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Paine Signs Contract To F ' '' "aygood Hall AUGUSTA,' GA 30901 „ ww4RpttiPtti kl£k I „„„ THE PEOPLE’S PAPER MUE®/ fl NATIONAL BLACK NEWS SERVICE U J] MEMBER XX _ S/ bl. 4 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 WIN Graduation I. 'J 1 ' \ Ir ’ 1 f iMjlb • f • H/ ® r< I to f t 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 I i —sssk 1 < » * I i 'i } 1 /aririaß 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. OVElini A HNWIS MIBKW ATBWBUIMB MLUHFW. TBVMTE. NNPA Head Urges President Ford To Appoint A Black To His Cabinet Utf \£t / •* i rw Iroosevelt green 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. Deadline Mondays, Please 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%. R . 0 * I n ■rn ■ ■MK IfIHK siftJfl ■Ay Mgn m— fl ' • t * a : ’ A 1 • T J ■ j/ 1111 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 I UJ 1 7 ' DENNIS BREWER 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.