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T New-lUirim Vol. 1 Im : r ■. ■• m fe ■-■ Si «~ &5 < j‘*'-®BWw > / ■ A Owl w 7,'■'...< .“ ■ . -.; V ||| < • yago ; . /I ''•Vs. i *7l jOOW— ■ w ■ - * E )fl £ -SF.< B W£f •• ~*ZZ.Z£... g $.« M vHEBBEBBS^S^^k * ' . '?. Governor Signs Tuition Rj.lt- .. . , 4 . , —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 1 i i r-TT ii i ii I f u |uj 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. 9* © lb Drive Opens Negro Cortege Fund o ((£/ 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. Os Miles College wk O» wk gg- JEgafa (*te gfl J I .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. AprilJßrl97l No. 6 LINE O\\Q Hl FT 722 «■ IT NIA _J. LI 4555 JO J/WANT TO KNOW THE ANSWERS? THEN WRITE ACTION LINE! “ACTION LINE” WILL GO TO THE SOURCE FOR THE ANSWER. JUST WRITE TO P.O. BOX 953, AUGUSTA, GA., OR PHONE 722-4555. THIS COLUMN WILL NOT BE THE OPINION OF ANY ONE INDIVIDUAL - BUT WILL GET THE FACTS FROM THE PERSONS RESPONSIBLE - OR FROM THE DEPARTMENT OR AGENCIES IN 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 7 Si „ See Dr. Pitts Page 5 7 <-y'