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Nnita-Kmrui
Vol. 3
Block North Augustan Broke Watergate
Frank Wills, a 25 year old
native of North Augusta, S.C.
is the security guard who
discovered the Watergate
break-in on June 17, 1972.
Wills discovered that a door
Brooke Critizes President On
Watergate; Weary Os Bombings
By National Black News Service headquarters
WASHINGTON—Saying the
office of the Presidency had
been “harmed” by the
Watergate affair, Senator
Edward Brooke says President
Nexon must accept some
responsibility for the bugging
of the Democratic Party
Mama Bird Indicted/ Squawks
Robert W. Best, also known
as Mama Bird, and Bob Best,
along with several other
nicknames, was indicted with
sixty six other Augusta area
persons, named defendants in a
federal criminal indictment
Monday, charging they
James M. Hinton, Jr. Sworn
In On Richmond County
Board Os Elections
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JAMES M. HINTON, JR
James M. Hinton, Jr.,
was sworn in as a member of
Blacks Play Important Role In Navy
Clayton Bizzell of the Navy
Recruiting Office Augusta said
today that he would again like
to stress the importance of the
Black man in todays “New
Navy”. The Chief stated that
there are occupational fields in
the Navy that need to be filled
by Blacks, and there are no
restrictions on the position a
Black man can hold in the
Navy. The Navy is an “Equal
Opportunity Employer”, and
all job specialties are open to
any applicant regardless of
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near the Democratic National
Committee headquarters in the
Watergate Complex. He
informed the local police, who
arrested the Republican
operatives who had broken in.
In what observers said was
the most critical remark of the
President by a member of his
own political party on the
Watergate affair, Brooke said
he could not understand how
the President’s aides could have
kept the information from
operate a $2,000-a-day
gambling business.
An attempt to interview
Best by local radio and
newspaper reporters, and
television station WSB-Channel
2 Atlanta, resulted in blanket
threats to those news people
the Richmond County Board
of Eleciton last Wednesday
morning.
Hinton, third vice-president
of administration and general
counsel, with the Pilgrim
Health and Life Insurance
Company, attended Benedict
College, Columbia, South
Carolina, Howard University,
Washington, D.C., Law School,
Howard Univiersity and
American University,
Washington, D.C.
Among his many civic
activities, Hinton is a member
of the Richmond County
Democratic Executive
Committee, CSRA Planning
race, creed, or national origin.
Bizzellsaid that there are
occupational specialties in the
Navy ranging from Clerical
Specialties up through
Advanced Electronics, and
Nucleonics, and each is
comparable to a civilian
counterpart. “The opportunity
to succeed is here and now in
the New Navy”, said Bizzell,
“and I would like to see more
Blacks filling these positions of
importance. All I ask is that
more Black men and women
P.O. Box 953
Since then he has changed
security jobs in order to get a
$5 raise, bringing his weekly
earnings to SBS a week.
An unidentified spokesman
told the New York Times, “We
Nixon.
The Massachusetts
Republican, claiming there was
a need for a “restoration of
confidence in the integrity of
government” said the entire
affair was “an act of
stupidity.”
“The President is at least
present.
“Don t take my picture. I
don’t want my picture taken,
I’m liable to kill you, you
5.0.8.”
When asked whether he was
the numbers king-pin and did
he sign bonds for some of the
and Development Commission,
Board of Trustees-Paine
College, Augusta
Chapter-NAACP, Board of
Trustees-Boggs Acmdemy,
Boards of Shiloh Orphange and
the Ninth Street YMCA, as
well as several other civic and
social organizations.
Hinton is married to hte
former Rosa M. Everett of
Columbia, South Carolina and
they are the parents of three
children. Mrs. Hinton is a
graduate of Bennett College,
Greensboro, North Carolina,
and did additional study at,
Michigan State College in
Foods and Nutrition.
stop in and just rap with me
about what the Navy has to
offer, and then decide what lies
ahead for them in years to
come. I’m no hard pressure
salesman, and I don’t want to
be, but there is a great future
in the Navy today for a Black,
and I would like to see more
men and women take
advantage of the technical
-training available.”
Further information on
qualifications for the Navy can
be obtained by visiting the
Recruiting Office, 700 Telfair
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have takled about doing
something for him but we
haven’t been able to find him. 1
mean, we would like to at least
say thank you.
responsible for the persons that
he hires that work with him.
He certainly is responsible for
his campaign manager, for his
high-level assistants, and even
some of his lower level
assistants, so he can’t escape it
under any circumstances, and
if he has any information
defendants, Best retorted, “No,
I ain’t no Kingpin. I’ll sign
bonds if I want to, it’s none of
your business.” The
newsmen there were
threathened with words of “get
away from me you—l’ll kill
you, I mean it boy, get away
Pilgrim Anniversary
vans
L H. BURNEY, II
The Pilgrim Health and Life
Insurance Company
commemorated its
7 sth-Diamond Jubilee-
Anniversary on May 2.
One of the highlights of the
. day was a luncheon at the
' Richmond Motor Inn. The
speaker for the luncheon was
the President ofThe National
Insurance Association, I.H.
Burney, 11.
Mr. Burney, a native
Georgian, started to work for
the Afro-American Life
Insurance as an agent in
Athens, Georgia, and worked
himself up through the ranks
to the position of President of
this Jacksonville, Florida based
insurance company.
Mr. Burney is very active
locally and nationally on many
boards and committees.
He is married to the former
Miss Miriam Cunningham of
Atlanta , Georgia and they
have two daughters.
Speaking before some 300
dignitaries and guests Mr.
Burney as ed, “how could a
young black deliveryman
overcome such difficult
Relatives living in Augusta
and North Augusta told the
News-Review Wills has asked
them not to give information
to the press. They also asked
that their names not be
which should be made known
to the American people, I
think he should do it
forthwith,” he told the
questioners on “Meet the
Press” on NBC-TV.
He siad, however, that he
was “very pleased” that the
President had decided to take
from me.”
Best also said, “I haven’t got
anything to say to the paper,
I’m not mad at them or
anything. I’m sixty seven years
old; I’m old and feeble, been
under a doctor’s care for five
years. I’ve got nothing to
worry about, the only thing I
have to say is, I’m not guilty.”
obstacles to put together a
multi-million dollar
insurance business without
realizing a dream? He wanted to
accomplish something thatt’s
how.”
Burney went on to day,
‘ don’t tell me that there is
not anything in this world you
cannot accomplish, if you want
to. If you have something to
accomplish, and do not, you
don't have the Pilgrim Spirit.
Dr s. S.W. Walker, W.S.
Hornsby, Sr., Rev. J.J.
Hornsby did not content
themselves with the obstacles
of being second class citizens,
with no money, no business or
insurance expertise, back n
1898. These founders
contented themselves with the
total victory that is manifested
here.”
“More has been
accomplished in t this country
in seventy five years, than any
five hundred year period in
history. There were no
televisions or airplanes when
these black men started out. So
a blackman who does not take
the full measure from life
today has no one to blame but
himself,” Burney daid.
Augusta, Georgia
printed. One relative did say
that Wills attended nearby
Jefferson High School in Bath,
S.C. Asked for her reaction to
the Watergate scandal, Wills’
firm action in the Watergate
affair.
“It is difficult to understand
how persons working with the
President would not make
known to him an enterprise of
this magnitude involving
hundreds of thousands of
dollars and involving such
EDITORIAL
THE WATERGATE BLESSING
The Watergate controversy is generally viewed as
a tragedy. It is a tragedy, but it’s a blessing, too.
There are many who believe that the scandal
implicates the President himself. Others refuse to allow
themselves to believe that the President could be
involved in such a mess. We will not attmept to judge
the President’s guilt or innoncence. But we by no means
think that the President is above such involvement or
that he anew nothing about it until he read it in the
newspapers.
it is unacceptable that the President could be in
constant conversation with his closest associates and not
be aware of acitivities of such magnitude and involving
so many of his top aides and personal friends.
Knowledge of such activity, without taking proper
action, which the President has never done, warrants
impeachment.
The President of the most powerful nation in the
world should be more than anything else a symbol of
moral leadership. But it is on this particular point that
Richard Nixon is most vulnerable. He has never
demonstrated moral leadership, and consequently does
not merit the exemption from the most thorough
examination possible of his involvement or knowledge
of the activities surrounding the Watergate affair.
Nixon’s political appointees are good examples of the
wind of men he would like to see run the American
government. Having a whole nation to choose from, it
was Nixon who chose Haynesworth, Carswell, Agnew,
Renquist, John Mitchell and others who seemingly stand
for everything but liberty and justice for all.
Nixon’s attitude toward Blacks is clear, but what is
worse are his attitudes towards the poor, the
uneducated and the aged of his own country. How can a
man of moral leadership cut programs designed to help
these people, and, at the same time, request money to
rebuild a nation whose people he has spent billions of
dollars trying to Kill?
He continues to rave about peace with honor. There
can be no honor in an immoral war. And the tons of
bombs that he is having dropped on Cambodia is blatant
evidence that there is no peace.
One has every reason to question why Nixon ordered
a separate investigation of Daniel Ellsberg’s
involvement in the Pentagon papers when he has not
seen fit to do the same in the Watergate affair. It is
noteworthy that G. Gordy Liddy and Howard Hunt,
both of whom are defendants in the Watergate case,
working directly under Nixon’s advisor John
Ehrlichman reportedly broke into the office of
Ellsburg’s psychiatrist to get into Ellsberg’s file. Law
and Order??? From whom?? Black people have always
known the answer to that one.
In 1972, 87% of Black voters voted against Nixon. If
it had been left up to Blacks, Nixon never would have
become President. And thanks to Watergate, the rest of
the world may learn that he never should have.
mother said, “I have heard so
much I don’t know what to
believe.” She refused to
comment further.
potential risk as the Watergate
incident involved.
“It is inconceivable to me
that they would not have told
the President about this
matter. In fact, that they
wouldn’t have asked for his
approval or disapproval.”
May 3, 1973 No. 7
Case
FRANK WILLS
NAACP
Freedom
Rally
By Al Irby
The local chapter of the
NAACP will hold a “Freedom
Rally” at Tabernacle Baptist
Church on May 10th at 7:3C
p.m.
The Rev. Kelly Smith
pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Capitol Hill
Nashville, Tenn, will be the
speaker. Music will be
furnished by the famed Walker
Baptist Association Chorus.
The NAACP has stood tai
and cool during those frantic
days of the Civil Right!
struggle, no giving away
t juvenile impetuosity
Basicly, it has never been <
protest organization. Its strong
point is in a court of law
Certainly it fights injustice;
and discrimination, but it;
tools have always been legal
This interracial organizatior
was instrumental in curbing
lynching in this country mostly
by moral persuasion. The
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People was instrumental ir
opening institutions of highei
learning for Blacks. It was
successful in this field, starting
with Maryland, Arkansas
Virginia, and was ready to take
on South Carolina, when il
took a long chance and went
for broke with the 1954
Supreme Court decision.
Many people believe, that
Northern liberals organized the
NAACP, but that’s not entirely
true. A group of Black mer
met in 1905 most of then
were college-trained; they met
in Niagara Falls to announce r
program based upon the
principles of humar
brotherhood, freedom oi
speech and criticism, and
exercise of all rights without
regard to race. They would
never stop protesting, until
America redressed its shameful
treatment of the Negro. This
was the fore-runner of what we
know today as the NAACP.
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