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Sol Walker
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Volume 13 Number 2
Poverty condemns Telfair Manor residents to firetrap
The tragic death of three
generations of a Telfair Manor
Family April 5 could hardly be
:alled accidental. The wonder is
:hat only three people have died.
The apartment complex is a fire
hazard.
Building after building has
numerous frayed wires exposed
ind within the reach of children.
Wilbert Allen, president of the
ueorgia Coalition on Hunger, led
he news media on a tour of the
:omplex Friday.
The apartments are not protee
:ed by a housing code.
The apartments, just outside the
:ity limits, are not protected by the
:ity’s housing code. And the coun
:y doesn’t have one.
The county has a building code;
it only covers the construction of a
building, not the maintenance of
suildings once they are construted.
“These houses, if they were in
the city, would be condemned,’’
Allen said. But they aren’t, and
they are unsafe for human oc
cupation.
The apartments rent for $l3O
-a month, and according to
Allen, most of the tenants are on
welfare. The Augusta Housing
Authority is filled with ap
plications and residents such as
Sol Walker
to get national
business award
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Solmon W. Walker 11, chief
' executive officer at the Pilgrim
Health and Life Insurance Co.,
' has been named national minority
advocate of the year and will be
presented the award by President
Reagan in a ceremony in the Rose
Garden next month.
Walker represented Georgia in
the national competition after
’ having won the Georgia Minority
' Advocate of the Year Award.
In order to be nominated, he
had to qualify in three categories:
j furthering minority business in
terests through education, con
tributions toward improving con
ditions in the minority business
community, and volunteering
professional expertise to business
groups and agencies.
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B Walker helped to start an en-
Brepreneurship and Black youth
■jrogram at the University of
■Georgia to introduce Black youths
■o minority ownership.
H He also co-founded a minority
Kutreach program which
Beveloped satellites in five cities to
Kssist minority business to solve
■Financial and managerial
■roblems.
E Walker heads the Georgia
■association of Minority En-
Krepreneurs, and former Gov.
Hleorge Busbee appointed him to
Hie board of directors of the
■Georgia Business Development
Kenter.
H He is an adviser to the CSRA
Business League and past president
■nd past chairman of the board of
Jirectors. He is chairman of the
Subcommittee on Minority
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TELFAIR Manor housing complex has open circuit breakers two-feet off
the ground, light switches hang from walls and extension cords from appar-
these cannot get in.
And they are reportedly
threatened with eviction if they
Elect Hardy Gregory
Editorial
In the little-recognized
but important election
which is to take place on
May 3, 1983, Justice Har
dy Gregory Jr., is by far
the best of three choices.
His eminent record and
impeccable qualifications
provide citizens with only
a glimpse of Hardy
Gregory Jr., the person.
An honest and good man,
one needs only to talk to
persons who know the
distinguished jurist well to
know that Georgians have
a real jewel who sits on the
Supreme Court of
Georgia.
Hardy Gregory Jr.,
must be returned to the
Supreme Court.
Because of a finding by
a federal court that former
Governor George Busbee
manipulated his appoin
tment, Justice Gregory
cannot be listed as an in
cumbent.
Whether he is listed as
an incumbent or not, his
two opponents cannot
begin to match the more
than 150 opinions which
Justice Gregory has writ-
Business Affairs in the Office of
Minority Business Development at
the University of Georgia.
In 1981 Congressman D.
Douglas Barnard appointed him to
the White House Conference on
Small Business.
He is a distinguished practitioner
and lecturer for the Morehouse
School of Business and the Univer
sity of Georgia School of Business.
He has published articles on plan
ning and mangagement in the
National Insurance Association
Tennessee State
coach reveals his
success secret
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complain.
It is hard to determine who owns
the complex. It is managed by J.S.
ten while on the Supreme
Court, nor his well-known
reputation for fairness
while he was a Superior
Court judge in Dooly
County.
Justice Gregory can
only be re-elected to the
Supreme Court if we get
out the vote, he cannot be
re-elected by fine ac
colades. This may very
well be one of the most
important elections in
recent Georgia history,
although other elections
generate more interest.
It is, therefore, im
perative that we get out the
vote on May 3 regardless
of the inconvenience or
lack of traditional elec
toral fanfare. We must get
out the vote as if our life
depended upon it —and it
does.
With the increasing em
phases on local gover
nment, it is essential that
we take part in this
momentous election on
May 3. Besides, Justice*
Gregory deserves ouir
support as much as he has
earned our respect.
publication and the Small Business
Development Center organ.
He is also a member of Parren
Mitchell’s “brain trust” on Small
Business in Washington, D.C. and
lobbied successfully for a 100 per
cent increase in funding for the Of
fice of Minority Business
Development at the University of
Georgia.
Walker is a graduate of
Morehouse College and has done
further study at Stanford Univer
sity.
Black Georgian
is winner of
Pulitzer prize
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April 23,1983
Proctor out of Charlotte, N.C.
It is a clear case where
bureaucracy leaves people at the
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HONOREE —Vernice Furguson with conference coordinator Claudia Thomas. Other
members ot me local nursing sorority (from left) are Mrs. Rosa Jones, Mrs. Rosa Clemons,
Mrs. Salome Hankinson, Ms. Jaunita Taylor, Mrs. Mildred Watson, Mrs. Gladys Johnson,
and Mrs. Henrietta Jakes.
Nurses bring national director
to regional conference in Augusta
The director of Nursing Services for
the Veterans Administration
Hospital national office was in
Augusta this week to head the
Regional Medical Education Con
ference.
Ms. Vernice Ferguson, who is
also deputy assistant chief medical
director for nursing programs at
the V.A. central office in
Howard appointed to Aviation Commission
Robert Howard, 2123 Hillsinger
Road, has been appointed to the
Daniel Field Aviation Commission
by Mayor Edward M. Mclntyre.
He joins Walter Bennett as the
second Black on the eight-member
tments supply power to defective hall lights.
mercy of landlords who obviously
care nothing for their tenants. One
has to wonder whether anyone in-
Washington, D.C., was feted with
a banquet in her honor Monday
night at Fort Gordon.
About 250 persons from
throughout the Southeast attended
the conference, which was hosted
by the predominantly Black Phi
Chi Chapter of the Chi Eta Phi
Sorority, Inc.
The sorority is comprised of
commission.
Howard, 31, is the director of
the W.T. Johnson Community
Center.
A graduate of T.W. Josey High
School and Savannah State
Man arrested for
soliciting for
cancer society
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Less than 75 percent Advertising
spects these buildings. And if they
do, by what standards they are
found to be safe.
nurses throughout the Augusta
community and is not limited to
V.A. nurses, according to Claudia
Thomas, nursing supervisor at the
local Veterans Administration
Medical Center, coordinator of the
conference, and anti-basileus of
the sorority.
Ms. Jaunita W. Taylor is
basileus.
College, he has done further study
at the University of Georgia.
A member of First Mr. Moriah
Baptist Church, he and his wife,
the former Charlotte Lewis, have
three children.
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