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o OlT-Mu ic.
M ic.
Mu ic.
In one cn e of the word, the
orld of Dorothy R. Simp on i
mu ic. She h owned nd
oper ted Si mp OD' Record
Shop, 14034 Jo C mp u, for the
p t twentyfour ye
Sh has een the progre ion
of recorded mu ic evolve from
4S , 33 , four tr ck , ei ht track
d It to CO' .
Mu ic! with it tyle nd
trend h ch nged too.
When he opened Simp on'
Record Shop, the MoTown Sound
wa , a the young ter ay, "pop
ping." She old lot or the
Tempt tion , Smokey Robinson,
the Four Tops, Stevie Wonder nd
Aretha Fr nklin.
She has wi tnessed the
popularity of Rhythm & Blues,
Soul, Jazz (with its different
branches: Straight Ahead,
Fusion, Modern nd 0 forth),
Rap, and the revival of "mu ic
you can 1 isten to."
SHE HAS ALSO een trend,
a t lea t t Simpson's Record
Shop, that has moved towards the
popularity of gospel.
She said, "If the shop has a
speciali ty, it's gospel."
But Simpson's worl
pas es much more than mu
Her conversation isn't sprinkled
'with the Top Ten, Billboard or
MTV.
She is interested in-because
it's her business-"livelihood"
in who' hot. "But she is much
more concerned about tier neigh-
Alice Simp on
The mother of ix children and
grandmother of ten, Simp on ha ,
from the domain of her hop, be
come a fo ter parent to many.
"I LOVE THE youngster
and I eally want to ec them do
well," she said, adding, "I sec no
bad children, You can m ke a
child your friend or you can make
a child your enemy. I have no
children problems" They re pect
me and I respect them."
However, Si mp on doe not
look at the world through rose
tinted gla ses. She said, "What
bothers me the most i the
youngsters not wanting to get an
education. "
MU IC. MU IC. MU IC.
Simp on' Record Shop h
not only been a ource of
livelihood, it been a teachi ng
tool too.
The record hop, which also
ell needle',
'cigarettes and orne undry
item , provided "the fir t job"
for Simp on' ix children and
today her grand on Lonnie
Simp on Jr. and daughter-in-law
Alice work in the hop.
She i al 0 a is ted by two of
her foster children, ister Neicy
and Mary Jone. Her husband,
C lvi n, retued from Gener I
Meters. comes in "occasionany."
Simp on's Record Shop motto
is: "If we don't have it, we will
try to get it. II And in adition to
cas eues, CD and albums, the
hop has eight tracks and a smor
gasbord of 45 .
By LATONYA SMITH
Capital News Service
I
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LANSING-If the war in the
Persian Gulf continues to esca
late into a full-fledged ground
battle, Detroit Receiving
Hospital could temporarily lose
some of it staff to the conflict.
A 2-member civilian volun
teer team of doctors, nurses'; and
a respiratory therapist from the
hospi tal has been assembled and
put on alert that it could be called
on to help with medical efforts
with five days' notice.
But that has left some fearing
that the hospital won't be ade
quately staffed if the trauma team
(is called on and then hospital nur
ses who are in the reserves are
called up also.
Dr. Susan Hershberg Adel
man, president of the Michigan
State Medical Society and a
Detroit pediatric surgeon, said
that if the reserve-n,rses, in addi-' ,
lion to the trauma team are ac
tivated. there could be a shortage.
"Receiving Hospi tal, has over
20 nurses in the reserves Inthe
critical care units and if they're
all called up and then t�ey se,nd
out the trauma team, they re
going to be decimated," Adelman
said.
Nancy Fiedler, spokesper on.
for the Michigan Hospital A -
sociation, said that the possible
effects of the call-ups aren't
known yet, but most hospitals are
suffiCiently staffed to handle
leaves. She added that most
'hospitals would cover vacancies .
with pa t-time and ful l-t ime
staff. /'
"Right now, there's not a dra
tic impact." Fiedler said. "I cer
tainly wouldn't characterize it as
a drastic Shortage by any means."
Adelman said that doctors
who would be working in the
'military field hospitals would
have very modern equipment to
work with and as long as there
were no Shortages of supplies,
most would adjust easily.
"They have up to the minute
equipment and depending on the
quality of the trauma team, you
could do anything and rather
easily." Adelman said.
Although trauma center
across the country have been
asked by the U.S. Defense
Department to assemble critical
care teams,. Adelman said that
Detroit Receiving was one of the
first asked to as emble a team.
Dennis Archambault, public
relations director for Detroit
Receiving Hospital, was unable
to give detailed information
about the rauma teams other
than that if called upon, they
would be used at a military hospi
tal in Europe.
Detroit Receiving Ho pital
and it affiliated University
Heal th Ce nter is a 340-bed
trauma hospital with patients in
the Detroit tri-county area offer
ing critical care capabilities. '
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hen I w younger nd
u ed to et'in trouble thome,
. my gr nny ould y to me,
" eem li e you'd kno better
th n th tl" I row older I
try to repl y th t st tement in
my mind when I devi te from
my re pon ibility. It eep me
hone t.
If you live on the northwe t
ide of Detroit, p rticul rly in
the W. 7 mile \ Greenfield are ,
nd h ve een the new wave of
gr ffiti on building, both oc
cupied nd b ndoned, you're
prob bly ying to yourself the
me thing that .Granny would
ay to me when I would track
mud on her clean kitchen floor.
Recently, ome tructures in
my neighborhood have been at
t eked with spray-p inted mes
sage such "Rap Mafia",
W est 7 Crew", "The followers
of Farr khan" nd, "Respect
and protect the Black women.
It takes man to take a stand,
unders nd" All of a sudden
this area' beginning to look
like a bad dream.
Are these messages posi
tive? A few of them. Are they
art? Depends on who you ask.
Is it a terrible place to com
municate ideas? I think so.
We must protect and main
tain what we have. That means
graffiti messages on the old
Woodruff Oldsmobile building
and other structures cannot be
tolerated. Citizens and busi
ness owners in this area, many
who have lived here for years,
are' ngered by this rubbage.
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The fact of them tter i
th t unfocu ed nger, reckless
ness nd fru tration c n be'
dangerous to our community.
These ction add to the ubtle
de truction of the neighbor
hood. Me s ges can be com
municated in better way.
Throug better dialogue
between young people nd
olde folk, the pray painting
of these truct res will cea e.
Our people mu t under t nd
th t mong other t i , the e
ctions bring do n the proper
ty v lue of t e ei borhood
nd pre d de p ir.
Bottom line. We mu
re pect priv te property nd
e ch other. Communic ting
ide with paint i fine w y to
tran mit idea nd ttitude on
mur I perh p , but wh t I ee
on the' old Woodruff
Old mobile dealer hip every
morning I drive to ork or
school i not re pect tall.
Per hap the guilty hould
re lay the words of wi dom
that their gr nny's u ed to give
them. Ju t (0 keep the
hone t. .
enneth Colema Jr.
Detroit
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