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Vol. 5
Eldridge Cleaver Wants To
Remain In Federal Custody
Eldridge Cleaver, the
one-time revolutionary who
helped found the Black Panther
Party, has returned to the
United States after a seven year
exile in Cuba, China, Algeria
and Paris.
Cleaver, 40, who recently
ended his self-imposed exile,
asked to remain in custody of
federal officials because he is
afraid of Black radicals in
California’s state prisons. He
said he fears for his safety.
Cleaver forfeited $50,000
bail when he fled the country
Rep. Diggs Owes
Taxes, U.S. Says
Black Congressman Charles
C. Diggs Jr., (D-Mich), has
been told by Federal officials
that he owes $36,223 in taxes
for 1968, the Detroit news has
reported.
The Detroit Congressman
denied through his lawyers that
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SIOO DESERVES ANOTHER
Mrs. Barbara Smalley of 912 11th St. accepts check for SIOO she won in
News-Review subscription contest. Editor-publisher Mallory K. Millender presents
the check as Circulation Manager Stan Raines looks on.
Mrs. Smalley immediately signed up to work on a second hundred dollars.
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Dr. Emma 1. Darnell
Streets In City
Will Be One-Way
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Eleventh and 12th streets
will become one-way Thursday
and the one-way part of Bth
Street, which is presently
one-way south from Reynolds
to Telfair Streets, will be
extended to Walton Way
Thursday. Augusta-Richmond
County Traffic Engineer James
Burnside said Monday.
Eleventh Street will become
one-way south from Reynolds
to D’Antignac streets and 12th
P. O. Box 953
in 1968 rather than return to
prison on a parole-violation
charge and face assault and
attempted murder charges in
connection with a 1968
shootout between Panthers and
police in Northern California.
He still faces those charges
plus a subponea to appear as a
witness Jan. 20 in Washington
before the Senate Judiciary
Committee.
Philip Gutherie, spokesman
for the California Department
of Corrections, said: “We will
accede to the U.S. Department
he owes any money in the case,
which involves the estate of his
father, Charles C. Diggs Sr.,
who died in April, 1967, the
News said in a copywright
story.
Diggs, chairman of the
House District Committee, has
Miss Emma I. Darnell,
Commissioner, Department of
Administrative Services, City
of Atlanta was recently elected
to the Board of Trustees of
Paine College.
Nominated by Bishop
Joseph C. Coles of the Sixth.
Episcopal District of the
Christian Methodist Episcopal
Church, Commissioner Darnell
is the daughter of the late Dr.
Milner L. Darnell, an alumnus
of Paine College, and Mrs. H.G.
Darnell of Atlanta.
Street will become one-way
north from D’Antignac to
Reynolds streets, he said.
An earlier Chronicle story
reported that 11th and 12th
streets will become one-way in
a southerly and northerly
direction, respectively, on
Thursday. However, the streets
from which the one-way
direction will begin and end
were reversed. The Chronicle
regrets the error.
of Justice request for him to
stay in their custody for the
time being.”
Cleaver, author of “Soul on
Ice,” once advocated
revolutionary violence, but in
recent months suggested that
for all its faults, the U.S. has
the best system around.
In 1971, while still abroad,
Cleaver was expelled by the
Black Panther Party, and
according to a spokesman he
will not be allowed to rejoin it.
He was minister of information
of the Panthers at the time he
served in Congress since 1954.
He was quoted by the News as
saying that the case was “too
sensitive” for him to comment
on. The paper added that the
Internal Revenue Service first
told Diggs on Aug. 30, 1974
that he owed the money, plus
interest on his father’s estate.
Lt. Col. William J. Simpkins
Aiken Man
Recieves Legion
of Merit
Lt. Colonel William J.
Simpkins, a native of Aiken.
S.C. received the Legion of
Merit Award for exceptionally
meritorious conduct in the
performance of outstanding
service, Oct. 10, 1975. The.
award was for service as asst,
chief of the personnel services
division in the Office of the
Surgeon General from June
1971 to July 1975.
Simpkins, who graduated
from Martha Scholfield high
school in Aiken, was a biology
major at North Carolina A&T
and received a master’s degree
in Hospital Administration
from Baylor University in
Waco, Texas.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph E. Simpkins of Aiken,
S.C.
Augusta, Georgia
fled the country.
In New York, Cleaver’s
return was denounced by the
Congress of Racial Equality,
(CORE). In a statement filed
with degrading epithets, CORE
asserted:
“On his re-entry into this
country, Cleaver has
maliciously characterized
countries of integrity as
dictatorships because they
refused to allow this
psychopath to practice his
crimes of greed and passion in
their countries. However, these
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MRS. CORETTA KING
Mrs. King Sees
A Conspiracy
NAIROBI, Kenya-Corretta
King, widow of slain civil rights
leader Martin Luther King Jr.,
has called for a reopening of
the investigation of her
husband’s assisination, which
she says was apparently the
result of a government
conspiracy.
“I don’t have the facts, but
at this stage I say it appears
there was a conspiracy in the
death of my husband,” she
remarked in an interview
yesterday.
Mrs. King, who is in Nairobi
on a three-nation African tour,
was commenting on the
admission by the FBI that it
undertook a campaign to
discredit King. and the
subsequent order by Attorney
General Levi to review the
agency’s investigation of King’s
shooting death in 1968, James
Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the
killing in Memphis, Tenn., and
was sentenced to 99 years in
prison, s “The way he was
documented and followed
around by Hoover and the CIA
when he was abroad, it would
have to have been attached to
the forces of our government
that felt he was a threat to the
system as it existed,” Mrs. King
said, referring to the CIA and
the fate FBI chief J. Edgar
Hoover.
“I think there are grounds
Stan Raines
Suffers Minor
Heart Attack
News-Review Circulation
manager/Columnist Stan
Raines suffered a minor heart
attack Saturday.
He is in intensive care at Ft.
Gordon Hospital. Wedrfesday
afternoon his condition was
“stable.”
In addition to serving as
circulation manager, Raines
writes the column ‘Playin' the
Changes’.
We solicit your prayers for
his speedy and complete
recovery.
same, “dictatorships” procided
this cheap felon and degenerate
rapist refuge during the seven
years he was on the run from
the justice he now seeks.”
“To welcome Cleaver home
would be unthinkable for any
sound thinking Black person.”
CORE said. “To test this
so-called new American
democracy and revamped
judicial system Cleaver now
seeks of, Black people should
demand Cleaver get his day in
court and a lengthy stay in jail
to vindicate his heinous and
traitorous crimes.”
for reopening the case,” she
said. “I have always felt there
was more to it than came out. I
also felt somehow in the long
run of history it would be
revealed-just what did
happen.”
She said she felt recent
investigations into the FBI and
CIA provided new evidence. “I
feel it requires further
investigation into the death of
my husband, as well as the
assassinations of others from
the Kennedys on.”
In Washington, meanwhile,
King’s former aide Ralph David
Abernathy and comedian Dick
Gregory led 30 other persons
in a brief march in front of the
White House to demand
President Ford order a new
“independent investigation” of
the slaying.
They told reporters that two
imprisoned men whom they
identified as Robert B. Watson
and C.H. Andrews alias R.L.
Warren, have new evidence.
Watson, serving a drug
sentence in an Ashland, Ky.,
federal prison, has told
authorities he overheard several
men discussing a plot to kill
King. The Atlanta, Ga., public
safety commissioner said he
had investigated Watson’s
allegations last summer but
could not substantiate them.
Xmas
Deadline
News deadlines for our
Christmas and New
Year's editions will be
Friday, Dec. 19 and
Friday, Dec. 26
respectively.
Advertising deadlines
will be the same as
news deadlines.
December 11, 1975 No. 36
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Willis Fortenberry, general manager of Sears in Augusta, presents check for
$5,497.00 to Dr. Julius S. Scott, president of Paine College.
Local Sears Manager Presents
Check To Paine President
Willis Fortenberry, general
manager at Sears in Augusta,
presented a check for
$5,497.00 to Dr. Julius S.
Scott Jr., president of Paine
College Friday.
The check according to
Fortenberry, is the second
installment of its three-part
commitment vs $15,050 to the
Build It Back Campaign.
The United Negro College
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Alphas Make Contribution
Alpha Chi Lambda Chapter
of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
CSRA Arts Calendar
Dec. 12-13
Art Exhibit Performing Arts Lobby
Augusta College
Art Exhibit Augusta Library
Sp.m. “My Three Angels , Playhouse
(Augusta Players) 3112 Lake Forest Dr.
8 P m - "The Firebugs” Performing Arts Center
6 Fort Gordon
Dec. 17
7 p.m. Christmas Program Terrace Manor School
7:30 p.m. Mini-Theatre Lucy Laney Music Room
Dec. 18
7:30 p.m. Butler High School Gilbert Lambuth Chapel
Chorus Concert Paine CoDege
Dec. 19-20
7:30 p.m. “Little Match Girl” Music Hall
(Georgia Dance Theatre) Bell Auditorium
Fund conducts national fund
raising campaigns in order to
raise money for operating
expenses of its member
schools.
Other UNCF schools
receiving grants in Georgia
include: Atlanta University,
Clark College, Morehouse
College, Spehnan College and
Paine.
Over 48,000 students were
enrolled in UNCF institutions
presented a check for $75.00
to the Lynndale School
last year, and the national fund
raising goal for 1975 is sl4
million. The funds are used for
student financial aid, the
upgrading of facilities and
staff, to expand curricular
offerings in the field of
business, economics, medicine
and communications and add
new teaching and laboratory
'quipmant.
The Sears-Roebuck
Foundation has been making
grants to UNCF since 1955..
Training Center. The check was
presented to Lynndaie School
Director Ms. Gloria M.
Cheshire and (L) board
member Mr. Hawthorne Lee oy
fraternity Treasurer Y.N.
Myers. •
House Saves
Food Stamps
Cut
Washington -(NBNS)-The
House, by a vote of 230 to
159, defeated an attempt to
cut participation in the food
stamp program in passing a
$7.9 billion supplemental
appropriations biU. The vote
rejected an amendment by
Rep. Paul Findley (R-Ill.), that
would have limited food-stamp
participation to families below
the poverty line. It approved
$1.75 billion in addition to
funds already authorized,
bringing the total food stamp
budget to $5.85 biDion for the
fiscal year that began July 1.
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