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Girl’s Throat Slashed
In Lenox Theatre Murder
THE PEOPLE’S PAPER r
Vol. 4
Community Urged To Contribute
Christmas Comes In November
For Loretta Evans
The Christmas season is a
time of great joy. But this year,
Christmas will come a bit early
for 18-year-old Loretta Evans.
Her special day will be Nov.
25.
Loretta has leukemia.
County Commissioner
Edward Mclntyre and the
Sister Austin WRDW Young
People’s Choir are sponsoring a
big gospel extravaganza in her
honor. Loretta sings alto in the
choir. She has been singing
since she was six, and a
member of the Sister Austin
Choir since she was 12.
A program in her honor, she
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Gary Swint (left) serves as tour guide for legislators, county commissioners and library board
directors. A tour and luncheon were held Monday to better aquaint law makers with the library's
problems. Pictured (L-R) Harold Tiller, Jack Connell, William Dent, Al Irby, Walter Schlapp and
Madison Woo.
Girl Murdered In Lenox Theatre
Louise Harris of 1012 Carrie
St. was found murdered
Sunday in the Lenox Theatre,
1120 9th St.
A minor stated he was
walking along 9th Street and
looked in the Lenox Theatre
through an open door. He saw
an unknown woman lying in a
pool of blood and ran to call
the police.
Give An NAACP Membership
Editorial
Once again, it is NAACP Membership Drive time. Gloster
Current, director of branches and field administration, is
appealing for 100,000 new members in 1974. This •> ou.d bring
the total enrollment up to 500,000.
Why not give your friends NAACP memberships for Christmas?
If you would, the total membership could reach a million or
more. And even this number is less than five per cent of our Black
population of 25 million.
Through the years, about 400,000 Black and white NAACP
members have carried the responsibility for enfranchisment,
school integration, and desegregation of places of public
accommodation, and the expansion of job opportunities as part
of the long NAACP legal battle for freedom and equality of
opportunity for all. But the NAACP freeloaders have talked civil
rights and shamelessly shared in all the benefits, while keeping
the $4 membership fee in their pocket.
Each of us is deeply indebted to the NAACP for the gains we
have made. However, once again, those gains which were so
painfully won are under seige. Bigotry rears its ugly head in
Boston. The barbarians who stone the buses and beat Black men,
while shouting racial epithets are the descendants of refugees who
fled tyranny and famine to seek freedom in a new land.
There is a hidden issue of racism in the campaign to bar certain
textbooks and library books from West Virginia schools. Despite
the laws already enacted, both the government and the private
sector persist in finding ways to circumvent them in the areas of
housing and employment.
The administration of equal justice under law continues to be
thwarted. Blacks and other minorities are still being snort
changed and frustrated in the blessings of democracy. Too many
of us have been lulled into a false sense of security. Sleepers
awake! The time is now to join the NAACP. Freedom is more
than a word. Your membership is an investment in the .future.
Let’s make that goal a million members in 74. Don t be a
freeloader. Join yourself and give a membership for Christmas.
Can you think of a better gift to give?
said, would have to be in the
church and include lots of
singing. The programs will be
held at Tabernacle Baptist
Church on Nov. 25.
The mayor has proclaimed
Nov. 25 Loretta Evans Day.
“I love to sing. I love to
travel, and I love the church.
That’s the main thing,” she
said, explaining her unusual
devotion to the choir.
Funds raised at the concert
will be used to help finance a
two-day trip to Disney World
for her, her grandmother, Mrs.
Ethel Davis, and Mrs. Alice
Dunn, her choir directress.
Police found the woman had
been injuried at the east end of
the stage of the theatre and
that the body had been
dragged to the edge of the
stage and pushed over the edge
to the floor.
Medical examinations
revealed that the throat of
Louise Harris had been cut
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Loretta is looking forward
to Disney World, but not to
the jet that will take them
there. She makes it clear she
wants no part of that airplane.
But she says she’ll go “if you
go with me, grandmama.”
Loretta will leave for Disney
World Nov. 26 and return on
Thanksgiving Day.
Mclntyre said he wanted to
involve himself in helping
Loretta because of her illness
and because he learned that she
lives with a fatherless family of
six in a poverty environment.
“It is my hope that this servant
of God will have the privilege
three or more times with a
sharp instrument.
She was taken to University
Hospital where she was
pronounced dead on arrival.
The victim was later
identified by her brother,
Robert Kelly Jr., of 1012
Carrie St. Kelly stated his sister
had been missing since
Thursday.
Millender Named To Georgia
Hall Os Fame Commission
Mallory K. Millender,
editor-publisher of The
New-Review and an instructor
at Paine College, has been
appointed to the Georgia Hall
of Fame selection board.
The appointment was made
last week by the county
commission.
Others appointed by the
Four Blacks Elected To
Planned Parenthood Board
Four Blacks were elected to
the board of directors of
Planned Parenthood last week.
They are Mr. and Mrs.
William Dent, Mrs. Mattie
Lawson and Herman Harris.
The new directors are Mrs.
Donald Abele and Dr. Thomas
Mills.
The work of Mrs. Ocie
Johnson and the Community
Outreach workers was highly
praised Os the original group
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of enjoying just a few of the
many material things that the
Lord has provided in this great
land of ours,” he said.
Persons wishing to
contribute may contact
Mclntyre at the Pilgrim Health
& Life Insurance Co. or bring
their donations to the concert.
Richard Oliver Kills
Wife And Another Man
An Augusta man was
charged in a double murder
Sunday after he allegedly
shot his wife and another man.
Officers were called to 110
Reiser Court where they found
Ronnie Bogan of East View
Apts, or 601 Wallace St. lying
face down on the floor of a
bedroom with his feet
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MALLORY K. MILLENDER
commissioners were Dr.
Richard R. Clifford, former
chairman of the Richmond
County Board of
Commissioners; Dr. R.E.
Parrish, an Augusta dentist;
James E. Woo, an Augusta
pharmacist; and Dr. Edward
Cashin, chairman of the
Augusta College history
of eight women who received
the training as counselors in
1969 and 1970, five are still
working for Planned
Parenthood. Twenty-two
thousand two hundred
twenty-two home visits have
been made in the past year.
Many women have been
assisted in getting to the
County Health Department
Family Planning Clinic by the
Counsellors transporting them
Woman Shotgunned To Death
After Argument About Her Cooking
Verlyn Bell’s Daughter
Target Os Kidnap Attempt?
Verlyn Bell, still a hopeful in
the 7th Ward board of
education runoff, told The
News-Review that his daughter
was the victim of an apparent
kidnap attempt on election
day.
According to Bell, a Black
male went to the A. Brian
Merry school, entered his
daughter’s classroom and told
the teacher he came to pick up
Sheri Bell. He said that her
parents had authorized him to
underneath the bed. A black
leather coat was lying over the
bottom part of his body and he
was fully dressed.
Bogan had been shot one
time in 'the "forehead and was
still breathing.
Mrs. Mary Lou Smith Oliver
of 1106 Mercier St. was found
in a sitting position in the
department.
The county’s five appointees
will join five appointees by the
city of Augusta and five by
Gov. Jimmy Carter on the
selection board.
The Hail of Fame will be
located in Augusta. The
appointees will be sworn in at
the state capitol at a later date.
in their own cars.
Mrs. Emily Young, director
of the Community Education
Project, showed a locally
developed film to the officers
and directors and guests at the
Annual meeting. Use of these
films for showing at civic and
church groups is free, and Mrs.
Young may be contacted at the
Planned Parenthood Officer for
appointments for showings.
pick her up.
But the seven-year-old
balked and began to cry. She
told the teacher she didn’t
know the man.
Although the man did stop
at the school office, he left
without anyone finding out
who he was or what his intent
was, Bell said.
The man was described as
having grey hair and he wore
glasses.
Bell called the principal and
bedroom closet. She also had
been shot one time in the
forehead and was still
breathing. She was fully
dressed.
Both were taken to
University Hospital and later
were pronouced dead.
Witnesses stated they saw
Richard Oliver, 19, of 105
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Gordon Ross, president of BSU, presents S2OO check to Verlyn C. Bell, director
of Bethlehem Center, while John Beal, treasurer of BSU, looks on.
BSU Donates To Bethlehem
Community Center
By Audrey Frazier
The Black Student Union of
Augusta College presented the
Bethlehem Community Center
a S2OO donation Friday during
a Black Student Union
meeting.
The check was presented to
Verlyn C. Bell executive
director of the center by
Gordon Ross president of the
Black Student Union.
The donation is to be used
in repairing the roof on the
main building.
Bethlehem Community
Center, which was established
in 1912, provides many
services to the people in the
neighborhood and community
at large. The center has
projects for the toddlers
through the senior citizens.
Various programs are
sponsored by the center such
as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts,
sewing classes, consumer
education, job counseling and
referral, arts and crafts,
neighborhood association and
tutoring and outreach services.
The center has 21 members of
the board of directors in which
Roscoe Williams is chairman.
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superintendent of schools.
Haney M. Duncan. An
investigation was made but
revealed no information.
Bell said he had been urged
not to discuss the incident, but
he said he feels the community
ought to know. He said he nor
his wife authorized anyone to
pick up the child.
This, he said, is just one of
the harrassmeats he and his
family have been subjected to
over the past few weeks.
West Hancock Drive, Mrs.
Oliver’s husband, come in the
back door of the house with a
gun. Shots were heard and
Oliver was later seen running
out the house the gun sti'l
in his possession.
Oliver later came to Police
headquarters and gave himself
up. He was arrested and
charged with two counts of
murder.
There are also 26 employees at help the community and will
the center. continue to do so through your
The center is designed to help.
Georgia Jaycees Honor
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Tracy Williams 11l received
the Outstanding Citizenship
Award from the Georgia
Jaycees Saturday night.
Thirty young men were
There have been annoying
phone calls and threats. A
person, who he said reportedly
has “underworld connections”,
told him he is “treading on
dangerous ground." The person
was just “translating” a
message. Bell stated.
Bell said he didn't know
whether there was a
connection between his
candidacy and the incident at
the school or whether it was
just a “deviant” looking for
recognition.
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chosen from among over 2000
who entered the competition.
Three were chosen from each
of Georgia’s 10 districts.
The awards were given based
on scholarship and leadership.
A senior at Glenn Hills High
School, Williams has
maintained a 97.3 average over
the past three years. He is also
president of the student
council.
The 17-yeard-old will be
awarded a four-day trip to
Washington, D.C., in March,
along with the other award
winners. The trip will be
sponsored by the state Jaycees.
Williams was the only Black
from this district in the
competition.
Tracy is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Tracy Williams Jr. of
3110 Fir Court.