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Black Coaches Charge Discrimination
in County Recreation Department
Two Black coaches have
filed complaints against the
Richmond Recreation
Department charging racial
discrimination. Both said they
were discriminated against
because their teams are
all-Black.
Thomas Porter, coach of the
Eastview Vikings football team
for 13-y ear-olds said he filed a
complaint against the injustices
that have taken place over the
past four years and particularly
last season.
Asked what kind of injustices
had taken place, he said,
“Officials wearing iron spikes
stepped on five of my players.
The players have cuts and
scratches on their hands.”
In a game played October
15, Porter said his team was
leading 8-6 going into the final
quarter, and the official
g
Great Grandmother has to go to
Sandersville for Medical Aid
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By Robert L. Oliver
A 60-year-old great
grandmother seeking medical
treatment for herself and two
great grandsons, alleges that
she was turned down by a local
private physician because she is
on Medicaid, thus forcing her
to go out of town for
treatment.
Mrs. Maggie Hammond,
1502 Villa Maria Apts., said
she has to travel to
Sandersville, Ga., 112 miles
roundtrip, once a month, to be
treated by a physician there,
Dr. A.G. Gilmore. Mrs.
Hammond is a heart patient.
Dr. Gilmore accepts patients
on Medicaid.
In addition, she claimed that
on two occasions her great
grandsons Kevin, six months,
and Shane, two-years-old were
refused physical examinations
as medicaid patients, here, but
SCLC Demonstrates In
Louisville On January 15th
To celebrate the 47th
Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. The Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference will conduct a
pro-busing Demonstration in
Louisville Ky. on Jan. 15th.
In 1954 the U.S. Supreme
Court affirmed that the
segregated Public School
systems of this country were
separate and unequal and
therefore unconstitutional.
It ruled that the public
school systems had to
immediately begin to
desegregate or be found in
contempt. Many complied and
many resisted.
Over the years busing has
been used as a means to bring
systems into compliance and
also to create a significant
balance of Black and white
students. In recent years busing
has come under attack by
many forces who are
anti-integrationists. They have
made busing a CODE WORD
for racism and many attempts
have been made to attack and
erode the 1954 Supreme Court
Mandate.
Legislation is pending in
both houses of congress that
would seriously hamper the
efforts by the Dept, of Health
Education and Welfare in its
efforts to enforce the law.
President Gerald Ford is
campaigning against busing and
the Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan have decided to take to
the streets with a campaign of
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allowed the fourth quarter to
last' longer than the entire
game. The game should have
had 10 minute quarters. The
first three quarters lasted the
prescribed 10 minutes. The
final quarter lasted from 7:11
until 8:05.
Toward the end of the game
I had an injured player on the
field and I asked for an injured
time-out. The official looked at
me like I was crazy. Twice
during the game the opposing
team was given time-outs, for
injured players.
“At another point during the
fourth quarter, a whistle was
blown to call the play dead. A
player from the other team
walked across the goal line and
they called it a touchdown.
“I asked the official ‘why
did you blow the whistle if you
weren’t going to stop the
were examined after she
arranged to pay $75.
“I was shocked,” she mused.
Adding, “I couldn’t find a
doctor to treat the babies.
Several doctors I called
refused, they told me they
would not accept children on
Medicaid; at least no new
patients under the program.”
Mrs. Hammond, a state and
federal welfare and social
security recipient is Shane’s
legal guardian and, according
to her, the recent cutback in
welfare supplements makes it
almost impossible to pay the
fees she is charged, so she has
to go elsewhere.
According to Mrs.
Hammond, Dr. T.E. Bailey
attended Kevin after he was
bom. “But, recently I called
him and asked would he
examine Kevin under the
Medicaid Program, he told me
harrassment and intimidation
to block enforcement of the
law. But It’s quite obvious that
these forces are not against
busing, because not a voice was
raised when the buses were
rolling segregated taking Black
children to all Black inferior
institutions and white children
to all white superior
institutions. These forces
including President Ford are
just racist and
anti-integregationists.
But SCLC will continue to
oppose those forces by using
the same tactics and strategies
of nonviolence that have
brought us this far in our
movement to create a fair and
just society.
The pro-busing March in
Louisville Ky. on the 15th is
not the first nor will it be the
last on this issue.
SCLC has supported the
NAACP in Boston in their
campaigns on many occasions.
And on the 15th will:
A. Sponsor a demonstration
in Houston, Texas
B. Participate in a Manpower
Conference in Washington,
D.C.
C. the movement
in Mississippi to.-- ,fretj
Christopher Moore
D. Hold a birthday part£ on
the night of January 14 for Dr.
King in Atlanta. Chapters and
Affiliates will conduct similiar
activity in many cities around
the country to celebrate Dr.
Kings 47th birthday.
play’? He said I’ll do the
refereeing you do the
coaching.’ ”
Porter said his team was
12-0 in 1975 in the recreation
department’s all Black league.
In 1975 his team played as the
only Black team in an
otherwise white league. The
team had not won a game at
the time he complained to The
News-Review. They had lost
four and tied one.
“I don’t mind losing if the
games are called right, but this
we haven’t received,” he said.
Forest Epps, basketball
coach of the Ken Sanders
All-Stars, was suspended for
unsportsman like conduct after
he smashed a runner-up trophy
on the court last spring.
The All-Stars have won the
Recreation Department
championship and tournament
he didn’t know, ■ bring him in.
I did and he charged me $45.
We just cannot afford it," she
said.
She further alleged that she
was charged S3O to have the
boys examined at the Doctors
Building, adjacent to Doctors
Hospital, because they
wouldn’t honor Medicaid
cards.
Mrs. Hammond has been
being treated by Dr. Gilmore
for several years. But because
of advice from her family and
physician, she discontinued
traveling to and from
Sandersville.
“I have no choice now. The
local hospitals are crowded and
the closest place where private
physicians treat Medicaid
patients, Thomson, Ga., is also
over crowded. So once a
month, or when it’s necessary
to take the boys I have to go,”
she said.
Nabrit Views Governance
At Paine Faculty Seminar
Who should govern a college,
the president, the faculty, the
students or a combination of
the three? Dr. Samuel M.
Nabrit, director of the
Southern Fellowships Fund,
National Fellowship Fund, and a
member of the Paine College
Board of Trustees, shared his
views 'with the Paine College
faculty last Wednesday.
Governance is in transition.
“The extent to which a faculty
will play a roll in the
governance of an institution
depends on the extent to
which the faculty is
professional,” said Dr. Nabrit,
whose father pastored
Springfield Baptist Church in
Augusta.
“Except for faculty
promotion and budgets, 1 see
no reason students shouldn’t
serve on all committees,” he
said.
Dr. Nabrit voiced strong
opposition to unions for
college faculty. “There is
nothing that a bargaining agent
if can obtain for a faculty that a
.’* J professionally organized
faculty can’t obtain for itself.”
In many instances unions are
just a cloak to protect weaker
faculty members, he said.
He also questioned
unlimited tenure. He suggested
that tenured faculty should be
Augusta, Georgia
each of the previous five years.
At the end of last season, his
team was tied for first place.
Epps said he was given a choice
of playing the game later or
ending the season in a tie.
He reportedly secured the
Richmond Academy
gymnasium, and paid for the
officials. With three seconds to
go in the playoff game and the
All-Stars leading by one point,
a jump-ball was called, the
opposing team, all-white,
controlled the ball and shot it.
The buzzer sounded and the
bail went in the basket.
Officials said the basket was
good.
The other game clock still
showed one second left to
play-
Epps vigorously protested
but was given a second place
trophy to console him. He
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Coast Guardsman Howard Bagby “shoots” a reading
with a sextant during a anchorage patrol. Bagby, a
Boatswain Mate Third Class, is stationed aboard the
110-foot harbor tug MAHONING, homeported in New
York City.
Augustan Finds His Way
In The Coast Guard
Governors Island, N.Y.-As
his ship glided by the Statue of
re-evaluated periodically, and
that their tenure should be
extended based on their
performance subsequent to the
last evaluation.
“I would not provide tenure
for anybody without a
doctorate if 1 were starting a
new college. The small college
can ill afford to have wide
spread unlimited tenure,” he
said.
As a college president, Dr.
Nabrit said he tried to create
the kind of environment in
which he would have liked to
have worked as a faculty
member or dean.
As director of the Atlanta
based Southern Fellowship
Fund, National Fellowships
Fund, the Ford Foundation
Program for Research in the
Middle East and Africa, the
DIUGID and the Whitney
Young Fellowships, he oversees
approximately s4*/i million
dollars a year.
Paine President Dr. Julius S
Scott said, “Faculty is here to
teach and to do research, not
to make policy.” It is
responsible, he said, for that
which has to do with
curriculum, courses and the
students they graduate.
He called on the faculty to
help to create a “canopy of
understanding.”
broke the trophy in disgust.
Epps said he received a letter
three days later stating that he
was suspended until further
notice. He said George
McElveen, recreation director,
told him to stay out of last
year’s tournament or to stay
out for two or three weeks of
the current season.
He said he received a letter
at the beginning of the current
season saying that he was
suspended for the entire
season. He quoted a recreation
department official as saying
he would see that the league
folds up if Epps is reinstated.
McElveen said Epps was told
last year he would be
suspended for the full year. “I
don’t know what he’s making
all the fuss about now,”
McElveen said.
Liberty, Howard Bagby was on
the bridge, preparing for a
day’s work. Out of a polished
wooden box, Bagby lifted a
sextant-a vital instrument to
navigation. He set out pencils,
dividers and log books on the
chart table.
Bagby, a Boatswain Mate
Third Class in the U.S. Coast
Guard, was arranging his office
for the job ahead. His office is
the bridge of the New York
City-based harbor tug
MAHONING. On this
particular day, the
MAHONING was conducting
anchorage checks in New
York’s expansive harbor. The
MAHONING’S other duties
include ice breaking, search
and rescue, and law
enforcement.
Aside from his navigational
duties on the bridge, Bagby is
in charge of the MAHONING’s
eight-man deck force. Along
with being skilled in
seamanship, the deck force
strives to prevent salt corrosion
of the vessel’s structure and to
keep the on-deck machinery
working smoothly.
It is a long way from
Augusta, Ga. to New York
City, but Bagby was feeling a
need to break out of his “little
world,” so, he enlisted in the
Coast Guard. “The Coast
Guard offered me a chance to
meet different people and
experience things I knew
nothing about,” he recalls.
The MAHONING began to
slow its speed and Bagby took
the sextant in his hands and
aimed it at a 685-foot tanker,
lying low in the water at
anchor. Armed with his sextant
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Shown at the ceremony (L-R) are Wallace W. Price, corporate director, Urban
Affairs, Pan American World Airlines; Mrs King; Ms. Phyllis Dunham, her daughter;
and Chairman Perry.
Perry Swears-In Ruth King
As EEOC Consultant
Lowell W. Perry, chairman
of the U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
(EEOC), has sworn-in Ruth
Allen King as a consultant to
the agency. Mrs. King recently
retired from the National
Urban League after more than
40 years as an employment
development specialist.
Chairman Perry said that
Mrs. King “is among the top
employment development
specialists in the nation and the
EEOC can certainly use her
skilled services in combating
employment discrimination.
Martin Luther King Birthday Observance
Dr. W. Carl Gordon Jr., a
noted Black surgeon from
Albany, Ga., will be the guest
speaker at a seminar and
memorial service at Ft. Gordon
Jan. 15, the birthday of slain
civil rights leader Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
An “executive seminar’, in
Olmstead Hall will be attended
by various military and civilian
supervisors at the post. The
topic will be “Changing Social
Conditions and Their Impact
on the Military”. Panel
members will include Charles
W. Walker, executive director
of the Augusta Human
Relations Commission; Major
General (uS. Army, Retired)
Harley L. Moore, chairman of
the commission’s Military and
Veterans Affairs Committee;
Lt. Handsel E. Johnson,
affirmative action officer for
the Augusta Police
Department Lionel
Larcheneaux, director of the
Augusta Chapter of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference; and Ms. Doris
Lakeman, president of the
CSRA Chapter of the National
Organization of Women.
A film depicting Dr. King’s
struggle in the civil rights
movement, ‘‘From
Montgomery to Memphis”, will
readings, Bagby did some
figuring on a scratch pad; the
big tanker is in its designated
area. The 110-foot
MAHONING swings away from
the tanker and Bagby makes an
entry into a log.
A 1971 graduate of
Augusta’s T.W. Josey High
School, Bagby was a student at
Paine College when he chose to
enlist in the Coast Guard. He is
not sure he wants to stay in the
Coast Guard, but he does like
his work.
During his leisure time,
Bagby plays electric piano for a
local band, “Forest Blue,” and
spends time with liis steady
girlfriend. “Nothing serious,’
says Bagby with a gleam in his
eye.
Bagby totalled some figures
as the MAHONING steamed
toward its pier. He leaned
against the chart table and
January 15, 1976 No. 41 2(K
She has made the quest for
equal employment opportunity
a life-time endeavor.”
In addition to her work with
the National Urban League,
Mrs. King was a founder and
secretary of The Edges Groups,
Inc., a New York City group of
professional employment
specialists and company
executives organized to assist
organizations in locating, hiring
and upgrading minorities and
women.
When she retired in Oct.
1975, a Ruth Allen King
Award for Affirmative Action
be shown to post personnel via
closed circuit television.
Dr. Gordon is at present a
surgeon at Phoebe Putney
Memorial Hospital and Palmyra
Park Hospital in Albany. He
also serves as a consultant to
the Naval Air Station
Dispen.wy in Albany and to
Martin Army Hospital at Ft.
Benning, Ga. He was a military
surgeon from 1955 to 1968
and was chief of general
surgery at Fitzsimmons
General Hospital in Denver,
Colo.
The public is invited to
talked about sociology in the
Coast Guard. “I have never
faced open racism. However,
part of the overall problem is
that people are reluctant to
discuss race. We have no
problem here aboard the
M. tHONING. It is almost like
we’re a family.”
Although Bagby does not
regret his decision to enter the
Coast Guard, he does not
believe everybody would be
suited to it “because
everybody is different.”
The MAHONING’S
commanding officer expertly
nudged the tug against the
pilings as the deck force began
securing the mooring lines.
After he put the sextant back
into its box and put away the
log books and dividers, Bagby
offered his prescription for
getting along in the Coast
Guard. “It takes a lot of
patience, understanding and
versatility to get through life
and 1 understand that better
now that I did when I was 17.”
Deadline
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Nrms-
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was established and will be
presented annually to a
company that demonstrates
significant efforts in equal
employment opportunity. The
award was announced at a
special dinner honoring the
EEOC consultant in New York
last September. The event was
sponsored by the Metropolitan
New York Project Equality.
The swearing-in ceremony
took place at 3 p.m. on
Tuesday, Jan. 6, at EEOC
headquaters in Washington,
DC.
attend the memorial service,
which will be held at 7 pan. in
Chapel 9 on 6th Avenue. Music
and songs will be presented by
choirs from the Augusta area.
Retired Paine
Professor
Dies
Rev. D.W.G. Lawson
Retired Paine College
Professor the Rev. Donald
Walton Gilson Lawson was
found dead in his Warrenville,
S.C. home Saturday. He had a
record of a heart condition. He
was 70.
He was buried Monday at
Sunset Memorial Gardens. Ine
Rev. Mr. Lawson was heard for
years on the Paine College
radio program “Under the
clock broadcast on WBBQ.
A native of Leeds, England,
he was a former Methodist
minister and English professor.
He was a gradual* of Stiff
College in Sheffield, England,
and the Chandler School of
Theology.
He joined the Paine College
faculty in 1959 and worked
there until his retirement in
1972.
He purchased a home on the
Mediterranean island of Malta
where he went to live upon his
retirement. He returned to this
country to wait until the
political climate in Malta
improved.
