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Vit MS.JF.ANN\K L EDFORD GA NEWSPAR: PROS CPS my'r.m,\m,\um ma A‘\'\(\-ZNS.('-A ’;o6ol—\64\ January 26 - February 1, 2006 - | 7 — “ ‘Bush is a terrorist’ “I donit know if Presi dent Bush is the greatest Page 2A Us!!! Rod Lambert Page 9A is African Ameri \:nhynndh important? The black media is necessary to legitimize our ideas and our selves. Page 4A What is the Outsider? This column which started last week will be a weekly- one that will-speak to Augusta’s player haters who profit from stirring up trouble. Page 5A Rev Hatney better watch out Page 4A hnson departs BET tfl not from the game Page 1B Glorify God by Mak ing fyHulthy food choices Page 2B GOOD NEWS Dr. Paul Weston, the first African Ameri can Surgeon in GA First African Ameri can Surgon in Augusta, Georgia as a leader in buflding bridges and lig_hting the path for future leaders. Page 6A SRR T B S EEIASS m“ '..”.""'. 8u5ine55..........TA City/Regi0n......3A Classifieds ......08 Good News ......8A Happenings ....48 Nation/W0r1d....2A mmnuun“ mlummc.. Ve ol ) N o 122 C ) ‘Glory Road’ By AUGUSTA FOCUS STAFF There has been a considerable amount of dis cussion and printed text brought forth respoid ing 1o the film Glory Road. Ttis a movie ‘\llx ut a basketball gane that has been, and will contnue 0 be, one of the most discussed and analyzed games in sports history. The significance was big eer than :h outdoors.” In that game, the finals of the 1966 NCAA Basketball ¢ h.unpimdlip was played between the University of Kentucky and lexas Western University; and there was much drama. They were not just eams, as regarded by most of the sports world, but an all-white eam trom the Deep South playing in the premiere col lege game against a mid-western eam that was thoroughly ;nlq:r.m-d. but acuually played only black pll\i-l.\ tor the full 40 minutes. Texas West crnwon ilu‘ game 71-65 inacontest 111.1 l was not as dose as the score would indicate. This seven point victory resulted in more excitement than if the Miners, as they were called, had beaten Ken tcky by 70 poins, Many will tell you that the shock that the game brought had everything 1o do with race. People look back now, a'tull t orty years later, and place more emphasis on the fact that six black slayers, five starters and one subsutute, beat this .nh-whiu' team than they did when Bill Russel and K.C. Prosecutors start their case By ERRIN HAINES Associated Press Writer ATLANTA (A\l’) Former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell .\h(x)k (lm.\n \il_\' CONlratornrs to subsidize a gambling, jet srlling lih:\lfl(' he hid from the public, prosecutors told jurors Monday Jan. 23 in the opening of Campbell's feder al corrupnion tnal. Siuing under the arty seal of Atlanta, Campbell listenied attentively and conferred with his attorneys as presecu tors laid out their case e f rack cteering, bribery anvr fraud charges against the ex-mayor, who presided over the ay from 1994 o 2007 Campbell's la'-\'_\'('rs told jurors Ju-_\' plan prove Camp bell had no kivawledge of the acuvities of trigsted associates, some of whem have pleaded guilty and are expected 1o tes ufy against him in the cight week trial. The 52-ywear-old charismar ic ex-polincian — once consid ered a rising star in the national Democratic Party is accused of accepting $50,000 in cash from a strip club operztor who wanted Economic development focuses on drag strip and festival BY JESSICA BAPTISTE Augusta Focus ’l.h(‘ prnl)o*i('d drug strip and thk James Brown Music ‘Festival haV(‘ lwvn some ‘.nl !np— ics of discussiV\n in Augusta, among sports enthusiasts and fans of (h(' (x'()(“.;llh(‘r us- St‘!ll, even some protesters of noise and smog. An eca nomic development workshop was held to discuss the projects in depth on Jan. 19. Mayor Pro Tem, Marion Williams who is spear heading the drag strip and who is also in favor of the festival, thinks the workshop went well. Subscribe to the Augusta Focus, Call (706) 722-4222, extension 210 drticle of analysis and 11 ey {mcs. both black, led San Francisco 1 the same NCAA Basketball Championship 10 years carli er. At least a part of this can be attributed 1o the fact that whifc the University of San Francisco was not busting loose with black studens, it did have some. Another point is that San Francisco was not in the south, a region in which the Uni versity of Kentucky was located and a section of the country just oozing with a segregated way of life in every aspect. It was also a secdon of the country with a culwre that rejected not only black access 1o its institutions of higher education and other public faciliues, but blacks were thought © L' not generally non-compettve with whites. One Kentucky player was quoted in a prominent natonal magazine as saying thar a g(xxi \\’llil(‘ wam \\’()lll(l lx:ll .Ul}' g(ix] H.ltl( team every ume. [t was because of such prejudi cial remarks and other allegaic >usnf'r.ui.|! supert onty that this game captured the attenuon nll the Nl‘ )i‘lb \\()rl(t Present day medias analysis of the event, 40 years hence, is intnguing. — True w their colors, sports writers and other experts have been pre \li. tably protecive and defensive of Adolf Rupp, the cow ’I of the University of Kentucky at lL.u ume. They have summanly rejected the nodon that Rupp was racist. The appropriate and accu rate assesstnent is that he was raast, but he was See Glory, page 10A - » ’ o ; (3 >, ; ' g 5 A ’ ¥ L ; 1 , Iy Yt £ 7 s s B\ SN i ‘:\ N R - AR Former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbelil's help geting a hquor license for a second <lub and $55,000 from a computer company vying for a contract to prepare the city's comput ers for Y2K. He also Al“rg('t”'\' accepted an all-expenses-paid trip to Pans worth nearly $13,000 from a water com pany. “I think it went good. We had some people who didn’t understand.” Williams said. Williams also said that that the group proposed a study to be done. How ever, he feels that a potential study will stall a decision and that the economic development group is “dragging its feet.” “This aint no rocket science stuff.” he said. \ Met with opposition, s\pponcrs of the strip diszussed putting up sourd buffers and barri ers, d\uc to the fact that some ysidents of South Augustd feel that the rac- State unemployment rate dips; S.C. still among country’s highest By JIM DAVENPORT Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) South Carolina’s jobless rate cased slightdy to 7 per cent in December, but job gains in Louisiana left the state with the nation's sec ond highest unemploy ment rate and some saying “Thank God for Mississip pi. In November, the state’s unemployment rate was 7.1 percent. The good news in the numbers is the December decrease breaks a four-month trend of ris ing joblessness. But the bad news is that South Carolina now has the distinction of being second in unemploy ment only to hurricane ravaged Mississippi’s 9.9 percent, ‘.lunrdillg 1o III(' federal Burcau of Labor L S L ( 3 'AN. W 22 P o “% g { | Ll . 5 R ; y 4 a 3 W A b ;L | : James Brown statue ing will be disruptive to their daily lives. Some residents from Horseshoe Road showed their detest for the drag strip at com mission meetings, lead ing to tense discussions among those who are on the opposite side, sup porting the race track. www.augustafocus.com et % Ed S oAR LR Lrd LR = F fiwa s AerEn e 3 GR Y 5 P s ' B " A o iy % T 2 e , g o 7 « : g ol Hogrs T SR MG, . o .’ : oz Wy *w":“?‘“” L By A |» . % [ L T S LSS - ; " * 7, ‘ .‘ < K - "‘. > e QR N o L - o i g o WOO & ¥ I k i { 5 M. Stauistics released Tuesday, Jan. 24. “Thank God for Missis sippt,” College of Charleston cconomist Frank Hefner said. “Seven percent is not good — no matter what anybody says,” he said. The natonal unemploy ment rate declined w 0 4.9 percent last month from 5 percent the previous month. The rate in the South was 4.8 percent, the lowest in the nauon. The South Carolina Lmployment Security Commission attributed the decline 1o fewer layoffs in December and fewer job seckers entering the labor market. Total employment was 1.85 million jobs with a net increase of 1,800 over the previous month and 2'B. L F ' '\ R F 1 oRw 0 ) » U ‘,. = B : i A 3 W ki B, A A bt YR g Eapy tae T RR A T Photo courtesy of absolute-drag-racing.com/ihra/ihra.htmi Williams contends that the strip will bring much needed tourism revenue to the Garden City and will attract people. “People don’t under stand change,” he said, ‘I don’t think the city’s ever backed off from that type of economic devel- PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID AUGUSTA GA PERMIT NO 302 Serving Metro Augusta, South Carolina and The CSRA FIFTY CENTS 18,100 over the same tme last year. The trade, transportation and uulites sector reported the highest jobs gain with scasonal retail hiring accounung for the increase. However, holiday hiring was down slightly from previous years. The state’s high unem plovment rate has become a persistent issue for Gov. Mark Sanford as he runs for re-clection this year. In his State of the State address last week, Sanford said South Carolina jobless rates are rising as more peo pl(‘ come to the state scvk— ng ()pp()r(ulllt}'. On Tuesday, Jan. 24 Sanford said the numbers mean “indeed our state is a state 1n transition; that we See 8.C., page 9A opment.. As for the James Brown Festival that is scheduled for this spring, Williams is in the process of preparing for it. We have something on the agenda to raise the statue up. You can’t hard ly find it.”