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Show N ationa 4 Sarah Vaughan passes away trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie said Wednesday, “‘her and Ella Fitzgerald.”’ She died of lung cancer Tuesday at 66, at home in California’s San Fernando Valley. “The things she did were very beautiful,’ said her longtime pal, singer Joe Williams, ‘’and very special because she did it for such a long time.”’ For much of her 47-year career, others have tried to imitate the full con- tralto and impeccable timbre. Her operatic, two-octave-plus range was husky from years of smoking. The first be-bop singer, she sometimes forgot lyrics because she was concentrating on notes and phrases. Said her colleague and friend Caren: MacRae, ‘‘Sarah was one of a kind. She was like (Thelonious) Monk and Charlie Parker.’’ Born in Newark, New Jersey on voices were exactly alike: I had a male (version), she had the female. No one in the world sang like her. Her taste was something she never compromised. 99 Vaughan was nicknaned “Sassy” for her lively state persona, and the ‘*Divine One’”’ for her incredible throa‘ty voice. Sassy also describes her toughness. “If you were an accompanist, don’t play the wrong chords,’’ Gillespie said. “She'll walk to the piano and... play for herself.’’ She lost none of her sass or flash, even toward the end. On her last recording, Quincy Jones’ ‘‘Back on the Block’’ album, she sang for the first time with Ella Fitzgerald, scatting up a storm. One of Vaughan’s last shows was at Blue Alley in Washiongton, D.C. Except for a bandaged hand (cancer of the hand was the only illness she admitted), she seemed healthy and vibrant, closing with her wrenching trademark finale, Clowns.”’ Jazz afficionado ‘‘Send in the Bill Cosby was March 27, 1924, Vaughan began studying piano at 7. At 19, she won an right: **Now that she’s gone, there’s no amateur contest at New York’s Apollo one to measure great singers with. Plans for a Los Angeles memorial Theatre. Said singer Billy Ecksine, who service and a Newark, N.J. funeral are discovered her, “‘Everybody said our incomplete. Althea Lewis passes away Althea Smith Lewis, 80, died April tended Tougaloo College and Tuskegee Institute. She married Robert Lewis on March 21, 1933 in Tunica, Mississip- chez, Miss.; sisters-in-law, Mrs. Henrietta Smith, Natchez, Miss.; Mrs. Willie Lewis, Memphis, Tenn.; an uncle, Leonard Cole, Chicago, Illinois; aunts, Mrs. Bertha Cole and Mrs. Bertha Cole Lewis, of Chicago; nieces, Mrs. Irene Smith Walton, Natchez, Miss.; Mrs. Cora Marie Smith Cowan, pi! Pifey movedté San OAKe: Cit Vtah i@arson: iGityjo Nevada; IMrormiganet in’ 1944, ‘Lewis: Henson,Mrs. ‘Rachelle -Lewis 11, 1990. She was born November 19, 1909 to Gertrude Cole Smith and James L.Smith’in Natchez, Mississippi. She at- “where --they *-owned--and operated an alterating and dressmaking business, located in the Darling Store. Mrs. Lewis retired from the VA Hospital and Medical enter in 1973 after working for 20 years as a nurse aide and LPN. She is survived by her husband; two daughters, Bobbye Gwendolyn Lewis, Brooklyn, New York; and Jamaica, B.W.I. Althea is also survived by a brother, James Henry Smith of Nat- N : e \ \ Say (Mountain West Minority Reporter & Sentinel, May 4, 1990 3 Suspended mayor says Obituaries Sarah Vaughan’s voice was one of the most remarkable instruments in jazz. She was ‘‘definitely on top,”’ | Tyson, Mrs: Ruby Lewis Miller, all of Memphis, Tenn.; nephews, Mose Lewis III, Washiongton, D.C.; Rodgers Lewis Roosevelt, Long Island, N.Y.; James Smith, Natchez, Miss. Funeral services were held April 16, Raul Martinez, suspended mayor of Hialeah, Florida, has begun his ‘toughest fight politically,’’ he said. _ He surrendered to the FBI recently on charges he extorted nearly ‘I’m innocent’ fines of $2.25 million if convicted, said Marcella Cohen, first assistant U.S. Attorney. Martinez, released on bail, said, ‘“Keep the faith and at the end I am going to prevail because I am innocent.”’ The 41-year-old Democrat was $1 million in cash and real estate from developers in exchange for zoning changes in the Miami suburb. He faces a maximum of 180 years in prison and elected Mayor of the state’s fifth largest city in 1981. He is considered the most Jesse Owens wins another medal Washington — The late Jesse Last Saturday marks the 10th anOwens, whose performance at the 1936 niversary Of Owens’ multiple gold Olympics put the lie to Hitler’s boast medals in the Berlin Games. of racial superiority, picked up a fifth **A victory for humanity ,’’ President gold medal Wednesday for Bush said in prepared remarks to a ban‘‘humanitarian’’ contributions to the quet sponsored by the U.S. Olympic race of life. Committee. President Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal to his widow, At the 1936 Olympic Games in Ruth Owens, in a ceremony at the Berlin, Owens captured four gold White House also attended by three medals i in the broad jump, 100 meter daughters and teammates of the track dash, 200 meter dash, and 400 meter legend. relay. powerful Cuban-born politician in southern Florida. Rumors were rampant for six months that indictments were forthcoming, said mayoral aide _ Steve Bovo. Acting Mayor, former City Council president Julio Martinez (no relation), says, “Iwo clouds have been lifted — one from the city and one from the gentleman himself. Now he can begin defending himself.’’ - National NAACP convention is scheduled in July The NAACP national 1990 annual convention will be held in Los Angeles July 8-12. Its theme will be ‘‘The Struggle Continues.’’ 7 | Virginia’s Governor, L. Douglas Wilder, has been selected as the reci-. pient of this year’s Springarn Award, the NAACP’s highest honor. Conyers key sponsor of bill to 300 Las Vegas residents protest form Dept. of Environment Republicans argued they were designed to ‘‘embarrass’’ President Bush and force a veto. President Bush has complained the House slapped unacceptable curbs on Executive Branch powers. However, Rep. John Conyers, DMich., one of the bill’s key sponsors, said ‘‘it will depoliticize’’ the environmental agency.”’ The house recently voted 371-55 to create a Department of the Environment and require the U.S. Government. to comply with toxic waste management laws. The bill, which would make the Environmental Protection Agency the 15th Cabinet-level department, passed only after a lengthy dispute about clauses added by the House. ty to pay off Foxx’s $2.9 million tax NAACP, urged the crowd to “‘fire it up.” bill. The items returned include clothing, furniture, televisions, and personal possessions. Those bound for IRS serving, Metro and North Las Vegas Police are assaulting and brutalizing citizens. Sheriff John Moran issued a statement last Monday denying allegation of police brutality. His statement came auction include eight cars and a watch several days after he held a news conference to exonerate two officers in the ty seized in ‘its raid on his Las Vegas home and will auction off other proper- _Las Vegas, Nevada — Approximately 300 Las Vegas residents turned out last Monday night at a meeting to protest alleged brutality by Metropolitan Police. The Rev. Jesse Scott, head of the Many of those present signed a petition that said instead of protecting and Foxx reaches tax settlement with IRS Redd Foxx has reached a partial settlement of his taxing problem. The IRS has retarnied:two truckloads ‘of proper- ' police brutality given to Foxx by Elvis Presley. alledged beating of a 16-year-old boy. Advertise in Our Special 1990 at the Calvary Baptist Church in Salt Lake City. Interment is at Lake NEWSPAPER Hills Memorial Park. Funeral directors - were Mackay Deseret Mortuary, Salt Lake City. Wang Lab founder dies at age 70 An Wang, a shy inventor whose one_man shop set above a hardware store grew into a billion-dollar competitor in the world computer market, died Saturday of cancer. He was 70. Wang died at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was admitted March 6 after a setback in a long fight against cancer of the esophagus, said hospital spokesman Martin Bander. He was first operated on July 14 for the cancer, which recurred this month, Bander said. Wang was a holder of more than 40 patents and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in March 1988. He received the Medal of Liberty from President Reagan. He was “quiet, humble, brilliant, decisive, caring, a great man, a oneof-a-kind person,’’ said Paul Guzzi, a Wang spokesman sometimes called his right-hand man. “‘I think all of us who have been associated with him know he was a great man.’ Wang, a slight, Chinese-born engineer, began Wang Laboratories Inc. in 1951 above an electrical fixtures store in Boston. He developed the magnetic core, a product central to the fledgling computer industry. The small ring of iron was the basic element of computer memory until the microchip was in- © troduced in the late 1960’s. The growth of Wang Laboratories ‘accelerated in 1964 after Wang introduced a desktop calculator. He steered his company around the plunge of the calculator market by focusing on the development of office computers. ‘‘Looking at the results of the company over a long period of time, clearly, you have a visionary there,’’ said Tobey Choate, vice president of information technology consulting at Arthur D. Little, Inc. Because of the company’s growth, Wang moved it northwest of Boston to Lowell in 1976. The move helped revitalize the declining manufacturing city. Thea Bowman dies at 51 years TO PLACE YOUR AD, CALL: The Mountain West Minority Reporter & Sentinel ............. (801) 967-0082 3 §00 4 weeks! | 12 words or less NO PHONE ORDERS, PLEASE! Please PRINT your classified ad on a separate piece of paper, one word per space. Please include a telephone number in your ad. Ad MUST be accompanied by payment. This coupon does not apply to ads placed in the business director or under the listing of “garage sales.” There is no refund if ad is cancelled after first run. After the original 12 words, each additional word is 28¢. Name Phone : Address City A prominent Catholic gospel singer and sciences, illustrated the ideals of the church, and enriched the heritage of and evangelist is dead at the age of 51. Telephone number _ Sister Bowman was being treated for humanity.”’ ‘‘In multiple ministries of word, cancer since 1985. She had been consong, and suffering, Sister Bowman has finced to a wheelchair. Even while being treated with chemotherapy for five shown church and world alike a face days a month, she maintained a of Christ both black and female,”’ said the Rev. Edward Malloy at her being schedule of lectures and singing performances to help raise appreciation of named for the award recently. Rev. Malloy is president of the University | black Catholic culture. of Notre Dame. She was the first black to receive the Laetare Medal Award at the Universi- — Born in Canton, Miss., Sister ty of Notre Dame in South Bend, In-_ Bowman was the granddaughter of a slave. She held a doctoral degree in § diana. 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