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From Hollywood
The split between jazz giant, live-in lover and personal
manager Gene Russell and Kellee Patterson now appears
to be permanent. Russell has resumed his jazz career and is
set up for national TV shows, while Kellee is busy arrang
ing for management and bands.
Blonde policewoman Angie Dickinson was backed up
all those years on the tube by Ed Bernard who has now
decided to take a better look at the business end of the
recording field. No doubt about it, the singing folks are
the royalty of entertainment today with their fat pay
checks.
Tiny Stephanie Mills brought her brand of Broadway to
Studio One’s Backlot Club and blew the roof off the
sucker. Stephanie’s WTz medley brought the house to their
feet with several uncool patrons screaming, “Diana Ross
eat your heart out.’’ Mills continued to sing and in a very
ladylike manner ignored the shouters. Mills leaves no
question, however, that she would have been a sensational
Dorothy’in the film version of the Wiz and just may have
turned the full-grown turkey into a winner. As it stands
now, Judy Garland’s version remains the classic film.
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KELLEE PATTERSON STEPHANIE MILLS DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER
Lola Beltran, the international queen of the rancheria
singers and the only popular artist ever invited to appear at
the lavish Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico, treked north for
Cinco de Mayo and brought her own special brand of
magic to Magic Mountain. However, we hear that James
Brown continues to hold the attendance record at the hot
tourist playground.
Cheryl Lynn is continuing her battle of the bulge while
she recovers from tonsil surgery and admires her gold
album.
The once happy home of film man Gil Moses and Dee
Dee Bridgewater is no more. The beautiful Dee Dee now
has her own apartment and is busy promoting her latest
hit album, Bad For Me with her heavenly smile and ultra
fashionable appearance. During her spare time Dee Dee
has been scouting the out of the way furniture marts for
unusual items for her new home.
There’s one every year and this year’s plastic phony has
to be that former Broadway understudy who loudly pro
claims her realness and her Christianity. Tinseltowners
have been observing the woman (who could win the no
class award hands down) and discovered that she is a true
hypocrite. Because of her antics in the mostly white West
Hollywood bars she has been dubbtd by the corner
standers as “the perfect nigger.”
The very popular Rev. Ronald McGrew was honored
last week by several members of the entertainment world
including Freda Payne, Sherrie Payne, D.J. Rodgers, and
Cassietta George with a testimonial for his many good
works in the Tinseltown community.
That gangster of love, Johnny “Guitar’ Watson now is
asking everyone, “W hat the hell is this?’ Could there be a
clue somewhere leading to a new album?
6/3/79 ©1979 Players International Publications, Inc.
Participants in exercise
Marine Sergeant Timothy
Godbee, son of Annie E.
Godbee of 1246 Pine St.,
recently participated in
“Combined Arm Exercise
1-79” in the California desert.
He is assigned to the Ist
Battalion, 11th Marines, Ist
Marine Division, homebased at
Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Conducted at Marine Corps
Air/Ground Combat Training
say
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
with a cake from
SUNSHINE BAKERY
1209 Broad St.-722-9419
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mates
'Setond feature
Center, Twenty-nine Palms,
Calif., “Combined Arms
Exercise 1-79” was designed to
test the capability of a
battalion landing team to
deploy by strategic airlift and
to provide realistic live-fire
training. The exercise stressed
coordinated air and artillery
fire support for infantry units.
Godbee joined the Ma r ine
Corps in December, 1973.
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Students to be exposed
to ‘good Americanism’
By Rob Green
Augusta’s only black
American Leeion Post, Screen
Ramsey Post 505,is sponsoring
three high school students on a
one week orientation in city
and county govemnent, to
expose them to some “good
Americanism.”
Glenn Hill’s Timothy
Albright, T.W. Josey’s Aubrey
Eubanks and Lucy Laney’s
Kenneth Holman will join 13
other rising seniors in
Richmond County schools at
North Georgia College to form
a mythical 51st state, “Boys
State,” Ernest J. Shanks,
representative of Post 505,
said.
Lt. Col. Roy B. Whitlock,
the director of Boys State, said
Boys State is one of the few
programs that serves
outstanding young men and
not simply the underprivileged,
Blind prefer to work
By Rob Green
Some persons who could be
“sitting at home getting a
check” aren’t.
Sandra Thomas said her
wanting to “get out and be
independent” led her to land a
job as a vending-stand operator
through the Georgia Co-op for
the Blind. Mrs. Thomas is one
of five Augustans employed by
the non-profit, private
organization. She said she
learned of the program from an
acquaintence, Greg Sullivan.
Sullivan, 74, was the oldest
employe of the co-op until he
retired two years ago as
operator of the vending stand
in the Municipal Building. He
said he worked for the co-op
program for 18 years,
extending back to the “old
courthouse” days. Both
Sullivan and Mrs. Thomas are
blind.
Mrs. Thomas said that when
Sullivan retired, another
sightless employe, “Saint” Paul
Jones, was relocated to take
over the stand in the Municipal
Building. That left an opening
for her at the stand in the
Lawton B. Evans Building. Her
husband said that his family
can always use the extra
money, and as lone as his
wife’s working doesn’t
interfere with her household
duties she may work.
Mrs. Thomas said “there is
no fun” in collecting a Social
Security Supplementary
Income Check. Irene Ryle,
who now operates a
mini-convenience store in
Peabody Apartments, said she
sat at home “doing nothing for
five or six years, drawing
Medicaid and food stamps,
before getting involved in
co-op. Ms. Ryle is a victim of
retinitis pigementosa; she sees
in “tunnel-vision.”
P.T. ‘Butch’ Crozier and Lee
Carlyle operate vending-stands
at Augusta Tech-Lumpkin
Road and White Road,
respectively. Carlyle said he
couldn’t find a job anywhere
else, so he came to co-op. All
the employes of the co-op
program expressed
independence, responsibility,
handicapped or delinquent.
Whitlock told the youths at
their send-off banquet at the
S&S Cafeteria May 28, that
they were the “cream of the
cream,” of the Augusta area.
The young men must be in
the upper one-third of the class
scholastically, possess
leadership ability, have high
moral character, be capable of
absorbing an intensive and
advanced course in government
and citizenship, and be
athletic, Whitlock said. They
must also have completed their
junior year in high school, he
said.
Whitlock said the youths
will be lectured by stated
politicians and then put into
practice what they learned.
Two of the youths will go on
to represent Georgia at Boys
Nation in Washington, D.C., he
said.
self-respect, public contact,
and a sense of importance as
advantages of working rather
than not doing so.
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Joseph I). Greene
Etheridge
ssigned to
Germany
FURTH, Germany - PVT.
George Etheridge, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Squire Etheridge Jr.,
1663 Douglas St., recently was
assigned as a cannoneer with
the Ist Armored Division in
Furth, Germany.
Etheridge entered the Army
in August, 1978.
He is a 1977 graduate of
T.W. Josey High School.
Greene named
vice president
Joseph D. Greene has been
promoted to the position of
vice president agency
director-marketing at the
Pilgrim Health and Life
Insurance Co.
Greene received his 8.8.A.
degree from Augusta College,
and the M.A. degree from the
University of Georgia.
He is vice chairman of the
McDuffie County Board of
Education, a member of
Thomson-McDuffie Chamber
of Commerce Advisory Board,
treasurer Thomson-Progressive
Civic Club; president of
Thomson Board of Directors -
“When sick, call a doctor,
when selling, or buying
real estate call our daddy
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2825 Deans Bridge Road Phone 790-53 53 ''
on Highway 1 W.
Al’Gl ST\. GEORGIA 30906
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Were Your Homeboys
The Augusta News-Review (USPS 887 820) - June 9, 1979 -
Thomson-McDuffie United
Way; member CSRA Business
League; and the Merrydale
Mental Retardation Advisory
Board.
EARNING THE TRUST AND CONFIDENCE
OF AUGUSTA
ONE FAMILY AT A TIME
PAUL D. WALKER, AGENT
Major USA (Ret.)
THE EQUIT ABlf LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY Os THE UNITED STATES
(FOUlwlei Bus 7 98-669 l 2311 Shadowood Drive
\ ■R / Res. 793-7775 Augusta. Georgia 30906
Home Office New York
He is married to the former
Barney Robinson and they are
the parents of two children,
Cathy and Joseph D. Greene
Jr.
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