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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 il'i ftnye'i lickin ifood SNAK BOX .89 2 Pieces of Chicken, French Fries, and 1 Roll INDIVIDUAL KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN DINNER $1.25 _ $ 3 pieces Chicken, French Fries or MashedWft'vFjTj Potatoes & Gravy, Cole Slaw and Hot y COLONEL SANDERS' RECIPE fcrtwkM fried JJC’ //"\ /\ Saturday Only! > B®H Auditorium UIfIREHDUSE SALE 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! advertising; Pays! IAI Attica Memorial Foundation Deputy Director 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. DIXIE FINANCE CO. 402 NINTH STREET LOANS ON SIGNATURE FURNITURE - AUTO R. S. CREED. MGR PHONE Z 2-4-0312 OFFICE HOURS. 8:30 TO 6:00 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. Buicks RIVIERA CENTURY > REGAL j LESABRA - CENTURION ELECTRA 225 AND ALL NEW APOLLO DEWITT (Cannon) WILLIAMS USA (Ret.) I / a ■ iKir j m \ Business 722-0482 a RICHARDS BUICK, INC j Phones: J * , D jc* • " Residence 798-0156 1350 Broad Street 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. ...Human Relations Commission NOTICE You’re a serviceman, troubled because some member of your family could use the counsel of a licensed psychologist, but it’s too expensive. Under a recent directive, The Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) will help you pay the bills for this counseling. You do not need a referral. Why not look into it? Get a copy of the revised pamphlet “Uniformed Services Health Benefits Program”. y Daniels Lincoln-Mercury Co. 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