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Vol. 7 P.O. Box 953 Augusta, Georgia May 19, 1977 No. 4 25<t
Andy Young Ain’t Running Scared
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AMBASSADOR ANDREW YOUNG
Richmond County Board
Cf Commissioners Declare
War On Pornography
County Commissioners
instructed the County
Attorney to immediately study
zoning ordinances to block the
sales of all pornographic trash
and businesses which deal in
vulgar material to attract
customers. Rev. Ken.
Hutcheson, who is president of
a group, calling themselves
“Citizens for Decency lead the
crusade by telling a large crowd
of citizens attending the
Council's regular meeting last
Tuesday afternoon, that his
organization is very distressed
by the spreading of what the
local clergyman described as
big time sex businesses in our
city and county.
The articulate Rev.
Hutcheson said “we are not
here to debate the merits of
the First Amendment
freedoms, or the powers you
county commissioners have to
enact laws. We want results.’’
Department Os Justice
The Department of Justice
recently charged the owner of
an apartment complex in
Savannah, with failing to
comply with a Federal Court
order barring discrimination
against Black persons.
Attorney General Griffin B.
Bell said a motion for civil
contempt was filed in U. S.
District Court in Savannah
against Charles W. Worrell of
West Columbia, South
Carolina.
Worrell owns the Cherokee
Homes Apartments, a
58-building complex
containing 150 to 200 units in
Port Wentworth, north of
Savannah.
The motion charged that
Worrell failed to comply with a
court order issued on July 8,
1974, enjoining him from
violating the Fair Housing Act
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The motion said Worrell has
failed to notify five
community organizations of
his nondiscriminatory rental
policy, failed to adhere to
rental standards, and failed to
submit periodic reports to the
court.
The order was issued after
trial of a housing
discrimination suit brought by
the Justice Department on
October 1, 1973, charging
Worrell with refusing to rent to
blacks.
The motion asked the court
He pointed out the highly
workable Detroit Michigan
zoning ordiances should be
used as a guidelane for our
county. Rev. Hutcheson said a
zoning laws in the chief
Michigan city, restrict those
types of “sex businesses” from
locating within 1,000 feet of
another such restricted
business, or within 500 feet of
a residential neighborhood.
Rev. Hutcheson said his
organization would also appear
before the Augusta City
Council with the request for a
zoning ordinance. In other
action, the commission:
Authorized Tiller to appoint
Commissioners Scott and
Mclntyre to a committee to
study the virtue of hiring a
full-time county administrator.
Tabled Paine College allocation
of 525.000 for Summer
Recreation. A few other moves
by the Commissioners ended a
very interesting session.
to hold Worrell in civil
contempt and give him five
days to assure the court he will
fully abide by its orders, to
post bond to assure
compliance, and to submit
rental standards to the court.
If Worrell fails to purge
himself of contempt, the
motion asked the court to
impose daily fines until he does
so.
Applications .
Now Being
Accepted
Applications are now being
accepted for the summer
program for preschoolers
conducted by the Augusta
College Department of '
Education at Trinity on the
Hill Methodist Church June 20
- July 15 from 9 a.m. until
noon Monday through Friday.
The four week program is
part of the Education
Department’s Internship in 1
Early Childhood Education.
Children ages three, four and r
five are eligible.
Contact Mrs. Ivey at Trinity ‘
Methodist Church. r
South Africa has backed
down from its adamant
position to bar Ambassador
Young from visiting the
apartheid country.
Well-informed diplomatic
sources made it clear that they
expected the decision to be yes
Dr. Dawson Is
Commencement Speaker
Dr. Horace G. Dawson, Jr.
Dr. Horace G. Dawson, Jr.,
Director of the Africa Bureau
for the United States
Information Agency, (USIA)
Washington, DC, will be the
commencement speaker at
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference Schedules Convention
The 20th Annual
Convention of tire Southern
Chrisitian Leadership Conference
will be held August 16-19 in
Atlanta, the city where the
S.C.L.C. was bom. The
Convention will be
headquartered at the Atlanta
American Hotel.
This Convention will honor
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
the founding president and the
remaining active founders of
S.C.L.C., Dr. Ralph David
Abernathy, Dr. Joseph E.
Lowery, Rev. Fred
Shuttlesworth of Cincinnati,
and Rev. C. K. Steele of
Tallahassee. The major business
of importance will be the
selection of S.C.L.C.’s third
president. Dr. Abernathy who
succeeded Dr. King in April,
1968 resigned the presidency
in February of this year. Dr.
Joseph Lowery, Chairman of
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Robert E. James (second from right) was a big hit at the White House meeting w ith President Carter to discuss
new White House initiatives for the Minority Bank Deposit program. Janies is president of the Carver State Bank in
Savannah. He was recently elected president-elect ot the National Bankers \ssociation, the trade group for
minority bankers.
all along, as whether the
articulate Mr. Young would be
allowed into the country to
make several addresses
including student groups and
business leaders. The South
African Foreign Affair
Secretary Brank Fourie made
Boggs Academy. The
ceremonies are scheduled for
Sunday, May 29 at 2 p.m. on
the campus. The public is
invited to attend.
A native of Augusta, Georgia
and a graduate of Haines
Institute (Now Lucy Laney
High School). Dr. Dawson also
holds the A.B. Degree from
Lincoln University, an A.M.
from Columbia University and
a Ph.D in Mass Communi
cations from the State
University of lowa. He has also
attended the Danforth
Foundation Summer Workshop
for University Presidents and
Administrators and the
post-graduate senior Seminar in
Foreign Poli.’..
A, the US*A., D r Da vsuo is
responsible far tb°
S.C.L.C.’s Board of Directors is
acting-president until such time
the convention chooses the
third president.
The theme of the S.C.L.C.
Convention will be Human
Rights. The S.C.L.C. program
with regard to human rights at
home as well as abroad will be
discussed. Human Rights as
regards unemployment,
housing, and injustice within
the American system will be
discussed as will Black on
Black crime. The 20th
Convention will be a time of
coming together, or harambee.
for the present and former
S.C.L.C. Staff members.
Among guests invited to
address the convention will be
President Jimmy Carter,
Ambassador Andrew Young.
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey,
and other national religious,
social and political figures.
this decision known publicly
last Tuesday.
The South African
Government last week reacted
uncouthly to reports that Mr.
Young was planning a visit
without observing the usual
racist inter- governmental
c vdcpment and direction of
t i>b:b. diplomacy and
int o r n>a tio na 1/c ull ura 1
activities in Africa including
the supporting activities in
Paris and Washington. This
includes supervision of 100
American officers and 360
h eal workers in 27 African
countries.
Dr. Dawson has previously
served his agency as assistant
director for policy direction,
cultural affairs advisor,
counsellor of embassy and
piiblic affairs in Liberia, and
cultural attche hi Nigeria and
Uganda. He was also a
founding director of the
School ot Mass Communica
tions at the University of
Lagox'. His academic
experience includes lectures in
Senator NunnTo Address
Knights Os Columbus
The Honorable Sam Nunn,
United States Senator from the
State of Georgia will present
the keynote address at the
Seventy-Fifth Annual State
Meeting of the Georgia State
Council, Knights of Columbus
to be held in Augusta on May
20-22.
Delegates and guests from
throughout the State of
Georgia will be on hand to hear
the dynamic youthful Senator,
the “Watchdog of the
Treasury”, an honor bestowed
upon him by the National
Associated Businessmen for his
efforts to cut government
spending.
An honor graduate of the
Emory School of Law, Senator
Nunn’s route to Capitol Hill
began in 1968 in the Georgia
House of Representatives,
so-called protocol. The
bad-mouth Foreign Minister,
Pik Botha, was stung by recent
truthful remarks by the Black
Ambassador that the South
African Government was
“illegitimate and illegal.’’ had
said on May 9th that Mr.
International Communications
at the University of Maryland,
Director of the New'S Bureau
and Assoicate Professor of
English at North Caioiina
Central University and
instructor in English at
Southern University.
His published writing are
extensive including New
Dimensions in Higher
Education, Handbook for
Advisors of Student
Newspapers, and The
Relationship Between Business
and Government in Japan. His
lectures include topics such as
Mass Communications and
diplomacy, foreign policy and
public diplomacy, and Blacks
in the Foreign Service of the
United States.
where he served two terms
before being elected to the
United States Senate in 1972.
Senator Nunn serves on the
Budget Committee, the
Government Operations
Committee, the Armed
Services Committee, the Select
Committee on Small Business
and the Permanent
Subcommittee on
Investigations.
Other notables who will be
in attendance at this meeting
are the Most Reverend Thomas
A. Donnellan, Archbishop of
Atlanta and the Most Reverend
Raymond W. Lessard. Bishop
of Savannah.
Persons desiring to hear this
address may acquire tickets by
calling 7384)385 or 724-9625.
Young did not behave like
someone who really wanted to
come here, Mr. Botha said
South Africa “is not prepared
to negotiate her own
destruction.” Ambassador
Young arrived jauntily in
Abidjan Ovory Coast to begin a
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Miss Jenkins Honored
Miss Esther Jenkins of 1634
Forest St. was recently
honored for holding the
longest record of continuous
sen ice of any member of St.
Mark United Methodist Church
on Florence Street. She has
been a member of St. Marks
for 59 years.
State Rep. David Scott
Will Speak
Langston Hughes Poetry
The executive committee of
the Atlanta arts festival has
confirmed that Rep. David
Scott of Atlanta will perform
special • selections from the
poetry of Langston Hughes.
When asked about
performing the words of the
world’s most famous Black
poet, the young Atlanta
politician said: IlThe poetry of
Longston Hughes represents
the greatest contribution to
universal brotherhood and
sisterhood and when I’m on
that stage in Atlanta’s
Piedmont Park, I will feel that
struggle, I will feel the
pride, and I will feel joy
and ecstasy as I give my all to
keep the art, the genious and
the legend of Langston Hughes
alive!"
The Georgia lawmaker will
perform his interpretation of
the “Jazz and Blues Folklore”
poetry of the late Langston
Hughes in the late afternoon of
“Jazz Day” Sunday May 22,
1977 (At 6 p.m. at Piedmont
Park, Atlanta).
Children’s Attractions To Be
Featured For Armed Forces Day
Ft. Gordon’s Armed
Forces Day celebration
Saturday, May 21, will have
something for everyone, but
children will think it’s all for
them.
The day will be kicked off at
8:30 a.m. when 1,000
marching soldiers and massed
colors join for the retirement
review. Afterwards, attendees
will be hosted to live
demonstrations, static displays
of aircraft and equipment,
rides and open house activities.
tour of Africa. He said that as
far as he knew, he would be
visiting South Africa. Asked if
he still planned to go to South
Africa, Mr. Young replied: “We
certainly won’t call it off.”
She has served as a Sunday
School teacher, a member of
the choir, and as a strong
supporter of the total church
program. She continues to
show her great love for the
church with her prayers, gifts
and service when her health
permits.
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Rep. David Scott
Demonstrations will feature
parachutists, an aerobatic
demonstration by the Ft.
Gordon Flying Club, the Signal
Drill Team and an exhibition
by Military Police dogs.
A feature attraction for the
children will be the “Junior
Jump Tower”, where they may
strap into a parachute harness
and “free fall” briefly before
safety straps grow taut. Rides
for the kiddies will be provided
by Army jeeps and horses from
the post’s riding stables.