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News-Review August 12. 1971 - THE ii NEWS-REVIEW SPORTS Freeman J [ -jjTALK The Official Report from ATLANTA (PRN) - The Braves big league future should be bright if the performances of the team’s minor leaguers at Greenwood, S.C., is any indication. This year’s number two draft choice, Jamie Easterly of Crockett, Tex., has been nothing short of sensational. The 18-year-old-left-handed pitcher has a 3-0 record and 0.72 earned run average for 25 1/3 innings pitched. His strikeout ratio is also high with more than one per inning for a total of 29. By starting his pro career at Greenwood, Easterly completely skipped the normal first year service in the Rookie League. There are also four outstanding young hitting prospects at Greenwood. Greg Foreman, who was an All-American high school fullback and virtually walked to the Braves door step last summer for a tryout, leads the Western Carolinas League with 20 homers for the season. The muscular 18-year-old outfielder also has 21 doubles and 72 RBI for the year. Teenagers Rex Houston, Roland Office and Rodney Gilbreath are also hitting over .300. Houston leads the group with a .345 average. Office is hitting .309, and Gilbreath is hitting .306 and leads the league in stolen bases with 34. The Greenwood team won the Western Carolinas championship for the first half of the season and is now in first place for the second half with a 22-9 record. Recently the Braves wives came up with a list of what Baseball means to them. The list read: Baseball is . . .packing alone, driving 1,500 miles across the country alone with three children (all under six) to join your husband’s new team. fIE “THE COMPANY THAT CARES" j|| WE TRY A LITTLE HARDER— —BECAUSE WE ARE BLACK !!’ SERVING YOU WITH THE BEST IN— M| •EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT O ■B ‘RETIREMENT INCOME fl| i||| ‘FAMILY INCOME ||| ME ‘MORTAGE REDEMPTION Mg ME ‘CONVERTIBLE TERM » ■K ‘ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS jsgj ‘HOSPITAL AND SURGICAL BENEFIT |H MB ‘BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL || ‘HOME PROTECTION « THE PILGRIM HEALTH and LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY MB YOUR COMPANY SINCE 1898 M • SATCHER FORD PLANTATION! • {WHS! 3510 AUGUSTA ROAD J I ’\WBlf PHONES AUGUSTA 279-4330 AIKEN - 648-4301 « : "Before You Buy, Give Us A Try” ; ■ SAND BAR PLAZA 1 200 BLOCK OF SAND BAR FERRY ROAD |g| THRIF-TEE SUPER MARKET |||| GROCERIES - MEATS - BEVERAGES 111 JOHNSON'S LAUNDERMAT NEWLY OPENED ■ ALL MODERN EQUIPMENT BLACKMON'S BARBER SHOP jf. HAIRCUTS-HAIRSTYLES-BLOW-OUTS gSi AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Page 4 Baseball is .. .buying your World Series wardrobe a week before the season ends--only to be beaten out in the last game of the year by the Dodgers. Baseball is .. .watching your husband sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to Charlie Finley’s mule. Baseball is.. .the thrill of watching your husband go 4-for-4 after a month-long slump. Baseball is. . .knowing what to say-if anything--when he’s gone O-for-4. Baseball is .. .the extra special sirloin cut from the neighborhood butcher who is a real fan. Baseball is.. .hearing the man behind you call your husband a bum. Baseball is .. .sweating out the cutdown date-and breathing easier when the farm director leaves town. Baseball is .. .the weeks and months following your husband’s injury wondering if he’ll be able to play again. Baseball is . . .that deliriously happy moment when he is called up to the majors. Baseball is .. .working on your Florida tan in spring training. Baseball is . . .the enthusiastic throng of fans with pennart fever greeting the team at the airport. Baseball is... fans arid writers suddenly discovering how great', your husband is-and you’ve known it for years. Baseball is .. .the warm friendships formed through the years with no regard to color, religion or geographical background. Baseball is.. .hoping your baby will schedule his or her arrival during a long homestand. HEW Announces Special Educational Program H.E.W. has announced that a special educational program to increase significantly the number of minority group students qualified to enter medical and health sciences schools will be developed under a contract awarded to the American Foundation for Negro Affairs (AFNA) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. AFNA is a nonprofit organization set up to increase the number of blacks in the major areas of American life ranging from medicine, law, and education to the arts and humanities. Supported by an $85,000 contract from the Division of Physician and Letter To The Editor Cont’d From Page 2 mornings they turn their radios on to catch these con programs to seek financial help from the con men themselves. Kids don’t have to leave home to learn many of the bad habits that we’ try to keep them away from on the block. Religious hustlers white and black suck the hard earned money from superstitious, elderly ghetto residents and from poor whites. These buzzards’ morals are less than those of admitted hustlers and con men on the block. The pimp at least tries to secure alert young girls who conceivably will have time left in life to cast off the pimp’s evil spell and to recoup financially and emotionally. The con man’s prey is the victims who are not paupers and who are looking for something for nothing. The character of the stick-up man is superior to that of the religious hustlers. The bandit at least, puts his life on the line when he tries to take something from his victims. The so-called religious healers prey on the poor, the lame, the blind, the hopeless, the aged, the near senile, the sick, the dying. He shoots lame ducks. He hasn’t the guts or the intellect to go out and play his con game against some kind of threat, challenge and risk. And he is so limited, so bereft of creative ideas, he has to use God as a prop. As I lie here, I cannot help but wonder if we really believe in God. Does God exist in us? Then why is it that we depend so much on man to deliver us from our lot? God is alive! He _ respects us equally, and we can ■ call on him direct. We don’t ■ need the' prayer cloth man to I cail on God if we are truly ■ Christians as we claim to be. B Yours truly, g Grady Abrams «'' r WISE I BACK-TO X SCHOOL MAKE YOUR FIRST STOP AT RUBEN'S DOWNTOWN AUGUSTA SHOES AND APPARELS FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY I BOYS DEPT. I THE FOLLOWING ITEMS 2nd floor I GROUP OF SLAX& I Jr Ny J f NOW ON SALE ONLY A FEW J EANS $3.00 I —/ SPORT COATS St SUITS ■ x \ OF MANY SHOWN % p rice ! x \ I \ I GIRLS DEPT. MEN'S DEPT. • I 2nd Floor 1 st Floor GROUP OF PLAY WEAR GROUP OF SLACKS n . by Playboy $10;00 « I 2 PriCe Reg. 525.00 • 111 1I SEE OUR GREATEST • WZzfXullnllll GROUP OF A.G. SHOES • 'il/// \\\\l’ BACK-TO-SCHOOL 1 Tr ''ll* ’ll SB.BB I \ LINE EVER Deposit Will i; Hold "Use our charge or any bank card" Any I DOWNTOWN S •** BROAD st. Health Professions Education (DPHPE), a component of Bureau of Health Manpower Education, AFNA will formulate a four-year, premedical curriculum intended to give minority group students greater access to graduate schools of medicine and health sciences. The curriculum will be designed to be fully accredited and nationally applicable. The curriculum will be tailored to take into account the varying backgrounds, abilities, and goals of disadvantaged students. It will specify the major science, liberal arts, and remedial subjects required as the “core” curriculum. The program will be devised so that if a student does not complete studies required for admission to medical school, he can enter other health professions. The new course of studies will be formulated under the supervision of AFNA’s Steering Committee which includes the deans of Philadelphia’s six medical schools: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Temple University School of Medicine, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson University, and Philadelphia College of Osteopathy. Also on the Steering Committee are representatives of Philadelphia Community College, Philadelphia Board of Education, Pennsylvania Hospital, and Philadelphia General Hospital. The DPHPE contract will cover the second phase of a long-term project underway at AFNA. The first phase is concerned with orienting minority group students in high school toward medical careers. The first group of 60 high school students will begin such orientation studies at Philadelphia medical schools in August, 1971. YOUR BEST BUY IS at JIM SATCHER MOTORS '7l FORDS ’35 Over Cost JOHNSTON, S.C. (28 Miles from Augusta) AIKEN-BATH-AUGUSTA RESIDENTS CAI I 5Q3.4373 OR 722-0386 Results In South Spur Voter Drive Detroit - The National Urban League’s plan for a massive voter registration campaign in Northern states in anticipation of the 1972 election borrows a page from black political success in the South. Vernon E. Jordan, newly appointed executive director of the league, cited gains made by ! Southern blacks since the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed in calling for the development of political power in the North. “Alabama, a state in which an attempt to vote meant a visit from the Klan’s night riders just a decade ago, now has 105 black elected officials, more than any other state in the union with the exception of New York and Michigan,” Jordan said in his first address to the league’s annual conference which ended yesterday. Must Come North “It is crucial that this example of Southern black political power be brought North, especially in the light of the impending national elections in 1971,” he told delegates. “Black citizens must use their numbers to gain their rightful place in the political ‘Browning of America.’ ” Jordan holds more than a passing acquaintance with voter registration, having served as director of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council between 1964 and 1968, when 2 million black voters were added to the election rolls. Jordan charged that the Nixon. Administration has been “ambiguous” about solving the problems of black Americans and said that the civil rights gains of the 1960’s need consolidating. “Black power will be made just a shout and a cry unless it is changed into constructive efforts to bring about black political power and to influence the established institutions of America,” Jordan said. “The power of black ballots can be seen in the South today where hundreds of black people hold elective office and where white politicians can no longer ignore the needs of black voters.” The league’s decision also comes at a time when the percentage of voting blacks in the North and West dropped from 69 to 65 per cent between 1966 and 1970, while the percentage of Southern blacks has increased from 53 to 58 per cent, according to the U. S. Census Bureau. Jordan, 35, officially will take over as executive director in January. He succeeds Whitney M. Young Jr., who died in Lagos, Nigeria, on May 11. 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