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Vol. 8, No. 34
Miss
Black
Pageant
The Miss Black Pageant in
Thomson was won Sunday by
Joyce Demons, a 10th grader
at Thomson High School.
She is the daugher of Mr.
and Mrs. Emanuel Jackson.
Gwendolyn Stockton and
Carolyn Durham were first and
second runners-up respectively.
Lisa Shorty was voted “Miss
Cordiality.”
Countess Wilkerson was
chairperson for the pageant
which was held at the
Hampton-Sturgis Post 576 of
the American Legion.
Bishop Coles attends
funeral of Goida Meir
ATLANTA - Bishop Joseph
C. Coles was invited by die
White House to be part of the
42-member delegation
representing the United States
at the funeral of Goida Meir,
former prime minister of Israel.
He was the only black in the
delegation.
Bishop Coles speaks
frequendy in Augusta and is
the vice president of the Paine
College Board of Trustees. He
presides over the Sixth
Episcopal District of the
C.M.E. Church which is the
State of Georgia.
The U.S. delegation flew
on the Presidential jet Air Force 1
to Tel Aviv and# Jerusaleum for
the memorial service last
Monday and the burial on
Tuesday.
Bishop Coles told Atlanta’s
TV 5 news he had “no idea”
why he was chosen.
He spoke of Mrs. Meir’s
“courageous leadership,” and
his personal sadness - as well as
that of America’s black
community - over her death.
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Former Augustans visit
By Mallory K. Millender
ATLANTA - The Rev. Dr.
Maurice and Joyce Cherry,
fresh back from a nine-day trip
to the Holy Land, , said they
were most impressed by the
River Jordan and most
depressed by Nazareth, the
town in which Jesus grew up.
Dr. Cherry said he couldn’t
speak of all of Nazareth, but
“the street that we were on
was as depressing to me as if
someone from Mars came to
Augusta and you only carried
them down Ninth Street, as
opposed to up on Walton Way
Extention.”
“It was dingy,” Mrs. Cherry
injected. “Women, ragged and
begging, with babies on their
hips, come all up to you and
put their hands all on you. The
weather was chilly and they
were out there with next to
nothing on, and the babies
were just wearing a diaper.
“I was torn between, ‘ls this
really legitimate or are they
trying to rip us off?’
“Every time a bus stopped,
immediately there were
vendors trying to sell you this
or that. I figured that those
ladies with those babies on
their hips, it might be their
profession. But it still does
Parts of ‘Roots’
from another book
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NEW YORK - Author Alex
Haley admitted Thursday that
materials from another
author’s novel about slavery
“found their way” into his
best-seller “Roots.” He agreed
to an out-of-court settlement
just before summations were to
be held at his copyright
infringement trial.
Haley “regrets that various
materials from ‘The African’
by Harold Courlander found
their way into his book,” his
lawyers said.
Haley’s book has sold more
than 2 million hardbook copies
and was made into a
phenomenally successful
television mini-series which
Radio personality
Joe Thomas
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December 23,1978
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something to you. I begin to
wonder about myself... what
would Jesus have done?”
Dr. Cherry was chaplain at
Paine College until 1976 when
he assumed the pastorate of
West Mitchell Street C.M.E.
Church in Atlanta. He and Mrs.
Cherry are Paine graduates
with long tenures on the
faculty. Mrs. Cherry is a
doctoral candidate at Emory
University.
One of the members of their
congregation in Atlanta,
Florencia “Fuzzy” Walker, is a
travel agent, and was going to
reached an audience of 162
million Americans.
Courlander is the author of
abou t 30 books. His novel
“The African,” earned a toal of
about $28,000 for him.
Courlander charged that
Haley had copied parts of
“Roots” from “The African.”
In his defense, the
best-selling author admitted
that three passages from
“Roots” came “inadvertently”
from Courlander’s novel, but
he said as he lectured
throughout the country many
people gave him scraps of
paper containing information
they thought would be helpful.
“I would stick them in my
pocket and when I got home, I
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Dr. Maurice Cherry
an Israeli government
sponsored travel seminar for
black travel agents, particularly
aimed at the black Christian
tourist market.
“We timed our trip to go
while they were there and
traveled with them on the
program outlined by the Israeli
government,” the Cherrys said.
JESUS’ BIRTHPLACE
The Cherrys visited the
place where Jesus is believed to
have been born. Most of the
special sites have had shrines
would dump them all in a box;
that’s my only explanation of
what happened,” Haley said
repeatedly.
Throughout the trial, he
asserted he had never read
“The African.”
Terms of the settlement
were not disclosed, but it was
clear that Courlander received
money. He had asked for 60
percent of the profits from
“Roots” and during the trial
did not deny that his was a
contingency case - that he and
his lawyers would share any
settlement they won.
During the trial, Courlander,
a retired career writer for the
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governor to increase
welfare aid
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and churches built over them.
The stable with the manger is
located under the church.
“The only way to get into
the stable is through a doorway
where EVERYBODY has to
stoop. A 6-year-old child
would almost have to stoop to
get in there. And they fix it
that way to say, ‘lf you come
into the place where Jesus was
born, you must humble
yourself,’” Dr. Cherry said.
“From the nativity scene
you can look across and see
very grassy, rolling hills, and
envision shepherds tending
their flock (which is still
done),” according to Mrs.
Cherry.
Bethlehem has a sweetness
and simplicity. It is still a
village, quiet, unhurried, no
factories or industry, she said.
For Dr. Cherry, a Biblical
scholar who specialized in Old
Testament, Bethlehem was just
as he had envisioned it. “I had
never been there before, but it
was precisely as I had pictured
it from reading the Bible. I had
been there before. I had seen it
before.”
MT. BEATITUDES
But the highlight of the trip
began at Mount Beatitudes
Joe Thomas buried
AIKEN, S.C. - Radio
personality Joe Thomas died
Dec. 14 at his residence, 602
Assembly St. He was 54.
A native of South Carolina,
he lived in Aiken for 15 years.
He was a radio announcer for
the same period of time, having
worked at WTHB and WRDW
in Augusta where he was
employed at the time of his
death.
He was the owner of Quality
Record Shop in Augusta,
Aikeri and Batesburg. A
member of the Aiken Chamber
of Commerce, he was past
S resident of the Aiken
lAACP, and a veteran of
NOTICE
The next issue of the News-Review will be out
January 4.
There will be no issue next week. Our offices,
however, will be open.
Merry Christmas.
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where Jesus preached the
Sermon on the Mount and
climaxed at the River Jordan.
Up to that point the trip had
been economic for the travel
agents, familiarizing themselves
with the sites of future tours,
and political for the Israelis,
who were trying to show that
they are better suited to rule
the country than the Arabs,
Mrs. Cherry said.
At Mount Beatitudes,
however, it became a spiritual
trip -for everybody.
“When we got there,” Dr.
Cherry said, “the travel agents
came together and just sat
there as if they expected
something to happen. They
wanted someone to come
down and read the Beatitudes.
And there was a hush that fell
over the group. It was
fantastic.
“I read, and then we sang.
One of the travel agents in the
group was (gospel singer)
Mahaha Jackson’s accompanist.
She directed us in tire singing.
“We came down from the
mountain and journeyed
southward to the Sea of
Galilee.
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World War 11.
Funeral services were held
Monday at Mount Hill Baptist
Church with the Rev. J.T. Tate
officiating. The Rev. Johnnie
Bussey delivered the eulogy.
Thomas is survived by his
parents, Mr. Eddie Thomas and
Mrs. Anna Holmes; his wife,
Mrs. Barbara Trowell Thomas;
his daughter, Barbara Speques
(Jamaica, Long Island); two
sons, Joseph Jr. and Timothy
Tevnn, both of Aiken; two
sisters, Dorothy Thomas
(Durham, N.C.), Mary Caspter
(Los Angels); and one brother;
Clarence Thomas (Boston,
Mass.).