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THANKFUL CELEBRATES 131ST ANNIVERSARY
Thankful Baptist Church,
daughter of Springfield Baptist
Church, is the second oldest
Black church in Augusta, and is
located on the corner of Third
and Walker Streets.
Celebration of its 131st
anniversary on August 22,
1971,wi1l begin with the Youth
and Young Adults in charge of
the morning worship at 11:00
a.m. The Rev. Raymond Dean,
pastor of the Royal Baptist
Church in Anderson, South
Carolina, and a student at
Atlanta’s ITC, will be the guest
minister. Music will be
rendered by Thankful’s Youth
and Young Adult Choirs under
the direction of Miss Eileen
Terry. Ushers and pulpit
participants will represent the
Talmadge Meets Black Businessmen
Dedicates Housing Project
inHSUL
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(L-R) Senator Talmadge and Mayor Beckum
Senator Herman Talmadge
was in Augusta Tuesday for the
dedication of the Cleo
Underwood Homes, a new low
income housing development
qn Sand Bar Ferry Road.
Later in the afternoon
Talmadge met with a group of
Black Businessmen in the civic
room of the Georgia Railroad
Bank Building.
youth and young adult division
of the church. John Q. Terry is
Chairman of the morning
program.
Continuing and culminating
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Among other requests the
businessmen urged the senator
to push for more money for
direct loans for small
businesses.
Talmadge said that jobs
must be created in rural areas
rather than in urban areas,
many of which Talmadge said
are “unlivable and
ungovernable.”
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this 131st celebration will be
the 3:00 p.m. service with the
Senior members of the church
in charge. The Rev. J.H. Sims,
pastor of the Greater Young
Zion Baptist Church of
Augusta will be the guest
minister. His congregation,
officers, choirs, and ushers will
accompany him.
Dinner will be served
following the afternoon
service. The public is invited to
attend. The pastor, Rev. N.T.
Blood Donors
Needed
One of the most expensive
items to our elderly, when they
are forced to enter a hospital,
is the cost of a blood
transfusion. when it is
required. The Hospital portion
of Medicare pays nothing for
the first three units of blood
received in any benefit period.
The Medical portion of
Medicare will pay nothing
toward the first three units of
blood received in any calendar
year, that which may be
administered by a doctor in his
office, or the outpatient or
emergency room of a hospital.
To offset this very costly
item to elderly persons, a
program is being instituted by
the Senior Citizens Council, in
conjunction with the CSRA
Blood Assurance Plan, Inc.,
wherein the elderly may
receive blood free under a
group plan for a four year
period. When this group plan is
instituted, only 25% of the
group must donate each four
years to cover the entire group.
In cases wherein the elderly
person has passed that age at
which they may become a
donor themselves, an adult
child or a friend of the elderly
person may become a donor
for them. If the elderly person
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Young, Sr., serves as Chairman
of the afternoon program. The
music will be rendered by
Choirs from Greater Young
Zion and by Thankful’s Senior
Choir with Mrs. M.T. Blount in
charge.
$8 Million To
Black Colleges
The United Methodist
Church pledged $8 million in
aid to Black colleges-twelve
Methodist related Black
colleges in the deep South
-a two year period, the
religious body announced in
Philadelphia, Pa. The colleges,
normally assisted from race
relations offerings, will secure
funds resulting from gifts from
interested Laymen.
The program, Negro College
Advance, is being co-directed
by the Rev. Dennis R.
Fletcher, assistant General
Secretary of the National
Division of Missions and E.
Clayton Calhoun, former
President of Paine College.
Donors, who include Church
Officials and Laymen, may
specify the colleges to receive
their gifts or the money will be
adminstrated by a council
made up of the presidents of
the 12 Black colleges.
has neither an adult child or a
friend willing to become a
donor, the Senior Citizens
Council will attempt to locate
a donor for them. For further
information regarding this
plan, call the Senior Citizens
Council, at 724-0301, between
9 AM and 5 PM any weekday.
Anyone wishing to become a
donor for an elderly person
who has no donor is also
invited to call.
CAUCUS LAUNCHES VOTER
REGISTRATION CAMPAIGN
The Decade of the Sixties
saw Black .mericans in the
South make remarkable gains
in their struggle for full
citizenship and the right to
participate meaningfully in the
political process. Registration
of Black voters more than
doubled; the number of Black
public officials increased over
six-fold; and many white
officials have begun to display
greater sensitivity to Black
Dr. Sheppard
Returns
To Paine
Dr. Cecilia M. Sheppard,
who retired last year as
Chairman of the Division of
Philosophy and Religion at
Paine College, will return to.
the campus in September to
serve for one year as a
Professor in the Division, Dr.
L.H. Pitts, President of Paine
College has announced. Dr.
Ellis Rece is Chairman of the
Division.
A member of the Paine
faculty for 12 years, at the
time of her retirement, Dr.
Sheppard was the Luella F.
Steward Chair of Bible
Prefessor. The Chair o f Bible,
established through the
Woman’s Division of Christian
Service of the Board of
Missions of the Methodist
Church, was created at Paine in
1965. It is endowed by a basic
gift from the Luella F. Steward
Trust.
A native of Baltimore,
Maryland, Dr. Sheppard
completed her under graduate
studies at American University
in Washington, D.C. and did
further study at Bryn Mawr
College in Bryn Mawr,
Pennsylvania. She earned her
Ph.D. degree from Yale
University and has done
Post-Doctoral work in Palestine
and Great Britain at the
University of Edinburgh and
Selly Oak Colleges.
During her teaching career,
Dr. Sheppard served on the
faculty at William Penn College
in lowa and at National College
for Christian Workers in Kansas
City, Missouri. Dr. Sheppard
came to Paine following the
closing of National College.
Concerning Dr. Shephard’s
return, President Pitts says, “I
consider it a tribute to Paine
College and Augusta
community that Dr. Sheppard
is returning to Paine.”
Business League
To Sponsor
Seminar
The CSRA Business League
in conjunction with the
Augusta Chamber of
Commerce and the Small
Business Administration will
sponsor a business seminar
entitled “Keys to Business
Success” on August 14, 1971
from 9 a.m. - 4:40 p.m. at the
St. Mary’s Parish House, 1117
Pine St.
The purpose of the
workshop is to equip the small
businessman with some basic
fundamentals of management,
show him how to start
successfully in business and
prevent waste of financial
resources and how to get and
make use of outside counsel
and assistance.
Participants include Elliott
Serotta, Local CPA; Professors
C.M. Richardson and J.F.
Hodges from Augusta College;
Ron Loftin, Metropolitian Life ,
Ins., and George Trace from
SBA. Local Banks will also be
represented. The seminar is
open to all who wish to attend, (
free of charge. i
constituents.
These are extremely
important accomplishments. It 1
is crucial, however, to
recognize just where they have
brought us. The fetters of
political acquiescence have
been shattered, The move
toward an equal share of
political power has begun.
Many barriers, particularly the
most blatant ones, have been
overcome. Yet, the goal of a
truly representative system of
government is still distant.
This is why the Richmond
County Voter Education
Project, an action program of
the Augusta Caucus, has
begun a voter registration drive
in Augusta and Richmond
County. It is very important
that those of us who are not
registered or have not voted in
the last 3 years register now.
Weeks of planning has gone
into this campaign hopefully to
make it an effective one. What
is needed now is full
Unity Rally
Aug. 13-15
by John Cashin
Since Mr. Agnew has now
ascended to the lecture
platform and presumptuously
delivered unsolicited advice to
Black American leaders, 1 think
it quite- in order that we
appraise the days/daze that put
the puppet on the stage.
Spiro Agnew would already
be a dead duck without his
publicity man, Vic Gold.
Agnew himself is not smart
enough to realize that he was
sent out of the country to keep
his big mouth silent while
Nixon cut a deal with Red
China.
As I have said all along,
Nixon will do everything to get ,
reelected, and that includes
making deals with George
Wallace, Chou En Lai, and/or
selling his conservative
supporters down the river, all
of which he has apparently
already done.
Now in Spain, expendable
Agnew is prodded by his
publicity man to say something
to let his supporters know he is
still alive, though finessed, in
Spain, Africa, Korea, or you
name it.
He knows better than to
attack the boss back home, but
he’s got to do something, so
what happens? Os course, there
are always those niggers to kick
around! So he does, and the ,
racist press turns on a flood of '
ink to make Nixon’s millstone
look good.
Let this be a lesson to Black
America: We will always be
convenient scapegoats for
desperate demagogues until we
develop some real political
strength along with a unified
strategy. It is toward these
goals and principles that I,
Julian Bond, Maynard Jackson,
Charles Evers, Barbara Jordon,
Percy Sutton, Jesse Jackson,
Carl Stokes, Ben Brown, Boisy
Waiters, Thomas Reed, Harold
Love, Fannie Lou Hamer,
Mervyn Dymally and many
other Black elected officials
and similarly interested Black
political figures, including the
Congressional Black Caucus,
are asking that all Black
political leaders who are really
serious about our problems
gather at Mobile, Alabama on
August 13-15 for the Southern
Black Caucus. Let’s see if we
can get together on our own
“southern strategy” which will
get George Wallace, Spiro
Agnew, Richard Nixon and all
other political manipulators off
our backs.
August 12, 1971 No. 19
By Floyd Green
citizenship participation. If
you have friends and relatives
who are not registered voters
please influence them to do so.
Contact Mallory Millender, the
Director of the Drive, at
7224555 for information or
transportation to the registrars
office. Plea’se register and then
... VOTE.
King David
Accused Os Bad
Pass - Struck
By R.L. Oliver
King David Ingram well
known cabaret worker in
Augusta was allegedly beaten
by the manager of the Whisk A
Go Go, Bruno, in what Ingram
said was an accusation made
unfairly against him.
Ingram said he was called to
the rear of the club where the
club’s manager and a white
lady whom he did not know
awaited him.
According to Ingram, one of
the managers, Bruce, asked him
if he had seen the lady before
and he said no. The lady
accused Ingram of having made
a pass at her. Bruce said the
young lady’s mother told him
that some black man had been
calling this young lady from
the club, and he was the only
black male working there.
Ingram continued, “I told
Bruce that if he had no more
confidence in me than that I
did not need his job, I could go
home. 1 was about to pull my
bar jacket off when Bruce
caught me by surprise and
clubbed me in the jaw,
hollering “I tried to talk to you
but you won’t listen. I’ll break
your ....jaw.”
Ingram said he did not strike
back, figuring he was
outnumbered, “1 just got my
jacket and cane and left.
Bruno fßruce) contacted by
Women Ministers Council
Honors Oldest Member
(L-R) Mrs. Marie Louise Williams and Mrs. Essie Mclntyre
On Wednesday afternoon,
the Women ; Ministers Council
honored its oldest member
Rev. Marie Louise Williams
with a pre-birthday celebration
at her home.
Reverend Williams, who
has lived at the corner of Ninth
and Perry Streets for more
than sixty years, will be
ninety-four years old Sunday.
The house in which
Reverend Williams was born
was located at the site of the
downtown Post Office.
According to Reverend
Williams, the fountain in front
of the Post Office was
originally her family’s well.
Mrs. Williams, who is
amazingly alert and spry for
her age, recalls events of her
life with one after the other.
She was one of Paine College’s
first graduates. She remembers
vividly the construction of
Bethlehem center. She has
operated a grocery store, auto
garage and worked for the
Johnson and Shanks
Undertaking Establishment.
She has taught in prisons which
says they called the
League Key -
Self Help
At Tuesday night’s meeting
of the C.S.R.A. Business
League, State Superintendent
of Purchasing, Hoyt E.
Robinson told the Black
audience that the key to
pulling yourself up is
economics.
“Money is the language
everybody understands. In the
face of the dollar, people
suddenly become color blind,”
he said.
Robinson said that as long as
we have poverty and people are
out of jobs there will be no
harmony. Robinson suggested
“self help” as the best means
of achieving economic
independence.
According to Robinson this
can be achieved through
pooling resources and sharing
knowledge.
He urged the group to
“analyze where you are, where
you are going, and how you’re
going to get there. The Business
League has the means to see
that you get there.”
fla
H And
11 te Hi
phone night of the incident
said, “Yes 1 hit him. King was a
little drunk acting up so I hit
him to straighten him out. But
Pm not mad at him. I was
angry but not anymore, he can
come back anytime.”
“format ory.”
The daughter of Reverend J.
W. Winfield (both parents were
ministers), Reverend Williams
at one time maintained a
church in the same living room
that her 94th birthday party
was held.
She has also pastored Myles
Memorial and served as
associate pastor at Williams
Memorial C.M.E. Church.
She is presently a member of
Trinity C.M.E. Church.
Reverend Williams has
three living sons and three
grandchildren in Augusta.
Other members of the
Women Minister’s Council
attending the Party were
Reverend Essie Mclntyre
(president), Reverend Rosa
Williams (secretary), Reverend
Eunice Malone and Reverend
Clara Elam.
Asked for the secret of long
life, Reverend Williams said, “I
lived right; didn’t drink liquor;
and kept a clean body.”
Who led the “Happy
Birthday” singing with the
loudest and best tune?
Reverend Williams —of course.