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The Augusta News-Review, December 27, 1973 -
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AS THE FOOTBALL SEASON EBBS, THE INDIVIDUAL
FOOTBALL PLAYER’S PERSONAL RECORD COMES UNDER
CLOSE SCRUTINY IN REFERENCE TO ALL-AMERICANS,
HEISMAN HONORS AND INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS. ONE
PLAYER THAT STANDS OUT IS THE TENNESSEE VOLS
STAR QUARTERBACK, CONDREDGE HOLLOWAY.
This slight-built youth is really too small to play big time
football. He is 5 feet 10 inches, and weighs only 170 pounds or
less. Young Holloway is a perfect antithesis to all stereotype
traditions of tough competitive college football. He’s too little to
play quarterback, he does. He’s forever running with the ball,
which ordinarily would predict that he would get hurt, but he
doesn’t. By jumping over huge linemen, he violates all
common-sense rules, but to date he hs gotten away with it, and
he is still perfectly health.
This Alabama “spit-fire” also happens to be Black, which in
these days when color doesn’t matter upon the fields of sports,
if one can deliver, and this baby is continualy jumping for joy
after carrying the pigskin in he end zone. And come Heisman
Trophy voting time next year, Condredge Holloway’s name most
surely will be highly considered.
Jim Wright, the Volunteers’ first assistant coach, says of
Holloway, “He’s so good that he rises above our coaching.” And
believe it or not, football is not really Hollloway’s game. Baseball
is his first and remaining all-consuming love. In ‘7l the Montreal
Expos dished-out 70 thousand grand, and dropped it before this
impressionable kid, and that wasn’t all, on top of that pile of
loot, they promised him $15,000 more just to help him through
college, if the “Ivy Halls were still on his young mind, or before
night, that same day he’d be in an Expo uniform playing
shortstop in the big league.
But Wham! Mamma Holloway vetoed that deal, loot and all.
Mrs. Holloway solidly believes in higher education, money
bedeviled, she just happens to hold a Master’s degree, she said she
was not going to bargain her son off at any price. This courageous
mother, who was a divorcee since Condredge was 8 years old,
demonstrated her maternal wisdom with this statement: “I’m
more concerned with his future than (with) right now.”
Os course the young kid said, “if it had been left with me I
would have turned pro, but my mother thought 1 was too young
(only 16 then) to decide for myself, and she said I should go to
college, and I respect her opinion.” For all of his wild carrying on
in the field, Holloway is the epitome of old-fashioned parental
and adult respect. He’s modest and cooperative with all these
adolescent virtues, he’s a good student (2.3 grade average on a 4.0
scale), hasn’t gotten too smart to attend church, and believes in
the ultimate triumph of goodness and decency, which are rare
ingredients among the hip generation.
It’s the calm humanity about holloway, that brings him out the
most. For instance, the fumble he made last year that turned a
certain Tennessee victory over Alabama to defeat. He dimissed
that event of earth-shaking magnitude with a smile and a story
about it that Coach Battle told to him: “A man never really
becomes a man until he has made a fool of himself in front of
70,000 people. I think I became a man that memorable day.”
HEART-BREAKING MISTAKES HE HAS KNOWN-Another
of his never-to-be-forgotten experiences was when he missed an
easy shot which would have given his beloved Lee High the state
high school basketball championship. In these days when “Super”
and “Beautiful” are being thrown around loosely, Holloway is all
of these nd more. He admists to hearing occasional boos from the
crowd, but he shrugs: “It’s a loss of my time to try to figure out
why fans boo. Maybe I haven’t been wild enough. Folks have
come to expect me to do the unexpected.”
Four times this year Holloway has turned a fouled-up play into
a touchdown He is so elusive until the opposition tears off at
least six jerseys every game, and they cost six bucks apiece.
Defensive teams find young Condredge has the fastest feet since
“Bo Jangles” and the courage of “ALI MUHAMMED”. It has
become his trademark to leave his, feet and go through the air for
crucial first downs or touchdowns.
Keith Wilson, his prep coach tells a story about an incident
during Holloway’s high school days when he left the turf at the
five-yard line, making midair contact with three defenders;
knocking two of them out, and landing on his back in the end
zone. Many people ask was Condredge the greatest player in Lee
High’s history? “This boy would have been the greatest athlete in
any school’s history”, replies coach Wilson. Holloway’s playing is
absolutely enigmatic on a football field.
CONDREDGE PLAYS ‘EM AS THEY COME -football,
baseball, basketball, you name it, this 170 lbs. of wild fury
doesn’t just simply play them, he murders them. He made this
under-stantement: “I guess it’s just that I like the game best that’s
in season.” He has been injured once in college, a difficult
shoulder injury that kept his arm below his head for three
weeks-suffered when he was sliding back into first base in a
baseball game. But he insists.as most reckless kids do, that injuries
are foreign in his thought.
Holloway’s mother is slowly turning the “big decisions over to
him to make. That’s why she insisted that he acquire a college
education. Mrs. Holloway said recently: “He now is getting
training that will enable him to make these hard decisions
involving a lot of money.”
Baseball is Holloway’s secret love, if it comes to a showdown
of choices in the realm of sports. He batted .323 last year, after
sitting out 1972 with his shoulder injury. Many baseball experts
equate Holloway with Henry Aaron. Os course that judgement
maybe a bit extravagant, its truth will have to await future
appraisals.
Mrs. Holloway has known for a long time that she had a super
athlete on the make. At age 2, he threw a basketball through a
regulation hoop during half time of a college game. From then on
he played every imaginable game with older boys. Asked once
how it felt to be a Black quarterback, Condredge responded: “I
don’t know, you see, I’ve never been a white quarterback.”
Tennessee’s athletic director, Bob Woodruff says: "you know all
sorts of things are going to happen when Holloway is in the game.
And most of them, will be good.”
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BY VERNON E. JORDAN, JR. ?
YEAR OF CRISIS
1973 is a classic example of a year that came in full of hope
and expectation and ended by slinking out, its tail between its
legs.
Last January -- it seems like a decade ago - the country
inaugurated a President who won his second term by an
enormous landslide. The economy was beginning to pick up and
there was talk of a boom year.
Twelve months later speculation is rife that the President will
resign or may face impeachment proceedings and the economy is
in the grip of runaway prices and may yet fall victim to the
energy crisis.
In between, the sewers of Watergate opened up, washing ashore
a number of highly placed government figures who were forced to
resign, some who face indictments for criminal activities, and a
few who will soon be first-hand experts on the U.S. prison
system.
One who got away was Spiro Agnew, who started the year by
being sworn in for his second term as Vice President and ended it
as a private citizen at large only because he was able to swing a
deal with the federal prosecutors.
If 1973, with its recurrent cirses and sensational revelations
was a year best forgotten by the nation as a whole, it was even
more difficult for Black people.
In all of the various rises that shook the country, Blacks were
virtually excluded from participating - as usual. The big story of
the year was Watergate, but while all sorts of politicians were
reaping the rewards of publicity, the only Black man in the case -
the security guard who broke up the burglary of the Democratic
Headquarters -- was unemployed by mid-year.
The Administration, mired in its Watergate mess, seemed, if
anything, even more hostile to the aspirations of Black citizens.
This was the year in which Black people were totally ignored in
the Inaugural Address, and victimized by too many federal
actions to list here.
For starters, there was the freeze on housing programs that still
keeps hundreds of thousands of families in inferior housing.
Federal efforts to enforce the civil rights laws were just about
stopped in their tracks -- to the point where a federal court had to
order the Administration to fulfill its responsibilities in enforcing
school integration. And Washington unilaterally tried to end the
life of the Office of Economic Opportunity and several other
valuable anti-poverty programs like Model Cities and others
through such dubious means as impoundment of funds and
administrative fiat.
And, of course, this was the year of the great federal revenue
sharing bamboozle; the year that the idea was peddled that
everything would be just fine if creative federal programs were
dismantled and parcelled out among city and state governments
that did not want them, wouldn’t know what to do with them,
and were denied the funds to continue them on he necessary
scale. That one too, got bogged down in the general paralysis that
hit the nation’s leadership after Watergate.
Death stalked the Black community as well in 1973, claiming
an outstanding younger leader, George Wiley, whose success in
organizing welfare recipients was an important step forward and
who had just embarked on a new drive to unite Black and white
poor people to fight for economic change. George Wiley has been
missed, as will Dr. Arthur Logan, physician, activist and friend to
the civil rights movement, whose tragic death in November left all
who knew him in sorrow.
But 1973 wasn’t all bad. It was also the year in which Black
political power flexed its muscles and continued electoral gains,
most notably winning the mayoralty in three major cities - Los
Angeles, Detroit and Atlanta - as well as making continued gains
in smaller cities and in state legislatures and city councils. In the
long run this may be the most important trend of the year.
A lot more of importance happened, from the Vietnam
pull-out to the Mideast War, but almost any way you slice it,
1973 was a year of one crisis piled on another and the big
accomplishment is to be able to say “we survived”.
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Roosevelt Gnca, Jr.
This week’s column is a belated but promised tribute to one
of the best friends I have ever had. Paul Deutchberger was a white
man of Jewish ethnicity who transcended his color and ethnicity
in so many ways. Not only did he transcend color and ethnicity
but he also helped me and others to do the same.
I am paying this tribute to this great man because I think it will
always be helpful to Blacks to remember that all whites are not
the same with regard to racism and hatred for Blacks.
Paul was one of those friends that Blacks need in the struggle
for liberation and equality in times like these. There is a lot I
want to say but my best efforts seem feeble to adequately
describe his contributions to our human family.
I have therefore chosen to publish the statement issued at
Paul’s death by Dr. Charles A. Stewart, Dean of the School of
Social Work at the University of Georgia since it says what I want
to say much more concisely and eloquently.
I urge all of my readers to ponder seriously this statement and
tribute by myself to this social work educator and friend to all
ethnic and economic groups. 1 will simply say in closing that we
need more Blacks and whites to view Paul’s example as we
develop good “crap detectors” about race and ethnicity and
transcend the current conflicts for a better human society.
(Dean’s Statement)
Dr. Paul Deutschberger, professor and assistant dean, died
suddenly at home in Athens on December 16, 1972 at the age of
53.
. His family and the School mourn the loss of a creative and
prodigiously energetic man. His departure leaves a void because
through his work and relationships he made incalculable
contributions to the profession, friends, and colleagues.
Dr. Deutschberger’s friends were from all walks of life - art,
music, literature, athletics, psychotherapy, high education, and
avant-garde movements. Politicians and third worlders related to
him in any given day. His versatility was evidenced in mastery of
classical music criticism, gourmet cooking, the growing of
flowers, and other varied interests. But his consistent interest was
in pursuing excellence in social work education. As a planner of
educational curricula he brought theoretical knowledge and
sensitivity to the social and political trends affecting the
profession. As a result, his ideas were consistently in he vanguard
of national curriculum developments in social work education.
As Professor here for the past B*/2 years he taught methods,
policy, human behavior, and research courses in the classroom.
But the hours of informal discussions over coffee in local
establishments and in his home, frequently until almost dawn,
were additionally meaningful to colleagues and students alike.
As a teacher he explored the labyrinth of theories within he
purview of social work, synthesizing the behavior sciences. He
knew the computer and the newest statistics tests of significance,
yet he was ever the humanist, placing values as of paramount
importance to the arsenal of the social worker.
As a writer, he contributed numerous articles to the journals in
the fields of psychodrama, delinquency and social policy. During
the past several years most of his writing was in the form of
voluminous curriculum documents that were artful distillations of
committee efforts, but bore the inimitable Deutschberger
imprimatur. He also wrote a syndicated weekly classical music
column of criticism, over the by-line of Paul Dee. His collection
of classical albums was exceeded only by his considerable library
of volumes on classical psychoanalysis, which he read in their
original German.
Dr. Dee had previously taught at the University of Tennessee,
Wayne Sate, and Vermont. He had degrees from City College of
New York, Columbia, (M.A. in comparative literature), Wayne
State (M.S.W.), and Vanderbilt (Ph.D. in social psychology). He
also studied at the Juilliard School of Music and at the University
of Pittsburgh.
He is survived by his widow, Sophia, and daughters Lois Ann,
(a law student at Georgia), and Tina, who lives and works in
Atlanta.
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REPRESENTATIVE FORDS RELENTLESS EFFORTS TO
UNDERCUT THE OPEN HOUSING LAW, THERIGHT-TO-VOTELAW,
AND VIRTUALLY EVERY OTHER CIVIL RIGHTS STATUTE OF THE
PAST DECADE AFFORD NO CONFORT TO THE NATION'S NEGRO
CITIZENS AND ARE CLEARLY OUT OF STEP WITH MAJORITY
SENTIMENT IN THISCOUNTRY WITH REGARD TO RACIAL EQUALITY.
HIS LEGISLATIVE RECORD IS REMARKABLY LACKING IN COM
PASSION.
NO CHEERS FROM BLACKS’
N.Y. TIMES
The energy crisis
machinery set
by
James E. McMullen
The present energy discussions will go on for a long time, most
likely until an acceptable alternative source of energy has been
found. The crisis is a real attention-getter as the zero hours of
winter approaches. . . .
The crisis is also developing new innovative techniques and
terms in consumer speech which goes like this, energy bag
politics these are the politicians who want to fight the seven
sister oil combine. The twenty-miler, this is the new car to be
developed under the provision of the Energy Act of 1973. The
gas guzzler, this is the large dream car of the rich and poor. Pie
Kilowatt-hog, these are the people who want cut on then
kilowatt consumption. The conservator, these are the people who
will cooperate in conserving energy so no one will suffer in this
crisis. The eno-helper, represent those who are willing to
participate in pool transportation.
In this national search for solutions and alternatives,, school
children, scientist, industrialist, lay citizens, special interest
groups, law makers, state and local officials have, been alerted to
the thousand of facts relating to the problem. This information is
running over a million words per day. And now the citizens imput
is being regestered.
Under the provisions of the National Fuel and Energy Act ot
1973, the law make the premise, automobiles are our major users
of petroleum products, and the low fuel economy (low miles per
gallon) of many automobiles on market today is unnecessary. It
set up the machinery to develop a new standard car that will
average twenty miles per gallon. This is backed up by available
grants and loans for research development.
Another important provision is the Truth in Energy Section.
The consumers will have to be told the truth concerning the rate
of energy consumption of all appliances purchased. Important
concepts are involved here, the American Public must be well
informed and wise consumership is essential.
The statistics below on transportation and gas consumption is
staggering and the unknown quote America is a nation on wheels
is a true one.
The Department of Transportation figures released showed
where the number of registered cars in 1972 amounted to 96.6
million, in creasing in 1973 to 101 million.
Total amount of gas consumed in 1972, amounted to 105
billion gallons. Passenger cars consumed 73 billion gallons.
Commercial vehicles consumed 29 billion gallons.s The average
number of gallons per year per passenger car is 755 gallons. The
average number of gallons used per week per passenger car is
14.5.
In the opinion of this writer the three billion gallons of gas
used for agriculture, aviation and recreation, the agriculture
portion shouldn’t be cut. Nor should the 29 billion gallons used
in he nation’s commercial industries.
SAMNFNMSNABFBEMFNBAMNF
Dear Editor:
I hope through you and the
aid of your paper that my life
here as a prisoner can be a
more rewarding one. A friend
of mine told me of your paper
and how through it his life here
as a lonely inmate changed
considerably.
I am writing in hope that
you would consider placing my
letter in your paper in request
for correspondence - would
prefer corresponding with only
sincere people. I am 30 years
old and single, would like to
correspond with anyone any
age as long as they are sincere.
All correspondence should be
addressed as follows: David
Kirk 132253, Box 69, London,
Ohio 43140.
I’m thanking you in
advance,
Yours truly,
David Kirk 132253 Box 69
London, Ohio 43140
Dear Editor:
With the closing of 1973, I
wish to take this opportunity
to thank you and your staff for
all the news coverage given to
the Senior Community Service
Aides Project, sponsored by
the National Retired Teachers
Association and the American
Association of Retired Persons.
We here at the Augusta
Project site shall always be
grateful to you and your staff.
Joseph T. Jackson
Ga. State Employment Service
P.O. Box 160
Augusta - 30903
(404) 722-6465
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