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121-Year-Old :‘They Made Me Out Os Good Dirt ’
Arthur Reed time, but
he says he remembers
President Lincoln. He says
he remembers them all
since then, but he’s just a
little fuzzy on their names.
Teddy Roosevelt, though
Storm Over Magazine Poses
Jayne Kennedy’s Star Tarnished?
That’s tarnish you see
on beauteous Jayne
Kennedy’s once-shining
star.
According to a
sampling of letters written
by West Coast Blacks to
the Los Angeles Sentinel,
one of the nation’s largest
Black weekly newspapers,
in most people expressed
outrage over the bedroom
scenes between, Kennedy
and her husband, Leon, in
the June 18 issue of
Playbey magazine.
The magazine spread,
which includes a feature
story and photographs of
the couple in intimate
Sisters United After 62 Years
After 62 years, two
sisters were reunited here
during the recent
International Convocation of
the Church of God in
Christ.
It was as happy a
reunion as one could ever
witness when the two sat
down beside each other and
started talking at a
convocation attended by
10,000 persons.
Made happy by the
Violence Erupts In Black Area
After Miami Police Kill Gunman
MIAMI+ Blacks tossed
rocks and bottles at cars
screamed obscenities at
police and beat up two
white men in a riot-scarred
Miami district Saturday
after a white officer killed a
Black man, officials said.
The two white men
were attacked several
blocks from the shooting in
the Culmer district, one of
Miami’s oldest Black
neighborhoods, "they were
38 Black Females
Jackson Denies Slayings List
By Chinta Strausberg
Atlanta Mayor
Maynard H. Jackson denied
any knowledge of a recently
publicized list of 38 Black,
female unsolved deaths
that allegedly were
committed over two-year
period. /
According to Angelo
Fuster, Director of
Communications for
Jackson, “There has been
no list of 38 unsolved
Im Atlanta Tm
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was the best.
If Teddy Roosevelt
were alive tody, he would
be less than two years
older than Arthur Reed.
Reed, the world’s
oldest man whose age is
poses, also prompted many
to call for a boycott of
future television and films
in which the two might
appear.
“The two have served
to demean the Black
community - and Black
women in particular -by
adding fuel to the myth
that Blacks are only
interested in sex,” one
reader wrote.
“This woman has
disgraced all Black women
by posing this, way”
another said. “I have no
problems with married
people doing whatever they
want to do (in their
miracle are Mrs. Martha
Garret, 65, of Kansas City,
and Mrs. Emma Jones, 70,
of Farrell, Pa.
They had been
separated since 1919 when
Mrs. Garret, then 3 years
old, was adopted by a
family in Jackson Tenn.,
and Mrs. Jones was left in
a orphanage.
Their mother, Leia
Evans, died at the age of
28 and their father, unable
hospitalized.
Culmer was among
areas devastated in May
1980 race riots that left 18
people dead and caused
more than SIOO million
damage. Some of those
killed were white motorists
who were pulled from cars
by Blacks and then fatally
beaten.
Police cordoned off the
district after the violence
broke out early Saturday.
sure there has been a
number of Blacks killed,
but there is in every major
city. There’s no sense to
that, and no credible reason
to believe it.”
According to Marian
Lee, Information Officer
for the Department of
Public Safety in Atlanta,
“There were a total of 98
Black female homicides
from 1978 to 1980 Out of
Black Females
aXßtoortedly Slain
nS Bn Atlanta
authenticated on record,
quietly celebrated his 121st
birthday Sunday, June 28.
His birth certificate on
file with the Social Security
Administration lists his date
of birth as June 28, 1860.
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to care for his six children,
arranged for them to be
placed in a Louisville, Ky.,
orphanage.
Later he remarried and
four of the sisters and
brothers got together again
all but Mrs. Garret and
another adopted sister,
Carrie.
May 29 during the
convocation, Mrs. Garrett
sat beside Mrs. Jones and
they started talking.
warning motorists to stay
away.
Police Sgt. Robert Hill
said Saturday afternoon
that the district was "very
quiet.” He added: “There
has been no trouble today
and we’re not taking any
special precautions.”
The disturbances began
after 26-year-old Thaddis
Johnson was killed by a
white plainclothes
policeman, officials said.
open.
“Specifically, in 1978,
there were 24 cases of
Black female homicides; -in
1979 there were 38, and in
1980, there were 36.
“Os the 24 cases in
1978, two are still open.
Eight erf the 38 cases in
1979 are open, and 13 of
the 36 of 1979 are open,
and 13 of the 3b in 1980
are open.” Lee agreed
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“In them days during
the (Civil) War, you moved
around a lot,’’ He said. He
thinks he was born in
Albany, N.Y., but,then it
could have been in
Tennessee or anywhere
bedrooms), but this is their
private business and it
doesn't belong to the
world.
“By posing like this,
she and her husband have
violated the sanctity of their
wedding vows,’’ she
declared. “They have
opened the door of the
bedroom for the world to
look in, and that is
shameful.”
One man, who bluntly
labeled Ms. Kennedy “little
more than a slut” for
exposing herself, angrily
asked, "And what kind of
man is her husband to pose
along with here and allow
Mrs. Garret recalled:
“We started talking and I
told her my name was
Martha and I mentioned
the fact that I was adopted.
When I told her my maiden
name was Evans, big tears
started rolling down her
cheeks.
“You are my sister
that I’ve been looking for
all these years,” exclaimed
Mrs. Jones.
Mrs. JonCs says that
Police refused to identify
any of the officers involved
in the shooting.
The death occurred
after two officers responded
to reports of sniper fire,
and found themselves
caught in an exchange of
gunfire between Johnson
and two Latins, police said.
The officer jumped
from their car and shouted
“Halt, police." said Sgt.
John Speisman.
of 38 unsolved murders
involving Black females.
A 24-year-old Black
freelance photographer
Sunday was arrested and
charged with the murder
of Atlanta’s 28th murder.
Arrested was Wayne
B. Williams, who had been
under police surveillance
for a month. Williams is
charged with murdering 27-
year-old Nathaniel Cater,
lw*lv was milled
J. R. Richard
May Pitch When
Baseball Strike Ends
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July 18,1981
along the East Coast. Any
records would be long
gone, be said. Besides, in
those days midwives didn't
keep records.
Some records,
however, do exist. The
the world to see the privacy
of their bedroom?"
In Detroit, one young
male fan was crushed,
explaining that it had
destroyed his image of Ms.
Kennedy as the “epitome
of the sweet, wholesome
female." Others expressed
disappointment over the
fact that many young Black
girls looked up to Ms.
Kennedy as a role model.
All were not critical,
however. Some felt that the
magazine photos were done
in good taste and saw
nothing wrong with it.
she thinks she had a
premonition of the reunion.
She said, “I dreamed
16 years ago that I would
find my sister and I got up
and told the congregation
of my church.”
The reunited sisters
said, that they would
continue looking for their
other sister, Carrie, who
now would be 67.
When the two sisters
began looking for each
Johnson then fired one
shot at the policemen with
a ,32-caliber pistol, missing
them, the sergeant said.
One of the officerss
returned fire with a
shotgun, hitting Johnson in
the chest and killing him
instantly. Speisman said.
The two Latins fled on
foot. Police said they were
being sought.
As backup units
arrived after the shooting.
from the Chattahoochee
Riser May 24.
Williams’ arrest is the
first since the series of 28
murders began 23 months
ago. He was taken to the
Fulton County jail and is
awaiting a commitment
bearing.
According to police,
Williams was stopped and
questioned near a bridge
over the Chattahochee two
days befoM Cater’» body
Social Security
administration says it has
birth certificate on file and
it shows he was bom on
the date he claims.
That would make Reed
five years older than the
“The only thing shown
was a husband and wife
making love the way the
Lord meant for it to be,"
wrote one Sentinel reader.
And one, referring to
the $50,000 the Kennedy's
reportedly received from
Playboy, branded the
complaining women “self
righteous,” and added,
“Most of them would have
taken off their clothes for
$5,000, not to mention
$50,000.
“As a matter of fact, I
would be willing to bet
that some of them would
have done it for $500,” she
concluded.
other, they discovered that
♦he orphan home in
Louisville had burned and
that all records were lost in
the flames.
Mrs. Garret found that
her adoption records were
sealed but she had thought
of getting a lawyer to open
them.
“But I didn’t have to
pay a lawyer,” Mrs. Garret
said joyfully. “God was
my lawyer.”
an angry crowd erf about
2(M) Blacks gathered and
shouted obscenities and
insults at police, said
Assistant Police Chief
Herbert Breslow. The
crowd tossed rocks and
bottles, he said.
Speisman said that
during the trouble, a group
of Blacks beat up two white
men several blocks from
the shooting scene.
w as found.
Police say Williams
was stopped and questioned
near a bridge about a mile
upstream from where
Cater's body was found.
Williams was questioned
again on May 23 and on
J une 3.
There are no more
suspects to my
knowledge," said Lee.
"However, polite are still
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Guinness B<x>k of Records'
"oldest” man who died last
year in Japan. He was
115.
"They made me out of
gixxl dirt." Reed said in
explaining how he has lived
so long. And he has lived
so long. And he never
smoked or drank. "Just
dancin' and gamblin." he
said. "Been drunk just one
time and no mire."
Through the years
Reed has been a farmer, a
railroad worker. a
handyman and a lot of
other things that he can't
quite remember. He's
always worked, though.
“You had to in them
days,” He said.
He never had any kids.
“I had to work all the
time," He said.
But he has been
married, two or three
times.
He first married in
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Coca Cola Hoping To
Settle With PUSH
CHICAGO - A
spokesman for Coca-Cola
U.S.A, says the company
hopes to continue
negotiations with Operation
PUSH after the civil rights
group rejected a proposal
by the firm to increase its
investment in Black
communities.
The Rev. Jesse
Jackson, national president
of PUSH, said recently he
sent a telegram to Donald
Keogh, president of the
Atlanta-Based firm, calling,
Coca-Cola’s plan
“unacceptable.”
Carlton Curtis, Coca-
Cola's manager of corporate
communications, said
Friday night in a telephone
interview from Atlanta that
he did not know why
Jackson had rejected the
company's plan.
Curtis said he hoped
that if Jackson had
problems with the
company’s plan he would
are not concerned about the
color of the perpetrator.
Being Black or white does
not justify the crimes
committed. The defendant
just happens to be Black.”
According to Fuster,
there was an 18 percent
drop in crime in Atlanta
when he said serious
crimes saw a national
increase of 10 percent.
Fuster said, “These
Atlanta killings have
25C
1910. he said. That was in
Tennessee and he was 50
years old. Her name was
Mary. His last wife. Susie,
he married in 1953. She
died several years ago. he
said, and he now lives with
her daughter. Sally
Robinson, bO.
In between those two
wives there was another
one, he said, but "I forget
her name."
Reed, who can’t read
or write, said he has seen a
lot of changes over the last
century, and. he said things
are better now than when
he was young.
But not all the changes
have been good, he said.
They “don’t sift corn
anymore. Them days they
sift corn for meal, but they
don't do it no more.”
Coffee isn't as good
either, he said. Back then
“you had to wash it out of
your cup, now you don’t."
discuss them with Coca-
Cola officials.
He said Coca-Cola for
years has been "very
aggressive and positive" in
hiring minority employees
and doing business with
minority-controlled firms.
PUSH, holding its 10th
annual convention here this
week, planned to release an
"economic dishonor roil" of
10 firms it found to be
particularly insensitive to
Blacks. The list was to
single out targets for
possible boycotts if the
firms did not, in PUSH’S
view, make progress in
increasing business with
the Black community.
Coca-Cola and PUSH
had been negotiating for
several months in an
attempt to resove the civil
rights group's demands for
more corporate investment
in Black communities and
more Black participation in
the firm.
produced a sense of unity
among Blacks and whites.
The white business
community has contributed
heavily in this investigation
including putting up reward
weekend searches.
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