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The San Antonio Register
October 22,1992
Hand-y points
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Slate Rep. Conley
Judge Carruthers
State Rep. Karyne Conley and Magistrate Andrew Carruthers had some
hand-y expressions for the Zulus at their annual installation of officers and
new members recently. Judge Carruthers was the keynote speaker, and Rep.
Conley flew the highways from Gonzales to help install the new officers.
I beg your pardon, did I promise you a rose garden?
marketing techniques that small
businesses can use "in house" to
increase sales.
Admission will be free; for further
information and reservations call
554-7135.
Health fair targets
federal workers
The San Antonio Area Council of
Black Employment Managers will
sponsor a federal workers and
community "Health Fair" Friday,
November 13 from 8:30-3:30 p. m.
at the Barbara Jordan Center.
Various representatives will be
available to provide information on
general wellness subjects such as
diet, exercise, blood pressure
checks.diabetes screening, andaCPR
class.
There will also be representatives
from several major federal health
plan providers and the office of Social
Security.
All events are free. For more
information, call Ruth Williams at
229-4524.
African American
Experience lecture
series continue
N
Valerie Gimm
Lecturing on rural Black America
Zulus Michael Ruggs and Ed Wilson gallantly planted roses on all the Zulu
Wives at the recently held Zulu installation dinner.
;f? . for nomination. Nomination forms
are available either through high
school guidance counselor offices or
from the Amateur Athletic Union,
3800 W. 86th Street, TO Box 68207,
Indianapolis, Indiana 46268. All
nominations must be postmarked no
later than December 7,1992.
Teen pregnancy
prevention office to
open at Sutton
Homes
Offices focusing on Adolescent
Pregnancy Prevention will be
officially opened this Monday at
Sutton Homes and at Lincoln Heights
Courts housing projects.
A recent report shows that Texas
leads the nation in births to teens 14
years^f<tge and younger and that in
arCounty 2400children are born
to teens 18 and younger.
Procurement
Outreach Program
will show how to
do business with
the federal
government
The Procurement Outreach
Program will hold its monthly
program orientation at its offices at
215 S. San Saba on Friday, October
30th, from 9 to 11 a.m.
The Procurement Outreach
Program (POP), a division of the
City of San Antonio's Economic
Development Department, provides
technical and marketing assistance
to local firms interested in entering
th federal, state, or local government
procurement markets. Through the
use of a number of technical tools,
the POP promotes economic
le velopment by assisting businesses
a i th maket research to identify ihose
federal, state and local agencies that
buy the products San Antonio firms
sell. The orientation will inform
business of how the POP can help
them in identifying, preparing a
market plan and entering this
potentially lucrative market.
Glynnis Evans of Evans & Evans
Advertising will speak on
"Advertising for Small Businesses".
She will address inexpensive
Jodie McGarity
Colleges intersted
in McGarity
Jodie McGarity is still getting letters
from col leges and uni versifies across
the country. The star basketball
player at Sam Houston High School
maintains a B average.
I le is the grandson of Geneva
Rectqr and the grandson of Mr. Frank
Buffin. His godparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Ronnie Waiters and Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar Williams.
"I tell Jodie, keep up the work and
put God first in anything you do. I'm
behind you in anything you do until
th ; end. Trust in the Lord. He is
always on your side. I love you, and,
also, God loves you. Be strong in
your work, and I will pray for you,"
said his mother, Joyce McGarity,
Student athletes
v may vie for $40,000
, scholarship
One young man and one young
woman will be selected as Stale
Recipients and awarded a $1,000
scholarship in the Amateur Athletic
Union/Mars-Milky Way High
School Ail-American Award and
College Scholarship Program.
Eight high school seniors will be
awarded regional scholarships of
$10,000 and tow of the Regional
Recipients will be selected as
National Recipients, receiving
scholarships (dialing $40,000 over
four years.
The program is for students who
contribute to the well-being of others
while pursuing academic
advancement and athletic
John Mason
Lectures on prosecution of
Chuck Berry
Trinity University's history
department continues its lecture
series,- African-American
Experiences: Exploration in Culture,
Politics, and History with lectures
on "Race, Sex, and Rock 'n' Roll:
The Chuck Berry Mann Act Trials of
1959-1960" and "The Black Family
in Twentieth Century Rural
America".
John Mason, assistant professor of
history at the University of Florida,
will discuss the prosecution of
musician Chuck Berry on charges of
transporting women across statelines
for immoral purposes at the heightof
his fame.
Mason, who made a comparative
study of slavery in the U. S. and
South Africa while of a Fullbright
Scholarship in South Africa, has also
done research on African-American
popular music. ,
His lecture will be at 7:30 p. m. in
the Chapman Graduate Center
Auditorium on October 26.
' Valerie Grim, assistant professor
of Afro-American studies at Indiana
University in Bloomington will
discuss the crises facing Black
families in fanning communities and
the role of the rural church and its
efforts to help rural Blacks survive.
Grim, an agricultural/rural historian,
grew up in Drew, Mississippi as the
tenth child of a sharecropper. The
Drew farming community was
purchased by its Black tenants in the
1920's.
Her lecture is scheduled for 7:30
p.m., November 4, in the Chapman
Graduate Center Auditorium.
Both lectures are free and open to
the public.
All graduating seniors are eligible
Have You
Voted?
St. Mary's University honors Attorney
Briscoe at Awards Banquet Thursday
East Side Attorney Hattie Elam
Briscoe, 75, will be on of three people
receiving St. Mary's University's
Distinguished Alumnps/a Award.
Briscoe, was the first African-
American to receive a law degree
from St Mary's University School
of Law and for 27 years was the only
African-American wonfan attorney
in San Antonio and Bexar County as
well as the county's first Special
1 Prosecutor.
Prior to becoming an attorney, she
taught school, was a beauty operator
and cosmetology instructor.
She worked as a Clerk-Typist at
Kelly Air Force Base and attended
law school at night until she gradu-
ated, at the top of her class, in 1956.
Tommy Adkisson
as described by
an elderly widow:
"Courageous. He's
helping us fight crime
in our neighborhood.
Adkisson
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FOR COUNTY JUDGE.
Pol Adv paid by Friends of Tommy Adkisson
Joe Segovia, Treasurer / P O Box 23377 / San Antonio, TX 78223
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HARLON
COPELAND
HONEST PROVEN LEADERSHIP
PD. POL. ADV. EVERETT SPARKMAN, TREAS., P. O. BOX 290129, SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS 78280
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