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VoL 8, No. 52 P.O. Box 953 May 12, 1979 Less than 75% Advertising 25'
Motel allegedly discriminates
Manager says integrated couples
make him sick to his stomach
By Mallory K. Millender
Sources at Augusta’s Miles
Motel say that the management
is attempting to “price blacks
out” and turn it into an all
white clientele. Integrated
couples are refused rooms and
many of the establishment’s
facilities are not available to
blacks, although 95 percent of
the motel’s business is black, the
sources said.
The Justice Department was
called in five years ago when it
was learned that the motel
would not allow blacks to
occupy rooms in one section of
the motel.
“The swimming pool is not
open,” a source noted; “The
manager says if we open it
blacks are going to swim in the
damn thing.” Plastic bags are
placed over water coolers to
keep blacks from drinking out
of them, a source said.
The manager, Jack Ruffin,
(white, and unreleated to the
attorney by the same name),
reportedly said he has “nothing
against niggers as long as they
aren’t black.”
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PROUD ADVISER - Mrs. Alice Simpkins (L) is
’ adviser to award-winning sorors Alfreda Canty,
Sorority selected *most outstanding 9
The Delta Omicron (Paine
College) Chapter of the Sigma
Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
returned to Augusta with the
largest trophy presented at the
sorority’s 39th Southeastern
Regional Conference in
Jacksonville, Fla.
The group had been chosen
the ‘‘Outstanding
Undergraduate Chapter for the
Southeast Region.” The award
was based on the written
report of the chapter’s
Augtisid Nms-iUtijrm
All blacks, male and female,
during the night are always
charged the double rate, no
single rooms are sold to them,
the News-Review was told.
According to one source,
Ruffin doesn’t want blacks in
one section of the motel. “Who
wants to rent a room after a
black man got out of it?”
Ruffin is said to have asked.
“He thinks all black men are
thieves and all woman are
whores,” the source added.
The sources said the
Richmond County Sheriff s
Department had been
contacted to put the directives
on the record.
The News-Review was
shown several directives to
employes said to have been
written by Ruffin:
One stated: Let’s stop the
white gals that check in on
Saturdays and bring back a
nigger man to sleep with. I
assume they are from (Fort)
Gordon. Begin our 5... list with
Mary Jones (not her real name)
she’s short, ugly and drives a
Toyota.”
Another memo reads:
activities for the past year.
Mrs. Alice Simpkins tied for
second place as the
Outstanding Alumnae Soror,
and the Delta Alpha Sigma
(Augusta area) Chapter tied for
second place as the
Outstanding Alumnae Chapter.
Approximately 400 Sigmas,
Sigma affiliates, and family
members attended the two-day
conference. The grand
Basileaus, Mrs. Evelyn H.
Hood, spoke on the theme
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“Local persons, must always
pay for a double room. The
single rate ($12.88) is strictly
for commercial men or women
who come during the day. If
you have the slightest
suspicion, charge the double
rate.
“If a black comes in here
with a white girl they are told:
“I’ve got no rooms for you,”
even if 80 rooms are empty.
“If you don’t belive it get a
white girl and try to get a
room,” a source added.
Ruffin denied all of the
charges. However, on the
question of integrated couples
he said, “That’s about all you
see in Augusta is integrated
couples. If you’re a
self-respecting person you
resent that. But you can’t do
anything about it. I feel very
strongly about it. To be honest
it makes me sick to my
stomach. But we don’t refuse
integrated couples.”
Asked about the pool being
closed to keep blacks out,
Ruffin said, “That’s a damned
lie. The pool is not open
because it needs a new filter.”
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Turner and Mary Joyce Mclntyre, hasileus.
Photo by Sam Searles
“Community Action: Key to
Progress.”
Attending the conference
from Augusta were Mrs.
Simpkins, Mrs. Lizell Beasley,
and Mrs. Evelyn Turner of the
alumnae chapter Delta Alpha
Sigma
Members of the Delta
Omicron Chapter who went
were Misses Alfreda Canty,
Mary J. Mclntyre, Glendale
Thomas, and Victoria Turner.
Two Rhoers went to present
The plastic bags on the
water coolers are to keep kids
from running in off the street
to get water. “Chances are
they’ll pick something up and
steal it,” Ruffin said.
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Former sheriff faces 20 years
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After being convicted
Thursday on two counts of
selling marijuana, former
Richmond County Sheriff
William Albert Anderson has
been confined to the county
jail.
He will remain there under
heavy security pending the *
outcome of a noon hearing
Wednesday on his application
for an appeal bond. District
Atty. Richard E. Allen did not
say whether he will oppose
Anderson’s appeal bond
application.
Anderson, 43, will also be
the newly organized Rhoer
Club (the high school affiliate):
Sonja Riley and Myrtle Turner.
Mrs. Simpkins and Mrs.
Turner served as committee
chairpersons. Miss Riley,
accompanied by Mrs. Beasley,
sang on the Rhoer Talent Hour
which netted over SIOO in
open donations to the United
Negro College Fund and the
NAACP.
Mrs. Lillian T. Myles is
basileus of the local chapter.
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“I’ve reached the conclusion
that we’ve got a racist here. I’ll
ferret them out. They’re
stirring up trouble. Everything
you’ve been told is a damned
lie.”
sentenced on Wednesday. He
and Forest Milton Squires, 36,
are charged with two counts
each of selling John W. Smith,
22, over five pounds of
marijuana on Jan. 11 and Jan.
16 at the Southside Package
iShop on Old Savannah Road.
ISquires pleaded guilty to the
Charges.
Former sheriffs deputy
Charles D. Smith, the brother
of the other Smith, said that
Anderson approached him
about a possible marijuana deal
last December in an Augusta
nightclub. Anderson said Smith
A.R. Johnson Jr. visits
school named for his father
By Rob Green
Many persons who did not
know who the late Augustus
Roberson Johnson was nor
what he accomplished, learned
at the 23rd annual Founders
Day ceremony at A.R. Johnson
Junior High School Tuesday.
A.R. Johnson Jr. “came by
to see us, and to see how we’re
doing,” Miss A.R. .Johnson
Junior High 1978-79, Carla
Crawford said.
“Whenever I come by this
way, I must come by A.R.
Johnson. I am proud of the
school being an instrument of
education for the younger
generation, whether or not it is
named after my father,”
Johnson, who resides in Los
Angeles, said.
“We don’t have anything
like this out in California,” he
said, “and when I get back
there I’ll tell all my friends
about it.”
Augustus Roberson Johnson
was bom Feb. 29, 1853. He
graduated from Augusta
Baptist College, later known as
Atlanta Baptist College, now
Morehouse College, receiving
both B.A. and M.A. degrees,
Miss Crawford said.
W.B. Bryant, principal of
A.R. Johnson Junior High, said
that Johnson received his
degrees during a time when
only a handful of blacks in the
nation had such distinction.
Ms. Crawford said A.R.
Johnson was the first black
teacher licensed under the laws
of Georgia and paid out of the
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flanked by first runner-up Brenda Ross (L) and Selena Wade, 2nd runner-up.
The queen is an 18-year-old freshman at Augusta College where she is
majoringin business administration.
She was Homecoming Queen at Westside High School in 1978 and Miss
Cotillon. She serves as junior adviser for the J.B. White Fashion Board in
conjunction with SEVENTEEN magazine. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Archie M. Jackson.
approached him about the deal
and that he then repeated his
interest at later meetings.
Smith said he discussed the
incident with investigator Ike
Williams who told fellow
investigators Ray H. Myers and
E.F. Sanders. Sanders and
Myers later supplied Smith
with cash to make the buy and
a concealed microphone
known as a “body-bug.”
Anderson said he arranged a
meeting with Smith after
Squires expressed an interest in
selling pot. Tapes of
conversations involving
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A.R. JOHNSON JR. (second from right) accepts yearbook from A.R. Johnson
Junior High School at the school’s Founders Day exercises held Tuesday. Making the
presentation are (from left) Student Council vice president Marcia Thomas;
president Quentin Bell; and the school’s principal, W.B. Bry ant.
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state school fund. The younger
Johnson said his father
“dedicated all his life to
education.
“Many summers he would
stay in Augusta to conduct
classes and night school for the
unlearned and the poor.” Ms.
Crawford said in the late
1800 s, grammar grades were
started in the Augusta school
system for black children.
A.R. Johnson became
principal of Mauge Street
Grammar School, which taught
grades one through eight, she
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Anderson corroborated Smith’s
testimony. On one tape
Anderson said he could have 2
pounds of pot delivered the
next day for $475 a pound.
“Start a cash (marijuana)
business on the side,”
Anderson told Smith during
another taped conversation.
Allen said, “Have you ever
heard such salesmanship in
your life? He (Anderson) was
selling a marijuana business.”
Anderson was telling Smith
“how profitable it would be,”
Allen said. “He was a
businessman ... trying to get
said. Bryant said the school
was the largest black school in
the state then. Mauge Street
Grammar School held 900
students, and was later
enlarged to hold 200 more, Ms.
Crawford added.
Johnson Jr. attend Mauge
Street School and studied
under his father who taught
here for 39 years.
A member of the Harmony
Baptist Church, A.R. Johnson
was the superintendent of the
Sunday school for 16 years,
Ms. Crawford said.
He was also one of the
himself a new outlet,” he sai
Anderson said Squires, h
former business competito
was experiencing financial an
personal problems at the tim
“The tapes clearly prove
Anderson was not entrappei
but willingly initiated the dn
transaction,” Allen said.
Anderson admitted h
conduct in the transactior
during testimony Wednesda;
“The pressures wer
continuous,” he said, addin
that he weakened to th
pressure placed on him by h
co-defendant and Smith.
founders of the Honglass
Infantry, the first military
company organized in Augusta,
and he became a commissioned
officer of the company, she
said. His first wife died months
after their marriage and he
remarried, she said.
Johnson Jr. is the younger
son and one of four children,
two boys and two girls. When
Johnson died in 1908, he was
survived by his wife and three
of the children. A.R. Johnson
Jr. and his niece, Mrs. R.A.
Dent, are the only survivors
now.