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Vol. 7, No. 41
First Black
Hornsby president-elect
of the United Way
Walter S. Hornsby 111
became the first Black to be
elected president-elect of the
United Way campaign Tuesday
night. The campaign
encompasses Richmond
County, Columbia County,
Lincoln County and North
Augusta.
Robert S. Balk was elected
president.
Hornsby has served as
second vice president of the
Analysis
Hushed-up hazards of atomic satellites
By Ernest Stemglass
Pacific News Service
Dr. Ernest J. Stemglass is
professor of radiological
physics at the University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine,
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THE AUGUSTA NEWS-REVIEW GOES TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Philip Waring of the News-Review presents to Ms. Raynione
Bain, White House official, a complimentary News-Review
subscription for the White House Public Relations Office. The
News-Review has been a long-time friend and supporter of the
Carter Administrations in Atlanta and Washington.
U.S. Army Band to give free concert
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(Credit: U.S. Army Photograph)
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local United Way as well as
treasurer. He has also served as
chairman and vice chairman of
the Budget Committee;
chairman of the Planning
Division; and he is a member of
the Government Advisory
Committee for the State of
Georgia. He was also a member
of the Southeast Region task
force of the United Way of
America.
A member of the Augusta
Department of Radiology. He
is the author of the book Low
Level Radiation (Ballantine.
While the January 24 crash
of Cosmos 954 unleashed
international shockwaves, it
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Port Authority, he is a member
of the board of directors of St.
Joseph Hospital, a member of
the Sportsmen’s Boat Club, an
actuary of the National
Insurance Association, a
member of the board of
trustees of Antioch Baptist
Church and a former member
of t e Association of the U.S.
Army.
A graduate of Morehouse
College, he has done further
brought sighs of relief to the
Pentagon scientists who had
tracked the flawed satellite
since the Soviets launched it
September 18.
The fear that had so
obsessed the U.S. skuwatchers
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Walter S. Hornsby 111
study at the University of
Michigan.
He is married to the former
Clara Johnson.
was simple: what would
happen if the nuclear-powered
satellite smashed into Chicago,
Denver or Los Angeles?
Although it was loaded with
some 100 pounds of highly
enriched uranium, there was no
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Mayor Lewis A. Newman presents Key to the City to Ms. Bain.
She was the featured speaker at the National Association of
University Women’s Scholarship Banquet Friday night.
Photo by Mike Carr
February 9,1978
NAACP calls for massive
demonstrations in Nashville
WASHINGTON - NAACP
Executive Director Benjamin
L. Hooks has called for massive
demonstrations against the
participation of South Africa
in the Davis Cup Tennis
Tournament in Nashville,
Tenn., on March 17, 18 and
19.
Announcing his plans at a
news conference at the
National Press Club in
Washington, Mr. Hooks said
that he will mobilize NAACP
members and friends
certainty that the on-board
reactor’s failsafe design would
prevent it from exploding on
impact as an atomic bomb.
Explosions aside, the
consequences could still have
been devastating had the
FT. GORDON, Ga. - The
United States Army Band and
Chorus is scheduled to provide
an evening of free musical
entertainment for local
residents at 8 p.m. on Feb. 14
in Augusta’s Bell Auditorium.
Hosting the Army Band and
Chorus for their Augusta
appearance is the Greater
Augusta - Ft. Gordon Chapter
of the Association of the
United States Army.
The band, which includes
the U.S. Army Herald
Trumpets, is currently on its
Southeastern Tour celebrating
the 56th anniversary of its
founding by General John
“Black Jack” Pershing. As the
senior band of America’s senior
armed service, it plays for most
of the diplomatic and state
functions at the nation’s
capitol. It has led every
Presidential Inaugural Parade
since 1923.
Ordered overseas in 1943 to
entertain American and Allied
forces, the Army Band is the
only Washington-based band
ever ordered overseas to
participate in a theatre of
combat operations. In time for
the Battle of the Bulge, the
band was awarded battle
honors of the Rhineland
Campaign.
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throughout the network of
branches across the country in
all 50 states to join him and
other civil rights leaders on
March 17. The match is
scheduled to be held at the
Vanderbuilt University.
Mr. Hooks also urged
opponents of these matches to
send telegrams and to
telephone the heads of the
hosts of the Davis Cup
matches, which is the United
States Tennis Association, to
reactor not disintegrated in the
atmosphere. Intense gamma
radiation from such fission
products as Cesium 137 could
have produced lethal doses
within hours. Air, water and
fanning areas would have been
contaminated with lodine 131,
Strontium 89 and Strontium
90 released from the broken
reactor.
Depending on ineteoroligical
conditions and based on the
sharp increases in lukemia and
cancer rates all over Japan
following the detonation of
two bombs in 1945, cancer
rates could have jumped
between 100 and 1000 percent
with comparable increases in
infant mortality, birth defects
and other chronic diseases in
the immediate area.
Massive population
evacuations and the sealing of
food and water supplies would
have been the only possible
counter-measures. The
long-term consequences from
the release of such uranium
products could well have led to
as many as tens of thousands
of deaths from lung cancer and
other causes-approaching the
numbers calculated in the
original Brookhaven study of
the effects of a possible nuclear
power plant accident near New
York City.
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PRESIDENT CARTER met recently with New Orleans Mayor-elect Ernest Mortal,
the first Black mayor of that Southern city. The mayor paid a courtesy call at the
invitation of the White House. He was in Washington on other business. Mr. Morial
assumes office in May.
their Congressmen, the mayor
of Nashville and to the
President of Vanderbilt
University. Also, these protests
should be sent to President
Carter and Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance.
He noted that the
demonstrations will be in line
with one of the recommenda
tions from the NAACP Task
Force on Africa. It calls on the
U.S. government to support
“the prohibition of the
Because the potential for a
major disaster was too
frightening for public
discussion, and because it
might help to turn the people
of the world against all forms
'f nuclear energy, both the
U.S. government and the
Soviets decided to keep the
story, qnier If neither an
explosion nor widespread
human contamination
occurred, they gambled, public
hysteria and alarm could be
avoided and the whole matter
passed over lightly.
And that is exactly what
happened. Fortunately, the
satellite re-entered the
atmosphere over a sparsely
populated area of the world.
Fortunately, it did not survive
re-entry in a compact form
that might have led to a
nuclear explosion upon impact.
And fortunately, it appears to
have largely vaporized,
allowing only some small
fraction of the highly
radioactive debris to
contaminate the ground.
Thus, a spokesman for the
Soviet government was able to
reassure the public a few days
after the crash: “Soviet and
American designers build
spacecraft in such away as to
avoid disaster under any
circumstances,” adding that
participation of South Africa
in all athletic and cultural
competition until all South
Africans, regardless of race or
color are able to compete for
the opportunity to participate
without any restrictions or
limitations based on race or
color.”
The Davis Cup matches are
sponsored by the International
Lawn Tennis Federation. The
U.S. Tennis Association is the
host.
“complete safety was a easic
law for all those who build
nuclear devices.”
Yet we now know that these
statements were outright
deceptions, and that the claim
of “complete safety” was false.
The latest site measurements
have revealed that sizeable
quantities of radioactive debris
did in fact reach the ground
over an area hundreds of miles
long.
Statements by spokesmen
rom both nations implied
that so long as the reactor
“burned up” in the
atmosphere, it would disappear
and present no hazard. In fact,
as the uranium and fission
products did vaporize into the
atmosphere they were
transformed into the finely
divided form of insoluble
oxides, well known to be the
most hazardous chemical form
for the production of lung
cancer.
Neither did the Soviet
government spokesman ever
mention Strontium 90, the
most important of ail the
fission products created during
the operation of this marvel of
nuclear engineering.
Neither the Soviet not the
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