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T News-Stevinn Vol. 1 Bth Ward Residents Angry over Garbage Pick-Up and Speed-Trap Last Monday, April 12, 1971, this reporter listened to a young lady (who wishes to remain anonymous) who complained about the safety of her children waiting for the school bus in the mornings on the corner of Monte Sano at Wheeler Rd. The irate mother stated that ignore the stop sign on that corner, and that she had called the police several times to report it but nothing has been done. The following day 1 took a ttek into the area interviewing residents. I found that most complaints center around the lack of garbage pick-up, and the high rate of speed traveled on Wheeler Road from Monte Sano to Jackson Road. It was also pointed out that Wheeler Road has only one traffic light and two stop signs on it’s entire length. The following excerpts are from residents of the Bth ward: Mrs. Josie M. Sanders of 2822 Wheeler Rd. heads the list of property and personal, injuries suffered from speedsters in the area. Last September Mrs. Sanders-auto was hit at the corner of Monte Sano & Wheeler Rd. by a youth who failed to stop for Part 3 Interview: Dr. Lucius Pitts President-elect Paine College On March 12,1971, News-Review interviewed Dr. Lucius Pitts, President of Miles College for the past ten years and President elect of Paine College. This interview was broadcast live on “Voice of the People” at radio station W.T.H.B. News-Review: Do you feel that the federal government has the interest of Black colleges at heart, that is to say, are they really interested in improving Black colleges? There are some people who feel that Black colleges ought to be phased out, that you ought to just have “colleges”? What’s your feeling on this? DR. Pitts: If you take the record of the Federal Government in terms of what it has done for Black colleges, I would have to say that I am not convinced that they are interested in Black colleges nor even interested in equal opportunity. Now, I think the Health, Education, and Welfare Department has indicated better than any other department that they do have some concern, that they are willing to make some grants that are little better than token, but my own belief is that there is a belief is that there is a conspiracy in this country, intentional or unintentional, to phase out the Black colleges or to let them die, is a part of this, that the whole question of now that we have desegregation begins to have people ask certain other questions. So I think in some departments that the Federal government is interested. In many of the others they have shown no interest. The President has made a nice statement in his “State of the Country” (address), but we’ve got to wait, as he said, and see what he is going to do. And if he doesn’t move faster than he has been moving, then we’ll still be waiting twenty-five years from today to become the kind of colleges that this country needs, that are the Black colleges. News-Review: You seem to feel that Black colleges should not be phased out. That implies that you feel that Black colleges have something distinctive to offer, just what do you think is the uniqueness of the Black college and why should it not be phased out? Dr. Pitts: Let’s see if I can say it succinctly and quickly. Now number one, the public education for Black students in America, particularly in the South, has been so inadequate that these students, in many cases and in most cases, will not be admitted to some of the prestigious institutions and even some of the state institutions - because their scores are going to be so low. So one of the reasons you need a Black college is to do the job we have been doing for one hundred years, i.e. to serve these people whom I call “gifted non-achievers,” who have all of the ability and capabilities aad who have not been able to achieve because of a lack of the kind of innovation that the Black colleges have been doing all of our life. The other reason for the Black college is that we know more about teaching the disadvantaged, meaning here the culturally disadvantaged, the economically disadvantaged; we know more than any other group of institutions, not only for Blacks, and I think that we’ve got a job of teaching the White colleges how to deal with the poor White people. You know that I know that as a matter of record that more than seventy percent of the Black college graduates in America last year came to the Black colleges. Some of the White institutions take them on Federal funds and say that they are going to do something great for the minority group. They get them in and get the money (Federal money), and after a year they are flunked out. We have the expertise of getting See Dr. Pitts Page 5 the stop sign there, causing $520.00 damage to her car, and $175.00 in doctor bills. Four months later Mrs. Sanders lost the same vehicle on the same corner, by another speedster who caused her to rue into a light post. Ihe following month Mrs. Sanders reported to the Augusta Police Department that an auto racing at a high rate of speed lost control of his auto and rammed right through her front yard, which sits off of Wheeler Road some 25 to 30 feet. The driver damaged shrubbery before taking off at a high rate of speed. Fuming that her two daughters may have been in the yard playing-and if they had, there could have been a serious injury-the irate housewife called city-councilman Harry Steine only to have someone on the other end of the phone state that Mr. Steine did not live there. Mrs. Mamie Young, wife of the Deputy Grandmaster -Prince Hall Masons, complained of the garbage pick-up; “They just don’t pick up our garbage enough, once a week is surely not enough, surely for the taxes we pay.” Mrs. Young has also been a 930 Gwinnett St. Augusta Ga Phone 722-4555 victim of the speedsters who rampage on the Wheeler Road artery; she had an auto ram her mailbox, and bricked-flower lined driveway.” There have been numerous complaints about the city service to blacks in the Bth ward. Some say it is because the city councilmen of the Bth, “just doesn’t care about us up here. It seems as if SIOO,OOO night clubs are of more interest than the services we get.” Mr. Frank Caldwell of Jefferson Drive quipped that they have only picked up leaves up here once the entire fall “Why 1 can’t rake the leaves out of my yard because I have no place to put them. Another resident in the Bth Ward, Mr. Oliver of Jefferson Drive states: “They say we lower the value of their homes, that we deteriorate neighborhoods, and that we don’t take care of our community. What I’d like to know is, how can we keep our community pretty and clean when we don’t get the services we pay taxes for?” This reporter witnessed autos drag racing right down the middle of Wheeler Road, bringing the interview to an abrupt halt. Unified Government Discussion Aired The young adult group at the Williams Memorial C.M.E. Church, on 15th Street, has invited Nancy Anderson, L.B. Wallace, Field Yow, Jerry Sweeney, Rev. Arthur D. Sims, John H. Ruffin, and James Hinton to discuss the Unified Government proposed charter and its ramifications to the public Sunday, April 25, 1971 beginning at 5:00 p.m. The program is designed to give the public an opportunity to ask questions and hear the discussion as presented by some of those directly involved with the writing of the proposed charter, indirectly involved with it and those who have studied it and are Ill» ' jr Lt ' ; \ \ j ■:" Jkx ’**’' < ■ S’V - I *”* _... ,^- j . ; ~ WWH wife (L - R) Ernest Evans, Laugh von Brown, Mrs. Mamie Carter and Joseph Green. The Black Student Union of Augusta College paid a visit to the Shiloh Orphanage last Monday. While there the President of the Union, Joseph Green, presented the Orphanage with a $30.00 check and a small box of can goods. Mrs. Mamie Carter, who received the gift, expressed appreciation on the part of Shiloh. Mrs. Carter related that the Shiloh Orphanage was especially in need since the last fire destroyed part of the storage room. Registion Dead Line Richmonc County voters have until 5 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, April 27, to register and be eligible to vote in the May 25 referendum on unified government, according to the Registrar, Mrs. Lucy Barnard. Mrs. Barnard’s announcement cleared up earlier confusion concerning the cut-off date for the referendum. Newcomers to Richmond County are eligible to register provided they have lived in Georgia for a year and in Richmond County for six months. Voters who have failed to vote during elections for the past three years were purged from the registration books earlier this year and were notified by the Registrar that they would have to re-register in order to be able to cast ballots in any future elections. Mrs. Barnard has stated that in many cases, notifying cards were returned to her office for lack of a forwarding address, and that she will be glad to let voters know their status if they are in doubt. They should call her office at 724-1831, Ext. 281. The Registrar’s Office is located on the first floor of the Municipal Building in the 500 block of Greene Street, and is open from 9 until 5 each day except Saturday. The office will also be closed on Monday, April 26, which is a state holiday. concerned about its ramifications. The Young Adults are hopeful that this discussion, those which have preceeded it as well as others which will no doubt follow leading up to voting day, will enlighten the public and charge all with the desire to be as well informed on an issue which will affect the entire community, now, and generations to come. The voter will decide, whether he votes or neglects to vote the fate of his government. The program is scheduled to be aired live over Radio Station W.R.D.W.’s program “Face To Face”, Beginning at 5:00 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend ■MK HBIIHIBMHI ■B i £ i 1 MS The home of David Daniels Sr., of 1753 Mulherin Street, burned in a flash fire last Saturday morning. Daniels, an employee at Paine College for the last fifty-one years, was sitting on his front porch about 10:30 Saturday morning when he noticed smoke coming from the side of the house. He said he called the Fire Department and by that time “the blaze had spread all around the house.” The house was a total loss. Daniels was reared in the house which was one of the original boys dormatories at Paine College, built about 1910. The dormatory was located west of Haygood Hall. (Haygood Hall was lost to a fire in 1968). In 1918, Daniels’ father rolled the house to its present location on logs drawn by a horse. According to Daniels, he had household insurance and most of his belongings were protected. Living with Daniels at the Mulherin Street address were his son William and his nephew Eugene Williams. Commenting on his loss, Daniels said, “I didn’t know I had so many friends. I want to thank those who expressed their sympathy during the disaster.” WANTED ADVERTISING SALESMAN OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITY WITH GOOD PAY CALL 722-4555 0R COME BY 930 GWINNETT ST. Good Samaritan of the Week Mrs. Ethel Jackson, employee at Talmadge Hospital discovered a pocketbook on the counter in the snack bar. After picking it up she found that it belonged to an out-of-town patient who had apparently mislaid it. But to Mrs. Jackson’s surprise she also found that the or listen via radio. Persons at home will be able to call in with questions. The telephone number will be 733-9430. purse contained $30.00 inside. The mother of one child promptly turned the purse and its contents over to the hospital security department who in turn found the owner. One remarkable aspect of this story is the situation that Mrs. Jackson just came through. This was her first day back on the job following an extensive bout with Pneumonia that sometimes found her barely able to obtain her medicines because of a lack of funds. $12,000. Token In Local Robbery Business tycoon Charlie Reid’s Easy Way Pantry Food Mart on Gwinnett Street Extension was robbed Wednesday night at 11:45 P.M., in what was probably the largest robbery ever of a local Black businessman. According to policemen Eugene Seigler and Edwin Sherrod, two bandits took approximately $12,000 in cash and jewelry. Mr. Reid was not able to name the two culprits although he said he had seen them earlier. April 22, 1971 No. 5 Black and White Hill Residents Fight Rezoning Combined efforts of black and white Hill area residents (Bth Ward & Hillwood Circle) defeated a bid of Swift-Gregg Associates on the behalf of Jennings Murphy to have their residential area rezoned to a multiple family area. Some four hundred or more persons signed several sets of petitions to defeat the zone-changing bid. The homeowners led by David Play ford pointed out that when the property owners in that area purchased their homes, it was with the understanding that the area was a residential zone (Zone R-1A & Zone R-l) and that it would remain that way. However, according to the homeowners, Murphy and w A I Reporters R.L. Oliver (News-Review) and Jay Bell (Radio Station W.R.D.W.) talk with policemen Edwin Sherrod and Eugene Seiner. Company had plans to have the area ezoned to Zone R-3B multip e family to permit the construction of a housing project. The irate owners stressed the point that there is already another apartment complex in that area with vacant apartments, that new apartments would only generate more traffic thus endangering the welfare of the children; and last but not least the elementary schools of the area are already filled to their capacity. With these complaints lodged against the rezoning effort, the Richmond County Planning and Zoning Commission voted in favor of the home owners.