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Vol. 7, No. 39
Beauty
of the
Week
“Be as I am and achieve
what I must.” is the motto of
Carolyn Luke-Burton who is
bom under the sign of Taurus
the Bull.
A 1973 graduate of Villa
Rica High School, Carolyn
worked with Economic
Opportunity Atlanta for two
and a half years as a clerk
typist.
She is a member of The New
Mountain Top Baptist Church
where the Rev. Forrest James
Saffo is the pastor.
Carolyn is the mother of a
four-year-old son Brandon
Jermaine and her hobbies
include dancing, yoga and
volleyball. “1 like being with
people and I like being alone,”
she said.
Presently attending Paine
College where she is majoring is
business management, Carolyn
is the daughter of Mrs. Lillie M.
Luke and the late Mr. Dock J.
Luke of Atlanta.
Joseph C. Jones has
resigned as president of the
local NAACP.
He said he made the decision
because of increased business
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(Editor’s Note: The National
Newspaper Publishers
Association (NN'PA) honored
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey
by presenting its Distinguished
Humanitarian Award to him at
the NNPA annual mid-winter
workshop dinner in Miami on
Friday, Jan. 13, the night of
the Senator’s death. The
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Joe Jones resigns
as NAACP head
responsibilities and that he was
not able to give the time
necessary to NAACP.
Jones had served for two
years as president succeeding
Humphrey’s last message to the Black Press
remarks prepared by Mr.
Humphrey for this occasion
were read by Ofield Dukes, an
assistant to Humphrey during
his term as Vice President. The
full text of those remarks
follows.)
“Dear friends, I remain
eternally grateful for the strong
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Dr. C.S. Hamilton who last
week was elected chairman of
the Civil Service Commission.
Mrs. Susie Stokes is vice
chairman of the local NAACP.
bonds of friendship which have
characterized our relationship
over the years. I will never
forget the firm friendship you
have extended to me,
particularly during the 1968
Presidential campaign.
“I can recall when we first
set up the National Newspapers
Association Governmental
Paine speaker says
Black colleges must remain
sensitive to Black students
“If our Black schools
become so insensitive to the
needs of Black students that
they, like their white
counterparts, depend solely on
grade point averages, results of
tests and examinations, and
forget the 400 years of racism,
undereducation and
miseducation, then there is no
need for Black Colleges.
“We should send all of our
students to white institutions
where they can be denied
admission and are weeded out
after the first semester,” Dr.
William R. Johnson, speaker
for Paine College’s Religious
Emphasis Week said in
reference to the role of the
for Mclntyre's seat
Augusta businessman John
W. Swint announced Tuesday
that he will run in the August
Primary for the County
Commission seat now being
held by the Commission’s Vice
Chairman Edward Mclntyre.
Swint said he is running for
the seat because he has more
time to devote to the job than
Mclntyre and 1 because
Mclntyre is constantly
complaining about being
overworked and tired from so
many meetings.” Then he
added, “1 love the people of
this county and I want to work
for them with no complaints.”
Many people have urged him
to run for the seat. The voices
of the poor people of this
county have for too long not
Affairs Committee, and how
much we in government
benefitted from the candid
discussions we had with leading
Black editors and publishers. I
am aware Vice President
Mondale has been contacted
about re-establishing this
Committee, and you can be
assured I will do all I can to see
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Black church-related schools.
He was also alluding to the fact
that Paine dismissed 92
students at the end of the last
quarter.
There has to be a balance
between academia and
sensitivity, he said. “You (the
Black College) are rendering a
missionary service for Black
deprived students. Otherwise
you should send them to state
schools,” said Dr. Johnson,
who is the general secretary of
the General Board of Christian
Education of the Christian
Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Black college, Dr.
Johnson said, must say to the
Black community, “Send me
Swint announces
been heard, he said, adding “I
plan to provide that voice.”
Swint, 58, said he supports a
strong Revenue Sharing Board
so the taxpayers will know
exactly where their tax dollars
are being spent. He called for
the development of the
Chamber of Commerce,
inuusiiy and trade.
Educated in the public
schools of Richmond County,
Swint went to school in 1974
tax assessors.
He is a member of the
Richmond County Jury
Commission, member of the
Augusta-Richmond County
Development Authority, and a
member of the Advisory Board
of the Salvation Army.
that it becomes operational
once again.
“Much has occurred since
we were together two years ago
in Philadelphia. We have lost
some dear friends - friends
who were very close to me
personally. Cecil Newman of
the Minneapolis Spokesman
and Howard Woods of the St.
Louis Sentinel. I pay special
tribute to these two
exceptional journalists whose
style and ideals exemplified the
conscience of America.
“You are now in your 151st
year as an organization which
has been the voice of the Black
press of America. You have
raised the cry for equal rights
and human justice from coast
to coast. Your organization has
been in the vanguard of the
civil rights movement. You are
the backbone of Black
leadership throughout the
country, and you are to be
commended for your courage,
diligence and high ideals in the
pursuit of equality and public
service.
“I want to talk to you
tonight about the continuation
of this great struggle for human
rights and human dignity.
“We are all fully aware that
the civil rights struggles of the
1950 s and 1960 s did not
eradicate inequality and
injustice from our society.
“That is why I believe the
concept of the civil rights
movement must be broadened
to include the rights and
opportunities that should be
available to all disadvantaged
groups in America. 1 know this
is your goal as well.
“The struggle for civil rights
is a struggle for the rights and
privileges and duties of all
Americans. And what do these
rights include?
“-The right to a meaningful
life, free from poverty that
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today afflicts some 25 million
Americans.
“-The right to full and equal
protection under the law - an
end to the doublt standard
applied to many of those who
are less privileged, where
justice delayed can become
justice denied.
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your poor, deprived students
‘cause ain’t nobody else
concerned about them.”
Dr. Johnson added that
students who do not want to
be educated have to be
See related editorial, page 4
“weeded out,” but on the
other hand, he added. “We,
because of our very historical
nature, both Black and
church-related must be
sensitive to the historical
argument that we don’t Know
who the geniuses are, ano mat
Swint is a member of the
Lincoln League, the Selective
Service Board 125 and past
chairman of United Way
(1958).
A member of the Boy
Scouts of America for 32
years, he received the Big
Brother Cup for Community
Improvement and Involvement
in 1971. He has also been
named Businessman of the
Year by Randon Business
College.
He is a member of Mt. Olive
Baptist Church where he serves
as chairman of the Board of
Trustees.
Swint, who lives at 1106
12th Ave., is married and has
two children.
“-The right to productive
and gainful employment -for
all our people, as a specific
national goal toward whose
achievement we will apply
every possible private and
public resource.
“-The right to economic,
political and social opportunity
patterns of deprivation that
our young people have faced.
We have to be sensitive that we
are not nipping in the bud a
promising genius.”
Dr. Johnson makes the
many of them are late
developers. He, too, is the
product of the Black
church-related college (Lane).
He has earned three master’s
degrees (Columbia University,
Frinceton and the
Interdenominational
Theological Center) and the
doctorate from Vanderbilt.
The real way a college
should relate its church
relatedness is to be sensitive to
the needs and concerns of the
students, faculty and
administration, he said.
‘‘An insensitive
administration and an
insensitive faculty can make an
atmosphere on campus in
which a spirit of love and
understanding concern cannot
be fostered.
Dr. Johnson said the
church-related school should
work together with the board
of trustees, administration,
faculty, staff and students
forming a family community
doing what it can do best -
“transforming the minds of
young people coming to the
campus making them aware of
who they are and what they
are within this community of
understanding love and
concern.”
where progress toward realizing
one’s full potential will
confront no artificial barrier of
discrimination based on race,
creed or sex.
“-The right to a decent
See “LAST MESSAGE”
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Augustan at
White House
Miss Raymone Bain, White
House assistant to the director
of Public Affairs in the office
of Management and Budget,
will be the speaker at the
Scholarship Banquet of the
National Association of
University Women.
The Banquet will be held
Feb. 3 at the Executive House
Convention Center at 8 p.m.
An Augustan native, she is
the daughter of Mrs. Rosena L.
Bain and the late Mr. Raymond
K. Bain. Miss Bain attended
C.T. Walker Elementary School
and Aquinas High School. She
is a graduate of Spelman
College.
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