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Doris Green
is queen of
Burke County
By Barbara Gordon
WAYNESBORO, Ga. -
Twenty-year-old Doris Green
was crowned the first “Miss
Black Burke County” during
ceremonies held at the Burke
County Office Park
Auditorium Saturday evening.
Miss Green received a check
for S3OO and a gift certificate.
She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A.D. Green of
Midville, Ga.
A 1976 graduate of
Waynesboro High School, she
is presently attending Clark
College in Atlanta and plans to
pursue a career in business
administration.
Miss Green competed with
nine other contestants in the
swimsuit, talent, and evening
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Sept. 14, 7:30 p.in. at the
National Guard Armory. The Ak*
$25 a plate dinner is being
given on behalf of the
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gown competitions. In the
talent competition, she
performed a dramatization of
“The Battle of the Landlord.”
Second place winner Reginia
Evans received $l5O, and third
place winner Carol Young
received $75. Kathy Wade won
the award for “Most
Congenial” and Regina Evans
received the award for “Most
Cooperative.” Other
contestants received trophies
for their participation.
Master of ceremonies for the
event was Calvin Thornton Jr.,
public relations director of
WTHB-WZZW Radio Stations
in Augusta.
The pageant was sponsored
by the Burke County Black
Coalition and directed by Mrs.
Peggy White.
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On strike
Babcock workers seeking
better wages and benefits
Babcock and Wilcox Co. and
striking employes appear to be
far from reaching agreement a
week after the workers rejected
the company’s contract offer.
George Gudger, business
manager for AFL-CIO local
1127, said there would be a
meeting Monday where
negotiators for the striking
workers “hope to get some of
the issues into the open.”
He said he was not
optimistic about the Monday
meeting, but, he added, “I’m
praying.”
Gudger said “the company is
not willing to negotiate
favorably on benefits or wages.
“We want a seniority clause
for workers who have been at
the plant for a long time. We
want ‘walk-in walk-out
insurance’ where you sign
yourself in and out and
everything is paid for.
“We want to do away with
the ‘aggressor clause.’ This
means that if a person initiates
activity that results in an
accident the company will
not pay.
“The company has a thrift
plan wherein it matches each
dollar put in by the employes
What’s in a name?
Freedom and Justice
fill home with love
By Paul D. Walker
Freedom and Justice are the
two lovely daughters of Samuel
and Janice Graham, who live
here in Apple Valley.
Freedom, 3, and Justice, 2,
did not get their names simply
by a hasty search over a list of
names. It was with thought,
negotiation, noisy debate and
then compromise that their
names were decided.
The birth of Freedom
caused a bit of an uproar here
at Talmage Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Graham said that
adequate volume was in her
voice to astound passers-by as
she emphatically stated: “I will
NOT name my daughter
Freedom!” But her husband, a
quiet spoken but persistent
fellow, was able to persuade
her to do so.
When Justice was born, in
Frankfurt Germany, there was
a similar confrontation, but
Janice did not concede. Samuel
then resorted to a little
trickery. He altered the agreed
upon name, preceding it with
Justice. (He has now healed
scars to show- his
transgression).
They met as students at
Paine College in 1973, and
were married a year later.
Samuel says that the whole
world should have freedpm and
justice. “It should not be a
luxury of the few.” Some
painful events in his life led to
that awareness.
The Winston-Salem, N.C.
native recalled, “Once when I
was about eight years old, I
used to go about on a truck
with my uncle, selling produce.
We would yell, ‘Watermelons!,
Watermelons for sale.’ It was
fun. We would go down to
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Striking workers march around the clock
to purchase stock. But that’s
available only to salaried
employes, not hourly
employes. We want it for
hourly worker.”
Gudger said that
Columbia, S.C. to pick up the
produce at the market place,
and take it back to Winston
Salem for sale.
“The market place had signs
that said ‘Colored’ and ‘White’,
but I was not all that aware of
segregation.
Once, when I was thirsty, 1
rushed over to a fountain and
took a drink of water. A big
white cop grabbed me in the
collar, spun me around and
slapped me.
“My uncle rushed over and 1
thought he was going to attack
this cop. Instead he just said
‘Please don’t hit him again.
He’s just a little boy. Please sir,
he didn’t know any better. He
didn’t know any better.’ I was
shocked. Here this cop had left
five fingerprints up side my
head, and all my uncle did was
plead. I thought he should have
demolished that guy.”
School desegregation in
Winston Salem further
disillusioned Samuel with his
childhood concept of freedom
and justice.
He was assigned " the
predominantly white, Adkins
High School. He and the few
Blacks that were there were
taunted from both sides. “The
whites painted ‘Nigger Go
Home’ on our buses, and KKK.
We could handle that. We
changed the KKK to Kool
Kolored Kids, and that stung
them back.
“But when we were called
‘Uncle Toms’ by our Black
friends at the athletic events,. it
was hard to handle.”
Samuel went on to tell of
the time a friend, in an attempt
to get the attention of the
teacher, touched her. “The
whites did it all of the time,
but when my friend did it, she
recoiled in anger: ‘Don’t touch
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documented proof of illnesses
is required. “We say that is
unreasonable. We want sick
leave, cost of living increases
and dental care.”
He said the company has
me! Just raise your hand, and
NEVER touch me!' 1
responded: It’s OK for the
white kids to touch you but
you don’t want a Black to
touch you. At that time a big
white fellow came over to my
desk and lifted me out of my
seat and we went crashing to
the floor.”
In the ensuing years, Samuel
sought a deeper meaning for
his life and that of his children.
“I did not want just traditional
names for my children. 1
wanted IDENTITY and
MEANING for them. I wanted
names to inspire them to press
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offered the production workers
a 12 percent increase while it
offered maintenance staff an
18 percent increase. “They say
they can’t get qualified
maintenance workers so they
have to pay them more,” he
said.
John Anderson, public
relations manager for Babcock
and Wilcox, said, “We don’t
know why they struck. A
contract was agreed upon with
the negotiating committee but
the membership turned it
down.
“The two negotiating
committees met for numerous
hours to work out a contract
which was equal to or better
than most contracts. Benefits
were beefed up. Medical care
and pensions were increased.”
Anderson said there is no ill
will between the company and
the workers. It's not a ‘we’ and
‘they’ kind of thing. Many of
them have been with us and
helped us grow over the
years.
“Our folks need money. We
need production. We’re not
saying, ‘The rascals ’We just
want them back in here
working.”
forward for the whole world
where freedom and justice are
not equally shared.”
Janice now says she is “very
happy” with the girl’s names.
She remembered that recently
a man mis-pronounced
Freedom’s name as Frieda. The
child snapped, ‘lt’sFreeDOM!’ ”
No one can say whether the
names Freedom and Justice
will eventually influence these
girls in the shaping of a better
wot Id. At ; he moment, they
are just two lovely girls
bringing a lot of warmth, joy
and happiness to the Graham
household.
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Augusta, GA 30901
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Judge removes
Bobby Hill from
Alabama case
BIRGMINGHAM - Georgia
legislator Bobby L. Hill was
reprimanded, fined and
removed from a case Thursday
by a federal judge when Hill
said he was not prepared to
represent a client.
State Rep. Hill, a Savannah
attorney, asked for a
continuance in the federal drug
trial of Dr. Thomas Cloud of
Hobson City, near Anniston.
Hill told U.S. District Judge
Sam C. Pointer Jr. that he had
not had time to prepare a case
or interview witnesses.
Hill was arrested on charges
of public drunkenness and
violation of the state
controlled substances act last
July in Brimingham, where he
was attending a pretrial
conference for Cloud. He said
in his motion for continuance
that he had been concentrating
on his own case and had not
been able to work on Cloud’s
trial.
Pointer granted a
continuance, he said, in the
interest of a fair trial for
Cloud, but fined Hill S6OO for
contempt of court. Pointer also
revoked the permission he had
granted Hill, an out-of-state
Bethlehem center gym
after nearly 50 years
The Bethlehem Center
gymnasium was closed August
31 when its five year lease with
the Richmond County
Recreation Department
expired, according to center
director S.B. Gandy.
lawyer, to represent Cloud in
the Northern District of
Alabama.
Hill said later, “The easy
way out was to go ahead and
defend Dr. Cloud unprepared
and let him suffer. Instead, I
chose to suffer for him by
taking the reprimand and by
paying the fine, which I did
willingly.
“My partner (Jack P.
Friday) and 1 are more
confident now than ever before
that our client will not be
found guilty as a result of
this.”
Cloud was indicted on 14
counts of dispensing or
attempting to dispense
prescription drugs without
prescriptions and possessing
marijuana with intent to
distribute it.
The physician and Hill have
claimed that the charges were
racially motivated since Cloud,
who is Black, is married to a
white woman.
Friday will now represent
Dr. Cloud, but Hill has “a
continuing request to the judge
to be allowed to try this case.”
Friday said Cloud’s trial is
scheduled to begin Oct. 2.
The gym was built in 1929
and until the Paine College
gymnasium was built in the
late 50s, it was the only
enclosed gym Blacks could
attend in a 50 mile radius.
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