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News-Review December 2, 1971
FROM
THE
PILL BOX
Father David C. Streett
AUGUSTA AREA PLANNED
PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION!
Our guest writer this week is one of Augusta’s most
outstanding and successful citizens, Mrs. Ocie L. Johnson, R.N.,
8.5.N.E., M.S., Chief of Outreach Services, Family Planning
Project 785, and Project Director, Augusta Planned Parenthood.
In addition to her duties in Richmond County where she is the
highest rated black person in the Medical College of Georgia, Mrs.
Johnson is Vice-Chairman for Services on the Board of Directors
of the Georgia Council for Voluntary Family Planning and also a
consultant for the OEO-funded Westinghouse Learning
Corporation. Her article is titled:
IS FAMILY PLANNING GENOC IDE?
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
defines genocide as “The systematic planned annihilation of a
racial, political or cultural group.” Since family planning is not a
law or force prohibiting anyone from having children, then its
intent is not to get rid of any race or group, therefore it is not
genocide.
Planning is defined as “having specific aims or purposed to be
achieved in a systematic fashion.” Family planning’s aims are to
help people have only those children they want and intend to
have, when they want to have them.
It would seen, to me then that family planning is really trying
to encourage human strengths through quality in the generations
to come. This quality includes both physical and mental abilities
and the means to nuture this ability ’lirough first class education.
It is not very often that quality con.es at the same time with
quantity. This holds true in family life also. When a mother has
many children close together, her body be omes so over-worked
and “used up” trying to support and supply the ne°ds of the
unborn child that she is unable to produce the necessary nutrients
for fetal development. The results are premature, weak or small
babies. After the child is born, he is still deprived of the necessary
love and nourishment to allow him to develop into an adequate
mental and physical individual.
Pollution has increased with overpopulation all over the world.
It is affecting every one, the poor as well as the more affluent
who are contributing most of the pollution. For this reason
family planning is needed world-wide. Planned Parenthood has
affiliates in over 116 countries.
Here in Augusta, as in other parts of the United States and in
foreign countries, the problems of over-population and pollution
exist. Family Planning through the Health Department and
through Planned Parenthood is available. Spacing children can be
achieved through use of pills, IUDs, foam, diaphragms, jellies and
creams. Take your pick. The safest of these are the pills and the
IUDs. All of these are free for women, with a physical
examination and paps smear (cancer detection examination)
thrown in. All women in the child-bearing age are eligible and
records are confidential. Our most tragic problem here is the
increasing number of young teenage girls who become pregnant.
The younger they are when the pregnancy occurs, the more likely
they are to repeat. These girls are counseled and served in the
family planning clinic. Condoms (rubbers) are available for men,
free of charge and no questions asked.
When the family has been completed there are certain
procedures that can permanently prevent pregnancy but do not
affect sexuality. Women can have a tubal ligation (tubes tied) or a
hysterectomy (womb removed). This does not affect her
“nature,” but she cannot conceive again.
Since men are involved in the reproductory process and, in
fact, are capable of increasing population more than women, 1
think it is only fair for them to share every aspect of family
planning. There is only one male method for spacing children, the
condom. There is also one procedure as a permanent
contraceptive. This is the vasectomy.
When a woman has a tubal ligation, the tubes through which
the egg must pass to meet the male sperm are cut and tied. The
woman still has eggs which cause her to retain her femininity.
When a man has a vasectomy the males tubes through which the
sperm must pass are cut and tied but he continues to produce
sperm which are then absorbed by the body. This causes him to
retain his masculinity. When he has sexual relations he can still
ejeculate (come) the same amount of fluid, but it does not
contain sperm.
This vasectomy procedure for men is simple. The man does not
have to lose time from work or have a lengthy recuperation,
whereas the woman’s procedure is considered major surgery, as an
incision must be made into her abdominal cavity. This means a
few days hospitalization as well as a few weeks recuperation. The
Richmond County Health Department has a vasectomy clinic
available. The procedure is so simple that it is done free of
charges, while the female type of permanent contraception has
the extra expenses of hospitalization.
The male vasectomy clinic has been in existence since May
1971. There are now 50 very happy men in Augusta. The most
amazing thing is no black men have yet come in for the services.
Since we Black Americans are trying to identify with the African
countries of our origin through hair styles, dress, etc., lets also
follow their example in family planning. Such countries in Africa
as Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Botswana TAn-Zania, and others
have found that quanity has done notliing to eliminate
oppression; so now they are planning their strategy on strength
through quality.
In order to get a male counselor to explain vasectomies to you,
call 724-0451 or 724-0381.
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PAINE COLLEGE
DRAMATICS CLUB
PRESENTS “BLUES FOR
MR. CHARLIE”
The Paine College Dramatic
Club presents “Blues for Mr.
Charlie” by James Baldwin on
December 9, 10, and 11th at
8:15 p.m. in the Music/Chapel
Building on Druid Park
Avenue.
The play concerns a caustic
Black who returns from the
North as a reformed junkie,
infuriates one person too
many, and is murdered. The
murder, the eulogy, the trial
and acquittal of the illiterate
white man who commits the
murder follow one upon the
other in a fluid dramatic form
in time and space, erupting in
fury and passion.
Appearing in the play will be
both veteran actors and several
new comers. The cast includes
persons as far away as
Orangeburg, South Carolina.
About the Cast
Meridian Henry will be
played by Grady Cornish, a
recent graduate of Paine
College.
The students in the play will
be performed by Jerelyn
Wilson, Lonnie Napier,ll, and
Roosevelt Dixon.
Mother Henry will be played
by Myrtice Noble.
Lyle will be played by Dr.
Louie Crew, a professor of
English at Claflin College,
Orangeburg, S.C. He has had a
great amount of experience in
acting in the theatre, some of
which include, “The
Caretaker,” “Merchant of
Venice,” “Camino,” “The
Country Wife,” and “Hamlet,”
at the University of Alabama.
He was last seen in “The Public
Eye,” with Orangeburg’s New
Towne Players.
General Smoot of Paine is
understudy for the role, Lyle.
Jan Rice from the Augusta
Players will, again, perform the
role of Jo Britten.
Parnell James will be
performed by Dr. Danny Ouzts
a professor of English at Claflin
College. Council Gibson, a
graduate of Paine is understudy
for the role Parnell.
Charles Jackson will again be
seen as Richard Henry and
Maurice Coes will repeat his
role as Papa D. Other repeats
are Andrew Jackson as State,
Jerry Davis as Council for the
Bereaved and Terry Blaine
from the Augusta Players as
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PAINE PRESENTS HOLIDAY
CONCERT
The Augusta Community is
invited to attend the Paine
College Annual Christmas
Concert on Sunday, December
12 at 6:00 p.m. in the College
Chapel.
This year the Music
Department will present The
Christmas Story, by Ron
Nelson, a contemporary
musical setting for mixed
chorus, narrator, brass, organ
and timpani. In addition, the
Paine Choir and T.W. Josey
Choir will present excerpts
from Handel’s Messiah.
There is no admission
charge.
Minorities
Gain in
Houston
By Martin Waldron
HOUSTON - Negro and
Mexican-American voters
joined with liberal whites
recently to elect two liberals to
the Houston School Board, a
Negro to the City Council, and
to throw the mayoral election
into a runoff.
It was the first effective
show of strength by minority
groups in Houston, and was the
culmination of five years of
power-building efforts in the
city’s Negro and
Mexican-American ghettos.
Houston’s four-term Mayor,
Louie Welch, who had been
favored to win re-election
without a runoff, ran only
slightly ahead of Fred
Hofheinz, a member of the
family that controls enough
votes to force a run-off in the
Mayor’s race in three weeks.
To avoid a runoff, the
leading candidate must receive
50 per cent of the votes plus
one vote.
Unofficial returns from the
mayoral election show that Mr.
Welch had 99,700 votes or
46.3 per cent, and Mr.
Hofheinz 95,700 or 44.5 per
cent.
Hofheinz Predicts Victory
Mr. Hofheinz, a 33-year old
lawyer who holds master’s and
doctor’s degrees in economics,
was jubilant over the outcome.
“More than half the voters in
Houston have shown that they
are opposed to another term
for Mayor Welch,” he said. Mr.
Hofheinz predicated that
“momentum” would sweep
him into the $20,000 a-year
mayor’s job in the runoff
Abrams
With Sims
100%
Grady Abrams on his radio
show “Get Down” singled out
Reverend Arthur D. Sims as
one of the ministers in the
community he admires most.
Many Augustans will
remember that Sims and
Abrams clashed bitterly in
what many described as a dog
fight just prior io last year’s
councilmatic election. Each
accused the other of misleading
the black community in their
respective endorsements of
candidates in that election.
Their attacks were made
through tapes broadcast on
radio station WRDW.
Abrams said that he admires
Sims although many people
may not be aware of this
admiration. “Reverend Sims is
a minister of the Gospel but he
also makes his ministry
relevant to his people. He is
always out front fighting for
unpopular causes - causes
which would make him
unpopular. But he is doing
something for the community.
I am with Reverend Sims one
hundred percent. People
reading the newspapers and
listening to the radio may .
think that we’re split but that
has never been so far from the
truth Abrams said. “We need
more men like Reverend Sims .
in the community.”
election.
Mayor Welch’s campaign
managers had acknowledged
before the election that if the
Mayor did not win in the first
primary” he will be in
trouble.”
But the Mayor said that he
expected to win in the runoff
and that he would try to get
more Negro support in the
campaign.
There has been a strong
backlash in the Negro and
Mexican-American
communities against the city
Police Department, and the
future of Police Chief Herman
Short was a primary issue,
Mayor Welch vowed to keep
Mr. Short as chief, and Mr.
Hofheinz said he would
“study” the situation if
elected, but promised to
establish a review board to
monitor police operations.
Chief Short said that he would
not work for Mr. Hofheinz if
he should be elected.
Liberal Slate Successful
Results in the Houston
School Board election, in
which 39 candidates ran for
three seats, reflected a massive
education effort in the city
ghettos. A Negro doctor and a
Mexican-American lawyer -
two members of a
three-member slate endorsed
by the Committee for Good
Schools, a somewhat liberal
organization that has been
trying to destroy political
power cliques among the city’s
older school principals - won
handily. They are Dr. Herman
A. Barnett and David T. Lopez.
The third member of the
slate, Mrs. Karl Kamrath, won
45 per cent of the vote against
15 opponents. She will be in a
runoff with Mrs. Irene G.
Lewis, a member of the slate
endorsed by the Committee for
Sound American Education, a
conservative organization.
Judson Robinson Jr., a
businessman, became the first
Negro ever elected to the City
Council. He appeared to have
defeated a 10-year encumbent,
A.L. Miller. Mr. Robinson had
slightly more than 50 per cent
of the votes; Mr. Miller had 36
per cent, and a third candidate
13 per cent.
Although Negroes and
Mexican-Americans make up
about a third of Houston’s 1
1,250,000 residents, they have/
been neg-elections. Since the
abolition of the Texas poll tax
five years ago, the number of
Negroes and Mexican
-Americans registered to vote
has increased steadily.
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its scope of activities to include
other aspects of the transition
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from high school to college, it
was explained.
In recent years, a program of
guidance and placemen)
services extending from the
high school level through the
freshman and sophomore years
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financial need analysis service
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“The Board acts as an open
forum where members can
participate in the discussion of
issues and problems related to
improving access to
education, “Dr. Christenberry
said.
The National Science
Foundation (NSF) has awarded
a $2,000 grant to Augusta
College for support of a project
initiated this past summer by
Dr. Janice Butler Turner,
associate professor of
chemistry at the college.
Dr. Turner along with five
other college professors,
participated in a summer
research program of Research
Participation for College
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Dr. Turner was one of two to
be given continuing grants. .
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