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Vol. 8, No. 41 P.O. Box 953 February 17,1979 Less than 75% Advertising 25 c
Four family members
murdered in Columbia
By J. Philip Waring
COLUBMIA, S.C. - The
black community remains in
shock following the Feb. 2
murder of a prominent black
physican and three members of
his family.
When Dr. James R. Clark,
41, failed to report for hospital
duty, police were sent to his
home to investigate. They
found Dr. Clark, his wife,
Evon, their 7-year-old
daughter, Nyola, and Dr.
Clark’s mother-in-law, Mrs.
Vivian Allen, in a pool of
blood.
Bishop says
Students unequipped
with survival took
Bishop Joseph A. Johnson,
Jr., presiding prelate of the
fourth episcopal district of the
Christian Methodist Episcopal
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Bishop Joseph A. Johnson
Photo by Mike Carr
Beard appointed
to Naval Academy
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Richmond Acadmey senior
Ricky Beard has been accepted
to the U.S. Naval Academy on
a full, four year scholarship,
Congressman Doug Barnard has
announced.
Ricky Beard
All were dead of multiple
gunshot wounds. They found
the Clarks’ 13-month-old baby
in a bathroom unharmed.
More than a thousand
people attended the funeral at
Bethel A.M.E. Church in
Columbia.
The murders appeared to
result from a domestic dispute
between Dr. Clark’s in-laws.
Columbia news accounts
indicate that Mrs. Allen
separated from her husband in
Detroit before Christmas and
came to Columbia to live with
the Clarks.
Church,said Sunday that the
challenge of the black church is
to prepare the bridge ’’over
troubled waters.”
His appointment is believed
to be the first for a black in the
1 Oth Congressional District.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lee N. Beard of 1547 Flagler
Rd., Ricky will report to the
academy in Annapolis, Md. on
July 6 to begin his program of
studies. A full scholarship
carries an obligation of five
years’ active service and one
year in the naval reserves
following graduation.
Both academic and physical
qualifications figure into final
acceptance to a military
academy. Ricky has been
involved in a number of
extracurricular activites,
including Student Council,
Boys State, the Governors’
Honors Program, scuba diving,
lifeguarding and soccer. He was
named to Who’s Who Among
American High School
Students.
Congressman Barnard said
he nominated Ricky and a
number of other well-qualified
students from the 10th
Congressional District for the
one available slot at Annapolis;
the final selection was made by
the Navy.
Augustans on both
of nation’s no. 1
football teams
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Her husband, Cyrus,
reportedly visited the Clark
home Jan. 8 and ordered his
wife out at gunpoint.
He is the chief suspect and is
presently being held without
bail in the Columbia jail.
Dr. Clark, an associate of
Augusta physicians Allen N.
Brown and R.S. Weston,
graduated from Howard
University College of Medicine.
He was a co-founder of the
Columbia Sickle Cell Center
and worked with the Sickle
Cell program in addition to his
internal medical practice.
Dr. Johnson was the speaker
at the 97th observance of the
founding of Paine College.
“We must remind blacks
that we are bom naturally
equal with everybody. But we
are economically, socially and
politically behind. One out of
11 whites are poor. One out of
three blacks are poor. And if
we are to catch up, we have to
run faster, work harder or die.”
He called for a crack down
on profane talking, “super
flying” black youth, with
“platform shoes, two combs in
their pockets and one in their
heads, and won’t use either
one.’'
Black students must hit
those books, Dr. Johnson
declared. “If he can’t cut the
mustard, Mr. President, put
him out. There is no time for
parading. The party is over.
“Nobody ever boogied their
way into power and economic
security.”
Today’s college students, he
said, have never seen a Jim
Crow sign. And although they
are better educated and in
some ways more sophisticated,
“they are an innocent and lost
generation not equipped with
survival tools.
“They have not had to fight
any big battles and their
muscles are wasted for a lack
of use.”
Today’s college students, he
said, “lack spiritual fiber and
have been seduced by
astrology, sex and drugs.”
Paine College was designed
to be an instrument for
organizing long and short range
goals and to be a framework
for action. “It celebrates the
legitimacy and worth of
contributions of black people,”
he said.
There is still a desperate
need for the black college, he
added. “The need is greater
today than after the Civil War
when there were only 23 black
college graduates. Today there
are over 700,000 being
produced at a rate of 60,000 a
year.
Noting the contributions of
the black college, Dr. Johnson
said the black colleges have
produced 79 percent of black
Ph.D.’s, 89 percent of black
medical doctors, 80 percent of
the black judges, 70 percent of
black military officers, and 90
percent of the black ministere.
Mrs. Maxine Faison
Newberry, not Bathine
Hollins, will be in Concert at
C.T. Walker School Sunday, as
we reported last week. We
regret the error.
. Ed Bradley
Maxine Faison
eyes ‘big break 9
Mrs. Maxine Faison
Newberry will perform in
concert Feb. 18 at C.T. Walker
Elementary School. Joining her
will be Benny Cummings and
the Kings Temple Choir of
New York City.
Many Augustans are hoping
that the concert will serve as a
spring board to launch Mrs.
Newberry’s singing career.
She said she was educated
on scholarships provided by
the Augusta community
organizations including the
Lincoln League, Omega Psi Phi
fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi,
Sigma Gamma Rho, Phi Beta
Sigma, the Paine College
Alumni Association, the
Windemar Club and various
churches.
Her mother died the day she
Thomson honors Eddie Lee Ivery
Eddie Lee Ivery, who in game (356 against Air Force),
1978 broke the NCAA record says he has no preference as to
for yards rushing in a single which professional team he
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was accepted as a student at
Paine College.
See “MAXINE”
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Joseph Greene
2nd VP of
Thomson Chamber
THOMSON-Pilgrim Health
and Life Insurance Co.
executive Joseph D. Greene has
been elected second vice
president of the
See “CHAMBER”
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CBS 9 Ed Bradley
to speak at Paine
When you’re the chief
correspondent at the White
House for a major TV network,
you are at the center of
everything that’s happening.
When you’re the anchorman of
this same national network, it’s
up to you to report all that’s
happening to the public. Ed
Bradley does both.
On Thursday, at 8 p.m., in
the Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel,
he will be the featured speaker
in the second series of
presentations by the Paine
College Lyceum Committee.
Bradley was named a CBS
News White House
Correspondent and anchorman
Casket company
mum on charges
State Department of Labor
officials will be coming to
Augusta to investigate
inconsistencies in a
Comprehensive Employment
and Training Act grant to an
area casket manufacturing
company.
“I have requested program
monitors from the DOL” to
investigate the program, said
Michael H. Taylor,
administrator of the Central
Savannah River Area
Employment and Training
Consortium.
Taylor, who worked his
first day as administrator
Friday, said he hadn’t been at
the job long enough to know
about the details of OIA
Casket Manufacturing Co.
would like to play for. But all
things being equal he admits
that he would rather play for
the Atlanta Falcons.
At the banquet in his honor
Feb. 5 he told the
News-Review, “In Atlanta I'll
be very close to my family and
my home people. And being
close to my people means more
to me than playing professional
football.”
Playing professional football
should mean a lot to the
Georgia Tech Star who also
holds the record for most yards
rushing in a season, 1,562
(1978); most yard rushing
career, 3,517; Highest average
gain per rush game (min. 25
rushes): 13.7 yards; most
touchdowns career: 26; most
touchdowns rushing career: 22;
and most rushes in a season:
267, and most rushes in a
career 609.
Ivery was not just an
athlete. When he was at
Thomson High School he was
on the academic honor roll his
junior and senior years and was
president of the senior class.
He said he will always
remember the Eddie Lee Ivery
Day, and his induction into the
Thomson Hall of Fame by the
Thomson Progressive Club.
(Atty. Evita Paschel and
Thomson School Board
member Joseph D. Greene
were also inducted.) “Out of
all the recognition and honors
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of tire “CBS Sunday Night
News” on the CBS Television
Network in 1976. During CBS
News Coverage of Campaign
’76, he was assigned to cover
the activities of President
Carter. He also served as a floor
associate/relief correspondent
for CBS News coverage of the
Campaign ’76 Democratic and
Republican National
Conventions.
Bradley became a part of the
CBS News team in 1971 as a
stringer in tire Paris Bureau. In
1972, he was transferred to the
Saigon bureau, where he
remained until he was
reassigned to his current base
grant.
The Augusta Chronicle
wrote that there was no private
casket company to provide
permanent employment for the
CETA workers who were
trained under a $60,000 grant,
administered by the CSRA
Business League.
In the grant application, it
was indicated that the private
company, which hasn’t been
formed, would supply the
manufacturing facilities for the
casket production.
However, all the materials
for the caskets and tools were
bought with CETA funds,
according to the Chronicle.
Taylor said his staff
indicated that the contraCt
between the consortium and
that I have received, this one town I come from. It makes
stands out far beyond the rest me feel Uke they are really
because it comes from the proud of me.
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at the CBS News Washington
Bureau in 1974. Bradley v.as
named CBS News
Correspondent in APril 1973,
and shortly after, was wounded
while on assignment in
Cambodia.
In March of 1975, he was
among the CBS News
correspondents who
volunteered to return to
Indochina to cover what
became the fall of Cambodia
and Vietnam He was among
the last to be evacuated from
both Phnom Pehn and Saigon
prior to the communist
takeover of those capitols.
the casket company was being
honored and that people were
being trained.
Bryson Wells, president of
the proposed casket making
company, is also on the board
of the CSRA Business League.
He has been paid SB,OOO as one
of the two instructors in the
training program, although he
admitted not be ins a
professional casket maker, the
article said.
About $4,500 of the grant
money has been paid to Harvey
L. Johnson, chairman of the
board of the casket company,
for the administration of the
program, according to the
Chronicle.
Wells and Johnson said their
attorney, Stan Jackson, advised
them not to comment.