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Easter, 63, Killed by Holdup Pair
CLEVELAND, March 29 (UPI) - Luscious (Luke) Easter, a former Cleveland Indian first baseman and one of the first blacks to break into major league baseball, was shot and killed today by two men who robbed him of more than $5,000 outside a bank in suburban Euclid, Ohio.

The men accused of killing Easter were caught after a high-speed chase and shootout with police. They face aggravated [[blocked by overlapping news article]]
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700 mourn Hibby [[blocked]]
By LES MATTHEWS
Amsterdam News Staff
Mrs. Hilda Craig, one of the famous Brown twins, was buried Wednesday afternoon in Flushing Cemetery following rites at Abyssinian Baptist Church. Mrs. Craig, also known as "Hibby", died from injuries suffered in an auto accident on [[blocked]]
into the bus shelter with such force that the car split in half.
Hibby was extricated from the auto and rushed into Harlem Hospital's emergency room where she was taken to the operating room and, later to intensive care. She died three days later.
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Eunice Hicks James [[blocked]]
Funeral services for Mrs. Eunice Hicks James were held on Thursday, May 24 from the Ballard-Durand Funeral Home, White Plains, New York with Reverend Milton [[blocked]] officiating.
Mr. Samuel Singleton, and close friends, Dr. Abraham Asante, Mr. Roger Chaney, Dr. Oscar Graves, Mr. Walter Lowe, and Dr. John Maupin.
Interment was in Kensico Cemetery, [[blocked]] New York.
James and Dorothy Orr, was the granddaughter of Reba, the Slave [[blocked]]
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Harry Novik, 69, Headed WLIB, Radio Aimed at Black Audiences
By GEORGE GOODMAN, Jr.
Harry Novik, former president and general manager of the New York City radio station WLIB-AM and WLIB-FM, died yesterday at his home in Heritage Village, Somers, N.Y. He was 69 years old.
A pioneering figure in commercial radio broadcasting for black audiences in the New York area, Mr. Novik [[blocked]]
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Bill Lucas of Braves Dead at 43; Highest Black Official in Baseball.
ATLANTA, May 5 (UPI) - Bill Lucas, vice president of the Atlanta Braves and the highest-ranking black official in professional baseball, died today as the result of a massive brain hemorrhage suffered last Wednesday. He was 43 years old.

Mr. Lucas was officially director of player personnel for the Braves but actually served as the general manager, a title that Ted Turner, the owner, kept for himself. Before being promote during [[blocked]]
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GORDON PARKS, JR., FILM MAKER, DEAD
Director of 'Super Fly' and Other Black-Oriented Pictures in Plane Crash in Kenya
By C. GERALD FRASER

Gordon Parks Jr., a film make who directed the controversial "Super Fly" one of the most artistically and financially successful black-oriented films of the [[blocked]] 70's, died with three other men yesterday when their small private lane [[blocked]] outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. [[blocked]]
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A time for tears,
N'YORK CITY - A columnist is human, after all.
Like everyone else he runs the gamut of emotions; laughing with the living; crying for the dead. Agony and ecstacy, the twin paroxysms, overcame this scribe in just one week.
The Grim Reaper wrote finis to the career of Sherman Briscoe, a colleague beloved not only by the [[blocked]]
Washington, D.C. Just a few days after basking in the sun and warmth of Hilton Head, S.C., participating in Mike Schmidt "Major League Fun Golf Classic." The duel experiences, the high and the low of human feelings, coming so rapidly together to disunite as high emotion races between the agony and the ecstacy.
THE AGONY - Sherman Briscoe, 70, Executive Director of the National [[blocked]]
journalist of renown for some 40-years, died in the nation's Capitol.
Eulogist did well summarizing his life: "Journalist, Teacher, Administrator, Thinker, Dreamer, Doer." And it was the last [[blocked]]
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Emmett Ashford, 66
To Umpire in the Major League
By AL HARVIN
Emmett Littleton Ashford, the first black umpire in the major leagues, who was known for his spirited style, died of a heart attack on Saturday at the Marina Mercy Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 66 years old.
Mr. Ashford, native of Los Angeles, was an umpire for 20 years, the last five in the American League. He retired after the 1970 season, and had [[blocked]]
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