Prison Unit
Challenges WGIV
in Benefit Game
Charlotteans will be able to
donate to the Martin Luther
King Memorial Statue Fund
and watch two excellent bas
ketball teams compete at the
same time next Monday even
ing.
The udbketuau team 01
Camp Green Prison Unit will
be playing WGIV’s team at
Johnson C. Smith University
Gym beginning at 7:30 p.m.
All proceeds will go to the
Martin Luther King Memorial
Statue Fund to help push the
drive over the top. The fund
raising effort, begun in 1976 by
the Rev. James Barnett, is
now in the hands of a commit
tee headed by Rev. Coleman
W Kerry, Jr. of Friendship
Baptist Church. The commit
tee hopes to close out the drive
this year, making Charlotte
the first major city In the
South to erect a statue in
, honor of the great civil rights
Teader.
The game is the result of the
combined effort of the Unit
basketball Team of Camp
-jSreen Prison and the Citizens
Advisory Board along with
, Station WGIV, the Martin Lut
'frer King Memorial Fund
:Drive Committee, Unit Super
intendent Robert L. Reese, the
? coach, Leroy Foster. The men
Jon the team had expressed a
deep concern toward honoring
jj Dr.King, and wished to
j express their appreciation to
* the Charlotte community for
| their involvement in matters
!* affecting the unit population.
Superintendent Reese explain
ed that on this unit volunteer
citizens and community invol
: vement in corrections were
! emphasized. “We appreciate
i the opportunity to participate
S in a community project,” he
| said.
* The Citizen's Advisory Com
j mittee, composed of citizens
; from the community who are
: sincerely committed to aiding
I in the correctional effort
toward the men qt Camp
Green thru citizen involve
ment, did much of the contact
| work that had to be done in
; order to insure that the game
f would take place.
PRESIDENT MEETS NNPA DIRECTORS
ncaiucm oiiimiy carter gestures wruie
making a point during a recent meeting with
the board of directors of the National
Newspaper Publishers Association. The
Association was at the White House on the
occasion of Black Press Week, March 14-17,
and came to discuss their concerns about
black America. Shown with the President
from left-to-right are: Kenneth Stanley,
editor-publisher, Louisville Defender; Wil
liam H. Lee, editor-publisher, Sacremento
Observer; Mrs. Jane Woods, publisher, St.
Louis Sentinel; The President; John H.
Sengstacke, publisher, Chicago Daily Defen- '
der; Majorie Parham, editor-publisher, Cin
cinnati Herald; Alfred L. Morris, president,
Philadelphia Tribune; Robert bogie, adverti
sing director, Philadelphia Tribune; John B.
Smith, executive vice president, Atlanta
Inquirer, Sherman Briscoe, executive direc
tor, National Newspaper Publishers Associa
tion; Howard Murphy, comptroller, Afro
American Newspapers; John H. Murphy,
chairman of the board, Afro-American News
papers; Ophelia DeVore Mitchell, publisher,
Columbus Georgia Times; William O. Wal
ker, editor-publisher, Cleveland Call and
Post; and John L. Procope, publisher, New
York Amsterdam News. Shown behind the
President are Louis Martin, Special Assistant
to the President; Karen Zuniga and Julia
Dobbs, both deputies to Mr. M^tin.
April: Cancer Control Month
Cancer Claims 395,000 Victims
oy susan n.usworui
Post Staff Writer
Cancer claims the lives of
195,000 victims annually.
The American Cancer So
ciety will make an effort to
heighten public awareness of
the disease during April,
through educational and fund
raising activities. April is
Cancer Control Month accor
ding to Ms. Sherry Bailey, a
member of the Public Infor
mation Committee of the
American Cancer Society.
“In two out of three families
someone will have cancer;
and one out of every four
individuals will get cancer,”
Ms. Bailey said.
LaSalle Leffall, MD., presi
dent of the American Cancer
Society, and a black surgeon
at the Howard University’s
School of Medicine reported
how cancer specifically af
fects blacks in a February
interview in the Washington
Star.
He said one out of every six
deaths among blacks annually
is due to cancer. In the past 25
years the rate of new cancer
cases among blacks increased
by 8 percent while for whites
the rate dropped by 3 percent.
"These higher rates for
blacks may be related to an
increased exposure to chemic
al and environmental pollu
tants that result in cancer,"
Leffall warned.
“For particular types of
cancers, habits such as exces
sive drinking or smoking may
be related to the increased
risk to blacks,” he added.
The American Cancer So
ciety will encourage media
exposure and provide speak
ers to clubs, schools and busi
nesses to give information on
cancer, Ms. Bailey said.
A fund-raising goal of $125,000
is set for April. Individuals
will be contacted in their
homes about donating money.
"The majority of money will
go toward research," Ms.
Haney empnasizea. ine
bulk of the monies will be for
local use, with some national
and state allocations,” she
added.
"Trends in certain types of
cancers such as skin cancer
show a good survival rate.
The death rate from uterine
cancer has decreased by 70
percent over the past 40 years,
due to the development of the
PAP test, according to Ms.
Bailey.
More researcn ia i«*uw w
find ways of conquering other
kinds of cancer. Lung cancer,
for example, has increased by
10 percent a year.
“We are losing 96.000 neoole
a year to lung cancer,” Ms.
Bailey stressed.
The American Cancer
Society supports research and
urges individuals to seek me
dical assistance through the
cancer-testing programs that
exist.
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