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Councilman, Former Mayor Dead . of Heart Attack City Councilman and former Mayor of Augusta Hugh Hamilton died Wednesday morning of an apparent heart attack. A life resident of Augusta, he lived at 2262 Overton Road with his wife Emma Doris. Funeral services will be held at 4:00 Friday at the Trinity United Methodist Church. He will be buried in Westover Cemetery. < He was vice president of the Augusta Bag and Burlap Co. and the Southern Beverage Packers Co. He is survived by his wife, his son, Hugh Hamilton, Jr., daughter, Mrs. Warren Jenkins, and three sisters. He was mayor of Augusta for two terms 1952-1958. He was the youngest mayor in the United States at the time, at the age of 31. He was 53 when he died. Hamilton complained of chest pains Wednesday morning, and went to his physician’s office where he „ 'isped and died about 11:00 ?. a 5. By Michael Thurmond Two Paine College students, Lawrence Oliver Jones and Robert Cambridge, were involved in an alledged criminal incident with Dr. Lawrence Hartlage of 2105 Bellview Drive on the night of January 17. One of the students, Lawrence Jones, said he was struck with a stick over the left eye by Hartlage, causing a two inch cut that required hospital treatment. Conflicting stories have developed as a result of the < ,; r ’’•Bi c ' jafliMMHMg «<rk % r ■B- k ■Bl iW jr* B. k MH W jßwfvfc ■ KtA I w I County Commissioner Edward Mclntyre pinch-hits as quarter back for youngsters playing on newly paved street in Hyde Park. The youths said they play in the street because they have no place else to play. Left Out Os Chairman’s Report,Mclntyre Makes His Own County Commissioner Edward M. Mclntyre calld a press conference last Friday to give a report on the Public Works Department’s progress. Mclntyre said that the press conference was necessary because it was not included in the annual report. That report was made by Commission chairman Norman Simowitz. Mclntyre, who is in his 4th year .is chairman of the Public Works Department, cited the growth of the employes in the county engineer’s department from 8 to 44 employes with construction crews. This growth in employes, he said, has saved a tremendous amount of money for the county because heretofore the work was contracted out. He praised County Engineer „ WARREN A. CAgjLl LIBRARY PAINE COLLEGE AUGUSTA, GEORGIA I " AINI L Y HE PEOPLE’S PAPER JAN 2 9 1974 nllMßpr I NATIONAL BLACK Nl ?AI M f ' [ | 1 <’P U S \\ J1 * MEMBER ' VV J/ AUGU TA, G■' , I Vol. 3 Brown Calls 94,000 Tax Case A Fraud 'By A White Man’s Nigger’; Discusses His Views On Nixon Since Watergate. Following James Brown’s appearance at the Martin Luther King birthday celebration at Paine College last Tuesday, he granted the News-Review an exclusive interview in which he discussed many of the issues that have made him the subject of recent controvery. Nineteen seventy-three was a year marked by setbacks for the famed entertainer. It was on this note the interview began. NEWS-REVIEW: It would seem that the year 1973 was a very difficult year for you. You lost your son, your night Paine Students Charged With Assault With Intent To Murder incident although three eye-wirness reports seem to collaborate Jones’ and Cambridges’ versions of the alledged occurances. However, the Augusta Police Department record carries only the statements of Hartlage, statements that eventually led to the jailing of the two students on charges of assault with intent to murder and criminal damage of property. Bond was set at SI,OOO each for the students, it was later paid by an anonymous source. Hartlage told police that he first noticed the two men as he Paul Wattles, Otis Benson, Millard Gooding, Hugh Cross, and Douglas Bernard for their “fine cooperation”; . During 1973, 37 streets and roads were paved or resurfaced in the county and 85% of all the county’s entire resurfacing program was completed. This work, too, was previously contracted out. Emphasizing the work done by “our own crews”, Mclntyre said, “We think this is a banner year for the county because the people of the Richmond County have received tremendous benefit from the improvement of roads throughout the county.” He also noted the acquisition of some 300 parcels of right-of-ways on Wrightsboro Rd., Lumpkin club, and now you have a $94,000 tax lien against you. What effect have these things had on you? BROWN: It was the most difficult year I’ve ever had in my life. First, I’d like to say the tax lien was a fraud. I don’t really have a lien on me. That was a thing that was used by a white man’s nigger out of Baltimore who wanted to buy my radio station, and I wouldn’t sell it to him. So he thought he would put out some bad publicity that would force me to sell it. No, that never did happen. left the Dentistry Building and headed ior ins automobile which was parked in the Medical College parking lot on Gwinnett Street. He stated that the two men were standing in the street “shouting and making noise”. Both Jones and Cambridge deny this allegation. Hartlage then stated that he got in his car and started toward Gwinnett, when both of the men jumped into the path of his care and one of the men started beating on it with a pipe. Jones explained that he was only walking past the entrance lane of the parking lot Augusta Man Shot, Arrested By Sheriff A man was released on bond from the Richmond County Jail this morning after being shot and arrested by Sheriff William A. Anderson last night. Anderson said he noticed a ruckus in the parking lot of a lounge on Deans Bridge Road about 11:15 pan. Monday and stopped to break it up. As he drove up in his car, Anderson said a man later identified as Jack Cobb, 25, of 2105 Nannette Dr. pulled into the parking lot and drew a pistol Cesar Chavez Wins King Nonviolent Peace Prize Rd., and Highland Avenue. With the help of Wattles and Bernard, Mclntye said they were able to generate B'/i million dollars in commitments from the state for various projects in our county, including the John C. Calhoun Highway nd the second portion of the Bobby Jones Expressway among other projects. “We have SBOO,OOO just on county contracts alone,” he S 3 id. The County’s first Black commissioner also praised the achievements of the Waterworks Department, noting that many of the old subdivisions in the county have never had water and sewage. “I consider this just a mere necessity of living for a man to have water and sewage to his home. We were able to put sewage in 3 major areas of this last year amounting to some $2!6 million that was spent to put water and sewage in.” NEWS-REVIEW: Was there a relationship, in your opinion, between the tax lien and the million dollar law suit you filed against the city of Knoxville, Tennessee? BROWN: Thank you for saying that. Well, the relationship was the media. This, again I want to say, this nigger, he wanted to give it to the Black media, and they refused to run it. And he gave it to the white media, and right after I had come out with the million dollar suit. I didn’t put it on the national media. My lawyer did it. But he did it. when the car driver by Hartlage ran into 1 him, knocking him onto the hood of the car. Jones further stated that the driver shifted the car into reverse, and struck Cambridge, who was standing behind the car. After being hit by the car, Cambridge admits to having beat on the car with the pipe. According to the students, Hartlage then drove the car out of the parking lot onto Gwinnett St. with Jones and Cambridge pursuing on foot. Hartlage told police that he stopped the car and got out on a man standing in the parking lot. The Sheriff said he identified himself as a police officer and attempted to persuade Cobb to put the gun down. Anderson said he himself was unarmed at this time. When Cobb still refused to put the pistol away, Anderson said, “I am the Sheriff of this county, and if you use the gun I’ll put you in jail.” SHo/. CAESAR CHAVEZ AND MRS. CORETTA SCOTT KING The man who leads the courageous nonviolent movement of Farm Workers is the 1974 recipient of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize, Mrs. Coretta Scott King has announced. Mrs. King, widow Augusta, Georgia Now they thought they was getting me back with a tax lien. But the Black media wouldn’t run it. The white media ran it. NEWS-REVEIW: What about your night club, The Third World? Do you think it was arson? BROWN: Definitely, it was arson. But I think it was a very sick mind. I don’t accuse Augusta for doing it. I just accuse that type of person that’s still around. You’ve got all different kinds of people out there. You’ve got racists, you’ve got Communists, you’ve got the mafia, and you’ve got because he “thought the car nad hii one ok' the rneii” bu. he also armed himself with a wooden stick before leaving the car. In his version of the beating, Hartlage said Jones and Cambridge began beating him and during the ensuing struggle, he struck Jones over the eye with the stick. The students’ stated that Hartlage jumped out of the car and began beating Jones with the stick, striking him several times. Cambridge soon joined in the struggle, but immediately there after a Anderson said Cobb then pointed the gun at him nd threatened him. Cobb then drove out of the parking lot, and Anderson returned to his car and radioed for assistance. Cobb drove into the K-Mart parking lot and stopped. Anderson followed Cobb into the lot and got out of his car, this time armed with a pistol. Again the Sheriff ordered Cobb out of the car, and again Cobb pointed the of the slain civil rights leader and the 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 Birthday Benefit Concert on jealousy. So. it’s kind of hard to tell you, it’s hard to accuse anyone in one specific place to say it was that person. Because all those things could divide, you know. NEWS-REVIEW: Are you going to rebuild The Third World? BROWN: No, we’re building a discotheque. Which I’d like for you to see, because I’d like for you to explain it to the people. With your media and my media and all the Black media and all the different community groups and organizations, and Medical College polieman a arrived •on die scene and separated the men. Cambridge said that two Medical College students who witnessed the incident were almost ignored by the police officials as they tried to explain what happened. Jones received stitches on a head laceration and multiple bruises to the body. Dr. Hartlage was examined and treated for broken ribs. pistol at Anderson. Cobb attempted to flee, and Anderson fired one shot into the rear window of the vehicle. Cobb was then stopped by several Sheriff s cars converging on the area, according to sheriff records. Cobb, who was treated and released for a shoulder wound at University Hospital, was charged with aggravated assault with intent to murder. He was released on $ 1,250 bond. January 14, 1974 in Atlanta. Mr. Chavez is the second recipient of the prize, which last year was awarded to Congressman Andrew Young, who for years was one of Dr. King’s closest associates. January 24, 1974 No. 45 schools —what a discoteq ue means. When you and 1 were coming up, didn't have a place to dance. Kids don’t have a place to go now. So its a place to go and dance. NEWS-REVIEW: What do you see in regards to Martin Luther King's dream as opposed to what’s happening right now? Do you think that the dream will die? BROWN: Well, whether you know it or not, I was the first one to kick-off this drive this year. I started in December. I started right after Christmas We put it on Black Mutual News and all different media. I believe it will die unless men like me, leaders, artists, any professional people, the ball players, and what have you, the athletes, or the publishers like yourself, not the cats who work at the paper, the publishers. Unless we jump in, then it’s going to die. Watergate would have never been if it hadn’t been for the media. Because Watergate has been happening all our life. But the media brought it to a head. This is very important because without the media, without the professional people, the stars, the ministers,then we’re lost. This dream has come to an end. But now, at this point, we can do anything that we’d like to do constructively in this city, Augusta, Ga. And eventually we’ll be able to do it in any state, in any city. Now, are we going to have a little problem county wide and state wide because that calls for, you know, that’s a bigger piece of pie. But locally, with people like yourself, the News-Review, Paine College, the students, all of the high schools, elementary schools as well, and the professional people that come in and out of this city. We can bring equal justice. We don’t want more. You know, even though, we are, I think, close to 65% here in this city. But we don’t want 65% of the rights. We want equal rights. Because if we ask for 65% of the rights, we going in the same direction which we’re coming out of. NEWS-REVIEW: Have the revelations of Watergate changed your opinions at all about the President? BROWN: No, because if 1 turn against the President then 1 may as well turn against everybody walking the streets. PENNILESS 114 Year-Old’Bearzoo’ Rev.lsiah Gordener Dead The Reverend Isiah Gardener, known throughout the city as “Bearzoo”, died last week, penniless and without money for burial. His age is given at 111-114; he is believed to have been Augusta’s oldest citizen. “Bearzoo” was Black and bom with a clubfoot which dragged as he limped about preaching on street comers a message of death and destruction to non-believers. It is said that everybody knew him. He had no church, but the people in the street were his congregation. And it was the Ministerial Alliance that came to his rescue when he died without money for burial. They help raise more than two hundred dollars to help defray expenses and many people went to Dent’s Funeral Home to make donations in his behalf. The funeral is to be held later today at Macedonia lln I I this I [ Issue | Sheriff Shoots, Arrests Man Page 1 Catherine Clark First Black 'Lady Scouter of the Year ' Page 3 People Speak Page 5 "Bearzoo" (Rev. Isiah Gardner) dead at age 104 Page 1 ' Because we’re sure everybody’s got skeletons in their closets. But, you see, it’s one thing Black people got to remember, the positions that were handed out by this president in four years hadn't been handed out by all of the presidents since Reconstruction. And like I was talking here tonight, it’s bad that I know these things and would be skeptical whether I should say them. But, you see, I'm not going to be skeptical. Whether I sell a record tomorrow or not, whether I have a person come to my shows or not. That’s not important. Ifs important that I tell them the truth. Maybe Nixon did take the money out of the street. But what he did was make the white man come down to his size, to the same size as the Black man. You see, before, with all the other administrations, the white man was in the air and the Black man was on the ground. But now, the Black and the white man is scuffing like hell. I want to remind the Blacks, I’m not Democrat or Republican. But it was under a Republican administration that Black people were freed. I’m not Democrat or Republican. But the Republican states in slavery were never enslaved. It was always the Democratic states that were in slavery. You see I know they don’t know that. See, these are things they need to know. It was under Republicans, a simple thing as a water fountain was integrated under Republicans. The Democrats put two water fountains there. Now, I was raised up as a Democrat. But my daddy told me to be a Democrat. Now 1 know why I shouldn't be a Democrat or a Republican, because he don’t know. Just that simple. And I love my daddy, you understand. But he don’t know. That don’t make him know because he’s my daddy. Black people can’t vote Democrat or Republican. They got to vote for the man who will do something for them. Who would’ve thought Maddox would’ve done more for us than anybody else? Baptist Church, with Baptist ministers handling the program. Rev. Gardener reportedly did not die in his home at 832 Cedar St., but rather, in University Hospital where he died of malnutrition. He received $75 a month from welfare, but that went to pay his rent. According to a Franciscan nun who does social work, Sister Celine, “It seems he had nothing. He had no food. He had no hot water. I brouth him some clothes because he had none. Speaking of the efforts to raise money for the funeral, County Commissioner Edward Mclntyre said, “I’m sure this true disciple of God will have a decent funeral, because I am sure there are thousands of people who believe in God who will rally around to give this man a decent Christian burial.