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Elderly woman robbed,
beaten in her home
An elderly woman was
beaten and robbed in her home
Friday evening by a man who
pretended to deliver money
sent by her son, Albert, who
lives in Buffington, S.C.
Mrs. Prutty Taylor who lives
alone at 1242 Mauge St. told
the News-Review that a man
came to her home about 6:30
p.m. and identified himself as
the son of a Mrs. Williams (a
neighbor) and added that a
Dr .Crim warns urban crisis to
worsen without 'miraculous
changes’ in attitude
Oer 1,000 persons heard
I Atlanta’s first Black
superintendent of schools call
< / for a of attitudes ta
> deal with increased segregation.
Dr. Alonzo Crim was the speaker
for the tilth Emancipation
celebration held Tuesday
morning at Tabernacle Baptist
Church.
During the program, the
Lincoln League announced the
winners of its annual Woman
of The Year, Man of the Year,
and Businessman of the Year
Awards.
Karen Brown featured in January
issue of 'Seventeen’ Magazine
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letter containing money from
her son Albert had been
mistakenly placed in his
mother’s mailbox.
When she let him in, he
grabbed her and shouted,
“Let’s go. Let’s go.
Goddammit. I’ll cut your
throat.”
He ransacked the house,
taking, bank books, insurance
policies and about S3O in cash,
$lO of which die had received
Dr. Crim said the Blacks
have suffered slavery in at least
4 ways, actual bondage,
economic slavery, social and
psychological slavery.
The Harvard grad keyed on
the division between “our code
and our conduct”. It is hard to
accept the fact some laws are
implemented while others are
not, he said.
Pointing to the increased
segregation caused by white
flight to the surburbs as soon
as Blacks moved into their
neighborhoods, he said the job
P.O. Box 953
as a Christmas gift from
Antioch Baptist Church. The
man demanded more money.
When she replied that she
didn’t have any more money,
he threatened to cut the
woman’s throat if he found
more. Unable to find more
money, he struck her two or
three times in the face with his
fists.
The old woman says she
of changing attitudes is
becoming more difficult as the
north is also retreating into
segregation. “The Urban crisis
will worsen,” he said, “unless
there is a miraculous change in
attitude.”
Racial isolation, he
continued, restricts aspirations
and leads to the preference of
association with one’s own
race. “It perpetuates the
attitude that Blacks and Black
schools are inferior. Black
children grow up stunted and
vulnerable to all the vices
doesn’t know how old she is,
but she is feeble and can barely
walk.
Mrs. Taylor was at a loss to
explain how the man knew her
son’s name. She said she has a
neighbor by the name of
Williams, but Mrs. Williams did
not know the man.
Mrs. Taylor was unable to
make a positive identification
at a police line-up on Saturday.
associated with poverty.” The
average income for the Black
family is less than half of the
average white family incu/.je.
Racial discrimination must
be recognized as “morally
wrong and economically
wasteful,” Crim said.
He emphasized the
importance of self acceptance
among Blacks.
We must accept ourselves
as somebody before others can.
Then, he concluded, “We must
take our places as members of
the family of man.”
Six months ago Karen
Brown was a 17 year old honor
graduate at Augusta’s Aquinas
High School. Now she is 18,
and how her world has
changed!
She now lives in New York
City where she is a paid ballet
dancer. She is featured in two
full color pages of the current
issue of “SEVENTEEN”
magazine, and later this year
she will go on a 3 month tour
of Europe with nine other
finalists chosen from across the
nation by SEVENTEEN.
There aren’t many Black
girls who choose to dance
ballet. When asked why she
chose ballet. She said, “I
wanted to prove I can do it,
too.”
Karen has been dancing
ballet since she was eight years
old. She danced with the
Augusta Civic Ballet Company
for five years; she studied wih
New York’s Joffrey Ballet for
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CARTERS REPEAT AS WINNERS OF THE “BEST DECORATION AWARD”
Harvey Johnson is shown presenting the trophy for the best Christmas Decoration in
Belair Hills for 1973 to Mr. and Mrs. Janies E. Carter, 111. The Carters have won this
award for two consecutive years. The award is sponsored by the Belair Hills
Association and the judges were Mrs. A.R. Davis, Mrs. Florence Johnson, and Mrs.
Ella N. White. Mr. Carter serves is president of the Association and Mr. Johnson as
vice-president
Augusta, Georgia
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RANSACKED HOME OF MRS. PRUTTY TAYLOR
Award
winners
The Lincoln League
presented its Woman of the
Year, Man of the Year, and
Businessman of the Year
Awards at Emancipation Day
program Tuesday at Tabernacle
Baptist Church.
The Woman of the Year
Award went to Mrs. Elizabeth
Golden, director of the Walker
Baptist Association Choir; the
Man of the Year Award was
presented to C.T. Walker
three summers and is now an
apprentice at the Dance
Theatre of Harlem.
She was one of 10, and the
only Black, chosen from among
approximately 350 applicants
selected by SEVENTEEN
which describes her as a
“natural performer with a
lively personality and plenty of
talent.”
Among the criteria used by
SEVENTEEN. Karen was
asked to predict fashions for
next year, and to describe her
make-up and beauty routines.
When asked where she learned
grooming and beauty
techniques. She replied
quickly, “From my mother.”
She is the daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Allen Brown of North
Augusta, S.C.
Now that she is a part of
SEVENTEEN’s tour group, her
beauty treatments are done by
nationally renowned experts.
She laughed as she recalled that
January 3, 1974 No. 42
Elementary School Principal,
Earl Thurmond. And Henry'
Howard received the
Businessman of the Year Ward.
Howard is owner and operator
of Howard’s Upholstery and
partner in Supreme Fashions.
He is also president of the
CSRA Business League.
The Awards were presented
by Margaret Armstrong,
Charles Walker, and Harvey
Johnson.
recently all the girls were
getting their hair styled by
Louis-Guy-D’ at New York’s
Berkshire Hotel. He did
everybody’s hair except mine,”
she explained, “because he
didn’t know what to do with
it.” Maury Hopson was called
to Karen’s rescue. He
sometimes styles hair for the
Supremes.
Karen is serious about
dancing and modeling. But that
is temporary. She plans a
medical career. She wants to be
a dentist and wants to enter
college next year.
But right now she has her
hands full. She left Augusta
last Thursday for New York.
During the last week in
January she and her niie
tour-mates will go to
Washington for 4 weeks, then
to Baltimore, Chicago, Mexico
City, and later, to Europe for a
3 month tour of the major
cities of Europe.
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BERKELEY G. BURRELL
National business league
head to address Black
press workshop
Washington (NNPA)
Berkeley G. Burrell, president
of the National Business
League, will address the
opening luncheon of the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association Mid-Winter
Workshop, Jan. 23-26 at the
Hay boy Plaza Hotel, Miami
Beach.
“Burrell will discuss how the
Black Press can help facelift
Black businesses by
encouraging them to shift from
rhetoric and fantasy to the
business realities of the
1970’5,” says Dr. Carlton B.
Goodlett, NNPA president, and
editor and publisher of the San
Francisco Sun-Reporter.
Burrell will speak at noon at
Jan. 24.
In addition to heading up
the Business League, he is vice
chairman of the President
Nixon’s Advisory Council for
Minority Enterprise, chairman
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Sylvester Boler
tells why he turned
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Michigan, Notre
Dame
Page 6
Relatives visit
grandmother,
SI,BOO in jewels
missing
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After being shot by
husband, wife
takes turn at bat
See Block to the Hill
First Black owned
TV station to be
aired
Page 3
Jews deplore fuel
cutbacks to stop
busing p age 2
of Minority Contractors
Resource Center, and president
of Merchant Prince
Corporation and Burrell’s
Superb Cleaners here.
Theme of the Workshop is
“Black Press - Catalyst for
Economic Change”. The
sessions will focus on
“Improving Business
Management of Black
Newspapers”, “Building
Circulation”, “New Thrusts in
News and Feature Content”,
“Opening Doors of
Advertisers”, “Improving
Advertising Salesmanship”, and
“The Business Forecast for
‘74.”
Following the three-day
Workshop, which will open
Wednesday evening, Jan. 23,
with a reception, the
delegation will fly to the
Bahamas for an overnight stay
on Saturday, Jan. 26.