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Montgomery to Observe
Holiday for M.L.King
MONTGOMERY,
Ala. - The county where
Martin Luther King Jr.
rose to fame by leading a
bus boycott will observe
his birthday for the first
time next month.
The newly integrated
Montgomery County
Commission voted 3-2
Monday to give its em
ployees a holiday Jan. 15
in honor of the slain civil
rights leader.
The vote came after a
week-long 25th an
niversary celebration of
the Montgomery bus
boycott, which began
Dec. 5,1955, FOUR DAYS
AFTER POLICE
ARRESTED Blavit
seamstress Rosa Parks
on charges of refusing to
give her bus seat to a
white man.
Augustan Patrols Iron Curtain
By John West
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HOF, West Germany
With today’s tense
situation in Eastern
Europe, an Augusta
soldier’s job near the iron
curtain lets him take
nothing for granted.
Army Spec. 4 Albert
Andrews, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Amos Andrews, 1503
Wooten Road, is a
cavalry scout with the 2d
Armored Cavalry
Regiment here. He and
the members of his unit
are responsible for
patroling 450 miles of the
1,058 mile iron curtain
border that separates
West Germany from East
Germany and
Czechoslovakia.
“My job as a cavalry
scout consists of doing
reconnaissance, learning
tactics, and reporting
everything I see to our
headquarters so they can
complie data in case we
are attacked,” Andrews
said.
While on patrol,
Andrew gets within 50
meters of the border. The
Regiment works closely
with the West German
border guards on these
patrols and are the only
U.S. Army personnel
allowed this close. The
patrols are there to make
first hand obserx ations
on any strange or unusual
movements of troops and
equipment with the aid of
ground radar and elec
tronic sensors.
Getting Smart
SSSSbY WALTER L. ShART > -
Society Security the “nest egg” that many are
relying on after their working days are over, may
not provide the margin of security that was
originally anticipated unless major reforms are
initiated.
The social security system, or the trust fund as it
is sometimes referred to, is financed by con
tributions from workers who pay the pensions of
those who have retired. The rate of payment of
pensioners is adjusted to keep pace with the cost-of
living.
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Number 33
King was the pastor
of Dexter Avenue Baptist
Church until the boycott
pushed him into the
forefront of the civil
rights movement.
Commissioners John
Knight and Frank Bray,
who last month became
the first Blacks to serve
on the commission,
joined newly elected
white Commissioner Joel
Barfoot in passing the
holiday resolution.
Veteran white Com
missioners Mack
McWorther and Bill
Joseph opposed it.
Joseph said he voted
against the resolution
because the county
already has 13 holidays.
“If a county em
ployee uses all his sick
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“I’ve had some ex
perience s up here I’ll
never forget,” Andrews
said. “When the siren
goes off in our base camp,
I get chills everytime.
You never know when it’s
going to be the real
thing.”
There is no question
as to who is kept in by the
iron curtain. Every year,
refugees die in their
attempt to cross into
West Germany. Men.
women, and children are
frequent casualties of the
heavily guarded frontier.
Racism Motivates City’s
Shifting of
Voting Requirements
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leave, regular leave and
holidays, he would not
work seven weeks out of
the year,” he said.
Barfoot agreed that
the county has too many
holidays, but he said
three of them honor
Confederate Memorial
Day, Confederal
President Jeff Davis and
Confederate Gen. Robert
E. Lee.
“Blacks don’t have a
holiday for someone they
hold in high regard. I can
see why they want to
honor someone they hold
in high esteem. 1 think
it;s just fair,” he said.
Knight appeared
surprised his resolution
passed, and he said later
that he didn’t have the
resolution written whef
he proposed it.
Fences used by the
East Germans are made
of razor sharp steel that
offer no hand holds for
climbing. They are also
booby trapped with
sawed off shotguns that
are designed to kill or
severely injure anyone
attempting to escape.
The Czechoslovakians
use anti-personnel mines
to deter their would be
defectors.
Border duty is hard
because of the strain of
constant alertness. The
units on the border are
rotated back to more
stable areas periodically
to perturm less
demanding duty, or to
practice “live fire" in the
training areas scattered
throughout West Ger
many.
Following his tour on
the border. Andrews will
ret in ii io his home
station in 1 a niberg. West
Germany for some much
needed rest and
relaxation.
The 22-year-old
Andrews is a 1976gradute
of TAY Josey High School
and joined the Army in
September. 1978.
January 3, 1981
Racism Motivates Change
Augustans should be raising serious questions
as :o why disbarred Augusta lawyer Kenneth R.
( hance is still being allowed to practice law.
Chance was disbarred November sth tor what
he State Bar of Georgia Disciplinary Board
called professional conduct involving dishonesty,
fraud, deceit or willful misrepresentation ” A
Iwayer who has been disbarred is allowed 40 days
to wind down his existing cases.
Not only have the 40 days passed, but Chance
has taken on new cases since his disbarment in
cluding the defense of L.D. Waters who has been
sued by the News-Review The News-Review suit
was not filed until November 24th, well after
Chance's disbarment on November sth.
But the News-Review case is not the issue
here, justice is.
We not only question Chance’s being allowed
to continued to practice, but also the way a black
Augusta lawyer, Printiss Ivory Davis, was treated
for a far less serious offense.
Davis was disbarred and sent to jail for
alledgedly converting some S3OO of a client’s to his
personal account. The money was in his
possession for a matter of months.
Chance, on the other hand, converted $6,0000f
a client's money tohisaccount and the money
was in his possession for six years. Beyond that,
District Attorney Richard Allen, who prosecuted
Davis, came to Chance’s aid along with several
other local attorneys pleading with the State
Supreme Court asking that Chance’s disbarment.
So why did Davis go to jail while Chance was only
disbarred? And why is Chance still allowed to
practice and to take on new cases long after his
disbarment. The obvious answer is that Davis is
black and Chance is wbjte. But perhaps there is a
bet ter answer. If you know it, we would appreciate
it if you would share it with us. And if you can’t
come up with a better answer, we suggest that you
write the Georgia Supreme Court and the State
Bar of Georgia Disciplinary Board. Perhaps they
have an answer.
Black/White Justice
At a meeting of the City Council of Augusta
two weeks ago, the city fathers voted to ask the
Georgia General Assembly to change the Augusta
election requirements from a majori'y to a
plurality vote. You may recall that just las* year,
the council asked the the General Assembly to
change the elections from a plurality to a majority
requirement.
Since councilman elections were delayed by
a U.S. District Court judge, there has not yet been
an election using the majority vote method. Then
why are the councilmen switching back to the
plurality method without once trying the system
that they asked for and got last year?
The answer is simple. Augusta’s City Council
will always go for the system that will give blacks
the least opportunity to get elected.
They favored the plurality system because it
allowed whites living in predominantly black
wards to win election without getting a majority
of the black votes. It also allowed blacks backed
by the power structure to win over blacks sup
ported by the people living inwards.
But when blacks filed suit to change the
elections to a district rather than an at-large
basis, the city council switched to a majority vote
requirement because the city expected to win the
ai-large voting suit and could further limit black
election potential with the at-large voting system.
However, now that it has been revealed that
the city has a consistent history 'l6 voting
changes > of not getting pre-clearance for voting
changes with the U.S. Justice Department as
required bx he Civil Rights Act of 1965, it is less
likely that the city will beable to maintain the
discriminator} at-large voting system.
So with the likelihood of elections being held
on a w ard basis, with blacks holding a majority of
the registered voters in half of the city’s eight
wards, the city is again trying to make it possible
for whiles in those wards to win without a
majority of 'he votes in those wards, thus the
switch back to plurality vote.
It should also be noted that the city is still
selling for time, hoping for to benefit from con
serva'n e new Congress The city waited three
months after the councilman' elections were
enjoined by the federal Court before submitting
the required voting changes to the Justice
Department
It is not difficult to see why the city council is
shifting back and forth on the voting procedure.
Racists are just being racists and trying to keep
■he control that they have always unfairly
maintained
Man is Shot in Club
on Steiner Avenue
WARREN A. CANDLER
LIBRARY
MINE COLLEGE p °s« 2
Less than
Augustan Designs Cars,
Equipment for Top Corp
Augusta's Robert
Gladman, a mechanical
engineer, who has helped
design cars for the Ford
Motor Corporation, urges
more blacks to pursue the
engineering field.
The Augusta native,
Gladman graduated from
North Carolina A&T
University in 1975. He
worked on his degree
while participating in the
“Co-op program” at the
Savannah River Plant.
Participated in the co-op
program go to school one
semester and work the
alternate semester.
After graduation,
Gladman remained at the
Savannah River Plant
where he was a project
engineer from 1975-79.
From there he went to a
job with the Ford Motor
Company in Detroit.
There he designed
instrument panels, for all
Ford cars and light
trucks, making sure that
Dr. Adams Emancipation Day Speaker
,Dr. Charles Adams,
minister of the Hartford
Avenue Baptist Church in
Detroit, will be the
Emancipation Day
Speaker at 11 a m. Jan. 1
at the Tabernacle Baptist
Church, 1223 Laney
Walker Blvd.
A graduate of the
University of Michigan
and the Harvard Divinity
School, Dr. Adams has
traveled extensively and
preached all over the
country and in some
counties abroad. He
writes a weekly column
for the Michigan
Chronicle and for a
number of years he
served as editor of the
Baptist Progress, the
official organ of the
Progressive National
Baptist Convention.
Dr. Adams was the
Emancipation Day
speaker last year and
was extended an in
vitation to return this
year.
The Lincoln League
of the Augusta area will
be celebrating its 118th
Marron Bussey Dies at 72
Marron Bussey dies
Saturday at a local
hospital after a long
illness. A star athlete at
the Haines Institute, he
was a 1928 honor
graduate there.
Mr. Bussey lived in
New York City for 51
years, retiring four years
ago as an administrative
official with that city’s
Department of Correc
tions.
Since his return to his
Augusta-area home four
years ago. he enrolled at
Paine College, where he
was a senior.
He holds the
distinction, at age 72, of
being an honor student
Dr. Charles Adams
is Speaker for
Emancipation Day
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ROBERT GLADMAN
the artists’ concepts were
feasible for manufacture.
In 1980, he was
designing the panels for
the 1984 Fords. He also
worked on designing air
bags for the 1982 models,
although he said he’s not
sure they will come out on
next year’s models.
Jobs at Ford are
“very demanding and
competitive,” with
deadlines that have to
Emancipation Day
celebration. Over the
years the Lincoln League
has raised money to
assist needy and worthy
Dr. Walker Elected to Board
Dr. Willis J. Walker,
Jr. was recently ap
pointed to the Richmond
County Board of Health.
He is only the second
black to serve on that
body; Dr. R.S. Weston,
who is no longer on the
board, was the first.
A 1966 graduate of
Paine College, Dr.
Walker was also recently
appointed to the board of
directors of the American
Cancer Society in Rich
mond County.
He earned the
masters degree at Wayne
State University and the
D.M.D. at the Medical
College of Georgia.
A trustee at Williams
Memorial C.M.E.
Church, he is vice
president of the Georgia
Dental Society, im-
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there. A 32nd degree
Mason (Prince Hall
affiliation) and a Shriner,
he was an elder at Belle
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met. he said, and the jobs
are risky. Recessions
come about every five
years in the auto in
dustry. “and if you have
seniority you stay and if
you don't, you go,” he
added
There was a
recession last year, and
in April Gladman was
laid off.
But he took his
training to the Phillip
Morris, U.S.A, where he
develops machinery and
apparatus for processing
tabacco.
He estimates that
blacks in mechanical
engineering constitute no
more than one percent of
the national total and less
than one percent at
Phillip Morris.
Nevertheless he said
he would “definitely
recommend” the field to
young blacks. And he
believes that the most
important areas of
preparation are math,
reading and the sciences.
students in their effort to
secure an education.
The Walker Baptist
Choir will sing. The
public is invited.
mediate past president of
the Augusta Evening
Optimist Club, treasurer
of the Stoney Medical,
Dental and Phar
maceutical Society, a
member of the Academy
of General Dentists and
the Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity, Inc.
Terrace United
Presbyterian Church and
an active member of the
Augusta NAACP.
Last July he was
honored with induction
into the Roster of
Distinguished Augusta
Black Elders. Last May
he served on the planning
committee which
programmed the massive
national reunion for the
Haines Institute alumni
association in Augusta.
Surviors include his
wife, Mrs. Hope Bussey,
a daughter, and a host of
relatives and friends.
Funeral arrangements
are being handled by
W.H. Mays Mortuary.