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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
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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. - .
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ships and civic causes. Mrs. Viola Lawrence is Basileus of the Chapter, ur. lommie loung, nairpeuon 01 u. r ...... ......-
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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.
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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
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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.
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