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Hosea Williams ask Abernathy, Andy Young,
Daddy King To Withdraw Support Os Jimmy Carter
State Rep. Hosea Williams
has called upon Dr. Martin
Luther King Sr., Congressman
Andrew Young and Dr. Ralph
Abernathy to withdraw their
support from the presidential
campaign of Jimmy Carter.
Williams said that if Carter
supports any aspect of his
“ethnic purity” he
‘‘diametrically opposes”
14-Year-Old Kills Brother Over Television
A 14-y ear-old Augusta
youth killed his older brother
Tuesday afternoon during an
apparent argument over which
TV program they would watch.
Home Os Singer Bobby Byrd
Stripped Os SB,OOO Worth Os Goods
Eight thousand dollars in
furniture and silverware have
Editorial
Ministers’
Show The Way
The News-Review wishes to congratulate and to
tiiank the local ministers for their recent initiatives to
support Paine College and higher education in general.
The Methodists recently presented to the college a
very sizeable sum through Bishop Joseph Coles.
Local Baptist ministers recently presented a program
at the college at which they presented nearly five
thousand dollars. Paine President Scott tells us that
money is still coming in and the sum now about seven
thousand.
The effort on the part of the Baptist ministers, we
think, is especially significant. Paine is a Methodist
School.
We think that the Baptist ministers have set an
important precedent They have seen beyond the
superficial boundary of denomination and recognized
that the reason that Black people are oppressed,
discriminated against and persecuted is not because we
are Baptist or Methodist or whatever, we are
persecuted because we are Black.
If education is the key to Black liberation, we think
that there is no more fitting force to turn that key than
the Black church which has been the bulwark of the
Black community down through history.
The sum of the gift is not so important as the spirit of
the gift. Foundations are giving less and less money to
Black colleges. Many of those who used to give, feel that
there is no longer any need for the Black college to
exist. But those of us who are the beneficiaries of the
Black college know better. And we must let all of our
brothers and sisters know that they, too, are the
beneficiaries of the Black college, whether, they
attended college or not.
The Black college has cultivated the leadership of
Black America. The Black college iias developed Ph.D.’s
from tiie nation’s top universities out of students that
America said were not college material. Thousands of
others have gone without an education not because they
were not college material but because they were Black
and those schools admitted whites only. And now that
those schools do admit Blacks, they rarely have the
knowledge or the will to deal effectively with the Black
student
As Jesse Jackson points out, Black is not only
beautiful, it is dutiful. We, as a people, have to recognize
that we have a duty to support ourselves and not expect
others to do for us that which we are not willing to do
for ourselves.
We have yet another chance to support our Black
colleges through the current United Negro College Fund
Drive, which is quite appropriately co-chaired by a local
minister, Dr.C.S. Hamilton, former dean of the
Morehouse School of Religion. We agree - A mind IS a
terrible thing to waste. We also recognize that if Black
minds had to depend upon the giving habits of Black
people, most of our minds would go to waste.
Those of us in and out of poverty must recognize our
debt to the Black college. We should also recognize that
if we are not willing to support our colleges, we don’t
deserve to have them.
Most of us gladly shout “Black is beautiful”. But how
many of us are willing to add that Black is dutiful?
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everything that the late Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. stood
for.
“At this time Mr. Carter has
not earned and does not
deserve Black support. To
support Mr. Carter’s
presidential campaign without
him first publicly making his
stand unequivocally clear on
the social programs that the
The boy’s father said the
death was caused by a 12 gauge
shotgun.
A witness told police the
been stolen from the Myrtle
Drive home of singer Bobby
AN OPEN FORUM FOR PEOPLE WHO CARF
late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
fought and died for, would be
like us gambling over the
legacy of the late Dr. King, just
like the Roman soldiers
gambled over the garments of
Jesus Christ,” Williams
asserted.
Williams said Carter owes
Black America two apologies,
adding that the “ethnic purity”
brothers were arguing over the
TV when the younger brother
(named withheld because of
age) warned the older brother
to leave him alone before he
Byrd. The goods were taken
over a two-month period,
according to Richmond
County sheriffs investigators.
The entertainer has been out
of town for several weeks, and
the “whole house was
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(L-R) Black Heritage Commission members Harvey
Johnson, Horatio Lamar, Jimmy Carter and Bert
Thomas at new conference Friday where they outlined
upcoming plans including Black Heritage Museum and
May 31 convocation for the renaming of Gwinnett
Street to Laney-Walker Boulevard. Dr. Benjamin E.
Mays will be tile speaker. Photo by Stan Raines
Commission Post
Sought By Barnes
Travis S. Barnes, chairman
of the Augusta-Richmond
County Bicentennial
Commission, said Friday he
will resign that post early in
June when he qualifies as a
candidate for the county
commission.
The commission receives
money from the county.
Barnes said he did not want to
have the appearance of a
conflict of interest.
Barnes, 44, is a former
member of the Richmond
County Board of Education.
He will seek the Democratic
nomination for the seat held
by John Anderson.
Anderson, a Republican, has
given no indication he will not
seek reelection.
The five members of the
county commission are elected
by countywide vote, but
candidates must name the seat
for which they are running.
Barnes, executive vice
president of Augusta Building
Supply Co., called for harmony
between city and county
government in the wake of the
third defeat of a consolidated
government bill.
“We desperately need a
more harmonious relationship
between the governments and
the citizens,” Barnes said.
He said he would appeal to
people’s good will, not to their
differences, in campaigning.
Augusta, Georgia
apology was “not an apology
at all, but an added insult to
injury.” Carter never has said
he is totally committed to the
elimination of every vestige of
segreation in housing, Williams
said.
Carter must make his
position clear, Williams
continued, because his civil
rights record is very poor. He
shot him. He then fired a shot
fatally wounding his brother.
The home of Rufus Sanders,
1655 Luckey St., was
burglarized this week. The
completely stripped”, the
investigators said.
Six persons have been
arrested in connection with a
series of burglaries. The
investigators ended their probe
Tuesday.
“it’s a very complex form of
See “BARNES”
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Sen. Brooke
Says "No”
PITTSBURGH - Senator
Edward W. Brooke of
Massachusetts said Saturday
that he did not think it likely
he would be the Republican
Vice-Presidential nominee, "and
he asked a group of Black
leaders not to waste their time
campaigning for him.
The Council of 100, a group
of Black Republicans, initiated
a drive here Friday to have
Brooke, the only Black
member of the Senate,
nominated for the Republican
ticket.
An aide for the Senator said
in Boston that Brooke was
“enormously flattered, but
doesn’t think there is any
realistic chance the nomination
would come to him.”
“We have written to them
(the council) and told them
not to waste their time and
money,” the spokesman said.
He said Brooke believed that
if President Ford was the
party’s Presidential nominee,
he would choose a conservative
for a running mate, not a
moderate like the Senator.
did less for Blacks when he wa:
governor than Lester Maddox
Calling on Carter to saj
exactly what his civil rights ant
social programs are going to be
Rep. Williams said he believe:
Carter should not be deniet
the Black vote simply becaus*
he is a white Southerner, bu
he also should not be given th<
Black vote because he is ;
white Southerner.
Program
burglar, who busted the door
in, took S 1,394 worth of
merchandise including two
diamond rings valued at S3OO
each.
Street
Price
Increase
The street sale price of
The News-Review has
increased from 20 to 25
cents beginning May 13.
There will be no increase in
the subscription rate. The
increase will be used to
better compensate
distributors and to help
offset rising costs.
Rutgers Prof.
Calls For
"Genuine
Community’
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Dr. Samuel D. Proctor
Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, prof,
of education at the Graduate
School of Education, Rutgers
University, spoke on “The
Black Experience” noon and
8:15 p.m. Tuesday in the
Lecture Room of Butler Hall as
part of Augusta College's
Cullum Bicentennial Program
on American Culture.
Dr. Proctor called for a
“genuine community” in
which there is a “sharing of
values and ideas, national
purpose and common
agreement on what the Nation
should be about.”
“When you take away the
insult of segregation, we have a
lot in common,” he said.
America, he said, has the
possibility for the most
glorious community. That
community would maximize
human capacities. It would say
that it is unlawful for people
not to work who want to
work.
Dr. Proctor holds the Martin
Luther King Memorial Chair at
the University in New Jersey.
He is an alumnus of Virginia
Union University (1942),
Croazr Seminary (1945) and
Boston University (1950),
earning the doctorate at the
latter in ethics. Other graduate
study was done in sociology at
the University of Pennsylvania
(1955-45), in social ethics
(1945-46) at Yale University
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Hundreds of Blacks, led by SCLC’s veteran civil rights leader and Georgia State
Representative Hosea L. Williams, recently picketed the official opening of the
Jimmy Carter for President Georgia Headquarters in Atlanta.
Author Margaret Walker,
Paine Commencement Speaker
Paine College will observe its
Baccalaureate - Commence
ment exercises for the 93rd
session on May 16, at 3 p.m. in
the Gilbert-Lambuth Memorial
Chapel.
Dr. Margaret Walker
Alexander, poet, author, and
educator of international
accaiim will be the speaker for
the occasion.
Dr. Walker is a professor of
English and the director of the
Institute for the Study of
History, Life and Culture of
Black People at Jackson State
University.
Among Dr. Walker’s writings
is the book “Jubilee”, a Civil
War novel, which has been
translated and printed in
France, Spain, Germany, and
Switzerland. Dr. Walker’s
poetry books include “For My
People”, “Prophets for a New
Day”, “October Journey”, and
“A Poetic Equation”, a
compilaiton of conversations
between Dr. Walker and Nikki
Giovanni
In addition, numerous
national and international
publications have printied
many of Dr. Walker’s other
writings.
Denison University
presented Dr. Walker with the
honorary doctor of fine arts
Henry Brown Takes Milwaukee Open
By Roscoe Williams
“Don’t ever count yourself
out on a golf course.” With
that exhortation and a bunch
of shots, Henry Brown carved
out a one over par 72 and
clinched for the second time in
a row the Old Milwaukee Open
Golf Championship held
Sunday, May 9. Time after
time he demonstrated his
philosophy by courting danger
- only to come away from a
difficulsituation smelling like a
rose.
One bystander in the sparse
gallery summarized it well
when he opined, “The man has
all of the shots.” Like a Bronze
Bobby Jones in his own right,
he repeatedly reached into his
bag of tricks and multicolored
golf clubs - the most notable
of which was a red headed
putter that he used like the
most delicate surgeon. After
watching Brown turn a fair tee
shot into a birdie from 25 feet,
an observer remarked, “This
man plays this course as if he
designed it - tee, fairway,
green and aD.”
After shooting a six under
65 in the qualifying round, the
champion proceeded to rather
routinely eliminate three
oponents who are good in their
own right. He then wound up
in the championship match
with an excellent golfer who
had carded a 65 to match his
See “HENRY BROWN”
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degree in 1974. That same year
she also received the Alumni
Merit Award from
Northwestern University for
distinguished service in the
field of English and other
endeavors. Dr. Walker earned
the Ph.D. degree at the
University of lowa.
Following the address by Dr.
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Henry Brown watches putt dntt toward hole on
critical 14th hole.
Margaret Walker
Walker, Paine College
President, Dr. Julius S. Scott
Jr. will confer to the
graduating senior bachelors
degree in English, Biology,
Chemistry, Mathematics,
Sociology, Relgion and
Philosophy, Elementary
Education, Music Education,
and Business Administration.
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