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Kingsley Riley is A Ip has ’
Citizen of the Year
School board Trustee
Kingsley Riley was named
Citizen of the Year by the
Alpha Phi Alpha Frater
nity at the recert Founders
Day of the Upha Chi
Lambda Graduate Chap
ter along witA Eta Alpha,
the Paine College Chap
ter.
The fraternity also
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Mrs. Kingsley Riley
NEW YORK—At a
time when the nation’s
historically black colleges
are seeking new sources of
support from the private
sector, the United Negro
College Fund will receive
the largest property con
tribution in its history.
Viacom International,
Inc., a major com
munications* corporation,
has signed an agreement
to donate New York radio
station WWRL to the
College Fund.
“Viacom’s very
generous gift comes at a
dramatic moment, a time
when Federal aid to
college students is reduced
and our private, black
colleges require more
private support than ever
before,” said UNCF
Executive Director
Christopher F. Edley.
UNCF plans to sell the
station to Unity Broad
casting Network-New
York, Inc. of the National
Black Network, a
minority broadcasting
company. Proceeds from
the sale will assist the
College Fund’s member
institutions.
Both the gift and the
sale are subject to the ap
proval of the Federal
Communications Com
mission.
WWRL, The only full
time radio station in New
York City serving the
black community, is 53
Man killed
in auto
mishap
AIKEN, S.C.—A 33-
year-old Aiken man died
early Sunday morning,
from injuries he received
in a two-car accident on
Highway 478 near Fox
Chase in Aiken.
The victim was iden
tified as James W.
Driggers of 37 Coker
Drive. The Aiken County
Highway Department
reported that the accident
took place at 12:09 a.m.
Sunday. The cause of the
accident is still under in
vestigation.
Also injured in the ac
cident was 38-year-old
Jimmy Moore of 110 Greg
Street in Graniteville.
Moore was taken to Aiken
Community Hospital
where he is listed in stable
condition.
Driggers was co-owner
and president of Kingsway
Pharmacy in Augusta.
Driggers’ father,
Woodrow W. Driggers,
52, died only five days
earlier.
honored the two living
founders of the Alpha Chi
Lambda Chap
ter-brothers Harold Hill
andS.M. Jenkins.
Jenkins, a retired in
surance executive was
initiated into the fraternity
in 1922. Hill, a pharmacist
in Seneca, S.C., was
initiated in 1935.
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Willie G. Marshall
Black college fund given radio station
years old. Since the black
oriented format was
established in 1965, the
station has become a
training ground for many
of the most successful
black broadcasters and
radio managers in the
metropolitan area.
‘‘The United Negro
College Fund is mindful
of WWRL’s singular role
in the black community
and wishes to preserve the
Augusta jobless rate drops
AUGUSTA—The job
less rate for metro
Augusta dropped from a
revised 8.1 in September
to a preliminary 7.7 in Oc
tober, Commissioner of
Labor Sam Caldwell said
today.
In October, 1980 the
unemployment rate for
the metro Augusta area
was 7.1 per cent. A total
of 118,451 persons in the
Augusta Standard
Metropolitan Statistical
Area (SMSA) were em
ployed this past October,
while 9,830 others were
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1964,” said Young.
Young told the racially mixed
crowd that “America now cries
out for answers to a worldwide
economic crisis. These answers
.will not come simply by debating
the issues in supply-side theories
of Reagan economics; the an
swers will come as new economic
development projects emerge
which actually demonstrate that
it is possible, through new joint
adventures between U.S. business
and the demand of world
markets, to create new jobs here
at home.
“The challenge of the ’Bos is
economic-jobs-and Atlanta must
once again point the way just as
we have in the social and political
spheres,” said the mayor.
The new mayor said Atlanta
government needs to find ways to
strengthen ties with the city’s
downtown business community,
and he pledged to help provide
closer relationships with
surrounding counties and the
state.
“These will be difficult yet
challenging years,” Young said.
“We will disagree. We will be
called to sacrifice, and yet we will
prevail. Atlanta is not now rising
from tne ashes. It is rocketing
into orbit from a solid foun
dation built by three great
mayors - Ivan Allen, Sam Massell
and Maynard Jackson.”
Young, who will make $50,000
a year as mayor, was applauded
loudly several times during his
speech. His praise of Jackson,
the city’s first black mayor, as
Other founders were
John M. Tutt, Dr. R.L.
Lockett, R.W. White,
A.C. Griggs, A.M. Carter
and E.L. Perry.
Brother Willie G. Mar
shall was named Graduate
Brother of the Year, and
the College Brother of the
Year Award went to Mar
ty Delara, a student at
Paine College.
Four new brothers at
tended the ceremonies
with their families. They
were Oscar W. Brown,
Freddie Jones, Carswell
Gilbert and Marion D.
Griffin Jr.
Brother Henry Ponder,
president of Benedict
College was the speaker.
He emphasized “for
ward to the basics” in
stead of “back to the
basics” as the most
feasible route to the main
stream of American
society. He also stressed
the importance of
heritage.
Henry Brigham is
president.
station’s unique charac
ter,” Edley explained. “In
Unity Broadcasting Net
work we have found a
company particularly sen
sitive to these concerns.”
Eugene D. Jackson,
president of Unity Broad
casting, said that WWRL,
“Is an established and
highly respected station
that has consistently
demonstrated leadership
in providing quality news,
still seeking employment.
In October, 1980 a total
of 114,826 Augusta area
residents were working,
and 8,785 others were
unemployed. The Augusta
SMSA is comprised of
Columbia and Richmond
counties in Georgia and
Aiken County, S.C.
The state’s jobless rate
has begun edging up
ward—but not by much.
Caldwell reported a rate
of 6.3 per cent, a slight
rise from the previous
month’s 6.2, but far below
the national figure of 8.4 i
Andy Young
“one of the greatest mayors
Atlanta has ever produced,”
drew applause. Also, he was ap
plauded for his remark that
Atlanta women should be fre*> to
walk downtown “without being
harassed or intimidated or en
' dangered.”
The former ambassador later
attended a SIOO-a-plate inaugural
dinner and ball at the Omni Hotel
held in his honor. Young suppor
ters also sponsored a free
“People’s Reception” on the
floor of the Omni ice rink.
Young’s speech, which aides
said he did not prepare until shor
tly before its delivery, followed
the swearing-in of Atlanta City
Council President Marvin
Arrington and the 18 new council
members.
Among the dignitaries to at
tend the ceremonies at the Omni
were the Rev. Martin Luther King
Sr.; Fulton County Commission
Chairman Michael Lomax; for
mer Florida Gov. Reuben Askew;
Joseph Lowery, president of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference; Chicago civil rights
activist Jesse Jackson; Marion
Barry, mayor of Washington,
D.C.; Walter Fauntroy, chair
man of the Congressional Black
Caucus and Washington’s
delegate to the U.S. House of
Representatives; and two former
candidates for mayor of Atlanta,
Fulton County Commissioner
Reginald Eaves and the man
Young beat in a runoff, state
Rep. Sidney Marcus.
Outgoing Mayor Maynard
Jackson arrived with his wife,
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FOUNDERS HONORED—AIpha President Henry Brigham (left)
presents award to Harold Hill as S.M. Jenkins and Horatio Lamar
look on. Hill and Jenkins were honored as the only living founders of
the Augusta chapter, established in 1935
information and enter
tainment programming to
its black listeners in New
York metropolitan area.”
Al Greenfield, president
of Viacom’s Radio
Division, said, “We can
not think of a worthier or
more appropriate
organization than the
UNCF to which to donate
this station, with its long
history of quality black
programming and ser-
per cent.
“The long fall, with
both a warm and dry Oc
tober and November, has
contributed to a longer
season for heavy construc
tion and other seasonal
industries to help hold our
jobless rate down,”
Caldwell said. “And the
surge of retail hiring for
the holidays will add fur
ther to our Georgia
economy.”
State Labor said that
better than 2.3 million
Georgians were on jobs in
October, the latest month
vices.”
“The gift of a radio
station to a nonprofit
organization is unique.
We hope others will take
note of Viacom’s leader
ship gift and the com
pany’s sensitivity to the
needs of black college
students and give as
generously as they can in
the coming year,” Edley
concluded.
Viacom International
for which official figures
are available. A total of
157,134 were unemployed,
a rise of 4,657 from the
previous month, giving
the state the 6.3 per cent
jobless rate.
The 6.3 per cent is iden
tical to October a year
past, when the 6.3 rate
translated into 152,030
being unemployed. But
Caldwell said that
Georgia’s civilian labor
force, or workforce, has
grown by 62,447 in a
single year’s time. He said
there are now 57,790 more
Valerie, shortly before the
ceremony began at 5:37 p.m.
“There are always a lot of
challenges in this city, but Andy
is up to the challenges,” said
Jackson, predicting that Young
will be a popular and successful
mayor.
As the Atlanta Symphony Or
chestra played John Philip
Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes
Forever” and several other selec
tions, ROTC students from local
high schools distributed small
white candles to the crowd in the
half-filled Omni. The house
lights were dimmed and the can
dles lit later in the ceremony, as
singer Karen Lowery sang “The
Lord’s Prayer.”
Arrington was sworn in by
Fulton County Superior Court
Judge Clarence Cooper, a
longtime friend who is now
presiding over Atlanta’s most
celebrated murder trial: the case
of Wayne B. Williams, who is ac
cused in two of 28 slayings of
young Atlanta blacks.
The ceremony Monday evening
included several spirituals, in
cluding “I’m Gonna Move When
the Spirit Say Move.” Also,
popular singer Peabo Bryson per
formed “America the
Beautiful.”
Since his resignation from the
United Nations in 1979, Young
has operated a private consulting
firm that helps U.S. companies
do business with Third World
countries or other foreign
nations.
Inc. is a diversified com
munications and enter
tainment company which
owns and operates cable
television systems and
television and radio
stations in the United
States, provides premium
entertainment services for
pay television, distributes
television programs and
motion pictures to net
works and stations
worldwide and develops
and produces program
ming for all media.
■ Georgians on jobs this
year compared to the same
time in 1980.
“Certainly, the
economy has slowed a bit
as we approach the end of
the year,” Caldwell said.
“Throughout November
for each week of that
month-we paid out a little
more than $4 million each
week in unemployment
compensation. And last
week the figure rose to
$5.4 million, with 58,480
checks written to the
unemployed, but again I
want to emphasize that
retail holiday hiring, along
with Christmas shopping,
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Starting Thursday January 7th
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Store 936 Broad Street
SAVE up to 50% on
• Furniture*Carpets
• Housewares* Lamps
• Linen*lnfant Furniture
Shop Thursday from 8 a.m. til 8 p.m.
Shop Friday & Saturday 9 a.m. til 6 p.m.
The Augusta News-Review January 9,1982
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Aiken Woman
shot fatally
by Geraldine Wilson
AIKEN, S.C.—Vivian
Wooden, 25, was the vic-,
tim of a fatal shooting Jan
2.
The shooting took place
at Geneva’s Place, a local
night spot on Highway 19
about 11 p.m.
Wooden, who resided
on Union Street of Aiken,
was pronounced dead at
the scene by the coronor at
11:15 p.m.
Aiken County Sheriff
W. Ralph Gunnells repor
ted that Kenneth Padgett
of Fairfield Street in
Aiken has been charged
with the murder.
Padgett is currently
being held in the Aiken
County Jail without bail.
Gunnells stated that the
apparent motive for the
shooting involved a S2O
payment Padgett gave
allegedly Mrs. Wooden to
take him to Wagner.
When she did not return
the payment or take him
UNCF
Alpha
Queen
Miss Ora L. Williams
was crowned Miss Alpha
Phi Alpha Queen - 1982
Friday night at the
National Guard Armory.
She is the daughter of
Mrs. Della Lee Williams
and the late Harold
Williams. Miss Williams
graduated from Butler
High School and attended
man power school in New
York City.
A native of Burke
County, she is presently
employed at the Georgia
Railroad Bank.
to Wagner, Padgett, then
shot her at close range
1 through her car window
with a shotgun, Gunnells
1 said.
Mrs. Wooden is sur
vived by her husband Ray
Charles Wooden and four
children; Michelle, Eric,
Ray Charles Jr. and
Deangio.
Other survivors include
Mrs. Wooden’s father,
Johnny Holloway, two
sisters, Milene Holloway
of Maryland and Vinya
Holloway of Aiken; and
two brothers, John
Holloway Jr. of Long
Island, New York, and
Randolph Holloway of
Aiken.
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