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Rev. Sims, James Brown Challenge Black Community at MLK J ' 4 *** 1 L-s 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 Engineers at Savannah River Plant 1 ”r vKs wMM y'l i • 1 I J i. twa 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. ■ PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! ■ We want to print your news. But we MUST have Wit by NOON TUESDAY in order for it to be ■ printed that week There can be NO exceptions. K Rease co-operate with us so we can better serve t y ° U ' I *Auguota Neuis-Srvinu 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. StKVICE P.O. Box 953 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. THE PEOPLE’S PAPER 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 January 17, 1974 No. 44 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. WANTED NEWS BOYS Good tar CALL Newt-Review Office 722-4555 A HIM IS ATEBUBUTHK n waste SMETHH MIBKW CMLEKHM. z” —x' Willi o k Ts J* _ A 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. Atty. Prentiss L Davis lln I I this I | Issue j 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 Page 3 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.