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The Augusta News-Review - November 3, 1977 - Mrs. Horton, Millsaps Blacks who helped to build Augusta Linchpin and cement which keeps modem business, industry, government, etc. functioning properly and efficiently on an ongoing basis is the typist, the clerk, secretary, stenographer and office administrative assistant. For many years, training for these fields were closed to Blacks. Realizing that there are and were other Sle who helped to build Augusta, we that it is quite fitting to mention and pay tribute to a deceased, but congenial, and dedicated personality, in the person of Mrs. Julia Smith Horton, W’ho was one of the first to have a business school for the purpose of training Black secretaries, clerk-typists and clerical workers. Mrs. Horton, being a graduate of Walker Baptist Institute, Augusta, Georgia, with honors, and in later years graduating from the Arnold School of Business with honors (that was housed in the old Haines Building) began her school at her home. She named it in memory of her father, Rev. John T. Smith, who was once an outstanding minister of Wrens, Georgia. She was determined to provide an opportunity for Blacks to learn secretarial studies, which was not offered in the public schools of Richmond County at that time. She taught secretarial subjects including typewriting, shorthand, business spelling and letter writing. She began her school around 1934. Some of her former students are Mrs. Robbie Blount Jones and Mrs. Maxie Irving Young; both are retirees from the Pilgrim Insurance Company and presently reside in Augusta, Georgia. VOWED TO CONTINUE “SCLC” Continued from Page 1 protests against oppression in South Africa. Lowery also announced that the SI,OOO honorarium which accompanies the award will be “TACTICS” Continued from Page 1 uncommonly amount to vicious, vindictive withchhunts which have the effect of damaging or destroying the credibility of the officials involved, though there is never any finding of wrong-doing, the research shows. Smear campaigns, intimidation of voters and constituents, recall efforts, charges of “reverse discrimination, suits that impose economic hardship through necessitating payment of attorney fees, legislative censure, defamation of family members, friends, and associates; and threats of personal injury or death also are used, according to the findings. The character, volume and intensity of these tactics is far in excess of what might be normally and reasonably expected by virtue of being a candidate for or holder of a public office, many officials say. In fact, “in nearly every respect, Black officials are judged by a double standard. They are required to be more scrupulous, more above reproach, more competent, more effective than their white counterparts,” the research revealed. The harassment is not a new phenomenon. Black officials were harassed throughout the sixties when Black militant organizations were being attacked and destroyed. Harassment was occurring throughout the Nixon era, when Black officials were included on the “enemies list” and targeted for IRS r- , - . B'WEFIIE” jx The fatal illness of Mrs. Horton brought to a close the first period of the school’s existence. However, her daughter, now Mrs. Janie Horton Millsaps, vowed to continue the school as soon as she was able to do so. She remembered that when she saw her mother’s typewriters and other equipment being moved out of the one-room school in her mother’s home, she was determined to carry out her mother’s dream. Because of a lengthy illness, Mrs. Millsaps was unable to immediately re-establish the school. In time, however, she found employment, and by carefully saving, managed to re-open the school. r , ★ VOTE FOR ★ ’ W.B. SKINNER (DEMOCRAT) • TW- FOR CORONER RICHMOND COUNTY fIR-W / 1 97 7 HONEST, CONSISTENT AND RESPONSIVE CORONER PUNCH NO. 26 PAGE 2 given to the widow and children of Steve Biko through Ambassador Andrew Young’s office and the Ambassador to South Africa. investigation, according to the findings. The harassment has not ceased, however, since Nixon left office. On the contrary, it has continued to mount as increasing numbers of Blacks are elected to public office and achieve positions of influence newspaper reports indicate. Nor is the harassment merely a product of the “new post-Watergate morality” that currently prevails. Rather, the cry of “corruption” has become a smokescreen for conducting racist and discriminatory attacks on Black officials, much as the accusation of “Communism” was used in the past to discredit civil rights leaders and organizations, die research shows. ■■■l Cut |M ■■■ IMMH EE line c-nd mail tEKe Ei y Black community newspapers across the country are asking readers to ■■ complete this Airline Survey. The information being asked for will be ■■ helpful to the Black newspaper industry in its attempt to provide the mn Airline Industry with up-to-date reader information. If you are 18 years of ■■ age or over, please complete this Survey and mail it to the address listed ■■ below. Your help in this project will be appreciated. ■■ • ABOUT YOU M Survey completed by: male female M Age 18-24 25-35. 35-55 over 55 Occupation Title HB Familyincomeannually: $5.000t0510,000 SIO,OOO-$ 15.000 C $15,000-$20.000 $20.000-$25.000 over $25,000 IB Newspaper name Survey cut from:. ——- . IB • ABOUT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY’S COMMERCIAL AIR TRAVEL U Has any family member taken a trip on a commercial airline during IB 1977 Yes No Was the trip for business [J vacation school C ' IB Which family member flies most Lz, U How often does the family fly each year '.- KM Arereservationsusuallymadeathcme office travel agency “ Are tickets purchased with cash credit card HI • ABOUT AIRLINE SERVICE IB What is your favorite Airline? IB Why? : What is your least favorite Airline? ; SH Why? ■ . , IH RETURN TO: AMALGAMATED PUBLISHERS INC. RESEARCH DEPARTMENT > t— t 45 West 45th Street/Suite 1403 ' IB New York, New York 10036 - b n as ass s: s sb s sbi . THANK YOU KINDLY FOR YOUR HELP! I - Page 6 Home Federal Can Make It Happen Wa d lika to help you own your own home 'tL \A V So<» your builder or rpa! estate b-oker, then see Heme Federal. We make FHA. VA. and conventional loans Find your home Then see us We're doing a loi tor Augusta .. and we want to do morel ' HOME [FEDERAL SAVINOeI a oiviatON of mRTR FBKMI BRWRCB OAmMIraMTOT . DomXßOfctnii™* Work began on a small scale, however, with six students studying secretarial work in the dining room of her home. It was only through the aid of interested friends who loaned their typewriters that this beginning could be made. Later the school was housed in a well equipped concrete brick building at 1409 Forest Street maintaining an enrollment of about 50 students during each school year. Mrs. Millsaps conducted the school in the same name of her grandfather, John T. Smith, for about 15 years. During these years, students from her school were employed at the Pilgrim Insurance Company, Civil Service, Washington, D.C. Paine College, and other local businesses across the country. She, like her mother, taught secretarial subjects such as typewriting, shorthand, spelling, letter writing, and office procedures. Mrs. Millsaps discontinued the school when technical schools availed themselves to Blacks, furnishing them with excellent training and equipment. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS Presently, Mrs. Millsaps is chairman of the Business Education Department, at Augusta Area Technical School - White-Road Branch, and has been there for over 13 years. During her chairmanship, students have been employed at Fort Gordon, Pilgrim, FBI, Southern Bell Telephone, Georgia Power Company, Atomic Energy, DuPont, Columbia Nitrogen, Kimberly Clark, GM AC, Lily Division, Medical Center and numerous other business forms throughout the country. Mrs. Millsaps education consists of a BS degree, Allen University, Columbia, S.C.; MA Degree in the “Teaching of I 7 Pieces I , + '-lWri I'l I \XLJxSULi 9 499 7 - 4r -4‘.y CREDIT x' 4C Seven pieces of solid pine Sofa Free-living, easy-core furniture that com- r . .' bines country charm with cozy comfort! The cnair ’ And xFW rustic pine finish frames are accented with Rocker Th ree thick buoyant cushions that reverse from & Ottoman Tables 1 -lr vinyl to plaid s 0 you can mix and match - Enticing bedtime story! 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Because of her outstanding work in the training of secretaries, Mrs. Millsaps was honored in May, 1972, with a luncheon fiven in her honor by the Supportive taff of Paine College. She has also been ' “Teacher of the Year” at the school sh presently teaches - Augusta Tech - White Road Branch. Besides her devoted husband, site two lovely children, Arnold Wayne Millsaps, an honor graduate of Lucy Laney High School, Class of 1977 and a daughter, Janie Victoria Millsaps, a • junior at Paine College. Mrs. Millsaps still loves her work, as a secretary shaper, and says she always will get a joy out of the field as long as she can see where efficient workers for the business world are being trained and developed.