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Social Security Office Taking
Applications For Supplemental
Security Income Payments
To Aged, Blind, And Disabled
The Social Security Offices in
Augusta are now taking
applications for Supplemental
Security Income payments, a
Federal Program scheduled to
start in 1974 that will establish
an income floor for people in
financial need who are 65 or
over, or blind, or disabled,
according to Mr. James S.
Trowbridge, Social Security
District Manager.
People already getting State
Old Age Assistance, or State Aid
because they are blind or
disabled, don’t have to apply.
County Departments of Family
and Children Services will
furnish the Social Security
Adminstration the information
necessary for these recipients to
receive checks under the new
Federal program when it begins
in January, 1974 . Until then,
Public Assistance payments will
continue to be made in the usual
I way.
Those persons in need, who
Blacks Comprise Only
% Os County Employees
By R.L. Oliver
Informed sources reveal that
of the total work force of 735
employees in Richmond
County, one fourth of the
employed are Black.
Sources further indicate that
the one-hundred and eighty five
Blacks work on a part time or
full time bas>s, while the entire
white working force is
employed as full time
The Committee of 100
Division, Augusta Chamber of
Commerce; The Development
Authority of Columbia County;
and Hallmark Homes, Inc.
today officially opened the just
completed 175,000 sq. ft.
manufacturing plant in
Martinez into which Hallmark
has relocated from Augusta.
Hallmark, which found the
move necessary because of lack
of space for expansion at their
old location, built the plant on a
20-acre site and company
officials feel that the four-acre
building is the most advanced
facility of its type in the
southeastern United States.
Employment at the
expanded facility will include
more than 200 plant and office
personnel. The new plant will
have a production capacity of
SSO-million per year.
1 The Columbia County plant
was financed partially with a
$860,000 loan from the
Economic Development
administration of the U.S.
Department of Commerce.
Assistance in preparation of the
loan application and follow-up
was given by th CSRA planning
& Development Commission.
“In our eleven years of
business in Augusta we have
become one of the leading
Former Augustan
Heads Atlanta NYC
ATLANTA-Richard Walton,
formerly of Augusta, is serving
as director of Economic
Opportunity Atlanta’s Summer
Neighborhood Youjh Corps
which provides jobs for low
income youngsters, 14-18, who
plan to return to high school in
the fall.
The summer program, serving
1,700 youth in the metro area,
began late this year after funds
were rescued from presidential
impoundment by a federal
court order.
Walton is overseeing the local
program which received a grant
of $726,000 from the U.S.
Department of Labor. The grant
for the Atlanta area is part of
$239 million in Summer NYC
funds released in mid-July
may be eligible for State Public
Assistance but who have not
applied, should apply before
January, 1974, at their County
Department of Family and
Children Services; however,
people not now eligible for
State Assistance, though aged,
blind, or disabled, who think
they may be eligible for the new
Federal payments should call or
write Social Security to find out
if they should apply.
Federal Supplemental
Security Income payments will
be made by the Social Security
Administration. The program
will be financed by Federal
General Revenues--not by
Social Security contributions
from workers and employers.
It’s not the same as social
security.
The aim of the new program
is to provide supplemental
payments in cases of need so
that people 65 or over, or blind,
or disabled will have a basic cash
personnel.
These figures are for those
persons employed under the
newly created Richmond
County Merit System which has
no jurisdiction over elected
officials such as judges, clerks,
etc.
Other information noted that
of all of the judges in Richmond
County, only two employ
Blacks in their offices. These are
Judge free Pope - Court of the
Hallmark Homes Opens
Martinez Plant
panelized home manufacturers
in the surrounding three state
area,” said Hallmark Homes
Chairman, A.T. Mulherin, Jr.
‘‘The expansion and
production potential of our new
plant now gives us the
opportunity to become the
leader in panelized building in
the southeastern United States -
a goal we aim to achieve.”
Officials of the Columbia
County Board of
Commissioners, the
Development Authority of
Columbia County, the Chamber
of Commerce of Greater
Augusta, Georgia Tech’s
Industrial Development
Division, the CSRA Planning
nad Development Commisssion
and other Colubia County
officials joined with Hallmark
officers and employees at the
ceremonies.
Development Authority
Chairman, Robert Pollard, said,
“Hallmark is a welcome
addition to the economy of
Columbia County and is exactly
the type of clean, attractive, and
non-polluting industry that the
Authority is seeking for
Columbia County.
Commission Chairman Jim
Blanchard said, “We can see that
Hallmark will be an asset to the
Columbia County economy and
following the legal action.
Walton has been with
Economic Opportunity Atlanta
since 1971 serving as a
counselor in the agency’s full
year NYC program. He is the
son of Mrs. John H. Walton of
1590 Linden Street, Augusta,
and is a graduate of Lucy Laney
High School and Paine College.
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income of at least $ 130 a month
for one person and $195 a
month for a couple. This
doesn’t mean that every person
or couple will be getting that
much from the Federal
government every month. The
amount of the Federal payment
any person gets will depend on
how much other income he has.
People who need more
information to decide whether
they might be eligible for the
Federal payments should call
Social Security at 722-7733 or
write to the office at 360 Bay
Street, Augusta. A friend or
relative can make the call if the
person in need isn’t able to.
Even though payments
cannot start until January,
1974, the Social Security Office
is starting to take applications
now so they can process them
ahead of time to avoid delays
that might occur if there’s a rush
of applications right at the end
of the year.
Ordinary and Eugene M. Ken-
Judge of State Court.
The sources further show
that there are no Black
employees in the Richmond
County District Attorney’s
office nor the Clerk of Superior
Court.
An effort to contact
Simowitz, chairman of the
Richmond County
Commission, was unsucessful.
we welcome them as new
neighbors to our community”.
Hallmark Homes, Inc. began
operating in 1962 building
single family unit components.
Today the company employs
more than 200 plant and office
personnel and markets some
200 single and multi-family
designs in totally panelized
form.
Corporate expansion in
recent years has advanced the
company’s operations into
property development,
construction-financing and
multi-family development
fields.
Chamber President Bob Stagg
stated that the Hallmark Homes
facility represents a real
showplace through its
ultra-modem design and will
add immensely to the growing
economy of the greater Augusta
area.
Chamber of Commerce
Committee of 100 Chairman,
Joe Patchen, hailed the new
plant as a major contributor to
the diversification of the
Columbia County industrial
community. Every community
is desirous of having a
diversified industrial mix and
today’s announcement is
indicative that the Hallmark
project will stimulate an even
healthier economy for the area.
Life-Saving
Course
A Senior Life-saving Course
will be offered at Chaffee Pool
starting on July 30, from 7:00
to 9.00 each night. The course
will be held Monday through
Friday for two weeks. It will be
taught by Red Cross authorized
instructors in cooperation with
the Richmond County
Recreational Department.
Anyone 15 years of age or over
may take the course. Those who
are interested in registering are
asked to call the Red Cross
office at 722-1821 and
registration will be taken over
the phone.
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MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES R. MYERS
New CG At Gordon
A 27-year veteran of the
Army Signal Corps has assumed
command of Fort Gordon, an
Army training center destined
to become the home of the
Signal Corps in 1975.
Major General Charles R.
Myer accepted command of the
56,000 acre post in ceremonies
held Tuesday, July 31. He
Plain facts about beef
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• The higher the grade the more tender the beef.
• The highest grades are U.S.D.A. Choice and Prime.
• The overwhelming shoppers favorite is U.S.D.A. Choice.
• U.S.D.A. Choice beef is flavorful and Naturally Tender.
• Pantry Pride sells U.S.D.A. Choice beef... exclusively.
• Not all beef is graded by the government.
• Some stores sell beef that is not government graded.
• Some stores add artificial tenderizers to their beef.
• Beef graded U.S.D.A. Choice needs no tenderizers.
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We sell only U.S.D.A.
Choice Naturally /,
Tender
beef.
• Discount
Prices,
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2907 WASHINGTON
A ROAD AT
AUGUSTA GIORGIA
succeeds retiring Major General
Harley L. Moore, Jr.
The 49-year-old Myer, with
an extensive background in
military communitions, accepts
leadership of the post at a time
when all Army signal training is
being consolidated at Fort
Gordon from Fort Monmouth,
New Jersey
Black Prosperity Is A Myth
Says Urban League
By Diane Williams
National Black News Service
WASHINGTON The
theory espoused by two white
political analysts that the
majority of Black Americans are
members of the middle class was
strongly criticized last week in a
report released by he National
Urban League during its annual
conference here.
Entitled “Benign Neglect
Revisited: The Illusion of Black
Progress’’, the report contends
that blacks have not become
more economically secure, but
rather they “have seen their
economic staus deteriorate
since 1969 as the
unemployment rate jumped
from 6.4 percent to 10 percent
-- the highest annual
unemployment rate for blacks
since 1963.”
The report notes that the
median income for black
families declined from 61
percent to 59 percent of that of
their white peers between 1969
and 1972.
It also criticizes the
definition of middle class
The Augusta News-Review - August 2, 1973 -
proposed by Ben Wattenberg
and Richard Scammon, who
co-authored an article in a
recent issue of Commentary
Magazine which contended that
more than half of all Black
American are members of the
middle class.
The two authors defined
middle class as being those
earning $6,000 or more per year
within the South and SB,OOO or
more in other parts of the
country.
By these terms, the League
conceded, more than 50 percent
of black families in this country
would qualify as middle class.
However, Dr. Robert B. Hill, the
group’s research director, noted
that the Labor Department’s
“modest but adequate
intermediate living standard”
was $ 11,446 for a family of four
last year. On this basis, Hill
explained, “only one out of
every four black families would
qualify as middle class.”
In addition. Hill said, “the
black to white family income
ratio declined in every region,
with he exception of the
South.”
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Hill disagreed with
Wattenberg and Scammon that
black leaders have disclaimed
progress made by blacks during
the 1960 s and contradicted
their allegations of a “strategy
of silence”.
“There is no evidence to
indicate that the ‘facts’ about
black progress have been
withheld from the President,”
said Hill. “For the same facts...
were cited by Mr. (Daniel)
Moynihan ( a former White
House advisor) in his ‘benign
neglect’ memorandum to the
President more than three years
ago.
“Thus,” he added, “it can be
argued that the current efforts
on the part of the
Administration to cut back
social programs for low income
groups and minorities is due
more to its awareness -- and
acceptance —of the
Moyniham-Wattenberg-
Scammon interpretation of
black progress than to the
withholding or muting of those
'facts’ by black leaders and
white liberals.”