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The Augusta News-Review - September 15, 1977 -
Youth unemployment
rate is ‘horrible’
At a meeting with members
of the Congressional Black
Caucus to discuss the problem
of unemployment, President
Carter expressed his concern
about the high rate of
unemployment especially
among Black youths.
“I expect criticism, I think
it’s been valid in the past. I
accept criticism from you,” the
President told Caucus
members, and promised to
place top priority in reversing
what he called die “horrible”
jobless rate among minorities.
In the past few weeks,
starting with the Urban League
president Vernon Jordan, Jr.’s
public criticism at the League’s
convention in Washington,
D.C., several Black leaders and
legislators, as well as .leading
labor officials, including
AFL-ClO’s George Meany,
have criticised the Carter
administration’s “negligence”
of the unemployment situation
among Black youths.
“There's got to be a
re-emphasis on addressing
government sponsored
employment opportunities
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among those who need
opportunity most,” said the
President.
President Carter said he had
been studying August figures
which placed joblessness
among Black youths at 40 per
cent, and described the
situation as “horrible.” He
attributed the cause of the
problem to “a lack of a
comprehensive urban policy.
There is no trust in the urban
program.”
Rep. Parren Mitchell, D-Md.,
the Caucus chairman, said
“Carter now realizes that we
were right,” but expressed
disapointment that the
President did not make a
wholehearted endorsement of
the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill.
The bill demands federal
guarantee of jobs to the
unemployed, with the aim of
reducing the unemployment
rate to about three per cent.
The President agreed that
many of the public service jobs
apparently have not been
getting into “ghetto” areas. He
said he had instructed his
advisers to take another look at
the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill.
He had expressed concern
about it because the bill does
not have anti-inflation
provisions.
In April, the President had
described high unemployment
as “a morally unacceptable -
and ineffective -way of
combatting inflation,” and said
controlled inflation “is the
only path to more jobs.”
He promised to meet more
often with the Caucus
members, tentatively
scheduling the next session in
two weeks. “ For the first time
we’ve got a statement on
priorities,” said Rep. Mitchell
of the meeting.
South African kids
receive King award
ATLANTA, GA. -Atits
20th Annual Convention here,
the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
presented the Martin Luther
King, Jr. Award to the
Children of Soweto, the Black
township in Johannesburg,
South Africa, where over 600
unarmed demonstrating Blacks,
mostly high school students
were shot to death last year by
the police.
The Martin Luther King, Jr.
Award, named after the late
civil rights leader, is presented
to the person or persons who
have contributed most for
social change by nonviolent
resistance.
The award was received on
behalf of the Children of
Soweto by Ms. Albertina
Luthuli, daughter of the 1961
Nobel Peace Prize winner and a
lifelong leader of the Black
struggles in South Africa, and
by Mr. Dini Sobukwe, son of
Mr. Robert Sobukwe, leader of
the banned Pan-Africanist
Congress liberation movement,
who is now under house arrest.
In presenting the award, Dr.
Joseph Echols Lowery, newly
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Carter’s anti-apartheid views
not enough for African leaders
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., -
Several African leaders
have expressed their optimism
over President Carter’s
statements for ending white
minority rule and racism in
Southern Africa, though they
want to be assured that action
will go along with words,
according to a 14-member
study group of the 60-year-old
Quaker organization, the
American Friends ’Service
elected third president of the
SCLC said, “The children of
Soweto are most deserving of
this cherished award. These
young people have attempted
to use nonviolence to make
changes in the vicious
apartheid system. Their efforts
have forced the government to
drop Afrikaans and substitute
African languages in the
African schools. The courage
and tact of these young people
must be supported
worldwide.”
Rumors of nuclear weapons
in the hands of the South
African government,” first
revealed by the Soviet Union
and later by France, “are not
to be taken lightly,” said Dr.
Lowery, who also urged
Americans “to force our
government to absolute open
support for majority rule NOW
in South Africa.”
Apart from Dr. Lowery,
successor to Rev. Abernathy
who resigned this past winter,
other officers elected by the
organization included Revs. C.
K. Steele of Tallahassee, Fl.,
and S. L. Harvey of New
Orleans, as Vice Presidents.
Pay banks
or lose car
The Georgia Supreme Court
ruled this morning that banks
may repossess automobiles
without notifying owners who
are behind in loan payments if
the loan agreement contains
statements allowing the banks
to take such action.
The decision reversed a
holding by the Court of
Appeals that banks were
required to notify automobile
owners before repossessing
their vehicles.
The decision came in a
Fulton Court case involving
Sidney Hom against the Fulton
National Bank and the
Automobile Recovery Bureau
Committee, just returned from
an African tour.
According to the group,
Zambia’s President Kaunda
said at a State House tea in
Lusaka, the capital, that “The
day the Western countries
decide to stop support of
South Africa and Rhodesia,
peace with justice will be
possible in Namibia (South
West Africa), Zimbabwe
(Rhodesia), and South Africa,
but until that time the
conflicts will continue.”
President Nyerere of
Tanzania, at an informal tea at
his beach home in the capital,
Dares Salaam, told the AFSC
group that he returned from
his recent U.S. visit convinced
that the Carter Administration
will help to bring about
“one-Person”, one vote, and
change in the white
minority-ruled countries.
The group also met with
UJS. officials, other African
government officials, leaders of
liberation movements and
ordinary Africans in their
month-long visit to Kenya and
the four front-line nations of
A biography
Once or twice ... and
certainly not much more ...in
our lifetime someone will pass
and we will suddenly recognize
that greatness has gone from
among us.
When we reflect upon such
immortal lives, there dawns
upon us the sense that simply
by having lived during the
lifetime of an immortal, our
lives too have been touched by
greatness. So it has been for all
of us who lived during what
has been called “The gracious
reign of tlie Duke'”
A deeply religious man,
Duke Ellington mused in his
lyrics and in his always pensive
and pithy reflections upon the
guiding hand of destiny,
especially in the life of the
Inc. Mr. Hom had asked for
S3OO for the loss of his 1972
Oldsmobile for four days, and
SB,OOO in punitive damages.
The Homs had reported the
loss of their car in February,
1975, later found the bank had
re-possessed it, and recovered it
after settling the notes.
When the bank took the case
to the Supreme Court, claiming
the case affected almost every
secured transaction in the state
of Georgia, the High Court
held that the loan agreement
between the bank and auto
owners allowed the bank the
right of repossession without
prior notice.
Augustan at White House
Continued from page 1
of the New South. She entered
into active volunteer service
with the Carter team during
the important primary
campaign when he was not well
known. Her work carried
program tasks throughout the
entire nation. She is a member
of the Democratic Party of
Georgia.
ACTIVE IN THE CAMPAIGN
During the crucial 1976
campaign a political worker in
a mid-westem state questioned
her youth. Ms. Bain relates
with pride that Mr. Carter
expresses full confidence in
her. Furthermore, it gave an
opportunity for stating his
desire for full participation of
young Americans who brought
freshness and sincerity into the
political field.
Her knowledge of minority
affairs, the political system and
mass communications helped
her in several important
assignments during the national
campaign. She also gave
leadership to the Minority
Affairs Division of the
Democratic Party. She worked
closely with Ben Brown and
Andy Chisholm. Ms. Bain said
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Botswana, Mozambique,
Tanzania and Zambia
bordering on Rhodesia.
The Mozambique Foreign
Minister, Joachim Chissano,
according to the AFSC, said:
“When the U.S. takes a stand
to stop cooperating with the
Smith and Vorster regimes in
Rhodesia and South Africa, we
will see that the words mean
what they say.”
African officials further told
the group there must be
economic as well as political
pressures, because Western
multinational corporations are
heavily involved in
undergirding and supporting
the minority white regimes.
The frontline leaders and
leaders of liberation
movements, said the AFSC
group, are totally committed
to s .if-determination, one-man,
one vote, and non-racial
societies without privilege to
whites or any other groups.
The leaders support
non-violent approaches to
liberation but are equally in
support of armed struggle for
independence, said the group.
of the Duke
Black people among whom he
had been raised to serve and
reign.
Compared often with the
greatest in the world’s musical
history, the Duke will
doubtless be viewed by future
centuries as an index to the
genius of those from whose
roots he sprang and whose
testimony he bore majestically
before the world.
Derek Jewell’s biography has
the advantage of a European
view. It is a deeply appreciative
and convincingly realistic
portrait of a man who reflects
the best and the most basic
feelings in all of us.
If you do not have a good
biography of Duke Ellington,
by all means buy this one.
72-73 book
ready now
All Savannah State College
students who attended that
institution in 1972 and 1973
and didn’t receive yearbooks
can obtain them now. Write
the Office of Public Relations
at Box 20427, in Savannah,
Georgia or call 912-356-2190,
to speak to Ms. Barbara McFall
or Gus Howard. Please do as
soon as possible.
that her life had been further
enriched through association
with and support from
Hamilton Jordan, Jody Powell,
Herman Russell, Andrew
Young, Jessee Hill and other
members of tlie Carter Team.
She is proud to have helped
elect President Carter.
WILL KEEP PROMISES
The Young Augustan said
her work at the Office of
Management and Budget was a
real challenge because its
planning had to do with much
of the future direction of the
American nation. She
expressed deep faith in
President Carter as a person of
honesty, sincerity and
character who will keep his
promises while steering the
nation towards a new day of
hope.
The NEWS-REVIEW
interviewers appraised her as a
“Young Person With An Old,
Wise Head On Young
Shoulders”. She is a weekly
reader of the NEWS-REVIEW.
Augustans should be proud of
Raymone K. Bain, Augusta’s
representative at the White
House!
t to
James E. Carter, assistant director for minority
student affairs at the Medical College of Georgia in
Augusta, speaking at the ceremony.
Committee approves
Morehouse school
The Liaison Committee on
Medical Education has
presented a “letter of
reasonable assurance” to the
proposed School of Medicine
at Morehouse College in
Atlanta.
The Liaison Committee is a
combination of representatives
of the American Medical
Association and the
Association of American
Medical Colleges. And tlie
letter is an approval of the
plans and programs proposed
for medical education in the
new school by its directors.
The committee is to review
the proposed plans and
Pryor’s premiere
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next six months. That will give
the school eligibility for
federal, private and public
funds allocated to medical
schools. Already, the State
General Assembly has voted
one million dollars, spread over
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