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PaseA2___________________________ ^îortlanh © bscrü er____________________________ May i6 ,2007 Political Preacher Falwell Dies ( A P ) -- T h e R e v . J e r r y Falw ell w as stricken at his c a m pus office in L ynchburg, Va. and died T uesday after a career in w hich the evangelist used the p o w e ro f television to transform the religious right into a m ighty force in A m erican politics. He w as 73. T he founder o f the M oral M a jo rity w as discovered w ithout a pulse at L iberty U niversity and pronounced dead at a hospital an hour later. Dr. C arl M oore, F alw ell's physician, said he had a heart condition and presum - Rev. Jerry Falwell ably died o f a heart rhythm ab normality. Falw ell credited the M oral M ajority with getting m illio n so f con serv ativ e voters registered, aiding in R onald R eagan’s vic tory in 1980andgiving R epubli cans control o f the Senate. T he rise o f C hristian co n ser v a tis m — a n d th e M o ra l M ajority's full-throated condem nation o f hom osexuality, a b o r tion and pornography — m ade Falw ell perhaps the m ost rec ognizable figure on the e v a n gelical right, and one o f the m ost controversial ones, too. Matt Forem an, executive di rector o f National G ay and L es bian Task Force, extended con dolences to those close to Falwell, butadded: "Unfortunately, we will a lw a y s re m e m b e r him as a founder and leader o f Am erica's anti-gay industry, som eone who exacerbated the nation's appall ing response to the onslaught o f the AIDS epidemic, som eone who dem onized and vilified us for po litical gain and som eone who used religion to di vide rather than unite our nation." No Diversity on TV Talk Floyd and Mary Booker Business Owners Mark 50 Years Family, friends, employees and members of the community are invited to celebrate the suc cess of a minority owned and operated small family business. Floyd N. Booker Sr. and his wife Mary J. established Cour tesy Janitorial Services in 1956. On Saturday, May 19 at 6 p.m., the couple will observe their 50 years of outstanding business operations in Oregon with a pub lic celebration at the Miracles Club,4069 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr.Blvd. Over 300 people have been em ployed for the company over the years. The couple has also raised 6children during theirtime in Port land. Each of these children worked in the family business. Son Ron currently serves as the company president of and son Mike as operations manager. 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A b re a k d o w n o f the g u e sts w h o a p p e a re d on th e S u n d a y sh o w s in 2005 and 2 0 0 6 by the lib eral g ro u p M e d ia M a tte rs sh o w s that m en do m in ate these w e r e n e a r l y s e v e n w h ite sh o w s. In fa c t, m en o u tn u m g u e sts fo r e v e ry g u e st o f any b e r w o m en by a 4 - to - l ra tio o th e r race an d e th n ic ity . O n on a v e ra g e . M eet th e P re ss a n d F ace the T h e d iv id e is e v e n sta rk e r N a tio n , th e re w e re n e a rly nine w h en it c o m e s to race and w h ite g u e sts fo r e v e ry g u e st e th n ic ity : O n a v e ra g e , th e re o f a n o th e r ra c e a n d e th n ic ity . Jazz Great Remembered in New Orleans (AP) — A white and black-clad band in New O rleans led a hearse carrying the body o f clarinetist Alvin Batiste and hundreds of mourners attached them selves to the jazz funeral Saturday for one of the city ’s most revered m usi cians. A jazz procession com plete with grand marshals twirling um brellas then poured into the street, w here tra ffic b acked up for blocks. Batiste, who toured with Ray Charles and Cannonball Adderley, recorded with Branford Marsalis and taught pianist Henry Butler, died May 6 of an apparent heart attack, hours before he was to per form with Harry Connick Jr. and Alvin Batiste f Marsalis at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Though his age was not precisely known, festival officials said he was born in New Orleansin 1932. Batiste was considered one of the founders of the modern jazz scene in the city. A longtime teacher at Southern University in Baton Rouge, he created the Batiste Jazz Institute — one of the first pro grams o f its kind in the nation — and taught jazz at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. K o 503-288-0033 ! Qi ’ I O LI DtSGI 1 L/C • 1 r? it zx . 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