Buffalo Criterion, 1986-06-26

              vol 60 — no 26 serving working leading in wny inner cities since 1923 the buffalo criterion rochester price only 20 c per copy niagara region wny s necessary minority newspaper — featuring paid legitimate circulation thursday june 26 july 2 1986 county has 1st lifenet operation kemp announces lifenet new tool in finding helping missing children washington — fri june 20th rep jack kemp r-ny announced that erie county's central police services will be the first operating site for lifenet new tool in the effort to find and help missing and exploited children rep kemp said we are very fortunate to be the first operating site for this application of new technologies which will allow our law enforcement authorities to deal more effectively with the prob lem of missing and exploited children lifenet is a pri vate sector initiative by msi sperry corporation chorus data systems and analytics the various companies have developed a computer based system whereby a picture of a missing child and relevant information can be entered into a database and sent to the national center for missing and exploited children which then trnasmits the information to the rest of the country this process currently takes as long as eight days but with lifenet in full operation the process can be completed in under eight minutes kemp added this is an excellent example of how the private sector can contribute their expertise time and money to the development of solutions to problems that affect our communities i recently co-spon sored legislation hr-604 that would authorize the office of juvenile justice to make grants to the states for the purpose of establishing or operating clearinghouses for infor mation on missing chil dren i know that the steps that are being taken by both the private and public sector will help fight the tragic problem of missing and exploited children farrakhan ends world tour — welcome slated in chicago black community to welcome home minister farrakhan after covering over 50,000 miles and visiting 11 countries the honor able minister louis far rakhan leader of the nation of islam will be welcomed home ~ with a spectacular celebration co sponsored by alderman allen streeter and the women's auxiliary of the 17th ward at the interna tional ball room of the conrad hilton hotel in downtown chicago on june 2hih at 7 p.m according to his top assistant minister abdul akbar muhammad minis ter farrakhan has met with several heads of state top government and religious leaders through out africa the middle east and asia and his name has been splashed across front pages in nearly every country he has visited despite the negative press circulated worldwide by the u s and western media especially in the last two years minister louis farrakhan was re ceived overwhelmingly in africa the middle east pakistan and even in china muhammad stressed where news of the minister's work had reached the chinese mus lim community as well as the larger chinese so ciety muhammad who has traveled to over 54 countries himself during his long years of service to the nation of islam met minister fan-akhan three times recently in africa and the middle east he witnessed the reception the minister received from some of the highest ranking government and religious officials in the regions including five heads of state minister farrakhan has traveled through britain nigeria ghana bourkina fas so ivory coast benin libya saudi arabia united arab emirates pakistan china and as of this writing was schedul ed to visit iran he has been received by ghana's head of state fit lt jerry raw lings bour kina faso's president thomas sankara libya's col maummar el gadhafi and pakistan general mv muhammad zia-ul-haqq as well as the new prime minister in the middle east minister farrakhan met with sheikh zaid head of the group of seven gulf states known as the united arab emirates who invited him to the palace in abu dhabi he also met with sheikh sultan bin kassimi head of sharjah one of the emirates minister farrakhan the national representative of the honorable elijah mu hammad met with key religious officials in africa and the middle east including a visit to mecca and talks with saudi government and religious officials while in libya in march for the second world mathada minister farrak han met with leaders of many liberation groups and organizations includ ing the chairman of the pan africanist congress of azania and a wide range of officials from various african and asian nations minister farrakhan be gan his tour with a now farrakhan — mm louis farrakhan third annual great buffalo restaurant race planned plans are underway for the third annual great buffalo restaurant race the fundraiser to benefit the western new york chapter of the leukemia society of america has been scheduled for sun july 27th at theatre place outside of harlan's and the tralfamadore cafe the race consists of a variety of obstacle course races featuring waiters waitresses bartenders and managers from the finest of buffalo's restau rants they wiu be competing for a variety of prizes and trophies each year more and more restaurants get involved — and they love the competition says robert weiner program coordinator for the leu kemia society the resturant employees have fun with the event but they get involved because they want to find a cure for leukemia restaurants are current ly being recruited for the event if you work for a restaurant and you would like to get involved call the leukemia society at 875-5400 raindate for the event is sun august 3 sponsors include pepsi wwkb buffalo chapter of he new york state restaurant association and harlan's restaurant freedom riders 1986 campaign is hugh success speaking at a voter mobilization prayer vigil in greene county alabama is rev benjamin f chavis jr executive director of the commission for racial justice of the 1.7 million-me.nber united church of christ with him is spiver gordon left the long-time greene county civil rights leader who along with other key civil rights leaders was the target of a justice department investigation rev chavis took over 100 community organizers as part of the freedom riders 1986 campaign to alabama to mobilize black voters most recently for the june primary numerous black elected officials including senator sanders were re-elected in that primary — photo by gene young couple to wed private first class ed ward j johnson and valencia l brasher will be united in holy matri mony saturday july 12th at 4 p.m at the friendship baptist church 402 clinton st mr johnson is the son of mrs mamie garrett of parkridge st the bride-to-be is the daugh ter of ms ethel ledbetter and lance brasher the reception will be held at seven o'clock at the ymca the corner of william and emslie sts private johnson recent ly finished his basic training in san diego california edward j johnson valencia l brasher j.c hill jr 35 succumbs j c hui jr 35 was buried from friendship baptist church 402 clin ton st tuesday june 24th rev charles hen derson officiated mr hill was bom on october 16 1950 in buffalo he passed away on wednesday morning june 18 1986 at 2 a.m he was the son of j c hiu sr and the late mother annie beu hiu he attended clinton junior high school and was a graduate of east high school he also attended erie community college in 1968 his great interest was in sports football and swimming mr hills survivors are his father j c hill sr.;a daughter jenine a dear friend joanne williams two sisters sharon a hill of los angeles california and rolinda c hill of buffalo seven brothers michael hill of birmingham alabama john lemoyne dwight larry and russell all of buffalo he also leaves to mourn six aunts mrs delia lonnie thompson mrs lula morgan mrs ger trude doug pinkard mrs hattie morgan and mrs lena lee all of buffalo two uncles john henry rose hill and buster stitt of roanoke alabama and a host of nieces nephews and friends ball bearers were john lemoyne james mi cheal dwight and russell hill brothers of the deceased interment was in forest lawn cemetery the buffalo memorial chap els inc was in charge of the arrangements group to give scholarships the omega psi phi fraternity inc phi omega graduate chapter of buffalo will award 1,500.00 in scholarships at high school commence ments the three high school students will re ceive a 500.00 scholar ship for the 1986 school year they are byron l price of hutchinson tech nical high school who will attend rensselaer poly technic institute ger ardo j negron of city honors high school who will attend suny at buffalo and simon bailey of bennett high school who will attend morehouse college each student were winners based on their scholastic achievements school activities and com munity service youth to sing master damon oliver 10 years of age will be featured on a gospel singing program sunday june 29th at 6 p.m at walls memorial ame zion church 455 glen wood aye the public is invited to come out and hear this child spread the good news to our lord and saviour jesus christ in song along with other special guests such as the specials hopewell bapist church choir rev john young soloist and organ ist and damon's brother a free will offering will be taken for more information cal sis jean adams at 833-4275 or lime dussett at 892-3611 rev rudolph l wells is pastor collins says no to closing of deaconess emergency center by abdullah luoman at a public meeting called by the citizens for quality public health care cqphc and the masten neighbor hood council mnc along with coun cilman david collins masten cliff bell bell councilman-at-large and james pitts euicott at the community ac tion organization cao center 735 humboldt parkway at 7 p.m to discuss with representatives of buffalo general hospital mgh the closing of the immediate treatment center itc at deaconess hospital the informed public made the hospital spokespersons change many of their facts among the challenged written and or oral statements made by bgh's • executive vice-president john fried lander and public relations person john hill were all services available at the itc at the deaconess will remain the same with the hours changed from 9 a.m to 9:30 p.m every day including holidays to 8:30 a.m to 5 p.m week days excluding holidays the hospital is losing 55 on every patient treated at the center residents would be better served by the merger because more doctors would be available and primary services would be expand ed none of the present workers would lose their jobs and that the primary reason for the merger is that the family practice center fpc and the itc are not being used to their capacity friedlander made clarifications to include bgh in maintaining all of the services rendered at itc after the mer ger following councilman collin's state ment it is not possible to give proper medical care to more people with less staff working fewer days and shorter hours they bgh have chosen to re duce the medical services and that is reneging on commitments that they made two years ago under questioning from council man pitts friedlander changed the patient capacity of the combined fpc and itc from 15,000 to 21,000 when pitts made him concede that they had at least 19,000 visits to the facilities last year this negated the statement that the reason for the merger is because the itc and fpc are not being used to their capacity at the present time sally bell represents the executive board of nurses united twa local 1168 clerical and technical workers of the staff at bgh and its deaconess divi sion said that all of the workers have been offered jobs elsewhere in the system including some with more than 20 years seniority i feel that what the hospital is proposing will not take care of the people in this area she said otis glover president of cqphc a group that was formed in 1978 to stop bgh from buying the new erie county medical center because it was a new facility and they felt the bgh should not be allowed by the county and state to take care of the poor's health care needs gave the following conclusion from cqphc research the medical services rendered by the itc will no longer be available at deaconess hospital after the first week in july there will be no service on week ends or holidays appointments will be required there will be a two-week wait for new patients lacerations and trauma cannot be serviced employees say basically because they will not have the facilities to service them walk-ins will be seen by a doctor only between 8:30 and 1:30 a.m and they have had staff cuts with no plans to increase staff at the present in essence they are not taking away the money but they are taking the services which monies have been provided to render to briefly summarize they are reducing the services making it harder for you to get the services cutting back the hours that the services are available cutting back staff that performs the services and telling you when you can become available to take part in those services councilman-at-large bell said pri orities are not set by the government they are set by the hospitals and hospital administrators it is a case of dollars and cents sense usually when it comes to our community it is a case of dollars because our folks do not seem to use much sense this community has been system atically deprived of the kinds of services that we must have in order to exist we are not going to take it anymore either they continue to provide us services on same level or we are going to do something to close down some of their faculties for additional information about the progress plans and citizen participation contact councilman collins at 855-5145 see page 2