Buffalo Criterion, 1986-07-24

              niagara region rochester price only 20 per copy the buffalo criterion serving working leading in wny inner cities since 1923 wny's necessary minority newspaper - featuring paid legitimate circulation vol 60 — no 30 thursday july 2*oo 1966 shown in the photo are the link scholarship winners at a reception honoring the students and their parents from left are nora rodriguez inserted laury betha keith wofford darcy davis ingrid johnson simon bailey robyn rasberry and georgine duncan inserted 7th agricultural day here july 30th rutkowski to host agriculture day fest country life comes to downtown buffalo next wednesday when county executive edward j rut kowski kicks off the 1 county's 7th annual agricultural day celebra tion farm equipment live stock country music and an open-air market will all be a part of the july 30th event at 12 noon on the rath building plaza 95 franklin st in addition to displays from area agricultural or ganizations an outdoor farmer's mart free corn roast produce raffle and noontime concert by the pointless brothers a popular blue grass group will highlight the celebra tion samples of dairy pro dthftts forrt io£&f (£^. p-*nl«m l«o will b dlotrl . buted the total economic im pact on the county from agricultural products sold is about 300 million which makes agriculture one of erie county's largest industries volun teers from all over the county will be joining to gether in a coordinated effort to tell the story of what agriculture and farm ing means to our commu nity rutkowski said in describing the significance of the days's events county winners of the 1986 awards of distinc tion from the new york dairy farm beautification program also are schedul ed to be announced by rutkowski the annual fest is open to the general public franklin street be tween church and eagle wlli &* closed to traffic irorn 11 s.m to 3 0.11 during the celebration link scholarship winners nine high school graduates were chosen to receive scholarship assistance and incentive awards by the buffalo chapter of links the awards are based on scholarship and financial !)§§&■ a tsfsf <# 4,000 was awareecrthis year the scholarship money comes from the proceeds of the ebony fashion fair which is sponsored annually by the buffalo chapter simon bailey a bennett high school graduate and laury betha from city honors will each receive awards of 700.00 darcy davis a south park graduate and keith wofford from city honors will each receive 500.00 grants simon will attend morehouse college where he expects to study communications and political science laury plans to become a psychologist and to matriculate at cornell university in september darcy will begin her pre-law studies at st lawrence university while keith will go to harvard university and seek a degree in government studies the links will give five local students incentive awards of 200.00 these grants are made in recognition of the grantees academic and extra-curri hlar l-iy-h iisteov /&&■<&.■ csudfemtf rfsglwkff mm grants were georgine duncan from villa maria going to baldwin wallace to study music ingrid johnson a nardin graduate who will seek a degree in bio-chemistry at cornell university robyn rasberry from mt st joseph will attend tuskegee university and study political science nora rodriguez from grover cleveland entering a pre-law program at fordham university and raquel washington als from grover cleveland will begin a pharmacy program at roberts wesleyan college mrs garnet wallace is president of the buffalo chapter of links mrs leeland jones is the chairperson of the scholarship committee family members gathered mrs eva m doyle criterion columnist and family recently enjoyed the visit of her six aunts they were here in buffalo visiting their sister mrs gertrude townsend mrs townsend is the mother of eva doyle they included mrs lily mac fountain of detroit michigan ms fannie ruth felts of washington d c mrs rosemane jackson of sacremento california ms alberta e felts ot patterson new jersey mrs alice prince and her husband fuller prince of mosspoint mississippi and ms ora bell felts of niagara falls n y another sister mrs lucille griffin of repton alabama was not able to come at this time mrs townsend has seven beautiful sisters and they always bring great joy and happiness when they visit mrs doyle says that they took pictures of all the visiting sisters along with her mother and they will treasure these pfctures always parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children george bernard shaw kedra smith presented council president's award the common council president's youth award for the month of july will be presented to 18-year old kedra small a graduate of city honors kedra was chosen win ner of the state finals of the american legion or atorical contest held in new rochelle saturday march 1 of this year as winner she received a 3,000 scholarship and represented new york state in national competi tion she is active in numer ous community programs including being the 1984 recipient of the urban league youth award student coordinator of the 1984 rainbow coalition and an active member of the western new york coalition on teenage pregnancy youth chap ter this bud's for you greg adams center national coordinator of the 77th annual naacp convention greets anheuser busch executives at the gala open house of the new naacp headquarters in baltimore maryland anheuser-busch sponsored the historic open house in which 4.000 naacp delegates guests and yips x proudly salutes '/- a n.a.a.c p §£ national headquarters grand opening for all you do...this bud's for you attended second from right is henry h brown vice president of marketing development and affairs at the world's largest brewer with adams and brown are anheuser-busch regional special market coor dinators from left gene saffold bill andrews and john stevens eve backs green for senate by abdullah luqman deputy speaker of the new york state assembly arthur o eve said in his endorsement of mark green for senator in the democratic primary in front of the federal building as democrats we care about the future of south africa we do not want to see our party's senatorial nomination go to a candidate whose high-priced television campaign is financed in any part by investmens in south africa new york's senator should lead in the fight against apartheid — not profit from it democratic candidate mark green said black political leaders across the state today demanded that u s democratic senate candidate john dyson immediately divest his vast stock holdings in mow | than . two dozen companies doing tmrnitwaa ~ in south africa according to the finan cial disclosure form he filed with the secretary of the u s senate dyson owns between 2.3 million and 5.6 million in investments in u s companies that do busi ness in south africa because of his 16 years of commitment to democratic principles and values mark green will be the kind of strong senator we need to lead the battle against apartheid said rev a charles ware and rev tim carruthers tennis great arthur ashe state senator david pater son and assemblymen albert vann herman farrel jr roger green and arthur eve in a signed statement that is why we are supporting mark green we cannot wait to see mark green take on alfonse d'amato — the very same d'amato who said of south africa we have to iconize jjpm areas of the world don't lend themselves to demo cracy mark green has been a consistent and strong supporter of divest ment here and majority rule in south africa dr williams elected to calif blue cross bd oakland calif - dr betty s williams execu tive director of the delta sigma theta center for lire development in los angeles has been elected a member of the board of directors or blue cross or california headquartered in oakland she is the first black elected to the prestigious board dr williams a native of south bend indiana is a former dean school of nursing university of colorado health sciences center and a former assistant dean for aca demic affairs at the school of nursing university or california los angeles active in community or ganizations she has serv ed as president or los angeles operation wo manpower inc president or the los angeles chapter or delta sigma theta inc national treasurer or the same group and founded the council of black nurses in los angeles she also has served on the board of blue cross of southern california prior to its consolidation with blue cross of northern california to form blue cross or california dr williams holds a doctor of public health degrees from the school or public health ucla a master or science school or nursing ucla a master or nursing fran ces payne bolton school or nursing case-western reserve university cleve land ohio and a bachelor of science from howard university washington d c dr williams is a member of the blue cross advisory directors a 60 member group which is comprised of representa tives from business and labor hospitals and the medical community from throughout california as a public member of the board dr williams will help direct operations of the largest pre-paid health care insurer in california she will serve a three-year term dr williams lives in los angeles with her husband harold l williams aia a prominent architect in the early days of the pet roleum industry during the late 1800 kerosene ranked as the leading product of refineries gasoline was considered a useless byproduct kemp named by speaker of house to serve on king commission washington d c — rep jack kemp r-ny has been informed that he has been named a member of the martin luther king jr holiday commission the appointment was made by speaker of the house thonas p o'neill jr and was made at the recommendation of mi nority leader robert michel rep kemp co-sponsor ed legislation declaring the third monday in january the martin lu ther king jr holiday in the 98th congress congressman kemp in troduced legislation in the 99th congress to extend the martin luther king jr holiday commission rep jack kemp dr martin l king jr this photo shows minister farakhan as he raises a bottle of clean n fresh shampoo made by power during he june 28th welcome home a the chicago hilton and towers photo by james muhammad fcn farrakhan returns with p.o.w.e.r by abdul wali muhammed fcn news service chicago — you tried to stop everybody from making the products for us minister farrakhan said as he held high the bright orange yellow and red plastic container but here it is clean n fresh shampoo made by power fulfilling his promise to produce a line of products to be sold in the black community minister farrakhan beamed with the joy of victory as he unveiled the first line of power products at . welcome home celebration on june 28th in a downtown chicago hotel nearly 5,000 supporters joined their - voices in an explosive chorus of far-ra khan far-ra-khan when a radiant minister louis farrakhan national - representative of the hon elijah jmu hammad glided onto the stage of the chicago hilton and towers hotel surfacing for the first time since his farrakhan see page 7