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Golden Sanders. The members of Mrs. Sanders’ family at the birthday party included five generations, left to right:
Mrs. Elaine Linyear, granddaughter, Lori Coleman, great granddaughter, Stephanie Coleman, great-great
granddaughter, Mrs. Ruby Sanders, and Mrs. Alta Pinckney, daughter.
' National economist in Augusta
Brimmer: Reagan scores lowest
By Fannie Flono
Nationally known black
economist Andrew Brimmer
said last week in Augusta that
Ronald Reagan scores
considerably lower than any
other presidential candidate on
issues important to blacks.
Brimmer, president of
Brimmer and Company, Inc.,
Economic and Financial
Consultants, and a former
member of the Federal Reserve
System Board of Governors
was in Augusta for the 19th
Annual Meeting of the CSRA
Planning and Development
Commission.
“There is a substantial
difference in the policy
prescriptions of the two major
candidates,” Brimmer said.
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president as opposed to Mr.
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BLACK COLLEGES-President Jimmy Carter
addresses a group of civil rights leaders, representatives
from the United Negro College Fund and the National
Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
and black college presidents in the Rose Garden of the
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Carter, I would suspect Mr.
Reagan would put far more
emphasis on private initiative.”
On a list of economic policy
suggestions by the
Congressional Black Caucus
with a perfect score of 100,
Kennedy scored 83, Carter 43,
Anderson 32, Bush 23 and
Reagan 13, Brimmer said.
The scores were based on
the speeches, voting records,
interviews and literature
distributed by the candidates,
Brimmer said.
As far as the two major
candidates are concerned,
community programs and aid
would be considerably cut by
Reagan, Brimmer said. So
would categorical and block
grants which are meaningful to
minorities, he said.
Brimmer, who sees the
decade of the 1980 s as one of
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slow and uneven economic
growth, divides the country as
far as economic potential into
winners and losers.
The industrial northeast
where the steel industries are
will be decided losers, he said.
The sou til east and west will be
winners.
“We’re only now beginning
to realize that 1973 ended the
post World War II period and
started a new era. It was that
year that OPEC raised
petroleum prices four-fold and
changed the economy
throughout the world.
“We’re still reaping the
bitter harvest from that
enormous increase in oil prices.
That echo will extend into the
1980 s.”
Brimmer said the coming
decade will mean slower
growth, higher prices and a
White House recently. During the event the President
signed an Executive Order which formalizes a program
to increase participation by historically black colleges
and universities in federally-sponsored programs.
(See full text of order on page 4)
August 30,1980
look for alternative energy
sources which will not be
successful until the late 1980 s.
Areas of the country where
electronics, communication
equipment and new chemicals
proliferate will be die
“winners” of the new decade.
Petroleum rich Texas and
Oklahoma and the “silicone
valley” of California will see
prosperous times.
But the policy prescription
of President Carter will not be
to simply aid the winner, but
the loser as well, Brimmer said.
“We have to ask ourselves to
what extent our tax money
should be used to
underwrite losses.”
Brimmer feels that Chrysler
should have been allowed to
declare bankruptcy. “The
Chrysler decision was not
good. Even the most
elementary economist would
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Sand Hill residents fight
to improve Big Oak Park
The president of tire Sand
Hill Neighborhood Association
said area residents are not
going to give up on
improvements in the Big Oak
Park, eventhough the city has
agreed to some changes.
The Augusta City Council
agreed to put a street light at
the intersection of Wheeler and
Boy Scout Roads, put a water
fountain in the area and step
up police patrols in the area
after citizens complained about
the park during a meeting.
But Dorothea Smith said her
group still wants to carry out
Hasan to seek
city council seat
Aqeel Khatib Hasan,
minister of the Augusta Muslim
community, said he plans to
announce this week his
candidacy for the second ward
city council seat now held by
B.L. Dent who is not eligible to
succeed himself for a third
consecutive term.
Civil Service Commissioner
William Baxter has announced
suggest that Chrysler should
have been allowed to go into
bankruptcy.”
Keeping the company afloat
was a political decision, he
said.
Brimmer said the shoe
industry and the textile
industry are also areas where
revitalization seems
inappropriate.
Paine selects new dean
Dr. Wesley J. Lyda, former
instructor at Paine College, has
been appointed interim
Academic Dean at Paine
effective August 25.
He will replace Dr. Vivian U.
Robinson, who was recently
appointed Fuller E. Callaway
Professor of English.
Dr. Lyda is a graduate of
DePauw University and Indiana
State University. His Ph.D. is in
secondary education with
minors in mathematics and
educational psychology.
In addition to his former
teaching post at Paine, Dr.
Lyda served as head of the
department of education at
Morgan State College in
Maryland, and was dean at
several institutions, including
Texas State University, Atlanta
University, The Fort Valley
State College and Central State
University.
In 1968, he returned to
Indiana State University as a
professor of education. He also
directed the Afro-American
Studies Program and Upward
Bound Program there.
He has written articles for
The Mathematics Teacher,
Teacher’s College Journal, The
Educational Record, The
Arithmetic Teacher, The
Journal of Educational
Research and many other
publications.
original plans for the park
which included a swimming
pool, tennis courts and other
recreational facilities as well as
neighborhood improvements.
She said sire lias already
contacted the state community
development planning agency
about the park and has verbal
verification that the residents
have a legitimate complaint.
In a letter to Carl Badger,
director of community
planning development in
Atlanta, Ms. Smith said the
“citizens of the Sand Hill
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Community were expressing a
deep concern over tire
inadequacies that exist in the
newly fanned park.
“It offers no meaningful
recreational benefits to either
the young, middle aged, elderly
or handicapped.”
Ms. Smith said the city has
not done everything promised
in the community development
application approved by tire
Department of Housing and
Urban Development wliich
provided the funds for
construction of the park.
She said no sidewalks have
his candidacy for the same
seat.
Hasan, 24, is a graduate of
Lucy C. Laney High School.
He said he supports “better
jobs with better pay.”
“I support jobs rather than
tax cuts.... Tax cuts would not
be economically feasible at this
time. Tax cuts carry the germ
of deeper inflation and a longer
recession.”
A veteran of the U.S. Marine
Corps, Hasan said he also
supports voter registration and
political education.
He was active in the Hyde
Park community's fight to
keep Clara Jenkins school open
and worked against the
establishment of magnet
schools at C.T. Walker and
A.R. Johnson schools. He also
writes a column “Thoughts to
live by” in the News-Review.
Hasan, who lives at 1015
Carrie St., works in building
management at the Uptown
Division of the Veterans
Administration Medical Center.
He is married and has one
son.
been constructed, no clean-up
campaign started, no
demolition or rehabilitation of
housing units, no street lighting
(except in tire park) and the
crossing signals near the park
are inadequate. All these things
were included in the grant
application.
City officials sav the park
was changed to a “passive” park
because of lack of funds, space
and other “various reasons.”
Ms. Smith said an official
from the state agency lias
indicated he would visit the
area.
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Martin wins
Las Vegas
trip
Emmit T. Martin, Sales
Representative for the Pilgrim
Health and Life Insurance
Company on the Augusta
District, qualified for
membership in the Company’s
prestigious President’s club. To
quality one must realize a
minimum of 1,000 points in
their combined growth quotas.
Martin has won an all
expense paid trip to Las Vegas.
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