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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 Page 7 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. (fzwj