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Volume 11 Number 39
The church's concern is for
the ‘lost, the last and the least'
Mount Calvary Baptist Church
jis making a special effort to
highlight the plight of the masses
and to raise the consciousness of
the people to the needy, accor
ding to Pastor Clyde Hill, who
emphasized that the church has a
similiar program throughout the
year.
“Churches die when they
become preoccupied with church
work rather than the work of the
church,” he said.
The church is urging people to
bring food, clothes and toys to
the church from 9:30 a.m. to 1
p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday, Wednesday and Satur
day.
The items will be given to the
needy, the unemployed and the
underemployed, based on need,
the Rev. Hill said.
He said the project is not a
“paternalistic kind of ministry
but a brotherly kind of
ministry.”
The inspiration for this
ministry, he said comes from
Christ himself. “We believe the
concern of the church should be
not with membership but with
Cicely Tyson weds Miles Davis
HOLLYWOOD—Emmy-win
ning actress Cicely Tyson and
jazz great Miles Davis were
married in a Thanksgiving Day
midnight ceremony performed by
Atlanta mayor-elect Andrew
Young.
The marriage, which took
place at the Massachusetts home
of comedian Bill Cosby, was the
recond for Miss Tyson, 37, and
the third for Davis, 55.
Hollywood publicist David
Brokman said Friday that Cosby
was Davis’ best man and he also
gave away the bride. Young, an
ordained minister and former
ambassador to the United
Nations in the Carter ad
ministration, performed the ser
vice.
Comedian and political activist
Dick Gregory, actress Gloria
Foster and actors Al Freeman
and Clarence Williams attended
Running for governor
Blacks cautioned on George Wallace
SELMA, Ala.—Recalling the
racist record of former Alabama
Gov. George Wallace, the
president of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC) warned Alabama blacks
last week in Selma to “avoid
making hasty endorsements of
candidates and judge them by
their records of service and
responses to the black agenda
being developed by the Alabama
SCLC and the Alabama
Democratic Conference.”
Although some black leaders in
Alabama have urged Wallace to'
run and at least one has endorsed
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discipleship, both and not
either —or.
“We believe in the infleshment
of the sermon, on the
Word—that God becomes visible
as in the body of Christ as in
dividuals represent Him in these
areas.
“We want to say, not only for
God so love d the world, but as
Cicely Tyson
the ceremony.
Miss Tyson won an Emmy for
her critically-acclaimed perfor-
him in recent weeks, SCLC
President Jospeh E. Lowery told
blacks during a state SCLC
meeting, “I would not grant Mr.
Wallace automatic political am
nesty. I would think we would
have to search his record and his
current commitment to the issues
that will be developed by the
blacks of this state.”
While Lowery’s remarks were
largely directed at the Alabama
governor’s race, he also stated
that black voters throughout the
United States must be meticulous
in supporting candidates for elec
tive office.
Cicely Tyson
is married
to Miles Davis
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the Christian Fellowship, we,
too, have been mandated to be
concerned about the lost, the last
and the least.
“We’re concerned about the
propertyless and the powerless.”
The Rev. Clyde Hill said this is
not “something we just thought
of for now. We have an ongoing
program throughout the year.”
Mount Calvary has a Christian
social action committee, a
political action committee and a
public education committee “to
raise the social and political con
sciousness of our people so they
see that the church should be in
volved and making life more
human.”
He said the door of the church
ought to be ’high enough for a
man bringing his head in as well
as his heart.
The Gospel pervades, per
meates and penetrates society.
But you’ve to make contact.
“You may have pounds of meat
in one place and pounds of salt in
another, but they have to meet to
have effect. We want to make
Christmas merry for people who
otherwise would not experience
this.”
mance in the television mpvie
“The Autobiography of Miss
Jane Pittman” and was
nominated for an Oscar for her
role as a sharecropper’s wife in
“Sounder.”
She was the first black actress
to have a continuing role in a
dramatic television series, co
starring with George C. Scott in
“East Side-West Side” in the
early 19605.
Davis, a renowned and in
novative jazz artist, recently
returned to the concert stage after
a hiatus of several years. The
trumpet player and composer was
voted Jazzman Os The Year by
Downbeat Magazine readers
from 1969-71. His albums in
clude “Miles Smiles,” “Sorcerer,
“Mefertiti,” “Britches Brew,”
“Filles de Kilimanjaro,” “At
The Fillmore,” and “On The
Corner.”
“We must get commitments
before we place persons in office,
not afterwards,” he said, adding
that “once they’re elected we
must work with them and make
them accountable. For too long
we have put people in office
without getting firm commitmen
ts and sensitive responses to our
demands.”
. Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford,
’while urging Wallace to seek the
governorship, has assured
Lowery that he will support the
endorsement of the Alabama
Democratic Conference. Ford is.
state board chairman of SCLC.
December 19,1981
Former Oriole,
Sonny Til, dies
of heart attack
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Leaders reportedly not serious
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about cancer exposed workers
By Yvonne Day
A community worker last week
said the leadership of the black
community has not taken
seriously the fact that more than
1,000 people—9o percent of them
black—may have been exposed to
the cancer-causing agent
Betanapthlamine (BNA)—while
working at the Augusta Chemical
Co.
Wilbur Allen, co-Chairman of
the Committee of Concerned
Citizens (formed to aid the for
mer workers), said “Not only is it
a serious issue because it hap
pened to us, it is a serious issue
because President Reagan is
threatening to roll back health
and safety standards, which
means that workers will be ex
posed to more hazardous con
ditions.”
Allen made the comments at a
community forum to better in
form citizens about the screening
program for the former chemical
company workers.
Allen said his group will act as
a “social service arm in
Sonny Til dies
of heart attack
BALTIMORE— Sonny
Til, the Crown Prince of
Doo-Wop and leader of
the Orioles singing group,
died Dec. 9 of a heart at
tack.
Til, 56, whose real name.
was Erlington Tilghman,
was a native of Baltimore.
He had been living in
Suitland, Md., for the
past few years.
His last local singing
engagement was at the
Sportsmen’s Lounge and
was scheduled to perform
another engagement at the
mobolizing and informing
citizens of the diagnostic
screening process” being conduc
ted by the Medical College of
Georgia.
“Four to five persons daily are
referred through the committee’s
efforts” Allen said. Through the
coordinated efforts of churches
and community organizations,
the committee has been suc
cessful in contacting and infor
ming many workers exposed to
BNA during their employment at
Augusta Chemical Co.
Dr. Ernest Altekruse, who in in
charge of the screening clinic,
said the initial screening involves
an interview, a physical
examination and two urine tests.
Screening clinics are conducted
on Saturdays from 8:00 to 5:00
p.m. The initial screening will
take about 2!/z hours
Allen said that “no ap
propriations have been set aside
to cover the cost of future
screenings for exposed workers
when the current grant runs
out.”
club, but had to cancel to
undergo surgery, an am
putation, after he contrac
ted an infection.
District funeral services
for Til will be at Rhines
Funeral Home, 12th and
Carney Streets, N.E.,
Friday, Dec. 11., at 11
a.m. A wake will be from
3 p.m. until 9 p.m., at the
same building.
His body was returned
to Baltimore for funeral
arrangements.
Among Til’s survivors
are a daughter, Christie
and a son, Ricky.
Black cautioned
on supporting
George Wallace
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Dr. William Johnson, a former
consultant of the National In
stitute of Occupational Safety
and Health (NIOHS) said that as
early as April, 1972, detection
tests were made to determine the
effect of the chemical on former
employees exposed to the cancer
causing substance at the local
plant. However, cancer was not
found in any of the tests.
Because the effects of the
chemical develop slowly and may
not appear for 20 to 30 years af
ter exposure to the substance, Dr.
Johnson stressed the necessity for
an annual diagnostic screening
for exposed workers.
During the second in
vestigation the existence of nine
cases of bladder cancer was un
covered. Three of the cases were
fatal and one patient having had
his bladder removed after being
exposed to BNA at Augusta
Chemical.
In 1973 the company began
using Tobias acid as a substitute
for the BNA chemical.
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S6OO FOR UNCF—Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority presented Paine College with a
check for S6OO in support of the Ignited
Negro College Fund. This group was one of
many who made the 1981 campaign a suc
cess, and helped Paine College exceed its
goal of $50,000. A victory celebration was
held on December 10 at the home of Dr.
Julius S. Scott to thank those who par
ticipated in the annual drive.
Director of Development Charles Smith
accepts a check from Dr. Louise Rice, a