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Boggs president
is speaker at
NAACP banquet
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Steven Boyd
Augustan ready
for tennis career
LOUISVILLE - Augusta’s
Stephen Boyd started playing
tennis about the same time
that he started working: age 7.
The rest of his family was
working. He was expected to
deliver groceries for die
neighborhood store as soon as
he was old enough to pedal a
bike.
His route took him by the
playgrounds, where he watched
people playing paddlebali and
tennis. He began spending his
free time there, learning to
play any sport he could. He
especially loved tennis.
Working for the grocery after
school, he earned enough green
stamps to buy his first tennis
racket.
“My green-stamp-special, I
called it,” Boyd laughs, “but 1
look back and I believe 1 must
have been pretty determined
about tennis. You know, in a
black neighborhood there
weren’t many kids who played
that game!”
Boyd spent hours slamming
balls against a wall, hoping that
a partner would show up.
When he had someone to play
with, they played on a cracked
court with a metal net. He
eventually discovered a decent
court three miles away, where
Sixteen million blacks
could vote by November
Blacks represent
approximately 10 percent of
the electrorate. The UJS.
Census Bureau has projected
that roughly 16-million blacks
will be of voting age by
November, 1980. In 1976,
nine-million blacks were
registered to vote and only
six-million voted.
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he walked nearly every day.
When he was a teenager,
Boyd changed jobs -a move
that would forge a link
between him and his dream of
becoming a professional tennis
player. His new job was at his
neighborhood Kentucky Fried
Chicken store. He worked for
KFC franchisee Clifford Pryor
who hired him as a cook, and
who eventually promoted him
to night manager.
Boyd bought his first “really
good racket” with his KFC
paycheck. And it took a long
time to save up for it -- Boyd
gave all but $5 out of his
paycheck to help support the
family.
And after the tennis racket,
Boyd saved enough money
from his earnings to pay
tuition to Kentucky State
University in Frankfort. There,
for the first time, he received
professional tennis coaching.
Predictably, he worked
part-time in college. His
favorite on a list of jobs is a
stint as a research assistant for
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. Today, he still
counts bio-chemistry as a
hobby.
“Someday I’d like to further
my studies in bio-chemistry,”
Eddie N. Williams, chairman
of the Organization Big Vote,
said: “We know that the
decade of the Eighties will not
be an easy time for motivating
and mobilizing those who feel
that their needs were not met
in the past and will probably
not be met in die future.
However, it is clear that we
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Boyd claims, “but not until I
have a shot at the circuit.”
At age 27, KFC is back in
the picture. Boyd is living out
the dream that took hold as he
gripped his first professional
racket and gained momentum
with his first training in
college. “I have been invited to
speak to a lot of high school
kids about the value of
education - but 1 always tell
them it doesn’t make any
difference without hard work,
“my pb gave me a start -- but 1
took advantage of it,” Boyd
said. “How 1 have another
opportunity.”
Playing tennis has never
been easy for Boyd. There
were no coaches in his
predominantly black
neighborhoods. There weren’t
even decent courts.
Boyd handles being one of
only a handful of black prosas
an off-court advantage: “If it’s
attention-getting, that’s okay.
Black players need to be
invited to the big money
tournaments all over the south.
Is he ready, after nearly three
years as a teaching pro?
“I’m ready -for the
competition, and to discover
what I can take.”
ourselves have not done
enough to maximize our
political potential. We must
continue to increase our rates
of political participation,
especially at time characterized
by widespread economic
troubles and calls for
belt-tightening.”
Boggs president is NAACP
Freedom Fund speaker
Dr. Y.K. Whitney, president
of Boggs Academy, will be the
featured speaker at the annual
Augusta NAACP Freedom
Fund program on May 16 at
7:30 p.m. in the Tabernacle
Baptist Church.
Dr. Whitney, an outstanding
combat Air Force pilot in Italy
during World War 11, has had
several interesting careers --
aeronautical engineer, educator
and specialist on African
affairs. Boggs Academy has
experienced growth and
advancement during his two
years as head of the Keysville,
Georgia sschool. He is a
graduate of MIT, and holds a
doctorate from Columbia
University. He is on leave from
the national office of the
Publisher’s mother stabbed
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NEW YORK -- The
75-year-old mother of
News-Review Editor-Publisher
Mallory K. Millender suffered a
punctured lung when she was
stabbed during a burglary of
her home May 1 in the
Soundview section of the
Bronx.
Police have arrested her
14-y ear-old former foster
grandson and charged him with
robbery and attempted
murder. He had lived with her
daughter and son-in-law on
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Shown above at recent fund raising dinner and concert,
held at the Radio City Music Hall, New York City,
where Willie Mays received the A. Philip Randolph
Humanitarian Award from the Harlem-Dowling
Children’s Services, from the left, are: John E. Heilman,
Patient claims he was sexually abused
DECATUR, Ala. - The
family of Tommy Lee Hines, a
mentally retarded black man
whose conviction for raping a
white woman was overturned,
said he told them he was
sexually assaulted at the state
mental hospital where he still is
confined.
It was the second time
allegations have been made
that Hines had been sexually
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Police said the youth, not
identified because of his age,
and two IS ', (.mold friends
came to the Millender home
the day before. They visited
the upstair:: apartment of
another of Mrs Millender's
daughters and her children.
According to the police, the
youths hid jewelry and rings in
the couch and came back for
them the next day.
attacked while under state
supervision. Members of his
family said they would ask
federal authorities to see that
Hines would be protected
while he remains in state
custody.
Hines has been confined at
Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa
since October 1979, when Gov.
Bob James issued an executive
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They reported!}' used a knife
to get into the home, went into
the basement where they
turned off the electricity and
cut the telephone lines.
When they found the door
locked to the upstairs
apartment, they tore it down.
Mrs. Millender, hearing the
noise and believing that one of
granddaughters was in the
upstairs apartment went to
inquire. She -'as stabbed with a
switchblade knife
president and chief executive officer, Somerset
Importers, Ltd.; Mrs. Heilmann, and Willie Mays.
Senator John W. Warner, representing his wife,
Elizabeth Tavlor, who was ill, presented the award to
Mays for his outstanding contributions to childrens
causes. Entertainment was provided by Sammy Davis
Jr., Lola Falana and Tom Dreesen.
order committing him. James’
action came after state doctors
said Hines was suffering from
“a serious mental illness,” as
well as his retardation.
Several months before that,
the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference asked
the governor to look into the
possibility that Hines was
beaten and homosexually
Black caucus leader
at state legislature
to speak at Hilton
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Presbyterian Church.
Rev. Dr. Charles Hamilton,
pastor of Tabernacle Baptist
Church and past president of
the Augusta NAACP, will
introduce Dr. Whitney. Mrs.
Ann Thornton will make the
appeal while music will be
furnished by the Augusta Mass
Choir and others. Father
Richard Horton, pastor of St.
Mary’s Episcopal Church, will
also sing.
The Freedom Fund program
will highlight the NAACP
effort to bring about full
citizenship to Black Americans.
Mallory Millender will
moderate. Charles Williams is
program chairman and Mrs.
Georgine Seabrooks is
president.
She was found by the
daughter of the main floor
tenant who came to find out
why the liglits were off.
She is listed in fair condition
in Jacob’s Hospital in the
Bronx.
According to Bronx District
Attorney Mary Beth Abbate,
the other two youths are being
held in a juvenile detention
home and will be arrested as
soon as their roles in the
incident have been determined
assaulted while confined at
Kilby prison. State officials
later said the charges were
unfounded.
A small group of relatives
and friends visited Hines at
Bryce Hospital. They said
Hines told them he had been
sexually and physically
assaulted while confined at
that facility.
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Bridgette O’Berry
Williams, 19, recently
served as guest model at
the Wiley Drayton Day
Care Fashion Show. A
graduate of the Barbizon
modeling school in
Atlanta, site wants to
become a fashion
coordinator. (See related
photos page 2)
Club award
memorializes
Billy Stinson
Two new awards were
presented during the annual
Delta Psi Omega and Dramatic
Club award night at Paine
College recently.
The new Director’s Award
will be presented annually to
the student demonstrating the
greatest leadership ability.
Samuel Adams won the award
this year.
The second new award was
named for one of the two
students who initiated the first
Dramatic Club award night in
1965. The Billy D. Stinson
Award will be presented
annually to the most valuable
member of the club. Alphonso
Comer ceived the first Stinson
Award this year.
Comer was also named best
actor for the year. Two
actresses, Chezetta Culver and
Maxine Barnett, shared the
award for best actress.
Maxine Volley Otis Elam
were named best supporting
actress and actor.
Other students receiving
awards are: Wesley Neal, best
actor of one-act plays; Michael
Lewis, best supporting actor
for one-act plays; Chris Lowe
most valuable actor; Vera
Larke, most valuable actress;
Alex Holmes, most valuable
alumnus; and Maxine
Newberry, appreciation award.
Awards for lighting and
sound were presented to
Dominic Mack and Michael
Jackson, respectively.
Sickle cell
grant given
A grant totaling $994,555
has been awarded by the
National Heart, Blood and
Lung Institute to Dr. Titus HJ.
Huisman and the
Comprehensive Sickle Cell
Center of the Medical College
of Georgia.
The funding represents third
year money of a five year grant
for the sickle cell center and
will be used for salaries,
equipment, supplies,
consultant costs, travel and
contractual costs for the
coming fiscal year.
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