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Hello people . . .
The outrageous comedian/actor Paul Mooney, said
it the other night at the Comedy Store on the Sunset
Strip: “In Germany, the Holocaust TV special was a
smash hit under another titie — Happy Days” which
Paul insists is a turnaround of another joke: “In South
Africa, the white folk are running Roots backwards so
it’ll have a happy ending.”
One of the hottest new romances in Hollywood is
between Ren Woods (she starred in the Los Angeles
production of The Wiz) and Gabe Kaplan (white star
of the Welcome Back Hotter series). Another interest
ing show biz coupling is that of Black singer Kim Wel
don and white actor Werner Klemperer, who starred as
the Nazi prison camp commandant on Hogans
Heroes.
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Shirley Hemphill’s love life is barren these days
(she’s the fat waitress on the What's Happening series)
and the reason is simple: she’s become so big-headed
about being a star that she’s become unbearable to be
around. Many of her old friends who “knew her
when” are simply not speaking to her because her ego
has grown to such proportions that if one were to put
it in a bottle, a Redwood tree would be needed as a
cork.
If you’re expecting to see The Commodores and
Donna Summer on screen in the movie, Thank God
ft's Friday, just because their names are spelled out in
big letters in the advertising, be prepared for a disap
pointment. The Commodores are only in the film for
five minutes (one scene with Ray Vitte, who’s great as
the disco D.l) and again when they sing a song ala
dance contest. Donna gets a bit more film footage, but
most of the action is centered around white characters.
Producers were clever enough to use these Black stars’
names to get Black kids into the theaters, but you’d
better not blink your eyes or you’ll miss their perfor
mances.
Eartha Kitt reportedly hit the ceiling when her half
white teenaged daughter dated J.J. Walker a few
times. Word is that Mama put the stoppers to that
relationship immediately. And can you blame her? I
mean, what mother could honestly look forward to
grandchildren with J..1. as the lather?
Lesley W ilson of New Birth has decided to tackle a
new birth of the musical kind and is going solo. The
only problem is that no record company has yet agreed
to join in his decision, so right now he’s on his own all
right, but his gigs as a single have been restricted to the
shower.
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Ronnie Dyson will sing
for Black United Fund
Ronnie Dyson, popular
recording artist, will provide
the dynamic sounds for the
concert-disco at the National
Black United Fund’s Second
Annual Public Policy
Conference in Atlanta June 28.
The four day conference at
the Colony Square Hotel will
be kicked off with a
presentation by Ebony
Magazine Editor Lerone
Bennett. Bennett, a noted
author and historian, is widely
known for his significant essays
Nancy Wilson, Ellington
to perform for dentists
WASHINGTON, DC. -
Nancy Wilson and the Duke
Ellington Orchestra will
highlight opening day of the
65th annual convention of the
National Dental Association
(NDA) July 30 in Washington,
D.C. The occasion will be a
gala benefit concert at the
John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts, with
proceeds going to the NDA
Scholarship Fund for needy
dental students.
According to NDA
President, Dr. Walter Tucker,
“One of the top priorities of
the NDA is the expansion of
opportunities for needy
minority students and other
disadvantaged youth interested
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OUTSTANDING STUDENT - Deltrye Eagle (L),
seventh grade student at Hornsby, is shown receiving the
1.8. Tindall Award given recently at W.S. Hornsby
School by Mrs. 1.8. Tindall (R).
Areyou
registered
to vote?
on Black history.
This convention of
concerned Black Americans
will begin on June 28th and
continue through July Ist.
The National Black United
Fund is an organization by
which the Black community
can determine its own
priorities and then fund
agencies working on those
priorities. The Atlanta Black
United Fund, an NBUF
affiliate, will be hosting this
year’s conference.
in pursuing careers in the field
of dentistry. The benefit
concert will provide
scholarship funds for students
who have the ability, but lack
financial resources for pursuing
professional training.”
The concert will be
preceeded by a cocktail party
at the Kennedy Center, and
followed by an “afterglow”
session and dinner dance, for
which Wild Bill Davis will
provide the music.
The National Dental
Association represents the
more than 3,000 Black dentists
across the United States. A
record attendance is expected
at this year’s convention which
will run from July 30 through
August 3.
C&S Bank robbed of SSOO
The Peach Orchard Office of
the Citizens & Southern
National Bank (C&S) was
robbed of approximately SSOO
Tuesday afternoon.
Roy Mann, assistant vice
president and branch
coordinator, said that one
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feel myself being used is in a
relationship to those people,"
he said.
Looking back at his past,
Cleaver freely admits to being
“worse than a scoundrel” and
having committed “major
felonies” that the authorities
don’t know about.
“I’ve done some things that
even she (his wife Kathleen)
doesn’t even know about--
things that by any measure
were scoundrelly.” he said.
Cleaver admitted to getting
his start early, when he would
go into white neighborhoods
and steal clothes off
clotheslines -a crime that he
says was made “technologically
obsolete” by the advent of the
clothes dryer.
Cleaver said that during his
crime career he had "Robin
Hood fantasies’ and aimed his
burgularies "always with an
eye to getting at rich people."
He said the process of his
Christian conversion, which
began in the summer of 1975,
was slow. He was in his
apartment in the south of
France, sitting alone on the
balcony, working on a book
and looking out at the stars
and moon.
Shadows on the moon, he
said, seemed to rearrange
themselves into a profile of
himself. His image faded and in
its place appeared the image of
Fidel Castro, then Mao Tse
Tung, then Karl Marx - all his
heroes from his Black Panther
days.
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KICK-OFF - Augusta Mini Theatre Director Tyrone Butler and Denise
Mickelbury, executive director of Youth Employment Project of Atlanta,discuss the
program for the Mini Theatre’s first Fund-raising Kick-off Dinner held at Paine
College last Wednesday night.
Ms. Mickelbury was the guest speaker. TV newscaster Bob Moore also spoke on
the program. Photo by .Mike Carr
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Eagle
gets
award
Deltrye Eagle was the recent
recipient of the LB. Tindall
Award given annually to the
outstanding student at W.S.
Hornsby School.
Mrs. 1.8 Tindall, a former
teacher at Hornsby, instituted
this award upon her retirement
some years ago in an effort to
encourage boys and girls to
become “well-rounded
productive individuals.”
Deltrye received the award
for her “scholastic
achievement, her dedication
and loyalty to school ideas and
her ability to get along well
with students and teachers."
She is the daughter of Ms.
Uretta Eagle of 2110
Clairmont Drive.
individual was involved. A
young male approached the
tellers’ line and presented one
teller with a note demanding
cash. He then lied from the
bank through the back door.
No weapon was visible.
No one was injured.
‘Then I saw Jesus Christ,”
he said. “Now I wasn’t one
that went around
thinking about Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ was the last thing
on my mind. When I saw the
image of Jesus Christ, I just
exploded into tears. I started
crying and trembling. 1 was
shaking like a leaf, crying like a
baby.
“Then 1 sank on my knees
by the chair. In this babbling
confusion, this crying,
somewhere out of memory
came the Lord’s Prayer, which
I had learned so many years
ago, and the 23rd Psalm."
After the most peaceful
sleep he had had in years,
Cleaver said, he awoke the next
morning with a plan to return
to the ' United States and
surrender to authorities.
Although he knew he would
have to serve time in jail, at
least he would be home.
It was later, in Alameda
County Jail in Oakland, Calif.,
that he heard and read more
about Jesus Christ and began
to study the Bible.
Revealing his spiritual
odyssey, Cleaver said that
“things started to happen to
me I didn’t understand” and
that after the experience in the
south of France, the only thing
he was sure of was that he had
had a “profound spiritual
experience focused on Jesus
Christ.”
Cleaver, his wife and two
children are living in the San
Francisco Bay area until
arrangements can be made for
them to purchase a farm near
Atlanta.
(From the Atlanta Constitution)
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Billy Surratt
Back in Morgantown. N.C., young Billy Surratt
used to watch the trains come and go and dreamed
of being a railroad man. lie made it.
But Billy is a railroad man who rides in a car
more than he does on the railroad. Because Billy is
a sales representative for the Southern Railway.
Even though he doesn't work the controls of the
locomotives or the switch yards, his job is one of the
most important on the railroad. He helps bring in
the business that keeps those trains i tinning.
And Billv and his fellow sales representatives
are reallv doing well. Last year. Southern's net
income was over SIOO million, making it one of the
most profitable railroads in the country.
As part of Southern Folks, Billy’s future is
bright because Southern's future is bright. Rail
roading is one of America's real growth industries.
Railroads now carry more freight each year
than all the trucks, airplanes and barges combined.
And by 1990 we expect a 143 percent increase in
railroad traffic levels.
W’e think this means a profitable future for
Southern Railway and Southern Folks.
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The Augusta News-Review - June 22, 1978 -
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Augustans
earn degrees
Two former Augustans
received graduate degrees
during commencement
ceremonies held recently at
Harvard and Catholic
Universities.
Carolyne Lamar Jordan, a
1960 graduate of Fisk
University, was awarded an
Ed.D. degree in human
development from Harvard last
week. Mrs. Jordan, who also
has a masters degree in music
from the New England
Conservatory, is a graduate of
Lucy Laney High school.
Gloria Russell Blanchard,
who finished high school here
at the Immaculate Conception
Academy, earned a law degree
from Catholic University in
Washington, D.C., and was
awarded her diploma at the
end-of-year exercises held last
month. Mrs. Blanchard is also a
product of Howard University.
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