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Nnita-Kmrui Vol. 3 Block North Augustan Broke Watergate Frank Wills, a 25 year old native of North Augusta, S.C. is the security guard who discovered the Watergate break-in on June 17, 1972. Wills discovered that a door Brooke Critizes President On Watergate; Weary Os Bombings By National Black News Service headquarters WASHINGTON—Saying the office of the Presidency had been “harmed” by the Watergate affair, Senator Edward Brooke says President Nexon must accept some responsibility for the bugging of the Democratic Party Mama Bird Indicted/ Squawks Robert W. Best, also known as Mama Bird, and Bob Best, along with several other nicknames, was indicted with sixty six other Augusta area persons, named defendants in a federal criminal indictment Monday, charging they James M. Hinton, Jr. Sworn In On Richmond County Board Os Elections ■k ySJ I 1 & \ Ka J ... \ HI : JAMES M. HINTON, JR James M. Hinton, Jr., was sworn in as a member of Blacks Play Important Role In Navy Clayton Bizzell of the Navy Recruiting Office Augusta said today that he would again like to stress the importance of the Black man in todays “New Navy”. The Chief stated that there are occupational fields in the Navy that need to be filled by Blacks, and there are no restrictions on the position a Black man can hold in the Navy. The Navy is an “Equal Opportunity Employer”, and all job specialties are open to any applicant regardless of NOTICE TO OUR READERS We are asking your co-operation in meeting our news deadline. All news items must be received in our office by noon Tuesday or they will have to be held until the following week. We want to be able to get all of your news printed while its still news. Please co-operate with us on this matter. NATIONAL BLACK NEWS SERVICE MEMBER near the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Complex. He informed the local police, who arrested the Republican operatives who had broken in. In what observers said was the most critical remark of the President by a member of his own political party on the Watergate affair, Brooke said he could not understand how the President’s aides could have kept the information from operate a $2,000-a-day gambling business. An attempt to interview Best by local radio and newspaper reporters, and television station WSB-Channel 2 Atlanta, resulted in blanket threats to those news people the Richmond County Board of Eleciton last Wednesday morning. Hinton, third vice-president of administration and general counsel, with the Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Company, attended Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina, Howard University, Washington, D.C., Law School, Howard Univiersity and American University, Washington, D.C. Among his many civic activities, Hinton is a member of the Richmond County Democratic Executive Committee, CSRA Planning race, creed, or national origin. Bizzellsaid that there are occupational specialties in the Navy ranging from Clerical Specialties up through Advanced Electronics, and Nucleonics, and each is comparable to a civilian counterpart. “The opportunity to succeed is here and now in the New Navy”, said Bizzell, “and I would like to see more Blacks filling these positions of importance. All I ask is that more Black men and women P.O. Box 953 Since then he has changed security jobs in order to get a $5 raise, bringing his weekly earnings to SBS a week. An unidentified spokesman told the New York Times, “We Nixon. The Massachusetts Republican, claiming there was a need for a “restoration of confidence in the integrity of government” said the entire affair was “an act of stupidity.” “The President is at least present. “Don t take my picture. I don’t want my picture taken, I’m liable to kill you, you 5.0.8.” When asked whether he was the numbers king-pin and did he sign bonds for some of the and Development Commission, Board of Trustees-Paine College, Augusta Chapter-NAACP, Board of Trustees-Boggs Acmdemy, Boards of Shiloh Orphange and the Ninth Street YMCA, as well as several other civic and social organizations. Hinton is married to hte former Rosa M. Everett of Columbia, South Carolina and they are the parents of three children. Mrs. Hinton is a graduate of Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina, and did additional study at, Michigan State College in Foods and Nutrition. stop in and just rap with me about what the Navy has to offer, and then decide what lies ahead for them in years to come. I’m no hard pressure salesman, and I don’t want to be, but there is a great future in the Navy today for a Black, and I would like to see more men and women take advantage of the technical -training available.” Further information on qualifications for the Navy can be obtained by visiting the Recruiting Office, 700 Telfair WANTED NEWS BOYS Good Pay CALL New«—Review Office THE PEOPLE’S PAPER have takled about doing something for him but we haven’t been able to find him. 1 mean, we would like to at least say thank you. responsible for the persons that he hires that work with him. He certainly is responsible for his campaign manager, for his high-level assistants, and even some of his lower level assistants, so he can’t escape it under any circumstances, and if he has any information defendants, Best retorted, “No, I ain’t no Kingpin. I’ll sign bonds if I want to, it’s none of your business.” The newsmen there were threathened with words of “get away from me you—l’ll kill you, I mean it boy, get away Pilgrim Anniversary vans L H. BURNEY, II The Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Company commemorated its 7 sth-Diamond Jubilee- Anniversary on May 2. One of the highlights of the . day was a luncheon at the ' Richmond Motor Inn. The speaker for the luncheon was the President ofThe National Insurance Association, I.H. Burney, 11. Mr. Burney, a native Georgian, started to work for the Afro-American Life Insurance as an agent in Athens, Georgia, and worked himself up through the ranks to the position of President of this Jacksonville, Florida based insurance company. Mr. Burney is very active locally and nationally on many boards and committees. He is married to the former Miss Miriam Cunningham of Atlanta , Georgia and they have two daughters. Speaking before some 300 dignitaries and guests Mr. Burney as ed, “how could a young black deliveryman overcome such difficult Relatives living in Augusta and North Augusta told the News-Review Wills has asked them not to give information to the press. They also asked that their names not be which should be made known to the American people, I think he should do it forthwith,” he told the questioners on “Meet the Press” on NBC-TV. He siad, however, that he was “very pleased” that the President had decided to take from me.” Best also said, “I haven’t got anything to say to the paper, I’m not mad at them or anything. I’m sixty seven years old; I’m old and feeble, been under a doctor’s care for five years. I’ve got nothing to worry about, the only thing I have to say is, I’m not guilty.” obstacles to put together a multi-million dollar insurance business without realizing a dream? He wanted to accomplish something thatt’s how.” Burney went on to day, ‘ don’t tell me that there is not anything in this world you cannot accomplish, if you want to. If you have something to accomplish, and do not, you don't have the Pilgrim Spirit. Dr s. S.W. Walker, W.S. Hornsby, Sr., Rev. J.J. Hornsby did not content themselves with the obstacles of being second class citizens, with no money, no business or insurance expertise, back n 1898. These founders contented themselves with the total victory that is manifested here.” “More has been accomplished in t this country in seventy five years, than any five hundred year period in history. There were no televisions or airplanes when these black men started out. So a blackman who does not take the full measure from life today has no one to blame but himself,” Burney daid. Augusta, Georgia printed. One relative did say that Wills attended nearby Jefferson High School in Bath, S.C. Asked for her reaction to the Watergate scandal, Wills’ firm action in the Watergate affair. “It is difficult to understand how persons working with the President would not make known to him an enterprise of this magnitude involving hundreds of thousands of dollars and involving such EDITORIAL THE WATERGATE BLESSING The Watergate controversy is generally viewed as a tragedy. It is a tragedy, but it’s a blessing, too. There are many who believe that the scandal implicates the President himself. Others refuse to allow themselves to believe that the President could be involved in such a mess. We will not attmept to judge the President’s guilt or innoncence. But we by no means think that the President is above such involvement or that he anew nothing about it until he read it in the newspapers. it is unacceptable that the President could be in constant conversation with his closest associates and not be aware of acitivities of such magnitude and involving so many of his top aides and personal friends. Knowledge of such activity, without taking proper action, which the President has never done, warrants impeachment. The President of the most powerful nation in the world should be more than anything else a symbol of moral leadership. But it is on this particular point that Richard Nixon is most vulnerable. He has never demonstrated moral leadership, and consequently does not merit the exemption from the most thorough examination possible of his involvement or knowledge of the activities surrounding the Watergate affair. Nixon’s political appointees are good examples of the wind of men he would like to see run the American government. Having a whole nation to choose from, it was Nixon who chose Haynesworth, Carswell, Agnew, Renquist, John Mitchell and others who seemingly stand for everything but liberty and justice for all. Nixon’s attitude toward Blacks is clear, but what is worse are his attitudes towards the poor, the uneducated and the aged of his own country. How can a man of moral leadership cut programs designed to help these people, and, at the same time, request money to rebuild a nation whose people he has spent billions of dollars trying to Kill? He continues to rave about peace with honor. There can be no honor in an immoral war. And the tons of bombs that he is having dropped on Cambodia is blatant evidence that there is no peace. One has every reason to question why Nixon ordered a separate investigation of Daniel Ellsberg’s involvement in the Pentagon papers when he has not seen fit to do the same in the Watergate affair. It is noteworthy that G. Gordy Liddy and Howard Hunt, both of whom are defendants in the Watergate case, working directly under Nixon’s advisor John Ehrlichman reportedly broke into the office of Ellsburg’s psychiatrist to get into Ellsberg’s file. Law and Order??? From whom?? Black people have always known the answer to that one. In 1972, 87% of Black voters voted against Nixon. If it had been left up to Blacks, Nixon never would have become President. And thanks to Watergate, the rest of the world may learn that he never should have. mother said, “I have heard so much I don’t know what to believe.” She refused to comment further. potential risk as the Watergate incident involved. “It is inconceivable to me that they would not have told the President about this matter. In fact, that they wouldn’t have asked for his approval or disapproval.” May 3, 1973 No. 7 Case FRANK WILLS NAACP Freedom Rally By Al Irby The local chapter of the NAACP will hold a “Freedom Rally” at Tabernacle Baptist Church on May 10th at 7:3C p.m. The Rev. Kelly Smith pastor of the First Baptist Church of Capitol Hill Nashville, Tenn, will be the speaker. Music will be furnished by the famed Walker Baptist Association Chorus. The NAACP has stood tai and cool during those frantic days of the Civil Right! struggle, no giving away t juvenile impetuosity Basicly, it has never been < protest organization. Its strong point is in a court of law Certainly it fights injustice; and discrimination, but it; tools have always been legal This interracial organizatior was instrumental in curbing lynching in this country mostly by moral persuasion. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was instrumental ir opening institutions of highei learning for Blacks. It was successful in this field, starting with Maryland, Arkansas Virginia, and was ready to take on South Carolina, when il took a long chance and went for broke with the 1954 Supreme Court decision. Many people believe, that Northern liberals organized the NAACP, but that’s not entirely true. A group of Black mer met in 1905 most of then were college-trained; they met in Niagara Falls to announce r program based upon the principles of humar brotherhood, freedom oi speech and criticism, and exercise of all rights without regard to race. They would never stop protesting, until America redressed its shameful treatment of the Negro. This was the fore-runner of what we know today as the NAACP. ■ H And H ■ Vote I