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Aunnsta Newitetriw PAINE COLLEGE LIBRARY A p PAINE COLLEGE CAMPUS //On' C D /Wk Augusta, c 30-: I PAI^ oRAR Y /fH ffllliA I >.«E PEOPLE’S PAPER XX | NATIONAL BLACK NEWS StKVICE OfiG/ A MEMBER Vol. 4 Newsweek Loses Job Bias Appeal’ Must Pay Yette’s Lawyers $20,000 WASHINGTON, D.C.-Newsweek magazine has been ordered to pay attorneys for Samuel F. Yette $20,000 and to move ahead on setting up a fair employment program in it* Washington office “There ought to be Black folks running in every race that’s run,” State Representative Bobby Hill told the Augusta Caucus Sunday in the Paine College Chapel. Hill told the group that people are losing faith in politics. But he noted, “Right here in Georgia, in this year, is the greatest opportunity for Mays, Mclntyre Share Citizen Os The Year Award City Councilwoman Carrie J. Mays and County Commissioner Edward Mclntyre have been name to receive the News-Review’s “Citizen of the Year” award. Editor-publisher Mallory K. Millender said that Mrs. Carrie Mays was chosen for her “courageous leadership and integrity” while Mclntyre more quietly was responsible for things that will significantly improve the quality of life for the people of Richmond County.” He cited street paving, the proposed coliseum, the Augusta Caucus, the State Caucus of Black Elected Officials, and the State Hall of Fame among Mclntyre’s contributions. Mrs. Mays also won the award last year. Attorney John Ruffin won the award in 1971. Jobs, Justice, Housing Real Goals Black Publisher Tells Press Club WASHINGTON-Jobs, justice, and fair housing were seen as the real goals of political power by Dr. Carlton B. Goodiett, president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, in an address here last week. The election of Black mayors, members of Congress, and others is not an end in itself, but the beginning of our search for economic justice for all the people, he added. Dr. Goodlett, a medical doctor and a Ph.D. editor and publisher of the San Francisco Sun-Reporter, was speaking before the prestigious National Press Club here whose podium is usually reserved for visiting heads of state and top American officials. He was P.O. Box 953. The order, handed down by the D.C. Commission of Human Rights, March 8, was in response to Newsweek’s request that the Commission renege on its finding last Dprpmhpr ♦h*’ rnaon-ripo Blacks Urged To Take Over And Clean-up Politics the Augusta Caucus will come upon us because this is our time to capture a part of the politics of this city, and Savannah and Atlanta.” Blacks, he said, should not be saddened by the state of politics because “Blacks had nothing to do with it. We were on the outside looking in. It’s our time to take it over and do it right.” ■r | I M *** jB H J given a standing ovation. His lunceon address, the first to be delivered before the club by a Black publisher, was in observance of Black Press Week, marking the 147th anniversary of the founding of Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper published in the United States. John B. Russwurm and Rev. Samuel E. Cornish launched iton March 16,1827. In answer to a question, Dr. Goodlett took a solid position in favor of birth control. He pointed out that if would be much better to have 30 million strong, healthy, well educated Blacks than to have 50 million uneducated weaklings in the ghettoes. Regarding equal was guilty of racial bias in firing Yette, its only Black reporter in Washington. The Commission also reaffirmed its order that Newsweek pay Yette, now a Howard Univprsitv imirnalicm A lawyer from Savannah who wts first elected to the state legislature in Atlanta six years ago at the age of 27, Hill told the predominantly Black audience not to be “depressed because of something which you didn't have anything to do with. You ought to be hopped up about it” Hill said people should, HB* * wii employment opportunities, the NNPA president pressed for quotas, as away of measuring progress. “It is the right of every American citizen to have a job or an economic base below which no one will be allowed to fall," he emphasized. Dr. Goodlett said the Black Press has always been democracy’s catalytic agent, and in the future it could prove to be the means of saving the nation. In closing, he turned to the great abolitionist leader of a century ago, Sojourner Truth. “I have come,” she once said to a critical audience during the slave era, “to tell you what time of night it is.” Augusta, Georgia professor, SI,OOO in damages. It also held that Yette must be reimbursed, from the attorney’s settlement, any fees already piad by him. Newsweek fired Yette in 1972, followine publication of however, be saddened by the fact that 118,000 children in the state of Georgia go to school with nothing to eat every morning. During a recent conversation. Hill said he told a fellow lawmaker it was fortunate there were no Blacks in the Nixon administration F I—WjW lL UHH - Tml AWiW; BSa wMII' NECKTIE FOR PRESS CLUB SPEAKER-Clyde La Motte, right, president of the National Press Club, is presenting the traditional necktie to Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett, president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, following his address last week. Looking on are Mrs. Frances L. Murphy, 11, chairman of the board of the Afro-American Newspapers: and Stanley S. Scott, special assistant to President Nixon. Dr. Goodlett is the first Black publisher to address a National Press Club Luncheon.-Bowman photo. his award winning book, THE CHOICE: THE ISSUE OF BLACK SURIVAL IN AMERICA, after a Newsweek editor, according to Yette, subjected him to racial slurs and told him the hook “because they would have been put in jail.” He added, “Blacks get the brunt of anything that goes wrong.” Without fanfare and without headlines, the State Legislature was reapportioned adding the possibility of 12 new Black legislators in this state. There are now only fourteen Blacks. Paine Professor Announces Candidacy Thomas C. McCain has announced his candidacy for the District II Edgefield County Council seat. McCain, 34, has been chosen as a delegate to the state Democratic Convention. He is a professor of mathematics and computer science at Paine College and a member of the college’s board of trustees. He is married and the father of two children. If elected, McCain said he would like to work with state and federal officials in an attempt to bring more industry into Edgefield County. This, he said, would broaden the county’s tax and bring in more revenue without having to increase taxes for local property owners. He said he is also interested in increasing the salary for the county’s school teachers, many of whom he said are working in Aiken County because of higher salaries. McCain said he would work toward the March 28, 1974 No. 2 “embarrassed” the magazine. Newsweek denied the charge and said Yette was fired for “professional” reasons. Yette had been with the magazine for more than four years. Yette’s chief counselor is Reminding the audience that this was an election year diring which Georgia voters would be selecting a new governor, he said that Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox (which Hill pronounces mad ox) is “leading the pack” of candidates “and no one is excited about it.” “We need to put him back on the chicken farm,” Hill said. THOMAS C. McCAIN construction of more waste treatment plants as opposed to the dumping of raw sewage into open ponds. Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and now a member of the law firm of Arnold and Porter. Thanks! | This week the News-Review is celebrating our third anniversary. Founded by Editor-Publisher Mallory K. Millender, tiie News-Review was first published on March 25, 1971. Many people have confused us with the Weekly Review. There is no relationship at all. We did not buy or otherwise take over the Weekly Review. That paper went out of business. We started a new one with a similar name and hopefully with the same high standards of quality and integrity. We wish to thank our readers for their continued support and confidence. We are ever mindful of our responsibility to keep our readers informed about issues that concern them and their welfare. We see tiie Black press as vital to the security and well being of the Black community and, to the community at-large. And w-e recognize that Black people need an organ through which to inform and be informed. In order to act intelligently on issues that concern the Black community, the people must have the facts as they relate to the Black community. And if the Black press does not inform Black people, Black jreople generally will not be informed. Our role does not stop, however, with informing the Black community. We must also let whites know how we feel about issues concerning us and this community. They must understand that we have a point of view and most often that view point is different from theirs on issues concerning the welfare of Black people. They must understand that Blacks are not a part of the silent majority and tiiat we won’t let others tell us what to think, how to think or when to think. We think and speak for ourselves - through the Black press. We sometimes get comments about our negative attitudes. Let us start first by establishing that things that are positive to the progress of Black people are negative to the oppressors of Black people, and we expect our oppressors to try to oppress and to suppress real feelings. And it is important to add that all of our oppressors are not white. We would not be so narrow minded as to think that every one who disagrees with us is an oppressor, nor do we think of all white people as enemies. However, we do regard as enemies all people who would seek to deny any people of their Constitutional and human rights. We do regard as enemies all who seek to defend injustice. We do regard as enemies all who stand in opposition to Black liberation. We intend to be a thorn in the sides of all that would deny any of God’s children the right to develop to his full potential. If this makes us negative, then so be it. For we intend to keep on keeping on. We would br* remiss if we did not thank our staff for its almost sacred devotion to the paper. Nobody writing for the News-Review gets a salary. Our columnists such as Al Irby, Roosevelt Green, Augustus Miller, Phil Waring, Gwen Loftlin write week after week without pay, because we don’t have tiie money to pay them and because of their intense desire to see a good Black newspaper. Frank Bow man and James Stewart (in advertising and circulation respectively) work on commission but have done a tremendous job and we are greatly indebted to them. Reporters such as Robert Oliver and Joyce Mims are compensated but their compensation is token at best. And the editor is paid in stock. We mention these things because we feel that you should be aware of the tremendous devotion that our staff has shown for this newspaper. There is one other reason and that is that we enjoy doing it. Finally, we thank God for giving us the opportunity. Annuls GIVE TITHE ateibiue thihg hhiteihegm Tl WASTE. CILIEGEFHHI. I this I I issue l Man Shot in the head over cigarette Page 2 9 Paine students arrested in assault case page 2 Woman escapes Post Office rape attempt page 2 Paine wins first baseball game in 39 years page 8