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Residents Os Poor Neighborhoods Confront Elected Officials Page 2 Volume 11 Number 2<» l 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 Augustans Try To Get Petition Included In Guinness Book Os Records wW. Qhn Wvt 8K v 1* iff <L * r* MhA < - r - : y S|||o Cb X. yllj lsc j A Up B® i rF> -rftfVKwJ > _J J*( L f\ f w nW L W ' |W pft SIW <V .Mil \w <&* »| V * <awti Wk ■ a Bill JKB jag. J jNHBB^H&jA'II 'bß 1 ■ Lk 4Z. wHm w■ 1 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 Page 1 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 Page 1 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 Augustans Try To Get Petition In Guinness Book Page 1 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 jSE P • W ■ Charles Haghes 25C 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 Conttaraed on frige 7