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S.C.,Georgia Democrats Hold Bicentennial Rally
The Democrats of South Carolina and Georgia held a Bicentennial Rally on Thursday, August 19. Seated are (L to R): T. Allen
Childs Jr., chairman of the Richmond County Democratic Committee; Zell Miller, Lieutenant Governor of Georgia; Edward Mclntyre,
Chairman of the Richmond County Commission; and Bryan Dorn, former S.C. Congressman. Though Democratic Presidential
Nominee Jimmy Carter was not able to attend he sent a telegram recalling his May visit and sending his best wishes. Mclntyre, who
introduced Sen. Herman E. Talmadee, praised the Democratic Party as being the greatest party and gives everyone a chance to
participate/(Related photos on page 3.)
Mays Mortuary Sued For $25,000
Councilwoman Carrie J.
Mays and Willie Mays HI.
owners of W.H. Mays
Mortuary, 1221 9th St., were
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May Be Connected
Richmond County Sheriff
William A. Anderson said the
deaths of three people 'last
week may have been
committed by the same people.
The decease were: Willina
Hail, 36, 2016 3rd Ave., also
known as Willina Holden;
Leroy Linwood, 1471 Roulette
Lane and Jaes C. Gray, 54,
Route 3, North Augusta.
Willina Hall’s body was
found Saturday, August 21 in
the Savannah River. Her body
was nude and an autopsy
showed she died from a
shotgun wound to the left
shoulder.
Gray’s body was found
Monday, August 23 at the
south end of the south runway
of Bush Field Airport.
According to police officials,
his body was near a pickup
truck registered in his name.
Nunnery Seeks
Re-election On
The Board
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Dr. Murry E. Nunnery
Dr. Murry E. Nunnery
announced Monday his
intentions to run again for
re-election to his seat on the
Richmond County Board of
Education.
Dr. Nunnery is currently
completing a 4-year term on
See “NUNNERY” Page 6
P.O. Box 953
named defendants in a $25,000
damaged suit filed last
Wednesday by Joseph Bryant
who claims the funeral home
gay was killed by a shotgun
blast to the head.
According to the state crime
lab, the same size buckshot was
found in Gray’s and Hall’s
bodies.
Aiken Native Assigned
To Army Denistry Post
An Aiken resident recently
was assigned as a dentist to the
Dwight David Eisenhower
Army Medical Center.
Captain Sherman R.
Hickson, 674 Camellia Street,
arrived from Fort Riley, Kan.,
Aug. 11, to work in
Eisenhower’s Department of
Dentistry.
A 1967 graduate of
Schofield High School, Capt
Hickson rec ived his Bachelor
of Science d gree from South
Carolina State College in 1971,
and his Doctor of Dental
Science in 1975 from Meharry
Medical College School of
Dentistry in Nashville. Capt.
Hickson entered the Army in
July, 1975.
Bom in Ridgeland, S.C.,
Capt Hickson, his wife, Eavon,
and children, Sherman R. Jr.,
age 4, and three-month-old
Latonya, presently reside with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.M.
Hickson Jr., also of Aiken.
Roger T. Bates Announces
Candidacy For City Council
Roger T. Bates has
announced his candidacy for
the Second Ward City Council
seat which is currently being
held by Mrs. Carrie Mays.
He resides at 908 Perry
Avenue Augusta, and is the
father of two children, Olga
and Bruce.
A graduate of Allen
University with a B.A. in the
Social Science, Bates also
attended the University of
North Carolina Chapel Hill,
Georgia Southern and Paine
College.
His experiences include
teaching in the elementary and
secondary school level,
executive director of the 9th
Street Y.M.C.A., director of
the Augusta Agency of the
Atlanta Daily World. At
owes him mony.
Also named in the suit was
Traverlers Insurance Co. of
Atlanta.
Slayings
Linwood’s body was found
Friday, August 20 in the
Savannah River. According to
reports he was last seen
Thursday night in an area
nightclub with Ms. Hall.
CAPTAIN SHERMAN R. HICKSON
present, he is a member and
trustee of Zion A.M.E. Church
where he also serves as director
of Christian Education for the
Georgia Conference. He is also
a member of the
Georgia-Carolina Boy Scouts
Council, Y.M.C.A. and the
N.A.A.C.P.
He is presently employed by
the Atlanta Life Insurance
Company and is on 1 eave for a
special assignment with
Opportunity Industrialization
Center as an Income Tax
I nstructor.
Among the various awards
he has received are: Teachers
of the Year from Charles T.
Walker Elementary School,
Lincolin County Teacher of
the Year and a Community
Award for public services.
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Augusta, Georgia August >6,1976 No. 21
Bryant said that Mays
Mortuary owed him an
undetermined balance of
56,000 on a life insurance
policy placed on his father. His
father died in September 1973.
The suit said the amount of
the policy exceeded the cost of
the funeral.
Bryant said that the
defendant has ignored his
“letters, pleas and entreaties”
to settle the matter out of
court.
The suit accused Travellers
Insurance Co. of releasing
funds belonging to the plantiff
without making sure the funds
would not be withheld from
Bryant’s family.
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ROGER T. BATES
Bates said he intends to help
make government work for all
its people to, encourage the
City Council of Augusta to
make mroe jobs available for
people who want and need
work, and to do whatever is
possible to make Augusta a
better place to live in for all its
citizens.
Al Gfeen Is Ordained
As A Minister *
OAKLAND, Tenn. - The
“Lone Ranger of Love,” soul
singer Al Green, is a newly
ordained minister who is
mixing evangelism with his
performances.
“1 try to help others,” the
owner of 24 gold and platinum
record says. “If the Lord
blesses you, you must try to
help someone else. That’s why
$ 1.2 Million Ruling Against NAACP
Forces Rights Organization On Brink
Os Disaster
JACKSON, Miss - Lawyers
for the NAACP said Tuesday a
$1.2 million Mississippi court
judgment against the
organization was a “conscious
strategy to pierce the jugular
vein of Black independence
and render us powerless”.
General consel Nathaniel R.
Jones of New York said the
ruling by Hinds County
Chancellor George Haynes was
“laced with errors” and will be
appealed to another court.
Jones, noting the association
currently lacked the money to
challenge the ruling,
announced a nationwide appeal
for $2 million to fight the
decision. He said it would take
$1.5 million to file an appeal
and tiie other $500,000 for
legal fees and other expenses.
He noted the NAACP
Ministers Says Churchless Cuba Doing More
For People Than Most Religious Countries
By Rev. Charles E. Cobb,
Executive Director
Commission for Racial Justice
United Church of Christ
Editor’s Note: This is the
Bth and final article in
the series on the recent
visit to Cuba by 18
leaders of the Black Press
and other fields.
HAVANA, Cuba - The
greatest travesty of modem
times has been the irrelevancy
of the church in meeting
human suffering and need. This
was brought to mind during
our recnt visit to Cuba where
we observed the great concern
for people in an irreligious
country.
Too often in religious
countries, the church is aligned
with political systems and
powers that have oppressed
people rather than aided them
in living decent and fulfilling
lives as God intended.
Throughout the world this
startling fact is evident and it
was never more true than in
the Republic of Cuba prior to
the revolution. Poverty
abounded in Cuba, the chasm
between the “haves” and “have
nots” was staggering and
standing astride this chasm was
the organized Church, receiving
token resources from the
powers that were and rendering
token services to those in need.
Ghostly and cadaverous
cathedrals and churches still
stand in Cuba, but are not yet
caught up in the new religion
of the State that proclaims by
deed that the greatest
manifestation of God in the
lives of men is seen in what
they do for and with each
other for all.
In this sense of the word,
what the Cuban people are
doing for and with each other
for the benefit of all is far
more religious than the
organized Church has been able
to do across many centuries.
It is true, at lease in my
judgment, that the Cuban
government has erred in
believing that by decree it can
wipe out man’s innate capacity
1 got a license to practice the
ministry.”
Green, interviewed at his
cattle ranch, said he was
recently ordained and plans a
nondenominational ministry.
“I am going to be an
evangelist,” he said.
“Everybody can realize they
are blessed.”
The Memphis based singer
already has had to borrow
$262,000 from a New York
bank to post an appeal bond in
a libel and slander suit it lost
against Mississippi Highway
patrolman Robert Moody in
Hinds County Circuit Court.
When that appeal bond
was posted April 7, Jones said
the organization had been
forced to “teeter on the brink
of disaster • to appeal the case.
The latest decision against
the NAACP, issued Aug. 12 by
Haynes, said the NAACP and
others “illegally created a
monopoly” for Black
businesses in Port Gibson,
Miss., by boycotting white
businesses in 1966 and 1967.
Haynes ordered the NAACP
to pay $1,250,599 in
compensation and punitive
damages.
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MUSEUM OF CUBAN REVOLUTION, which brought a better day for the people and reduced
the power of the church, is visited by part of the 18-member delegation tlrat spent two weeks in
Cuba recently Left to right: Ms. Ida Strickland, executive director, Third World Fund; Frank
Vales Cuban interpreter; Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett, president of the National Newspaper Publishers
Associatioii and editor-pubhsher of the San Francisco Sun-Reporter; and NNPA Columnist Charles
E. BeUe.
and tendency to be religious
and manifest that tendency
through worship.
The Party has erred in
making ineligible for political
participation those who give
substance to this tendency and
in this same sense the Christian
community has erred in its
exclusion of those of
socialist-communist philosphy.
I, for one, believe that what
socialist-communist countries
said his career “is religious
oriented. I do not just perform,
it’s away of life for me. 1 sing
about the life 1 live.”
Green said his agreement
with God is responsible for his
success. Among his “blessings”
are a dozen cars, several homes,
expensive jewelry and a
thriving business.
But Green saysi his material
Jones told a news
conference he “is confident”
all loyal supporters of civil
rights and civil liberties from
across the country will join the
campaign by making
contributions to the NAACP in
the “moment of deep peril”.
“Our lawyers are now in the
process of mapping plans to
subject the decision to scrutiny
of another court,” Jones said.
“We are confident that an
impartial court will share our
view of the case and ultimately
set it aside.”
The Rev. Emmett Bums,
Mississippi field secretary,
announced an “emergency
meeting” of all state branches
See “NAACP” Page 5
do for people stands nearer to
the heart of Christianity than
does that which so-called
Christian countries do. I
remember from the Holy
Scriptures these words: “Not
everyone that sayeth unto me,
Lord! Lord!, shall enter into
the Kingdom of Heaven, but he
that doeth the will of my
Father who is in Heaven.”
In this sense, that little
island in the Caribbean is a
successes are meaningless.
“Being a millionaire doesn’t
mean anything. All of this
money, jewelry, cars, housing -
is nothing. You have got to be
able to feel free to enjoy life.
None of this stuff means
anything unless you are
happy."
Carrying a Bible at all times,
Green wears a cross and
bracelet inscribed “Jesus Christ
- 33 A.D.” In his Memphis
office is a sculpture of Jesus on
the cross, draped in green
velvet
“1 have had a mystical,
magical, electrifying experience
with God,” Green said.
“You can get good things
from the Heavenly Father.
He’ll give you all that you want
if you give Him what He
wants.”
Green, soft-spoken and
slender at the age of 29. said
his life combines rehearsals and
performances, managing his
business, spending time on his
Memphis estates and
contributing to charities.
A non-drinker who
infrequently smokes, he
performs in benefits and
recently donated SIO,OOO to
the Jackie Wilson
Rehabilitation Fund.
Gospel sounds have been
blended with his soul love
songs in the 10 years since he
made his first recording, “Back
Up Train”. He said he has plans
to release a new gospel album.
Religion will figure heavily
in his work he said, “because
everything is tied to religion...
unless you gave yourself life.”
much more likely candidate for
entrance than is its colossus
neighbor of the North.
Any country that has been
exposed for any period of time
to the United States of
America is soon infected with
the virus of racism. The
hallmark of American slavery
was its cruel, dehumanizing
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