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It's not easy being a
star...let alone a super
star—have mercy
We should not judge our athletes to
harshly when il becomes public that
they haveasubetance abuse problem.
Many pro athletes these days are
finding themselves battling for their
freedom, Michael Irvin and Bam
Morris, just to nap* a few who have
been in the news lately.
Playing pro sports is not glamour
and many of our weekend warriors
must endure a lot of pain to perform
each Sunday.
The problems begins in college
whereacoach'sjobison the line if he
does not win. You know they want to
win at all costs.
If a player is injured, many times
doctors will give them a shot to kill
the pain in order of them to play.
Then after the game, the player is
given more pain killers to stop the
pain once the shot wears off.
College and pro athletes are tools in
a rough business, and I am not talk-
ing about the playing field. They
players seek relief for their pain and
many times it will pill over into
something else. They'll turn to an-
other drug which will only make
matters worse.
We see the good side of sports -the
one presented on television. Those
ipiaouncers tell you how these play-
ers play with so much pain and have
so much courage, in reality they are
druged while playing before million
on tube.
Sports is a trig business and lot of
money is on the line Mid those key
players must perform because they
are earning those large pay checks.
The Green Bay Packers quarter-
back Brett Favre checked himself
into a substance abuse program,
saying be was addicted to pain kill-
ers. He is the only one, there are lots
of them on each team that must pop
those pills in order to play and keep
their job.
There is an ugly side to sports and
not always the players fault for their
involvement in drugs. There taste of
drugs started in college with pain
killer and they just kept on going.
Point, Too
An East Side activist says there are
13more sites where Dome Dirt is and
it must be removed. David Arvello
say s the city has not done its job by
closing the issqenad that the money
recovered was apt a total recovery.
The City recetyi0 $2 million from
one company, but the attorneys fees
tonio Register
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The Community Standard for Right, Justice, Equality, and Progress Since 1931
Vol. 64/50
Suspects charged with capital murder
Two charged in murder
of Johnson and Derry
Alton Davis registers to win a VIA windbreaker and sports bottle as VIA's MBte Dominguez and Barba* Callahan
wish Urn luck during Nick's Drug and Beauty Supply's Customer Appreciation Day.
Photo by E. Lott
Survey shows Blacks want prayer back in
schools, violent criminals locked up for life
Blacks believe in prayer and are Blacks were in sync with their so-
called leaders on their skepticism of
tough on crime, at least that's the
findingsofastudybytbeJointCenter
for Political and Economic Studies,
at Washington, D. C. based think
tank-and the nation's largest Black-
oriented think tank.
According to the study Blacks back
prayer in school, allowing parents to
use tax dollars to send their children
to private school, and requiring life
imprisonment for criminals who
Commit three violent felonies.
These opinions were out of synf,
coincidentally, with those espoused
by most Black leaders. However,
transferring power Gram federal to
state government, about the death
penalty, and they want increased fed-
eral spending on education.
Seventy-three percent of Blacks fa-
vored the 'three strikes and you're
out' lawson violent criminals. Eighty-
two percent of whites in the same
survey favored the law. Although
50% of the general population op-
poses using a voucher system that
would allow parents to use govern-
ment money to send their children to
private schools. Blacks favored it by
a margin of 48% to 44%.
Blacks in the survey were over-
whelmingly in favor of school prayer,
with 76 percent of the 750 Blacks in
the survey favoring a constitutional
amendment to allow prayer in school.
Only 64 percent of the general popu-
lation is in favor of such an amend-
ment. .
Blacks also want standards set for
welfare recipients. Among those
surveyed, 59 percent wanted the fed-
eral government to set basic stan-
dards for welfare recipients.
Mary Johnson expressed empathy
and hurt Wednesday evening for the
frarifies of the two men who have
been Charged with capital murder in
the killing of her son and a friend
"It's so sad what they're going to have
to go through," she said.
The second suspect in the murder
of Johnson and Derry last April 17
turned himself in at Municipal Court
late last week. Detrick Deroven, 23,
of the300block of Fargo was charged
with capital murder and held in the
Bexar County Jail in lieu of $250,000
bond.
Late last month, 25-year old
Lyndon B. Jamison was booked into
Bexar County Jail on capital murder
charges on a $50,000 bond.
The attack that left Johnson, 19,
and Derry, 20, dead occurred after an
argument Derry, Johnson, and Eric
Dukes exchanged words with a group
of men at PrimeTime nightclub .on
Rigsby. The men were ordered to
leave the club by a security guard.
After they left the club, their
attackers followed them in a black
pickup truck and opened fire, and
opened fire when the car in which
Johnson and Derry were riding
slowed down to drop off a passenger
at the Rigsby apartment.
Derry died at the scene, and
Johnson died of a head wound at a
local hospital. Dukes was also shot,
but he recovered.
Chad Derry
Pdul Johnson
local hospital. Dukes was also shot,
but he recovered.
Mrs. Johnson said that is was
remarkable that police were able to
make arrests in the case as most drive-
by shootings go unsolved.
Special day being set aside
for Iceman, George Gervin
Ed White, Sr. becomes first Black on N. E. school board
Ed White has won a seat on the
board of trustees in the North East
School District and is the first Afri-
can American to serve on the board.
The4North East District has gone
to single member districts and White
ran in Place 2. There have been other
African Americans to ruii for the
school board position when the elec-
tion was held at large. But none were
successful.
White contributed his winning to
the single member district which
takes in Camelot II, East Terrell
Hills, The Glen and Brook Wood.
White, who recently retired, ran a
campaign which stressed strong sup-
port for teacher control of the class-
room, strong administrative support
of teachers and he also wants im-
provements in the educational out-
come of all students.
The 59 year old White said he
wants to improve the number of mi-
is less than 2% minority teachers
and African Americans make up
about 8 % of the students in the
North East District.
“We must make a concerted effort
to increase the number of minority
teachers and administrators. Hope-
fully we can develop a policy to help
us bring more minorities to the dis-
trict,” White said.
White added that he had also ways
had a concern for education ever
since he moved into the district in
1975. “But I didn’t have a chance to
really get involved them. But I am
ready for the challenge now”
White, a native of Livingston,
Texas, received his under graduate
degree from Prairie View A&M Uni-
versity. He later received his
master’s degree in industrial educa-
tion and counseling. While at Prai-
rie View his mentor was the late Mr.
Eason, founder of Eason Automotive
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San Antonio will have the opportu-
nity to honor their hometown hero,
George Gervin, next Thursday, May
23, which has been declared "George
Gervin Day."
A luncheon at 11:30 with the
Baseline Bums at the Cadillac Bar
will kick off the day honoring the
first Spur to be inducted into the
Basketball Hall of Fame. Gervin will
receive the Distinguished Citizen
Award from the Mayor at 1 p. m. in
City Council Chambers. Bexar
Cbunty Judge Cyndi Krier will also
make a presentation at that time.
Gervin, accompanied by Basket-
ball Hall of Fame executives Bill
Foster and Dan Gavett, the Spurs
Coyote, and the Stinson Middle
School Jazz Ensemble will wind
down the San Antonio River in a
mini River Parade.
Nearly 60 kids from the George
Gervin Youth Center will line the
banks of the river to sell fish food for
25 cents per bag with all proceeds
See Gervin, page 2
Services held for Allen Green
were dose to that amount, says
Arvello. "The dty did not gain any-
changed q^ain."
Editor's Nate
to afew weeks thousands of young
people *4° "** die stage" and
complete their final stage of sec-
ondary education. Congratulations.
Some wP # ■# *> college, others
and others
inmatradeartig^dfaectlytDwotk.
There'* valqptojll of that as long as
you kjp***** to mind. Learn*
ing dops noutop with the awarding
ofad^gynra^pec.oracertiflca>e.
You see, the woddis ever changing,
and be oralte'Mbo looks at learning as
something finite will end up ignorant
So, graduates, make it a point to
continue to rea^agd watch the news
and interact wfcb those wiser item
you. Misoolyi
nority teachers in the district. There School. After a tour of duty in the
Ed White
military, White moved to San Anto-
nio and taught at Eason’s for a num-
ber of years.
White married his college sweet-
heart, Hattie and they have three
children; Ed White, Jr, a vice presi-
dent at Bank One; Everett, coach
and P.E. teacher at Ed White Middle
School and Jack, is a computer pro-
gramcr in Dallas.-
Sl Paul United Methodist Church
and the community came out in large
numbers Monday to pay their last
respects to Allen Green who passed
away last Thursday.
Green, who was 64, is survived by
his wife, Dorothelia; children, Allen
m, Gary Sr., Anthony Sr., Onan,
Linda, Rene', Cynthia, and William;
one brother. Rev. David Stevens;
uncle, Daniel Barnes; four aunts.
Ruby Case, Juanita Hill, Marion
Barnes, and Doris Polk; one son-in-
mW:.
Here's comes the development.,
why can't we find work?
Signs of economic development continue lo Mumora along the W. W.
While corridor,'* demonstrated by toe construction of these apartment
homes ttW. W. While, near Martin Luther King.
However. Eastsiden who me hoping that the construction will mean more
jobs for tore Bring hi tbearea and who sre currently unemployed, the sign
on the left says it all, "Not Hiring."
Photos by E. Lott
law, three daughters-in-law, fourteen
grandchildren, one great-grandson,
and other relatives and friends.
fIhc‘Register
#1 Since 31
Services scheduledforMissionary, La Verne Burks
Allen Green
Missionary Burke
Funend services for LaVeme Buries,
District Missionary of the San Anto-
nio District of the Churches of God in
Christ, wffl be held Saturday, May
10, at 10:30a.m. atChildressMemo-
rial Church of God in Christ. Awake
wffl be held from 7-9 p. m. at West
End Church of God in Christ.
She served in numerous capacities
with the Churches of God in Christ
and was appointed District Mission-
ary of the San Antonio District in
1981. She was also chairman of the
Finance Committee of the State
Women's Department and a member
of the State District Missionary
Board. She was an exceptional singer,
singing in churches throughout the
United Stales until her health failed.
She was bom in Columbus on July 4,
1930, the second child of Supt Walter
L. Jones, Sr. and Lovesa Haywood
Jones. Her father, mother, and three
brothers preceded her in death.
The family moved to San Antonio,
and, in 1948, she graduated from
Phillis Wheatley High School.
On June 11,1962, she married Jay B.
Burks, and four children were bora to
their union.
An active member of the Churches of
God in Christ, her service extended
beyond that of working on the dis-
trict and state level. Locally, she was
president of the Purity Class, a mem-
ber of the West End COGIC Usher
Board, Senior Choir, and spiritual
ad visor of the Combined Choirs. She
was also an alternate teacher for Bible
Band.
She is survived by her husband; chil-
dren and spouses, Douglas and Re-
becca Burks, Austin; Kenneth and
See Burks, page 4
Sam Houston holding
baccalaurete at Antioch
The Sam Houston High School
class of 1996 cordially invite you to
attend their Baccalaureate ceremony
Sunday, May 19. 19% at 4 o’clock
in the evening. The ceremony will
be held at Antioch Baptist Church at
1001 N. Walters. The guest speaker
is the Honorable Judge Carmen
Kelsey.
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