8 0 nIE arrount of
Black � to � compromise ttl:
ture of the nation' leading Blade
Republicans remims 0 � old
RCA puppy itting be ide the
phonograph waiting to hear his
mes r' voice lling �m tmt �
� tmnagain to speak in �
of Black Anxrica
TIl! la t version of a passaDle
Civil Rights Bill allows women. ttl:
d.&ibled and religi minorities k>
re f r nsa ry and punitive
damag f r in ntioml discrimina-
. n in tre rkp
In addition. tre bill would force
employe to a hiringml prorm-
.. tion p that ic; performance re-
lated and consi tent with the
I employer' ''bu;' recessity." If
Ute Presidentand na think that this
. . allevia tre woes of BI ks in
.t'merica's work sib, trey are sadly
: mistaken am mSnfomx:d.
• According k> � govemrrenrs
:own statistics, "Minority fed rat
-employees, especially Blacks are
\b)tantially disadvantaged by �
government's current performance
appraisal system." According to data
from the Office of Personnel
M.amgcment, which is headed by
Corstaree ewman, an African
American Bush appointee, alth>ugh
Blacks comprised 18 percent 0 all
full-time permarent gereral scredul
employees. they received 31 percent
oftre "minimally acx:eptable" ratings
of government employees, am 19
perccntof tre "unacceptable" ratings.
TIl! tl..l1i 'rowed that minority
groups received fewer iop-level per
formance raunss than would ex
pected based n tbeir percent, or
share, of th federal employee
population.
. TIl! ndy reveals the same itua-
tionof"statL5 qio" that has been with
us UuougOOut the years, only white
"�oyces received more than treir
expected share of 0 top performarce
ratingi. So, you esk, woo in the Bush
Adminisuation is telling him tbese
truths of subtle discrimination that
, centime in til! public and pnvae
sectors?
WHO TOLD � 1mt, al
though Blacks comprise 18percento
the federal employee populauon, trey
received 31 percent of the within
glade tep (protmtion and compen
sation) denials? Do til! rew group of
Black Spokespeq>le have eecess to
high-level ears to bear nese realities
of American life?
Were trere any Black voices in
volved in getting tbe Civil Rights Bill
passed? On . that affect a brood
segmentoftll!Black�ulation, wOO
peaks imide tre Big Hollie for us?
Do Blacks have any iffiide access to
help BlM, am tre Administration,
de rmine when tre Civil Righ Bill
w rot a quota bill?
TIl! Civil Righ Corrpromise
was a meeting of � rnims of white
men in response to the tale of Anita
Hill. Tbere were eoough Arreriears
woo lieved tIl!Blacklawpro�
that trey had to do rrething before
elections. In tre meantime, it till
1 ks like tll! Whi Ho will call
i Ho Tborrases only wben it
wants talk Black America. But
.� questi n tmt remain; . , ''What
• procedures do they to talk with
us?"
haw alum donate
EIGH·DURHAM. N.C., - Shaw
Unive it received a $10 milli n
gift from an alumnus who credits hi
lrna mat r with having enabl d him
to e p the lif of a migrant worker
nd achiev hi present tatus as on
of th nation' m t ucc ful civil
litigation attorn ys.
Willie E. Gary of Stuart, Fla.,
present d President Talb rt O. Shaw
with a letter of commitment and a
f csimile check at a brief ceremony'
on the tep ofth University library.
. Gary, chairman of the board of
tru tee for the University since
1 87, i founder and enior partner
of the law firm of Gary, Williams &
Parenti, a nationally active counsel
to the Rev, Je e Jackson.
$10 million
A 1971 graduate who attended
Shaw Univer ity on a football
cholarship, Gary went on to orth
Carolin C ntral University wh re
he earned hi law degree in 1974, and
then return d to hi hometown.
wh re he p ned that community',
first Black law firm in 1975.
tunity for an education.
In the four years that he ha
erved a chairman of the board of
trustee • Gary and Dr. Shaw have
clo ely coordinated fund-rai ing f
forts (or the chool, and realized a
debt redu tion from $4.86 million to
1.9 million concurrent with endow
ment fund growth from $697,000 to
$4.5 million. Part of that included a
1989 gift of $1 million from Gary
and his wife, Gloria Royal Gary, al 0
a Shaw graduate.
Shaw University is one of the
nation' oldest hi torically Black
college, having celebrated its 125th
anniversary last year.
I E TIlE ,h has acquired a
national reputation a highly effec
tive litigator, routinely winning
multi-million verdicts and ettle
ments for hi clients. A much
sought-after motivational speaker,
Gary tells audiences at chools, chur
che and civic group that Shaw
University made his uccess possible
by providing him with the oppor-
rat 'll I
and documentatioo you should bring.
The following is a list eX items that are
usually required. Your counselor' may
require additiooal:
- Checking d saving account
numbers and current balances
- Loan account num and
balances
- Income from all sources and.
two eX the most recent paycheck state
ments
- Credit card numbers and cur
rent balmces
- Employers names and ad
dresses and past 5-year employment
histories
- If self -employed, federal tax
returns for' the previous two years
- Your driver's license and so
cial security nwnber
charged?
- What type of mortgage
available to me? (l.e .• fixed rate. ad
justable rate, graduated payments.)
- Are there pre-payment penal
ties?
- WiU my mortgage be ssum
able?
- What special features do I
qualify to customize my mortgage?
- What must occur' for me to be
considered in default of my mort
g�ge?
- How long will it take before I
can close this loan?
- What is an estimate of my total
monthly payments including prin- .
ciple, interest. taxe , and the insur
ance premiums?
mE COUNSEWR should sug
gest a number of financing options
fCX' your consideration which may
include a conventional loan plan. a
Federal Housing Administration
(FHA) insured loan. or a Veterans
Administration (VA) guaranteed loan.
I shall discuss these loans in detail in
the next issue.
Also in next week's issue. I shall
point to some ways you can save
money by coordinatin� your pre
settlement activities.
Do you have any questions on
realestate? Ifso.sendthemtolioward
G. Ball; Realty Services, Inc., 240
Western Hills Drive, Madison, AL
35758.
TEERS
YOU SHOULD also take a list of
your assets. in estimated dollar
amounts such as automobiles. boats,
insurance policy amounts. stocks, cer
tificates of deposit. and an estimate of
value 00 other real estate that you
might own.
The mortgage lender will investi
gate and verify all infcxmation that
you will submit to your counselor'.
You will be required to pay an
pplication fee at this meeting. 'Ibis
fee is used to obtain a report of your
credit and an app-aisal of the P'OP-
d us try. erty you are planning to buy. These
"A prime example of the power of ch .. ges are noorehmdable.
special-interest groups is the You will be asked many ques-
telecommunications rewrite," Stod-
dard said. "It's a measure that is
opposed by the AARP [American' ,
Association of Retired Persons], big ANTED
business, mall bu iness and W
citizen's group and yet, because of . ...
their [Michigan Bell's) lobbying . '. I , ��;.,JilII'!"B'1
clout. the bill has pa ed the House ! •
and Senate and i now in conference
$150 MILU N AMPAIGN! Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, Pre ldent of Tuskegee University, center,
holds blueprint for the rebuilding ofbistoric Colli P. Huntington Hall, recently destroyed by fire.
The Iii toric structure ;s one of several campus facilities scheduled to be rebuilt or renovated with
proceed from the schools's newly announced $150 million fund raisiDg campaign. With him are
two of the group of corporate and roundatlon oMcials supporting the drive, Craig Weatberop,
President and CEO, Pepsi -Cola Company, left and Rand Araskog, Chairman and CEO, lIT .
WINTER
continued from Page 1
PARTIE POINTING fingers
at each other is nothing new, espe
cially with an upcoming election
year.
"You can'j expect there not to be
any friction when you have two
politically-different partie ." said
Senate Majority Leader Dick Po -
thumus, "It's a vital, healthy part of
th democratic y tern."
Posthumus, R-Alto, disagreed
with legi lative critics, aying that
de pite reapportionment and an up
coming election year, partisan
politic were les pronoun ed than
ever year before.
"I'd ay if anything it' [politic ]
le ," he aid. "It' for ure not any
greater."
A prop al that would all w the
homele . t leep in the Capitol is an
example of what orne have labeled
a political po turing, but Po thumus
didn't ee it uch.
"THE CONe PT of opening up
government building is nothing
new," he aid. "A measure that
would allow just that was introduced
last year and pas ed the Senate, but
wa tied up in the House."
Posthumus said that the issu of
opening govemm nt buildings was
very rea onable. He was equally op
timi tic about resolving the emer
gency needs i ue.
"We've already relea ed $3 mil
lion in emergency funds and, hope
fully, the conference committee will
re olve the re t of the problem this
week, he aid.
John Truscott, Gov. Engler's
press secretary, di agreed and
pointed to di 'organization within the
Democratic Party as one source of
conflict.
"The problem is that the House
Democratic Caucus is very polarized
and it's very difficult to get them to
agree," he said.
committee.
"WHAT' BEEN overl0<jlked in
this whole debate i that Gov. Engler
and House Speaker Lewis Dodak ac
tually get along and work well
together. It's when you have to bring
along hi whole cau us that you run
into problems." .
Truscott aid that Democrats and
Republicans alike needed to recog
nize the fi cal r traints of the tate
before any reasonable budget agree
ments could breached,
But, according to Stoddard, 8
long-term olution for diluting the
impact of parti an politics on any
i ue would to remove the politi
cal power of special-int r t group.
Group like Michigan Bell, ay.
Michigan B II lead a group of
local telephone rvic providers
who, along with the Public Service
Commi ion, are pushing the Legi -
lature to pass a measure that would
deregulate a large portion of the in-
AND TODDARDi n'ttheonly
one with complaints,
"There's a negative p rception of
the. Legi lature right now due to a
number of factors, one of tho e being
that legi lators are more in touch
with special-interest group rather
than the individual ci tizen," aid
Karen Holcomb-Merrill, executive
director of 'Common Cause in
Michigan.
According to a recent Common
Cause uudy, 70 percent of the fund
ing for House legislators' campaigns
come out of special-intere t pock
ets.
Holcomb-Merrill aid that Com
mon Cau e is working on two
propo als that would facilitate legis
lative reform. One plan propo
that legi lators receive o'nly 50 per
cent of their campaign funding from
pecial-intere t groups. The other
propo 'al would limit the time period
when fundraising could be done.
The Highland Part< Old New�boys' Goodfellow Fund is in need
of volunteers to assist us in keeping the. spirit of ·NO CHI LD
WITHOUT A CHRISTMAS· alive in Highland Park. We are
asking you to please donate a couple hours of your time on
Friday, December 6, 1991, to assist us in the street sale of the
Old Newsboys newspaper.
CALL
867 -5037 or 867 -459�
VOLU