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The Augusta News-Review - November 29, 1973 - NNPA Soviet Tour By: Howard B. Woods Editor-Publisher, St. Louis Sentinel HELSINKI Although the success or failure of the military junta that toppled Chile s President Salvatore Allende is yet to be proven, the reverberations of the World Peace Conference held here a month ago is still having an impact on the international scene Dr. Carlton Goodlett addresses International Conference on Peace at Freelanderhaus, Helsinki, Finland deploring the juanta that overthrew Salvatore Alenede in Chile. (Photo by D. L. Inman! Dr Carlton Goodlett, president of the National Newspaper Publishers Ass'n-the Black Press of America-brought the conference to a sobering halt with a ringing denudation of Allende s friends and foes alike. "Where were you who now weep for him?," Goodlett asked the 200-plus delegate assembled in the Freelanderhaus auditorium Goodlett, a medical doctor as well as a publisher, was a friend of Allende, who was also a medical doctor. Goodlett charged that Allende was "forsaken by both his enemies and his foes " He spoke of the “economic isolation of Chile" by the international Writing in the December issue of Urban Health, two physicians have urged “confidentiality in sickle cell screening” and “an end to dissemination of information on sickle cell anemia that is innacurate, unduly alarming or misleading.” Dr. Rudolph E. Jackson, director of the National Heart and Lung Institute’s National Sickle Cell Program, and Dr. Charles F. Whitten president of the National Association for Sickle Cell Disease, are among seven prominent physicians who have come together in articles appearing in the current issue of Urban Health to discuss sickle cell anemia. In the introductory article, Dr. Jackson points out that “discriminatory tactics have made confidentiality a prerequisite for all testing programs,’’ and that all participating in sickle cell screening programs should be on a voluntary basis. In another article, Dr. Whitten points out that efforts to provide mass information onsickle cell anemia “have not been as valuable as possible as possible because some of the information has been innaccurate, unduly alarming and misleading.’’ Both physicians call for “an accurate, sound understanding of sickle cell anemia and sickle cell trait by the public.” The December issue of -[-.JIX • TWO BEDROOM TOWN HOusta I “Ci •]% Bath* • Immediate Occupancy I •Total Electric • Air Conditioned I □rCVIML • Wall To Wall Carpet • Swimming Pool « APPEAL. • Kitchen Appliance* •Playground ** • Convenient to schools, shopping, churches, Gordon Hwy OF 24 Hour Security Guard Service IKH T I I r ‘ Iff* I I 430 E. BOUNDARY Clift ft ft the apartment I | Call 7244.1618 IIV » W for kgSt money | banking institutions. Goodlett followed to the platform by one day, the dead Chiliean leaders daughter Mrs. Maria Isabel Allende Tambuti who attended the conference in place of the widow who was unable to be present Since the coup, reports of mass killings have come out of the South American country. These reports were made by released prisoners interviewed by reporters The ex-prisoners said that they slept on blankets on a concrete floor but were not mistreated. Their meals consisted of bean soup, bread, water and fruit. There was meat twice during their eight day stay, they said. Goodlett. going into the cause of the late President's downfall, spoke of the “economic isolation" of Chile. "Resolutions and marches will not alone wipe away the enemies of the people," he declared Goodlett said that the U.S. Government “discouraged, private financial powers from supplying short term credits, ordered a limit to development loans from the World Bank and Inter American Development Bank" and that as a result of such actions "the economy of Chile was destined to wither.” The firey San Francisco physician then asked "How much real economic assistance did the People’s Republic (of China, give Chile-only token." He said that Allende’s dif ficulties stemmed much from his coalition that was more committed to doctrine than to survival and movement ’We must depend upon more than marching feet and platitudinous slogans to deal a K- - MH? iKISX \ Dr. Carlton Goodlett,president of NNPA, is shown seated with the Council of Presidents during the International Peace Conference in Helsinki, Finland. Physicians Discuss Aspects Os Sickle Cell Anemia - Urge "Confidentiality” And End To Misleading Information Urban Health marks the first time that a professional journal has devoted an entire issue to discussions of sickle cell anemia. In addition to Jackson and Whitten, articles for the issue have been written by Robert M. Schmidt, M.D., director of the National Hemoglobin opathy Laboratory; Roland B. Scott, M.D., director of the Center for Sickle Cell Disease at Howard University College of Medicine; Marilyn Gaston, M.D., director of the Sickle Cell Center at Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio; Robert F. Murray, director of the Genetics Counseling Section of the Howard University Center for Sickle Cell Disease; and Joseph R. Phillips, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry at Meharry Medical College. The series will continue in the February issue of Urban Health with articles discussing opthalmological and urological aspects of sickle cell anemia, vocational rehabilitation of sickle cell patients, and community involvement in sickle cell programs. Authors for the concluding articles are Maurice Rabb, M.D., of the University of Illinois Sickle Cell Center; Robert F. Blythe, M.D., Washington, DC urologist; Calvin H. Sinnette, M.D., and Ruth Gillman of the Harlem Comprehensive Sickle Cell Page 6 The daughter of the late Salvatore Alenede, Mrs. Maria Isabel Tamboti, is pictured at press con ference during the International Conference on Peace in Helsinki last September. with neo colonialism." he said, the Tallahassee <Fla ) News Goodlett. publisher of the San Free Press and this writer, left Francisco Sun Reporter. D L the main party of touring NNPA Inman, publisher of the members to attend the con- Thomasville (Ga.) News and ference here Center; and Edward J. Hicks, Ph.D. of the University of Indiana Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center. [W Our Specialty Newspapers & Tabs. Make Up and Printing . , u .. infliirr 1 ' ‘ Phone 724 1996 <4041 1006 Ellis Street. Augusta. Ga 30902 f For Complete Cold Type Service- /RED f WHITE U I vMng&iKp' A,. gjpecuit %lli Dixie Beer of Augusta, Inc. 1113 WALTON WAY PHONE: 404-722-4618 g Brundage To Lead Heart Fund Drive’s HBP Control Effort | I M More than 50,000 Georgians, led by state HEART FUND chairman, John D. Brundage, Chairman and President of the Georgia International Life Insurance Company of Atlanta, will campaign during February to alert people throughout the state to the dangers of untreated high blood pressure. An umbrella of news media support will cover volunteers as “Project: HBP Control” reaches its peak during Heart Month. Commmunity | Earl Graves Publisher Os Black Enterprise Magazine Awarded Honorary Doctor Os Laws Degree NY,NY-Mr. Earl G. Graves, Publisher of Black Enterprise magazine and leading authority on Black Business Development today was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Morgan State College at their Founder’s Day ceremonies. The degree was presented to him “in recognition of his distinquished accomplish ments, his meaningful life and' challenging example”. Mr. Graves, 38, graduated in 1958 from Morgan. He heads five corporations and publishes the highly sucessful Black Enterprise magazine. He is also Urban Health is a professional journal dealing with medical care and a wide variety of issues related to TALL Fashions • DRESSES • SLACKS BLOUSES • SUITS • SPORTSWEAR • HOSE • LINGERIE y I 1018 Broad St. Tall ? h. 722-0035 | CO. | BUILDERS SUPPLIES 'TVMYTHINO FOR THE BUIIDER" "ONE BOARD OR A TRAINLOAD" I ROOFING PLYWOOD FLOORING J HARDWARE P. O. Box 1456 1900 Milledgeville R lacarwi U. S. Hiehway, 1 * 78 Phone 722-0451 Augusta, Georgia screening programs for cases of high blood pressure, educational literature, physician guest speakers for civic groups and other Heart Association programs will focus the entire month on the health problem that afflicts an estimated 800,000 Georgians. “Untreated high blood pressure often results in heart attack, stroke or kidney failure, ” said Brundage. “Most people afflicted with the condition are not even aware they have it and are daily the receipient of the 1972 Presidential Award of Excellence, which designated him as one of the top 10 outstanding minority businessmen in the country, nad is a member of the Board of Directors of Liggett and Meyers Tobacco. In the principal address Mr. Graves called on Blacks to exercise “buying power”. As consumers, we represent a market with the equivalent expenditure of the ninth largest country in the world” he said, “... we as consumers and future consumers must involve ourselves in the health and medical care delivery in the Black community. Additional information on the sickle cell PEACH ORCHARD FLORIST In The Plaza Ph. 798-7437 Since 1685 (HAVERTY'S> "There'# No Place Like Home 719 BROAD STREET PHONE 724-7738 I MKgl I MISO I IDS I . 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To do so is to enable the economic head of this country to inform the economic heart of this country to participate in meaningful change.” “When the Black man has fully grounded himself economically, then, and only them, will a viable first step have been made for Blacks to fully participate in the real fruits of this nation.” A strong supporter of education, Mr. Graves believes that the objectives of a college experience include an exposure to ideas, an expansion of edition may be secured by writing The Journal of Urban Health, Atlanta, GA. 30311. /- — FLO WEBS |2542 MILLEDGEVILLE ROA(S BUS. 738-&4O1 RES: 703-3509 $1,100,000 HEART FUND goal this year,” said Brundage. ”amd frp, tjese fimds we will make our allocations the following year to heart research projects, our statewide Georgia Heart Ginic System for indigent patients, training efforts in the life-saving technique of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), high blood pressure control and data collecting efforts at five clinics currently working under Heart Association grants and many more programs underway in • •••••••••••••••a M.OTXUJ.W.W.’.’.W knowledge, and a preparation for competing in the economic system. College is also a proving ground where a young person can develop and test a set of values to be drawn upon in formulating future life styles and morality. Mr. Graves, co-chairman of the college’s 1973 Annual Fund Raising Campaign delivered the major address at the Morgan State Kick Off Fund Raising Banquet held that evening. In his speech he reaffirmed his commitment to Black educational institutions. “We have an obligation |w' JBM. i Lawrence Cook anil Martin Colar look on a> J. A. Preston, playing a police official, fire?. his flair pistol in an attempt Io control a riot in “Tin* Spook Vi ho Sal By The Door.*' which will he show n starling al the Theatre through I nited Artists release, 'The Spook Who Sat By Door' Story About Black CIA Agent /VOIY luHt<4;l United Artists I SHOWING ! Saa I To pull off a no one would ever dare, you need a team no one would ever believe. Hit! faamartPctiresPresents <a BUY ME WILLIAMS TUtT RICHARD PRYOR PAUL HAMPTON QA/FN WR I FS .... ALAN RTFUSTMAN art DM3 MWLF HARFY K3RSHAK _ SIDNEY J. FURE FREDERQSON ■ LAUD SCHFRN RANWBON' TEONCOUOR'A PARAMOUNT FUTURE ~iiiiiiu» «• 1 /vow ■ I h I d d *1 Til I SHOWING I ■ phone 722-1866 | the state.” The Georgia Heart Association, a non-profit organization of volunteer medical business and civic leaders, last year reached a record high in HEART FUND returns under the leadership of Brundage. He has in the past served as the national campaign chairman for the American Heart Association and in 1965 received the AHA’s highest honor for volunteer leadership, the Gold Heart Award. not only to ourselves in terms of perserving a piece of our heritage, but we have an obligation to the future Black youth who will seek the services and educational tools which Morgan has so generously provided in the past. For we have long agreed that the tool of education is an essential element in breaking the cycle of poverty that engulfs one third of our people. In recent years, well educated Black men have advanced their incomes much more quickly than Blacks a generation removed.”