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Evers’ Defense Rally Slated
For Saturday, Sept. 14
I FAYETTE, MISSISSIPPI -
Supporters of Fayette Mayor
■Charles Evers announced today
It he kick-off event for a support
land defense fund for Evers on
■Saturday, September 14, at
2:00 p.m. in the Jackson City
Auditorium.
According to a spokesman
for the support group, several
Mississippi luminaries will be
on hand to voice their support
for Evers, including: Dr. Aaron
Henry, state president,
Mississippi Conference of the
NAACP; C.C. Bryant,
McComb; Father William J.
Morrissey, Fayette; Dr. Gilbert
Mrs. Pitts Accepts New Post,
Discusses Life Without Dr. Pitts
Mrs. Dafferneeze Eleanor
Pitts, wife of the late Dr.
Lucius Pitts, past president of
Paine College, began working
last week as the director of
Alumni Affairs for the college.
Mrs. Pitts granted the
News-Review an interview this
week wherein she talked about
her new job and about life
without Dr. Pitts.
Work is not new for her. She
worked all of her married life
except the three years in
Augusta while Dr. Pitts was
president of Paine. She
accepted the new position
because of her “really strong
desire to serve the alumni” and
she said she hopes that Dr.
Pitts’ name will serve as a
rallying .force among alumni.
Then, half jokingly, she added
a third reason - financial.
Dr. Pitts, she said, gave away
all of their money to other
causes.
She sees her biggest
challenge as getting alumni to
conscientiously try to support
their college. “I want to
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Work Incentive Graduation - sixteen members of the Work Incentive Graduate
Class at the U.S. Army Medical Center recently completed their 13-week cqurse as
Nurses Aides. The course consisted of Basic Nursing Procedures which included
pressure point techniques, temperature taking, bedside bathing, transporting
patients, and bed making. The Work Incentive Course is under the supervision of the
Georgia Labor Department and is designed to assist people who are without a trade
to secure employment. The graduates are left to right, (front row) S. Seals, W. Jones,
W. Rouse, J. Dent 2nd row - A. Reese, V. Willis, M. Rouse, J. Boatwright 3rd row -
D. Jones, J. Dorsey, Mary Brown, Minnie Brown. Back row - E. Mitchell, B. Hicks,
A. Sherman, M. Choice.
Mason, Biloxi; Charles Young
and Rev. Cliarles Johnson,
both of Meridian.
Evers, the first Black man
elected mayor of a bi-racial
town in the South, was last
month indicted on three
counts of federal income tax
evasion but has repeatedly
maintained that he is innocent,
claiming that the IRA is
“trying to break me financially
and break me politically.”
A similar rally, sponsored by
the Meridian Action
Committee, is slated for
Sunday, September 8, at 3:00
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MRS. DAFFERNEEZE ELEANOR PITTS
revitalize a large group of
alumni so as to come to the
close of the year with a real
view of how we look to
ourselves and to the nation.”
Much of the money given to
colleges by foundations, she
said, is based on alumni
contributions.
P.O. Box 953
CHARLES EVERS
p.m. in Meridian.
The general public is invited
to attend; there is no admission
fee. For more information,
contact Kenn D. Cockrell or
Marge Baroni at (601)
786-8591.
Photo by James Stewart
Mrs. Pitts said she has found
nothing that would suggest
that Dr. Pitts expected an
untimely death. He was aware,
however, that he had a number
of ailments, and that any one of
them could have contributed
to an untimely death.
“We always talked in terms
Roosevelt Green Directs
University Os Ga.
Learning Center
Roosevelt Green, instructor
at the University of Georgia
School of Social Work, has,
been named director of a
learning center which has been
established in Augusta.
The center will provide
students with practical social
work experience and offer
assistance to needy people.
Sponsored by the University
of Georgia, the center, located
in the Augusta Youth
Development Center, will
operate with a $42,792 grant
from the U.S. Department of
Health, Education and
Welfare’s Social Resources
Service and a $14,065 grant
from the university.
Dr. Charles Stewart, dean of
of longevity, about his
retirement. He wanted to
buy some farmland, and he
knew I didn’t like the country.
“He always talked about
going home to Jones County
and building a home on the
land from whence he came.”
At Dr. Pitts’ death, the
family was remarkably
composed. Nineteen-year-old
John Eugene, the youngest of
the Pitts children, gave an
extraordinary eulogy at the
funeral.
“John was, I think, our
staying power without his
knowing it,” Mrs. Pitts said.
“He kept saying ‘Daddy taught
us to be strong in the face of
whatever happened. It was his
daily teaching. We have no
need to be weak.’ It was almost
impossible to break down.”
Dr. Pitts' death still has not
had its final impact on the
family. “He was away so often
that we feel like he’s just
caught a plane and gone off on
another trip. I still find myself
saving things to tell him.”
Contract Signed
To Rebuild
Haygood Hall
A contract was signed last
week to begin the
reconstruction of Haygood
Hall, according to acting
President Dr. Canute M.
Richardson.
The federal government is
lending the college $1.5 million
based on the community's
raising the initial $500,000.
The sum was raised primarily
through pledges to the “Build
It Back” campaign. About
$300,000 of that has been
collected. The white
community raised $400,000
and the Black community
SIOO,OOO.
The date for groundbreaking
has not been determined, and
it is estimated that
construction will take V/2
years.
The four-story facility will
house academic classes and
administrative offices.
It is uncertain at this
moment if the new Haygood
Hall will have the steeple that
distinguished the original.
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the university’s School of
Social Work, said the center
will work in cooperation with
the Augusta agencies which
handle child welfare, public
assistance, corrections, mental
retardation and services for the
aging.
University graduate students
at the center will work as
interns with the cooperating
Augusta agencies. Stewart said
the center will provide students
with valuable field experience,
and will also privde assistance
and manpower to / the
cooperating agencies.
The students, who must
complete nine months of field
work as part of the
requirement for a master’s
degree, will attend one class
daily in addition to handling
duties with the various
agencies. Stewart said students
may divide their internship
between two or more agencies
in order to gain experience
working with different kinds of
problems.
“This is a very unusual kind
of concept,” the dean said.
“Previously, our own students’
field experience was
campus-based, and presently,
no other colleges in the state
have an exact duplication of
the learning-service center
system.”
Green has served as a
News-Review columnist since
1971, and is the pastor of the
Second Shiloh Baptist Church.
He formerly pastored Beulah
Grove Baptist.
He was manager of the
Opportunities Industrialization
Center here from 1969-1970.
Green graduated from Paine
College, earned the Master of
Divinity at the
Interdenominational
Theological Center
(Morehouse), the Master of
Social Work from the
University of Georgia, and is
working on a doctorate in
public administration at the
University of Georgia.
Among his published works
are: (1) “A Descriptive Study
of Boys Readmitted to the
Augusta, Georgia Youth
Development Center during
Fiscal Year 1968”, (Master’s
thesis); (2) “Black Religion:
Implication for Black Social
Workers”;(3)Systems Change:
Implications tor Social Workers
and Organizations”.
He is married to the former
Deioris Philpot. They reside at
2315 Shadowood Dr. with
their four daughters.
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Augusta, Georgia
Twenty-one-year-old Dennis
Brewer has been a Pizza Inn
manager for just 3 months, and;
already, his establishment is
ranked number one in the
Southeast. The company has
rewarded him with a two-week
vacation (for two) any where
he wants to go next year. He
will spend the vacation in
Hawaii.
How does he explain his
instant success? Good food.
Decor that looks more like a
fancy restaurant than a pizza
hut, pretty waitresses, soft
lights and a high quality stereo
with an elaborate speaker
system.
The Pizza Inn, 1648 Gordon
Highway, is also the first to
have such a high percentage of
Black employes -- 17 of 20 or
85%.
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Secretary of State Ben W. Fortson recently presented Carl E. Reese of Augusta
with The Faithful Service Award for 10 years of service as inspector of business
relations for the Barber Board Unit of the State Examining Boards.
Appointed to the position by former Gov. Carl Sanders, Reese is the owner hnd
operator of Reese’s Tonsorial Parlor on 12th St.
He is married to the former Alice Jones. They have one daughter, Mrs. Jacqueline
Trower, and one granddaughter, Keisha. A member of the Antioch Baptist Church,
he lives at 1636 15th St., and is a mason, Banneker Lodge.
21-Year-Old Businessman
Number One In The Southeast
State Honors
Carl Reese
September 12, 1974 No. 25
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The Lavonia, Ga. native says
he had no special training in
business management. He
began as a part-time employe
in Athens in 1972. By 1973, he
was assistant manager and by
the third quarter of that year,
that establishment was ranked
no. 3 in the Southeast. At the
end of May, he was assigned to
the new Pizza Inn in Augusta,
and as of last week, that
establishment became the no. 1
ranked Pizza Inn in the
Southeast.
The ratings are based on
sales and cost balance.
Inspite of his success in the
Pizza business. Brewer plans to
enroll at the Medical College of
Georgia in the Spring. He
wants to become a surgeon.
“Nothing is going to get in the
way of my education,” he says.
Pizza Inn has arranged that
he will continue to work as a
consultant for the company
after he has completed his
degree in medicine.