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Vol. 2
$5,000 REWARD
Intensified Search Underway
For Lind ell Hunter
By R.L. Oliver
Reports, tips and sometimes
wildspeculatingarekeeping the
jg Augusta Police Department
and the Richmond County
Sheriffs Department ever alert
for the man suspected of one -
murder and the recent rash of
Rapes and Assaults. On
Wednesday, February 14,
Valentine’s— IreriS
/Ffiiott De Quosi? —of "308
fliilwood —Circle was found
beaten to death at that address,
along with her grandson who is
still undergoing treatment at
University hospital. The
grandson is the son of an
Augusta -College Faculty
mernbgL/ Dr. Robert E.'
ThefbUowing day (Feb. 15)
upon answering a call of an
attempted burglary at the
home of Mrs. Nelson Burton of
3071 Wheeler Road, an all out
intensified manhunt was
underway in the Boyscout,
Wheeler Road Area of Augusta
- Richmond County by City
and /' County Police
Departments. The object of
Augusta Mayor’s Nephew
Shoots Parents
Augusta Police returned
26-year-old Donald Newman,
Jr. to a local veterans hospital
Sunday (February 18).
Newman, a Vietnam Veteran
was being held for questioning
in a shooting incident that
occured at his parents home
last Saturday night. According
to police reports, Donald
Newman, Sr. and his wife, Mrs.
Hilda Newman, were shot
while they were home. Other
information regarding the
incident cannot be obtained at
this time, other than police
witnesses reporting the
younger Newman was
responsible for the shootings.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Newman
are receiving treatment at
University Hospital. There
League Gets Accountant-
Business Manager
Business League
happ3y~welcomes Mr. Kry son
Wells to its staff as Accountant
and Business Counselor. He
holds a B.S. Degree in Business
Administration from the
University of Georgia. As
Accountant and Business
Counselor for the Business
League, Mr. Wells will assist in
counseling and handle all the
major financial duties in the
preparation of loan packages.
this manhunt is believed to be
19-year-old Lendell Hunter.
escaped Rapist, and armed
robber from the Alto
Reformatory for Youth .
Richmond County Chief
Deputy - W.E. Anderson, said
the hunt was initiated when
the department received
information that Hunter was in
the Wheeler Road Area. The
search lasted for two and one
half hours approximately
before it was called off.
Anderson said additional
patrols would be posted in the
Berkman - Wheeler Road Area.
Hunter-is wanted for escape, as
well as, in connection with the
charges listed here. Hunter is 5’
9” tall, weighs 160 lbs. has
black hair, brown eyes, wearing
his hair in a semi-afro.
Officials report finding
Hunter’s finger prints at the
scene of the De Quasie slaying,
and have offered a $5,000
reward for information leading
to Hunter’s arrest.
Hunter was serving 2 life
sentences plus 99 years.
were no charges brought
against the son by the parents,
according to Detectives R.A.
Williams of the Augusta Police
Department. Williams said,
“We realized he was mentally
ill,” stating further that the
man’s illness was the result of a
nervous breakdown while
serving in Vietnam. The father,
Donald Newman, Sr. is the
brother of Augusta Mayor
Lewis A. (Pop) Newman.
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Coming from Athens Model
Cities where he was Assistant
Fiscal Coordinator and Fiscal
Coordinator for Athens Child
Development, Inc., Mr. Wells
has an impressive work
experience. Mr. Well’s
educational background as well
as his prior work experience
will provide a solid base for
assuming the Business League’s
Accountant and Business
Counselor position.
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Census Shows
More Interracial Marriages
National Black News Service
Washington - (NBNS) -
The number of interracial
marriages - especially those
between black men and white
women -- has increased
significantly since the 19605,
according to a Census Bureau
report released last week.
Os the 44,597,574 married
couples recorded in the 1970
census, interracial marriages
accounted for 66,789 of that
total, an increase from 0.44 per
cent of the total in 1960 to
0.70 per cent in 1970.
The report also revealed that
while black men marrying
women of another race tend to
marry white women, white
men are more likely to marry
American Indian or Japanese
women when marrying
interracially.
And, those black men who
do intermarry, are usually ones
with a high degree of education
and earnings. White men who
marry black tend to marry at a
percentage that is roughly
consistend throughout the
educational and earnings levels.
Os the white male-black
female marriages, the report
shows, there were about 2,350
fewer such couples -about
7,352 - in the 1970 census
than there were in 1960.
However, the rate of
interracial marriages between
black males and white females
more than doubled from 7,534
in 1960 to 16,419 a decade
later - an average of one in 80
marriages. White men with
more than 12 years of
education marrying women of
equal learning chose a black
wife on the average of one time
in 1,000 during both decades.
These figures, which were
based on a 5 per cen sample
from the overall matital
statistics and projected to
represent the total U.S.
population, also show that
interracial marriages are usually
between men and women of
roughly equal economic status.
However, the data also notes
that white women sometimes
marry black men with lower
incomes of their own, whereas
black women almost never do.
The largest percentage
concentration of black-white
marriages is in the West, where
Professor Leaving
White College For Fisk
National Black News Service
Washington -- (NBNS) --
Saying that he hoped his action
would start- a trend. _noted
sociologistic. Eric Lincqh) has
Communications
Problems Os
Disadvantaged
To Be Aired
An Augusta businessman
and three local educators will
delve into the problems of
communicating with
economically and culturally
disadvantaged youth during
this Thursday’s Career
Guidance Institute (CGI) at
Augusta College.
The Institute, held every
other Thursday at AC, is
designed to help educators and
business personnel learn from
each other about the career
needs and opportunities of
disadvantaged youth.
The 9 to noon session
scheduled for the College
Activities Center will feature
talks by Mrs. Le Jeune Ellison,
assistant professor, Speech and
English, Paine College, Michael
I. Miller, instructor of English,
Augusta College; Bill Wolfe,
manager of a local chain store;
and Maurice Washingon, an
English teacher at Butler High
School.
Following the morning
classroom session, the group
will embark on a series of
sensitivity tours of selected
community agencies, according
to Dr. James M. Dye, AC
education department
Augusta, Georgia
some 15,600 of the 7.6 million
couples are mixed. In all areas
except the South, the
interracial couples are
concentrated in urban areas of
more than 50,000 persons.
announced that he will leave
Union Theological Seminary
next fall to join the faculty of
Fisk University in Nashville.
The 48-year-old Dr. Lincoln
said his move was the result of
a growing sense of obligation
but noted, however, that many
black professionals now
teaching in predominately
white institutions may be
deterred from making a similar
move because of low salaries,
heavy teaching loads and the
lack of clerical help at
predominately black
universities, most of which are
experiencing serious financial
difficulties.
A frequent lecturer on
religion and minority group
relations who is, perhaps, best
known for his study, “The
Black Muslims of America,”
Dr. Lincoln said he believed
that there is “an almost
desperate need of black
scholars with visibility at black
colleges” and that the presence
of these black scholars would
give students “a new kind of
hope and a new kind of pride.”
Saying that he was
responding to pressure from
responsible blacks in the
academic ranks rather than
militants, Dr. Lincoln said that
he also wants to rear his two
young children in a black
environment.
chairman and project director.
CGI participants are drawn
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DISADVANTAGED
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Debutantes of 1973 were
honored with an annual
Pre-Cotillion Tea, Sunday,
February 18, 1973 in the
Music Building of the Lucy C.
Laney High School. At this
gala affair, each young lady
was presented a gift from
various organizations of the
city.
Mrs. Agnes Weiss, the
speaker for the occasion,
brought a very challenging
message to the Debutantes
from their theme (Live Lovely
for Excellency). Music medleys
were rendered by two of the
Debutantes, Miss Chery) Anita
Evans and Miss Bonnie Childs.
Parents of the Debutantes
completed the setting for the
evening with beautifully
decorated white lace tables
with red cupids and valentine
decors as background. They
served the guests a delicious
repast. Mrs. Earl H. Thurmond
and Mrs. James Lawson were
the co-ordinators for the affair.
Role Os
Church In
Race Relations
The project in Humanities
and Contemporary Issues will
meet Monday night at Paine
College from 7:00 - 9:30 P.M.
The speaker will be Rev.
George B. Thomas. He will
discuss “The Role of Church in
Race Relations.” Rev. Thomas
is Associate Professor of
Church and Society,
Interdenominational
Theological Center in Atlanta.
He is also the Project Director
of Religious Heritage for the
Black World in Atlanta.
Heated Exchange Highlights
County Commission Meeting
The lengthy 42 item Agenda
Richmond County Commission
Meeting featured its own
sensationalism, with oratory,
protest delegationers, and a
semi-heate verbal swap.
All five commissioners
agreed to concur with a
Planning & Zoning Commission
request to deny a Zoning
Change from, Zone 1-A (Single
family residence) to, Zone B-l
(Commercial).
H. Quattlebaum drew the ire
of the Richmond Hill - Windsor
Spring Road residents with his
presentation of why the
Zoning change should be
approved, claiming his land is
worth $25,000 and he pays
taxes on it, but can’t make any
profit on the land. One
particular irate resident,
George Anderson said, “Mr.
Pre-cotillion Tea
Debutantes honored at this
affair and who will make their
debut April 29, 1973 are Miss
Joanne Allen, daughter of
SFC/RCT and Mrs. Leonard E.
Allen; Miss Maria Brown,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William A. Brown, 111; Miss
Bonnie Childs, daughter of
Mrs. Nancy C. Childs; Miss
Thelma Coleman, daughter of
Sfc. and Mrs. Perry Coleman;
Miss Cheryl Anita Evans,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert V. Evans, Miss
"GooUe Gets
The Goodies”
Joseph R. Goode, Jr., the
former manager of the now
closed ART THEATRE, who
was convicted on an Obscenity
Charge by the Richmond
County Superior Court, but
subsequently freed by Georgia
Court of Appeals, won another
court battle to regain film
seized from him during his
arrest in March, 1971.
Attorney’s for Good filed a
possessionary warrant against
Superior Court Recroder, Ben
Sloan, 111, to gain possession of
the film, “Her, She, and Him,”
and a preview of “Southern
Comfort,” the pictures had
been in the possession of
Sloan, who would not give
them up because of legalities
involved. However, Civil Court
Judge, Honorable L.W. Cooper
cited the Georgia Court of
Appeals Ruling to the effect,
the warrant was, illegal, the
arrest was illegal, and the
seizure was illegal.
Hence, Goode gets the
goodies
Strickland and no one else
makes up my mind for me, the
land value is not worth
$25,000 and he pays no
taxes.” This particular item
ended with chairman, Norman
Simowitz sounding the gavel to
restore order. Other items on
the agenda were approvals by
the commission of:
(A) 100 Gallon gasoline
request for Merit System,
Director Curtis Cisrow.
(B) 75 youths for a
summer Youth Program at a
cost of $42,000. The Youth
Program will provide workers
for the Recreation Department
and Augusta College students
in an intern program working
in the Merit System
Department.
(C) Alterations and
expansion of District Attorney
Richard Alien’s office.
February 22, 1973 No. 49
Alaughn Freeman, daughter of
Mrs. Thelma W. Freeman; Miss
Joanne Howell, daughter of
ESM and Mrs. Horace H.
Howell, Sr.; Miss Lugenia
Johnson, daughter of Mrs.
Annie Johnson; Miss Phyllis
Johnson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Preston P. Johnson; Miss
Elaine Lawson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Lawson; Miss
Edna Mae Moore, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Moore,
Sr.; Miss Ramona Moore,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Johnny Moore, Jr.; Miss
Jacquelyn Tubman, daughter
of Mr. and Mis. George L.
Wooden; Miss Maggie
Thurmond, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl H. Thurmond;
Miss Deborah Wiley and Miss
Phyllis Wiley, daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Nathaneil Wiley; Miss
Harriet Twiggs, daughter of
Mrs. Ruth Twiggs; Miss
Deborah Young, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Young;
Miss Vickie Wheeler, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James E.
Wheeler; Miss Cheryl Williams,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Milton Williams; Miss Murline
Williams, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Johnnie Kendrick; Miss
Sandra Wimberly, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Flim Wimberly;
Miss Janice Tanksley, daughter
of Mrs. Julia B. Tanksley, Miss
Merita Butler, daughter of Mrs.
Ida Robinson; Miss Shirley
Edwards, daughter of Mrs.
Annie M. Edwards; Miss Wanda
Johnson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James Johnson; Miss
Sheila Jones, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Willie Jones; Miss
Josephine Ruffin, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ruffin;
Miss Gloria Stewart, daughter
of Mrs. Arlena Stewart; Miss
Jackie Lipkins, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lipkins.
(D) Names Mrs. J.L.
(Caroline B.) Mitchell to fill
the vacated seat on the Merit
System Board due to the
resignation of Mrs. Janelie
Lindsay, who is moving from
the area.
(E) The hiring of Ralph
Mobley as County Computer
Programmer at $ 12,000 yearly.
The commission turned
down an appeal by a “one
chair Beauty Shop” in the
Eisenhower Drive Area to lift
the ban on parking in front of
her business.
Commissioners also
announced the Monday,
February 26, 1973 meeting at
4:00 P.M. This meeting will be
open to the public for the
purpose of setting up priorities
for Federal Funds received
from Revenue Sharing.