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Nancy
Wilson
in concert
Singer Nancy Wilson
will appear in concert
Sunday Sept. 14 at 8 p.m.
in the Bell Auditorium.
Ms. Wilson will be
backed by her own trio,
pianist Michael Wolff,
bassist John B. Williams,
and drummer Ralph
Penland, along with
seventeen members of the
Augusta Symphony. The
concert is sponsored by
the Augusta Arts and
Cultural Association.
Her well-received debut
single, “Guess Who I Saw
Today’’, which was
released more than twenty
years ago, launched Nancy
Wilson’s successful singing
career, a career which has
included such hits as
“(You Don't Know) How
Glad I Am”, “Can’t Take
My Eyes Off You”, and “I
Wanna Be With You”, she
has also received numerous
honors from the music
industry, including the
Jazz Heritage Society’s
“Ebony Mike” award in
1976.
Advance tickets for “An
Evening with Ms. Nancy
Wilson” are on sale at Bell
Auditorium box office
Mondays through
Saturdays from 10 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. All seats are
reserved.
For ticket information,
call the box office at
7 2 2- 7925. Other
information may be
obtained by contacting the
Augusta Arts and Cultural
Association, 360 Bay St.,
Suite 315, or by calling
724-9712.
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Mre. Josephine Holmes (center of bottom row) with colleagues at police academy.
Training wasn’t easy for
woman security guard
By Fannie Flono
Being a security guard might
not seem like such a lady-like
profession, but there is a lady
in it.
Josephine Holmes, mother
and homemaker, is the only
female security guard at the
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Center.
And recently, she became
the only female YDC worker
to attend the Augusta Police
Academy.
The only woman in her
class, she successfully
completed the Law
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Enforcement Training Course
and, if she likes, can go on and
become a police officer.
The young mother said she
has no aspirations to became a
police officer but it’s good to
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Tuskegee mayor
Johnny Ford tells Paine students to arm
selves with knowledge and commitment
By Mallory K. Millender
Johnny L. Ford, the mayor
of Tuskegee, Ala. Monday
night challenged new students
at Paine College to get involved
in the political process. “Any
black who does not vote ought
to be tarred and feathered and
run out of town on a rail.
“Let me tell you something,
if we get Ronald Reagan in the
White House, black folk can
hang it up. If you think we’ve
had hard times, let Ronald
Reagan get elected.”
Noting the progress blacks
have made politically, the
Alabama mayor said there are
now 191 black mayors in the
United States. Alabama has 22
black mayors, more than any
Pilgrim changes leadership,
Hornsby, Walker take reins
The Pilgrim Health and Life
Insurance Company’s Board of
Directors has elected S.W.
Walker 11, chairman of the
board of directors and chief
executive officer and elected
W.S. Hornsby 111, president of
Pilgrim.
The announcement was
made jointly by board
chairman C.O. Hollis Sr. and
President W.S. Hornsby Jr.
Walker 11, a veteran of 22
years with the company was
executive vice president for
finance and secretary treasurer.
The 44-year-old Walker is a
native of Atlanta. He holds a
B.A. degree from Morehouse
College in business
administration. He has done
further study in business at
Atlanta University and Georgia
State College both of Atlanta.
He is a member of the Alpha
Jordan urges black political strength
The report’s findings were:
70 percent of all unemployed
blacks never received any
jobless benefits; over half (56
percent) of all poor black
households receive no welfare
assistance; over half (51
percent) of all black household
heads on welfare indicate that
they have no Medicaid
coverage; almost half (45
percent) of all black
households do not receive
benefits from any of the seven
most popular income support
programs for the poor -
welfare, SST, food stamps,
Medicaid, public housing, rent
subsidy and free school
lunches.
Included in the report’s
findings was information
revealing that “inflation is
having a devastating impact on
blacks,” with two-thirds
indicating that their incomes
had fallen behind the cost of
living over the past two years.
“The overwhelming majority
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Plii Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; The
N.A.A.C.P.; the Georgia
Chapter of the Insurance
Accounting and Statistical
Association; the C.S.R.A.
Business League; Long Range
Financial Planning Committee
at Paine College; vice chairman
of Small Business Development
Center for the State of
Georgia, and the Richmond
County Board of Tax
Assessors.
Recently Walker was
appointed delegate to the
White House Conference on
Small Business by 10th District
Congressman D. Douglas
Barnard.
He is married to the former
Naomi Fowler, they have two
children, Christopher Terrence
and Jennifer Michelle.
Hornsby, 39, is a native of
Augusta. He left Lucy Laney
of blacks today, regardless of
their economic status, feel that
racial discrimination continues
to be widespread,” with 70
percent of blacks with incomes
of $20,000 or more feeling
that there is a “great deal of
discrimination,” compared to
61 percent of blacks with
incomes under $6,000.
“We listened to the
candidates, and now we have
to make sure they listen to us.
The way to do that is to flex
the muscles of black political
power by getting out the black
vote.
“Let’s not just talk black
political strength - let’s show
it, let’s demonstrate it. Let’s
prove it...so that come Election
Day, black political power will
be the decisive factor in the
political leadership of this
country for the next four
years.”
This was the advice given to
conferees in a recorded
message by Vernon E. Jordan
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other state, said Ford , who is
the chairman of the National
Conference of Black Mayors.
“Alabama may not be what
it ought to be,” he said, “but
thank God it aint what it was.”
In introducing Ford, Paine
College President Julius S.
Scott Jr. noted that it was a
Paine College graduate, Dr.
Charles G. Gomillion who led a
law suit (Gomillion vs.
Lightfoot) against the city of
Tuskegee that enabled Ford to
get elected as that city’s first
black mayor in 1972 and to be
re- elected in 1976.
Scott also told the new
students that if Knoxville
College could produce the
mayor of Tuskegee, Paine
could produce a president of
the United States. He said Ford
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High School in the 10th grade
and entered Morehouse College
Vernon Jordan
Jr., president of the National
Urban League, and heard at the
Conference Dinner which
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was invited to speak at the
banquet for new students both
as a “symbol and as an
actuality.”
Ford urged the students to
be black and proud, “but be
black and proud with some
sense in your head’.’
“Be prepared to tell America
that ready-or-not here we
come-with will power not pill
power.
“Tell America there is no
shortage of energy, just a
shortage of priorities.
“Be prepared so you can tell
America that high interest rates
are examples of the elite riding
on the backs of the poor.
“Tell America that it is time
for a national health plan, and
that we aint gonna study war
no more.
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as an Early Admission Ford
Scholar. He received a B.A.
concluded the NUL’s 70th
Annual Conference at the New
York Hilton Hotel in New
York City. An unprecedented
16,000 persons attended the
four-day conference.
Jordan said that the major
candidates that addressed the
conference, “had no choice but
to come by here, because the
Urban League and America’s
black people cannot and will
not be ignored,” and that
Urban Leaguers must mount
voter registration programs and
citizenship education programs
in black and poor
neighborhoods, “to maximize
our political clout.”
Jordan is still recovering
from gunshot wounds he
received on May 29th, by an
unknown assailant, after an
appearance before the NUL’s
affiliate in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Prior to the official opening
of the Conference, a report of
the initial findings of the
NUL’s Black Pulse Survey was
“But before you can tell
America anything, you’ve got
to know what you’re talking
about.”
He urged the students to
arm themselves with
knowledge, know-how and
commitment.
“I challenge you to have the
commitment to tell America
‘I shall not be moved. I’m not
gonna let nobody turn me
around.’
“If a Klansman tries to run
you back to Africa tell him, ‘I
aint going nowhere-much as I
love the homeland.’
“Until the Irish go back to
Ireland, the Italians go back to
Italy, the Jews back to
Jerusalem and America is given
back to the Indians, 1 aint
going nowhere.”
Degree from Morehouse
College and did further study
at the University of Michigan.
He has also attended several
life insurance schools and
seminars.
He is affiliated with
numerous organizations
including the Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity, Bannaker Lodge
No. 3, Lebanon Consistory No.
28, Stoklin Temple Shriners;
Augusta Richmond County
Civil Defense, Augusta
Chamber of Commerce,
Southeastern Actuaries Club,
member Augusta Port
Authority; past president of
the United Way of Augusta;
and a trustee at Antioch
Baptist Church.
He is marned to the former
Clara Johnson and they have
two sons; Walter S. Hornsby IV
and Wendell Steven.
released by Dr. Robert B. Hill,
director of NUL Research.
The report revealed that
“Contrary to popular belief
that the black unemployment
crisis is primarily among black
youth, joblessness among black
heads of household was at
depression levels even before
the current recession! The
actual unemployment rate for
black household heads during
the last quarter of 1979 was 24
percent - three times the U.S.
Labor Department jobless rate
of 8 percent”
The Black Pulse Survey is a
nationwide needs assessment
survey of 3,000 black heads of
households conducted by the
National Urban League and its
affiliates during the fall and
winter of 1979 in central cities,
suburbs and rural areas.
The report revealed that
thousands of the poor who are
economically eligible for
various support programs do
not participate in them.
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