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Newspaper Page TextSweethearts Are Victims Os Double Murder Page 1 Volume 11 Number 19 w- -&I *X • 0 J* ■ \ ’ *jr j\ \ EHL. *ii !»’ Ml . BOBr < \a d&fisL 7&g& ■ < aBhR R XjPj iw® A w w : ® JtL < K.. - > ®BBk "’’' J|< . B/Wt 'W'® dHMr cP **' RF RRdflßk RRRk. MISS UNIVERSE CONTESTANTS - A beautiful group of Miss Universe contestants graced the steps of City Hall recently. They were there to hear New York Mayor Ed Koch proclaim July “Miss Universe Month.” The stunning assortment includes Miss U.S. Virgin Islands, Marise Cecile James; Miss Bahamas, Linda Smith; Miss Thailand, Massupa Karprapun; Miss British Virgin Islands, Carmen Nibbs, and Miss St. Kitts, Marva Warner. Childhood Sweethearts Double Murder Victims His Body Found In Trunk Os Her Car CLEVELAND - “I knew the Tylers and the police thought my son killed Robin. It was hard. I tried to tell the police my scm loved her too much to do anything like that, but they didn't believe me." The words came from a father whose sons’s body had been found in the trunk of the youth s girlfriend’s car five days after the young woman was raped and slain. During those agnozing days Steven D. Graves was considered by police to be a suspect in the shooting death of 17-year-old Robin Tyler, the sweetheart he had grown up with. The young man’s body was in the trunk of the car they used that fateful June night. As painful as not knowing what had happened to his son was the fact that police had towed the car to an impoundment center without ever searching it, declared the young man’s father, Steven D. Graves Augusta Sfews-Sb’inetu Sr. In addition to learning their son had been shot to death, living through the death of their friends’ daughter, not being able to have a satisfactory funeral for their son and having to face the possibility young Graves had been involved in Robin’s death, the Graves also had to put up with cruel calls from an unknown woman about young Graves. The heartbreaking news about young Graves came during funeral services for Robin. The elder Graves refused to believe the story of Det. David Hicks that he had a premonition and arranged for a search of the 1973 Delta 88 Oldsmobile Robin had bought shortly before she and Graves were killed. Graves believes the odor from the body in the truck resulted in the discovery. Tension between the Tyler and Graves families had been considered Chaka Khan At Civic Center Saturday Night Page 3 during the days after the girls body was discovered - and before it was known a double murder had snuffed out the young lovers’ lives. Most members of the Tyler family had said that either young Graves had killecl Robin or he too was dead. The girl's, father. Dwight Tyler, had said. "I hope he didn't do it because I’ve known that bey since he was a baby. They were raised together. They dated about two years." At first police had just told Graves and his wife. Barbara, who reside on Brunswick Road in Cleveland Heights, that their son had been found shot to death in a car. "I didn't know that it was Robin's car until later." Graves said. "When we found that out. my wife became hysterical. All we kept thinking about was that Steve had died in the trumk of that car." he said. Graves said he talked with the County Coroner and was told that his son died instantly from a gunshot wound to the head. The bullet pierced his brain. “We felt better after that." Graves said. August 1,1981 “Nevertheless, it was inexcusable for the police not to look in the trunk of the car. If it had been dope they would have taken the whole car apart, even the seats.'.’ Graves, visbly upset, said he felt his son had been cheated out of a decent funeral. "My son's body was so decomposed they wouldn't let me or my wife see him. His body was badly deteriorated he was identified by his clothes." Graves said. The Graves held a closed casket funeral J une 30. The tragic ordeal began for the family when a passer-by-saw Robin's body laying in the back seat of her car at E <w th and Elk Ave., about b:lb a.m. J une 25. Police were called and found Robin, of 1821 Rudwiek Rd., face down, nude in the car. The keys to the car were missing and after investigation police learned that Robin had been shot twice in the head with a 38. caliber revolver. Blood was in the front seat, back seat and outside Continued On Page 2 Investigation Shows Bias Against Minority Employees Page 1 PUSH Calls For f w} National Boycott Against Coca- Cola Operation PUSH’S Selective Patronage Council has called on civil rights organizations throughout the Black community to join in a national boycott against Coca-Cola, Inc. After six months of negotiation with Coca-Cola, PUSH said last week that the agreement Coca-Cola presented was “fundamentally inadequate and unacceptable," “Our repeated attempts to contact Coca- Cola president, Don Keough, have only resulted in him sending messengers to us. Therefore, since Coca-Cola refuses to change its policies we have little recourse but to change our appetites. Those who reject our purposes are not entitled to our purchases," said the Rev. B.W. Smith, chairman of the PUSH Selective Patronage Council. PUSH’S “withdrawal of enthusiam for Coca-Cola" was unanimously accepted by PUSH’S national board of directors, which is chaired by Gary, Indiana Mayor Richard G. Hatcher. Blacks provide Coca- Cola with 14 percent erf its national market and 25 percent of its market in 50 Investigation Charges Bias Against Georgia Employees ATLANTA-- Georgia discriminated against minorities in 11 agencies that include about two thirds of the state's 45,000 employees, a seven-year investigation by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said. The EEOC report was handed down earlier this year but not made public until a copy was obtained by the Atlanta J ournal. The report said qualified Blacks and women were bypassed for top positions in favor of less qualified white males; Blacks and women are concentrated in lower paying positions; the state failed to ensure that notice of job openings reached potential Black applicants; and job announcements contained unvalidated, artificially high testing and educational requirements that discouraged Blacks and Failure To Get Shots Could Delay Graduation Students failing to get their immunization shots could delay their graduation. Assistant Superintendent James Dunn said last week. Richmond County schools are on the quarter system and Dunn said, students who are absent five times are dropped from shcod for the remainder of the quarter. Seniors could have their graduation delayed. When students (Kindergarten through I2th grade) register for school in August they must have a certificate of immunization key market cities where 68 percent of the nation’s Blacks live. And, per capita, Blacks drink three times as much Coca-Cola as whites, Smith said. "Blacks contribute some S4BO million annually to the company's coffers, yet Coca-Cola has not provided economic reciprocity to the Black community.” He continued: “Coca- Cola’s board erf directors has eighteen members. None is Black. Coca-Cola has 550 bottler franchises and 4,000 fountain wholesalerships; none is owned by Blacks. “Coca-Cola spends 169 million in domestic advertising. Less than one half million is spent with Black newspapers and magazines.” Smith said Coke does not do the amount of business with Black banks, savings and loan associations and insurance companies, nor does it use out-of-house professional services (doctors, lawyers, accountants) that the large investment of Black consumer dollars in Coca- Cola would provide for. “Coca-Cola offers a philanthropic budget for women from applying for the positions. The report, however, only noted general findings and did not give breakdown by department of the alleged practices. EEOC officials proposed in a letter to Gov. George Busbee last April working out a conciliatory agreement that would eliminate the alleged discrimination, however, state attorneys rejected the offer and filed legal papers denying the charges. EEOC must now send its complaint to the Justice Department which will decide if it will take Georgia to court. Notice Effective August 1, the News-Review office will be located at 1019 D’Antignac St. against polio, mumps, measles. diptheria. whooping cough, rubella and tetanus. Most students have had all the shots except the mumps, he said, urging parents to check to see the mumps ard included. Previously, stum .its only had to show that the shots had been taken. Now the shot record has to become a part of the student’s file. The shots are free at the Richmond County Board of Health and can be obtained at satelite centers Shirley Chisholm Raps U.S. Treatment Os Haitian Refugees Page 5 Blacks that is only 10 percent of a mere $2 million, which is actually much less than one-half of one percent of Coca-Cola’s gross sales. Coca Coia's gross sales for 1980 were $5.9 billion. We have challenged them to give to the United Negro College Fund and provide research grants to Black colleges.” The soft drink company has recently started Enough Is Enough! Editorial The County Com mis ion has voted to withold funds from the Human Relations Commission until it is satisfied that it has seen all of the agencies financial records, and we think that is time for the Black community to respond. We propose that the Black community mobilize and commit itself to taking one vote from each of the five commissioners for every dollar that is witheld from the Human Relations Commission. The County Commission’s racist witch hunt has gone on long enough. If there is so much wrong, then why isn’t the city and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission pursuing the same records. The mayor has acknowledged that the city funds other agencies that receive funds from other sources and whose records are not made available to the city. We know what HRC has done wrong. What they have done wrong is wage an effective fight against racial discrimination, and the racists want relief. We agree with HRC Director Charles Walker that the county Commission wants to neutralize the Dr. Lowery To Speak Here Dr. Joseph Lowery, national president erf the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, will be the speaker at the annual banquet of the Student Enrichment Program SEEP at the Medical College of Georgia nearest the student’s home. Dunn said parents should call the board of education for the days the immunication program will be in their areas. In addition to the board of health, the shots can be obtained from the Department of Human Resources or from private physicians Emphasizing the importance of having the shots, Dunn said, “The State has taken everything out of the school board's hands. You have to have it (the shots) cr no school.” 25C operations in Nigeria and China, according to the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, national president of Operation PUSH. “When major white businesses do business with Third World developing nations they use a ’Third World Formula,” which commits the company to training the indigenous population to run their particular business and sell Continued On Page 5 effectiveness of the Human Relations Commission if not dismantle it. And we don't believe this community should sit back and let either happen. Blacks are being discriminated against daily in Richmond County. The county government over which these same commissioners preside is guilty of rampant racial discriminaiton in its own hiring and promotion policies. And we’ve never heard any of these commissioners utter one word of objection. Instead, they condone it by their silence and encourage it by their actions. It should also be pointed out that with all the sand the county is raising about HRC, the county only contributes 23 percent of HRC’ budget. And the Black community must let them know that those are also OUR dollars they are witholding, and without our consent. Bill Hier, Frank Albert and Harold Smith come up for re-election next year. And we must remember Travis Barnes and Bill Williams when their terms expire. We should commit ourselves to taking one vote Continued On Page 4 August 7. SEEP is a program designed to attract more minorities into the health science professions. Blacks made up approximately four percent of the 1981 graduates at the medical college. Paine Gets SIOO,OOO Paine College recently received a SIOO,OOO Bush Foundation challenge grant toward capital campaigns for endowment, new building construction and campus renovation. Spelman College and Tuskegee Institute were the other two historically Black colleges to receive the challenge grants. These are the first grants under this new Bush program to provide capital matching grants to the private, predominantly Black colleges which are members or former members of the United Negro College Fund. Altogether the Bush Foundation approved 36 grants totaling $4,637,678.