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Vol. 4
Mclntyre Says He Raised Money For
Tappan’s Defense, Would Do It Again
County Commissioner
Edward Mclntyre told the
News-Review he has solicited
funds for the legal defense of
City Councilman Aaron
Tappan, and that he would do
it again if necessary.
Tappan has been indicted on
charges of official misconduct.
Mclntyre said a series of
articles printed in the daily
newspapers were aimed at
discrediting him just before the
Nov. 5 election. “I see nothing
wrong with me or anybody else
being concerned about helping
a man who has made a
contribution to the communitv
at least having legal counseling
in the situation.
“There might have been
something else on the minds of
the people who printed those
articles. I've been told that
somebody has been
investigating me trying to find
that maybe I’ve been involved
in something shady so it could
be used against me prior to the
election. Apparently they
couldn’t find anything so they
had to use what they could’’,
Tutt Grocery Robbed Os $2700
Tutts Grocery, 1612
Savannah Road was robbed
Friday night of $2700.
In an interview with the
owner Rossevelt Tutt, the
News-Review learned that 2
men wearing masks jumped
over the store's back fence and
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BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE-Eight of the nation’s top civil rights leaders shared
their views with President Ford at the White House recently. With the President in the Cabinet Room are, left to
right: Dr. Carlton Goodlet, President of the National Newspaper Publishers Association; Mrs. Pauline Ellison, %
national President of LINKS; Stanley S. Scott, Special Assistant to the President: President Ford, Vernon Jordan,
Executive Director of the National Urban League; Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of PUSH; John Marsh, Counsellor to
the President; Dr. Leon Sullivan, Founder and Chairman ot the Board oi OICs; Clarence Mitchell, head oi the
Washington office of the NAACP; Miss Dorothy Height, President of the National Council of Negro Women: and
Bayard Rustin, Executive Director of the A. Phillip Randolph Institute.
President Ford Confirms Support
For Nation’s Minority Business
ATLANTA, GA-The Ford
Administration has confirmed
its support for the nation’s
minority businesses.
Stanley S. Scott, Special
Assistant to the President, told
the National Business League's
Annual Convention here that
President Ford “supports
minority business as a vehicle
to enable minorities to
participate in the mainstream
of America’s economic life.”
Scott added, “this
Administration will work
toward providing more
effective programs to achieve
Mclntyre said.
He was re-elected to the
board of commissioners
Tuesday.
Mclntyre said he had done
nothing shady, and added,
“Anything I do is above board.
I have done nothing to be
ashamed of about my
involvement with Aaron
Tappan fund raising.
Anything I’ve done is from the
heart. I’m not trying to hurt
anybody, I’m trying to help.
I’ll do it again if 1 have to.” I
think 1 have a history of trying
to help people when they need
it. It’s my way of life, It’s my
style.”
A committee of Blacks have
organized, he said, to raise
money for Tappan’s defense.
Rather than a mass fund raising
effort, the committee asked
selected people to contribute.
Mclntyre said he approached
the two city councilmen -
Carrie J. Mays and B.L. Dent.
He said he asked Mrs. Mays to
attend a meeting to discuss the
Tappan situation, and she said
she could not. Dent was asked
entered through the back door.
The robbers and Tutt tussled
for a while until the robbers
pushed him down and secured
his hands behind him, said
Tutt.
One of the robbers then
pointed a pistol to Tutt's head.
these ends.”
The Presidential Aide said
that members of the Cabinet
would receive a letter from
President Ford “stressing his
committment to federal
minority business programs.”
According to Scott, “Cabinet
members will be requested to
examine their department’s
minority business programs to
increase their effectiveness.”
President Ford recently
signed into law measures that
will permit the Small Business
Administration (SBA) to offer
P.O. Box 953
to contribute but said he did
not want to get involved.
“I asked these two persons
not because they were
councilmen, but because they
were Black, and there was a
brother in trouble. They were
leading citizens who could
probably afford to help a
man.”
Mclntyre said other
councilmen became involved
after he “vaguely mentioned”
to first ward councilman Hugh
Cross that funds were being
raised to help Tappan. Cross
reportedly responded that he
would like to help and that he
felt all other councilmen would
too. He said he would take it
upon himself to ask them.
More than S 1,000 has been
raised, Mclntyre said, and
every dime of it came from the
Black community.
Two city councilmen, M.L.
Dewitt and W. Penland
Mayson, did contribute S2O
each. But the money was
returned when it was felt that
the effort to aid Tappan could
be misconstrued and turned
The records at the Augusta
Police Records Bureau stated
that one of the robbers went to
the counter and removed a
brown paper bag containing
the money and indicated that
they knew where the money
was hidden.
Tutt stated that the robbers
loans to business adversely
affected by energy shortages.
NBL President Berkley G.
Burrell and Thomas Gomez of
the National Economic
Development group briefed
President Ford and his
economic and domestic policy
advisors on the problems facing
small and minority. Scott said
that the Office of
Management and Budget
(OMB) is coordinating efforts
of SBA and the Office of
Minority Business Enterprise in
a view of the difficulties now
being faced by small and
Augusta, Georgia
into a political issue.
Mclntyre said he did not
Richmond County Election Results
The Democrats captured all
three Richmond County Board
of Commissioners seats on
Tuesday’s ballots, with an
unexpectedly heavy turnout of
voters sending two incumbents
and one challenger to the
commission.
A straight Democratic vote
in Richmond County at least
partially accounted for the
wide margins between the
three r : ected Democrats,
Harrell S Tiller, Edward M.
Mclntyre and Donald C. Neal,
and their Republican
opposition.
The unofii. sal final tally was
Tiller, 15,528, to incumbent
Madison T. Woo’s 11,016;
Mclntyre, 15,018 to Preston
did not know where the money
was and asked him to tell them
but he refused. The robbers
then began ransacking tne
counter until the money was
found. They made no attempt
to open the cash register.
The robbers then fled
through the front door.
minority businesses. The White
House Aide said “the
difficulties of inflation, tight
money, and material shortages
will be examined.”
“Proposals submitted by Dr.
Burrell and Mr. Gomez are
being considered to ease the
pressure on small business,”
Scott said.
President Ford has promised
regular meetings to focus on
this segment of the economy,
according to the top ranking
Black on the White House
staff.
Tutt Grocery
Robbed Os $2700
solicit money from city
councilmen.
Again referring to the
Sizemore’s 12,201; and Neal,
14,327 to Joe Kelly’s 12,193.
Out of 28,795 votes cast,
7,878, a little more than
one-fourth, were straight
Democratic tickets and 1,980
were straight Republican
tickets.
The percentage margins for
the three commission races
were Tiller, 58.4 per cent and
Woo, 41.5 per cent; Mclntyre,
55.1 per cent and Sizemore,
44.8 per cent; and Neal 54.0
per cent and Kelly, 45.9 per
cent.
An eight year veteran of the
school board, Mrs. Anne C.
“Bootsie" Calhoun, became
the first woman ever elected to
state office from Richmond
County Tuesday by defeating
veteran Rep. Matthew W.
Mulherin by a 49-vote margin.
Reps. R.A. Dent and Jack
Connell were unopposed for
re-election, picking up 2,889
and 2,506 ballots, respectively.
Rep. H. William Sams Jr.
defeated Democrat Henry R.
Smith. 3,623-1,749. Sams
captured 67.4 per cent of the
90th District vote.
Scott 'New Day’
For Paine College
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DR. JULIUS S. SCOTT
“Tell the pessimists and the
doubters to get out of the way.
There is going to be a new day
for Paine College and we are
all going to be a part of that
future,” Dr. Julius S. Scott said
in his first address to the
college since being named
president of the college last
month.
Speaking during the Monday
assembly hour. Dr. Scott
declined to speak from the
rostum. He said he wanted to
talk “informally” this time.
“There will be time enough
later to impress you with my
erudition."
The president of a college or
university. Dr. Scott said,
stands in the awkward position
of having to represent
simultaneously the board of
trustees which appointed him
and the students and faculty
who depend on him as their
voice on that board.
“Some presidents are out of
touch with students," he said,
adding in a tone of irony that
his own teenage children
“make it a point to keep me up
to date."
A president. Dr. Scott
said, must, at the same time
he’s listening to students, be
“senstive, flexible and
knowledgeable about his
faculty,” who in turn must act
to challenge their students, he
articles in the daily papers, he
said, “This was political. We
need to clean up politics.”
Rep. Bernard F. Miles swept
the 86th District with 62 per
cent of the ballots cast,
defeating Republican
challenger H. Samuel “Chip”
Atkins, 2,533-1,547.
Incumbent Republican Rep.
Robert C. Beckham won his
second term representing the
89th District be receiving 52.3
\ per cent of the ballots cast.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wooten
and Verlyn C. Bell will be
pitted against each other in a
runoff for the hotly contested
Seventh Ward seat and William
T McKettrick beat Mrs. Helen
Y Green for the Sixth Ward
pest in Tuesday’s Richmond
County Board of Education
ract
Ii < unofficial final tallies,
Mrs? Wooten racked up 5.738
vote-, 32.9 per cent, and Bell
tooK 4,071, 23.3 per cent.
One of the four candidates
i» the Seventh Ward needed to
win 50 per cent plus a single
tote to be declared the victor
m the race, according to
County Board of
/Elections Executive Director
/ Mrs. Linda Beazlev.
said.
“I can’t take any posture
(concerning a particular issue)
before 1 listen,” he said. After
he listens and “tries to learn,”
Dr. Scott said, “then 1 must
move based on our best
interests.”
The new president said,
however, that he doesn’t plan
to approach those looking him
for leadership in a completely
neutral frame of mind.
“An open mind is zilch in
this day and time,” he said. “1
must have convictions.”
But Dr. Scott promised to
keep iiis door open to anyone -
not just administrators, but
faculty and students as well -
who need to see him. That
policy, iie said, would include
at least one day a week when
tl.ose seeking an audience with
him could walk in without an
appointment.
“One of the big things I’m
going to miss here that I had in
other jobs is availability to
students,” he said.
“I've been offered other jobs
- some of which I turned down,
some of which turned me
down.” the new president said.
“But if I weren’t confident of
Paine's future, 1 wouldn't be
here.
“I want you to understand
this. I want your cooperation,”
Dr. Scott said.
“On Jan. 1, a new year
begins,” he said. “I hope that
on Jan. 1. a new era will begin
as well.”
Dr. Scott’s appearance at the
morning assembly in
Gilbert-Lambuth Memorial
Chapel was sandwiched
between a round of metings
with administrators, a board of
trustees committee and a
visiting panel looking over the
school's education degree
programs.
He returned to his home in
Atlanta Monday afternoon.
November 7, 1974 No. 33 20C
EDITORIAL
Pillar Os Freedom
We are very happy to salute the CSRA Business
League as it celebrates its annual Awards Banquet
Friday night.
While Blacks have increasingly begun to make strides
politically, we must make corresponding progress
economically. As we strive for freedom, we must keep
in mind that freedom means independence. And we will
never be free as long as we have to depend on other
groups to produce our goods and services.
We must develop our economic resources so that we
can produce goods so that money stays in our
community rather than constantly flowing out of our
community. Black people or any other people will never
be free until we own our own businesses and produce
for ourselves. Anything less is to be depedent upon
somebody else. And when you’re dependent, you're not
free.
The CSRA Business League is in the business of
helping minority businesses acquire money to develop
businesses that will allow us to become self-sufficient.
The business league provides management and
technical assistance to its members, recognizing that
many of us are in business for the first time and lack the
mangerial training necessary to have a successful
business.
And for businesses that are doing well, the league
makes available loans so they can expand and do an
even better job.
Those attending the Awards Banquet Friday night
will be in for a real treat as Benjamin Hooks, the only
Black on the FCC, will be the speaker. He is a dynamic
and challenging speaker who will inspire the league and
its members to even greater heights.
We must ail support the business league. Our freedom
depends on it.
Mrs. Leola Black Retires
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Pilgrim President W.S. Hornsby Jr. presents watch to
Mrs. Leola Black.
The Pilgrim Health and Life
Insurance Co. last week
announced the retirement of
Mrs. Leola Black.
Mrs. Black came to the
company in 1944.
She is a member of Antioch
Baptist Church where she
serves on numerous auxiliaries.
She also serves in a variety of
Business League
Award Nominees
The CSRA Business League
will hold its annual Awards
Banquet Friday night.
The following is a list of
nominees:
Business Woman of the
Year: Ann Olds, Wishbone
Fried Chicken, 2160 Club,
Charlie’s Bar; Helen Abrams,
Wig Fashions by Helen; Carrie
Mays, Mays Mortuary.
Businessman of the year:
Mason Boler, Wife Saver; James
Sturgis, Shell; Milton Williams,
Williams Quick Chek; John
Swint, Swint’s Dept Store; L.B.
Wallace, Wallace Real Estate;
William Johnson, Union 76.
Business Most Likely to
Abernathy Says
He Won’t Resign
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
President Dr. Ralph David
Abernathy told local SCLC
members, “1 hope you will
soon be out of business
because justice will be in
business. But stay in business
as long as injustice is in the
land.”
Abernathy spoke here
Sunday at the 12th anniversary
of the local SCLC chapter.
He dispelled rumors that he
community affairs.
Pilgrim President W.S.
Hornsby Jr. said at the
retirement ceremony, “She was
an excellent employe, and I
hope that her retirement will
be filled with good health and
happiness."
Mrs. Black is the widow of
the late Haywood Black.
Succeed; Supreme Fashions,
Richmond Building and
Plumbing Supply Co.; Nita’s,
Wig Fashions by Helen;
International Formal Wear; and
Pride Auto Sales.
Financial Institution Most
Responsive to Minority
Financial Needs: Georgia
Railroad Bank; First National
Bank;C&S Bank ; First Augusta
State Bank; and Pilgrim
Insurance Co.
Busmess Most Supportive of
Minority Enterprises: John H.
Ruffin, Jr.; Rilgrim Health &
Life Insurance Co.; Hector
Sheppard & Co.; WJBF TV;
and WRDW TV.
may resign his SCLC position.
He said he has no intentions of
resigning, “As long as there is a
pharoah, I’m going to be
standing in his court telling
him to let my people go. The
way to get rid of me is to get
rid of Pharoah.”
A Service Award was
presented to City
Councilwoman Carrie J. Mays,
and the local SCLC chapter
will later present a Humane
Award to singer James Brown.