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Vol. 8, No. 19
Bob Moore, Denise Simpson
leaving Channel 12 this week
WRDW TV-12 news
reporters Bob Moore and
Denise Simpson will be leaving
the station this month for
more lucrative positions.
A native Augustan, Moore
served as managing editor
of The News Review prior to
going to Channel 12 in 1976.
He will begin working for WSB
TV in Atlanta on Sept. 15.
While at channel 12 he
served as a reporter-photo
grapher, co-anchor on the
nation’s “Mid-day” program,
producer of the noon news,
and sometimes co-produced
the “Mid-day” interview
segment.
The Morehouse graduate
said he plans to earn a master’s
degree in journalism while he is
in the Atlanta area.
Miss Simpson will begin
work Sept. 6 as a reporter and
weekend anchor-person for
WALB TV in Albany. She said
she jumped at the opportunity
because “it’s a chance to do
something I’ve always wanted
to do-to be an anchor person.”
She began as a reporter at
Channel 12, and later became a
weather girl and news
Paine graduate
Dr. Harris to teach
at Hamburg University
Paine College graduate Dr.
William H. Harris flew to
Europe this week where he will
serve as guest professor of
history at the University of
Hamburg for the year 1978-79.
Dr. Harris graduated from
Paine College in 1966 and
taught at the college in 1968-69;
He earned the master’s and
Ph.D. degrees at Indiana
University where he holds the
rank of associate professor. He
has been a member of the
Indiana University faculty
since 1972.
In addition to working at
the University of Hamburg, he
will lecture in the Polish cities
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A native of Greensboro,
N.C., she worked at WAUG
radio in Athens prior to
coming to Augusta in 1977.
She is a graduate of the
University of Georgia and is a
member of College Women in
Broadcasting and Di Gamma
Kappa.
Channel 12 Operations
Manager Howard Meagle
pointed out that Moore was
the first Black to anchor a
half-hour news program in
Augusta and that Miss Simpson
was the first Black woman
anchor in Augusta.
Commenting cn their
departures he said that persons
in TV news are highly sought
after. “A good news or
anchor-person is sought after
by all markets. It is very
difficult to hold people as good
as Denise Simpson and Bob
Moore.
“We are happy and sad at
the same time -- happy that
their careers are accelerating to
more challenging positions, sad
to lose persons who have done
such tremendous work for us.
“Augusta will miss them.”
of Warsaw and Posnen as well
as Moscow and Leningrad in
the Soviet Union.
The year abroad is
sponsored by the
Fulbright-Hays Act.
A native of Fitzgerald, Ga.,
he is married to the former
Wanda Filmor. They have two
children, Cynthia, 9, and
William, 4. His family will ac
company him.
In 1977, Dr. Harris
published his first book
entitled, “Keeping the Faith: A
Phillip Randolph, Milton P.
Webster, and the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters,
1925-37.” He did his doctoral
Rev. Hamilton
pays qualifying fee,
to focus on jobs
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Denise Simpson
dissertation on the same
subject.
Dr. Harris said he chose to
concentrate on Randolph
because “nobody had done
anything on Randolph that cut
to the quick of his character. I
wanted to see that his labor
activities did not get lost in the
sea of civil rights. The key to
Randolph’s later success was
the founding of his union -
The Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters,”
Dr. Harris also serves as
director of an 11 university
program to increase the
number of minority Ph.D.’s.
The schools participating in the
September 5,1978
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The Rev. Dr. C.S. Hamilton
paid his qualifying fee
Thursday morning marking his
official entry into the race for
mayor of Augusta.
He will face Mayor Lewis A.
Newman and businessman Joe
Taylor Oct. 11. Newman and
Taylor qualified for the race
earlier in the week.
Dr. Hamilton said in a
prepared statement that he
wants to provide Augusta with
new leadership and new
directions. “I share the opinion
of many citizens of Augusta in
my dissatisfaction with the
lack of significant progress in
several critical areas.”
He said that he plans to
organize a neighborhood watch
patrol to detect and prevent
crime.
“The quality of life of
Augusta affects us all directly.
1 will press for positive and
creative programs which will
enhance safety, security and
Business League
answers criticism
of Augusta Herald
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program are Indiana
University, the University of
Chicago, Michigan State, the
University of Michigan, Ohio
State, Purdue, the University
of Minnesota, the University of
Wisconsin, Northwestern
University, the University of
lowa and the University of
Illinois.
Persons wishing more
information about the program
should write to:
The Director of the
Committee on Institutional
Co-operation, Minorities
Fellowship Project, Indiana
University, Bloomington, Ind.
protection... including purity
of air, cleanliness of the water,
recreation, basic services,
libraries, and transportation. I
want to move deliberately
toward solving the problems of
Augusta and making it a safe,
clean, and good environment in
which to raise my little
daughter.”
Dr. Hamilton said that “jobs
for all our citizens” will be a
central focus of his
administration. “We must
reduce the welfare rolls by
creating new life changes for all
those who earnestly seek
employment but cannot find
jobs.”
He said he plans to put some
“vitality into what has been
called the (downtown)
revitalization program. I intend
to introduce alternative
measures,” with input from
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Mclntyre’s defeat
perhaps we needed that
Without doubt the defeat of,
County Commissioner Edward
Mclntyre in his bid for re-election
to a third term was a severe blow
ans slap in the face of the Black
community. And as badly as it may
hurt-perhaps we needed that.
The Black community has been
in a virtual coma for so long that it
seems that nothing can wake us up.
If Mclntyre’s defeat can do it, then
it was worth it
Mclntyre was defeated by the
best known Generals that American
politics can offer. In the white
community there was Gen. Racism,
and Gen. Money. They were ably
assisted by their counter-parts in
the Black community, Gen
Short-sighted and Gen.
Opportunist.
It is significant that while
Mclntyre lost by 423 voles, Blacks
did turn out well. The Black vote
for Mclntyre was solid, and many
whites voted for him, too.
But the extra votes he needed
were held by Gen. short-sighted
who thought he was getting back at
Mclntyre, when he was in fact
knocking his child out of a job
through CETA and other programs
that Mclntyre directed. Gen.
Short-sighted could not see that
most of the Blacks who now serve
on appointed boards were
nominated by Mclntyre and that
the unsightly industries that want
to locate right in the middle of
Black residential areas probably will
do just that because in the future
there may not be any Blacks on the
Planning and Zoning Commission
to protect against it
School bond issue
League answers Herald editorial
against 25 % minority contracts
Editor’s Note: This reply to the
Augusta Herald was written by Harvey
Johnson, director of the CSRA Business
League.
The Augusta Herald addressed the issue
of Minority Participation in its August
23rd edition. It is ridiculous and pitiful
that the explanation given be so
misguided and misinterpreted.
It would appear that if there was a
desire to get the facts straight, the
League’s office or the Board of Education
would have been contacted for a copy of
the proposal (entitled “Partners in
Progress”). The proposal explained the
request, implementation process and
waiver clause.
I would like to provide the truth about
the proposal that the Herald should have
gotten before editorializing.
(1) The awarding erf 25 percent to a
minority contractor on a special job will
in no way increase the job cost. If a
general contractor agrees to awarding
“sidewalks” to minority contracting
firms, once that is established, we will
provide the general contractor with as
many subcontractors available to bid on
just that sidewalk job. These
subcontractors will be bidding among
themselves, and thereby make the job still
the cheapest or lowest bid acceptable to
the general contractor. This complies
with the Board of Education guideline.
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Editorial
When whites think about
political appointments they think
of white people or do-nothing
say-nothing Blacks.
It is always Gen. Opportunist
who opens the doors of the Black
community to Gen. Money so he
can split up our voting strength.
It is perhaps Gen. Opportunist
who is the most dangerous of all.
For he is rewarded with both
money and prominent positions,
and then projected to us by the
white media as “Black Leaders.”
And when it becomes convenient
they elect Gen. Opportunist to
office with their at-large voting
system and make him a “legitmate”
Black officiaL
It was only Gen. Racism who
could take a candidate who has
nothing to offer but his whiteness
and make him a winner against the
most outstanding elected official in
Richmond County.
If Mclntyre's defeat can open this
community’s eyes to the fact that
daily newspapers in this town
would put Black people back in
chains if it could, if his defeat will
alert Black people to the fact that
with district voting we would I*
virtually guaranteed two Blacks on
the County Commission where we
will soon have none, at least six
members on the Board of
Education where we now have two,
and eight members of the City
Council where we now have five, if
Mclntyre’s defeat can hurt us to the
point that it wakes us up and stirs
us to action, then it will have been
well worth it
(2) We appreciate the endorsement per
se from Mayor Newman and Mr. Taylor,
and especially Mr. Taylor for the full 25
percent. Mayor Newman has only been
hobbled by Federal requirement of 10
percent on local public works because the
Federal government required it.
The city has taken the initiative yet -
Why can’t Augusta be a leader rather than
being forced into compliance?
(3) The CSRA Business League is
definitely in favor of holding costs to a
minimum, that is why we know the
process will work - because all minority
contractors who are successful in the bid
process will be bidding competitively.
The statement was made about the
lack of promoting minority contractors
based quality of work except based on
race. If our leaders do not realize what
has been happening to minority
businessmen, let alone minority
contractors, God help us. Just take a
moment to see where the money is being
spent, be it school board, city or county.
Yet we represent approximately 33
percent county and 51 percent of the
city. How can our contractors grow when
the jobs go elsewhere. Have the school
board and the city and county
governments pull •> their completed
contracts and see for yourself. But still,
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