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Margaret Bush
Vice president’s wife frightened by illiteracy
DETROIT Mrs.
Barbara Bush, wife of
U.S. Vice President
George Bush, told 2,000
members of Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority, Inc. here
that she is “scared to
death” of rising illiteracy
statistics in the United
States.
“Illiteracy among
Black high schoolers are 40
percent and experts
speculate it may go as
high as 50 percent by
1990. I hope I’m scaring
you to death, you see, I
am,” she said.
Her remarks came at a
luncheon honoring Delta
undergraduates at the
Westin Hotel’s
Renaissance Ballroom.
Delta is holding its 37th
National Convention in
Cobo Hall this week. The
public service sorority of
some 120,000 Black
college women and alum
ni is the nation’s largest
single Black women’s
organization. Delta
National President Mrs.
Mona H. Bailey, of Seat
tle, introduced Mrs.
Bush.
Mrs. Bush said she and
Vice President Bush have
visited 13 European
countries in the last six
months and found the
U.S. lags behind in
literacy.
“Their literacy rate
overall is 98 to 100 per
cent. We spend three
times as much per capita
on education yet our rate
is only 72 percent,” she
said.
Mrs. Bush said the
United States spends $6.6
billion yearly to keep
700,000 illiterates in jail.
Between 60 and 70 per
cent of all illiterates move
outside the law because
they cannot function
adequately in society, she
FBI investigating Dykes
ticket-fixing, bribery
The FBI is in
vestigating Sheriff J.B.
Dykes in connection with
possible charges of ticket
fixing and bribery.
U.S. Attorney Hinton
Pierce’s office refused to
comment when The
News-Review called on
Wednesday. However,
Pierce confirmed
Tuesday night that Dykes
is being investigated. He
declined to comment on
the nature of the charges
against him.
Dykes was unavailable
Mrs. Williams
pins bars on son
Mrs. Ernestine
Williams recently had the
honor of pinning officers
bars on her grandson,
Second Lt. Darrell K.
Williams, U.S. Army, at
commissioning ceremon
ies at Fort Bragg, N.C.
Lt. Williams, the son
of Mr. and Mrs. James
R. Williams Jr. of Camp
Springs, Md., and the
grandson of the late Mr.
Alfonzo Williams and the
late Mr. James R.
Williams Sr., as well as
the grandson of Mrs. Inez
Williams of Augusta will
be graduating from
Hampton Institute, with
a degree in architecture.
Before leaving for
suburban Washington,
D.C., where she was the
house guest of her to the nation’s capital.
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said.
She encouraged the
Deltas to give their time,
money and concern to
help alleviate illiteracy.
The luncheon also
featured a dramatic and
musical presentation by
the New York arts troupe
Nucleus. Members in
clude Yolanda King,
daughter of slain civil
rights leader Martin
Luther King Jr., and
Atallah Shabazz,
daughter of the late
Malcolm X, who were
featured.
Mrs. Bush’s remarks
were preceded by a
fashion show by Delta
member Toni Whittaker,
who sells her original
designs in the Ruffles and
Rags boutique in
Houston. Mrs. Bush’s
home town, where she
promised to look at the
creations.
At an earlier session in
Cobo Hall, Dr. Joseph
Lowery, president of the
Southern Christian
Leadership Council
(SCLC), called on the
nation’s leaders to “tran
sform the arms race into
a creative struggle to har
nass abilities to achieve
worldwide peace.”
“The threat of thermal
nuclear annihilation
hangs as an enemy’s
sword over the human
race as it stands at the
edge of a cliff
overlooking an awful
abyss,” he said.
“We are madly
engaged in a contest to
idiocy,” he said, then
urged U.S. leaders to
follow Biblical precepts
and to “study war no
more.”
Just prior to Lowery’s
remarks, Geraldine Pit
tman Woods, chairper
son of Delta’s
for comment.
State Court Solicitor
Gayle B. Hamrick repor
tedly received a subpoena
on Monday which or
dered records pertaining
to 30 names of in
dividuals be turned over
to a federal grand jury in
Savannah of Sept. 15.
Local court officials
said they knew of
inquiries being made by
federal authorities con
cerning Dykes but were
not informed about the
subject matter.
daughter and son-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. James R.
Williams Jr., Mrs.
Williams visited her son,
James, and his wife,
Ann, in Fayetteville,
N.C.
In Bethesda,
Maryland, Mrs. Williams
had prayer with Mrs.
Peggie Dixon, a con
valescing patient at the
U.S. Naval Medical Cen
ter. She also had a warm
visit with her niece and
her husband, Mr. and
Mrs. Clifton Pollard, at
their Washington home.
A party given in Mrs.
Williams* honor and
hosted by her daughter
and son-in-law in their
home put the finishing
touches on her lovely visit
Distinguished Professor
Endowed Chair Commit
tee and a past national
president of Delta,
presented a representative
of Hampton Institute
(Hampton, Va.) a check
for $50,000 to enhance
the enrollment and num-
Jobs Bill creates
over 100 Augusta jobs
Mayor Edward M.
Mclntyre announced last
week that the
Congressionally created
Jobs Bill program has
resulted in direct em
ployment for 55 citizens
of Augusta and at least 50
indirect jobs.
The federal gover
nment requires that all
individuals who receive
these jobs must live
within the city limits.
Mclntyre explained
that two projects, the
paving of sidewalks and
Black astronaut
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tastic, you don’t need a
hobby. The hobby is
going to work.”
Colonel Bluford, who
prefers to be called Guy,
is a mission specialist,
one of the new breed of
scientific pioneers who
is taking an increasing
share of the limelight
from the pilot astronauts.
Aboard the
Challenger, he will per
form experiments with
electrophoresis, away to
separate biological
materials according to
their surface electrical
charge by passing them
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ber of majors in
economics at the school
over the next two years.
Dr. Bernadette
Chachere of Hampton’s
Department of
Economics is the
recipient professor.
streets estimated to cost
in excess of $275,000 and
the Housing
Rehabilitation Program
which is allocated
$150,000, create the 50
indirect positions.
The Mayor said that
actions of this nature as
well as other developmen
ts in the planning stages
will result in lowering the
unemployment rate for
the city of Augusta.
Augusta received a
total of $624,000 from
the jobs bill.
through an electric field.
The technique may yield
new drugs. He will also
help launch a com
munications and weather
satellite for India and put
the shuttle’s mechanical
arm through tests with an
8,000-pound weight.
3 Blacks Await Flights
Though he is the first
American Black in space,
he is not the first Black;
the Soviet Union placed
Arnaldo Tamayo Men
dez, who is Cuban, into
orbit in 1980 aboard
Soyuz 38. Waiting to
follow Colonel Bluford
OIC head urges business-job training pact
Gloria Butler, Augusta
0.1. C. executive director
spoke to a group of
business people on the
topic of job training at a
recent conference of the
National Alliance of
Business in Atlanta at the
Hyatt Regency Hotel.
Ms. Butler urged
business community not
to become passive about
the “new” Jobs Training
Partnership Act (JTPA)
program which replaces
CETA in October of this
year. She contends that it
is not enough just to “sit
by” and criticize how
government-funded pro
grams have failed. JTPA
legislated the key par
ticipation of the business
community in the plan
into space are three other
Black American
astronauts.
The comedian Bill
Cosby said the historic
flight was a
breakthrough for the
Federal Government.
“This is someone who
had earned the mission,”
he said. “Our race is one
which has been quite
qualified for a long time.
The people who have
allowed him to make this
mission are the ones that
have passed the test.”
Colonel Bluford lives
in Houston with his wife,
an accountant with an oil
concern. Both his sons
are science students in
college. “I try to keep
them from feeling
pressured that they have
to accomplish more than
I have,” he said. “I want
them to be happy. That’s
what is most important.”
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Gloria Butler
ning, implementation and
of this job’s
program, she said.
Ms Butler, however, Ms. Butler concluded chaos.”
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told the group that her
ten years of experience as
a training administrator
and practitioner suggest
that the business com
munity often times has an
unhealthy stero-typed
view of clients served by
government-funded pro
grams.
“It is incumbent,” she
continued, “upj>n the
business community to
become more actively in
volved and
knowledgeable about the
client population to be
served by JTPA —if
business is, in fact, going
to help bridge the gap
between the welfare rolls
and the employment
rolls.
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her comments to the
business group by saying
that businesses must be
willing to hire persons
served by JTPA and be
prepared to give these
new employees extra
time, patience and en
couragement to help
them succeed.
“People don’t change
overnight: a history of
failure, rejection, and
irresponsibility must be
overcome by consistent
accountability. It takes
time to help persons
become productive em
ployees,” she said, “but
the alternative is to leave
people in poverty and
dispair which can become
a breeding ground for