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Committed to Cultural Diversity
Wednesday • October 26. 2005
Unmatched Legacy
The U.S. military death toll in the
Iraq war reached 2,000 with the
announcements Tuesday of three
more deaths since the war began in
March 2003. A British research
group has said that as many as by E rin T exeira
30,051 Iraqis have been killed since AP N ational W riter
the war began. Other estimates
The death of Rosa Parks underscores
range as high as 100,000.
that the generation responsible for the key
BemankeTabbed for Fed Chair victories of the civil rights movement is
fading into history, leaving its survivors
Ben Bernanke, a
w ith the challenge of keeping the
former economics
movement’s memory and work alive.
professor, was
“As people get older and people pass, it
chosen Monday
becomes
more and more difficult to have
by President Bush
that
sort
of firsthand knowledge” of the
to be the next
fight
for
integration,
said U.S. Rep. John
chairman of the
Lewis,
a
Georgia
Democrat
who first met
Federal Reserve,
the most influen- ®en Bernanke Parks as a 17-year-old student and activist.
tial economic policy job in the “It becomes a little more difficult to pass it
world. If approved by the Senate, on.”
Lewis, who once headed the Student
Bernanke would succeed Alan
Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee, added
Greenspan, who has spent 18
that
the
social
challenges of today - persis­
years at the helm and is expected
tent
racial
gaps
in poverty, education and
to step down Jan. 31.
wealth, among others - highlight the contin­
Hurricane Wilma Hits Florida ued need for activists and teachers to honor
Floridians lined up for water, gas, Parks' spirit.
ice and generators Tuesday out­
“Her life should inspire a generation yet
side the few stores that were open unborn to stand up,” he said.
after H urricane W ilm a cut a
Parks is one of a handful of civil rights
costly, deadly swath across the figures, along with Martin Luther King Jr.
peninsula. The storm slammed
across the state in about seven
hours Monday, causing billions
in insured damage and leaving
5.9 million people, or a little less
than 3 million homes and busi­
nesses, without electricity. See
story, page A2.
Civil Right Icon Rosa Parks Remembered
When Rosa Parks
refused to give up
her seat on a bus in
Montgomery, Ala., her
actions sparked the
Civil Rights movement.
Rosa Parks died Monday at the age o f 9 2
and Malcolm X, whose name most young
people seem to know.
But many are more familiar with “Rosa
Parks,” the hit song by the hip-hop group
OutKast, than her full story, said Renada
Johnson, a 25-year-old graduate student at
Bowie State University in Maryland, who
met Parks in 1997.
“Young people definitely know who she
was, but all we were taught in school was
that she didn’t get up because her feet were
hurting,” Johnson said. “They don’t know
her whole story.”
In 1955, Parks was a seamstress and long­
time secretary for the local NAACP who
defied segregation laws and refused to give
up her seat in a whites-only section of a
public bus in Montgomery, Ala.
Most Katrina Victims Elderly
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According to the government’s En­
ergy Information Administration, tem­
peratures this season will be nothing out
of the ordinary; fuel prices however, are
steadily rising through the nation.
The El A predicts that Americans will
spend 34 percent more on heating oil
than last winter.
Bill Lehr Jr., owner of ABC Oil Co., has
been in the local heating oil business for
more than 50 years. Lehr said he and his
customers are definitely feeling the pinch
of the price increase.
“We are manipulated by the prices,”
said Lehr. “We have to charge the cus­
tomers more because we’re paying so
mu more and it’s really become a hard-
sh.p in that way.”
The E1A predicted heating oil prices
would increase more than 30 percent.
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by E rika -L eigh G oodwin
Janet Jack so n
and
Jam es
D eB arge, who
were briefly mar
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ried in 1984, had
a daughter to
g e th e r,
De-
Barge’s brother
Janet Jackson young DeBarge
The outlook for the holiday shop­
ping season darkened Tuesday
as the latest consumer confidence
reading showed Americans are
m ore p essim istic ab o u t the
economy, the worst reading in
two years. Hurricanes, surging
gasoline prices and worries about
the job market are blamed
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Fuel prices high as
temperatures drop
Janet Jackson May
Have ‘Secret’ Daughter
Consumer Confidence Slides
continued
Home
Heating
Costs Sting
A new report shows that 60 per
cent of the victims identified so
far from Hurricane Katrina in New
Orleans were61 or older. Officials
say some died during or before
the Aug. 29 storm, or drowned in
the rushing floodwaters that en­
sued. Others died in transit, or
just waiting.
has claimed on a radio program.
Young DeBarge said the child,
named Renee and now 18, has
been living with Rebbie Jackson,
Janet's oldest sister.
Then 42, she inspired tens of thousands
of working-class blacks - led by King - to
boycott the local buses for more than a year.
Finally, the Supreme Court upheld a lower
court ruling that declared Montgomery's
segregated seating laws unconstitutional.
The effort highlighted persistent bias against
Rev. Byrone A. Bolton, a hurricane survivor from
Hattiesburg. Miss., will be installed as the pastor of the
Greater Faith Baptist Church located at 931 N Skidmore
Street. Service will be held at the New Hope Missionary
Baptist Church at 3725 N. Gantenbein Ave. on Sunday,
Nov. 6 at three thirty p.m..
Bolton, his wife and five children, moved to Portland
last month after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf
Coast. He’d been considering the cross-country move
before the tragedy, but when he finally did leave, he said
it was “on the wings of faith. Not only believing that God
would provide, but knowing. God gave me a sign with
Katrina."
The hurricane force winds took down trees all around
Bolton’s former home and vehicle, so his family grabbed
all they had and left “a total loss" behind. They flew to
Portland, where a church had a home waiting for them.
“It's knowing that God was in control and whatever
God does, he doesn’t make a mistake. Whatever he takes
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Rev. Byrone 4. Bolton, pastor-elect for New Hope Mission­
ary B aptist Church in north Portland, with his wife. Marvia.
away, he replaces. If he chose me for this task, he's got
to provide," Bolton said. “That’s why the material things
didn't upset me at all. If I'd lost my life, the material things
wouldn’t matter anyhow.”
Faith, he said, “takes away worry - it takes away fear.”
Bolton said he's been received well in Portland and
looks forward to his new ministry.
“God said he’ll put people in your way to take care of
you," Bolton said. “Patience is a virtue. We have a roof,
we have clothes and we have food."
Having grown upon a farm in a family of 20 people, the
Bolton family is filled with spiritual followers.
“Faith gives me the assurance that anyone can receive
it," Bolton said. “God has given me the seed to fertilize and
be able to share, encourage and motivate people. Our
ministry is to reach the non-believers to encourage them,
as well as those who already believe.”
Bolton is bringing his internationally known gospel
group The Bolton Brothers to Portland for a special
performance at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 109 N.
Emerson St., with Rev. Melvin Bailey, pastor. Guest
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