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‘ June Collcqo Library i * 1235 151 h St - • *■ V z j • WW/ T Augusta, GA 30901 Lightning Causes Woman s 55 C? SEE EELATED STORY PAGE 2 an OPEN FORUM FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE less than ts% advertising Vol. 7 Frank Yerby Lashes American Hypocrisy’ by Mallory K. Millender Novelist Frank Yerby said Sunday at Paine College that America was “created in hypocrisy and dedicated to the proposition that nobody was created equal. It is a nation whose record of sheer infamy, only the Nazis have possibly exceeded,” Yerby said. Yerby was the Commencement speaker and was awarded an honorary doctorate. He unleashed a relentless attack on the myths surrounding the American Revolution and its “heroes.” His sharpest criticism was reserved for Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence. In writing that document Yerby said Jefferson meant, “We hold these truths Black Press Gives Support To Don King Representatives of some cf the nation’s leading Black newspapers Tuesday, strongly supported boxmg promoter Don King in his charges that the white press is conspiring to discredit him in the boxing world and thereby restore white promoters to the control of boxing. King, who met with the Black newspaper publishers at the Hotel Pierre today, charged that he has not been guilty of any wrongdoing in the promotion of boxing matches and that a vendetta is being conducted against him by white writers to “get rid of the nigger” in the promotion of the multimillion dollar boxing industry. King came armed to the meeting with the publishers with mounted blowups of news stories from across the nation in which, either by innuendo or direct attack, suggested that he has been guilty of staging phony boxing matches, taking kickbacks from boxers, and is faced with a possible indictment on other unnamed charges. Publishers On hand to hear the charges made by King were Black t ■! __ /HR .JRJb k / I Ja / B I wB » . _ I If / n G PRESIDENTIAL PRESENT - President Carter Kisses singer Minnie Riperton, Center, after presenting her with a citation from the American Cancer Society at t le White House. She is winning a battle against breast cancer. P.O. Box 953 to be self evident: that nobody but us is created equal. And that if your complexion is on the shady side, you are endowed by your Creator with absolutely no rights at all.” Yerby berated Jefferson for not having the “moral courage” to simply free the four to six Black children he fathered, after promising their mother, Sally Hemmings, that he would free them. Instead, he let them run away and passed out a quiet word that they were not to be chased or caught, Yerby said. George Washington was a slave owner of the worst sort, Yerby charged. “His slaves staggered with hunger and lived in doorless huts, swarming with vermin. George Washington was the world’s champion publishers of newspapers from all over the country including Dr. Carlton B. Goodlet, President of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Black Press of America; Gerrald Jones, vice president and publisher of the Milwaukee Courier; Garth Reeves, publisher of the Miami Times; Kenneth Drew, publisher of the New York Voice, and Nathaniel Sweet, publisher of the St. Louis American. John L. Procope, publisher of the Amsterdam News, was out of the city, but was represented by James L. Hicks, executive editor of the newspaper. In a statement to the press following their meeting with King, the Black publishers said: Ask Fair Play “We as newspaper men who uphold the tradition of the free press and a responsible press, have examined the evidence before us and are forced to conclude that Dong King has not been given fair play in the white press. The daily press has virtually, totally ignored a statement by the Attorney General of Maryland made a week ago that Don King is cusser and the worst general in all of recorded history. Even the battles he won, he won by mistake.” The patriots of the American Revolution, which he called a “cruel and stupid war,” were tax evaders and bootleggers. Even Paul Revere was drunk when he made his famous midnight ride. “Paul Revere became famous for a ride from tavern to tavern on which he ended up lost and didn’t warn anybody. The real warning was done by three other riders who stayed sober.” Benjamin Franklin, who Yerby called the first Kissinger, used most of his diplomacy in “the boudoirs of every French lady whose husband wasn't at home.” And, according to Yerby, DON KING clean and has been found innocent of any wrongdoing. Instead, many papers carried banner headlines announcing the grand jury probe. Some headlined forthcoming indictments that have, in fact, never occurred. “In addition, many newspapers have attacked Don King for his prison record which, in fact, under our form of government, has nothing to do with his activities in boxing since he has paid his debt to our society. In the absence of any concrete evidence of wrongdoing, and in the light of his great contribution in reviving one of America’s great sports, we as publishers deplore and condemn the pilloring of Don King by fellow newspapers and urge Don King’s attackers to come back to those traditions of fair play, which so long have been a hallmark of the American press. See A Conspiracy “It has been suggested that the campaign against King is a conspiracy against his constitutional rights and the publishers urge that the Federal Judiciary be used to combat this insidious form of overt and covert racism. Those who flaunt the Constitutional guarantees of a free and responsible press should be punished so that this attempt at character assassination should represent a highpoint in the efforts of decent American, who have fought to guarantee a Constitutional safeguard, the freedom of the press....which must be protected against any threat from any quarter.” Augusta, Georgia Betsy Ross didn’t make the first American flag. It was made by a Philadelphia tailor named Francis Hopkimon. Noting that the information in his speech does not show up in our history books, Yerby said, “Ignorance is the worst of all vices.” Yerby said the race problem is insoluable because “People need to hate to compensate for all the miserable things they know they are.” Telling the students to look to the future not the past, Yerby urged, “Leave “Roots” to lie in peace. Instead of seeking ancestors, become worthy ancestors yourselves.” The 1937 Paine College graduate told the students, “This is YOUR country. Hosea Williams Tells Poor Go To Work Rev. Hosea Williams, president of the Atlanta area chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference has designed a series of “non-welfare, self-sustaining” programs to help the poor “get up, stop begging, go to work, and make it on their own.” The programs include ways for the poor to get food, clothing and job training. In addition, there are parts of Williams’ program which would provide auto repair, auto parrs sales, used appliance sales and service plus a “cultural development center” to give training to young Atlanta artists. And, on top of that, there is a plan for a halfway house for former prisoners and a 24-jour day care center for children and senior citizens. All of this, Williams says, can be done without welfare money. As benefits a plan of such large design, there will be a grand-scale kickoff event-a four-day People’s Achievement Festival to be held June 3-6 at the World Congress Center and the Omni. The main event of the festival will be a Poor Man/Rich Man banquet on June 3 with the acknowledged king of Rev. Ike, as guest speaker. Also on the program of the four-day event are cooking and sewing contests, a parade and carnival, a citywide multiracial religious service, a fund-raising auction and several musical performances. The event will be financed by sale of tickets to most of the events, including the awards banquet. After laying siege to Atlanta’s central business district, Williams said he managed to get \committments from a number' of business and government leaders to support the event in ways ranging from buying blocks of tickets to lending their names for the letterhead of the festival. “I haven’t had anybody say they wouldn’t help me so far,” Williams said, but he explained he was reluctant to release names now because he has included several businessmen by name in a list of supports he put in a letter intended to enlist further support. In an effort to keep the program’s finances above board, Williams said, he is attempting to enlist an initial audit from a major national accounting firm with offices in Atlanta. Although the program nominally is an offshoot of the Atlanta SCLC CHAPTER, it seems clear that the entire plan began with Hosea Williams. “I am anti-welfare, ” Williams said. "The more you have those kinds of programs, the more people look for them. And the more people depend on them, the bigger the federal government becomes to support them.” “When 1 see people involved in some See’’HOSEA WILLIAMS” Page 2 Robert Williams University Hospital Employe Os The Year OMT ; BBH I I'l J* kA A ”” ■ / Robert Williams (Left) accepts award Dependable, dedicated, kind, cooperative, conscientious... these are just a Grandpappy bought it with his sweat in the cotton fields. “The redskins used it for a hunting ground. The whites raped and ruined it. But our people built it, loved it, fought for it, and uncomplainingly died for it in every war.” Here are your roots. You are the fatheis and mothers of the America to be -- hopefully America the Beautiful, with liberty and justice for all.” Yerby has been widely criticized for living in Europe for more than 30 years (He lives in Spain) and for not pleading the Black cause in his 27 best-selling novels. Asked why he made the strong identification with the Black struggle in his speech Sunday, he said, “It was necessary to make that kind of speech to a Black graduating few of the adjectives used to describe Robert Williams, University Hospital Employe of the Year. Robert, who also received his 25 year service pin at the annual awards dinner, is a Senior Nursing Assistant on 9 East. Often called the “backbone of 9 East” by his co-workers, Robert trains all new male nursing assistants on the floor. The people he works with say he is the "kind of person you want to work with and be around for eight hours or more” each day. “He never complains, and he’s well-liked by everyone - staff, doctors and patients alike,” said numerous fellow workers nominating him, Robert came to work at University Hospital July 20, 1951. and has worked in nursing service ever since. May 12, 1977 No. 3 tai. Frank Yerby ... comes home Class. It is the kind speech that they necessarily must have,” he said. K '■ ' L** . B a w Sherald Reid Phi Beta Kappa Josey Grad Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa Miss Sherald Yolanda Reid, 1974 Valedictorian of T. W. Josey High School, was recently inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Miss Reid, who graduated May 9, Summa Cum Laude with highest honor in her graduating class, is also a member of several honor it Or . 811B 1 1 W'-CW BF x r J ♦ 1 a. ©KB * * PAPERWORK - - For CoL Charles “Chick” James, paperwork is an important part of conducting the training for student pilots at Mac Dill AFB. Col. James is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L James, 2233 Kings Wav. He is the man called on to review problems witn pilots of stricken aircrafts. Says He Hates God ‘Louise Ross Was Love Os My Life’ Frank Yerby said in his address at Paine College that the late Miss Louise Ross, Richmond County School teacher who died last year, was “the single most beautiful human being I have ever known. 1 mean that in all way s-phy sic ally, mentally and spiritually.” On Monday, Yerby said Miss Ross was “the great love of my life. “1 had the impression that she saw me as kind of rowdy and distinctly disapproved of me. “I would have never left societies: Alpha Mu Gamma, Foreign Language and the Beta Kappa Chi Scientific honor societies. A chemistry major at Fisk, she began her freshman studies September, 1974, and has completed her work in three years. Miss Reid is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Reid of Augusta. the States if I had been able to establish rapport with Louise.” Yerby said that others told him that Miss Ross felt as strongly about him as he did about her. But, he added, “she had the coldest way of showing it I have ever seen. I was so dumb that nuances escaped me.” Picking up on an earlier discussion as to why he doesn’t believe in God, Yerby said, “I have no use for a God that lets sublimely good people like her die like that. These are the things that bug me. If there is a God 1 hate Him.” Don’t Silence Andrew Young, Says Prominent Jewish Leader In a telegram to President Carter, a prominent Jewish leader has voiced hope that criticism of Andrew Young would not “silence” the Black civil rights leader who now serves as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. “Our country needs him and what he stands for,” said Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, in a message to the White House. As chairman of the Conference of Presidents, Rabbi Schindler heads an “umbrella” group of 32 national Jewish secular and religious organizations. The full text of his message follows: “I am sending this message to express our strong support for the honest and eloquent American you have chosen as our country’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young. Mr. Young is that rarity, a man with the courage of his convictions, a public servant speaking truth as he see it, who dares to say the emperor has no clothes. Andrew Young understands that the diplomatic box needs rattling and that the pracitioners of polite private diplomacy have brought forth not peace but a balance of terror, not human dignity but in far too many cases a license for oppression. “We do not endorse every utterance of Andy Young, but we deeply hope that the criticism which has been expressed in some quarters over his openness and candor will not silence him. Our country needs him and what he stands for.” NAACP Freedom Day The Augusta Chapter of The NAACP will have its Annual Freedom Day Program at the Tabernacle Baptist Church 1223 Lane - Walker Blvd., Sunday May 15, at 7:30 p.m. llie address for the occasion will be delivered by the Rev. Michael McCoy, minister of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church. 25e