San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 27, 1992 Page: 4 of 16
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The San Antonio Register
February 27,1992
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Personal
Finance
Making your family
owned business successful
You've always dreamed of owning
your own business, and you're finally
going to do it. Not only are you
going to do it, some family members
are also going to join you. It'll be one
big happy family...right? Perhaps
not. Going in business with family
and friends can spcli disaster to
relationships if certain rules aren't
followed.
The establishment of these few
guidelines will help your business
run smoother and keep the family
together.
(1) Deal objectively with a family
member's qualifications. Your
daughter might be just fine dealing
with customers, but a total disaster at
managing people.
Sit down with family members
before you put them i n a position and
discuss exactly what their
qualifications are. Remember it's
real hard to fire a family member,
and you still have to deal with them
off the job.
(2) A family member who has no
experience in the type of business
you're running should acquire his
practical experience elsewhere. It's
been said that one of the big retailing
families, either Nieman-Marcus or
Saks, sent their sons to learn the
retailing business at Sears.
Acquiring your practical experience
elsewhere allows the junior family
members to grow and mature away
from home and will give them a
different perspective on how a
company is best organized and
managed, says Inc. magazine.
(3) Responsibilities should be clearly
defined. If you are unwilling to
share position and power, other
family members may end up being
frustrated and less than fully
confident about their authority.
Clearly defining responsibilities lets
everyone know exactly what is or is
not expectcd of them,
(4) Power struggles are non-
productive. Avoid them by dividing
responsibilities. Assign each family
member a job he does best, and,
hopefully, one that he likes.
Otherwise too much time will be
fighting over turf.
(5) Establish working hours.
Although family businesses usually
require that we work beyond the
traditional 8-5 workday, especially
for the first five years, there should
also be balance between work and
family life.
(6) Discuss salary and perks in
advance. Money breaks up more
good relationships, general ly because
it wasn't discussed upfront.
(7) Fight issues, not emotions. If
you and your daughter-in-law aren't
on the best of terms and a financial
issue needs resolving, put your
personal feelings on the shelf and
deal with the financial issue on its
merits alone.
(8) Don't keep secrets. Nobody likes
surprises when it comes to business.
Therefore, work together on major
items such as expansion and legal
matters as well as your marketing
programs.
(9) Don't be a tyrant. Let our other
family members do what you're
paying them to do. Work together as
a team.
(10) Establish a family council to
communicate and air out problems
or differences.
This council should meet on a regular
basis outside regular business hours
and should be done in afamily setting.
If you're the owner....LISTEN,
LISTEN, LISTEN!
Business ownership, especially
family business ownership, is an
important part of Black heritage, and
is important to the financial well-
being of the Black community. So,
set some guideline, call the family
members, and get to work as one big
happy family!
Family searches for justice,
wonders if poor must pay more
Frankie Sledge never gave much
thought to the workings of Bexar
County's justice system. Shealways
assumed that what she learned in her
high school civics class was correct.
That justice was blind, making no
distinction between Black, brown,
or white, rich or poor.
That is until 3 years ago when her
brother, in her opinion, was
railroaded by the system and given
life in prison.
Now Frankie has a question for the
system. "Do you have to pay for
being poor?"
Frankie is the youngest child of the
eight children of the late Rev. and
Mrs. Frank Brown, and since
December of 1989 she has been trying
to get somebody, anybody, to listen
to her brother's plight.
That's when her brother, Joseph
Brown, 37, was convicted of raping
a four year old child and sentenced to
lifeinprison. Hesayshedidn'tdoit,
and Frankie believes that the
evidence supports him.
The rape for which Joe Brown is
serving a life sentence occured on
Jan. 20, 1989, and there are some
disturbing facts surrounding it
" According to the outcry witness,
the little four year old girl knocked at
her door at about 8:00-8:30 on that
day, crying, and saying that 'Daddy
and Red' had hurt her. The witness
said that there was blood and semen
coming from the child's anus and
vagina and that there was semen
around her mouth.
However, the witness did not call
the police until 11:00, almost three
hours later. Prior to calling them,
however, she did bathe the child,
wash her clothing, and put a perm on
her hair. Another neighbor reports
that the child showed up at her
doorstep, asking if her child could
come out and pray at about 7:30 thai
morning and again between 8:30-
9:00.
Joe Brown and Anthony Harris, a
minister, were arrested on that same
day for raping die child.
f| Harris, who was packing to go to
Fla. to his father's
then.
So, today, Frankie and her sisters,'
Elaine Pipkins and Doris Hurd, toil
on as they try to get somebody,
anybody, to listen to the story of a
justice system that didn't p-otect the
rightsoftheaccused. Another sister,
Dorothy Carter, died trying to help
her brother.
And as they try to help, they wonder
whether another litde girl is being
sexually assaulted by Red?
After all, as long as the wrong man
is in prison, the real criminal is still
free to do as he likes.
If you are interested in this case, the
Brown family is happy to share trial
transcripts, etc. with you. Please
contact the Justice for Joe Brown
Committee, P.O. Box 47936, San
Antonio, TX. 78265.
[ilitary News
about men and women from
San Antonio who've gone on
to bigger and better things
Sam Houston grad
completes clinical
training
Air Force Reserve Airman David A.
Hallman, a 1990 graduate of Sam
Houston High School and the son of
Loraine Hill of the 600 block of
Lincolnshire, recently completed the
clinical training portion of the
medical service specialist career
field. The training was completed at
Robert L. Thompson Strategic
Hospital, Carswell Air Force Base,
Ft. Worth, Texas.
Students received advanced
instruction in various specialties of
the nursing and health .care career
field The course is designed to give
students as much exposure to actual
patient care settings as possible.
Haliburton
completes course
Army Reserve 2nd Lt. Perry L.
Haliburton has completed a
transportation officer basic course at
Fort Eustis, Newport News, Va.
During the course, students were
trained in a variety of military
subjects and given a basic knowledge
of the structure of Transportation
Corps units and operations.
He is the son of Irene Haliburton of
the 4700 block of Belinda Lee and a
1986 graduate of Sam Houston High
School.
Husband of local
woman gets bronze
Star Medal
Army Sgt. 1st Class Arlee
Robinson Jr. has been decorated with
the Bronze Star Medal for
exceptionally meritorious
achievement while engaged in
combat operations against an enemy
of the United States during Operation
Desert Storm.
He is a tank systems mechanic with
the 64th Armor, Fort Stewart,
Hinesville, Ga.
Robinson is the son of Arlee
Robinson Sr. of Decatur, Ga., and
Joyce Arnold of Atlanta.
His wife, Martha,is the daughter of
Willie Smith of the 7900 block of
Forest Flame and Bennie L. Smith,
also of San Antonio.
60 years a few months ago.
Police searched the apartment
thoroughly and found no blood or
semen on the couch where the child
said the offense look place. The
nightgown that the child says she
was wearing was never produced.
Joe Brown offered to submit to a
DNA test for his sperm, however,
since the outcry witness had washed
the clothing and bathed the child
there was no evidence. Brown's
clothes were taken by the police and
never seen again although they were
tested and found to be negative.
Furthermore, the doctor who
examined the chi Id testified that there
was evidence of sexual abuse, but
her hymen was healed so it probably
took place more than a month before,
not that same day.
The whole case, says Sledge,
hinges on the name 'Red' which Joe
Brown is saidtohave never gone by.
However, the child's babysitter's
husband was called Red and had just
gotten out of prison for rape. The
babysitter and the outcry witness
were best friends.
The outcry witness testified that
Brown introduced himself to her on
May 16 as Red, yet records show that
on that day he was in the Bexar
County Jail.
Brown was first offered 25, then
15 years in a plea bargain. He
responded, "Even if you only give
me one day, I still didn't do it"
Believing in the system, he chose to
go to court.
The trial lasted one day for each of
the accused men. The jury took 15
minutes toconvict Brown, then went
to lunch.
Again, Sledge asks the question,
"do you pay for being poor in the
justice system?"
Both Brown and Harris had court
appointed attorneys who saw them a
maximum of three or four times
before the trial....and then only for a
very short time. The transcript
indicates that Brown's attorney was
not well prepared at all on several
occasions.
He even told them that he did not
believe her brother until the last
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