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Notice
County Commissioner
Edward Mclntyre will be
on “Voice of the People”
heard over radio station
WGAC Wednesday night
from 6:30 to 7:30.
Carrie Mays May Resign Due
To Financial And Mental Stress
Augusta’s first woman to
serve on city council, Carrie J.
Mays, told the News-Rview this
week that she may resign from
her second ward seat for
reasons of health due to
financial woes and mental
strain.
Mrs. Mays, who is the
owner of the W.H. Mays
Funeral Home, said that during
the last six months her business
has been in its worst slump in
45 years. During a two and a
half month period starting in
October, she received no
business at all.
By comparison, during
January 1973, she received lo
calls, during January of 1974,
she received only 2.
Aside from a few long
Student Arrested Following Clash
Between Black Students And Deputies
. A 17 year °ld girl was
arrested Friday as sne along
with a bus load of students en
route to Butler High school
came to the defense of a
schoolmate who was denied
permission to ride the school
bus. The students were Black.
The bus driver was white.
The bus driver, James D.
Ross, of 224 Delmont Road,
called the Richmond County
Sheriff’s Department after he
picked up a girl (identified only as
Patricia) on Second Ave. Ross
said he had orders from the
office at Butler High School not
to let the girl ride the bus due to
some disciplinary reason.
Aggravated Assaults Reported s Death Probed
The body of a 38 year old
man was found Sunday behind
the Ursula Collins Elementary
School with the cause of death
said to be a blow to the head
according to an autopsy report.
The Augusta Police
Department said Sunday the
body of Cleveland Adams of
1608 Twelfth St. had been
found at about 10:10 a.m. It
was discovered some 50 yeards
south of Holly Street and
behind the school which is
located at 1321 Steed St. The
subject was lying on his back
near a drainage ditch, the report
said.
Around the body were found
personal papers, a hat, a key, a
charm and a pair of sunglasses,
Girl Wants Rat Taken Out Os Her Stomach
Lucille Williams told deputies
that her 16 year old daughter
believes she has a rat in her
stomach.
Mrs. Williams called deputies
to her home about 4:30
Carl Brown -
Attorney At Law
On January 28, 1974, Cart C.
Brown, Jr. was sworn to
practice as an attorney and
counselor at law in the United
States District Court, Southern
District of Georgia. The
ceremony was conducted y the
Honorable Judge Anthony A.
Alaimo. Also on hand for the
occasion was Attorney John H.
Ruffin who introduced
Brown to the court.
■' Brown is a 1966 graduate of
T.W. Josey High School. In
1970, he received the Bachelor
of Arts degree in political
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standing accounts that are
occasionally paid, she has had
to live on the $137 per month
she receives as a city
councilwoman.
Some politicians get rich
through politics. And Carrie
Mays could easily get enough
money to live comfortably.
Asked how she is able to keep
her integrity while
withstanding financial strain,
Augusta’s outspoken
councilwoman said, “It has
been pretty rough for me to
try to withstand the pressure
that 1 have to bear, but I went
into politics with an open
mind, that 1 wouldn’t be a part
of the system where you would
accept outside monies, and I am
determined that 1 will leave
Patricia refused to get off the
bus.
Two deputies tried to board
the bus, but the students had
the doors locked.
When the students finally let
the deputies on the bus, the girl
was again ordered off the bus.
She again refused.
The deputies said they asked
her to get her parents to take her
to school and straighten out the
problem. The girl refused again,
stating that her parents were
working and did not have time
to go to the office. Then the
deputies offered to take her to
school, but she refused.
During this time the entire
police said. He was listed as dead
on arrival at the University
Hospital Emergency Room at
11:25 a.m. according to police
reports.
The incident occurred
between 9 p.m. Saturday and 10
a.m. Sunday police said. An
investigation is continuing but
no arrests have been made.
In other police action, two
persons were arrested over the
weekend on charges of
aggravated assault with intent to
murder. Wilbert White. 29, of
1741 Sunset Ave. was arrested
Saturday on one of the charges
in connection with the shooting
of Willie James Lewis of 909
Carrie St police said.
Lewis was treated Saturday
Monday morning because her
daughter was “pitching a fit”
hollering over and over again,
“Lucille, take it out!”
Mrs. Williams said her
daughter has been taken to the
science from Mercer University
in Macon, Georgia. He was also
commissioned as a Second
Lieutenant in the United States
Army Reserves at that time. In
1973 Brown received the Juris
Doctor degree from the Walter
F. George School of Law at
Mercer University in Macon,
Georgia. He was also promoted
to First Lieutenant in the
United States Army Reserves at
that time. On December 7,
1973, Brown was admitted to
the State Bar of Georgia as an
attorney and counselor at law.
politics as clean as 1 went in.
“Right now, 1 would much
rather continue to suffer like
I’m suffering. 1 don’t like
suffering, but I’ll resign if the
pressure gets so strong that 1
can really say that this is the
reason that my business is not
doing what it should be
doing.”
Mrs. Mays said the mental
strain could jeopardize her
mental and physical health to
the extent that she could have
to resign for health reasons.
Mrs. Mays was hospitalized two
weeks ago. She said she got
physical rest, but did not rest
mentally because of the worry
about the operation of her
business.
Some observers feel that
bus load of students were
shouting their support of the
girl, stating that if Patricia got
off, they all would get off. And
several students got up to leave.
The first student off the bus
was India Yvonne Hicks, the
1 7-year old granddaughter of
News-Review columnist Al
Irby. The deputies said that as
Miss Hicks got off the bus she
hurled a racial slur at them.
They placed her under arrest.
When the girl refused to get in
the back seat of the car the
deputies said they had to “force
her into the vehicle”.
Witnesses say the girl was
pulled into the car and the door
at the University Hospital
Emergency Room for a gunshot
wound to the right shoulder,
according to police reports.
Police said the incident
happened about 9 p.m.
Saturday at the Amvets Club on
the corner of Ninth Street and
Walton Way.
Wilhemenia Jackson Cobb,
30, of Keysville, Ga., was
arrested Saturday on charges of
aggravated assault with intent to
murder in connection with the
shooting the same day of Frank
Crawford, also of Keysville,
police said. According to police
reports, Crawford was shot in
the stomach on the 100 block of
Watkins Street.
Amelia Dillon, 38, of 2103
hospital three times. Each time
she arrives at the hospital, the
girl says the rat goes away.
The mother said she also took
the girl to a witch doctor on
Gordon Highway who gave her
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Carl Brown takes oath from Judge Anthony Alaimo.
Presently, he is an associate of
Attorney John H. Ruffin at
1101 • 11th Street
fie is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl C. Brown Sr. of
P.O. Box 953
Mrs. Mays’ business problems
are the result of forces reacting
against her fight against crime.
As one man put it, “They are
killing her ‘softly’.”
Mrs. Mays said that she
really doesn’t know how to
answer for everything she has
done in politics, she had tried
to do “for the community and
for my people.” and 1 can’t see
why they would want to kill
me gently. But it seems to me
that this is what they may have
decided to do, because they
have not been able to stop me
otherwise. “They have away
of making it rough on you.”
She said she had not feared
economic pressure from whites
because of her totally Black
clientele. But she explained
was slammed on her foot. The
bus driver said that during the
arrest the bus was “rocking with
shouts of all sorts". •
Miss Hicks was taken to the
county jail where she was
charged with obscene and
abusive language and
obstruction of an officer.
Al Irby expressed outrage
that the girl was placed in the
cell with a woman who had
allegedly killed her husband.
Irby, said the girl should have
been placed in juvenile
detention under Mrs. Elizabeth
Calhoun.
The girl was later released on
S3OO bond.
Vireo Drive, North Augusta,
was arrested Saturday on theft
by taking (shoplifling)charges,
police said.
The Richmond County
Sheriff’s Department reports
included a complaint by Glen
Worth of Mcßean, Ga., who said
Sunday someone had stolen a
SSO portable luggage rack and a
S3O coat from his car which had
been parked at the Goodtime
Club on U.S. 1.
Larry Prescott, 24, of 2445
Amsterdam Drive also reported
someone had entered his
appartment and stolen $662
worth of items including as4oo
stereo outfit. Sheriff’s deputies
said.
medicine to drive the rat out:
five tablets (tylenol) and a half a
pint of a yellowish liquid.
Deputies took the girl to
University Hospital and advised
her to see Judge Iree Pope if the
problem continued.
Gracewood, Georgia. He is
married to the former Miss
Dalline Girtman, of Macon,
Georgia. They have one child, a
son, Carl C. Brown, 111.
THE PEOPLE’S PAPE&EB 1$ MZg
that certain Blacks may be
threatened with loss of their
jobs if they do business with
her.
Politics, she said, has been
quite a disillusionment. “1
thought that because I was
serving a Black clientele, 1 was
independent enough to speak
out. 1 find that maybe I’m not
as independent as 1 thought 1
was. It has been quite
disheartening. Several times
I’ve asked myself, ‘Are we
worth saving?’ ”
Mrs. Mays says she
sometimes wonders whether
people realize that she is still in
the undertaking business. They
call her everyday with their
problems but when their loved
ones die, they call someone
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1974 Debutantes Honored At Pre-Cotillion Tea
The Debutante Club held its
annual Pre-Cotillion Tea,
Sunday Feb. 10, 1974 at 5:00
p.m., at the Belle-Terrace
Presbyterian Church. The tea
was given in honor of the 1974
Debutantes.
The theme for the occasion
The 1974 Debutantes are (front row, 1-r) Misses
Estelia Thomas; Sharon Walker; Ann Jordon; Cynetha
Thompson; Sherold Reid; Faye Murray; Deborah
Powell; Toni Drunigold; and Brenda Allen. (Second
Row) Velyna Conner; Diane McCants; Ernestine
Hardwick; Deborah Evans; Elizabeth Alexander; Terri
Griffin; and Lorraine Brown. (Short-Center 3rd Row)
Among the 10 beauties
competing for the “Miss
Homecoming” crown at
Augusta College is 19-y ear-old
Audrey Frazier. Nominated by
the school’s Black Student
Union, she is the only Black
contestant.
The queen will be elected by
the student body and crowned
on Feb. 22nd. No Black has
ever been elected Homecoming
Queen at Augusta College.
A transfer student from
Benedict College, Miss Frazier is
a sophmore majoring in
English. She wants to become a
journalist.
She enjoys traveling and
sewing. She makes her own
Augusta, Georgia
Black Student
Competes For AC
Homecoming Crown
February 14, 1974
else.
Before entering the hospital
3 weeks ago, Mrs. Mays said
she read an article in the
News-Review in which a
prisoner stated that he had
been urged to “set up” her son,
Willie. That, she said, opened
old wounds.
“There again 1 was placed
under a lot of strain. It was
worse than the bomb threats
before the elections." Mrs.
Mays led the field of
candidates in the October
election.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Ten years ago, Mrs. Mays was ill
and the doctors said she had 72
hours to live. “1 suppose He
left me here for a mission. 1
hope that 1 have fulfilled that
was “Live Lovely for
Excellence”. Music for the
occasion was provided by Mrs.
Rosena L. Bain, an advisor.
Greetings were brought to the
group by Miss Joyce Jackson.
Miss J ean Kirkland had the
pleasure of introducing the
clothes and laughs when she
says, “By now I consider
myself a seamstress.”
An honor student in high
school, she was co-participation
editor of the school yearbook.
She was associate., editor of
the newspaper at Benedict
College and was elected “Miss
Benedict Tiger” (newspaper
queen).
Audrey is chairman of the
Junior Church of the Second
Providence Baptist in North
Augusta where she also sings in
the Junior Chorus.
She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Abe Alfred Frazier of
1527 Aiken Ave., North
Augusta, S.C.
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mission. It came to me one
Sunday in church, 1 believe
about the first Sunday in
October, as the children
kneeled for communion
my whole life came before me
then. It was about 10 years
since the doctors told me I
only had 72 hours to live.
‘‘That Sunday morning 1
said to myself that if 1 have
saved just 5 of my friends
children around that alter who
might have become drug
addicts because of steps 1 had
taken, then my living had not
been in vain. And if 1 have
saved 5 children, then I’m not
a hero. Lord, but I’m ready to
g°”
speaker for the program, who
was Mrs. Fani.ie S. Johnson, a
Business Education Instructor
at the Academy of Richmond
County. Following th< main
address, each debutante was
presented a box of Valentine
candy that came from various
Beverly Wooten; Eunice Williams; Margaret Mavins; jean
Kirkland; j ackquelyn Walker; and Kay Jackson. (Fourth
How - Back) Angela Jones; Jacquelyn Miller; Cynthia
Holiday; Patricia Kemp; Stephanie Mack; Brenda
Williams; and Janie Millsaps. (Not pictured are Patricia
McElvy; Edwina Ward; and Joyce Walton.)
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Girl Wants Rat
Taken From
Her Stomach
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Man Found
Dead Behind
Ursula Collins
School
Page 1
Carl Brown Is
New Black
Attorney
Page 1
Augusta Girl
Considered For
800,000.00 In
Scholarship
Money
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community organizations.
Remarks were given by one of
the clubs’ advisors. Miss Ida
Dowers. The parents of the
sub-debutantes served delicious
refreshments.