g3-THE CAROLINA TIMES. SATk MARCH 10. 1979 , - . . . , ' - -! - iyiX , I- I'tWtUt - ' f ! V.: I iiii 'P ; i 11-1. - - -r I , :r ' .: j i j : j i r &Qc P v j ?, x G;xv X . s SiCs ' ' fcBli'1 --v ll .-III for the first annua Call For Action Tips FINANCIAL PLANNING WITH A DOUBLE INCOME Often, a double income means double trouble for a ' married couple, unless they plan carefully. This message from the pages of "Every body's Money" was sent to Call For Action as a public service of Credit Union National Association, lnc to share with our readers. There are times when families with both husband and wife working can be trapped by the second in come. Often there is a tendency to spend more.on luxury items. Also many people buy larger houses and then are squeezed by big mortgage payments and Rocyclying - Continued From Page 9 collected 134.5 '' million pounds of metal, includ ing 2.9 billion aluminum "leverage cans. Since the inception of the. program in 1967, the company has recycled about 13. 7 billion cans and piad the public more than $95 million. : Reynolds now pays 20 cents apound for alll alum inum beverage cans and other clean household alum inum products. ' Certain other items, including alumninum siding, gutters, aluminum storm door and window frames and law furniture tubing also are worth 20 cents per pound if properly prepared. This aluminum must be free of all foreign materilas, cut to lenghts not exceed ing three feet and should not be mixed with alumi num cans. higher taxes. The family also buys more on credit, counting on future income to pay off debts.: Then financial disaster 4 strikes, most likely, if one spouse is laid off , or becomes ill, or stays home, to raise a family. The ideal way is to live on the income of the one whose job is likely to be the most permanent. If this is impossible, the couple should agree on a solution. To arrive at a workable plan, they need to set priorities and speci fic goals. Plan in five year units: they can . set inter mediate and long range goals without feeling deprived forever. '- If couples find them selves in the . situations of financial squeeze and. do hot know what to do, Call For Action can give refer rals that will help them to . find a solution to their problems. The numbers to call are: Durham 688-9306 and in Raleigh, 828-7578. opinion BY RALPH WILLIAMS- Black parents and black teachers are casting crimina tons and recriminations at each other, whether they be true or not, doesn't matter, for it appears for recriminations to be the order of the day. The cause? Economic progress for the poor-blacks-poor blacks is at a standstill. Who is responsible? Self-indulgent organizations, dedicated to re inforce educational insularity. Well, I for one, am tired of the assumptions about black parent's apathy and black teacher's incompetency. I say the fix is in and despite what educational organization and co alitions report. Most black parents are not dumb and they are about their children and most black teachers are con cerned and doing their job. We (black parents and black teachers) must begin to speak out and silent those blacks and forces who think they must speak for us or give to us their accounts of their stewardship, for they seem not to be able to understand the social and political forces at work in our educational system or they are working for those self-same insulated ' forges. Whichever, they have allowed black parents and black teachers to be divided and this di vision has caused our schools to develop a locked up out system- This situation has allowed our schools to be in the pock ets of a few and our schools to serve as an advancement center for the chosen few and their associates. In order to return our schools to a system where people can be heard and education is permitted, let black parents and black teachers pledge: I WILL DEVELOP A DEEP INNER LOVE THAT FLOWS OVER AND AROUND THE BLACK CHILD -TO FORM A SHIELD OF PROTECTION, GUIDANCE, WISDOM AND STRENGTH. This I do pledge; Gon Tol Spoods Sorvico With MECODS Syston BCTtrtt utnruAMEi i ce frni m at laeniM in French atven bv Lawrence Davidson, technical advisor PETITES MILLES PAGEANT sponsored by Eta Phi Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. Inc.. at Chapel Hill. The Premiere Mille and other winners the Pageant will be presented on April 21, at the Washignton Duke Motel in uurnam. rarticipanis are gini ag -14. - . M a"" . . .r .:. . . . ' . .. . - . 1 - D,n. ,nm ti piiant will on for tr.holar HI - . . .... ...... ..... r- 1 . ,i . ...." oirtnn PmMMli f mm lh event will an tor tcnoiar social event and activities will include visits to museums, oanen, rrencn riauiai.. a. . . r ' .7 ; 1" -r hYw r. ships and civic causes. Mrs. Viola Lawrence is Basileus of the Chapter, ur. lommie loung, nairpeuon 01 u. r ...... ......- rhairnaruin ftianter martlherf IbOftomrsrtlOV fetresnmentS , . .. HEALTH NOTES NEW TEST DETECTS SICKLE CELL ANEMIA BEFORE BIRTH A new, relaible test that can be used during pregnancy to diagnose sickle cell anemia a disease that dooms one in 500 American black children -have been developed by researchers at the Univer sity of California, San Fran cisco. Sickle cell disease is caused by a genetic de feet, and this is considered incurable. It has been estimated by health offi cials that some 500 million people worldwide ' are afflicted with sickle cell anemia, including about . 70,000 in the United States. Nearly all of this di sease's victims are black, and about half of them die before age 20. A few may live as long as 45. ' The developer of this new diagnostic test, which can be used early in preg nancy and thus makes thera- Biutic abortion possible, is r. Yuet Wai Kan. In an interview, Kan said 'they new apporach. may mean similar inherited blood diseases, -such as hemophillia (bleeding tendency ; due to deficiencies in blood) and thealassemia (also called Cooky's anemia and Mediterranean anemia), may also become diagnosable. ' "Prenatal diagnosis will allow couples who other wise wouldn't have wanted to risk having children to plan famulies," Kan said. He noted that he and his co-workers have already used the test on one preg nant woman. They were able to tell her that her unborn child does not have sickle cell anemia. Two earlier children had been born with - and died of the disease. Sickel cell disease gets its name from the strange C-shape, like a sickel, mat is assumed by the victim's red blood cells. It is known thai , victims of sickle cell anemia ' lack the proper genetic instruc tions for making hemoglo bin, the iron-centered mole cule that enables red blood cells to cany oxygen to all " parts of the body. As a re sult, victims' cells are grad ually damaged by lack of oxygen, i Such sickle cell children are 'often poorly developed, having short trunks, elong ated extremities and skull. Death is usually caused by tuberculosa strpke, heart failure or other complica tions. A blood Jane Tufts specialist in such disease work, Dr. De forges at the New. England Med ical Center, commented that IUITIATI011 AND OBLIGATION CEREMONIES HELD Boyd and Hodge Court No. 7, Heroines of Jericho initiated three ladies and obligated one man into their court on Sunday, March 4. The initiation ceremonies were held at the Masonic Lodge on Cook Road. The ladies initiated were: Mrs. Mary E. Young, Miss Elizabeth Burroughs, Mrs. Violet P. Rogers. J L. Rogers was obligated. Sponsors were Miss Mary Scott, Mrs. Ann Gore, and Mrs. Gladys Dawkins. Mrs. Gore serves as chair person of the Investigation Committee. Miss Scott is chairperson of the Social Committee Following the ceremon ies, a delicious repast was served, to all in attendance. Mrs. E. M, Scott is the president of the Court. facts& figures WAYS TO REDUCE We Americans pay nearly $155 billion individual in come tax to the federal government alone. ' -.- The federal government collects some $1,500 in taxes from every man, woman and child in the Country. Some people say one way to ease our tax burden is to stop the government from spending our money on lost causes. One of these, ex perts say, is the Amtrak system that has so far cost us over $4 billion. When Amtrak was created in 1971, it was with the expectation that it could become self-sufficient. The Department of Transporta tion, however, believes that, as currently operated, Amtrak will have cost tax payers approximately, ten billion dollars by 1982. RATES According to the Com mittee to End Government Waste of the National Tax payers Union, the taxpayer is paying for two-thirds of the cost of the average trip, yet the entire 27,000-mile Amtrak system handled less than one-third of one per cent of the nation's inter city travel in 1977. If such drains on our tax dollars as that are removed, some of the nearly 130 million tax returns filed every year might be a little ' smaller. 'Dr Y.W. Kan is an out standing researcher," and that "prenatal diagnosis of sickle cell disease is of special importance," since so many people are stricken with the disease. Desforges, professor of medicine at Tufts, noted -that in addiiton to black populations, a few others, ! most Mediterranean popula tions, also are prone to the f disease but at a low rate. The new test developed by Kan and his colleagues in San Francisco involves drawing a sample of amnio tic fluid (the watery liquid ' around the baby) from the mother's uterus. Using what are called recombinant DNA techniques, Kan is . able to select out and test the genes that are respon- sible for making hemogobin. By this method, he can determine whether a child's . hemogolobin-making gene ; is faulty. These recombinant DNA techniques have been deve loped only in the past few years, but promise to open many new doors to medi cine, science and industry. Kindorgarton ICont'd From Page 131,. To be eligible for kinder garten, a child must be five years old by October 16, 1979. He must be six years old by that date to be eligible for first grade. The only itemsT- parents are urged to bring to re gistration are the child's birth certificate; duplicate copy if possible, and immunization records if they are already completed. If a child attended a county schools' kindergarten last year his parents needn't register him for the . first grade. The procedure will be handled by the school. At registration, informa tion will be available about after-school care. Also, parents will receive an appointment for pre school screening, a program which involves vision and hearing tests as s well as interviews. ' Parents are urged to register their children during the pre- registration week in March so the youngsters can particiapte in the screening particpapte in the screening program. 1 Most scientists consider rhe promise to be almost un paralleled. Indeed, after only a few years of research, scientists are already reporting enor mous success. Some re searchers have even tricked tiny bacteria into making insulin, both .rat insulin and human insulin. Operator-handled long distance telephone calls from Durham, Butner, Creedmoor and the Research Triangle Park will go through faster with Gen eral Telephone's new "mechanized cord board system," according to Terry Desmond, the company's division service manager. ' Desmond said the basic difference in the new com puterized system, called "MECOBS" for short, is that operators will be enter-, ing information directly into a computer as it is received from the customer, rather than making a hand written record. Using a keyborad that looks much like an expanded touch-call telephone, operators will be able to record all necessary information more rapidly, allowing calls to reach their destination sooner. The computer will automatically verify such details as validity of calling numbers and credit 'card numbers,. -a Because operators will not be making a written record of the calling inform ation, there may be instances in which they will have to ask for certain in formation to be repeated. "For example," Desmond said, "if a caller places a person-to-person call to a party that is not at home and then asks the opeator to have the party return the call, the operator may have to ask for the origin ating number again. On most calls, however, the MECOBS system will be much faster.",. . . The computerized systefefaMlled ai a cost of $260,000 which General Telephone expects to be able to recover in about two years through improved efficiency. Desmond said that a gradual conversion to the new system was begun in late January and will con tinue through July. fijiru(UJifiKS L7nfii In) to TM o u v. . . tf ' : 5" V (""""! ''''ii,im'', i i mi 11,11' ' "'" I fl'fF" ''"'h'A I There are times it's extremely difficult it from room to room. For only 80? a month, to drop what you're doing to go answer the ; Come to the GTE Phone Mart today, phone. Pick up your new phone. And take It home So instead of going to the phone, bring with you. the phone to you. You can have an extension . 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