MAUQN8 ON FK—Konny NmI didn’t Just happen to play the blues. He grew “ — i with Sim Harpe, Lazy Lester and Buddy Guy. The difference iMhlradNIoo makes can be heard on NeaTs “Walking On Fire,” his third effort Report Shows Disparity In Black-White Drivers PORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) —Black driven were more likely to be convicted of a traffic offense •in Florida last year than white driyprs, according to a newspaper analysis of computer records. WhSe several black leaden said the statistics show a pattern of discrimination, police officials said tickets are handed out without re gard to the driver’s race. Statewide, blacks make up 11.7 percent of the driving population but 15.1 percent of those con victed, the Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale reported Sunday. Across Florida, Mack males re ceived 1.74 tickets per-person, ocenpared to LSI tickets for white males, 1.41 for black females and 1.28 for white females. The analysis of Florida’s 1901 ticket convictions shows: •Blacks received proportionately more ticket convictions than whites in 40 of the 67 counties. •Palm Beach County had one of the worst records. Blacks made up 10J percent of die county’s driv ing-age population, according to the 1900 U.8. Census shows, but represented 16.2 percent of the ticket convictions. •The only eounties in the state with bigger gaps were St. Lucie County, which surrounds Fort Pieree, and Flagler County in northeast Florida. •Blaek drivers in Broward' County fared only slightly better; 12J percent of driving-age resi dents wore black, while 17.8 per cent of those who got tickets were Mack. "It ia not surprising. Black people know that when they are driving in certain neighborhoods and in eartain ears, they are pulled over," said Donald Bowen, presi dent of the Urban League of Brow ard County. "It is discouraging, but it is something blacks have been say ing far years. We are not treated equally," said Las McDermott, a I---1 Your oyo-coro professions ean rseommsnd ths most Boca Raton-area black activist Police say blade dri targeted. “Everybody gets handled tin. same,” said Capt. Larry Austin of the Florida Highway Patrol’s Lan tana office. “We don’t look at color. We look at driving.* Blacks in 16 of Florida’s most rural counties, mostly in North Florida, fared better • ! *' ; of driving aga They fared best in North Florida’s Jefferson County, popula tion 11,296. Blacks made up 40.1 percent of residents old enough to drive but only 25.8 percent ot the convictions. Whites comprissd made up 69.3 percent of the driv ing age population and 72.1 per cent of the convi tier.; “These little placev .n where everybody knows everybeuy else and everybody respects the peck ing order. So, because of that, blades are not as big a threat to police,” said McDermott, president of the south Palm Beach County National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. Palm Beach County was third on the list of counties where blacks got proportionately more convic tions than whites. Broward was 10th. 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ATTN: , -• Suite 334 eigh, NC M; FAX (tit) SSS4.No no calls please an Equal Opportunity Employer ATTENTION Notice is hereby given that a meeting will be held at Lightner Funeral Home on 8/25/92 at 7:00 p.m. for the purpose of submitting for the vote by the members and question of dissolving of the Burial Association and the purchase of life contracts on lives of members. Tuskegee Airmen, WWII Pilots Cited OSHKOSH, WU. (APV— Chaun dreds of other black pilots flew combat missions in World War II because Harry Truman was will ing to fight old prejudices. Spencer, recalling his experi ences among the blacks known during the war as Tuskegee Air men, attended the Experimental Aircraft Association's 40th annual exposition where a special salute to the war's black pilots was planned this evening. Truman was a senator from Mis souri when he heard about the op position facing blacks who tried to enlist in the 'Army Air Corps, Spencer said. The future president urged Con gress to appropriate $3 million to train black pilots at Tuskegee Air Field in Alabama, he said. Spencer said he flew to Wash ington, D.C., to campaign for blacks and accidentally ran across Truman in an underpass that con nected federal buildings. The senator later viewed Spencer’s plane which he said had survived a crash during the trip to Washington. He recalled Truman saying: “If you’ve got the guts to fly this thing Fm looking at, Fve got the guts to fight for you." An estimated 996 blacks earned their wings at Tuskegee. They flew :-re than 15,000 sorties in P-39s, i i 7s and P-51s, manning combat mber escort missions from n hern France to the Balkans. Records show 66 were killed and 32 were captured by the enemy. The EAA’s seven-day convention opened Friday and attracts thou - .5 • 44 i C l u> t UiiU C wCi i* from throughout the world. It es tablished a Tuskegee Airmen ex hibit at the show grounds near Oshkosh’s Wittman Regional Air port. The 332nd Fighter Group was credited with downing more than 280 enemy planes. Gorman Luft waffe pilots called its members Black Birdmen while grate Ail U.8. bomber crewmen dubbed them the Black Redtail Angels. *Tve met people to this date— I’m speaking mostly of black Americans— who aay to me: ‘I didn't know they had blacks flying in World War II,’” Felix Kirkpa trick of Chicago, a retired brewery worker, said. Kirkpatrick, 77, logged 70 mis sions escorting B-24 and B-17 bombers. He was awarded the Dis tinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with five clusters. He left the Air Corps as a major. Prejudioe followed the Tuskegee Airmen to Europe, Col. Charles McGee said. “Segregation wae strictly en forced," Kirkpatrick said. After completing a mieeion, McGee said, he wasn’t allowed to use the earns rest camp as whites. He was harassed if he went into a pub, he said. But the Tuskegee pilots’ contri butions helped convince the newly created Air Force in 1947 to inte grate officially, a year before Presi dent Truman ended segregation in the military by executive order. McGee later flew combat mis sions in Korea and Vietnam. ABA Officials React To Quayle’s Comments On Anita Hill Citation SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP>-An American Bar Association award to Anita Hill honored “a liberal heroine” whose allegations of sex ual harassment have been discred ited, Vice President Dan Quayle says. “Most Americans...believed Clar ence Thomas and not Anita Hill,” Quayle said. “That doesn’t matter to the ABA.” “To them, she is a heroine be cause she led the attack against a man who happened to be conserva tive and black-a combination that makes liberals fly into a rage,” Quayle told the Christian Coali tion of California, a group founded by Pat Robertson, on Tuesday. ABA officials, reacting to Quayle’s comments, said the award was not political but hon ored tits University of Oklahoma law professor’s courage in bringing sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas at his Supreme Court confirmation hear ings last year. The vice president has kept up a running battle with the ABA since he went before its convention a year ago in Atlanta and charged that too many lawyers and too many law students were burden ing the American economy. Quayle, in California on a three day campaign swing, sought a re turn engagement at this week’s ABA convention in Sim Francisco but was unable to agree with the lawyers on a time slot or ground rules for his speech. So instead, Quayle fired his shot at the ABA from Sacramento. The award was presented to Hill by the ABA’s Commission on Women in the Profession. 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