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j ^The Challenge
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Of Influence
By Debra A. Worthy
Special To The Poet
Have you ever gone shop
ping for a hat and arrived
home with a pantsuit? Or,
maybe you needed a new
refrigerator-just something.
■" simple, but functional, and not*
to forget something in your
budget, priced considerably
moderate; and when you got
home you wondered why you
purchased a refrigerator with
a built-in ice maker, tape
player, self-defrosting, etc...?
* ' City Announces
4* Transit Action '
. Plan
Since Sunday, November 7,
the City of Charlotte has been
evaluating the impact of the
|Vlocal bos strike. To this date
FT-riders of the Charlotte Transit
System have found other me
thods of travel. Only a few
critical situations have been
I just recently purchased
THREE telephones; they call
it a packaged d^ri. But now,
keep in mind I called to &ave
one, 0-.N-E, phone for my
bedroom with an extension to
serve me throughout my small
( duplex.
Tell me, what am I going to
do with three phones with
extensions??? I have a tour
year old son who’ll be envied
by a lot of teenagers!
Influlnce, can sometimes be
detrimental to erne’s health
and-or pocket. Then, on the
other hand, it can prove re
warding
When the East Mecklenburg
students and teachers were
ambushed after a football
game I thought,” I wonder
who started it all?” It only
took me a split second to
think there must be a
ring leader whose followers
were influenced by the imma
ture behavior of the one to
start the show. This influence
proved detrimental to the
health of those attacked; not
to mention the fear some
identified and these have been
tft referred to appropriate agen
II cies.
k Based on City monitoring of
Tv ’ the bus strike and the level of
critical travel requests, the
following Action Plan is pre
sented:
ACTION PLAN
& I. Publish an Open Letter to
the Citizens of Charlotte -
, State the current situation and
suggest possible actions citi
„ zens can take individually or
in groups which will provide
transportation during the
strike. The letter will be pub
lished Monday, Nov. 15 in the
Charlotte News, Tuesday,
Nov. 16 in the Charlotte Obser
ver, and Thursday, Nov. 18 in
the Charlotte Post.
2. Direct Mail Specific Sugges
tions • Send letters to local
employers, churches, civic
groups and others. Offer ideas
on actions organizations
might take to assist bus riders
in their area.
3. Refer Critical Transporta
tion Requests -Contact appro
priate agencies or groups on
critical travel needs received
by the Charlotte Tansit Sys
tem and the City of Charlotte.
4. Continue to Monitor the
Situation - Evaluate and as
sess the effects of the bus
strike on riders and the com
munity.
The Citv’s Transit Plannins
paicma uiajr uuw lUlVC WHICH
may restrict a lot of students
from attending the games.
Sad for them...
We can be thankful to those
residing in the neighborhood
as it took one of those con
cerned enough with the attack
to influence others to aid those
under attack. This influence *
proved very rewarding.
Influence will play a great
part in the swine-flu vaccina
tion, those attending the polls
to vote on November 2, and
those who may refrain from
the two.
To meet the challenge of
influence, to me, means after
weighing all sides of a situa
tion, (first you must think)
and then carrying out what
ever action you feel best if it’s
satisfactory, mentally and
physically to all concerned; or
turning away from it as if it
was a bonfire.
We must let our conscience
be our guide.
I challenge you to help make
the future more confortable
for yourself and others by
meeting the challenge of influ
ence.
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New Foundation
To Promote
Office will continue to develop
travel alternatives to serve as
contingencies if circum
stances change.
Bob Hope To
Emcee Miss
Teenage Pageant
The 16th annual “Miss Teen
age America Pageant,” with
Bob Hope as emcee, will be
colorcast live from Tulsa, Ok
lahoma on Channel Nine Sat
urday, Nov. 27 at 10 p.m.
Cathy Durden, Miss Teen
age America of 1976, will be
the hostess of the 90-minute
program which originates
from the campus of the Oral
Roberts University.
Black Colleges
A new foundation has been
formed to promote predomi
nately black private colleges
and black students.
In a recent news release,
board chairman Karl J.
Wright of The K-Jay Founda
tion, Inc. explained its pur
poses. He said the newly form
ed organization will promote
47 black colleges and provide
full scholarships for persons
able to meet admission re
quirements at the student’s
choice of promoted schools.
“The foundation was form
ed to make our Black commu
nities aware of how many,
where; and the excellent op
portunities Black Colleges and
Universities can offer our
Black youth,” said the re
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Senior CMmaa Day will bo observed at
Mayfield Memorial Baptist Church, UwMeri
at 700 Sugar Creek Road West, on Sunday,
November 21. The special day is held each
year as the church honors and thanks God for
its Senior Citizens who, through walking with
God for years, have had experiences that
make them knowledgeable about the way of
Christ. A special dinner is also being held in
their honor at the Morrison’s Cafeteria
located in Eastland Mall. Each honored
person will eat whatever foods he or she
**—y •> wp«MM are borne by the
ctarch. The Benevolence Committee, chaired
by Mre. Margaret Dulin, is in charge of all
arrangements for the planned dinner. Buses
from the church will transport the Senior
Citizens to the Mall. Accompanying the
citizens will be Pastor and Mrs. H.S. Diggs,
Mrs. Margaret Dulin, Mrs. Martha Abel, Mrs!
Elizabeth Archie, Robert Lee Bell, and
Roosevelt Gooden; all of whom are members
of the Benevolence Committee.
Black Researchers Honor Carver
WASHINGTON-When agri
cultural scientists from pre
dominantly black land-grant
universities hold their bicen
tennial research symposium
in Washington this month,
special tribute will be paid to
Dr. George Washington Car
ver, a pioneer in agricultural
research.
A prized memento of the
symposium will be the bronze
medallion bearing the likeness
of Dr. Carver, and specially
struck for the occasion.
The symposium, at Shera
ton Park Hotel here Nov. 11
and 12, will celebrate the
nation’s 200th birthday and
recognize the contribution
black agricultural scientists
have made through the years
at the 16 land-grant universi
ties and Tuskegee Institute.
Much of this research is fi
nanced with federal funds ad
ministered by the U.S. Depart-'
ment of Agriculture’s Coope
rative State Research Service.
Carver, in'fM7 was named
the first director of the State
Experiment Station at fledg
ling Tuskegee Institute. He
spent 35 years working and
teaching there and became
internationally renowned for
his research accomplishments
which the peanut, sweet pota-_
to, and agronomy in general.
In 1965, then Secretary of
Agriculture, Orville L. Free
man in a ceremony honoring
Carver at the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture in Wash
ington, said:
“In his quiet, humble way,
George Washington Carver
did far more than most of us
realize to shape the develop
ment of our U.S. Department
of Agriculture...His life span
ned many of the major chan
ges in American agriculture -
and the truth is that mgny of
these Changes be hUiself help
ed bring about.”
ral products could be used
Industrially, and he led the
way in bridging the gap be
tween lab research and the
practical application of that
research on the farm. In so
doing, he foreshadowed the
work of our modern utilization
research and our extension
programs."
A dedicated scientist, Car
ver spurned job offers with
industry that would have
made him wealthy. When he
died in January, 1943 he left
his life savings of (33,000, to
the George Washington Car
ver Foundation for Agricultu
ral Research.
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Happiness Through Health
Blood Test Detects Cancer -
.... iU... L _ i. _Aft..
inadvertently found a sub
stance in the blood of cancer
patients that could provide an
early warning system for the
dread disease. Drs. J.C. Mor
rison and E.T. Bucovaz, of the
University of Tennessee, said
that tests of 4,200 persons
showed the system was nearly
90 percent accurate in identi
fying whether patients had
cancer._
They told delegates at a
meeting of the American Che
mical Society that if it proves
itself in further studies, the
Mood test could, in three
years, be part of routine year
ly physical examinations.
Numerous other blood tests
have been devised by scien
tists in the search for a fool
proof way to detect cancer at
an early stage. No test yet
devised has been successful
enough to be widely adopted.
The two scientists said they
began their research looking
at something quite different -
the structure of yeast cells. In
trying to find a protein mole
cule in the cells, they mixed
the yeast with human Mood to
see if the molecule they were
looking for would combine
with a different protein in the
blood.
By chance, the blood they
were using came from a can
cer patient. And they found
' that a protein in the blood did
latch onto the yeast protein.
When they repeated their ex
periment with Mood from a
healthy person, it didn’t work -
the proteins did not combine.
With 87 percent of the cancer
patients they tested later, they,
said, the combining occurred;
in 91 percent of the cancer
free patients there was no
combination.
ALCOHOL DAMAGES
BRAIN TISSUE:
Destruction of brain tissue
is prevalent among chronic
alcholics, including those mid
dle aged and younger, accord
ing to two studies at a Chicago
Medical Center. The studies,
recently completed at Rush
r resuyierian-oi. LrUKe s Medi
cal Center, covered two seats
•of alcoholic patients, ranging
in age from 34 to 74 and from
31 to 69.
Both showed “Brain atro
phy, a possible irreversible
loss of brain tissue often asso
ciated with old age,” among
the patients, the institution
said.
In the first group, research
ers found the sine of brain
ventricles, small cavities in
the brain, were “much larg
in non-alcoholic patients. But
it was not known if this result
ed in a loss of intellectual
function.
The second group consisted
of 46 alcoholic patients, ages
31 to 68 years old. While
atrophy was most prevalent in
those patients between 50 and
58 years, “48 percent of the
patients evidencing atrophy
were under age 50, and 25.8
percent were younger than
40.” —
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