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“Xi'wir-Slpinrut Vol. 1 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. I Mr A * & ' iiß I I I" I CARRIE MAYS 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 930 Gwinnett St. Augusta Ga Phone 722-4555 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 - ** r ' " r * ■ ’t * ' 1 r " - .•«. . ■ ’ t.. ■. if r 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 s' VI o Jfi 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 See FOOD STAMPS Page 3 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 August 19, 1971 # 22 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 See JAMES BROWN Page 4