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Former festival queen
joins News-Review staff
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Marye James, daughter of
Mrs. Willie Lee Mathis, has
joined the Augusta
News-Review as advertising
manager.
Ms. James, is a native of
Thomaston, Ga. She is a
graduate of Paine College with
a bachelor’s degree in English.
A former Miss Augusta
Black Festival (1978), Ms.
Janies has been in sales nearly
three years.
She was a buyer at J.B.
White’s and has held sales and
management positions at the
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Dr. Mays 9 portrait hung
South Carolina native Dr.
Benjamin E. Mays, a
well-known black educator,
author and theologian, was
honored last Saturday in
Columbia at a portrait
unveiling and banquet.
Mays, originally from
Greenwood and now living in
Atlanta, has written
extensively on race relations,
black churches and social
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Marye James
Merry-Goßound and Casual
Comer clothing stores.
She is a member of the
board of directors of the
Augusta Arts and Cultural
Association, and is a model and
commentator for fashion
shows and clubs.
Ms. James enjoys people,
likes io read and play tennis.
She plans to go back to
school to get her master’s
degree and eventually wants to
own her own business.
She has five sisters and one
brother.
issues.
Mays was educated at South
Carolina State College, Bates
College in Maine and the
University of Chicago, where
he received master of arts and
doctor of divinity degrees.
The first event Saturday in
his honor was the unveiling of
his portrait at noon at die
State House.
Woman’s screams
scare off
would-be rapist
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Detective wounded
in shootout with
pawnshop burglar
Detective Sgt. Thomas W.
Carr is recovering from a
gunshot wound to the arm he
received while providing a
distraction during a burglary
attempt last week.
Carr and several other
Augusta Police officers had
cornered a suspect in a
downtown Augusta pawnshop
Thursday when the suspect
opened fire.
Willie Lewis Winters 111, 19,
of Macon, has been arrested
and charged with one count of
burglary and four counts of
aggravated assault with intent
to murder.
As many as 16 bullets were
reportedly fired by the suspect
from guns within the
pawnshop. Eighty-eight rounds
of ammunition were found in
Program aids minorities in health fields
By Fannie Mono
A summer program at tire
Medical College of Georgia is
giving minority students a
chance to see what it‘s like
preparing for a heal th-science
profession.
MCG’s Student Educational
Enrichment Program is
entering its 11th year and has
been successful in keeping
minority students interested in
health professions.
James Carter, director of
The General Assembly,
through a resolution,
authorized the portrait,
recognizing Mays as “one of
the inspiring stories of America
and symbolizing the strengths
of the nation.”
He also was recognized at
the Pioneers of Progress
banquet last Saturday at the
Carolina Inn.
August 2,1980
Thomas Carr
student minority affairs at
MCG, said the program has
grown from six students at its
inception to 89 students this
year.
About 71 percent of the
students who have been
through the program are
presently studying in a health
field, he said.
The program,known then as
the Health Science program, is
the third or fourth of its kind
in the nation and was designed
to attract disadvantaged
students to health fields.
The program began as a
federally funded venture, but
there were no federal funds
available for the project in
1977 and the program, then
state funded, became the
Student Educational
Enrichment Program.
Federal funding was restored
this year and 20 students from
out of state are attending the
program because of it. Most of
the students are from Georgia
because of the state funds
involved.
According to Carter, the
program is more competitive
now. “It is almost an honors
program.”
’To be considered, students
must have an interest in health,
Group organizes to save history of edifices
By Fannie Flono
A group of area citizens is
organizing to help preserve old
and historically significant
structures owned, built or lived
in by blacks.
The group is headed by civic
leader Addie Scott Powell and
Paine College history professor
Leslie Pollard.
The group was established at
a recent meeting at the
Bethlehem Community Center
where an architect from
Tuskegee, Ala. discussed
historically significant black
structures in Augusta.
Richard K. Dozier, who is
helping the State of Georgia set
up criteria to identify historic
black structures and get them
listed on the National Historic
Register.
Dozier said the only criteria
for such recognition is that the
the suspect’s possession,
officials said.
Much of the merchandise in
the store was shot up.
Sgt. Carr, Lewis Trout, Det.
Jesse New and Officer Erin J.
Sheard were pinned inside the
store while shots were being
fired around them.
They were partly protected
by a shelf holding television
sets and were able to run for
cover when Sgt. Carr provided
a distraction and was shot in
the arm.
Two tear gas containers were
thrown in the store giving the
officers a chance to flee and
the suspect emerged 10
minutes later.
Winters is being held
without bond at police
headquarters.
have an adequate grade point
average, have satisfactory SAT
scores and letters of
recommendation from school
counselors.
“We’re not only interested
in attracting students, but in
supplementing their school
program,” Carter said. Through
this program, students get a
chance to see what the
profession they are interested
in is like and whether it’s
something they really want to
do, he said.
The program includes
different courses for high
school and college students.
Among the courses are biology,
physiology, medical history,
scientific writing, critical
reading and learning skills.
The learning skills classes
teach students about test
taking techniques.
Students are also required to
do a major research project.
There is also time away from
studies for field trips, tours and
other recreational activities.
The program is designed for
minorities and students are
sought year-round.
This year’s program has two
Puerto Ricans, one Lebanese
and two Oriental students in
addition to the black students.
building be 50 years old,
architecturally significant and
have associative history, that is,
a well-known person lived or
worked there.
There are many homes in
Augusta which meet these
criteria for inclusion in the
National Register.
Dozier has studied structures
in the Laney-Walker area and
in other areas of the city
including “where blacks
originally settled” in the 13th
Street and Reynolds Street
area.
Among the structures he has
identified are the Springfield
Baptist Church, Union Baptist,
Tabernacle, Macadonia, Mt.
Olive, Trinity CME, Daddy
Grace’s Church, St, Johns and
other churches.
Also the Penny Savings Bank
structure, one of about 70
black banks begun after
Remember to vote!
Black leagues
endorse
Zell Miller
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Reconstruction. Only two are
still standing, the one here at
the comer of Ninth and
Laney-Walker next to where
the Lennox Theatre stood and
one in Savannah.
“This is certainly the most
impressive,” Dozier said.
Carolyn Humphries, of
Historic Augusta, said the city
has already received a $16,000
matching grant from the U.S.
Department of Interior to pay
the salary' of a black resource
person to find such structures
and work in interviewing
persons in the black
community about historic
happenings.
Work will also be done in
that area by the Laney-Walker
Museum project which is
already attempting to raise
money for a permanent black
museum in this area.
Defeat
Talmadge!
Georgians will have a unique
opportunity to defeat Sen. Herman
Talmadge August sth in his bid for
re-election to the U.S. Senate. For
the first time in 23 years, Talmadge
can be beaten, but only if black
people go to the polls and defeat
him.
A large black turnout is
extremely important because this
election will not be won in
November. It will be won in
August. If we stay home, regardless
of what we think of Talmadge, he
will be re-elected. And we can not
afford that.
Talmadge’s attitudes are still
somehow shocking:
Here are a few quotes from
Talmadge’s book “You and
Segregation.”
“.... in every election for every
important office in the Southern
states, we will be voting for or
against segregation. There will be
other issues, but this will be the
primary issue and we must always
recognize it.”
♦ * *
“Nations composed of a mongrel
race lose their strength and become
weak, lazy and indifferent.”
* * *
Civil rights laws “are the spawn
of an alien ideology which is
foreign to the principles of our
American system.”
* * *
“.... lam the enemy of the
Communists, of fellow travelers and
of the NAACP, all of whom would
destroy the Bill of Rights and our
American way of life
While it is true that Talmadge’s
book “You and Segregation” was
written 25 years ago, his voting
record continues to reflect the
attitudes expressed in his book.
He voted against the Civil rights
Act of 1965 and against its
extension in 1970 and 1975. He
opposed the legislation that finally
allowed blacks in the South to
register and to vote.
Fortunately, today blacks are
able to vote and to monitor with
the way Congressmen vote. The
Leadership Conference on Civil
Rights, a coalition of more than
100 labor, religious and civil rights
groups, which publishes and annual
rating of how Congressmen vote on
issues affecting civil rights, rated
Talmadge “0” on his civil rights
votes in the 92nd Congress in 1972.
In 1974, Talmadge voted wrong
70 percent of the time on
legislation important to black
people.
In 1976, he was wrong 60
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percent of the time, absent 20
percent, and right only 20 percent
in his votes.
In 1978, he was wrong 75
percent of the time, according to
the Leadership Conference’s rating
system.
That’s his voting record, not to
mention the fact that the Senate
denounced him for his
“reprehensible conduct” relating to
his improper handling of funds or
his problems with alcohol.
Talmadge does not deserve to
represent Georgians, black or white.
And if we don’t go out to the polls
and defeat him, we will be as
morally bankrupt as he is, and
deserving of his kind of
representation.
We urge you to vote for Lt. Gov.
Zell Miller. He has struggled with
the unrepresented to jjve them
equal prepresentation. He is for
affirmative action programs that
attempt to correct past injustices.
He supports the Equal Rights
Amendment, and was a supporter
of Home Rule for the District of
Columbia and continues to support
a Constitutional Amendment for
DC’s representation in Congress. He
has been a supporter of the Voting
Rights Act and other measures to
maximize black representation in
Congress and other offices through
redistricting and through other
means.
He supports set aside programs
for minority owned businesses. He
has repeatedly committed himself
to the elderly as one of his highest
commitments. He supports a
national health care plan, and feels
that no elderly person should live in
fear that a severe or long illness will
result in financial ruin. He supports
“Meals on Wheels” and other vital
nutritional programs for the
elderly.
He has been an outspoken critic
of substandard, rundown,
deteriorated houses, and supports
easing the tax burdens of the poor.
He opposes profits for oil
companies at the expense of the
poor. Zell Miller believes that the
poor should not have to choose
between eating and heating.
There is a clear difference
between Zell Miller and Herman
Talmadge. But it won’t matter
unless you vote.
OUR OTHER ENDORSEMENTS:
COUNTY COMMISSION; Travis
Barnes, Frank Williams. STATE
HOUSE; Patricia Marcus, John Bell.
STATE COURT SOLICITOR;
Vemon Neely. SHERIFF; Bill
Weaver.
Leagues endorse Miller
Two black Augusta voters
leagues have endorsed Lt. Gov.
Zell Miller in his bid to unseat
Herman Talmadge in the U.S.
Senate, according to league
sources.
In addition to Miller, the
Citizens Voters League and the
Augusta Political Club have
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exceptions
endorsed Jimmy Lester i>r
re-election to the state sena e,
Sam Nicholson and John Bell
for the state house, Vernon
Neely for state solicitor, James
G. Beck for sheriff, and
William Williams for the
county commission.