Pete’s
Pickin’s
IjJYW^A. “PETF” WILDER
Chuck Hunter made me feel badly about my surprise birthday affair
whan ha informed me that he and his brother-in-law "S pee die" Guess were
not contacted. When I explained that my daughters had made the secret
arrangements, maybe that might have removed some of the “pain." Chuc,
should know that our respect for the Hunters goes back to my grandmother
and his. And I’m glad Speedie Guess was absent when Chuck talked with
me.
After much “prayer and persuasion,” Rev. Howard Todd came back to
the Breakfast Club Tuesday morning. Or should I say “thanks” to his wife.
He waa scheduled to accompany Rev. Leotha Debnam to Charlotte last
weekend. It seems that Jim Keck got his salutory breakfast recently but did
not get the “fresh orange juice." “Po Al" Perry seems to have trouble making
regular appearances at the Breakfast Club. I’m wondering if Al is “protect
ing his interest"
There is something nice about honesty. Dr. Charles Alston came in
Tuesday morning and made a profound statement. Aaron W. Solomon waa
so sharp one day last week that he took the house down. Some fellows had
something to say about i t after he left. Deacon Willie Jones was “out oTsight”
Wednesday morning. What was his mission? He did not volunteer and I
dare not ask him.
Two fellows leave by 6:30 a.m. They are protecting their interest with
the State of North Carolina. Perry—the barber—calls it “work.” As for me,
th&y mn looking after their retirement.
The barber, Perry, came to the club Thursday morning, ordered his
anack and plunked it down where 1 usually sit. A1 Perry noticed that be
spilled some milk on hte table. Al, in a reproaching tone, reminded him that
if ha had been milking a cow he would have been more careful. Whereupon,
Perry, the barber, replied that he knew nothing of milking cows, they had
Carnation and Pet milk when he came along. Perry the barber got the
pennies for the morning. “Po Al* Perry had really stepped into that one.
Hugh Anderson has a way of slipping in on Thursdays. I’m sure the gang
Joins me in wishing for Rev. AJ. Turner strength so that he can come back
at least every Tuesday.
Joshua Massenberg, pianist de luxe, passed Monday night and was
Mineralized from Lea’s Mortuary Friday, Feb. 7, at 1 p.m. “Mack* had a
lovely touch, loved music to the end. Ms. Annie Belle Massenberg, his wife,
and adopted son, Ben Massenberg, survive him.
The gang got together last Friday at K&S at 1 p.m. What was going on?
Mo. Delores McCoy, the housing expert with the Council on Aging of Wake
County, was belatedly feted for her birthday. Among those present were
Mesdames Cheryl Inniss, Pat Christmas, Veigie McNeil, Portia Lett, the
honoree and “The Pen.”
Riding on to the Breakfast Club one morning, I heard the “BP" ad from
Williford’s. Really, it was nice until I heard the name of Bennie Gill. Then
I arrived at a new conclusion: Robert had some money to spend and
somehow he thought he would include Bennie. What a “poor investment!”
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I heard that Martin Street Baptist Church plans to have a retirement
banquet for Ms. Lucy Farrell. Ms. Farrell has spent many years of useful
service to that church. Really, I think she has more years to her credit in that
sphere than anybody in the Capital City, white or black.
Bro. Clegg came in Thursday morning. It was real nice to see him after
untold absences.
Ms. Gloria Payne of the City of Raleigh’s Human Resources Depart
ment was honored on her birthday by co-workers at a dinner party at
Garner’s Golden Corral. She received some real fancy gifts. The people to
whom she entrusted her safety were so slow that I already had my lunch
on my tray when they reached the Corral. I wondered where they had been
far all of us came down on the same elevator. Then my deductive reasoning
want to work and it finally told me that “They did not have the necessary
binding and had to find it quickly.”
Ms. Pauline Williams is back at home, 511 Montague Lane. Her many
Mends and neighbors welcome the news.
Ms. Lillie Mae Haywood Hodge passed recently and funeral services
were held at St. Paul AME Church last Monday. Among the out-of-town
relatives were Ms. Mary Louise Jennings and daughter of Ocala, Fla; Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Haywood, Jr., New York, N.Y., and Col. Vernon Haywood,
Tucson, Aril. Other survivors are Ms. Charlotte Haywood Green,Wayman
Hodge, son; and a niece (let me call it like I know her, for I don’t know her
married name), Ms. Gwendolyn Haywood. Really, I did not know that
Vernon was blind until then. Coming out of the church, the boys called their
names as they embraced him, letting him know that they still remember
him at home. As for Vernon, he smiled. That was enough!
Zetas Celebration 72nd Yr.
Of The Founders In City
Twenty-two undergraduate Bo
nn from local colleges and univer
sities mat with Omicron Zeta Chap
ter, ZetaPhi Beta Sorority, Inc., in a
Joint celebration of the 72nd anni
versary of their Founders’ Day. The
event took place atBalentine’s Cafe
teria in Cameron Village at 11:15
ajn. Jan. 18.
Activities started with a buffet
luncheon and greetings from Soror
Mary Clarke, baaileus of Omicron
Zeta Chapter. At the beginning of
the program, Felicia Gore, a soror
from the undergraduate chapter of
St. Augustine’s College, read the
poem “Pearls’ to commemorate the
five sorors, known as “pearls,* who
founded the sorority. During the
ceremony, soror Wanda Poole,
Founders’ Day chairperson, and
other committee members rendered
selected readings, reviewed the his
tory of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
and led the entire group of sorors in
a catechism of historical facts about
the sorority and the local chapter.
Since its inception on Jan. 16,
1990 on the campus of Howard Uni
versity in Washington, D.C., as the
sister organisation of Phi Beta
Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Zetas have
been actively involved in commu
nity service. Omicron Zeta Chapter
was chartered on Aug. 15, 1935.
Mihrr* crystal picture frames were
presented to sorors Evelyn Bennett
Fops and Ann Simpson Hawkins in
recognition of their distinguished
status of charter members. Soror
Bemsstine Sanders received the
award for Soror Hawkins.
Zetas were especially proud to in
troduce the undergraduate sorors
from St Augustine’s College and
Shaw and N.C. State universities,
as well as sorors Katie B. Harris,
Doris B. Johnson, Monica Keele
Jones, Tonay Johnson and Overa M.
Reid, representing two reel ai man ts,
one transfer and two visiting sorors,
respectively. Other Founders’ Day
committee members are sorors
Almeda Glascoe, Margaret Cape
hart, Irene Miller and Debra San
ford.
Dr. K. A. Boham
To Literacy &
Basic Skills Body
Dr. Kenneth A. Boham of Raleigh,
vice president for continuing educa
tion at Wake Technical Community
College, has been appointed to the
North Carolina Committee on Liter
acy and Basic Skills.
Gov. James G. Martin appointed
Dr. Boham to the committee, which
consists of 13 representatives from
education, job training, human re
sources, public assistance, libraries
and economic development.
The committee will advise the
governor, the State Board of Com
munity Colleges and other public
policy and educational leaders on
issues and needs in basic skills
education for adults. Another goal is
to foster cooperation between the
public and private sectors in meet
ing the critical need for higher basic
skills in the workplace and to ex
pand public awareness of the need
for a literate citiienry.
Dr. Boham will serve on the com
mittee through December.
Survey Of Youngster Find
Poor Children More Likely Overweight
Poor children are nearly three
time* as likely to be overweight da
children of middle-class and afflu
ent families, according to an analy
sis of a nationally representative
sample of6,700youngsters aged 5 to
17.
Black children, the research also
finds, are more than three times as
likely as white children to be over
weight, which is defined as 30 per
L.A. Police Chife Gates Says He
Opposes Reforms & Won't Step Down
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP)—
Chief Daryl F. Gates stated Friday
that ha’ll campaign against recom
mended police department reforms
he believes are unwarranted and
repeated he won’t step down in April
ae previously promised.
The chief said in early January he
wants to stay on the job past April to
streamline his department’s com
mand structure and preside over the
new community-based policing pro
gram suggested by the Christopher
Commission.
The commission wets an inde
pendent panel appointed by Mayor
Tom Bradley that reviewed the
department after the March 3,1991
Rodney King beating.
Some oftihe panel’s recommenda
tions include limiting the police
chiefs term to 10 years. Gates has
been chief nearly 14 years and has
been with the LAPD since 1949.
The term limit issue will go before
voters in a June municipal election.
Gates said he will campaign
against the term limit and reforms
that would give control of LAPD to
the Police Commission, City Coun
cil and Mayor.
*T will use every ounce of energy I
have to defeat that,” he said. “I think
that will be the end of good policing
in the city of Los Angeles.”
“I will [retire] sometime before
•July 1, at least that’s my position
right now,” Gates said in^a KNBC
TV interview.
“I am not going to go until after
the election in June. Absolutely will
not. And I wish Christopher and the
rest of them would stop bugging me
about it.” Gates was referring to
Warren Christopher, who headed
the Christopher Commission.
Gates previously said he would
retire in April. That announcement
followed months of speculation as
city officials and some activists
blamed Gates for the beting of the
black motorist and urged his resig
nation.
However, Gates said Friday that
pressure from commission members
and Bradley for his forced retire
ment make him more determined to
remain chief.
“I’m hopeful that all those loud
mouths out there will shut up so
that this resistive thing within me
doesn’t say, “Hey, I’m going to stay in
just to drive them crazy,’” Gates
said.
“For Christopher and some of
these people that sit-up in their
beautiful paneled offices to continu
ally talk about these fine police offi
cers in the way they do, that makes
me resistive; that makes me want to
stay here,” Gates said.
cent or more above the normal ratio
of weight to height for a given age.
According to the new study, 14.4
percent of poor children are over
weight, compared to 5.2 percent of
children from families with incomes
at least twice the poverty level, a
group that includes about 60 per
cent of American children. About
17.3 percent of black youngsters are
overweight compared to 5.3 percent
of whites.
The combined effect of race and
poverty is even more dramatic: 21.9
percent of black children living in
poverty are overweight compared to
4.5 percent of middle-class and af
fluent white youngsters.
The findings—which appear in
the winter issue of the Journal of
Health Care for the Poor and Un
derserved, published by Meharry
Medical College—derive from the
1987 National Medical Care Expen
diture Survey, the most recent na
tionally reoresentative sampling of
r
health care uie and expenditures. ,
Prepared by Dr. Llewellyn J. Cor- .
nelius, of the Agency for Health
CarePolicy and Research of the US.
Department of Health and Human ,
Services, the paper in the Meharry
journal represents the first publica
tion of the survey’s results relating
to the health habits of children.
The results are in distinct con
trast to those of an earlier federal
survey, the Health and Nutrition
Examination Survey, conducted
between 1976and 1980. An analysis
of that survey by a group from Har
vard University found obesity to be
considerably more prevalent among
white children than among black
children. While that analysis em
ployed a different method of meas
uring obesity than the new research '
does, Dr. Cornelius is doubtful that
this could account for the wide vari
ance between the two surveys. The
measures, he points out, have been
shown to be highly correlated.
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