Buffalo Criterion, 1984-08-08

              rochester niagara region wny's necessary minority - circulation the buffalo criterion .«■« 11l nit ii - vol 59 - no 33 wednesday august hi i i'js4 out-uf-town 25c guidelines for home selection offered to seniors information exhibit booth to aid in consumer questions albany n y - con sumers can find out first hand how to select a home for himself/herself or an when this happens the resulting action is not necessarily the best or most appropriate for the person or his/her needs nurick continued aged parent friend or spouse at the 1984 new york state fair aug 25th through sept 3 the new york associa tion of homes and ser vices for the aging nysahsa will host an information exhibit booth throughout the 10-day event to answer consumer questions on the types of facilities and community outreach services available for care of an older person living in new york state knowing what ser vices and programs within a community are accessi ble to families is not always as sirpole a at sounds commented lloyd t nurick executive director of the associa tion often the need for community support ser vices is only sought in an emergency situation a series of consumer pamphlets entitled you do have a choice living alternatives for the elder ly will be available exclusively at the nyshsa exhibit booth at the new york state fair the booth is located in the center of progress on the fairgrounds the new york associa tion of homes and ser vices for the aging is the largest organization of non-profit and public homes for the aging in new york state repre senting ***** 000 elder residents in some 250 facilities based in al bany nyahsa is affiliat ed with th * american association of homes for the aging this article is reprinted from the catholic twin circle sunday july 22 1984 point of view black leaders slaves to white establishment by father virgil c blum presidential candidate reverend jesse jackson's son attends st albans washington's most elite private school it-re tuition charges are 10,000 a year his son associates with the children of d c delgate walter auntroy and the children of some of the members of the black congressional caucus wealthy blacks can send their children to st albans and other tuition-charging private schools poor black families cannot they are compelled to send their children to inner city public schools there they are deprived of hosir skills in reading writing and arithmetic they are thus predestined to graduate • functional ly illiterate unemployable and welfare dependent shocking yes ■ government reports reveal the results 12 percent of black 17-year-olds are functionally illiterate yet black leaders almost without exception strongly and articulately : oppose helping pour slack families pay tuition in inner city private schools where their children can get a quality ed ucation ten of 11 black congressmen voted against the federal government giving poor black families one-half of the tuition to send their children to let us say st albans where they could possibly mingle with jesse jackson's and walter fauntroy's children and learn to read write and add sums lives interwined most adamant against helping poor black parents are the naacp the national urban league and black columnists carl rowan and vernon jarrett because they are in effect slaves they are slaves of the white elite liberals with whom says black professor thomas sowell their lives are interwmed and from whom they receive the favorable publicity and financial support essential to their role as black leaders there you have it these.blacks are in a sense creatures of the white elite liberals and theefore take their gospel values and poutical stances from them the reverend jesse jackson for example was conceived out of wedlock and his mother was advised by her physician to abort him she did not dot so and jesse was born so jesse jackson reacting to his own neart dismemberment in his motkr's womb.i had always been proufe — until he decided to run for the presidency then he became pro-abortion — the dues he had to pay for acceptance by the white elite liberals and most especial ly by the crusading pro-abortion print and electronic press which have almost without exception epoused editorially and reportorially abortion rights pay dues because black leaders are the slaves of the white elite liberals they do not represent the blacks of our society they ac not represent the blacks since they have not says sowell been elected by blacks as their spokesmen but by the whit news media white philanthropy and white politicians as spokesmen for the black masses the dues they must pay to the white elite often prft them on m cuuttncyn uihw with the interests and welfare of poor deprived black families for thin reason concludes sowell much of the black les-at ship is not in the business of leading blacks but of extracting what they can from whites and their strategies and rhetoric reflect that orientation even when , to get the blessings of the white elite liberals they must light against quality education for poor black children white elite liberals oppose refund able tuition tax credits they oppose education vouchers and so do the black leaders although the black families they supposedly represent favor tuition tax credits and education vouchers by 80 to 20 percent black leaders lecture write and vote against such aid to black families almost without a dissenting vote professor sowell says ' the values and priorities of the black population not only differ from those of the leadership but can even point in opposite directions — as they do in the matter of family choice in education through tuition tax credits and education vouchers as i said these blacks are slaves to their white cute liberal masters as slaves throughout history black leaders get from their masters the elite white liberals their food housing and cotton-picking status in the community or as sowell says they extract what they can from whites father virgil c blum s j is professor emeritus of poutical science marquette university and founder and president of the catholic league for religious and civil rights appointed buffalo building supt new york state office of general services commis sioner john c egan has announced the appoint ment of lawrence rokitka to the position of superin tendent of the buffalo state office buildings i am delighted to welcome lawrence rokit ka to the buffalo state office buildings and am confident that many will benefit from mr rokitka's knowledge and leader ship said commissioner egan as building superinten dent he will be responsi ble for the operation and maintenance of four state owned buildings the fefceral donovan state offa*j3ldg the walter j mahondy state office bldg ta state office bldg at 77 west eagle st and a warehouse on delavan st mr rokitka - will be assisted by two building managers james francis and wil liam cybulski prior to this appoint ment mr rokitka worked for 15 years as an electrican and belonged to local 41 of the internation al brotherhood of electri cal workers mr rokitka is a native of buffalo and has an associate degree in elec trical technology from erie community college he also completed the new york state electrical apprenticeship program sponsored jointly by new york state and the nation al electrical contractors assoc the program required not only on-the job training but also that mr rokitka complete formal classroom courses at erie community col lege he has been a member of the doyle volunteer fire co 2 for 16 years and is currently serving his five year term as a member of the board of commissioners for that fire district he is a former fire chief and assistant fire chief with the doyle fire district in cheektowaga he resides in cheektowaga with his wife norine and their two children andrew and mary beth the appointment is effective immediately and mr rokitka's salary will be 27,362 lawrence rokitka kirkland headquarters to open friends of ted kirk land announced that-the grand opejiing celebra tion of campaign head quarters for mr kirkland will be held on sun august 12 from 2 p.m to 5 p.m the headquarters is located at 851 east dela van aye corner of stevens st refreshments and mu sic will be provided mr kirkland is a candidate for the 58th senatorial district theodore kirkland civil rights journal we must support the black press in "**- 827 freedom's journal this country's first black newspaper was begun by john b russ wurm with the words we wish to plead our own cause the black press — and by this we mean black-owned publi cations has continued to play a crucial role since lhat time giving shape and value to events within the black community it is with its coverage of the rev jesse jackson campaign however that the black press has shone the brightest as a recent editorial in the caroli nian the widely-read north carolina weekly noted if there is one lesson that rev jesse jackson's presidential campaign should have taught black america it would be that there is a definite need for black media...lf there has been one group across america which has stood at rev jackson's elbow record ing his every work and passing the same on to approximately 30 million black readers it has been the black press but as always the black press has done more than simply pass the word along it has ana lyzed the campaign too in a way which emphasized the campaign's potential and its victories while still examining its problems for example when mr jackson scored sweeping victories in the washing ton d c and south carolina primaries the white press ignored this it was the black media which publicized the re turns in front page head lines much as the white press had publicized the earuer wins of walter mondale and gary hart by the same token while the white media repeatedly tried to make us believe that jesse fly fir charles k sold ; jackson couldn't possibly win black media across the country were explain ing the rationale behind this candidacy and ex plaining that jesse had in fact already won in addition incisive national black columnists such as manning marable ethel payne and john lewis not only provided information about the progress of the campaign they also provided much needed guidance and criti cism mr marable's thoughful discussion of the direction the rainbow coalition should take after the convention ms payne's well-presented case against milton cole man whom she labelled the judas factor for revealing jesse jackson's off-the-record remarks and mr lewis's chastise ment of black indiana voters for allowing the tragic primary defeat of their representative due to low black voter turnout — au served to educate ' and heighten black politi cal awareness of course not all balck press columnists were supportive of the jackson candidacy some saw jesse jackson's campaign as half empty instead of half full tony brown and carl rowan for example have continually denigrat ed the campaign as only symbolic claiming that 1 it endangered the chances of a democratic win in november on the whole however the black press and its columnists have been true to russwurm's words in fact they have often been more progressive and re flective of the sentiments of the black community than its own politicians one recent editorial by the black national news paper publisher associa tion noted as jesse jackson so eloquently stated we need to turn to each other and not on each other if we don't who will in this same sense we need to turn to our black newspapers to give them the financial support they so badly need in order to survive as jesse jackson said if we don't who wiu this is dr charles e cobb of the united church of christ for civil righto journal thank yon for listening members thank pastor members of friendship baptist church who attended the funeral of rev clarence la vaughn . franklin saturday aug 4th in detroit michigan wish to thank their pastor rev a charles ware for providing the church van as transportation for them rev franklin was a former pastor of friend ship baptist church minority firm tapped daniels & bell inc the first and still the only black member firm of the new york stock exchange has been selected as one of the managers for a 230 million dollar note financ ing for the city of brotherly love phila delphia pennsylvania travers j bell jr chairman of daniels & bell inc states we are quite pleased to be one of philadelphia's bankers mayor wilson goode and treasurer curtis townsend have provided us with the opportunity to compete on a macro scale and we commend their ap pointment of daniels & beu for further information contact david e ourlicht at 212 422-1710 gospel organization to observe jubilee day the community gospel organization inc will celebrate a day of jubilee on saturday august 25 in the parking lot of 1490 enterprize 1490 jefferson aye featured will be gospel groups gospel choirs solists dancing and a live play there will also be many different games and contests senior citizens and some handicapped for west seneca will also partici pate refreshments will be served free everyone is invited to attend this day of jubilee a starfish can be cut into sizable chunks and each piece will grow into a com pletely whole starfish gerald jackson completes training airman gerald l jack son son of doris l albert and stepson of eugene albert of 317 glenwood aye has been assigned to sheppard air force base texas after completing air force basic training during the six weeks at lackland air force base texas the airman studied the air force mission organization and customs and received special train ing in human relations in addition airmen who complete basic training earn credits toward an associate degree in appued science through the cor vj nunity college of the air force the airman will now receive specialized in struction in the medical services field gerald l jackson owens addresses seniors in philly this photo was taken last thursday in the franklin hotel where 5,000 gathered in philadelphia pa to attend the national council of senior citizen's convention shown from left are john wilczak president of the council of senior citizen clubs in buffalo united states senator john heinz chairman of the u s senate special committee on aging r-pa.j ted damon chairman last thursday in the franklin hotel in philadelphia pennsylvania 5,000 people attended the national council of senior citizens convention shown in the photo from left are john wikzak president of the senior citizen's club in buffalo united states senator john heniz chairman of the senate special committee on aging r.-pa ted damon chairman of general motors employees retirees and william j owens communica tion's chairman for the council of senior citizens clubs of erie county and buffalo inc mr owens was also the speaker and spoke about notch regarding seniors boras between 1917 and 1921 and receiving less social security payments due to a computer error six hundred petitions in support of congressional appeal to right notch's wrong was accepted by u s senator heinz senator heinz spoke about the waste in the social security system f serving 1 working leading in wny inner cities i since 1923 i price only 20 c per cop