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•Npw-ltettjm a THE PEOPLE’S PAPER ((20?)) NATIONAL BLACK NEWS SERVICE \\ 7/ MEMBER Vol. 3 Grady Abrams Tells Os Finding Woman Strangled To Death Miss Carol Denise Greggs, a former instructor at Paine College, was found dead over the weekend by former City Councilman Grady Abrams. She had been strangled to death in her apartment. In an exclusive interview, Abrams told the News-Review that he was taking a friend (Hezekiah Robinson) home late Saturday night when Abrams decided to visit Miss James Brown’s Son In Fatal Car Crash Teddy Louis Brown, son of famed entertainer James Brown, was killed in an auto accident last week in up-state New York. He was 19. Teddy and two of his Connecticut Salute To Phil Waring J. Philip Waring, Executive Director of the Urban League of SW Fairfield County (Stamford, Conn.) is being honored next week by the Urban League and the United Fund Executives Council. He is retiring during mid-summer from his present position because of health reasons. BUILT NEW URBAN LEAGUE Letters have been received from high National Urban League (NUL) officials and community leaders regarding Mr. Waring, who organized the local Urban League program in 1969. Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., NUL Executive Director, hailed Waring’s long and outstanding League leadership as helping the agency to attain its goals of equal opportunity. William Haskins, NUL Eastern Regional Director, pointed to the successful voter education campaign coordinated by Waring which had resulted in over 2,000 persons being registered. The local Urban League Board in a formal resolution thanked him for hard work and dedicated service in establishing a new model Urban League affiliate in four short years. Large business firms had been involved, inner-city youth motivated through career guidance programs and adults placed on new jobs. Interracial membership rosters had been established in the four towns served by the new League, the University of Conn, had used Greggs at her- apartment at 2307 Ruby Drive. The car was in the driveway and a dim light was on in a bedroom. “So 1 went up and knocked on the door, but no one answered. I went around to the back where 1 knew a pane was out of the kitchen door, opened it, and entered. The lights were not on and I smelled a funny ordor. So I walked to the front room and cousins, Richard and Ricky, both from Tacoa, Georgia, were driving to Montreal, Canada, to visit a friend when the mishap occurred. The cousins were believed to be the agency for the training of graduate students, a new branch office established in Greenwich and $25,000 received from NUL for a community education project. PRAISED BY ASSOCIATES John W. Johnson, President of the 101-member NUL Executive Directors Council, observed that Phil Waring was its public relations chairman and first editor of its forthcoming JOURNAL. Continuing, Mr. Johnson said that in his 21 years of League service Waring had won many citations and served with distinction in Florida, Missouri, Illinois and New York. His thrust of mobilizing Black and White citizens to save the Jacksonville, Florida League when it was attacked in 1956 by both the KKK and White Citizens Council still stands as a model of professional Urban League community organization skill. The Stamford Coalition of Black and Spanish-speaking organizations saluted Waring on his role of forming coalitions of several important of civic, religious and civil rights groups to attain movement in housing, fair employment, voting rights and institutional change. A part-time instructor for graduate students from Atlanta, New York, Fordham, St. Louis and Connecticut Universities Social Work Schools, he also moderated his own weekly radio program in St. Louis, “The Black Unit Forum of the Air”. He attended Paine and West P.O. Box 953 saw Carol lying in the bed, almost undressed, with her arm across her chest. She didn’t seem to be moving, so I went in. Her undergarments were on the floor with blood on them. Her left jaw had blood on it, as did her pillow. “After feeling her arm and seeing how cold it was, I rushed outside and called Robinson and told him Carol looks like she’s dead and it riding in the front seat while Teddy slept in the back, when the driver, 31 year old Richard, fell asleep at the wheel near 6:45 in the morning on June 14. The car went over an Virginia State Colleges and holds a master of social work degree from Columbia University (1947). Waring writes a weekly column, Going Places in the Augusta NEWS-REVIEW and the Stamford Shopper-Mail. Racism Re -Elected The President, Bond Tells Grads By Louise E. Wyche National Black News Service WASHINGTO N—Presiden t -N ixon was elected and' re-elected by racism in America, which remains a dominant factor in U.S. society, state legislator Julian Bond told Northern Virginia Community College graduates. Claiming the President’s re-election last November was the culmination of a “movement of the confortable, the callous, and the smug who closed ranks and closed their hearts to the forgotten,” Bond devoted most of his speech to a denunciation of the Nixon administration and the social fears which brought about his overwhelming election. He suggested that blacks and poor people “seize power in a peaceful way.,” to bring to „ fruition an “age-old dream of those in the center and outward to the left to restore power to everyday people.” Bond told the 850 graduates that they “are leaving the looks like she’s been raped because blood was all over the place. Robinson and 1 then went to several neighbors homes to phone the police, but no one would let us in. One soldier next door closed the door in our faces.” After finding a phone booth at Lumpkin and Richmond Hill Road, Abrams called the Sheriffs Department. Then went to the home of Diane embankment and landed on the bottom of a cement abutment. Young Brown, who bears a striking resemblance to his father, interestingly, did not He is married to the former Marian Johnson of St. Louis who is a community relations specialist with he Girl Scout USA national headquarters. The couple live at 83 Morgan St., Stamford, Conn., 06905. academic community at a time of unprecedented crisis” in the country. “The government of the most powerful nation in the world stands suspect,” he told them. “This administration wanted four more years and now hopes for two with time off for good behavior.” "-Callings the vote for the President anti-black, he quoted civil rights leader Jesse Jackson in saying that busing for school desegregation was not an election issue, as most contended it was at the time. “The issue wasn’t the bus, it was us,” he recounted. “Something is wrong when almost all blacks vote for Sen. George McGovern and three-fourths of the whites vote forNixon,” he said. “The election of Nixon was a referendum on what is politely called the social issue.” Augusta Chapter of the NAACP will meet Monday Jue 25 at 7:30 in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. Harvey, a friend of Miss Greggs’ and asked her to contact Carol’s parents. Abrams labeled “erroneous” parts of an alleged report by radio station WBIA. “They said it seemed suspicious that she had no bruises on her body. This would indicate foul play. Well, their facts were wrong,” Abrams said, “when her body was found she had bruises on want to go into show business. But he worked untiringly to prepare himself to manage his father’s numerous businesses. He wanted to become a lawyer or an accountant. Mrs. Emma Austin, a spokesman for James Brown Productions located at 1122 Greene St. in Augusta, said that Brown had kind of groomed his son for business management. Following the controversial and belated reversal of County Commission chairman Norman Simowitz’s decision to leave Black commissioner Edward Mclntyre and Donald Neal off the Coliseum Authority, The Augusta Chronicle, while editorially praising the decision, jumped all over Black attorney John Ruffin for suggesting that representative government means representation by race. The editorial went on to say that “Racism has no place in either the tasks or honors of democratic government, if and when the time comes that we have to have appointments by a quota system, to ‘represent’ race, religion, economic blocs, labor, management or any other divisive standards, then democracy will be a very sick system.” Pure democracy is not sick But when democracy is poisoned by racism, then that “democracy” is already sick. American democracy has always been racist and the Augusta Chronicle is as guilty of racism as anybody. By definition, democracy is a government of the people, and anyone Knows that Blacks have been legally denied the right to vote, and forbidden by law to receive education. This is not a tiling of the past as current efforts still seek to prevent Blacks from realizing our full political strength, and current efforts are still aimed at preventing Blacks from receiving quality education. While the Chronicle accused Ruffin of injecting the race issue, it should be remembered that in this racist society, race is always an issue where Blacks and whites are involved, although it may or may not be as significant a factor as at other times. It should also be remembered that Blacks are not discriminated against because of religion or economics. Blacks are discriminated against because of race. And it is only when we are racially presented in government will we see relief from the ills that plague us as a race. Other groups have had the opportunity to act justly Augusta, Georgia her left jaw, her lip was busted and her side was blue where she had layed. indicating she had been dead for some time.” Angered by rumors that he might have had a hand in the murder, Abrams seethed, “Everything that happens surrounding me, people make assumptions about me. I could have left, but why should 1 run. 1 haven’t done anything. “Don’t get me wrong, like any youngster, that road life here one night and someplace - else the next night - really ‘ enthused him. But then, too,he realized the hard work it took to set up a show. He used to sit right here, this was his office, he booked shows, arranged itinerary, promoted the shows, planned advertising, all the details. He was really engrossed in his work.” At the office Teddy was the person who cheered everybody up. “Anytime we had a problem he would make us laugh about it. He never liked sadness. He was a fun person.” Teddy was the first born of his internationally renowned father. He lived in Tacoa with his mother. Funeral services will be held later today in Tocoa at the Wayside Baptist Church. Black Unity = Black Progress EDITORIAL Anything that happens in this town people want to castrate me.” Miss Greggs worked in the Academic Skills Clinic at Paine College from 1970 through May 1973 as a specialist in counseling. She earned the Bachelor and Master’s degrees from Fort Valley State College. She was twenty-four years old. r* - «**■ -.A' s-'; | i * ■X ' - Teddy Louis Brown towards Blacks for centuries and, it is clear, io Blacks at least, that they don’t intend to. The Chronicle implies that appointments should be made purely on the basis of qualifications. That is a rediculous standard in a society in which one group has always had the full opportunities of this rich country, while the other has been liistorically enslaved. The most qualified theory is valid only when there has been equal opportunity. And one must remember that until 25 years ago, Augusta had no public high school for Blacks. The same racists who made it against the law for Blacks to receive an education, and are still fighting, to keep us from getting quality education, are now trying to blame us for not being as educated as they THINK they are. Os course, we demand racial representation! And so do whites or why do they fear a Black mayor. Is it that they fear that he won’t represent them? Or is it that they fear that he might not have succeeded in stealing the education they fought so hard to keep him from getting? > Now we are supposed to believe that the Chronicle is fighting “racism and divisive” standards. What Black person in Augusta has forgotten that less than ten years ago, the Chronicle-Herald printed news about Blacks in a separate section of the paper entitled “News of Interest to Our Colored Readers”? .And now the Chronicle dares to preach to us about racism! We expect that the Chronicle will always fight to keep Blacks divided under the illusion that race is not a factor, and that we are all equal. The Chronicle recognizes that freedom and equality for Black people rests in political and economic unity among Blacks. In unity there is strength, be it called Black Power or Brown Strength, it is bad news for those who would stand in the way of Black progress. June 21, 1973 No. 14 If*- "£'l; I. ■ Miss Carol Denise Greggs