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Man Shot To Death
At Club Reggio
Harold Leßoy Brown, 31, of
1117 Summer St., was listed
dead on arrival by Dr. Mitchner
at University Hospital after
being shot at the Club Reggio
Monday afternoon, according
to police reports.
While the investigation was
being conducted, Richard E.
Daggett, 24, of 164 Telfair
Manor, came to police
headquarters and surrendered
himself as the man who shot
Brown.
The weapon used in the
shooting was a 38 caliber
RG-31 revolver with a
Woman Beaten To Death,
Stuffed In Trunk Os Car
Raymond Hopson stopped a
police officer on August 9 and
stated that he had found his
wife’s car, according to police
reports. Hopson stated that he
had reported his wife missing
on August 6 to the Aiken
County authorities.
Hopson told the police that
he had found his wife’s car in
the Daniel Village Parking lot
in front of the Green Jacket
Restaurant and he was going
home to get the keys and have
someone drive it back for him.
Woman
Fractures
Husband’s
Skull
Complainant Charlie Walker
Jr. was found by police sitting
outside the front entrance of
1546 Mill St. holding his head
on August 7.
After further investigation,
the police discovered that
Walton and his wife, Mary
Virginia Walton, were involved
in a fight. As a result, the
complainant received several
Mini
Theatre
Sponsors
Record Hop
Augusta Mini Theatre, Inc. is
sponsoring a record hop,
Friday, August 13, at T.W.
Josey High School at 8 p.m.
Pepsi Colas will be given
away as door prizes. Trophies
will be given to the first place
dance contest winners.
Proceeds will be used to
purchase costumes and other
needed materials for the
Theatre.
Admission is SI.OO-
Dell Rowland
Awarded
Scholarship At
Augusta College
Dell R. Rowland,
20-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. Ray Rowland of
Augusta, has been selected for
the Augusta College Alumni
Association’s Cecilia Arthur
Memorial Scholarship for
1976- by the Department of
Chemistry and Physics.
The Association’s
scholarship is rotated among
academic departments with a
different department selecting
recipient each year. The 1975
recipient was selected by the
Department of History and the
1977- recipient will be the
choice of the Sociology
Department.
Rowland is a senior
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The weapon was recovered
from the trunk of a 1971
Pontiac on the unit block of
9th Street when Daggett
turned himself in.
Brown’s clothing was
searched and a nickel plated,
32 caliber revolver with five
live rounds was found in his
left back pants pocket.
The victim was shot in the
left chest and the bullet exited
through the right side.
The incident occured
sometime between 3:10 p.m.
and 3:15 pjn. Monday.
Police accompanied Hopson
to the car, a black 1975
Mustang, and Detective Hilliker
of the Augusta Police opened
the trunk Hopson’s wife,
Nancy Hopson, 36, was found
dead in the trunk.
The coroner’s report stated
that she has been beaten to
death.
Hopson was questioned but
he was unable to furnish the
police with any possible
motive.
cuts and lacerations on the
forehead plus a fractured skull.
He was struck with a glass
decanter, according to police
reports.
Mrs. Walton was arrested
and charged with aggravated
assault with intent to murder.
State Dept.
Reports On
Blacks On
Staff
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -
The State Department, in
seeking to defend itself and
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger against charges of
racial discrimination, produced
statistics today showing that
most of its Black employes
were in lower-paying
nonprofessional jobs.
Mr. Kissinger was booed and
jeered by a predominantly
Black audience at a National
Urban League meeting in
Boston last night when he
defended the department’s
hiring practices.
The department spokesman,
Robert L. Funseth, told the
press today that of 12,247
people employed by the
department, 13 per cent, or
1,585, were Blacks -a slightly
higher proportion than Blacks
represent in the population.
His figures also showed that
tire proportion of Blacks in
professional ranks dropped
sharply, to 4 percent, meaning
that Blacks fill more than 13
per cent of the nonprofessional
jobs.
Mr. Funseth said that five of
140 ambassadors were Black.
Though Mr. Kissinger
maintained that there was no
policy of assigning Black
ambassadors to Africa, four of
the five are there.
chemistry major and is
currently participating in an
undergraduate research
program sponsored by the
National Science Foundation
(NSF) at the University of
Georgia.
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J. THEODORE LAWRENCE
J. Theodore Lawrence
Elevated At Pilgrim
J. Theodore Lawrence was
recently promoted to
vice-president - agency
director-marketing of the
Pilgrim Health and Life
Insurance Co., according to the
Company’s President, W.S.
Hornsby Jr.
Lawrence is a native of
Madison County. His early
education was completed in
Madison, and he did further
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on the Hotel Fontainebleau in
Miami Beach, July 16-19,
before embarking on July 19th
aboard the T.S. Flavia, for the
first all Black chartered tour of
a liner for Mexico, Jamaica and
Haiti.
Over 700 people from 35
states enjoyed the 14th Annual
International Golf Tour,
promoted by I.G.T. Travel,
Inc. of New York City.
“It’s one of the largest
steamship promotions we’ve
ever handled,” said Earl
Jackson, president of I.G.T.
Travel, Inc. “And we’re
awfully proud that we’re the
agency handling this first
chartered all Black cruise.”
Converging at the
Fontainebleau, the tour guests
enjoyed land portions of this
tour bv participating in the
Josey Class
Os ’67
To Meet
T.W. Josey Class of '67 is
having a meeting Sunday,
August 15, at 5 p.m., T.W.
Josey High School.
All class members are urged
to attend.
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Atlanta, Ga. He has also
completed three parts of the
Clu Designation.
Lawrence is very active in
community, business and
religious affairs.
He is married to the former
Ms. Carrie Dorsey and they
have one daughter, Mrs. Sylvia
L. Warren.
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golf and tennis tournaments,
while the non-golfers toured
Disney World in Orlando.
The guests then boarded the
T.S. Flavia and the first stop
was Cozumel, Mexico,
continuing on to Montego
Bay .Jamaica, and on to Port
Au Prince, Haiti.
In addition to the ship’s
outstanding Las Vegas type
show, I.G.T. Travel brought
aboard Arthur Prysock,
Annette Snell and the Ron
Anderson Band. The ship
rocked with this superb
entertainment!
I.G.T. Travel, Inc., sponsors
of this 1976 International Golf
Tour, is located at 111-08
Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica,
N.Y. 11433. Its area
representative is Elizabeth T.
Jordan, 2812 Walters Court,
Augusta, Ga.
“PULLMAN”
con I’<l from page 1
1975 before Judge Arraj and
ended on Dec. 17, 1975. On
Feb. 9, 1976 he found that the
Pullman Company limited
promotional opportunities for
Black employees and
maintained racially segregated
job classifications in that
Pullman porters could not
become conductors until 1967,
although as Pullman
Paine Biology Professor
Receives Grant
Jane T. Rowland, assistant
professor of biology at Paine
College, has been awarded a
grant to undertake doctoral
studies by the Charles A. Dana
Faculty Improvement Fund.
The Fun provides awards to
not less than five faculty
members of the 41 institutions
which constitute die United
Negro College Fund.
Mrs. Rowland, who has been
a member of the Paine College
Faculty since 1964, has had
articles published in The
American Biology Teacher in
1974 and 1975. She will begin
her doctoral studies in the fall
Dr. Dale Bockman, Chairman
of the Department of
Anatomy. She has already
began courses in electron
microscopy and histological
techniques and will focus her
studies on Microscopic
Anatomy.
Mrs. Rowland will return to
the Paine College faculty after
completion of her doctoral
studies.
porter-in-charge they
performed duties similar to
white conductors. The suit was
filed under violation of Title
VII of the Civil Rights Law of
1964.
The company, which has
since gone out of business, a
victim of increasing
commercial air travel, was
accused of the maintenance of
segregated job classification for
two years after the effective
date of Tide VII and also failed
to promote Blacks.
Even after Pullman went out
of business it had assets of $lB
million and attorney Leftwich
had asked the court to freeze
the assets of the company
during the litigation. The judge
at first demurred, but then it
was discovered that before the
judge’s decision that the
company had dispersed of $lO
million of its assets last
September.
“The company ripped off
the court,” observed Leftwich.
In February, six years after
the suit was originally filed and
after appeals to both the 10th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
in Denver and the U.S.
Supreme Court, Judge Arraj
ruled that Pullman had
discriminated against the
former employes.
Twelve Blacks were
promoted to the position of
conductor in 1967, but the suit
claimed that they had to give
up all the seniority they had
accumulated as porters and
were placed on the bottom line
of the conductor’s list, behind
junior conductors.
Only Pullman porters who
actually worked as
porter-in-charge on or at any
time after October 25, 1965
are eligible for the back pay
awards as ruled by the circuit
court. This eliminates Pullman
attendants.
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At the Medical College of
Georgia, Mrs. Rowland will
study under the guidance of
Pilgrim
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Os The Year
Every year the home office
employes of the Pilgrim Health
and Life Insurance Co. vote
and select the person whom in
their opinion exemplifies the
kinds of qualities and
characteristic that every
employe should aspire.
This year the person
receiving a majority of the
votes is Mrs. Shirley Jones.
Mrs. Jones is currently working
as supervisor of franchise
group. In addition to reigning
over the company as queen for
one year, Mrs. Jones received
an all expense paid trip to the
National Insurance Association
Convention that was held in
New Orleans, La.
President Hornsby was on
hand and made these remarks:
“I congratulate you on this
high honor and 1 hope that
next year those of you who
aspire to be Ms. or Mr. Pilgrim
will work equally as hard as
our queen did this year."
Mrs. Jones is married to
Freddie L. Jones and they have
one child, Krista Nicole.
“JORDAN"
cont’d from page I
less than 100 Black doctors in
Georgia and 80 per cent of that
number reside and practice in
Atlanta.
Quoting from Thomas
Jefferson, Jordan said, “We can
never be free if we remain
ignorant.”
“We need the best minds
and trained people to soke the
problems of mankind,” Jordan
said.
Jordan urged the students to
stand on their feet and develop
sound minds and discipline.
“The price for a successful
career,” Jordan added, “is hard
work, study and initiative.”
However, Jordan warned,
“without character the
intellect becomes corrupted.”
Certificates were bestowed
on participating students and
special awards were given to
students who excelled in the
project. In turn, the students
gave recognition and special
awards to key figures that
worked with them.
Rosemary Jackson, Mercer
University, was elected class
spokesperson and spoke about
the endurance one had to have
in order to make it. Her
address was so well appreciated
that she received a standing
ovation.
The determined looks of the
students enabled this reporter
to know that many would
endure and make it.
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The Augusta News-Review - August 12, 1976 -
“SLOW GROWTH
cont’d from page 1
184 Blacks were recently
elected to the newly created
Neighborhood Advisory
Commission. The
Neighborhood Advisory
Commission, a relatively new
concept in local government, is
one form of decentralization.
Commissioners advise local
government officials in
Washington, D.C., is now 205
compared to only 20 in 1975.
Without the District’s
increase, the 1976 Roster
would have only shown an
eight per cent national increase
in Black elected officials over
the 1975 Roster total.
Illinois ranks number one
among the states with the
largest number of Black elected
officals, with 271. Louisiana
with 250, ranks second and
Michigan ranks third with 245
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Blacks in elective office. Other
states with large numbers of
Black elected officials are:
North Carolina, 218;
Mississippi, 210; Arkansas,
209; and Georgia, 204. There
are no Black elected officials in
Hawaii, South Dakota, Utah or
Vermont
The 1976 Roster shows no
change during the last year in
the number of Blacks elected
to federal offices (18), state
level offices (281) or in the
number of Black state
legislators (276).
Numerically, Blacks
continue to show substantial
gains in municipal offices.
According for almost half of all
Black elected officials, the
municipal category for 1976
shows 1,889 Black office
holders, an increase of 316
compared to a year ago, the
laigest numerical increase
within any level of office.
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