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THE PEOPLE’S P|]?ER r
Vol. 5
Want More Jobs
Black Pickets Hit
Major Downtown Stores
A group of Blacks began
picketing several downtown
stores Tuesday. The group
called “We Want Our Share”
held a news conference
Monday where it announced its
demands- Jobs, better
recreational facilities,
advertising for Black-owned
media, and that the Wallace
Branch Library be kept open.
The group is demanding that
three Blacks be hired for every
white until the racial
composition of the city
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Golfer Lee Elder and wife Rose (seated) greet guests Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Hankerson. The Elders were guests of honor at a reception at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Mclntyre following a gala reception sponsored by the Pilgrim Health
___ and Life Insurance Co. at the Executive House. ,
Support Selective Buying
Editorial
The News-Review wholeheartedly supports the
selective buying campaign of “We Want Our Share.” We
feel that such selective buying is long overdue. Black
economic unity is a most powerful weapon.
The News-Review has suggested such action long ago,
and we urge our readers to give their full support by not
shopping in stores that are being picketed. It is only
through unified support that we can progress as a
people.
We feel that all of the demands - jobs, recreational
improvements, advertising for Black owned news-media
and keeping Wallace Branch Library Open... are all
essential to the well-being of this community.
There is no reason that Blacks should accept the fact
that we actually have a majority of the city’s population
and only about 15% of the jobs in the city, and most of
them are at the bottom of the pay scale. No wonder
downtown stores are going out of business. Black people
make up the inner-city, closest to downtown. And if we
don’t have jobs, we can’t spend money, downtown or
anywhere else. No wonder crime is so high. All of the
“criminals” do not commit crimes because of weakness
of character. Some crimes are committed to obtain
those necessities that most of us are able to buy because
we have jobs.
It is worth pointing out that the demand does not
require that anyone be fired. It applies to all future job
openings.
This will have particular significance for Black College
students who will be looking for jobs upon graduation.
Because the demand calls for equalization at all job
levels, college students should be motivated to work
harder to fill the management level jobs as they become
available.
We believe that these demands should be met and
hope that the picketers will continue their protests until
all of them have been agreed to in WRITING.
We would further urge young people, who have the
time, to volunteer as pickets. In one way or another, we
think all people can play a part and say to Augusta once
and for all, “WE WANT OUR SHARE!”
P. O. Box 953
(50-50) and county (70-30- is
reflected in jobs at all levels of
city and county employment
as well as the private sector.
Also included in the demand
is the Augusta fire department
whose Black employes make
up only about eight per cent of
the department.
The group's chairman, the
Rev. R.E. Donaldson, pastor of
the Antioch Baptist Church,
said that at the current rate of
turnover in city employment,
it would take 85 years for the
jobs to become equalized if
one Black is hired for every
white. Consequently, the 3-1
preferential hiring policy is a
“mild” request, he said.
The stores that are being
picketed initally are Belk’s,
Cullum’s, Davison’s, H.L.
Greene, J.C. Penny, White’s,
Rhodes Furniture Store, Big
Star and Winn Dixie super
markets.
The selections were made
after the stores in the
downtown area were surveyed
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Photo by Frank Bowman
Pilgrim President W.S. Hornsby Jr. signs million dollar contact as Ga. Railroad
Bank President Graeme M. Keith waits his turn. Looking on from left to right are
C.O. Hollis, H.R. Scott, S.W. Walker 11, W.S. Hornsby 111 and Edward Mclntyre.
Pilgrim And Ga. Railroad Bank
Sign Insurance Agreement
The Pilgrim Health and Life
Insurance Co. in Augusta
Georgia, has signed an
agreement with the Georgia
Railroad Bank to begin
providing more than 11
percent of the life insurance
coverage under Provident
Augusta, Georgia
to determine the percentage of
Blacks employed, what their
jobs were, and their advertising
programs with Black-owned
media. The survey showed that
Blacks held only 15% of the
jobs in the downtown stores.
Group officials were
disturbed by “false managerial
titles” that they found at
certain stores. Cullum’s, for
instance, reportedly has twd
Black managers - one is the
“manager” of the parking lot.
The other is the “supervisor”
News-Review
Wins
Award
The News-Review has
learned that it has won an
in the West Augusta
tary Club’s News Media Day
Awards Program.
The award is for the “Blacks
Who Helped Build Augusta
Series” initiated by
News-Review columnist J.
Philip Waring.
Ironically, Waring is in
Augusta this week on a visit to
help further promote the
series. He lives in St. Louis,
Mo.
The award will be presented
April 17.
Insurance Company of
Chattanooga, Tenn, group life
insurance program.
Pilgrim will provide $1
million dollars of coverage for
the Georgia’s 470 active retired
employees.
W 5. Hornsby Jr., president
of custodial services.
Other stores will be added to
the list of picketed stores, the
officials said.
The group promised to
picket until all of its demands
are met.
The group picked up the
endorsements this week of the
Black Student Union at
Augusta College and at the
Medical College of Georgia,
and the Concerned Mothers’
Club. SCLC and Straight
Ahead have also endorsed the
selective buying campaign.
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The power of Barry White’s music never ceases to amaze; here Maestro Barry
White calms the mock onslaught and battle between the world’s heavyweight
champion Muhammad All, and former heavyweight champion George Foreman
_____ when the three heavyweights met at a recent Los Angeles gathering. ■
of Pilgrim, said “This is truly
an example of town folks
working together to build a
bigger and better Augusta”. He
also stated “that the agreement
will yield greater dividends for
the Georgia and Pilgrim and
the greater Augusta area.”
April 10, 1975 No. 3
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Photo by Frank Bowman
Hornsby-Walker
Promoted
W.S. Hornsby, Jr., president
of Pilgrim Health and Life
Insurance Company,
announced that at the recent
meeting of Pilgrim’s Board,
W.S. Hornsby, 111, and
Solomon W. Walker, 11, were
promoted to executive vice
presidents.
Walter Hornsby, 111, a
grandson of one of Pilgrim’s
founders, has been with Pilgrim
since 1961. He was promoted
from senior vice president and
actuary to executive vice
president and actuary.
Hornsby is a graduate of
Morehouse College in Atlanta,
Georgia and has done further
study at the University of
Michigan. He is second vice
president of the United Way
Richmond-Columbia Counties
& North Augusta. He is a
member of many
organizations, including the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and
the Richmond County Radio
Relay Center (Civil Defense).
Georgian Returns As Augusta Vicar
The new Vicar of St. Mary’s
Church, Augusta is the Rev.
Herman P. Stone, who assumed
his duties March Ist.
Although all his prior
ministry has been on Long
Island, N.Y., Fr. Stone is a
native Georgian, born in Wrens
in 1925. He holds a B.S. cum
laude from New York
University, and has done
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S.W. WALKER II
Solomon W. Walker 11, also
a grandson of one of Pilgrim’s
founders, was promoted from
vice president and assistant
secretary-treasurer to executive
vice president and assistant
secretary-treasurer.
Walker joined Pilgrim
immediately after graduating
graduate work in the School of
Business Administration at the
same institution.
Fr. Stone had a successful
business career for a number of
years, working as Advertising
and Circulation Manager for
“The New York Amsterdam
News” and Advertising
Executive for “Ebony”
magazine. While continuing in
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W.S. HORNSBY 111
from Morehouse College in
1958. Since being with Pilgrim,
he has done further study at
several universities, including
Stanford in California.
Walker is very active in
many local, state and national
organizations.
the business world, he began
studying for the ministry at
George Mercer, Jr. Memorial
School of Theology, a
seminary operated by the
Diocese of Long Island at its
cathedral in Garden City.
Upon graduation in 1966,
Fr. Stone’s first assignment was
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