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Charles to judge blues contest LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ray Charles celebrated his 73td birth day with a cake shaped like a piano and visits' from Quiney Jones and Willie Nelson. "I've been lucky to have done so many things these 73 years, but there's a lot more I w ant to do in life, especially with longtime friends like Willie and Ouincv." Charles, a leeendarv musician, said ai his private studio. At last week's festivities. Charles also announced a blues songytriting contest, which he'll judge with help front Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Alicia Keys and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd. Teenagers can submit the lyrics to a blues song, and five winners will be flown to Los Angeles to work with Charles in producing the song. Runner-up prizes include a bass lesson with Flea and a guitar signed by Britney Charles Spears. Lyncs may Be sunmttted tnrougn a Web sice. The contest will end Dec. 15. Charles has been resting because of a hip ailment but has started work on a duels album to feature B.B. King and others. He also received birthday notes from Clint Eastwood, Elton John and Presi dent Bush. Charles, w ho was 7 when he lost his eyesight, has won 13 Gram my Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award. He also was one of the original inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame In 1986. He has recorded classic songs, including "Whal'd I Say" and "Georgia on My Mind." Rock Hill votes to observe Martin Luther King Day ROCK HII.I., S.C. (AP) - The city of Rock Hill has voted to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday. The City Council voted 6-1 last week to change the city 's current King Day policy and observe the day as a full holiday. The city had recognized King Day as a floating holiday, meaning employees had the option to take the day off as one of two floating holidays. Councilman Kevin Sutton voted against the change, saying the old policy better served city employees by giving them a choice about whether to take King Day off. But supporters said it was important to recognize the life and work of the slain civil rights leader. "Dr. King gave his life for the cause of equality and justice, not just for blacks, but for all the oppressed," said Osbey Roddey. one of the council's two black members. The move to change the city's policy came less than two weeks after Mayor Doug Echols requested the city fully recognize the holi day. The request immediately gained the support of a majority of council members. The city's change follows York County's decision earlier this month to change its King Day policy, which was similar to Rock Hill's. Richmond rejects idea to name street after native Arthur Ashe RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Richmond's City Council rejected a proposal to rename a street for tennis great Arthur Ashe, a city native who was barred from playing on segregated tennis courts when he was a child. The proposal drew opposition from many residents of the street known only as the Boulevard, a 2.5-mile thorouEhfare lined with churches, a synagogue, apartments, museums, businesses, sports complexes and about 1,200 Edwardian-era homes, many on the National Register of Historic Places. Seven years ago. the city split along racial lines over the large statue of Ashe erected on Monument Avenue, where several statues of Confederate heroes also stand. Councilman Walter Kenney Sr. sought the name change, arguing that it would help Rich mond embrace its diversity and reconcile its past "Richmond had a nninnt* nnnnrtnnitv to Ashe change the perception of race relations," Kenney said after last week's 7-2 vote. "This was a bridge for that." Ashe died of AIDS-related pneumonia in February 1993, 10 months after revealing he (tad contracted the disease from a blood transfusion during heart bypass surgery in the 1980s. About 50 people attended the meeting to argue against the change. Only one showed up to speak in support of the proposal. University shuts down race-based bake sale o (Special to the NNPA) - Southern Methodist University ended a bake sale recently where cookies were sold at different prices depend ing on the buyer's race or gender. The bake sale was organized by the Young Conservatives of Texas, who said the bake sale was intended as a protest of affirmative action. White males were charged $1 for a cookie: white women. 75 cents; Hispanics. 50 cents; and blacks, 25 cents. The group said it meant no offense and was only trying to protest . Jhe use cTl JLLO^jcnder as a factor in college admissions. Similar sales had Wen held by College Republican chapters at schools in at least five other states since February. A bltjck student filed a complaint with Southern Methodist Uni versity. saying the sale was offensive. School officials said they halt ed the event after 45 minutes because it created a potentially unsafe situation. The sale drew a crowd outside the student center and several stu dents engaged in a shouting match. Moore added. The group sold only three cookies during its protest, raising $ 1.50. Matt Houston, a black SMU sophomore, called the protest offen sive. "My reaction is disgust because of the ignorance of some of the SMU students." he said. "They were arguing that affirmative action was solely based on race. It's not based on race. It's based on bring ing a diverse community to a certain organization." The Chronicle (USPS 067-910) was established by Ernest H. Pitt and Ndubisi Egemonye in 1974 and is published every Thursday by Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101. Peri odicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, N.C. Annual sub scription price is $30.72. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Chronicle, P.O. Box 1636 Winston-Salem, NC 27102-1636 'Black-sounding' names a drawback? BY JUSTIN POPE THE ASSOCIATED PRI SS BOSTON - When Von nessa Goode gives birth in a few weeks, one of her first decisions could be among the toughest: whether to give her daughter a distinctively black name. On the one hand, Goode and the child's father don't want their daughter "robbed of her ethnicity," she said. On the other, she believes a dis tinctively black name could end up being an economic impediment. "I do believe now when a resume comes across an employer's desk they could be easily discriminated against because they know that person is of African-American descent." she said. "It's a dif ficult decision." Minorities of all kinds have wrestled with whether to celebrate their culture by giv ing their children distinctive names, or help them "blend in" with a name that won't stick out, Thousands of Jews have changed their names, hoping to improve their eco nomic prospects in the face of discrimination, as have Asians and other minorities. Blacks, however, have chosen increasingly distinc tive names over the past cen tury, with the trend accelerat PhoUfcby AP Vonnessa Goode is coping with what to name her unborn child. ing during the 1960s. Researchers who have looked at Census records have found that 100 years ago, the 20 most popular names were largely the same for blacks and whites; now only a hand ful are among the most popu lar with both groups. Names such as DeShawn and Shanice are almost exclusively black, while whites, whose names also have become increasingly distinctive, favored names such as Cody and Caitlin. Two recent papers from the Cambridge-based National Bureau of Economic Research draw somewhat different con clusions about whether a black name is a burden. One, an analysis of the 16 million births in California between I960 and 2000, claims it has no significant effect on how someone's life turns out. The other, however, sug gests a black-sounding name remains an impediment to get ting a job. After responding to 1,300 classified ads with dummy r6sum6s, the authors found black-sounding names were 50 percent less likely to get a callback than white sounding names with compa rable r?sum6s. See Names on A4 Williams, Bond trade barbs at GOP event ? BY HAZEL TRICE EDNEY NNPA CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON (NNPA) - NAACP Board Chair Julian Bond and conservative talk show host Armstrong Williams are accustomed to squaring off on television. But no one expected them to clash over a recent reception hosted by Williams in honor of the Bush administration's black appointees. "Julian Bond was here earli er and people were asking. 'Why is he here?'" Williams said last week to a largely youthful crowd of 150 people at the reception in the basement of the U.S. Capitol. "We want people to understand our ideas and what we believe in. It's easy to condemn the Republi can Party when you don't know what our message is." Williams was just warming up. "I'm not afraid of the other side, but they're afraid of us. That's why they demonize us. We have nothing to hide and nothing to run away from....It is very easy to tell the truth," Williams said. "It's when you tell lies (that) you have to have a memory to correct them. And we're right and they're wrong. Absolutely." In an interview. Bond, who spars often with Williams on "America's Black Forum." a nationally syndicated television program, said he attended the reception at Williams' invita tion and brought his 8-year-old grandson to meet high govern ment officials, but left when he saw who would be there. "The first thing I saw was the program. It featured Sen. (Rick) Santorum (R-Pa.) and (Rep.) TonTDeLay (R-Texas), and I thought, '...I don't want this child exposed to these peo ple.' It could harm him immea Bond 1^ Williams q surably to be exposed to people ? with such an evil view of jus tice and fairness," Bond said. "But, any rate, I did introduce Brandon to (Education) Secre tary (Roderick) Paige." Both Santorum and DeLay are white ultra-conservatives, consistently earning F's on the NAACP's annual civil rights report card. For three consecutive years, Bond hammered the Bush administration at the NAACP's annual convention. The first year, he likened the administra tion to the "Taliban wing of American politics." Last year, he equated Bush's civil rights policies to "snake oil." This Sec Williams on A10 ' Homes 1 year and older need to be checked for termites "A flea circus is a good act but it takes ?^Yfl termites to bring a * home down." * Call Triad Pest Control 1535 S. 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