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Walker Says Auditor
Gave HRC A Clean
‘Bill of Health’
Charles Walker,
executive director of the
Augusta-Richmond County
Human Relations
Commission (HRC),
Saturday gave The News-
Review a copy of a letter
dated May 14, 1981 which
he said indicated that the
HRC has already been
audited by an external
auditor and the county
internal auditor gave HRC
“a clean bill of health.”
The county is now
withholding HRC funds
pending another audit
which Walker says is “a
forest" the county’s is
using to continue racially
motivated attacks on him
and the Human Relations
Commission.
The letter from internal
auditor David J. Rollins to
County Commission
Chairman Travis Barnes
said: "We have completed
our audit erf the Human
Relations Commission for
the year 1977 and 1978.
Our audit included such
tests, reviews and
inquiries as was deemed
necessary.
"We have determined
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GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS?-J«m Unlimited secretary Edythe Dimond prepares to sign her signature to
giant petition.
A group of local jazz
enthusiasts list planning a
petition it hopes will be
entered into the Guinness
Book of Records as the
world’s largest petition.
The petition will be
presented to the mayor by
Jazz Unlimited (a local jazz
association) as part of an
effort to have jazz played
Augusta Neuia-UEUteui
that the funds given to the
Human Relations
Commission by Richmond
County have been
adequately deposited and
disbursed.
‘‘We have also
received, reviewed and
accepted the external
auditor’s report for 1979
and 1980, on the Human
Relations Commission..."
(A copy of the letter is
reproduced on page 4.)
Walker said the county
commissioners have
continually deceived the
public about the audit and
“it is time the people know
the truth."
Walker also took
exception to statement
made last week by
Commissioner Barnes
concerning Walker’s asking
the Depoartment of
Housing and Urban
Developming to investigate
a $3 million grant funding a
rehabilitation project in
minority neighborhoods.
Walker said only $1.4
million of the $3 million
would go toward
rehabilitation in minority
neighborhoods.
ou local rauiu stations on a
regular basis.
To help promote the
growth and development of
jazz in Augusta, Jazz
Unlimited and area
businesses last week
sponsored the Dog Days
Jazz. Festival here.
"Our purpose is to
promote jazz an an art
form,” said Edythe
Julian Bond Tells
Augustan To Push
Voting Rights Act
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He provided
a sheet g>.uig a breakdown
of the use of the proposed
funds.
In a letter to Clyde
Barron of HUD’s Atlanta
office, Walker wrote: "I
have reasons to believe that
the Richmond County Board
of Commissioners and the
Richmond County Planning
Commission have submitted
an application for federal
funds and indicated that
the Augusta-Richmond
County Human Relations
Commission serves as a
civil rights agency for the
Richmond County Board of
Commissioners as it relates
to fair housing lasw for the
Richmond County Board of
Commissioners. At no time
has the county commission
ever discussed the
submission of this
application grant and
enforcement of the fair
housing laws with the
Human Relations
Commission.
"I suspect that other
applications submitted by
the County Canmission
also indicate we enforce the
fair housing laws for the
Dimond. secretary of Jazz
Unlimited.
"Jazz has historically
been a misunderstodd art.
Therefore, we emphasize
the educational as well as
the entertainment aspect of
jazz. We also have
musicians who go into the
public schools and hold
workshops.”
September 5,1981
county. This is a complete
fabrication. I am requesting
a thorough and complete
investigation of the
County’s misrepresenting
the activities of the
Augusta-Human Relations
Canmission in order to
secure federal monies.
"In the application
section VD-lb, the County
states, ‘The Human
Relations Commission is
alalagous to a human rights
commission. The Human
relations Commission takes
complaints from citizens
regarding discriminatory
practices. In the case of
housing oriented
complaints, the Human
Relations Commission
refers complaints to the
proper department or
agency for action.’
“The Human Relations
Commission does not
investigate discriminatory
complaints referred to by
the County Commission
because the County has
never referred a citizen to
the Human Relations
Commission for any
purpose.”
Although jazz appeals
to a broad spectrum of
people, it does not focus in
on any one age group,"
Mrs. Dimond continued.
Asked if jazz was a
dying art, Mrs. Domond
said, "We foresee a
sufficient growth in terms
of memberships and
increased interest from the
people.”
Millen Native
Returns Home,
Rips Reagan Cuts
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Entertainer James
Brown will be the subject
of ABC Television series
“Portrait of a Legend,”
shown in major cities
throughout the nation Sept.
14. However, none of the
television stations in
Georgia will carry the film.
Asked why the series
is not being telecast in
Julian Bond Tells
Augustans To
‘Give Signal’
To Congressmen
State Sen. J ulian
Bond urged Augustans
Saturday to send a "dear
signal" to congressmen
that candidates who don’t
support the extension of the
Voting Rights Act in its
present form do not want
the votes of Black
Georgians.
“For us to cast a vote
for a membei of Congress
who has voted against us
being voters would be an
act of absolute stupidity
and even an act of political
suicide.” he said.
Boid spoke at an
NAACP-sponsored rally on
the steps of the old Post
Office on Telfair Street.
"They’ve got to be told
they can’t vote against the
Millen Native Returns
Home, Rips
Reagan Cuts
By Barbara A. Gerdm
"We are witnessing
the greatest and most
dangerous revolution since
the Civil War,” a labor
union president warned
Sunday.
Speaking at Morrison
Grove Baptist Church in his
hometown here, Charles
Hughes, president of Local
372 of the New York City
Board of Education
Employees, condemned
President Reagan’s budget
cuts.
"It is even meaner,
more inhumane, more
simple-minded, more racist,
more sexist, and more anti
people than I have thus far
accused it of being,”
James Brown
Film Won’t Be
Shown In
Georgia
Georgia and particularly in
his native Augusta, Brown
answered by asking, “Why
don't I have a radio
station? Why don’t I have
“Future Shock” (his
nationally televised weekly
show( any more? It beat
Johnny Carson.”
He said Portrait of a
Legend was filmed in
Voting Rights Act in
Washington and cone back
to Georgia and expect to
get the votes of Blacks in
Georgia next November.”
The Voting Rights Act
and the current
reappertionment, he said,
are extremely important
because of efforts such as
the Gramm-Latta
amendment to return power
to state and local
governments.
Unless the Voting
Rights Act extended we are
likely to regress to a period
when we were both a
voteless and a hopeless
people with little or no
voice in the councils of
government.”
Os 22 states covered by
Hughes declared.
“The Reagan
administration, aided and
abetted by a Congress
which is more worried
about getting re-elected
than about providing basic
human decency, is no
longer an administration, it
is a regime.
"These cuts have not
yet aroused the American
public,” he said, "but wait
until they go into effect
October Ist.”
The cuts in domestic
and social programs total
$35 billion in the first year.
Hughes said that he
and President Reagan both
suppdtt the belief that the
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To Get Petition
In Guinness Book
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various parts of the country
showing him working with
children and teaching them
about positive things they
can do with their lives.
He said the final
pation of the film was
taken during the Masters
Golf Tournament. He was
interviewed by Sergeant
Shriver's daughter, Maria.
the Voting Rights Act,
Geagia has more violations
(over 400) than any other
state. Geagia also has
more illegal non
submissions (to the Justice
of electioi changes than
any other state, he said.
Bond blamed the
Reagan administration fa
encouraging the erosion of
Black gains. The recent
effat to relax affirmative
action enforcement “Ought
to be a clear signal--not
just to Black and brown
people, but to women as
well--that this
administration does not
have our interest at heart
and will do anything it can
to insure that once again
we’re left to the ficissitudes
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Terry Sams of local
ABC affiliate WJBF TV
said "Patrait of a Legend”
is a weekly series, and in
order to carry the series, a
station would have to buy
all 52 installments of the
series. "We didn’t know
that James Brown was
included in the series,” he
said.
of state and local
governments. No longer
will the federal government
be an intervena in cases
where we have an
interest."
He said President
Reagan's recad toward
Black people has been
worse than that of
President Nixon fa the first
six months in office.
“Human rights are
being replaced with mineral
rights... And if Ronald
Reagan is not a racist, he
clearly sends the signal that
racist activity, throught,
and behavia is tolerable
under his administration
while it was not tolerable
under the admission of
Jimmy Carter.
rich get richer, but
"Reagan has made it an art
form. He takes from the
poor and the working
people in order to help the
"rich get richer.” The
Reagan regime has just
given the rich the biggest
tax break in the history erf
this country.
Hughes said that
Reagan’s own Vice
President George Bush
refers to the president’s
budget cuts as "voodoo”
economics, and that even
Wall Street agrees that
Reagan is crazy.
"It is obvious that we
have a lunatic in thfhffhite
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