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Bennie Williams Senior Citizen of the Year Page 2 Vol. 10 No. 2 Barber decides to earn masters license at 63 By Mallory K. Millender At the age of 63, Verdery Tutt last year became the ddest graduate of the Augusta \rea Technical School. He decided to go back to ■.chool after having operated a Successful business for 33 /ears. “A man sent his son over to ny barbershop to get an afro-perm.’ An afro-perm costs £lB. I said, ‘l’m sorry, but we laven’t gotten into that.’ ■ “I said, ‘You go on down he street, some of the guys lown there probably could do t.’ So he left. “I stood there in the window - neither 1 nor my barber was busy, just sitting here - and I looked at that my go down the street and I >aid, ‘There goes $lB of my noney going down the street.’ “So 1 told the barber, ‘l’m joing to do something. I’m going to get up from here.’ “That was on a Tuesday. I went to Augusta Tech that Wednesday to find out the details.” The school reluctantly idmitted him into the 216-year •program. He already held a license as a master barber. Now he is one of the few master barbers who also holds a (masters license in cosmetology. He is no longer frustrated by customers asking for services he can’t perform. “Anything you want done to hair, I can do it, he said with justifiable pride, adding that he missed By Fannie Flono The Laney-Walker Museum project, which seemed bogged n fund-raising efforts last October, has gotten new life. Armed with a fund-raising organization (Del Pass), a consultant (Lurtin Lipscomb) md plans for a $3.5 million facility, directors of the Laney-Walker museum see I bright days ahead. Lurtin Lipscomb, president !of Fenwick Associates (a contracting and architectural firm) and consultant for the project said that over the two year fund-raising period there should be little problem in getting the needed monies. Mathematically, it works out hX - ; < 1 i; ■ Architect’s sketch of museum Augusta only one class-session in 216 years and finished with almost a straight-A average. “If I had known it would be this easy, I would have gone back to school 25 or 30 vears ago, he said, adding that his business has greatly improved as a result of his training. When he built his barbershop and grill at 1378 Laney-Walker Blvd, in 1947, he was insuring his survival. “By operating two businesses I figured that if 1 fell short on one, the other would brace me.” The barbershop has less overhead and has been his mainstay, he said. He has remained at that location since 1947. While black nurses were housed at the Lamar Nursing school, the grill was a booming business requiring four employes at the same time. But in recent years, his wife, Eulala, operated the grill. “She joined me after the children were old enough to enter college. 1 said as long as the children were small, her place was at home with them.” The younger son, Bryon, is now employed at Kendall Co. LaVert is an investigator for the Richmond County Sheriff s Department, and Joyce is a social worker in Maryland. Mrs. Tutt said that she is frequently asked how she can stand being with her husband on the job as well as at home. The secret, “is the wall between us,” she said pointing to the wall that separates the barbershop from the grill. $3.5 million complex planned for Laney-Walker museum to be S4BOO a day for two years, he said. And based on a population of 60,000 to 70,000 that would be about a nickle a day from everybody within the city. “People look at the great big figures and get scared, but they shouldn’t,” Lipscomb said. The 50,000 square foot structure will be true to the African design, both Lipscomb and museum director and founder James A. Young 111 said. The design has three crosses in it focusing on the religious aspects of black history. The design will also include the influence of the great pyraminds. “We’re using this as the oasis of learning.” $3.5 million Laney-W alker museum planned Page 1 £ - it IHr 11 . J J|b|| ■• lalbiD * I w • ; 1 • Wpo ISlißiiir t ?|gij ||||| IB IHURL,' ' x &. <T| ' > A. j> Wj -.o '\v‘ , v , r , ■ Z4-L.- ZjaiiH - :>.A KgQ •■ '* IhSbi A BROADENING CLIENTELE Verdery Tutt sets hair for Mrs. Ruby Ridley Tutt said that his greatest inspiration and encouragement came from his wife. He is president of the Augusta Richmond County Barbers Association, a member of the Georgia Professional Barbers Association, the State Beauty Culturist League, a Included also will be a restaurant and observation tower. It’s “fairly unique,” Lipscomb said. The building is designed for very little maintenance. The older the building gets the better it is supposed to look, he said. Directors of the museum have not given up the structure at 821 Laney-Walker Blvd, which was originally to be the site of the museum. In fact the building is being renovated to serve as a temporary location for the museum. It will also serve as an office for the facility. Young said about $ 1400 had been raised in the Penny-Dollar fund-raising campaign in October aimed at renovating the historic site as a museum facility. The whole idea of a museum was about to die for lack of interest and financial support when Del Pass expressed an interest in helping with the fund-raising, Young said. The fund-raisers will take a percentage of the money raised as their fee, he said. Though the group will not turn their backs on federal, state or local funds, the initial thrust will be a fund-raising effort from the general public, Lipscomb said. “Various packages are being developed,” he said. They range from concerts to car wadies. One of the first things will beacon at Antioch Baptist Church where he is past superintendent of the Sunday School. He formerly served as treasurer of the CSRA Business League and as a member of the Augusta-Richmond County be a Laney-Walker Mardi Gras with the crowning of a Miss Laney-Walker this summer. Also a telethon is planned for later this year. Young said the focus is on getting the general public to contribute because of the unstableness of federal funds. “We observed the situation with the Civic Center. They’re having problems. That serves as an example. Funds can dry up.” “We need public cooperation.” But the group will also be focusing on getting help from “mother countries” (African countries), Lipscomb said. Consistant with the original plan, the museum will be a teaching museum housing cultural materials and artifacts of Afro-Americans in the Central Savannah River Area. Officials said it will be a place to preserve, exhibit research and study the heritage of Afro-Americans, to establish a permanent collection of Afro-American Art, to establish a permanent collection of memorabilia of Afro-Americans’ contributions to Augusta, to establish a limited permanent collection of art of other cultures, to sponsor temporary exhibits, to promote community outreach programs, to offer outreach programs in cooperation with schools, to offer resource tooks in the arts, to offer studio laboratories including a traveling exhibit and to search for talent. Cabinet official to speak at Paine Commencement Page 2 May 31,1980 Democratic Party Executive Committee. : T’ £ ■ / V ■ %"■ ** ) 7***' ’ ’ 4 ■ 'll hOO, I I i J W F K U n H ■ ■ * i ■ ifejfeiy f».. ; > 1 u 'MpSS S Im rO PAYBACK! - The message is clear to Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who surveys the charred remains of a business in Miami’s Liberty City where the acquittal of four white ex-police officers in the fatal beating of black businessman Arthur McDuffie sparked three davs of rioting. Sixteen people were killed and SIOO million in UNCF drive goes over 60 percent The Augusta United Negro College Fund Campaign has reached 60 percent of the $50,000 goal, Charles Smith, campaign coordinator, announced after a reporting meeting last week. Four of die 13 campaign areas have exceeded their goal. Less Than 75% Advertising Civil rights group says Wrightsville mob beats national SCLC official ATLANTA -- A mob of some 20 whites reportedly attacked and beat SCLC National staff member, the Rev. Fred D. Taylor in Wrightsville, Ga, following the latest outbreak of racial unrest in that tiny central Georgia town. Taylor, who has been coordinating a voter registration drive and selective buying campaign in Wrightsville since early April, was allegedly attacked by the mob at the Johnson County Courthouse Square, while attempting to obtain information from Johnson County Sheriff Roland Attaway concerning 38 blacks who were arrested earlier that evening. “Attaway refused to meet with me to discuss the arrests,” said Taylor. “He demanded 1 leave his office, which 1 did. When I got back out to the courthouse square the whites who had been milling around the square closed in on me, knocked my glasses off, pushed me to the ground, then kicked me and beat me with their hands and fists,” he said. The areas are college and universities, public schools, friends and Paine College. “The area chairman for these four categories have exceeded their goal through hard work, dedication and follow through,” Smith said. Roscoe Williams, assistant dea 2\UgUSIU A^a'^ics 0 ' 7 new coach is named Page 3 Taylor, although badly bruised, was not seriously injured. Following the attack Taylor was taken by Sheriffs deputies who shoved him into his car and drove him to a hotel in Dublin, Georgia, telling him to stay out of Wrightsville. Thirty-eight blacks were jailed following several racially motivated confrontations (during which three people were injured) Monday between blacks and white law enforcement officials. Blacks had gathered at die Neely AME Church following the arres of local civil ughts leader. The Rev. E.J. Wilson. Wrightsville police, Georgia State troopers, who have been called in by Gov. George Busbee and Johnson County sheriffs deputies charged into the church indiscriminately arresting nearly all die blacks who had assembled there, witnesses said. Blacks in the town said Attaway and his deputies also forced their way into homes in the black community without search warrants and arbitrarily damage was done from fire-bombing, sniping and vandalism. Lowery was summoned to Miami to help ease racial tensions. While there he met with U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti who is spearheading a federal investigation into McDuffie’s death. Photo by Elaine Tomlin. of students at Augusta College, Mrs. Janie Keys and Dr. Alfred Reed at the University of South Carolina at Aiken, and James E. Carter 111, assistant director of minority affairs at Medical College of Georgia are chairman for colleges and universities. Charles R. arrested women and youths, using abusive language as they herded those arrested into patrol cars. Most of the 38 arrested were released from jail last Tuesday without being charged with committing any crime. However, fve persons including the Rev. Wilson and Johnson County SCLC president, John Martin were charged with inciting to riot. SCLC National President, Dr. Joseph E. Lowery met Tuesday with U.S. Atty. Gen. Benjamin Civiletti and Assist. Atty. Gen. Drew Days 111. The president asked that the Justice Department file criminal charges against Attaway and his deputies. Justice Department official, Robert Ensley and a representative from the Attorney General’s office have scheduled a meeting with members of the black community in Wrightsville this week. In addition, Governor Busbee has sent a representative from his office to “offer whatever assistance we can.” Lamback, principal of Peter H. Craig Elementary School, is chairman for public schools. Mrs. Helen McNatt, assistant librarian at Paine, is chairwoman for friends, while Quincy L. Robertson, business manager of Paine, is chairman for the Paine College area. 25 c