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Top Vote-getter
Bomb Threats Fail To Slow
Came Mays’ Re-election Bid
’ By R.L. Oliver
Bomb threats on her home
and reported threats on her
life did not ruffle the
feathers of City Councilwoman
Carrie J. Mays this week. She
calmly led the field of 15
candidates seeking 8 seats on
city council.
The Augusta Police
Department received a
mysterious telephone call early
Friday morning alerting them
that a bomb had been placed in
the home of the city
councilwoman.
Mrs. Mays said Police officers
proceeded to her home and
informed her of the call and its
nature. An intensive search was
made of the area around her
OUAGADOUGOU, Upper
Volta (Excerpted by NNPA) -
The spectre of millions of
people starving, and entire
herds of animals dying has
dramatized the tragic legacy of
a bankrupt French colonial
policy which exploited West
Africa for decades. RAIN
(Relief for Africans In Need in
the Sahel) is now trying to
help.
The plight of the nations in
the Sudan-Sahel zone is a
direct result of a colonial
policy that treated these areas
as a plantation for export crops
and as a game, and long after
the British had grabbed the
wealthier coastal territories,
the French moved into the
Sudan, conquered the
indigenous states, and liked its
West African conquests with
die colonial enterprises. Land
which previously had been
used for pastures by Fulani
herdsmen were brought under
the plow to plant peanuts and
cotton for export.
So insistent were the French
that these colonies should
make a profit for the
Metropole, that when in 1929
the cotton and oil markets
crashed, the Upper Volta was
judged unviable as a territory,
dismembered and her parts
assigned to the neighboring
colonies.
Later, unable to stem the
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J. Philip Waring, ACSW (center) is shown receiving a certificate of citation for
outstanding human relations leadership and Urban League service during 1969-73
from officials to the Stamford, Conn. United Way Executive Directors Council.
Shown left to right: James Shearin, Council president, Mr. Waring and Ms. Margaret
Muta, head of the Family & Children’s Services and outgoing Council president. Mr.
Waring chose an early retirement. He had been an Urban League executive in four
American cities. He _will_ continue writing his “Going Races” column in the
NEWS-REVIEW. Waring originated the column 26 years ago.
home, but no bomb was
discovered.
When queried as to the
reason behind the alleged
threat Mrs. Mays said, “I just
think it was a prank call,
someone hoping to intimidate
me. It really didn’t upset me, if
that was the intent it didn’t
work.”
The call to the Police
department reportedly was
placed through the St. Joseph’s
Hospital switchboard.
Mrs. Mays is said to have
received “additional threats”
against her life this week. She
said, “I don’t deny there have
been other threats, but I will
not comment on these, as this
information has been turned
over to the proper authorities.”
Drought And Famine In
Africa Blamed On French
Colonial Policy
DROUGHT AND FAMiNE - it has been five years since
it rained in this section of Africa. Like this woman,
millions are on the verge of starvation in six countries.
IFCO Photo by Chester Higgins, Jr.
tide of nationalism, and
unwilling to spend the money
necessary to treat her now
Black citizens as equals with
their co-citizens in France, the
French first balkanized her
West African Federation,
linked each of the now
weakened countries directly to
her, and gave them
independence.
The economic plight of the
peoples in the Sahel was
exacerbated by a climatic shift
that started in the early 1960’s
and has continued up to the
P.O. Box 953
She said she has been
advised by police not to give
details of the threats against
her life.
Augusta Mayor Lewis A.
Newman said of the incident,
“If it’s a joke, it’ a very poor
joke. If it’s serious, the police
should take every step to
investigate it.”
In retaining her seat, Mrs.
Mays defeated her opponent,
Leo (Cap) Cotter, by almost a
2-1 margin. She recieved 5,215
votes to Cotter’s 3,394.
Incumbents Russel Malone,
R.E. Edwards, Aaron Tappan,
and Loyal G. Hutto were also
re-elected. C.E. Bearden
defeated two other candidates
in the sixth ward, and Bernard
present. Not only has the
rainfall been 10-15% less, but it
has been erratic over the whole
area. The Niger River is at its
lowest level in about 40 years,
and Lake Chad has less water
in it than at any time since
1943.
As these conditions became
worse, the Africans did alert
the Food and Agriculture
Organization and other aid
granting agencies, but no one
paid any attention to them. It
was only when reports of
widespread hunger and death
Mulherin was victorious over
W. Penland Mayson in the
seventh ward. Samuel 0.
Maguire was unopposed in the
eighth ward.
Ist Ward
Russel Malone 3,761
Inez Wylds 2,763
2nd Ward
Carrie J. Mays 5,215
Leo Cotter 2,394
3rd Ward
R.E. Edwards 3,216
Willard Prior 3,027
4th Ward
Aaron Tappan 4,726
(unopposed)
Sth Ward
Loyal G. Hutto 3,521
Washington 2,826
began to trickle out of the
Sahel that the Western world
took notice. By then the
Senegalese had harvested only
one-third their normal crops,
and about 40% of its livestock
had died.
The Upper Volta lost some
35% of its livestock,
Mauretania about 60% of its
herds, and the latest report is
that about 35% of all the
animals in the entire Sahel have
perished. The cost in human
lives has not yet been
calculated, but millions are
affected.
In the face of such suffering,
the response of the world was
too little and almost too late.
Spurred on by Ambassador
Samuel Adams, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for
the Agency for International
Development, and by
Afro-American who had served
as Ambassador to Niger, the
United States finally allocated
some S2O million in food and
assistance.
But a great deal of this
money was spent airlifting
food into the inland regions,
and it was just a drop in the
bucket in the face of
tremendous need. While
appreciative of this aid, the
Africans have felt constrained
to declare publicly that the
United States “could do a little
more without feeling the
strain. You have so much, it
wouldn’t cost anybody
anything,” they say.
Normally, one should not
expect resistance from
Western, or ever Eastern
aid-donors to an African
“Marshall Plan”. But one must
take into account, the subtle
racism still abroad in the
world, and the widespread
belief that Black people are
incapable of controlling their
own destinies, their own
communities, or their
nation-states.
For their part, the Africans
are insisting that the money
alloted to them should not be
spent in innumerable studies
which gather dust, but should I
be used to develop projects I
generated by them. They are!
seeking the help of the Black I
community in this difficult I
battle. Send funds to RAIN, I
475 Riverside Drive, New I
York, N.Y. 10027.
6th Ward
C.E. Bearden 2,850
E.G. Edwards 1,779
Jean Raburn 1,637
7th Ward
Bernard Mulherin 3,709
Mason 2,812
Bth Ward
Sam 0. Maguire 4,790
(unopposed)
Winners wifi be sworn in on
January 1 and will serve a 3
year term.
FIRST PRIZE WNNER
A 14 year old Butler High
School student won Ist prize
in a 2!4 week Augusta
News-Review subscription
contest sponsored by the T.W.
Josey High School Band
Boosters Club. The contest
ended September 24th.
Sonya Forth, former
member of the Josey Band, is
now a 10th grader at Butler
High School. She had to
♦.itdiatar-e 42-ethers to grab
the Ist prize of SSO in cash.
She is the daughter of
Reverend and Mrs. C.H. Forth
of 951 14th Ave.
Mrs. Carolyn Green won 2nd
prize and Sudie Walker took
third.
Other cash prize winners
were Jason Beard, Cedrick
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Bob Richards (R) explains new opportunities open to
Blacks in establishing automobile dealerships to
members of the CSRA Business League. Richard Burton
(L) and Henry Howard president of the Business League
look on.
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The Augusta Chapter of ■ TFBKKI F THIMC
■NAACP will meet Monday ■ ■■■■
■October 15th at 7:30 p.m. atM T 0 ■MCTF
[the Tabernacle Baptist
Augusta, Georgia
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THREE HUNDRED DOLLAR BOOST
Mrs. Carolyn Green (L), president of the T.W. Josey Band Boosters Club, presents
a check for $300.00 to Josey Band Director Arthur Shaw as Principal L.K. Reese
looks on.
The Boosters Club sponsored a 2 1 /z week Augusta News-Review subscription
contest to earn the money. The Club netted over 400.00 in cash and prize money.
SONYA FORTH
Jones, Valentena Freeman,
Ernestine McKie and Geraldine
Rouse.
EDITORIAL
GULF BOYCOTT PROPOSED
A boycott of the Gulf Oil Corporation has been urged
by many Blacks to protest Gull’s support of Portugal s
war against the African nations of Angola and
Mozambique.
Last month, leaders of the National Newspaper
Publishers’ Association heard arguments by Gulf and by
The Interreligious Foundation for Community
Organizations, Inc. tIFCO).
IFCO argued that Portugal is holding the Black
people of Angola and Mozambique and its other African
colonies in virtual slavery, and that Portugese soldiers
are being trained in the U.S. to fight natives who are
seeking freedom. Gulf should be boycotted, according
to IFCO, on the grounds that it is contributing
i financially to Portugal’s war effort through oil
payments, and to the colonial power morally by its very
presence and association with it.
A Gulf spokesman explained that Gulf had been in
Angola since 1954, prospecting for oil. It struck oil in
1968 and is now pumping 140,000 barrels a day, he
said. Its investment in Angola to date totals $209
million. Some SBS million for oil has been paid to
Angola. He said the colony has not increased its
expenditures for arms, but has used the money mostly
for education, roads, and social services. Gulf says it
pays its Black workers well - up to $1,200 a month, and
is carrying on educational and community improvement
work among its Black employes. He takes the position
that if Gulf pulls out of Angola, the oil will continue to
be pumped by some other lessee. Gulf he said, is more
enlightened and more generous with the people than
any successor might be. So, why force it out? Gulf
offered to send a delegation of publishers to Angola and
also Nigeria, where it is pumping 400,000 barrels a day,
to observe its operations and make a judgment
regarding its fairness for themselves. Some 28 other
American companies are operating in Angola, the
spokesman said.
IFCO raised another issue that cannot afford the
luxury of study - the dr ought and famine in sub-Sahara
Africa. It is imperative that the United States
government use its vast resources to provide emergency
aid now. We would urge that the same technology used
for drilling for oil be used to drill for water, and that
other technological advances be used to induce rainfall.
This country can and must help.
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Mrs. Lucy Williams, president of the Community
Clothing Center, receives from Mrs. Angela Slattery a
check for $217.00 given by concerned members of St
Mary’s Catholic Church for the continued operation of
the Center at 1852 Broad Street. Three times this year
the Center has received a generous contribution from
this particular church. The church women of Augusta
are working together in the CCC in an effort to relieve
suffering in this area by furnishing a place to purchase
good used clothing at a nominal cost
October 11, 1973 No. 30