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Black brains behind the big Spinks-Ali fight Page 6 Vol. 8, No. 20 ■ I Ifr/ » /jl m I £. ‘ Si I *• fa Jh|- - £®gKi*sS "IStftFr® *. ßF' \ •* w V* » WH iKjjMMIt HB 9 TH \ I i* * ‘ Doris Green 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 I Ex-Dallas 1 Cowboy star to speak < r 1 4r ; Pettis Norman, former V ' Dallas Cowboy tight end, will be guest speaker at a banquet, ■ -r Sept. 14, 7:30 p.in. at the National Guard Armory. The Ak* $25 a plate dinner is being given on behalf of the Hamilton for Mayor Campaign. Fjfl Pettis Norman Augusta Nmß-2tettjm 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. Muslims may move headquarters to Atlanta Page 3 P.0.80x 953 £? •> 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 September 12,1978 K I [if IB’ft >lf 3 i •- I I M f * *7 ’ - I I I r 3r 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 Judge removes Bobby Hill from Alabama case Page 1 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 tdiM r ; Be ill la I'XjWL,- n w * IFT ilMff 11 hll l B Jr *1 A wi \ IJI MIO r v MBit > ■I / FREEDOM (L) AND JUSTICE with parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Graham. Less than 75% Advertising 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. Paine College Library 1235 15th St. Augusta, GA 30901 Sample Copy JLFJ.Ci.VyJK JkfdtlJLCJ is queen of Burke County Page 1 Model, 16, earns $1,500 a week ***** • • • * Valarie Riccardio 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. 25 c