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Mclntyre First Black
County Commission Chairman
Ed Mclntyre was elected
Wednesday to Richmond
County's highest county office
- chairman of the board of
commissioners.
He is the first Black to hold
this office and is believed to be
only one of two Blacks in the
nation to serve as chairman of
a county of comparable size.
One could sense that the
wheels of history were turning
Wednesday morning when
Mclntyre’s mother, the Rev.
Essie Mclntyre, was asked to
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MAJOR ROSA HARRIS (RET.)
Black Woman Major
Succeeded In Marriage And Army
Retired Major Rosa Belle
Harris counts as her greatest
achievement her ability to stay
in the Army until retirement
and still be married.
Married to Frank W. Harris
in 1956, and she credits him
with her success. “He insisted
that I stay in because he said
that it made me happy.
Major Harris, who lives at
1134 Turpin St., joined the
Army Nurse Corps in 1951 as a
registered nurse and a first
lieutenant. She entered Paine
College in 1944 and studied
nursing for three years. She
practiced at University
Hospital for three years prior
to joining the Army.
She said that after the war
was over she “just wanted to
do something for the Army
and suffering humanity.’’
The first Black nurse to be
stationed at Ft. Gordon, she
was promoted to captain in
1956, and began serving as
head nurse of pediatrics. In
1963, she was promoted to the
rank of major.
Abernathy To
Speak Here
The Rev. Ralph David
Abernathy will speak at Bethel
A.M.E. Church Monday night
(Jan. 13) as part of the local
chapter of the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference’s activities leading
Otis Redding Bridge Dedicated In Macon
The Otis Redding Memorial
Bridge, named in honor of the
fete Black singer Otis Redding,
was dedicated recently in
Macon, Ga., the popular artist’s
hometown, with a
proclamation by Mayor Ronnie
Thompson.
give the opening prayer as the
commissioners prepared to
elect officers.
After the meeting, she said,
“I am a very thankful mother,
thank the Lord.”
Mclntyre was nominated by
Commissioner Donald C. Neal
who said the Black
commissioner had served his
apprenticeship well by earning
a “masters in patience and a
doctorate in understanding.”
Harold Tiller seconded the
motion and moved that
Proud though she is of her
Army experience, she says
“Don’t let anybody tell you
the Army isn’t segregated
because it is. They try not to
show it, but it’s there.
Major Harris still urges
young people to seek careers in
the military because it “means
a lot to them. You get a chance
to see the world and the
retirement is good. You have
something to look forward to.”
She was twice assigned to
duty in Germany, and had
other assignments in Chile and
Hawaii.
She retired in November of
1971 and her husband died in
1973.
She received the Army’s
Commendation Medal for
“meritorious service from the
secretary of the state while she
was serving as head nurse of
the pediatrics ward at Ft.
Gordon.
According to Colonel Alton
Peyton, she carried out her
duties “in an exemplary
manner ... with exceptional
up to the celebration of the
birthday of Martin Luther
King.
Dr. Abernathy is national
president of SCLC, which was
founded by Dr. King.
Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter
prochimed “Otis Redding
Day” throughout the state.
Meanwhile, Mayor Thompson
presented memorial plaques to
Mrs. Zelma Redding, widow of
the singer who died in a plane
P.O. Box 953
nominations come to a close.
Mclntyre was elected
unanimously.
Commenting on his
becoming the first Black to
serve as chairman of the
commission, Mclntyre said his
election as chairman “says a lot
for my hometown.
“It says that the largest
segment of people have been
able to move themselves
beyond color and are able to
look at a man based on his
nursing skill.” She also received
the National Defense Service
Medal and the Armed Forces
Reserve Medal.
Now 50 years old, Major
Harris never plans to work
again. However, she is a
fulltime student again at Paine
College, majoring in music. “I
just feel that 24 years of
nursing is enough. I just love
music, and I want to learn to
play the piano. If I decide I
want to teach music, I can
teach it at home.”
Another reason for leaving
nursing is that she has a bad
back and a 50% disability from
the veterans administration.
Nursing requires some lifting,
she said.
“If I had to do it all over
again, I’d do it the same way,
but I’d try to improve by
trying to get more people to
come in and do something for
suffering humanity.”
A member of Antioch
Baptist Church, Major Harris
takes care of the nursery every
second Sunday.
On Tuesday night (Jan. 14),
Dr. C.E. Wells will lead the
services at Mt. Canaan Baptist
Church, and the Rev.
Roosevelt Green will deliver
the message at Paine College on
Wednesday night.
crash in Wisconsin on Dec. 10,
1967, and Phil Walden,
Redding’s manager and
president of Capricorn
Records. An oil painting of her
late husband was also
presented to Mrs. Redding.
Augusta, Georgia
performance, which is a
healthy sign for the
community,” he said.
Asked what significance his
chairmanship had for Blacks,
Mclntyre told the
News-Review, “It ought to say
that one of the many things we
think are impossible is possible.
“It should serve as
inspiration to Blacks, especially
to young Blacks, to say that
hard work and dedication reaps
great benefits. You can’t be
successful with rhetoric alone.
Must Pay $1,465 Campaign Debts
Effort Made To Buy Verlyn Bell’s Endorsement
Verlyn C. Bell, who was
eliminated from the Seventh
Ward Board of Education race
told the News-Review that
certain “political elements”
have offered to pay all of his
Paine President Urges Liberation Os
Black And White 'Brothers And Sisters’
Using Plato’s allegory of the
cave, Dr. Julius Scott, newly
elected president of Ppine
College, called on Augusta’s
Black community New Year’s
Day to carry the light of truth
into the caves of injustice.
“America must be challenged
to resolve the dualism of creed
and deed,” he said.
Dr. Scott was the
Emancipation Day speaker for
the Lincoln League’s annual
celebration at Tabernacle
Baptist Church Wednesday. His
subject was “Slipping into
Darkness”.
Emancipation, he said, is the
“slipping back into the
darkness and agony of the
world, there to effect the
freedom and the liberation of
those still enslaved.”
Making his first address to
the Augusta community, Dr.
Scott said whites as well as
Blacks need to be emancipated.
“There are some white
brothers and sisters who need
to be liberated from then
oppression because theirs is
worse than ours.
“In their oppression they
imagine themselves to be
happy and free, so then
oppression is a double
oppression. It is therefore our
responsibility to help them to
Augusta Girl Named "Outstanding
Achiever” In January Seventeen
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TOYCE TOM KEN
It has to be supported by
performance.”
A M orehouse College
classmate of Atlanta Mayor
Maynard Jackson, Mclntyre is
the founder and president of
the Georgia Association of
Black elected officials. He is
the first and only Black to
serve on the county
commission. The Augusta
Richmond County Coliseum
and the Georgia Hall of Fame
Commission were first
proposed by Mclntyre.
campaign debts ($1,465)
provided he publicly support
their candidate in the January
14 runoff.
Bell said he refused the offer
understand that there can be
no freedom until all men are
free,” Scott told his audience
of more than a thousand
persons.
Noting that there is a high
price on freedom, Dr. Scott
quoted Frederick Douglass’
prophetic statement, “If there
is no struggle, there is no
progress. Those that profess to
favor freedom but depreciate
agitation are people who want
crops without plowing; they
want rain without thunder and
lightning; they want the ocean
without the mighty roar of its
many waters.
“Power concedes nothing
without a demand; it never did,
and it never will.”
Dr. Scott began moving into
the President’s House at Paine
Jan. 2. He officially assumed
the presidency New Year’s
Day.
Dr. Canute M. Richardson,
who has served as acting
president since Dr. Pitts died in
February of last year, received
the Lincoln League’s Man of
the Year award. He had also
served as acting president in
1970-71 between/ Dr. E.
Clayton Calhoun’s resignation
and the appointment of Dr.
Pitts.
Mrs. Rosa Robinson,
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Having been elected Richmond County's first Black commissioner, Ed Mclntyre
(center) enjoys traditional pig feet and Blackeye peas with family and friends. Left
to right are his son, Ashley; wife, Juanita, and Marion Barnes.
because it would “tie my
hands” in the future. He
declined to identify the
persons making the offer or
their candidate; he did say,
however, that he will vote for
president of the Concerned
Mothers Club, was named
Woman of the Year, and Mr«.
Eudora Carey of G & M
Plumbing Co. received the
Business of the Year award.
Dr. Scott said the “false and
the phony have to be exposed
and men must he free illusion.
“We have to
move back into the darkness
because men and women
cannot live in evil and unjust
systems. The conscience must
be free if life is to be human.”
The holder of the A.B.
degree from Wiley College, the
B.D. from Garrett Theological
Seminary, the A.M. from
Brown University, and the
Ph.D. from Boston University,
Scott said, “We must move
back into the darkness because
our destiny is the destiny of all
people dispossessed.”
Only when there is no
darkness anywhere and all men
are free will the words “We
Shall Overcome” have real
meaning.”
The liberation, emancipation
and freedom of the mind and
of the body is in our hands,
and the destiny of future
generations depend on our
willingness to spread light into
the darkness, Dr. Scott
concluded.
NEW YORK-Toyce Tom
Ken, 18, of Augusta is featured
as one of the outstanding
young achievers in the nation
in the January issue of
SEVENTEEN Magazine.
Toyce, who is of Chinese
ancestry, is a former Miss
Teenage Augusta and was one
of 45 math scholars invited to
participate in a six-week
National Science Foundation
study program at Rutgers
University in New Jersey.
A graduate of Westside High
School, Toyce was listed in
“Who’s Who Among American
High School Students.” She
enjoys ballet, modem dance,
photography, tennis and
sewing and was a member of
White’s Fashion Board. Toyce
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ip Wai Ken, 2823 Hazel St.,
and is now a freshman
mathematics major at the
University of California at Los
Angeles.
January 2, 1975 No. 41
Elizabeth Wooten in the
runoff.
Most of Bell’s remaining
debts resulted from legal fees
after he challenged a
“computer error” that
eliminated him from the school
board race.
He listed his attorney's fee
at S6OO, court costs $l2O,
computer expert S7O, printing
$265 and a bank loan of $4lO.
Money that was promised by
ministers, friends and
associates has not come
through, according to Bell.
The Baptist Minister’s
Alliance, as a group,
contributed SSO, and the Rev.
N.T. Young, a school board
member and pastor of
Thankful Baptist Church,
contributed SSO. Bell said he
has received only one other
check (sls) since the general
election.
Bell said that while he will
not actively support either of
the runoff candidates, Mrs.
Elizabeth Wooten or James
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Glenn Hills
Homecoming Queen
Joan Harrell was recently
crowned “Miss Homecoming”
at Glenn Hills High School.
Cherly Barber was first
runner-up.
Miss Harrell is the daughter
of SFC and Mrs. Floyd R.
Harrell.
She is secretary of the
Student Council and is
co-editor-in-chief of the
yearbook staff.
Phillips, he will vote for Mrs.
Wooten because of the
similarities in our ideas.”
He said that his only
reservation about Mrs. Wooten
is her opposition to busing.
Mrs. Wooten, he said, is also
a supporter of Superintendent
Harvey Duncan, whose
position is an issue in the
campaign according to many
observers. Bell is also a Duncan
supporter.
Another reason that Bell is
voting for Mrs. Wooten is that
she has the active support of the
Rev. N.T. Young, a member of
the school board. “I believe
that Rev. Young knows <hich
candidate would best represent
the Black interest <rn the
board.” Bell said.
Phillips, he said; is an
“Establishment candidate” and
would be controlled by the
establishment. “He wouldn’t
have the degree of
independence in voting that I
believe Mrs. Wooten would
have.”
MS. JOAN HARRELL
A cheerleader since the
ninth grade, she is now captain
of the varsity squad.
She is a member of
Tabernacle Baptist Church
where she sings in the C.T.
Walker Choir and is president
of the Junior Missionary
Society. Joan is the treasurer
of the Debutante Club and
secretary of J.B. White’s
downtown fashion board.
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