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The Augusta News-Review-August 15,1981-1
The Augusta News-Review
Mallory K. MillenderEditor-Publisher
Paul D Walker Special Assistant to the Publisher
Barbara Gordon Sales Representative
Rev, R.E. Donaldson i Religion Editor
Harvey HarrisonGrculation Manager
Mrs. Rhonda Brown Sales Representative
Mrs. Mary Gordon Administrative Assistant
Mrs. Geneva Y. Gibson Church Coordinator
Mrs. Fannie Johnson Aiken County Correspondent
Mrs. Clara WestMcDuffie County Corresponsent
David DupreeSports Editoi
Mrs. Ileen Buchanan Fashion & Beauty Editor
Roosevelt Green Columnist
Al Irby» Columnist
Mrs. Marian Waring Columnist
Philip Waring Columnist
Grady Abrams Editorial Cartoonist, Columnist
Roscoe Williams Photographer
Mailing Address
Box 953 (USPS 887 8201- Augusta, Ga.
Phone (404 ) 722-4555
Second Class Postage Paid Augusta, Ga. 30903
Published Weekly
JlUft AMALGAMATED dflk
PUBLISHERS. INC. fr-A
Natioaai Adverttaiag Repregentstive
Buy A Black
Newspaper Sept.l7
Draw a red circle
around Thursday,
September 17 on your
calendar. This day will be
known as “Buy a Black
Newspaper Day” and we
are asking you. our
readers, and all members
of the Black community to
buy a Black newspaper -•
and only a Black newspaper
to demonstrate the
importance of the Black
press to the Black
community.
7he livelihood of all
media depends upon its
ability to attract
advertisers, but advertisers
rely on the use of general
market media to reach all
Black consumers believing
it makes no fundamental
difference. The objective of
the Buy A Black
Newspaper” campaign is to
help change this type of
thinking by encouraging a
nationwide demonstration of
support for Black
newspapers. This national
effort, sponesored by the
Black Owned
Communications Alliance
(BOCA), represents a first
time coming together of all
Black communicators.
A View From
Capitol Hill
Support Solidarity Day Sept. 19 In D.C.
By Gus Savage
1 was among the first
Members of Congress to
come out strongly against
President Reagan’s
economic proposals. I have
on several occasions
appealed to my colleagues
in the House of
Representatives and
Americans of goodwill at
large to work for the defeat
of these anti-people
programs. Therefore, I was
delighted to learn about the
AFL-ClO’s call for a
Solidarity Day
demonstration against these
proposals in Washington on
September 19.
As early as February
21. I predicted in a speech
delivered at an Operation
PUSH rally that the
majority of whites would
sochi receive the economic
injury which we already
had perceived in Reagan's
proposals- and might
substitute realism for
racism, and follow our lead.
Last Monday in this
column I urged Blacks to
form new alliances and
strengthen old ones, if we
want to guarantee defeat of
Reagan’s proposals. I said
we must rejoin forces with
the labor movement and
other progressive groups. I
included religious bodies,
civic organizations, fraternal
groups, and others who
have a stake in a turnabout
in the Reagan proposals.
Consequently, my
enthusiasm swelled when I
learned that the NAACP
and Operation PUSH had
endorsed Solidarity Day.
Speaking at another
PUSH rally, co July 7,
during that organization's
10th annual oonvantloi, 1
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Black radio and television
stations, newspapers and
magazines throughout the
country will be carrying
BOCA’s message.
Black press has long
championed the aspirations
and struggles of the Black
community. Your support is
critical to help us continue
in our struggle to present
the news that reflects
Blacks interests just as
white newspapers across
America reflect the
interests of whites.
All you have to do is
buy only a Black newspaper
on Sept. 17. You will be
sending a very clear
message to the rest of the
world about your
commitment to and support
of Black media. Your single
purchase with millions of
others will be noticed and
together we will have
voiced our opinion about
how we want to be reached
and what we think of our
institutions.
Remember, Buy a
Black Newspaper on
Thursday, September 17.
You’ll do more than read
the news. You’ll be the
news.
profits above people and
beats our plowshares into
swords. I again described
the President as Robin
Hood in reverse -- robbing
the poor and giving to the
rich.
Since I was bringing
greetings from the
Congressional Black
Caucus, I again explained
to the PUSH audience the
Caucus' ‘‘Constructive
Alternative” budget which
was presented to the
Congress in April. This
budget proposed to first
provide for our domestic
needs. It provided for our
children, for our students,
for the unemployed and
underemployed, and for the
elderly and retired.
The CBC budget
proposed to fight inflation
by shifting tax cuts from
the millionaires to the
multitude, and by reducing
approporiations for bombers
with no missions to fly, and
missile with no fair targets
to destroy, and armed
forces with no honorable
battles to fight.
Incidentally, that ill
fated budget could have
been balanced in fiscal year
1982, instead of fiscal 1984,
when the Reagan budget
is supposed to be balanced.
The United States
needs a true new economic
direction and a brand new
political vehicle to get us
there.
I now appeal to our
readers to join in the
demonstration. Come to
Washington on Saturday,
September 19, for Solidarity
Day. Make certain that
tiie White Houie gets the
WIMIUMM.
BUCK RESOURCES |HC.
UNDER THE AX
Register And Vote
Going Places Walking With Dignity
By Phil Waring By Al Irby
Census Count May Help
The current count out
on the 1980 census has
tremendous importance to
Black Americans, especially
in the South. If offers one
opportunity of getting out
from under some of the
severe and long-time
barriers, especially in the
political sector. We should
never forget that even with
the Voting Rights Act of
1965, there is barely one
percent Black of the total
550,000 elected public
officials in the nation.
tThe great drama
before us concerns
reapportionment, change in
voting patterns and other
facets of civil rights. The
U.S. Department of Justice
has again entered the
Mobile, Ala. situation
which has to do with
change from at-large to
district voting. A powerful
state-wide coalition has
been successful in getting
the Justice Department to
halt plans for state
legislative reapportionment
in Virginia.
NAACP MOVES FOR
GEORGIA CHANGE
.... What's happening
in our native Georgia? Wire
reports tell us about the
hard-striding activities of
the NAACP in Atlanta. It
points out that the state
has a Black population of
nearly 27 percent. There
are 56 members of the
Georgia senate but only two
Blacks, Senators J ulian
Bond and Horace Tate of
Atlanta. The NAACP is
asking that additional
districts be selected with
the accepted 65 percent
Black population. The
association is also
requesting that aditional
local representative districts
with Black population also
be created. Also
realignment on the
congressional level in the
Atlanta* Fulton* Dekalb
I- t, >ii i
election of a Black
congressman.
NEW LEADERSHIP
COALITION
.... What about the
local Augusta situation?
You’ll recall about one
month ago State Rep. R.A.
Dent urged a halt on local
state reaportionment plans.
There’s need for a second
district with a Black
majority. Secondly, those of
us in the media who
attended a recent press
conference at the Richmond
County Commission
chamber received press
releases about the new
Augusta Black Leadership
Coalition. It is comprised erf
a wide span of local
business leaders, educators,
ministers, neighborhood
and civil rights leaders, etc.
Ad indicated in the media,
the coalition has lit into the
Richmond County
Commission on several
fronts: (1) A letter to the
U.S. Attorney General
requesting an investigation
and halt of federal funding
until compliance with the
various federal guidelines,
(2) A complaint on the
handling of revenue sharing
funds, (3) Failure in fair
employment practice, use of
minority firms and
appointment of Blacks to
boards and commissions-
Black population is almost
40 percent in Richmond
County, and (4) Violation of
the Voting Rights Act as it
relates to districts and
election procedures.
People in the Black
community are talking
about various facets of the
coalition program.
Do these actions
presage upward social
change in Augusta like
other cities? One question,
however. What group will
get people out to register
and to the poll on election
BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN
SABOTEURS strike BIG
. . . . Militant Black
opponents of the all-white
South African government
seem to be concentrating
on key strategic targets as
part of a calculated
campaign instead of
attacking “soft” civilian
targets indiscriminately -
as has happened in other
liberation movement
struggles in Africa. In this
way, they may be hoping to
increase their standing and
legitimacy internationally,
reinforcing their claims to
being genuine “freedom
fighters” waging a war,
instead of being regarded
as just terrorists.
FIRST BLACK
JUSTICE NAMED
Telford Georges, a
West Indian professor and
former chief justice of
Tanzania, was appointed
the first Black judge on
Zimbabwe’s Supreme
Court. The government
announced he would take
his post on the four-man
court- all white since the
days of minority rule in
the former Rhodesia-- on
Aug. 1. Professor Georges,
bom in Dominica, West
Indies, came to Zimbabwe
last December as a
government adviser.
Previously he was a chief
justice in Tanzania for six
years.
DID DAVID STOCKMAN’S
PLEA TO THE URBAN
LEAGUE
FALL ON DEAF EARS?
....Study the
administration’s budget,
then discuss it without
excess rhetoric, Stockman,
director of the Office of
Management and Budget,
told the National Urban
League conference as
delegates listened silently.
Mr. Stockman knew he was
addrmini an audience
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programs affecting Black
people. Earlier, for
example, Vernon Jordan,
who fights all presidents,
Democratic or Republicans,
had referred to the Reagan
budget as the “jelly bean”
budget. It appears as if the
league president fights for
his own self
aggrandizement. Stockman
said, “My plea is not that
you accept all our answers.
My plea is that you debate
soberly, objectively and
reasonably.” The dashing
Mr. Stockman repeated the
Reagan’s philosphy that
past policies have not
worked; now new policies
and programs are needed.
808 MARLEYS
“REGGAE”
music stifled
Peter Tosh, a member
of the original Waiters with
Marley and one of the most
popular Reggae performer
in America, has a different
theory centering on a
conspiracy to keep Reggae
from becoming the next big
super sound. Tosh and
Denroy Morgan believe that
the recording industry has
just been paying lip service
to Reggae all these years.
“They fear Reggae," Tosh
said in a recent phone
interview from New York as
he prepared for a 55-city
tour-perhaps the largest
ever for a Reggae star
that will bring him into the
deep South.
CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS
KEEPS BAD BOOKS
.... Black newsmen are
asking embarrassing
questions about where do
the monies go from
Caucus’s annual dinners,
and how much money is
raised? For example last
year’s dinner drew 400 plus
dinners at $l5O per plate;
yet Congresssman Charles
Rangel erf New York said
the 1980 profit was only
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Dentistry
And You
By Dr. WJ-
Walker Jr., D.M.D.
Georgians who are over
the age of 21 years will be
happy to learn that
effective July 1, 1978 they
were covered under a
appropriated bill for
emergency dental services.
The 1978 Session of the
Georgia General Assembly
appropriated at that time
53.4 million for a limited,
adult emergency dental
program.
The interest of the
program is clearly spelled
out to be for emergency
situations only-emergency
dental procedures for the
relief of pain. Restorations
(fillings, crowns, eted.) and
orthodontics (moving teeth)
are not covered.
The intent of the
program is clearly spelled
out to be for emergency
sistuations only
In order to be eligible
for dental services, a
person must be twenty-one
(21) years of age or older
and must present a current
certificate of Medicaid
Eligibility (Medicaid Card).
As is the case with
children under the age of
21, the patient has the
choice as to what dentist he
or she wishes to go to as
long as that dentist is
seeing Medicaid patients
and is eligible under the
State of Georgia's
Department of Medical
Assistance Program.
Children under the age
of 21 years remain eligible
for cleaning and polishing
of the teeth, radiographs
(X-rays), gum treatments,
restorations (fillings),
Surgical procedures and
replacement of teeth with
certain crowns, partials,
dentures to name a few
approved services.
However, those persons
over the age of 21 years
are limited to periapical X
rays (in conjunction with
extractions), sigmple
sulturing, removal of
embedded foreign bodies,
incision and drainage of
abscesses, biopsies and
extractions.
If your are under 21
years of age and have a
current medicaid card. (1)
You are eligible for dental
services that include:
examination, cleaning, X
rays, gum treatment,
fillings, certain kinds of
To Be Equal
Britain’s Riots
The July rioting that
swept through British cities
provoked a lot of soul
searching, both here and
abroad. In some ways, the
response to the riots were
more interesting than the
fact of the riots themselves.
That is not to
underestimate the
importance of the
breakdown of social order
in what is generally
regarded as the most
orderly of nations. Rather,
it is because the response
to the riots tell so much
about today’s social
climate.
The initial response on
the part erf the authorities
was to give the police more
authority and weapons.
Officials were more
concerned with putting out
the fire than with seeking
the cause of the blaze.
One Cabinet minister,
noting that the rioters were
unemployed young people
of all races, called for
guaranteed jobs and
training positions for all
young people.
That proposal was
quickly shot down by
Britain’s conservative
government, which stuck to
the monetary and
economic policies that have
resulted in the highest
levels of unemployment
since the Depression.
Finally, the
government managed to
bend its rigid principles
jus/ enough to announce a
mxlest plan to subsidize
private employers, that hire
voung people at below
narket-level wage rates. It
1 tans other measures too,
t • expand youth job and
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crowns and space
maintainers, necessary
extractions, partials,
dentures an other services;
(2) You are free to select
the dentist you wish to see.
You do not have to go to
any dentist that you do not
want to go to or that does
not treat you as you like;
nor do you have to go to
any clinic. If you are told
otherwise, contact the local
Stoney Medical, Dental,
Pharmaceutical Society or
one of its members or
contact Mr. Charles Pierce,
Commissioner, at. the
Medical Assistance Office
in Atlanta.
You are encouraged to
begin seeing your dentist
as early as three (3) years
of age. Make and keep
dental appointments.
Dentistry is expensive and
should be cared for. Do not
wait until you are 20 years
and eleven months to run
to a dentist for work that
may take months. You will
probably end up having to
pay for much of any
extended work.
If you are 21 and older
and have a current
medicaid card: (1) You are
eligible for dental services
that include necessary
extractions and the, relief of
pain, discomfort and
infection. Also, certain
dental procedures
associated with accidents
are covered; (2) Fillings,
partials, dentures, gum
work, and most other
procedures are not covered
for those over 21 years. If
you are not sure ask your
dentist; and (3) You are
free to select the dentist of
your choice.
Remember: (1) Your
Medicaid Card is as a
dental insurance care- Use
It!!!; (2) You should not
have to pay any additional
money for procedures
covered. For Example an
extraction is covered for
Children and those under
21 years as well as those
over 21 years - Extractions
are free and no additional
charge should be added for
the extraction; and If you
do not have transportation
for your appointment,
contact your dentist right
away. Usually
transportation can be
arranged.
fire prevention-doing just
enough to keep some
semblance of social peace
but not enough to end the
problems that result in
social explosions.
But even those limited
steps make more sense
than some of the comments
from this side erf the ocean.
American editorialists
warned against such
compromises with the
rioters. Many suggested
that a hard-line law and
order approach was the
only one that should be
taken.
Almost all American
commentators appeared
sensitive to the similarities
between Britain’s angry
youth and the effects of the
Administration’s economic
program on our inner-city
poor.
The particular mix of
ingredients that led to
Britain's explosions are
peculiar to that country,
including race. The attacks
of neo-fascist white hoo
dlums on Asians and the
police harassment of British
Blacks are part of a
complex form of racism that
has its roots in Britain’s
history and social structure.
But the riots were not
race riots; they brought
white, Black and Asian
young people into the
streets in an integrated
display of anger and
alienation.
How bad do things
have to get before social
controls break down?
When poor and
alienated people of any
nation feel themselves
pushed against the wall
their reactions are not
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