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The Augusta News-Review - May 3, 1973,
John Swint Appointed
And Sworn In On
New Tax Board
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By R.L. Oliver
Black Richmond County
businessman John Swint was
appointed to one of six
positions on the newly created
board of tax appraisers, by the
Richmond County
Commissioners Tuesday.
Swint along with, Jack
Baxley, L.T. Morgan, Grady
Jenkins, Mrs. Barbara M. Scott
and Gene I. Weinberger were
named to the newly created
board on a motion proposed
by Commissioner John
Anderson and seconded by
Commissioner Edward M.
Spelman Graduate
Acts On "Doctors"
Remembered by many
Augustans as Carlene Gowdy,
actress Marie Thomas has
joined NBC Television
Network’s daytime drama,
“The Doctors”.
Miss Thomas portrays Laurie
James, a former nurse who
Crowning Os
Miss Essence
The calmination of the Miss
Essence Contest at First Mt.
Moriah Baptist Church will be
Sunday Evening, May 6, 1973,
at 7:00 P.M.
The contestants are: Miss
Angela Mcßride, Miss Desiree
Nelson, Miss Thelma Mack ,
Miss Patrice Washington, Miss
Tina Maria Armstrong, Miss
Lisa Lilly, Miss Belinda Cofer,
Miss Peggy Harmon, Miss
Wilhemenia Barber, Miss Elena
Hankenson, Miss Shirley Burns,
Miss Mary Hankenson, Miss
Rebecca Robinson.
Highlights of the program
will include fashion and talent
from the CSRA.
The public is invited.
Donations one to three dollars.
Tickets may be purchased from
any member of the Anthem
Choir.
Today’s Army
wants to join you.
Name your choice of training.
EXCITING
JOBS
EDUCATIONAL
OPPORTUNITIES
No doctor or dentist bills.
Thirty days’ paid vacation.
Your food is free.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, WRITE: call or visit your
“Soulful Recruiter” Oliver Brown
700 Telfair Street
Augusta, Georgia 30903
Phone: 722-2786 or 724-5864
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Mclntyre. The new board
members were selected from
different legislative districts in
accordance with the bill
creating the board.
The six members were sworn
in Friday by Judge Frank
Peirce during ceremonies held
in Superior Court.
Earlier in the month of
April, Swint was also
appointed to the jurist board
that selects panelists for jury
duty in Richmond County.
He is married to Elizabeth
Swint and they are the
parentsof Gloria and John Jr.
once aspired to a singing
career, but is considering
returning to nursing.
Miss Thomas, originally
form Atlanta, Ga., majored in
speech and drama at Spelman
College.
The pretty brown-haired
actress participated in summer
stock and radio and variety
programs in Atlanta, before
going to New York 10 years
ago.
Miss Thomas studied speech,
dance, mime, music and acting
at the American Theater Wing
in New York and has appeared
in several of Vinnette Carroll’s
Urban Arts Corps productions.
They include “But - Never Jam
Today,” “Moon on a Rainbow
Shawl,” “Step Lively, Boys”
(formerly titled “Bury the
Dear”) and “Croesus and the
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toured the streets of New
York.
At Lincoln Center (New
York), Miss Thomas appeared
in “Antigone” and “The
Duplex”.
The actress recently finished
a nine-month stint in “Don’t
Bother Me, I Can’t Cope,” the
Obie Award Winning play.
Miss Thomas appeared in the
film, “The Boston Strangler,”
and in NET production of
“Masquerade.” She has taught
Elias Blake Paine
Honors Day Speaker
Dr. Elias Blake, president of
the Institute of Services to
Education and a Paine College
alumnus, was the featured
speaker Monday at Paine’s
annual Honors Convocation
held in the Gilbert-Lambuth
Chapel. •;
Dr. Frank Davis, professor
of Biology, was inducted into
Alpha Kappa Mu Honor
Society in recognition of his
outstanding service and
achievement in his teaching
career at Paine College and in
research.
The Dean’s List of students
whose grade point average is
3.3 or better included:
Sophomores--Gwendolyn
Kenney, Jeanette Ransom,
Wanella Watkins and Jerry
Welch; Juniors--Emma
Abraham, Martha Davis,
Roosevelt Dixon, Bertha
Dread, Asfaw Fisaha, Joyce
Mims, Udo Moses Williams, and
Mamie B. Stallings;
Seniors--Betty Anderson,
Beverly Baber, Roger
Davenport, Gwendolyn Fryer,
Chauncy Hart, Bernard
Hawkins, Sherry Howard,
Tommie L. Johnson, Willie
Mae Jones, Laverne Lewis, and
Joyce Small.
Other Honor Roll students
are: Freshmen-Barbara Black,
Josephine Clark, Rudlolph
Coombs, Gwendolyn Elim,
Mary A. Harris, Jeanette R.
Hawkins, Delores Ann Luttrell,
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MISS MARIE THOMAS
dance at community centers
throughout New York enjoys
crocheting, decorating and
enteraining-during her off
hours.
Marie lives in New Jersey
with her husband, their
3-year-old son, and their pet
German shepherd, Brutus.
Marie is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Marshall “Soc”
Thomas of Veltre Circle,
Atlanta, Ga.
The program is viewed in
Augusta over WJBF-TV at 2:30
p.m. Monday through Friday.
Double Trouble
Double Shaft!
SHAFT'S his name.
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2 For The Price Os 1
During the first part of May, Economy Rexall Drugs
will move 3 blocks to 2517 Milledgeville Road
Williamsburg Plaza.
We invite you to shop with us in this new location
where we can give you better sen ice with a larger
selection of merchandise and better parking.
Thank you for your business,
ECONOMY REXALL DRUGS, INC.
PHONE 733-2281
Store Hours—Monday thru Saturday 9:00 to 9:00
Closed Sunday
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1 DR. ELIAS BLAKE
Carlton Lee Richards, Larry
Wiley, and LaFayette Williams;
Sophomores--Leon Green, Roy
Lee Gresham, Victorious
Griffin, Dorothy High, Alana
F. Hill, Bryon Johnson,
Frederick Johnson, Charles
King, Richard Larbi, Gail
Moore, Johnny Nimes, Shirley
Perry, and Jacqueline Reid;
Juniors-Robert Bell, Dorothy
Burley, JoAnn Grimes, Prince
Tommy Inyang, Neva J.
Mayweather, Marie Odom,
Carol Reeves, Charlene Sims,
and Marva Stewart;
Seniors--Mary Boston, Betty
Brinson, Bobby Copeland,
Brenda Davis, Leroy Davis,
Lucille Freeman, Larry Hawes, <
Delores Johnson, Jerome
Jones, Carrie Kendrick, Juanita
Lee, Patricia Middleton,
Benjamin Pace, Brenda
Robinson, Robert Smiley,
Janice E. Smith, General
Smoot, Mary Stokes, Sheila
Tabron, Lucille Turpin, and
Celest Williams.
Dr. Blake earned his B.A.
and M.A. at Paine College and
Howard University, and the
Ph.D. in Educational
Psychology at the University of I
Illinois. He has been engaged in
extensive research activities
and has published widely.
Since January, 1966, Dr.
Blake has worked with the
Institute for Services to
Education. This organization
was instrumental in developing
the Upward Bound Program
and in securing federal funds
for Black colleges which
carried the program. The ISE
also generated programs of
curriculum reform and
innovative programs of
teaching and learning in Black
Colleges.
As President of the Institute
for Services to Education, Dr.
Blake is developing the
Institute into a unique resource
for generating more innovative
educational programs that may
well pull the leadership for the
education of all the poor nd
the Black in America into the
hands of the predominantly
Black Colleges.
YMCA Executive
Praised
LaVozier E.S. LaMar,
retiring Branch Executive
Secretary of the Southwestern
Branch of the Greater Newark
YMCA, will be cited for
outstanding youth leadership
by the Augusta/Aiken Reunion
Committee at its annual
meeting, Sunday, May 6 at 2
p.m. in the Flag Post Motor
Inn, South New Brunswick,
N.J., according to J. Philip
Waring, Stamford, Conn.
Urban League Director and
chairman of the group.
In a special statement
Newark mayor, Kenneth
Gibson, praised LaMar for 24
years of dedicated service at
the Newark YMCA. Mr. Gibson
used himself as an example of
young people who had been
counseled and quided by him
at the YMCA. Lamar s also a
band master and musician.
A native of Augusta, Ga. and
a graduate of Lincoln
University, Pa., where he was
an all-time footbalb great,
LaMar also served as assistant
director to George Gregory at
the Children’s Aid Society in
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Mrs. Clara Robinson (L) is among the participants at
the anquet of the Naziah Grand Shrine Temple and
Daughters of Isis held at the Up-Towner Motor Inn
Saturday night.
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Harlem for many years. At the
end of World War II the U.S.
Navy officially cited LaMar for
his service to military
personnel while a USO-YMCA
Executive Director in various
eastern cities. He also taught at
Haines Institute in Augusta,
Ga.
A member of Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity and a
long-time resident of Brooklyn,
he is a widow, has a son,
LaVozier,Jr., who is a coach
and instructor at Manhattan
Community College, and his
daughter, Laßeine is a
bio-chemist in New York.
Waring said that next
Sunday’s meeting would also be
devoted to the annual reunion
of persons from four eastern
states and the District of
Columbia who are alumni and
former students from Haines,
Schofield, Bettis Academy,
Walker Baptist, Immaculate
Conception, Lucy Laney and
T.W. Josey high schools, and
Paine College. These are the
major educational institutions
of the Augusta, Ga. and Aiken,
S.C. arefl. Tfie public is invited.
[ Police Report |
By R. L. Oliver
KIDNAP TRY FOILED -
WOMAN RUNS AWAYs,
Elizabeth Black of 1931
Starnes Street told Augusta
Police an unknown male, 19 to
23 years old, tried to force her
to get into his car with a gun,
but she ran away.
Miss Black said she was
walking east on the 1900 block
of Starnes Street when a man
driving a 1969 yellow Datsun
stationwagon approached her.
The man, brandishing a gun,
ordered her into the car twice
before she ran between two
houses.
She told police she saw the
car leaving, traveling south on
the 700 block of Eve Street.
The incident occured
Wednesday night.
BOYS CLUB OFFICES
BURGLARIZED
Paul Cooper, a worker for
the Augusta Boys Club, 1903
Division Street, reported a
burglary of the club’s offices
Thursday. Cooper stated
someone had broken in a
window, entered, ransacked
the office and damaged several
filing cabinets. Cooper also
reported the loss of a
Silvertone radio, a flashlight, a
ladies tote bag, a tool case and
a 6-inch wrench.
FISHING TACKLE STOLEN -
19 YEAR OLD CHARGED
L.C. Scofield, of 1216
Holley Street returned home
from work Wednesday to find
that his fishing equipment
valued at sl2l was missing.
Neighbors told police of a
young man who lives at 1235
Augusta Ave. entering
Scolfield’s home, Police
officers and Scolfield went to
the Augusta Ave. address
where the victim identified his
equipment.
Arrested and charged with
the felony, theft by taking -
over SIOO, was Cleveland
Bryant, 19, of the Augusta
Ave. address.
STOLEN MOTOR GRADER
Aiken County sheriffs
deputies received reports of a
road grader being taken from a
construction site Wednesday.
The grader was discovered
missing by a security guard of
the Fox Construction
Company, which is working on
the by-pass southwest of
Aiken.
The heavy vehicle was later
found several miles away where
someone abandoned it.
MAN ARRESTED FOR
FORGERY
Richmond County sheriffs
deputies arrested Herbert
Kirkland of 2526 Blackstone
Dr., charging him with first
degree forgery.
Augusta Police arrested
Nathaniel M. Stewart, 40, of
923 Broad Street, on a charge
of theft by conversion. He was
released on SSOO bond.
26 YEAR OLD MAN HANGS
HIMSELF - CITY JAIL
A twenty six year old man
hung himself th death with his
shirt to the Augusta City Jail
on Ninth Street Tuesday
morning.
Ronnie Blackwood of 458
Greene Street was found
hanging by his neck, in his cell
early Tuesday morning.
Blackwood had been arested
several hours earlier and
charged with late hours. He
was pronounced dead on
arrival at University Hospital.