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Vol. 7, No. 42
Ruffin
NAACP
president
Atty. John H. Ruffin was
elected president of the
Augusta Chapter of the
NAACP Monday night.
he succeeded Joseph Jones
who resigned last month.
Ruffin said that under his
leadership the NAACP office
will be staffed with a full-time
secretary and kept open on a
full-time basis. He said the
NAACP will continue to
vigorously defend the political
and civil rights of all people,
improve employment
opportunities, academic
excellence, fight crime and to
hold quarterly forums that he
hopes will be broadcast.
“Many of our problems are
institutional and systemic and
are borne by whites as well as
Blacks. We intend to vigorously
defend the rights of all
people,'’ he said, adding that
the NAACP will become more
litigation-oriented as it
becomes necessary.
The Black employment rate
is both too high and
unnecessary, he said.
In order to stem the crime
rate, Ruffin said, citizens will
be asked to become involved in
crime prevention.
He said he plans to solicit
the support of good retired
teachers, fraternities and
sororities to tutor students
who need academic assistence.
Over nude photo
AU sues Playgirl
for $4 million
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GABEO unveil statute
to expelled Black legislators
The Georgia Association of
Black Elected Officials, Inc.,
(GABEO), will hold its Second
Annual GABEO Day
Celebration to be held in the
State Capitol Rotunda Feb. 16
Carl Ware, president of
GABEO, will preside over the
activities.
State Rep. Bobby Hili of
Savannah, will deliver the State
of Black Georgians address.
Other participants will include:
Gov. George Busbee, Lt. Gov.
Zell Miller; Tom Murphy,
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speaker of the house, Georgia
General Assembly; Maynard H.
Jackson, mayor of Atlanta;
David Scott, State
Representative; and State Sen.
Julian Bond.
A special feature this year
will be the unveiling of a 6’3”
statue which the Legislative
Black Caucus of the Georgia
Gene ral Assembly
commissioned John Riddle,
director of the Neighborhood
Arts Center, to create. This
unveiling will take place on the
P.O. Box 953
Senate-side of the State
Capitol’s lawn beginning at
12:40 p.m. The statue is
dedicated to the 33 Black state
legislators who were elected in
1868, but were expelled
because of their color.
The Georgia Association of
Black Elected Officials is a
non-profit, non-partisan private
organization which is
coordinated by Clark College -
Southern Centenfor Studies in
Public Policy, Robert A.
Kronley, Director.
Raymone Bain, the only
Augustan at the White House,
may soon lose her job.
Jet Magazine’s Washington
Correspondent Simeon Booker
wrote in the current issue that
“Several of the key Black
women at the White House are
running toward the exit signs
as events point toward a Black
power shakeup.
“Four-year Carter veteran
Raymone Bain,” publicist for
the former Office of
Management and Budget
Director Burt Lance has asked
her Atlanta crowd to help
protect her job.”
WE HAVEN’T
MOVED
The News-Review is
still located at 1008
Ellis St. Many of our
readers have been
confused by a sign
beneath our office
indicating that another
company has moved to
a new address.
Heavyweight champion
Muhammad Ali did not like
what he saw in the February
issue of Playgirl magazine, a
full-page color nude he believes
is a likeness of himself so he
sued the publication for $4
million.
The champ said the likeness
violates his right to privacy and
exposes him to public riducle.
The page on which it
appears is headlined wiystery
Man, and underneath it reads:
“He’s ‘The Greatest,’ he can’t
be beat. But we’d bet you any
amount some women would
like a chance in the ring to go
do with him for count.”
The likeness shows Ali in the
ring, sitting on a stool with his
hands wrapped for a fight. He
is totally nude with his legs
spread open.
The likeness is slimmer than
Ali usually is and the face
makes him look much younger.
But although caricatures of the
champ have appeared in
countless magazines,
newspapers and films, this
time, he says, someone has
gone a little too far.
Deadline
Please note that
our news deadline
is now on Friday.
February 16,1978
Ms. Bain told the
News-Review by telephone
that she could not comment on
Booker’s report because she
does not know “the
implications” of his article.
“1 haven’t had a chance to
talk to Simeon,” she said. “It
came as a surprise to me.”
She said nobody has
approached her about job,
although she conceded that
“about this time of year there
are usually some shakeuns.”
Ms. Bain said she talks to
people in Atlanta as frequently
as she talks with Augustans but
she denied asking for help.
Ms. Bain spoke in Augusta
Feb. 3 at the Scholarship
Banquet of the National
Association of University
Women.
Martha “Bunny” Mitchell,
special assistant to President
Carter, may also lose her job,
according to the report.
Ms. Mitchell spoke here in
November at the CSRA
Business League Banquet.
Police killing of Alabanian
GADSDEN, Ala. - Joseph
Cole, president of the Gadsden
Chapter of the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference, called it “the last
Retires in Augusta
Philip Waring named
N-R vice president
J. Philip Waring, long-time
News-Review columnist who
has recently returned to
Augusta for retirement, has
been appointed vice president
for Research-Department for
the News-Review according to
publisher Mallory K. Millender.
In this new assignment
Waring will assist in long-range
planning, monitoring and
evaluating operations coupled,
Millender stated, with the
promotion of community
involvement projects.
No new comer to the
Augusta news-communications
scene, Waring was a columnist
for the former Weekly-Review
from 1947 inception to its
demise in 1970. Waring, also
completed 31 years of
leadership in the American
human service sector, 25 of
which was as an Urban League
executive director in Bronx
County, N.Y., Jacksonville,
Fla., Springfield, 111., and
Fairfield County, Conn. In
1963 he became the first Black
staff Commissioner in St.
Louis’ 200 year history.
He has produced and
moderated his own radio
program, “The St. Louis Block
Dr. Adams begins practice in Augusta
Dr. Barbara Adams is now in
with Dr. W.J. Walker in the
practice of general dentistry.
Dr. Adams is a 1967
graduate of H.A. Hunt High in
Fort Valley. In 1971, she
received a bachelor of science
degree in chemistry from Paine
College.
She was employed by the
Hancock County Board of
Education as a secondary
school science teacher, prior to
her enrollment in Dental
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J. Philip Waring
Unit Forum of the Air,”
co-edited “Negroes: Their Gift
To St. Louis,” a historical
booklet for the 1963
observance of the centennial of
the Emancipation
Proclamation; vice president
and editor of the National
Urban League Executive
Director’s Council (and editor
of its special biographical-his
toric supplement of 105 local
Urban League executives
around the nation) and he also
was editor of the St. Louis
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straw” when a Black man was
killed recently by law
enforcement officers in that
community follow ing a routine
traffic check.
Dr. Barbara Adams
Twenty-seven-year-old Collis
Madden was shot to death in a
barrage of gunfire on January
21. Officers claim that Madden
led them in a high speed chase
Urban League’s Block Unit
newsletter.
Millender pointed out
that Waring has been with the
News-Review since 1971 and
produced the award-winning
historic series, “Blacks Who
Helped Build Augusta,"
coupled with scores of other
special editions such as the Ed
Mclntyre Family, the Black
Church economic thrust, the
James Edward Carter Black
Bicentennial Family, the Black
Family Self-Inventory form
designed to record family
history, the Raymone
Bain-Washington interview and
many others. In 1976 he
formed a News-Review
Mid-America office which
greatly helped expand news
and special events, Millender
said.
Waring, who has been
recipient of many awards,
plaques and citations during his
31-year service tour, said that
his most cherished award had
come from the three St. Louis
Black weeklies. They came
together upon his retirement to
jointly cite him for his service
to the Black press.
School at the Medical College
of Georgia where she received a
D.M.D. in 1975
Dr. Adams has practiced
dentistry in Macon, at the
Georgia State Prison in
Reidsville, and at the Westside
Comprehensive Health Center
in Savannah.
She returned to Augusta
after marrying Dr. D. Ronald
Spearman, who is an assistant
professor of medicine at the
Medical College of Georgia.
Julian Bond
climaxes
Black History
Week at AC
State Sen. Julian Bond will
climax a five-day celebration of
Black History Week by the
Black Student Union at
Augusta College Friday night.
He will speak in the
Performing Arts Theatre at 8
p.m.
His topic will be “What
Next?” -a look at changes and
trends on the political scene.
Bond’s visit is part of the AC
Lyceum Series.
Annetta Mackie, a
sophomore majoring in
nursing, was elected by die
Union to serve as queen and
official hostess for the week.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Mackie of Augusta.
Tickets are $2 and can be
purchased at the box office of
the theatre Friday night.
when they attempted to arrest
him for weaving in and out of
traffic. He was killed after a
15-minute chase. The car was
bullet ridden. According to one
account, four slugs were
counted by a witness in the
side of the vehicle. Madden was
shot numerous times and
police have refused to say just
how many wounds he received.
“We deplore the senseless
and gangland type killing of
Madden by the Gadsden Police
Department and the Etowah
County Sheriff’s Department,”
Cole said. “For too long Blacks
in Etowah County
have been victims of police
brutality and Blacks have also
been murder victims.”
He called the shooting death
“a symbol of continuing
discrimination in Etowah
County.” What crime had he
committed and why was he
killed, Cole asked in a
statement following the
shooting. He also asked if it
was normal procedure to shoot
out a man’s tire, to shoot up a
man’s car and to kill the man?
SCLC and the Black
community of Gadsden have
demanded the suspension of
those involved and have
launched a selective buying
campaign, banning trade with
all businesses except grocery
and drug stores until their
demand is met.
Kareem has
no hangups
“Contrary to what a lot of
people think, 1 don’t have
hangups about my height,”
says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,
7’2” superstar of the Los
Angeles Lakers, in February
Sport Magazine story (out Jan.
20) by Barry Farrell. Kareem is
Sport’s Performer of the Year
for 1977.
He points out that people
have made unkind, cruel jokes
all his life. “I’ve heard them all
and they’re not funny. But I’m
proud of my height and
pleased by it...” Jabbar states.
He explains that his recent
television guest appearances
have been * lightweight shots"
but he did them in order to
explore possibilities for the
future. “Look at O.J. - we’re
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