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. Ntuw-Swithi Vol. 1 Me INTYRE "FIRMLY and STONGLY” .AGAINST CHARTER ;<! ' Z ••- ' " * •' > y I I ... E I 3 I 3 « ■B3B^^hh^|i>;’ : *'' : * i |h \J 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.” ■■■■■ I Ss Sre- ' u ■- ■ | kT* - ®. i < ti .1, fIKOgS ’ " aEli fit lil - B* ■■ ■ ; • < jfIHHI 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.” 1M 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 fSBR. ■/ N| 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. rsl i 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 ■ And B