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24 6 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1989 Oriental Rug Oearance Sale Up To 60 OFF 8MOW THRU SUNDAY ONLY! Louisville symposium seeks answers to problem of blacks killing blacks TAKE AIM ADDrnOMAL counterparts do. 1 ALREADY-REDUCED TICKETED PRICE OF FALL ARID WINTER FASHIONS report receiving little cooperation from the Louisville black community that friends and relatives of victims prefer to settle their own scores rather than wait for the courts to try suspects, and witnesses too often forget what they saw. Louisville police Capt David Robinson told the group that many blacks in Louisville show their tolerance for crime by buying stolen goods, that they are often apathetic about the plight of victims and the trouble their children can get into on the streets. But the problem goes much deeper than that, the speakers said. young black men, in particular, are too quick to lash out over what they called "silly stuff," like insults, jealousy and territorial feuds.

Their tempers are short for a lot of reasons partly because many witnessed violence in their homes, or never learned other ways to solve problems, speakers said. Once young blacks get involved with gangs or drugs, killing becomes part of life. Even so, most black murderers like whites kill friends, spouses or lovers, Bell said. In the home, more black women kill black men than the other way around, largely in self-defense after being abused, he said. This sort of murder isn't associated so much with race as it is with poverty, he said.

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1-5 BT51 1 I fSm CiliPOTElSIIOPPE By SUSAN CRAIGHEAD Staff Writer The 200 people who attended a symposium at West Chestnut Street Baptist Church yesterday heard a litany of causes for the high rate of black-on-black homicide, but speakers said that unless all the talk resulted in community commitment to solving the problem, blacks will continue to kill one another. "You all got the right ideas," Dr. Carl Bell, an expert on black-on-black violence from Chicago, told the' group of black professionals and community activists. "It's all right here. Now start doing some work." Last year in Jefferson County, among black males murder was the fifth-leading cause of death; among white males murder was the 14th-ranking cause of death, according to statistics from the Louisville and Jefferson County Board of Health.

For blacks in Jefferson County the murder rate was 36.2 per 100,000 males; among whites it was 6.6 per 100,000 males, according to the board's statistics. Thus a black male was nearly six times as likely to be murdered as was a white male. Half of all murder suspects in Louisville were black, and so were nearly half the victims, said Lt Jeff Moody, head of the city's homicide unit Even so, Moody told the symposium; police and prosecutors often Eouisville Zoo By ROBIN GARR Staff Writer The Louisville Zoo has raised Its prices. Effective Jan. 2, adult general admission rose from $3.25 to $4, a 23 percent increase.

The rate for children (ages 3 through 11) went from $1.50 to $1.75, and senior-citizen (65 and older) admission increased from $1.50 to $2. As in the past there's no charge for children 2 and under. Group rates for visiting organizations with 20 members or more increased from $2.25 to $3 for adults and from $1.25 to $1.50 for children and seniors. "It's been three years since our last rate change," zoo spokeswoman Diana DeVaughn said. "We do try to keep that to a minimum." She said the zoo remains a family-entertainment bargain.

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without someone to show them how to act, and plenty of people tell ing them they're worthless, the speakers said, black children are bound to find themselves on the wrong side of the law. Several speakers argued that as long as fathers aren't in the homes, children look to schools for role models. And they said the schools have failed at that "Desegregation of black schools has been detrimental to black youth because of the elimination of role models," said the Rev. CMackey Daniels, arguing that integrating the schools separated black teachers from black students. In short, speakers said, neither the justice system nor the school system can turn the situation around.

It's up to the black commit nity to look out for its young people, testify as witnesses to crimes, and to fight apathy. of admission Zoo in White River Park is $7 for adults, $5 for senior citizens and $4 for children, plus $1.50 for parking. At the Cincinnati Zoo, it's $4.75 for adults and $2 for children and seniors, plus $2 for parking. The Knoxville Zoo charges $5.25 for adults and $3 for children but admits seniors who live in Knox County, free; parking is $1. Evansville's smaller Mesker Park Zoo remains less expensive; admission is $2.50 for adults and $1.50 for children and it's free during the winter.

In another change, Louisville Zoo officials announced that the zoo's summer schedule will resume April 1, rather than April 30. During winter the zoo gates are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. The summer sched' ule is 10 a.m.

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