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The Augusta News-Review - June 7, 1973,
B Police Report |
By R. L. Oliver
TRIO KNOCKS HUSBAND
OUT-ATTEMPTS RAPE OF
WIFE-STEALS 5175 AND
TV SET
A South Augusta husband
and wife returned home from
an cutting last Friday night
and were jumped by three men
they surprised burglarizing
their home. The husband was
knocked unconscious; the
three made an unsuccessful
attempt to rape the wife during
the melee. The trio took a
$175 and a portable television
set, then left.
According to police reports
the husband knew the men,
but by first names only.
Police are seeking the trio.
MAN ARRESTED IN
CONNECTION WITH THE
THEFT OF 25 CASES OF
BEER
I, Box 217 Langley, South
Carolina, was arrested for
questioning in connection with
a break-in at Riverside
Distributors on Fifteenth
Street and the theft of
twenty-five cases of beer worth
$5.45 a case, from a box car
behind a building on Reynolds
Street.
GUESTS LEAVE HOLIDAY
INN WITH $612 WORTH OF
LINEN AND T.V.s
Officials of the Holiday Inn
on Gordon Highway, reported
that two guests who apparantly
registered false names, left the
motel Saturday with two
televisions and an undisclosed
amount of bed spreads and
pillows. The sets were valued at
a combined total of $612.
WOMAN ASLEEP IN
TRAILER ATTACKED
Richmond County deputies
received this report from a
woman who was home sleeping
in her trailer. “A man
approximately s’B” tall,
between, 28-30 years old broke
into her trailer and sexually
attacked her.
She said the man was
wearing dark pants, a white tee
shirt a brown car coat and a
dark hat, and he wore a
moustache.
TWO TRINITY MANOR
APARTMENTS
BURGLARIZED
A $175 black and white
television was taken from the
apartment of Janis Dicks of
2375 Barton Chapel Road.
Another television set worth
$139 was taken from Betty
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Manor Apartments.
BANK BOOK
STOLEN-$2,i00 IN CHECKS
CASHED
Augusta Police received a
report from George Woods of
301 Green Street that his bank
book was stolen, sometime
within the last two months. He
told police he had not noticed
the checks missing until he
received a bank statement of
eleven canceled checks for
$2,100 from the stolen bank
book.
WATCH STOLEN FROM
STORE DRESSING ROOM
Shannon Story of 3116
Louisville Road told Augusta
Police, that while he was trying
on clothes and looking in the
mirror at the fit, he returned to
the dressing room to discover
his watch valued at $l3O was
missing.
AUGUSTA POLICE ARREST
FOUR WOMEN-UNTAXED
WHISKEY
Augusta Police arrested four
women and charged them with
possession of untaxed whiskey
Saturday. The four were Ida
James Barnes of 834 Barnes
Street; Helen Fergersun of 701
Ninth Street; Ethel Taylor of
11 Telfair Street; and Sarah
Blackwell of 229 Gilbert
Manor.
S6OO WORTH OF
GUNS-AMMUNITION
STOLEN
S6OO worth of guns,
ammunition, camping
equipment, and other items
were stolen from the trailer of
James L. Jones, in the Durands
Trailer Park on Milledgeville
Road Saturday according to
Richmond County deputies
reports.
THIEVES ON RAMPAGE IN
VACANT HOUSES-SBOO
WORTH OF SHAG CARPET
STOLEN
Thieves reportedly went on
a vacant house rampage
Memorial Day that amounted
to an estimated SBOO worth of
shag carpet from two separate
unoccupied homes and other
items valued at more than
S6OO, from two other similar
homes.
Green shag carpet valued at
S3OO was taken from an
unoccupied house in the
Windemere Subdivision. This
was reported by Bernice E.
Simons of Route 1 Box 935
Grovetown, Georgia.
SSOO worth of gold and
green shag carpet was reported
stolen from a house on
Eisenhower Drive by Harold
Rutti, owner and builder of the
house. Rutti, who lives at 2312
Silverdale Road, reported the
theft to Richmond County
deputies on Memorial Day and
said the carpet was taken from
two rooms at the Eisenhower
Drive house.
A $250 refrigerator was
reported to county deputies as
being stolen from an empty
apartment on Norton Drive by
Andrew L. Denk of 2028
Rosier Road.
Mary J. Manson of 2938
Boggs Academy
National Alumni Chapter
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(L-R) Mrs. Leila Stone, Calvin Thornton, Jr., Mrs.
Emma L. Gresham, Mr. Willie Pierce, Miss Ruby Saxon,
Mr. Harold Bussy.
Boggs Academy National
Alumni Chapter held its
Annual Meeting Saturday, May
26th. The following officers
were elected: Calvin Thorton,
Jr., President; Ruby Saxon,
Secretary; Willie D. Pierce,
Treasurer; Harold Bussey,
Chaplain.
The president of the local
CSRA Chapter, Mrs. E.R.
Gresham, presented Special
Alumnus of the Year Awards
Celeste Drive and Grant Cobb
of 2932 Celeste Drive reported
the theft of similar items to
Richmond County deputies
from their homes. Two
television sets valued at $199
apiece were also taken.
DUO SHOOT IT
OUT-ARRESTED BY
SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES
Richmond County deputies
broke up a western type,
treeing a town shoot out last
Sunday and arrested John
Dixon 27, of 102 Vanderbilt
Circle and Leroy Shaw, 27, of
1031 Ninth Street.
The deputies said they were
awaiting a wrecker to pickup a
vehicle at Cedar and Telfair
Streets when they saw two
men leave a building in the area
and fire guns into the air.
They arrested Shaw and
Dixon and charged them with
public drunkenness, public
disturbance and obstruction of
an officer. In addition, charges
of discharging a firearm in a
residential area, and carrying a
pistol without a license.
BURGLARIES AND
BREAK-INS REPORTED
Manager George Tool of
Post 178 Carter Burdell Hagler
on Richmond Hill Road,
reported to county deputies
that, $75, and an unknown
amount of cigarettes were
taken from the Post last
Sunday.
The BP Oil Company, at 602
Hall Street was reported
broken into and offices were
ransacked, and the dial on the
office safe was broken.
However the safe was
unopened; as of this writing it
was not known if anything was
missing.
John Wesley Roberson of
1266 Holley Street told
Augusta Police some $425
worth of household items were
taken from his home Memorial
Day.
The Georgia Drywall Supply
Company at 601 Hall Street
reported a break-in, and the
theft of a $250 electric
typewriter and a $l5O adding
machine. The report also stated
the front office was ransacked.
An undetermined amount of
change was taken from the soft
drink and candy machines at
the Augusta Steel Company on
11th Street.
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Georgia and Miss Ruby Saxon,
Boggs Academy.
Other special awards were
presented to The Committee
on Special Activities, James
Rouse Chairman; Mrs. Anna
Gilchrist, and Mrs. Emma L.
Gresham.
Nat. Executive Meeting and
local CSRA meeting will be
held jointly Sunday June 17th
at 6:00 p.m.
A resident of 2299 Overton
Road, Bob Harkrider reported
the theft of a $125 lawn
mower from his garage.
Stewart Gillette, of 2208
Kimberly Drive reported the
theft of a $450 diamond
necklace from his home.
TWO RICHMOND
COUNTY SCHOOLS
VANDALIZED
One school in the city and
one in the county were
reported broken into
Thursday, according to
Augusta police and Richmond
County deputy reports.
L.W. Washington reported
someone broke out a door glass
to the secretary’s office, and
damaged desks and picture
frames, including those in the
principal’s office at the Lawton
B. Evans School.
Total damage done was
estimated at SSOO, including a
glass door in the library.
At the Windsor Spring
School, Walter Crockett said
the school was broken into for
the second time recently.
This time a television was
reported missing from
classroom number three.
COLOR T.V. STOLEN
FROM MAN’S HOME
Roosevelt Bush, Jr., of 680
Hickory Street reported that
someone apparently entered
his home through a bedroom
window and stole his S4OO
color television set.
OTHER POLICE
ACTIVITY
Hilda Powell of 2004
Lumpkin Road told county
deputies someone entered her
office and pried her desk open
and took her checkbook and
$125 cash from her purse.
Paul Blackburn of Rt. 1,
Hernden, Georgia a supervisor
of a crew that was working for
a book company said he was
on his usual run Wednesday
morning, and upon his
returning he was missing his
billfolder from his panta
pockets in a locker room. The
billfolder reportedly had $615
in it. Two white males were
reported missing from the
work team.
LOCAL COURT BRIEFS
By R.L. Oliver
Gary L. Jones of west Royal
Five Young
Pianists To
Complete
Compete
For SI,OOO
Augustans will have the rare
opportunity to hear some of
the most outstanding young
pianists of this country and
Canada this weekend, during
the June 8-9 third Boyd
Competition for Young
Pianists in the Augusta College
Performing Arts Theatre.
The winner of the two-part
competition will take home a
SI,OOO in cash award and a
guest appearance next fall with
the Augusta Symphony, under
the direction of Harry Jaccobs.
The Friday night
competition, which starts at 8,
will consist of solo selections.
The Saturday morning
competition, which is devoted
to concerto performances, is
scheduled to begin at 9:30.
Admission for each of the two
events is SI.OO, with tickets
available at the door. Nobody
will be admitted into the
auditorium while a performer
is at the keyboard, and
competition-goers are urged to
arrive on time.
The finalist are: Dickran
Atamian, 18, of the University
of Texas at Austin; Alan Di
Cenzo, 25, a graduate of Case
Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio; Jonathan
Gonder, 18, of the University
of Western Ontario, Canada;
David Lackland, 17, Elk Grove,
Illinois; Barbara Sue
Weintraub, 20, of Peabody
Conservatory of Music.
BLACK WOMEN FOR
PROGRESS TREAT KIDS AT
SUNSET CENTER
School is out - over 100
elementary school children
attended a School’s Out Party
sponsored by the “Black
Women for Progress” at the
Sunset Recreational Center
Saturday June 2, 1973. There
were games and refreshments
for those attending. Many
happy faces welcomed the
oncoming summer months of
just relaxation and fun.
“Parents of elementary and
junior high children are urged
to pay close attention to the
many and exciting activities
coming this summer”, said
Geneva Stallings, Chairwoman
of the Program Committee for
“Black Women for Progress”.
Street, accused of two rapes
and one robbery and one
robbery was back in court May
30th.
His trial has been
discontinued until September
1973. The continuation is due
to the failure of a witness for
he defense to appear.
Frankie Mae Carter, 38 of
1516 Wooten Road has been
charged with murder and
bound over until the next term
ofthe Richmond County Grand
Jury by Civil Court Judge L.W.
Cooper. This action took place
Thursday.
Frankie Mae Carter is
charged with the death of Ella
Lee Seigler, 45, of 612 Hall
Street. She is in custody
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Richmond County has an immediate need for an
electrical engineer. It is desired this person have some
experience in design of street lighting and/or traffic
engineering. Excellent working conditions and
fringe benefits. Applicants should apply at the
Richmond County Merit System office, Room
605, City County Building, Augusta, Ga. Phone
724-1831 Ext. 220 for more information.
An Equal Opportunity Employer.
VA NEEDS NURSING PERSONNEL
Registered Nurses, Psychiatric, Medical &
Surgical. Entrance Salary $8,572 to $11,614 per
annum depending on qualifications. Also,
applications are being accepted from Vietnam Era
Veterans who have Nursing Assistant and
Lincensed Practical Nurse experience or medical
training. Entrance salary $6,128 to $7,694 per
annum depending on level of qualifications plus
many fringe benefits. To qualify, veterans must
have been released from service within the past
year. Call 733-4471, Ext. 744 or 712 or visit the
Personnel Office, Lenwood Division, Veterans
Administration Hospital, Augusta, Ga. An equal
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BEFORE JUNE 12, 1973 tvs-radios typewriters
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Power Co, Seeks Rate Relief
The Georgia Power
Company today will ask the
Public Service Commission for
emergency rate relief to ease a
financial crisis that endangers
the state’s electric power
supply. The request applies to
the company’s residential,
commercial, industrial and
other customers served at retail
rates.
“If we don’t solve this
problem now, Georgia
consumers will find themselves
in an energy crisis of
unprecedented magnitude,”
without bond.
The death was by shooting.
Chris Albert Lever pleaded
quilty to burglary and was
sentenced to five years
probation by Superior Court
Judge Edwin D. Fulcher.
In other court activities
Judge Gordon Chambers of
State Court said at a commital
hearing last Wednesday that
there was not probable cause
to bind Wallace Harper over for
trail. Harper had been charged
by Richmond County
Investigators with possession of
marijuana.
Harper was arrested during a
raid by county investigators
along with Joseph P. Thornton,
Patricia Weeks, and Garth M.
Shaw, at 2227 Albermarle
Drive the month of May 1973.
He told Judge Chambers
that he had only been at the
house moments before it was
raided.
The others arrested in the
raid were charged with
possession of barbituates,
amphetamines, LSD,
marijuana, and another drug
suspected of being MDA (a
hallucinogen) or heroin.
said Edwin I. Hatch, company
president.
“The consequences could be
catastrophic,” he added.
“Without an immediate
increase in rates Georgia
Power’s construction program,
already curtailed because of
inadequate earnings, would
suffer further cutbacks,” Hatch
said.
The company must carry
out a $3 billion construction
program over the next five
years to meet Georgia’s
growing power needs, he
explained. “Even greater
amounts will be spent in he
years after that to provide for
power needs that will
quadruple by 1990,” he added.
He said that, in addition, the
company will have to file for
permanent rate increase very
shortly to bring revenues back
to a level that will cover all
operating costs, pay for
environmental protection
equipment required by law and
provide a fair rate of return on
total plant investment.
The proposed emergency
increase would go into effect
by July 1, and would provide
the company sll.l million in
additional revenue before
September 30. It will add
approximately 3.7 cents a day
to the average residential
consumer’s electric bill.
“This emergency increase is
absolutely essential to avoid
the immediate financial crisis,”
Hatch added.
“Inadequate earnings have
already influenced the cutback
of four major generating
stations,” Hatch said. These
stations are a nuclear
generating plant near
Waynesboro, a nuclear unit
near Baxley, and two
pumeed-storage hydroelectric
plants, one near Rome and one
between Eatonton and Sparta.
Hatch said the emergency
relief is being sought so that
the company’s earnings will be
sufficient to legally permit a
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proposed $l5O-million sale of
first mortage bonds and a
$25-million sale of preferred
stock scheduled for November.
“More than 80 percent of
Georgia Power’s construction
funds must be raised from the
sale of securities,’’Hatch said.
“And If our earnings are not
adequate to permit the sale of
these securites, we will not
have the capital to build plants
necessary to provide power for
Georgia’s future,” he added.
Future power shortages in
Georgia could cause
widespread umemployment, an
exodus of young people from
the state for lack of
opportunity and perhaps
cessation of all industrial plant
expansion, Hatch warned.
While the consumer price
index has risen more than 40
points since 1958, he said, the
price per residential
kilowatt-hour has declined
from 2.05 cents to 1.9 cents.
He added that even with the
proposed increase, the Georgia
Power average would be well
below that of the nation.
“Our present price for
electricity is simply too low to
allow a fair return on
investment,” Hatch said. “For
the past 12 months the rate of
return on the company’s more
than $2 billion worth of plant
was 6.65 percent, far below the
return of 8.26 percent
authorized by the Public
Service Commissionn.”