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CARRIE MAYS
POOR BLACKS PAY $200,000
A YEAR IN RECORDERS COURT
City Councilwoman Carrie J.
Mays says she was disturbed
when both councilmen from
the predominantly black third
ward voted against the motion
to establish a Human Relations
Commission. The councilmen
from the third ward both of
whom are white are R. E.
Edwards and S. R. Lamb.
Mrs. Mays said that without
subpoena power the Human
Relations Commission will be
“just another bowl in which
politicians will wash their
hands.”
“I’m waiting anxiously to
see who the Mayor and Dr.
Clifford will appoint.” Mrs.
Mays said that she hopes that
the persons appointed will not
be their black and white
friends who do what they want
them to do and say what they
want them to say. 1 hope they
will consult the man on the
street before making
appointments”, she said. Mrs.
Mays said that she hopes that
-there will be a real racist and a
real militant on the
Commission. All views need to
be represented.
According to Mrs. Mays,
Augusta receives nearly
$300,000 a year in fines from
the Recorders Court. Two
thirds of that money comes
News-Review To
Expand National
News Services
A major expansion of its
national news gathering thrust
will come with the recently
organized News-Review
National News Service
(NRNNS) stated
Editor-Publisher Mallory
Millender.
The newly established news
service will be headed by J.
Philip Waring, who is also a
twice-a-month columnist for
the News-Review. The service
will be located in his home,
Stamford, Conn., closely
adjacent to the New York City
area which is the news capital
of the world.
One of the nation’s key
executives in the social
service-civil rights field who has
practiced for 24 years in four
different states, he has also
actively participated in the
field of communications. His
21-year old column, “Going
Places”, has appeared in
various cities around the nation
and is now featured in
Stamford, Conn, and Augusta,
Ga. While residing in the St.
Louis area he produced and
moderated his own weekly
radio program, “Block Unit
Forum of the Air”. Since
moving to Connecticut he has
appeared in a series of
television programs. Mr. Waring
has written and lectured on
social services, civil rights, and
race relations throughout the
nation.
Establishment of NRNNS
will mean that News-Review
readers may now frequently
read on Thursdays late
breaking news which happened
on Sundays and Mondays in
different parts of the nation. It
will also spur delivery of
NAACP news including Roy
Wilkins weekly column and the
National Urban League’s
weekly column, “To Be
Equal”. Also included will be
releases from the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights and
various Federal departments,
bureaus, etc. Editor Millender
observed that this expanded
qews will provide News-Review
readers with some of the latest
and most comprehensive
information on race relations,
employment, housing,
education, etc.
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from poor blacks, she said.
“They say we’re not paying
our share of the tax burden
Urban League Chief Charges
Duplicity In Nixon Programs
The incoming leader of the
National Urban League has
charged the federal government
with duplicity in its dealings
with the poor.
“What the right hand giveth,
the left hand taketh away”
typifies recent actions of
Washington leaders, Vernon E.
Jordan, new Urban League
executive director, told a
cheering audience of blacks,
whites, Indians, and Latin
Americans last night.
JORDAN’S TALK ended the
league’s four-day 61st annual
conference, held at Cobo Hall.
Jordan, 35, said the Nixon
administration “combines
elements of high purpose with
an apparent neglect of the
deepest needs of poor people
and minority groups.”
Mr. Nixon’s proposed
welfare reform program,
Jordan said, represents the first
major overhaul of the “rotting
welfare system” but stops
short of a necessary federal
take-over and provides for
lower payments than provided
by most states.
“It is a band-aid on a
bleeding wound of a nation
crying out for major surgery,”
he said.
Revenue-sharing would help
urban centers, he said, but “the
black community is
“suspicious of unrestricted
grants to local governments
with long histories of
discrimination and
callousness.”
In housing, the federal
government proclaims
disapproval of “overt racial
discrimination” while
“tolerating economic
discrimination,” he said.
“It is a blow to all who
know it is only through equal
access to decent housing and to
the schools and amenities of
suburbs that black people can
get a fair share of the shelter,
education and jobs in this
changing society,” Jordan
said. He said this
continuous “one step forward,
matched by another back”
extends to other aspects of
American life, including
national health care efforts and
discrimination among
operating arms of the
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we are doing pretty well
dumping in that kind of
money.
government.
Jordan did not elaborate on
these items.
“The President proposes to
make a historic journey to
China and we in the Urban
League movement ask him to
make a spiritual pilgrimage to
Black America, to demonstrate
his concern with the hungry
children of the urban ghettos
and rural farmlands,” Jordan
said.
TURNING TO CHANGES
hi the direction of the civil
rights movement, Jordan said
while the 1960’s featured a
movement dedicated to
“obtaining, conferring and
defining rights of black
people,” the 1970’s will be
devoted to “closing the
achievement gap which
presently is widening.”
“A major goal of the Urban
League in the 1970’5,” he said,
will be to restructure our
economy and income
distribution so that there are
jobs and decent living
standards for all.”
Jordan outlined four
programs he will initiate soon
after he takes office from the
present acting director, Harold
Sims, on Jan. 1.
He said they will be:
1. A voter registration drive
in selected Northern cities to
match the voter drives in the
South. The drive, he said, will
emphasize registering the new
18-year-old voters.
2. A drug abuse program to
trade in on “the white man’s
concern” for the nation’s drug
problem. Jordan said that
white people became
concerned with the drug
problem only after “King
Heroin stalked the halls of
suburban schools,” but did not
care that for years it “stalked
the streets of the ghetto.”
3. An “action research
program” to bring facts and
interpertation of facts to black
people and their leaders. Issues
to be researched include
housing, transportation,
welfare rules, employment,
policies, metropolitan
government, school board
actions and other issues
THE PEOPLE’S PAPER
Black
Medical-Dentistry
Facility Dedicated
U.S. Senator Herman E.
Talmadge, dedicating a new
medical-dental facility, said
Sunday “clinics such as this
bring us another step closer to
putting hospital and medical
care within the reach of every
Georgia citizen, regardless of
whether they live in the city,
the small town, or in the
remotest part of the country.”
The Georgia Senator was the |
principal speaker at the |
dedication of a medical and |
dental clinic in Albany
financed by local doctors
through the Small Business
Administration. The clinic will
serve Dougherty County, as
well as the people from Terrell,
Mitchell, Crisp, and Baker.
“This facility, a splendid
example of federal, state, and
local cooperation, is a tribute
to the civic responsibility of
local people. It represents a
desire to improve the
community and help other
people. This will be a medical
and dental clinic operated and
managed by Georgians for the
benefit of Georgians,” Senator
Talmadge declared.
Senator Talmadge cited the
growth of Albany and
Dougherty County in recent
years, and urged local people
throughout the State to
continue their efforts to meet
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Food Stamps
Taken To Poor
Recently the Richmond
County Department of Family
and Children Services (DFCS)
and the Community Action
Agency joined forces to take
food stamps into the poor
communities. The mobile unit
travels to four sites, Dowdy
Park, Ervin Towers (pictured),
Olmstead Homes, and Delta
Manor, the first week of each
month.
Each agency separately
realized the need of many poor
people to have food stamps
made more accessible. Initially
they were sold only at the
DFCS on Fenwick Street,
affecting black communities.
4. A program to bring
corporation executives into the
ghetto to learn first-hand from
poor people and ghetto
residents, what it is like to be
poor and black in America.
“By these actions, the Urban
League can begin to counter
the crisis of spirit that shrouds
the national soul and darkens
its days,” Jordan said.
“For America is going
through a period of self-doubt
and despair that is unique in its
history.”
“American faith is strained
by a bitterly resented war, by
the misunderstanding and
suspicious of different
generations and by the
perpetuation of racial
discrimination that splits
asunder all hope of unity and
partnership.”
Jordan concluded his talk by
declaring that black Americans
have “faith and hope in
America” and still believes in
the “American dream.”
“We believe, because this is
our land,” he said. “This land
is sprinkled with our sweat,
watered with our tears and
fertilized with our blood.”
BOARD PRES. SAYS NO DISCRIMINATION IN SCHOOL SYSTEM
FLEMING DISPUTES RUFFIN,
LAWRENCE BUSING STANCE
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FLEMING RUFFIN
Board Pres. Plaintiff Atty.
It is now seventeen years
since the Supreme Court
declared segregation in public
schools to be unconstitutional.
Throughout this period, the
Richmond County school
health needs. “As growth in
our State goes on, the need for
community services, especially ■
medical care, will increase
accordingly and local
governments and local people
must continue to take the
initiative,” he said.
The new facility will be
operated under a corporation
formed by Doctors James A.
Hubbard, W. Carl Gordon, Jr.,
and Edgar Parker.
These three physicians are
graduates of Meharry Medical
College, Nashville, Tenn.
1 While that office is located in a
' predominantly poor area, it is
I very inaccessible to many other
1 poor areas.
The Richmond County
Commission, and especially Mr.
Don Neal was very
instrumental in the
7 implementation of this
program. Mr. Neal has
thoroughly studied the
problem and all possible
solutions. Since the
Community Action Agency
owned some old school buses
that were operable, and DFCS
was the agent for food stamps,
Mr. Neal helped the two
agencies to join forces and
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The Richmond County
Commissioners will appear at
the August 30th meeting of the
Caucus. The meeting will be
held at the Saint Mary’s Parish
House on Pine Street at 6:00
p.m.
OOPS!
We thought the
News-Review was not
being read until calls
started coming in
regarding an error we
made. Due to the error in
last week’s issue, Augusta
got a Black Mayor and a
Black State Senator
and they were both
female!
This was due to our
erroneously criss-cros
sing a picture of the Cleo
Underwood Homes
dedication ceremonies
with a picture of a Mrs.
Marie Williams’ 94th
birthday celebration.
Apologies to all
concerned.
i system has managed to avoid
I meaningful integration. Its
I most recent desegregation plan
I has been rejected by district
F judge Alexander Lawrence. A
| new plan is being drawn up by
I Lawrence himself along with
I consultants from HEW.
1 Following the most recent
f meeting of the Board,
News-Review talked with the
Board president John Fleming.
News-Review: Do you
think that Judge Lawrence is
capable of interpreting the law
fairly and accurately?
Fleming: I have the highest
respect for Judge Lawrence
and his interpretations of the
law;but I sharply disagree with
him in this case, and I say that
his interpretation is incorrect.
Yes. I know as much about
that particular issue as he does.
He’s the Judge and that makes
a little difference in whose
opinion carries the most
weight.
News-Review: Do you feel
that the Richmond County
Board of Education is
committed to a policy of
segregation or integration?
Fleming: We have a unitary
school system; in spite of what
Mr. Ruffin says,we can defend
our system as being a unitary
system. There is no
discrimination in our system at
all that I can find.
News-Review: But the
system does remain essentially
segregated.
Fleming: No, our system is
not segregated. There are some
areas that have all black and all
white schools.
News-Review: Aren’t most
of the schools that way?
Fleming: Where?
News-Review: In the
school system, in Richmond
County?
Fleming: I guess they are
all either one way or the other,
yes.
News-Review: How do you
propose to get quality
education in all schools other
than by the use of busing?
Business
League
Seminar
On August 14, 1971 the
CSRA Business League along
with the Chamber of
Commerce and Small Business
Administration Sponsored a
business training Seminar.
The Seminar was designed to
give the business aspirant some
insight on business ventures
and some specific points of
interest for those already in
business.
The Seminar was entitled
“Keys to Business Success”
The following Keys were
discussed: Business
Opportunities and Personal
Factors; organization and
management; Financial Factors
and Sources of Capital
Insurance; Business
Regulations; Taxes and
Recordkeeping. All of these
areas were discussed with the
little business man in mind.
The response was very good.
The CSRA Business League
feels that it must occasionally
take our program to the public
in order to spread some
business acumen on a more
Freely Flowing basis. We are
also encouraging the
businessman to come to our
office to get assistance in their
business problem.
It is through methods of this
design that our small business
will be able to see and realize
greater profits and raise our
economic base.
Fleming: We have it.
News-Review: 1 would
personally disagree with that as
a person who was employed in
the school system for three
years. The point, ultimately, for
blacks and for whites, is
quality education, and there
has been a great discrepancy
between the quality of
education in the black school
and in the white schools.
Fleming: That’s a personal
opinion.
News-Review: I think that
it’s a widely shared opinion in
the black community.
Fleming: It might be, but
you’ve got widely shared
opinions among other people
that may be contrary to yours.
News-Review: , What is the
alternative to busing, in
compliance with the law?
Fleming: Busing is not a
part of the law to start with.
Busing was merely added as a
vehicle to promote and achieve
integration, if necessary. But it
didn’t have a thing to do with
the law.
News-Review: But what is
the alternative to it?
Fleming: The alternative to
busing?
News-Review: Yes - To
achieve racial balance.
Fleming: I think it’ll all
work itself out.
News-Review: How?
Fleming: People live and go
to school where they want to.
What’s busing got to do with
it?
News-Review: We have
already established that the
racial patterns of housing cause
the racial balance in the
schools.
Fleming: Yes, but the
Supreme Court has always said
that de facto segregation
because of housing is
constitutional.
You are confusing busing
and race balancing with the
correct interpretation of the
law. The law has never been
that you’ve got to have racial
balance in schools. The law is
that the child cannot be denied
due process. That’s what it's all
based on.
A Soulful Welcome
for Brown in Africa
Sou! Singer, James Brown,
now more than ever before
acclaimed worldwide as Soul
Brother No. 1, completed a
fantastically successful African
tour that took him through the
countries of Nigeria and
Zambia where he played before
adoring audiences of thousands
and was mobbed everywhere
he went.
When Brown, his wife and
entire revue, including singers
Bobby Byrd, and Vicki
Anderson, the JB’s band, JB
dancer Ann Norman, arranger
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In Chicago there are 125
schools that are predominantly
white or black - all black, all
white. But you know why they
don’t bother the people of
Chicago? Becausy they say it is
de facto segregation. And they
say that de facto segregation is
constitutional and it’s because
of housing patterns.
News-Review: Would you
agree with the definition of the
Supreme Court in terms of
developing a unitary school
system as one that cannot be
identified by the racial
composition of the students?
Fleming: That’s not what
they said. I’ve never read a
decision that a system in order
to be unitary could not be
identified one way or the
other. Because in every
decision that’s been handed
down, they said there will
always be some all black and
all white schools.
News-Review: It has never
been said, to your knowledge,
that a school should not be
able to be identified as a white
school because of the
composition of the student
body?
Fleming: If it’s oecause of
de jure segregation, then that’s
right. But they have repeatedly
held that where there is de
facto segregation and there are
white schools and all black
schools there is nothing
unconstitutional about it.
News-Review: Are you not
in effect saying that because
we have de facto segregation
and that this is
“constitutional” that we’ll just
have it (segregated schools)
indefinitely?
Fleming: Who are you
quoting when you say
that?
News-Review: lam asking
you if this is what you’re
saying.
Fleming: I’m saying that
until the Supreme Court of the
United States issues some other
type rulings - gives us some
other additional laws—then I
would assume that that would
be a correct statement of the
law.
Dave Matthews and engineer
Ron Lenhoff arrived in Lagos,
Nigeria they were immediately
mobbed at the lagos airport. It
took fifteen minutes for police
and military to manage getting
the idol off the plane and into
waiting limousines. Literally
thousands of fans had awaited
the chartered jet’s arrival with
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