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Npws-Kmtm Vol. 2 Moslem Survivor To Recount Murder Details By National Black News Service Washington -- (NBNS) -- One of the two survivors of the mass murders at the Hanafi Moslem headquarters here recounted the gory details of the Jan. 18 incident in an interview with newsmen last week. Almina Khaalis said she was shot once in the head and left for dead. Upon returning to find her alive, the gunmen tried to shoot her again. But, the 23-year-old woman said, their weapons either misfired or their aim was off. Mrs. Khaalis’ physician, Dr. Jesse Barber, said she was struck by one bullet which lodged in the right side of her skull, causing her to suffer a superficial wound that resulted in a mild brain contusion but no major damage. “With my head covered,” Mrs. Khaalis recalled, “1 didn’t know he was shooting me. 1 had never been shot before and it felt like I was hit over the head with something. ” What commenced as “an average afternoon,” Mrs. Khaalis said, turned into a nightmare. According to Mrs. Khaalis, shortly after 2 p.m., her brother, Daud, answered a knock at the door to find two men inquiring about a $1 booklet prepared by her father, Hanafi leader Hamaas Abdul Khaalis. Having received a big bill, she said, Daud went upstairs to get change. When he returned he must have taken the safety lock off, and the men pulled a gun and forced their way in. “One of the men came to the kitchen door, pointed a snub-nosed .38 revolver at me and said, ‘This is a holdup,’ ” Mrs. Khaalis said. Then the residents of the James Brown Files Suit Against Knoxville For One Million Knoxville, Tenn - (NBNS) - Soul Brother No. 1 James Brown has filed a $1 million civil rights suit against the city of Knoxville in connection with his arrest last December 11 following a concert at the civic coliseum. Brown and two of his aides were arrested after the concert - Brown on charges of disorderly conduct and the aides with assaulting the police officers and disorderly conduct. Brown claims that the defendants deprived him of his constitutional rights. It was learned recently in Augusta, Ga. that Brown’s Aides, Bobby Dyers and Freddy Holmes have filed also. Augusta Attorney Albert G. Ingram filed for $500,000 for compenatory and punitive damages on behalf of the aides. Named in the suit were the City of Knoxville, Tenn., Phillip Bowling, Kyle Testerman, Duane Ausetts, Joe C. Fowler, and Preston V. Phillips. NATIONAL BLACK NEWS SERVICE MEMBER home were bound and forced to lie on the floor and six more men entered. While some of the men searched the house, others took three of the residents into the basement. “Within seconds,” Mrs. Khaalis recalled, “they brought down my baby, and Bibi (her father’s second wife) and one of her babies. They had a stretch sock tied around Bibi’s eyes so she couldn’t see.” Mrs. Khaalis said the gunmen asked for her father by name and inquired as to why he had written letters criticizing the Black Muslims. She said they asked, “ ‘Why didn’t you try to stop him? Didn’t you know this was going to happen?’ ” She said she replied that “my father knows what is best,” and was told, “ ‘Oh yeah? Well, here’s what’s best for you.’ ” “The next thing 1 knew,” Mrs. Khaalis said, “my head felt very numb and my ears were ringing. 1 didn’t realize until later that I’d been shot.” Then, Mrs. Khaalis said she heard her 10-year-old brother, Rahman, say that he would cooperate with the gunmen. “After all,” she said, “they had guns.” After killing Rahman, the gunmen returned to where Mrs. Khaalis was and said, Local Teacher Authors Book i ■ ■■Sr 1L Rev. George Brightharp The reverend George Brightharp, a North Augusta native, is the author of a new book entitled THE DAMNED ONES - AND THE UNDAMNED. The book was published February 15, 1973. The 28-year-old minister has taught history at Butler High School, in Augusta, for the past 3 years. He also taught political science at T. W. Josey High. Brightharp said he wrote the book because he became “overly concerned” about poor people and Black people, and, he added, “I tried to react in a meaningful way.” He sees a need for Blacks and non-Blacks to know the cultural contributions of their counterparts. One chapter in the book proposes solutions to the financial plight of Black colleges. He says that $lO per year, per man, will “keep our schools top flight.” Brightharp is the pastor of the Monmerenci Baptist Church in Monmorenci, S.C. He also pastors St. Paul in Louisville, Ga. In his book he deals with the relationship between social justice and Christian love. Although Americans profess a love everybody attitude we practice, "Love your neighbor as long as he looks like you.” According to Brightharp, the book tries to place fight on hypocrisy and suggests P.O. Box 953 “Damn, she’s still breathing.” Mrs, Khaslis, who said she was shot twice more in the head, did not lose consciousness so she held her breath. “1 felt 1 was trembling so that they’d have to see 1 was still alive. I held my breath. I prayed to Allah. 1 didn’t think it would work. But it did,” she said. Finally, after 15 more minutes of waiting, Mrs. Khaalis said she couldn’t stand it any longer and I got up. I wiped the blood off my face and began looking for the others.” In the afternoon of the shootings, Mrs. Khaalis found that in addition to her three brothers being slain, four babies including her own ranging in age from 9 days to 3 years had been drowned in the bath tub. After getting up from the closet floor, she said she heard her father calling from downstairs and shouted, “Father, Father, they shot us. It was Elijah’s people. It was over the letters.” (Hamaas Khaalis has contended that he sent letters criticizing the Black Muslim religion and denouncing the honorable Elijah Muhammad, the Muslim leader, as a fraud to meaningful avenues of escape. The book sells for $5.00 and can be purchased from The Book Corner on Broad Street. Other book stores are also expected to carry the book. Still a bachelor, Rev. Brightharp lives in Trenton, S.C. He is a graduate of A&T University where he received the Bachelor and the Master’s degrees. He has done further study at Benedict College and the University of Georgia. He is the son of the late Rev. and Mrs. G.W. Brightharp. Farah Slacks Picketted At J.B. Whites By R.L. Oliver A lone pickett wearing signs that state, “BE ON YOUR GUARD - PLEASE DON’T BUY FARAH SLACKS SOLD AT J.B. WHITE’S” stands a lone vigil in protest on Broad Street in front of White’s store. When asked his name he requested anonymity, but he gave one of several hundred handbills being passed out. The handbills read: Attention Shoppers - Armed Guards and Police Dogs used against peaceful Farah strikers. Farther down the bill, details the plight of three thousand workers in gaining a union of their own choice, and a strike is in effect against the world’s largest manufacturer of men’s slacks, the Farah Company, to gain that right. The strike is being conducted by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, AFL-CIO. The leaflet states in small print at the botton that it is directed soley to the consumer public. THE PEOPLE’S PAPER ministers around the country and has accused the Muslims of committing the crime. The Muslims have denied the allegations.) Within 13 days, Almina Khaalis had returned home, but the other survivor, Bibi EDITORIAL The Segregated Mind The CSRA Law Enforcement Officers met last Thursday and the main topic of discussion was the recent rapes and assaults upon “white females in our area.” The chairman of the organization called on Black leaders and “law abiding citizens” of the Black community to step forward and assist in the apprehension of those responsible for the recent rapes and assaults. We feel that the Law Enforcement Officers’ chairman, Walter Newman, Police Chief in North Augusta, is one of the few local law enforcement officials who is honest and broad minded enough to enter into serious, meaningful discussion on racially sensitive subjects. Nevertheless, we feel that this appeal to the Black Community to stop the rape of white women is insulting. Even at this day in history, it is very clear that the concern of local law enforcement is to protect WHITE women. Well, what about OUR women? Rape in the Black community is just as common as murder. Black and white men have been raping Black women for centuries, and there has been no appeal from any law enforcement agency to stop the rape ot Black women, and in some cases, they have participated in the rapes themselves. The law enforcement officers and the world must understand that Black men love and respect Black women just as much as white men love and respect white women. And before we go trying to protect anybody else’s women, we are going to see that our own women are protected. Interestingly, the law enforcement officials called for a revamping of the entire arrest and justicial system, and asked why people who have been sentenced to at least 50 years in jail arc back walking the streets. I his is a very valid point. We think that the answer lies in the racially segregated minds of those in positions ot responsibility. History has shown that Blacks and whites get little or no time in jail for killing, raping or otherwise assaulting Black people. However,’Blacks have been historically executed for raping or killing a white person. The law has protected whites and punished Blacks. But there have been a tew changes recently. Blacks have begun to rape white women and there is no legal death penalty. Nineteen year old Lendell Hunter has frightened white people in this area like no one Black individual perhaps ever has. Hunter has been convicted of three rapes, kidnap, assault and burglary. He was serving three life sentences plus 99 years before his recent escape from Alto Prison. Since his escape in December, he has been charged with the murder of a white woman and the brutal beating of her grandson. Now, for whites, Hunter is really dangerous. There is no death penalty; he is already serving three consecutive life sentences; and now he has allegedlj killed and possibly molested a white woman. He has nothing to lose. The Black community also views Hunter as dangerous, but for a different reason. Most Blacks fear Hunter because we believe that he is mentally deranged and should have been sent to a hospital instead of a jail in the first place. It is ironically contrasting that when the mayor’s nephew shot both of his parents last week, he was sent to the Veterans Administration Hospital for psychiatric treatment. There isn’t anything necessarily wrong with that. But why don’t Blacks get the same consideration? We agree with the law eniorcement officials that the entire system needs to be studied and revamped, but we suggest that they begin by dealing with the injustices produced by the segregated thinking of segregated 1 minds. We stand firmly in favor ot justice, law and order. But before there can be order, before there must be justice, the law just PROTECT us as well as punish us. Khaalis, remains hospitalized in serious condition. In the interview last week, Hamaas Khaalis said, “It’s the strength Allah gives her. She wasn’t meant to die. She is the most beautiful. Allah meant her to live. Augusta, Georgia '■ran _ rr “Miss Bronze Augusta” contestants - (L-R) Chris McQueen, Margaret Dorsey, Danice Byrd, Alfredia Rodd, Alesia Greenaugh, Celestine Williams. Pageant Announced As part of a concerned effort to meet past due overage-payments incidental to building their church, the Pastor, Rev. E. McKay Miller and congregation of Belle-Terrace United Presbyterian Church on Golden Camp Road, Augusta, is sponsoring a gigantic fund-raising project. The project consists of six young ladies, who will be crowned “Miss Bronze Augusta,” by the various church organizations and a gala “Fashion Show” to be presented on March 18, 1973. at the Terrace-Manor School, Tate Road, Augusta, at 5:00 P.M. The six “Miss Bronze Augusta” contestants are Miss Danice Byrd, sponsored by the Mayor Newman Discusses Augusta Transportation By R.L. Oliver Augusta Mayor, Lewis A. Newman, stated emphatically during an interview, “No doubt about it, the city of Augusta will own Augusta Coach Company. Mayor Newman stated, “The Federal Government is not freezing monies in regards of Mass Transit Grants. The Government wants to get people riding public transportation. We plan to run a good transit system. We also plan to extend service out to industrial areas. People have got to have a way to get to work. This will be for the people who live within the city.” Newman thinks the city will profit financially from the take-over. “I spoke with Mayor Allen of Columbus, Georgia regarding some of the transit problems and he told me of making an SIB,OOO profit on one hand and a SIOO,OOO loss in equipment damage. However, if we can operate them we will benefit. ” Question: How will the city takeover affect the present bus drivers? I understand some have been working nine and ten years at $2.00 per hour. Answer: Our minimum wage for city employees is $2.12 hourly, obviously we would have to keep present employees and they will be upgraded. We want our drivers to have pride in the new buses, which by the way will be here in six to nine months-we expect to have some of the new buses by the end of the year.” The Mayor also plans an "Miss PX vii S Ik ( wl 111***# ** Miss Patricia Green was crowned USO 1973 Sweetheart at the Sweetheart’s Ball Saturday night at the Augusta USO. She was crowned by Miss Barbara Wehn, the 1972 Queen. Miss Green is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Green and a graduate of Paine College. Bronze Augusta” choir, Miss Margaret Dorsey, sponsored by the Board of Trustees, Miss Alesia Greenaugh, sponsored by the Special Projects Committee, Miss Chris McQueen, sponsored by the United Presbyterian Women, Miss Alfredia Rodd, sponsored by the Board of Deacons, and Miss Celestine Williams, sponsored by the Session. The contest winner, and Miss Bronze Augusta,” will be judged by the sponsoring organizations fund-raising abilities. Special guest models who will particiate in the “Fashion Show” include, Mrs. Tanya Anderson, Miss Francine Appling, Miss Jennifer Bennett, Mr. Bill Dotson & Company, Mrs. Ileen Buchanan, Miss improved schedule. “We have got to have reasonable scheduling and we have got to have a seven day schedule. I think you ought to have a March 1, 1973 No. 50 Eloise Curtis, Miss Linda Dacus, Miss Tomorrow Giles, Mr. Allen Green, Miss Janice Riley, and Miss Valorie Tillman, with music by the Jazz Explorers, featuring Mr. Jerry Harris, Mr. Joe Green, and the children of the Belle-Terrace Day Care Center. Special raffle tickets for beautiful prizes are being sold by the congregation. Also the raffle tickets will serve as admittance tickets to the fashion show. Anyone wishing to participate in, or'contnbute to, this worthwhile project is asked to contact the Rev. E. McKay Miller at the church office or Mrs. Emma J. Bass, the general program chairman at 798-8167. minimum run of twenty four hours. And I would like to add further that every run would not be profitable, just a service to the citizens of Augusta.”