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KLAK ADMIRAL SAMUEL L. GRAVELY JR.
Paine Chaplain Resigns To
Accept Atlanta Pastorate
Dr. Maurice S. Cherry last
week resigned as chaplain of
Paine College to accept an
appointment as pastor of West
Mitchell Street C.M.E. Church
in Atlanta. He had been
chaplain at Paine College for
17 years.
For the past five months
he served as part-time interim
pastor at Belle Terrace
Presbyterian Church here.
A graduate of Paine College,
he earned the master of
divinity degree at Howard
University where he was an
exchange student to the
Theological Seminary of the
Evangelical and Reformed
Church, Lancaster, Pa. He
received the doctor of ministry
from Emory University.
Dr. Cherry is chairman of
the board of directors of
Ministries to Blacks in Higher
Education, and a member of
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EDWARD FLETCHER
Visitors See Cuba’s Strides In Health Care; House Calls Made
By Ernest A. Bates, M.D.
Editor’s Note: This is the
6th in an 8-part series on
the recnt visit to Cuba by
18 representatives of the
Black Press, education,
and other institutions.
HAVANA, Cuba - Recently,
I was part of an 18-member
delegation, which visited Cuba
for two weeks. I would like to
share with people in this
country some of die things
that I learned about medical
care and health facilities as
they exist in Cuba today.
One of the unquestionable
merits of the Cuban revolution
is that it marked the turning
point in the status of disease,
sanitation, and poverty in this
country. Despite the fact that
3,000 or half the doctors in
Cuba left after the revolution,
tihe Cuban people have
managed remarkable
accomplishments in the field of
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the executive committee and
board of directors of the
National Institute for Campus
Ministries, Inc. He served as a
member of a special visitation
team to confer with die late
President Eisenhower, the late
Senators Kennedy and Javits,
and Presidential cabinet
members relative to the role of
youth in world peace.
As a parish minister in the
C.M.E. church, he served in
1955 the Davisboro Circuit and
from 1955-59, the Montezuma
Circuit. He was concurrently
director of Youth Work for the
Sixth Episcopal District.
Last year he was presented
with die Humanitarian Award
1972-75 by the Augusta
Concerned Mothers Club.
At Paine he served as
assistant dean of men.
Fletcher Hopes To Become First
Black Optometrist In Augusta
By Tracy Williams
One day Edward Fletcher
plans on attaching his name to a
roster of 13-or-so optometrists
in Richmond County, and in
the process the determined
second-year optometry student
is very enthusiastic about
becoming the first Black to
open up an office in Augusta.
Enroute to these ambitions.
health. Today there are 8.000
doctors in Cuba.
They have been able to
eradicate a number of diseases
in a short time. There have
been almost no cases of polio
in the past 10 years. Malaria
has been eradicted. One of the
most persistent of Cuban
health problems - intestinal
diseases due to parasites - has
improved tremendously.
Tuberculosis is almost
non-existent. Infant mortality
has been drastically reduced, as
has maternal mortality.
In Cuba, health care
proceeds according to the
doctrine of “sectorization” -a
practice which divides up the
country into geographic locales
and allots services and
personnel according to
population numbers. TJtis is
accomplished by a master plan
operating at various levels -
national, provincial (there are
six provinces), regional, and
“health area” groups.
Black Rear Admiral Gravely
To Command Third Fleet
Rear Admiral Samuel L.
Gravely Jr. has been nominated
for promotion to vice admiral
and assignment as commander,
U.S. 3rd Fleet
Admiral Gravely will be the
first Black fleet commander for
the Navy. But he has set the
pace in other milestones as
Judge Awards Pullman Porters
Over $4 Million
Phase II in the historic
class-action suit that found the
Pullman Company had
discriminated against Black
Pullman porters by not making
them conductors was
completed here July 21 when a
federal judge awarded back pay
of over $4 million in damages.
The award, granted by Chief
U.S. District Judge Alfred A.
Arraj, stems from a six year-old
class-action discrimination suit
filed against the Pullman Co. of
Dr. Maurice S. Cherry
dormitory director, and dean
of men.
Dr. Cherry served as
counselor to the Paine College
Student Steering Committee
whose demonstrations led to
the integration of city buses
here during the early sixties.
He was an associate
professor of religion at the
college at the time of his
resignation.
He will assume his pastoral
duties August 15.
Fletcher is attending the
University of
Alabama-Birmingham (UAB)
Optometry School, which he
rated as no. 1 in the country
along with the school in
Illinois. A home-grown high
school graduate of Augusta’s
old Immaculate Conception, he
obtained his bachelor's degree
in biology from Morehouse.
These levels are all
interconnected, and presided
over by a Ministry of Health.
In this sense, Cuba differs
radically from the
compartively casual,
independent style of our own
health care system in the
United States. Responsibility
for primary care rests with the
Polyclinics for the most part.
Serious illness, including most
emeigency treatment, is
handled by the hospitals.
Research is conducted at the
special institutes.
The three major medical
specialties practiced in the
Polyclinics are pediatrics,
internal medicine, and
obstetrics. Physicians working
in the Polyclinics become the
patient’s primary doctor, who
remains responsible for his
well-being and care on a
continuing basis.
The Polyclinic which we saw
had 10 pediatricians, each
taking care of 1,000 children in
® ljr Augiwta Nnuu-Seutrnt
AN OPEN FORUM FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE
Augusta, Georgia
well. He was the first Black
executive officer and
commanding officer of a Navy
warship, the first Black line
captain and admiral and one
of the first two Blacks to
attend the Naval War College,
Newport, RI.
Admiral Gravely’s present
Chicago, 111., by a former
Pullman porter, Earl A. Love
of Denver and others. Judge
Arraj’s latest ruling means that
an estimated 1,500 former
Pullman porters will receive a
maximum of $2,889.22 plus
eight per cent interest that
started the day he granted his
original decision on February
9. This amounts to more than
$4.2 million.
“The case represented some
Dr. Howard Jordan
Bright Youth Needed In Medicine
By G.R. Wright
“There is a need for bright
young people to enter the
health practice,” Dr Howard
Jordan Jr., speaker at the
awards banquet for the Health
Science Project for Minority
Students at the Medical College
of Georgia (MCG), said Friday
night.
Dr. Jordan is vice-chancellor
and a member of the Board of
Regents for the University
System of Georgia.
The program at MCG is
designed to increase
opportunities of minorities and
under-privileged for training in
health professions. The
program is in its sixth year.
Jordan said that there are
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However, Fletcher's interest
in optometry wasn’t
immediately aroused during
college. Following his span at
Morehouse, he tried his hand at
teaching and became a
chemistry instructor for three
years at a Wilmington, Del.
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WORK-THERAPYAIDS MENTAL PATIENTS IN
CUBA - Psychiatric patients work in ceramics, and
perform other assignments that make them less
withdrawn and more active.
assignment is commandant of
the 11th Naval District, San
Diego.
One of the Navy’s four
numbered fleets, the Third
Fleet consists of some hundred
ships and about 60,000 Navy
and Marine Corps people. As
commander of that fleet,
retribution of all the years of
mistreatment of Black Pullman
porters,” said Willie L.
Leftwich, of the Washington,
D.C. law firm of Hudson,
Leftwich & Davenport which
represented the former porters
now living in the Washington
area and the metropolitan New
York area.
The trial started on May 27,
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Pictured at the Awards Banquet at the Health Science
Project for minority students are (L to R) Bert T.
Thoman, project counselor; Dr. Howard Jordan, main
speaker; James E. Carter, associate project director.
Justice Department Charges
Apartment Complexes Bias
The Department of Justice
filed a civil suit today charging
that the owners of two
apartment complexes and a
trailer court in Georgia
discriminate against Black
persons.
Attorney General Edward H.
Levi said the housing
discrimination suit was filed in
Admiral Gravely will be
responsible for guarding the
western sea approaches to the
U.S. and training the crews of
ships going to the Western
Pacific.
In discussing the new
assignment. Admiral James L.
Holloway 111, chief of naval
operations, said, “Command at
sea is not unusual for Admiral
Gravely. His naval career
includes command of four
surface ships and a
cruiser-destroyer group, as well
as service in five other ships.’’
He is also a graduate of the
Nava! War College and the U.S.
Navy Postgraduate School.
Admiral Gravely saw action
in World War 11, the Korean
War, and Vietnam. In
Washington he served in the
Defense Communications
Agency and directed the
Navy’s communications
command.
Among his medals and
awards for distinguished service
are the Legion of Merit, Bronze
Star Medal and Meritorious
Service Medal.
U.S. District Court in
Savannah, Georgia, against
Chatham City Corporation and
Sylvan M. Byck, Jr.
The suit charged that the
Chatham City Apartments are
internally segregated, with
Blacks allowed to rent units in
one section of the complex and
whites steered to an all-white
area.
The suit also charged that
Byck’s rental agents have
refused to rent trailer spaces to
Blacks in violation of the Fair
Housing Act of 1968.
that health area; seven
internists, each of whom hd
2,000 adults under their care;
and three obstetricians, with
4,000 women assigned to each.
Cuban nurses have a wider
area of responsiblity lor
patients than nurses do here in
America, and appear to play
the role of the “nurse
practitioner” which is newly
emerging in the United States.
While such Cuban nurses do
work for doctors, they
apparently do a great deal in
terms of direct therapy with
patients.
The Cubsn practice of
“interconsultation” is unique.
Here, a primary doctor will
take a patient right into the
office of a specialist, and will
stay with the patient thtring
discussion and treatment, in
order to learn haw the
specialist handies a particular
disorder so that m the future
he may be able to treat that
August 12, 1976 No. 19
Primary Results
OFFICE CANDIDATE
County Commision Travis Barnes —11737
Tony O. Mundy ZL 8604
County Commission Dr. Richard Clifford —llsOl
Sarah Leiden - 4362
Roy C. Patrick 2545
A.C. Proctor - 1692
Sheriff James G. Beck 12239
William F. Weaver BBl9
Claude S. White 779
Edwin Sherrod - 418
William A. Anderson 1573
Coroner Jesse Redd —12142
Wyman B. Simmons - 5646
Superior Court Clerk J. Lester Newsome 9777
Helen Speltz 10989
Tax Commissioner Isabel P. Dicks - 10487
Jerry Saul ~ 10862
District Attorney Richard Allen - 15676
James Blanchard Jr. 6490
State House Donald Cheeks - 2338
(89th District) William A. Snyder 1347
State Senate John Fleming ~ 4623
(23rd District) James L. "Jimmy" Lester - 6129
State Senate Thomas F. Allgood 5971
(22nd District) Matthew Mulherin - 4761
Norman Simowitz - 1264
State House Bobby Cheeks ~ 176
(Republican) Robert C. Beckham - 435
U.S. House D. Douglas Barnard - 10629
(10th District) Tom Harrold - 1266
Betty Hemenway 1531
Wyman C. Lowe - 137
C. Moreland l6ll
Mike Padgett 7120
T.R."Ted" Ridgeway - 267
Public Service George Addison - 1074
Commission Eugene Huber - 1856
D. Inman - 2074
Jack P. Nichols 1970
Ford B. Spinks 8312
Jesse Williams - 1008
Judge, Court George T. Smith - 10341
of Appeals Jack Dorsey - 5246
Number Os Blacks In
Elective Office Show
Slow But Steady Growth
The number of Black elected
officials in the United States
continues to increase,
according to a recent survey by
the Joint Center for Political
Studies.
The 1976 edition of the
Joint Center’s National Roster
of Black Elected Officials lists,
3,979 Blacks in elective office
as of June 30 in 46 states and
the District of Columbia. The
total represents an increase of
2,794, which more than triples
the number of Black office
holders since 1969 and an
increase of 476 (14 per cent),
since the 1975 Roster was
published. There were 1,185
Black officials counted in 1969
and 3,503 listed in the 1975
volume.
Joint Center President,
Eddie N. Williams observed:
“The continuing increase in the
number of Black elected
officials is an encouraging sign
of Black political vitality in
tnis country.
“There are not only more
Black elected officials than
ever before, but they hold
disorder himself.
House calls -a vanishing if
not vanished phenomenon in
America - are taken for granted
in Cuba. We were informed
that some doctors will even
visit homes without being
called, to check on a patient's
well being. House calls are
always made when they are
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Talledega
College
President Dies
Herman Long, Mwfent
of Talledega Co*eg» in
Alabama, died Swaday.
August 8.
A memorial service is
planned for next week.
prestigious and more
influential positions.
“ Black elected officials are
no longer preceded as tokens
in a racist society but as
professionals in politics - here
to stay.”
Despite the steady increase
of Black elected officials over
the last seven years, the 1976
Rosier shows that Blacks - who
are approximately 11 per cent
of the U.S. population -
continue to account for less
tii an one per cent of the more
than 522,000 elected officials
in the nation.
The regional distribution of
Black elected officials reflects
the national distribution of the
Black population in the United
States.
The southern region of the
country, which includes 16
states and the District of
Columbia, contains the largest
number of Black elected
officials. The south has 53 per
cent of the total Black
population and accounts for
more than 57 per cent (2,300)
of all Black elected officials.
This total for the south
includes 46 per cent of all
Black state level officials, 76
per cent of Black county
officials, 63 per cent of Black
municipal officials, 50 per cent
of Black law enforcement
officials and 48 per cent of
Black school board members.
North central states account
for 20 per cent of the total
Black population and about 24
per cent (938) of all Black
elected officials.
The northeast, with an 18
per cent Black population, has
13 per cent (514) of all Black
elected officials, while the
west, with nine per cent of the
total Black popula tion has six
pet cent (227) of all Black
elected officials.
The 1976 Roster shows that
the tarpest increase in Black
vhcted officials is found in the
District of Columbia where
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