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Vol. 6
HRC Chief Says
Deputy In Olive Road Death Known
For Killing, Maiming Beating
Augusta Human Relations
Commission Director Charles
W. Walker this week asked the
Justice Department to conduct
Voters Defeat Merger Plan
Augusta and Richmond
County voters rejected
unification of city and county
governments for tire third time
Settlement Reached In Million
Dollar Suit Against Paine College
The News-Review has
learned that a settlement has
been reached in the million
dollar suit filed against Paine
College by a professor at the
college.
Prentiss Davis, the plaintiff
Campaign Set To Push
Ed Brooke For Vice President
A nationwide movement was
kicked off in Pittsbuigh last
weekend to push the selection
of Senator Edward Brooke (R)
Mass, as a Vice President
candidate on the Republican
ticket with the announcement
of the committee to nominate
Senator Ed. Brooke Vice
President of the United States.
The committee’s formation
and its campaign strategies
were made public at a news
conference during the
Pittsbuigh conference of the
council of 100, an organization
of Black Republican leaders
from across the country. With
a large cross section of its
members in attendance, the
council of 100 endorsed the
committee’s plans as
announced by Burrell L.
Haselrig Jr., the committee
chairman and host for the
council of 100’s conference.
Haselrig, a prominent
businessman and general
contractor in Johnstown, Pa.,
said in the announcement,
“Senator Brooke is the person
who is right for the position.
He is eminently qualified. He is
a man of unquestionable
integrity and moral character,
free from any taint or
wrongdoing.”
The committee chairman
added that the committee was
formed specifically to push the
nomination of Senator Brooke
as Vice President of the United
States. “We have the explicit
endorsement of Senators Hugh
By Raymond H. Boone, Editor
Richmond Afro-American
HAVANA (NNPA) - Huey P. Newton, the 34-year-old
co-founder of the Black Panther Party, exiled in Cuba for more
than a year, is awaiting his lawyer’s okay to return to American
and stand trial on a bizarre string of alleged crimes.
In our hour-long interview, Newton stated that he was “very
happy” in Cuba. He appreciated the red-carpet treatment of Fidel
Castro’s socialist government, but he is ready to return home and
face the charges against him - “though,” said he, “I am not
guilty.” ,
“I was about to go back and face the charges” - but then
“renegade scab Eldridge Cleaver returned,” Newton said. “So my
attorneys came in and they advised me to wait until after he
(Cleaver) goes before the House of Internal Affairs Committee to
see what charges might come out of that. I am in a position to
wait and see.” .
While his big, winning smile and easy manner give the outward
impression of a man at peace with himself, Newton is an intense,
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an on-sight investigation into
the April 22 death of Jerry
Lewis Demmons and the
circumstances surrounding this
in five years and the second
time in two years by more than
2,000 votes.
Unofficials totals from the
in the suit, told The
News-Review that a settlement
had been made to him in
“lump sum.”
He refused to give further
details saying that part of the
Scott and Richard Schweiker
in this endeavor”, Haselrig said.
Flanked by members of the
council of 100 and its
president, Samuel Jackson,
Haselrig added, “Senator
Brooke is not seeking the
nomination, nor has he asked
us to seek it for him. If the
party wants him - if President
Ford wants him, he can hardly
refuse.” Jackson, formerly
assistant secretary of housing
and urban development, is an
attorney in Washington, D.C.
The goal is to obtain a total
of two million signatures by
the August convention -
40,000 from each of the 50
states.
Augusta Salutes
Senior Citizens
The Augusta Senior
Community Service
Employment Program hosted
an Open House May 3 at its
office, 601 Greene St.
This day was proclaimed
Senior Citizens’ Day by Mayor
Lewis A. Newman, and
Governor George Busbee
designated May as “Senior
Citizens’ Month”.
The Senior Community
Service Employment Program
Huey Newton Ready To Come Home
AN OPEN FORUM FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE
“unfortunate and brutal act.”
In his letter to the Justice
Department, Walker said
Deputy F.E. (Gene) Staulcup,
50 voting precincts, including
absentees, showed 13,417, or
54.4 per cent, against and
11,207, or 45.5 per cent, in
settlement was that he would
not reveal the amount of the
settlement.
Paine President Dr. Julius S.
Scott said a settlement had
been reached, but refused to
comment further.
Convention delegates are
included also in the
committee’s strategy. The
committee plans to contact
convention delegates and
others prior to the convention
as part of the project.
The newly-formed
committee feels that Senator
Brooke can help to solidify and
broaden the Republican party.
Haselrig said, “Senator Brooke
can help solidify the party and
bring with them the leadership
an dynamism that will give the
Republican party the kind of
boost it needs to put the
Ford/Brooke team in the White
House in November. As a
group and admirers, we are
urging his nomination.”
is sponsored by the National
Retired Teachers Association
and the American Association
of Retired Persons. It is a work
program designed to re-skill
chronically disadvantaged older
persons for entry into the
Nation’s labor force and
demonstrate that persons who
may be considered
unemployable have much to
offer employers in the public
and private sector.
restless young man who must deal with an issue head-on once he
has made a decision. He is also homesick, yearning to be back
with relatives and friends to operate from the American scene
which is more familiar to him.
I got this impression of Newton after meeting him at dinner,
and later chattering with him over drinks with other newspaper
colleagues who were part of an American delegation on a visit to
Cuba a couple of weeks ago.
I met Newton in the lobby of the Havanna Riveria, a luxury,
Miami Beach-type facility built by American gangsters just before
Castro led the Cuban people to independence in 1959 after three
decades of American domination and exploitation of the island
90 miles from Miami I introduced myself and extended my hand
to Newton and he shook it with both hands as though we were
old friends and had' not seen each other in years.
He looked more like a movie star than one with a reputation of
a revolutionary theoretician. Possibly influenced by Castro’s
practice of wearing only military fatigues, I had somehow
expected him to be wearing something resembling a "Black
Augusta, Georgia
who reportedly shot and killed
Demmons, has been involved in
“numerous cases” in which
citizens are either left “dead or
favor of consolidation.
An unofficials tabulation
shows unification passed in
Augusta by 5,049 to 3,255,
but was defeated in the county
by 10,162 to 6,158. That
margin was sufficient to defeat
the issue, which was tabulated
on a countywide basis.
Voters also favored the
elected rather than an
appointed chief law
enforcement officer by more
than 2 to 1 and the election of
nine commissioners
countywide and six from the
legislative districts if
unification passed.
Unofficials totals for an
elected law enforcement
official were 15,801 to 6,005
for an appointed one and
10,302 for nine commissioners
elected at-large to 9,404 for 12
elected from .the legislative
districts.
Those two issues became
moot with the defeat of the
unification issue.
The turnout for Tuesday’s
election was 26,696 voters,
nearly half the total registered
in Augusta and Richmond
County,
Absentee ballots totaled
more than 500, but only 452
of them voted on
consolidation.
Unification passed in only
16 of 50 precincts. AU but six
of those were city wards, and
one of six districts contained a
total of three voters.
In 1974, had the votes been
tabulated county wide instead
of by city and by county,
unification would have passed
by a 600 majority. In that
election, a majority in the city
and a majority in the county
were required for passage.
In another Georgia vote on
consolidation, Bibb County
voters soundly defeated a
proposal to unify the county
government with the City of
Macon Tuesday by a vote of
16,036 to 8,630.
Two years ago voters there
also defeated unification.
The unification failure in
Augusta and Richmond
County Tuesday reopens.
The possibility of a city
move to annex parts of
Richmond County north of the
Gordon Highway will also
open. A federaUy-funded study
is being conducted by the
Augusta-Richmond County
Planning Commission to
compile data which can be
used if annexation proceedings
begin.
seriously maimed”.
Copies of the letter were
sent to the U.S. Attorney
General, the local FBI, the
American Civil Liberties Union
and Yvonne Braithwaite Burke,
chairperson of the
Congressional Black Caucus.
In a letter to Sheriff
Anderson Tuesday, Walker
called for “corrective actions”
and outlined some of the
complaints against Staulcup,
who Walker said, “must go.”
Walker told Anderson it was
Staulcup who, allegedly, in
1971, “accidentally” fired a
shot into the ground and
maimed a 12-year-old youth at
Sand Bar Ferry School. The
shot supposedly ricochetted
off the ground and hit the boy.
“It was Gene Staulcup”,
Walker continued, “who
allegedly pistol-whipped a
young disabled white male
riding his motorcycle in the
vicinity of Salem Arms
Apartments.
“Gene Staulcup allegedly
beat an inmate brutally in an
attempt to make him confess
the killing of a white male.
“It was Gene Staulcup who
allegedly slapped and
brutalized a young woman who
refused to sign an unknown
document admitting guilt of
shoplifting before being
detained.
“Again, Gene Staulcup, in
civilian clothes, allegedly
harassed, brutally beat and
threatened to kill three Black
males for socializing with a
white counterpart in a local
restaurant.
“It was Gene Staulcup who
allegedly, while answering a
house call, brutally beat,
arrested and intimidated
residents who reported to the
sheriff department stolen
goods found on their
premises.”
Walker told the Justice
Department the cases cited
against Staulcup represent
one-tenth of one per cent of
the cases in which Staulcup has
personally, or jointly with the
sheriff, participated. Walker
told the News-Review
Wednesday that Staulcup gave
conflicting reports of the
incident leading to Demmons’
death. Walker said April 22,
Staulcup told Bob Young of
radio station WBBQ that he
and Demmons struggled over a
gun and that he (Staulcup)
fired several warning shots at
Demmons who fled on foot.
Staulcup reported that he gave
chase, on foot.
On April 27, Staulcup
reportedly stated that he
struggled with Demmons over
the gun, that Demmons
subdued him and he fired the
shots to unload his gun so that
in the event Demmons took
the gun from him, Demmons
would have been unable to
harm him. He said he fired the
shot while lying on his back.
Panther outfit” - at least the leather jacket. Instead he looked
like a model who just stepped off the cover of Gentlemen’s
Quarterly wearing an expensive, perfect fitting faded denim
outfit. He looked younger than his 34 years, but a slight limp
from a bullet wound received in a confrontation with police
reminded that his youthful look could not be attributed to an
easy life.
During the interview, it became obvious that there remains bad
blood between Newton and Cleaver, the former minister of
information for the Black Panthers who was expelled by the
party in 1971 in an ideological spat.
In addition to calling Cleaver a “renegade scab”, Newton
sharply criticized him for supporting Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger’s foreign policy related to Third World Countries, and
blamed Cleaver for the Panthers’ violent philosophy during the
turbulent Sixties.
Newton said Oeaver’s stand with Kissinger shows that Cleaver
has gone beyond “shuffling” to return to the U.S. where he faces
charges of attempted murder and assault stemming from a 1968
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The God Father Beaming proud parents William Pierce (left) and his lovely wife
Donzella (Hendrixs) Pierce (right) glow with joy as Tyrone Brooks, national
communications director of SCLC (center) holds their tirst child, Darweshi Kitwana,
Pierce in the studio of WAOK Radio in Atlanta where Ms. Hendrixs works at a
newscaster. She also narrates SCLC’s National Radio Program Martin Luther King
Speaks” each week while working as a volunteer with Brooks in SCLS’s office of
communications. Papa William is employed by the Federal Government.
They chose Tyrone as the god father of their child because: in the words of
Donzella, “William and I would like Darweshi to grow up and be a freedom fighter
and help carry on the works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., just as 1 yrone does each
and every dav of his life.”
Augustan Voted 'Most Valuable’
WILLIE SEYMORE'
Willie Seymore, who will
graduate with a bachelor of
fine art degree from
Jacksonville University in
Jacksonville, Fla., in August
was voted by his fellow
students and faculty as the
most valuable member of the
Jacksonville University Dance
Theatre. He made the finals in
May 6, 1976 No. 5
the Disneyland auditions, and
was accepted as lead dancer for
Cross and Sword, an annual
production in St. Augustine,
Fla.
One of the Dance Theatre
presentations was named after
Willie, called “Willie’s Gallery’”.
A dean’s list student, Willie
was a member of the
Jacksonville University
Dolphinaires, a vocal
performing group which has
entertained throughout the
Special Black Bicentennial
Edition Coming
Readers are invited to
examine the “Going Places ’
column which describes our
forthcoming Bicentennial
Edition on May 28. Persons
shoot out between Panthers and Oakland, Calif, police. “He is not
shuffling; he is crawling back,” Newton said.
Newton, who once represented the epitome of Black rage
against white racism in America, said that he sought to get the
Panthers to abandon the gun philosophy during the Sixties - but
was unsuccessful because of Cleaver’s influence over Panther
leaders.
“...I tried to get the party to stop the shooting, to stop their
talk about the gun thing,” Newton said. “They voted me down.
We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by
Eldridge Cleaver.”
Newton said he was “in solidarity” with the Panthers’ current
program of fielding political campaigns and community service
projects such as free hinch programs and shoe distribution
centers.
Once back in the United States, Newton indicated that he
plans to devote much of his time to bring about Black liberation
through the mobilization of Blacks to put “the right” Blacks into
City Hall and other “authoritative” places.
state. He is a member of the
university Opera Workshop,
has performed with the
Jacksonville Opera Repertory
Group, was one of the lead
cheerleaders, and will be one of
the lead performers in the
Jacksonville University
performance of the Man of La
Mancha, which will premiere in
June.
Willis is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Christopher Elim, Jr. of
Augusta, Georgia.
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