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The Augusta News-Review February 11,1984
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Matching funds, rule changes
still considered for Jackson
WASHINGTON, D.C.
(NNP A) —Although the
Democratic National Committee
refused to change primary election
rules for convention delegates as
requested by Presidential Can
didate Jesse Jackson, at least two
states, Missouri and Vermont, may
decide to make the changes, accor
ding to Jackson campaign of
ficials.
Despite the confusion over the
Democratic party rules, a Jackson
spokesman said the organization
expects a “rollover” effect in
having several states agree to
provide delegates to presidential
candidates with less than 20 per
cent of the state vote in primary
Rights commission called Reagan Committee
WASHINGTON, D.C.
(NNPA)—“While the new U.S.
Civil Rights Commission declared
its independence of President
Ronald Reagan, its subsequent ac
tions spoke much louder than
words,” declared Ralph G. Neas,
executive director of the newly
reorganized Leadership Conferen
ce on Civil Rights, a traditional
coalition of over 100 religious,
labor, community and civil rights
organizations.
Indeed, the President’s commit
tee has joined Reagan in declaring
that certain programs passed by
News service to link Jamaica
and U.S. Black press
The establishment of
the first news com
munication link between
the U.S. and the Carib
bean area was announced
at a two day Mid-Winter
Workshop of ihe
National Newspaper
Publishers Association
held in Ocho Rios,
Jamaica Jan. 25-28.
The country’s Prime
Minister, Right
Honorable Edward
Seaga, speaking at the
concluding workshop
dinner disclosed his plan
to develop a news service
which would supply the
130 National Newspaper
Publishers Association
papers with information
from Jamaica.
The National
Newspaper Publishers
Association’s President,
elections as currently required by
the DNC.
After campaigning in New
Hampshire, last month, Jackson
temporarily passed up lowa to
return to Florida, Georgia and
Alabama. The candidate is expec
ted to return to Illinois and
Washington (D.C) this week
before the final push for delegates
in primary elections in 30 key
states in March. Some elections
will be private party caucuses and
others will be public polling.
Meanwhile, the candidate is en
titled to receive only SIOO,OOO in
the first grant of matching Federal
funds, a Federal Election Com
mission spokesperson said this
Congress to promote equality of
opportunity are no longer within
the jurisdiction of the commission,
Neas said. Speaking for the
coalition, he added “It appears
that the Reagan administration
philosophy is to diminish the
Federal government’s historic role
to provide equality.”
Because of the multiple firings
of commissioners, President
Reagan has robbed the new com
mission of any legitimacy as an in
dependent commission. The in
dependent U.S. Civil Rights
Commission died the day
President Reagan repudiated the
Christopher Bennett,
described the action as a
breakthrough and
proposed the provision of
a similar NNPA News
Service through expanded
membership among other
island newspapers.
Never before has there
been a mutual exchange
of news between the
Caribbean islands and the
U.S. such as these actions
propose. Thousands of
readers of Caribbean
descent will now have
hometown information
not previously available
from a regular source.
During the dinner
speech Prime Minister
Seaga reviewed the
economic situation of
Jamaica and provided ex
tensive background in
formation on the
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Grenada invasion. He
stated clearly that the
unified action was based
on documented evidence
that actions in Grenada
posed an unmistakable
threat to the safety of
neighboring islands and
he disavowed any prior
impetus from the United
States. He also asked
support tor a
Dealine set for competition
. The deadline for sub
t mitting entries in the
. eleventh annual J.B.
White Literary Com
. petion conducted by
- Augusta College is Feb.
. 22, according to Dr. Lillie
f Jugurtha, this year’s
. Competion Director. The
. contest is open to all
. Junior and Senior high
week. However, Jackson will be
eligible to continue to receive fun
ds to match individual con
tributions up to $250 each after
having filed his request for ap
proximately $500,000 by the Jan-.
31 deadline, Sharon Snyder, the
FEC official stated.
The agency was still reviewing
Jackson’s request last weekend. A
total of $10,386,223.52 in mat
ching funds have been certified,
thus far, for six presidential can
didates eligible to receive matching
grants, but no amounts had been
approved for Jackson and former
Sen. George McGovern (D-S.
Dakota).
Nov. 10 compromise, Neas said.
Ironically, the action was taken by
the new commission on Dr. Martin
Luther King’s birthday.
“Because of the multiple firings
of commissioners, President
Reagan has robbed the new com
mission of any legitimacy as an in
dependent commission. The in
dependent U.S. Civil Rights
Commission died the day
President Reagan repudiated the
Nov. 10 compromise,” Neas said.
Ironically, the action was taken by
the new commission on Dr. Martin
Luther King’s birthday.
Congressional pardon for
Marcuc Garvey, a
Jamaician with jour
nalistic background.
In an earlier speech
Congressman Gus Savage
from Chicago presented
an analysis of Presiden
Reagan’s State of the
Union address to the U.S
Congress.
school students in the
CSRA, and all entries
should be mailed to Dr.
Jugurtha, Department of
Languages and
Literature, Augusta
College, Augusta, Ga.,
30910. Further infor
mation can be obtained
by calling 737-1500.
Funeral services held
for Jackie Wilson
from the Michigan Chronicle
Although the church
doors did not open until
after 10 a. tn., mourners
began arriving as early as
7 a.m. the Saturday mor
ning Jackie Wilson was
funeralized at the Russell
Street Baptist Church in
Detroit.
By the time services got
underway at the
scheducled noon hour,
the church was packed to
its 1,500-seat capacity
with the crowd lining the
walls, filling the balcony
and listening to the or
der of the program from
loudspeakers in the
basement.
Music dominated the
rites, officiated by the
Rev. Anthony C. Cam
pbell. The combined
choirs of the church,
where Wilson was bap
tized, resounded with a
number of spirited selec
tions.
“It’s a glorious day to
send Jackie home,” said
Rev. Campbell, adding,
“...We cannot gloss over
it; we’re here to say
goodbye.”
Floral sprays adorned
the back of the choir
stand the most
noticeable an
arrangement of white
carnations in the shape of
a record with a ribbon
emblazed, “Lonley Tear
drops” signed by
Augsta’s own James
brown and friends.
Some in attendance
marveled at the sight of
superstars of the recor
ding industry.
“Jackie Wilson was
loved,” said Levi Stubbs,
of the Four Tops, when
called to the pulpit to give
remarks. “People
wouldn’t be here for any
other reason. Jackie was
street peoplein that he
never became bigger than
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PEARL BAILEY admires special award
presented by NAACP Executive Director
Benjamin L. Hooks at the association’s Roy
Wilkins Humanitarian Awards Dinner held
at the New York Sherator Center in January.
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people.”
Members of the Four
Tops, who all served as
pallbearers, wept openly
as the Rev. William
Ferrell 11l delivered a
medley of gospel hymns.
Rev. Campbell
eulogized Wilson as a
talent who “combined a
special kind of
chemistry.”
“It’s a hard life run
ning from date to date,”
he acknowledged,
“dressing in dusty rooms
in glittering, tight-fitting
clothes. You walk out to
an audience of people
waiting for you to fai1...1
can’t think of anything
harder.”
“But it was a life that
put Jackie Wilson well in
to the center spotlight of
American music, earning
him a string of hit recor
dings and the title, ‘Mr.
Excitement’.”
Those early perfor
mances led to such
national hit recordings as
“That’s Why,’’
“Doggin’ Around,”
“Talk That Talk,” “A
Woman, A Lover, A
Friend,” “Baby
Workout,” “Danny
ding contributions to civil rights. She was
among four others so honored that evening.
Looking in are Mrs. Hazel N. Dukes,
president of the NAACP New York State
Conference of Branches and Charles L.
Brown, chairman of the NAACP
Metropolitan Council of Branches.
Boy,” and “Higher and
Higher.”
Born Jack Leroy
Wilson on June 9, 1934,
the singer grew up on
Detroit’s eastside.
He initially thought of
becoming a professional
fighter—having won the
Golden Gloves cham
pionship at the age of
16 —but was persuaded to
develop his natural gift of
singing.
He suffered a heart at
tack on stage at the Latin
Casino in Cherry Hill,
N.J., in 1975, that left
him an invalid until the
time of his death on Jan
21.