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The Augusta News-Review - September 23, 1976 -
Playin’
The Changes
By Stan Raines
SHIH AB SAHIB-
A Muslim Plays The Blues
I am very glad to find that I
have quite a few readers in
Atlanta and that one club clips
my article for their scrapbook.
During a conversation with
some of these readers, 1 was
asked when 1 was going to
write an article on some of the
musicians from Georgia. I
explained that I didn’t write an
article on any particular
musician because he or she is
from a certain geographical
area but because of the part
that the individual plays or has
played in our blues beginning
or in the music that followed;
that music which is known as
jazz and which was prominent
from the Be-Bop era through
today.
However my selected artist
for this week is from our state
of Georgia. He was bom
Edmund Gregory on June 23,
1925 in Savannah, Georgia.
Upon becoming a professional
musician he changed his name
to Shihab Sahib as he was by
that time converted to the
Muslim religion. Very few
people today know the jazz
musician, Edmund Gregory
but, on the other hand, there
are very few who don’t know
A SINCERE THANK-YOU
TO CUSTOMERS
OF GEORGIA POWER
Straight Talk by
Bob Scherer I
President, f I
Georgia Power Company f l u
This summer brought hot,
humid days to Georgia and our
customers used record amounts
of electricity, mostly for cooling.
On July 26 a peak demand of
9,150,000 kilowatts occurred, at
a time when some power plants
were undergoing repair. We
faced the possibility of serious
service interruptions.
At that point we asked the
news media to help us appeal
for conservation measures. They
cooperated to the fullest, and
so did customers all over the
state who turned air conditioning
to warmer settings and limited
other electric use. Our employees
worked hard to complete plant
repairs and these concerted
efforts prevented any major
interruption of service.
Throughout August we
continued to encourage our cus
tomers to use electricity efficiently.
We sincerely appreciate
your willingness to help—and if
you want more information on
wise use, just ask us. Were ready
to help, too.
Georgia Power
the jazz musician, Shihab
Sahib.
Shihab started playing
saxophone before he was ten
years old. He had a great
natural talent of adaptability
to musical instruments and of
those he toyed around with, he
chose to play saxophone. In
1935 he studied with a very
good teacher, Elmer Snowden.
He continued to study with
Snowden until 1935. He
decided in 1940 that Snowden
could not teach him any longer
because by this time he knew
as much as the teacher, so in
1941 he enrolled in the Boston
Conservatory of Music, one of
our best musical institutions.
Shihab had been playing
with several groups prior to
this. In fact, he played with
Larry Noble in Savannah from
1939 until 1941. So he stayed
at the conservatory only one
year. 1942 found him back in
the Savannah area gigging.
Fletcher Henderson heard him
and hired him. He toured with
this band from early 1944 until
1945. The Fletcher Henderson
Orchestra was where he got his
first big break. He made his
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record debut with this
orchestra.
In 1945 he joined Roy (“Lil’
Jazz”) Eldridge and in doing so
discovered that each band that
he had played with was
completely different and as he
changed from one to another
he was growing rich with
different ideas and musical
knowledge.
Keeping this in mind as a
major point to obtaining
stardom, he changed bands like
changing clothes. He left
Eldridge in 1945 and went to
Ray Perry in Boston, left Perry
in 1946 and went to Phil
Edmund, left Edmund in 1947
and went to Buddy Johnson
for a year. From 1948 through
1955 he played with
Thelonious Monk, Tadd
Dameron, Dizzy Gillespie and
Illinois Jacquet.
After leaving a band, he
would always study the things
that he had learned while with
them. He was doing this so that
when he got his own thing
together it would be original.
He would take jobs between
gigs. He worked as an elevator
operator, a shipping clerk and a
real estate salesman.
Finally he was ready to get
his own group but couldn’t
find the musicians that he
wanted so he freelanced in
New York City. This
freelancing gave him the
chance to meet lots of
musicians. Finally he met
Dakota Staton who was also a
Muslim and worked with her.
From here things started to go
his way and finally his name
was in lights.
Shihab Sahib... appealing
here tonight! Brought sellout
crowds because by this time he
had made a reputation that
very few had made in the same
period of time. Shihab plays
Tenor, Alto, baritone saxes and
beautiful flute also.
His treatment of the blues is
unexplainable on tenor, alto or
flute. Check him out and
remember when you do that he
is a Georgian...
Police Report
By Audrey Frazier
MAN MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT
Kenneth G. Cartledge of
1728 Goodrich St. Ext, was
killed mysteriously Sunday at
his residence.
Oral E. Still of Greene Street
reported to police that
someone had been shot up the
river. Officers went to 1728
Goodrich St. Ext. and found
Cartledge lying on his back in
the den.
Investigation revealed that
Cartledge had been shot twice
and died as a result of these
injuries.
As of this printing no arrests
have been made.
MAN REFUSES TO TELL
WHO SHOT HIM
Robert Mingledorf of 9th
Avenue was shot Saturday but
refused to tell police who shot
him.
Officers talked to Willie
McNair of 12th Street who
stated that Mingledorf and
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College Students Name
History’s Most Worthy
Heroes; Martin Luther
King Jr. Is Top
Who do college students
respect most? Who are then
heroes?
A University of Florida
professor recently posed these
questions as a classroom
assignment and obtained some
startling results.
Dr. William Goldhurst asked
100 sophomore humanities
students at Gainsville, Fla., to
name their heroes, applying the
concept of “The Nine
Worthies”, a list of world
leaders selected by medieval
historians as the greatest heroes
of all time. The students’
selections are reported in the
Autumn 1976 issue of
Horizon, the magazine of
world history, art and culture.
The students were asked to
name outstanding people from
any era so long as the nominees
reflected values in which the
students believed. The
individuals receiving the
greatest number of votes were,
in sequential order, Martin
Luther King Jr., Henry
Kissinger, John F. Kennedy
and Abraham Lincoln. This
group was followed hy Winston
Churchill, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, and
Ralph Nader. The ninth named
was Mao Tse-tung.
The reasons given by the
students for their selections
were these: King died in a
noble cause; Kissinger travels
world-wide seeking peace;
Kennedy advanced civil rights
and aid to the elderly; Lincoln
freed the slaves and preserved
the Union; Roosevelt led the
way out of the Great
Depression; Churchill
withstood the Nazis; Einstein
added a new dimension to our
Augusta Tech To Offer
Records Management
The evening division of
Augusta Area Technical School,
Lumpkin Road Branch, will
offer a course in management
for the first time this fall
quarter.
The first of six core courses,
it will provide training for
office occupations that require
managing recorded
information.
The CSRA Chapter of the
Association of Record
Managers and Administrators is
serving as an advisory
committee to the school on
implementation of the new
program.
Charles Brooks of 1158 Peters
Rd., were arguing and fighting
when an unknown person or
persons fired once, striking
Mingledorf in his left shoulder.
Pearly McNair also of 1158
Peters Rd., stated that both
Mingledorf and Brooks had
pistols at the time of the
argument.
Mingledorf and Brooks are
cousins.
SOCKS STOLEN AT A R
JOHNSON HIGH
An unknown amount of
socks were stolen from A.R.
Johnson Jr. High Saturday
after the football team left for
a game.
Someone entered the school,
kicked a hole in the coach’s
office and stole an unknown
amount of socks.
The burglaries also went into
the boy’s locker room, kicked
a hole in the door and broke
into and ramsacked all the
boys lockers.
MCG
To Hold 145th
Commencement
The Medical College of
Georgia will hold its 145th
commencement at 8 p.m.
September 25 in Bell
Auditorium.
MCG President William H.
Moretz, M.D., will confer
degrees to 258 graduates in the
schools of Allied Health
Sciences, Dentistry, Graduate
Studies and Nursing.
understanding of the universe;
Ralph Nader protects the
consumer from being ripped
off by industry and big
business; Mao brought China
into the twentieth century.
To the students, leadership
meant the ability to meet a
great challenge, according to
Dr. Goldhurst, an associate
professor of English and the
Humanities. It also meant
bringing hope to those in
despair.
The Horizon article points
out that artists, composers,
poets and thinkers were not
overlooked by the students.
Shakespeare, Beethoven and
Picasso received about 10 votes
each. Darwin, Freud, Karl
Marx, Socrates and Jesus were
also among the 10 percenters.
Adolph Hitler received four
votes. John Mitchell and
Richard M. Nixon each
received three.
Among the worthies who
received only a single vote were
Linda Lovelace, Marilyn
Monroe, Hugh Hefner, Mark
Spitz, Joe Namath, Jim
Thorpe, Babe Ruth, Vince
Lombardi, Dr. Spock, Lance
Rentzl and Wilbur Mills.
Among those nominated but
not in the running were Billie
Jean King, Gloria Steinem,
Betty Friedan, Shirley
Chisholm, Moshe Dayan, Golda
Meir, Ned Armstrong, William
F. Buckley, Marco Polo and
Salvador Dali.
Anonymous received two
votes for the poetry he had
composed through the ages.
Dr. Goldhurst received two
votes for assigning what was
termed a “fascinating project”.
The course will be offered
Monday and Wednesday
evenings beginning October 4
through December 9 from 6:00
to 10:30 p.m.
Registration will be held
September 30 from 6:30 to 9
p.m.
For further information,
contact the evening division,
798-4343, from 2 to 10:30
p.m.
League Holds
Membership
Coffees
Individuals interested in
learning more about the
League of Women Voters are
invited to two membership
coffees, both to be held at the
home of Mrs. Frank P.
Anderson, 820 Fleming Ave.,
on September 29. The morning
coffee begins at 10 and the
evening coffee is at 8.
Mrs. John White is
membership chairman of the
League and states that men as
well as women are invited to
the coffees. There is no need to
call ahead of time... just come!
Public Hearing
Announced
A public hearing, designed
to present the prepared
continuation grant application
plan for the Title VII Nutrition
Program under the Older
Americans Act, will be held at
2:30 p.m. Thursday,
September 23rd.
The hearing will be held at
CSRA Planning and
Development Commission
Conference Room, 2123
Wrightsboro Road.
The grant application plan
to be presented will be
submitted to the State Office
on Aging on October 1. The
plan will go into effect January
1,1977.
Upward Bound
Accepting
Application
The Paine College Upward
Bound Program is presently
accepting applications for its
academic year phase activities.
Students who are presently
in the 10th and 11th grade in
the public schools of Augusta -
Richmond County are eligible
to apply.
Information and
applications are available in the
counselor’s office of each high
school or call the Paine College
Upward Bound office at
722-9986.
The deadline for <m
applications is September 28.
Milton U. Oates
Milton U. Oates will be guest
speaker at the annual
graduation exercises of the
Augusta Opportunities
Industrialization Center on
Family Tries To Prevent Blacks
From Moving In Next Door
The Department of Justice
filed a civil suit recently
charging a suburban
Philadelphia family with trying
to prevent a Black couple from
buying the home next door.
Attorney General Edward H.
Levi said the housing
discrimination suit was filed in
U.S. District Court in
Philadelphia, Penn., against
Robert and June Simon and
their son, Jeffrey, of
Huntingdon Valley.
The suit accused the Simons
of violating the Fair Housing
Act of 1968 by seeking to
coerce, intimidate, threaten,
and interfere with the right of
the Black couple to equal
housing opportunity.
When Leonard and Elizabeth
Parker began negotiating to
buy the home next door to the
Simons last April, the suit said,
the Simons made racially based
threats of reprisal to the
owners and the real estate
brokers handling the sale in the
all-white neighborhood.
In addition, Jeffery Simon
defaced the stucco house by
painting the letters “KKK” on
the front of the house and
several shutters and placing a
hangman’s noose on a side
door, the suit said.
These actions, the suit said.
Voter
Registration Set
If you haven’t registered yet
and want to vote for President
in the November 2 General
Election, you have until
October 1 to get your name on
the rolls!
The League of Women
Voters and other deputized
volunteers will register
prospective voters on Saturday,
September 25, between 10
a.m. and 6 p.m. in the
following shopping centers:
Daviel Village, National Hills,
Southgate Shopping Center
and Peach Orchard Plaza.
On Wednesday, September
22, and again on September
29, the League will register
voters from 12 noon to 1:30 in
the Bicentennial Park in
downtown Augusta.
Library
Schedule
Weekly Story Hours for
children are conducted by the
Augusta Library. The program,
which included a story, a film,
and talks about books for
various ages and interests, will
be held at the Maxwell Branch,
1927 Lumpkin Rd., on
Wednesday at 4 p.m.
PROGRAMS FOR
PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN
Programs are planned for
pre-school children who are old
enough to enjoy books. The
“Picture Book Half-Hour” at
the Main Library, 902 Greene
St., will be held on Thursday at
10 a.m. A Pre-School Story
Hour will be held at the
Appleby Branch, 2260 Walton
Way, on Wednesday at 3 p.m.
Pre-School Story Hours at the
Wallace Branch, 1237
Laney-Walker Blvd., are
scheduled on Monday through
Friday at 10:30 and 11 a.m.
DIA LA-STORY
Through the courtesy of the
Telephone Pioneers of Augusta
and the Public Library,
children may dial 724-8080 at
any hour of the day or night
and hear a story or poem told
by a member of the Children’s
Department Staff.
Oates To Speak At
QlC’s Graduation
Sunday September 26 at 4:00
pm. at Macedonia Baptist
Church.
Mr. Oates, a native of
Philadelphia, Penn, received a
B.A. degree in psychology
from Lincoln University in
Pennsylvania and did further
study at the University of
Pennsylvania and Temple
University.
Mr. Oates first became
employed by OIC of
Philadelphia in 1964. In 1966
he became executive director
of the Little Rock OIC, Little
had the purpose and effect of
warning white residents of the
area, white real estate
salespersons, and Black
prospective residents that they
would likely suffer reprisals if
Blacks were allowed to live in
the community.
The suit asked for a court
order enjoining the Simons
from engaging in any conduct
that violates the Fair Housing
Act and requiring them to
Suit Filed For Serving
Blacks At Rear Door
The Department of Justice
filed a civil suit recently
charging the owner of a tavern
in Hawkinsville, Ga., with
unlawfully maintaining
separate facilities for Black and
white patrons.
Attorney General Edward H.
Levi said the public
accommodations suite was
filed in U.S. District Court in
Macon against Willie S. Daniel,
owner of Jack's Beer Barrel.
The suit said Daniel has
violated the Civil Rights Act of
1964 by allowing white
patrons to drink in the main
room while requiring Blacks to
go to a rear door for a
carry-out service.
The suit asked for a court
order enjoining Daniel from
continuing to maintain
separate service areas for
Blacks and whites and from
providing only carry-out
service for Blacks.
Red Cross Seeks Volunteers
The American Red Cross at
the Dwight David Eisenhower
Army Medical Center is
looking for new volunteers to
work throughout the new
hospital.
According to Joan Barton,
chairman of volunteers, men
and women are needed to assist
the medical center staff in the
hospital’s wards, clinics and
administrative areas.
Interviews for new
volunteers will be held Sept. 20
Miss Black Teen Pageant
Plans Underway
DANVILLE, Va. - Pageants
Unlimited, Inc. and Touch A
Teen Productions announced
recently that plans are
underway for the annual Miss
Black Teenage World Pageant.
Persons or organizations
interested in producing
Pageants in their locales should
write Ronald Charity, PUI,
P.O. Box 1139, Danville,
Viiginia 24541.
Patrice Reiger of Chicago,
Illinois is the current title
holder. The Pageant is open to
teenagers 15 to 17 years old
with competition listed in five
segments which are:
Sportswear, Creative
Expression, Talent,
Eveningwear and Personal
Projection. The top finalists in
the Pagenat are presented
College Scholarships. The
producers emphasize that Miss
Black Teenage World Pageant is
not a beauty pageant nor is it a
fashion show.
Nineteen hundred
seventy-seven marks the Fifth
Anniversary of the Pageant
Support Your
Local SCLC
Rock, Arkansas, the third OIC
in the country. In 1968 he
became regional director of the
southern region of
OIC/America. In 1974 he was
appointed as the Director of
Field Operations OIC/America.
He is presently serving in this
position.
OIC is a manpower training
program offering
pre-vocational and vocational
training to unemployed,
underemployed, and
disadvantaged adults in the
CSRA.
correct the effects of their
alleged discriminatory conduct.
In addition, the suit asked
the court to require the Simons
to compensate the Parkers.
Assistant Attorney General
J. Stanley Pottinger, head of
the Civil Rights Division, said
the suit was the first civil
action brought by the
Department against individuals
in a housing discrimination
case.
The suit also asked the court
to order Daniel to discontinue
serving Blacks from the rear
door and to post signs stating
that he will serve all persons
without regard to race or color.
Mid-Day Film
Program For
September 28
On Tuesday, September 28
the Augusta-Richmond County
Public Library will present two
informative and entertaining
films in its mid-day series, The
World in Films. REDWOODS
and TAME THE WIND will be
shown in the auditorium of the
main library at 902 Greene St.,
beginning at 1:10 p.m.
The program is free and the
public is invited to attend.
through 23. Anyone 18 years
of age or older who is
interested should call 791-6311
for an appointment, Mrs.
Barton said.
Hospital Orientation classes
for the new volunteers will be
held Sept. 27 through 30, from
9 a.m. to 12:30 pan. The
classes will include instruction
on proceedures for wards and
clinics, cardiopulmonary
resuscitation, and the taking of
patients’ vital signs.
which has presented some
5387,000 worth of College
scholarships since its inception.
Ford Appoints
Black Educator
To International
Board
President Ford has
appointed Clifton R. Wharton «
Jr., president of Michigan State
University, to the Board of
International Food and
Agricultural Development
The distinguished Black
educator was one of six
persons named to the Board.
These are new positions
established by Public Law
94-161 of December 20, 1975.
The general area the Board
will be involved in is Famine
Prevention and Freedom from
Hunger.
Wharton, of East Lansing,
Mich., was appointed to a term
of three years.