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Councilman Urges
Support Os NAACP,
Not Another HRC
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New ‘Main Squeeze’ Sought
Smirnoff Vodka will
launch a search for a new
star for its current and
highly successful “Main
Squeeze" advertising
campaign directed to the
Black consumer market.
Beginning in
September 1981, four color
ads will appear nationally
Paine College
Paine College officially
began its Centennials
celebration Friday with its
opening convocation.
President J ulius S. Scott,
Jr. called it “a great day in
the life of Paine College, a
Richmond Countians were ashamed
by the short-sighted action of its board of
commissioners to abolish the Augusta
Richmond County Human Relations
Commission.
However, the commission’s action
was perhaps inevitable, since The Augusta
Chronicle tells us the commission had no
choice.
No choice but to destroy the one thing
in the community that was funded to
work on the community’s greatest
problem-race relations? No choice but to
dismantle community’s primary
safeguard against social unrest?
What was really meant-and we all
understood it-was that when Blacks get
in a position where they head, an ageny
in Ebony, Jet, Essence,
Black Enterprise and
Dollars & Sense magazines
with supporting Black
newspapers, out-of-home,
point-of purchase and sales
promotion programs in 25
target markets. Search ads
will run through October
1981. A national panel of
momentous and miraculous
event in higher learning.”
He said the event was
miraculous because Paine
has survived the
vicissitudes of 99 years,
and the anthym has not
Richmond County
Shamed
Dick Gregory
Flirting With Death
On Hunger strike
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beauty and fasion experts
will make the final selection
from photographs submitted
by interested participants.
The winner will appear in
Smirnoff Vodka advertising
during 1982.
The “Main Squeeze"
Celebrates Centennial
been composed that can
express our joy.”
Scott said that Paine,
established in 1882, came
into being at a time when
slavery had such a grip on
the pattern of behavior that
Editorial
won’t jump when told to jump, there is no
choice but to destroy the agency. We all
understand that. When we won’t stay in
our place, there is no choice, but to
destroy us.
But for those who wish to keep us in
our place, we would only advise that the
place for today’s Black children is where
out talents will take us. And when
attempts are made to destroy us, we will
be replaced by others who even more
determined not to be controlled.
The civil war was indeed over. The
slaves have indeed been freed. And
Augusta will neverreach its potential until
it moves out of its post-Reconstruction
mentality and make the hundred-year leap
into the 20th century.
October 3,1981
campaign is named for a
popular mixed drink made
with Smirnoff Vodka and
grapefruit juice and a
traditional Black slang
expression for "best
girlfriend." The campaign
achieved instant success
upon introduction in Spring
1980.
many Blacks who became
free acquired slaves
themselves. Paine, he said,
was "created as a model to
counteract the viscious
social order."
Augusta was the last
Paine Launches
Celebration Os
Centennial Year
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County’s Abolishing
HRC Called ‘Ruthless,
Reckless
Roscoe Williams,
chairman erf the now
defunct Human Relations
Commission. called the
county commission's
unanimous vote Thursday
to abolish HRC “excessive
and unreal."
"I don't know of any
action that was so hasty
and so irrational. It was
one of the most
irresponsible ways a
governing board could
have acted. It was just
unreal."
Williams said,
however, that the
commission action did not
catch him by surprise. "I
went to the county
commission meeting having
been told the county
commission would vote to
abolish the Human
Relations Commission. But
it was such a reckless and
ruthless act I didn't believe
it."
Williams said the
county commission’s
.jpport of HRC had been
“Shabby" and the
commissioners were
"contemptuous" of what
Councilman Urges Support Os
NAACP, Not HRC
Augusta City
Councilman Joseph Jones
said he hopes Blacks will turn
to the NAACP to address
complaints of discrimination
rather than turning to a
proposed reorganized
Human Relations
Commissions.
Jones, who is a former
NAACP president, said that
in the past, the NAACP has
served as the voice for this .
community in attacking
discrimination. ‘‘The
NAACP has served as that
place one would have
expected an institution of
freed men to have been
established. Scott said.
Paine's first president,
Morgan Calloway resigned
because his liberal views
were too much for the
community.
Paine is unique among
all the colleges in the
nation, having been begun
by Black and white
southerners. Scott said.
One of the school's
traits has been a strict
adherence to a moral code.
Scott said that Paine taught
students well "but make no
mistake about it. students
had to behave themselves."
Pointing to the
Excellence with which
Paine has prepared its
students. Scott said that
Paine's first graduate John
Westley Gilbert, who later
taught at Paine. so
excellend in graduate
school at Brown University
that he was sent on a
research team t Greece and
is credited with finding the
grave of the philospher
Aristotle.
"Escavators had been
searching for Aristotle’s
grave fa- centuries, but it
took a member of the Paine
College faculty to fine it."
Scott sonchidetL
the Human Relations
Cofmmission stands for.
If it had not been
contemptous of what HRC
stands for. it would not
have gone to the steps it
did.
"We have to
remember that this is not
the county commission that
created us. This
commission inherited us
and and was not
philosophically in tune to
what we were about."
The Human Relations
Commission was born out
of the recommendations of
the National Urban League
after it conducted an
extensive study of
conditions in Augusta
following the riot here in
1970.
Williams, who has
served on the HRC for
seven years, was in the
middle of the riot. “I was
at the focal point when the
first brick was thrown. I
saw it. 1 saw the reaction
to it. 1 saw the reaction of
people. And I took pictures
of it.
"1 walked with the
organization to fight for
minorities to insure their
rights and will have a
greater importance in the
near future.”
Jones said any new
organization to replace the
HRC would just be a
“public relations tool” for
the city and the county.
“There is no need to fund
a new HRC that would be
related to the city and the
county," Jones said, adding
that funds to support such
an agency should come
Millen Marchers Motivated
By Trip To Washington
By Charles Beale
MILLEN--An estimated
crowd of over 500.(XX)
marched from the
Washington Monument to
the capitol on Solidary Day
to send the Reagan
Administration “A Clear
Message' appasing his cuts
in social programs, at the
expense of he poor and the
elderly."
A large delegation left
Millen on Friday evening
picking up delegations in
Burke. and Jefferson
counties enroute to
Washington. They marched
along with the NAACP,
w hich was said to be one of
the larger groups in the
march. There were groups
representing labor unions,
civil rights, womens rights
and environmental rights
The march was led by
Lane Kirkland. president
of AFL-CIO, which
sponsored the march
Benjamin Hooks, executive
director of the NAACP;
Eleanor Sneal, president of
the National Organization
of Women and Caetta
Millen Marchers
Motivated By
Washington Trip
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group as it proceeded to
9th and Laney-Walker. I
watched it develop from a
mild shouting match to
several buildings being set
ablaze. 1 watched many of
the buildings burn to the
ground.
1 saw the police. 1 saw
the shots being fired. I
watched it for four or five
hours."
Now he fears what will
happen with the HRC.
The Human Relations
Commission worked for ten
years to preserve and
enhance the quality of life
in the Augusta area. They
(the county commissioners!
ought to be held
accountable to the people of
Augusta.
Williams said; the
commisisoners never made
a case against HRC for
being physically
irresponsible? "It was one
of the most
unconsciounable acts of
subjectivity that I’ve ever
witnessed.
"They never got down
to the merits of the case.
from the private sector.
“If we go back to the
same system and the new
director doesn't follow each
and every directive the
county gives the county
government could again
abolish any new agency in
the future."
Jones said it is sad to
see the HRC "end in such
a manner.” People who
were nonpolitical, served
the community well, “Yet
the county would destroy
King, widow of Dr. Martin
Luther King.
'lhe group arrived back
in Millen at 8:30 a.m.
Sunday morning, tired and
sleepy, but very much
motivated by their
experiences in Washington.
" Ihe march brought to
bear the point that the
suffering and anxiety
caused by the Reagan
Economic Policies is not a
lonely burden, but on
ecarried by every common
man. woman, and child in
the country. Knowing that
News-Review Suit
Ends Out Os Court
The trial of the law
suit News-Review
Publisher Mallory K.
Millender tiled against the
paper’s firmer printer L.D.
Waters ended Thursday in
I he county commission just
overpowered us and the
city council had to give in.
"We did have a travel
policy. We did adopt their
policies. Travis Barnes
(commission chairman! said
we didn't but he lied."
Williams said.
Asked why HRC voted
to withdraw its suit against
the county and "throw in
the towel." William said
asked, "when we learned
of the lack of support from
city council, then who was
left to support you?"
The county has
indicated that it will
establish another Human
Relations Commission. But
Williams called the county's
decision to abolish HRC "a
most infamous statement.”
" lhey are not going to
come back with an HRC
armed with the resources to
do the kind of things we
did. and that. text, is a
tremendous statement."
Williams said he
found it interesting that
"the agency that was
created to fight racism
fell victim to it."
these people's lives and
their livelihoods in order to
get at the director (Charles
Walken.”
Jones said he believes
the community is better off
for having had HRC for 10
years. ”1 hope we have
enough men and women of
sound mind and principle
that will not sit back and
allow problems to surface
that created the Human
Relations Commission in
the first place."
others oppose the
conditions as much as we
do gives rise to a feeling of
comanaderie and strength,"
said Charles Mack, a native
of Selma. Ala., who now
resides in Millen. 'lhe trip
to Washington was co
ordinated by the Rev. W.
B. Tomlin; pastor of
Morrison Grove Baptist
Church, was financed by
the New York City Board
of Education Employees
Local Na 372 whose
president. Charles Hughes,
is a native of Millen.
an out of court settlement.
Millender said that he
would not comment on the
settlement following the
advice of his attorney,
until the details of the
settlement are in writing.
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