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The Family Magazine November, 1973
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Grapevine November, 1973
THE
GRAPEVINE
MAGAZINE
Vol. 5 No. 11
November, 1973
Table of Contents
Executive Honored ----------------------------- 6
Fresnan Receives Award ________________________ 7
Fraternity Fetes Law
Enforcement Units ·---------------------------- 9
Fresno State University Coeds ________________ lO
Nigerian Joins Black Staff ----····--------·-· ll
Former Model Cities Director
Speaks Out ·-····--······-·--------------·---- 12
Medicine -Valley Fever -------·········--···-- 15
Model of the Month ·····-···--·--··-··--·----- 17
Youth Commissioner ·-·····--·······---···--··· l8
Former Fresnan -------·-··--···-··--··--··-··· 20
Social Work Supervisor ··--········--····----- 22
Community Service Award ______________________ 23
Mac Foster ···-··--····-·--·-······-·-·------- 24
Black Nove Iist ····-·--··-·-···---·---------- 26
Poem -God Is Here ---·····--·-··-·······-····- 27
Cartoon by Ed Burke ····-··----····-·······--- 27
Short Story ...-··-·--········-·-··-·--···-·-- 30
Photo Credits:
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Fresno City College, Pp. 11, 26
Earl Bradley, P. 17
Cal Hamilton, Pp. 3, 21
California Advocate, P. 23
Art Credits:
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Steve Flores, P. 30
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November, 1973 5 Grapevine
(Left to right): Thomas Shropshire, Vice President, Miller Brewing Com-
pany; and Mayor Tom Bradley.
Executive Cited by Los Angeles City Council
The Los Angeles City Council recently honored Thomas B. Shropshire,
Vice President and member of the Board of Directors, Miller Brewing
Company of Milwaukee, with a resolution for his contributions and
achievements in the world of business both in this country and in Ni-
geria. Shropshire was doubly honored when he later received personal
congratulations from Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley.
The resolution cited Mr. Shropshire for his achievements as Chairman
and Managing Director of Philip Morris Nigeria Ltd. where he provided
new jobs for over 1200 Nigerians.
Mr. Shropshire was presented before the Council by Los Angeles City
Councilman Gilbert W. Lindsay, who sponsored the resolution. President
Pro-Tern of the Council, Councilman Billy Mills, and newly-elected Councilman
Dave Cunningham, both seconded the resolution.
Grapevine 6 November, 1973
LaVera Williams (L) accepts trophy from Flo Atwater.
La Vera Williams Receives Sorority Award
The California State Association of Alpha Chi-Pi-Omega Sorority, Inc.,
held its Twentieth Annual Convention recently at the beautiful Bay
Bridge Holiday Inn in San Francisco.
The sorority, which has twenty chapters throughout California, theme
was "Growth Through Effective Communication." Each year the chap-
ters choose a deserving person to receive their Community Award. Out
of the twenty resumes, one from each chapter, submitted this year, the
one submitted by the Sigma Beta Chapter of Fresno was chosen as the
best for the award.
Mrs. Lonzell (LaVera) Williams is the recipient of the award. Mrs.
Williams has been an active volunteer worker in the Fresno community
for years. She and her husband have done much to improve the phys-
ical and social conditions of the West Fresno Community.
Mrs. Ruby Jo Dreher is the president of the Fresno sorority and Mrs..
Flo Atwater was the co-chairman of the awards. Mrs. Lillian Baugh of
Tulare, who is a member of the Fresno sorority, is the State Vice Presi-
dent of the California State Association.
November, 1973 7 Grapevine
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Grapevine November, 1973
Black Fraternity Will Fete
Fresno Law Enforcement Units
Seven Fresno area law enforce-
ment agencies will be honored Dec.
7 in the Fresno Convention Center
Exhibit Hall by the Phi Beta Sigma,
Inc. of Fresno.
Jack Kelley, coordinator of the
Law Enforcement Training Program
at Fresno State University said the
cocktail hour and dinner will be
used to ·inform the public of the
law enforcement program at the
university and "the ills being cur-
ed through the project as well as
noting a law and justice appreci-
ation night."
The agencies to be honored are
the Fresno Police Department, Fres-
no County Sheriff's Department,
the Fresno County District Attor-
ney's and Public Defenders Offices,
Fresno County Probation Depart-
ment and the California Youth and
California Adult Authorities.
Dr. Lee Pat Brown, director of
urban affairs and research at How-
ard University, will be the princi-
pal speaker.
Proceeds from the event will be
shared by the Phi Beta Sigma Beta
Sigma, Inc. graduate and under-
graduate chapters to establish
scholarships for students in the
program.
DR. LEE "PAT" BROWN former F.
S. U. football star.
Tickets are available at $10 and
may be obtained by telephoning
487-2122.
Kelley said early response for
reservations is urged in order for
confirmation of reservations.
The deadline for reservations
will be Nov. 30.
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November, 1973 9 Grapevine
Miss Sybil Devan Mrs. Vanessa Richardson
FRESNO STATE UNIVERSITY COEDS
Speech Therapy major Vanessa
Richardson and History major Sy-
bil Devan feel that going to col-
lege is not everything. These two
coeds are very much involved in
the community. Both are nineteen
years old and both work in the
university's ACTION Program
which allows college students to
assist in various elementary schools
where the students' reading levels
are not up to their grade equival-
ent.
Vanessa and Sybil are Co-direct-
ors of the Bethune School Hi-Step-
pers Marching Drill Team. Their
Drill Team made its debut last
Spring when Senator George Zen-
ovich visited the school. This year
they plant to enter the team in the
Christmas Parade.
Both assist in the Reading Pro-
gram and find that the students
are eager to learn and are moti-
vated, contrary to what has been
said in the past. Vanessa is also
an expert in Forensics and will be
teaching elementary school stu-
dents different types of public
speaking. Sybil's hobbies are bal-
let and sewing.
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Grapevine 10 November, 1973
OLU SULE points out his homeland to Bertha Teemer, standing, and
Theresa Udell.
Nigerian Joins Black Staff
By Michael Norris
Fresno City College has an Afri-
can from Nigeria on the black stu-
dies staff now, Richard Olu Sule
from Nigeria.
Olu, a bachelor, was educated
in Nigeria where he was vice prin-
cipal of a high school.
Asked what he thinks about the
United States, he said it is all right
but could use "a little bit of im-
provement."
His class teaches the Nigerian
language as well as the Terran.
As to how his teaching will help
Americans, "It will help them iden-
tify themselves."
To Percy Davis, head of Black
Studies, Olu's class means the
needed and missing part of Black
Studies.
Olu also brings out the fact Afri-
ca does care about its American
brothers and sisters. In his words,
"It's the completion of Black edu-
cation, background, identity and
social order."
Another Black Studies teacher
Bill Riddlesprigger, suggests that
Black Studies will benefit. "Olu
will make Black students realize
that white oppression is within this
society."
When asked if he thinks Olu's
way of life will affect American
ways, Riddlespragger said, "Black
men have been conditioned to be-
lieve all they are here for is to
have plenty of women by Ameri-
can Society." He also sees the ad-
dition of Olu to the staff as a good
deal.
November, 1973 11 Grapevine
Former Model Cities Program
Director Denies Charges
Henry Hendrix, the former Deputy City Manager for the City of Fres-
no's Model Cities Planned Variation Program, who recently took the
option to be fired from his job instead of resigning was interviewed by
the GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE.
Since the inception of the Fresno Model Cities Program, where Hendrix
served as an assistant director and director of the program, it has been
rated by federal officials and others as one of the best in the country.
Hendrix has received wide acclaim for his efforts in organizing un-
trained and unskilled people from the Model Cities neighborhood areas
and putting together cm effective professional working unit. Through
his efforts, hundreds of people in the Model Cities neighborhood have
learned professional skills and are now employed in various jobs. Others
have been able to continue their formal education through the various
education projects that Hendrix has promoted in the program and many
have earned college degrees.
The charges made by the City of Fresno which led up to Hendrix's
firing, were that Hendrix made a contract and then paid a San Diego
consulting firm for some work for the West Fresno Federation which the
Fresno City Council had previously advised him not to do. The other
charge was that Hendrix was spending time from his job working at
the now defunct Twentieth Century Elks Lodge.
Hendrix denied both charges. He said that the contract with the San
Diego firm was a different one concerning another project and didn't
need the City Councii's approval. Since the Model Cities Program had
helped to finance the Elks Lodge, Hendrix said that he and his superiors
agreed that he should assist the lodge on the City's time because of its
financial instability and the City's financial investment.
"Before I chose to be fired I was given three options," said Hendrix.
"One, to do 'some things' and I refused to do them because they were
going to affect the employment of many people and so forth and so on.
Two, to resign. I refused to do so because there were some charges
against me and if I had resigned then I would be admitting that I was
guilty of those charges. The third option was to be fired and I took that
option." Hendrix believed that had he resigned there would have been
a large scale house cleaning and many people would have been asked
to resign without justification.
Hendrix describes his firing as, "I was a victim of a system and the
imbalance of that system from a political perspective." He stated that
administrators, like himself, never had anyone to defend them from the
majority community and its political structure. "But, for the first time
through the Model Cities Program, poor people had a chance to par-
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ticipate in the political structure. But, this was in spite of and not with
the help of that political structure," states Hendrix.
Hendrix believes hat his firing was strictly politic.al and related to
the rumor that he was going to run against incumbent John Ventura for
the Fresno County Board of Supervisor District 1 post. Hendrix said, "I
heard from a very reliable source that certain councilmen were called
upon and one of the deals that was made was that I was to be term-
inated from my job." Hendrix also felt that other people, black and
white, that were close to the Supervisor and the Mayor were instrumental
in his political firing.
As far as the future of the Model Cities--Planning Variation Program,
Hendrix stated that unless something is done by the people in the
Model Cities areas in the very near future to correct the imbalance in
the political structure by getting some representation on the Fresno
School Board, Fresno City Council, Fresno Board of Supervisors and oth-
er such boards, poor people may become worse off than they were
before the Model Cities Program was first started. Hendrix states his
reasoning for this pessimistic belief is because of the recent federal
guidelines concerning local controls of funds that could, but will prob-
ably not be used to continue Model Cities-Planning Variation project.
"The past years should have been a learning process for the people in
the Model Cities areas," stated Hendrix. "If they hove learned from it,
they will be demanding that money from the City of Fresno, Board of
Education, and other such sources be used for community programs."
Hendrix believes that the only way that the poor people will have
true representation on the Fresno City Council is to change the City
Charter so that each councilman will be elected by districts, such as the
six neighborhood council areas the city already has organized. He states
that the people in Model Cities Neighborhood areas in MCPV should
accept nothing less and do everything in their power to bring this dis-
trict representation about because what these people have now is taxa-
tion without representation.
When asked if he would take some legal action Hendrix said, "Un-
fortunately, when you go as high as I was in the administrative structure,
you have no legal recourse. You served at the pleasure of the top ad-
ministrator."
Presently Hendrix is self-employed. He recently opened a restaurant
and catering service.
Nove·mber, 1973 13 Grapevine
DR. STEPHEN CHEU ... recently honored for disease that attacks the
black-skinned races.
Grapevine 14 November, 1973
Valley Doctor Compiles World's Only
Complete Library on Valley Fever
By Karl Kidder
Since 1882, some 1,900 articles have been written about a disease
once so prevalent in this part of the world that it became known as
Valley Fever.
The scientific name for the disease is Coccidioidomycosis. It is caused
by a fungus that thrives in the dry soils of the San Joaquin Valley, and
while most everyone has been exposed to it, most have achieved a
natural immunity.
Not so for the black-skinned races, in whom the disease can pose
serious problems, and can even be fatal.
For almost 20 years, Dr. Stephen H. Cheu, an internist at the Fresno
Veterans Administration Hospital has had an abiding interest in the
disease, its causes and a search for medication that will stop its spread
in humans.
He accomplished much of his work in collaboration with the late
Dr. Marshall Fiese, who was killed in a train accident some years ago.
Other researchers also have been striving toward the same end since
a young man first contacted the disease here in about 1882, then re-
turned home to Argentina to die of it.
Many patients with Valley Fever since have gone into and out of
Fresno hospitals. Local research has kept pace, as it has in such places
as the University of California at Davis and elsewhere. Many different
types of medication have been tried, and some discarded. Others are
still in use.
But until recently there was no centralized collection of all the ma-
terial written and compiled until Cheu put it together. Today Fresno has
the world's only complete Valley Fever Research Library. It is housed on
the third floor library of the VA hospital.
Its 47 volumes--coincidentally the only one of its kind on a single
disease--contain proof that a disease so important to those dwelling
within the arid regions of the Western United States is caused by a
fungus.
In recent years, researchers have been striving to find a way to pro-
vide immunity to Valley Fever in the minority that are unable to achieve
it naturally.
Most persons are exposed to the fungus if they live here long enough,
and the greatest majority develop a natural immunity to it. The first on-
set may have the symptoms of a cold, which usually disappear.
Those who are not so protected can become very ill and the disease
can disseminate throughout the body, finally attacking vital organs and
causing death.
The Veterans Administration considers Cheu's compilation of the
library important enough that it awarded him a certificate of commen-
dation. It was presented to him recently by Dr. F. C. Lepperd, Jr., the
hospital director, on behalf of central headquarters in Washington.
November, 1973 15 Grapevine
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MODEL OF THE MONTH
Miss Linda Cummings, 18, a 5'-10" beauty
was born under the sign of Taurus. She enjoys
volleyball and listening to music. Linda, a Fresno
City College P.E. Major, is employed by the West
Fresno Service Center as a receptionist.
Photographer Earl Bradley
November, 1973 17 Grapevine
YOUTH COMMISSIONER
By Mattie Meyers
Fresno Youth Commissioner
Leonard Ray Adams has lived
in West Fresno all his life and
feels that his greatest desire is to
help others. He is now working
on a project to help finance a
dropin center in West Fresno and
get a youth radio station on the
westside. Leonard attended Colum-
bia Elementary school and gradu-
ated from Edison High School in
June. He is now majoring in po-
lice science at Fresno City College.
He feels that education is a very
important factor , in helping a per-
son to function at his highest po-
tential.
When asked about his hobbies,
Leonard says he "digs music,
sports, and talking to people." He
lives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Purdom. Leonard Ray Adams
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November, 1973 19 Grapevine
Former Fresnan
NOBLE (LUSK) FIELDS Army Recruiter and TV personality.
By Kathey Clarey
Noble (Lusk) Fields enjoys everything she does and that is a lot to
enjoy.
She is an Army recruiter, a television personality, a model, and, when
she has time, a wife.
In town to visit her mother, Mildred Lusk, Mrs. Fields took time to
discuss her life since she left Fresno after graduating from Edison High
School in 1953.
Back then she had no plans for a career, just a yen to travel and to
see Paris. She decided to join the Navy. However, while she was wait-
ing to see the Navy recruiter, the Women's Army Corps recruiter saw
her and talked her into joining the Army. That was 20 years ago.
Due to retire next November, Mrs. Fields still keeps a busy schedule.
She soon will be leaving for Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ala., where she
will train Army recruiters. It will be the third time she has been at that
base. The first was for basic training and the second was for recruiter
trainging.
Grapevine 20 November, 1973
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After six months in Alabama, she will return to San Francisco to
finish her duty. It will be appropriate for her to end her Army career
there, for it was in San Francisco that it began. And it was there she
met her husband, Ivory, and where she has become a TV personality.
Her first live show was on an FM radio station in Los Altos Hills.
She played records, gave cooking tips and talked about the Army. From
there she stepped into cable television and she now has two shows, one
on Channel l2 and one on Channel 8. During the half hour time slots,
she interviews people in the community and demonstrates body build-
ing techniques.
As evidence of her popularity, Channel 6, a commercial station,
has offered her a 30-minute show each week beginning next spring.
Between television and the Army, Mrs. Fields squeezes in high fashion
modeling for a San Francisco designer. Whatever time she has left is
devoted to marriage.
She spent five years entertaining the troops in Hawaii, Japan, Oki-
nawa and Bangkok. Just before she left Hawaii, she played a small
role in the move "Kona Coast" starring Richard Boone and Vera Miles.
Her territory includes seven cities in the Bay Area. She especially en-
joys talking to high school girls and she tells them the Army is the only
way to go for a girl just out of high school with no work experience.
When Mrs. Fields retires next year she would like a "soft, quiet job
behind a mike to rap a bit. Or maybe newcasting . . . that's interesting.
"I just wont something to keep me from gathering moss."
November, 1973 21 Grapevine
Social Work Supervisor
BILL MURPHY, Fresno County Welfare Department Social Work Super-
visor.
William (Bill) Murphy is a Social Work Supervisor at the Fresno Coun-
ty Welfare Department. He is a graduate of Tulare Union High School,
Tulare, Ca lifornia, and California State University at Fresno.
At Tulare High, he was chosen as outstanding senior athlete for the
class of 1953. At Fresno State, where he played football and basketball,
he was chosen as co-winner of an award for outstanding senior foot-
ball player.
While in the service, Murphy was stationed at Letterman Army Hos-
pital where he played basketball and was voted the most valuable
player on the team.
Currently Murphy is serving on the Board of Directors of the Scandi-
navian Little League and the Vinland Soccer Club where his son par-
ticipates in sports. He coaches his son's Little League baseball team, the
Major Athletics. This year they won the league championship, which
therefore made Bill the All Star Coach for the 1973 season.
Murphy is also active in Boy Scout activities. He spent two weeks in
Canada with Troop 22 this summer. He has also taught a karate class
to a group of young men at Carter Memorial A.M.E. Church where he
is an officer.
Murphy and his wife, lrneese, have three children, Bill, Jr., Debra,
and Daria.
Grapevine 22 November, 1973
Ray Williams accepts plaque from Pastor W. C. Webb.
Community Service Award
By William R. Brown
Police officer Ray Williams took
the spotlight in the Seventh-day
Adventist Community Relations
Day service recently when he was
presented the church's Community
Service Award.
Williams received an engraved
plaque from W. C. Webb, Fresno
Westside Adventist pastor, in rec-
ognition for his work especially in
the West Fresno Community trying
to better the relations and understanding
between the police and
the West Fresno Community.
Williams, who was born and
raised in Fresno, graduated from
Edison High School and Fresno
State University, now works at the
West Fresno Neighborhood Police
Center located at 21 Fresno Street.
The idea of having this Police cen-
ter was initially planned by Will-
iams and Sgt. Trejo. These two
worked up the plans and organi-
zation and also recommended the
other three police officers who
work there to the police chief. They
wanted police officers who like
Williams lived in the West Fresno
Community but most of all could
relate to and get involved with
the community in solving problems.
Some of the goals Williams and
the Center work for are helping
people with problems they may
have which involve or could in-
volve police action. They try to ed-
ucate the people as to their rights
and straighten out circumstances
before they become real problems.
Another important goal is recruit-
ment of more minorities into the
City Police Department.
Community Relations Day is an
annual event in the Seventh-day
Adventist churches around the
world. Its purpose is to remind
church members of their responsi-
bility to their own community.
November, 1973 23 Grapevine
MAC FOSTER, heavyweight fighter from Fresno, gets his left fist mea-
sured by his new manager, Garythorn Heard. The tape stopped at 12½
inches. He tested it on European champion Joe Bugner in London re-
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Black Novelist
Prize-winning black novelist
Ernest Gaines led off the Fresno Ci-
ty College mini-series on "The
Written Word" with a reading
from and discussion of his works
recently at the Fresno City College
administration building. The read-
ing was free and open to the pub-
lic, a community service of the col-
lege and the State Center Commun-
ity College District.
Gaines is the author of three
novels, "Catherine Carmier," "Of
Love and Dust," and "The Auto-
biography of Miss Jane Pittman;"
a collection of short stories, "Blood-
line;" and "A Long Day in Novem-
ber," a children's book. Critic Mal-
vin Maddocks, writing in "Time,"
ha ssaid of him: "Ernest Gaines
may just be the best black writer
in America. He is so good, in fact,
that me makes the category seem
meaningless."
Gaines' literary awards include
a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rock-
efeller Literary Award, and a Na-
tional Endowment for the Arts A-
ward. For his most recently pub-
lished work, "The Autobiography
of Miss Jane Pittman," he received
the Commonwealth Club of Cali-
fornia Gold Medal Award, sym-
bolic of the year's best book pub-
lished by a Californian, and the
Louisiana Library Association A-
Ernest Gaines
ward, only the first time the award
had been given for a work of fic-
tion in 23 years.
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Where the wind goes whistling by;
You can find Him in the desert,
Where the sand is hot and dry.
You can find Him any hour,
Any season, anywhere -
If you will make Him welcome
With an humble, sincere, prayer.
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The brothers of Phi Beta Sigma
Fraternity, Gamma Xi chapter have
been demonstrating both leadership
and service throughout the communi-
ty. Members of our fraternity have
branched out into endeavors which
have strengthened their careers and
the community in which they serve.
We now exist in various governmen-
tal, educational, law enforcement and
local business agencies, as well as in
many community programs.
Members of the Fresno chapter are
looking forward to seeing the cause
of Sigma speed onward. Many more
young men from Fresno City College
and California State University, in
Fresno, are cunently pledging into
the Fraternity. Their goals are to be-
come actively involved into the direc-
tion and the future of our Fresno
Community. It is with this desire that
the members of Phi Beta Sigma Fra-
ternity aspire to become more con-
cerned in the social, economic and
educational problems in our commun-
ity.
Proceeds from the annual affair
will contribute to our scholarship
fund, thus benefitting the entire com-
munity.
Terry A. Richardson
President, Gamma Xi Chapter
Phi Beta Sigma Fratemity Inc.
November, 1973 Grapevine
SHORT STORY
Inspiration For the Unhappy
Once upon a time there was a little sparrow who hated to fly south
for the winter. He dreaded the thought of leaving his home so much
that he decided he would delay the journey until the last possible
moment.
After bidding farewell to all his sparrow friends, he went back to his
nest for an additional two weeks. Finally the weather turned so bitterly
cold that he could delay no longer. As the little sparrow took off, it
started to rain. In a short time, ice began to form on his little wings.
Almost dead from cold and exhaustion, he fell to the earth in a barn-
yard. As he was breathing what he thought was his last breath, a
horse walked out of the barn and proceeded to cover the little bird
with fertilizer. At first the little sparrow could think of nothing except
that this was a terrible way to die. But as the fertilizer started to sink
into his feathers, it warmed him and life returned to his body. He also
found that he had enough room to breath. Suddenly the little sparrow
was so happy he started to sing.
At that mement, a large cat came into the barnyard and hearing the
chirping of the little bird, began digging into the pile of fertilizer to
find out where the sound was coming from. The cat finally uncovered
the bird and ate him.
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THE
GRAPEVINE
MAGAZINE
Vol. 5 No. 11
November, 1973
Table of Contents
Executive Honored ----------------------------- 6
Fresnan Receives Award ________________________ 7
Fraternity Fetes Law
Enforcement Units ·---------------------------- 9
Fresno State University Coeds ________________ lO
Nigerian Joins Black Staff ----····--------·-· ll
Former Model Cities Director
Speaks Out ·-····--······-·--------------·---- 12
Medicine -Valley Fever -------·········--···-- 15
Model of the Month ·····-···--·--··-··--·----- 17
Youth Commissioner ·-·····--·······---···--··· l8
Former Fresnan -------·-··--···-··--··--··-··· 20
Social Work Supervisor ··--········--····----- 22
Community Service Award ______________________ 23
Mac Foster ···-··--····-·--·-······-·-·------- 24
Black Nove Iist ····-·--··-·-···---·---------- 26
Poem -God Is Here ---·····--·-··-·······-····- 27
Cartoon by Ed Burke ····-··----····-·······--- 27
Short Story ...-··-·--········-·-··-·--···-·-- 30
Photo Credits:
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Fresno City College, Pp. 11, 26
Earl Bradley, P. 17
Cal Hamilton, Pp. 3, 21
California Advocate, P. 23
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November, 1973 5 Grapevine
(Left to right): Thomas Shropshire, Vice President, Miller Brewing Com-
pany; and Mayor Tom Bradley.
Executive Cited by Los Angeles City Council
The Los Angeles City Council recently honored Thomas B. Shropshire,
Vice President and member of the Board of Directors, Miller Brewing
Company of Milwaukee, with a resolution for his contributions and
achievements in the world of business both in this country and in Ni-
geria. Shropshire was doubly honored when he later received personal
congratulations from Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley.
The resolution cited Mr. Shropshire for his achievements as Chairman
and Managing Director of Philip Morris Nigeria Ltd. where he provided
new jobs for over 1200 Nigerians.
Mr. Shropshire was presented before the Council by Los Angeles City
Councilman Gilbert W. Lindsay, who sponsored the resolution. President
Pro-Tern of the Council, Councilman Billy Mills, and newly-elected Councilman
Dave Cunningham, both seconded the resolution.
Grapevine 6 November, 1973
LaVera Williams (L) accepts trophy from Flo Atwater.
La Vera Williams Receives Sorority Award
The California State Association of Alpha Chi-Pi-Omega Sorority, Inc.,
held its Twentieth Annual Convention recently at the beautiful Bay
Bridge Holiday Inn in San Francisco.
The sorority, which has twenty chapters throughout California, theme
was "Growth Through Effective Communication." Each year the chap-
ters choose a deserving person to receive their Community Award. Out
of the twenty resumes, one from each chapter, submitted this year, the
one submitted by the Sigma Beta Chapter of Fresno was chosen as the
best for the award.
Mrs. Lonzell (LaVera) Williams is the recipient of the award. Mrs.
Williams has been an active volunteer worker in the Fresno community
for years. She and her husband have done much to improve the phys-
ical and social conditions of the West Fresno Community.
Mrs. Ruby Jo Dreher is the president of the Fresno sorority and Mrs..
Flo Atwater was the co-chairman of the awards. Mrs. Lillian Baugh of
Tulare, who is a member of the Fresno sorority, is the State Vice Presi-
dent of the California State Association.
November, 1973 7 Grapevine
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Grapevine November, 1973
Black Fraternity Will Fete
Fresno Law Enforcement Units
Seven Fresno area law enforce-
ment agencies will be honored Dec.
7 in the Fresno Convention Center
Exhibit Hall by the Phi Beta Sigma,
Inc. of Fresno.
Jack Kelley, coordinator of the
Law Enforcement Training Program
at Fresno State University said the
cocktail hour and dinner will be
used to ·inform the public of the
law enforcement program at the
university and "the ills being cur-
ed through the project as well as
noting a law and justice appreci-
ation night."
The agencies to be honored are
the Fresno Police Department, Fres-
no County Sheriff's Department,
the Fresno County District Attor-
ney's and Public Defenders Offices,
Fresno County Probation Depart-
ment and the California Youth and
California Adult Authorities.
Dr. Lee Pat Brown, director of
urban affairs and research at How-
ard University, will be the princi-
pal speaker.
Proceeds from the event will be
shared by the Phi Beta Sigma Beta
Sigma, Inc. graduate and under-
graduate chapters to establish
scholarships for students in the
program.
DR. LEE "PAT" BROWN former F.
S. U. football star.
Tickets are available at $10 and
may be obtained by telephoning
487-2122.
Kelley said early response for
reservations is urged in order for
confirmation of reservations.
The deadline for reservations
will be Nov. 30.
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November, 1973 9 Grapevine
Miss Sybil Devan Mrs. Vanessa Richardson
FRESNO STATE UNIVERSITY COEDS
Speech Therapy major Vanessa
Richardson and History major Sy-
bil Devan feel that going to col-
lege is not everything. These two
coeds are very much involved in
the community. Both are nineteen
years old and both work in the
university's ACTION Program
which allows college students to
assist in various elementary schools
where the students' reading levels
are not up to their grade equival-
ent.
Vanessa and Sybil are Co-direct-
ors of the Bethune School Hi-Step-
pers Marching Drill Team. Their
Drill Team made its debut last
Spring when Senator George Zen-
ovich visited the school. This year
they plant to enter the team in the
Christmas Parade.
Both assist in the Reading Pro-
gram and find that the students
are eager to learn and are moti-
vated, contrary to what has been
said in the past. Vanessa is also
an expert in Forensics and will be
teaching elementary school stu-
dents different types of public
speaking. Sybil's hobbies are bal-
let and sewing.
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Grapevine 10 November, 1973
OLU SULE points out his homeland to Bertha Teemer, standing, and
Theresa Udell.
Nigerian Joins Black Staff
By Michael Norris
Fresno City College has an Afri-
can from Nigeria on the black stu-
dies staff now, Richard Olu Sule
from Nigeria.
Olu, a bachelor, was educated
in Nigeria where he was vice prin-
cipal of a high school.
Asked what he thinks about the
United States, he said it is all right
but could use "a little bit of im-
provement."
His class teaches the Nigerian
language as well as the Terran.
As to how his teaching will help
Americans, "It will help them iden-
tify themselves."
To Percy Davis, head of Black
Studies, Olu's class means the
needed and missing part of Black
Studies.
Olu also brings out the fact Afri-
ca does care about its American
brothers and sisters. In his words,
"It's the completion of Black edu-
cation, background, identity and
social order."
Another Black Studies teacher
Bill Riddlesprigger, suggests that
Black Studies will benefit. "Olu
will make Black students realize
that white oppression is within this
society."
When asked if he thinks Olu's
way of life will affect American
ways, Riddlespragger said, "Black
men have been conditioned to be-
lieve all they are here for is to
have plenty of women by Ameri-
can Society." He also sees the ad-
dition of Olu to the staff as a good
deal.
November, 1973 11 Grapevine
Former Model Cities Program
Director Denies Charges
Henry Hendrix, the former Deputy City Manager for the City of Fres-
no's Model Cities Planned Variation Program, who recently took the
option to be fired from his job instead of resigning was interviewed by
the GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE.
Since the inception of the Fresno Model Cities Program, where Hendrix
served as an assistant director and director of the program, it has been
rated by federal officials and others as one of the best in the country.
Hendrix has received wide acclaim for his efforts in organizing un-
trained and unskilled people from the Model Cities neighborhood areas
and putting together cm effective professional working unit. Through
his efforts, hundreds of people in the Model Cities neighborhood have
learned professional skills and are now employed in various jobs. Others
have been able to continue their formal education through the various
education projects that Hendrix has promoted in the program and many
have earned college degrees.
The charges made by the City of Fresno which led up to Hendrix's
firing, were that Hendrix made a contract and then paid a San Diego
consulting firm for some work for the West Fresno Federation which the
Fresno City Council had previously advised him not to do. The other
charge was that Hendrix was spending time from his job working at
the now defunct Twentieth Century Elks Lodge.
Hendrix denied both charges. He said that the contract with the San
Diego firm was a different one concerning another project and didn't
need the City Councii's approval. Since the Model Cities Program had
helped to finance the Elks Lodge, Hendrix said that he and his superiors
agreed that he should assist the lodge on the City's time because of its
financial instability and the City's financial investment.
"Before I chose to be fired I was given three options," said Hendrix.
"One, to do 'some things' and I refused to do them because they were
going to affect the employment of many people and so forth and so on.
Two, to resign. I refused to do so because there were some charges
against me and if I had resigned then I would be admitting that I was
guilty of those charges. The third option was to be fired and I took that
option." Hendrix believed that had he resigned there would have been
a large scale house cleaning and many people would have been asked
to resign without justification.
Hendrix describes his firing as, "I was a victim of a system and the
imbalance of that system from a political perspective." He stated that
administrators, like himself, never had anyone to defend them from the
majority community and its political structure. "But, for the first time
through the Model Cities Program, poor people had a chance to par-
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ticipate in the political structure. But, this was in spite of and not with
the help of that political structure," states Hendrix.
Hendrix believes hat his firing was strictly politic.al and related to
the rumor that he was going to run against incumbent John Ventura for
the Fresno County Board of Supervisor District 1 post. Hendrix said, "I
heard from a very reliable source that certain councilmen were called
upon and one of the deals that was made was that I was to be term-
inated from my job." Hendrix also felt that other people, black and
white, that were close to the Supervisor and the Mayor were instrumental
in his political firing.
As far as the future of the Model Cities--Planning Variation Program,
Hendrix stated that unless something is done by the people in the
Model Cities areas in the very near future to correct the imbalance in
the political structure by getting some representation on the Fresno
School Board, Fresno City Council, Fresno Board of Supervisors and oth-
er such boards, poor people may become worse off than they were
before the Model Cities Program was first started. Hendrix states his
reasoning for this pessimistic belief is because of the recent federal
guidelines concerning local controls of funds that could, but will prob-
ably not be used to continue Model Cities-Planning Variation project.
"The past years should have been a learning process for the people in
the Model Cities areas," stated Hendrix. "If they hove learned from it,
they will be demanding that money from the City of Fresno, Board of
Education, and other such sources be used for community programs."
Hendrix believes that the only way that the poor people will have
true representation on the Fresno City Council is to change the City
Charter so that each councilman will be elected by districts, such as the
six neighborhood council areas the city already has organized. He states
that the people in Model Cities Neighborhood areas in MCPV should
accept nothing less and do everything in their power to bring this dis-
trict representation about because what these people have now is taxa-
tion without representation.
When asked if he would take some legal action Hendrix said, "Un-
fortunately, when you go as high as I was in the administrative structure,
you have no legal recourse. You served at the pleasure of the top ad-
ministrator."
Presently Hendrix is self-employed. He recently opened a restaurant
and catering service.
Nove·mber, 1973 13 Grapevine
DR. STEPHEN CHEU ... recently honored for disease that attacks the
black-skinned races.
Grapevine 14 November, 1973
Valley Doctor Compiles World's Only
Complete Library on Valley Fever
By Karl Kidder
Since 1882, some 1,900 articles have been written about a disease
once so prevalent in this part of the world that it became known as
Valley Fever.
The scientific name for the disease is Coccidioidomycosis. It is caused
by a fungus that thrives in the dry soils of the San Joaquin Valley, and
while most everyone has been exposed to it, most have achieved a
natural immunity.
Not so for the black-skinned races, in whom the disease can pose
serious problems, and can even be fatal.
For almost 20 years, Dr. Stephen H. Cheu, an internist at the Fresno
Veterans Administration Hospital has had an abiding interest in the
disease, its causes and a search for medication that will stop its spread
in humans.
He accomplished much of his work in collaboration with the late
Dr. Marshall Fiese, who was killed in a train accident some years ago.
Other researchers also have been striving toward the same end since
a young man first contacted the disease here in about 1882, then re-
turned home to Argentina to die of it.
Many patients with Valley Fever since have gone into and out of
Fresno hospitals. Local research has kept pace, as it has in such places
as the University of California at Davis and elsewhere. Many different
types of medication have been tried, and some discarded. Others are
still in use.
But until recently there was no centralized collection of all the ma-
terial written and compiled until Cheu put it together. Today Fresno has
the world's only complete Valley Fever Research Library. It is housed on
the third floor library of the VA hospital.
Its 47 volumes--coincidentally the only one of its kind on a single
disease--contain proof that a disease so important to those dwelling
within the arid regions of the Western United States is caused by a
fungus.
In recent years, researchers have been striving to find a way to pro-
vide immunity to Valley Fever in the minority that are unable to achieve
it naturally.
Most persons are exposed to the fungus if they live here long enough,
and the greatest majority develop a natural immunity to it. The first on-
set may have the symptoms of a cold, which usually disappear.
Those who are not so protected can become very ill and the disease
can disseminate throughout the body, finally attacking vital organs and
causing death.
The Veterans Administration considers Cheu's compilation of the
library important enough that it awarded him a certificate of commen-
dation. It was presented to him recently by Dr. F. C. Lepperd, Jr., the
hospital director, on behalf of central headquarters in Washington.
November, 1973 15 Grapevine
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MODEL OF THE MONTH
Miss Linda Cummings, 18, a 5'-10" beauty
was born under the sign of Taurus. She enjoys
volleyball and listening to music. Linda, a Fresno
City College P.E. Major, is employed by the West
Fresno Service Center as a receptionist.
Photographer Earl Bradley
November, 1973 17 Grapevine
YOUTH COMMISSIONER
By Mattie Meyers
Fresno Youth Commissioner
Leonard Ray Adams has lived
in West Fresno all his life and
feels that his greatest desire is to
help others. He is now working
on a project to help finance a
dropin center in West Fresno and
get a youth radio station on the
westside. Leonard attended Colum-
bia Elementary school and gradu-
ated from Edison High School in
June. He is now majoring in po-
lice science at Fresno City College.
He feels that education is a very
important factor , in helping a per-
son to function at his highest po-
tential.
When asked about his hobbies,
Leonard says he "digs music,
sports, and talking to people." He
lives with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Purdom. Leonard Ray Adams
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November, 1973 19 Grapevine
Former Fresnan
NOBLE (LUSK) FIELDS Army Recruiter and TV personality.
By Kathey Clarey
Noble (Lusk) Fields enjoys everything she does and that is a lot to
enjoy.
She is an Army recruiter, a television personality, a model, and, when
she has time, a wife.
In town to visit her mother, Mildred Lusk, Mrs. Fields took time to
discuss her life since she left Fresno after graduating from Edison High
School in 1953.
Back then she had no plans for a career, just a yen to travel and to
see Paris. She decided to join the Navy. However, while she was wait-
ing to see the Navy recruiter, the Women's Army Corps recruiter saw
her and talked her into joining the Army. That was 20 years ago.
Due to retire next November, Mrs. Fields still keeps a busy schedule.
She soon will be leaving for Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ala., where she
will train Army recruiters. It will be the third time she has been at that
base. The first was for basic training and the second was for recruiter
trainging.
Grapevine 20 November, 1973
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After six months in Alabama, she will return to San Francisco to
finish her duty. It will be appropriate for her to end her Army career
there, for it was in San Francisco that it began. And it was there she
met her husband, Ivory, and where she has become a TV personality.
Her first live show was on an FM radio station in Los Altos Hills.
She played records, gave cooking tips and talked about the Army. From
there she stepped into cable television and she now has two shows, one
on Channel l2 and one on Channel 8. During the half hour time slots,
she interviews people in the community and demonstrates body build-
ing techniques.
As evidence of her popularity, Channel 6, a commercial station,
has offered her a 30-minute show each week beginning next spring.
Between television and the Army, Mrs. Fields squeezes in high fashion
modeling for a San Francisco designer. Whatever time she has left is
devoted to marriage.
She spent five years entertaining the troops in Hawaii, Japan, Oki-
nawa and Bangkok. Just before she left Hawaii, she played a small
role in the move "Kona Coast" starring Richard Boone and Vera Miles.
Her territory includes seven cities in the Bay Area. She especially en-
joys talking to high school girls and she tells them the Army is the only
way to go for a girl just out of high school with no work experience.
When Mrs. Fields retires next year she would like a "soft, quiet job
behind a mike to rap a bit. Or maybe newcasting . . . that's interesting.
"I just wont something to keep me from gathering moss."
November, 1973 21 Grapevine
Social Work Supervisor
BILL MURPHY, Fresno County Welfare Department Social Work Super-
visor.
William (Bill) Murphy is a Social Work Supervisor at the Fresno Coun-
ty Welfare Department. He is a graduate of Tulare Union High School,
Tulare, Ca lifornia, and California State University at Fresno.
At Tulare High, he was chosen as outstanding senior athlete for the
class of 1953. At Fresno State, where he played football and basketball,
he was chosen as co-winner of an award for outstanding senior foot-
ball player.
While in the service, Murphy was stationed at Letterman Army Hos-
pital where he played basketball and was voted the most valuable
player on the team.
Currently Murphy is serving on the Board of Directors of the Scandi-
navian Little League and the Vinland Soccer Club where his son par-
ticipates in sports. He coaches his son's Little League baseball team, the
Major Athletics. This year they won the league championship, which
therefore made Bill the All Star Coach for the 1973 season.
Murphy is also active in Boy Scout activities. He spent two weeks in
Canada with Troop 22 this summer. He has also taught a karate class
to a group of young men at Carter Memorial A.M.E. Church where he
is an officer.
Murphy and his wife, lrneese, have three children, Bill, Jr., Debra,
and Daria.
Grapevine 22 November, 1973
Ray Williams accepts plaque from Pastor W. C. Webb.
Community Service Award
By William R. Brown
Police officer Ray Williams took
the spotlight in the Seventh-day
Adventist Community Relations
Day service recently when he was
presented the church's Community
Service Award.
Williams received an engraved
plaque from W. C. Webb, Fresno
Westside Adventist pastor, in rec-
ognition for his work especially in
the West Fresno Community trying
to better the relations and understanding
between the police and
the West Fresno Community.
Williams, who was born and
raised in Fresno, graduated from
Edison High School and Fresno
State University, now works at the
West Fresno Neighborhood Police
Center located at 21 Fresno Street.
The idea of having this Police cen-
ter was initially planned by Will-
iams and Sgt. Trejo. These two
worked up the plans and organi-
zation and also recommended the
other three police officers who
work there to the police chief. They
wanted police officers who like
Williams lived in the West Fresno
Community but most of all could
relate to and get involved with
the community in solving problems.
Some of the goals Williams and
the Center work for are helping
people with problems they may
have which involve or could in-
volve police action. They try to ed-
ucate the people as to their rights
and straighten out circumstances
before they become real problems.
Another important goal is recruit-
ment of more minorities into the
City Police Department.
Community Relations Day is an
annual event in the Seventh-day
Adventist churches around the
world. Its purpose is to remind
church members of their responsi-
bility to their own community.
November, 1973 23 Grapevine
MAC FOSTER, heavyweight fighter from Fresno, gets his left fist mea-
sured by his new manager, Garythorn Heard. The tape stopped at 12½
inches. He tested it on European champion Joe Bugner in London re-
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November, 1973 Grapevine
Black Novelist
Prize-winning black novelist
Ernest Gaines led off the Fresno Ci-
ty College mini-series on "The
Written Word" with a reading
from and discussion of his works
recently at the Fresno City College
administration building. The read-
ing was free and open to the pub-
lic, a community service of the col-
lege and the State Center Commun-
ity College District.
Gaines is the author of three
novels, "Catherine Carmier," "Of
Love and Dust," and "The Auto-
biography of Miss Jane Pittman;"
a collection of short stories, "Blood-
line;" and "A Long Day in Novem-
ber," a children's book. Critic Mal-
vin Maddocks, writing in "Time,"
ha ssaid of him: "Ernest Gaines
may just be the best black writer
in America. He is so good, in fact,
that me makes the category seem
meaningless."
Gaines' literary awards include
a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rock-
efeller Literary Award, and a Na-
tional Endowment for the Arts A-
ward. For his most recently pub-
lished work, "The Autobiography
of Miss Jane Pittman," he received
the Commonwealth Club of Cali-
fornia Gold Medal Award, sym-
bolic of the year's best book pub-
lished by a Californian, and the
Louisiana Library Association A-
Ernest Gaines
ward, only the first time the award
had been given for a work of fic-
tion in 23 years.
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Grapevine 26 November, 1973
GOD IS HERE
You can find Him in the mountains,
Where the rocks are bleak and bare;
You can find Him in the valleys,
Where life springs up everywhere.
You can find Him on the prairies,
Where the wind goes whistling by;
You can find Him in the desert,
Where the sand is hot and dry.
You can find Him any hour,
Any season, anywhere -
If you will make Him welcome
With an humble, sincere, prayer.
-Leannell Taylor
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The brothers of Phi Beta Sigma
Fraternity, Gamma Xi chapter have
been demonstrating both leadership
and service throughout the communi-
ty. Members of our fraternity have
branched out into endeavors which
have strengthened their careers and
the community in which they serve.
We now exist in various governmen-
tal, educational, law enforcement and
local business agencies, as well as in
many community programs.
Members of the Fresno chapter are
looking forward to seeing the cause
of Sigma speed onward. Many more
young men from Fresno City College
and California State University, in
Fresno, are cunently pledging into
the Fraternity. Their goals are to be-
come actively involved into the direc-
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Proceeds from the annual affair
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Phi Beta Sigma Fratemity Inc.
November, 1973 Grapevine
SHORT STORY
Inspiration For the Unhappy
Once upon a time there was a little sparrow who hated to fly south
for the winter. He dreaded the thought of leaving his home so much
that he decided he would delay the journey until the last possible
moment.
After bidding farewell to all his sparrow friends, he went back to his
nest for an additional two weeks. Finally the weather turned so bitterly
cold that he could delay no longer. As the little sparrow took off, it
started to rain. In a short time, ice began to form on his little wings.
Almost dead from cold and exhaustion, he fell to the earth in a barn-
yard. As he was breathing what he thought was his last breath, a
horse walked out of the barn and proceeded to cover the little bird
with fertilizer. At first the little sparrow could think of nothing except
that this was a terrible way to die. But as the fertilizer started to sink
into his feathers, it warmed him and life returned to his body. He also
found that he had enough room to breath. Suddenly the little sparrow
was so happy he started to sing.
At that mement, a large cat came into the barnyard and hearing the
chirping of the little bird, began digging into the pile of fertilizer to
find out where the sound was coming from. The cat finally uncovered
the bird and ate him.
THIS STORY HAS THREE MORALS
* Not everyone, who craps on you, is your enemy.
* Not everyone, who takes crap off you, is your friend.
* When you are warm and comfortable, even if it is in a pile of crap,
KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.
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