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Vol. 3
First Black Named To School
Superintendent Post In Atlanta
The Atlanta school board
has ended a national search for
a new school superintendent
with the selection of Dr.
Alonzo Crim, at present the
superintendent of schools in
Compton, California.
The committee said Crim
was selected from among 10
Mate Accused Os Killing
His Black Wife, 2 Children
IPSWICH, Mass. - A
pregnant black mother and her
two children were found
Bennie Ward On
Faculty At Stanford
Dr. Berrnie F.L. Ward, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Ward, Sr.,
of 523 Rachael Street, has
been appointed Research
Associate in Theoretical
Physics at Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center, Stanford
University, Stanford,
California. Since February 1 of
this year, Dr. Ward has been an
Instructor in the Department
of Physics of Princeton
University, Princeton, New
Jersey. Previously, he was a
graduate student of physics at
Princeton, completing the
requirements for the Ph.D.
degree in January of this year.
He received a Master of Arts
degree in physics from
Princeton in October, 1971,
and Bachelor of Science degree
in physics and mathematics
' h from Massachusetts Institute of
I Technology in June, 1970. Dr.
Ward attended high school at
Lucy C. Laney and Academy
Richardson To Serve On
Bicentennial Commission
Dr. Canute M. Richardson,
vice-president of Paine College,
has been named by Order of
the Governor to serve as one of
three members-at-large on the
Georgia Commission for the
National Bicentennial
Celebration.
The Order, dated June 20,
1973, also appointed Clifford
Clarke of Atlanta and Frank C.
Underwood of Savannah to the
Commission. Originally
established in 1969 by act of
the General Assembly, the
Georgia Commission was
recreated in March 1973,
within the office of the
Secretary of State. Its purpose
is to cooperate with the
National Commission and local
groups to prepare an overall
program and to plan,
encourage, develop and
coordinate observances and
activities, dr commemorating
the Becentennial of the
candidates for the
$40,000-a-year post because,
among other things, he has
experience in running a
predominately-black school
system.
Crim is black, and under the
terms of the federal court
approved compromise
suffocated Tuesday. Her white
husband was charged with
murder after police found a
DR. BENNIE WARD
of Richmond County,
graduating from the latter in
June, 1966.
The Accelerator Center is a
forerunner in the effort to
understand recent
developments in the study of
the interactions of elementary
particles. While at the center,
Dr. Ward will continue his
research on the theory of deep
inelastic lepton hadron
scattering processes.
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DR. RICHARDSON
American Revolution.
At its first meeting in
Atlanta last week, the new
commission heard reports on
projects currently underway
such as the reinterment of
Colonel William Few in
Augusta, and the national
“Johnny Horizons” campaign.
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P.O. Box 953
desegregation agreement
between the school board and
the NAACP, a black
superintendent and an
administration force that is 50
percent black must be
appointed.
“I’m extremely pleased they
extended the challenge to me,”
note saying “blacks and whites
don’t mix”.
Police Chief Armand
Brouillette announced murder
charges would be filed Tuesday
afternoon.
Earlier the husband, Gordon
Haas, told police that he
received a telephone call at
owrk Tuesday morning saying,
“We’ve taken care of your
family. Blacks and whites don’t
mix.”
But police said a note,
Youth
Recreation
Program
The Paine College Summer
Youth Recreation program got
under way Monday with some
250 active 8-18 year-olds
running all over the gymnasium
and athletic fields amid sighs of
relief and delight from the
director and some 30 staff
members.
Last Monday when the
program, now in its third year,
was to have begun, 200 or
more youngsters had to be
turned away because funds for
the program had not been
made available this year.
Then, Friday afternoon, like
a belated Christmas gift, word
came from Atlanta Regional
Headquarters of the
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, that
approximately $23,000 had
been allocated for he program -
due in large measure to the
efforts of Mr. A.S. Quinn in
appeali to the regional director
of HEW, Frank J. Groschelle.
The result? A month of
structured activity, basketball,
swimming, volleyball,
dramatics and crafts, for
youngsters! who might
otherwise have spent their
entire summer in the streets or
at home alone.
The prdgram which runs
Monday through Friday until
July 20, is divided into two
sections, 8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
for the 8-14 age group and
3:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. for the
15-18 age group. It features
hot lunch and supper and
evening activities four nights a
week.
Paine College athletic
director, Ernest Tolbert, is the
program coordinator.
said Crim, “and I’m looking
forward to going there with
great enthusiasm.”
“I’m going to have to talk
further with the school board
relative to implementing the
court order,” he said. “I have
not yet had an opportunity to
study the court order.”
written in red pencil, was
found at the scene which
reads: “I’m sorry, but blacks
and whites don’t mix.”
Chief Brouillette said the
bodies of the three victims, all
with plastic bags around their
heads, were found at 10:30
a.m, approximately 10 hours
after they were killed. Haas
normally left the house for
work at 10:30 a.m
Medical examiner Dr. John
Pollatta said plastic bags were
Black DJs Reject
Payola Charges
By Micheal D. Petit
National Black News Service
NEW YORK—Black disc
jockeys surveyed here have
Business
League
Speaker
MR. CLAUDE PATMON
Mr. Claude Patmon, a
corporate manager of franchise
sales, will be the guest speaker
for the CSRA Business
League’s monthly meeting. Mr.
Patmon will be giving vital
information to those interested
in learning about franchising.
Mr. Patmon is a graduate ot
Michigan State University, East
Lansing, with a B.S. Degree in
Physics and a minor in
Mathematics.
The Board of Directors and
staff of the CSRA Business
League cordially invites the
public to attend. The meeting
will be held Monday - night,
July 9, 1973 at 7:30 p.m. at
the Panish House on Pine
Street.
Crim replaces Dr. John
Letson, retiring after 13 years
as the head of the city school
system.”
“I think we always have
problems with any new
venture,” said Crim, a trim
father of three children who
swims, jogs and plays handball
taped around the necks of Mrs.
Shirley Haas and her children,
Gordon, 4, and Melissa, 2. A
role of tape was found in the
bedroom where Gordon died.
Pollatta sstimated time—es
death at about midnight. He
said Mrs. Haas was six to seven
months pregnant. He said that
she apparently was the last to
die.
Asphyxia was the cause of
all three deaths, Pallotta said,
on the basis of a preliminary
examination.
generally agreed that there is
little possibility that a former
Columbia Records vice
president’s claim that more
than $250,000 a year was
spent on payola to black radio
stations and DJs is true.
The DJs, who were around
in the late 1950 s when payola
scandals rocked the industory,
said it would be difficult for
such a payola scheme to work
with present regulations in the
industry.
Among other reasons, the
program director is generally in
charge of making up the
playlists,- not the DJs, nad so
they really don’t control what
songs go on the air, the DJs
said.
And they point out station
managers look for such
offenses closely. . - ,
The controversial started
when David Wynshaw was
dismissed April 10. Although
the Columbia Broadcasting
Company has said Mr.
Wynshaw was an accomplice in
the misuse of thousands of
dollars in company funds, the
former vice president has been
talking to federal investigators
since then.
Wynshaw has told them that
the company has a budget of
more than $250,000 each year
concealed within Columbia’s
budget for payola to help in
the promotion of records by its
blacks artists, which were
recently acquired.
Claiming as much as $7,000
a week is turned over to a
tipsheet publisher, whose
newsletter tells of the hottest
records, the vice president says
they then dole out payoffs to
black radio station personnel in
major cities.
He contended that other
Augusta, Georgia
daily. “But I also think we are
going to realize a great number
of successes.”
Crim said he had received
offers in the past year from
school systems in Washington,
D.C., Kansas City, Mo., and
Englewood, N.J., but the one
from Atlanta was “The only
one I’ve considered seriously.”
Crim lived most of his life in
Chicago until moving to
Compton four years ago. He
received his bachelor’s degree
from Roosevelt College in
Chicago, his masters from the
University of Chicago and his
Augustans
Already Missed
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In Wolverine
Attack
With the oncoming football
season right around the corner,
Morris Brown’s “Wolverines”
Mentor, Ray Ross, like most
other Head Coaches is pretty
skeptical at this points and
weak points of this year’s ‘73
football team.
Augustans Hammonds and
Golphin already missed in
Wolverine attack, with the
oncoming football season right
around the corner, Morris
Brown’s “Wolverines” Mentor,
Ray Ross, like most other
Head Coaches is pretty
skeptical at this point about
the strong points and weak
points of this year’s ‘73
football team.
Needless to say, the coach is
hoping that there will be some
strong points that will
overshadow some of he weak
points as plans are formulated
for the upcoming season.
While the “Purple” did not
have a banner year this past
season like in ‘7l, when they
chalked up 6 victories and lost
3, they did lose some key
personnel among 13 graduating
seniors. Gone from the offense
are Alfred Jenkins, All SIAC
wide-receiver; Gregory
Thompson, All Conference
quarterback; Ronald Daniels,
All Conference swing tackle;
Deßoy Hammonds; Jerry
Clark; Jerry Davis; and Levi
Golphin, a fine running-back.
Lost also from the defense will
be William T. Roberson;
Kenneth Fortenberry; Larry
Henderson and Micheal Banks.
Alfred Jenkins, the speedy
Little wide-receiver who caught
passes for 72 points in two
years under Coach Ray Ross’
guidance of the “Wolverines”
will venture to the Houston
Oilers.
payoffs were given to
promotion men and record
producers.
A spokesman for the
Columbia Broadcasting System
doubted the allegations as well.
“We don’t know anything
about it and don’t think it’s
true. We have no knowledge of
any such activities and no
evidence that they transpired.”
The spokesman added that
Wynshaw’s job did not involve
promotion, thus “he is not a
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doctorate in education from
Harvard.
Atlanta’s schools, now 80
percent black, are entangled in
a 15-year-old desegregation suit
and a continuing flight of
whites to the suburbs.
Under the current
compromise agreement-still
under appeal by four groups
including CORE and the Legal
Defense Fund, 2,765 students
EDITORIAL
INDEPENDENCE DAY? FOR WHOM?
Black Americans have just celebrated another Fourth
of July. Most Americans celebrated Independence Day.
Blacks are still embroiled in the fight for freedom,
and cannot get emotionally involved in the historic
significance of Independence Day as other Americans
do. Blacks have to ask, whose independence? And from
whom?
What Black people do celebrate is the Fourth of July.
That’s a paid holiday. It’s a lime when family and
friends get together to have fun. This day is
characterized by barbecue, fire crackers, a ball game,
playing cards, some soulful music, and some liquor. But
little thought is given to Independence Day and one
rarely sees a Black person waving the Star Spangled
Banner.
The Black American knows that when this nation
became free, no one came to free the Black man from
his chains. He realizes that when Thomas Jefferson
wrote the beautiful sounding Declaration of
Independence, he did not mean for it to apply to Black
people, or else he would have freed his slaves. Thomas
Jefferson kept his slaves enslaved. When he wrote
“Liberty and justice for all”, he obviously did not even
regard Blacks as people. But it is interesting that several
of Jefferson’s children had a Black mother.
America sent 50,000 men to die in Viet Nam
supposely so that the people of South Viet Nam could
enjoy freedom. But we ask how many lives has America
lost to ensure the freedom of Blacks in South Africa, in
Southern Rhodesia or here in the United States. When
brought face to face with he freedom of Black people,
America suddenly goes blind.
America was built on the blood, sweat, tears and the
very lives of Black people. And before America ever
nukes claims to being “the land of the tree and sweet
land of liberty”, it will have to learn what freedom is,
and Black people will have to detine it.
Build It Back
Receives $2,000
This week the Paine College
Alumni Office received four
checks totaling $2,000. Two
were in the amount of $500.00
each from alumni Joseph N.
Tillson of Inglewood,
California, and J.T. Walton of
Gardena, California. The other
two checks were from the
North American Rockwell
Company, also $500.00 each,
matching the gifts of its
employees Tillson and Walton.
Today, many colleges are in
dire need of financial support.
Recognizing this and the ever
increasing need for
post-secondary education in
today’s business world, many
companies are investing in
colleges.
According to a publication
of the American Alumni
Council entitled “Two Can
Give as Easily as One”, over
450 companies currently have
Matching Gifts Programs
through which “. . . your
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will be bused in the fall and
eight schools closed, leaving 83
all black schools and 64 others
in which a minority race
amounts to more than 10
percent of the enrollment.
employer is recognizing the
contribution which you, as an
educated person, are making to
your company. Its the boss’
way of saying ‘thanks’ to he
college which helped to
provide your education”.
Miss Rupert Blanchard,
acting alumni director at Paine,
describes the procedure as
extremely uncomplicated. “An
employee who makes a
contribution (however small or
large to his college, simply
informs the appropriate person
in his company that he has
done so. The company then
contacts the college and issues
a check indicating whose gift it
matches,” she explains.
“In some cases, the donor
does not have to be a graduate
of the college to which he
gives. Unfortunately, many
schools miss out on this
program because their alumni
and friends are unaware that
their companies participate,”
according to Miss Blanchard.