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JACKSON QUITS AS THE CHIEF OF BREADBASKET The Rev. Jesse Jackson announced today he has resigned as head of Operation Breadbasket, the economic arm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in a dispute with its directors. The young minister was suspended Dec. 3 for 60 days without pay by the conference’s executive board, which charged him with “administrative impropriety” and violations of its policies. The dispute peaked when two corporations were formed, allegedly without approval of the national board, to operate Black Expo, an annual exhibition of black business and cultural achievements. Jackson, in a telegram to the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the conference and Dr. J. E. Lowery, board chairman, said, “The time has come when I cannot any longer give my active service to the organization. And since I JOB BIAS Cont’t from Page 1 said are discriminatory employment practices against women, blacks and Spanish-surnamed persons. The FCC rejected the request but said it would reconsider the matter if the job-bias agency could show a connection between discriminatory employment practices and telephone rates. Later, the communications commission granted AT&T a part of its rate-increase request; the remainder is pending. The FCC’s action led the job-bias agnecy to launch a new investigation into AT&T employment practices, which officials of the agency would say confirmed its charges. Among the agency’s new findings were these: -Women employees lose $950 million annually in wages because discriminatory -practices allegedly keep them in low-paying office and clerical jobs. -Blacks in the nation as a whole lose over $225 million annually in wages because they’re “not employed in AT&T’s Bell System in numbers proportional to their percentage in the population and because those who are employed work in low-paying jobs. -Spanish-surnamed Americans nationally lose over $137 million annually in wages “because they’re denied employment at- Bell and because they’re confined to the lowest-paying jobs.” The job-bias commission contended that “the Bell monolith is, without doubt, the largest oppressor of women workers in the U.S.” The agency also accused Bell of proposing artifically high educational and testing requirements for blacks. “The failure of the Bell system to provide real equality of opportunity for blacks must be considered a national tragedy the agency concluded. AT&T’s Mr. Lilley listed in his statement these “facts” with respect to minority and female employment by AT&T: -“Of the new employes we hired this year and in each of the preceding two years, one out of every four is either black, American Indian, SAND BAR PLAZA 200 BLOCK OF SAND BAR FERRY ROAD THRIF-TEE SUPER MARKET GROCERIES - MEATS - BEVERAGES > & JOHNSON'S LAUNDERMAT NEWLY OPENED - ALL MODERN EQUIPMENT BLACKMON'S BARBER SHOP HAIRCUTS - HAIRSTYLES - BLOW-OUTS AUGUSTA, GEORGIA consider 60 days too long for this vital work to be endangered by my ‘leave of absence’ I hereby submit my resignation for the good of the organization, effective Dec. 17”. Jackson has been national director of Breadbasket since 1967. It was not immediately clear what his future relationship with the conference would be. The group’s primary objective has been economic development in the black community creating job opportunities and other benefits by promoting black-owned and black-managed businesses. oriental or Spanish-surnamed. -“While total employment since 1963 has moved up 39%, the number of (our) minority employes has climbed 26%. -“Altogether, we now have more than 135,000 minority people on the payroll. That’s about 13% of our employes. As it happens, this is fractionally higher than the proportion of minorities in the U.S. population taken as a whole. -“Already, we have 7,500 minority people in management jobs. Not enough, but we are making good headway. This is more than double the number three years ago. -“We now have 524,000 women on the payroll. That’s about 55% of total employes. -“Presently, about one in three of our management jobs are held by women. And last year alone, more than 8,000 women earned promotions into and within management in the telephone companies. Most of these are in lower levels of management; we need more in higher levels and plan to have them. “This isn’t a dismal picture,” Mr. Lilley asserted. “On the contrary, the facts suggest that the Bell System is a good place of employment for women as well as minority people. “We believe the facts of the case, as they evolve, will also show that many of the specific kinds of allegations made against us are ancient history, long since mooted by changes we’ve already made. “For example, pension options are now identical for women and men. Similarly, women may, if they wish, seek employment or ask to be transferred into crafts which have heretofore been considered male jobs. Also, wage-zone differentials which the EEOC has considered discriminatory have now largely been eliminated through new collective bargaining agreements. “We believe we have been a leader, not a barrier, in equal employment opportunity. That is still our outlook, although we don’t claim to be perfect. We recognize that there is much, much more to be accomplished and we’re doing it.” Bunche As 'ldealist And Realist' Mourned By Thant And Wilkins Dr. Ralph ’J. Bunche, described as “both an idealist and a realist,” also left “an indelible memory of a wonderful man and a legacy of achievement such as few men can bequeath to history,” U Thant, the United Nations General Secretary, said yesterday. Mr. Thant, delivering a “word of tribute” during the hour-long funeral service for Dr. Bunche at the Riverside Church, said Mr. Bunche had “succeeded where many others had failed” because “he was modest but tough, brilliant but Jackson Sings Own Record Michael Jackson, the young teenage idol of song has released a single “Got To Be There” on the Motown label. As a young vocalist belonging to the younger generation, Michael at such a tender age distinguishes himself with profound expressiveness in an exemplary clear voice. The same magnetic vocal thrust comes through on the recording with dynamic spontaniety. Already Micheal is entering his eighth year as a professional. He was born August 29, 1959 and was the last of the Jackson family to join the group. He has a younger brother Randy who is now expected to join the group. Perhaps Michael is being groomed to become a single attraction with the Jackson 5. “Randy is the one I’m with most of the time,” says Michael, “cause the rest of ’em - they’d rather go to the park but he’d rather remain with me and he’s the only one I can be a big brother to.” “When Tito and Jackie want to make us mad,” Michael says laughingly, “They’ll call Jermaine ‘Big Head’; Marlon, ‘Liver Lips and they call me ‘Big Nose’ ”. Michael is an artist and he likes to draw cartoons and watch them on television. He has pictures of all the groups he likes including a picture of Diana Ross, his favorite singer. Right now he is fond of mod style clothes and often wears silk shirts with matching sash belts. “1 love silk, or cowboy outfits complete with hat, boots, gtin and holster,” he said. He collects pets and has mice and a snake. Michael enjoys show business and likes to learn new songs. He has his own method of learning new songs. When he knows the tunes other people sing, he writes down the words and makes sure he understands the meaning. When he learns new songs he listens carefully to the producer who plays the tunes for him and then he learns them. Learning is easier now because he is learning to read music at home and in school. Michael’s favorite sport is soccer, swimming. He says, “I don’t have any problems - not a one. I guess the worst one would be if I was conceited, but I don’t have those kind of hangups now ... maybe when I get older.” y gm Q< lictiiiaci *IT TAKES A GREAT CAR .. . * TO MAKE A GREAT CAR DEAL! WE HAVE BOTH. WIPE-TRACK 111 th| CORNERS TELFAIR STREET PONTIAC1 ST Im ASTER "If ter we sell—WK SKKVK—since 1937 unassuming, tireless but proficient, strong but understanding.” The service for Dr. Bunche, who died Thursday at the age of 67 in New York Hospital, was attended by several hundred persons, many of them nationally and internationally known figures. A steady stream of mourners entered the front and back doors of the church on Riverside Drive and 122 d Street. They walked between rows of uniformed policemen who had jammed their caps onto their heads because of the brisk wind. Despite the wind, the day was warm, and a bright sun added a brighter luster to the many highly polished limousines bringing the dignitaries. Inside, at the front of the church, the coffin, sealed and blanketed with red and white carnations, was flanked by wreaths of flowers from the Norwegian Mission to the United Nations. Early arrivals included United Nations Special Envoy Gunnar V. Jarring, who sat beside Mr. Thant near the coffin. “Messenger of Peace” The service started at noon when the Rev. Dr. Ernest T. Campbell, minister of the Riverside Church, standing in a raised pulpit in front of the United Nations Choir, prayed for God “in the quiet of this hour, [to] speak to us eternal things.” Mr. Campbell described Dr. Bunche sd an “indomitable messenger of peace.” The the Metropolitan Opera Soprano Leontyne Price sang the spiritual “I Want Jesus to Walk With Me.” Her voice sounding clear throughout the massive Gothic hall, Miss Price, without musical accompaniment, sang: I want Jesus to walk with me, I want Jesus to walk with me, While I’m on this tedious journey, I want Jesus to walk with me. She then sang the Lord’s Prayer. Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a long-time friend of the former Under Secretary of the United Nations for Special Political Affairs, spoke also in tribute to Dr. Bunche. Mr. Wilkins, told of Dr. Bunche’s early life-orphaned at 13 and raised by his grandmother, Mrs. Lucy Taylor Johnson-and of the influence of her wisdom on the man who was to win the Nobel Prize for 1950. “He was the noblest practitioner of man’s noblest profession,” Mr. Wilkins said, “the quest for peace.” The NAACP official spoke also of Dr. Bunche’s work both on domestic and world problems. “Never in his soaring MORRIS CAFE 1812 Milledgeville Rd. Open 7 a.m. ll p.m. Serving breakfast & dinner 6 days per week Mr. & Mrs. Morris, Prop. Please come to see us. Ralph Bunche Saiv strength of UN career,” Mr. Wilkins said, “was he apart from or indifferent to the afflictions visited upon his people.” Mr. Wilkins recalled the 1959 incident in which Dr. Bunche and his son, Ralph Jr., were refused membership in the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills. ‘Heritage Will Endure’ When club officials later offered to accept both for membership, Dr. Bunche declined, Mr. Wilkins recalled, “because the decision did not touch on the broad racial policies of this nation.” Repeating Mr. Bunche’s words at the time, Mr. Wilkins said: “No Negro American can be free from the disabilities of race in this country until the lowliest Negro in Missippi is no longer disadvantaged because of his race.” Mr. Wilkins told the mourners: “The sadness will fade but the heritage of a man of peace—not brown, not black, not white, but of the human race—will endure and shine into the darkness of this world.” The clear, even voice of Mr. Wilkins broke as he ended with, “Thank you, Ralph, and good-by.” Among the scores of well-known figures at the funeral were Governor Rockefeller, George Bush, United States Representative to the United Nations, Presidential Adviser Henry A. Kissinger, Mayor Lindsay, Senator Jacob K. Javits and Representatives Ralph H. Metcalfe and Charles C. Diggs, Jr. A private burial service was held at Woodlawn Cemetery in he Bronx. B Register 1| I I [£Maxw£ll v A Where the buying is easy £Maxw£ll FURNITURE I 933 BROAD STREET 1649 GORDON HIGHWAY I ill ■ ■*> ■" fl" ■ -*Sx. ■ b * Mays Married For 3rd Time Willie Mays, the veteran outfielder for the San Francisco Giants, was married for the third time Sunday in a civil ceremony. Mays was married to 32-year-old Mae Louise Allen of San Francisco in the private offices of a local judge. The couple then left for a Funeralized This Week £ -Si Wesley L. Watkins Wesley L. Watkins, for many years president of the Citizens Voters League and a member of the Richmond County Democratic Executive Committee, died Thursday after a long illness. Mr. Watkins, who lived at 1343 Dewitt Street, was a native of Burke County but lived most of his life in Richmond County. A member and deacon of the Palmer Grove Baptist Church, he was employed by Harison-Gulley Chevrolet. He was a York Rite Mason. Active in political affairs for many years, he was an unsuccessful Augusta City Council candidate in 1970. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mattie A. Watkins; four daughters. Mrs. Juanita W. Taylor, Mrs. Delores Merritt, Mrs. Gloria Johnson, all of Augusta; and Mrs. Mattie B. Hill, of Jesup, Ga.; a sister, Mrs. Marie Bryant, Philadelphia, Pa., two brothers, the Rev. Richard Watkins, of New York City and Rayford Watkins, of Philadelphia. News-Review December 16, 1971 honeymoon in Acapulco. Mays refused an interview with a local reporter, saying, “Nothing about baseball today, no comment.” He did answer briefly a question whether he thought Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves could pass Babe Ruth’s homerun record, saying, “Aaron could reach it ... and maybe me too.” Jr v Wayinan W. White, Jr. Wayman Winfield White, Jr. of 1339 Eleventh St., Augusta radio personality for a number of years, died at his home Friday. He was the son of late Dr. W.W. White and Mrs. Wilhelmina White and was a member of the Trinity C.M.E. Church. He had been a disc jockey at Radio Station WAUG for many years and at the time of his death was employed at Radio Station WTHB. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Wilhelmenia White. KIPS: STUPY NOW PLAY LATER NOTICE Special Holiday Banking Hours In order to give our customers more time for convenient banking during the Holidays, The Bank of Augusta will observe the following Special Christmas Hours: OPEN REGULAR HOURS DEC. 20 THROUGH DEG 23. OPEN WEDNESDAY DEC 22 (All Day) 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. CLOSED FRIDAY and SATURDAY DEG 24-25 "AUGUSTA’S ONLY SATURDAY BANK” DEPOSITS INSURED TO BANK of AUGUSTA 1268 BROAD ST. Page 3 ONLY TWO MORE WEEKS As of January 1 News-Review Subscription rates go to $5.00. 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