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/ l,r Anniwta Nma-toW MWsr AN open forum for people who care v LESS THAN 75% ADVERTISING 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 I w£ * /SB 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. X<<*x<<<<<<< , x i x< ; x ; x ; xw:wxw:w:w< , : , w< , x , x-x‘x*x*x , x*x , x , x , x.<: | Darnell On Paine Board | I * ™ 1 i\n Dr. Emma 1. Darnell Streets In City Will Be One-Way r f 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 IfBHKfIHIKI CI- | jHII Bk ll*. Orr. . 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 ■ 1 irtT- 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 m ■ mi I* - f I SBSI!BS®ikL v I 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. 2Ot