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Vol. 5
Ruffin To Run For Congress?
Attorney John Ruffin is
considering running for the
10th district congressional seat
being vacated by U.S. Rep.
Robert G. Stephens, the
News-Review learned this
week.
'White Media’ Conspiracy Seen
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) - A
Black newspaper editor told a
group of Black elected officials
Saturday that the “white
media” is only part of a
conspiracy to discredit Black
elected officials.
Mallory Millender, editor of
the Augusta News-Review,
spoke to a seminar at a meeting
of the Georgia Association of
Black Elected Officials. Some
50 persons attended.
“1 think the only way you
have to defend yourself is
3000 Attend John McCown Funeral At Sparta
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JOHN L. McCOWN
On Feb. 4,some 3000 people
attended the funeral of
Hancock County leader, John
L. McCown, at Hancock
Talented Cartoonist Joins News-Review
The “Black Madonna” and
the “Drug Scene Marriage”
have been two of some of the
more recent bright
contributions of the
News-Review as drawn by local
artist, Martin W. Brown.
Martin has sketched pointed
editorial cartoons which focus
on relevant and controversial
issues. He admires the work of
Black artists because he feels
their work is more relevant to
the real world and now. “When
I composed my “Black
Madonna”, I wanted to get
away from the stereo type of a
NNPA Head Warns Sen. Jackson
WASHINGTON (NNPA)-In
a heated message to Senator
Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson of
the state of Washington who is
running hard for the
Democratic nomination for the
Presidency, Dr. Carlton B.
Goodlett, president of the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association - the Black Press
of America - warned him on
his anti-busing stand.
Dr. Goodlett’s message
reflects the feeling expressed
by Black editors and publishers
during their Mid-Winter
Workshop in the Virgin Islands
P. O. Box 953
Contacted at his office,
Ruffin would neither confirm
nor deny that he will run for
the seat.
Sources close to Ruffin said
that Ruffin has established a
through the Black press,” he
told the officials.
“We have to accept the fact
that the people who are
involved in the conspiracy ist
on the boards of the DuPonts
and the ITTs. I think it would
be a real mistake to talk about
the media as the total scope of
the conspiracy.”
But Millender said there are
a lot of Black politicians who
deserve to be attacked in the
press.
“There are many Black
politicians who are just that,”
Central High School
gymnasium in Sparta.
McCown died Jan. 30 along
with two other men in an air
white peoples Xmas. I wanted
something that would be
relevant to say • my cousins.
The 1968 graduate of St.
Thomas Aquinas High School
attended Paine College for two
years, then decided to live in
Baltimore and New York.
While there, he got an
opportunity to visit museums
and experience the different
life styles of the big city. But
eventually came to the
conclusion that home is where
the art is.
The native Augustan became
interested in art by watching
last week. His wire to Senator
Jackson follows:
“We want you to know that
the mood of Black editors and
publishers at the National
Newspaper Publishers
Association’s Mid-Winter
Workshop was one of
indignation over Presidential
candidates catering to the
whims and emotions of
majority segments of the
American public, while
neglecting the basic needs of
Black and poor America.
“We believe your proposed
anti-busing legislation falls in
that category. We find it
broad base of support in the
state as a result of his work
with the board of directors of
the Voter Education Project
(VEP).
Ruffin is rice president of
VEP.
he said. “They don’t give a
damn about Black people. I’m
all about Black unity, but I’m
not about letting Blacks rip off
the community just so they
can get re-elected.”
Edward M. Mclntyre,
chairman of the Richmond
County Board of
Commissioners, was honored as
the founders of the association
in 1972 and its first president.
The association installed
newly elected officials at the
meeting.
State Rep. Ben Brown of
crash of his private plane.
He was eulogized by the
Rev. Ralph Abernathy,
president of the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference. Atlanta Mayor,
Maynard Jackson and State
Rep. Hosea Williams also spoke
of McCown’s contributions.
Federal Aviation Authorities
investigating the crash said late
last week that McCown was
intoxicated as he piloted the
ill-fated craft. They said they
found no record of a pilot
license except a learner’s
permit that expired in 1973.
A native of Loris, S C., he
attended Mitchell College,
Long Island University,
California Western University,
The United States Armed
Forces Institute, and earned
the doctor of law degree from
Mary Holmes College.
He went to Hancock County
in 1966 as a civil rights worker.
He organized Black voters and
took control of the
government of Hancock
his aunt who like to doodle.
When he tried doing the things
that she would do, he found
himself drawing with ease.
“I’ve only recently become
interested in cartoons and I try
to conjure up symbols that
would best express what I want
to convey. Sometimes 111 get
with my family or with one of
the News-Review staff people
and come up with ideas for
cartoons.
Although he is working as a
drafting artist at Transco
Textiles Industries, he would
like to further his career as a
commercial artist and maybe
regressive, reactionary and
reflects a myopic perception of
what the real issues of the 1976
Presidential election should be.
No Democrat can win the
Presidency without Black
support.
“For this reason, the Black
Press will be viligently
monitoring you and the other
candidates and reporting to our
people which one of you can
best provide the honest,
dedicated and effective
leadership for all America and,
above all, who has
commitment to help those in
greatest need.”
Augusta, Georgia
Among the local persons
who have expressed an interest
in the seat are Douglas
Bernard, Jim Blanchard, John
Fleming, Judge Walter
McMillan, and Matthew
Mulherin.
Atlanta, chairman of the
Legislative Black Caucus, was
installed as president; Atlanta
City Councilman Carl Ware,
vice president; Chatham
County Commissioner Willie
Brown, treasurer; Macon City
Councilwoman Dolores
Brooks, secretary; and
Hancock County
Commissioner George Lott,
assistant treasurer.
The officials passed a
resolution favoring the concept
of a national association of
Black elected officials.
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County which is 80% Black.
In 1970, he founded the East
Central Committee
for Opportunity (ECCO), a
community development
program. He sponsored a
number of business enterprises
including a MESBIC, a 150
unit housing development, a
catfish farm, and other
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Martin Brown
Photo by James A.G. Stewart
even try his hand at
sculpturing.
However, the 25 year old
Leo bom artist feels that Black
artists starting out are not
given adequate encouragement.
“If an artist is going to be an
artist, he needs to study
different artists. But young
Black people start adult life
with very little money and
devote most of their time to
making money for sheer
survival as opposed to
broadening their cultural
experience.”
He further stated that Black
artists who have made it should
form a union and encourage
young Black artists in anyway
they can and maybe even give
out scholarships.
Martin is the son of the
former Catherine Perrin and
John Brown, and grandson of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Perrin Sr.
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projects.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Annie M. McCown; a
daughter, Mrs. Laurie Roland;
three sons. Gerald, John, and
Anthony; his mother, Mrs.
Othel McCown Jackson; his
step-father, Milford Jackson; a
sister, Mrs. Lena Jones; a
brother, James McCown and a
step-sister, Miss Irene Jackson.
THE PROVIDERS
by “Bob” Oliver
(The following article is the
result of polling several local
private physicians who either
do or do not accept Medicaid
patients; subsequent to the
“Great Grandmother Has To
Go To Sanderville For Medical
Aid” story in last weeks, Jan.
15 th, News-Review.)
Further research into the
medicaid apparatus indicates a
broader, triangular, content
than was originally evident.
For it contains the tri-elements
of patient, “provider” and
politics.
Medicaid jargon describes
the ‘provider” as the
Physician.
According to two prominent
Augusta physicians, there are
certain facts that merit weight
on their individual stands on
the issue.
Dr. Allen Brown, who
accepts medicaid patients only
if they pay the standard office
fee, explained why. “The
Medical Association of Georgia
(MAG) advised us (2,700
doctors treating Medicaid
patients) not to sign the new
“provider agreements” as of
August 1,1975.
Dr. Brown displayed
documentation (Atlanta UPI)
showing the MAG’s stand on
the new agreements. A
spokesman for the association
Monday Deadlines!
JOHN RUFFIN
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I he Rev. Michael McCoy
South Africans
To Leave Angola
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH
AFRICA Rumors swept the
country today that some 1,200
said the new “provider
agreements” which the state
has to complete by Sept. I,
effectively makes doctors
function as agents of the state
by agreeing to abide by
whatever new regulations the
State Dept. of Human
Resources might later add in its
medicaid manual.
“I treated one particular
medicaid patient who had to
be hospitalized. Medicaid
would not reimburse me for
the services rendered. They
told me, through
correspondence, that as of
August 31, 1975, any existing
agreements between the state
and me had been terminated,”
Dr. Brown said.
Dr. Brown did not sign the
agreement Aug. Ist. He said the
patients are not being denied.
He further stated that the
Medicaid contract to those
patients affected by it and if
they cannot afford the
standard office fee, their
records are forwarded to the
patients doctors.
“Eighty to eighty-five
percent of the Medicaid
patients 1 treat do pay the fee.
1 lost between 15 and 20% due
to not signing the new provider
agreement,” he said.
Dr. Paul Weston said because
of his office’s profanity to the
Black community, he does
accept Medicaid patients.
February 12, 1976 No. 45
Augusta Black
Festival Announced
April 5-9 will be the week of
Augusta Black Festival ‘76,
County Commission Chairman
Edward Mclntyre told a news
conference Thursday.
The Black Festival is way
overdue, he said.
Some of the highlights of
the festival which is intended
to include all age levels are a
parade, a Ms. Black Festival
Contest, The Black Festival
Ball, sporting events, art
exhibits, musical concerts, rock
dances, interpretive dances,
drama and a cardarama.
Officers and committee
chairpersons include:
Edward M. Mclntyre,
organizer and general
chairman; Noble Benefield,
treasurer; Mrs. Ann N.
Johnson, secretary; Mrs.
Fannie Akins, corresponding
secretary; James M. Hinton,
legal advisor; Q L. Robertson,
Blasts Augusta-Chronicle
The Martin Luther King Jr.
Survival Coalition held a news
conference Monday and
blasted the Augusta Chronicle
for its Jan. 15 editorial against
declaring the birthday of
Martin Luther King a legal
holiday.
The Rev. Michael L. McCoy,
president of the coalition, said
the Jan. 15 editorial was
another racist attempt to
demean and belittle Black
leaders. “It showed their
ignorance of who Dr Martin
Luther King Jr. was and meant
to Black people all over this
country”, he added.
Recalling that The Chronicle
South African troops fighting
in Angola’s Civil War would
soon leave or had already left
the embattled former
Portuguese colony.
Some diplomatic reports
suggested South Africa had
agreed to a pullout because of
an international agreement on
Angola engineered by the
United States on Angola but
they gave no details.
The Rand Daily Mail
newspaper said “white
troops”—meaning South
Africans-had started a
withdrawal several days ago.
Diplomatic sources in the
Zambian capital of Lusaka
echoed the report.
A second South African
newspaper. Beeld, Friday said
the pullback was already
completed.
Some travelers returning
from Angola said evidence of
South African troops,
helicopters or transport planes
had declined in past two
weeks.
But in Lusaka, a spokesman
for the pro-western National
Union for The Total
Independence of Angola
Friday denied remarks
attributed to him that “there
won’t be a white face left in
Angola by next wek.”
The government, which has
never officially’ admitted
having troops in the fighting
zone, has refused all comment.
The rumors spread with
sources in Lusaka reporting
that troops of The National
Union and its ally, The
National Front For The
Liberation of Angola, had
hundred an offensive of the
Southern front.
M.L. King Coalition
parade; Henry Daggett, sports;
Mrs. Rose Hinton, crafts; J.C.
Taylor, drama; Tyrone Butler,
mini theater: Ms. Eileen Terry,
concert - spiritual; Ms. Bathine
Hollins, concert - Gospel;
Henry Howard, concert and
quartet; Mrs. Mary James,
interpretive dances; Charlie
McCann, Battle of the Bands;
Harvey Johnson, Black
Business Exhibits; Walter
Clavton, art exhibit; Mrs. Ann
N. Johnson, Ms. Black Festival
contest; Solomon Walker,
Black Festival Ball; Melvin
Davis, souvenir booklet:
Charles Walker, ad; Georgene
Shannon., special guests;Oscar
Brown, site arrangements;
Edward M. Mclntyre and
Mallory M illender, media; Mrs.
Addie Scott Powell, chairman
of research committee; Mrs.
Barbara Thompkins cardarama.
had earlier compared the Rev.
Ralph David Abernathy,
president of the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference, with the Grand
Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan,
me Rev. McCoy urged all
leaders to see to it that “we
don’t allow The r hronicle to
trample on us anu leaders
any longer.” Dr King was a
man of great character and
worth and deserves every
conceivable merit in his honor.
McCoy said.
The Black community will
not support a paper like this
any longer unless it changes its
racist position.
The Rev. McCoy stopped
short of calling for a boycott
of merchants advertising with
The Chronicle, but added that
such a boycott could be called
within “a very short time”.
School children
Committed 100
Murders Last Year
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Violence and vandalism in the
nation’s public schools no
longer is kid stuff, the National
Educational Association
emphasizes in a current
publication. It has reached
crisis proportions.
Last year American school
children committed 100
murders, 12,000 armed
robberies, 9,000 rapes, and
204,000 aggravated assaults
against teachers and each
other, says the special feature
in the February issue of NEA
Reporter, a publication sent to
the Association’s L7 million
members. Children also were
responsible for 270,000 school
burglaries and vandalized over
S6OO million worth of school
property.
NEA Vice-President Willard
McGuire declares: “Something
must be done about students
who are engaging in serious
criminal offenses. No English
teacher should have to
rehabilitate heroin pushers....
We should define a reasonable
range of problems which
teachers can or should be able
to deal with and not be
expected to solve every
problem... A good professional
teacher is a poor amateur
policeman.”
Fear and violence, says a
city official, are frightening
many students out of .an
education. And Sen. Birch
Bayh of Indiana asserts that
“the primary concern in many
American schools today is no
longer education, but
perse rvati on.’
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