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Gov. Says Politics Os Race!
'Gone With The Wind’
George Busbee, who crushed
former Gov. Lester Maddox’s
re-election plans, called for
social, economical and political
justice for all citizens in his
inaugural speech Tuesday.
Lt. Gov. Zell Miller was
more specific in his
commitments to Black citizens.
Both received widespread
Black support in their
campaigns.
Sherri Holiday, a Black
Albany State College graduate,
sang the Battle Hymn of the
Richmond County Black Loses
Justice Os Peace Race By Two Votes
Ernest Bowman Jr. lost his
bid to become Justice of the
Peace in District 86-3 by just
two votes.
In the special election held
Tuesday, there were 128 votes
cast in district 86-3. Bowman
Conference To Analyze
Minority Veterans’ Needs
A conference will be held
Jan. 17 through 19, in Atlanta,
to analyze the needs of
minority veterans.
A major part of the time will
be spent on less-than-honorable
discharges and the amnesty
needs of these veterans. The
conference is entitled “The
National Conference on the
Forgotten Victim of the
Vietnam War: The Third World
Veteran.”
At the conference a program
will be developed to make the
needs known to the minority
Paine Chaplain Receives
Three National Appointments
The Rev. Maurice S. Cherry,
chaplain at Paine College
recently received three new
appointments to national
bodies of prominence in
Campus Ministry.
He was named to the
executive committee of the
Board of Directors of the
National Institute for Campus
Ministries, Inc.; consultant for
the Danforth Campus Ministry
Advisory Council; and regional
director of the National
Association of College and
University Chaplains.
The National Institute for
Campus Ministries was recently
funded by a $1,600,000 grant
from the Lilly Foundation. Its
purpose is to develop an
alliance of persons concerned
with the relationship of the
biblical faiths to the learning
communities.
Its program will be designed
to develop resources for
enriching traditional forms of
campus ministry and exploring
innovative models of ministry
through programs of research,
continued education and
consultation.
As a consultant to the
Danforth Campus Ministry
Advisory Council, he will assist
in the development and
structuring of the combined
Danforth Seminar on Values in
Higher Education and the
Liberal Arts Workshop.
The special meeting will be
conducted at the Danforth
Foundation in Saint Louis,
Missouri, on November 10 and
Republic. Atlanta’s Black
mayor Maynard Jackson was
also seated among the platform
dignataries.
Busbee declared that the
“political processes which led
to this inauguration proclaim
that Georgia has met the
challenge of political maturity.
The politics of race has gone
with the wind.” And he added,
“Georgia is better for it. It will
be better still when the fading
strains of prejudice and far are
washed forever from the rich,
received 57 votes. His
opponent, James Perkey,
received 59 votes.
Election officials say that
the 14 votes unaccounted for
may be the result of persons
who voted for school board
communities and to mobolize
the help of those communities
in meeting the needs of
minority veterans.
President Ford’s amnesty
program, less-than honorable
discharges, the discharge review
processes, drugs,
unemployment and G.I.
benefits are all items that will
be discussed.
The conference is being
called by the Third World
Peace Education Program of
the American Friends Service
Committee.
REV. MAURICE CHERRY
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The merged program will
bring together 15 to 20
interdisciplinary teams from
liberal arts colleges, including
faculty, administrators, and at
least one campus minister to
work on a question indigenous
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full fabric of a great Georgia by
the mutual trust and
confidence of the people.”
f Miller said that “racial
prejudice is still too prevalent,”
and that one of his campaign
promises “is to play a
significant role in meeting the
justifiably urgent needs of our
Black citizens, a task that I say
to you cannot be accomplished
by pious lip service but positive
action which will require the
best in all of us. I will keep
that promise.”
candidates who didn’t vote for
either candidate for Justice of
the Peace, Bowman said.
Bowman told the
News-Review he plans to ask
for a re-count.
Dr. M. L. King
Sr. To Retire
After 44 years as pastor of
Ebenezer Baptist Church in
Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther
King, father of the slain civil
rights leader, says he will retire
in August. King, 75, named Dr.
Joe Roberts, 39, to succeed
him.
Roberts, director of the
Division of Corporate and
Social Mission of the General
Executive Board of the
Presbyterian Church of the
U 5. will be baptized in the
Baptist Church. King, father of
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
became pastor of Ebenezer in
1931, and will serve as pastor
emeritus of the 2,500 member
congregation.
to the college pertaining either
to value formation in the
student experience or ethical
problems affecting the life of
the institution as a whole. The
program could make a
significant contribution to
Augusta, Georgia
Both Busbee and Miller said
public confidence in
government is low, and vowed
to work to improve it. -w
Members of the 1975
General Assembly meeting in
joint session, were among the
estimated 4,500 persons who
jammed the Atlanta Civic
Center as Busbee was presented
the Great Seal of Georgia by
outgoing Gov. Jimmy Carter
and administered the oath of
office at 11:42 a.m. by Georgia
Supreme Court Chief Justice
Another Black, Verlyn Bell,
recently lost a run-off spot in
the board of education race
after he had been declared a
winner of the run-off spot, then
a loser by 6 votes. A re-count
showed him losing by 13 votes.
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liberal arts education in general
and the campus ministry in
particular.
Cherry was also recently
named regional director of
Region IV of the National
Association of College and
University Chaplains. Region
IV encompasses the states of
Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina and Tennessee.
He is presently a member
of the executive committee of
the National Association of
College and University
Chaplains, the largest
professional organization of
chaplaincy in higher education.
He is also chairman of the
Board of Directors of
Ministeries to Blacks in Higher
Education (MBHE). The largest
organization of Black
professionals in the field of
chaplaincy, MBHE was formed
in 1970 to meet the specific
needs of those persons
ministering to Blacks in higher
education. Cherry is co-author
of the MBHE “Proposal to
Combat the Crisis in
Ministeries to Blacks in Higher
Education” presently being
considered for funding by the
Danforth Foundation.
Since 1959, he has been
chaplain at Paine College. He
was on leave during the
academic year 1973-74 to
study for the doctorate in
ministries at Emory Univeristy,
and completed a course in
clinical chaplaincy at Georgia
Regional Hospital in Augusta
during the summer of 1974.
H.E. Nichols.
The 47-year-old Busbee, an
attorney and 18-year veteran
of the Georgia House who left
that body as its majority
leader, issued a call for unity in
his address. Once again, he
sounded his campaign themes
of hard work and
common-sense government
without a tax increase.
Immediately after being
sworn in, Busbee stood stiffly
and solemnly, his hand resting
atop the Great Seal, as he was
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Rev. Ralph Abernathy . irrepressible dream.”
Rev. Abernathy Says .. .
"Keep The Dream Alive”
The Rev. Ralph D.
Abernathy, president of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, spoke at Bethel
A.M.E. Church Monday night
kicking off local SCLC
activities commerorating the
Paine’s New
President Presented
To Faculty, Staff
Dr. Julius S. Scott, president
of Paine College was officially
presented to the faculty and
staff at the Faculty-Staff
Workshop last Wednesday.
In making the presentation,
Vice President Dr. C.M.
Richardson called Dr. Scott,
“A scholar, a man with a sense
of humor and a capable
leader.”
The Workshop was the first
meeting of the full faculty and
staff since Dr. Scott assumed
full time duties Jan. 1.
He told the group that Paine
College, like other colleges, had
been hard hit by inflation and
ways of economizing must be
developed.
Memorial
Service
Fort Gordon held its annual
Dr. Martin Luther King
Memorial Service in Alexander
Hall at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
John Staggers of the
Fellowship House in
Washington, D.C. was the
featured speaker. Staggers
works with the Inter-City
Services and as a liaison with
the National Prayer Breakfast
in Washington.
Mrs. Bathine Hollins of the
Good Shepherd Baptist Church
in Augusta was guest soloist.
Music was provided by the T.C.
Cooke Church Choir and the
Good Shepherd Baptist Church
Gospel Chorus, both of
Augusta.
The service was jointly
sponsored by the Center
Chaplain’s and Race Relations
- Equal Opportunity offices.
honored by the traditional
19-gun salute, its sounds ,
drifting in from outside the ‘
huge center.
Busbee drew the heaviest
applause when he said, “Every
child in Georgia must have the
opportunity for the fullest
development of his mind and
skills no matter how poor his
family, how great his handicap ]
or where he lives. We can make (
a major movement forward in
education in this ‘
administration and this we
birthday of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.
Abernathy called on local
ministers to take a greater role 1
in keeping Dr. King’s dream
alive.
Black Unemployment
Continues To Rise
WASHINGTON - Black
workers experienced a
significant increase in
joblessness during the month
of December, as their
unemployment rate moved up
from 11.7 to 12.8 percent.
Overall, the Nation’s
unemployment continued to
climb in December, and the
number of persons with jobs
declined for the third straight
month, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the U.S.
Department of Labor reported.
The total number of
unemployed increased by
560,000 to 6.5 million, and the
jobless rate reached 7.1
percent, the highest rate since
May 1961.
Total employment (as
measured by the monthly
sample survey of households)
fell by 550,000 in December to
85.2 million. This decline
followed an employment
reduction of 800,000 in
November and brought
employment to a level nearly
1.4 million lower than
September’s high mark.
The number of unemployed
persons rose by 560,000 in
December to more than 6.5
million. Much of this increase
can be traced to layoffs, as the
number of unemployed who
had lost their last jobs rose by
360,000 to 3.2 million. Since
December 1973, total
joblessness has increased by
more than 2 million.
After receding to a 3
1/2-year low of 4.6 percent in
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GOV. GEORGE BUSBEE
must.”
Busbee declared, “If we are
to spend our energies and
resources on the things that
matter most to the people of
Georgia we must work hard
and, above all, we must work
together.”
And, said Busbee, “1 will
recommend a program of
action to serve the most urgent
needs of the state without a
tax increase and without
shifting to future generations
the cost of government services
we use today.”
Busbee’s speech was
interrupted 13 times by
applause that often seemed
perfunctory. Miller’s speech
was much more e
nthusiastically received.
The 42-year-old lieutenant
governor was heavily
applauded after declaring,
“Yes, I have promises to keep,
and the first is to approach the
problems this state faces in a
spirit of harmony with the
chief executive, working not
only with him for for him
when requested-bearing in
mind that no two men will
always agree on every issue,
but also fully understanding
that the problems of this time
are so many and so complex
that teamwork is not only
needed but is absolutely
necessary. 1 will keep that
promise.”
His reference to Carter and
Maddox who maintained a
highly visible fight for then
four years in office together,
was greeted by applause from
Carter and his wife, Rosalynn,
while Maddox and his wife,
Virginia, sat unsmiling.
The crowd, with the
exception of most of the
legislators, responded warmly
as Miller continued, saying that
October 1973, the Nation’s
unemployment rate increased
by 2.5 percentage points in the
ensuing 14-month period. A
small part of this increase took
place during the “energy crisis”
period last winter, but the bulk
has occurred during the last 4
months, when the rate rose
from 5.4 percent in August to
its December level of 7.1
percent.
The rising joblessness
affected virtually every worker
group. Among the major
age-sex groups, the
unemployment rate for adult
men rose from 4.6 percent in
November to 5.1 percent in
December, while joblessness
among adult women climbed
from 6.6 to 7.2 percent.
Teenage unemployment also
posted a further increase, from
17. to 18.3 percent.
The rate for white workers
rose from 5.8 to 6.4 percent.
The jobless rate for household
heads moved up from 3.9 to
4.5 percent, while the rate for
full-time workers rose from 6.2
to 6.8 percent; these were
alltime highs for both series
(which began in 1963). All of
these groups have posted
substantial increases in
unemployment over their
year-earlier levels.
The jobless rate for workers
covered by state
unemployment insurance
programs increased to 4.7
percent, up from 4.3 percent in
November and 2.7 percent in
December 1973. The 3.1
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among his campaign prmises
was one “to improve the
operations of the Georgia
Senate and to preside over this
legislative body with fairness,
with dignity-and with
openness.
“The veil of secrecy must be
removed from all legislative
deliberations concerning public
policy, because you cannot
limit the right to know without
limiting democracy itself, and I
will keep that promise.”
“Events of this decade,” said
Busbee, “have chipped away at
the pride and confidence which
have been our heritage as
Americans. Our national
economy has lost its vitality.
Too many citizens have lost
their economic security.
“Too many have lost
confidence in the practical
ability to serve the public
interest. Too many have lost
confidence in the commitment
of those in public office to
serve the public interest.”
Miller outlined Georgia’s
problems, saying, “Your
children attend inadequate
schools. You pay the cost of
inflation and feel the squeeze
of an inadequate tax structure.
You are threatened by the
rising crime rate. You feel the
racial prejudice that is still too
prevalent. You know that there
are many who distrust all
political leadership.
“If we are to solve our
problems-and solve them we
must-we have to look first to
our governmental institutions,
for politics and government are
the instruments through which
we achieve our shared
purposes. That is why, in my
opinion, our greatest task is to
restore confidence in our
government - and with it
hopefully restore faith in
ourselves.”
million unemployment
insurance claimants under state
programs now account for
close to half of the jobless
total.
Among the major
occupational groups,
white-collar workers
experienced a rise in
joblessness to 4.1 percent in
December, the highest rate
recorded for this group since
occupational statistics were
first recorded on a monthly
basis in 1958;
The job market fo
blw-collar workers continued
to deteriorate (th«*ir rate
movino fro*" 8.2 s o 9.4
percent) as d : d the situation
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construction workers among
the major industry categories.
The manufacturing jobless rate,
at 8.6 percent in December,
was double the December 1973
figure; factory joblessness was
boosted substantially by heavy
layoffs in the auto industry. At
15.0 percent, the construction
unemployment rate reached its
highest level since 1961.
The unemployment rate for
Vietnam-era veterans aged
20-34 years jumped nearly 2
percentage points in December
to 7.7 percent, bringing it back
up to approximately the rate
for nonveterans (8.0 percent).
Young veterans (those 20-24
years old) were particularly
hard hit, as their rate reached
15.3 percent, compared with
10.4 percent for young
non-veterans.