San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1998 Page: 1 of 22
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Standing for Right, Justice and Equality Since 1931
February 12,1998 Vol. 66/35
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13 year old shot over pumpkin juice prank
Tough growing up in
Grambling, La.
Youth paralyze, shot three
times, suspect still at large
A 13 year old youth was shot and is
now paralyzed following a prank.
Timothy Dunn a student at Wheatley
Middle School, poured pumpkin
juice on a 16 year old youth. The
youths began scuffling on the back
porch of a bouse in the 500 block of
Gabriel.
Police said Dunn and some friends
were hanging out, when Dunn poured
some pumpkin pie filling over an-
other youth s head. the boys began
laughing at the embarrassed youth.
When the youth stood up, Dunn
pushed him. The smaller youth, then
pulled a gun and shot three times,
striking him twice in the back.
Paramedics told police that one
bullet appeared to have lodged in
Dunn's spine and that he indicated
no feeling in the lower half of his
body.
Stevette Crane has the
"page" to your success
Atty. Hattie Briscoe was honored at St Mary’s University, 42 years after she became the first Black woman to earn
a law degree from Sl Mary's School of Law. The feisty attorney was known for her court room performances. Mrs.
Briscoe, who taught at Wheatley High School, before turning her sights toward law. She graduated at the top of her
class, but the school did not ever acknowledge it. The 81 year old Mrs. Briscoe (seated second from left) is shown
with some of her Delta Sigma Theta Sorority sorors.
East side landmark to reopen as Fannin Academy
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With symbolic gestures of sawing, hammering, and
painting, San Antonio Independent School District
students, staff, trustees, and patrons on Friday, Feb-
ruary 6, officially kicked off the start of a project to
remodel and restore the 92-year-old Fannin Elemen-
tary School for use as a special academy for middle
school-age students.
The East Houston Street landmark—vacant for
more than 25 years—will re-open its doors this sum-
mer for up to 200 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade
students who are referred from their home schools.
The Rev. Claude W. Black, Jr., senior pastor of
Mt. Zion First Baptist Church, joined SAISD Trustee
Tom Gaffney and Superintendent Diana Lam in ad-
dressing the area residents and other community
members who gathered for the ceremony.
Gaffney, who represents SAISD's Trustee District
2, said the Board committed $2.2 million to the
project and explained that the new Fannin Acad-
emy will relieve overcrowding at the Navarro Achieve-
ment Center, which currently serves students from
sixth through 12th grades.
Recalling his years growing up in the community
surrounding Fannin, Rev. Black said he and other
African-American children were not allowed to at-
tend Fannin and that he often wondered what was
in the building. Much later, Rev. Black added, his
daughter was the first from his family to attend Fannin
at a time when the principal was Elizabeth Zogheib
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who joined Rev Black, Gaffney and Lam on the
dais in front of the school.
Fannin Elementary was closed after the 1970-71
school yeat because of declining enrollment in the
SAISD. Since then, the main building has been used
sparingly by some community agencies, while a one-
story addition has housed SAISD departments._
Stevette Crane, owner of several
companies in San Antonio, has
something for the small business,
corporations, independent contrac-
tors, and non profit organizations.
She into yellow pages, but the ones
in the phone book. Ms. Crane is high
tech-she is on the internet
’Toucan get your business on the
national direct internet yellow pages
for free!! she says. "You don’t have
to own a computer or have a great
knowledge of the internet. WE re-
ceive 5.7 million hits last year. Could
you imagine half of the those people
buying from you?"
Ms. Crane said many people might
not know about the National Direct
Internet. "It is the premier on line
yellow page director allowing any-
one, anywhere who wishes to locate
a business in their neighborhood or
nationally. Ms. Crane explains that
one can expand his current market-
ing efforts at no cost.
With the use of E2 Trax system, we
can track the amount of customers
and test your headlines used in ad-
vertising. The most exciting parts of
the national direct internet yellow
pages is the fact that the general
public is familiar with the yellow
pages. One difference yellow pages
and the national direct internet yel-
low pages is when your business
relocate or change numbers you can't
change the ad in the yellow pages.
You can change your ad every 90
days when advertising with the Na-
tional Direct Internet Yellow Rages.
Ms. Crane recently moved to San
Antonio from Florida. Call her today
for a free listing 1 -800-682-2474 ext
1214 or 675-3397.
Friendship Baptist Church to honor Pastor
and wife for 34 years of service
Friendship Baptist Church, 935
Iowa Sheet, will honor their Pastor
to kill me. Another cop was in the
room, and 111 never forget his name.
His name was Taylor. And be stood
in front of me and told the other cops
to put their guns up and to leave the
room. I heard all kind of noise and I
could not get out, I knew that I was
going to die that day. The police
chief just happened to be at the sta-
tion that evening, and became in. He
knew my father and drove me home.
He told my father and mother, that it
would be best that I leave to town
because be did not know what the
other cops would do.”
Muhammad did not leave town, but
he kept guns at his side for the last
few months of his senior year at
Grambling. He later learned that the
cop be hit, was the little boy hi the
woods who identified the black man
as the one who was in bed with the
cop's wile nanny years before, which
led to the hanging of an innocent
black mm.
Muhammad runs the Nation of Is-
lam mam on W. W. White Rd. He is
not bitter about the way African
Americans were treated in Gram-
Wing, La., but believe Blacks should
work together to improve then eco-
nomic condition.
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Rev. R. L. Archield, Sr., and his
wife, sister Ruby Archield for 34
years of dedicated leadership.
Calender of events:
Friends and family day, Sunday,
Feb. 22 at 11 ajn. Speaker will be
Rev. Austin Williams, pastor of the
True Vine Baptist Church,
Inglewood, Calif. Black Heritage
Commemoration Annual Breakfast,
Saturday, Feb. 28,9 ajn. Rev. J. C.
Allen, pastor of New Mount Pleas-
ant Baptist Church, the speaker.
Sons of Friendship Day, Sunday,
March 8,3:30p.m. Rev. Albert Ball,
pastor of the Mount Zion Baptist
Church, Edgar. Texas, will be the
speaker.
Banquet Honoring Sister Ruby
Archield, Friday. March 13, at 7:30
p.m. Rev. L. A. Williams, of
Wheatley Heights Baptist Church,
will be the speaker.
Consummating of Celebration,
Sunday, March 15 at 3:30 p.m. The
guest speaker will be Rev. Lester
Wilson, pastor of Corinth Baptist
Church, Austin. Texas. Sister Ella
Clark, chairperson; Sister Willie
Carter, co chairperson and Sister
Thelma Nious, co chairperson.
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Black History is in the making at the 49th San Antonio I ive Stock and Rodeo.
Fonner Texas Bull Riding Champion Wayne Brown, will be riding the big
buHs this Friday. Wayne is a member of the professional Rodeo Cowboys
Association and also Pro Bull Riders. The two top Rodeo organizations in
the World. Wayne is going to win the "World" in 1998 to become only the
Second Black to do iL
S.A. Women's Chamber of Commerce
Celebrates Black History Month
The San Antonio Women's Chamber of Com-
merce will celebrate Black History Month at their
February 25 Mixer The Gala Event will be held at
Frost Bank. 100 W. Houston in the Commander s
Room, from 5:30 8 00 p.m. Attorney Cynthia
Glass Bivins will be the featured speaker. The Sa
cred Chorale Ensemble of Psalms 149 & 150 will
perform To RSVP call (210) 299-2636
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