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Vol 9 No. 20
Pope has
black pilot
NEW YORK - First Officer
Clarence Powell Jr., of North
Bergen, N.J., will be at the
controls of the Special TWA
flight assigned to jet Pope John
Paul II in and out of the skies
during his Holiness’ historic six
city American pilgrimage
starting this week.
The special plane, a
727-231, has been modified in
the first class area by enclosing
four seats, two each facing
each other. “This will allow the
Pope some privacy,” according
to David C. Venz, TWA
spokesman.
The ppal seal will be
displayed on the plane’s
exterior near the fuselage.
Inside, it will be attached to
the bulkhead behind the flight
deck (cockpit).
On Mon., Oct. Ist the plane
will be ferried from LaGuardia
to Boston after a two-day
inspection in Kansas City. A
second plane, a TWA 747, will
return the Pope to Rome. Pope
John Paul II will leave Ireland
for New York aboard Aer
Lingus, the flagship of the
country. A bed installed just
for the Pope will be added to
the first class section of the
747. All other passengers will
utilize coach seats.
In the papal party are 30
persons, the Vatican press
totals 70 or more, and the
remainder will be Secret
Service security. Two officials
and six flight attendants one of
whom is a beautiful black girl,
Deborah Francis of Virginia.
23 candidates
vie for council
Twenty-three candidates will
be vying for seats on the
Augusta City Council, Oct. 10.
Seeking the Ist Ward seat
are:
*Mrs. Inez Wylds, president
of the Georgia-Carolina
Toastmasters. The 52-year-old
says she has the time to run
and is capable and willing to
serve. She favors ward voting
and city-county consolidation.
•William “Bill” Schweitzer,
.president of Riverside Glass
Co., is a member of the
Augusta Homebuilders
Association. Schweitzer is
calling for revitalization of the
downtown area. Schweitzer,
whose legal residence is being
questioned, once made a bid
for elected office in Columbia
County.
♦Mrs. Elizabeth Williams,
known in her neighborhood as
“Sweetening” is a 1977
graduate of Richmond
Academy who went back to
school when she was 50 to get
her high school diploma.
She favors better lighting for
downtown areas, restoration of
old homes and downtown
revitalization, city-wide voting
as it is now. She opposes
district voting and is in favor of
consolidation.
•Charles A. DeVaney, 27, a
lawyer who attended local
public schools, is president of
Old _ Towne, a neighborhood
organization. He favors more _
street lighting, adequate
police protection, district
voting, and is against merger of
die Richmond County Sheriffs
Department and the Augusta
Police Department and said
that the “people have spoken”
on city and county
Augusta
Powell’s plane will meet the
Pope and his entourage in
Boston and return him to New
York’s LaGuardia Airport
which utilizes the Marine Air
Terminal instead of the main
terminal. From here, the party
will journey to Philadelphia,
Des Moines, lowa, Chicago,
Washington, D.C., Rome, Italy.
TWA is preparing two
breakfasts, a snack, and two
luncheons for the domestic
flights, but more elaborate
meals will be served aboard the
return flight to Italy.
Put in charge of Special
Flight 8752 tops a flight career
for 40-year-old First Officer
Powell, the dapper black
aviator who has been with the
airline since 1966. With
marked ability, he became a
First Officer the following
year. He is experienced in
flying both domestically and
internationally, including
service on the Boeing 707.
An honor graduate of the
U.S. Army Flight School, he
served in Vietnam in 1964
where he piloted helicopters in
Hueys, H-13s, H-21s and
H-19s.
Active in the NAACP and
the National Urban League, he
is regional vice president of the
Organization of Black Airline
Pilots. He attended college in
Kansas City and the State
University, Troy, Ala. Powell is
a native of Kansas City, Mo.
where his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Powell, Sr. currently
reside.
consolidation when they have
voted against it.
♦Clifford F. Robinson Sr.
also qualfied as a candidate for
the Ist Ward seat. (We were
unable to reach him for an
interview).
Seeking the 2nd Ward seat
are:
♦Roger T. Bates withdrew
Monday afternoon as a
candidate for the 2nd Ward
Augusta City Council seat in
the Oct. 10 council elections.
He said his workload is too
heavy.
•Willie Mays, son of
Councilwoman Carrie Mays,
who out polled B.L. Dent in
the second ward in 1974 when
he was 23. He calls for better
affirmative action programs,
favors ward voting, and is
against city and county
consolidation.
See “CANDIDATES”
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Polling places
Polling places for die
Oct. 10 election will open
at 7 aan. and close at 7
pan.
Those places include the
following:
Ist Ward - May Park on
Watkins Street,
2nd Ward - Bell
Auditorium, 712 Telfair St.
3rd Ward - comer of
Murphy and Bransford
Roads
Augusta man
shot to death
at the Red Star
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P.O. Box 953
Candidate accused of trying
to ‘shut up’ NAACP president
The 4th Ward City Council
race presents a special
dilemma. The incumbent,
Sebron Butler, in our opinion
does not merit re-election.
About the only thing that we
can say in his behalf is that he
has attended meetings, beyond
that we can see little that he
has said or done, good or bad.
On the other hand, his
opponent, Joseph C. Jones, has
a history of double dealing
with “downtown”-usually
trading the interests of the
black community for his
personal gain.
The most recent of Jones
insults to the black community
came following the cadidates
meeting before the CSRA
Business League two weeks
ago. President
Seabrook told she
News-Review that Jones called
her employer, Business league
Director Harvey Johnson, and
told him that if he did not shut
Miss Seabrook up, that he
(Jones) would not help the
business league secure any
more loans through First
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ARAFAT MEETS WITH SCLC OFFICIALS: Yasir
Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization,
welcomes members of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference to Beirut, Lebanon. The group, led
by SCLC president, Rev. Joseph E. Lowery , in light suit
4th Ward - Peabody
Apartments (in the rear)
sth Ward - comer of
Crawford Avenue and
Fenwick Street
6th Ward - Central
Avenue next to fire station
7th Ward - Julian Smith
Casino
Bth Ward - Highland
Avenue across from Daniel
Field
October 6, 1979
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Georgene Seabrook
Federal Savings and Loan
Association where Jones is
manager of the downtown
branch.
Jones declined to comment
on the charges.
When any person uses his
position to try to “shut up
Augustan shot to death
An Augusta man was shot
and killed shortly before
midnight Friday in front of the
Red Star restaurant at the
comer of Ninth and Walker
Streets.
The dead man was identified
as 43-year-old Jesse Shaw,
brother of Richmond County
educator Arthur Shaw.
Augusta police are searching
for a suspect described as
stocky and in his early 20s.
In another incident last
3 of 5 judges
belong to
segregated clubs
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Editorial
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Joe Jones
any body there is cause to be
alarmed. But when that person
is the president of the NAACP,
the community should act
It is unconscionable that a
black man would hold hostage
a busness league designed to
at left, was on a fact finding tour of the Mideast.
Members of the delegation pictured are (1-r) Mrs. Evelyn
Lowery, Rev. Al Sampson, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Cong.
Walter Fauntroy (D-D.C.), and Rev. Bernard Lee. SCLC
Photo by Elaine Tomlin.
week, a 32-year-old woman
stationed at Fort Gordon, was
raped, according to police
reports.
The woman had gotten a
ride back to Fort Gordon with
a man she met at a service
station. The man reportedly let
the woman out at an exit ramp
near the post and she
hitchhiked another ride
because she did not know
where she was, the report said.
The two men took her to an
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assist minority businessmen to
get into the economic
mainstream.
This has been going on for
years. But we will just deal
with examples that have
occurred within the past year.
Joe Jones was a prime mover
in the successful dumping of
Edward Mclntyre as Richmond
County’s only black County
Commissioner.
In last year’s mayoral
election the black conununity
solidly supported black
tnayoral candidate Dr. C.S.
Hamilton. Jones supported
Mayor Lewis A. Newman.
Rev. Hamilton is not only a
well-qualified leader, he is Joe
Jones pastor.
Mayor Newman quickly
rewarded Jones bv appointing
him to the Civil Service
Commission.
Jones has used that office,
too, to continue his double
dealing. Federal Judge
Anthony Alairno, you will
recall, has taken the Augusta
Police Department out of die
unknown location in a wooded
area, raped her and left.
Police are searching for the
suspects.
Also, Augusta police
arrested two men in
connection with the theft of
leather coats from Ruben’s
Department Store last week.
Ricky Pea, 19, of Gilbert
Manor and Tony Lamar Curry,
22, of Hunter Street, were
charged with theft by taking
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hands of the Civil Service
Commission and put it in
receivership for its failure to
hire and promote a sufficient
number of blacks. Jones went
to see tlie judge and requested
that the Police Department be
put back in the hands of the
Civil Service Commission and
he blamed the department’s
failure on black affirmative
action officer Hansel E.
Johnson. He said Johnson was
a poor recruiter.
Jones said he did not have
time to continue as president
of the NAACP, yet he left that
office and immediately headed
up and advisory board that
sponsored a school bond issue
tliat the black and white
communities turned down.
J ones can be depended on to
support the upcoming
consolidation effort and
anything else that will endear
him to downtown, regardless
of the effect it has on black
people.
Unfortunately, the city
council is not his goal. His goal
is State Representative R.A.
3 of 5 judges
members of
segregated clubs
Three out of five federal
judges in the South and
probably a majority in the
nation belong to segregated,
all-white social clubs, according
to a report released today by
the Southern Regional Council
of Atlanta.
In a survey of the social club
memberships of federal judges
in 11 Southern states and four
non-Southem cities, the civil
rights-re search organization
found that of the 127
Southern federal district
judges, 58 percent belong to a
social club or association that
has never had a black or other
minority as a member. (See
attached chart). Southern
federal circuit judges were even
more likely to have segregated
memberships. 61 percent of
the the circuit judges belong to
all-white clubs.
“A crisis of conscience exists
in the country’s federal
judiciary,” says Steve Suitts,
SRC executive director and
author of the report. “The
prevalence of memberships in
segregated clubs and
associations among federal
judges .endangers the
appearance of impartiality and
fairness of the third branch of
the government.”
Results of the survey,
undertaken over the past nine
months, show that the pattern
of segregated associations is
not confined to the South
Federal circuit and district
court judges in four
non-Southem cities - Los
Angeles, St. Louis, Chicago,
and Baltimore - were only
slightly less likely to belong to
all-white clubs. 51 percent of
the judges in these cities hold
such memberships.
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Dent’s seat in the House of
Representatives. He has picked
a weak opponent in Sebron
Butler.
He needs only a strong
victory over Butler before he is
ready to challenge Dent
Many of us have sat back
too long and watched the
people downtown use Jones
against the black community,
reward him with promotions
and then tell us that he is our
leader.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Given the dangerous alternative
of Joe Jones, we think that the
black community is better off
with Sebron Butler.
Our Other Endorsements:
Ist WARD: Charles Devaney
or Elizabeth Williams.
2nd WARD' Wißie Mays
3rd WARD: Y.N. Myers
sth WARD: Charles Bussey
or J immy Murray
6th WARD: B.J. Hawkins or
Bill Waters
7th WARD: Bernard
Mulherin
Bth WARD: Penland Mayson
FLORIDA HAS MOST
In the Southern states,
Florida had a larger percentage
of judges with exclusive club
memberships than any other
state. The majority of federal
judges in every Southern state
except South Carolina
belonged to all-white clubs.
The judges in the district
courthouses in
Houston, Miami, and Dallas
represented the largest
numbers of judicial officers
with segregated clubs
memberships of any Southern
location in the study.
One federal judge in Miami,
Florida, had memberships in
six segregated clubs. Most
judges belong to only one such
club.
The survey does not identify
by name individual judges who
belong to all-white clubs.
“There is no attempt here to
embarrass any individual. The
issue is whether any judge can
properly belong to such clubs,”
says Suitts, “and the problem
is that segregated clubs are the
preferences of most federal
judges.”
The report is based upon
information collected from
published sources, civil rights
organizations, lawyers, and
club members as of January 1,
1979. No judges appointed
since that time were included
in the study.
NIGGER QUESTIONAIRE
The issue of membership in
segregated clubs has been
See “JUDGES”
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