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Paine College Library _ Paine College Campus Augusta, Ga 30901 ®*’ r AuaHota w&intiii a 3-’- - * AN OPEN FORUM FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE Wp;- Volume 5 Lee Elder Answers Caddy’s Criticisms - Won’t Use Him Again By Stan Raines Golfer Lee Elder this week denied charges by his Masters Tournament caddy Henry Brown of Augusta. He also added that when he comes back to Augusta, Henry Brown will not be his caddy. Brown said in an interview (News-Review May 29) that Elder failed to make the cut in the Masters because he had too much fun at parties, didn’t trust anyone including his caddy, and did not want advice except to know the distance Accused Os Stabbing Step-Son Bobby Louis Bryant, 25, of lOS’/i Oak Street, was stabbed to death early last week. Martha Bryant, his mother, had left her husband, Johnny Former Augustan Stars In Miller Theatre Movie, To Visit Here This Weekend By Robert L. Moore Lawrence Fishburne 111, is an Augustan who co-stars in the movie “Cornbread, Earl and Me”, now showing at the Miller Theatre here. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Fishburne 11. According to his grandmother, who lives in Augusta, he is a regular kid who likes to sit in chairs backwards, read comic books and get into devilment like most other boys his age. Lawrence’s grandmother who has a sixth grade education managed to put eight daughters through college with sheer determination and the “help of the Lord.” Lawrence became interested in the theatre through a summer playhouse in Brooklyn. Even though he has been in the business for only three years. He is presently seen in the TV soap opera entitled “One Life To Live”, and was seen in the television drama entitled, “If You Give A Dance, You Gotta Pay The Band.” Although he has done numerous commercials, “Combread, Earl and Me” is his first feature length Him. Angela Smith of the Amsterdam News states that this is not the kind of poor quality film that has been coming out depicting Black life. She states that it is a film which is about as close as we’ll get to a realistic portrayal of Abernathy Returns Groups To Form Coalition For Boycott “We Want Our Share” will hold a coalition meeting and rally at Bethel A.M.E. Church Wednesday June 18. The coalition meeting will begin at 6 p.m. The rally will start at 8 p.m. and the public is urged to attend according to acting-president, the Rev. Michael McCoy. SCLC national President Dr. Ralph Abernathy will be in town to help organize the coalition and is expected to address the rally,, according to SCLC communications director* Tj -one Brooks. Abernathy earlier promised to return to Augusta to help organize and intensify the efforts of “We Want Our Share”. The group is picketing selected downtown stores, from one hole to another. Elder answered the charges this week in a telephone interview at his home in Washington, D.C. “Henry Brown is not the caddy that he says he is ... He does not know distance. “When I arrived in Augusta, I told Brown that I wanted yardage and 1 didn't want him to just hand me a club. I always take advice from my caddy and if Henry Brown Welcher laying on the couch when she went to the Flamingo Club. A little later, Johnny Welcher, the victim’s step-father, went to the t«. Bkk LAWRENCE FISHBURNE HI ghetto life in relation to Black youngsters. It is a motion picture puzzle pieced together with some fine demanding more jobs for Blacks, better recreation Vivian W. Henderson P. O. Box 953 is such a good caddy . . . why hasn’t he won in Augusta? The things that he said are untrue, I tried to talk to him. He is caddying and I am playing. If he is as good at caddying as he claims to be then he would be playing not caddying. I have been playing for eight years. As far as parties are concerned, I know when to party and how to party. I only went to one reception in Flamingo Club where he reportedly told his wife that he had stabbed her son Bobby. Mrs. Bryant then rushed home where she found her son on his acting talent. Moses Gunn and Lawrence Fishburne II are the two actors who pull the pieces together. Both actors are facilities, support for Black Wallace Branch Library be kept news media and that the open on a permanent basis. Clark College President Elected Bendix Director East Providence, R.I. - Vivian W. Henderson, president of Clark College in the Atlanta University Center was elected to the Board of Directors of the Bendix Corporation. Southfield, Mich. Dr. Henderson is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation, and a director of the National Urban Coalition. He was appointed education co-chairman of the Augusta and I feel that this did not harm me in any way. So I'll say again that Henry Brown did not have the proper yardage for the Master’s course so I did not seek his advice after learning this. The people of Augusta are fantastic and I enjoyed playing there. I was well received and I shall never forget it. You can be looking for me because I shall return to Augusta . . . but under no circumstances will 1 use Brown as my caddy.” back with blood on his shirt and chest. Police went to the Flamingo Club to get Welcher but was told that he had gone back to equally proud ot what the film and feel that in some ways, it is a model for the injustices of what happens in ghetto communities everywhere. They see no negativeness in the film or in their roles, and in describing their roles, they are quick to point out the way in which they see their particular character. “Blackwell is a very positive role,” statesGunn, “Because he sets out to defend the death of a kid who was a hero in the community.” Lawrence Fishburne matter of factly believes that the character he portrays did what he knew he had to do - he had to do what was right. •I Gu n n pointed out some of the vibrations that the film projected. “I think the audience sees the injustice, and is hopeful throughout the picture that the truth will be told.” Continuing he states, “It’s not one of those mysteries where you wonder who did it, but what the audience does not know, is that once the courtroom trial begins, they do not know that the boy’s name will be cleared. They might feel that here’s another one of those situations where a kid just gets done in by the system.” “You just get mad at what happens to the characters,” states Mr. Fishburne, rather defmitely. Georgia goals Commission by former Governor Jimmy Carter, is president of the Board and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Southern Regional Council, and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Atlanta Charter Commission and the University Senate of the United Methodist Church. In commenting on Dr. Henderson’s election, Mr. Michael Blumenthal, chairman Augusta, Georgia HENRY BROWN Photo by Stan Raines Oak Street. Police found him walking around in back of the trailer where he was arrested. The suspect then denied knowledge of why he was being arrested. Mclntyre Gets SIO,OOO For Paine Recreation Program County Commission Chairman Edward M. Mclntyre has again secured SIO,OOO for the Paine College summer recreation program. House Passes Voting Rights Act Extension For Ten Years WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill to extend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for 10 years. The law, which has been called the most effective civil rights legislation passed by the Congress, led directly to widespread political gains by Black people in the South. The House-passed bill makes permanent the nationwide ban on literacy tests as a voting requirement, and for the first time extends protection of of the board said, “We welcome Dr. Henderson to the Board for his knowledge of economics and education and we hope that he will be particularly helpful in our equal employment opportunity and other ‘people programs’ to which we are deeply committed at the Bendix Corporation. “In addition, we are pleased to have a director from the South, an area of the United States where we have many importnat operations.” In the 1950’5, Dr. Henderson conducted pioneer studies of the Black labor market and the potential buying power of the Black community. Before his appointment to the presidency of Clark, Dr. Henderson was at Fisk University as an administrator, a professor and chairman of the Department of Economics. Bendix is a world wide manufacturing company serving the automotive, aerospace and shelter markets. The company ranks No. 71 in Fortune magazine's listing of the top 500 companies in the U.S , and had a reported sales in 1974 of 52.5 billion dollars, largely in aerospace and automotive equipment. Deadline Mondays, Please June 12, 1975 No. 12 Jet, Ebony Publishers Fail To Reconcile With SCLC Leaders Tyrone Brooks, National Communications director for SCLC informed The News-Review that Johnson f Publications, the nation’s largest Black publishing company, did not meet the June 9 deadline to give “satisfactory replies” to seven demands submitted Monday by the national office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Movement Coalition for Fair Coverage. Brooks said that those offices will mobilize to form a nation-wide boycott against Johnson’s JET and EBONY Magazines since they have failed to lift a blackout of SCLC and other relevant and worthwhile community organizations. The popular magazines will be burned in the streets, he said. SCLC’s demands are: - lifting the “black-out on SCLC immediatly” - Johnson Publications give “fair coverage of SCLC news nationwide” - fire Harmon Perry at Jet’s Atlanta bureau chief for Last year when the program did not have the money to operate, he was able to get SIO,OOO from Gov. Jimmy Carter’s emergency fund. voting rights to millions of Spanish-speaking people, American Indians, Alaskan natives, and Asian Americans. The measure now goes to the Senate, where civil rights forces are driving for passage and final enactment into law before the Act’s present expiration date of August 6, 1975. Under the bill passed by the House: 1— The special coverage in seven southern states (all of 1 | jj 11 EEOC CHIEF TAKES OATH -- Lowell W. Perry became the sixth chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on Tuesday, May 27, when he took the oath of office in the Rose Garden of the White House. He was nominated by President Ford for the position on May 12 and confirmed by the Senate on May 21. Shown at the swearing-in ceremony are (L-R): Judge Dammon Keith of Michigan who administered the oath; Mrs. Maxine Perry, the chairman’s wife; Perry and President Ford. In the background (L-R) are Commissioner Raymond Telles, Commissioner Ethel Bent Walsh, vice chairman; Rep. Augustus Hawkins, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Equal Opportunities; Walter Washington mayor of Washington, D.C., and Lowell Perry, Jr. Standing in front of Representative Hawkins is Perry’s daughter, Merrideth. “refusing to cover very relevant and significant events and activities that were of great importance to the Black community in Atlanta” - provide bureaus with full time staff - bureau directors “who are sensitive to the programs of SCLC” - resume coverage of the civil rights movement - and project positive Black leaders as much as entertainers and sports figures. A meeting May 13 between Robert Johnson, Jet publisher and representatives of local and national, SCLC offices failed to resolve the issue of coverage of the civil rights organizations and possible boycott. “The meeting was a complete waste of time,” the June 2 letter to Johnson Publications stated, “simply because Mr. Johnson came into the meeting closed-minded and with no intention of settling the problems.” At that explosive meeting, Atlanta SCLC president Hosea Williams demanded that Jet This time he got the same amount through Sen. Sam Nunn’s office. Mclntyre said he wll ask for $5,000 from the county at the Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia, and 39 counties in North Carolina) would continue for ten years. This means that these states and their counties or other political subdivisions must obtain advance clearance by the U.S. Justice Department before putting into effect any changes in voting laws or procedures, such as registration rules or redistricting plans. These areas are also subject to the U.S. and Ebony scale down its coverage of Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder of Operation PUSH who appears frequently in both publications. “Jesse ain’t done s--t and he gets all the coverage,” Williams told the Black publicher. “But Dr. Abernathy is on the front lines and doesn’t get anything.” No memtion of Jackson or PUSH was made in the letter released by the national SCLC office Monday. He continued that Johnson Publications is backing-out SCLC and other movement groups “because they don’t want to lose big business advertising”. Brooks said SCLC also has grievances against Atlanta’s Black press. “Right now, we’re on Johnson Publications but we also have problems with the local Black press-not you guys who come out on the streets but the guys at the top, editors who have written the movement off.” next Finance Committee meeting. The recreation program will serve some 400 youths and adults this summer, according to Director Ernest Tolbert. Attorney General’s authority to send in federal registrars and poll watchers. 2- Literary tests and other discriminatory voting qualifications would be permanently outlawed throughout the nation. 3 Spanish-speaking citizens, American Indians, Alaskan natives and Asian Americans - all of whom have See “EXTENSION” Page 2 20<r