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Volume 13 Number 21
First U.S. Black in space
The first Black American to soar
into space, Lieut. Col. Guion S.
Bluford Jr., has in his career
followed a trajectory as sure and
graceful as that of the Challenger.
Fascinated as a child with things
that fly, he pursued his interest tc
the point of taking a doctorate in
aerospace engineering.
A reluctant hero on the issue of
racial barriers, the 40-year-old Air
Force officer acknowledged his
pioneering role at a recent news
conference, but he stressed that he
was more excited about being able
to fly on the Challenger.
He has nonetheless gone out of
his way to share with Black studen
ts his devotion to the art of
aerospace engineering.
This year he visited a
predominantly Black high school
in Camden, N.J., which built an
experiment to be carried aboard
the Challenger. “The students
went wild when Colonel Bluford
came,” said one teen-ager who
worked on the experiment. “He
said: Tm an engineer, and I’m
Black and I’m lonely out there.’”
He Says He Loves Airplanes
Qn another occasion he
described himself as “quietish per
son who loves airplanes.”
Guion Steward Bluford Jr., was
bom in Philadelphia on Nov. 22,
1942. His all-American childhood
included a paper route, Ping-
Pong, chess and the Boy Scouts, in
which he achieved the rank of
Eagle. While growing up in West
Philadelphia, the oldest of three
Jesse keynotes
Washington
march
by Jerome Smith
News-Review staff reporter
No speaker at last week’s March
on Washington possessed Martin
Luther King’s charisma or
eloquence. But Jesse Jackson was
the next thing to it.
“We are still looking for allies
that will be fair, as our struggle
shifts from welfare to our share,
from aid to trade, from generosity
to economic and political
reciprocity,” Jackson said.
“Twenty years later we do not
have equality. We have moved in.
Now we must move up.”
Jackson, who is considering
making a bid for the White House
in 1984, said, “Twenty years ago
there were no Blacks in Congress
or in state-wide offices in nine
Southern states. Twenty years later
we still do not have one Black in
the Congress in those nine
Southern states because the Voting
Rights Act has been sabotaged.
“Twenty years ago there were
less than 400 Black elected officials
in the land. Twenty years later
there are 5,200. But we are still less
Man, woman killed in murder-suicide
An Augusta man and woman
were killed Wednesday morning in
what police called a murder
suicide.
Police answered a call at 194814
Julius St. about 7:ls a.m. Charles
Abrams had phoned the police af
ter having been asked to do so by
his sister, Dorothy Jean Willis,
1523 Dade St., about 7 a.m.
When the police arrived, neigh
bors reported that they had heard a
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr.
boys, he built model airplanes and
upon entering junior high school
he decided to become an aerospace
engineer. Encouraging the hopes
were his father, a mechanical
engineer, and his mother, a special
education teacher in the public
school system.
Not everyone shared his dreams.
Counselors at Overbrook High
School said he was not college
material and suggested that he in
stead enter a technical school.
Nevertheless, after graduation in
1960 he was accepted into the
Aerospace Engineering program at
Pennsylvania State University.
There he met his future wife, Lin
da Tull. He graduated in 1964 with
a bachelor of science degree and
joined the Air Force.
A Period of Honing
About that time he became fired
with an unassuming kind of am
bition. School and military records
suggest he went through a deter
mined process of honing, a quiet
fight for career advancement that
eventually landed him among the
aerospace elite.
In Arizona he attended pilot
training at Williams Air Force
Base, and he received his pilot
wings in January 1965. He then
joined an F-4 fighter squadron in
Vietnam, flying 144 combat
missions, 65 over North Vietnam.
After combat service, Colonel
Bluford taught cross-country and
acrobatic flying at Sheppard Air
Force Base in Texas. In 1972,
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KING’S DREAM lives on
than one percent of the 512,000
elected officials in this nation. We
are still 50,000 short of our share.”
Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young
said that the 1963 March on
Washington turned out to be “the
formation of a gigantic, massive
organizing committee. We were in
fact a steering committee for the
furture,” he said.
Martin Luther King Sr. said,
“We want the world to know that
until we can get every man to come
to see that we care about
everybody, we won’t stop
gunshot come from the house.
Police talked with a man,
William Garrett, who refused to
come out of the house. Det. Lieut.
Mary Jones tried to pursuade
Garrett to come out, but he still
refused. She said that he told her
that he had “done something
bad.”
Later the police heard a gun
shot. They then filled the house
with tear gas, then entered.
Ms. Willis’ body was found on
Murder,
silicide
in Turpin Hill
beating stiff competition, he was
accepted into the Air Force In
stitute of Technology, and
graduated with distinction in 1974
with a master’s degree in aerospace
engineering. He then went to the
Air Force Flight Dynamics
Laboratory at Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base in Ohio, working
his way up to chief of the
Aerodynamics and Airframe bran
ch.
Studying all the while, he
graduated in 1978 with a Ph.D in
aerospace engineering and a minor
in laser physics from the Air Force
Institute of Technology. His
dissertation was titled “A
numerical solution of supersonic
and hypersonic viscous flow fields
around thin planar delta wings.”
With almost no hope of success,
Colonel Bluford in 1978 applied to
the astronaut program, along with
8,078 others. He said he was puz
zled when an official of the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration called to chat
about the Texas sunshine, until he
was asked if he would like to be an
astronaut.
‘Hobby Is Going to Work’
The next year he became eligible
for a mission. “It really proved to
be better than I expected,” he said
after entering the program. “It
gives me a chance to use all my
skills and do something that is
pretty exciting. The job is so fan-
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fighting.”
One marcher, 45, who also par
ticipated in the 1963 March said,
“I’m glad that we were able to
return to this historical sight to let
this nation know that our fight
continues, but as far as the impact
of this anniversary march, I see
none.”
However, CBS newsman Ed
Bradley concluded, “It will take
more than a first impression of this
day to know the effectiveness and
meaning of this march on
Washington.”
the kitchen floor with a gunshot
wound to the face, and Garrett was
found in the bedroom with a gun
shot wound also to the face.
Bo* were pronounced dead at
9:50 Mm. by Assistant Coroner
WillAi McGlaskin.
A |2-gauge shotgun aged a pistol
were found at the scenelaccording
to police reports. ®
Police said that the inaiw of the
shootings were undetermined.
McKinney,
Youjlg players
of the week
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FALLING IN LINE Augustine Harold Gwinyai Paul, son of Dr. and Dr. Michael
Paul, knew just when to make his arrival.
He was born August 12. His maternal grandmom (left), Mrs. Iris South, was born
August 12. His mother, Jeannette, was born August 14, and his father was born August 15.
Said the proud father: “We had to name him Augustine—being born in Augusta, in
August, and representing all of the above.”
Beautiful yard
winners
selected
Mayor Edward M. Mclntyre,
Monday, announced the winners
today of his Beautiful Yard Con
test.
Approximately 135 homeowners
were eligible for the yard contest.
Prizes were donated by area
businesses.
The first place winner, Mrs.
Joyce Burton, 1116 Miller St.,
received a plaque and a S6O in cash
and merchandise.
The second place winner, Mrs.
Sadie Chavous, 2030 Clark St.,
received $35 and third place win
ners, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ramsey,
609 Jefferson Dr., received $lO.
The remaining finalists were:
Mr. and Mrs. Cardell Davis, Mrs.
Betty Gardner, Mrs. Lula Belle
Hampton, Mrs. Annabel Jones,
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Kennedy,
Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Marshall, Mrs.
Emma Martin, Mrs. Maude Mar
tin, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Redd,
Mrs. Velma Sanders, Mrs. Savan
nah Sherman and Mrs. Mary
Smith.
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CONTEST WINNERS (from left) Mrs. Joyce Burton, Mrs. Sadie Chavous, and Fred
Ramsey with Mayor Edward M. Mclntyre (center) and 4th Ward City Councilman Joseph
C. Jones.
Aaron Pryor
has new weapon
for Arguello
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Less than 75 percent Advertising
Your help needed
We urge all Blacks to
participate in the
NAACP’s Black Dollar
Days demonstration.
No marching is
required. Blacks are sim
ply asked to spend $2 bills
and Susan B. Anthony
silver dollars September
first through the fifth.
The purpose of this
demonstation is to make it
clear both to the NAACP
and to the business com
munity just how much of
their business comes from
Blacks.
Armed with the infor
mation, the NAACP plans
to appeal to the business
community to put money
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back into the Black com
munity proportionate to
what we spend with them.
It will mean more and bet
ter jobs and other benefits
for everybody.
The Georgia Railroad
Bank has made available
an ample amount of $2
bills and Susan B. An
thony silver dollars. We
hope that instead of
paying for your purchases
with the one, five, ten and
twenty dollar bills, that
you will use these special
denominations this week.
This demonstration of
Black buying power may
mean more than we may
imagine. Please par
ticipate.