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ANGELA McWHORTER to leave grease and grime for queen's throne
Gas attendant to become
Paine College queen
Angela McWhorter can be
seen almost any day pumping
gas at the automotive
department of a local store.
But come Friday night, she will
be a queen.
The 22-year-old Atlantan
Florida quit "Good Times’
because of 4 J.J.’ role
LOS ANGELES - Actress
Esther Rolle says the character
J. J. was one of the reasons she
left the TV show “Good
Times,” but Jimmy Walker,
wjio plays the teen-ager, says
he really does not give much
thought to the impact the
character has on the public
although he looks forward to
the close of the show.
Many segments of the Black
community have attacked the
CBS show as presenting a
negative image of the Black
family, especially the character
J.J. who dislikes school, has a
high disdain for work and
often displays wild tendencies.
“I really don’t think about it
that much,” Walker said during
an interview, “1 don’t get into
big analytical situations about
it. I’m amazed at how people
sit around and analyze this.
“I think there are more
important things to be doing
rather than worry about if J.J.
is relevant and if J.J. is negative
or positive.
“It’s a character that’s
played on a show and I wish
people would take it for that
than something else.
“I see no need to defend the
character. I think the massive,
broad popularity of the
Two slim-slammed
Broad Street was the stage
for the performers of slim-slam
last week in two separate
incidents on the same day.
Ms. Sadie Moon of 806
Aiken St. told police she was
approached last Friday by
three men on the 800 block of
Broad Street, and was later
slim-slammed out of $175
cash.
One of the men, speaking
with an accent, told Ms. Moon
he was from out of town and if
she showed him how to
withdraw money from the
bank he would give her SIOO,
authorities said.
Ms. Moon told officers that
she withdrew $125 from her
account at die First National
Bank, then got into a vehicle
and rode to the comer of Bth
and Greene Streets.
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will be crowned Miss Paine
College in a ceremony to be
held in the Carter Gymnasium
at 8 p.m.
Angela said she worked last
year in the toy department at
the store, but would have been
character speaks for itself.”
Miss Rolle for whom the
series was created after she was
a success on the “Maude”
show, says the character J.J.
was badly written and she
protested it several times
before leaving the show.
The “J.J. character presents
a negative image of Black
children,” she said. “Who
would want a 19-year-old son
who can hardly speak
intelligently, has no interest in
school, has to have his little
brother read to him, wears
outrageous clothes and stands
around yelling Dyn-O-mite!”
During a party given by CBS
Records for the ryhthmn and
blues group Earth, Wind
an;Fire in Hollywood, Miss
Rolle said she was relieved to
be out of the show and from
now on she was going to look
out for “number one.”
She chastised Blacks for
complaining about a show and
a character but not putting
pressure on the television
networks, and producers and
the actual writers.
While not overly concerned
about J.J.’s impact on the
public. Walker said he was
anxious for “Good Times” to
be retired and has asked
The men then told her that
they were going to find a hotel
and to meet diem later at a
local supermarket. Ms. Moon
said one of the men gave her a
wrapped handkerchief with
what appeared to be money
inside and drove off, police
said.
When she got to the store,
Ms. Moon discovered the $125
she withdrew and another SSO
from her purse were gone,
authorities said.
Another Augusta woman
lost cash to slim-slam artists
last Friday after she returned
from the bank.
Ms. Addie G. Kimbrough of
1206 Barnes St. told police a
man asked her to help him And
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layed off after Christmas. The
only job available at the time
was pumping gas. She took it.
An English major, she plans
to use her communicative skills
to help her in a career in
personnel management.
producer Norman Lear to cut
him loose because of the effect
the character has had on his
career ambitions.
His primary goal in life is to
be a good stand-up comedian.
HE’s been working at it for
more than 10 years and
appears regularly to try out
new material at the Comedy
Store on Sunset Boulevard in
Los Angeles.
“Basically it’s an image
situation,” he said. “Right
now, with the J.J. thing, I’m
like a cartoon character.
“It’s like Pluto, Donald
Duck and Mickey Mouse.
People have lost track of who
Jimmy Walker is. People don’t
even know my name. When I
go to towns to do stand-up
comedy, what happens is that
they expect to see J.J. come
out and do ‘dyn-O-mite’ and
stuff like that, and 1 don’t do
that.”
That’s why he accepted the
role of Moses Bird 111 in “The
Greatest Think That Almost
Happened,” recently on the
CBS Wednesday Night Movies.
He played the role of a
See “J.J.”
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a motel in the city. He told Ms.
Kimbrough he had jsut
received $40,000 due to his
brother’s death.
Telling the man she had to
go to the bank first, Ms.
Kimbrough withdrew SBOO,
police said.
In her car, the man told her
to place the cash with his. Ms.
Kimbrough said she did, and
when asking for her money
back, the man gave it to her in
a kerchief. He got out of the
car and Ms. Kimbrough told
officers she drove off.
Looking at the money later,
Ms. Kimbrough said she only
found shredded paper in the
kerchief.
Knowing the suspect by
name, Ms. Kimbrough was
advised by police to take out a
warrant
November 10, 1977
Depressed man kills self
An Augusta man, apparently
suffering from deep depression,
shot and killed himself Sunday
at his home.
Charles Cecil Bragg, 32, of
2012 Randall Road, was found
on the floor of his bedroom
Call girl places Huey at
scene of girls’ murder
OAKLAND, Calif. - An
admitted prostitute has
testified she saw Black Panther
leader Huey P. Newton
standing over the body of a
17-year-old girl he is charged
with murdering, but later
conceded she was high on
marijuana and had vision
difficulties.
The witness, Ms. Raphaelle
Jeanette Gary, was called to
testify at a preliminary hearing
because the prosecutor said she
had been the target of a
weekend assassination attempt
that left one gunman dead.
The hearing is being held to
determine if there is sufficient
evidence to try Newton on
charges he killed Ms. Kathleen
Smith, 17, another prostitute
and assaulted his tailor.
Deputy Alameda County
district attorney Tom Orloff
told Municipal Judge J. Robert
Friborg that three gunmen
tried to enter the Richmond,
Calif., home of Mrs. Mary'
Matthews, 56, a bookkeeper.
He said they had made a
mistake and meant to kill Ms.
Gary, also known as Crystal
Gray' who lived next door to
Mrs. Matthews.
Orloff said the slain gunman,
Louis T. Johnson, 27, of
Berkeley, Calif., had visited
Newton while he was in jail
after returning from exile in
“deadline
The news deadline for our
Thanksgiving issue is Friday,
Nov. 17.
Earl Ray
may get
new trial
By Donald Freed
Pacific News Service
Memphis, Tenn. - Lawyers
for James Earl Ray are
confidently predicting that the
convicted assassin of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. will get
his day in court-in the form of
a full re-hearing into the King
murder case.
A t tomey Mark Lane,
recently hired as Ray s
principal defense lawyer,
claims he has uncovered a
rarely used provision in
Tennessee law that guarantees
his client the new trial he has
been seeking for the past
eight-and-a-half years.
According to Tennessee
Statute 17-117, if a defendant
appeals his conviction but the
trial judge dies before
rendering a decision on the
appeal, then the defendant
wins a new trial.
This, according to Lane, is
precisely what happened in the
James Earl Ray case. Ray
pleaded guilty on March 10,
1969, then fired off a letter
and a motion for a new trial to
the judge who presided over his
case, W. Preston Battle.
However, Judge Battle died
suddenly of a heart attack less
than three weeks later without
See “JAMES EARL RAY
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bleeding from the head by his
mother and step-father, police
said.
A .22 caliber Remington
rifle was found next to Bragg.
He was pronounced dead at
University Hospital by
physicians. Cause of death was
Cuba in July
Newton, asked about the
Richmond incident, said, “At
this point 1 wouldn’t be
surprised if the police set
anything up.”
Miss Gray, who is considered
the key witness in the case,
acknowledged under
questioning by defense
attorney Sheldon Otis that she
was smoking marijuana the
night of the shooting, that she
had night blindness and was
also worried about facing an
operation the next day.
“You were high on weed,
weren’t you?” Otis asked.
“I was mellow,” she replied.
“You wwere loaded. Isn’t
that true?”
“Okay, I was loaded,” Miss
Gary said.
Under the questioning of
Orloff, she said she was
standing on an Oakland street
comer with other prostitutes
the night of August 6, 1974,
when a car drove by and she
called out, “Hey, Baby.”
She said the car continued
on its way but returned in
about 15 minutes and that one
of the two men inside stepped
out.
She said she was standing
with Ms. Kathleen Smith, the
murder victim, and “we were
in the same profession.”
Miss Gray said a man she
later identified as Newton
stepped up to them and said,
“Which one of your ladies
called me?”
She said the man was
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Gov’t, listens to Black ad problems
The Federal Government
and Black media advertising
was the topic of a three-hour
meeting at the White House
recently, presided over by
President Carter’s Special
Assistant, Martha Mitchell.
White House sponsors of the
conference invited
representatives of various
Federal Government agencies
to attend the session and
Less Than 75% Advertising
determined as one self-inflicted
gunshot wound to the head
just above the right ear.
Braggs’ parents told
authorities he had been very
depressed lately over being
separated from his wife.
“staring into her face. Then he
just stepped in front of me and
fired on Kathy” - meaning he
struck her with fist.
“I said, 'Hey, brother man,
why you hurting my girlfriend?
She didn’t do nothing to
you’.”
She said the man “pulled
out a gun - it was a little gun
and it was shiny.”
“What happened then?”
“I said run, Kathy, run.”
Miss Gary said she and other
prostitutes ran into a nearby
hotel and that when she looked
around she could not find Miss
Smith.
“I went out on the stoop
and heard a gunshot,” she said.
She did not testify she saw
the shooting.
“I saw the man I told you
about standing there and
Kathy was bawling.”
She said the man then got
into the automobile and drove
off.
Meanwhile, Newtons former
tailor, testifying after Miss
Gary, said his memory
suddenly has gone blank and
he cannot remember saying
earlier that the Black Panther
leader had pistol-whipped him
and threatened to “blow my
head off.”
Preston Callins, 55, listened
from the witness stand with a
worried expression as Orloff
played a tape recording made
See “HUEY”
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explain their advertising
budgets, guidelines for
determining selection and
make projections of future
needs. They also were asked to
report on use of minority
media for advertising projects.
Several Black media
organizations were represented
at the conference, including
the National Newspaper
Publishers Association, the
Paine College Library
1235 15th St.
Augusta, GA 30901
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Martha “Bunny” Mitchell
Jimmy Carter aide
is League speaker
Martha Mallard Mitchell,
special assistant to the
President, will be the
speaker at the CSRA
Business League’s 7th
annual Awards Banquet
Nov. 18.
A native of Gary, Ind.,
Ms. Mitchell received her
undergraduate and graduate
degrees from Michigan State
University. She has worked
in industrial relations,
college counselling,
alternative educational
programming and
information services
management. She designed
the Institute of Continuing
Education for Women at
Federal City College in
Washington, D.C., to
provide n on-traditional
educational programs and
services to women in the
Washington metropolitan
National Association of Black
Owned Broadcasters, Black
Media Inc., Johnson
Publications, Amalgamated
Publishers, Ebony, Black
Enterprise Magazine, and
Essence Magazine. Federal
agencies represented included
the Defense Department, Civil
Serivce Commission, Energy
Department, Small Business
Administration, Department of
area. She developed a major
program of the Institute an
ed uca t ional/vocational
rehabilitation program for
women in the Women’s
Detention Center.
Ms. Mitchell has served as
a consultant on women’s
issues with government
agencies, universities and
private organizations.
in 1976, she received an
award for her work as
executive producer of an
Emmy Award winning
television special.
In the Washington
Community, she has served
as chairperson of the
Women’s Political Caucus, a
member of the Commission
on the Status of Women,
and Alternate National
Committee woman to the
Democratic National
Committee.
Housing and Uroan
Development, Transportation
Department, AMTRAK, Postal
Service, and the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
The Congressional Black
Caucus was also represented.
In the photograph, the
conference is receiving a report
from Thomas R. Sharbaugh
(standing) of the Postal
Service.
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