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Congressional Black Caucus Calls For
Support Os N A ACP In Boycott Case
Congresswoman Yvonne B.
Burke (D-Calif.), chairperson
of the Congressional Black
Caucus in a news conference
recently said that “The
Mississippi court decision
against the NAACP for a 1966
boycott against Port Gibson,
Mississippi merchants shows
that some of the worst vestiges
of the era of segregation
remain, and that we must come
together to provide support for
those struggling directly against
those attacks.”
Appearing at the news
conference with
Congress woman Burke were:
Representatives Charles C.
Diggs Jr. (D-Mich.), Robert
N.C. Nix (D-Pa.) John Conyers
Jr. (D-Mich.), Ronald V.
Dellums (D-Calif.), Walter
Fauntroy (D-D.C.), Parren J.
Mitchell (D-Md.), and Charles
Alabama Ordered To End Jobs Bias
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - All
of the state’s major agencies
have been warned to step up
the hiring of Blacks, both in
numbers and in meaningful
jobs, or U.S. District Judge
Frank M. Johnson may order
mandatory hiring quotas.
Johnson, stopping the
agencies from practicing racial
discrimination in hiring, said
the State Personnel
Department can no longer use
written examinations to deny
jobs to Blacks until the tests
have been approved by a
federal agency.
The order is an expansion of
a similar one issued in 1970
against seven state agencies
named in a Justice Department
complaint. Sixty-three new
agencies are now under this
order.
Johnson said that some of
Paine Begins A ’'Threshold Year”
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DR. JULIUS S. SCOTT
By Audrey Frazier
“This is a threshold year
because of radically new and
emerging possibilities,”
according to Dr. Julius S.
Scott, president of Paine
College.
Dr. Scott spoke to the Paine
College family Monday at
Paine’s opening convocation
for the 1976-77 school year.
“We have no apologies for
the quality of teaching
P. O, Box 953
B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), Chief
Counsel Nathaniel Jones of the
NAACP, Washington Bureau
Chief of the NAACP, Clarence
Mitchell and William Pollard a
member of the NAACP board
of directors.
The Mississippi lawsuit
was brought by a group of Port
Gibson, Miss, merchants whose
stores had been boycotted by
Blacks in protest against
employment discrimination
and other forms of racial
abuse. On August 9, a single
State judge ruled in favor of
the merchants and awarded
them 51,250,699 in damages.
Under Mississippi state law, it
is necessary to post a bond of
$1.6 million, 125 per cent of
the judgment, just to appeal
the decision.
Congresswoman Burke,
speaking for the 17-m ember
the agencies have improved in
the hiring of Blacks, but they
were given menial jobs.
He was highly critical of the
State Mental Health
Department, the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board, the
State Department of
Examiners of Public Accounts
and the State Finance
Department.
However, he did commend
the State Board of Corrections
by saying “The total number
of Blacks in the Department of
Corrections has increased from
18 to7B, and the bulk of the
new hirees, 46, have been
accepted into the two new jobs
of Corrections Counselor I and
Corrections Counselor
Trainee.”
Johnson also said the state’s
written merit system tests
personnel here,” stated Dr.
Scott. He continued by making
known that 30 per cent of
Paine’s faculty have their
doctorates.
Also for the first time in
Paine’s history, they have a
visiting IBM lecturer.
Dr. Scott pointed out the
many improvements made at
Paine but stressed that there is
much more work to be done.
“There are three challenges
Congressional Black Caucus,
called upon “all persons to join
together to provide support for
the NAACP at this time of
need.” She called the NAACP
“one of the most respected
institutions in the Black
community which has fought
tirelessly for decades in defense
of the rights of Black
Americans in close cooperation
with many outside the Black
community.
‘‘We believe,’’
Congresswoman Burke
continued, “that the
Mississippi judgment is quite
simply an attempt to destroy
the NAACP. It puts an
enormous financial burden
upon an institution which
struggles, like many others,
against adverse economic
conditions. It attempts to sap
the vigor not only of the
“have an adverse racial
impact.”
It has been found that the
tests “screened out
disproportionate numbers of
Blacks applicants.”
Those Blacks who did pass
the tests, on the average scored
lower than whites, and their
names were at the bottom of
the employment registers.
State agencies examine the
job registers, and avoid hiring
Blacks by requesting
certificates of eligiblity when
no Blacks are available for
certification Johnson
explained.
He has now ordered that the
state can’t use the written test
to determine rank of eligibility
until it has been validated and
approved by the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission.
in this threshold year,”
according to Dr. Scott. There is
a challenge of planning which
must specify goals and
objectives, a challenge of
relevance in order to keep
programs relevant to the
students and a challenge of
sisal viability. “I’m talking
about hard, cold dollars,”
stated Dr. Scott.
Also during the convocation
new appointments were
announced and new faculty
members were introduced.
Dr. Vivian Robinson was
appointed the first female to
serve as Academic Dean of the
college. William Wright will
serve as acting chairman of the
Division of Humanities and
George Brightharp is chairman
of the Division of Social
Science and coordinator of
Religious Affairs and Business
Administration.
Ruben Kesler will serve as
assistant to the Academic Dean
and Dr. Canute Richardson is
Special Asst, to the President.
The new Dean of Student
Affairs and his assistant are
Larry Sargent and Leroy
James.
The new faculty included:
Moin Ansari. Herbert Ashline,
Miss Carol Bagnell. Jack Bates,
Dr. Carolyn Bennett, William
Brown, Mrs. Judy Carter,
William Christmas, Mrs. Agnes
Cruz, Dr. Sharon Endleman,
George Emeston, Mrs. Viola
Evans, Henri Freeman, Dr.
Marion Furr, Rev. C.S.
Hamilton, John Harps,
Timothy Hicks, Mrs. Altona
Johns, Ms. Lois Ratliff, Dr.
Leonidas Sandoval, Phillip
Thomas, Ralph Vickery, Mrs.
Josephine White and Roger
Williams.
Augusta, Georgia
NAACP, but of the entire
movement for equality justice
and civil rights for all
Americans.”
Congresswoman Burke
called upon every Black
American to give at least one
dollar to the NAACP in its
drive to raise the 51.6 million
bond by September 28. “Black
Americans must not let the
forces of racism destroy the
institutions upon which our
community is built,” she said.
“Our responses to adversity
must be renewed vigor. All of
our institutions - every church,
every business, every civil
rights, professional, social,
civic, fraternal and political
organization must rise up and
provide support to the NAACP
so that it may remain a vital
force for justice in the nation.”
Claiborne County, Miss., in
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Congressman Young
And Attorney Hollowell To
Receive Top Awards
Congressman Andrew Young
and Attorney Donald L.
Hollowell will be the recipients
of two awards to be given by
the Georgia Conference of
Black Lawyers, Inc. at the
group’s First Annual Awards
Banquet to be held on
Saturday, September 18, at the
Atlanta Internationale Hotel.
Congressman Young,
Georgia’s Fifth District
Representative will be awarded
the Organization’s Citizen of
the Year Award. This award is
given to a non-lawyer or a
group of non4awyers that has
played a significant role in
effectuating meaningful
changes in a particular
community and/or the State of
Georgia.
Attorney Donald L.
Hollowell, Assistant General
Counsel in the Atlanta
Save The NAACP
We urge our readers to thoroughly read all of the
page one story concerning the plight of the NAACP.
Send a donation and touch bases with someone else
and urge him to do likewise. We cannot allow
Mississippi to destroy this Guardian of Freedom.
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which Port Gibson is located, is
over three-quarters Black. In
1966, when the boycott began,
there were no Black elected or
appointed officials, and only 7
persons were registered to vote.
The pattern of violence and
discrimination against Blacks
was intensified as efforts to
register to vote began following
the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Congresswoman Burke
concluded that “We believe
that the court decision
involving the Port Gibson
Mrs. Carrie Mays Qualifies
Councilwoman Carrie Mays
qualified with the clerk of
council to remain the
representative from the city’s
WALTER JONES
Regional Office of General
Counsel of the Equal
Opportunity Commission, will
be given the Georgia
Conference of Black Lawyers,
Inc. A.T. Walden Liberty
Award. This award is named in
honor of one of the first Black
lawyers in Georgia, if not the
first Black lawyer, and is given
to the Georgia lawyer who is
an advocate of justice, equality
and human rights and who is
held in high esteem by his
fellow lawyers.
Attorneys Antonio L.
Thomas and J.T. Henry will be
the recipients of spcial awards
by the organization at the
banquet where the Honorable
A. Leon Higgenbotham Jr.,
judge of the United States
District Court for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania, will
be the speaker.
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boycott will be overturned by
a higher court. We do not
believe that Mississippi can
continue to limit rights of free
speech and association. Nor do
we believe that it is just or
constitutional to require
payment of a massive bond
simply to exercise the basic
right of appeal through the
courts.” She called upon the
Justice Department to review
the matter and for swift action
to raise the 51.6 million
necessary to save the NAACP.
2nd ward. Mrs. Mays, who has
fought back from a grave
illness, is looking fine and is
ready to sustain her seat on the
council of the city of Augusta.
Chef Walter Jones Retires
After 52 Years At Hospital
Walter Jones, who started at
the University Hospital at age
13, retired recently after 52
years of service as chef of the
hospital.
A native of Mayfield, Ga.,
Jones began work at the
hospital by helping his uncle
wash dishes. In 1926 he
became second cook and was
promoted to chef in 1929.
In 1968, Jones was named
the University’s first
“Employee of the Year”. Later
in 1974 “Walter Jones Day”
was proclaimed at the hospital
to honor Jones’ 50th year with
the hospital.
Black VFW Post Fights For Survival
By Stan Raines
Waiter J. Jackson Post 3887
American Veterans of Foreign
Wars of The United States is
fighting for survival.
The post building which is
located at 1516 15th St., is in
dire need of repair but to do so
will cost more than the present
structure is worth.
The building was purchased
in 1963 for 516.000. The
adjoining lot was purchased at
Judge William Alexander’s
Historic Win Earned With
Majority Os White Support
Taken From
Atlanta Constitution Journal
Sunday, Aug. 29/76
In becoming the first Negro
ever to win a countywide
political contest in Fulton
County, Criminal Court Judge
William H. Alexander also drew
what undoubtedly is the
heaviest white-community
support ever accorded a Black
here.
An analysis by Atlanta
University’s Dr. Clarence
Bacote of votes cast in the
August 10 Democratic Primary
shows Alexander received 60.5
per cent of the votes cast by
EDITORIAL
Ed Mclntyre Harrassed
By Conniving Colleagues
On Local
Coliseum Authority
By Al Irby
Tiller, Neal and Simowitz, “the three musketeers of
intrigue and double-cross” have inaugurated their
clandestine attempt to outst Mclntyre from the
chairmanship of the Richmond County Commisson. By
scurrilous subtlety, Commissioner Tiller, Peck’s
proverbial bad boy, and leader of the unholy
Triumvirate, has set his greedy eyes and heart on the
chairmanship, come hell and high water. Neal for his
part is already discredited, and should retire himself into
abominable oblivion. And Simowitz, for his part, is
nothing but a semi-“lame duck” who tried to push
Mclntyre off of the Authority, when in truth, the
Authority at the beginning was Mr. Mclntyre’s idea. The
action of these three rebels has caused Mr. J.W. Weltch
to quit the Authority. This is the type of political
pussy-footing that prevents Augusta from growing out
of its provincialism. The Augusta Chronicle in its lead
editorial Tuesday morning, ”A CRYING SHAME”, was
indeed appropriate for this chic infamy.
t Actually Jones’ association
, with the hospital goes back to
i 1914 when his father worked
, as a bricklayer on the old
University Hospital. Jones was
only 3 years old at this time.
■ In 1942 Jones received
■ training at Tuskegee Institute
i in Alabama. While there he
taught pastry classes. Later he
traveled to New York and
Florida for cooking ideas.
Jones was selected by the
late President Dwight D.
Eisenhower as their cook while
visiting Augusta in 1953. He
continued to cook for the
the same time for 56.000.
Since that time approximately
525,000 has been spent for
repairs and remodeling. It is
estimated that it would cost
approximately 540.000 to
remodel the existing building
to a worthwile condition.
Due to lack of membership
support the post has not raised
enough money for either
remodeling or purchase of a
new building. Through the
whites in his particular contest.
And by drawing 91.6 per
cent of the Black votes cast,
Alexander cinched his victory
over a white opponent, John
D. Varnell.
Varnell drew the bulk of his
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Housing Discrimination Suit Filed
The Department of Justice
filed a civil suit and obtained a
consent decree recently
forbidding the owner of a
trailer park in Oak Harbor,
Wash., from refusing to rent to
Black persons and single
woman.
Attorney General Edward H.
Levi said the housing
discrimination suit and the
decree resolving the issues were
filed in U.S. District Court in
Seattle, Wash.
The suit charged John F.
Hoffelt, owner of Hoffelt’s
Town and Country Trailer
Park, with violating the Fair
Eisenhowers for several years.
Jones has trained
approximately 50 young men,
many who are successful chefs
today.
He credits his success to his
parents and family background
of “do-power”.
“1 put my heart and effort
into being the very best that I
could be,” commented Jones.
A reception was given by the
administration, employes and
medical staff in the hospital
cafeteria honoring Jones.
As for the future, Jones
plans to travel and fish.
years membership has not
flourished, in fact the present
membership is 198 members
after having started in the
present building with a
membership of 139. Lowery
stated that only about 30 are
active, the rest are
card-carrying members only.
The latest plan for survival is
an appeal to the public which
the VFW has helped
throughout the years, to aid
the post in its fight for survival.
It is seeking to raise 560,000 to
build a new building. Fund
raising projects to raise this
amount include a raffle in
which three cash prizes will be
given away. The first, 5500:
second, 5200; and third prize
550. The post will also appeal
to individuals and
organizations to help them in
their fight for survival.
Anyone desiring to
contribute may do so by
mailing checks to: Walter J.
Jackson Post 3887 VFW
Building Fund, 1516 15th St.,
Augusta, Georgia. All
contributions are tax
deductable.
Housing Act of 1968 by
refusing to rent trailers and
trailer spaces to an interracial
couple and to single women.
The consent decree, which
Hoffelt signed, permanently
enjoins him from refusing to
rent trailers and trailer sites on
the basis of race or sex.
The decree requires him to
send monthly lists of vacancies
to the housing referral office at
nearby Whidbey Island Naval
Air Station and to use
objective, nondiscriminatory
standards in determining
rentals.
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