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Vol. 4
Merchants Want To Reach Blacks
Through White Media Only?
Editorial
In our last issue we talked about the fact that most of
the downtown merchants do not advertise with Black
owned news media. Without advertising, news media
cannot survive. We, at the News-Review, have survived
by working without salaries.
This is ridiculous when half the people spending
money downtown are Black. Black people have a right
to have Black owned and Black controlled media. And
you must insist that the merchants pay for your
business through Black media advertising like they pay
for other people’s business.
Today we shall report, to the penny, what the larger
stores have spent with the News-Review. We were not
able to get specific information on accounts with The
Mirror and WRDW but the figures are close enough for
you to see that the money that is spent with them (if
any is spent at all) is token.
To give you idea of the kind of money that is spent
with non-Black media, on Thanksgiving Day one
downtown store had almost 10 full pages in the Augusta
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The Manhattans
In Concert At Paine
The Manhattans, nationally
known recording artists, will be
featured in concert at Paine
College, Friday night, Dec. 6.
The performance, sponsored
by the Paine College Student
Government Association in
cooperation with radio station
WRDW, is being billed as a
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“Feed the People” concert.
In an effort to obtain food
for the needy, persons bringing
three non-perishable canned
goods will be admitted for
three dollars. Persons not
bringing the three canned
goods will be admitted for five
dollars. Ail of the canned
goods will be donated to the
James Brown “Feed the
People” program and other
Augusta welfare agencies.
According to a Student
Government news release, the
students of Paine College are
sponsoring the activity with
the hope that “through our
P.O. Box 953
Chronicle. The cost is almost a thousand dollars a page.
That’s close to ten thousand dollars worth of advertising
in one day by one store.
Now compare that with what they spend with Black
media PER YEAR!
BELKS: (1971) $0.00; (1972) $0.00; (1973) $96.35
(the one ad they took with us during 1973 was to
announce that their stores would be closed); (1974)
$0.00; Belk’s total for three and a half years is $96.35.
During the same period, Belks spent no money with
the Mirror. And according to an official at radio station
WRDW, they took out an ad for their jazz program for
about one month.
BOWERS: (1971) $265.00; (1972) $206.80; (1973)
$0.00; (1974 SO.OO. Total $471.80. They spent
approximately the same amount with the Mirror and ran
spots “two or three days” with WRDW.
CULLUMS: (1971) $0.00; (1972) $37.60 Christmas
greeting; (1973) $0.00; 1974 SO.OO. Total $37.60.
efforts, someone might spend a
happier and more enjoyable
Christmas ...”
The Manhattans’ concert
will mark the third anniversary
of the SGA “Feed the People”
program. Previously, Bettye
Swann and Kool and the Gang
have been the featured
performers.
Urging people to come out
and support the program, SGA
President Michael Thurmond
said, “It’s a shame that so
many people are without food
in Augusta, and we hope that
the concert will help in some
way to alleviate the problem.”
Augusta, Georgia
Will Marriage Spoil
Nancy Wilson?
Nancy Wilson’s hasty,
unexpected marriage earlier
this year to Wiley Burton, an
ordained minister in the
Universal Life Church, left her
public, and most of her friends,
quite speechless. The new Mrs.
Burton, however, is not.
In an exclusive interview
featured in the December issue
of Essence magazine, Nancy
and Wiley reveal their deep
commitment and love for one
another, and discuss frankly
their slightly more than six
month old marriage. Says
Wiley, “it’s a miracle of love”.
She adds, “to say we love
doesn’t begin to cover what we
feel for each other. Wiley and I
have a love that encompasses
more than I have ever known
to be possible”. Having the last
word, Wiley remarks, “I can’t
imagine there being any more
love than our love, or any more
love in our love.” Pretty heady
stuff for two people who have
known one another a mere
seven months; but said with
such conviction that you just
gotta believe!
How did their storybook
Dr. Weston Omega’s
'Citizen Os The Year’
Dr. R.S. Weston has been
named “Citizen of the Year”
by the Psi Omega and the
Gamma Beta chapters of the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
The award is given to a
person who has made
outstanding contributions
beyond his normal area of
responsibility, according to
Omega Vice Basileus William B.
Bryant.
A physician, Dr. Weston
administers free medicine and
medical services to schools in
disadvantaged areas. He is
believed to be the first Black to
serve on the Richmond County
Board of Health. He gave more
than 52.000 to Family
Planning and Parenthood in
Aiken County, and has worked
with the Better Infant Births
(BIB) project.
The Columbia, S.C. native
has held office in medical
Court Orders Funeral Home
To Provide Services For Blacks
During this period they spent no money with the
Mirror. WRDW said Cullums’ advertised with them two
or three times.
DAVISON’S: (1971) $148.05; (1972) $206.80;
(1973) $399.50; (1974) 305.50. Nothing with the
Mirror, and major sales with WRDW.
J.M. FIELDS: Never advertised with the
News-Review or the Mirror. It has advertised on special
holidays, according to WRDW.
H.L. GREEN: (1971) $0.00; (1972) $194.00; (1973)
$32.00; (1974) SO.OO. Total $229.40. They did not
advertise in the Mirror during this period. They
advertised quite often “off and on” with WRDW.
K-MART: Has never advertised with the News-Review
or the Mirror and “seldom” with WRDW.
J.C. PENNEYS: (1971) $31.73; (1972) $0.00; (1973)
$455.00; (1974) SO.OO. Total $486.73. Nothing with
the Mirror and “pretty regular” with WRDW.
ROSES: Never advertised with the News-Review or
romance begin? A chance
meeting in Pittsburgh sparked
the flame. Nancy recalls, they
were never introduced, but “I
can remember his expression as
he watched me walk out of the
room”. Wiley remembers
thinking at the time, “that
woman sure can walk ... she
sure was sexy”; then, adds with
a grin, “that’s a fine talk for a
preacher, now isn’t it?” But,
preachers are human, too. A
whirlwind courtship ensued
and 32 days after their initial
meeting Nancy and Wiley were
wed.
Why marriage? “Why not
marriage”, the new Mrs.
Burton responds. “At my age
(30) there is no such thing as
just hanging out. I enjoyed
being single, enjoyed the
aloneness and the privacy, but
marriage was always in mind.
Not in the back either, but
right up front. It has been since
childhood, and no matter what
relationship I have been
involved in, I’ve thought of
marriage. It may not be
everyone’s thing, but it is
mine.”
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DR. RS. WESTON
associations at the local,
district and national levels.
A graduate of South
Carolina State College and
Meharry Medical College, Dr.
Weston is a member of
Tabernacle Baptist Church.
He is married to the former
Frances Hanson, they have
seven children.
This is the second time
around for Nancy. The first, to
drummer Keimy Dennis,
produced a much-loved son
Kacy, and little animosity..
“We just didn’t communicate”,
she says. In between there were
rumors of involvements - some
serious, including a Venezulan
millionaire and actor, Robert
Hooks. Os a totally different
character is new husband,
Wiley, a handsome 32-year-old
evangelist who says he was
‘asked into’ the ministry
spiritually, and whose overall
aim is to “administer to people
- all people.” Nancy describes
him as “warm, sensitive and
spiritual.”
They share an interest in
religion and are seemingly
sharing an idyllic relationship
that Nancy is determined will
not fail. “No matter what, 1 am
first Nancy Wilson Burton. I
enjoy performing, but I don’t
need it. I love to sing, but there
are places other than a stage
where I can do that. My need is
to be in my home, with my
man and my kids, not out
front.” And, since this is the
Court Orders Funeral Home
To Provide Services For Blacks
The Department of Justice
obtained consent decrees today
requiring the white owner of a
Louisiana funeral home to
make available its service and
facilities to Black persons.
Attorney General William B.
Saxbe said the decrees were
filed in U.S. District Court in
Shreveport. Louisiana.
The decrees resolve a suit
filed on April 24, 1974,
charging Charles Boone, owner
of Boone’s Funeral Home in
Bossier City, and Johnnie
Davis, owner of the Good
Samaritan Funeral Home in
Shreveport, with racial
discrimination in handling
arrangements for the stillborn
daughter of a Black
serviceman.
The suit charged that Boone,
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the Mirror and “once or twice” with WRDW.
SEARS: (1971) $474.88; (1972) $263.21: (1973)
$773.15; (1974) $2,769. Total $4,280.72. Sears has
spent a comparable amount with the Mirror, and more
than any other store with WRDW.
J.B. WHITE’S: (1971) $70.50; (1972) $121.03;
(1973) $241.15; (1974) $131.60. Total $564.28. Never
advertised with the Mirror or WRDW.
We are in the process of negotiating with the
merchants on their 1975 advertising budgets. And we
will let you know those who still refuse to spend a fair
share (proportionate to circulation and buving power)
with Blacks.
We are not calling for a general boycott at this
point. We are, however, calling for selective buying. Buy
only where proportionate numbers of Blacks are hired -
including decision making positions - and where
merchants are willing to return a fair share of the
advertising dollar to the Black community through
advertising in Black news media.
NANCY WILSON AND HUBBY, WILEY
season for sharing, Nancy has much he loves me.” A
chosen a gift of life for their lovechild, for sure ... it will be
first Christmas together -she conceived and born of love and
wants only one thing, a baby, definitely SPOILED by it as is
“Having Wiley’s baby would be the newly wed happy and
a lovely way of showing how radiant Nancy Wilson Burton.
who is white, and Davis, who is
Black, agreed in November,
1972, to refer Black clients to
Davis and white clients to
Boone for funeral
arrangements and services.
The suit said Airman First
Class Carl B. Jackson, who was
stationed at Barksdale Air
Force Base, called Boone on
January 13, 1973, to provide
funeral arrangements for his
stillborn daughter. Jackson is
Black.
The suit said Boone refused
to make the funeral
arrangements and, under the
contract with Davis, called
Davis to obtain the baby’s
body and make die
arrangements.
One decree requires Boone
to make available all services
and facilities to Black persons
on the same basis as they are
extended to whites.
It also prohibits him from
engaging in any practices that
deprive anyone from making
arrangements with the funeral
home.
In the other decree, Davis is
enjoined from any act or
practice that could deprive
Blacks of their right to make
contracts with the funeral
home of their choice.
Assistant Attorney General
J. Stanley Pottinger, head of
the Civil Rights Division, said
the suit was the first action
brought by the Justice
Department to desegregate
funeral homes.