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Operation PUSH
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against Budweiser
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Volume 12 Number 25
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Photo by Charles Larke
Beauty of the Week
Debra Jean Jenkins, a life School, she was a majorette
guard at the Augusta Country and captain of the
Club this summer, is a biology cheerleaders.
major at Paine College. Debra plans to be a
A graduate of Westside High registered physical therapist.
Mayor says city’s
hydroelectric plan
no risk to citizens
Mayor Edward M. Mclntyre said
that the Hydroelectric Project of the
City of Augusta is probably the most
progressive and productive project
ever undertaken for the taxpayers of
the city.
City of Augusta is proposing to en
joy the benefits from the production
of electrical power by developing the
Augusta Canal so as to produce elec
trical energy from available natural
resources of the Savannah River.
“This is a no-risk situation for the
residents of the City. The bonds will
be paid solely from the revenue
generated by the hydroelectric plant
and there will be no legal obligation
to repay placed upon the residents of
the city or its tax base,” the mayor
said.
The city will enter into a long term
agreement to sell its energy to a single
distributor. Currently, the city has
been provided with firm proposals
from Oglethorpe Electric Member
ship Cooperative and South Carolina
Electric and Gas Co. Additionally,
the Georgia Power Co. has promised
to present the city with its proposal to
purchase the electricity which will be
generated.
The hydroelectric facility will have
a capacity of 11,200 kilowatts and an
average annual generation of
90,000,000 kilowatt hours.
In order to construct the hydroelec
tric plant, the city must issue bonds to
raise the necessary capital for con
struction and other expenses. The city
plans to issue a maximum of
$18,000,000 of city revenue bonds
bearing a maximum interest rate of 14
percent per annum.
Augusta Ntuis-iReutEUJ
Charging 'Bud is a dud *
Jesse Jackson boycotts Budweiser
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson,
president of Operation PUSH, an
nounced last Thursday that 33 PUSH
affiliates around the country held
simultaneous news conferences in
support of the national boycott of
Budweiser beer and Anheuser-Busch
(A-B) products.
“Boycott Budweiser,” a PUSH fact
sheet urged, declaring “Bud is a dud.”
The Rev. Jackson said Thursday,
“It is important that we broaden our
base of support, that we increase the
number of people in the direct action
of boycotting the “King of Beers.”
“PUSH recognizes that we are
taking on the giant in the beer in
dustry, but so did David when he
fought Golaith. If we pool our rocks
(i.e. our dollars) and, in this case, in
stead of throwing them at Budweiser,
simply withdraw them, we can defeat
Budweiser just like David defeated
Golaith. Our strength is in the right
ness of our cause and victory is in the
disciplined withdrawal of our dollars.
We are A-B’s margin of profit.”
Budweiser is the largest producer
of beer in the U.S. with sales of $4.4
billion, profits of $217.4 million and
54.5 million barrels of beer
501d—29.5% of all U.S. beer sales,
including imports.
According to a fact sheet on A-B
being circulated by Operation PUSH,
blacks are 15% of A-B’s total market
and 22% in the top 50 markets where
nearly 70% of black people live. But
blacks are not getting a fair return on
their consumer investment. Blacks
Rights leader
says Ginn was
victim of racism
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Dr. William H. Harris, president
of Paine College, has been assessing
his alma mata since he became
president July 1. Now he wants to
make some changes.
On the top of his list is the demise
of the quarter system.
“ borne ot our students come to
college woefully burdened with lear
ning and or background deficien
cies,” he said, and the quarter system
does not permit them time to work
out many of the problems they had
when they came.”
“In that short time neither students
nor faculty members have ample time
to get to know each other, and
precious time is wasted,” he said, an
nouncing to the faculty that he plans
to ask the school’s trustees to return
the institution to the semester system
when the trustees meet in October.
Paine has been on the quarter
system since 1977.
He also wants to offer several new
majors and programs including
geology, engineering, computer
science, economics, psychology and
political science.
He told the News-Review that an
introductory course in geology will
begin as soon as an instructor is
found to teach it.
Harris said that the faculty is well
informed and involved with their
students and their profession. But, he
added, “The difficulty is that I have
not found that to be a universal
quality.”
He knows that he will have to do
something about the low faculty
salaries. “I knew that before I came.
That’s the gravest circumstance we
spend, according to PUSH, $660
million annually on A-B products.
Thus, PUSH says, blacks constitute 3
times A-B’s margin of profit.
Operation PUSH contends that A-
B has 950 wholesale distributorships,
but only one is black-owned. It has 86
directors and officers in the parent
company and its subsidiaries, but
only two are black (2%).
PUSH says that even though A-B
will not reveal its black employment
figures, independent research shows
that blacks in the company are con
centrated in the lower level jobs.
“Blacks are locked away from a
proportionate share of key decision
making positions, and are un
derrepresented in the managers,
professionals and other top job
categories,” PUSH said.
The PUSH fact sheet also states
that of a total media budget of $254
million, A-B spends less than 2%
with the black media. It also shows
that while A-B has formal bank credit
agreements of SSOO million on which
it pays $4.3 million annually in fees,
Budweiser has only a $5 million line
of credit ( 1 percent of the total) with
25 minority (not necessarily black)
banks. The fact sheet also says that
while A-B’s total payroll account was
$686.7 million, only $3 million ('/i of
1 percent is handled by 2 minority
banks.
PUSH also contends that while A-
B plans to spend $2 billion in capital
expenditures over the next 5 years and
while it spent approximately SSOO
September 25,1982
Dr. Harris announces
new programs for Paine
Baptist leader hits
Black Caucus
‘nation’ plan
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face,” he added.
One of the ways he hopes to in
crease salaries is by increasing the
student population. He says that the
college could increase its enrollment
to a thousand students without ad
ding additional faculty. Paine’s
enrollment has hovered around 800
for the past several years.
More than increasing the number
of students, Harris said he is concer
ned with improving the quality of the
students the college produces. He
plans to put particular emphasis on
communications skills.
“We must not be afraid to say to
our students, our colleagues or
anybody else that one of the fun
damental elements, perhaps the most
fundamental element, of an educated
person is the ability to communicate
in written and spoken language.
“I believe that we must demand
that of our students in every class
they take, from physical education
though chemistry and physics.”
But his emphasis goes beyond the
fundamentals. “We must be involved
in making our students feel good
about themselves and about the direc
tion of their work. We must begin
assuring our students that there is life
after Paine in academe from the first
day that they arrive at the campus.”
Harris acknowledges that
many Paine students arrive with
“frightful difficulties” and will not
go on to earn master’s or doctoral
degrees', he said he didn’t know what
a Ph. D. was when he arrived at Paine
as a student in 1962. “Many of our
students may be ill-prepared in the
beginning, but they are in reality in-
million in 1982, minority contractors
received only $5 million (1 percent) of
the work. The black share over the
next 5 years, PUSH says, is S3OO
million.
Operation PUSH says it is boycot
ting Budweiser because August A.
Busch 111 refuses to meet with its
negotiating team to discuss these mat
ters, and instead has launched a
national campaign to discredit
Operation PUSH, the Rev. Jackson
and the economic reciprocity
movement. PUSH contends that A-B
has also sought to divide the black
community through attempts to pit
other organizations (the NAACP,
Urban League and the United Negro
College Fund) against Operation
PUSH.
In the Thursday news conferences,
the 33 PUSH affiliates vowed:
* to educate black people on the
facts and record of A-B through the
church, community organizations,
civic and social clubs and through the
media,
* to urge concerned people to send
letters and telegrams to August Busch
asking him to meet with PUSH’S
negotiation team,
* to ask all black retailers or
retailers who do a significant amount
of their business in the black com
munity to take all of A-B’s products
off their shelves (or face PUSH picket
signs), and urge fairminded
citizens of all races to join in the
national boycott of A-B products un
til justice prevails for all.
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DR. WILLIAM H. HARRIS (R) goes over program with cam
pus minister Jerry Poole.
dividuals who need only a push to
grow and fly on their own.
“We must make these young
people feel like eagles so that they can
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Staff Photo by Orlando Hamlett
FLOWERS FOR SARAH VAUGHANN—Audrey Thomas
immediate past basileus of the local chapter of the Zeta Phi Beta
Sorority, presents bouquet of flowers to singer Sarah Vaughann
following her Bell Auditorium concert last Thursday night.
Ms. Vaughann is an honorary member of the sorority. City
Councilman Willie Mays also presented her a Key to the City.
Augustan
scores big
in London
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soar like eagles and then be able to
find a place for themselves in
academe or in the professional
world.”
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