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slu Aitgiiota Vol. 3 Beau Jack Athletic Club Alexander Williams Dreams Os A Center For The Children Ever so often a man becomes obsessed with an idea, a dream. Some men die without ever seeing their dreams come true. Alexander Williams has an idea. And he fears that morally, and spiritually, many children may die if his dream does not come true. Williams lives for the children in his community. It is they who give his life meaning. His big dream is a neighborhood recreation center. He feels that this recreation center is the only way to stop juvenile NAACP Hits Sheriffs Dept. On Brutality,Segregated Cars The Political Action Committee of the Augusta Branch of the NAACP met August 21, 1973 and the resolution below concerning the Richmond County Sheriff Department was discussed. Also the following statement was believed to be in the best interest of the community as a whole and highly conducive to better race relations in Richmond County. HRC Urges Bond Reforms A press conference was called last Wednesday by Human Relations Commission Executive Director Charles Walker. He said the conference was to reaffirm HRC’s position on the misdemeanor bond; to outline HRC’s request to the City Council and the Public Safety Committee concerning die misdemeanor bond, and to pass on “accolades” to Judge (Eugene) Kerr for the Herculean step he took in ■■■■■■TOnqWCJK MMMHH f- »i L J~'* ’Bp tl • KU 1I&. - s«pnuj I Hfetl ' -Ww KKjA -^—«w- ■ Bt' jfiff I Ruben Walker presents a $50,000 Estate to Brother Richard Williams of The D’Antignac Street Church of Christ as Metropolian Insurance Sales Representative Ronald R. Loftlin and Church Board Member Harold Morris look on. The D’Antignac Street Church of Christ after announcing a $20,000 retirement program, has established a $50,000 Estate for the church. This Estate will provide college scholarship funds for students of the church; and also funds to supplement day care nursery schools. The members of the D’Antignac Street Church Os Christ say the move is a step I NATIONAL BLACK NEWS SERVICE MEMBER delinquency. “The kids need something to do to keep them off the streets,” he laments. The children Williams works with are among the most deprived in this city. They live in the Twiggs Street area. They are poorly housed, poorly clothed, and poorly fed. And they have no place to play. The area has been designated for urban renewal. But Williams says the mayor has said that urban renewal will take at least five more years. “A lot of kids will go wrong in five years. We need the center now,” Williams insists. Whereas: The Richmond County Sheriff Department has been accused with acts that are in violation to civil rights of citizens of this country, particularly Black citizens with acts of police brutality, abusive language, harrassment, and plain old customary disrespect toward the Black citizens of Richmond County, Georgia. Whereas: The Sheriff establishing a maximum for misdemeanor bonds. Walker urged that City officials and Recorder’s Court set a maximum bond that corresponds with the maximum misdemeanor imposed by Judge Kerr and the State Court. Under the present system, Walker continued, any person arrested for a misdemeanor would have to post a cash or a property bond. “Especially in toward financial independence for the church, to handle . Committees have been organized to handle funds. The church is now incorporated. A spokesman for the D’Antignac Street Church Os Christ indicated that an effort is being made to organize the church to function with modem day economics so that the church may enter main stream activities and become self-substaining. “We as a P.O. Box 953 ALEXANDER WILLIAMS He motioned to the back of his house - the site of his department has not seen fit to integrate the department’s poling cars, thereby creating many incidents whereby white deputies must encounter Black citizens in tense and precarious situations. Be it therefore resolved: that the sheriff department take immediate steps to fully integrate its patrol cars and all other facilities that are not integrated. We call upon the Recorder’s Court, the person is tried within three to five days, therefore affording the professional bondsman little or no risk.” As an alternative, Walker suggested that the City and the State Court allow the defendant to post a cash percentage of the bond. He further explained that a defendant placed under a $300.00 misdemeanor bond would pay 10% of that bond in cash-30.00. young congregation feel that it is our responsibility to develop build, and organize all of our activities so that we can function in or out of any economical society. With 217 members made up of mostly young people, we have formed our union and we have established our goals so that we can do the things that will help our surrounding community.” The church recently awarded Brother Williams a $20,000 retirement program. THE PEOPLE’S PAPER dream. In his backyard he has built a basketball court; it only has one goal, attached to a tree. The court is not paved and the ground is soft. But that’s where all the neighborhood kids play. It’s the only place in the neighborhood to play basketball. Williams is not really dreaming. He knows exactly what he wants and how he wants it. “It will be a 60 by 50-foot gym. In the mornings I want to have some lady come in and look after the little children and keep them off the Sheriff Anderson to take preventive measures to insure that police brutality will not be tolerated and also take immediate steps to insure that all citizens of Richmond County.. Georgia are treated equally. We further call upon Sheriff Anderson to make a consecrated effort to hire more Black deputies and to upgrade through equal employee opportunity, those Blacks that are now employed by the Sheriff department. When he appears in court, the $30.00 would be applied towards his fine, and if acquitted, the 30.00 would be refunded. “The present system - utilizing the professional bondsman - penalizes a man whether he is guilty or innocent which is unfair to all concerned,” Walker slated. A second alternative, he said, would be to pass an Ordinance requiring a professional bondsman and/or other persons charging a fee for his services to refund a defendant 50% of his fee when he appears in court and is found innocent Walker ruled out the idea of blanket policy concerning the misdemeanor bond. But he urged the “appropriate governmental bodies ’ to begin taking a serious look at the bonding system in Augusta and Richmond County. Hosea Williams Runs For President Os Atlanta City Council "PS J iff HOSEA WILLIAMS Augusta, Georgia streets and out of trouble after school. It (the gym) will have four - two for the boys and two for the girls. Later, we plan to teach our boxing lessons in the back of the gym. (He plans to have a swimming pool for the kids under 10 years of age.) Williams has had a long and varied career in and out of the ring. He is currently Augusta’s only fight promoter. He has trained such noted boxers as Sugar Ray Robinson, young Joe Walcott, Hurricane Kid, and James Brown, the Soul King, before he turned to entertaining as a career. Young Alexander Williams had seven professional fights and lost one, mostly in Philadelphia back in the 20s. Ironically, his only loss came in Augusta. Williams is proud of the interest the white community has shown in his project. The mayor heads the list of whites who have pledged support, according to Williams. He adds, “I want to make something clear. When Black people say that the white people don’t love them, they are wrong. Because there are more white people who are Christians than Black. They know love is the key to Heaven and in order to get there, they have got to love their fellow man.” Whatever the subject, Williams brings it back to his NEED EXTRA COPIES Below is a listing of some of the businesses in your area carrying the News-Review. (Lhr Aiiqnsfa Nrtns-Kiwtu Sanders Quality Signs One Hour Martinizing 1139 12th St 702 Ellis St. Brown Derby Bar One Hour Martinizing 502 Ninth St 2305 Milledgeville Rd. Esquire Package Shop Deal’s Curb Market 527 Ninth St. Golden Camp & Milledgeville Rd. C.W. Woo Grocery Store Floyd’s Grocery 1001 Ninth St. 302 Hwy 25, N. Augusta, S.C. Tates Grill Tuffey’s Restaurant 2451 Wheeler Rd. 2061 Milledgeville Rd. Honky Tonk Record Boutique Skyview Package Store 859 Gwinnett St 1718 Olive Rd. Oak Village Apts. S & P Curb Mkt. 104 Capital St. 8032 Deans Bridge Rd.Hwv No. 1 Williams Quick Chek Super Mkt. Roberts Grocery Snack Bar 839 E. Boundary 2064 Old Savannah Rd. Andersons Clothing Store Pickney’s Sales & Service 1599 Old Savannah Rd. 1257 12th St. Ella's Beauty Salon Jones Variety Store No. 2 1104 Ninth St. 1237 13th St. Barton Village Package Shop Intimo Lounge & Package Shop Barton Chapel Rd. 1815 Milledgeville Rd. Pates Package Shop White Horse Package Shop 2102 Milledgeville Rd. 497 Berkman Rd. Jims Supermarket Nu-U-Hopkins Wigs & Beauty Salon 2056 Milledgeville Rd. 2138M1 Milledgeville Rd. Leßa’S House of Fine Millenery L & N Grocery 217 Ninth St. 602 Monte Sano Ave. Del Morocco Club Tutt’s Grocery Store 2066 Walnut St 1614 Old Savannah Rd. Cantrell’s Grocery Blaylock Food Store 2507 Meadow Brook Dr. 1359 Ninth St Turner’s Wig Palace Elam’s Grocery & News Stand 211 Ninth St 1205 Gwinnett St. Turner’s Boutique & Beauty Salon Ruby’s Grocery Store 215 Ninth St. 1029 11th St Down Beat Grocery Progressive Grocery Store 177 Aregon Dr. 1223 Augusta Ave. Budget Food Inc. Hildebrandt’s Food Store Main St Harlem, Ga. 226 6th St. Larry’s Market Hephzibah Pharmacy 1670 15th St Next to Post of f*ce in Hephzibah, Ga. .’J Hft - iHr . i I®- (few! I’ . ■ i / i I-i aV w1 U 1 ' lIWiK *'<■ J I Be r r ‘r ; ’iT |b J WH w tWta J Jrl-AV tifi wfVslll I9&1 < ’’in® I Wl a Sff Ik ■ ' M F At4i' I r IPWI -T'3 * * Alexander Williams (L) pictured with neighborhood kids. dream for the children in his community. He>M»ays that Bethlehem Center is fine. But it is not in the Twiggs St. area, and the kids need a place to play in their own neighborhood. His conversation is punctuated with a recurring theme -- “Our Civil Rights activist Hosea Williams recently announced his candidacy for President of the City Council in Atlanta. He is taking an indefinite leave of absence from his work as President of the Atlanta Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and as Chief Organizer of the POOR PEOPLE’S UNION OF AMERICA. Williams said he is running o realize two dreams: (1) that »f Dr. Martin Luthor King and 2) “The Great American Dream”. He said he hopes to restore truth and honesty in September 13, 1973 No. 26 children need a decent place to go. We build every thing for the adult - beer gardens, night clubs -- but nothing for the kids. That’s where the trouble lies today, with our young people.” Editor’s note: Construction EDITORIAL Poor Need Minimum Wage Bill President Nixon has indicated that he will veto the proposed Minimum Wage Bill, mainly on the basis that it would be inflationary. Whereas the President is justified in his efforts to curb inflation, it is clear that the President’s concern is for maintaining the buying power of the affluent while showing absolutely no concern for those hit hardest by inflation -- the poor. Certainly among the hardest hit will be domestic workers. Household workers, the majority of whom are Black, are among the least protected by labor laws; although 1.4 million of them provide the necessary management of the homes and care of children that allow* their employers to go out and earn higher salaries. It must be remembered, however, that food, rent, clothing, and gasoline cost just as much for the domestic worker as they cost the white-collar worker. The domestic worker usually works without paid holidays, paid vacation, premium overtime pay, health insurance, pension plans or other fringe benefits. The average income of a full-time domestic worker is less than SIBOO a year, although only one in six domestic workers works year-round, full-time. Some argue that many domestic workers would be without jobs if their employers had to pay them SI.BO an hour, $2.00 an hour by next July, and 52.2 U beginning July 1, 1975. This is unlikely at a time when more and more people are seeking domestic workers. In addition to the proposed minimum wage, steps should be taken to get the kind of fringe benefits, social security, and status for domestic workers that are enjoyed by other workers. It is not likely that the President will ever become sensitive to the needs of the poor. But it is imperative that Congress exercise its option to override the veto. government. “If the concept and practice of good government is to survive, if American Democracy is to survive, then corruption must be eliminated from government.” Noting that his campaign colors are green and white, he explained that green symbolizes the concern he has for the poor people of Atlanta and their right to jobs, income and dollars with substantial purchasing power so they can ((zoej) of the proposed Beau Jack Athletic Club is estimated at SB,OOO. Persons wishing to contribute should send their donations to Beau Jack Athletic Club, P.O. Box 592, Augusta, Ga. 30907. Mr. Williams can be reached at his home at 1648 Savannah Road. have decent food, clothing and shelter. White, he said, symbolizes the fact that he will never sell out the dreams and interests of poor white Atlantans. “I care about the poor white man, woman and child. In fact, I care about people.” He said he didn’t feel that black was needed in his color scheme because his “committed life” has always been on the line for the Black poor.