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WFXA Foxie 103/100.9 is the No. 1 radio
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arbitron ratings. Foxie 103/100.9 received a
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Foxie 103/100.9 National Program Direc
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success tq the Foxie listeners. “The listeners
made it happen. Withoutthem there would be
no Foxie,” Mr. Alexander said.
Foxie 103/100.9 has consistently remained
among the top three radio stations in the
CSRA for the past several years.
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listeners, “It’s a great feeling to know that
the people of the CSRA enjoy what we are
doing. They are Foxie!!”
Governor Miller
has no reason
to complain
By David Pace
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON
With President Clinton pushing
Georgia’s HOPE scholarship program
onto tee national stage, Gov. Zell Miller
was in no mcod Monday to join other
governors in complaining about federal
state relations.
Miller agreed to remain in Washington
after the National Governors Associa
tion concludes its annual meeting Tues
day. He will that we have even more
ways that we can get at fraud and abuse
in the system,”” he said.
Miller also said he doesn’t share the
concerns of some big-state governors who
want Congress to reopen the new wel
fare law to provide federal food stamps
and welfare benefits to legal immigrants.
“I can live with it just like it is,” Miller
said, referring to the new law that ended
six decades of guaranteed federal aid to
the poor. “We can make it work in Geor
gi a.”
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Bland, star defensive lineman for the Josey Eagles signed with The University of
Georgia. Pictured with Percy are his parents David Bland (L) and his mother Mary
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Perkins is hopeful
From page one
missioner and check on his
progress.
“I feel confident something’s
going to happen,” he said. “I've
got more results in the past two
weeks than since this whole thing
happened,” he said.
Mayor Larry Sconyers, who was
chairman of the Richmond County
Commission when Fleet Manage
ment went to Ryder MLS, said he
was unaware Mr. Perkins had
asked to be allowed to transfer
back to Recreation and Parks when
helearned Fleet Management was
going private.
Mr. Perkins maintains that, had
he known Fleet Management
would be abolished six months af
ter he’d joined, he never would
have accepted the promotion that
transferred him out of the job he’d
held nearly a quarter-century.
Because, he said, once he’d
learned of the county’s plans to
privatize, it was too late. He ap-
Quotas
From page one
the courts that it was making a
good-faith effort to integrate its
schools.
Over the past several years, how
ever, many school systems across
the nation — having satisfied the
courts that willful racial segrega
tion was a thing of the past — have
been relieved from federal moni
toring. Richmond County, how
ever, isnot one of them. But should
Richmond County eventually come
from under the scrutiny of the
federal courts, would the 50-50
strict racial quota become a thing
of the past?
Richmond County School Super
intendent Dr. Charles Larkedoesn’t
think so. In fact, he would like to
expand the quotas.
“I am looking into implementing
additional magnet school programs
within regular schools; and I want
to keep things 50-50 so all students
can have access to the program,”
Dr. Larke told Augusta Focus this
week.
School Board members also favor
keepingthe quotas evenifthe court
proached then-county administra--
tor Linda Beazley with the request
that he be allowed to remain with
the county in some capacity so he
could “retain my 25 yearsof county
service ... six months of sick time
... and 21 days of paid vacation.”
Ms. Beazley then informed him
that he was part of the county’s
contract with Ryder. But, she said,
“I was not the one who made that
decision ... I didn’t have anything
to do with it.”
Asked if the affected employees
had any say-so, she said, “No.”
Then: “ I really don’t need to be
getting into ... I'm not a county
employee anymore.”
Despite such responses, Mr.
Perkins is hopeful. “I can sleep at
night for the first timein twoyears
...” He is pleased, he said, that his
plight has come to the commis
sioners’ attention. At least.
“Even if it don’t get me my job
back ... They (commissioners) need
to make provisions for when this
happens to somebody else.”
order is removed.
“I think that once the order is
removed, schools will be integrated
because of the neighborhoods; but
magnet schools should stay the way
they are,” said Board member Bar
bara Padgett.
The magnet school principals, as
well, tout the beneficial effects of
the racial quotas.
I think the system is working
well,” said Mr. Jimmy Boozer, Prin
cipal of the C. T. Walker Magnet
school.
“We maintain quotas to allow
students an equal opportunity to
enter the magnet school. We're try
ing to keep a balance,” Beverly J.
Barnhart, Principal at the Davidson
Fine Arts School.
Each of the magnet schools —
A.R. Johnson Health Occupations
High School is the third — main
tain racial balance is slightly differ
ent ways.
Davidson reserves 90 percent of
itsenrollment for whitesand blacks.
Other ethnic minorities comprise
10 percent. A.R. Johnson is divided
50-50 white-black enrollment with
no other nonwhite minorities. C. T'.
Walker, however, has 50 percent
black while whites and other non
black minorities comprise the re
maining 50 percent.
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