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[VOLUME 20 NUMBER 995
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Walker predicts “tough road”
in ensuing teen driving bill battle
BThe effort to gather
enough votes to restrict
teenage driving may
not go smoothly for
Governor Barnes.
By Maynard Eaton
AUGUSTA FOCU..S' Capitol Reporter
' ATLANTA
Gov. Roy Barnes’ quest to prohibit
Radio One adds 15 stations
' CINCINNATI
(AP) Washington-based Radio One,
the nation’s largest black-owned ra
dio group, has acquired Blue Chip
Broadcasting and 15 of its 19 radio
stations for $l9O million in cash and
stock.
Thedeal, announcedrecently, gives
Radio One 63 stations.
Blue Chip founder and president
Ross Love said the sale was a good fit
for the Cincinnati company.
“It was extremely good for our em
ployees. It will avoid the related job
lossesthat often occur with amerger,”
Love said. “The Blue Chip team in
each market will become the Radio
In Savannah, amonumental
fight to honor slaves
SAVANNAH, Ga.
(AP) Abigail Jordan insists she
wanted something simple, a modest
pedestal on the Savannah riverfront
honoring blacks who arrived by slave
ship and laid the cobblestones where
tourists now plod between oysterbars
and T-shirt shops.
“I'went toan antiquestorethat was
going out of business and bought a
littlething, acolumn,” Jordan says. “I
thought I would put some nameson it
andslipit outthereand nobody would
notice.”
Ten years later, Jordan’s idea has
‘Ob, Ob, Ob’ ... Tom Joyner’s ‘Sky Show’ to shine
national spotlight on Augusta and Paine College
By Timothy Cox
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
In the ‘Bos, Tom Joyner made his
mark as The Fly Jock. He flew from
Dallas to Chicago, establishing him
self as one of black America’s pre
mier radio voices. In the new millen
nium, thanks to Joyner’s nationally
syndicated radio show, “The Tom
Joyner Morning Show,” has become
an entertainment and political phe
nomena.
On Friday morning, Feb. 16,
Joyner brings his celebrated ‘Sky
Show’ to Augusta’s Bell Auditorium
and Paine College. With support from
his popular co-hosts including Sybil
Wilkes, Ms. Dupree, Myra dJ., J. An
thony Brown and Tavis Smiley, host
of BET Tonight, the Joyner crew
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unsupervised 16-year-olds from driv
ing in metro Atlanta is facing stiff
opposition in both the House and
Senate. In his annual State of the
State address last week Barnes said
giving the keys to the family car toa
16-year-old is a recipe for tragedy.
“Hardly a week goes by that we
don’t see a heartbreaking story in
the newspaper about some teenage
driver in a fatal accident on our
roads,” said the governor. “I think
the time has come to take some com
mon sense steps to protect our teens.
One team.”
Fifteen Blue Chip stations are
headed to Radio One, with two other
sales planned to an undisclosed, other
company later thisyear, Love said. He
plans to keep a Cincinnati station,
WDBZ-AM, which will be operated by
Radio One.
Love was vice president of advertis
ing at Procter & Gamble Co. when he
left the company to lead a group of
investors that bought WIZF-FM —
“The Wiz” — of Cincinnati in 1995.
Radio One ranked 29th in a recent
Black Enterprise magazine list of the
100 largest black-owned industrialand
service companies.
morphed into a proposed $350,000
African-American Monument of solid
granite and sculpted bronze showing
ablack family embracing with broken
chains at its feet.
City officials agree the monument
islong overdue in Savannah, which is
52 percent black. More than 40
plaques, pillars and statues adorn the
city’shistoricsquares and parks, hon
oring its colonial founders, religious
leaders and Civil War heroes — none
of them black.
See MONUMENT, page 3A
will shine its national spotlight on
Augusta and at Paine, the city’s his
torically-black campus.
Each month, the Sky Show visits
black colleges to raise funds for
Joyner’s foundation to assist black
student educational needs. With his
familiar, bouncy theme song, “Oh,
Oh, Oh ... It’s the Tom Joyner Morn
ing Show,” the popular radio per
sonality plans to perform his popu
lar comic bits, including the Friday
feature — “Melvin’s Love Lines”
and “Murdering The Hits.”lt’s also
appropriate that the down-home,
Georgia funk of Larry Blackmon and
Cameo were selected to perform in
Augusta, considering the group hails
from nearby Atlanta and initially
put the Dirty South on the map while
recording on the Atlanta Artists la
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FEBRUARY 15 - 21, 2001
Sixteen-year-olds are three times as
likely to crash than older teenagers
are. The main reason for this is
inexperience. The only excuse I've
heard to any of these teen driving
proposals is that it may cause some
inconvenience.”
Senate Majority Leader Charles
Walker, D-Augusta, strongly dis
agrees and says the votes might not
be there this time for Gov. Barnes.
“You have a lot of young people in
therural areas and in urban commi-
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Schedule of events for the Tom Joyner Weekend & “Sky Show’.
Friday,Feb. 16 —6a.m.to 10
a.m., Tom Joyner and crew broad
casts national show from Bell Au
ditorium in Augusta. Tickets are
free to public with doors opening
at4a.m. Atlanta-based recording
artists Cameo will perform.
Friday, Feb. 16 — 8 p.m., “A
Night of Comedy”/Skyshow 2001
features Jedda Jones aka:Ms.
Dupree, J. Anthony Brown. and
Myra d. All three comedians will
perform. Tickets are available at
the Augusta-Richmond County
The Tom Joyner weekend is con
junctively sponsored by 96.9 The
Touch, The Walker Group, Inc.,
nutes who need their driver’slicense
atan earlyagein order to go to work,
and to relieve their parents of the
burden of having to take them to
school everyday,” says Walker.
Barnes’ bill also calls for stricter
curfews for teens, a limit on the
number of teenage passengers, man
datory 40-hours of supervised driv
ing, and an open container provision
whereby every passenger would be
charged. Sen. Walker is concerned
See TEENAGE DRIVING, page 3A
Civic Center and usual ticket out
lets. Charon Enterprises and 96.9
The Touch radio are promoters.
Friday, Feb. 16 — After-concert
party at the Touch of Class nitespot
on Damascus Road in Augusta. J.
Anthony Brown will appear to sign
his new book titled, Church An
nouncements. Ms.Dupree and Myra
J. are also schedule&o party with
Augusta’s finest concertgoers.
Saturday, Feb. 17 — 11 am.
Book Signing with Sybil Wilkes, co-
Ronlyn Corp., McDonald’s, MCG,
Coca-Cola, Touch of Class, A&B Bev
erig?, Saturn of Augusta, Talk Time
90 CENTS
Fewer
blacks
applying
to U.G.A.
ATHENS, Ga.
(AP) Fewer than 900 black high
school seniors have applied for ad
mission to the University of Geor
gia this fall — a drop of almost 20
percent from last year.
Just 897 black seniors had ap
plied by Feb. 1, down from 1,100
who had applied by Feb. 1, 2000.
Administratorsat the state’s flag
ship university said they expected
the decline but are concerned. The
school has enlisted Gov. Roy Barnes
as part of an extensive campaign to
get more black students who are
accepted to enroll.
Theuniversity is battlingin court
to continue giving a small math
ematical boost to some nonwhite
applicants. Race has been sus
pended as a factor for fall 2001
admissions as a federal appeals
court considers the matter.
The drop in black applicants “is
something we expected, in light of
thelawsuit,” university spokesman
Tom Jackson said. “California and
_Texas, which also had legal chal
lenges, experienced a similar de
crease, and they recoveredin two to
three years. We hope that’s going
to happen here, too.” -
Black enrcliment at the school,
which has more than 30,000 stu
dents, is about six percent. The
state’s population ismore than one
quarter black.
~ Feb. 1 figures do not include ap
plications that have been received
but not processed and do not in
clude scholarship and walk-on ath
letes, who likely will number fewer
than 200.
In 2000, 597 of the 1,593 black
applicants were accepted. About 250
enrolled.
See APPLICANTS, page 2A
host of The Morning Show with
Tom Joyner, is sold-out. Sched
uled to attend are two co-au
thors of the provocative best
selling novel, Got To Be Real, E.
Lynn Harris and Marcus Major.
Eric Jerome Dickey and Colin
Channer are not scheduled for
the trip. The book is considered
part of a new genre of black
fiction successfully rocking the
nation by storm.
' New York-based New Ameri
can Library are publishers.
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Callaway Security Systems.
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