GOP Chairman
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Winning Blacks
■Y CHESTER A. HIGGINS. SR.
NNPA Newt Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Incumbent
NNPA President Patricia O’Flynn
Thomas, president/publisher of the
Milwaukee Community Journal, was
unanimously elected to a three-year
second term of office in balloting at
thn recent 49th annual NNPA conven
tion in New Orleans. . ‘
In other balloting action:
Dorothy Leavell, publisher of the
Gary (Ind.) Crusader newspapers,
was elected to the office of NNPA
treasurer.
Acting Philadelphia Tribune
president/publisher Robert Bogle
was elected to the board of directors;
Dr.Carlton Goodlett, publisher of the
San Francisco Sun Reporter, and
Christopher Bennett, publisher of the
Seattle Medium, were re-elected to
two-year terms on the board of direc
tors.
Bogle assumed the presidency (and
the position of publisher that
his predecessor, former pre
sident/publisher Waverly L.
Easley's resignation from the
Ttibune positions with the nation’s
oldest (more than 100 years old)
black newspaper, became official.
Easley Iias been the publication’s
president since 1960, but has served in
various executive positions with the
newspaper for 30 years.
Ms. Leavell also succeeds Easley in
the treasurer’s position.
In other board movements, second
vice president Thomas Watkins,
publisher of the Daily Challenge,
Brooklyn, N.Y., was elected first vice
president replacing Levi Henry,
publisher of the Westside Gazette, Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla.; and Ernest Pitt,
publisher of the Winston-Salem
Chronicle, was elected second vice
president.
Meanwhile, in crowded chambers,
the City Council of Philadelphia pass
ed a resolution congratulating Easley
for 30 years of “selfless, conscien
tious and dedicated service...” and
‘lor taking the Philadelphia Tribune
to new heights of achievement and
oupansion in the name and for the
sake of the African-American com
munity in this city.”
Pvt. Completes
Basic Training
Amy Pvt. Melvin E. Hagans has
cmnpieted basic training at Port Sill,
x'.OMa.
Oaring the training, students
received instruction in drill and
ceremonies, weapons, map reading,
tactics, military courtesy, military
Jaetiee, first aid, and Army history
aad traditions.
He is the son of Hattie R. Hagans
of Zebulon.
The private is a 1968 graduate of
East Wake High School. Wendell
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RAPSTAKES WINNERS-Al Cummings (far laft), King
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Think-Tank Says Safety Net For
Poor Can Be Created With Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C.-A health
care safety net for poor Americans
can be created without the present
system’s runaway inflation, layers of
bureaucracy, and inadequacies that
have left an estimated 37 million
Americans with no health insurance
at all, according to a new study by an
ultra-conservative Washington-based
think tank.
The study, recently published by
the Heritage Foundation, proposes
replacing the present system of
employer-provided health insurance
with one in which government would
continue providing medical care and
health insurance for those who can’t
afford them, but would require all
other Americans to buy basic, low
cost insurance covering catastrophic
medical expenses. Furthermore,
middle- and upper-income
Americans would be encouraged
through new tax credits to buy addi
tional insurance directly and pay for
their own routine health care.
These and other steps would control
inflation in health-care costs, freeing
more government funds to help poor
Americans get health care, contends
the 127-page study. Another proposed
step would allow middle- and upper
income individuals to take their new
tax credits for helping with the
health-care costs of needy relatives,
encouraging families "to become the
second line of defense against high
medical costs—behind insurance but
ahead of government,” the study
says.
Unless the current system is fun
damentally reformed, the Heritage
Foundation study warns, only huge
increases in payroll and income
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taxes, which would unfairly burden
low-income workers and slow down
the economy, can save the Medicare
and Medicaid programs from even
tual bankruptcy. From 1978 to 1988,
the study notes, the cost of the
Medicaid program, which was
created to provide basic medical care
for the non-elderly poor, rose from
$18.9 billion to $54.7 billion. Today, a
third of the Medicaid budget goes for
long-term nursing-home care for the
elderly.
Medicaid should be returned to its
original function, and a separate pro
gram created to provide nursing
home care for the elderly poor, says
Terree Wasley, author of the chapter
“Health Care for the Poor,
Unemployed, and High-Risk.”
Medicaid would continue covering
the poor elderly’s acute-care costs
not covered by Medicare.
The new national health system
proposed by the think tank study
would elimate the tax exclusion fuel
ing the present system of employer
provided health insurance, which, it
says, offers no incentives for con
sumers to be cost-concious. By using
tax incentives to encourage those who
can afford it to pay directly .for
routine medical services and in
i'
surance against major illnesses, the
Heritage plan would give hospitals,
doctors and medical laboratories in
centives to control costs and improve
quality.
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Angry Parents Demand
Recall Of School Annual
WOODSTOWN, N.J. (AP)-Nearly
all the yearbooks distributed to
Woodstown Middle School students
have been collected after angry
parents called hand-drawn portraits
of 17 students “offensive and demean
ing,” a school official said last Thurs
day.
The books contained black-and
white sketches of 17 students, who
were not able to have their pictures
taken. Five of the sketches were of
white students and the rest were of
black students.
Superintendent of Schools Ronald
Udy said pictures have been taken for
most of the students whose pictures
were net initially taken and a new
yearbook will be mailed to the
380-member student population. He
said about 95 percent of the year
books had been collected.
The yearbooks were recalled after
angry parents, in a letter to the school
board, said they were “appalled and
r
upset at the blatant lack of sensitivity
and obvious racism displayed by the
school’s staff in allowing the printing
of the 1989 yearbook.’’
The head and shoulder drawings,
which appeared in place of student
photos, depicted the black students as
balck-faced students with white
colored lips and eyes and curly hair.
A sketch of a white female student
showed a white face with a black
ponytail.
TEMPERANCE
Temperance is moderation in the
things that are good and total
abstinence from the things that are
foul.
—Frances Willard
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