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Eln Auijixsta fcrfwwut A Vol. 3 Frankie Lymon’s Widow To File Suit Over Film On Hubby’s Life Mrs. Emira Lymon, widow of the one-time millionaire star Frankie Lymon, told the News-Review that she has a suit pending against a movie company that is filming her husband’s life story. Mrs. Lymon said that no one has talked to her about details of the film, and she is suing for a percentage of the royalties from the film in which singer Ronnie Dyson will reportedly play the lead role. According to Mrs. Lymon, who is a teacher at Hornsby Elementary School, a representative of Good Vibrations Studios, Peter Lasso, called her in February stating that he would be in Augusta during the Masters’ Golf Tournament to discuss the film with her. She never heard from him or anyone else regarding the film. Lymon had a sensational career as lead singer for a group called The Teenagers during the late 50s. He wrote and recorded “Why Do Fools Fall In Love” when he was 14. His earnings then brought him $5,000 a week; by the time he was 15,he was making $500,000 a year, Melee In Superior Court Newsman Struck By Attorneys By R.L. Oliver Newscaster Jay Mann of WJBF Television (Channel 6 Augusta) was the object of flaring tempers in Richmond County Superior Court, Wednesday June 13, 1973. According to eye witness reports, a swearing in session of new attorneys was concluding, and picture taking sessions about to unfold when someone said to Mann, “Don’t take my picture.” Other sources state that Richmond County Board of jit w"**® 4 '' ~ #< wL > - JW- 5 Zi"?' 1 '"' Wfe » 11 r i & I lisl wi ♦ ' »- I mH. WE w? fe®Wn i - s«^ : ’.’ : A WHHm**'*- MBE TBBBBbbbbbb* Jet Magazine’s Managing Editor, Robert A. Deleon (center) chats with News-Review editor-publisher Mallory Millender (L), as Human Relations Commission Director Charles Walker looks on. Deleon was guest of the Augusta Caucus, and spoke to over 200 persons at Tabernacle Baptist Church Sunday evening. Deleon was a student at T.W. Josey High School in Augusta for 3 years. NATIONAL BLACK NEWS SERVICE MEMBER and was a millionaire at 16. He then got hooked on drugs. Lymon Appeared to have kicked the habit, and began his own campaign against drugs, when suddenly he died of an overdose. In her conversation with Lasso, Mrs. Lymon said she requested that she see the film before it was released for general viewing. At a loss to explain why she has not been involved in the planning of the film, Mrs. Lymon offered, “Everyone knows that Frankie had several common-law marriages (including Zola Taylor of The Platters), but,” she laughs, “I THINK that I’m the only legal wife.” Asked if Lymon had any money when he died she said that although his earnings were put in a trust fund until he became of age to receive it, she is told that the money was used to support his habit. He never used drugs during the time he lived in Augusta, she said, “at least as far as I know.” But he was a constant drinker. “He could consume a fifth a day. Lymon came to Augusta as a Education President, Atty. John Fleming allegedly struck Mann. Still yet another source revealed that attorney George Nicholson had to be restrained from joining in the fracas. Order was restored by Superior Court Judge Honorable John F. Hardin, when Nicholson said, “1 wasn’t going to hit him,” according to reports. After order was restored, tempers flared up once again in the corridors outside of the courtroom where it was P.O. Box 953 1. NX&I I 1 M soldier at Fort Gordon. He performed nightly at the Capri Lounge. And gave a number of benefit performances here. He met Mrs. Lymon and they were married in 1967. They bought a home and he decided that he wanted to stay in Augusta and raise a family. Mrs. Lymon never was a fan of Frankie Lymon, the singer. reported Attorney Nicholson had Mann by the collar up against a wall. It was alleged that Nicholson said, “You have been trying to assassinate my character for years,” along with other vulgarities. When contacted for further information regarding the incident, a spokesman for WJBF Channel 6 said, “I have no comment what-so-ever. Attorney’s Nicholson and Fleming could not be reached for comment as of this writing. They are having a case tried in Superior Court. THE PEOPLE’S PAPER Mrs. Emira Lymon She never bought any of his records and doesn’t own any today. They met because one of Lymon’s army buddies, who was dating her sister, brought him to the house. She recalls the first time he came to her home. t » • “He had been drinking and I asked him to leave and not to return. His friend said, ‘Do you w / * v wk/ - ' f ■ Ronald Loftlin makes point with inmates. OIC Hosts Inmates Richmond County prisoners met with Human Relation Commission director Charles Walker, County Commissioner Ed Mclntyre and Ronald Loftlin of Metropolitan Insurance Co. last week at the iocal Opportunities Industrialization Center. OIC acting director Nathaniel Jackson said the prisoners wanted to talk with Black community leaders, particularly Mr. Mclntyre. Barreras Attends National Meeting Charles A. Barreras, Executive Director of the CSRA Economic Opportunity Authority, Inc. has been selected by the Georgia Community Axtion Association, Inc. to represent the State of Georgia at a national meeting of Community Action Agencies to be held in Chicago, Illinois on June 14, 1973. The representatives will meet with former Congressman know that’s Frankie Lymon?’ I said, ‘So, he’s Frankie Lymon. I want him to leave.” “He attacked me from the radio station, WAUG. during an interview. I got on the phone and called the station and said, ‘Tell the fool to stop by my house and I’ll talk to him.” She said she expected the army to ship him out, but it backfired. Lymon wagered a friend that he would marry her within 6 months. They met in February 1967 and were married June 30th. After a year in Augusta, Lymon began to like it. He spoke of its natural beauty and open space for raising a family. He continued to write songs that he planned to record. He answered thousands of letters from parents wanting to know how to help their child who was hooked on drugs. Asked if Lymon had any specific plans at the time of his death, Mrs. Lymon replied, “No, he just wanted to raise a family.” In February of 1968, he flew to New York to record “Sea Breeze” and “Baby, I’m Sorry.” While in New York he died of an apparent overdose of drugs. He was 26 years old. liH x /All Jackson said he wanted the prisoners to talk with OIC trainees in the hope that they will see that people in the community are concerned about them. “This type of program helps to rehabilitate through motivation,” Jackson commented. He said he hopes to have the prisoners visit the center 3-4 times each year. He added that he hopes many of the prisoners will enroll in OIC upon their release. Bill Anderson of Tennessee, who is spearheading an effort for a continuing resolution or a congressional appropriation for Community Action Programs. Mr. Barreras states, “we have two main concerns.” Primarily, we cannot and should not abandon twenty-five million poor poeple who would be left without representative services. Secondly, the public is not hearing the truth about community action, when they Augusta, Georgia FAT. 5 f ''4 I 7 I Frankie Lymon (center front) and The Teenagers as they appeared during their heyday Biomedical Research At Paine College > Dr. Frank Davis Paine College has received funding in the amount of $72,869 from the National Institute of health (NIH) under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for a two-year program entitled “Biomedical Research with Student Participation” with a stipulation that if results are meaningful the program will be extended to five years. Dr. Frank Davis, professor so Biology at Paine, whose research prompted the award, will be the director of the program for which $25,082 has already been received. The project, aimed at dtermining “kinship” (phylogenetic relationships) between plant and between animals is expected to have great impact in the area of are told that Community . Action Agencies have done nothing and are ineffective. While the American Public are misinformed, National and State Agencies are moving quickly to save many OEO and CAA Programs in an effort to transfer them to some other national, state or local operating agency. In some cases, some other agency means any other angency. Some of these programs human tissue transplants. Dr. Davis explains that tissue transplants are most successful when recipient and donor are related. It is believed that the same body defense mechanism which protects against “invaders” such as germs or splinters is activated when tissue is transplanted. Tissue is received as foreign matter and, in many cases, despite excellent medical and surgical technique, rejected by the body. However, transplants between identical twins are even more often successful. Therefore, it is assumed that a thorough understanding of kinship will be helpful in overcoming the problem of tissue rejection. Dr. Davis earlier research has developed a method to prove degrees of kinship in plants which he has found to be applicable also to animals. It is anticipated that the extended research under the new biomedical grant which will afford more sophisticated equipment for experimentation will result in the refinement of the process to allow more exact determinations of phylogenetic relationships between organisms. The results obtained from this refined technique may eventually be applied in the initiated by OEO/CAA have been: VISTA - transferred to ACTION; Foster Grandparents, also transferred to ACTION; Head Start delegated to HEW; Neighborhood Youth Corps, Operation Mainstream and other manpower programs delegated to the Department of Labor, and Legal Services which he administration is attempting to transfer to a proposed Legal Services Corporation. Our questions regarding June 14, 1973 No. 13 area of human tissue transplants thereby opening a new era of understanding and possibly circumvention of the rejection process. The stated objectives of the project include: (1) the training of students in the basic technique of doing research; (2) a search for chemical bases for results obtained in experiments; (3) a correlation of results, if possible, with the problem of “tissue rejection”; (4) improvement of the teachingof certain science courses at Paine College; and (5) providing students with an incentive to go into biomedical occupations. Five Paine College students, yet to be named, will be working with the project director. More specific information on Dr. Davis’ previous research and the method of determining kinship he developed may be found in appers read before the Georgia Academy of Science during the past four years, abstracts of which are printed in the April issues of the Bulletin of the Georgia Academy of Science in the year volumes indicated. His SEE RESEARCH Page 4 these programs are: If OEO and CAAs have done so badly, why is the administration moving to save and transfer those good programs? Who is going to operate them without the OEO administrative cost? Obviously, there has to be some administrative cost. And if there is for other agencies to operate siad programs, why isn’t there any for CAAs, who have been operating those programs without benefit of administrative cost from them? q