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Prisoner Alleges
Police Assisted in Burglaries, Tried to get him
to 'Set Up’Carrie Mays’ Son and Emory Giles
Russel C. Boyd, a prisoner in
the Richmond County jail, told
the News-Review this week
that he has been involved in
burglaries wherein police
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ENGINEER TWINS: Recent graduates of North
Carolina A and T State University with degrees as
electrical engineers, twins Raymond, left, and Wyman
McCoy become full-fledged employees at SRP. The
brothers, from Hephzibah, Ga., were the first SRP
co-ops from N.C. A and T to complete their program.
Raymond and Wyman
McCoy, twins, were bom in
Augusta and call Hephzibah
home. They graduated from
T.W. Josey High School and
recently received B.S. degrees in
electrical engineering from
North Carolina A and T State
University.
For. the past several years
Raymond and Wyman have
been participants in SRP’s
co-op program and have
worked in several plant
departments, as well as in SRL.
At N.C. A and T, the twins
were both members of the
tracer team, Raymond
competing in the 220 and the
100-yard dash and Wyman in
the triple jump and long jump.
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Some 800 people gathered
in Paine College’s chapel
Tuesday night to hear the Rev.
Arthur D. Sims and singer
James Brown lead a tribute to
the late Dr. Martin Luther
King.
Sims called Dr. King a
prophet who used love as his
“common denominator”. He
said the shortage of Christians
is more serious than the
shortage of gas.
“If there was no shortage,
there would be more people
here tonight, the mayor would
be here, more preachers would
be here.”
Touching on Watergate,
Sims said he believes that God
is using Nixon to bring Black
vice-squad agents furnished the
burglars with information
neded to pull the burglaries
and helped get rid of the stolen
goods. He said police also
They also sang in the Gospel
Quartet.
While Raymond is a
bachelor, Wyman is married to
the former Barbara Henderson
of Augusta, and they have a
three-year-old daughter,
Dawana.
The brothers are members of
Second Ebenezer Baptist
Church, where they sing in the
choir and serve as trustees and
members of the usher board.
Raymond’s interests include
drawing and electronics;
Wyman lists electronics and
basketball as his chief
leisure-time interests.
They are the sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Jefferson McCoy of Route
2 Box 245 Hephzibah, Georgia.
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folk together. “The reason
they can’t solve Watergate is
because everybody has had
their hand in the pot.”
Sims challenged Blacks to
stop raping and killing each
other, and to stay off drugs.
He said as much emphasis
should be placed on busting
drug suppliers as is being
placed on drug pushers. “The
Black man can’t push nothing
that the white man don’t let us
push.” His speech was
repeatedly interrupted by
applause.
“I’m not talking about
hate,” he insisted, “We’ve got
to come together.”
James Brown, who attended
the services with his daughter
asked him to help set up prison
reform leader Emory Giles and
Carrie Mays’ son, Willie.
Boyd was sentenced to 10
years in jail on January 11, on
an aggravated assault charge.
Boyd said he is willing to
testify how police helped in
the pushing of drugs in the
Black community. One vice
squad agent, he said, “pulled
robberies with us. We
burglarized together.”
He said he was offered
money to burglarize the Court
House tag office (license
department) on March 16,
1972 but he was “too slow”.
The information for the
burglary was again supplied by
the police department, he
alleged.
That burglary netted
approximately $ 10,000 and no
one has been arrested for the
crime.
Burglars are sometimes
informed by police then
“busted by the same police
that informed them.” he said.
“I can explain details of
many of the burglaries that
have been committed, how the
goods are stolen and disbursed.
“I have been informed to try
to do things to Carrie Mays’
son. They tried to get me to set
up Emory Giles.” When asked
what he had been asked to do
to Mays and Giles, he said, “1
don’t want to get into that. I
know they (sheriffs officials)
are listening. I don’t fear for
my life or anything like that,
but I want to wait until I get in
court before I give details.”
He said he would not testify
unless he was given immunity,
and that he wanted a special
prosecurtor to be brought in.
He charged that District
Attorney Richard Allen is
involved in a conspiracy against
him.
Boyd is now serving time
stemming from an incident at
the Big Apple ” a club at Steed
and Linden Streets in May of
1972.
He said that following an
altercation at the establishment
in which the bartender fired a
shot at him and some of his
friends, he returned to the club
with a friend.
The friend, John Crawford,
was going to straighten the
problem out. But upon arrival
at the Club, according to Boyd,
Crawford fired a shot into the
Club which struck a woman,
Brenda Morgan causing a minor
laceration. Miss Morgan, he
said, charged him with the
shooting and swore out a
warrant for his arrest. He said
she later asked that the warrant
be dropped as she did not see
him fire the shot, but was told
that he did it.
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Birthday Celebration
and his father, was given a
standing ovation before and
after his impromtu speech in
which he called on Black men
to “stand up and be counted.”
“Now I’d like to get down
on our Black men. The only
way we are going to be what we
should be or half way like Dr.
King - is to stand up and be
counted. You may not like the
way I stand up all the time, but
I stand up.” The statement
drew a strong ovation, as did
many other points he made.
Brown said he could not
match the eloquence of the
master of ceremonies, Rev.
George Brightharp, or the
charisma of Rev. Sims, but he
added, “I can follow in their
Boyd furnished the
News-Review with a copy of a
notarized letter dated July 21,
1972 from Miss Morgan to
then, District Attorney R
William Barton asking that the
warrant be dropped.
The letter said in part, “I
do.-, not wish to appear against
him (Boyd), so please have the
warrant dismissed for me.”
Boyd said the woman
demanded and was paid SIOO
to get the warrant dropped.
Chavez Awarded
King Peace Prize
Atlanta-Cesar Chavez, the
man who leads the courageous
nonviolent movement of farm
workers, received the 1974
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolent Peace Prize.
Mrs. Coretta Scott King,
President of the Martin Luther
King, Jr. Center for Social
Change, presented the Prize -
the highest award conferred by
the Center - to Mr. Chavez at
the Third Annual Martin
Luther King, Jr. Birthday
Benefit Concert on the night of
January 14 in Atlanta’s OMNI.
In a statement Friday, Mrs.
King said that the Center is
awarding the Nonviolent Peace
Prize to Mr. Chavez “for a
courageous nonviolent struggle
for economic independence
and human dignity.”
Mrs. King and the Center
have long supported the
movement of the United Farm
Workers Union, which Mr.
Chavez serves as President.
Mr. Chavez is the second
recipient of the Prize, which
last year was awarded to
Atlanta Congressman Andrew
Young, who for years was one
of Dr. King’s closest associates.
The Benefit Concert on
January 14 was sponsored by
Columbia Records and
featured Sly and the Family
Stone, The O’Jays, Ramsey
Lewis, Maxine Weldon, and
other Columbia stars.
Don Cornelius, host of the
nationwide television program
“Soul Train”, was master of
ceremonies at the Benefit
Concert for the King Center.
Augusta, Georgia
footsteps or walk right beside
them in the path of
righteousness, and I’m going to
do that.”
Brown pointed to his
frustration in communicating
with people through the media
because so often he is
misinterpreted. He said the
worse thing in the world is to
know a lot of secrets that
involves “you and your
brothers and not be able to tell
it.”
He gave special thanks to
News-Review editor Mallory K.
Millender for writing the
editorial “James Brown Loves
Augusta” (News-Review Nov.
15) 1 think it’s the best
editorial that I’ve ever had in
Barton agreed to drop the
warrant, according to Boyd.
However, Barton had to leave
office due to a brain tumor. He 4
later died
During his trial last
Thursday, Boyd said a court
officer told him he was going
to be found guilty because he
called the District Attorney
“an arch deceiver”.
Boyd’s attorney, Albert
Ingram, said he thinks the
verdict was unfair. He also said,
The Concert was followed
on January 15 by the 45th
Birthday Anniversary of Dr.
King with a Wreath Laying
Ceremony at his crypt, an
Ecumenical Service at
Augusta Attorney Joins
Fort Valley Faculty
Attorney Prentiss Ivory
Davis has accepted an
emergency appointment to the
faculty of Fort Valley State
College, Fort Valley, Georgia
to teach courses in collective
bargaining, money and banking,
and principles of economics.
in accepting the
appointment, Davis, who holds
a doctorate degree from
American University in
Washington, D.C., as well as a
masters degree in business from
Georgia State University,
Atlanta, commented, “I
consider the fate of state
supported Black colleges to be
at the crossroads at this point
of time in history. Their
survival requires heroic
sacrifices and inputs of money
and talents by all Blacks,
especially those middle-class
Blacks, who received the
wherewithals from Black
institutions of higher learning
that set the stage for their
affluence today.”
Davis will maintain the
active practice of law in his
firm and has succeeded in
attracting attorney Orin Alexis,
a graduate of Howard
University, to his staff, as an
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my life. And 1 got it in the
best place I could get it at
home.”
He said that in order for him
to get the things he feels are
important across, he has to
hear the things that people feel
are important that he is not
doing. The editorial gave the
negative as well as the positive
attitudes people hold toward
him.
He said it let everybody
know that he is still human,
and that he is the same little
Black man or Black boy that
shined shoes down on streets.
Brown said he followed Dr.
King from 1955 until his
death. “Blacks didn’t really get
involved until King’s death. It
“Not only was the letter
received by Barton, his
secretary typed it and had it
notarized.” Ingram said he
plans to appeal the decision.
The prosecution contended
that Miss Morgan signed the
letter because Boyd threatened
her if she did not sign it.
Ingram said that Boyd was
given 10 years because he had
been convicted of four other
felonies including armed
robbery, burglary, sodomy,
and aggravated assault.
Ebenezer Baptist Church, a
Celebration March from the
Church to downtown Atlanta,
and a mass Community Rally
at the Atlanta Municipal
Auditorium.
associate.
In keeping with the new
directives, Mr. Roscoe Barnes,
who previously held the title of
office manager, has been
promoted to the newly created
position of administrator. He
retains his title as special
assistant to attorney Davis.
James D. Reese remains as a
legal interne, and assumes the
title of deputy administrator.
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took his death to make us
know what we should be
doing,” he commented.
In what appeared to be a
reference to his own
difficulties, he urged those
present to pray for him
because it seems that when a
Black man steps out front,
“It’s not long for him. 1 know
I’ve got to be out front for a
long time, as long as 1 live.”
Brown said he wants to
become more involved, and
with the help of the
community, “ we are going to
do some pretty great things.”
Brown also thanked his
father, Mr. Joe Brown, “Even
though there were a lot of
things he couldn’t do for me,
the things he didn't do taught
me what I had to do.”
The program was jointly
sponsored by Paine College and
the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.
Other participants included
Michael Thurmond, president
of the Paine College Student
Government Association, Rev.
J.S. Wright, president of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, Rev. N.T. Young,
pastor of Thankful Baptist
Church and Rev. L.R. Neal,
pastor of Trinity C.M.E.
Church.
The predominantly white
Marine Junior ROTC from
Butler High School served as
ushers.
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Johnny
Williams
Electrocuted
Police Report
Burglar
Exchanges
Shots With
Minister
Police Report
Bale of Cotton
Stolen
Police Report
Preacher's
Shotgun Stolen
Police Report
Ex-POW
Hospitalized
After Wreck,
Beating
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Dawson Named
Bureau Head
SIS
Leonard E. Dawson
Leonard E. Dawson,
formerly Associate Director of
the Moton College Service
Bureau has recently been
appointed director of the
Bureau in Washington D.C.
Before joining the staff
two years ago. Dawson served
as a program specialist in the
U.S. Office of Education and
dean of instruction at Paine
College in Augusta,
In his new position, Dawson
will direct a program that
provides technical assistance to
83 Black colleges in the related
areas of proposal preparation
and federal relations.
