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Vol. 4
Black Woman Files Complaint Against
Sheriff For "Nasty TreatmeU”
A Black Augusta woman
filed a complaint this week
with the Augusta-Richmond
County Human Relations
Commission charging Sheriff
Bill Anderson with unfair
treatment and acting “very
nasty.”
Bennie "The Loner” Charges Local Radio-TV Biased
By R.L. Oliver
Alocal disc jockey, “Bennie,
THE LONER” Williams, 32, of
Augusta has charged several
area radio and television
stations with biased hiring
practices.
Williams alleges he sought
employment from radio
stations WGUS, WBBQ,
WGAC, and WBIA and
television stations WRDW-TV
Channel 12 and WATU-TV
Channel 26, and was not hired
although he has a first class
(studio engineers) broadcasting
license.
“1 was sent to radio station
WGUS bv the Georgia
Employment Service Office
425 9th Street, where they
wanted a third class broadcast
Bobby Hill Speaks
To Augusta Caucus
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State Representative Bobby Hill
State Representative Bobby
Hill will speak to the Augusta
Black Caucus Sunday night at
Paine College’s Gilbert
Lambuth Chapel. The program
will begin at 8:00 p.m.
Hill electrified some 5,000
Augustans two years ago when
he spoke at the John Ruffin
Day celebration.
The 31 year-old Hill is a
1963 graduate ot Savannah
State College, where he was
listed in Who’s Who in
American Colleges and
Universities. He was named in
the 1968 editions of
Dr. Leon Sullivan Calls For 200 OICs
A t the Opportunities
Industrialization Centers’ 10th
Annual Convocation in
Minneapolis, Minnesota,
February 24-27, Rev. Leon
Sullivan, founder and chairman
of the Board of OICs of
America, called for die
establishment of 100 new OICs
in the country in addition to
NATIONAL BLACK NEWSSERVICE
MEMBER
The woman, Mrs. Elaine
Davis, of apt. 10F Amsterdam
Drive, told the News-Review
that the altercation occurred
following an incident Sunday
at Krispy Kreme on the
Gordon Highway. Mrs. Davis
said that as she left the
license holder. I was offered a
part-time job from 9:00 a.m.
to 1:00 a.m. at $3 an hour, but
when 1 explained I needed a
full time job, that I had two
children they told me I had too
much experience and was too
qualified for the job,” Williams
said.
WGUS could not be reached
for comment.
He related a similar
experience in seeking
employment from radio station
WBBQ upon his return to
Augusta from Ft. Lauderdale,
Fla. in early 1974.
“1 tailed Harley Drew, of
WBBQ, from Ft. Lauderdale
and he requested a broadcast
tape of my voice. However,
“Personalities in the South”
and “Outstanding Young Men
in America.” He received the
“Distinquished Alumnus
Award” from the Student Bar
Association at Howard
University Law School in
1969, and was named to
“Who’s Who in Politics” in
1969-70.
A member of the Law Finn
of HILL, JONES, &
FARRINGTON, he received
the Juris Doctorate Degree in
June, 1966.
He is married to the former
Dolores Clarke of Savannah.
The public is invited.
the 100 that are already
operating.
Rev. Sullivan invited Vice
President Gerald R. Ford to
come to the inner city to see
the needs of the poor and what
could be done through
programs like OIC to help
America.
On Monday, March 11, Vice
P.O. Box 953
doughnut shop parking lot, a
white woman in an orange VW
began using profanity as her
car squeezed out of a narrow
parking space next to the VW.
The two cars proceeded to
Highway No. 1 and continued
toward tue Le mans
when I arrived in Augusta, in
February 1974, and went to
the station he told me all of his
positions were filled. He also
told me my words were not
pronounced correctly for the
Top Forty Sound. I took that
to mean, I sound too Black,”
Williams said.
According to Williams, he
also lost a bid for newscasting
at the same station.
When reached by telephone,
WBBQ station manager Ed
Dunbar said, “I can
unequivocally say there is no
racial discrimination here at
WBBQ in the area of hiring or
in the handling of
applications.”
Dunbar said that when
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Mayor Lewis A. Newman, Business League President
Henry Howard and County Commissioner Ed Mclntyre
cut ribbon opening the League’s new offices on
Gwinnett Street (See related photos - page 3)
Open House
The CSRA Business League
held open house Sunday
afternoon at its new location at
1208 Gwinnett Street.
Following brief speeches by
League President Henry
Howard, Mayor Lewis A.
Newman and County
Commissioner Edward
Mclntyre, the ribbon was cut
officially opening the doors of
the new facility.
Harvey L. Johnson,
executive director of the
League said that in moving
back into the Black
community, the League was
not segregating itself from the
President Ford went to
Philadelphia and spent two
hours touring OIC facilitities.
By the end of the inspection
tour, which included the
Philadelphia Prototype, the old
jailhouse (original site of the
first OIC), Progress Plaza
Shopping Center, Zion Baptist
Church, and Progress
THE PEOPLE’S PAPER
apartments where the VW
flashed a turn signal. As she
drove past the VW, Mrs. Davis
said the woman extended her
middle finger making an
obscene gesture. One of the
passengers in Mrs. Davis’ car,
Shelia Davis, of 2445
openings become available and
the right man comes along he
would get preferential
treatment. “If there has been
any discrimination, it has been
for Blacks rather than against
Historically, in this business
most of our applicants have
oeen Caucasian males, and it s
for this reason we encourage
Blacks and women to apply for
positions here. Os course, we
will have to train them,”
Dunbar said, “It’s a matter of
economics.”
Os WRDW-TV Channel 12
William said he was given a one
shot audition and was rejected
by that stations news director
Jay Jaffee, “I questioned the
one chance as an injustice, and
white community, but
relocating in an area to serve its
constituency. “Gwinnett Street
is the hub of the Black
community,” he noted, adding
that he felt the agency needed
to be in an area where a person
felt relaxed in coming among
his peers to discuss his
problem.
The CSRA Business League
is designed to help minority
businessmen by providing help
in loan packaging, technical
and management assistance.
The League was located at
624 Greene Street.
Aerospace Enterprises (an
electronics assembly plant),
Ford sounded like a believer:
“This is a wonderful
demonstration of what can be
done with leadership and
motivation and help from
private and Federal sources,”
he said.
Augusta, Georgia
Amsterdam Dr., returned the
gesture, Mrs. Davis said Ethel
Lewis of the same address was
also in the car with Mrs. Davis.
“As I pulled into Barton
Chapel Road at the Majik
Market, a green car pulled
up-it was Mr. Bill Anderson
I asked Jay why he doesn’t
have any Blacks on the
telecasting team. He answered
me saying he couldn’t find any
qualified colored people, that
ne was trying to find someone
better than Frank Thomas at
WJBF-TV Channel 6,”
Williams said
Jaffe said, “There
is nothing to the discrimination
charge. We did spend some
time together but he (Williams)
did not show up for ar.
audition. We just don’t have
any openings, if we did we
would prebablv hire him. but
right now there are just no
openings.”
Williams is now employed at
NAACP Cites
Urban League
Leader As Man
Os The Year
J. PHILIP WARING
News-Review Columnist J
Philip Waring was recently
honored in Stamford, Conn
where the NAACP Branch
cited him as “Man of the Year”
in recognition of outstanding
leadership as Executive
Director of the local Fairfield
County-Southern Conn. Urban
League Chapter.
Well liked by many, he was
described at the NAACP
Freedom Day program as one
who organized a new Urban
League Chapter in 1969 which
eventually developed 35
different service programs,
spurred massive voter
registration-political action
campaigns while forming
several unity-setting coalitions
of Blacks, Puerto Ricans,
whites and youth, thus helping
to bring about significant social
change in employment, racial
communications and
education.
As Waring had left for a new
assignment with the St. Louis,
Mo. Urban League, the award
was accepted by his wife,
Marian. Both are subscribing
life members of the NAACP.
Vice President Ford left
Philadelphia praising OIC and
promising to try o get more
money for it. “We’ve got to
expand it and we will ... We
will do our best to get you
more funds,” he told Dr.
Sullivan and other OIC officials
before departing.
who said, ‘Let me see
something with your name on
it. Roll up your window, and
don’t say a thing,’ Mrs. Davis
continued. The dieriff said the
lady in the VW had charged
that one of the passengers in
the Davis car had pointed a gun
radio station WTHB in North
Augusta, S.C.
BENNIE, THE LONER
Stewart To
Run For N.A.
City Council
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ARTHUR STEWART
by Audrey Frazier
Neighborhood Youth Corps
Director Arthur Stewart
announced this week his
candidacy for the North
Augusta City Council in the
Democratic primary.
Stewart, who is the first
Black to run for any office in
North Augusta said, “1 am
running as a candiate to
represent all the residents of
North Augusta.” He is the first
Democrat to enter the race
along with three Republicans.
He listed the following
planks in his platform: 1) to
strive to restore the check and
balance system in the city
council of North Augusta from
a one party system to a two
party system; 2) to develop a
sub-fire station in the hill area
of North Augusta and to add
additional fire plugs in order to
lower the high fire insurance
rate that is now being paid by
the residents.
The high insurance rate is
the result of the distance of
fire plugs from people’s homes;
3) to have the surcharge,
presently being paid on sewage,
paid by everyone receiving the
service, including those in the
valley area. Also to encourage
the city to reimburse those
residents who have been paying
for sewage and not getting the
service. Especially the twenty
per cent who are not in tapping
distance of the sewage but are
paying the surcharge; 4) to
have more co-ordination
between the city and county
March 21, 1974 No. 1
at her. Another squad car
arrived along side the sheriff.
“They told me to sit in the
squad car. I gave them the key
to my car and trunk which
they searched but found no
gun,” she said.
In the meantime, the lady
Notice
CORRECTION
The News-Review reported
last week that a Black girl at
Columbia Junior High School
discovered the Martin Luther
King story missing from her
text book and complained to
her teacher. This was incorrect.
The girl was white.
Black Enters Democratic
Primary For Legislature
From Edgefield County
G eorge L. Brightharp
announced Iris candidacy
Wendesday for the upcoming
Democratic Primary in
Edgefield County seeking to
represent the Edgefield District
in the South Carolina House of
Representatives. He seeks to
succeed Rep. Butler Derrick
who is seeking to represent
the Third District of South
Carolina in Congress, a seat
being abdicated by Rep.
William Jennings Bryan Dorn.
Brightharp is a
history professor at Paine
College and is believed to be
the first Black to seek this
legislative seat. The 29 year old
Brightharp was born in North
Augusta, S.C. He finished the ,
local high school in Edgefield, t
and hold the baccularate and
master’s degree from North
Carolina A&T State University,
and has done further study at
the University of Georgia.
In addition to teaching at
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Mr. and Mrs. Allen Thomas,
Sr. recently celebrated their
64th wedding anniversary.
They were married February
20th 1910.
Their union stretches across
governments concerning the
present ambulance service for
the residents of North Augusta.
Stewart, 30, is married to
the former Jean R. Cooper.
They have two children,
Demetrius, 4, and Deidra, 2.
He is a graduate of Jefferson
High School, Bath, S.C. and
Clafin Unversity, Orangeburg,
S.C. He holds a B.A. degree in
Social Sciences.
Among many orgainzations,
he is a member of the National
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WAC Raped
Soldier beaten
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House looted
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King David's
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in the VW arrived in another
patrol car. The lady said Mrs.
Davis had tried several times to
run her off the road. According
to Mrs. Davis, the deputies
took the lady down the street
for Ji-10 minutes, when they
returned, Mrs. Davis was given
a ticket for reckless driving and
ordered to post $l5O bond.
Deputies at the scene with
Anderson were identified as
Bob Brown, Curtis Ford and
deputy Joe Penvoe.
Anderson reportedly had his
wife and child in the car with
him.
Anderson could not be
reached for comment on
Wednesday. He was said to be
in Atlanta.
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GEORGE L. BRIGHTHARPI
Paine College, Brightharp is a
pastoring minister and the
author of a book. He has been
a citizen of Edgefield Countv
for 25 vears.
five generations. They have 13
children, 20 grandchildren, 14
great grandchildren, and one
great great grandchild.
The Thomases live at 922
13th Avenue.
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Association of NYC Directors,
Georgia Association of
Community Action Agencies,
Governor’s Youth Opportunity
Program. North Augusta Social
Club and Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity - Psi Omega
Chapter.
Stewart is encouraging all the
residents of North Augusta to
register and vote.
The date of the election has
not yet been officially
announced.