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to star in Roots II
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Vol. 8, No. 25
Editorial
Runoff choice difficult
It has been well publicized that 60
percent of the voters in last week’s
mayoral election voted for a change of
mayor.
In the lower four wards, which are
predominantly Black, 72 percent of the
city’s voters gave their votes to either
C.S. Hamilton or Joe Taylor, leaving the
mayor with only 28 percent of the vote
in the section of the city that
constitutes the majority of the city’s
population.
The mayor was not the only loser in
the Black community. So were all five
Black city councilpersons, all of whom
supported Mayor Newman. Many
people in the Black community feel
betrayed by their representatives’ failure
to support Hamilton and are not likely
to forget it when they come up for
re-election.
Be that as it may, Hamilton failed to
make the runoff by 76 votes, and a
choice will have to be made between
Newman and Taylor. The mayor got
39.4 percent of the vote, Taylor had
30.6 percent, and Hamilton 29.9.
M The choice between Newman and
Taylor is a most difficult one. We feel
that neither of these candidates deserves
the support of the Black community.
Ward Newman Taylor Hamilton
1 259 147 295
2 288 127 603
3 444 453 555
4 248 107 825
9 298 597 98
6 730 649 195
7 766 629 230
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TRIBUTE TO KING -- President and Mrs. Carter, joined hands with
the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., and Mrs. Coretta Scott King, father
and widow of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., in a
stirring tribute to King and the civil rights movement he led.
The group sang five choruses of “We Shall Overcome, at the end
Augusta NemsWtrim
They present a classic case of a choice
between tweedle dee and tweedle dum.
Newman smiles at the Black
community, but he does little else.
Taylor , is, in our opinion, a racist of
the Lester Maddox order. But like
Maddox, he has the courage of his
convictions and the Black community
might well get more out of Taylor than
Newman.
Taylor has pointed to the mayor’s
failure to promote Blacks to positions
of responsibility in his administration,
and the fact that there is only one Black
department head in Newman’s
administration. It was Taylor who said
he supported a higher percentage of
contracts for Blacks than the 25 percent
the CSRA Business League was asking
on the September 26 school bond issue.
Newman would not be specific beyond
saying that the government requires that
10 percent of the city’s contracts go to
minorities, and he favors some figure
higher than that.
From a practical stand point we can
see one good reason for voting for
Newman in the runoff-it would be his
last term. The law limits him to three
terms. Taylor on the other hand, if
elected, could be mayor for the next
nine years.
Dodgers’ Gilliam
should have been
manager
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Columbus Gilmore
to manage
legal aid office
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Columbus Gilmore
WAYNESBORO - Georgia
Legal Service will open an
office in Waynesboro this
week. The office will be die
NEW YORK -- Leon Spinks
has denied promoter Bob
Arum’s allegations that he was
“drunk every night” in New
Orleans before losing the
heavyweight championship to
Muhammad Ali and Spinks’
attorneys said they will file a
multi-million dollar defamation
of character suit against Arum,
Spinks still has five fights
remaining on his contract with
Arum’s firm, Top Rank Inc.,
but the champion’s attorneys
said that contract is now
invalid because of Arum’s
statements and several
“material breeches.”
Spinks and his attorneys,
Edward Bell and Lester
of a reception at the White House.
Participating were 300 friends of the King family, veteran civil rights
workers and business and labor leaders who are supporting an $8
million fund-raising campaign to complete a portion of the King
Center for Social Change in Atlanta, Ga.
October 24,1978
Spinks says he was not
drunk every night
before fight with Ali
Roberta Flack
finds Israel a
/mind blower’
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first of its kind in Waynesboro.
The agency will provide legal
services for Burke, Screven and
Jenkins counties.
The state-wide legal services
program serves 154 counties in
Georgia.
The objective is to have local
representation in each
municipality when funds and
resources are available,
according to managing
attorney, Columbus Gilmore.
Legal aid is free to all
persons meeting low-income
requirements. This office will
represent civil matters unique
to poor people, Gilmore
continued.
The back-up office, located
in Atlanta, contains
experienced attorneys who
specializes in such areas as
public assistance law,,
consumer law, housing law,
and mental health law.
Hudson, met with Arum’s
revival promoter Don King in
Miami Beach earlier this week
and made verbal agreements
that King would promote all of
Spinks’ future fights, including
a possible bout with Scott
Ledoux, in December and a $6
million bout with WBC
champion Larry Holmes in
Madison Square Garden early
in 1979.
When told of the meeting,
Arum, in New York, said he
would bring legal action against
Spinks and King.
In his first interview since
See “SPINKS”
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Photo by Mike C’arr
TOP AWARD - CSR.A Business League Director Harvey Johnson (center),
representing the National Business League, presents the C.C. Spaulding Insurance
Award to W.S. Hornsby Jr.,president of the Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Co.
Hornsby was named recipient of the award at the National Business League
Convention in Nashville, Tenn. Others witnessing the presentation are (from left)
W.S. Hornsby HI, Sol Walker 11, John Hardy HL Joe Greene Sr. and William Quincy
Murphy 11.
Pilgrim, Business League
receive national honors
The C.S.R.A. Business
League and the president of
the Pilgrim Health and Life
Insurance Co. received national
honors at the 78th National
Business League Convention
held in Nashville, Tenn.
W.S. Hornsby Jr., president
of the Pilgrim Health and Life
Insurance Co. received the C.C.
Spaulding Insurance Award.
The award is presented to
the individual who has proven
worthy in the provision of life
insurance services for Black
Americans.
Hornsby is the first
Augustan to receive this award
from the National Business
League.
The local business league
received the Berkeley G.
Burrell Meritorious Chapter
Award. It is tire highest award
presented to chapter affiliates.
Farmer says CORE has
become a Black mafia
WASHINGTON - The
national director of the
Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE) has turned the group
into a “Black Mafia,” complete
with “hit men” and
mercenaries, onetime CORE
leader James Farmer says.
Farmer, who helped found
the group 30 years ago, made
his remarks on America’s Black
Forum, a syndicated television
interview program.
The former CORE director
is leading a fight to remove
Roy Innis from the leadership
of the divided organization,
and is planning a November
convention of dissatisfied
CORE members to vote innis
out of office.
Innis called the proposed
convention illegitimate.
CORE helped finance and
lead “freedom riders” in the
Paine College Library
1235 15th St.
Augusta. GA 30901 ;. ample Copy
he was drunk each
night before fight
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lhe award was presented to
the C.S.R.A. chapter for “most
outstanding program
performance and
simultaneous!}' exceeding its
membership development
quota by the greatest
percentage.”
Last year the C.S.R.A.
Business League received the
Blue Ribbon Award for overall
program development. This
award is the third highest
award presented by the
National Business League.
The National Business
League presented its highest
award to Walter E. Fauntroy,
D.C. delegate to the U.S.
House of Representatives.
Named in honor of the
founder and first president of
NBL, tire Booker T.
Washington Symbol of Service
award was presented to
Congressman Fauntroy in
south during the early 19605.
Farmer, who left CORE in
1966, said there have been no
conventions held in the 10
years since Innis became
director. Innis “appoints
members of the Board of
Directors and fires them at
will,” he said.
Farmer also accused Innis of
“transforming the organization
from a civil rights organization
to a kind of Black Mafia in
which there has been much
talk of hit-men and contracts
let out on CORE staff
members.” He said some of
Innis’ former bodyguards told
Los Angeles authorities they
beat up a CORE member who
had joined PUSH, another civil
rights group, on orders from
Innis.
Farmer also said a
recognition of his work to
assure the enfranchisement of
Washington, D.C. residents.
During each convention, the
National Business League
traditionally recognizes a
maximum of ten individuals
for their outstanding
achievements in the area of
business, government or public
service during the past year.
Saluting their joint
achievements in the business
field, Lee and Rose Elder
received the A.G. Gatson
Businessman of the Year
Award.
Founded in 1900 by Booker
T. Washington, the League has
a growing membership found
in 127 chartered chapters and
individual members-at-large
throughout 37 states and the
District of Columbia.
Washington, D.C. man was shot
by someone under Innis’
orders.
Farmer said, however, the
charges do not originate from
him.
“1 myself, do not make the
claims because I have it from
hearsay. But the persons who
do make the claims in many
cases were themselves
involved,” he said.
The only activities CORE
has been involved in recently
were a “few adventures in
foreign affairs” when “Mr.
Innis sought to recruit Black
professionals and technicians
to go to Uganda to serve under
Idi Amin to :how up his
regime, and then later, when he
sought to recruit Black
Vietnam veterans to go to
Angola as mercenaries,”
Farmer said.
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