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—Governor Jimmy Carter has
taken a strong stand in favor of
tuition grants for students
attending independent colleges
in Georgia, and has said he will
work toward the full funding
of this legislation in 1972.
His remarks were made to a
large group of college
presidents and trustees whom
he had invited to witness his
signing of Senate Bill 141,
passed this year by the Georgia
General Assembly. This
enabling legislation will provide
$400.00 tuition grants to
Georgia students attending
fully-accredited independent
colleges in Georgia. The
freshman and sophomore
classes will be eligible for the
grants after July 1, 1972, with
the junior class being added in
1973 and seniors in 1974.
In signing SB 141, Governor
Carter emphasized the savings
which this program will
provide for all Georgia
taxpayers. He also commended
the private colleges for thMj
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Businessman Returns
Booker T. Mears, who left
Augusta in early teens,
returned to open Hi-View
Cleaners at 520 Ninth Street
where he says, “Hand-finishing
is our specialty.”
Mears left Augusta to go to
New York City where he began
working as a presser and
finisher in Whitestone, Long
Island. When drafted during
World War 11, Mears says that
he established a cleaners in
every Air Base to which he was
assigned.
After completing his
military service Mears opened a
cleaning business in Greenwich
Village where he had such
outstanding service they have
rendered to all the state for
140 years.
Part of his statement made
to the group in his office April
14 went as follows:
“We are preparing this year a
set of goals for our state to
achieve during my own term of
office which will, of course, set
the momentum for succeeding
terms of other governors. One
of the primary problems that
we have to face in a frank way,
and you are already having to
face it on a daily basis, is the
correlation of private
education and public education
at all levels of instruction,
particularly in the time of post
high school teaching.
“This bill is the first step
toward achieving a reasonable
goal of cooperation, financially
and otherwise, between the
university system and the
private colleges of Georgia. .
.the first step that has ever
been taken along this line. I
u sut'oort it enthusiastically and
clients as Nat King Cole, Duke
Ellington, Red Prysock, Dizzy
Gillespie, Cab Calloway and
Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey.
Mears says that after twenty
years in New York he decided
that \ “home is still the best
place”.
Mears has bought a home
here for his wife Gloria and son
William.
Beaming with pride as he
talked, about his April 29
Grand Opening of the Hi-View
Cleaners, Mears said, “I’m very
happy to return home to
render the same if not better
service to my friends and
relatives.”
930 Gwinnett St. Augusta Ga Phone 722-4555
1 hope to expedite as rapidly as
we possibly can the complete
implementation of this
legislation. This provides the
allocation of $400.00 per
student to students, who are
narrowly defined, who attend
the private colleges in our
state. 1 have seen already here
one of the private colleges
authorized to be closed and I
think others are on the verge of
that same end, which is a
terrible blow to opportunities
for children, throughout
Georgia, to get an adequate
education.
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Drive Opens Negro
Cortege Fund
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l/ A group of Paine College
graduates and other Augustans
gathered in the Paine dining
hall Monday night for a dinner
meeting to kick off the United
Negro College Fund Drive.
UNCF chairman, Dr. Charles
Butler, names as his vice
chairman, Mrs. Wilhelmina
Sanders, a Richmond County
public school teacher.
During the next four weeks,
solicitors will be contacting
local businesses, churches,
fraternal organizations and
other segments of the Augusta
community.
A goal of $12,000 has been
set but it is ‘ hoped that
contributions will far exceed
this amount.
After dinner, reports on
advance contributions were
made and many of the
volunteer workers made
individual contributions.
Dr. Butler indicated during
the meeting that he is “very
encouraged” by the
cooperation of his working
team and that he is optimistic
that the contributions will top
the goal.
“This is a great bargain for
the state of Georga to be able
to give to the students who
attend the private colleges
$400.00 per year in order to
save us the nesessity of
constructing additional public
colleges, physical facilities,
dormitories and also to pay
approximately $1200.00 per
year for institution after the
physical plant is built. I see no
inherent conflict between the
complete development of as
dynamic a system within our
state government and
university system and th«
strengthening of the privatel
college already in existence.
Unification Issue Aired
/On Sunday afternoon a
was held to discuss the
proposed charter for unified
government at Williams C.M.E.
Church.
On the panel discussing the
charter were Jerry Swinea,
Field, Yow, John Ruffin, Jim
Alston, and Arthur D. Sims.
Swinea, Yow, Anderson and
Alston supported the charter;
Hinton, Ruffin, and Sims
opposed it.
Mrs. Anderson said that she
supported the charter as long
as minority groups were
guaranteed equal
representation.
Yow based his position on
the “opportunity for a
reduction in taxes, and an
opportunity for efficiency and
economy in government.”
Austin favored the charter
because it would eliminate
duplications.
All of the Blacks on the
panel opposed the charter with
the exception of Alston. Rev.
Sims said that he opposed the
charter because there were too
many loop-holes for bossism
and too« much appointive
power. The charter would
dilute Black voting strength,
and taxes would be higher.
Hinton expressed,
“apprehension in employment
in so far as minority groups are
concerned. We are at the
present time paying high taxes
for services that we are not
receiving. There is no guarantee
should this charter pass
and under a unified
Paine Alumnus Named Pres.
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.fTW'. Clyde Williams, a
graduate of Paine College has
been named President of Miles
College in Birmingham,
Alabama. Mr. Williams, will
succeed Dr. Lucius Pitts, who
has accepted the Presidency of
Paine College.
Bishop C.A. Kirkendoll,
Chairman of the Miles College
Board of Trustees, made the
anno un cement and
commuted, “Mr. Williams
brings to the position a
youthful freshness that will be
good for the school at this
time. It is quite, difficult to
find a man to follow a man of
Dr. Pitts’stature, -however, Mr.
Williams has the maturity and
potential to develop into the
type of leader needed at this
time in our history.”
For the past two years,
Williams has served as
Accident Fells Visitor on 9th & Gwinnett
* / l)Calvin Sherman of New
,York City, and James Gibson
of Aiken were walking south
government that we would
then get those services without
some measurable increases in
our taxes.”
Ruffin opposed the present
charter because” the chairman
and the administrative assistant
have too much authority.
There is no uniformity of
taxation. He said, “the charter
provides for inequality of
services and these services can
be discontinued, altered or
abolished at the will of the
commission.
The charter is devoid of any
power to prohibit
discrimination based on race.
There ought to be built-in
guarantees that we are not to
be subjected to the humiliation
and discrimination that we
have been subjected since we
have been under the two forms
of government.
The charter is important not
for what it does not contain,/
not recessarily for what
contains Decisions that are
going to affect you, he said to
the Black audience, are going
to be made at the Pinnacle
Club and the Georgia Railroad
Bank; they’re not going to be
made by that sixteen-man
board (the commission).”
The program was presented
by the Young Adults at the
Williams Memorial CM.E.
Church. Special credit for the
success of the program was
given to Gerald Caldwell,
publicity chairman for the
Associate General Secretary of
the Consultation on Church
Union, Princeton, New Jersey.
Before that, he was in Atlanta,
Georgia for seven years, where
he served on the faculty and in
administration at the
Interdenominational
Theological Center.
Williams, at 38, will join the
ranks of young College
presidents across the country.
A native of Cordele, Georgia
and an Elder in the C.M.E.
Church, he holds a B.D. degree
from Howard University
School of Religion,
Washington, D.C.; a Master of
Religious Education degree
from the Interdenominational
Theological Center and a
Master of Arts degree in
Education from Atlanta
University.
Reverend Williams is married
to the former Elaine Wade of
Kansas City, Kansas, and they
have three children.
Os his former high school
pupil, Dr. Lucius Pitts said, “I
think he brings to the job a real
understanding of the need and
feelings of young black people
and a deep appreciation of the
philosophy of black and white
people together moving this
country forward.”
on 9th street to mail a letter on
the corner of Gwinnett Street
when a bizarre accident
occurred. While putting the
letter in the mail box Sherman
was knocked down and injured
by the same mailbox. What
happened was an automobile
was trying to squeeze into the
right driving lane and found
that he did not have enough
room to get by the auto that
was in the center lane, so he
was forced onto the sidewalk
to prevent an accident. But
while on the sidewalk the auto
struck the mailbox throwing
the letter holder on Sherman
who was about to post a letter.
Meanwhile Gibson, who was
standing right by the box,
managed to side-step the
on-coming automobile and was
out of danger. Sherman was
treated and released at
U niversity Hospital suffering
bruises.
Local Residents
Justice Dept.
Agents
ormer insurance
consultant, chairman of the
“Committee of 10”, and native
Augustan, John Young, along
with former policeman (Ist
black lieutenant) Tommy E.
Olds are now working as
special agents of the Justice
Department.
Both serve on the
Community Relations
Division Department of
Justice. According to Young,
this department is mainly
designed to look into violations
of the civil rights of persons
. living in the state of Georgia.
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QUESTION.
Question: I am a college graduate living with my parents and
have been unable to find employment for a year. Am I eligible for
welfare?
Answer: Unless you have a child, no welfare monies are
available. But if you can prove that you do not eat with your
family, you are eligible to recieve food stamps each month for a
minimum of fifty cents. The service is available at 524 Fenwick
Street or you may call 722-2275.
Question: 1 find it difficult to buy food stamps even though I
have been granted eligibility. Please refer me to an agency.
Answer: The Community Action Agency at 925 Greene
Street, under the executive direction of Charles Berraras, has
addressed itself to the immediacy of this problem. And you may
call at your convenience 722-3414 and they will serve you.
Question: I am on welfare, the mother of four children and
would like to become independent. However, I do not have a
High School education, can you help me?
Answer: Yes. Mrs. Sharpe at 916 Greene Street has all the
needed information, the number is 722-4879. She operates the
WIN Program. You will be tested and put at that grade level. For
example, if you test at the sixth grade level, you may earn your
high schodi uegiee within a year. !.. au :.tion to •. ci, yon wi.i be
given on the job training. If they are unable to place you, they try
to create jobs. People have been placed in meaningful jobs in
social work and the medical field. It’s a fruitful program set up to
serve you.
Final Part
Interview: Dr. Lucius Pitts
president-elect Paine College
I 0n 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; Dr. Pitts, I want to ask you a question about the
male-female ratio at Paine; for most of the time that I have been
associated with Paine, the ratio has been about three females to
one male. This has some dangerous implications in terms of the
family structure, i.e. the dominant female over the male: It
implies that more females are being educated than males. It puts
the males in a certain position in the family, which I am not sure
is desirable. Do you have any plans at all to bring this thing back
into proportion?
Dr. Pitts: Yes, we do, I hope that even before 1 get here that I
am going to meet with the recruiters and the admissions officers
to make some special efforts by some special scholarships, leaning
a little towards men. I think that you have expressed what I feel
about it, that a strong group needs strong family ties. If we
educated all the girls, three to one, they are going to look for
husbands and with the kind of education they get, it’s going to be
difficult to find a man who’s going to be willing to live with this
kind of mind. He might like the body, but the mind might not
suit him. So I feel that the College must and will work really hard
at this point. We hope that by September 1972, to have close to a
50% ratio.
News-Review: I would like to ask whether there are any plans
now to give athletic scholarships. Would this be away of
attracting more fellows to the College, Dr. Pitts.
Dr. Pitts: I don’t know what the plans are for athletic
scholarships. Does Paine give athletic scholarships?
News-Review: It does not at the moment.
Dr. Pitts: I can’t make a projection on that because the budget
for next year will be set by the Interim Committee, and I’ll try to
raise it.
New-Review: What are your feelings about athletics?
Dr. Pitts: I think that they are a great part of an institution. I
do have the strong feeling that you have the difficulty with a
small college of allowing athletics to wag the college: I think that
at the same time that a small college ought not to let athletics
suffer because it is small. Now I think that Paine possibly has a
basketball team; 1 don’t know whether they have a track team,
but it seems to me that we could field a track team in the future,
that we could field a baseball team because they’re inexpensive.
When you go back to football, unless we can get that kind of
consortium or coordination or cooperation among enough small
colleges that can afford the kind of subsidy that football requires,
then I think that we have to do a lot of study before we do that. I
think that athletics is a great part of a college. I think that it does
a great thing for the students’ morale as well as for their
development.
News-Review: What do you think can be done about the
apparent apathy on the part of the alumni? We mentioned earlier
that we have more th’n five hundred Paine College alumni in this
area; however, if you would attend alumni meetings on any given
night you have an average group of about fifteen - twenty-five
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