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r Ida/i.via/'Jb W;u...SOW I...IBFiHRY 1-1 CUL.I..£L;T.ajN umc-(;:h CUfli:®... Hjlj... mmm -OLUME 76 - NUMBER 8 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1998 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE:30 CENTS 'Glory & Honor' Looks At Matthew Henson, North Pole See 'Insights ’ Front Hillside’s Tracee Hester Takes Action on Youth See Page 5 Durham Committee Report See Page 3 J.J. 'Babe' Henderson Died Monday Morning i^einorial ser);ice for J.J. "Babe" jnderson will be held Sunday, jrch 1. at 2 p.m., at §t. Joseph’s IVlE Church. Rev. Philip R. lusin, Jf-. pastor, will be the iodisi. The visitation is scheduled r 1 to 2 p.m., prior to the service, je Durham Chapter of Kappa A1-- laPsi Fraternity, of which he ' lember, will perform its ■niorial Service during the first inty minutes of the visitation )[. Interment will be private, lenderson. 90, died Monday iriing after several years of jlining health. le sang tenor in St. Joseph’s ^rch Senior Choir Tor many le was a highly respected, dearly oved and admired, citizen of rham since the early 1930s. K native of Tennesee, Henderson ne to Durham shortly after grad- frpm Hampton Institute in ^inia. He worked at Bankers e& Casualty Insurance Cornpa- when it became a part of Teenagers Get Knowledge, Get Wiser, Fewer Births especially black people — Hender son served on the Durham Housing ' Authority Board of Directors. The J.J. Henderson Towers,.a housing facility for many of Durham’s elderly and handicapped of all races on South Duke. Street, is named in his honor. He had been chairman of the Dur ham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, a political organiza tion' member of the boards of Me chanics and Farmers Bank and Mutual Savings and Loan Associa tion. He was in the forefront of the establishment of St. Joseph’s His toric Foundation, which operates Hayii Heritage-Center. J.J. HENDERSON North Carolina Mutual Life Insur ance Company, he rose through its ranks to Vice president in charge of finances. ■ A ■ political acrtvisi concerned about the interests of all people — He-was a founder of the Durham Business & Professional Chain. Surviving arc his wife, Mrs. Julia Henderson; a daughter, Dr. Ann H. Brockenborough of Upper Marlboro, Md.; and a son, James J. (BifO'Hcndcrson, Jr. of New York. Final arrangements are by Scar borough & Hai'gett Funeral Home. By John T. McCann [lie word is getting out to Dur- n s teenagers about preventing igiiancies. but cultural dif- ences may be the reason for the inic shift in births by adolescents, the first time, Hispanic teen- are having more babies than ick teens, according to a federal dy by the National Center for ilth Statistics. Still, girls in both ups are twice as likely as whites live birth before they turn 20. ' lispanics are the country's lesl-growing minority group, the poverty rale is following There seems to be a link to ed- lion. Hispanics have lower rates high .school and college educa- t than African Americans who. !io long, have been plagued by linumbcrs of teenage births. Ex- say most teen parents come m impoverished households h poorly educated parents. And icycle oftcri repeats itself. 'urham has a number of imunily- and church-based pro ms that address the issue of 'lescchl pregnancies. Most of the sranis available are aimed at •empowerment and often target 'eat risk of becoming teenage ■nis. Some are geared toward iswho already have children, 'i^perts say cultural factors are lyU) blame for the rfsc in biiyihs iig Hispanic teens. Language fivTs pose problems when it i*;s(o passing along information preventing pregnancies, views on abortion vary from ethnic group to another. 'ttinsc practitioner at Hillside hsuid the .school does not keep '^iui records of student pregnan- '■ but added the number of f^nic students there is low. ' true at Northern High, as where most of the students hliick and white. Principal Isaac '"t^ssaid most of the students at seem to take the sex cdu- programs seriously but also he hasn’t gotten much ^nse from the parents. Thomas surveys are sent out .seeking opinions but few are returned. One parent, who wished to remain anonymous, has a 15-year- old daughter at Northern. She was in a class that required carrying a 5- pound bag of flour to simulate hav ing a,child. The mock bal^^ had to be fed. dressed, and otherwise at tended to as any newborn would. The lOlh-grader's mother said the class exercise itave her daughter an idea of the responsibilities that come with having a child. The mother, who is black, said she does not have a problem with an abstinence-only approach to sex education. But she did express con cern about the overwhelming pres sure-today's teens face. She has her daughter on birth control pills. "It’s always better to be safe," she said. State NAACP President Does About-Face on Racial Attack At Guilford College GREENSBORO (AP) - The head of the state chapter of the NAACP says he regrets criticizing Guilford College for its response to a campus racial attack. "Maybe I was a little hasty in trying to portray the manner in which I thought he should act," Melvin "Skip" Alston .said of Don McNcmar, president of the college. Last week. Alston accused McNcmar of having a "laid-back attitude" toward the Feb. 11 attack on student senate president Molly Marlin. Alston said then that he would ask the Stale Bureau of Investiga tion and stale. Attorney General’s Office to investigate the attack if an lurest was not made within two weeks On Monday. Alston did an about- face. praising the college and McNcmar for their work in the case . Alston backed off his ultimatum to call in state officials after learning that four Greensboro detectives are investigating the in cident. "That tells me they are handling this in a .serious manner," Alston said, Guilford College officials say an attacker knocked Martin uncon scious Feb. 11, then wrote the words "nigger lover" across her chest. The attack happened a few days after fliers appeared around campus urging people not to reelect Marlin, who is white," unless they wanted an "all-black senate." Martin won her campaign last week. Police continued interviewing students and others on campus this week in connection with the attack. A campus security official said last week that police are investigat ing ah anonymous e-mail message sent to several students questioning whether the attack was staged. Po lice are also investigating a tele phone call to two black female stu dents in which a male caller used racial slurs. In explaining his change of atti tude, Alston .said he did not realize how much the college had done in the wake of the attack. That included a forum attended by 500 people and several smaller meetings of faculty and students. Alston said he came to understand and respect the college's Quaker approach, which emphasizes intro spection and deliberation. "Don is not Skip Alston in his way of handling things," Alston said. m TOO mm 1)1! RHAM l)r:MONSTRATORS' SIGNS SEND .SI RONC; MESSAGE PRIOR TO UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAE KOFI ANNAN'S TRIP TO IRAQ (Photos by Lawson)
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