Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 5

Page A5 Decatur, Illinois, Sunday, January 9, 1983 Community Central Illinois. King' spirit 4 liii fights for life Keeping alive the spirit of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is not unlike the civil rights battles waged by the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Wit mm Bob "I'd say for a community this size, the spirit of Dr.

King in Decatur is not what it should be," says Rev. C.L. Hawkins, president of the Decatur Black Ministerial Alliance. Spirit can be defined as both Sampson Off the Beat In Michigan, Monday will be a state holiday in honor of King. The city of Lansing will hold a memorial service at City Hall on Friday, the second consecutive year such a service has been held.

Seattle Mayor Charles Royer has proclaimed next week "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Week." The proclamation is an annual event in Seattle, but city officials said is it more significant this year because of the. re- naming July 29 of a Seattle street after King. In Arizona, the National Association for the Advancement of Coldred People in Tucson plans a two-mile march on Saturday to celebrate; King's birthday.

The Citizen's Coalition for Urban Survival in Baltimore has called on, blacks to refrain from making anjr purchases on King's birthday, a pro- posal that has drawn opposition from many black merchants. The march Saturday in Atlanta will be from the King Center's Freedom Hall complex to the state Capital, where the crowd will hear speech from the Rev. Joseph Lo-wery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King was assassinated in Memphis, in 1968. ATLANTA (AP) A week-long celebration of the birthday of slain "civil rights Jeader Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. will begin with church services today and culminate with presentation of a peace prize next Saturday. The 15th observance of King's birthday since his 1968 death is being sponsored by the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and is expected to attract thousands of people from around the country. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, said the theme of the celebration will be "Charting a Nonviolent Course: Economic Challenges for the "We will be letting the world know that people of good will are not going to sit idly by and permit unemployment and poverty to become irreversible conditions of life," she said.

The week's activities begin today with an interfaith music celebration at the Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta. Special services honoring King also will be held today at churches and military installations around the country, with offerings coming to the King center here. Activities planned during the week include teach-ins on King's work at Georgia schools, a ceremonial tree-planting, community service awards and a recognition rally featuring U.S. Rep. Claude Pepper, policy seminars, cultural events and speeches by various public figures.

Social responsibility awards will be presented Friday to one person each from labor, management and government, and the annual Martin Luther King Jr. nonviolent peace prize will be presented on Saturday, King's birthday. King's father, Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. will be honored at a "salute to greatness" dinner Saturday night.

In Washington, D.C., the fifth annual Martin Luther King Jr. day parade will be held Friday. Offices and schools in the nation's capital will be closed for a holiday honoring King's birth. In Los Angeles, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization founded by King, planned to celebrate his birthday with a breakfast for church leaders, the presentation of awards for an essay contest and a march celebrating the renaming of a city street to Martin Luther King Boulevard. a-; Or.

Martin Luther King Jr. strongest things his life says to us today," relates Hawkins. "Anything you set out to accomplish that is not handed to you on a silver platter, you have to suffer to achieve. "And his life also reminds us that there are certain things we have to sit up and do for-eurselves." Most of all, he adds, there is the example of King's tactics, something that can be applied to development of the birthday observance, the renaming of Broadway and countless other projects. "From King, we learn that if you want it bad enough, you have to keep reaching for it.

You have to be willing to sacrifice," he says. "Never give up. Just keep pushing." UBLIC an awareness of the man's accomplishments and a willingness to strive to achieve his goals. Nurturing that spirit is the celebration of King's birthday Saturday Jan. 15.

A memorial service will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Church of the Living God, The Pillar and Ground of the Truth, 1915 N. Broadway, sponsored by the black ministerial association. From 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Saturday, Frontiers International will hold a country ham breakfast at the Church of Living God CWFF, 400 S. Franklin, in honor of King. Tickets for the breakfast are $3.50 and will be available at the door. At 10 a.m., Steven Wheeler, station manager and program director of WTMX radio station, will talk about Dr. King.

David Travis, a member of the breakfast committee, said the event began three years ago and is seen as a chance for more people to participate in honoring King. "I think the memory of Dr. King is still alive in Decatur," he says. Hawkins thinks the spirit could stand a little growth. "We're trying to get it in the minds of young people.

We want them to know of his ideas, his philosophy, what his life was all about." While the Friday night program is "more than just a worship service," Hawkins says that by itself it will not accomplish the long-range goal. "We need to get something like Broadway that's more visible to our young people," he says, referring to last year's rejection by the Decatur City Council of a proposal to rename Broadway in honor of King. It will take time, Hawkins says, to expand the present birthday celebration but eventually he hopes it becomes "a day-long celebration, something that would let the whole community see how we feel about Dr. King." Each year's observance can be seen as a step toward that goal. "If blacks get more involved in the idea, it will spread," he says.

"But we have to show our own interest first." And though he's been dead nearly 15 years, King still speaks by example, says Hawkins. "Nothing is won by violence. That's one of the ORDERED EMISES OF ro1o RICHARD 'S FURNITURE HERALD REVIEW (USPS 150-800) -Published daily and Sunday by Decatur Newspapers Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of Lee Enterprises Inc. Wayne E.

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