Complimentary to churches and community groups pinoritu ©wortumttj |lew* VOLUME 3, NO. 8 2730 STEMMONS FRWY. STE. 1202 TOWER WEST, DALLAS, TEXAS 75207 AUGUST 1994 I blfllCIIKi 4 ^ Dallas City Manager John Ware treads a fine line between community skepticism and hope implementing his reengineering plan at City Hall. Some say we're losing all the key positions held by African Americans under Ware's leadership. White women revisited former Negro League ballplay MON takes a look at an ;ell their story so that they - actual "front" project and nd today's black males - don't asks: Is it happening here? ill through the cracks From the Publisher In The Mew, Thurman Jones Bank of America opens in Shaw is the son of Pastor and Mrs. Ron Shaw. For more information call Southeast Oak Cliff 320-5744. Bank of America Texas opened its Lancaster-Kiest Branch last month, Texas Lottery's 'Retailer becoming the first bank in the history Club'grows to 200 lOO.S be of Dallas to construct a free-standing, Snappy Stop, a homegrown conve­ full-service bank in Southeast Oak nience store north of Wichita Falls, sold enough Texas Lottery tickets last nnonth to become the 200th member of Several months ago. Minority BACK: Sweet Willie Mitchell, KNON. the Lottcr/s "Million-Dollar Retailer Opportunity News (MON), wrote a- FRONT: Booker McGlll, Arandas Qub." couple of articles that addressed the Club; Michelle Traylor. KNON; To qualify, the retailer has to sell growing concerns in our community. Lester Rouse, contest winner; Cliff $1 million or more Texas Lottery tick­ Specifically/ we covered local develop­ Robinson, Robinson Tour/Travel. ets. ments regarding the issue of excep­ Store manager Joan Alexander tional profane and explicit lyrics in Arandas Club presented a $400 cash says about half of her customers come Rap Music. Much of our initial cover­ LEFT: Darren Reagan, presidentJCEO of Black Slate prize. from Oklahoma. age focused on the efforts of the Employees Association, with the heJp of BOA's Brenda Sweet Willie Mitchell's Rhythm & For more information call (512) Reverend Derrick Harkins of Now PatC'}', opens the first account at the lancaster-Kiest Blues program can bo heard weekdays 323-3778. branch. from 9 a.m. til noon on KNON (893). Hope Baptist Church who, in many RICIIT: April Rhone utilizes the new Versaleller ATM ways, has lead the effort in Dallas to at BOA's Lancaster-Kiest branch. Banc One Mortgage "clean up" radio airways. ACT-SO Medals awarded announces renovation Sometimes, I wonder as to Cliff. whether or not the issues we address Five Dallas/Fort Worth students product The branch represents a financial A new mortgage product that com­ in MON really do reflect community earned medals during the national commitment from the bank of more bines the purchase or refinance price needs. Events over the last week ACT-SO competition held in Chicago: than $1 million in the conununily. of a home with renovation costs into though, assure me that we in fact do Shontina Vernon, LaToya Woods, Stacy Frank Beverly is the branch manager. one mortgage loan was introduced by make a difference. Green, Levoy Wheeler, Jr., and Melodie Bank of America Texas is a sub­ Pace. A partnership between Bank Banc One Mortgage Corp. About two weeks ago, in the legal sidiary of BankAmerica Corporation, The Bank One Renovation notices section of the daily newspaper, One, Texas and the NAACP/ACT-SO which has more than 1,900 branches in program made the event possible. Mortgage was developed with the there was a small notice regarding the ten western states. Currently, they cooperation of the Federal National ownership change of KJMZ Radio For more information call (214) have over 230 branches in Texas and 954-0286. Mortgage Association. Renovation Station. You may recall from our pre­ deposits of approximately S9 billion. costs must be at least $5,000 but no vious articles that "100.3" had been For more information call (214) more than 50 percent of the homo's somewhat reluctant to discontinue 374-1638. Local Student receives improved value. playing the very explicit lyrics in cer­ For more information call 290- tain rap songs because of their heavy honor 7908. request demand from young listeners. Local university dean Jason Shaw, a stu­ In fact, the station was the focus of sig­ works with NASA dent at Lake nificant pressure to discontinue this Highlands High Six Flags Hosts Gospel type of music, but continued to broad­ A University of Texas at Arlington School, received a'r cast anyway. Their rationale was that dean, John McElroy, will assist National Award I Jubilee their "nnarket", i.e. young urban listen­ NASA's efforts to study the use of in Science fromj^^ Three of the lop names in gospel will ers, demanded that the music contin­ advanced radar systems in space. the US. share the spotlight as Six Flags Over ue. Essentially, they were saying that The purpose of the study is to Achievement yN Texas presents its annual Gospel all they were doing was meeting mar­ improve the way agencies monitor Academy. Jason Shaw com. on page 6 ket demand for a particular kind of global warming, track icebergs or map music. the earth's geological features. Back to the legal notice. In that the McElroy heads the university's radio station receives it authorization College of Engineering and chairs the OOOGE BOREFooTSflHDERS to transmit from the Federal National Research Council Committee HASPS DOWN HIS DECISION Communication Commission, any on Earth Studies. change and notice must be approved For more information call metro by the FCC. Part of this ownership (817)273-2571. change process affords the public the opportunity to provide comments and raise questions regarding the perfor­ KNON announces winner mance of the station in servicing com­ of trip munity needs. This small legal notice Former KKDA dee-jay. Sweet Willie now provides our community with a Mitchell, in conjunction with KNON chance to let KJMZ and its future own­ presented Lester Rouse two roundtrip ers know exactly how we feel about tickets to Las Vegas last month as the providing certain types of music first in many similar type promotions directly into our cars and households. scheduled to take place throughout the On page 3 of this edition, you will year. find a letter from our attorneys at Robinsons Tour and Travel pro­ MON directed to the Federal vided the air fare and hotel accommo­ dations for the four-day trip. Bookers Cont.onpage6 iwrrg??P^(^]f^CTRrrimvnyt^^ /^nmrm-^ r^igj )J^ ^^<iXQ? Gg(Blffi^ To: KJMZAKHVN DearMON; 545 E, John Carpenter Fnvy. Irving, TX I read your layout of single young Re: Proposed assignment of men, and I would like to ask of you to KJMZ/KHVN radio stations from publish eligible men in the fifties and Summit-Dallas Broadcasting Corp. to improved. I'm Sixty-Eight, vital, ener­ GCI Texas II, Inc. getic, not to bad looking, a Christian I am contacting your department women, who would love to meet a We can say on behalf of my client, the Minority Christian man. You would do us a IF: Opportunity News, concerning the great service proposed assignment of the licenses for KJMZ/KHVN radio stations from Thanks Summit-Dallas Broadcasting Frances Owens to helping you solve you cash flow problems Corporation, to GCI Texas II, Inc. The ^ninnm-t** We buy Commercial Accounts Receivables Minority Opportunity News would Dear MON: ask the FCC to delay approving any transfer of the licenses until the Dallas Since you searched high and low, far African-American community is made CaM uas at aware of the proposed assignment. It and wide, hither and yonder to pre­ is my client's position that the local sent the bachelors of 1994, did you for­ African-American community has not get to look at your own staff members J! ^*^§)(S^'^S] Jl been given sufficient notice of this pro­ ^ Jim Bochum and Thurman Jones? I posed transfer of a broadcasting thoroughly enjoyed your presentation license which is having a major impact and look forward to Bachelors 1994, on the African-American community Part II which I hope will include broth­ with the type of music that is currently ers that are 50+ years. Marginal Credit? Bad Credit? No Credit? Bankruptcy? being played on KJMZ. Bad Things Happen to Good People! Keep up the good work, MON! Wc would ask that the comment Let Johnny Mack Help you re-establish your credit. period for the proposed assignment of CM. Wheeler Don Herring made special arrangements with 12 different lenders to give licenses be extended for an additional special credit considerations to good people with credit problems. 60-days to allow the Paper to bring these issues which affect the Dallas Name: African-American community to the Address:^ attention of the Paper's readers and io City: [ State. .Zip:- permit them to respond if they choose, Phone: to the licensing request. FAX over for Instant Approval: 372-7877 This request is not lx;ing made for All Applications Accepted the purpose of delay only, but for the purpose of permitting the people who would be most affected by this license transfer, to provide their thoughts and bROOKHOLLOW opinions to the Commission on these MITSUBISHI serious issues of what is the duty of NATIONAL local broadcasters to act responsibly in what they put on the airwaves and bANK John L Macjm^k their servicing of the needs of the local P.O. BOX 655442 Special Financing Specialist 372-7875 or 372-7850 African-American community which WEST MOCKINGBIRD they target by their programming.