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Martin Luther King Story Cut Out Os Columbia County Textbooks
An article about Martin
Luther King has been cut out
of textbooks distributed in
Columbia County, the
News-Review learned this
week.
Platters Bass Denounces
'New Century Platters’
The New Century Platters
were in town last month. They
were followed by Herb Reed of
the original Platters who is
touring the country and
denouncing the New Century
Platters as “phonies.”
Reed told the News-Review
that the New Century Platters
have “never at anytime been
connected with the original
Platters in any way
whatsoever.”
He is infuriated that the
New Century Platters bass
claims to have been the bass of
the original Platters.
Reed says he organized,
named and was the only bass
for the original group. “These
people (the New Century
Platters),” Reed said, “are
telling a bunch of lies and
defrauding the public.”
Five years ago Reed
organized another group called
“Herb Reed of die Original
Platters & His Group”. He says
that the New Century Platters
are doing his group a lot of
harm because they not only
take money from them, but
“they don’t measure up
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Belle-Terrace Presbyterian
Church will hold the Second
Annual “Miss Bronze Augusta”
Contest and Fashion Show at 5
pjn. Sunday March 31st. at
AJI. Johnson Junior High
School.
Vying for the title “Miss
Bronze Augusta” are Myra
Andrews, Patricia Greene,
Daphne Holland, Joyce
Jackson, Marindal Nelson, and
LaWanda Leach not shown.
Myra Andrews is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oblie
Andrews. Miss Andrews is a
student at Glenn Hills High
School and her hobbies are
sewing dancing and cooking.
Patricia Greene, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Saul Jones,
attends Paine College where
she is majoring in Elementary
Education, and was the *74
Homecoming Queen. She
enjoys modeling and working
with small children.
Daphne Holland is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Holland. Miss Holland
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MEMBER
A Black teacher at Columbia
Junior High School made the
discovery about two weeks ago
when a Black student
complained that the story had
been cut out of her book
musically to the image that I
created (with the Platters).”
The original group broke up
because the members started
getting married and the wives
resented their husbands being
on the roads so much. That
created “internal pressure”,
Reed said. He is a bachelor.
The group started in 1956.
Its first song, “Only You”,
sold 10 million copies. The
song made such an impact,
Reed said, that in some
provinces of Southern France,
“Only You” is used instead of
the Wedding March.
Other memorable hits
include “The Great Pretender”,
“Magic Touch”, “Smoke Gets
In Your Eyes”, “My Prayer”,
“Heaven on Earth”, and
“Enchanted”.
Asked if there was any
possibility that the original
group would perform again as a
team, Reed said “No way, in
no shape or form.”
The group has been offered
as much as $750,000 to do a
tour but the answer was
absolutely a big, flat NO!”
is a student at Glenn HiDs High
School. Her hobbies are
swimming, dancing, and
basketball.
Joyce Jackson is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Abraham Jackson. Miss
Jackson is a student at
Richmond Academy, vice
president of the Debutantes
Club and a candidate for Miss
Honorary Cadet. Her hobbies
are sewing, skating and
bowling.
Marindal Nelson is die
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Marvin Nelson, Sr. Miss Nelson
is a student at Glenn Hills High
School. Her hobbies are
sewing, cooking and dancing.
LaWanda Leach, not
pictured, is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James O. Leach, a
graduate of Glenn HiDs High
School, die is presently
working with the Day Care
Center at Belle-Terrace Church.
Her hobbies include sewing,
and working with small
chDdren.
P.O. Box 953
entitled “With It”.
The teacher, who did not
wish to be identified, said she
went to the lead-reading
teacher at the school who
knew nothing about the story
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New»-Review staff photo by James Stewart
Ga. General Assembly
Resolution Honors Dr. Pitts
The Georgia General Assembly passed the following
resolution in recognition of the contributions of the late
Dr. Lucius Pitts, president of Paine College, who died
February 25.
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By: Messrs. Dent of the 78th, Connell of the 80th, RUlherin of
the 81st, Miles of the 79th, Beckham of the 82nd and others.
A BfifiQUlHfifl
EimrESiUnq aypnathv at the pausing of Pr. Lucius a.
Eifciß; and for other purposes.
, on Monday, February 25, 1974, the State of
Georgia lost a distinguished and outstanding citizen with
the untimely passing of Dr. Lucius H. Pitts, President of
Paine College in Augusta; and
WHPBEAS, he was a nationally known educator, having
served for 10 years as President of Miles College in
Birmingham, and having served since 1971 as President of
Paine College; and
he graduated from the Macon Public School
System, is a 1941 graduate of Paine College, received an MA
degree in 1945 from Fisk University, pursued further study
at Atlanta University, Peabody College and Western Reserve
University, and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity
degree from Paine College in 1962, and a Doctor of Laws
degree from Rhode Island College; a Doctor of Laws degree
from Woster University, and a Doctor of Laws degree from
Miles College; and
ICiEBEA&, he served with distinction, dedication and
ability as a charter member and Vice President of the
Auguste-Richmond County Human Relations Commission; was a
member of the Board of Directors of the greater Augusta
Chamber of Commerce; a member of the Board of Directors of
the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher
Education; a member of the Advisory Commission for Education
of the National Science Foundation; served as Chairman of
the Specialized Training Advisory Panel of the Boy Scouts of
America; served as a member of the President's Council of
the Christian Methodist Church; and was named Citizen of the
Year in 1972 by the Psi Omega Chapter of the Omega Psi
Fraternity for outstanding service to the citizens of
Augusta in human relations; and
he was the devoted husband of Mrs.
Dessemeeze E. Bates Pitts and the father of four
outstanding children.
NOW. THEREFORE. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE QF
representatives that the members of this body hereby express
their deepest regrets at the passing of Dr. Lucius H. Pitts
and hereby extend their sincerest sympathy to Mrs. Pitts and
the members of the family.
RE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House
of Representatives is herebyauthorized and directed to
transmit appropriate copies of this resolution to the family
of Dr. Lucius H. Pitts.
Read and Adopted
February 26, 1974
Glenn w. Ellard
CLERK
THE PEOPLE’S PAPER
being cut out of the book, but,
upon investigating, found that
the story had been cut out of
all of the books in the school
and throughout the county.
The lead-reading teacher
contacted the person in charge
of materials, a Mrs. Johansen,
who said the story had been
cut out of the books when
they were received two years
ago.
RIGHT NAME, WRONG GAME
R.L. Oliver Says He’ll Sue
Augusta Chronicle
Robert Louis Oliver
announced Monday his plans
to initiate a lawsuit against the
Augusta Chroncile, charging
insufficient identification in a
recent news article which he
says has been injurious to his
profession and his physical
welfare.
The article, published in the
Chronicle March 7th, states
that “Samuel Eugene Cochran
was indicted in the Southern
District Court of Georgia on
two counts of selling and
delivering counterfeited
obligations to a Robert Oliver,
according Judge Alexander A.
Lawrence’s order on July 20,
1970.”
“This is an identification
impropriety according to
journalistic ethics," Oliver said,
“This man is from Augusta but
they don’t show where or how
old he is. I live at 2110 Walton
Way in the city.”
The name Robert Oliver
appears three more times in
the article stating that “Oliver
testified that in 1968 Cochran
offered to sell him S3OO in
counterfeit, which he reported
to the Secret Service,” and the
other times as a police
informant and again at
Cochran’s trial.
“I knew nothing of the
article until a crank phone
caller notified me of it through
his heckling. But after I read
it, I called Chronicle Editor,
New Government Bill A
Bill To Be Entitled An Act
EDITOR’S NOTE: In order that our readers may be
better informed about the proposed consolidation of
city and county governments, we are printing the
proposal in full in this issue. We hope that you save it
and study it very carefully.
Voters of Augusta-Richmond County will vote on
this consolidation proposal on May 14th.
NEW GOVERNMENT BILL
To provide that the affairs ano functions ot Richmond County
and the City of Augusta shall be administered by but one
governing authority in such county: to provide for a Board of
commissioners of Augusta-Richmond County: to provide for the
election of the members and their compensation, powers, duties
and responsibilities: to provide for the discharge of te law
enforcement powers, duties and responsibilities within Richmond
County: to provide for the chief law enforcement office of
Richmond County: to prove for a referendum: to provide the
procedures connected therewith: to repeal conflicting laws: and
for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA
Section 1: Effective at 11:59 p.m., on the 31st day
of December, 1974, there shall be bus one povemmg authority to
assume, administer, and discharge the obligations, duties, rights,
responsibilities, functions and affairs of Richmond County and
the City of Augusta. At such time, the charter of the City of
Augusta and all amendments thereto and the governing authority
of Richmond County shall be abolished. Thereafter, the af f :irs
and functions of Richmond County and the City of Augusta shall
be administered by but one governing authority in such county.
At such time, the assets, rights, liabilities and obligations, of
whatever nature of Richmond County and the City of Augusta
shall be assumed by the successor governing authority and shall
be the assets, rights, liabilities and obligations of such successor
governing authority. The Auguusta-Richmond County Charter
Study Commission shall continue its study and efforts to provide
for the consolidation and merger of governmental services,
activities, functions, and affairs within Richmond County.
Section 2 (a) The governing authority of such resulting
political subdividion shall be composed of a chairman-mayor and
eighteen commissioners and shall be known as the Board of
Commissioners of Augusta-Richmond County. For the purposes
of electing members to the Board. Richmond County shall be
divided into six commissioner districts as follows: Commissioner
District No. 1 shall contain all of that territory embraced within
Georgia House of Representative District No. 78. Commissioner
District No. 2 shall contain all of that territory embraced within
Augusta, Georgia
According to the
lead-read teacher, Mrs.
Johansen said the stories had
been cut from the books
because they contained the
word “nigger” which could
Louis Harris, who referred me
to the City Editor Mrs. B.M.
Conley. She said the
identification would be
corrected. That was Friday and
this is Monday, and I have not
read a correction,” he said.
Oliver said his work as a
reporter necessitates
confidentiality with his news
sources. “Who’s going to talk
with you if they think vou’re a
police informer. Not only that,
counterfeiting has gotten
people killed” he said.
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cause “confusion” among
Black students at the school.
Other stories about Blacks such
as Joe Louis and Dianna Ross
were not removed from the
textbooks.
EDITORIAL
THE BLACK PRESS: FREEDOM DEPENDS ON IT
It is not a matter of small interest that the Black Press
is observing its 147th anniversary at a time when
freedom of the press, a First Amendment guarantee, is
being challenged.
Back in 1787 when the founding fathers of this
republic were hammering out the First Amendment
freedoms, striking the shackles from what had been the
colonial press, the Black man continued to stand in
chains, three-fifths of a man.
But freedom is indivisible, and 40 years later, the first
Black newspaper-Freedom’s Journal-raised its own
masthead to fight against slavery in the South and
discrimination and oppression in the North. Soon it was
joined by William Lloyd Garrison and his Liberator and
Elijah P. Lovejoy and his Observer. There was no
stopping this small segment of the press (even the
lynching of Lovejoy) until human freedom was also
achieved.
But the freedom of Blacks was short-lived. And the
struggle begun by John B. Russwurm and the Rev.
Samuel E. Cornish and their Freedom’s Journal and
continued by Willis Hodges and Frederick Douglass and
others was renewed. In the new effort, Calvin Chase,
Cliristopher Perry, T. Thomas Fortune, Ida B. Wells
Barnett, and John Murphy took the lead. They were
followed by Monroe Trotter, Robert S. Abbott,
W.E.B.Dußois, P.B. Young, and Robert L. Vann.
Today, the National Newspaper Publishers
Association, representing a membership of 129 Black
newspapers, including all the major ones, is helping to
focus the continued fight being carried on by its
members. The publishers of these newspapers are among
the most astute and articulate Black leaders in America.
Assurance that the fight will continue is the growing
number of young dedicated publishers.
Their fight for freedom is devoted in large measure to
improve the economic opportunties of 26 million Black
Americans who are not benefiting as fully as they
should from their annual expenditure of nearly SSO
billion.
I he Black Press is an informer and a sounding board,
a crusader and a protestor, a fighter and a healer. It is a
force that can stimulate further growth of the American
economy and help heal the cancer of racism that
painfully divides the American people.
But again the freedom of the press is challenged,
because human freedom continues to be threatened,
especially the freedom of Black Americans. The Black
Press can help achieve freedom of the press for all
media, if all media will join hands in a fight for total
freedom. The message of Black Press Week is a reminder
that freedom is indivisible.
Georgia House of Representative District No. 79. Commissioner
District No. 3 shall contain all of that territory embraced within
Georgia House of Representative District No. 80. Commissioner
District No. 4 shall contain all of that territory embraced within
Georgia House of Representative District No. 82. Commissioner
District No. 5 shall contain all of that territory within Georgia
House of Representative District No. 83 plus that portion of
Richmond County contained within Georgia House of
Representative District No. 77. For the purposes of this Act, the
House of Representative Districts here referred to shall be those
districts as they existed on January 1, 1974. (b) Two
commissioners shall be elected from each commissioners shall be
elected from each commissioner district Positions of membership
on the Board of commissioners elected from District No. 1 shall
be numbered 1 and 2 respectively. Positions of membership on
the Board for comissioners elected from District No. 2 shall be
numbered 3 and 4 respectively. Positions of membership on the
Board for comissioners elected from District No. 3 shall be
numbered 5 and 6 respectively. Positions of membership on the
Board of commissioners elected from District No. 4 shall be
numbered 7 and 8 respectively. Positions of membership on the
Board for commissioners elected from District No. 5 shall be
numbered 9 and 10 respectively. Positions of membership on the
Board for commissioners elected from District No. 6 shall be
numbed 11 and 12, respectively. Such commissioners must reside
in the district from which elected and each commissioner shall be
elected by the electors of the district in which he shall reside.
(c) The remaining six commissioners shall likewise be dected
from such districts (one commissioner from each district) as
provided for in (b) above, but they shall be elected by the
electors of the political subdivision as a whole. These positions of
membership on the Board shall be numbered 13 through 18, as
follows: that commissioner elected from district 1- position 13;
that commissioner elected from district 2 - position 14; that
commissioner elected from district 3 - position 15; that
See PROPOSAL Continued on Page 4
March 14, 1974 No. 52
The School recently began
using the books in the
“Right-To-Read” program.
No one has admitted cutting
the story from the books.
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