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Jermaine Jackson is juggling his relationships Page 3 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* •Office of Fiscal Affairs. Augusta Neu u M■M ■ - . , ’4L 1 * 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. izy V c Est Mallory K. Millender 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 Page 1 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 Page 2 , 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 Less than 75 percent Advertising ■ S I T 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 Page 3 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.” 30C