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BChanging its name from
Bethlehem to New Hope
could not shield this inner
city institution from being
once again victimized by
lack of funds, charges of
mismanagement and racism.
By Rhonda Jones
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
There is an obscuring mist hanging
over the New Hope Community Center
on Conklin Avenue. No one knows quite
what’s going on over there, except the
board of directors, and they’re divided.
A handful of things are certain. The
board has just obliterated the salary of
the center’s executive director, the Rev
erend Larry Fryer. And they’ve lost
significant funding, both from the Glo
bal Ministries officein New York and the
county itself.
After that, not much is black-and
white.
Except, accordingtosomeboard mem
bers, the implications behind Fryer’s
loss of salary.
Board members Ken Echols, who is
white, and Arthur Smith, who is black,
have made allegations that white mem
bers ofthe board have maderacial state
ments when discussing Fryer’s handling
of the finances
HONORING A HERO
MLK heirs want cut
of D.C. memorial
By Emnic Suggs
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ATLANTA
Fund-raising for the Martin
Luther King Jr. National Memo
rial has hit a snag —the King
family.
The familyisdemandingalicens
ing fee to use King’s name and
likeness in a marketing campaign
designed to get sponsorsto contrib
ute money toward construction of
the monument, which would be
alongside memorials to Franklin
D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln
on the National Mall.
The organization formed toraise
the SIOO million needed for the King
memorial say this makes their job
moredifficult.
“The holdup seems to be they
want ustodoalicensingagreement
with them,” said Harry Johnson
president of the Washington-based
Martin Luther King Memorial Pro
ject. “We are trying to come to
terms with what that agreement
would be. I am not saying that is
wrong, we just have to figure out
what it is.” .
While the King family has re
cently been criticized for profiting
from King’s name and image, po
tential sponsors for the project could
be doing just that themselves. Ac
cording to Johnson, the marketing
plan for the memorial couldinvolve
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“I think Ms. (Lavonne) Marsh made
somecomment to Reverend Fryer that ‘you
people can’t handle this,” and it’s obvious
what she was referring to. And I don’t
appreciate that, being a white person.”
Even before the board’s decision to do
away with Fryer’s salary, Echols felt that
they were not treating him fairly. “I think
it’s a sham,” he said. “We can’t let this
happen to a man who’s worked so hard for
this area.”
Olympic rings. Johnson said sev
eral corporations, suchas Tommy
Hilfiger and General Motors, have
been identified as potential and
eager Sponsors.
Efforts Tuesday to reach mem
bers of the King family and the
executivedirector of The King Ce
nter, Tricia Harris, for comment
were unsuccessful.
“Within the next year and a
half, we wanted to have all the
money in hand,” said Johnson.
“Thisisgoingtoslow thingsdown,
in terms of large money dona
tions. But we are going to con
tinue with our plans. We can't sit
and wait.”
Corporations are going to be
hesitant to sign on to the project if
they are not sure how the money
would bedisbursed, Johnson said.
Hesaid the family hasn’tgiventhe
foundation a fee to work with, so
he is unsure if they want a per
centage of all sponsorships, or a
set amount.
“How much is a question best
answered by the King family,”
said Johnson. “I am willing to do
what I need to do ... because it is
too important to the American
people.”
Money issues and how King’s
survivorsare compensated for the
use of his likeness and writings
have dogged the family for years.
Recently, King’s image was used
See MLK Memorial, Page 2A
OCTOBER 25 - 31, 2001
Board member Tim Moses denies any
racial difficulty and defends the board’s
decision regarding Fryer.
“I can’t say this strong enough: There
have never been any racial tones or
undercurrents at all, at least in my pres
ence. I find it very interesting that these
amorphous, blanket allegationsare made.
I mean, it’s just ludicrous.”
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Seaman Estrada, of Augusta, Ga., stands watch
aboard the American aircraft Carrier USS Theodore
Roosevelt, Sunday, Oct. 21,2001, inthe Arabian Sea.
Estrada, a single mother, said she misses her 2-
year-old daughterbutis proudtoworkasa deckhand,
responsible for some ofthe Navy’s most menial jobs,
including painting, cleaning and maintaining the
ship. The military prohibits crew members on the
ships involved in the attacks on Afghanistan from
using their full names, a measure it says is meant to
protect their families from possible retaliation back
home. AP Photo/David Longstreath
Anti-Terror hill
heads toward
final approval
BY Thomas Ferraro
REUTERS
WASHINGTON
President Bush maysoon
be able to sign into law a
bill that would expand the
powers of law enforcement
officers engaged in hiswar
against terrorism.
The U.S. Senate was ex
pected to give final con
gressional blessing to the
measure on Thursday, a
day after it was approved
357-66 by the House of Rep
resentatives.
Bush has pushed forsuch
legisiation since shortly as
ter the Sept. 11 attacks on
the United States that left
more than 5,000 people
dead.
“I look forward to sign
ing this strong bipartisan
plan into law so that we
can combat terrorism and
prevent future attacks,”
Bush said in a statement.
The bill would increase
the authority of law en
forcement to wiretap sus
pected terrorists, share
intelligence information
about them, track their
ELECTION 2001: Moses McCauley
Educating public is key
for marshal hopeful
By Kimberly Bush
Special to AUGUSTA FOCUS
AUGUSTA
Thecivil court marshal’s
position is going to a tough
pair of shoes to fill once
elected and one candidate,
Moses McCauley says he’s
ready to take on the job.
Hesaysifhe’selected, his
first order of business will
be to educate the public.
“We're finding a lot of
people who say they don’t
know anything about the
office and there’s a lot of
confusion about exactly
what marshalsdo,” hesaid.
Mr. McCauley believes
that the office of marshal
has as much to do with
public relations, including
education, as it does with
handling the particulars of
law enforcement.
“It’simportantinanylaw
enforcement because, de
spite what people say, law
enforcement is community
based. It’s a social situa
tion. If we don’t inform the
public, they tend to get up
set. When things go wrong,
theytend tomistrust police
officers, and it feeds from
that. The law enforcement
community get its support
from the community.”
On the back of
McCauley’s flyer, he goes
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Internet movements, pros
ecute those who knowingly
harbor terrorists and
crack down on their money
laundering.
“I am most pleased that
thisbipartisan compromise
knocks down current legal
barriers that prevent the
FBI, CIA and other law
enforcement officials from
sharing information with
one another,” said House
Speaker Dennis Hastert,
an Illinois Republican.
“Our overall goal must
be stopping terrorists in
their tracks rather than
wasting precious iivae, €n
ergy and resources fight
ing bureaucratic legal
hurdles,” Hastert said.
From the other side of
Capitol Hill, Senate Ma-
Jjority Leader Tom Daschle;
aSouth Dakota Democrat,
said: “It’s a good bill (and)
I expect a pretty over
whelming” Senate vote for
i
Sens. Ron Wyden, an
Oregon Democrat, and
Gordon Smith, an Oregon
See TERROR bill, 2A
as far as outlining the
marshal’s office responsi
bilities and feels that the
public has not received in
formation from the office.
“Education is the key,” he
notes.
Education is a platform
that McCauley is sticking
with.
He’salsonot planningon
backing down on his mis
sion to keep Augusta clean,
a plan he believes means
implementingstricterlitter
patrols.
“When citizens call in to
report areas of dumping,
target those areas. The
dumpers are not going to
come out at 10 o’clock in
themorningwith abigsign.
If you know where the ar
eas are, stake them out. If
you catch one person it
would be worth it because
the illegal dumpers don’t
know where the police are
at any given time.” :
The race for civil court’
marshal hasbecomea pretty:
heated battle these days af
ter McCauleyrecently filed
a complaint with local and
stateofficials. He’s protest
ing that incumbent Mar
shal Steve Smith is allowed
to run for office while re
maining on the city’s pay~
See CANDIDATE,2A