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Jermaine Jackson
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VOLUME 14 NUMBER 18
Johnson says League
books now balanced
with no discrepancies
by Linda Starks Andrews
An audit of the CSRA Business
Lvague, Inc’s accounting system
“has all been cleared up” accor
ding to Harvey L. Johnson,
executive director of the League.
Johnson whose organization
provides small business loans to
minority-owned businesses told
The News-Review that Dave Dun
can, a certified public accountant,
has “reviewed our books and han
dled them according to general ac
counting procedures.
“According to Mr. Duncan’s
review, our books now do balance
and there is no discrepancy of fun
ds. All funds received from the
documents are in file for all expen
ses.”
Johnson defended some of the
practrices cited in the audit and
said that as a result of accounting
procedures being implemented,
“everything has been accounted
for.”
Due to the discrepancies Mayor
Pro Tern Charles DeVaney an
nounced last week that the city
funding would be cut off from the
Business League until an audit had
taken place.
However, Johnson stated his
organization was at a “downtime
wherein our books were not balan
ced. Consequently, our debts and
credits did not balance. Our
regular accountant was not here to
close out the books, Johnson said.
The audit, conducted by John
son, Frazier and Wright, an Atlan
ta based accounting firm, found
that as of May 31:
Os 12 loans in a revolving ac-
Millender
is named
Paine dean
Mallory K. Millender, News-
Review editor-publisher, has been
named dean for Admissions,'
Recruitment and Financial Aid at
Paine College, according to
President William H. Harris.
In making the announcement,
Dr. Harris said that the office was
created in a concerted effort to
“stabilize the student
population,” which dropped to
about 720. Last semester 765
students were enrolled.
Millender has been a member of
the Paine faculty for 17 years, and
serves as coordinator of Foreign
Languages and assistant professor
of French and journalism.
A 1964 graduate of Paine
College, he earned the master’s
degree in foreign languages from
Kansas State Teacher’s College
t and the master’s in journalism
from the Graduate School of
Journalism at Columbia Univer
sity.
Until now the operations of ad
missions and recruitment have
been under the auspices of the Of
fice of Academic Affairs while*
Financial Aid has reported to the*
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Harvey L. Johnson
count used to assist small
businesses, eight were in arrears , a
total of $6,723.84.
A SIO,OOO loan went to Dr.
Maurice Thompson to pay off an
IRS debt. When City Council
Community Development Com
mittee objected to this, loan
documents were reworded to omit
the reference to the IRS.
The Business League ledger was
out of balance by $19,552.19 and
did not list necessary cash accoun
ts.
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The consolidation of these
operations is meant to emphasize
“their utmost importance to the
future success of the college, by in
creasing the student population
and diminishing the student drop
out rate.” Harris said.
Millender said that he will con
tinue to serve as editor and
publisher of The News-Review,
although he will have only limited
involvement in the day-to-day
operations. That responsibility
will be handled by Mrs. Georgene
Hatcher-Seabrook, the paper’s
gene iat manager, Millender said,
adding that most of the reporting
duties will be performed by Linda
Andrews, a new member of the
staff.
Business League
says its books
now balanced
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The omission of $18,278.12 in
cash accounts balances nearly
doubled this difference.
“This means either the CSRA
Business League has unrecorded
liabilities of $37,830.19 due to the
three agencies that fund it or the
CSRA (agency) has accumulated a
net worth of $37,830.31 as of May
31, 1984, as excess program grant
revenue over program expenses”,
wrote the auditors.
The Business League accounting
books and records did not follow
generally accepted accounting
principles or federal guidelines, ac
cording to the auditors.
The audit covered only city
council funding to the company
and it s expenditures from August
1, 1982 to May 31, 1984.
Johnson defended some of the
practices cited in the audit and siad
that as a result of acounting
proceudres being implemented,
“everything has been acounted
for.”
“We view the issue of Dr.
Thompson’s loan to be without
substance in that the load was ap
proved by committee members and
the appropriate authorities
reviewwed the application and the
use of laon proceeds before the
money was dispersed.”
Johnson said he did not expect
the cut off of city funds to harm
the League, predicting that
DeVaney will reinstate the funds
now thta the Leagues books are in
order. “If authorities involved
desire another outside audit, it is
welcomed,” he said.
Jackson leads registration drive
Former presidential candidate
Jesse Jackson will lead thousands
of people to voter registration
tables in South Carolina,
Mississippi and throughout the
South this week, after he urged
seven million members of the
National Baptist Convention to
support former Vice President
Walter Mondale for the president of
the United States.
Speaking to more than 30,000
delegates to the Washington, D.C.
meeting of the National Baptist
Convention Jackson
urged the people who supported
him in his historic campaign for
the presidential nomination to
“stay with me in September and
October; elect Mondale in Novem
ber, so Reagan can go home in
December.”
Jackson, himself a Baptist
minister, spoke to the convention
delegates three times during the
week, including his appearance to
introduce Democratic party
leaders.
Jackson was joined on the
podium by Benjamin Hooks,
executive director of the NAACP;
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), co
chairman of the Mondale cam
paign, and Ernest Green, Mon
dale’s deputy campaign manager
and former assistant secretary of
labor.
Billy Davis, McCoo
say Christian values
must be maintained
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, 1984
Mays, Spence enter
race for mayor
by Linda Starks Andrews
On the last day of qualifying,
and Augusta real estate broker and
a city councilman joined the
mayoral race Monday.
William H. Mays 111, second
ward city councilman and J.W.
Spence, president of Spence and
Associates Realty Co., joined the
race against Mayor Pro Tern
Charles DeVaney and Inez Wylds.
LteVaney and Wylds qualified
earlier in September.
The candidate who wins the Oc
tober 10 election takes office in
January for a three-year term. If
not elected as mayor, DeVaney,
Mays and Wylds may remain on
their council seats.
As Mays announced his can
didacy he was accompanied by
State Representatives George
thrown and Charles Vvalker, coun
cil members Kathleen Beasley and
Margaret Armstrong, and Board
of Education member Kingsley
Riley.
Also present for the announ
cement was former councilwoman
Carrie Mays, the candidate’s
mother who, herself, had been
elected to the City Council for
three consecutive terms.
“The Time Is Now”, was the
theme for the candidates announ
cement. Mays said, “Our time is
not 1987, not fair weather time,
our time is right now.”
Mays objected to the spending
of tax -payers money to “uphold
at-large voting which discriminates
against the vast majority of the
population.”
The possibility of spending $217
Referring to the growing
religious issue in the presidential
campaign, Jackson reminded the
delegates that the Rev. T. J.
Jemison, president of the National
Baptist Convention, had not asked
the organization to endorse any
candidate because of the
traditional American policy of the
separation of church and state.
“But you did supportYne as one
of your own when we made a dash
for freedon,” Jackson said. “We
Local voter registration ‘how to’
Who needs to register?
Anyone who is 18 years of age.
Anyone who has never been
registered. Anyone hwo has not
voted in 10 years. Anyone who has
moved and does not want to go
back to their old voting poll.
When must you register?
By law, all Georgia voters inten
ding to vote in the November elec
tion must be registered by October
9. In two weeks time they will be
entered on the voting rolls but will
not receive their voter registration
cards for another six weeks.
Where can you register?
Richmond County Municipal
Building, 530 Greene St., Room
104 or at the Augusta and Regen
cy Malls on weekends. Registrar’s
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William H. Mays 111
million to improve the riverfront
and downtown areas of the city but
not using political leverage to try
to keep open educational in
stitutions within the city, Mays
said, was also a problem facing the
city that he is concerned about.
Mays, the only Black candidate,
said, “This is not a candidacy to
make a showing to prove that our
community has strength. It is not
just a Black campaign, but a com
munity campaign.”
Mays, who is presently serving
his second consecutive term on the
city council stated, “1 think my
voting record speaks for itself.
The problems of Harrisburg con
cern me just as much as Laney-
Walker.”
A graduate of T.W. Josey High
School and the Gupton Jones
School of Mortuary Science, Mays
has also been director of Mays
Mortuary since 1973.
h ave a thousand reasons to vote in
this election because of the number
of Blacks running for of
fice—from sheriffs to registrars
and from members of Congress to
judges,” he told the delegates.
Jackson took his revitalized
campaign for Mondale into the
heart of old Dixie and appeared
with his former rival, Sen. Ernest
K. Hollings of South Carolina, as
well as with South Carolina
Governor Richard Riley.
telephone number is 828-6905.
What to do if unable to
register?
If you are handicapped, you may
call 828-6905 or write to the Board
ot Elections, Richmond County,
530 Greene St., Augusta, Ga.
30902 requesting an absentee
ballot for handicapped voters.
The Board of Elections will
provide you with an absentee
ballot for each election.
How do you register?
Citizens wishing to register to vote
need only swear to a statement that
indicates they are of voting age and
a resident of Georgia. Proof of
identification is required and there
is no fee. _
Livingstone
president to
be inaugurated
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Mays is on the council’s
Finance, Public Safety and
Stockade committees.
Candidate Spence stated Mon
day, “I want to be Augusta’s first
six-days-a-week mayor. I think
Augusta’s working people deserve
to have their mayor available to
them on one of their off days.”
Upon qualifying, Spence issued
a 10 point program for his ad
ministration to follow. They in
clude: upgrading law enfor
cement; being available on Satur
day to working people; equitable
treatment of all city employees;
conservative spending of tax
payers money; creating an ad
visory committee of professionals;
creating a citizens advisory com
mittee; activate pursuing of federal
funds and initiating a “sensible”
revitalization program for down
town.
Asked if he thought it was too
late to get into the mayor’s race
which is only three weeks away,
Spence said he doesn’t think it is
ever too late for people who have
the desire. “We have three long
weeks for voters to make their
decision. For some voters, it will
not take three minutes given the
present choice of candidates.”
Spence believes that his 35 years
of business experience differen
tiates him from the other three
candidates. He has served one
term on the city council as a
representative of the seventh ward
and served two terms on the
Augusta Richmond County Plan
ning Commission including being
chairman of the board.
A member of the Elks Club and
American Legion Post 63, Spence
has also served with the U.S. Navy
during World War II and the
Korean War.
Both presidential candidates
were invited to address the
National Baptist Convention.
President Reagan declined the in
vitation and went on a weekend
retreat at Camp David, Md. in
stead. But Mondale did speak to
the nation’s largest Black religious
denomination, where he promised
the delegates he would improve the
lives of Blacks if he is elected
President.
Mondale drew a hearty laugh
from the delegates when he exten
ded a special greeting to “my old
friend of long-standing, Edward
Victor Hill,” pastor of Los
Angeles’ Mt. Zion Baptist Church,
who endorsed Reagan at the
Republican National Convention
in Dallas last month. “I didn’t
know Baptists could lose their
way, but he did,” added Mondale,
who is the son of a Minnesota
Methodist minister.
Despite foregoing his oppor
tunity to make his point before a
large number of Blacks, Reagan
called Rev. Jemison to complain
•hat the President’s views on Black
people had been distorted. Reagan
took issue with Rev. Jamison’s
earlier contention that the Reagan
administration “did not feel the
heart beat, the desires, the concer
ns of Black people” and would not
lead Blacks “into the mainstream
of American life.”
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