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uil. UlWIl- v, -.flM Danny Glover Talks About Life, Acting See 'Insights' Front Durham Committee Report See Page 2 Community Speaks Out On School Board Issue See Page 11 Proposal for Uninsured Children Could be Delayed Until May / By Dennis Patterson RALEIGH (AP) - Delaying final approval of a proposal to give health ^re to uninsured children until May would keep sick children at risk, Jealth and Human Services Secretary David Bruton stiys. But the co-chairman of a legislative oversight committee says pushing hr a special legislative session in March without reaching a consensus Kould be a mistake. jjlnstead of Bruton’s proposal, Rep. Lanier Cansler, R-Buncombe, pro- feed Tuesday that the state expand Medicaid to all children in families naking less than 133 percent of the federal poverty level in a special ses- . iion. Then lawmakers could consider Bruton’s full plan when the Gener- il Assembly convenes its regular session in May. "I hear all these various kinds of options available," Bruton told the loint Legislative Commission on Health Care Oversight. "We studied every one of those carefully. It comes down simply to, do ^ou want to do this or not? Or do you want to raise objections that will ielay us from doing it?" "I’m concerned if we come in here in early March trying to approve a plan, the plan we’ve got, we could be here un- ,il the short session (in May) trying to resolve the differences," Cansler National NAACP Nixes AppointmentOf New State Executive Director Legislators have discussed holding a special session to develop a plan forexlending health care to an estimated 70,000 uninsured children. The plan would be financed with $79.9 million in federal money earmarked for health care. What a marvelous opportunity we have right now," Bruton said. Congress has said that for the next 10 years they will have available joney to insure uninsured children up to 200 percent of the poverty level" Bruton and Gov. Jim Hunt have proposed expanding Medicaid |vcragc to the children of low-paid government workers in families making less than twice the federal poverty level. |0ther poor children would be given the same services as Medicaid, but without a guarantee that those services would continue. "It’s taking care of the really sick kids, that’s vyhat this is all about," Bruton said. "These are the kids who have trouble getting coverage with regular insurance." But Cansler and others have raised questions about jxactly how the program will be structured and how to make it fair to the working poor both in government and private businesses. Instead of Bruton’s plan. Cansler said expanding Medicaid coverage Would help up to 50,000 children quickly, and give lawmakers more time 10consider Bruton's plan. "I want to get this program into place as rapidly as we can, but once we establish it. we all know around here, backing up and re-doing it if we do Mimcthing wrong is going to be very, very difficult," he said. "I know he wants it in place so he can help the children," Cansler said 1)1 Bruton. "1 know how badly’he wants it in place. I just want to make sure we do it in a way that we feel good about overall." Rep. Thomas Wright. D-New Hanover, said legislators were familiar with the issue ol unin.surcd children. "You cither do it or you don’t," he said. "We’ve played with this lor ^ear.s. There’s no secret about how our kids are not being treated ade quately in the state." The proposal will be taken before legislative budget ximmillecs next week for comment before a special commission decides whether to recommend the proposal and a special legislative session. 1998 .Annual Philadelphia Martin Luther King, Jr. Association for Nonviolence, Inc. Bell Ringing Ceremony. Left to right are: Hon. Ed Rendell, mayor of Philadelphia; Dr. C. Delores Tucker, president, Philadelphia Martin Luther King, Jr. Association for Nonviolence, Inc.; Melba Moore; and The Honorable Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior. The Rev. Thomas Kilgore Jr., Civil Rights Pioneer, Dies LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Rev. Thomas Kilgore Jr., a civil rights pioneer who helped organize the 1963 march on Washington and worked for peace after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, has*died. He was Kilgore died Feb. 4 at Good Samaritan Hospital. For 22 years, Kilgore was senior pastor at Second Baptist Church, the city’s oldest black church. He also helped found the Los Angeles chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. "He was an ecumenical figure, he was an interracial figure, he was a multicultural figure." said the Rev. Cecil- "Chip" Murray, who knew Analysis: For Bill Clinton, Millennium A Bridge Not too Far Kilgore for more than two decades. "He was one of the great com munity organizers and one of the great * ministers." Kilgore, the sixth of 12 children, was born on Feb. 20, 1913, in Woodruff, S.C. He attended school in South Carolina and North Caro lina, later graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta and went on to seminary graduate work. During the. 1940s, while he was pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in Winston-Salem. N.C.. Kilgore led the organization of voter rcgi.siration in schools and the drive to unionize tobacco workers. From 1947-63 he was pastor of the Friend.ship Baptist Church in New York, where he raised bail money for jailed civil rights workers in the South. He also helped organize the famous 1963 civil rights march to Washington and walked behind its leader, the late Marlin Luther King Jr. Kilgore became pastor at Second Baptist Church in 1963. It was also in the early 1960s that Kilgore and about a dozen other prominent black ministers formed an alliance that was the forerunner of the local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the only SCLC chapter west of the Rockies. He was one of the few' people to serve as president of two national Baptist denominations. Kilgore headed the largely while American Baptist Churches, USA from 1969- 70 and mainly black Progressive National Baptist Convention from 1976-78. Following the racially charged riots in 1992, Kilgore w'as among those who encouraged creation of the Interfailh Coalition to Heal L.A., an ecumenical group dedi cated to promoting cross-cultural dialogue. Kilgore "was always on the cul ling edge of blending spirituality and community involvement." said the Rev. Wilham Epps. Who suc ceeded Kilgore as .senior pastor at GREENSBORO (AP) - Leaders of the NAACP have refused to con firm the appointment of the exec.u-' tive director chosen by the North Carolina chapter of the civil rights group, saying hiring procedures were not followed. : Hurley Derrickson was appointed last month to run the day-to-day operations of the state chapter and already had set up his office at state headquarters in Greensboro. . But Mark Clack, the NAACP’s national field secretary, said the state chapter didn’t not follow the rules in hiring Derrickson, a friend of the chapter president. “The constitutional process was not adhered to, and they didn’t abide by the uniform constitution for state conferences- in hiring staff," Clack said. State chapter president Melvin ■‘Skip" Alston learned of the deci sion Feb. 7 in a letter from the pres ident of the National Association for the Ad\’ancemeni of Colored People. Kweisi Mfume. Alston said he will appeal the de cision and expects the matter to be resolved during a national confer ence in New' York on Feb. 19. ■‘It's blindsided us." Alston said. i’ve asked Mr Mfume for more clarification because I can’t tell Mr. Derrickson why he wasn’t ap proved. I think once I sit down with Mr. Mfume. this can be resolved." Derrickson will stay in the Greens boro office and on the job for now. .Alston said. Derrickson. who declined to com ment. was chosen to replace fonner executive director Keith Sutton, who resigned in December after a falling out with Alston. Second Baptist Church. "He knew that to be .spiritual meant you had to have a positive impact on making this a better community." Kilgore is suivived by his wife. Mrs. Jeannetla Kilgore: two daughters. L\ nn Elda and Jini Medina and three grandchildren. - Burial will he in North Carolina. By Tom Raum WASHINGTON (AP) - As he ^wks to show It’s business as usual at the White House, President Clinton has been showering a lot of allcntion on the millennium. * Hardly a speech goes by when he iltiesn'i evoke the 21 si century. And tonight, he begins a .scries of While House lectures aimed at Ushering it in. ! lhc speaker at the first of the "Millennium Evenings" will be his- liirian Bernard Bailyn, a Harvard University professor who has wril- II hooks on U.S. history, in- Plnding two Pulitzer Prize winners, [kupealcdly bringing up 2(K)() is “nc way lor Clinton to reinforce the that he’ll still be on the job pyears from now - and thus will pc weathered the present per- pal storm. I a president with more than p a passing interest in his place 1 history, talking up the millcn inm is clearly a topic Clinton itvors. Alter ail, he offered to build a tadge to the 21.St,century" during ^acceptance .speech at the 1996 National Convention in Chicago. And his 1997 Stale of the Union address talked about making "the year 2(X)() a national celebra tion of the American spirit." By the lime of this year’s Stale of the Union,-Clinton was using the 21sl century and "the information age" almost interchangeably. And he reminded his audience: "With bare ly 700 days left in (he 20th century, this is not a time to rest." The While House even has a millen nium program page on its Web site (www.whitchousc.gov) that in cludes a clock counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until (he calendar rolls over to 2000. "Wc arc entering this new millen nium, the new century, with restored confidence - the informa tion age, a growing global econo my, they’re changing the way wc live and work," Clinton .said earlier in a speech at Georgetown Univer sity about Social Security overhaul. Bailyn, the speaker at tonight’s kickoff While Hou.se lecture, will addrc.ss "some of the core Amer ican ideas that crystallized during the revolutionary era that have shaped history thereafter and that must be preserved as wc move into a new millennium," said a White Hou.se fact sheet. Julie Mason, a spokeswoman for first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, said the Icelufc scries will consist of "different events, a variety of ex perts." Other speakers have not yet been selected, she said. Some critics have suggcsld Clinton may have ulterior motives. "This is so typical of Clinton to attempt to sweet talk his way into history by inviting historians to the While House," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabalo. Clinton defenders scoff at such notions. And Mike MeCurry, Clinton's spokesman, said anew that Clinton is "fully focused on the agenda that we will pursue in the year ahead." There al.so arc a whole lot of side celebrations planned for 2()()(): the 2(K)lh anniversary of presidents oc cupying the White House, the 20()lh anniversary of the first meet ing of Congress in the Capitol and the 2(){)th anniversary of the Li brary of Congress. tCoiilinucJ On Page 2) Rev. Alfreddie Johnson, left, Founder of the World Literacy C'nisade, and supporter Isaac Hayes, right, are shown here receiving a literacy award on behalf of L. Ron Hubbard from Celes King III, California chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality.
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