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Broadway
Is My Beat
By Joey Sasso
National Black News Service
OBSERVATIONS IN
COVERING THE
NIGHT-BEAT: General Film
Corporation nabbed the film
rights to Friday Foster, the
only nationally-syndicated
comic strip to star a black lady.
Plans are to lead with a feature
film, and follow up with a TV
series on the gal whose
adventures are in 81
newspapers across the country.
“Who’ll play Friday? Thus
far, Stax recording artist Carla
Thomas is the foremost
contender.
Lena Horne, after her big
opening at Mill Run in
Chicago, went out into the
pouring rain to a little dining
spot for lox and bagels and a
glass of Teacher’s Scotch.
Lena had some Giorgio d’
San Angelo gowns flown in
from New York for her
engagement. But the last time
we were with Lena backstage
following her show, she got out
of her elegant gowns ans
slipped into old Levis and a
shirt.
Sammy Davis drives to work
in his $37,000 Stutx Bearcat,
puts on his S3OO tuxedo, his
SIOO alligator pumps, a $75
dress shirt and then sings: “1
got plenty of nothing.”
William Elliott, who co-stars
with Pam Grier in “Coffy” just
gifted her with a Schick Super
II for women shaving system.
“Shaft” made composer
Isaac Hayes rich enough to buy
a truly luxury jalopy: A
Mercedes-Benz (said to cost
$70,000) with everything in
it-color TV, running water and
two phones-that’s right Isaac,
never mind the rainy days.
We can’t understand why
dynamically gifted Glen
Covington, pianist-singer,
hasn’t once been on TV. He is
a fine entertainer as is around
and will record in Nashville
soon. When he was on the same
Las Vegas bill with Harry
Belafonte, the latter candidly
had Glen removed because the
brother-black performer
wowed audiences as Harry only
wished for himself.
Glen’s a Louisville
college-educated music-degreed
singer, trained classically on
piana and voice, works at smart
money markets constantly in
Nassau, Bermuda, Miami
Beach, etc. He’s a natural for
the Merv Griffin and Mike
Douglas shows.
Marily Johnson, a tiny lass
with a voice so big she often
does not need the amplifying
powers of a microphone, will
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play her first engagement in he
Persian Room of New York’s
Plaza Hotel from June 11 til
the 23rd, rounding out the
supper club’s 1972-73 season.
At the Persian Room, Miss
Johnson will perform two
shows nightly, except Sunday.
She will be accompanied by
the Barry Levitt Trio, who
alternate with Dick Lewis and
his Orchestra, playing music
for continuous dancing.
Nikki Giovanni will
celebrate her 30th birthday
Thursday, June 21, at
Philharmonic Hall where she
will sing and recite her latest
poetry as well as favorites from
earlier years.
The evening, which she calls
“Echoes and Silence...
Sunshine and Fire,” will also
feature Melba Moore,
Broadway and TV star, and
Wilson Pickett in his first major
New York City concert.
The popular New York
Community Choir will also be
on hand, assisting Ms. Giovanni
and presenting new gospel
numbers of their own.
Instead of a formal concert,
Ms. Giovannis is planning a
festival of popular music and
poetry in an informal and
joyful vein. “After all, it is my
birthday party,” she told me.
Recently named one of the
eight “Women of the Year” by
the Ladies Homes Journal, she
received the award for “Youth
Leadership” from Mrs. Linda
Johnson Robb at the TV
presentation held at the John
F. Kennedy Center in
Washington D.C.
Last year’s concert, “Ripples
on a Pond,” was a fast sellout
at Alice Tully Hall. This year,
Ms. Giovanni chose
Philharmonic Hall so as not to
disappoint her many fans. Her
new album for Atlantic
Records, “Like a Ripple on a
Pond,” will be released shortly.
Penthouse-Forum is
delighted to announce the
Bantam paperback release of
“The Sex-Life Letters,”
compiled and with an
introduction by Dr. Harold
Greenwad and Ruth
Greenwald. “The Sex-Life
Letters” is a that belongs
in the homes of every man and
woman of the 70s. Use it as a
guide, for information, or for
the sheer pleasure of becoming
sexually aware. “The Sex-Life
Letters” has been published for
you, from Bantam Books!
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On Dean’s List Augusta College
The quarter Dean’s list
showed a total of 176 students
who qualified for the academic
distinction by maintaining a
3.5 grade point average while
carrying a full course load.
Among those mentioned for
this academic distinction is Ms.
Cecilia Marlene Echols, of
Augusta, Georgia who is the
Deputy Director of A.M.F.,
Inc., a non-profit organization
dedicated to “helping folk”.
Ms. Echols has been
especially involved in providing
entertainment for the youth at
Youth Development Center. In
the past, Cortez Greer has
responded to the appeal of
AMF, Inc., and given of his
talent and time to entertain the
Newark Mayor To Address
Black Publishers’ Parley
WASHINGTON —Mayor
Kenneth A.Gibson of Newark,
N.J., will discuss the effects of
government cutbacks in
domestic programs on the
cities in an address Friday
afternoon, June 22, at the 33rd
annual convention of the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association (NNPA) in
Houston at the Houston Oaks
Hotel.
Announcement of Mayor
Gibson’s address was made
Monday here in Washington by
NNPA President Garth C.
Reeves, Sr., editor-publisher of
the Miami Times.
Other speakers on the
three-day program are:
Congresswoman Barbara
Jordan of Texas, Executive
Director Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.,
of the National Urban League,
Commissioner Benjamin L.
Hooks of the Federal
Communications Commission,
Stanley S. Scott, Special
Assistant to President Nixon;
General Robert E. Cushman,
Jr., Commandant of the U.S.
Marine Corps; Assemblyman
Honors Day
The Jack & Jill Society of
America, Inc. recently held its
first Honors Day Program at
Hornsby Elementary School.
The occasion was the
observation of National Jack
and Jill Week which takes place
annually during the month of
June.
Awards were presented for
honors and achievements made
by the members of the Jack &
Jill Society during the school
year.
, The awards program was
highlighted by a talent show
featuring the families of the
members ofJack & Jill. The
talent acts included
calisthenics, foreign lanquages,
instrumental solos, family song
festivals and jazz combos as
well as modern dancing.
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youth at YDC. Another group
to appear at YDC at the
request of AMF is a group
named A LONG TIME
COMING.
Ms. Echols requests that any
group interested in helping
those who cannot readily help
themselves, contact AMF, Inc.
at the corner of Central &
Whitney Sts.
Applications are now being
accepted for the BIG
BROTHER and BIG SISTER
assist group. Help a kid find a
friend. Take him or her to the
show. A walk. A picnic. Or,
just visit with them awhile.
Volunteer to help the mentally
retarded. Come and help us
help others.
Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson
Willie Brown of the California
State Assembly, Vice President
William D. Rhinehart of
American Newspaper
Publishers Assn.
M. Carl Holman, president
for the National Urban
Coalition; Miss Ethel L. Payne
of the Washington Bureau of
the Sengstacke Newspapers and
of CBS-TV; Kenyon Burke of
the Anti-Defamation League,
Ms. Doris Falk, advertising
director of Sakowitz
department store, Ralph
Jordan, sales promotion
manager, Sears, Roebuck and
Co.; Ira Tumpowsky, media
director, Young & Rubicam;
and Charles May, assistant
manager, Shoppers Fair.
“Mayor Gibson, who has
established an outstanding
record of city administration,”
said President Reeves, “knows
the problems of the cities, if
anyone does, and he knows
how Government cutbacks
hurts the poor and the blacks
who live in them.”
The 41-year-old mayor, who
has held the post since 1970,
has rebuilt the image of
Newark after the burning and
the rioting by obtaining nearly
S7O million from the Federal
Government for housing,
employment, and other
improvements.
Under Gibson’s leadership,
Newark’s police department is
at full strength for the first
time in more than 20 years,
and his public works
department has conducted a
17-week citywide cleanup
campaign which removed
15,000 cubic yards of debris
and 1,350 abandoned cars
from the streets.
Mayor Gibson was born in
1932 in Enterprise, Ala., a
AMF is now accepting applications for the BiG
BROTHER and BIG SISTER assist group. Volunteer
help is needed to help Kids find friends, take them on a
walk, to a movie or just visit with them. A special appeal
is made to help the mentally retarded.
town which symbolizes the
cotton boll weevil of which it
has built a statue. By the time
he was 8, he and Iris mother
and father had moved to
Newark. There he graduated
from high school and entered
Newark College of Engineering,
but he had to drop out for lack
of funds. It was 10 years of
night school while he worked
in the day, and two years in
the Army before he recieved
Iris civil engineering degree in
1962. Eight years of civil rights
leadership and political
activitiy put him in the
mayor's office in 1970.
Court Os Appeals
Upholds State
Court Conviction
Os Oliver Pope
On June 14, 1973 the
Georgia Court of Appeals up
held the conviction of Oliver
Pope handed down hy State
Court here in Augusta, on
charges of inciting to riot and
misuse of the Georgia flag.
Pope, a Paine College
student, stood trial in
Richmond County State Court
where he was found quilty and
convicted to twelve months in
jail on the inciting charge, and
twelve months probation on
the other charge.
Attorney John Ruffin
representing Pope said in a
brief telephone statement that
he anticipates appealing the
decision handed down before
tire Georgia Supreme Court.
At present Pope is out of jail
on a $5,000 recognizance
bond.
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Special Summer
Food Program
Announced
The CSRA Economic
Opportunity Authority, Inc.
announces the sponsorship of
the Special Summer Food
Service Program. This program,
which is available to eligible
children from families living in
areas of poor economic
conditions, is designed
primarily to continue the
delivery of free meals to needy
children under the same
eligibility standards used in the
National School Lunch
Program. Children under 21
from needy families living in
the areas listed below are
eligible to participate and will
be provided meals free with no
physical segregation of, or
other discrimination against
any child because of race,
color, or national origin.
The program will operate
weekdays from June 11, 1973
to August 17, 1973 and
lunches will be provided at the
following Recreation and
Housing Project Sites:
Central Park, Olmstead
Homes, May Park, Sunset
Homes, R.S. Williams, Chaffee
Center, Doughty Center, and
Gilbert Manor. Lunches are
also being provided to
participants in the recreation
program at Bethlehem
Community Center.
Participants in the Title I
summer lunch program at the
following schools will also
receive lunches beginning, June
14: Joseph Lamar, Ursula
Collins, Walker Elementary,
Terrace Manor, Levi White, and
Sand Bar Ferry Jr. High.
The Augusta News-Review - June 21, 1973,
SPEAKING FROM ATHENS
Cont’d from page 4
some very good points in his column that I look forward to
reading each week. It is hoped that we may get the opportunity
to meet sometime in the near future. All of us columnists share a
personal commitment to the progress and development of the
News-Review as we seek to inform and discuss issues with the
Augusta and Athens communities.
This writer had hoped to advoid “weighty” or more
problematic issues in this week’s column but timing is important
for the matter of current concern. The two white Augusta daily
newspapers critized Black attorney John Ruffin for citing the fact
that race was a basic issue in County commissioner Edward
Mclntyre not being appointed to the newly established coliseum
authority. The two papers tried to give a negative opinion of
Attorney Ruffin in an obvious effort to discredit him in the
Augusta community.
Racism was the basic issue in why brother Mclntyre not only
did not become chairman of the Commission but also being
granted a seat on the coliseum. The two newspapers are obviously
in no position to cast a stone at brother Ruffin because race is a
factor in its hiring practices, its news coverage or lack of coverage
of news in he Black community, and their professed conservative
stance. There were Black sections of those papers until federal
authorities were preparing to take action against newspapers
across the country for that and other discriminatory practices.
Attorney Ruffin was right for citing racism in the actions of
the county commission. What else could it be in a bigoted and
racist community like Augusta. The estent of racial disharmony
in Augusta is indicated by the anti-busing demonstrations, the
civil disorders of May 1970, the Black-White problem in the
Augusta police department, and the continuing general
oppression of Blacks in August. The fact that the two white
newspapers chose to castigate brother Ruffin only makes him a
greater hero in the Black community. Almost any Black person
that they do notlike must be good for the Black community.
They and other whites must learn that Blacks select and support
their own leaders regardless as to what white bosses and
newspapers think about our leaders.
Brother Ruffin has done an excellent job for the Black and
White community and he deserves broad community support.
Concerned whites who can afford to be honest and truthful about
this matter know that Attorney Ruffin was right. “Right On”
brother Ruffin and more power to the truly democracy loving
citizens of Augusta. As a matter of fact, many of us would like to
see some Black columnists on the editorial pages of the White
dailies as well as more coverage of news about the local and
national Black communities. Perhaps the apostles of conservatism
which is usually the same as racism will one day move past
hypocrisy to the point of racial inclusiveness.
Harambee!!
MR. & MRS. HOME OWNER
Do you employ a cook, cleaning woman or other
domestic worker in your home for one or more
days per week? If so, you are paying them more
than fifty dollars per quarter in wages, and you
should be withholding and paying Social Security
contributions for them. Your failure to do this
denies your employee his right to receive Social
Security benefits for themselves and their
dependents in later years. We urge you to obey the
law and help us to improve human relations in the
Augusta Area.
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