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Elr Aununta Nma-Snriput PAINE COLLEGE CAMPUS Ij , A AUGUSTA, GA 30901 WAR."J ’ ' *s JnKk II f 5, l,br ary fSIkISA n the PEOPLE’S PAPER '2/973 f PAINE COLLEGE (( 7(ut]\ IMMUkB/ I NATIONAL BLACK NEWS SERVICE AUGUSTA Cu. \\ JJ MEMBER ' Vol. 3 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 - fi > far ■£ JSHBRjL. ->.,; /,MBcJZ«i 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 ■M ■■ >1 HKH - Hi 9 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. Bl BfeJM - THE NAACP MEETS - « Minis 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 ill .■iNr Y ft 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. -J -J • ' JR V r 3 * I 1 ** 9 J J^h _j999lflß9 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