Buffalo Criterion, 1986-05-22

              serving working leading in ny inner cities since 1923 niagara region the buffalo criterion price only 20 c per copy vol 60 — no 21 wny's necessary minority newspaper — featuring paid legitimate circulation thursday may 22-28 1986 rochester gov kean of new jersey to address nul conference gov thomas h kean of new jersey a republi can who last year won a landslide reelection with strong support from black voters and is regarded as one of the rapidly rising figures in his party has accepted an invitation to address the 1986 annual conference of the national urban league on the subject reconnecting youth to school and work the conference will be held in san francisco july 20-23 at the moscone center and governor kean will speak on tues july 22 at 9 a.m he joins a roster of distinguished speakers from govern ment industry the private sector and other areas who will address the various penary sessions forums and special programs that together make the nul's national conference the nation's foremost forum on race relations the theme of this year's conference working together to make a difference reflects the nul's approach that progress is achieving equity in bur soefrty best accomplished when all sectors of the communi ty are involved in such efforts among the other speak ers scheduled for the conference are the honorable samuel a pierce jr secretary of the department of hous ing and urban develop ment who will address the federal resources lunch eon on monday july 21 at noon with education as one of the major concerns of the conference dr clifton r wharton jr chancellor of the state university of new york system will deliver a major address on monday afternoon july 21st on public education and black americans today's crisis tomor row's disaster the formal opening of the conference takes place on sunday night july 20th when john e jacobs president of the nul delivers his keynote address earlier that day at noon rita walters president of the los angeles unified school district will speak at the luncheon of the national council of urban league guilds * ' the conference is open to the public and further information may be secur ed by writing conferen ces department national urban league inc 500 east 62nd st new york n y 10021 . daemen college names programmer analyst brian wilkins has just been appointed program mer/analyst for daemen college's information re sources management mr wilkins formerly chief floor clerk for the g c murphy co in buffalo is a graduate of the state university of new york at buffalo in mathematics mr wilkins will man age the day-to-day opera tion of the date general mv 4000 daemen college computer system and isis software he will also supervise the apple be operation at daemen college hands across america to benefit hungry homeless sunday may 25th at 3 p.m millions of people will be lining up across 16 states to be a part of the biggest single community event in the history of our country all the money that is donated to this event called hands across america will be used to help the hungry and homeless in america hands across ameri ca is a human chain that will stretch from new york to los angeles the line will include pennsylvania very roughly the line will follow route 30 from chamberburg to pitts burgh and then route 65 from pittsburgh to ohio contribution envelopes will be distributed right on the hands across america line take the envelopes home and mail in contribu tions donations of 10.00 are suggested donations may be sent to hands across ameri ca 960 perm aye 3rd floor pittsburgh pa 15222 412 39j-9083 to make a pledge and join the line call 1-800-usa-9000 mrs c a caston covers wide area in community following ia an article about mra carrie a canton which was taken from the criterion files december 1 1951 mra caston wrote the commu nity church news for the criterion from 1940 to ? 1985 45 _ years j when sickness caused her to retire she waa active in several special programs in the church during this long span and was very faithful if allowed the adequate space to detail her church social and lodge activities in this article the life of mrs carrie ann caston would read like a biogra phy of susan b anthony sojourner truth and car rie north all rolled into one few local women are as active in the whole realm of community activities as mrs caston her field of community service she told the criterion increas es with her adaptability to render service on an increasing front she was born in mccormick county south carolina that part of the county in which she was born was later redistrict ed and named abbeville county the daughter of well-sit uated parents she was sent through the public schools of her vicinity and won honors as a promising student in the midst of what promised to be a college career for her then youthful carrie married and soon after with her husband came north with their daughter less than a year old that was in 1923 born of devoutly chris tian parents she joined a church immediately upon entering buffalo she later joined the peoples community church where she is an ardent worker in most of the church's activities her connections include membership in the peo ples community church club the paramount chapter 57 order of eastern star and ■* member of the women's division on health of the local branch naacp in addition mrs caston is the church reporter in the buffalo criterion for peo ples community church asked by a criterion reporter how she crowds so many minutes in an hour she replied i love work i like cooperation i admire progress all this i am happy to say i find profusely scattered among the events of my activities this lessens my work and flavors my desire to do a greater job she declar ed mrs carrie a caston tisdale mcdowell tapped for advisory panel celes tisdale and john l mcdowell were selected by erie county executive edward j rutkowski to participate on the new citizen's advisory panel created to review all county grant-in-aid re quests it was announced thursday by rutkowski in this office - a literary critic and english professor at erie community college tis dale currently serves on the boards of art park and young audiences of west tern new york and is the former executive director of the african-american cultural center he also directs the christian ed ucation program at bethel ame church he was appointed by rutkowski to serve a two-year term on the voluntary 19-member county board mcdowell a fair hous ing and equal opportunity specialist with the local department of housing and urban development office is actively involved with the inner-city ymca cultural activities he will be serving on the panel in a one-year term at the group's initial panel johnson completes basic training edward johnson son of mrs mamie garrett recently completed his basic training and gradu ated in san diego california to share in his joys and happiness was his mother mrs garrett and his fiance valencia brasher among some of the activities held for the families who attended the graduatfbn were movies of the recruits in their hard-training irocess and a pass-in-review cere mony in which the graduates marched around the field in their uniforms holdinr their riffles show ing off different drill techniques to the audi ence everyone who attended the graduation had a terrific time and were very haipy to be united with their sons and loved ones again health education session set programs aimed at keeping public aware managing health care - a look to the future is the title of a health education symposium to be presented june 4th at the executive hotel 4243 genesee st in buffalo co-sponsored by blue cross of western new york inc the western new york hospital associ ation inc the program is part of a continual yearly series of health education symposiums that have been presented by the two organizations since 1976 invited guests include business industry labor education leaders hospital administrators and legisla tors throughout western new york admission is by invitation in addition the blue cross plan is observing its 50th anniversary during 1986 a group of renowned speakers will address the conference they include michael e deßakey m d a pioneer in the field of heart surgery whose work has revolutionized medical thought on the treatment of heart disease and the use of surgical trans plants eh ginsberg ph.d a nationally known health economist from columbia university who has been a consultant to the federal government for more than 40 years and written more than 60 books in the fields of human resources and health policy william y rial m d formerly president of the american medical associ ation and long time family physician marshall h beck er ph d m.p.h a researcher and behavioral scientist from the univer sity of michigan school of medicine and amanda blake a native of buffalo who starred as miss kitty russell on the popular gunsmoke television show and cur * rent spokesperson for the american cancer society during the past decade a number of popular and informative speakers from several walks of life have participated in the series of health education pro gramps presented by the two snonsoriw otaaaiaa tions the purpose of these programs is to create an awareness of the advan tages of good health and to promote the pursuit of healthier lifestyles by the general public jesse jackson versus the tv networks rev jesse jackson above and push have launched a boycott against the powerful cbs net work's station in chicago and have threatened to extend the boycott to the other networks can jesse jackson bring down the mighty tv networks are his demands too excessive and can they backfire on , the black community rev jackson will de fend his motives before a live autdience on the next edition of tony brown's journal the nation's long est-running and top-rank ed black affaire television series televised on public television pbs the series has been sponsored by pepsi-cola company for eleven consecutive years the program will be seen in this area on wned-tv channel 17 on sat may 24 at 6:30 p.m after a six-month boy cott of wbbm-tv the cbs owned-and-operated station in chicago jesse jackson has called for the station to comply with a series of controversial demands one insists that the station prefer black men over black women for on-the-air jobs and an other directs wbbm to spend money with black companies that are a list submitted by the push trade bureau although jackson and his push operation have demonstrated tremendous clout and have threatened to extend the boycova to other cities the question has been , raised as to whether or not push's muscle-flexing will have an adverse effect on the black community are push's demands fair or excessive can they backfire on the black community on the upcoming edition of tony brown's journal jesse jackson versus the tv networks the push leader will face a live audience to defend his recent actions as tony brown brings tv to the people lodge held final meeting banquet the most worshipful omega grand lodge held its 1985 session in buffalo bro ruffin green is the most worshipful grand master a lovely banquet was held at the blasdale regency and the final session at the friendship baptist church where dr a charles ware is the pastor the martin luther king lodge 7 brother uly hankerson worshipful master and alpha lodge 18 bro henry kelly worshipful master were cited for outstanding service a special presentation was also presented to the late brother arthur mitchell 33 for outstanding service brother mitchell was a member of the martin luther king lodge 7 special guests were bro and sis e howard 33 of bar switzerland and grand lodge of pennsylvania bro g dove is the most worshipful grand master slain girl spent last days celebrating life her last days were spent la childish innocence in a celebration al lite itself she had planted a zinnia seed in a plastic container and she waa in the process of coaxing it to grow into a beau tiful flower at 5 tosha denlse haynes had come to know that life comes from ufe on saturday the was murdered by a child molester who strangled her to death after repeated sexual assaults and then he miffed her body into a plas tic garbage bag and abandoned it in a backyard the street is quiet now the rains of spring that make zinnias and other flow ers grow pour ram the heavens two teams of homicide detective move torn door to door la search of information that will provide clues and lead them to the child killer moat everybody on the hlnr haa das tn their windows ims area protected by neighborhood crime watch the word have < hollow ring to them on this day the defenses had been breached a child it dead / her mother trlcta gayle haynea sits quietly at ths kitchen table her eyes rimmed red fay tears that won't flow anymore she is numbed relatives arrive but she la too far out of it to know what is happening her only child is dead reprinted in the buffalo criterion with permission from ray hill june carter her grand*,,.-her christine johnson uvea across the street tosha went there often to visit her she was there satur day afternoon with her mother they were on their way to the store and that was the last time mrs johnson would see tosha alive we loved her to much mrs john son said my daughter loved her so much too it's to hard to accept ...' she was only five years old i really dpn't know what kind of person would do this to a little girl like tosha . tm numb it takes everything out of yoa you don't accept things like this you never do she said mrs johnson said that shortly after it grew dark oa saturday the called her daughter's home on the telephone but there was no answer the lights weren't * tosha [ on but she said she didn't think anything about it because it was a warm evening and she thought her daughter and grand daughter had gone out xosha's short life was centered on ber grandmother her mother and her school tosha attended a head start class at bethel ame zloa church on michigan avenue and it was the centerpiece of her young ufe her teacher clara hall had the ability to make life exciting for to sha -, whenever she did wen she loved you to give her a hag she loved to be bugged and she loved to hug others she was a very bright loving little girl she said , toaha's mother usually brought tier to the class and picked her 19 every day j see page 71 see page 7