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Lawyer convicted of
theft by conversion
A former Augusta attorney
was convicted Tuesday of theft
by conversion in Richmond
County Superior Court.
Prentiss Ivory Davis, who
now lives in Atlanta, was found
guilty in connection with a
June 21, 1976 incident
involving a $325 judgment
payment from a client.
He admitted accepting
money from Alonzo Lowery to
satisfy a judgment. The jury
took less than 45 minutes to
return the guilty verdict.
The 44-year-old Davis faces
a maximum sentence of 10
years in jail. He will be
sentenced later by Judge
Edwin Fulcher.
Eldridge Cleaver hoping
to buy farm near Atlanta
At 42, Eldridge Cleaver, the
fiery radical of the 19605, is
mellow and overweight and
dreams of living on a farm near
Atlanta.
Cleaver, who returned to the
United States in 1975 after
seven years of exile as a
fugitive from the American
legal system, is looking for
Proposition 13 is
‘classic con’ game
By Jesse Jackson
CHICAGO - The greatest
and noblest investment a
democratic society makes is in
public education. It is a direct
investment in the future, not
only in the lives of its citizens
but in the society itself.
In a democratic society,
education is the cornerstone.
In our democratic society,
public education has been
under a direct and devastating
frontal assault for some time.
We have been heading for a
three-system scheme of
education: a private system for
the privileged, a suburban
system for the affluent and
white, a city system for
society’s rqects.
In less than two weeks, what
may be the death stroke for
public education in America
will reveal itself in California.
It is then, on July 1, that
Proposition 13 becomes
effective, it is on that date that
California real property cannot
be taxed at a rate greater than
1 percent of its assessed balue.
Proposition 13 to filter
through in California, but
eventually it will - and in other
states as well. The
overwhelming approval of
Proposition 13 in California
will give solid and accelerated
support for similar measures
now being considered by a host
of states - including Colorado,
Florida, Georgia, Idaho,
Illinois, lowa, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts,
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Prentiss Ivory Davis
property in the Atlanta area
and hopes to move here with his
family in the near future to
write and to operate a men’s
clothing business.
The former minister of
information for the Black
Panther party also wants to
conduct a Christian ministry
from his Atlanta farm to help
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Ohio, South Dakota,
Tennessee. Texas. Utah,
Virginia, Washington and
Wisconsin.
Proposition 13 is a
double-edge sword. It
rightfully seeks to relieve the
economic burden of the
property taxpayer, but it also
is maliciously misleading and
exploits his depressed
economic condition.
The most deceitful fact
about Proposition 13 -• and all
of its facsimiles around the
country - is that is will cut
property taxes (by 57 percent
for all Californians, for
example) but it won.t provide
tax relief. One of the
certainties of life besides death
is taxes; public services must be
paid for. If the payment won’t
be up front as property taxes,
then it can be inflated sales
taxes, or in increased income
taxes, or in new income taxes,
or in fees for services that now
come “free.”
The Proposition 13s of
America are exercises in
throwing the baby out with the
bath water. The Proposition
13s of America are a classic
con. By exploiting the
desperation of modest and
middle income homeowners, it
advocates short-range (and
short-sighted) gains and simply
ignores long-range and
inevitable losses.
What are some of thoss
losses?
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leaves $5 million,
3 million for school
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Still pending against Davis is
a bad check charge.
Davis said he is being
prosecuted because he is Black
and a self-proclaimed civil
rights activist. He also said that
District Attorney Richard
Allen pursued charges against
him because Davis supported
Alien’s political opponent in
1976.
Davis is an unsuccessful
candidate for Richmond
County Civil Court in 1976.
During cross examination
Davis said he used the money
to purchase airplane tickets to
Fort Lauderdale. “I knew the
money did not belong to me,”
other people with similar
radical backgrounds to join
him in his faith in Jesus Christ.
Cleaver said he began to join
the ranks of born-again
Christians through a mystical
experience in the south of
France in 1975.
That experience -a vision of
the face of Jesus Christ in the
California’s local public
agencies estimate they will be
at least $7 billion short in
paying public service bills. In
Los Angeles County alone that
means that as many as 37,000
of 79,000 workers may be
dismissed.
It means 60 percent of the
state’s libraries may simply
close their doors. It means
police and fire departments
may be stripped to
skeleton-crew strength all over
the state.
And in public education, it
may mean the end is in sight.
the Los Angeles Board of
Education has estimated that it
will have to cut its budget by a
cataclysmic 74 percent.
What a Proposition 13
eventually means is the
dismantling of public
education.
Yes. taxpayers deserve and
need relief from economic
exploitation, but at what
price? If the choice eventually
becomes one of dollars or
children, what choice do we
have?
There is no time in a
democratic society when saving
bucks is more important than
protecting the future of
children and the society itself
through fundamental
education.
If reason doesn’t derail the
tax-reduction movement soon,
the tax-reduction movement
may derail society.
he said. “My intention was to
replace the money
immediately.”
In his closing statement,
Allen told the jury that Davis
violated his lawyer-client
agreement with Lowery, and
that his actions disclosed a
fraudulent intent.
Defense attorney Thomas F.
Allgood said Alien’s closing
remarks “appealed to the
natural prejudice which many
people have toward attorneys.”
“Using money is not theft,”
Allgood said. “There was no
intent to steal. If so, then a lot
of people should be brought
into this court for
prosecution.”
moon - occurred, he said, just
prior to his decision to
surrender to U.S. authorities
and return to this country to
face trial on charges related to
a 1968 shootcut with police in
Oakland, Calif.
His beliefs were solidified
during his stay in jail after his
return to this country in
November 1975 until his
release on bail in August 1976.
While the trial for his
involvement in the incident is
pending, Cleaver has traversed
the nation speaking to church
groups. Rotary Clubs, colleges,
universities, and television
talk-show hosts about his
newfound faith.
He has also written a sequel
to his revolutionary “Soul on
Ice” of 1968. The new book
describes his exile and
conversion and will be
published by Word Books of
Waco, Texas, this summer.
In an interview in Atlanta.
Cleaver talked about his
Christian experiences and was
optimistic about his chances to
get out of California and settle
permanently in the Atlanta
area.
‘My dream is to be on a
piece of land that is mine.
From that farm 1 want to do
several things -- travel to
speaking and lecture
engagments, do writing and
have a clothing business,” he
said over lunch at the
Peachtree Plaza Hotel.
Cleaver said he also wants to
continue the Christian ministry
he began soon after his release
from jail, a ministry that
included speaking from the
pulpit of Dr. Robert Schuller’s
Garden Grove Community
Church in California during an
“Hour of Power” telecast and
addressing the Texas State
Baptist Convention.
He said his ministry is
becoming “progressively more
specific.” with a “so- us on the
dropouts of the ’6os.”
“I want to help people like
me who are ex-Panthers,
ex-Black Muslims, Moonies and
prisoners. These are the people
1 find myself dealing with and
the people I feel able to
communicate with. Where I
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of damaging leaks
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-sive Sickle Cell Center of the Medical College of
Georgia was refunded last week for $5 million.
The center has projects at Paine College and
Augusta College.
From left are Dean Gray Dinwiddie, Augusta
College; Herman Harris, director of the Sickle
Brooke’s daughter leaked info
Pittsburh Courier
BOSTON - The eldest
daughter of Sen. Edward W.
Brooke, (R-Mass). has admitted
she leaked some of her father’s
financial statements to the
news media so her parents’
divorce case would be
re-opened.
The senator has been
ordered to appear in court
Wednesday with his financial
records to answer questions
surrounding a controversial
549.000 loan.
Remi Brooke Petit
telephoned station WBZ after
her father had appeared as a
guest. She told the radio talk
show that she had “peddled”
her father's divorce deposition
Black publisher leaves 5 million,
gives Howard University 3 million
NEW YORK - An estate
valued at $5,111,000 was left
by the former president and
publisher of the Amsterdam
News, Dr. Cliland B. Powell,
who died Sept. 22.
The fortune, left largely to
the civic-minded publisher’s
widow, included SBOO,OOO
cash found in a safe deposit
box at Dr. Powell’s home. The
box was opened on a court
order after his death.
Taxes totaled $950,800 with
5781.150 to the federal
government and $169,650 to
New York State.
According to Powell’s will,
which was probated in a
Westchester County Court last
October, after the death of his
widow, Mrs. Lena Powell, the
residue will go his alma mater.
to the Boston Globe to force
Middlesex County probate
Judge Lawrence Perera to
re-open the case.
Brooke has declined to
discuss recent financial
disclosures on the show.
“1 really feel bitter that I’ve
had to peddle anything in
order for my mother to get a
fair trial.” she said minutes
after her father had left the
studio after the live interview.
Perera has ordered Brooke
to appear in his Cambridge
courthouse Wednesday with
financial records, to answer
some of the questions
surrounding his recent
admission of “misstatements"
about the $49,000 loan.
Brooke, in a sworn
Howard University in
Washington, D.C. to establish
the Dr. C.B. Powell Scholarship
Fund.
Dr. Powell was a believer in
civic causes and under the
terms of his will, the NAACP
Legal Defense Fund is to
receive $500,000.
He left his sister Gertrude
Harmon, S 10,000 and his
mother-in-law Dora Dukes, a
similar sum.
His secretary and assistant,
Mildred Young was bequeathed
SSOO for each year she was in
his employ from Jan. 1, 1964,
provided she was still so
employed at the time of his
death, she was not.
Dr. Powell, who was 81 at
the time of his death in
Westchester County, studied
medicine at Howard and
Jesse Jackson says
Proposition 13
is ‘con’ game
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Cell Center; Dr. William Moretz, president of the
Medical College of Georgia; Dr. Julius S. Scott
Jr., president of Paine College; Dr. Krishna
Murtha, professor at Paine College; Dr. Titus
Huisman. Sickle Cell Center head; and Dr. Elmer
Amina, professor at the University of South
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deposition filed last year with’
his wife, Remigia’s, lawyer,
said he owed Boston liquor
businessman A. Raymond Tye
$49,000. He later told the
Globe that only 52.000 was
owed to his friend, and he
owed the rest of the money to
a family fund.
“I don’t think you should be
able to lie on a private
deposition,” Mrs. Petit said.
“I’ve had the depositions since
May 12 (1977). 1 knew he was
lying on them.”
“1 love my father,” she said
in the radio interview. “I’m
bitter we had to go the press
for Judge Perera to hear my
mother’s case again.”
Mrs. Petit has accused her
became a practitioner in
Harlem in 1921 specializing in
X-ray work.
His bent towards business
took him into insurance as an
executive in 1932. Three years
later he and his partner, Dr. P.
M.H. Savory, came to the
financial rescue of the
Amsterdam News and he took
an active role with the
newspaper resulting in its being
one of the most successful
weeklies in the country. -
He was the first Black to be
named to the New York State
Athletic Commission.
Dr. Powell has stipulated
that income from the Powell
Scholarship Fund and its
principal are to be used for
making loans to deserving and
worthy students taking
fulltime courses in colleges of
father of using his political
power to influence divorce
proceedings and cutting off
weekly support payments to
her mother.
Brooke’s daughter also
accused the senator of lying
about the sale price of the
family’s St. Martin’s Island
home in the French West
Indies.
She said Brooke listed the
value of the property on its
deed as $46,000, but reported
paying $202,000 for the
property in a divorce
deposition.
Perera put a value of
$350,000 on the house and
awarded that property, the
couple’s Newton, Mass.,
medicine, dentistry,
engineering and pharmacy of
Howard University.
Loans are to be granted on
the basis of both scholastic
record and financial need of
the students selected. Bearing
interest of not less than 2
percent, the/loans will be
repayable iq/lump sum or in
installments.
If there is no need for loans
from it will be used
—-ror the Ast interest of the
Howard Medical School.
Under Powell’s will, signed
Dec. 30, 1965, Mrs, Lena
Powell received their New
York apartment on 153rd St.,
jewelry, cars, insurance
policies, SIO,OOO cash and a
guaranteed annual income of at
least $40,000.
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