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Hyde Park to get $75,000 center,
$182,000 in Bloc grant funds
Groundbreaking ceremonies
were held Tuesday for a
$75,000 community center in
Hyde Park.
The center is part of a
$182,000 redevelopment
program the county is
conducting with Community
Bloc Grant funds.
According to Steve Lindorff
of the Planning Commission,
an additional $13,500 was used
to pave Florida and Aragon
streets in Hyde Park, the last
two unpaved streets in the
area.
County Commissioner
Edward M. Mclntyre said an
additional $84,000 will go
toward loans to Hyde Park
residents to rehabilitate their
homes. The residents, he said,
could the money to
purchase materials to refurbish
their homes with the home
owner paying for the labor.
Mclntrye said he would like
Man shot near Levi White School,
‘round-the-clock’ search continues for killer
Sheriffs investigators are Levi White School, Chief Allen, 3025 Hummingbird Riley asked him to drive him
continuing a “round-the-clock” Investigator Otis Martin said Lane, said that about 11:45 and a man in his early 20s to
search for a man who shot and late Thuesday. p.m. Friday he and Riley were Ist Avenue. Allen said he drove
killed 51-year-old Selma Riley According to the Sheriffs at Riley’s auto parts store on Riley and the third man to a
early Saturday morning behind department report, Jessie W. Old Savannah Road when vacant lot in the 1900 block oi
Man acquitted of raping ex-nun
A 33-year-old Bronx, N.Y.
man was found innocent in
Bronx Supreme Court last
week of charges that he raped
and sodomized a former
nun.
Fernando Fernandez, a chef,
was arrested on Nov. 5, 1977
Over 3.000 people
participated in the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference’s “Memorial March
for the Right to Live” on April
4, in Gadsden, Ala. It was the
largest of the commemoration
activities held in honor of the
10th anniversary of Martin
Luther King Jr.’s assassination.
Dr. King was founding
president of SCLC.
The Rev. Dr. Joseph E.
Lowery, SCLC president, said
regarding the choice of
Gadsden for the organization’s
national observance, “Our
Gadsden chapter is protesting
police brutality there. An
unarmed young Black man was
killed by officers who pumped
at least 15 bullets into his body
after stopping him for a traffic
violation. City officials have
refuses’ to suspend the four
office>xnvolved, and a county
grand jury refused to indict
them.”
SCLC has called for a federal
investigation into the case,
which is now before a federal
grand jury in Birmingham.
Following the five-mile
march from the site where
Collis Madden Jr. was slain to
the county courthouse, Rev.
Lowery noted that police
killings of Blacks have been
increasing across the country.
He cited recent similar cases in
Prince George County, Md.,
and Birmingham. Ala.
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to see “rehab teams” using
Comprehensive Employment
Training Act (CETA)
employes. He said he would
like to see “people who are out
of work, who have the
expertise to develop the rehab
Carter: 80% of earth to be
non-white in 20 years
American citizens - Black
and white - have shown a
“tremendous new interest” in
Black Africa and support an
end to discrimination and
apartheid on that developing
continent, says President
Carter.
on a complaint filed by a
school teacher and an ex-nun,
Freswinds Rivera, 40, who
charged that Fernandez offered
her a ride home in his van
following a party. She said he
stopped the van in a lonely
section of the Bronx, drew a
3,000 in ‘right to live’ march
“It’s no longer the Klu Klux
Klan and so-called fringe
elements doing that killing
now,” Rev. Lowery said in his
speech “Let My People Live,”
“but uniformed law
enforcement officers hiding
behind badges.”
Other SCLC leaders who
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teams, primarily senior citizens
on fixed incomes.
The alternative, he said, is
direct grants to persons whose
incomes fall below a certain
level.
Mclntyre, who was chairman
“By the end of this
century,” the President said,
“80 percent of all the people
who live on earth will live in
Africa, Latin America and
Asia. That is less than 20 years.
And wl' want to be sure that
our friendships are solid, that
switch-blade knife and raped
her in the van which was
equipped with a bed.
Fernandez’ lawyer, Alvin
Morris, convinced the jury that
Ms. Rivera was having fun at
the party and was observed
drinking liquids. At the party
spoke at the post-march rally
were Rev. Hosea Williams,
national executive director;
Rev. John Nettles, Alabama
state president; national board
member Rev. Fred
Shuttlesworth; and local
chapter president Joseph Cole.
Dick Gregory, an SCLC board
of the Public Works Committee
when the improvements in
Hyde Park were begun, said
part of the money had been
used to pave streets in the
Piedmont area, a
predominantly white
the policies that 1 put forward
representing the American
people are good ones, that they
are based on close consultation
and advice from the African
people and that we espouse
policies that accurately reflect
the policies on which our
there were assorted drinks. At
the end of the trial the
foreman of the jury chastized
the judge for the manner in
which he conducted the trial.
Fernandez was greeted by
his wife and family after the
verdict.
member; board chairman Cong.
Walter Fauntroy, and NAACP
head Benjamin Hooks sent
telegrams expressing their
support.
Since Madden’s death on
January 20, SCLC has been
engaged in picketing, boycotts
and other marches to achieve
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April 13,1978
low-income neighborhood near
Babcock and Wilcox
Refractories.
All of the Community Block
Grant funds from the county
are being used in low-income
areas, Mclntyre said.
Nation was founded.”
“I think this is a new thrust
that is not just initiated by me
as a lonely public official, but
which mirrors accurately what
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Ist Avenue and parked while
the nen talked, authorities
said.
Riley then told Allen to
drive down the street. He
stopped again at 2026 Ist
Avenue and Riley and the third
man got out and walked
between two houses toward
Levi White School, authorities
said
Allen said he waited in the
car and after about 10 minutes
he heard what sounded like
four shots, authorities said.
Allen said he waited another
five minutes and when Riley
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reforms in the Gadsden police
department, city government,
school system and from the
local business establishment.
The organization vowed to
continue protest
demonstrations until the
policement who killed Madden
are suspended.
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f.iISS UNIVERSE - Janella Commissiong likes a very feminine look - soft but not
too frilly
Miss Universe’s
outlook unchanged
As for accessories, Janelie
likes thin gold chains,
understated earrings such as
gold studs -a classic look that
is a natural with the tailored
clothes she prefers.
For footwear, Janelle prefers
“a nice feminine shoe.” She
doesn’t like boots, feeling that
they look too trendy - “and
besides, my feet are
claustrophobic.”
Natural, individual,
uncluttered lines - those are the
keynotes in Janelle’s clothes
sense. Does she have any advice
to young women on how to
choose a wardrobe?
“Just find your own style.
Wear what works best for
you!”
Fashion consciousness
comes easy to Janella
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Miss Universe. At 24 years old,
she is a graduate of
Manhattan’s Fashion Institute
of Technology, and was
formerly a buyer for Martin’s
department stores in New
York.
“I was a buyer for junior
dresses,” she reminisces. “At
that time -a few years ago -
sportswear was the big thing.”
Although she’s lived more than
half her life in New York, she
won the title as Miss
Trinidad/Tobago.
Going on to become Miss
Universe hasn’t changed
Janelle’s outlook on the
fashion business. In fact, she
entered the Miss Universe
contest mainly as publicity for
a boutique of her own which
she was about to open in
Trinidad.
“It’s a good thing 1 hadn’t
yet opened one, because now 1
have no time to run it,” says
Janelle. “From the day you
win and the crown is on your
head, you’re ‘on’ all the time.”
Her hectic schedule as Miss
Universe has taken Janelle to
Europe, Latin America and the
Far East, with many more
countries still to be visited.
When her reign expires, she
plans to return to Trinidad and
open her boutique. It will be
mainly for working girls in
their early 20s, and she plans
to import most of the clothes
from the States.
“One thing 1 do feel is that
the average woman can’t relate
to the very thin, no-waisted,
flat-chested models in the
fashion magazines,” Janelle
explains. “It’s nice to be slim,
but there’s nothing wrong with
having some body too.”
Prefers Tailored Look
Personally, she prefers
tailored clothes. At 5’5” she’s
the shortest Miss Universe ever,
and feels overpowered by too
many accessories. “I have to
feel comfortable in what I
wear,” she says.
She like pantsuits, skirts and
shirts, an “uncluttered” look.
“1 don’t like to feel that the
clothes are wearing me,” she
smiles.
Janelle is especially
enthusiastic about designers’
ready-to-wear collection.
“Couturier clothes tend to be
extreme and geared to the 5’9”
frame.”
For evening, Janelle likes a
very feminine look - very soft
but not too frilly. “I don’t like
to wear pants at night,” she
confesses. She likes soft fabrics
such as jerseys and silk.
She admits she’s not a trend
setter - “I decide what my own
style is, wear hems at a
moderate length.” She’s gotten
into the “big look” on a
modified scale, but feels she’s
too small for the extreme
layered look. “I also can’t wear
blouses with bows around the
front, I feel all tied up.”
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