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Woman Charged with Murder of Husband Page 2 Aunttsta Volume 10 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 ' t'u- - 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. Continued on page 4 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 ■Mwkk* H - '-’f I i f ? Mr Mr > > ellir wt Mr MR J il “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 Page 1 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 Page 1 advertising & 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- ■ I MARRON BUSSEY there. A 32nd degree Mason (Prince Hall affiliation) and a Shriner, he was an elder at Belle 25C 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.