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The Augusta News-Review D ece mber 1,1984
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The issue is fairness
Two-time Olympic 400-meter
hurdles champion Edwin Moses
said he will submit several
proposals for alleviating problems
between track ; and field athletes
and European meet promoters at
a meeting of The Athletic Congress
in San Diego this week. Moses
cited instances of athletes receiving
fees below what they were
promised and “price fixing” tac
tics by promoters, intimidating
athletes to appear in certain meets
at standard fees. Amateur athletes
may receive fees for competition
but the monies must be placed in a
trust fund for athletes to maintain
amateur standing.
Among his suggestions are: full
disclosure of all financial
arrangements and entering into
contracts on when and where an
athlete will appear, in what events
and for what fee, and changing
payment procedures (most
payments are made in cash) adding
the temptation of not placing the
money in trust and not reporting it
to the IRS).
“I’m just trying to make a com
plex problem simple,” Moses said.
“The major issue here is fairness.
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NEW YORK —Mrs. Rosa Parks and actress Cicely Tyson pose after presentation oFr
the Woman of Courage Award to Mrs. Parks.
Woman of courage award
NEW YORK — Rosa Parks,
the Black woman who became a
rallying point for the civil rights
movement in 1955 when she
refused to give up her seat on a bus
to a white man, last Wednesday
receivecd the Wonder Woman
Foundation’s first “Eleanor
Head Start at the last minute
In a bleak political season, the
good news is that the Head Start
program has been approved for
another two years, thanks to last
minute action in Congress.
The Head Start program makes
a good beginning in addressing
urgent social problems. And it
does begin at the beginning, with
preschoolers. There are 2,600,000
children, ages 3-5, in families
struggling to survive below the
poverty level. Head Start reaches
less than a fifth of them.
For these children, the lucky
ones among the poor, Head Start
will make an enormous difference
in their daily lives. They will get
medical checkups; they will eat
balanced meals, they will experien
ce the excitement of learning.
Their teachers will meet and help
their parents, and will work with
community groups to make sure
that the investment in children
pays off at home and in the neigh
borhood too.-
The 19-year-old Head Start
program, once harshly criticized
by those who thought the “poverty
programs” had failed, is a proven
long-term success. A recent study
of children who entered an Yp
silanti, Michigan, preschool
program is dramatic proof of that.
The statistics are impressive.
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For 40 to 60 years we’ve been
taking money under the table. It’s
time to change.
Bethune-Cookman College,
with a 24-23 victory over defending
champion South Carolina State,
has won the Mid-Eastern Athletic
Conference football champion
ship. It marks the first time B-CC,
coached by former NFL All-Pro
Larry Little, has ever won the
MEAC crown... Collie Nicholson,
for 31 years a publicist at Bram
bling but now a partner in a
Louisana public relations firm,
will return to Grambling as a con
sultant. He will work with Eddie
Robinson on such matters as TV
negotiations and marketing
techniques.
Floeida A&M says it may have to
discontinue its Orange Blosson
Classic football game, which is in
its 52nd year because of its con
tract with Bethune-Cookman
College. FAMU will play B-CC in
Tampa next season and the con
tract stipulates that neither team
can play any other games in the
city. Speculation is that FAMU
may move the Orange Blossom
Classic to Jacksonville.
Roosevelt Woman of Courage”
award.
“I stand before you full of new
courage and determination not to
retire, as long as 1 feel I can be of
some assistance to troubled
people,” said Parks, 71, who
received a standing ovation from
Twice as many Head Start children
are now employed as those who
did not get into the program. Half
as many have had teenage
pregnancies as the others; two
thirds of these children finished
high school, while only half their
peers did.
For Head Start graduates and
for their families, these statistics
add up to hope. For all of us, they
are statistics that add up to
savings. Healthier, better
educated, and employed people
mean less money to pay for other
programs whether they are
unemployment benefits for upkeep
in jail. Just consider that Head
Start graduates are half as likely to
end up on welfare as are non-Hard
Start children.
One figure may sum up the
economic benefits of Head Start
study, one Head Start dollar
results in savings of seven dollars
later on, in reduced crime, welfare,
special education, and other costs.
In short, Head Start prevents
problems as well as creating
possibilites.
The legislation that keeps Head
Start going improves on a suc
cessful formula. Funds are
available to train Head Start
workers, and to support a creden
tialing program for them as well.
Warning signals
of stroke
Stroke is the third leading cause
of death in the United States. It
killed 164,300 in 1981, the most
recent year for which statistics are
available. Stroke is a leading cause
of major disability. Today about two
million Americans have survived
strokes and many live with serious
handicaps.
Stroke occurs when the flow of
blood supplying oxygen and nutrients
to the brain is interrupted by a clot
or by a hemorrhage. Once a stroke
damages the brain, the result may
be severe losses in mental and bodily
functions. For this reason, prevention
is the most important treatment
for stroke.
The best way to prevent a stroke
is to reduce those factors that cause
the stroke in the first place. Many
strokes can be prevented if high
blood pressure, a leading cause of
stroke, is diagnosed and controlled.
Other factors that increase your risk
of stroke include a high red blood
cell count, heart disease and
diabetes.
Another important way to reduce
the risk of a major stroke is to
identify and treat “little strokes”
called TIAs (transient ischemic
attacks). Prompt medical or sur
gical attention to the symptoms of
TIA may prevent a fatal or dis
abling stroke. Occurring days, weeks,
or months before the more severe
stroke, TIAs produce the following
early warning signals of stroke:
• Sudden, temporary weakness
or numbness of the face, arm and
leg on the same side of the body.
• Temporary loss of speech, or
trouble in speaking or under
standing speech.
• Temporary dimness or loss of
vision, particularly in one eye.
• Unexplained dizziness, unstead
iness or sudden falls.
Learn to recognize the warning
signals of a stroke. If you or some
one you are with experiences the
warning signals, insist on taking
prompt action. Keep a list of emer
gency numbers next to your tele
phone and in a prominent place in
your pocket, wallet or purse. And
learn the safest driving route to
your local hospital.
the audience at the award
ceremony at the Plaza Hotel.
Parks recalled she told the bus
driver in Montgomery, Ala., who
asked her to relinquish her seat to a
white man, “I am not going to
move.”
These provisions will improve the
quality of care that parents can ex
pect for their children.
Still, we have to wonder: Why
did it take so long for Congress to
get around to re-passing this
legislation? Although the bill had
unanimous bipartisan support,
Congress dallied until the very last
week of the 1984 session to ap
prove it. And when it was ap
proved, the Head Start program
was only extended for another two
years. This is an inadequate
gesture of support for a sturdy and
tested program, one that protects
pocketbooks as well as children’s
futures.
Os course, Congress didn’t get
any help from the Reagan Ad
ministration, which did not sup
port this bill. But in these difficult
times, the simple dollars-and-sense
value of Head Start ought to be as
plain to legislators as it is to paren
ts and neighbors of poor children.
It is sad to see one of the best social
programs become a “back bur
ner” item, even in a busy year for
Congress.
Head Start, like the children it
serves, has overcome incredible
odds. It has proved itself. And
there are lessons we can all learn
from its success.
Welfare
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what I would give my child as the
reason he cannot participate in
various school activities. This per
son said it is easy for us to lose
track of the fact that welfare
recipients are still people too.
I asked my friend for some sort
of plan to help solve this American
aberration. My friend offered the
following program as a point of
further discussion:
♦Offer a “Security Blanket” of
benefits for a specified time and
then gradually phase them out on a
predetermined schedule.
♦Give special incentives to all
businesses to offer health insuran
ce as a benefit to all their em
ployees.
♦Provide daycare services.
I wondered aloud about the cost
effectiveness of such a program.
My friend immediately retorted
that a close examination of this
approach for the long run may
offer a much cheaper cure for our
current welfare crisis than the
present ineffective hodgepodge
system. This person challenged the
powers that be to think about two
key things.
First, poor children want things
like their affluent friends and they
form very malevolent attitudues
when they realize their dreams are
merely illusions of grandeur.
Many times their ill-fated attitudes
turn into crimes perpertrated
against society.
My friend’s second point really
touched the heart of the problem.
The real crisis in the young Black
woman’s desire to return to
welfare was that it beckoned the
Inequality
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outstepped most Protestant
denominations in showing their
responsibility to the poor and
forgotten.
We hope that thinking Catholics
and dormant Protestants alike will
heed the call of the bishops’ letter.
For, only by actions will we make
its proposals a reality. As Jesus
said, “Not everyone who says unto
me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into
the Kingdom of Heaven, but he
who doeth the will of my Father.”
Murphy signs
new contract
Eddie Murphy has been signed to a
new exclusive film contract with
Paramount Pictures which extends the
pact made a year ago.
The contract calls for Murphy’s ex
clusive services for a concert film plus
five feature motion pictures. The con
cert film, which will be released during
Murphy’s forthcoming national tour,
will be produced by Eddie Murphy
Productions, Inc. and released by
Paramount during the summer of
1985.
It was announced that, as part of the
new arrangement, Eddie Murphy
Productions (EMP) will be expanding
its operation with new offices on the
Paramount lot while continuing to be
located in New York City.
EMP plans to actively develop
properties for theatrical release and also
to create packages extending beyond
the acting talents of Mr. Murphy.
“I need a home-base in order to do
what I wish to accomplish in this
business, and I feel very comfortable at
Paramount,” commented Murphy. “I
am excited about the expansion of
EMP and its potential to offer up-and
coming writers and performers a chan
ce to break into the entertainment in
dustry. Not bad for a 23-year-old from
Roosevelt High.”
“Beverly Hills Cop” is scheduled as
a Christmas release by the company,
with a nation-wide debut in 1,200
playdates beginning Friday, Dec. 7,
with an additional 400 situations
opening the film on Dec. 21.
“Beverly Hills Cop” marks Eddie
Murphy’s first solo starring effort.
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creation of the first generation of
welfare subculture.
This young Black woman’s child
would be forced to grow in a
society where one accepted welfare
as the norm rather than the excep
tion.
If we truly want to do something
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about getting people off the
welfare rolls then we must make it
attractive to work versus collecting
welfare payments.
We must look at the lone term
payof versus short-term quick
fixes if 'we are really interested in
solving the welfare crisis.