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VOL. 6
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BILL WEAVER
Sheriff Candidate Says Local
Law Enforcement Stinks
“If we don’t start treating
people right, we are going to
blow this town apart.” Sheriff
candidate Bill Weaver told the
News-Review in an interview
last week.
Weaver’s attitude on law
enforcement is clearly not
typical. Whether he would
make a better sheriff or
whether his outlook is just
campaign rhetoric remains to
be seen.
Here are some of his
comments:
News-Review: What do you
think of the quality of law
enforcement in Richmond
County?
Weaver: It stinks.
News-Review: Would you be
specific? What do you think of
the handling of the recent
deaths of James Adams and
Demmons?
Weaver: Let’s take the
Adams case first. No one is
going to make me believe that
a man was hurt as bad as the
doctor said Adams was hurt
FREEDOM NIGHT SPEAKER
Black Officials Tied To Power Structure
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(L-R) NAACP President Joseph C. Jones, Dr. C.S.
Hamilton, immediate past president; Rev. R.E.
Donaldson and Miss Belinda Richardson, mistress of
ceremonies.
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Dr. Channing 11. Tobias
Rally To Be Held In Cemetery To
Protest Adams And Demmons Deaths
A € nmunity Memorial
Rally to protest the killings of
James Adams and Jerry
Demmons will be held
Saturday at 5 p.m. in
Southview Cemetery.
Adams died in the city jail
March 25 after reportedly
asking to be taken to a hospital
and didn’t let the police know.
I believe officers heard him,
too. The Black cadet said he
heard him ask for medical help.
But they wouldn’t let him talk.
Why do you think he quit after
only two or three weeks on the
job?
News-Review: But the Civil
Service Commission ruled that
there was no negligence.
Weaver: The Civil Service
Commission covered it up just
as well as Chief Beck. About
three weeks before Mr. Beck
announced that he was going
to be a candidate for sheriff, he
spoke at the Uptown Kiwanas
Club. Every member of the
Civil Service Commission
showed up including the
mayor. I’ve been going to the
meetings for a year and a half.
That was the first time I’ve
ever seen them there.
News-Review: You’re saying
that they came as a show of
support for Chief Beck?
Weaver: Yes.
See “WEAVER” Page 15
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Dr. C.T. Walker
for a beating he received from
another man.
Demmons was shot be a
sheriff's deputy April 22 and
was found dead in a wooded
area a week later near Olive
Road.
The Rev. Michael McCoy,
who served as spokesman for
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J. Philip Waring
J. Philip Waring has been
named Citizen of the Year bv
the Augusta bfews-Review,
Editor-publisher Mallory K.
Millender announced this
week.
The award was given
primarily for his success in
prodding Black Augustans to
write their unusually rich
history which would have died
with the aging people who
remember it, Millender said.
Waring was the first to
propose the renaming of
Gwinnett Street to
Laney-Walker Boulevard and
the designation of the junture
“We must let our Black city
officials know that they have
been too silent, too inefficient,
and too tied to the power
structure”, the Rev. R.E.
Donaldson said at the annual
NAACP Freedom Night
program held at Tabernacle
Baptist Church Sunday night.
“We must not let them think
that we are satisfied just with
their presence. But they are
there (in public office) as
protestors to an unjust
system,” the Antioch Baptist
Church pastor added.
The Rev. Donaldson is the
former chairman of the “We
Want Our Share” committee
which picketed downtown
stores a year ago.
Augusta, Georgia
six organizations that last week
called for an independent
investigation into the deaths,
said the rally is being held in
the cemetery to dramatize
what the local law enforcement
is doing to Black men. “They
are putting us in the cemetery
every chance they get anyway.
J. Philip Waring Is N-R
Citizen Os The Year
at Druid Park and Gwinnett
Streets Tobias-Yerby Circle in
honor of Paine College
graduates Channing H. Tobias
and Frank G. Yerby.
He founded the Black
Heritage Commission which
worked with the Human
Relations Commission and the
city council to get Gwinnett
Street renamed.
Bom in Augusta where he
attended Haines Institute and
Paine College, he graduated
from West Virginia State
THOMSON’S NATHANIEL CULPEPPER
Ga Small Businessman
Os The Year Honored
In Washington,D.C.
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President Ford congratulates Nathaniel Culpepper
Washington, D.C.,
Nathaniel Culpepper of
Thomson, Ga., met May 13,
with President Ford and
Congressional and Senate
delegations from Georgia. He
also attended a reception in
honor of the 50 State Small
Business Winners in the Senate
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Dr. Lucy Craft Lanev
It is very symbolic to have the
rally in the cemetery.
The rally is sponsored by the
Martin Luther King Jr. Survival
Coalition, the Welfare Rights
Organization, the Concerned
Mothers Club and the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference.
University and Columbia
University School of Social
Work
He has practiced social work
for 30 years and has worked
with the National Urban
League for 25 years, serving as
executive director in
Jacksonville, Fla.; Springfield,
HL; Bronx County, N.Y.; and
Stanford, Conn.
In 1963, he won the civil
service appointment of
commissioner of welfare
services, the first Black to be
so appointed in St. Louis.
Select Committee Hearing
Room.
“I never gave it much
thought,” Culpepper said. “A
man called from SBA and
talked to me. After about half
See “CULPEPPER”
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EDITOR’S
NOTE
While we are
happy with this
historical edition,
the age of many
of the pictures
used prevents
uniformity.
He was vice president and
historian for the National
Urban League Council of
Executive Directors.
Waring received a citation in
Jacksonville, Fla. for leadership
in helping to save the Urban
League agency in that city
when it was attacked by the
Ku Klux Klan.
The New York Age cited
See “WARING”
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Augustan
Named Vice
President Os
Miles College
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Dr. Alandus C. Johnson,
formerly dean of Miles College,
has been appointed vice
president for academic affairs
at Miles College in
Birmingham, Ala.
Miles President Dr. W. Clyde
Williams, made the
announcement at a post-school
faculty and staff meeting last
week.
A graduate of Paine College,
Dr. Johnson earned the Ph.D.
degree at the University of
Georgia.
Interestingly Miles last three
presidents, including current
President Williams, have all
been graduates of Paine
College.
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays,
president emeritus of
Morehouse College and
currently president of the
Atlanta Board of Education,
will be the featured speaker at
the Dedication-Convocation
program for the renaming of
Gwinnett Street to
Laney-Walker Boulevard.
The west junture of the
street will be designated
Editorial
Only God Knows How
The News-Review is celebrating our fifth anniversary
with this edition featuring Blacks who helped build
Augusta.
We wish to thank all of you for your generous
support throughout the five years. We want to thank
you for your patience and understanding. You have
been patient enough to stick with us when we
disappointed you. You were understanding even when
we simply have not been able to deliver the kind of
service you deserve.
We wish to thank our stockholders and our
advertisers. Without them there would be no paper. We
have tried to emphasize to you the importance of
shopping with those businesses that support your
newspaper and other agencies and services of the Black
community. We hope you will continue.
We would like to point out to some of our newer readers
that we are not the “Weekly Review”. We did not buy
or otherwise take it over. It went out of business in
1970.
In 1971, ten of us put up SSO each and started a new
newspaper, The News-Review.
The fact that we were able to start a newspaper with
just SSOO in tiie midst of inflation was a minor miracle.
It was just as miraculous that we were able to print
week after week We iiave to give much of that credit to
L.D. Waters, our typesetter, Chalker Printing Co., and
Master Mailing Service for their extended credit which
we have now virtually paid off.
Then we have to thank our staff which has worked
for five years without a salary. As a sign of our progress
we have just hired our first salaried reporter who will
begin June 7.
We cannot individually cite all of the staff in this
editorial, but some have to be mentioned. Al Irby, the
dean of Black journalism in Augusta, was just an
extraordinary find. He was our first columnist, and we
think that he is as good as any in the country barring
none. To tell you what we think Phil Waring has meant
to this paper, we’d have to use up more ink than we
could pay for. Suffice it to say he is our Citizen of the
Year. ’ . .
Roosevelt Green, former instructor at the University
of Georgia and a former pastor in Augusta, has been our
leader in the fight for racial equality and social justice.
Frank Bowman has to be applauded for his work in
increasing our advertising lineage. Frank has made a
niche in the hearts of all those he comes in contact with
and is one of the real cornerstones of this paper.
Audrey Frazier, a senior at Augusta College, has given
all she has to this paper, and with no experience at aIL
has at times assumed responsiblity for newspaper and
handled the job ; admirably, as has Michael Carr and
Stan Raines our photographer and circulation manager
respectively.
We would be remiss if we did not give special thanks
to L.D. Waters and his family and staff for faithful work
in processing the production each week His wife, Ann,
has been extraordinary in her efficiency and ability to
anticipate and abate flaring tempers, not the least of
which is my own.
A hearty word of thanks has to go to our distributors
particularly James Stewart and David Peebles. And to
newsboys Dominick Mack, Wayne Scott and John
Freeman. Mack and Scott have been our longest-selling
and Freeman has been our highest-selling newsboy.
I’d like to thank my wife for her patience in
tolerating my hours away from home and for keeping
me together when I can’t keep up with myself.
And most important, we thank God. We have said
before, only he knows how this paper has survived. And
we think it has survived only because he wanted it to.
We continue to strive to be worthy as serving as His
instrument
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Yerby-Tobias Circle.
The program will be held at
Tabernacle Baptist Church,
May 31, at 6 p.m.
A graduate of Bates College,
Dr. Mays won a Phi Beta
Kappa Key from that
institution. He later earned the
Ph.D. at the University of
Chicago. He has received 47
honorary degrees and that
number is expected to top 50
before that graduation season
is over.
An authority on the Black
Church, he has written
extensively on the subject.
Morehouse CoUege saw its
greatest growth under his
administration of nearly three
decades.
He is a member of the Paine
College Board of Trustees.