pavement, I've seen him perform and he's great. Of course, the stand on liners compensate him by atrowtog money. And I've heard he's amassed quite a bit of it. SCHOOL DAYS-HERE AND THERE mw mm mMMWMm BBi t j wmr iBfiw t ' -.?- It's true that there's no royal road to learning, but some roads art- rockier than others. These American youngsters are healthy, happy, handsomely dressed uncKwen-shod, 'Their school is modern. Books and school supplies irre plentiful, By contrast, this fine bir'pyen small Bolivians-ragged, barefoot, ill-fed files into the cheerks darknes f a mud waHed, thatch-rooled hovel. But the Third World's eagerness' to iearn is overpowering. The children don't ask much beyond opportunity: a slate, a bit of chalk, an exercise book, an old-fashioned penholder and a few extra pen points The lucky ones get theni-through your contributions to Catholic Reljef Services. This year, sendyonr donation to the nearest Catholic church or to .American, Catholic Overseas Aid Fundv Empire I,,., n..tu! itrriid'Sr i kt v.. innki VnMl 1... i.,,t. 1,1 .i.iue dumuiiik, vyr'ftnK, 11 . kj 'yffv' " ri",K"" v-f. fuel the lamp of knowledge mmm mm -T El mm. "SPrSff HB BflBKi cPxpJ Eh jbssE Ifca mbEEEm mi aai gaa Theodore M. Alexander, Jr. Director of the Office of the Unsubsidized Insured Housing Programs of the Federal Hous ing Administration of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, has been named Deputy Regional Ad ministrator for HUD's Atlanta Regional Office. The announcement was made by Edward H. Baxter, Regional Administrator. Mr. Alexander reported to his new post on De cember 16, 1972. Mr. Alexander, 40, first came to HUD in June of 1969 as a consultant to the Depart ment, and was appointed As sistant FHA Commissioner In January, 1970. Prior to his Government ser vice, Mr. Alexander had been with an Atlanta investment banking firm. Before that, from 1958 to 1965, he was vice-president of Alexander and Asso ciates, a real estate company headed by his father, r.M Alex ander, Sr. longtime business and civic leader In Atlanta. Many of hU activities with the firm involved HUD and FHA programs. Born in Atlanta, Mr. Alex ander graduated from More house College with a B.A. in 1953. Shortly thereafter, he joined the U.S. Army and served in Korea and Guam from 1953 through 1955. In 1956, he obtained a M.B.A. degree from New York University's Graduate School of Business Administration and later under took graduate studies in Eco nomic Geography at Colum bia University. He was with Chase Manhattan Bank and Dun & Bradstreet following his gra duate studies. He returned to Atlanta in 1958. Before moving to Washing ton, Mr. Alexander was a mem ber of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta Boy Scouts Executive Com mittee, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. In 1958 he partici pated in the first student ex change program to the Soviet Union and other East Euro pean countries. In 1968, he was a guest of the Liberian Govern ment at the inauguration of President William V.S. Tubman. Mr. Alexander is married to the former Jan is Bowen of Atlanta, and they have three r Out T?me SMALL 8U$tNESSS GET A GLOBAL GRP ON THE WORLPf AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN ARE EXPANPNG THER EXPORTS BY USING PROVEN POMESTIC TECHNIQUES... FOR EXAMPLE ' MANY WELCOME COLLECT CALLS FROM OVERSEAS BUYERS, ALLOYYN6 THEM TO COMPETE ON EVEN TERMS WITH FOREIGN COMPETITION. ?HE CALLS THEY RECEIVE FROM INTERESTED QUALIFIEP BUYERS, WHO SIGNIFICANTLY, SPEAK ENGLISH ' AHP, WITHOUT HAVING TO SET UP EXPENSIVE OPERATIONS ABROAP, THEY CAN TRANSACT THEIR BUSINESS ON A PERSONAL BASIS... VIA THE J TELEPHONE KMC 2 W Presents the Dr. Soul Show 9 P.M. to Midnight Moitday Thm iSalhirday Radio No. t Durham WSSB is the only Durham Radio Station that stays on 24-hour a day 7 fla y s a week, 365 days a year. Radio No. 1 Durham A. children, Theodore M. Ill, 11; Kimberley, 9;and Todd, 5. Much of what has been re garded as "senility" in older persons actually is treatable mental illness that can be greatly improved with great er involvement in daily acti vitiesincluding their own care. charged in his uary 29, there can be no "true justice in this country until we have eradicated al vestiges of discrimination.' He contras ted Mr. Nixon's increasingly ne gative civil rights policies with the changing mood of the coun try. ..' Only seven years ago, he told h is audience, 63 percent of Americans told pollsters that black Americans were moving too fast. But now only 47 per cent think so,' Too many Americans, he said found justice to be only a con stitutional abstraction The prisons held many such cases of those who were denied re habilitation opportunities and stamped for life as second-class citizens. Societal injustices only breed maddening frustrations, the kind that drove once-friendly Mark Essex to kill six persons in New Orleans last January. Mr. Wilkins cautioned that such "beserk" behavior could not be condoned but the lesson was clear: Essex was a por- tnet of what the inequities in our society can drive young people to do." To Mr. Wilkins, however, there "is no indication" that SmU, Ft. IT, 1971 THE CAROLINA Nixon Adm irustraiion had I the event in this manner he noted, FMlMsfsV Cor for the reinstitution of tiki death penalty to cure the pro- As he has repeatedly etjHj Mr. Wilkins underscored his u mi ap pin' by drawing upoa the tfresident'i October 28 statement that judges "must be jurist who recognize that the first civil right of all Americans k the right to be free from do mestic violence" But the Con stitution, Mr. Wilkins noted, spoke of insuriff domestic tranquility and promoting the general welfare. "One of the most striking," examples of the nation's betra yal of the disadvantaged, he charged was the Nixon Admini stration's afl teaajMEHKT . at a fourth of the st01il-hodsfd,'be O0ce1 tions at a time systems in many of our ,ng down for lack of "panders to IJaf over busing" is Hl promise of schools noninf as "iiMliumsetl P rial condfttoninf" i nhiiajllf'- ' ' " ' .ja Need Extra $ $ $ $'s? 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