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Vol. 4
Carrie Mays Makes History Again-
Secretary Os State Democrats
MACON-Augusta City
Councilwoman Carrie J. Mays
became the first Black woman
officer of the Georgia
Democratic Party Saturday.
The choice of Democratic
gubernatorial nominee George
Busbee for party secretary,
Mrs. Mays said she also believes
she is the first Black person,
man or woman to hold office
for the state party.
“As honored as 1 am,
though, 1 would step aside if 1
thought Mr. Busbee’s selection
of a Black woman for an
officer would hurt his chances
of being governor,” she stated.
“First and foremost I want
to see him elected Nov. 5.”
Mrs. Mays said one of the
things that has pleased her
most about the current trend
in the Democrats Party is its
efforts toward unity.
“One way this unification
and strengthening can be
accomplished is in its efforts to
involve more women and
minorities,” she stated.
“My hope is that in the next
Body
Missing:
$ 300,000
Suit Filed
A New York woman filed
suit in U.S. District Court in
Augusta Tuesday when the
body of her husband was
discovered missing after it had
been disinterred for removal
from one cemetery to another,
according to the suit.
Rosa Alexander is asking for
$300,000 in damages against
Theodore “Ted” Corley and
George Dickerson, doing
business at People’s Funeral
Home on Walton Way.
Mrs. Alexander lives in New
York and is the widow of
David Alexander Sr., who died
in October 1968, the suit says.
The suit alleges the body of
Alexander was shipped from
New York by train for burial in
Augusta and the train was met
by one or both of the
defendants.
Alexander was buried on
Nov. 1, 1968, in Southview
Cemetery, the suit claims.
According to the action,
“Ted Corley, one of the
defendants herein, suggested
that the family of the deceased
should purchase a vault for the
remains. At that time
arrangements were made with
him to purchase a vault at a
subsequent date and to have
the remains transferred to
it... 15 days later.”
Maybell Walker, a relative,
purchased the vault and was to
be present when the remains
were transferred, the suite
alleges.
When the woman came for
the transfer on an agreed upon
date, she was told the body
had been moved the previous
day, the action contends.
On July 9, 1973, Mrs.
Alexander, according to the
suit, decided to have the body
disinterred and transferred
from Southview to Walker
Memorial Cemetery on the
Gwinnett Street Extension.
She secured a permit to
transfer the vault, but when it
was opened only water was
found inside, the suit says.
The suit says, “That the
defendants through negligence,
have caused the deceased to be
four years we can see tl.is
done.”
In its convention Saturday,
Goergia Democrats adopted
new rules and regulations
aimed at increasing the
involvement of minorities in
party leadership.
Also provided for is the
election of national convention
delegates, rather than their
appointment by the governor
as has been the practice in the
past.
The party’s new
vice-chairman, Savannah
attorney Grady Dickey, also
expressed a hope for
unification and a cohesive
building of the party within
the next four years.
He said the party should
serve a twofold purpose: To
have, as he said it does now, a
feeling and spirit of friendliness
and fellowship, and as its
primatry objective a fulfillment
of public service to the people
of the state.
He said a strengthening of
Dick Gregory:
Nixon Fears CIA
“America is not afraid of
violence. They are afraid of
your morality,” Dick Gregory
said here Monday night as he
urged young people to get
involved in service to mankind,
but seek non-violent solutions
to today’s problems.
Speaking to several hundred
persons at the Medical College
of Georgia, the comedian and
civil rights activist said that
America is morally bankrupt
and its salvation depends on
young people.
The CIA, he said, has had a
hand in everything from
Watergate to the assassinations
of Malcolm X, Martin Luther
King, and the Kennedys.
“Nixon knows it. That’s
why he said that if he went
buried in a place other than
that authorized by the
plaintiff, and they, nor the
plaintiff do not know where
the deceased is buried.”
Funeral Director Corley told
The News-Review that grave
diggers at Southview Cemetery
apparently “lost” the original
grave.
About a month after the
burial, Corley said Mrs.
Alexander requested that her
husband be placed in a vault.
But the grave digger (identified
only as Mike) said he couldn’t
find the grave.
He later said he had found it.
Corley sent the vault and his
employe, who is now dead,
told him that “everything is
fixed.”
He said Mrs. Alexander was
shown the vault at the
cemetery and said she was
satisfied.
Corley said he thinks that
Mike never found the grave and
they just got together and
buried the empty vault.
Mike has since had a stroke
and his mind is “off,” Corley
said.
Asked about Ms. Walker’s
statements, he said he doesn’t
know her and never talked
with her.
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Mrs. Carrie J. Mays
into the hospital he’d never
come out,” Gregory said,
adding that while Nixon was in
the hospital all of his food and
drink were brought in directly
from San Clemente.
“E. Howard Hunt was
arrested in Dallas, disguised as
a bum, five minutes after John
Kennedy was shot.”
“G. Gordon Liddy shows up
on many of the photos of
Arthur Brimmer, who is
accused of shooting Alabama
Gov. George Wallace, as
Brimmer followed Wallace
around the country. Hunt and
Liddy were arrested at the
Watergate break-in. ”
Gregory chided President
Ford for “threatening” the
Arabs when American
Exchange Club
Contestant
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Miss Patrice Thomas
Portrice Bonita Thomas, a
junior at Lucy Laney High
School is the only Black
competing to become queen of
the Augusta Exchange Fair.
The contestants will be
judged on their beauty, poise,
congeniality and “ability to
enjoy a fair”. The queen will
be crowned Thursday night.
The winner will represent
the Exchange Club of Augusta
at the Georgia Association of
Fair Convention in Atlanta
later this year.
Miss Thomas, 16, is the
daughter of Mrs. Shirley
Nunally of 725 Demaret St.
Augusta, Georgia
companies Lave made up to
40% profit since the oil
shortage.
He lashed out at “moral”
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DICK GREGORY
leaders such as Nixon and
“Billy Graham-cracker," and
Gerald Ford.
The President will give
Nixon blanket pardon. And
when it comes to our kids who
said, “We aren’t going to
murder foryou anymore." then
he makes conditions, the
43-year-old Gregory charged.
Most young people are
concerned about bank
accounts and positions in life,
he noted.
“You’re playing games. But
you better play it hard and you
better play it fast because
recess is just about over."
Dr. Abernathy
Speaks
Here Sunday
SCLC President Dr. Ralph
David Abernathy will speak at
the 12tl: anniversary of the
Augusta Chapter of SCLC
Sunday night at 7:30
The program will be held at
the Macedonia Baptist Church
wsee the Rev. J.S. Wright,
president of the local SCLC
chapter, is pastor.
Man Shot To Death
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party rules and regulations is in
order to affectuate changes
needed.
Action was taken Saturday
providing for a charter
commission to write a charter
for the party. The charter is to
be aimed at making the
organization a more permanent
body that does not change
with each change in the state's
administration.
Mrs. Mays, an Augusta
funeral director, said this will
be the first office she has held
in the Democratic Party.
With two more years left in
her current term on city
council, she said she worked
for the election of Busbee in
the Democratic Primary and its
run off.
“I've been with him from
the beginning."
She said she looks forward
to the next four years as party
secretary, providing
newly-elected chairman Mrs.
Marge Thurman of Atlanta
“doesn’t work me to death.”
Seeks McDuffie Co.
School Board Seat
Clara West, a retired Fort
Valley State College professor,
is the first Black woman to
seek a seat on the McDuffie
County Board of Education.
The election will be held Nov.
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MRS. CLARA WEST
Mrs. West places special
emphasis on the worth of every
child, “Basic values of good
living should be ‘taught and
caught in times like these.' ”
“Accountability is essential
for upward-downward
communication.
“Each board member must
be sensitive and responsive to
needs of children, teachers, and
employees.
“Each board member should
face his own credibility as a
trustee of our children’s
education," she said.
A first-honor graduate at
Paine College, she holds the
master's degree from Atlanta
University with further study
at Wayne State, and Indiana
University and the University
of Chicago.
She has taught at the
elementary, high school and
college levels. For 10 years, she
served as jeanes supervisor in
McDuffie County schools.
She has served as an
instructor at Paine College, a
consultant to Chatham County
elementary schools,
acting-state consultant of
elementary schools, director of
supervision workshop, Atlanta
University; president of the
Georgia Regional and National
Jeanes Association, and
associate professor of
education and acting chairman
of the Division of Education at
Fort Valley State College.
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MEMBER OF CLASS OF 1910
Mrs. Effie Jones Williams of the Paine College class of 1910 was visiting in
Augusta this week as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Canute M. Richardson.
Mrs. Williams (extreme left) is pictured with (L-R) Mrs. Ruby Jenkens, Mrs.
Josephine Richardson and Mrs. Matlie Braxton.
Publisher
Buried
LOUISVILLE
(NNPA)--Impressive funeral
services were held here
Tuesday before a packed
audience at Zion Baptist
Church for Frank L. Stanley,
Sr., editor-publisher of the
By—
FRANK L. STANLEY
award-winning Louisville
Defender.
Stanley suffered a heart
attack at his 38th Annual
Black Expo here in Convention
Center Friday evening and died
a short time later at Jewish
Hospital.
Among those who delivered
eulogies were: Dr. Carlton B.
Goodlett, editor-publisher of
the San Francisco Sun
Reporter and president of the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association of which Stanley
was a founding member and
three times its president.
Dr. Walter Washington,
president of Alcorn A&M
College and national president
of the Alpha Phi Alpha
fraternity which the publisher
once headed; civil rights lawyer
Wiley Branton of Washington;
Lyman Johnson who followed
him as English teacher at
Central High; and the Rev.
Jonathan N. Robinson, pastor
of Zion.
The honorary pallbearers
included: Dr. Whitney A.
Young. Sr., father of the late
Urban League head; former
Sen. John Sherman Cooper of
Kentucky; John H. Sengstacke,
editor-publisher of the Chicago
Daily Defender chain; and
Attorney Wilson Wyatt, former
mayor of Louisville and a top
government official in the
Truman administration.
Stanley was born in Chicago
on April 6, 1906. Six years
later, his parents moved here
where he attended elementary
and high school and then went
off to Atlanta University.
October 31. 1974 No. 32
EDITORIAL
Endorsements
The Nov-. 5 general election is of vital importance to
all citizens. ? 1 '
We recommend the following: L ,
Governor - George Busbee
County Commission - Edward Mclntyre and Donald
Neal.
Mclntyre has been exceptional in his contributions to
the commission and to tin* citizens ot Richmond
County. His actions initiating the coliseum, the state Hall
of Fame, are indicative ol the foresight he lias
demonstrated in providing for long range benefits for
Richmond Counlians and Georgians alike. Ills street
paving programs certainly cannot go unoliced. He has
indeei. been “everybody’s commissioner.
Donald Neal iias been equally diligent in his work and
has served Richmond County well. Although his
opponent is well qualified, we feel that Neal should be
re-elected.
While the Black community has been sorely
dissapointed in Madison Woo, we do not have sufficient
information to allow us to recommend Jenkins.
In the hoard of education race, we are endorsing only
one candidate - Verlyn Bell, director of the Bethlehem
Community Center. He is capable, well qualified and,
we believe, w ill do an excellent job.
Os tire Constitutional amendments on the ballot that
are of particular interest to Richmond County, we favor
amendments 10, 73, and 74. We are opposed to <5.
Amendment 75 would allow for consolidation of the
city and countv on a simple majority of thevotescast in
Richmond County. Presently, a majority is required in
both city and the county.
Since each of the consolidation efforts presented so
far have been very detrimental to the interests of the
Black community, we would urge you not to do
anything that would increase the chances of
consolidation. We should look at each consolidation
charter on its own merits, maintaining maximum
possibility to defeat it if we find the charter
unsatisfactory. We urge you to punch No. 137 and vote
(NO). Amendment 10 would enable the city to increase
parking centers and issue bonds for that purpose.
Amendment 73 would allow the county commission to
allocate funds for promotional purposes, benefiting such
as the I SO, historical organizations, the civic center and
the Bicentennial Celebration.
Amendment No. 74 is an incentive measure to attract
new industry and to encourage the expansion of existing
local industry. This will provide new jobs and
construction work. It provides a five year exemption
from all county Ad Valorem taxes, except school tax
and property tax, provided that capitol improvements
are SI million or more.
There he majored in English
and became star quarterback
and captain of the football
team. He also starred in
baseball and basketball.
He continued his education
at the University of
Cincinnnati and Columbia.
Before entering journalism he
headed the English department
of Jackson State College of
Mississippi and coached the
football team. Later, he
returned to Louisville and
taught English and coached at
2oe
Central High School.
In 1936, Stanley took
over the three-year-old
Lousiville Defender and made
it into one of the most
influential Black newspapers in
America. Under his leadership,
it won 92 state and national
awards, including the
Russwurm Award last June.
This is the highest honor
bestowed by NNPA, an
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