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New WRDW owners
plan to re-sell station
By Fannie Flono
The National Bank of
Georgia, which purchased
WRDW Radio Station owned
by soul singer James Brown,
will sell it at some point, said
the court-appointed receiver
for the station.
James Walker, appointed
receiver for the station after
Brown filed for bankruptcy,
said that though the new
station owners have made no
announcement about the sale
of the station, like other
Newsman urges blacks -
vote GOP, or don’t vote
By Judith S. Mclntosh
TV commentator Tony
Brown believes that in the
1980 presidential election
black people should either not
vote at all or vote Republican.
Brown, who characterizes
himself as an indenendent, says
that blacks need to show the
Democratic party that “we as
black people are the difference
between who will sit and live at
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.”
The host of CBS’ “Tony
Brown’s Journal,” Brown said,
“We have to demonstrate that
in the arena of electoral
politics that we can hurt you.
We need to politically hurt
somebody.”
Blacks, he said, must “make
the two of them, (Democrats
and Republicans) court us.
“We have to make them come
Market manager
says attitude is key
Bennie Freeman is the first
black market manager of a
major food store in the
Augusta-area. He is one of four
blacks in the 68-store Piggly
Wiggly Southern chain to hold
that position.
He says he got into the meat
business by accident. “I never
really thought about what I
wanted to be. I’d have liked to
have had a few years of college.
But I was the second of nine
children and the first to finish
high school. My sister wanted
to go to school and it was just
impossible for me to go,” said
Freeman, a graduate of John P.
Blanchard High School in
Columbia County.
“When I finished school it
was tough to get a decent job. I
joined the Army Reserves in
school, but didn’t really like
the Army. I switched from one
job to the next.
“I went to a supermarket
just looking for a job.” The
only thing they had open was
in the meat department at
$1.70 an hour.
A year later he was assistant
market manager. A year and a
half after that he joined Piggly
Wiggly and has served as
manager of three different
Aunusta Nma-Smtw
businesses and corporations,
they would accept a good
offer.
National Bank of Georgia
bought the station at a public
auction last week for
$150,000. The bank foreclosed
on the station earlier because
of a default on a $268,025
loan. The bank was allowed to
foreclose when it was granted
relief March 13 from an
automatic stay on bankruptcy
earlier filed by the station.
Walker said there will be no
to us and say, ‘What do you
want?”’
And what would he ask
presidential candidates? - “I
want to know how many
millions of dollars are you
going to put into black
colleges. I want to know if
you’re going to leave these
colleges alone and let them
serve us just like you let Notre
Dame serve Catholics and just
like you let Brandeis and
Yeshiva serve Jews.
“I want to know if you’re
going to come up with a draft
that’s not going to exclusively
pick young black men to die
like you did in Viet Nam where
we had 70 percent of the
casualties. I want to know why
it is you don’t draft your own
children, why no member of
Congress’ son served in Viet
Nam.
stores during tire 11 years he
has been with the company.
Each time he took over a
different store, the move was
considered a promotion, he
said.
Two years ago, he opened
the company’s Meadowbrook
store here where he does the
buying, hires his own
employes, and is totally
responsible for the meat
department. He has held his
cunent position for seven
years. Rufus Copeland, also a
black market manager for
Piggly Wiggly, transferred to
Augusta in 1979 from
Louisville, Ga.
Freeman said that a person
with no experience can join his
company and move up quickly,
“if he has the right attitude.”
He has to bring a good attitude
and determination, he said.
“When I came in the color
barrier was still there, and
you’re just going to have to let
some things go over your
shoulder. The secret is being
good with people.”
Freeman is married to the
former Almeata Stokes. They
have two children, Sandra
Theresa, 17; and Monica
Regina, 6.
Blacks asked
to vote Republican
or not at all
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change in the format of the
station or in personnel. He
added that he anticipated no
changes while the National
Bank of Georgia owns the
station or when it is sold.
“However, we have no control
over who buys it.”
WRDW is expected to
continue to occupy a
prominent place in the
community, he said. “There
will be no interruption of
services to the listeners or the
advertisers.”
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WRDW, located on 8.26
acres on Eisenhower Drive, was
purchased by Brown in 1969
for about $270,000.
Brown filed a petition for
financial relief under Chapter
11 of the federal bankruptcy
laws in March 1979 in order to
have time to straighten out his
financial problems without
having to worry about paying
creditors.
The National Bank of
Georgia was one of the
station’s major creditors.
“I don’t want to know
whether or not you like black
people. I don’t care. I want
some pragmatic, practical
nailed down things that you’re
going to deliver to us, and if
you’re not, just shut up.”
To blacks who feel that
there is no option but Jimmy
Carter, Brown counters: “We
do have an xjption. The option
is not to vote. No Democrat
can win the presidency if he
does not carry the black vote,
and if the Republicans win
because blacks either abstained
or voted Republican, then the
Republican party between ’BO
and ’B4 is going to do
something to get black votes.
And the Democratic parity, if
we do that, is going to do
something to get back the
black vote. Then we’re back in
business.”
Essie Mclntyre:
trail blazer for
women in ministry
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graduate and starting linebacker for the University of
Southern California football team is welcomed by Mrs.
Gloria Jackson’s class at Hornsby Elementary School.
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Rev. Mclntyre
blazes trails
By Fannie Flono
When Essie Mclntyre was
growing up in her hometown
of Louisville, Ga., theie were
some facts of life she and the
other townspeople took for
granted.
One was this - in the Baptist
church, women did not
become ministers.
Essie Mclntyre didn’t
deliberately start out to break
that taboo.
But for more than 40 years,
she has been known as a
trailblazer for doing just that.
The Rev. Mclntyre is pastor
of Good Shepherd Baptist
Church and on April 20, she
will celebrate her 40th year
there as pastor.
She is presently recuperating
from an operation in which a
non-malignant tumor was
removed.
Recognized as possibly the
oldest full-time pastor of an
Augusta church, Rev. Mclntyre
remembers her beginning the
ministry calmly and a little
sadly.
B reaking through the
barriers was hard and not
always pleasant, she
remembers.
“Women don’t preach,” was
the phrase often chanted to
her.
“You’ll never preach in the
Baptist church,” she said
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James E. Carter 111, assistant
director of the division of
Student Affairs at the Medical
College of Georgia, was
unanimously elected president
of the Southeastern Region of
the National Association of
Medical Minority Educators at
its recent meeting, in Atlanta.
This organization has more
than four hundred members.
The goals are to involve more
minorities in health care
institutions, and to increase the
number of health care
professionals in minority
communities. The
Southeastern Region is
composed of 11 states ranging
from Virginia to Texas.
someone told her.
“Why would a beautiful girl
like you want to sacrifice
yourself like that?” one lady
asked.
But Rev. Mclntyre said the
detractors did not sway her.
“I was called by God,” she
said of her commitment to the
ministry. “I’m one of those
ministers of the gospel who
believes I was born to preach,”
she said.
The turning point for her
actual decision to enter the
ministry came after an illness,
she said.
But she had always been
deeply religious.
“When I was very young, as
soon as I learned to read, I
loved the Bible.”
She began singing in the
church choirs at age 15.
Having quit school in the
seventh grade to help out at
home, she began working and
became very sick one day on
the job.
“The lady I worked for took
me to the clinic and I went
into the hospital for an
operation. That felt like a
bomb was dropping on me. I
didn’t want an operation. I got
on my knees until my tears
settled down about my feet. I
had a vision that night. God
told me that night that he
would take me to the hospital
and bring me back home.”
INegro College Fund
seeks to raise
$50,000
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Bank’s brother, David, stands in front of the honoree.
Faculty members (from left) are Mrs. Betty Tindall,
Principal James Starks, Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Audrey
Wood. Photo by Jacob Crawford
Westside group
off to Canada
Eric Stanley, French
instructor at Westside High
School, will take 35 of his
students to Canada this week
where they will present
tributes to the citizens of
Canada from the citizens of
Augusta for Canada’s help in
freeing Americans in Iran.
The group, which will
consist of first and second year
French students and three
chaperones, will present to the
Mayor of Montreal a key to the
City of Augusta, a Georgia
state flag, and plaque
containing a message on behalf
of the citizens of Augusta
thanking Canada for its
friendship and the help of its
Iranian ambassador in freeing
Americans in Iran.
The idea for paying tribute
to the citizens of Canada came
from one of the parents,
Stanley said. The -group.had
already decided to go to
Montreal; it went to New
Orleans last year.
The students raised about a
thousand dollars selling donuts,
Rev. Essie Mclntyre
It was that encounter with
God which she describes as a
“great encounter with God”
that spurred her to become a
minister, she said. “God told
me he saved me to preach.”
Taking on the task wasn’t
easy though.
Both men and women in the
neighborhood and the church
ridiculed her. When she told
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breakfasts, barbeque, and
washing car windshields. The
remainder of the money,
$9,000, is coming from the
parents of participating
students.
The Augusta group will
spend two days in Montreal
and two days in Quebec.
her minister she wanted to
preach, he took her to the
Baptist conference. The
ministers told her very sternly
that the Baptist church did not
ordain women. “You better go
to the Methodist church.”
She left her church soon
after. While visiting other
churches, she met a minister at
Jones Grove Baptist Church
who asked her to say
something during service.
Later, he sent a deacon to ask
her to preach. That was her
first real step to being a
minister.
But she left that church
after the minister failed to
keep a promise of licensing her
to preach if she joined the
church.
She kept preaching and,
finally, God told her that she
should stop looking for a
church because she already had
one. That church was the
Neighborhood Club No. 2,
which she had organized.
Because she didn’t have
anything to organize with, she
decided to seek help on how to
go about it. a vision,
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