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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."
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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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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.
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