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Portrait unveiled
Dr. Vivian U. Robinson admires portrait presented to her by Paine College
Sti dent Government Association. Artist Howard Smalls joins in the applause.
The Student Government Association of Paine College presented Dr. Vivian U.
Robinson with a portrait of herself during a special tribute at the college this week.
The college is celebrating Womanhood Week and featured recent Atlanta mayoral
candidate Emma Darnell at the culminating activity Tuesday.
Dr. Robinson is the first woman to serve as academic dean at Paine and she was
the only woman among the candidates given serious consideration as a successor to
the late Dr. Lucius Pitts as president of the college.
Family members present for the unveiling of the portrait included her husband,
her daughter, and two sisters from Atlanta and Chicago respectively.
Nigeria asks aid of
Black colleges
WASHINGTON-At least
one African nation seeking
technical assistance in
post-secondary education from
the United States has
specifically requested Black
Americans to be involved in
providing that assistance,
according to the president of
predominantly Black Texas
Southern University.
“It is the first time ever that
an African government has
asked for help from Black
colleges,” Dr. Granville M.
Sawyer revealed here following
his eight-day visit to Nigeria.
The breakthrough with
ofl-rich Nigeria is the result of
more than 13 years of
educational assistance from
TSU to the Nigerian
government. In the last five
years, Sawyer said, the number
of Nigerian students in the
population of 10,000 at TSU
has esculated from less than
100 to more than 500.
Sawyer, one of the founding
presidents of POSITIVE
FUTURES, Inc. (PFI)-the first
public affairs consortium in
Black higher education-was in
Washington attending the
White House enactment of a
new Presidential Management
Internship program. Sawyer
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also briefed PFI Executive
Director Cheryl Dobbins
regarding her pending
four-week trip this month to
Africa.
As are several dozen other
state-supported Black colleges,
TSU is faced with federal court
desegregation orders and
possible merger with larger
white institutions under
Department of HEW
guidelines. The University has
pioneered the PFI concept of
enlarging the role of Black
colleges beyound one of simply
teaching Blacks in “separate
but unequal” facilities.
“The Black colleges that
have kept pace with the
changes (in higher education
and desegregation pressures)
are just as viable as any other
sort of institution,” Sawyer
said of the worries by some
that desegregation means the
“elemination” of Black
colleges.
Nigerian head of state Lt.
Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, who
greeted Dr. Sawyer during his
Nigerian visit, will be in
Washington October 11 as the
guest of President Jimmy
Carter for an official state visit,
the first state visit to America
by a Nigerian head of state.
organizers entertain kids with balloons while food is being prepared.
The Fall Festival proceeds will go to the breakfast program to feed
needy youngsters.
Barnard
to speak
Blythe Elementary School
will hold a dedication and open
house October 23 at 3 p.m.
Rep. D. Douglas Barnard, 10th
District Congressman, will
speak.
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Gigantic Professional Fireworks display
Wed. Evening
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Unemployment decreases
Augusta-Richmond
County’s unemployment rate
declined by five tenth of a
percentage point in August,
from a revised 7.8 percent in
July to a preliminary 7.3
percent, according to figures
released here today by the
Georgia Department of Labor.
At the same time last year,
the unemployment rate for
Richmond County was 8.9,
with 58.678 persons working
and 5,741 unemployed.
Georgia’s unemployment
rate dipped five-tenths of a
Grant
aid unemployed
County Commissioner
Edward Mclntyre announced
Monday the submittal of a
Skill Training Improvement
Program (STIP) grant
application to the U.S.
Department of Labor by the
CSRA Employment and
Training Consortium.
This grant which was
submitted to the Department
of Labor Oct. 14th is for
5492,386 and is to provide
upgrading for 19 individuals
and entry level training for 62
individuals.
Participating private sector
program operators are
Graniteville Company and
Babcock & Wilcox. Augusta
Opportunities Industrialization
Center, CSRA Business League,
and Opportunities
Development Corporation are
participating community based
program operators.
If awarded, this grant will
serve to produce more jobs and
percentage point during
August, from a revised 6.6
percent in July to a
preliminary 6.1 percent the
next month. But last year at
this same time, the state’s
unemployment rate was 8.0
percent.
Presently, there are
2,145,612 Georgians on jobs,
while 140,578 others are still
looking for employment. But
last year at this time, there
were 179,186 jobless
Georgians.
“We at the Georgia
would
to provide highly skilled
training for unemployed
individuals.
A copy of the proposal may
be reviewed at the CSRA
Employment and Training
Consortium, 500 Building,
Greene St., Monday-Friday
from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. or by
calling Aven R. King,
Administrator at 722-3001.
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Nurses picked
for chief slot
M ary Little Barnwell,
assistant chief, night nursing
service. Forest Hills Division,
has been chosen as one of
seven nurses in the Veterans
Administration to become
chief of nursing service at one
of the VA hospitals.
Mrs. Barnwell, the first nurse
to be selected from the
Augusta VA facility, will
receive training at VAH, San
Antonio, Texas.
A native of Polkton, North
Carolina, she received a B.S.
degree in nursing from the
University of South Carolina
and her M.S.N. from the
Medical College of Georgia.
She resides in Aiken, S.C.
with her husband and four
children, she is a member of
the American Red Cross,
Council on Aging, and is
president of St. Guard’s Altar
Society.
Department of Labor are both
pleased and gratified at the
declining unemployment rate,
not only at the state level, but
also in Richmond County ans
in tire area served by the
Augusta local office,” Labor
Commissioner Sam Caldwell
said.
‘‘The declining
unemployment rate is
reflective of our continuing
efforts to place more Georgians
on better jobs,” Commissioner
Caldwell said.
The number of persons
unemployed in Richmond
County dipped by 313, from
5,056 in July to 4,743 in
August. The total number of
persons employed increased by
511, from 59,369 in July to
59,880 in August, according to
Forest Johnson, Manager of
the State Employment
Security Agency’s Job Service
office here.
During the same period, the
Mini Theatre nets 4 G’s
Augusta Mini Theatre Inc.
raised 54.000.00 during its first
annual fundraising, this past
summer.
The Theatre received
monetary donations from area
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country’s labor force increased
by 198, from 64,425 in July to
64,623 in August. The labor
force is the total number of
persons both employed and
unemployed.
At the same time, the area
served by the Augusta Job
Service office of the State
Employment Security Agency,
of which Richmond is one of
13 counties, saw its
unemployment rate drop by
four-tenths percent over the
month, from 8.2 to 7.8.
The Augusta area saw its
total labor force rise by 1,951
persons, from 126,150 to
128,101.
Other counties in the
Augusta area and their
unemployment rates include:
Burke, 18.5; Columbia, 8.6;
Emanuel, 6.8; Glascock, 4.7;
Jefferson, 9.2; Jenkins, 8.1;
Lincoln, 5.2; MuDuffie, 5.9;
Screven, 6.7; Taliaferro, 4.7;
Warren, 5.4, and Wilkes, 3.6.
businesses, citizens, and
activities such as record hops,
and car washes.
The Mini Theatre wishes to
thank those persons who
assisted the program.
Black
officials
increase
ATLANTA - The number of
Blacks holding public office in
the South has increased by
2,957 per cent since 1965, the
first full year that the Voting
Rights Act of 1964 was in
effect, according to a survey by
the Atlanta-based Voter
Education Project.
Only 72 Blacks held public
office in 1965 in the 11
Southern states.
Despite the dramatic
percentage increase, however,
Blacks still hold only 2.6 per
cent of the available public
offices in the region, a total of
2,129 out of about 79,000
available.
The 2.6 per cent figure
represents a modest gain over
last year, when it stood at 2.5
per cent.
Os the 2,129 Southern
Blacks in office, according to
the survey, 420 were elected
last fall.
‘Still a Small Percentage’
“The irony of the
phenomenal increase is that
Blacks still constitute such a
small percentage of total
office- holders,” said J. Stanley
Alexander of the Voter
Education Projet Research
Department, who compiled the
data.
“We’re not advocating a
quota,’’ Mr. Alexander
continued, “but common sense
indicates that there is serious
underrepresentation in a region
where Blacks constitute 20.4
per cent of the population and
yet hold only 2.6 per cent of
the public offices.”
The survey breaks down
offices held by Blacks in the
South as follows: United States
representatives, 2; state
senators, 11; state
representatives, 95; county
commissioners, 267; election
commissioners, 26; other
county officers, 32; mayors,
76; vice mayors, 28; city
council members, 824; other
city officers, 26; judges, 32;
magistrates, 25; constables,
103; marshals, sheriffs or chiefs
of police, 18; justices of the
peace 45; other law
enforcement officers 4;
superintendents of education,
6; county and city district
school board members, 508.
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