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Lee Elder First Black Golfer To Get Masters Invitation SEE STORY ON PAGE 6 Augusta Nms-ißwmii A Vol. 4 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 | NATIONAL BLACK NEWS SLAVICS MEMBER 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 P.O. Box 953 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 THE PEOPLE’S PAPER 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. I WSJBI’E Fit LT O Jack and Jill, Inc. Regional Director Mrs. Grace W y all leads Augusta chapter Work Conference held Saturday al T.W. Josey High School. (See related story page 3) 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 I*' "11. ' * -i • v * W». JF, '■HL *l2*,, flMgB |q *' I J 'Vj| 2- S j v ”- * K/ u " 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 20 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 lln I I this I g Issue I 1974 Debutantes P. 2 Black Augustan Wins in National Karate Competition P. 6