Buffalo Criterion, 1986-09-11

              thursday september 11-17 1986 niagara region wny . necessaru minoritt newspaper - featuring paid legitimate circulation vol 60 - no 37 the buffalo criterion rochester george w smith ex-boxer dies funeral services for the late george w smith-were held wednesday sept 10th at 11 a.m from st luke ame zion church 314 e ferry st the rev robert l graham is pastor mr smith was born on october 5 1904 in little rock arkansas he was the son of the late mary and richard smith he passed away thursday sept 4 1986 mr smith lived with his grandfather in helena arkansas for a time eventually his grandfather moved with him and his mother to st louis missouri about 1915 there he began boxing as a teenager a very successful amateur fighter george had aspirations of being a member of the u s olympic team during the early 19305 however because of his age and his inability to attract outside support he decided instead to concentrate his energies on helping some of the younger boxers to advance in the sport he began his long career as a boxing coach trainer manager and promoter in st louis during the early depression years mr smith had a large scrapbook filled with fading and deteriorating newspaper clippings which chronicled his involvement with boxing during the 19305 those clippings substantiate the fact that he was a pioneer in the field of amateur boxing in the u s a newsclipping from a st louis paper during the late 1930s summarized his early contributions in amateur boxing under the headline george smith makes history in amateur fight circles the article stated the name that is rapidly forging ahead n the sporting world of this region is george w smith young smith is a pioneer in his field and one of the ace trainers of amateur fighters this city has to offer some weeks ago smith president and organizer of the brown bombers athletic club opened the first all-negro doxitiy aha training - quarters ■ ever sponsored here the brown bomber a c was organized may 15 1936 in the gym of the pine street v.m.c.a in honor of joe louis now world's heavyweight champion after months of preparation smith has been able to present to the young negro boys and men of this city the first public gym of its kind in missouri besides being president and founder of the brown bombers smith is vice president of the golden gloves trainers and coaches association of missouri a signal honor for a negro smith summed up his motivating philosophy as follows if i can succeed in building more boys into find sturdy men of the caliber of our joe louis or john henry lewis or henry armstrong then i'll feel my work in a measure might be called a success sure the road has been tough at times but things that are worthwhile are often hard to achieve according to the clippings in his scrapbook mr smith had a dramatic impact on the early history of amateur boxing in st louis article after article highlights the success of members of the brown bombers athletic club of st louis mr smith always liked to discuss his work with the young men whose lives he helped to shape during those years in st louis many of the fighters in the brown bombers club went on to eventually win national golden gloves championships whatever their success as boxers the value system that george smith articulated — self confidence perserver ance competitive spirit and respect for self and others certainly helped them to tvis«ttru:iglr-ar,j txsnfcr men in 1939 or 1940 mr smith and several of his boxers decided to move to buffalo smith hoped that the increased opportunities for amateur competition that buffalo offered would help prepare his fighters for a shot at making the u s olympic team in 1940 the boxers who accompanied smith to buffalo included cyclone williams art foster charley riley bobby collins and clarence jones smith and his young proteges liked what they found in buffalo and decided to george smith — george w.smith new sunday service schedule elder lee a spight st pastor of holy temple church of god in christ 572 clinton st in buffalo has announced the they have changed their sun ' day worship service hours the new hours are as follows sunday school will begin at 8:30 a.m sunday morning worship ! 10 a.m sunday evening y.p.w.w 5:30 p.m and sunday night worship 7 p.m • elder spight said our church wants to make it more convenient for the members and their fami lies to worship at an earlier hour this means that they will also be able to leave at an earlier hour pastor spight will be preaching at 11 a.m sundays with the holy ghost in full control he invites the public to come out and enjoy the services at holy temple an intalligant man never nut**nybody v«uv*nargu garden party for judge trammell well attended on sunday sept 7th a lovely garden party was given at the home of mrs william v callahan sr in honor of judge wilbur p trammell dignitaries from the church community and organizations came to speak and to lend their support to the candidates of their choice and to the public officials it is estimated that between 200 and 300 people were in attendance judge anthony p lc russo running for re-elec tion and david swarts a candidate for erie county clerk were also present realizing that it is an honor and a privilege to engage in the political process many people spoke and showed their enthusiasm for this right the setting for the party was in three picturesque flowers gardens remind ing one of a hollywood garden scene the gardens consisted of hun dreds of beautiful flowers the following is an outline of the program after which a beautiful reception followed the mistress of cere monies was mrs pauline mcgowan former 12th ward supervisor and a member of metropolitan united methodist church prayer was given by rev joseph davis pastor of trinity baptist church the welcome was given by captain marion bass party — bill proposed to provide seniors real property tax exemptions county legislator wil liam f robinson has co sponsored legislation to allow more senior citizens who own homes to take advantage of the county's program which provides real property tax exemp tions of up to 50 percent to senior citizens age 65 or older robinson explained that until recently only senior citizen homeowners who have incomes which are less than 10,500 were eligible to receive a 50 percent break on their county property tax bill the income limitation for participation in the program remained the same since 1982 however recently the state legislature and governor cuomo approved legislation to allow local governments to raise the income limitation for parti cipation in the program from 10,500 to 12,025 robinson said the legislation i co sponsored is designed to implement the 12,025 higher income amount in erie county it is expected that the county legislature will approve my legislation on sept 18th after it holds a public hearing on the issue robinson related with inflation eating away at the fixed incomes oloucseniotfl^jt becnoißts a number one priority that we in county government lend assistance to our senior citizens whenever we possibly can with this new legislation coming out of albany it is important that we act accordingly and take immediate adva tage of this new measure and give all the help we can to the senior citizens of erie county many of whom struggle every day with their family budgets because they are burdened with fixed incomes that most often cannot keep pace with the cost of living robinson assert ed the adoption of my legislation will help ensure that a greater number of senior citizens who own homes take advantage of the 50 percent county property tax exemption concluded robinson eva m doyle columnist to speak in rochester the carolina steering committee will have its fourth annual carolina ball and cultural extrava ganza on sat sept 27th at the masonic temple 875 east main st in rochester n y the keynote speaker will be mrs eva m.doyle educator and columnist for the buffalo^criterion the program will start at six o'clock with a cash bar a cultural awareness program and a southern style buffet dinner entertainment will follow the dinner the carolina ball and cultural extravaganza is a socio-economic socio-poli tical educational and cultural awareness event which is held annually in rochester the donation for this event is 15.00 in advance and 18.00 at the door tickets are on sale at mitchum's barbershop 592 north st in roches ter for further information call mr james at 716 482-6936 mrs evam doyle in th early 1800s half a washington stamp 10c was often used for 5 postage ub cites minority medical students youth awarded for participation in research fifteen students who helped conduct research on topics ranging from assessment of teen atti tudes towards smoking to mechanism involved in cell membrane transport processes were awarded certificates from the mi nority high school student research apprentice pro gram at the state univer sity at buffalo the students who were paid for the research they conducted with ub faculty for six to eight weeks this summer were selected from some 50 who applied the students and their faculty mentors were honored at a luncheon in cary hall aug 22nd now in its sixth year the program attracts tal ented minority high school students to scientific ca reers in which minorities have been historically underrepresented maggie wright ph.d ' assistant dean of the school of medicine says theproo&oi.t'r&rpßuedsfso popular with faculty that there is a waiting list for next year several of those who served as mentors this summer had partici pated previously dr wright explains that the students are assigned to assist in research which as closely as possible matches their own inter ests in some cases the ' students contributions have been significant enough to be included as . co-authors of professional articles subsequently pub lished in scientific journ als citing wit sutess uf me program dr wright notes that one of the first student participants will be a freshman at üb's school of medicine this fall others have enrolled at ub or elsewhere to pursue careers in medical or scientifically oriented fields donald rennie m d speaking at the luncheon said the program was a gamble which paid off j the program here is , helping to buck a depress ' ing national trend in which we are seeing fewer minorities entering college and even smaller number of them choosing graduate and professional educa tion says rennie vice provost for research and graduate education at üb several faculty who served as volunteer men tors mention that the enthusiasm of the students and the quality of their research has been gratify ing ' the - research ■ they've done is more typical of what would be graduate level work one says dr wright and wendy katkin ph.d were co directors of the program funded by a grant from the national institutes of health the new york state department of edu cation's step program and the ub school of medicine the students their high schools and mentors and departments are toinette randolph am herst high school mary bisson ph.d depart ment of biological sci ences carla vernon amherst high school leo fedor ph.d department of medicinal chemistry john kirn sweet home high school and michael hudeck ph.d depart ment of biological sci ences mary elizabeth lopez williamsville south high school steven kanv insky ph.d department of pathology christina taylor bishop turner high school marilyn morris ph.d depart students dorothy p shelton of buffalo imperial commandress was recently re-elected as head of the daughters of isis at their annual convention held in chicago 111 for the year 1986-1987 shown in the picture from left are j carl bland of buffalo illustrious commandress mary n fisher imperial coordinator norma j ganaway imperial comman dress dorothy p shelton and edwin muse naacp life membership consultant anniversary service planned for rev henry hall the 22nd anniversary service honoring the rev henry hall for all the work that he has done for the past year will be held on friday oct 3 at 7:30 p.m at the trinity baptist church 41 spruce st it is being sponsored by rev hall's daughter delores hall and his grandchil dren rev hall told his children to invite all of .... . adopted sons and daug thers to come out and make this a family reunion and a home coming day to be remem bered he also told the children . now if you love me do as i have asked you to do because you never know when your last anniversary will be but god knows rev hall has observed this anniversary date for the last 22 years for the last 38 years he has been going to the erie county home on new year's day and god has blessed the prayer band with rich blessings the honoree said that he wanted his sons from city hall to be at the anniversary service that night including council man james pitts council man david collins coun cilman clifford bell and council president george k arthur rev hall remarked as you know these four young men sponsored me last year trinity and all of my churches in buffalo have never let me down the great lakes association and the ministers wives have been r_y frienda and i can say thank you lord refreshments are al ways served free at the anni jrsary rev hall also said ' don't.fqrqpt.,ypilwil irab1 rab honoring a 93-year-old father he loves all of his children i thank you for everything rev joseph davis is host pastor rev hall said that he is a very kind person rev henry hall buffalonian re-elected the 75th annual shriners convention was held in chicago last month dorthy perry shelton a native buffalonian who is imperial commandress of the imperial court of daughters of isis commended dr benjamin l hooks the naacp's executive director who made a surprise appearance at the meeting held at the mccormick hotel hooks exchanging words of praise noted that the imperial court has been a longtime and generous supporter of the nation's oldest civil rights group he said that there is a great need for th auxiliary to continue its role as a civil right advocate because of the reagan administration's attempt to turn back the clocks on all the gains we have made following his brief remarks hooks presented daughter norma j ganaway of south bend indiana a plaque for outstanding services in coordinating naacp membership drives since 1967 he also buffalonian re-elected — — see page 2 see page 7 see page 2 - see page 2 serving working leading in wny inner cities since 1923 price only 20 c per copy