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M PAGE AS Winston-Salem Chronicle APRIL 14, 1988 Forum Hospice: Thanks for coverage lb The Editor: ’'Bfl ^ should like to express our % af^jreciation to the Chronicle for the tit recently published articles on Hos- «vpice of Winston-Salem/Forsyth SI; County Inc. We believe that many - more people in the community le could benefit from our services (i.e., caring for the physical, emotional i,: and spiritual needs of terminally ill ftt; patients and their families). L- We depend on the support of H the community. We are currently in CHRONICLE MAILBAG Our Readers Speak Out need of more volunteers. Anyone interested in becoming a Hospice volunteer should call our office at 768-3972 for more information. Our next training session runs from April 30 to May 28. Special thanks go to you, Mr. Ernest H. Pitt, for giving us some concrete, sage advice on how to get our message out to the community; to Ms. Angela Wright, Chronicle managing editor, for interviewing our patients, family members, vol unteers and staff and for writing two excellent articles about Hos pice; and to Mr. Mike Cunningham, who, with Ms. Wright, took the photos that added so much to the stories. Mary Jackson Pohl Mjlunteer Program Coordinator Hospice of Winston- Salem/Forsyth County SiHunger taking on a new face in America nU WASHINGTON - The face of : hunger is changing in America. CHILDWATCH More and more of our citizens os who have worked and saved and By MARIAN W. EDELMAN oil struggled to support themselves still i[j; cannot feed their families. A new K report from the Physician Task il;Force on Hunger in America, tp; "Hunger Reaches Blue Collar America," tells us about some of io* these families: stQ “The bankrupt farm family that swallowed its pride to apply for food stamp assistance learns oo: that it is not considered worthy of The household has no lalj income, but governmental regula- 1 - lions say that their farm machinery j])ji disqualifies them for help ..." "The hotel maid works six days a week to support her family, but learns that her children can no longer get school meals ..." 'The medically insured miner cannot afford to feed his childre n properly due to the expenses of his wife's surgery ..." Hard-working Americans like these, the report tells us, are now reluctantly taking their places at the end of our swelling bread lines. In region after region of this nation, eco nomic hardship is robbing families of the means to survive on their own. In the South and Southwest, the decline of the oil industry has led to hundreds of thousands of lost jobs. In Texas alone, requests for emergency food have doubled since 1983. In the Farm Belts many family farms go under each year. Little wonder that doctors in Iowa and Minnesota are now remarking that rates of childhood malnutrition, anemia and growth failure (all relat ed to hunger) are on the rise. In the Rust Belt, many miners and steelworkers are left stranded in the wake of cutbacks and plant closings. In Allegheny County, Pa., requests for emergency food have gone up an astounding 1,742 per cent between 1979 and 1986. Wfe cannot sit back and watch as hunger sweeps across our nation. It is, as the report points out, "a pre ventable epidemic." We can elimi nate hunger by strengthening our commitment to government pro grams that have been proven effec tive in fighting this problem: Food Stamps, the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC, and the School Lunch and School Breakfast programs. Let your sentUOTs and represen tatives hear from you that you oppose all budget cuts and support desperately needed increases in these successful programs. Winston Churchill was right when he said: "There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies." Marian Wright Edelman is a National Newspaper Publishers Association columnist who is president of the Children's Defense Fund, a national voice for youth. Chavis From Page A4 hands with other supporters in a cir- “ cle of prayer for justice. It was all ^ these mothers could do to hold back ^^*1 their tears, but the outpouring of ■ unity and support from their neigh- • bors helped to comfort them. \Sfe support the call for freedom for the Robeson 3. We further believe that a congressional investi- ’^^gation is in order. We must not allow any version of apartheid to exist in this nation. In the wake of the inci dent that led to the Robeson 3 case, we have now learned that a Native American leader in Robeson Coun ty has been assassinated. Attorney Julian Pierce, a Native American candidate for Superior Court Judge, was running against District Attor ney Joe Freeman Britt. Pierce was Marable From Page A4 ’ twilight of the Civil Rights era, it " was difficult for many Black Stud- '/ies Departments and programs to survive, much less develop and expand. Within BSUs, interest in maintaining student involvement and support for all Afro-American academic i^ograms declined. In order to reverse the trend toward institutional racism in white higher education, Afro-Americans must recognize the connection between political struggle, institu tion building and educational change. Without strong Afro-Amer ican student organizations, there is no viable constituency which can reinforce Afro-American educators. Without strong and assertive Afro- American academic and student supportive services institutions on white campuses, affirmative action programs are meaningless. It makes little sense to recruit Afro-American students into white universities, only to see them drop out within mmths because of the absence of strong, supportive institutions with in their campuses. Afro-American educational progress for Afro-Ameri can youth depends fundamentally upon political and academic aware ness and self-organization. Dr. Manning Marable is chairman of the Black Studies Department at Ohio State University. xBrown iijii From Page A4 j good without public relations. _^Enough public goodwill will force the e to change and/or will reject n their goods and services. , Cohen’s article in The Wall Street Journal reflected Afro-Amer icans who felt deprived of business iiti! opportunities by white gatekeepers jy ;0f advertising who had shifted their priorities and resoiuces to the His- ''panic market because Hispanics ^ needed to be reached in another lan guage, they argued, lief' Those Afro-Americans in ili'Cohen's article responded with the )|ji‘.four Ps strategy: The Afro-American consumer market is $200 billion; the Hispanic market is $134 billion. Yet, you increased Hispanic advertising by 23 percent to $490 million and Afro- American advertising by only 2 per cent to $350 million. That logic lacks power and public relations. Jesse Jackson's pre-presidential tactics ignored tra ditional marketing and employed megamarketing tools. Which is why only a phone call from the "tree shaker" sent fear and reaction through corporate corridors. Jackson's logic of public rela tions was simple, a page taken from the old NAACP boycotts: "If they don't spend with you, don't spend with them." Afro-American radio stations and newspapers will not get a fair share of advertising until Afro- American people become educated in the use of their consumer The Winston-Salem Chronicle is published every Thursday by the Winston-Salem Chronicle J Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty St. Mailing address: Post Office Box 3154, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. Phone: 722-8624. Second-class postage paid at Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. 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For information about how you can purchase your pass, drop by one of these downtown locations or call 727-2000. WSTA Buses Carpaols Vanpools Trans-Aid Winstan-SalemTransit Authority 707-0000 recently shotgunned to death in his home. This kind of political violence and this kind of racial injustice must not be tolerated. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is exec utive director of the Commis sion for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ. SEAGRAMS GIN. one Afro-American radio station owner who rejected Buy Freedom messages on his station out of fear of alienating his white advertisers. He screams louder than most for more advertising, while he docs the most to keep Afro-American people from demanding that he get iL With power and public relations tools in hand, he, like many Afro- American broadcasters, publishers and ad people, refuses to use them in their own behalf. 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