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AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
. AUGUSTA
Department of Energy Secretary Hazel
O’Leary visited Augusta and North Augusta
this week to discuss the future of the Savannah
River Site. While she did not come bearing gifts,
she did held out the promise of future w:;& Ms.
O’Leary could not guarantee that tritium pro
duction would continue at SRS, but she had
some very positive things to say.
“I believe there is the opportunity for new
work here,” she said at a North Augusta Cham
ber of Commerce breakfast meeting, Wednes
day morning. “It’s not building bombs,” she said,
“but we're not in that work anymore.”
The “new work” she spoke of involves a gener
al cleaning up, and a slowing down of the arms
race. The specific tasks are stabilization and
processing of hazardous materials, and decon
tamination and decommissioning technology
that will no longer be used. Though she realizes
See O'LEARY, page 2
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See Artßeat, page 6.
Hazel O'Leary
visited Augusta
on Wednesday.
Many had
hoped that she
would make an
important
announcement
about tritium
production, but
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Photo by Jimmy Carter
REVIEW
James
Brown’s
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JULY 27-AUGUST 2, 1995 VOL. XIV NO. 71¢
FOCUS
Metro Augusta's Finest Weekly Newspaper
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Norman A. Hughes Studio
offers showcase for fine art
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B What: Norman A. Hughes Studio Group Show
featuring artists, poets, and photographers. Guests
‘include Russell Bonin, Tom Barrett, Geri Forbisher,
Barbara Franklin, Gregory Miller, Mark Simon,
Melinda Moore Lampkin and Norman A. Hughes.
B Where: The Norman A. Hughes Studio, 129 9th
Street. 5
Il When: Monday, July 31,4995 - 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Exhibition will be from August 1-30, 1995.
1 Norman A. Hughes at
work in his studio.
Photo by Frederick J. Benjamin Sr.
cized black cadet
honored posthumously
B Johnson Chestnutt
Whittaker receives
commission after 115
years.
Washington, D.C.
This week, President Clinton
honored Johnson Chestnut
Whittaker, one of the first Afri
can Americans to attend the
U.S. Military Academy at West
Point, at a White House cere
mony with his family. The pres
ident presented to the family of
Mr. Whittaker a posthumous
commission as a second lieu
tenant.
The commission is being giv
en 115 years after Johnson C.
Whittaker was beaten by fel
low cadets, and then court
martialed and accused of self
inflicting his wounds.
Whittaker’s family, including
his 77-year-old granddaughter
and two great grandsons will
attend the ceremony. They have
been seeking the commission
for years.
On April 5, 1880, three masked men entered his
dormitory room, dragged him out of bed, beat
him, slashed his ears, cut off his hair in clumps and
left him unconscious and tied him to his bed. West
Point Administrators sided with Whittaker’s ac
cused attackers and said he fabricated the at
tack to create sympathy.
Whittaker was appointed to
the United States Military
Academy (USMA) from South
Carolina in 1876. Several Afri
can Americans had entered
West Point previously, the first
in 1870, but there was not a
black graduate until 1877. In
the period which Whittaker
attended USMA, white cadets
routinely ostracized blacks.
Whittaker was virtually shut
out of school life.
‘On April 5, 1880, three
masked men entered his dor
niitory room, dragged him out
of bed, beat him, slashed his
ears, cut off his hair in clumps
and left him unconscious and
hog-tied to his bed. West Point
Administrators sided with
By Frederick Benjamin Sr.
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
A s a black child who attended
Immaculate Conception
School in the heart of Augusta’s inner
city, Norman A. Hughes had a dream.
Like many local residents, he went out
into the world and made his dream a
reality. Unlike many local talents, how
ever, who find greener pastures else
where, Norman A. Hughes has come
home to ghare his good fortune. On
Monday, July 31, he will officially anoint
his downtown studio/gallery with a
gathering of local talent.
Merely to say that Mr. Hughes is a
fine painter and sculptor is to under
state, perhaps, his most crowning
achievement. As the founder and CEO
of Positive Images, Mr. Hughes steps
out of the artist role and assumes the
See NEW DOWNTOWN STUDIO, page 4
Untitled painting by Norman
A. Hughes. (Inset) Norman A.
Hughes.
Photo by Frederick J. Benjamin Sr.
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Whittaker’s accused attackers
and said he fabricated the at
tack to create sympathy. He was
court-martialed and expelled
from the Academy. The verdict
was overturned two years later
by President Chester Arthur,
but Whittaker was not reinstat
ed by West Point on the grounds
he failed a philosophy course.
Whittaker was born aslave in
Camden, South Carolina. He
refused to give up. After return
ing to South Carolina, he re
ceived a law degree and later
became a teacher at the Colored
Normal, Industrial, Agricultur
al and Mechanical College of
South Carolina in Orangeburg
— now South Carolina State
University.
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IS IT ABLACK ISSUE?
Dr. Lenora Fulani says, ‘Yes.’
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JOBS & TRAINING
Shalala blasts
G.O.P. plan to
revamp welfare
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HHS Secretary Donna Shalala speaks with reporters
after hearing in east Augusta on Monday. PhatobyJ Carer
By Rhonda Y. Maree
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
Sheila Roberts is a single mother who had to quit her
Jjob and get on welfare to take care of her sick child. Just
months later, Ms. Roberts went back to work. She also
earned an associate’s degree from Augusta Technical
College.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna
Shalala shook Ms. Roberts’ hand at a recent forum on
welfare reform and offered her as a model for what
welfare should do.
At the invitation of U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-
Ga., Dr. Shalala spoke to an audience in Oakpointe
Community Room about the heated debate in the na
tion’s capital on welfare reform.
“Are we going to be generous and fair and appropriate
ly tough with very high standards? Are we going to
eliminate waste, fraud and abuse so truly needy people
get help?” are questions at the heart of the debate, Dr.
Shalala said.
“We have to pick and choose what we're going to
See SHALALA, page 3
Augusta’s top cop
will play ‘second
fiddle’ after merger
By Rhonda Y. Maree
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
For Augusta Police Chief Austin C. McLane, consolida
tion will mean a demotion and a decrease in pay.
Richmond County Sheriff Charles Webster told the
Augusta-Richmond County Transition Task Force Wednes
day that Mr. McLane must lose his ranking and bust back
to a lower pay grade if he wants to be a part of the merged
law enforcement team.
Mr, Webster, who is named the head of law enforcement
in the consolidation bill, said a “morale problem” would
ensue if Mr. McLane came in higher than deputies at the
sheriff's department.
“I have two chief deputies that have done me an out
standingjob,” hesaid. “I started withthem. I broughtthem
in, and I moved them up in rank.... He'll be equal to two
other men, but not above them, and probably not below.”
Mr. McLane, who currently makes $64,343 under his
contract with thecity, estimated that he would make about
SIO,OOO less if Augusta and Richmond County merge Jan.
1. According toMr. McLane, that won't weaken his morale.
Although the chief is under a contract with the city, Mr.
Webster, who makes $62,400, said that would “have no
play” in the structure under the new department.
“He’s under a contract, but I can’t have a man come out
of a contract making more than my chief deputies, making
probably more than I'm making myself,” Mr. Webster said.
See CHIEF, page 3