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Vol. 4
Augusta Brothers Charged In
Shooting Spree -3 Killed 4 Injured
By R.L, Oliver
Two Augusta brothers,
David, 38, and Frank
Middleton, 39, have been
arrested and charged with three
counts of murder, four counts
of aggravated assault with
intent to murder and one
count of burglary in
Stokeley Carmichael, Senator
Talmadge To Speak To Augusta Blacks
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STOKELEY CARMICHAEL
Black revolutionary
j Stokeley Carmichael will speak
on the corner of 9th and
Gwinnett streets on June 3rd
at 6:30 p.m.
Carmichael popularized the
concept of Black Power in
Man Says Police Took
Payoff, Fined S2OO
An Augusta man who
charged local vice squad
members with accepting gifts
and asking him to “take a
bust,” says he has been arrested
and released on bond before,
put was never taken to court
and had never heard anymore
from anyone until his arrest on
May 11th.
Howard Peak, 48, of 1437
Holley St. was arrested for
allegedly being in violation of a
city whisky ordinance - and
later fined S2OO in Recorders
Court - charged Det. Sgt. R.E.
Durland with accepting gifts,
asking him to “take a bust,”
and at times sending another
vice squad member, Det. J.L.
Jones as his pickup man.
“We had an agreement, I was
supposed to take 3 busts a
year,” Peak said. “On Jan. 14,
1974, Durland and Jones came
out to my house and asked me
to take a bust, I agreed. Then
one Sunday in late Jan. they
arrested me and took me down
to the 9th St. barracks, where I
paid a $lO7 cash bond to get
out. I did not go to court and
nothing was ever said,” he
explained.
According to Peak, Det.
Jones approached him again in*
April 1974, and told him Det.
Durland said the pressure was
on again, that they needed
mother bust. He (Peak)
contended that a Velmore
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connection with a shooting
incident in Charleston Heights,
S.C., Saturday.
According to police reports,
David, reportedly a student in
Atlanta, picked his brother up
in Augusta late Friday night
and both traveled to
1966 and became one of the
leading revolutionary figures in
the struggle for Black
liberation. He was a major figure
with SNCC and later with the
Black Panthers
The public is urged to
attend.
Hughes was busted this time on
May 5. 1974. “1 paid another
$lO7 cash bond and didn’t go
to court, or hear anymore
about it," Peak said.
When asked why he is
disclosing this information,
Peak declared, “he (Durland)
patted me on my back in court
and said 1 am a nice fellow, like
I am the biggest sucker in the
world, and I had just told the
judge about the presents 1 gave
him. Jones picked it up for
him.”
According to Peak, he gave
Durland 1 ham, 2*/z gallons of
Old Forester whisky and a shirt
from a downtown store for
Christmas, in 1972.
Os the May 1 Ith arrest. Peak
claimed Durland and 9 or 10
policemen came to his house
with a warrant, raided the
place, arrested 22 others and
hauled away 14’/2 cases of beer
and 9O'/2 pints of whisky.
“I want the public to know
what he has been doing and
what he has been receiving
from me. May 21, 1974 is the
first time I have gone to court,
since they have been busting
me.”
He added, “Why he has
been to this house more than
once, drinking right along with
us. I have plenty of witnesses,
the neighbors can tell you, he
used to drink here all the time.
He has even drank sitting at the
Bar-B-Que pit around back.”
P.O. Box 953
Charleston Heights.
The two allegedly stormed a
house where David’s estranged
wife Delores was staying with
her parents, broke into the
house and shot at random
everyone in the house.
Three persons died and four
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SENATOR HERMAN TALMADGE
Senator Herman Talmadge
will speak to the Augusta
Caucus on June 11th in the
Gilbert Lambuth Chapel at
Paine College. The program
begins at 7:30 p.m.
A Caucus spokesman said
this will mark the first time
that a senior Senator from
Series On Black
Achievement Well Received
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BLACKS % HO HELPED BtiLD AUGUSTA
Blacks who Helped build Augusta was introduced at a
news conference last week. Lett to right are Ed
Mclntyre, L.B. Wallace, Mallon K. Millender, J. Philip
Waring, Dr. I.E. Washington and Mrs. Gwen Cummings.
Part two of the introduction to the series Blacks Who Helped
Build Augusta will be published next week. Many additional
panels and additional subjects will be named.
The introductory edition has been warmly received by
community leaders.
Members of the Historic Panels and other persons interested in
the BWHBA series will meet on Sunday afternoon, June 2 at 4
p.m. at St. Mary’s Church Community Parish House on Pine
Street.
THE PEOPLE’S PAPES
were wounded during the
fracas. According to police
authorities in Charleston, all of
the victims were either in the
bed or on the floor when shot.
The Middleton brothers
were apprehended later on a
Georgia has come to Augusta
to speak to a Black group.
Senator Talmadge has gained
national attention as a member
of the Senate Watergate
Committee. He is chairman of
the Agriculture and Forrestry
Committee.
The public is urged to
attend.
Augusta, Georgia
dirt road in the Palmetto state.
Police believe the shooting
was the result of a domestic
quarrel..
Mrs. Middleton, David’s
wife, was not in the house at the
time of the shooting.
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DUKE ELLINGTON
Nation Mourns
Duke Ellington
From the New York Times
By John S. Wilson
Duke Elliston, who
expanded the literature of
American music with
compositions and
performances that drew
international critical praise and
brought listening and dancing
pleasure to two generations,
was buried in New York
Monday.
He entered the Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center’s
Harkness Pavilion at the end of
March for treatment of cancer
of both lungs, a condition that
was complicated last
Wednesday when he developed
pneumonia.
At his death, the phrase
“beyond category.” which
Edward Kennedy Ellington had
used as his highest form of
praise for others, could quite
literally be applied to the Duke
himself, whose works were
played and praised in settings
as diverse as the old Cotton
Club, Carnegie Hall and
Westminster Abbey.
The noted jazz critic and
historian Ralph J. Gleason
called Mr. Ellington “America’s
most important composer...
the greatest composer this
American society has
produced.” and summed him
up as a “master musician,
master psychologist, master
choreographer.”
“Ellington has created his
own musical world which has
transcended every attempt to
impose category upon it and
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An emotional Mrs. Lottie Evans is crowned "Ms. Pilgrim ‘74 by last year’s queen,
Mrs. Edith Elim, as President Walter Hornsby, Jr. (right) and Board Chairman S.M.
Jenkins look on.
> has emerged as a solid body of
F work unequalled in American
i music,” Mr. Gleason wrote.
I “His songs have become a
/ standard part of the cultural
I heritage, his longer
> compositions a part of the
, finest art of our time and his
; concerts and personal
appearances among the most
i satisfying for an audience of
> those of any artist. Every
music honor this country can
’ bestow is little enough for such
a musical giant as this man. In
reality, he has already won
I them and more by his imprint
on the minds of all who have
heard him.”
Mr. Ellington, whose inna.e
elegance of manner won him
his nickname of Duke while he
was still a schoolboy in
Washington, was a tall,
bevonair, urbane man with a
> vitalizing sense of the dramatic
i and an ironic wit that often
I served as a protective shield.
I Amid the protests voiced in
i 1965 when a unanimous
; recommendation by the
Pulitzer Prize music jury that
; ME. Ellington be given a special
; citation was rejected by the
Pulitzer advisory board, the
only comment by the
composer, pianist and
orc. .a leader was “Fate is
i bein xind to me. Fate doesn’t
; want me to be famous too
young.” He was then 66 years
old.
May 30, 1974 No. 11
Lottie Evans Elected
'Ms. Pilgrim 74’
Employes of the Pilgrim
Health and Life Insurance Co.
elected Mrs. Lottie Evans as
“Ms. Pilgrim 1974.” An
employe of 28 years with
Pilgrim, Mrs. Evans currently
works as a statistical clerk. In
addition to reigning over the
company as Queen for one
year, Mrs. Evans will receive an
all expense paid trip to the
National Insurance Assoiation
Convention that will be held in
Father Starts Son
On Army Career
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COL. NEAL SLOWS OEE SON S LIEU TENANT BAR.
Twenty-four years ago,
William B. Neal II of
Greensboro, N.C. received an
Army commission while
attending A&T State
University. On May 4,1974, as
professor of Military Science at
the University, Col. Neal
presented commissions to 14
young men, including his own
son, William B. Neal 111.
Since the older Neal received
his commission, nearly 800
cadets have earned their second
lieutenant’s bars from A&T.
This is the first time a
commanding officer has
enjoyed the pleasure of
commissioning his son.
The senior Neal was in the
second class of officers
commissioned by A&T. He has
served in Europe, Korea and
Japan, and in 1971, he became
one of the first two A&T
graduates to reach the rank of
f ull colonel.
Like his father, young Neal
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starting
June Ist.
Chicago.
Every year the home office
employes of the Pilgrim select
the person who in their
opinion exemplifies the kinds
of qualities and characteristics
that every employe should
aspire to. The employes vote
on individuals in such areas as
leadership ability, attitudes,
personal appearance,
cooperation, emotional control
and dedication to job.
has compiled a fine record as a
cadet at A&T.
He has served as cadet
battalion commander,
commander of the Pershing
Rifles Society and the Army
ROTC Drill Team and
president of the Welfare
Council.
In addition to his
commission, young Neal
received a Bachelor’s degree in
political science. As an Army
ROTC scholarship student and
distinguished military graduate,
he also received a commission
in the regular Army.
He reported for active duty
at Fort Bragg’s advanced
ROTC Camp May 7, but will
be assigned to Fort Benning,
Ga. at the end of July.
Young Neal is also the son
of the former Inez Thompkins,
who proudly pinned the bars
on her son during the
ceremony.