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Vol. 4
Grady Abrams Wants To Be Cleared
Os Suspicion In Carol Greggs Murder
Former City Councilman was strangled in June of 1973.
Grady Abrams has called upon Abrams and Hezekiah
the Richmond County Sheriff Robinson discovered the body
Department to solve the Carol and called the sheriff’s
Greggs murder and to clear the department. Abrams said he
cloud of suspicion surrounding told investigators he was going
him as the reported number with Miss Greggs,
one suspect. • j n each interview with
Abrams said the sheriffs the News-Review, the sheriffs
department conducted an department refused to confirm
intensive investigation until it or deny that Abrams was the
found that all of his alibis number one suspect,
checked out. Abrams was admitted to
Miss Greggs, a 24-year-old Georgia Regional Hospital for
former Paine College instructor three weeks following Miss
Strong Black Voter Turnout
Keys Maddox Defeat Here
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ANDREW YOUNG
Fired up by a
get-out-the-vote rally Sunday
featuring Congressman Andrew
Young, Richmond Countians
went to the polls Tuesday and
delivered the county
Democratic gubernatorial vote
to State Representative George
Busbee.
Many observers considered
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Richmond County “Maddox
country”. And City
Councilwoman Carrie Mays’
vow to “carry” Richmond
County turned out to be more
than rally rhetoric as Busbee
edged past Maddox here with
10,718 to Maddox’s 10,490.
In the August 13 primary,
Maddox had about 9,000 votes
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Greggs’ death. He said he was
depressed, “that these things
had happened. The community
was looking at me. It was hard
as hell.”
While in the hospital,
Investigator Billy Broome
asked him to take a polygraph
test. Abrams said he agreed
provided the test be given at
the hospital. Broome, he said,
promised to set up the date for
the test around the sth of July
1973. “I never heard from
to Busbee’s 4,000.
Congressman Young set the
tone of the rally early when he
said, “We are here to preach
the funeral of Old Georgia
Politics. We are here to bury
axe-handle politics.”
He underscored the need to
vote by citing countless figures
who died trying to get the rigi.t
to vote. He noted that along
Alabama’s famous Highway 80,
route of many of Martin
Luther King’s marches where
Blacks were beaten by police,
all but two of the Alabama
counties along Highway 80
now have Black sheriffs.
The future of our race and
our state is in your hands, you
are the judge. Black votes saved
this nation and Black votes will
save Georgia come Tuesday,
Young said.
Calling Maddox a “racist
demagogue”. Young, a
minister, said the Bible says
you have to repent and
“Maddox has not repented of
segregation. And Tuesday
we’ve got to rise up and cut
him down.
“Be ye not decieved, God is
not mocked. Whatsoever a man
soeth that shall he reap. The
man who sought to dismantle
the poverty program saw his
White House dismantled, and
he has been shipped out to San
Local Restaurant Sued,
Refused Mixed Couple
Bill’s Steak House, 2518
Peach Orchard Road has been
enjoined by the Justice
Department from refusing to
admit interracial couples.
A suit was filed against the
establishment on June 28.
Sources close to the case said
that a Black man accompanied
by a white woman were
refused service at the steak
house.
On August 17, the
defendants Hubert A. Isdell
and Bill Isdell, owners of the
eating place, signed a consent
decree agreeing to comply with
him,” Abrams said.
After being released from
the hospital and finding that
no one had tried to contact
him, Abrams said lie called
Detective Perry “to let him
know what I knew about the
case.” But, according to
Abrams, Perry “never showed
up, never called.”
Abrams said he explained
everything to the hospital’s
testing psychologist, A Dr
Douglas. “The record is open
Clemente and may go to jail
Andy Young told The
News-Review he feels Nixon
has been punished enough,
Nixon is down but not out. If
you start trying to punish him,
he’ll “get some sharp lawyers and
start going around speaking
and he will give the
rightwingers a hero they never
had. You give him the platform
of being persecuted and he's
liable to stir up more trouble
outside the Presidency than he
did inside.
with the rest of his cabinet
members."
The Rev. Charles Wells,
pastor of the Bethel AME
Church where the rally was
held was one of three Black
seminary students chased from
Maddox’s Pickrick restaurant
in 1964 with axe handles and a
pistol. Maddox was acquitted
by an all-white jury although
the news media recorded the
entire sequence on film.
Wells said that any Black
person who votes for Maddox
is a fool. He said he made the
statement fully aware that he
risked damnation according to
the Bible. He then repeated
that any Black person voting
for Maddox is a fool.
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the Justice Department's order
without a trial.
The establishment was
further enjoined against failure
to make all facilities and
privileges and accomodations
available to Black and white
patrons accompanying Black
patrons on the same basis as
others.
The decree ordered that a
sign be placed near the
entrance “so they are clearly
visible to all patrons and
potential patrons” stating, “We
serve all persons regardless of
race or color”.
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to the public,” Abram's said.
One of the reasons Abrams
says he went to the hospital
was “people were saying
‘something is wrong with
Grady’s mind.’ I wanted to
find out.”
One of the physicians, Dr.
Gentry, issued a report which
showed, according to Abrams,
(1) “I didn’t have a job. (2) 1
just didn’t trust people. (3) I
could be anything I wanted to
be." He said the hospital
released him against his wishes.
In July of this year, Abrams
said he called the sheriff for
the status of the Carol Greggs
stigation. The sheriff said
he didn’t know but he would
Editorial
More Than A Fight
When Muhammed Ali and George Foreman meet in
battle September 25 in Zaire, Africa, it will be more
than a colorful spectacular between two gladiators. It
will be the culmination of a project, dreamed up by a
Black man, executed by him and skillfully promoted to
the extent Blacks will figure in boxing as never before.
That man is Donald King, an ex-convict, numbers
artist of Cleveland, who utilized four years in prison to
rededicate himself to what he passionately calls ‘Black
unity.” King went to jail on a manslaughter charge after
a brutal fist fight in which his opponent died. He regrets
this incident, but feels strongly the four years was far
too long for what he feels was an accidental death.
Nevertheless, Donald King has pulled together a
potential S3O million gate next month with each fighter
guaranteed $5 million. How he put this all together with
major boxing interests is a story of sheer grit, talent and
ghetto diplomacy. History will be made September
25. Black people will be watching these two men as they
meet for a great event. This is not new to Black people.
Since the days of Jack Johnson, there have been boxing
heroes and infinitum. Joe Louis brought us to a pinnacle
of national adulation and the stripping of Ali’s crown
rallied a new breed of Blacks to his side. But all of these
incidents obscured the fact that with Black men creating
millions of dollars, the control and manipulation of that
money has always been in the hands of white men. We
are not suggesting that this is, of itself evil. We are
saying that the time is past due when Black men should
occupy a major role in the decision making process of
the boxing world, regardless of the gladiators. Don King
seems to have brought us that role. His contribution
should open the way for an even broader participation
by Blacks in other areas.
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get in touch with Billy Broome
and have him contact him
(Abrams). Broome never
called, he said.
Next he said he called State
Court Judge Eugene Kerr and
Iree Pope, judge of the
ordinary. Nothing.
He then called the FBI, but
they said they could not get
involved in the local case.
Abrams said he called the
DA’s office without result.
Three weeks ago, he said he
again went to the DA’s office
where he talked with Gary Hull
and Bachelor Flythe. He told
them the whole story and they
promised to set up a polygraph
test. But he never heard from
them again.
September 5, 1974 No. 24
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(L) COL. PAUL KILPATRICK WITH CHARLIE PUGH
Recently Mr. Charlie L.
Pugh was recipient of a 25 year
certificate, and two S 100.00
savings bonds, presented by
Colonel Paul Kilpatrick
Commander of European
Exchange System, Giessen
Depot.
Pugh began his career,
with the Army & Air Force
Exchange Service at Fort
Gordon, Georgia.
Presently he is Chief of
Cisrow Takes Post
In Conneticut
Curtis Cisrow has assumed a
new position in the commercial
products division on the
Monsanto Company in
Bloomfield, Conn.
Most recently, Cisrow served
as senior associate with Mau,
Hardhine Storage Giessen
Depot. Giessen, Germany. This
is the largest AAFES facility
world wide with issues in
excess of one million dollars
per day.
'*•. Pugh is the son of the
late Dea. Cleveland Pugh and
Mrs. Mary L. Pugh of Augusta,
Georgia. The husband of Mrs.
Mattie Wright Pugh and the
father of three children.
Inc. He also served as director
of the Richmond County Merit
System and worked in
personnel at the Medical
College of Georgia.
Cisrow expects to be with
the Bloomfield Technical Center
for two years. (See Pics. Page 3)