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Principals in favor
Magnet schools opposed
While a black group told the
Richmond County Board of
Education it wants no part of
magnet schools planned for
A.R. Johnson Junior High and
C.T. Walker Elementary
Schools, two black principals
told the school board they
welcomed the magnet schools.
Aqueel Hasan, a leader of the
Concerned Committee for
Community Action, told the
board, “We feel it would be
detrimental and urge you not
to go further. Our concern is
not the magnet schools but our
children. We do not want
magnet schools in our
community -- period.”
If the magnet schools are
forced upon the community,
we will take whatever steps
necessary to protect the
welfare of our children, he
said, adding that his group
would work with the board to
develop “viable alternatives.”
A.R. Johnson Principal
William B. Bryant, whose
schools is scheduled to become
a health occupations high
school, said, “If properly
implemented it would be a
great help to our community.
Black principals have
supported it.”
Blacks asked to shape future
Dr. Luns C. Richardson,
president of Morris College,
said here Sunday that die
masses “still find it difficult to
keep body and soul together”
and that economic inequality is
the “bottom line where all
racial inequality comes to
rest.”
He was the featured speaker
at Paine College’s observance
of the 51st anniversary of the
birth of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.
Economic inequality causes
rigid distinctions between
black economic classes as well
as between blacks and whites,
he said. It causes tension,
conflict and strife between the
haves and have-nots.
“Without new and vigorous
public policy measures, things
will get worse for black people
before they get better, he said,
noting that public policy for
affirmative action has been
emasculated.
“The retreat from the
Second Reconstruction is not
to be taken lightly,” he
Small business course offered
“Management and
Planning,” a short course for
managers of small businesses,
will be held Jan. 23 and 24 at
Paine College.
The class will meet from 7
pm. until 9 :30 pm. each
night in room three of die
music building. A $7.50 fee
will be charged for the two
sessions, according to Dr.
Eugene Pierce, professor of
business administration and
economics at Paine.
The course recognizes the
fact that long-range, strategic
planning is a major problem for
minority business people.
February is Minority Business Month
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Bryant said he had shared
information about the health
magnet with some community
members and none of them
objected to the concept.
“If the magnet schools
would do the same thing these
parents wanted in a climate
conducive to learning I can see
no reason we should not
welcome it.
“At least a hundred black
children will come out each
year to pursue jobs they are
trained for. I see no reason you
could vote any way but yes.”
Lee Beard, principal of Sand
R
Aqueel Hasan
warned, tracing its origin to
President Nixon’s “southern
strategy,” “benign neglect,”
and the dismantling of
economic programs.
“The dream cannot be
realized as long as there is a
void between opportunity and
Dr. Luns C. Richardson
outcomes. Open housing means
nothing to those whose
incomes deny them the
opportunity to buy a house in
the first place.”
In the United States, only
three percent of the doctors,
Target marketing techniques,
methods of internal business
assessment, and overall
business plans will be
discussed.
“Almost every action or
decision of die business
manager requires prediction,”
Dr. Pierce stated. “Thus
planning ahead in a practical
way is the key to good
management,” he said.
Paine College faculty
members Barbara Combs and
Duane Farmer and Augusta
College professor Dr. Charles
Holloman will assist Dr. Pierce
in teaching this course.
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Bar Ferry Middle School,
echoed Bryant’s sentiments, “I
think it would be a good thing
for our children.”
“If we are going to consider
students, then I am for magnet
schools.”
William Brown, a school
teacher at Lucy Laney High
School, said he had done a
community survey and found
that most parents don’t know
what magnet schools are all
about.
“It has good and bad points.
I see no reason why it might
not work if administered
properly.”
But most people were not so
much concerned about magnet
schools as they were about
having a white principal
assigned -te'C.T. Walker, which,
he .said, has had a black
principal since 1934. The
parents are upset about “not
having a qualified black man in
that position. They feel we
have lost another slot,” he said,
adding that the magnet schools
need a little more explanation
if the parents are to understand
what they’re about.
Last Monday a group of
blacks met with school
superintendent William G.
lawyers and dentists are black,
he noted. “We need more
professionally trained black
people to come back to the
black community and take
over the leadership of our
communities.”
Black parents, churches,
educators, civic leaders are
falling down on the job, he
said, adding that at Morris
College students will observe
Martin Luther King Jr.’s
birthday without staying
home. “We will study his
philosophy and his dream”
instead.
According to Dr.
Richardson, there is a need for
ethnic cooperation, the
development of new coalitions
and a black agenda.
But he warned against what
he called “code words” such as
busing, quotas, and forced
integration, which keep us
apart.
He said blacks must rise
above the past, transcend the
present and shape the future
for the good of all people.
This is the third in the
Minority Business
Development series sponsored
by Paine College in
conjunction with the U.S.
Small Business Administration
and the Minority Business
Agency of the U.S.
Department of Commerce.
Other short courses to be
offered are “Taxes and Small
Business,” Feb. 27 and 28 and
“Advertising and Marketing
Your Product or Service,”
April 22 and 23.
Call the business department
at Paine for more information.
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Oellerieh to express their
opposition to the magnet
schools at Johnson and Walkel.
In addition to Hasan, that
group included City
Councilman I.E. Washington,
NAACP President Georgene
Seabrook, former school
Paine president
Blacks will be
worse off in 'Bos
Because of the erosion of
trends toward equality, blacks
will be in a worse situation in
the 1980 s than in the last two
decades according to Dr. Julius
Scott, President of Paine
College.
But Dr. Scott does not
advocate a preoccupation with
the past; he feels we must face
reality. “First,” he said, “wc
must recognize the fact that we
are not in control of our
nation, environment, or
morals of the youth of our
country.”
Scott, speaking at Paine’s
Winter Convocation, outlined
three imperatives for minorities
to follow in order to deal with
such situations.
The first mandate to all
minorities, according to Dr.
Scott, is to regd. Being
conversant in world affairs is
imperative now as in the
coming decade, he said.
Students should read world
history and current news, but
should also be familiar with
best-selling novels, said Dr.
Scott. He recommends
students read widely and
endlessly.
The second mandate for the
new decade, he said, is to avoid
mediocrity. “Don’t settle for
second best,” Dr. Scott said.
He mentioned Black English as
Sources say
Mayor pressured
Chief Scott’s retirement
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According to informed
sources, it’s not really blood
pressure that forced Police
Chief A.L. Scott’s early
retirement, but pressures from
the mayor and other
administration people. It is
known that Newman disliked
Scott’s performance in the
handling of police benevolent
funds in ’79 and with Scott’s
failure to submit a police
department budget in
November of 1979, the sources
said.
Scott’s refusal to submit the
budget stems from
Acting-Chief M.P.Philpot being
put in charge of police
department operations and
placing Scott in administration,
sources said.
Newman is said to have
wanted Philpot as chief
because Philpot was a Newman
supporter in his last election.
Scott was a backer of Joe
Taylor for mayor.
The power to appoint a
January 19,1980
teachers Ruth Hailey
and Lucille Floyd, Havard
Chester and Atty. George
Brown, both representatives of
Voters Organization for Total
I Effectiveness and Mallory K.
Millender, editor and publisher
of The News-Review.
an example of an excuse used
by some people. “Black
English has become a second
language for some of these
people,” he added. “One must
be flexible enough to use each
language in the proper
situation, according to Dr.
Scott.
The third mandate for the
new decade is to adopt a set of
values, Dr. Scott said. This
college was founded on a set of
values exemplified in the Paine
College Ideal. Each individual
needs a set of goals and
priorities to guide him through
life, Dr. Scott said.
SCLC president
to speak
Dr. Joseph E. Lowery,
president of the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference, will be the speaker
for Religious Emphasis Week at
Paine College next week.
He will speak in the
Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel Jan.
21 at 7:30 pan., Jan. 22 at 11
a.m. and again at 7:30 p.m.
police chief would usually be
in the hands of the Augusta
Civil Service Commission.
However, that was removed
when Judge Anthony A.
Alaimo placed the police
department in receivership last
April to speed and promote the
hiring of minorities.
Judge Alaimo had appointed
Scott receiver, but placed
Newman in that spot in
October of 1979.
Scott has said he will make
himself available at all times
for consultation until a
successor is officially named,
Newman concluded.
Asked whether any blacks
would in in line for the police
chief postion, Newman
replied, “I don’t-think so, the
logical choice is M.P. Philpot.”
Once the City Council
members confirm Scott’s early
retirement, Philpot will most
likely become the chief,,
Newman said.
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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY -- Mayor Lewis A. Newman (center) presents
proclamation to Paine College President Julius S. Scott Jr. Others looking on (from
left) are Rev. Jerry Poole, Nancy Timmerman, Dr. Gerald Smith, Charles Smith,
Rev. J.E. Robinson and Rev. Edmond Whitley
Mayor would support
city holiday for King
Mayor Lewis A. Newman
proclaimed Tuesday Martin
Luther King Jr. Day in Augusta
and said he would support
making King’s birthday a legal
holiday in the city of Augusta.
No one has proposed the
holiday to the City Council, he
said.
The mayor said he would
not like to add another holiday
Bart Starr to speak here
Bart Starr, head coach and
general manager of the Green
Bay Packers, will be featured
speaker at the Greater Augusta
Chamber of Commerce’s 1980
Annual Meeting and Report.
The dinner meeting will be
held Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 7:30
pan. at the Augusta Hilton
Convention Center.
The topic of Starr’s address
is “Winning In Augusta.”
Starr recently completed his
fifth season as head coach of
the football team he
quarterbacked to greatness
during the 19605. He joins
team founder E.L. “Curly”
Lambeau and Vince Lombardi
as the only men to coach the
Johnson nixed as ass’t. chief
By Billy W. Hobbs
There are three police
captains and ten to twelve
lieutenants who could possibly
be considered for the position
of assistant police chief, but
black Lt. Handsel E. Johnson
won’t be one of them,
according to Augusta Mayor
Lewis A. Newman.
Asked if Johnson would be
considered for the post,
Newman told The
News-Review, “No way.”
Former asst, police chief
M.P. Philpot is now the acting
police chief since assuming the
post last week when Chief A.L.
Scott asked for and received an
early retirement from the
force.
“Johnson will not be
considered for the assistant
police chief post, because he
still has a lot to learn on his
new job (as headquarters
lieutenant). He’s only been on
it for a week,” Newman said.
He just doesn’t have the
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to speak here
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for city workers, but he
would favor substituting one
honoring King in place of “one
of the nutty ones we already
have.”
The proclamation was issued
to be read in conjunction with
the Martin Luther King
birthday observance at Paine
College this week.
The proclamation cited Dr.
Packers for more than four
years.
The 1978 season found Starr
leading the Packers to an 8-7-1
record, a mark which tied
Green Bay with Minnesota in
the NFC Central Division’s
final standings. The team’s
eighth head coach expects the
Packers to be even more
competitive in the future.
With Starr at the offensive
controls, the Packers made six
playoff appearances in eight
years, losing only the first of
the six.
He escorted Green Bay to
successive victories in the first
two Super Bowls, in both of
which he was voted the game’s
police experience as far as line
duty is concerned Newman
said.
Lt. Johnson refused to
comment on the mayor’s
statements.
Newman noted that he was
against Johnson being hired
and placed in the department
as a lieutenant some six years
ago when he was hired as
full-time affirmative action
officer with the rank of
lieutenant.
“I knew it would cause a
low morale situation within the
police department, but 1
supported Johnson for two
years. However, I learned
afterwards that it wasn’t going
to work and since have been
trying to get it changed,”
Newman said.
The Mayor also said that
Johnson was hired specifically
to bring up the black ratio to
40 percent through means of
recruiting and training
programs which he never
King as “the only Georgian to
have received the Nobel Peace
Prize, and one of the foremost
citizens of the Nation in the
struggle for justice, equality,
and brotherhood.”
In the proclamation, the
mayor further urged all citizens
to “honor the legacy of hope
and brotherhood (Dr. King)
left for his state and nation.
Most Valuable Player.
During the 60s, Starr three
times led the NFL in passing
and was named to the Pro
Bowl on four occasions. He
also established four NFL
passing records during his
16-year playing career, the
longest in the team’s history.
He set, and still holds, league
marks for most consecutive
passes attempted without an
interception, 294, and lowest
percentage of passes
intercepted for a season, 1.20
set in 1966; and shares the
record for fewest passes
intercepted in a season, 3, with
Gary Wood of the New York
Giants.
accomplished.
Federal Judge Anthony A.
Alaimo seems “very pleased”
that the police department has
met its 40 percent court
ordered ratio for blacks hired
as policemen, Newman said.
He also predicted that
within the next month, the 6
and one half year old case will
be free of Alaimo’s court
order.
The department had 18
percent blacks in 1974 when
11 black officers filed a suit in
Federal Court alleging
discrimination in hiring and
promotions.
Other black lieutenants at
the police department are EJ.
Oliver, with 29 years of service
in the department; David
Jones, 15 years; E.C. Wilburn,
9 years; J.L. Jones twelve
years.
There are no blacks holding
rank above lieutenant.
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