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City Councilwoman Carrie J. Mays, congratulates Mclntyre after press conference.
County Commissioner
Edward Mclntyre held a press
conference Tuesday at Saint
Mary’s Parish House where he
announced his opposition to
the proposed charter for a
unified government.
Mclntyre said that his
decision was one to which he
had given “serious thought,” a
decision made without haste.
Mclntyre, the first Black
elected to the County
Commission, based his decision
on the concept of “people
power.”
Making his position
absolutely clear Mclntyre said,
“I am strongly and firmly
Abrams and Young
give Credit to
Augusta Police
When the home of Mrs.
Hattie Williams an employee of
Talmadge Hospital was almost
burglarized, officers Billy Lynn
and Jack Gant of the Augusta
Police Department answered
the call. Also hurrying to the
scene were Mrs. Williams’
son-in-law, John Young, of the
Justice Department and City
Councilman Grady Abrams.
When Young and Abrams
arrived at the Hall Street home,
officers Gant and Lynn had
things well in hand. According
to Young, the officers were
courteous, efficient, and very
professional in the way they
handled the entire situation,
Young adding, “Let’s give
credit where credit is due, they
did a damn good job.”
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CELEBRITY OF THE WEEK
MISS SUE ENGLAND JONES - SECRETARY
Miss Sue England Jones, of 1245 Augusta Avenue, is a native
Augustan and a graduate of Lucy Laney High School and Augusta
Area Technical Trade School, majoring in the secretarial general
field. Sue is the first, and at present, the only Black
administrative secretary employed at the Talmadge Memorial
Hospital.
opposed to this charter. I do
not feel that this charter is
responsive to the needs of the
working majority... On May
25th I will vote “No.”
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C-A Board Chairman
Opposes Unification
By R.L. Oliver
Charles Smith, Chairman of
the Board of Directors, of the
CSRA Economic Opportunity
Authority (better known as the
Community Action Agency)
has taken a stand against the
proposed Augusta-Richmond
County Unification Charter.
The Board met at its regular
monthly meeting Monday May
10, 1971 at the central office
on Greene Street.
Smith who heads the Board
that governs Richmond, Burke,
930 Gwinnett St. Augusta Ga Phone 722-4555
The Commissioner
emphasized, however, that he
thinks a change in government
structure is essential. If the
charter is defeated, “On May
and Screven Counties said:
“Whether or not this charter
will dilute the black or low
income vote is a question we
must ask. I do think, however,
that if this is a pattern and a
direct attempt at doing so,
then this raises another
question, this brings a stronger
objection from me.
I t OO can recall how the
voting pattern has been in the
city and the kinds of struggles
we have had between two
governments. I guess Hyde
Park is a classic example of
that, passing the buck from
one to the other for ten years.
Nevertheless, Hyde Park was
able to deal with this kind of
situation and make some
progress, tremendous progress
even though it was out in the
county.
I am not so much concerned
primarily with the form of
government, but with the
attitudes of the people elected
and appointed to operate it. I
think this is primary; it doesn’t
matter what you put on paper,
for one had to deal with the
intentions of the people who
are going to implement it. A
classic example of that is the
framing of the “Constitution
of the United States.” It was a
beautiful job, never the less we
needed so many laws to get
that properly implemented, all
due to certain kinds of vanities
in the people in power. We’ve
even needed additional laws to
make it clearer that this is what
was meant, and additional laws
to clarify those, and we go on,
I fear, for a tremendously long
26, I will offer my services to
find persons, high and low, the
working man, to work out a
charter and a government we
can live with.”
time trying to make it clear
what was meant in the framing
of our constitution for that
long period of time.
So, I am not concerned just
with the form of government
that we are proposing and that
we now have. I begin by
speaking of where we were one
year ago, talking about the
kinds of repressive actions we
have experienced following
that year which indicates to
me we have not learned lots of
things and we have not learned
them in some high places-some
very influential places here in
our government’s present
structure.
I fear that the proposed
unification of government has
not found away to assure me
the attitudes first; of people
have been in any way
influenced. And that with a
change in the powers that are
(that is voting and political) I
am not certain at this point
what type fight in a real
political pressure would have
on influencing decisions which
are made by the grass roots
people of Richmond County,
whether they are in the city or
not.
As a result of these
considerations (it is not an easy
decision. I had my mind made
up real early which way I was
going to vote) I weakened. 1
was against the idea at first, I
felt all along deep down in my
heart that this was another
game, another gimmick. I
began asking myself, when
black people came into power
in the city of Augusta, will it
be another Newark, N.J., in
which Mayor Gibson is saying,
‘Wherever the other cities are
going, Newark is going to be
there first.’ Newark is in a
terrible position, a terrible
shape. These are the kinds of
things that made me weaken.
But the minor
considerations I mentioned,
with regards to ciianging in
attitudes which I feel, are
primarily important and net a
change in government have
strengthened my original
position; and I therefore feel I
must vote “Against
Unification.”
Following the meeting in a
personal interview Mr. Smith
said, “In essence what I was
saying was we don’t need more
studies such as the Urban
League Report, what we need
is implementation of these
studies.”
St. Mary’s
Spearhead
Feed-A-Kid
St. Mary’s On The Hill
Catholic Church and the
Community Action Agency
combined to give $900.00 to
begin the 1971 FEED-A-KID
campaign. Charles Barreras,
Executive Director of the
Community Action Program,
said, “Two years ago we made
a study of the Richmond
County School System and
found out that there were
something like 1600 children
not being fed in the schools
and attempted to set up a
program to help feed some of
these children in the public
schools; we set up a
FEED-A-CHILD Program. We
collected something like about
$2,000 odd dollars to help
implement this. We negotiated
with officials of the schools to
send us bills once a month for
all of those children that were
not being fed in the schools.
And I think that all of those
Title 1 schools sent bills for
cliildren that we were feeding.
As a result of the new school
Food Program Act which
became effective in January, it
is no longer necessary for the
schools to do this. So we have
approximately SSOO. left over
in the budget from this
program. This money was
donated by citizens of the
community. I am suggesting to
the board that since we did not
use the money in that
FEED-A-CHILD Program,
since that program no longer
exists, we donate those funds
to the FEED-A-KID Program,
a summer recreation program
to continue the spirit for which
those funds were donated
originally-that is, to feed
hungry children. I think it will
also show the Board’s good
faith in backing the Summer
Recreation Program. We have
already received two donations
of S2OO each from St. Mary’s
On the Hill Catholic Church.”
The Board voted unanimously
to donate these funds to
FEED-A-KID. FEED-A-KID in
1970 fed approximately
25,000 children weekly in their
recreational program for ten
weeks.
Bth Residents Defeat
Rezoning
Black residents and
homeowners of the city’s Bth
ward have for the fourth '
straight time banded together
to defeat another rezoning bid
in the Wheeler-Boy Scout
area. This time the defeat was
to Finley Merry, former owner
of the Bistro Lounge (The Old
Hearth)
Merry has attempted to have
the area rezoned three times
since the burning of the lounge
last May. Area residents say
there is to much traffic in the
area now and that more
commercial business would
only endanger the lives of the
many children in the area.
Other homeowners in the
Bth point out the fact that
there are no sidewalks for the
children to walk on on the way
to school, nor are there any
recreation sites for children to
play. Frank Caldwell of
Jefferson Drive points that
Wheeler Road is already a
speed trap and that the present
businesses at 2808 Wheeler
road are sufficient.
Other bids for rezoning the
area that failed were three: (1)
the bids to have the southwest
corner (where the Wishbone is
now closed) rezoned for new
business, (2) condominium
apartments in a lot in the 2700
block between Royal and
Wheeler Road, (3) Merry’s
previous bid to have the Bistro
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SHERIFF E.R. (FOOTS) ATKINS SUCCUMBS TO HEART ATTACK
It is with regret that the NEWS-REVIEW learned of the death of Sheriff E.R.
Atkins early Thursday morning. We extend sincere sympathy to his wife, family, and
friends. Due to press deadline, we were not able to get additional details.
PC gets 5,000 Grant
President-elect Dr. Lucius
Pitts recently announced that
Paine College has received a
SSOOO grant from the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation, under the
College Resources for
Environmental Studies
Program.
According to Dr. Robert E.
Kinsinger, Kellogg Foundation
corner rezoned, and (4) a bid
to put in a Laundromat.
i Area residents have also
complained about log cabin
type structures that only add
to polluting the area with
insects, snakes, and other type
animals, because they are
dilapidated with weeds all
around them. The planning and
zoning commission defeated
the bid 3 to 2.
Comm. Action
Committe to
meet Monday
The Community Action
Committee, advisory group to
the Community Action
Agency, will hold its regular
monthly meeting on Monday
night, May 17, at the CAP
office, 1325 Greene Street.
According to John M.
Smith, chairman, the agenda
includes a discussion of the
Urban League Report,
legislative progress of the
Welfare Reform Bill and OEO
appropriations, and the May
25 th referendum on unified
government.
All CAC members are
reminded of the meeting,
which is open to any interested
observers.
May 13, 1971 No. 8
Vice President, the Paine Grant
is one of approximately 300
similar grants made to small
private liberal arts colleges
18 Year Old
Booked For
Speeding
Fred Hall, of 2102 Third
Avenue, turned 15th street
into a Daytona 500 as he
recklessly barreled his 64
Chevy down the street with
Richmond County Deputies in
hot pursuit. Deputies Edwin
Sherod and Eugene Zeigler said
that the youth traveled as high
as 90 miles an hour. Hall was
stopped by squads of the
Augusta Police Department
after a road block was put up
at Wrightsboro Road at 15 th to
bring the speedster to a halt.
He was charged with eleven
traffic violations including
speeding, running red fights,
running stop signs and failing
to obey police’s flashing fights
and sirens.
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GEORGIA PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SPONSORS
PANEL ON DRESS CODE
Dr. Jane Elkins will co-ordinate a panel for a meeting of the
Georgia Psychological Assn, to be held May 15 at the Richmond
Motor Inn. The panel will discuss “The effects of enforced dress
and hair codes on the development of maturity in students.
Participants on the panel are Dr. Arthur Bryant, Mr. Allen Green,
Mr. Harry Thompson, Mr. Webb Collins, Dr. Frank Anderson, Dr.
Loren Williams, Mr. David Smitn and Dr. Jane Elkins.
throughout the United States
as part of the Foundations
continuing program of support
for activities aimed at finding
solutions to environmental
problems throughout the
nation.
At Paine, students, faculty
and staff believe that
environmental improvement
begins at home. This idea was
illustrated through the recent
Paine Beautiful Project which
centered around environmental
improvement, as well as,
beautification.
A program of environmental
studies is being considered at
the College
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