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Nma-Setrim
Vol. 3
Simow'riz-Anderson Relinquish Controversial
Coliseum Seats To Mclntyre And Neal
By R.L. Oliver
A capacity crowd of
supporters of Richmond
County Commissioner Edward
Mclntyre filled the county
commission chambers Tuesday
and heard Richmond County
Commission Chairman Norman
Simowitz announced his and
commissioner John T.
Best Indicted For Bribery
Robert W. Best„ was indicted
Tuesday by a Richmond
County Grand Jury on a charge
of bribery.
Best, under indictment by
federal authorities on gambling
Youth Drowns In Barton Village
ON THE SCENE REPORT
A Barton Village youth,
Morris William Glenn,
apparently drowned last Friday
while swimming in a pond in a
wooded area near his home.
William Glenn, the boy’s
State Rep. Kills Self
Former Georgia State
Representative James Hull, Jr.,
of Augusta-Richmond County
apparently fell victim of a
freak accident Monday.
According to reports Hull was
searching for a possible prowler
on the grounds outside his
home with a flashlight and gun
Mclntyre Lists Revenue
Sharing Priorities
I \ County commissioner
Edward Mclntyre has
presented to the County
Engineer a list of priorities for
the use of revenue sharing
funds in hopes of relieving the
chronic drainage problem.
Mclntyre stated, “Several
weeks ago I asked County
Engineer Paul Wattles to take a
serious look primarily at our
drainage problem throughout
the county and to suggest
priorities for the
$ 1,031,000.00 o f Revenue
Sharing Funds that was
allocated to the Engineering
Department recently.
“At Tuesday’s County
Commission meeting I will
present the following project
for approval Although they are
listed in the order of priorities,
most of this work can be
contracted now and bids can
be let on most of it almost
immmediately upon approval.
SUGGESTED PRIORITIES
1. MALVERN LANE
STORM SEWER: This small
project has been pending for a
number of years.
FLEMING ACRES STORM
SEWER: This area was built
with no storm sewer at all.
Consequently, drainage on
Lumpkin Road flows between
the houses for a number of
blocks causing the water to get
as much as 4 feet deep in the
NATIONAL BLACK NEWS SERVICE
MEMBER
Anderson’s resignations for the
ten member Coliseum
Authority.
Immediately following the
invocation, Simowitz said, “As
chairman of the Richmond
County Commission my
primary objective is to oversee
the needs and requirements of
every citizen of Richmond
charges, has been accused
under the grand jury
indictment of attempting to
bribe unlawfully “with force
and arms Sheriff of Richmond
County, William A. Anderson.
father, upon learning from two
other youths who had been
with Morris earlier that he had
gone swimming in the pond
and had not returned, called
Richmond County deputies
and reported his son missing.
in hand. It was theorized that
he made an attempt to climb a
fence and his gun accidently
discharged.
w hen his body was
discovered at approximately
eleven p.m, he was still
holding the lighted flashlight in
his hand.
streets.
SOUTHWICK STORM
SEWER TO ROLLING
MEADOWS SUBDIVISION:
This project will pick up water
from Georgetown and
Southwick and carry it to
Butler Creek. This area has
been the cause of a suit against
Richmond County and we feel
this will relieve the situation.
2. LAKE AUMOND
CLEANING: We are
negotiating with the owner of
Lake Aumond and will offer to
clean her lake and dredge it and
establish a permanent pool
approximately 4 to 5 feet
lower than at present. This will
enable the area in the lake to
surge approximately 5 feet
during a storm and give us
nearly 75 acres of storm
storage.
3. RAES CREEK DREDGING
DRAINAGE: We plan to start
a dragline once again at the
City side above Lake Olmstead
and proceed up to the golf
course. We are planning to use
one of the County’s draglines if
it is available. If not, we will
rent equipment or contract to
have the work done. In
addition, we plan to rent a
hydraulic backhoe to start at
Berckman Road and proceed
upward from there.
4. RETENTION BASINS:
P.O. Box 953
County. Therefore, I make this
announcement. Effective as of
today, I relinquish my five year
term on the Coliseum
Authority and 1 am appointing
commissioner Edward
Mclntyre to fill that seat. Also
effective as of today,
commissioner John T.
Anderson is relinquishing his
The indictment said Best
offered Anderson a certain
SI,OOO per month with the
purpose of influencing him to
ignore violations of certain
gambling laws in Richmond
County.
An ensuing search of the
wooded area ended when two
members of the West Augusta
Rescue Squad, Clarence
Savage, and Jack Black,
discovered the lad’s body in
deep water at the edge of the
pond.
Hull who lived at 1107
Peachtree Road was a State
Representative from 1960
through 1966.
Judge Eugene Kerr of State
Court postponed all cases on
his docket last Tuesday in
memory of Hull who was an
Augusta attorney.
We have in mind three separate
sites for retention basins for
Raes Creek and its tributaries.
LAND ACQUISITION FOR
RETENTION BASINS: We
anticipate it will be necessary
to purchase some land and
secure easements on other
property in order to construct
the three basins mentioned
above.
5, GEORGETOWN &
GEORGETOWN SOUTH
SUBDIVISION DITCHES:
This sandy area has been the
source of problems ever since
development. It is our opinion
that these ditches must be
completely paved in order to
relieve the silting problem we
are now experiencing. This area
is also involved in litigation and
must be coordinated with the
County Attorney.
6. OATES CREEK
BRIDGE AND CULVERT
WORK: We anticipate the
construction of 3 to 4 bridges
or culverts as recommended by
the Corps of Engineers’ report.
This work would fall in the
non-federal portion and may
be commenced as soon as a
precise determination has been
see Mclntyre
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THE PEOPLE’S PAPER
four year appointment to the
Coliseum Authority and I am
appointing commissioner Don
Neal to fill that term on the
Coliseum Authority.”
The announcement was
greeted with a standing ovation
and Attorney James Hinton
asked if Attorney John Ruffin
could make a reply to
Jet Magazine’s
Editor To Speak
Augusta Caucus
Robert A. Deleon
Jet Magazine’s managing High School student, will
editor, a former T.W. Josey address the Augusta Caucus
President’s Conference
Os Metropolitan Life
Ronald Loftlin
In the early 1950 s the small
group of Metropolitan
million-dollar producers were
invited to the Home Office for
annual luncheons with
Company Officers. The
number of qualifiers has
increased so, that full-scale
conferences are held in various
locations throughout the
country.
Ronald R. Loftlin, Board
Member of the CSRA Business
League, qualified for his fourth
consecutive year with a net
production of $2,253,388.00.
Simowitz’s decision. Ruffin
said, “It was yesterday that a
news conference was held
regarding the Coliseum
Authority appointments. 1
want to express to you and the
commissioners our thanks for
reconsidering your
appointments. We ( our
community ) express our
Mr. Loftlin began his career
with the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company in
September of 1968. Since that
time he has continued to aspire
toward leadership
qualifications, to meet the
lofty principles of the Million
Dollar Round Table, and to
strive toward President’s
Council status. He plans to
improve his professional
prestige with the pursuit of
C.L.U. and L.U.T.C. courses of
study.
The 1973 President’s
Conference was held in New
Orleans, Louisiana May 28 thru
May 31,1973. There were 711
qualifiers for the year 1972, of
which 26 were Black.
Mr. Loftlin has qualified for
the President’s Council
(Charter Member), President’s
Conference, M.D.R.T.
(Qualifying Member) and is a
member of the National
Association of Life
Underwriters. He and his wife,
Gwendolyn, are members of
Belle-Terrace Presbyterian
Church.
Augusta, Georgia
appreciation to you.”
Ruffin, in a news conference
Monday, said he had
summoned the press to discuss
“the Black Community's
dissatisfaction with Edward
Mclntyre - the person who
proposed the coliseum - not
being included on the Coliseum
Authority.
Sunday June 10th at the
Tabernacle Baptist Church.
The program will begin at 8:00
P.M.
Though young in age,
Robert A. DeLeon, managing
editor of “Jet Magazine”, is
very mature in his view of the
state of affairs of Blacks in the
United States. As managing
editor of the country’s largest
Black news publication, each
week he oversees a staff of
editors and is responsible for
the gathering and presentation
of news about and of concern
to the nation’s 23 million
Black citizens.
The son of a former U.S. Air
Force missile analyst, DeLeon
has traveled throughout his life
and has lived in many of the 50
United States as well as several
countries abroad. Born in
Oakland, Calif., he attended
schools in New Hampshire,
Florida, California, New York
and entered Morehouse College
in Atlanta, Ga., as a Merrill
Early Admissions Scholar
following completion of the
tenth at the T.W. Josey High
School in Augusta.
DeLeon first entered the
communications field as a
student at Morehouse when, at
the age of 15, he became the
youngest editor of the college
yearbook in the school’s
history. In 1967, while a
student at Columbia University
in New York City, he began
working for “Newsday” the
Long Island newspaper as a
reporter. During his three-year
stay at the publication which is
the largest suburban daily in
the U.S., he served as the
paper’s first Black copy editor
and received wide acclaim for
the numerous aritcles he wrote
concerning the civil rights
struggle and the conditions
under which Blacks struggle in
America.
In 1969, while on a
1 e ave-of-absence from
“Newsday”, DeLeon became
one of the first Blacks to serve
on the editorial staff of “The
Atlanta Constitution”, the
South’s oldest newspaper.
While at the Constitution, his
efforts were devoted primarily
to chronicling the efforts of
Black politicians in Atlanta and
counseling the newspaper’s
management on ways in which
EDITORIAL
A Sobered Simowitz
During the past week, Black leaders met to plan
response to the unbridled abuse of the Black
community by County Commission chairman Norman
Simowitz and by the power structure in general. The
last straw fell last week when Simowitz named himself
and John Anderson, both serving on the County
Commission for less than a year, to the Coliseum
Authority. He completely ignored Don Neal and Black
Commissioner Edward Mclntyre who have co-ordinated
the efforts of the Coliseum Committee from its
inception. Mclntyre served as chairman of the
committee. If Simowitz had gotten his way, he and
Anderson would have gotten credit for the proposed
coliseum, not Mclntyre and Neal. But the real point is
Black representation on the Coliseum Authority.
Approximately fifty Black leaders held a press
conference Monday, with John Ruffin serving as
spokesman, castigating Simowitz' actions and attitudes
toward the Black community. On Tuesday, Simowitz
announced that he and Anderson were resigning from
the Coliseum Authority and named Mclntyre and Neal
to replace them. The question is why?
We do not believe that the Black community’s press
conference made Simowitz suddenly realize that he was
elected by all the people of Richmond County. Nor do
we believe that his omission of Mclntyre and Neal was
just a human error. Simowitz has been kicking Mclntyre
and, consequently, the Black community ever since he
look office and robbed the Commission’s chairmanship
from Mclntyre in January. An elected official for only
six months, Simowitz is already drunk with power.
But apparently some of his more powerful and sober
friends have reminded him that a consolidation
referendum will be voted on in the near future, which
will take care of Blacks, politically, for good. “So don’t
gel them riled up, they could defeat the consolidation
referendum. ”
Simowitz needs to know that everything is not all
right now that he has named Mclntyre and Neal to the
Coliseum Authority. It should also be pointed out that
the wrath of the Black community is not aimed at
Simowitz alone. Blacks are tired ol a city government
that politically schemed to stop elected officials from
being elected from the wards they represent. If they
were elected from their wards, half of the sixteen
councilmen would be Black, instead ol only three.
Blacks are tired of watching Blacks being sent to jail by
juries whose Black representation is token, at best. We
are tired of law enforcement officers beating us
physically while elected officials beat us politically.
The point that Simowitz and the power structure
must never forget is this: the Black community will
decide whether consolidation passes or fails. And we
fully realize that consolidation will transform Augusta
from a city that Black people ought to be ruling into
one where Blacks will forever go begging.
“The Constitution” could
become more sensitive to the
needs and desires of the city’s
Black community.
Following a brief stint at the
Gulf Oil Corp, in Pittsburgh,
Pa., where he worked in the
Department of Advertising and
Public Relations, in 1971
DeLeon joined the staff of
“Ebony Magazine”. He served
in this capacity for six months
before he was named managing
editor of “Jet Magazine”,
becoming, at the age of 21, the
youngest major executive of a
national news publication in
the country. As managing
editor of Jet, DeLeon has
continued to write about the
injustices under which Blacks
suffer every day in America.
He was the only representative
from a Black publication to
interview Angela Y. Davis
during her incarceration at the
Palo Alto, Calif., jail following
June 7, 1973 No. 12
the Marin County shootout in
which 17-year-old Jonathan
Jackson lost his life and, most
recently, wrote an in-depth
analysis of former Black
Panther Party Chairman Bobby
Seale’s bid to become mayor of
Oakland -- California’s fifth
largest city.
Jet Magazine, which
celebrates its 22nd birthday
this year, currently has a
weekly circulation in excess of
600,000 copies and is sold in
each of the 50 states as well as
several countries in Europe, the
Carribean and Africa.
An active community
participant, DeLeon serves on
the boards of directors of
serveral organizations and has
been selected by Vogue
Magazine as one of the 25 most
outstanding persons in the
world under the age of 25.
He and his wife, Barbara,
have one child, Monica.
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