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Slu ’ iXriuit-illruirw Vol. 1 Louis Armstrongs Golden Horn Stilled Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, beloved troubadour of the jazz trumpet, with a delightful rasp to his voice and roll to his eye, died Tuesday, his heart worn out, his golden horn silent at last. He was 71 years old on Sunday. “Me and my horn, we come a long way together,” Armstrong once observed. Together, they came out of a waif s refuge in New Orleans, up river to Chicago alortg the trail of jazz itself, then on to the show business pinnacles of New York and Las Vegas, and the motion picture studios of Hollywood. And before they were through, Armstrong and his horn, together, had fascinated millions on five of the earth’s continents, enthralling royalty along with the humblest of jazz fans. Armstrong and his horn pierced even the Iron Curtain, as he became one of the best ambassadors the United States ever sent abroad, a representative of democracy whose portfolio’s contents, in his words, “ain’t politics, it’s just music.” “In Africa,” Armstrong once reminisced, “the local tribe carried in their chief to where I was playing. All he did was just look down and say just one word, “Satchmo!’ Man, they knew me even out there.” 1 But ill health made progressive inroads on the 1 ebullient artist with the unforgetable grimace and grin. He was in and out of hospitals during the past five years, as liver and kidney ailments took their toll on his heart. Early Tuesday at his home in Queens, Armstrong died peacefully in his sleep. A family spokesman said his tired heart simply gave out. President Nixon was aloft in Air Force One en route from Washington to Kansas City when he was informed of Armstrong’s death. He said in a statement: “Mrs. Nixon and I know the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and independent spirit and an artist of world wide fame, his great talents.and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our ■"mi >b|l CELEBRITY OF THE WEEK Mrs. Hattie P. Smith of 403 Hamburg Road, North Augusta, South Carolina is employed as a seamstress at Schwobilt Clothes, in Augusta, where she has worked since 1958. She and her husband Daniel are very proud of their four children; Dr. Thomas E. Smith is a professor at the University of California', Mary Ellen Terrell is a teacher in the Richmond County School System; Harriet L. Brown is a biologist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Walter Reed Hospital, and Charles F. Smith Director of Academic Skills Clinic at Paine College. ■ / Jhlk 'if jklß B mmwi ufc -i-JaKHr - 'iMSkS V’F %§*”* "&&& ■ * k ’Kt’S' 2 HE|f M. WE COME A LONG WAY TOGETHER’ Louis Armstrong, sporting one of his typical smiles, is shown in his New York home recently. lives.” Survivors included Armstrong’s third wife, Lucille Wilson Armstrong, whom he married in 1942, and a sister and two half-brothers. F u neral services were scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday at the Corona Congregational church at 34th Avenue and 103rd Street in Corona Queens. Burial will be in a Flushing Cemetery. Armstrong’s last public appearance was at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel here, where he opened a two-week engagement March 1. From there, he went to Beth Israel Hospital for heart treatment. At the time, he was described as frail, with halting gait, his 5-feet-6 figure wasted down from 226 pounds to 125. To thank the many admirers who had relayed best wished to 930 Gwinnett St. him in the hospital, Armstrong gave an interview at his home June 23. He played his trumpet and pronounced, “I’m going back to work.” He never made it. “I loved him, God bless him,” said Duke Ellington, himself a towering figure in American jazz. “It is a great loss to all of us.” Said pianist Earl “Fatha” Hines who took his style from Armstrong’s trumpet style. “The world has lost a champion. I don’t know who is going to follow a man like that.” “I know all New Yorkers join Mrs. Lindsay and me in extending our heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Armstrong,” said Mayor John V. Lindsay. It was on the Fourth of July 1900, that Armstrong was born in New Orleans. His parents separated when he was 5 and he grew up on the streets of the city. Like many jazz greats before him, he started out entertaining for pennies in the redlight section of New Orleans. Cornetist Bunk Johnson gave Armstrong his first real musical training. But Satchmo’s development as trumpeter without peer began during a year’s incarceration in the New Orleans Waifs Home. He was sent there after shooting off some blank cartridges on New Year’s Eve, 1913. In the home, Armstrong was encouraged to play the bugle and cornet and after his release he gained a further musical education from the famed King Oliver. There followed engagements on Mississippi excursion boats, and dance halls, with Armstrong eventually abandoning the cornet for the trumpet. Then, at the age of 22, Armstrong was called to Chicago to join the band of his onetime mentor, Oliver. The THE PEOPLE’S PAPER Augusta Ga Phone 722-4555 Editorial A MESSAGE TO THE CHRONICLE-HERALD It was indeed distressing to see you single out Paine College students in the editorials “Lack of basic courtesy and “Discreditable Performance.” Needless to say we object to discourtesy by anyone, any where, in any form. We also object to seeing Black students singled out when the “discourtesy” that that they exemplified at a political gathering is part of a national pattern. Have you forgotten how whites booed President Johnson when he campaigned in Augusta? You said that the conduct of the Paine students would have been objectionable even from a crowd of illiterate idlers, but that the community has the right to expect something more from those preparing themselves as models of community leadership. Have you forgotten the Democratic and Republican conventions where whites, who were not illiterate idlers, not students preparing to be models of community leadership, but rather, college graduates, already in leadership roles, delegates on a national level, conducted themselves like idiots? If you had been knowledgeable of the audience you so bitterly attacked, you would have known that a great many of the students in that audience were high school students participating in the summer Upward Bound program at Paine College. Presumably you did not realize this in your eager attempt to bring discredit to Paine students. And your charges of racism certainly smack of that same racism that you claim to deplore. It seems beyond your comprehension that Blacks could favor the Black candidates for sheriff over the white candidates on anything other than a racial basis. Are you not aware of how Blacks have suffered at the hands of white police in America? Can you not comprehend the anguished wish of Blacks to see a sheriff who is going to treat them justly? Can you not see that they would naturally have more confidence in one of their own in this regard? This “discourtesy” was a reaction against years of systematic white racism. We are certainly glad that you have grown to the point where you deplore racism; particularly since ten years ago you printed Black news in a separate section of your newspaper entitled “News of Interest to our Colored Readers. But that was not discourtesy, was it? Certainly not worth editorializing about. That was just plain old segregation, socially acceptable and part of a national pattern. Windy City proved Armstrong’s gateway to the world. Before a performance, Armstrong would gargle and salve his lips. Then, beautifully tailored, he would move into the spotlight, grinning, rolling ■ ■■ ■ W. A. ANDERSON ANDERSON,TEBOW IN RUNOFF FOR SHERIFF A field of six candidates, including .wo Blacks, campaigned for the post, splitting votes which resulted in the runoff between the two deputies. Anderson, running as a Republican, has been with the Sheriffs Dept, nine years and his eyes and coaxing notes of crystal beauty from his horn. One of his greatest hits was “Sleepy Time Down South.” And in later years, he appropriated the theme song from the Broadway smash, “Hello, Dolly!” He made it his is currently an iwestigator Tebow, running on the by Precinct PLACES O ANDERSON CROSS JOHNSON TEBOW WIDENER WILLIAMSON Ist Ward 198 66 37 290 223 24 2nd Ward 149 161 42 197 302 23 3rd Ward 584 120 32 550 346 60 4th Ward 167 204 42 250 344 47 sth Ward 395 7 3 509 162 60 6th Ward 1073 9 3 453 173 35 7th Ward 861 37 12 364 260 40 Bth Ward 1009 32 8 218 224 21 ABSENTEE 308 8 1 256 95 9 119-1 335 7 3 204 159 12 H 9-2 504 24 7 447 331 17 H 9-3 264 38 14 269 203 8 I2i 24 1 9 I® B 99 * 123-1 131 34 4 337 78 7 123-2 67 87 84 72 165 9 123-3 169 8 2 223 63 9 123-4 360 4 2 472 129 13 123-5 355 5 0 596 113 11 123-6 406 4 0 446 103 9 123-7 178 117 33 349 301 14 124 21 3 0 241 10 3 1269-1 806 2 1 157 8:5 17 1269-2 651 5 0 252 103 20 1269-3 791 9 2 270 126 13 1269-4 1011 14 0 139 96 8 1269-5 81 0 0 141 35 5 1434 103 7 2 299 55 7 1660 95 5 1 256 56 0 1760 34 1 2 71 16 0 TOTALS 11,119 1019 341 8434 4423 502 own gravelly vocal trademark, and it sold over a million records. Armstrong first went abroad in 1932 and before his travels ended he had performed in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. In 1934, he played for King George V of Britain, and broke up the audience by dedicating a number to the king with the breezy remark: “This one’s for you, Rex.” Never a militant type, Armstrong was performing abroad during the Selma, Ala., march in the mid-1960. He said at the time: “Maybe I’m not in the front line, but I support them with my donations. But maybe that is not enough now. My life is music. They would beat me in the mouth if I marched and without my mouth I would not be able to blow my horn.” lb * - W ■L ; ■ w 1 i : I I JOHN R. TEBOW Democratic ticket, is a 20-year veteran with the Sheriffs Dept. As the years rolled by, Armstrong became one of the U.S. State Department’s most valuable assets. The department was to be represented at his funeral. “His death is a loss to millions of people throughout the world,” State Department press officer Charles Bray said in Washington. “His memory will be enshrined in the archives of effective international communications. The State Department for which he traveled to every center of the globe mourns the parting of this great American.” Satchmo once put it succintly, this worldwide appeal of his. “Cats are the same everywhere - all over the world,” he observed. “They all talk the same language. They all dig me and my horn. July 8, 1971 No. 16 and currently holds the rank of traffic captain. Commissioners Presented Proclamation At Tuesday’s meeting of the Richmond County Commission, each commissioner was presented a copy of the Proclamation of Baha’u’llah, by Dr. Richard Bauman, Emory Giles and Anthony Scimeca, all members of the Baha’i faith. In presenting the proclamation, Dr. Bauman said that the proclamation emphasized the oneness of mankind and the establishment of justice for all people across the earth. He told the commissioners that “in your work, harmony and co-operation of all people has to be a high priority on the agenda at all times. We join you in your efforts to achieve unity at all times among all people.”