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Bunny Mita At was fired, dismissal is called ‘folly’ Page 4 Vol. 8, No. 17 State senator: Blacks still don 9 t have it made State Sen. Horace Tate, Men’s Day speaker at Williams Memorial C.M.E. Church Sunday said that Blacks still don’t have it made, even though political progress has been made. “We have more freedom, more and better jobs, more city councilmen, more county commissioners than ever before. But that doesn’t mean that we have it made. “There are people standing on the side waiting for us to make a mistake, waiting to destroy our credibility. “The people who have had the power all along don’t want us to achieve that kind of power.” He used former Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner Reginald Eaves as an example. Noting that Eaves was accused of providing answers to Black officers to help them do better on police examinations, Tate said, “If he (Eaves) had done it Boggs Academy president’s wife dies unexpectedly Mrs. Muriel Eleanor Johnson Whitney, wife of Dr. Yenwith K. Whitney, president of Boggs Academy, died unexpectedly August 16. She was 49. Mrs. Whitney had recently been appointed academic dean at Boggs Academy. She started working in that capacity just 27 days before her death. She was a graduate of Hunter College where she earned the bachelor of arts in pre-social work. She also did advance studies at the New York School of Social Woik. Later, she acquired the master of science in education from City College, New York., and a premanent New York State Certificate for Teaching French. Mrs. Whitney has worked with the New York City Department of Welfare helping immigrants who had moved in the Bowery area of New York City. She served with her husband_ for eight years at the Cameroun Christian College at Libamba. There she served as teacher of English, house parent, school cashier, assistant with college choir, Augusta man and woman are raped Augusta police Sunday reported the sexual assault of a North Augusta woman and a 19-year-old Augusta man in separate incidents early Sunday morning. According to police, the 23-year-old woman was walking down Laney-Walker Boulevard at around 4 a.m. Sunday when two men stopped in a car. The woman went home with them and was raped by three men, she told police. The wopian said she escaped and ran to a house next .door where she telephoned police. The -Augusta man told police Augusta Nms-SrotKu for the next 15 years, he could not have made up for the white people who got promoted with no test at all.” He recalled that for years in Atlanta Black policemen could not change their clothes at the police station. They had to go to the YMCA instead. “They couldn’t carry guns. And when they did get guns, they couldn’t arrest white people. “I’m not condoning wrong, but you’ve got to know that no matter what you’ve achieved, if you make one mistake, they’re ready to pull you down.” He pointed out that during Reginald Eaves’ administration, “For 12 months nobody was shot in the back. For the first time Black people respected the police and the police respected them. Eaves was doing a tremendous job.” Speaking on the subject “Ye Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Make You Free,” recreation adviser and student counselor. When she and her husband returned to the United States in 1966, she continued her teaching career in her home city of New York. She taught French at several schools in Manhattan including IS 52 and finally IS 88 where she taught until the end of the 1977-78 school year. She was a member of longstanding in the United Presbyterian “Church of The Master” in New York. She was a very active member of her church. She served as president of the Women’s Association; was a member of the Master Activist and the Chancel Choir. At the time of her death she was completing her fifth year as an Elder of die church. Her funeral was held Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at the Church of The Master. She is survived by husband, Whitney, Keysville, Ga.; two daughters, Saundra Ellen Curry of New York, and Karen Leslie Whitney of Teneck, NJ.; her father, Gilbert Johnson, and one sister, Sylvia Yearwood. he was at a party and went outside to talk to a friend, he told police. A man forced him to the back of the house where he was joined by another man, who took him to the 900 block of Bennetts Lane, according to police. There the two men sexually assaulted him, police said. Two men, Gene Jefferson, 17, of 945 Talcott St., and Gene Gordon, 28, of 1109A Cedar St, have been arrested and charged with aggravated sodomy in connection with the incident Sample Copy claims wife of Boggs president Pagel P.O. Box 953 Dr. Tate warned that people who insist on telling the truth will be avoided, frowned upon, and sometimes Tired from their jobs. But he urged the congregation to “Fling yourself down upon the truth and cling to it as a dying man clings to a straw, knowing that it is all that he has.” Dr. Tate, who is also executive secretary of the Georgia Education Association, said that one of the major problems with Blacks is that “we, as a group, don’t have any money.” He said that when he started teaching, he was making only $53,50 a month .and $540 a year. But he quickly added that “It isn’t what you make, it’s what you save. Pay yourself first. Put whatever you can in See “SENATOR TATE” Page 5 I I JB liH * Bl I I ir Eg? I "HtjE EK / < Dr. George Christenberry Addressing Paine summer graduation jsl \ N.A r 111 ■ U a mHt OH SENATOR LIPMAN - New Jersey State Sen.WynonaLipman enjoys a laugh with mayoral candidate C.S. Hamilton prior to a rally at Tabernacle Baptist Church Sunday night Hwy II Jr ■Mr i : State Senator Horace Tate Photo by Mike Carr Augusta man and woman are raped Page 1 August 22,1978 Paine graduates urged to fill leadership vacuum Paine College students fill the leadership vacuum. And graduating at the summer you have an obligation to your commencement Thursday were state and country and to your challenged by Augusta College community,” he said. President Dr. George Noting that during the last Christenberry to put their 10 to 15 years there has been idealism to work in their own an increase in the number of communities. clubs and organizations “I challenge you not to lose “binding together to rid the this idealism and I challenge world” of social ills, Dr. you to put it to work,” he said. Christenberry told the r, , ~ ~ graduates, “There is a need for Dr. Omstenberry sard the J ou other like you to work need for humanitarian f nr- leadership will be unapralleled 0 Bn P rove .■ , in the years to come. And he in y° ur immunity and in the urged the graduates to be “ever WO J. in ra tn unil t mfridful of the needs of others ’ su^ est X*™ a * and the role you can play in t can be , come m 0 * ar ® helping your fellowman.” tbr .°^ h “T* * otbe . r ’ He told the graduates that added ’ UI B ,n B he .« hr- j . . i class to live up to your they were qualified to help nob]est and P and others than they might realize exceed that „ You are more aware and Top academic honors - went wl h r Acuity Tnd ° P ’other t 0 Green .’ w d ho . , . 7 summa cum laude, with 3.8 students. » “You are better qualified to ® ra e P OUI avera 8 e - We can’t afford to lose August 29 We urge all of our readers to go to the polls August 29 and vote for Commissioner Edward M. Mclntyre. The Black community is just beginning to realize how vital Mclntyre’s presence on the Commission is to the interests of the Black community. We hope that we, as a community, will not have to learn from experience what his absence from the commision would mean. We, hasten to add, however, that by voting for Mclntyre, we will be Transportation For transportation to the polls Tuesday, call 724-3299, 722-1677, or 724-6997. Senator says it’s time for a ‘little power of our own’ New Jersey State Sen. Wynona Lipman told a C.S. Hamilton for mayor rally at Tabernacle Baptist Church Sunday night, “It’s time to put a man in office with whom we can identify.” “Who will answer your needs, if not Rev. Hamilton?” She asked. But she cautioned that Blacks must register and vote. “It’s time to rise up, it’s time to change the quality of leadership, it’s time we got a little power of our own.” Dr. Lipman is the only Black woman state senator in the Hamilton boosters told ‘it’s time for power of our own’ Page 1 Less than 75% Advertising Editorial P.C. Alumni to meet Sat. The Paine College Alumni Club will meet Saturday at 1 p.m. in Shiloh Comprehensive ■L laKKKg ggSfar W CONGRATULATIONS - Ricky Daggett and Gary Green (right) exchange congratulations after commencement ceremonies Thursday. Photos by Mike Carr United States. She was born in LaGrange, Ga. and her mother attended Haines Institute in Augusta. Dr. Lipman attended Talladega College and earned a in French from Columbia University. He taught French at Morehouse College where Dr. Hamilton attended and served as dean of the School of Religion. The Rev. N.T. Young told the rally that the Baptist Ministers’ Conference had endorsed Rev. Hamilton. “We, really voting to protect the well-being of Richmond County and the Black community in particular. We wish to commend John Swint for endorsing Mclntyre. We think the Swint endorsement will help. But ultimately, no endorsement can re-elect Mclntyre. Only you can. Your vote is desperately needed. We urge you to go to the polls Tuesday and take at least two people with you. This is an election where we can not afford to lose. Community Center, 1635 15th Street. Ruth B. Crawford is president as ministers of the Gospel, whould not lead our people wrong,” he said. Alluding to Augusta’s longtime problem with railroad tracks that stretch across the city, the Rev. Young said, “If Rev. Hamilton is elected, the tracks will lead in a new direction.” The Rev. Young and State Rep. R.A. Dent were again the only two Blacks elected officials attending the rally. Hamilton will face Mayor Lewis A. Newman and Joe Taylor in the election to be held Oct. 11. 25 e