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Largest Consumers or
edicine in U.S.
Seven oqt of 10 older prnons
take II tone p-escription medi­
cine every day. Recent urveys
indicate Ihat thee derly .as a group,
are the Iarg consumers of medi­
ci . the United Sta&eS. There
are veral reasons why. For one
thin. elderly experience more
ill - most 80 percent ve
one or more chronic IaIth condi­
tion ..
As an e group, the elderly .-e
·laIized IIKX'e frequently than
y get adults. Medicines pre-
scribed for older indiv· d
ofi n more comp ex and are used
for Ion er periods than for most
other groups.
edicines most commonly
prescribed for the elderly are �
for hi h blood pressure, anhri s,
. . uch ina.
_troUa�tmaJ problems.
JESSE JACKSON em bra
·Uri lqacy Award· reclpent
Joseph in Harreld .Love (R),
loll · g p ntatio of
chievement p qu to er by
Sa uel J. Si 0, p Ident
of the N:atlo I Caucu nd
Center for Blac d, Inc.
which po ored banqu t
honoring six outstandi senior
dtlzens for their lifetime
co trlbutio to Society and
. tb ir co uniti. Mrs. Love is �
renown concert artist nd
founder of "Your Heritage
Hou "cultural youth mu eum
in Detroit. I CBA sponsored
nqu t in W hlngton, D.C.
Billy Sims to
speak at Youth
NAACP
The Hamtramck and
Highland Park N.A.A_C.P. will
host its Youth Annual Freedom
Fund Dinner. Sunday, June 10,
from 5-8:30 p.m. with Dinner
at 6 p.m. at the Blackwell
Center (Formerly Dairy
Workers Hall) 15840 Highland
Park.
Guest pcakcr will be
Football Star and Bu inessman
Billy Sim .
Our Theme Thi Year:
"Youth In Action"
Tickets are $35 Adults
and Youth under 18. S15.
Call 867-7177.
ore eye open
P.I. (Private Investigator)
Magazine reports that women
. are hiring private investigators
at a record pace. The reason: To
the check up on spouses and
boyfriends.
Hit hard r
Figures released recently by
the Bureau of Justice Statistics
found that whites are more like­
ly to be injured during a robbery
but Black are more likely to be
injured seriously.
B t
Mae West.: "When I'm good,
I'm good. B -when I'm bad,
I' m even better.·
This Week In
. Black History
JUNE 1 , 1859 -:- The
Wanderer was the last slave
ship to .. bring a large number.
of slaves to U.S. 1854-
James Augustine, was the first
Bl ck American Roman
Catholic Bishop, ordained.
JUNE 11, 1858 - William
Wells Brown wrote the first
publi hed play by a Black.
192 - Hazel Dorothy Scott,
pianist, singer, was born.
JUNE 12, 196 - Andrew
Brimmer became the first
Black to erve on the Federal
Reserve Board. 1963 -
JUNE 10-16, 1990 . MICHIGAN CITIZEN PAGE NI E
Medgar W. Evers, civil rights
leader, wa murdered in Jack­
son, Miss.
congregation in San Antonio.
1877 - Henry O. Flipper,
was the first to graduate from
West Point.
Jl!NE 16, 1964 - Twenty­
fourth Amendment abolished
poll tax. 1963 - How rd
Jenkins, Jr. became the first
Black member of the National
Labor Relations Board.
JUNE 13, 1886
Frederick Douglass appointed
minister to Haiti. 1967 -
Thurgood Marshall was ap­
pointed to the U.S. Supreme
Court by President Johnson.
JVNE 14, 1914 - the
NAACP'S Spingarn Award
for outstanding achievement
was instituted. 1970 - Chris
Dickerson, body builder, be­
came first Black Mr. America.
JUNE 15, 1974 - J. Gar­
field Owens became the first
Black pastor of an all-while'
La SI p .
Americans are sleqUg less
than they used to. According to
a recent story in the health Sec­
tion of the New Yor TImes,
the tum of the century the
average person slept 9 1{l hours
a night. By the 1960' s the
average was down to 7 la.
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