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SUMMER PROGRAM Samuel T<. \»r, a student studying in the Special Project in Health Sciences for
Afro-American students this summer at MCG, goes over some material with Dr. William S. Harms, assistant
professor of Cell and Molecular Biology. The program is designed to help the College recruit and prepare an
increasing number of Black students for medicine and health professions.
Rece, Bth Ward
Candidate For Council
Mrs. Margie Rece
announced Wednesday, her
intentions to be a candidate for
the City Council in the eighth
ward.
In a prepared statememt
Mrs. Rece said:
“This is the first time I’ve
chosen to run for political
office. I have worked on
campaigns for other candidates
locally, statewide and
nationally, but never entered a
political race myself before
this. However politics means
people, and though I have not
been involved in electoral
politics, I have been involved
with people. I am, in fact, a
peoples’ candidate - no one
asked me to run, no special
interest, business, or power
structure. I am not, in fact, in
regular contact with any
special interest or business.
This puts me on the same level
with the majority of Augustans
-mycontactsarewith individuals.
It seems to me there are at
least two ways one can run for
office. One is as a person
having contacts, political
machinery and financing,
knowledge about how things
have operated heretofore. The
other is as a concerned person,
learning on the job, -as, in fact,
most of us learn our jobs,
listening to the needs of the
man, woman and child on the
streets. I certainly am of the
second category. I’m not sure
it is possible to get elected this
way, but Fm going to try. I
would welcome support from
and invitations to meet with
groups or individuals between
now and election day.”
A native of Hempstead,
Long Island, Mrs. Rece
received the A.B. degree from
Hiram College, Hiram Ohio
with further study at the
University of Arizona, Tucson,
Arizona under Danforth
Foundation grant; Yale Divinty
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Mrs. Margie Rece
School, New Haven,
Connecticut: Paine College,
Augusta.
Married to Ellis H. Rece, Jr.
-teacher at Paine College- the
Reces have three children -
Julie, Will and Katie.
Mrs. Rece has worked as a
hospital aide; actress on
College showboat; waitress, in
work camp in the Saar,
Germany, under the World
Council of Churches; secretary
and teaching graduate assistant
at Paine College; volunteer in
several neighborhood
kindergartens in Atlanta and
Augusta; military and draft
counsellor; Dept, of Defense
approved prison visitor to
people in military stockades
and brigs.
She has lived in Augusta off
and on since 1958.
Business League
Told 50% Os New
Businesses Fail
Mr. Carlton Echols of the
General Service Administration
of Atlanta was guest speaker at
Monday night’s meeting of the
CSRA Business League.
Echols emphasized the need
for more minority businesses,
pointing out that minorities
constitute 16% of the nation’s
population but own only 3%
of all businesses.
He further pointed out the
i importance of good business
management. According to
Echols, half of all new
businesses fail, and the
percentage of failures among
minority businesses is several
times higher.
In some instances, he said,
the government will allow for
preferential pricing to minority
businesses.
Solomon Walker 11,
930 Gwinnett St.
Urban League
Coalition To Sue
Over Voter Rights
Angered because of the
refusal by the Board of
Representatives (city legislative
body) to extend the Voter
Registration period to two
Saturdays, an Urban League
Coalition consisting also of the
NAACP, Spanish International
Center, Afro-American
Democratic Club and the
United Republican Club, has
announced plans to bring legal
action against the City of
Stamford, stated Philip Waring,
League Executive and
Coalition chairman.
The coalition of Blacks and
Puerto Ricans maintain that
the Board of Representatives
violated the spirit and thrust of
federal and state laws as well as
basic democratic practices
when they blocked extension
of an extra time period to
allow working persons to
register.
The fair voter coalition
states that political powers in
Stamford are fearful of large
numbers of newly enrolled
voters prior to a summer
primary election and are also
not anxious to see young
people, blacks and Puerto
Ricans enrolled in large
numbers.
On still another front a
city-wide Committee For A
Bigger. Voter Registration
comprised of twenty civic,
religious and civil rights
organizations has already
spurred one of the largest local
summer voter registration
campaigns. College students,
whose salaries are funded by
the Stamford Area Commerce
and Industry Association, are
knocking on inner-city doors
and carrying people to the
downtown Board of Elections
office for registration. Big wigs
in the old line Democratic and
Republican parties have largely
ignored efforts by the Urban
League and other organizations
to bring about political change
through increased voter
registration and education.
President of the CSRA
Business League, warned that
that “doesn’t mean that we’ll
automatically be awarded
contracts. It simply means that
we have the opportunity. We’ll
have to deliver.”
Conservative
S.C. College
Okays Blacks
GREENVILLE, S.C. - Bob
Jones University, an
arch-conservative fundamentalist
institution, says its doors are
now open for the first time to
qualified black students - if
they are married.
President Bob Jones 111,
announced the new policy over
the weekend and' said the
school allready has enrolled
one Negro for the coming
semester.
The 32-year-old
administrator said the school’s
board of trustees had always
refused admittance to blacks
because they were opposed to
interracial dating which they
believed would ensue.
Many believed interracial
dating could lead to interracial
marriage, Jones added, but this
is not a problem with married
Negroes.
“It has long been thought by
the general public,” Jones said,
“that we had no black students
and that we hated and despised
them.”
Jones said the school began
accepting orientals “some time
back, but we stipulated to
them that they could not date
across racial lines and they
accepted that rule.
“The board thought blacks
would not accept such a rule or
would make an effort to
change it once admitted,” he
said.
“The board figures, why ask
for trouble?” And so we didn’t
enroll them (Negroes),” Jones
said. “Our desire was to help
the black Christian just as we
want to help the non-black
Christian.
“But,” he added, “we found
away to help them without
destroying what was already
there.”
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COMM. REVERSES ITS
ANTI-BUSING STANCE
Last Tuesday, Concerned
Citizens for Neighborhood
Schools presented an
anti-busing resolution to the
Richmond County Board of
Commissioners.
The Commissioners
unaminously refused to
endorse the resolution saying
that they felt that this issue
should be taken up by
individuals but not by a
governing body.
On Friday the Commission
reversed the decision made on
Tuesday.
Madison Woo who issued a
newspaper statement asking
the Commissioners to
reconsider their stance
rejecting the anti-busing
resolution was asked by
Commissioner Edward
Mclntyre to state his reasons.
Woo: I think that we are all
elected officials and everything
that happens in Richmond
County is our concern. Our
citizens are of our prime
interest. I think that the
welfare of our citizens is
important. I looked at this
resolution again from the
standpoint that the plan that
was submitted by the
Richmond County Board of
Education was deemed
sufficient and educationally
sound by H.E.W. I’ve also read
many articles on this issue and
I do feel as I indicated in the
news article this morning that
by personally busing our
children miles away, this will
not improve, in my estimation,
the quality of education that
we want for our children.
Maddox Speaks
At Rally
An anti-busing rally was held
Sunday at Richmond Academy
Stadium to her former Gov.
Lester Maddox and sth District
Congressman Fletcher
Thompson and leaders of
Concerned Citizens for
Neighborhood Schools.
Maddox was given a standing
ovation when he entered the
stadium, more applause when
he posed for photographers
holding a sticker which read,
“Impeach the Supreme Court,”
as Dixie was played in the
background.
Maddox expressed pleasure
in seeing “mothers and dads
saying no to the tyrants in
Washington.”
Maddox said that those who
fight against busing are “not
disobeying the law” but “doing
what God would have you do.”
The Richmond County
School System is presently
awaiting a new desegration
plan being drawn up by two
education experts at the
request of U.S. District Judge
Alexander Lawrence.
Judge Lawrence is expected
to implement the new plan
within a month.
Patrick Smith, Chairman of
Concerned Citizens for
Neighborhood Schools, urged
parents to keep their children
in the schools they are
presently attending “regardless
of the ruling by the judge and
regardless of any Board of
Education decision.”
John Fleming, Board
President, said Maddox and
Thompson are “the kind of
leaders we need.” Declaring
that he would go to jail if
necessary to stop busing to
achieve racial balance Fleming
said, “If we don’t stop it now,
the country will be destroyed
by socialism in ten years.”
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Ed Mclntyre
Mclntyre: My question is
what does that have to do with
this Commission?
Woo: I think that as elected
officials, being in the position
we’re in, that we should go on
record as endorsing the
resolution.
Clifford: One of the leaders
of this group, Concerned
Citizens for Neighborhood
Schools, explained to me that
by our supporting their stand it
would be moreorless a moral
factor to show that we care
what they are trying to do for
thq children of Richmond
County. And they’re really
more concerned with the
Constitutional provision for
power rather than busing. This
is our main concern. And she
asked me to express this to the
Commission when we
reconsidered this. Is there any
further discussion?
Mclntyre: First of all I
don’t think this should have
been brought back to the
Commission. I think that as
Commissioners we are duly
sworn in to conduct affairs of
County government. We took
an oath to uphold the state
constitution and the
constitution of the United
States of America. I further
feel that there are 16
individuals that were voted on
by the people of Richmond
County to conduct the affairs
of the school system. I don’t
feel that we have - or that I
have - an obligation to interfere
with things that Richmond
Countians or individuals of
Richmond County have
designated, through the ballot,
as the people to conduct the
affairs of this County in the
area of education. I further feel
that inasmuch as this was
requested by one of our fellow
Pilgrim Officials On The Move
C. O. Hollis
C.O. Hollis, First Vice
President of the Pilgrim Health
and Life Insurance Company
was re-elected for the sixth (6)
time as Treasurer of the
National Insurance Association
at its National Convention
recently at the Hilton Hotel in
Detroit, Michigan.
Hollis is also active in many
other local civic and
community activities in and
around the Augusta area.
September 16, 1971 No. 26
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Madison Woo
Commissioners indicating that
it has been re-thought, but it
seems to have akin to it
political implications. And it
has put other Commissioners
and the Commission on the
spot to express their personal
views as a body. I think that
each individual has the right to
support his personal beliefs.
But I think as a governing
body, we have a right and a
duty to uphold those things
that abide by law.
I also feel that it is a crying
shame that we have to play,
and toy with the destiny of«our
children. I don’t feel that we
are doing our children a service
by asking each governing body
in the County to assess an
opinion on the busing
situation. I do feel that it
shouldn’t be done. But
inasmuch as it is going to be
done and my concern is not for
busing, my concern is for
quality education. But in light
of this being put and thrust
upon the Commission by one
of our fellow Commissioners
after we had duly taken action,
which I thought was the right
action, I’m compelled to vote
no.
Woo: I’m also expressing
my personal feelings as well as
my official capacity. I don’t
think there are any political
overtones here. I think in the
interest of quality education
this is why I’m asking the
entire Commission to endorse
this.
Mclntyre: Mr. Woo, you’re
saying that you have
information today that you
didn’t have Tuesday, about the
busing situation?
Woo: I wouldn’t say that
Mr. Mclntyre. But I would say,
not implying that you’re a
fool, but I think that it’s a fool
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James M. Hinton, Jr.
James M. Hinton, Jr., Third
.Vice President of the Pilgrim
Health and Life Insurance
Cpmpany, was elected
President of the thirteen (13)
County Central Savannah River
Area (CSRA) Planning and
Development Commission.
Hinton is very active in civic
and community affairs and is
the first Black to head this
organization.
The featured speaker for the
annual meeting was U.S.
Senator David H. Gambrell
that won’t change his mind. I
can change my mind. And I am
changing my mind.
Mclntyre: I think this is
what we said at the original
meeting that each
Commissioner express his
personal feelings in an
individual way rather than as a
governing body.
Woo: Well, even that, in my
opinion, is my own mind I
have changed.
Mclntyre: Mr. Chairman, I
call for the question.
Clifford: All in favor of
approving the resolution
delivered to us by the Citizens
for Neighborhood Schools
please say aye.
Woo, Neal: Aye.
Clifford: Opposed, like sign.
Mclntyre: Aye
Clifford: The motion
carries.
Commissioner Frank
Troutman was not present but
phoned in his support of the
resolution.
Baha’i World
Peace Day
‘‘Human Rights
Prerequisite to Peace” is the
theme of this year’s World
Peace Day. On September 19,
members of the Baha’i Faith in
some 4,000 American cities
will observe this day.
The purpose of World Peace
Day is to spread the
organization of America’s
spiritual destiny to raise the
standard of peace in the world.
It is sponsored annually by the
National Baha’i Assembly.
Peace is an important
thought today, and on
September 19 a public Bar-b-q
free of charge will be
sponsored by the Baha’is in
Keysville, Ga. It will be held at
noon. When traveling from
Augusta take Rt. 1 to 1-88;
then it is 4% miles on the
Blythe Road. There will be a
Baha’i sign at the picnic area.
The following Sunday a free
picnic at 2:30 p.m. at May
Park sponsored by the Baha’is
in observance of Peace and
Unity in the world.
W.S. Hornsby, 111
W.S. Hornsby, 111, Vice
President and Actuary of The
Pilgrim Health and Life
-.lnsurance Company, was
recently elected Actuary of the
National Insurance Association
at the annual meeting at the
Hilton Hotel in Detroit,
Michigan.
This Association with 44
member companies is the
largest Black industry in the
world, having nearly three (3)
billion dollars worth of
insurance in force.