The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 67, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1989 Page: 1 of 26
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THURSDAY, JANUARY
VOLUME 67 NUMBER II
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months to discuss long-range goals
of providing services to the north
community.
Tulsa's Young Women Christian
Association, which operates five
centers in the city, receives almost
his native Richmond, Virginia, to
become the nation’s first black
network anchor. In 1978, Robinson,
in Chicago, Peter Jennings in
London and the late Frank Reynolds
in Washington, formed a three man
anchor for network ABC. Rev.
Jackson told the huge audience that
he visited Max often during his
hospitalization last year in Oiicago.
"Max and I discussed in detail
AIDS...” Jackson said, “he said,
"Jesse, on this bed and on this Bible
it is not homosexuality but it was
promiscuity. I’m not sure and know
not where, not when even on my
dying bed-if it is my dying bed. Let
my predicament be a source of
education for my people .” Jackson
said Robinson obtained a measure of
peace and serenity in the year
embezzlement for a trust fund that
was set up to aid transplant can-
didate Christopher Davis.
Associate District Judge B.R.
Beasley ordered Hicks to pa y $15,348
restitution to Davis after she is
released from prison.
A pre-sentence investigation by
the Department of Corrections
recommended that probation be
denied because Hick's plot was a
deliberate scheme
Assistant District Attorney John
Kelson, standing in for the sen-
tencing phase of the proceedings for
Mayor Rodger Randle and Police
Chief Drew Diamond will seek
federal and private funding to pay
for phones to be placed in some of
the complexes in Tulsa, according to
Randle. Randle says the phones will
coat an estimated 1200,000 per year
for 1,000 targeted units in housing
projects in Tulsa.
Randle says the phone service is
necessary to help alleviate the
problem of isolation in the projects.
Randle says this will help the
tenants who are terrorized by the
drug dealers and other criminal
elements in the projects.
The issue of subsidized telephones
was raised Dec. 21 at the mayor’s
first meeting of a five-person action
team, to carry out recommendations
for improving life in the housing
complexes.
In reference to drug dealers
dominating pay phones in some of
the complexes, Diamond says, "If
you have to go down to the pay phone
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on the corner to access social ser-
vices or police, then you have no
access. . .in solving sane of these
problems, it (phone service) is a
necessity.*’
According to Rena McClellan,
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of the installer's time, and 115 for
every 15 minutes after that.
However, Wayne Campbell, Bell's
area manager of public relations,
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then called a friend to take her to
work. Police say on the way to work,
theft to police; called a friend to take she spotted the stolen car at R and R
her to work; spotted her car on the
way to work; confronted the
suspect; watched as her friend
helped subdue the suspect;
recovered her car and arrived at
work at 8:30 a.m.
According to reports, Teresa
Wilder, 24 had locked her 1978
Pontiac Bonneville with an extra set
of keys while It was warming up in
her driveway at 105 E. 65th Place
North. At about 6:30, a thief broke a
window and stole the car. Wilder
Promiscuity not homosexuality
caused AIDS, says Robinson
By Chester A. Higgins, Sr.
News Editor
NNPA News Service
of Pine and Greenwood. An indoor
rally will be held after the parade at Urban
the Greenwood Center, IM North
Greenwood. Participants at the rally
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give to something like this (a
children’s fund) if the people (who
embezzle the funds) aren’t
prosecuted."
Hicks was a trustee of the
Christopher Davis Transplant Fund
at Northside State Bank.
Davis' grandmother, Margaret
Payne, along with two others, were
authorized to withdraw money from
the account.
An affadavit from Detective
Corporal Regena Jolliff says that
____________________ Hicks withdrew more than 111,000 in
asked the judge to order her to be cash from the account. Jolliff says
later. as benchmarks from which to
More than 10,000 people viewed the measure progress on a quarterly
1968 parade, which included 65 basis, says Kathleen Coan,
entries.
Entries in the second annual
parade include: Alpha Phi Alpha
A Tulsa minister has been sen-
tenced to 10 years in prison for
embezzling more than 115,000 from a
four-year-old’s liver transplant
fund.
Mary Scott Hicks, also known as
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reponsible to make restitilion. It
should be a rule and condition of her
parole, and that would be up to DOC
and the pardon and parole board to
enforce the restitution. The money
was viciously taken, ’ Kelson says.
"Some embezzlement is not as
aggravated as this," Beasley says.
"In most cases, people embezzle
from companies. But this could have
a bad effect on people who want to
is how phone service could be
figured into rents.
Possible measures to upgrade the
Washington, D.C.-A year before
he died of deadly AIDS com-
plications, pioneer black television
network anchorman, Max Robinson
confessed to Rev. Jesse Jackson in
Chicago that he didn't acquire the
disease through homosexual activity
but "from promiscuity".
Rev. Jackson eloquently related
Robinson's statement • a testimony
that amointed to a "death bed
confession" - at a hugh memorial
service held for the immensely
popular Robinson at Washington. D. preceding his death.
C.’s Shiloh Baptist Church. Robinson's path to the top was not
Robinson, 49, died at Howard easy, his grasp always tenuous, and
his fall inevitable. Competitive
tension at the anchor level is fierce.
Add racism - institutional or per-
sonal - and it is deadly. James
Baldwin said it, “To be black and
aware in America is to be in a
constant state of rage." Max was in
a constant state of rage. Jackson
weaved the theme throughout his
moving testament “Max", he cried.
See ROBINSON, Page 12
Tire Store, 1701E. Pine Street.
When Wilder and friend entered
the store, they learned that
Terrance Fox, 21 of 44 E. 61 Street
North, was allegedly trying to sell
the spare tire from the car. Reports
state that Wilder called police and
then confronted Fox, accusing him J
of stealing the car. Fox reportedly
accused someone else of stealing the
car and then allegedly swung a
hammer at Wilder's friend and an
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gloom of night ••••
During a two hour period on the called the police to report the theft,
morning of December 28, a woman
had her car stolen; reported the
MLK, Jr. parade route set
fee. Late entries will not be ac- Kamau, an African storyteller The plan to
cepted. Entry forms are available at rally speaker will be announced programs and fiscal goals, we well
the parade office, 240 East Apache; “ u u *" *
The Tulsa Community Action
Agency, 764 East Virgin; or by
calling 5834135.
Reviewing stands will be set up on
the northwest comer of Cincinnati r____
and Pine and on the southeast comer Fraternity; Delta Sigma Theta and
Zeta Phi Beta Sororities; Tulsa
“ ’ i League; Greenwood
Chamber of Commerce; A. Phillip
Randolph Institute; Tulsa Com-
"Keep Hope Alive” is the theme
and purpose of Tulsa's second an-
nual Martin Luther King, Jr.
Parade, Monday, January 16.
The parade will form at 11:00 a.m.
at the intersection of Apache and
Cincinnati, move south on Cin-
cinnati, turn east on Pine and south
on Greenwood - ending at the
University Center of Tulsa (UCT)
Campus.
Kenny Monday, a 19M Olympic
Gold Medalist is the Grand Marshall
of the parade. All parade entries are
due no later than January 11 and
must be accompanied by a $5 entry
Tulsa minister sentenced for embezzling
the absent Assistant District
Attorney Forrest Lowery, says he
would have asked for a stiffer
sentence.
“It took a lot of work and skill to
pull the crime off”, Kelson says.
“The family was the overriding
motivation for allowing a plea
bargain in the case; the position
Mary Nell Hicks and Mary Beavers, they would have been in if she
pleaded no contest to 10 counts of (Hicks) had not preyed upon them
as she did," Kelson says.
"When the judge sentenced her, 1
Northside Y to remain open
thsidel center that the YWCA was
willing to make further cits to keep
it open and northside community
leaders were also committed to
keeping the center open," Coan
says.
Coan says the discussions con-
vinced the United Way board of
directors to provide $93,670 for the
northside center for 1989
Texaco has issued a challenge
grant of 38.W wh>cD has been
matched in part by a contribution
from a local community foundation
Texaco earmarked the donation to
the north facility to help generate
wide-based communities and they
have determined to continue as a
task force to review progress.
tenants to restrict access to the
projects.
According to Randle, Comanche
Park at 36th Street North and
says that Bell officials are in- Quaker will be the pilot program for
vestigating the possibility of these changes.
treating the projects as one
Cagle
“We mulct America better u hen we aid out people.” EL Goodu in, Sr., Publisher (1936 - 1978)
Baptist Church.
49, died at Howard
University Hospital of complications
from the dread disease.
In a moving memorial, Rev.
Jackson talked about the troubled
life of Max Robinson, a handsome.
_______________ smooth, dashing figure who rose
ALKESHA LATESE HILL was born a few boirs too late to coiait as a 1988 from performing as a disk jockey «
tax deduction. However, sbe arrived just in time to be the first black baby "" ““
born in Tulsa in 1989. Alkesha's mother, Traci Lynette Hill is shown with
Alkesha, shortly before they left Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital. Tuesday
morning. Alkesha was born at 10:47 a.m. on January 1.
have $34,000 in it Payne says she
found a balance of $982 in the ac-
count.
Christopher Davis is reportedly
doing well following a liver tran-
splant in March at the University of
Pittsburgh Hospital in Penn-
sylvania.
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, says Kathleen Coan,
executive director of United Way.
Members of the community nave
committed to assisting the program
in generating income through
fundraising and membership fees
for the center.
“The cooperation and support that Goff, Jr., has started work as a
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may play a board game abort King, munity Action Agency and the Sickle process is indicative of our com- Southeastern Region of the Federal
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Regional library or listen to Ayubu
A boost from United Way in the
amount of $93,670 will keep the
northside YWCA open in 1989
The YWCA, north community half of its funding from United Way.
leaders from the Northside Coor- Mary Espey, exectMive director of
dinating Committee, and members the YWCA, says her agency had
of the Northside Coalition held a requested $596,000 from United Way
series of meetings over the past six m 1988, but received $400,000.
In order to compensate the deficit,
the organization laid off one em-
ployee, eliminated one position, and
In addition to the provided fun- made another full-time pottuxi a
ding, these representatives have part-time job.
committed to expand the YWCA- The agency had previously con-
North Center facility’s 1989 work sidered closing the northside center,
include quantifiable located at 1110 E. 52nd St. North.
“When we had a chance to sit
down and talk, we found that there
was a definite need for the (nor
Labor Relations Authority. The
authority, headquartered in Atlanta.
Georgia, is responsible for all
federal agencies and labor
organizations in the southeast
region, which include Georgia,
Florida, North Carolina, Soith
account included one for a $2,540 Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama,
brass bed, a $200 check to pay Hick’s Bermuda and the Bahamas.
electric bill, and $1,000 check to pay A graduate of Booker T.
for an office Hicks leased. Washington High School, Attorney
Payne reported the money Goff holds a degree from
missing when she tried to withdraw Washington University, St. Louis,
funds to pay part of Davis' medical Missouri. He obtained his LIB at
bills. The accoint was supposed to Vanderbilt University School of Law
in Nashville, Tennessee
Goff is the son of Tulsans, G. E.
Goff, Sr. and Mrs. Onetha Scott.
ciotomer, which would mean $45 for
the first 15 minutes, and $15
thereafter for each additional 15-
minute period, without starting over
at $45 for each individual unit.
____ Randle is seeking financial
President of Comanche Park Tenant backing for his project from such
Association, and a member of the sources as Indian Nation Council of
mayor's team, a man fell in front of Government, National Institites of
her door after being shot. She called Justice, and the United States
the police and an ambulance. She Department of Housing and Urban
says, "I believe it really saved his Development Also, another option
life. There are few phones out there.
It is really a great need.”
Coat estimates from Southwest
Bell Telephone officials are: $20 per standard of living in the projects
month for basic service, $45 per were discussed. These include speed
service connection, $13 for in- bumps in parking lots, designated
stallation, $45fortheflrstl5minites parking stalls, and registration of
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