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NAACP asks
demonstration of
economic clout
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Volume 13 Number 18
Mclntyre denies
that he endorsed
Senator Hollins
Mayor Edward M. Mclntyre Mon
day denied that he endorsed the
presidential bid of South Carolina
Sen. Ernest Hollins at the predom
inantly Black Mt. Vernon Baptist
Church Sunday.
Mclntyre said at the church
Sunday, “Senator Hollins,
knowing of your record in South
Carolina, knowing of your sensi-i
tivity to people, I’m sure also that
when you are elected president that
we’ll see a change in Washington,
so that we can bring governmental
sensitivity back to our people and
stop making the fat cats fatter as
our present president is doing.”
Radio station WRDW reported
Monday morning that Mclntyre
had endorsed the senator.
Interviewed by the News-Review
TV/Itl CP ask Blacks to use $2 bills
to demonstrate Black buying power
NEW YORK—With slogans
like, “We have to teach our dollars
to make more sense,” the NAACP
has launched its Black Dollar Days
demonstration for the upcoming
Labor Day Weekend to dramatize
the power of Black spending pat
terns in the United States.
Officials of the association’s six
regions and more than 1800 bran
ches have been alerted to build
support for the effort and a team
of three top NAACP economic ex
perts with the association’s Fair
Share Program are currently on a
tour of 23 cities to supplement
Manor helped
develop top
ceramic fiber
Richard Manor, who was a
pioneer in the development and
production of two new products
during his career, has retired after
more than 41 years with Babcock
& Wilcox.
Several years after he was hired,
Manor was assigned to help install
equipment to melt bauxite for a
special refractory brick. When
construction was over, he was
asked to help operate the unit.
A few years later, he helped in
stall a small experimental kiln in a
comer of the bauxite facility for
melting kaolin. The molten kaolin
was to be used in the production of
a new high temperature insulating
material, ceramic fiber.
Manor helped operate the fur
nace to produce B&W’s ceramic
fiber, Kaowool. And he has wat
ched that experiment grow unui
Kaowool, the leading product of
B&W in Augusta, is manufactured
in six countries. It is now the most
widely used ceramic fiber in the
world.
Manor continues to operate an
electric furnace in the Kaowool
Blacks in Saluda County file suit against at-large voting
SALUDA COUNTY—
A group of Saluda Coun
ty residents say the coun
ty’s at-large election
system is designed to
deny Blacks the right to
vote and have filed a law
suit in federal court to
have the method declared
on Monday, the mayor said, “I did
not endorse him; I wished him well
in his endeavor. There is a dif
ference.”
The mayor said that being a
“key factor” in the state
Democratic party (he is a member
of the executive committee), he has
to be careful about making en
dorsements.
“I haven’t given any thought to
it (an endorsement) at all at this
time. Plus I have not indicated at
this point my commitment to a
Black candidated for president,
nor have I divorced the idea.
“I think it would be extremely
premature (to make an endor
sement). I would like to evaluate a
little bit more whether a Black
should run.”
local efforts.
Commenting on Black Dollar
Days—from Sept. 1-5, 1983—the
executive director of the NAACP,
Benjamin L. Hooks, has said:
“This vitally important national
demonstration can involve every
body—it’s as easy as spending
money. It is a demonstration in
which every participant will
count.”
In reviewing the “mechanics” of
the protest demonstration, Fred
Rasheed, national director of the
■Bk
Richard Manor
Section and is proud of the fact
that he was one of the first three
people assigned to produce
Kaowool, and he has enjoyed wat
ching it grow.
“I almost wasn’t here,” he says.
“I came to B&W and was going to
stay only long enough to earn
money to relocate to Baltimore.
The months went by, and I en
joyed my job and my family was
growing. So I stayed 41 years
longer than I planned to. But I am
glad I stayed and my wife is too.”
Manor is a trustee of Mount
Zion A.M.E. Zion Church and is
on the board of directors of his
neighborhood association.
unconstitutional.
The suit asks the
federal court in Green
ville to devise a new way
to elect the Saluda Coun
ty Council, which hasn’t
had a Black member
“within living memory.*’
Blacks make up 35.3 per-
Suit filed against
at-large voting
in Saluda County
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association’s Operation Fair
Share, has urged that participants
take ten dollars or more and change
this into either $2-bills or Susan B.
Anthony silver dollars and that all
spending done during Black Dollar
Days should be done with money
of these denominations.
L.R. Byrd, a consultant to the
NAACP from L.R. Byrd and
Associates of Greenville, S.C., has
said this use of money in these
denominations during the period
from Sept. 1-5 will help to show
the importance of the Black dollar
Ex-Augustan
appointed dean
at Atlanta U.
Dr. Johnnie Clark has been ap
pointed dean of the Atlanta Uni
versity School of Business Admin
stration for the 1983-84 academic
year. The appointment was an
nounced recently by Dr. Kofi B.
Bota, acting president of the
graduate institution.
Dr. Clark graduated from Peter
H. Craig Elementary School and
the Augustus R. Johnson High
School and is the daughter of Mrs.
Allie Hubbard Lee of Augusta.
Dr. Clark, a long-time faculty
member at the school, has served
as chairperson of the Department
of Accounting for several years.
A graduate of Morris Brown
College, she earned graduate
degrees at New York University
(M.8.A.) and the University of
Georgia (Ph.D.) and is a certified
public accountant in the state of
Georgia. She is active in
professional and civic affairs.
Her memberships include the
American Accounting
Association, the American In
stitute of Certified Public Accoun
tants, the American Taxation
cent of the county’s pop
ulation and constitute a
minority of registered
voters, the suit points
out.
The seven county
residents also seek per
manently to bar the coun
ty from using an at-large
Mayor Edward M. Mclntyre
method to elect its county
council and to declare
that method in violation
of the U.S. Constitution
and the Voting Rights
Act of 1965.
The suit was filed recen
tly in Greenville’s U.S.
District Court by the
Augustans'
state colic
merger harn..~_
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August 13,1983
to the national economy.
All persons wanting to “demand
our fair share of the profits” and
to “trade in our walking shoes for
protest money,” should contact
their local branches of the NAACP
for further information.
“American Blacks make a great
deal of money in this coun
try —more than $l5O billion a
year,” said Kelly M. Alexander
Sr., vice chairman of the board of
the NAACP.
< * sch.
Dr. Johnnie Clark
Association, the Georgia Society
of Certified Public Accountants,
and the board of Citizens Trust
Bank, the Southwest Community
Hospital, and the Lake Lanier
Islands Development Authority.
Dr. Bota said that Dr. Clark’s
appointment was made after con
sultation with the faculty of the
School of Business Ad
ministration. “She is highly
respected on campus, within her
profession and in the Atlanta
community.
“She brings to the position of
dean a wealth of experience and
knowledge, and we look forward
to her leadership in the school.” .
American Civil Liberties
Union and Columbia
lawyer Herbert E. Buhl
111.
Its plaintiffs are Robert
J. Lewis, James M.
Holloway, Charlie S.
Daniel, Thomas S.
Bryant, Albert Lurck,
Less than 75 percent Advertising
Mattingly backs
King holiday
U.S. Senator Mack Mattingly
said in Augusta Wednesday that
the Reagan administration has
been “totally errant in the way that
it has handled issues regarding
minorities,” however, Mattingly
will vote to replace the three mem
bers of the Civil Rights Com
mission who have been critical of
the Reagan administration’s hand
ling of civil rights.
The senator spoke to a group of
Black leaders at the Pilgrim Civic
Center.
While stating that the Reagan
administration mishandled the
Civil Rights Commission issue, he
refused to say whether he was per
sonally committed to keeping or
replacing the three commission
members who have been critical of
the Reagan administration’s civil
rights record.
He said that he received only
two letters on the issue.
“This is the first time that I have
said publicly how I will vote on the
issue, but I think a president has a
right to make his own nomina
tions, and they’re going to get con
firmed. But the issue is deeper than
Let governor know
Editorial
Gov. Joe Frank Harris’
campaign staff made
much of the fact that he
was endorsed by 19 of 22
Black legislators.
We don’t believe that he
would have gotten the sup
port of most of those legis
lators if they had known
that he intended to merge
the three historically Black
state colleges with neigh
boring predominantly white
institutions.
And we believe it is in
cumbent upon those legis
lators and others who know
the unique ability of the
Black college to educate
Black people to show the
governor magnitude of his
error.
We are not surprised
that the governor does not
understand, but those of
us who do, must convince
the governor.
No college or university
can match the record of
the Black college for taking
students, often considered
uneducable by white insti
tutions, and inspiring, ed
ucating and graduating
students who can perform
at the highest levels in all
fields, including teaching
in the nation’s top gradu
ate schools.
In predominantly white
schools, the Black student
James L. Bosket and
Samuel R. Abney, who
are all Black adult
citizens and registered
voters of the county, ac
cording to the suit.
The defendants are
Saluda County, the
Saluda County Council
Ex-Augustan
r J a ' ,o anat
ersity
that.”
In explaining further, Mattingly,
who opposes tuition tax credits,
said that the administration also
mishandled the Bob Jones Univers
ity issue, and that the president’s
advisers did Reagan a “disservice
in not telling him to get on the (ex
tension of) Voting Rights Act at
the beginning.”
While stating that he would vote
for a national holiday in honor of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he
said that he would rather see
another holiday, such as Colum
bus Day, done away with in order
to save money.
Asked whether he favored full
employment, he said, “Full em
ployment will bring back high in
terest rates and inflation.”
The senator said that he favors
entitlement programs for the needy
but asked, “Why subsidize the up
per levels?”
Communitv worker Wilbert All
en shot back, “Why subsidize the
rich? You are subsidizing the rich.
The business tax credits that you
all passed have been the most
lucrative I’ve ever seen.”
is often faced with an en
vironment that is insensi
tive if not hostile to his
language, dress, behavior,
and relative lack of pre
paration. The student often
fails and thinks it’s his
fault.
Sometimes it is, but more
often it is the school and
the system that have failed
the student. There are very
few programs to strength
en his deficiencies and very
little to give the student en
couragement and a sense
of personal worth. Black
colleges were founded to
handle the special needs of
Black students and they
have a hundred years of
experience in doing it.
Most of these merger ef
forts are last ditch efforts
to fend off the federal
government because the
predominantly white insti
tutions have failed to inte
grate their schools ade
quately.
Blacks have never segre
gated their schools, and
no not advocate segrega
tion now. What Blacks do
ask for—and what the
governor must be made to
understand—is the ability
to control the content and
the conditions in which
our students are educated.
and council members,
and the commissioners of
the county election
board.
The five-member coun
ty council is elected at
large, the chairman to a
four-year term and the
other council members to
30c
staggered two-year terms,
the suit says. Election is
by majority vote and
there is no ward require
ment.
Saluda County Attor
ney Billy C. Coleman said
see Saluda, page 6