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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. lyl gm *IT TAKES A GREAT CAR . . * TO MAKE A GREAT CAR DEAL! WE HAVE BOTH. WIPE-TRACK |] ] th| CORNERS TELFAIR STREET PONTIAC I st IMASTER -tiler MrU-nt: NHKVK—xinc* I»:i7 Page 4 I PAINE I COLLEGE InEWS* i J 1 ■ J J V Mrs. Latimer Blount ■ ■ | 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 DAVIS BARBER SHOP 132 13 th St. COME SEE US MERRY XMAS .UAoQDH INTER EStI MNHA on .. Christmas Club Accounts Join Now And Get Augusta's Highest Interest On Christmas Club Savings. AUGUSTA’S ONLY SATURDAY BANK” DEPOSITS INSURED TO BANKof AUGUSTA 1268 BROAD- ST. the Judge. The Production is directed by J.C. Taylor and tickets will be available at the door. 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. 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