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Vol. 9 No. 27
By Fannie Flono
Walter S. Hornsby, executive
vice president of the Pilgrim
Health and Life Insurance Co.,
said he’s 100 percent behind
United Way.
Since he’s president of UW,
that’s just as it should be.
But Hornsby, the first black
president of the area UW, said
his endorsement is much more.
“If you think about it, these
types of services (which are
supported by the UW) are very
necessary to life.”
The United Way is people
realizing other people need
held, he said.
The UW has people “joining
together” to raise funds for
community needs, he said.
“This is so viable a service.”
With the United Way, the
community has much more to
By Fannie Flono
Older Americans are starving
therhselves to foot prescription
drug bills, a representative of
Strictly personal
If all the
hostages t
were black
By Mallory K. Millender
The crisis in Iran has
taken an interesting turn
since Ayatollah
Khomeini ordered the
release of women and
black hostages. The
immediate American
reaction has been to
charge the Ayatollah
with racism.
It would have been
interesting to watch the
reaction of the American
people had all of the
hostages been black.
Were that the case , I do
not believe that President
Carter would have
stopped buying Iranian
oil or that the American
people would have
supported him if he did.
I do not believe that
the American people
would agree to long gas
lines and a 16 cent
increase in the cost of a
gallon of gasoline in
order to save black lives.
Many Americans are
saying that Carter has
not acted strongly
enough. If all the
hostages were black,
America would have a
much less militant
posture. And we believe
that it is in recognition
of this double standard
by which America views
its citizens that
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United Way passes goal
with first black president
do with how the funds are
spent, Hornsby said.
The insurance executive said
the organization is also
scrutinizing services within the
community to see what social
services are needed.
One service where emphasis
is particularly being placed is
on day care centers, he said.
Hornsby said he thinks the
present United Way campaign
has been good. The campaign
was extended two weeks to
bring the funds closer to the
$1.45 million goal.
“We did a good job in the
civilian community,” he said.
According to Patty
McDaniel, communications
director of the United Way,
about 2500 volunteers have
been canvassing the area for
funds and pledges.
The goal is seven and a half
Pill costs starving elderly
the area chapter of the
American Association of
Retired Citizens said last week.
“Many older Americans are
living on starvation diets
Khomeini ordered that
blacks and women be
released.
Racism is reprehen
sible. But race
consciousness is
necessary if there is to be
any chance of winning
the war against racism.
While the release of
black hostages will be
looked upon with favor
in much of the black
community, the irony of
the situation is that if the
Iranians are successful in
its economic war with
the United States it will
be black and poor people
who will suffer the most.
This crisis is
particularly unfortunate
because the United
States is caught in a
no-win situation. It
cannot yield to the
demands of the Iranian
students or, indeed, it
will invite an open season
for black-mail. Yet if it
doesn’t, the nostages risk
being killed. And who
knows where it will end
should that happen?
Our hearts go out to
the hostages and of all of
the families involved.
And we solicit your
prayers for them,
President Carter,
Khomeini and the Shah.
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Walter S. Hornsby
because the pill bill is S6O to
$70,” Elizabeth Sayer said.
“It is so embarrassing to
have to talk to the elderly
about nutrition.”
The AARC representative
was one of nearly 100 persons
who packed the Augusta City
Council chambers at a public
forum on tax reform held by
the Georgia Tax Reform
Commission.
The commission, chaired by
State Sen. Jimmy Lester, was
HEW monitoring MCG
desegregation progress
Three investigators from the
U.S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare were at
the Medical College of Georgia
last week monitoring the
progress of desegregation
efforts at the school.
MCG President William
Moretz said the three-person
team from Atlanta came to the
school specifically to study the
progress the school has made
since a ruling earlier this year
calling for more extensive
desegregation of the University
System of Georgia.
Moretz said he was told the
medical school was one of
three state institutions (Fort
Valley and Albany State
College were the others) “part
of the early monitoring” of the
Georgia’s desegregation plans.
The MCG president said he
did not known how or why
MCG was chosen.
Williams Thomas, director of
the Office of Civil Rights, U.S.
Department of Health,
NAACP to hear importance of census
Joyce Lewis of the Bureau
of the Census will speak on
“Blacks and the 1980 Census:
We Need To Be Counted” at
the Nov. 26 meeting of the
November 24, 1979
percent more than last year.
The aim is to get person’s to
give one hour’s pay per month.
The money is divided among
27 area agencies such as the
YMCA, YWCA and the Girl
Scouts.
Whitney O’Keeefe, campaign
chairman, runs the fundraising
group.
Hornsby as president
presides over all the UW
committees.
Hornsby said his time as
president has been exciting.
“This is a very cooperative
group of people.
“I can honestly say I haven’t
seen any problems in any
areas,” he said.
The campaign encompasses
Richmond, Columbia and
in Augusta to hear the views of
area residents on various tax
proposals.
One of those proposals was
the elimination of sales taxes
on prescription drugs.
Other proposals included
plans to broaden the tax base,
to develop a comprehensive
solution to balancing the local
option sales tax throughout the
state and elimination of
inequities in Georgia’s income
tax deduction system.
Education and Welfare, said
the team visited the school as
part of HEW’s annual report on
the University System of
Georgia desegregation plan.
The visit was no indication
of wrongdoing at the school,
though the team could find
problems, he said.
There was no “magic” to
how the institutions being
monitored were selected,
Thomas said. Some institutions
were selected on the basis of
the type of program they were
using as part of the
desegregation order.
“The team is verifying the
progress of these programs,” he
said.
A report of the team’s
findings, will be made possibly
formally in written form,
Thomas said.
The team has not made a
report of their visit to MCG, he
said.
The group spent two days at
the school and were to proceed
NAACP.
She will describe the
purposes and uses of the census
data, the minority undercount
in 1970 and its impact on
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Lincoln Counties and North
Augusta.
Hornsby has served as
second vice president of the
local United Way as well as
treasurer.
He was also a member of the
Southeast Region task force of
the United Way of America.
He was a member of the
Augusta Port Authority, the
board of directors of St.
Joseph Hospital, a member of
the Sportsmen’s Boat Club, an
actuary of the National
Insurance Association, a
member of the board of
trustees of Antioch Baptist
Church and a former member
of the Association of the U.S.
Army.
The 1979 United Way
campaign ended last Friday
with $1,451,575, over the goal
by $1,575.
Area residents seemed most
concerned about the local
option sales tax, tax relief on
pensions and an intangible tax
some residents have to pay.
Most speakers favored
retention of the local option
sales tax. Among the speakers
were the mayor of Thomson,
county commissioners from
Columbia, McDuffie and
Richmond Counties and
Richmond County tax
commissioner Gene Meads.
to the other two institutions
after the MCG visit, Moretz
said.
The school official said the
group was primarily interested
in the school’s admission
policies and enrollment figures
of blacks in the school of
medicine and the dental
school.
“We have been encouraging
the application of blacks
through special programs,” he
said.
Those programs include
“special efforts to relieve
financial stress and special
education programs for
academic difficulties.”
Moretz said most of the
programs had been already
ongoing, but had been “made
more effective to some
degree.”
The HEW team talked with
each of the deans involved with
special activities in the
desegregation policy, Moretz
said.
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the Minority Statistics
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King holiday, if...
U.S. Rep. D. Douglas
Barnard would have voted for a
bill establishing the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s
birthday a holiday only if the
holiday was celebiated on a
Saturday or Sunday, a
spokesman from his Augusta
office said.
Barnard, at the time of the
House vote was in Athens, for
a speaking engagement. He was
the only Georgian absent last
week wnen the U.S. House of
Representatives voted on the
issue.
The measure which requires
a two-thirds majority for
passage failed by a vote of 232
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to 233. The bill was voted on
under suspension of House
rules where debate is limited
and amendments prohibited.
The bill may be voted on
again under normal rules.
Though a majority of
Georgians in the House voted
for the bill, Barnard was joined
by bill sponsor Billy Evans,
D-Macon and Rep. Bo Ginn,
D-Millen in preferring to
commemorate the day on a
weekend or have the option of
taking King’s birthday in lieu
of another holiday.
Cal Thornton, an aide in
Barnard’s Augusta office, said
the legislator was opposed to
the holiday on a weekday
because of the estimated $194
million it would cost.
U.S. Rep. Ed. Jenkins,
D-Jasper and Rep. Larry
McDonald, D-Marietta voted
against the bill.
Georgians voting for the bill
included, Evans, Ginn, Wyche
Fowler, D-Atlanta; Newt
Gingrich, D-Carrollton; Eliott
Levitas, D-Decatur; and Jack
Brinkley, D-Columbus.
Both U.S. Senators Sam
Nunn and Herman Talmadge
have said they oppose the
legislation.
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