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Gladys Knight
is sued
for divorce
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Vol 8 No. 16
Nearly SIO,OOO
Bill Hiers’ bad debts
led to legal action
4 times in past year
Legal action was filed
against County Commission
candidate Paul W. (Bill) Hiers
four times within the past 11
months for failure to pay debts
totaling nearly SIO,OOO,
according to Civil and Superior
Court records.
Hiers will face incumbent
Edward M. Mclntyre in a
runoff election August 29. The
winner will face Tony Munday
in the general election.
Former Augustan Crucified’
to save youths, glorify Christ
A former Augustan has
come home after having been
“crucified” to help steer young
people from a life of crime and
to let them know there is an
alternative -- Jesus Christ.
Fifteen car loads of police,
the media and a large crowd of
people gathered in an Oakland,
Calif, park and watched as nails
were driven through his hands
and feet, and a knife pierced
his side July 15.
The Rev. Willie Dicks said he
just prayed and asked that he
be allowed to go through the
experience with a certain
amount of dignity, “that 1
won’t holler out when these
nails go through my body.”
His prayer was soon
answered. When the nailing
started, James Fuller (the
nailer) drew the hammer back
and missed the nail hitting the
Rev. Dicks' hand. But there
was no pain. “There was no
pain or numbness. I knew then
that God was with me. There
was no bleeding. 1 felt 30 feet
tall,” he said.
There were, however, two or
three drops of blood coming
from his feet.
The first knife used to cut
his side failed to break the
skin. A sharper knife cut
through three layers of flesh.
But, according to the Rev.
Dicks, there was no blood.
He remained on the cross
about 15 minutes. When the
nails were taken from his body,
he said the holes remained
open and “you could see
daylight through my hands.”
He talked with reporters and
then delivered a sermon.
He drove about 50 miles to
his home in San Carlos where
his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Lewis, had just arrived from
Augusta. She watched the
“crucifixion” on television on
the evening news. “My mother
just cried as she watched the
TV with me sitting there.”
And by that time his
wounds had healed, the Rev.
Dicks said. “My family saw the
scars heal right before their
eyes. Never a moment of
soreness, discomfort, never a
pain.”
Asked about some of the
pictures of him on the cross
where he grimaced as the nails
were being driven, he said,
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Almost all of the suits have
been settled within the past
month, during the heat of the
campaign.
A $4,406.41 federal tax lien
was filed against Hiers Sept.
26, 1977. It was paid July I 1,
1978.
The Federal Deposit
insurance Corporation asked
the Civil Court for a summary
judgment of $3,893.61 against
Hiers on March 21. 1978. Hiers
“that was due to the
anticipation of pain and not
the pain itself."
The Rev. Dicks showed the
scars on his hands and removed
his shoes and shirt to show the
scars where his feet were nailed
and his side pierced.
Then he smiled. “I don’t
expect people to understand
this. 1 was just as blown out as
anybody else. It was that far
out.
“It was of the spirit and not
of the flesh, and not meant for
people to understand. It was
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paid the balance July 7, 1978.
Lighting Galleries, Inc. sued
Hiers March 28, 1978 for
non-payment of $119.19. The
debt was paid May 3, 1978.
The First National Bank of
Atlanta sued Hires July 21,
1978 for non-payment of
$1,320 and another S2O!
A settlement was reached
July 18 when Hiers paid
$1,275.
Hiers led two Black
meant for me to understand."
According to the Rev. Dicks,
about seven months ago he saw
himself on a cross and felt he
had to be nailed to a cross.
I told God. ‘You’ve got to
be kidding about this.’ I put it
out of my mind for five or six
months. I was determined not
to do such a thing.
"Finally, 1 told my wife I’ve
got to be nailed to that Cross. I
know I can do it. There won’t
be any pain. If there is it will
be God’s will.”
It all started at a point when
candidates in the August 8
democratic primary. He
received 8,936 votes or 46.1
percent to Mclntyre’s 7,662 or
40.7 percent of the vote. John
Swint received 2.535 or 13
percen I.
In other races Frank Albert
beat out four opponents
gathering 55.4 percent of the
vote and will face Republican
George Reynolds in the general
election for the county
religion was not a part of his
life. And he didn't associate
the experience with religion.
One evening when he was
not feeling well, he said he got
in bed. His wife joined him.
and “just as she fell a“just as
she fell asleep numbness
started in my feet and worked
its way up to my leg through
my whole body.
I thought 1 was paralyzed up
through my face. The
numbness moved right out of
the top of my head. Fear
overcame me.
Two men art
shot to death
in local nightclub
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August 15,1978
commission seat being vacated
by Don Neal.
Harold Smith won the
Republican primary with 64.8
percent against Bobby Cheeks,
lie will now face Harrell Tiller.
State Court Judge Eugene
M. Kerr won the Superior
Court judgeship beating
Juvenile Court referee Paul K.
Plunkett and atty. Terry
Leiden by almost a two-to-one
margin.
1 was unable to wake my
wife up to tell her what was
happening to me. I wanted to
come to Augusta and tell my
mother. And just like that,
mother was standing in the
kitchen (in Augusta) washing
dishes.
See "CRUCIFIED”
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The runoff election between
Edward Mclntyre and Bill Hiers pits
a candidate (Mclntyre) with a
record of outstanding public service
against one (Hiers) whose only
public record is that legal action has
been required four times in the past
year to get him to pay his personal
debts.
All of us have debts, but if a
candidate is having difficulty
managing his personal affairs, why
should he be entrusted with the
affairs of the people of Richmond
County?
It is fair to point out that
Mclntyre has been sued by the
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation for $3 million dollars.
But it is to be noted that he is being
sued as a member of the hoard of
directors of a bank, and not as an
individual.
The League of Women Voters
recently asked all candidates to list
their educational background and
the particular training and
experience that qualified them for
this office.
Hiers’ complete answer in his
own words were: "I am a native
Augustan. I graduated from Butler
High School and attended Augusta
College, where I was president of
my class and vice president of the
Student Council. I am also a
graduate of the Georgia Realtors
Institute.”
It should Ire noted that he said
he attended Augusta College. That
suggests that he didn’t graduate.
W hen candidates graduate they say
so.
Hiers said he is a graduate of the
Georgia Realtors Institute.
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Less than 75% Advertising
Runoff choice is clear
White House liaison
to Black community
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EDITORIAL
According to the president of the
Augusta Board of Realtors, that
Institute lasts three weeks.
Mclntyre, on the other hand,
graduated from Morehouse College,
and completed an additional year
of study at Columbia University.
He is vice president of a
multi million dollar company, die
Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance
Co. He has served on the Richmond
County Board of Commissioners
for seven years. He served for two
years as its chairman and two more
as vice chairman. During each of
those four years, the county
finished the year with a surplus of
money in its budget This is
suggestive of responsible handling
of the tax money of the people of
Richmond County.
Mclntyre’s contributions on the
County Commission have
commended him for recognition on
the state and national levels that
has been given to no other
Conmissioner in recent years.
He served with Vice President
Rockefeller as a member of the
National Conference on Social
Welfare Task Force. He was
selected by the U.S. State
Department along with only nine
other public officials to go on an
informational tour of Africa. He is
second vice president of the
Association of County Officials of
Georgia.
Mclntyre was the prime
organizer of the CSRA Business
See "RUNOFF”
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