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Army Blamed
Father Suffers Nervous Breakdown, Suicidal
Augusta Mother Must Care For Eight Children
An Augusta soldier suffered
a nervous breakdown last week
when all efforts to get him a
“compassionate reassignment”
to Fort Gordon failed. He
wanted to be stationed at Fort
Gordon in order to be near his
suicidal wife, who has had
three major operations, the
most recent in January.
The Anthonys have eight
children (ages 6-17), one of
whom had open heart surgery
at Walter Reed Hospital in
Husband Shot Eight Tinies,
Wife Gets Ten Years
Charged with murder, but
found guilty of voluntary
manslaughter, Louise Parker,
of 333 East View Dr. was
sentenced to ten years in
prison in the July shooting
death of her husband James.
NAACP Demands Nixons Impeachment
Alfred Baker Lewis, the
national treasurer emeritus; of
the NAACP and a member of
that organization for fifty
years spoke recently at a
meeting of the executive board
of the Augusta branch of the
NAACP.
Mr. Lewis said: “The
National Board of the NAACP
has called for the impeachment
of Nixon. So have other liberal
organizations, including
organized labor and the
American Civil Liberties
Union.
“He clearly deserves
impeachment.
“He was caught cheating on
his income tax. A law was
passed to forbid deductions of
gifts of Presidential and Vice
Presidential papers from
income tax because such
papers are clearly public
property anyway. President
Nixon made a gift of his Vice
Presidential papers, valued at
the amazing figure of
$574,000, after the law was
passed, and deliberately
pre-dated the deed of gift to
before the law was passed, and
then deducted that large sum
from his income taxes.
“We know that because the
secretary for the lawyer who
drew the deed of gift so stated.
And typewriter experts can tell
which typewriter was used to
type a particular document
because they develop
pecularities in the type during
use. They have declared that
the typewriter used to type his
deed of gift was not sold until
after the law forbidding the
deduction of such a gift was
passed.
“When the President sets an
example to the citizens of
cheating on his income tax, he
should be impeached.
“Apart from Watergate and
its related crimes and scandals,
he made war on Cambodia
with our air and ground forces,
although the Constitution
specifically gives to Congress
only the power to declare war,
and Congress had not declared
war. Above all, he lied to
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1971. The child is still ailing
and will have suigery again to
correct a defective valve in his
heart. The boy has a pace
maker in his chest and the
wiring also irritates him.
A local psychologist, Dr.
Peter G. Cranford, who has
been treating Mrs. Anthony
wrote a letter to Secretary of
The Army, Howard (Bo)
Callaway. The letter, dated
March 29, 1974, said in part:
“I have a suicidal patient that 1
During her trial Monday in
Richmond County Superior
Court the jury was told by
District Attorney Richard
Allen that following an
argument with her husband,
Mrs. Parker shot her husband
Congress and the American
people about it, saying we were
respecting the neutrality of
Cambodia when he knew that
was not true. This alone is
sufficient aground for
impeachment.
“Even if Nixon did not
authorize these crimes it is an
established rule of law that a
principal is responsible for the
acts of his agents, and Nixon
has declared that he took
responsibility for their acts.
“But impeachment is also a
political process.
“President Nixon has vetoed
a number of social welfare
bills, which included more
funds for manpower retraining,
for mental health, and for
more child care centers so that
the mothers of young children
now gotting aid to dependent
children oil welfare could have
a safe place to leave their
children while they looked for
jobs. He claimed that the ocst
of these bills would be
inflationary. But, despite the
ending of our part in the Viet
Nam, except for sending arms
and millions of barrels of oil
for President Thieu, Nixon
wants more money for the
armed forces. This is equally
inflationary. But it helps the
big corporations in the
military-industrial complexes.
“Impeachment would be
constitutionally, morally and
legally right. And the NAACP
wants to elect a Congress
which will pass social welfare
legislation despite the veto of
President Nixon, or, if he is
impeached, the veto of then
President Ford.”
“The NAACP does not
merely stand for civil rights
legislation for the racially
underpriviledged,” said Lewis.
“We also work for economic
legislation for the financially
underpriviledged on the sound
ground that anything that
helps the poor in general will
benefit Negroes particularly
because they suffer from
poverty more in proportion
than do whites.
“Naturally we are outraged
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am sure will succeed in killing
herself unless you will
intervene on her behalf.”
After relating the problems of
the family and the Army’s
refusal to assign Sgt. Anthony
to Fort Gordon, the letter
continues, “I have been able to
keep her together because she
thought her husband would be
here to help her carry the
load.”
Sgt. Anthony was brought
home from Germany in
eight times in their front yard.
The argument in a carport
culminated in her going into
the house and getting a gun.
She returned to the yard, shot
him in the carport, as he ran
across the front yard, she shot
by Nixon’s veto of the
minimum wage law. We will
work with other organizations
to defeat the Congressmen who
voted to sustain his veto.
“One of the important
measures we are supporting is
the Kennedy-Griffith Bill to
provide free hospital and
medical care for all of us
through a system of
government health insurance.
We have good medical care for
those who can pay for it. For
we spend more money on
medical research than any
other country. But the care is
not available for all those who
need it. The best test for good
medical care is infantile
mortality. If we had the best
medical care we would have
the lowest infant mortality. We
don't. We arc 17th from the
CAP Agency Director
Fined *IOO
by R.L. Oliver
The local Community
Action Agency (CAP) Director
Charles Barreras was fined
SIOO for violation of an
Augusta city zoning code in
Recorders Court Friday.
Barreras doesn't know why.
“They never proved I was in
violation of anything."
According to Barreras the
trouble stems from the fact
that his agency now operates a
half-way house for recovered
alcoholics at 3rd and Ellis
Streets, and someone doesn't
want the house there.
He added the alleged
violation of the zoning code
P-1 was the fact that City
Building Inspector, Inman
Moore, found whiskey bottles
in a garbage can at the house.
“What kind of a violation is
that?” Barreras queried.
The director said by
telephone that his agency had
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November, but was ordered to
report to Ft. Belvoir, Va. by
April 11.
The letter went on to say
that the Army told Sgt.
Anthony that “if he didn’t like
it, he could get out.” But
Anthony has already put in 15
years and can retire in 5 more
years.
Concluding his letter, Dr.
Cranford said, “This is so
un-army like (since the army
has come through with
him again. He fell and while he
was lying in the yard she got
some more bullets, reloaded
the gun and continued
shooting at her prone
husband,” the district attorney
said.
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lowest. Every country with
lower infant mortality than
nothing to do with the
half-way house at the time the
bottles were found. "The
house was under the direction
of the Richmond County
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Council, and was operated by
their principal agent John
Ahem at that time.” Barreras
continued.
An earlier interview with
Ahem disclosed that efforts to
prevent the half-way house
from becoming a reality
surrounded the P-1 zoning and
a special exception clause. 2
one P-1 is for professional use,
or anything that falls under
zoning code R-1.2 and 3, to
include residential homes,
multiple family homes,
doctors’ offices and animal
hospitals.
The special exception clause
went into affect alleged’y after
clients moved into the house
and the Alcohol and Drug
Abuse Council were ordered
Augusta, Georgia
numerous previous requests tor
assistance from this area) and
since others have been
permitted to remain at Ft.
Gordon for much less
justification that I assume
there must be some inadverent
error some where.”
There has been no reply
from Callaway.
Last Wednesday, Mrs.
Anthony told her story to the
News-Review. Thursday, her
husband called her nine times
CORRECTION
It has been called to our
attention that the
News-Review stated that
novelist Frank Yerby
graduated 3rd in the class
of 1937 al Paine College.
That information was
furnished by the alumni
office at Paine College and
we believed it to have been
official. Nevertheless we
regret the error.
ours has some form of
government health insurance.
out of the building.
Barreras contends he has
never been contacted and has
received no correspondence in
reference to a time limit to
move. “I was never given any
notice, or subponea by anyone.
As a matter of fact they never
served me with the subpoena.
It was served at the building on
Third Street and one of my
employes called me and said
there was a subpoena there,"
Barreras said.
According to the director,
he drove over to the half-way
house only to learn the
subpoena was for a Roger
Guelker. a former director of
the home.
Os the fine, Barreras said,
“As far as I am concerned, I
haven’t been in violation of
anything. The fact that a
building inspector found some
bottles is irrelevant to me and
has nothing to do with any
zoning code.”
long distance saying he had
been called to preach. On
Friday, the News-Review
learned that he had suffered a
breakdown and had been
committed.
Sgt. Anthony is a master
mason and, according to Dr.
Cranford, has a perfect record
as a soldier. Dr. Cranford said
he believed the breakdown was
caused by Sgt. Anthony’s
disbelief that the military
would treat him this way.
The Anthonys are Black.
Two White Mississippi Teachers, Fired
For Concern For Blacks, Awarded
Nearly $30,000 For Lost Pay
WASHINGTON, D C -Two
white Starkville, Miss., teachers
who lost their jobs about four
years ago for associating and
being concerned with Black
students and adults have won
almost $30,000 in
compensatory damages, the
National Education
Association reports.
The NEA. through its
DuShane Emergency Fund, has
supported the teachers in their
EDITORIAL
Our View Os
Consolidation Bill
Most Black's that we’ve talked to are very strong in
their opposition to the pro; osed consolidation of city
and county governments. However, just being against
it will not defeat Hie new government bill. We must go
to tue polls in large numbers and vote toe bill down.
The News-Review opposes the new consolidation
effort for several reasons. After the last consolidation
attempt was defeated, a Charier Commission was
established to develop and ; resent a charter twat
would be acceptable to Hie majority of Lie people.
That Commission is, we presume, still working on tiie
pro, osed charter. The charter hasn't been written yet.
So what is there to vote on? There is i>o charter. It is
pediculous to argue that lire charter will be decided
us on bv our “duly" elected officials, because if it had
been left tip to Blacks, most of them would never have
been elected. So they certainly could not be expected
to draw up a charter for “us”. But the point here is
Inal there is no charter, consequently tuere is no
reason to be having a referendum at all on a new
government.
The proposed consolidation bill would not only
dilute the Black vote, it would virtually take Blacks
out of local politics all together.
In all considerations concerning consolidation, it
should be kc. t in mind that Blacks make up a
majority in Augusta, and should have at least 8 of the
16 seats on city council. Luder tue new government,
Blacks would probably nave 2 seals out oi 18, and no
more than three. What could Blacks accomplish with 2
votes out of 18? it is curiously interesting that of ti.e
approximately 48,000 Blacks in Richmond County,
24,000 are in R. A. Dent’s district. This virtually
assures that Blacks won’t be elected from any of the
other five districts.
Another objection is toe provision that you only
pay for the services you get. The fact ol tnat is that
you only get what you’re able to pay for. And if
you’re poor and can’t pay for the services, tnen you
have to go without those services. This, for us, is
unacceptable. We urge you to go to tiie polls on May
14 and defeat this bill.
We will discuss the law enforcement provision in a
subsequent editorial.
April 25, 1974 No. 6
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M.M. Scott (R) is joined by City Engineer Jim
Messer Is and Mayor Lewis A. Newman at the beginning
of an $828,500 waler expansion program in the Bel Air
Subdivision area. News-Review staff photo by James Stewart
legal battle which began in Julv
1970.
Dr. Carolyn Reeves, the only
Starkville teacher with a
doctoral degree, will receive
$20,356 in back pay, benefits,
and interest under the court
order signed earlier this month
by U.S. District Judge Orma
Smith in Greenville. She had
returned to her classroom in a
Starkville elementary school
last fall in accordance with an
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order of Judge Smith.
Janet Peterson, now a
teacher at Mississippi State
College, will receive $9,307 for
the more limited time she was
unemployed.
Both women, teachers in
ali-Black schools in 1969-70,
were unable to get their
contracts renewed for the
1970-71 school year. They had
been recommended for
reemployment by the principal
for whom they worked in
1969-
The teachers alleged that
they were not reemployed
because they associated with
and exhibited concern for the
Black community and the
Black students in the schools
where they taught. In
particular, the two teachers
disagreed with the way the
dual school system in Starkville
was dismantled. Last July,
Judge Smith upheld the
teachers’ contentions that their
nonrenewals were in retaliation
for their expression of concern.
For example, Mrs. Peterson
walked out of a faculty
meeting because of distress by
news that three of the four
Black schools were to be closed
and that half-sessions would be
instituted to accommodate
most of the Black students at
formerly all-white schools.
Mrs. Reeves, among other
things, expressed concern
about the discriminatory
manner in which a
standardized test was
administered to her pupils.
Starkville desegregation has
been in the news for years. In
February 1970 the district
court ordered the school
district to implement faculty
desegregation. That spring,
several Black teachers learned
they would not be rehired for
1970- because they did not
meet minimum cut-off scores
on the Graduate Record
Examination (GRE) imposed
as a criterion for hiring and
retention of staff.
NEA and the Mississippi
Teachers Association were
plaintiffs in the lawsuit that
restored Black Starkville
teachers to their positions in
1972. The sth U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals observed that
the GRE was not shown to be
a reliable measure for testing
teaching competency, and,
the cut-off eliminated many
good teachers.
The Peterson and Reeves
matters were litigated as part
of that suit
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1974 Debutantes
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Black Augustan Wins in
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