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& I t LWKI Vol. 1 \m» HBKmhKEhM|^££' j / Job - rr - > ■S3ER’ M fl Bm* »- IMBi -( \ s ■ V tIL 1 ii JBK> %■« .. ~<zi/,ifeJhOMK«Bgg3gf, '. '. x^flßfltal^.w wHI 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 abb AM ABl BHB taaß B B B BHB ■HR 911 VBi “ """ " ” i ! SUPPORT YOUR NAACP £ BY SENDING ■ I YOUR DONATIONS ■ TO NAACP - ■ ; POST OFFICE BOX 2800 ■ I [ SAND HILL BRANCH AUGUSTA, GA. 30903 >B«B«B«B«B«BM»B»B«bS Nma-Bwtfw THE PEOPLE’S PAPER -J 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.” WANTED NEWS BOYS WANTED! 100 News Boys Good Pay CALL News—Review Office 930 Gwinnett St. 722-4555 Augusta Ga Phone 722-4555 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.” f \ 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 “**'*‘' I 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 gg ‘ «.■ 1 EL. 1 -nr- jLt 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.