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Black Lawyers And Judges
To Visit China
A group of prominent Black
members of the legal
profession, including six judges
and two law professors, will
visit the Peoples’ Republic of
China to study and observe
court procedures and other
aspects of their legal system.
The trip, originally
scheduled for August 1976,
was postponed because of the
Peking-Tangshan earthquake
and will now leave from New
York on May 2nd for the one
month visit which will include
18 days in five mainland China
cities.
Judge George W. Crockett
Jr. of Detroit’s Recorders
Court, who organized the tour
with the approval of Chinese
authorities, stated that the
purpose was “to obtain a
better understanding of the
unique and highly effective
system of dispensing justice
into the processes by which the
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The Myths and Mysteries of Gardening
Gardening is a science. You
have to mind your P’s (phos
phorus) if you want to har
vest your Q’s (quota).
And while you’re at it, you
might as well measure your
pH, keep track of N, Ca and
Mg, learn to distinguish a
“xylem” from a “pholem,”
study hydroponics and put a
little “structure” back in
your soil.
It seems as if somebody is
trying to take the fun out of
gardening.
Actually, scientists have
been unraveling garden
mysteries for years, and you
have been reaping the re
wards.
Over 200 years ago an
English amateur horticul
turist had to eat a basket of
tomatoes on the steps of the
local town hall to convince
his neighbors, and the rest of
the world, that the vegetable
was not poisonous.
He lived, and todaj' toma
toes are the most popular
item in home gardens.
But plant myths go back
even further than that. The
Greeks and Romans took
plants very seriously.
The first book on the
healing properties of plants
was written about the time of
Christ’s birth by Dioscorides,
a Greek physician. And
Aristotle was said to have a
garden of 300 different plants
believed to have healing prop
erties.
Roman mythology is filled
with characters who were
doomed to spend Eternity as
plants because they had dis
pleased the gods
In the Middle Ages people
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crime rate is held to
remarkable low levels, as well
as their prisoner re-education
and rehabilitation programs.”
In addition to the judges and
lawyers, the group includes a
college president, a physician,
and a History professor. A
Detroit publicist, Mr. Morris
Gleicher, will accompany the
tour with his wife to record its
experiences and report the
findings.
Those identified with the
legal profession who are
making the trip are:
Judge Geoige W. Crockett,
Jr., Detroit, Michigan; Judge
Joseph Mitchell, Newton,
Massachusetts; Judge Joseph C.
Howard, Baltimore, Maryland;
Judge Charles S. Conley,
Montgomeiy, Alabama; Judge
Mary Johnson Lowe, Bronx,
New York; Attorney Anna R.
Langford, Chicago, Illinois;
Professor Sallyanne Payton,
wore garlic around their
necks to ward off evil spirits
and colds.
But that didn’t seem to
bother the Devil who, ac
cording to old-wives tales,
was busy tending his favorite
plant: deadly nightshade.
The first American colo
nists got a free lesson in
gardening from the Indians
who showed the settlers how
to put a dead fish in each hill
of corn.
Along with the free advice
came a lengthy tale about the
powers of the fish making the
corn plant grow toward the
sun-god to release the soul of
the fish.
Apparently no one had
told the Indians that rotting
fish produce nitrogen along
with the pungent odor.
George Washington will al
ways be remembered as the
“Father of Our Country.”
But before he became a gen
eral and a president, Wash
ington was a successful
farmer who kept detailed rec
ords of his agricultural experi
ments.
Unfortunately the only
garden myth in which George
plays a major role has to do
with an ill-fated cherry tree.
But later on, one of
George’s namesakes, George
Washington Carver, combined
scientific principles and con
versations with plants to turn
a lowly hog food—peanuts—
Ann Arbor, Michigan;
Professor Christina Whitman,
Ann Arbor, Michigan;
Professor Derrick Bell,
Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Workshop on
Aging Os Minorities Set
A two-week course on
“Aging of Adult Minorities”
will be offered at Duke
University, Durham, N.C., June
13-24. This course, available
for credit up to three semester
hours, represents the first such
course ever given in the United
States.
Its specific focus is upon
aging patterns and processes of
adult minorities. It
concentrates heavily upon
Blacks.
Dr. Jacqueline J. Jackson,
well-known in the field of
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Dr. Andrew J. Chisholm will be the main speaker at
the Lucy Laney Athletic Banquet Friday night, April 29
7:30 p.m. at the Laney Dining Hall.
into a national treasure.
As a child, Carver planted a
secret garden far from his
family farmyard. There he
would sing to his plants in a
squeaky voice and bring ailing
houseplants to “play in the
sun.”
Later, after the national
success of his plant research,
he once touched the flower
of a plant and said, “When I
touch this flower, I am touch
ing Infinity. It existed long
before there were human
beings on this earth and will
continue to exist for millions
of years to come.”
Just because Carver,
Luther Burbank and thou
sands of other plant scientists
have found the answers to
many of the mysteries of the
garden doesn’t mean that all
the myths have died.
Have you ever heard the
one about cucumbers and
squash cross-pollinating if
you plant them too close.
You get bitter cucumbers and
stunted squash, or so the
story goes.
Not so say the scientists.
For reasons too complicated
to explain, it’s genetically im
possible.
Try telling that to a real
believer, though.
Some garden mythologists
say we ought to hold on to
our myths: some day the
scientists will find out why
they work.
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gerontology (the study of
aging) and an Associate
Professor in the Department of
Psychiatry, Duke University, is
responsible for the course. She
is also Director of the National
Council on Black Aging, Inc.,
and editor of BLACK AGING.
Persons interested in further
information about this course
should contact Ms. Paula
Holmes, P.O. Box 3003, Duke
University Medical Center,
Durham, N.C., 27707
(telephone: 919 684-3175)
before May 30.
For instance, the marigold
has always been a popular
flower in the vegetable garden
because its “magical” prop
erties were said to repel in
sects, nematodes and untold
numbers of other creatures.
One U.S. Department of
Agriculture researcher re
cently proved that the plant
does seem to repel nema
todes.
How about planting by the
astrological signs? Or the
phases of the moon? It’s not
hard to find gardeners who
plant their crops only when
the moon is “right.”
“After all,” one of them
said, “look what the moon
can do with ocean tides.
There’s got to be a lot of
power in that old moon.”
Local county Extension
agents who have been
working with gardeners and
farmers for years have several
bushel baskets full of tales
of why crops did \well, or
not so well.
“And it’s amazing how
many of those tales are based
on some scientific principle,”
said one agent. “I had one
gardener tell me that his
grandfather never let anyone
smoke in the garden because
it was bad luck.
“The gardener was
surprised to find out years
later that tobacco mosaic
disease, which can wipe out a
tomato crop, is spread by
tobacco smoke and on the
hands of smokers.
“Os course,” said the
agent, “I could tell you just
as many other myths that are
just pure bunk.”
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Space Agency Begins Black Radio Programs
The Natioanl Aeronautics
and Space Administration is
beginning a weekly 5 minute
radio program called “NASA
Special Discharge Review Program
As executive agent for the
Defense Department’s Special
Discharge Review Program, the
Army is particularly concerned
that all those eligible for the
program are made aware of
their opportunity to
participate in it.
Deadline
Mondays,
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radio stations across the
country.
Curtis Graves, NASA’s
AU Vietnam era veterans
who received undesirable or
general discharges during the
period August 4, 1964 and
March 28, 1973 are urged to
contact the Joint Liaison
Office, St. Louis, Mo., to
determine their eligibility for
this special program.
The Joint Liaison Office will
be open from 7 a.m. to 8 pun.
(CST) seven days a week, until
further notice. The toU free
telephone number is
800-325-4040 except for those
in Missouri, Puerto Rico,
Alaska, Hawaii and any foreign
The Augusta News-Review - April 28, 1977 -
Director of Community Affairs
and producer of the shows said
“these programs will go a long
way in helping Blacks
country. Former service
members in those areas should
caU coUect 314-423-9120.
Vietnam era service
members presently in a
deserter status may also be
eligible but must first return to
military control for discharge.
Military deserters may inquire
about their status by
telephoning collect the
following numbers: Army AC
317-542-3354; Navy AC
202-694-2386; Air Force
800-531-7500; Marine Corps
AC 202-694-2180; and Coast
Guard AC 202-426-1317.
understand the important
contributions they are making
to the nation’s space efforts as
well as promoting an
appreciation of the earthly
benefits derived from space
exploration.”
The programs, narrated by
Bill Clark, a Washington, D.C.
announcer with many years
experience in both radio and
television, will feature Blacks
at NASA as well as expose
opportunities for minority
contracts, astronaut recruitng
and other things important to
Black communities.
The first of these public
service programs was slated to
be aired around the country
the week of April 18th. It
featured Alfred Clinkscales,
who is responsible for Minority
Recruiting for Space Shuttle
Pilot Astronauts and Mission
Specialists. You should check
with your local radio station
for the time and date of the
initial broadcast.
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