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Volume 13 Number 11
Hamilton changes mind,
won’t leave Tabernacle
Dr. C.S. Hamilton, who on May
20 announced his resignation as
pastor of Tabernacle Baptist
Church, changed his mind late last
week and was honored with an ap
preciation day Sunday.
Hamilton said that one of the
overriding factors in his decision
was the pledge of the church “to
be about what a church ought to be
about—involved in the greater
mission of the church—soul win
ning, helping the sick...”
He also said that the fact that he
had been at Tabernacle for 27
years was a factor. And, he added,
“The situation was not a hostile
situation.”
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PHYSICIANS —Alvin Sermons (right) and Michael Smith (left) were among the
physicians in this year’s graduating class at the College of Georgia.
; 16 Black doctors finish MCG
Eight Black physicians and eight
Black dentists graduated from the
Medical College of Georgia this
month.
Two of the dentists, James
Barron and Alfred Peters, are
Augustans,
The other dentists include
Ronald Adams, Gregroy Graham,
Black commission to monitor
higher education in Georgia
The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery,
president of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference,
has announced the formation of a
statewide commission to evaluate
higher education in Georgia. The
commission has designated task
forces to study desegregation, af
firmative action, attrition rates,
testing, and support for
traditionally Black colleges.
The commission began this
month developing sweeping
recommendations for the
elimination of the dual system of
higher education in Georgia, to be
presented to the Georgia Board of
Regents. The plans will focus on
the failure of the Board to upgrade
traditionally Black institutions,
Man confesses
to murder of
Market Street man
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Dr. Charles S. Hamilton
Edward Green, Andre Jackson,
Diane Stephens and Celestine Var
nedoe.
Three of the doctors—Julius
Bowie and Marcia Riley of Atlanta
and Alvin Sermons—will do their
residencies at the Medical College
of Georgia.
Other medical doctors receiving
board failure to increase em
ployment opportunities for Black
faculty, administrative and
managerial staff at traditionally
white institutions, lack of active
recruitment of Black students by
Man killed on Market Street
An Augusta man was shot and
killed on Market Street Saturday
evening. Police gave no motive for
the killing.
Police officers said that they
found Robert Glenn, 50, 1336
Market St., lying in the street with
a gunshot wound in his chest.
While waiting for an ambulance
to arrive, a man, according to
Hamilton told The News-Review
previously (May 21 issue) that he
would assume the pastorate of
Bethel Community Baptist Church
in St. Petersburg Fla. He said that
at that time the move was “just an
opportunity, a greater challenge.”
This week he said that church
would have been a challenge and
“Tabernacle will be a challenge.”
The church in St. Petersburg will
not be adversely affected by his
decision, according to Hamilton.
The pastor, the Rev. Enoch Davis,
will soon retire, but he will con
tinue to pastor the church until a
succesor is found, Hamilton said.
degrees were Willie Nell Bryant-
Pitts, Felton Daniel, Margaret
Riley, Michael Smith, Hiram
Whitaker and Berto Lopez.
There were five Blacks who
recieved the master’s degree in
nursing. Thirty-seven graduates
received degrees in nursing, and an
additional 25 degrees were awar
ded in allied health sciences.
white institutions, and the extreme
failure rate of Blacks on the
Regents test.
Lowery plans to duplicate this
model commission in other states
around the country.
police reports, approached the of
ficers and asked if Glenn was dead.
Then he reportedly told the of
ficers, “I shot him*”
He was arrested at the scene.
Glenn was pronounced dead at
9:20 p.m. by assistant coroner
D.B. McCaslin. A .22 revolver was
found at the scene with six empty
cartridges in it.
Council denies plea
to keep bases
off Steiner Ave.
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Dr. E. Clayton Calhoun
City Council denies request
to keep buses off Steiner Ave.
City Council’s approval Mon
day of bus route changes that will
bring buses into the Hernlen sub
division drew an angry response
from resident J.W. Barrington.
“It was just an unfair decision.
Everybody there has cars,” he
said, that the bus “stops right at
my bedroom window.”
Barrington described the neigh
borhood as an “area of senior
citizens” who can go out on their
porches and rest without noise.
“The buses create a hazard as far
as noise is concerned,” he said.
He said that an organization,
Neighbors United, voted
unanimously against bus service on
Steiner Avenue.
Prior to the vote, Barrington
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BECOMING CLOSER—Edward R. Jagnandan director of the Augusta Housing
Authority’s Community Services Department welcomed approximately 45 representatives of
the Athens Housing Authority to Augusta last Wednesday.
The group was presented a key to the city by City Councilman I.E. Washington and was
given a tour of the community. The program is designed to promote fellowship between the
residents of the public housing agencies of the respective cities. Photo by John coiuer
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told council, “I’ve heard of only
one person that will probably ride
a bus, and they don’t ride it often.
I don’t think the people of Hernlen
Street should have to suffer at the
whims of other neighbors.”
Fourth Ward councilmen Joe
lones and Dr. I.E. Washington
voted in favor of the changes in the
bus route. Jones said that a survey
showed that residents of the area
favored the bus service two to one.
Washington said that what
Barrinton was asking “is good for
people on his street, but that street
is a route to other neighborhoods.”
' Barrington said that his concern
is not just for one street but for the
neighborhood which includes
Steiner Avenue, Rosalie Street,
Hernlen Street, Joseph Street and
Gospel festival
is to be held
in Holy Land
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The
Congo
Mission
Former Paine College President
E. Clayton Calhoun lectured in the
college’s Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel
Tuesday on the “The Gilbert-
Lambuth Congo Mission.”
Calhoun was one of three
speakers on a program observing
the chartering of Paine College 100
years ago, June 19, 1883. The
other speakers were Bishop Joseph
C. Coles and Professor George
Clary.
Paine, founded to train leaders
for the Colored Methodist
Episcopal Church, was instituted
in 1882 by the Colored Methodist
Episcopal Church and the
Methodist Episcopal Church,
South.
Sunset Avenue.
In other action, council ap
proved the renaming of Railroad
Avenue from Wrightsboro Road
to D’Antignac Street in honor of
the late R.A. Dent who served in
the State Legislature for 16 con
secutive years. Dent died last year.
Council also disapproved an
alcoholic beverage license for an
establishment on 15th Street.
Williams Memorial C.M.E. Chur
ch had vigorously opposed the
issuance of the license.
Additionally, council endorsed
the issuance of approximately $6.6
million in mortagage revenue bon
ds by the Housing Authority to
finance construction of 216 garden
apartments near Interstate 20.
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