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PAINE CAMPUS Aiwta New-Brnrimn 1 NATIONAL BLACK NEWSSERVICE MEMBER 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 aP’WI v< 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 See PAYOFF Page 3 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 * 111 riM 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 mH . .. jRk Bk flH| : ',_x> BIB . *■*■- 4--S ,W w-W f 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. .s' B JmK HST k. 'M r W < z 11 L ? W Ri' ' ■t «k <■ ■KHBmw, 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 ■•* *** - da ■cnu i ■Mb/ i w* il 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 BRte ' r 4 WF'' j ? *4 -.&.<• V f-W W * f I *2iß| 't, 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 1 « .. VOTE NOTICE: NEW DEADLINE The news deadline will be Mondays at 5 p.m. 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.