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John Kodgers 1s Versatile Musician By James Peeler Post Feature Writer Multi-talented John Rod gers, owner and leader of John Rodger’s EXPRESSIONS says "I have been singing as } lqng if, 1 v«n rejnetnljer and I ' plan to go as far as my talent ■ will take me - all the way to the top.” Rodgers recalls that he be gan singing at the age of five in the choir of the church pastored by his Methoidst minister father, the late John F. Rodgers Sr., in Kingsport, Tenn. He has traveled extensively and his singing experiences are many. While growing up the family lived in many cities as his father answered the call to pastor at various church throughout the southeastern United States. The family has lived in Chattanooga, and Memphis, Tennessee, New Orleans, and Edenton, North Carolina among other places said Rodgers. Singer Rodgers spent three years in the U. S. Air Force beginning in 1959 and during his stay in service he played basketball, football, ran track, and sang on various talents shows and with different groups. Rodgers, who sings baritone and tenor, joined The Platters in 1968 and appeared with ^ them for four years. He has ^ sung commercials for Buick, and Oldsmobile in Detroit, Michigan - jobs that were secured for him by Maurice King, an arranger for Motown Records. After leaving The Platters, Rodgers resumed his singing single role at the Bavarian Lounge at Holiday Inn at Little Rock Road and 1-85 where he stayed for 8 months. He has since toured through out the northeastern and southeastern United States. Rodgers writes and arranges music and is pre sently studying drama under ;the well-known Dorothy.’ Masterson of the Charlotte" Mint Museum Drama Guild. In addition to playing the piano and organ he is present ly studying the viola. He says he has written several songs and plans to release a single soon entitled T Just Want The Love We Had Before." His newly formed ensemble does a variety of music includ ing "theTop 40 Rock and Roll, Country and Western, and the Standards," says Rodgers. They are currently appearing at the Castaways East Night Club in Winston-Salem, N. C. John's present ensemble, organized four months ago, consists of Grady Seigle, pia no; John Towler, guitar; Per vis "Tank" Lee Jr., bass; Allan Vann, drums; Dennis Head, rhythm guitar; Leroy A. Paige Jr.^.flute and alto sax; Joe MacMullen, trom bone; and Dan Ramsey Jr., .trumpet Rodgers is married to the former Beverly Blakeney, his manager and booking agent; they have no children, and live at 1921 Trentwood Place where they can be contacted by calling 392-5806 or writing to that address. Keep your out-of-town friends informed on what's happening in Charlotte by sending them a copy of the Charlotte Post each week. An annual subscription costs only HAPPINESS THROUGH HEALTH Ice Baths Aid Open Heart Surgery By Otto McClarrin Special To The Post ICE BATHS AID OPEN HEART SURGERY: The use of ice baths to stop blood circulation for up to an hour during delicate open heart operatons is saving the lives of blue babies and other infants born with critical heart de fects. a Boston surgeon re ported recently. Dr Aldo Cas taneda said the revolutionary approach to treating critically ill babies has more than hal ved the number of deaths of infants undergoing surgery to correct faults in hearts as small as a walnut. The ice baths lowers the temperature of the plastic wrapped body to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, then the infant is connected to a heart-lung machine briefly to cool the blood to 68 degrees and the machine is removed. The heart stops beating at 73 de grees. At normal temperatures, the body can withstand lack of blood circulation for only three minutes before the brain suffers severe damage from the lack of circulation for at least an hour when kept nearly 30 degrees cooler than normal. The operation has been per formed on babies as young as I 36 hours and weighing less than fiive pounds. DRUG USED TO TREAT SIMPLE DEPRESSION: Lithium carbinate, a drug used successfully to treat manic depressives. now has been proved "highly effect ive” in treating patients with severe recurring cases of simple depression, a New York researcher said recent ly. Simple depression is the most common form of the depressive illnesses, affecting four to six million Americans annually. Two million Ameri cans suffer from manic de pression. Despite new research find ings. Dr. Ronald R. Fieve of the New York State Psychiat ric Institute said "only a small fraction"--fewer than 100,000 of the patients suffering from either severe depression or manic depression is receiving lithium treatments. Lithium, a simple salt contained in mineral water, which ancient Greek and Roman doctors used accidentally to treat cases of manic depression, was found by an Australian doctor in 19-19 to calm manic patients. Dr. Fieve said he gives de pressed patients at his New York clinic standard anti depression drugs such as tri cyclics plus lithium for the first five or six weeks, then continues them on lithium alone. Sometimes during the first year, if the depression recurs, he gives the standard medicine again. By the end of a year, he said, the number of and severity of depressive episodes decrease. GIRLS NINE YEARS-OLD SEEKING BIRTH CONTROL ADVICE: Girls as young as nine years old are seeking birth control advice and pose a special problem as to whether their parents should be noti fied. a planned parenthood leader in San Francisco says. "A whole new policy or special program must be created for girls 9 to 12 years-old who are sexually active and need advice." Dr. Gerry Oliva, medical director for a Plan ned Parenthood Agency, said. Dr. Oliva said part of the problem is that her agency's information pamphlets, aimed at reaching adults, are "too complicated for a six-grader to understand." She said the agency has a policy of not telling parents when their children come for advice or contraceptives. This practice has so far been extended to even the youngest clients. "It is hard not to call the parents when the girls are 9 and 10," she stated. Dr Oliva said the trend toward earlier sexual activity "means that parents must ad vise their children earlier than in the old days. Now, telling a girl the facts of life w hen she's nine years-old may be too late to stop her from having sex." She said she learned at a national planned parent fed eration convention recently in Seattle that other areas of the country are experiencing the same increase in preteert activity. "Agency counselors throughout the country are totally overwhelmed by these kids." she said. (NNPA) I __ MULTI-TALENTED JOHN RODGERS ...Going all the way to the top I To Place Your Ad ! I I 392-130b or 392-1307 | Ihe rosl Is A\ailai)ie : At These f ine Locations: rv Bounty —.1201 Beattie* Ford Bd Busy Bee \o. I .'o.i Beatth ■ a tid Busy Bee \o. 2 -HUH Barringer Drive Daleltrook -2.~>Ot Beatties lord Bd. Lunsford (tracery -....,120 \ I ruin St. Mini-Pantry -2:i05 jJlSdl, >/. Meus Center _III West trade St. (W„ fitV _2204* Ii'/tiw/ l?.I I Helps Shrink Swelling Of Hemorrhoidal Tissues Due To Inflammation. Keiieves Pain ft Itch. ... 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