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Volume 12 Number 29
Denying riff between them
Willie Mays
City Councilman Willie Mays and'
Mayor Ed Mclntyre got into what
might be called a family feud on elec
tion day last week when each reported
the other to election officials for
campaigning too close to the polls.
But the real reason for the feud was
their support of different candidates
in the first ward city council race.
Mays supported Inez Wylds. Mcln
tyre backed her opponent, John
Thomason.
Nevertheless Mays said this week
that he has news for anyone seeking to
take advantage of the incident. “I
want to make it clear that there is no
split between us. And if anybody
thinks that I won’t defend him, let
them bother him.”
Mays said he knows there will be
people who will try to test his frien
dship with the mayor, but, “That’s
the oldest trick in the world and it’s
not going to be used on me.”
Seeks big break
Augustan in film, touring Europe
Augusta’s Dale Lam has appeared
in a movie with Burt Reynolds, and
she left Augusta Tuesday to begin a
two-month tour of Europe where she
will entertain servicemen at military
installlations in Germany, Turkey,
Greece, Spain and Italy.
Her singing, dancing and per
sonality have twice earned her first
runner-up in the Miss Augusta
Pageant. She also twice won the
pageant’s talent competition and
Miss Congeniality.
Her movie break came as a result
of her appearances in local clubs. She
has appeared frequently at local
clubs, including the Hilton’s Eagle’s
Nest, where she performed with Jerry
Harris.
A friend of Burt Reynold’s knew
that he was looking for “pure bred”
orientals to appear in small parts and
as extras in his film “Sharkey’s
Machine,” and recommended Dale.
“When my mother called and said
I was to go to Atlanta for a screen
test, I thought she had gotten her in
formation wrong. I couldn’t believe
it.”
She said that although the scene in
which she appeared lasted only five
minutes, it took two days to film.
Burt Reynolds was the director.
Church’s role in $ development of community debate
Augustans from various churches
held a debate Sunday at Second Shiloh
Baptist Church on whether the black
church should play a role in the
economic development of the black
community. The affirmative side said
Jesus preached: “feed the hungry and
clothe the naked.” The negative team
countered: “The church’s purpose is
salvation, not to make everyone
rich.”
The affirmative team was made up
of Conrad Scott, Liberty Baptist;
Mrs. Rosa Burke, Harmony Baptist,
and Mrs. Julie E. Wise, of Second
Shiloh Baptist Church.
The negative team consisted of
Charles H. Wilkerson, First Mount
Moriah Baptist; Amos Griffin,
Greater Young Zion Baptist; and
Joseph Canada of Thankful Baptist.
Leading off for the affirmative,
Scott argued that Jesus said the chur-
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Willie H. Mays
“He’s just a real nice man. He was
nice to me. He’s everybody’s friend.
Just like you’d imagine him. Nice
sense of humor.”
She said he said he wanted to hear
her sing and she plans to take him
up on the offer. She is hoping more
exposure will speed the arrival of her
big break. “Brenda Lee was from
Augusta—she made it. Terri Gibbs is
from Augusta—she made it.
Somebody just walked into a
restuarant and said ‘I want to make
you a star.’ I wish somebody would
read this article and do that for me.”
She credits her present success to
my mother, Doris. “I started singing at
three and a half, singing ‘Jesus
Loves Me’ in Chinese. I was so small
they would stand me on a table top so
the audiences could see me.
“My mother is my mentor.
Through her I got stage presence.
Some people can’t sing, but can sell a
song because they have stage presen
ce. I have a big voice and project well.
I got that from my mother. She used
to sing. I definitely didn’t get it from
my daddy. He can’t sing,” she said
with a laugh.
When the 27-year-old University of
South Carolina graduate comes back
from Europe she plans to go to
ch is the “light of the world. It should
show the way in economic develop
ment.” He pointed to churches that
have credit unions, apartment com
plexes, and condominiums.
The elderly often can’t get money
from the traditional financial in
stitutions, and they come to the credit
union at the church to get help, he
said.
Wilkerson responded that the cen
tral function of the church is to wor
ship. “We don’t have to get out and
get involved in the political issues of
the day. That should be done by
politicians... Politics leads to personal
gains which the church should not get
into.”
Mrs. Burke, noting the high rate of
unemployment, said it is the respon
sibility of the church to educate
people. “We want to educate our
see Church’s role page 2
Augustan appears
in film, entertains
troops in Europe
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vows to defend Mclntyre
“I may have voted for Inez
Wylds,” Mays said, “but as far as my
campaigning for anyone, I only went
(to the polls) to vote and to take my
mother to vote. And that took about
15 minutes. Aside from that, I was at
home. He said the only candidate he
campaigned for was Earl Thurmond,
a personal friend.
He defended his preference of
Wylds over Thomason. “When it
was time to vote for the transit
workers—who are mostly
black —Inez Wylds stood up for the
transit workers. Thomason didn’t.
“When I challenged (former
Mayor Lewis A.) Newman about not
having women and minorities on
boards, she voted with me.”
Mays said that Thomason heavily
supported and helped finance a white
woman (Anna Parsons) who ran
against him three years ago. “This
was a white woman in a ward that is
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DALE LAM—with father, Jack, and mother, Doris, in family’s
Lam Bros, grocery store, 1026 D’ Antignac St.
California in hope of furthering her
career. She would like to stay in
Augusta, but contacts are limited. “I
love Augusta and I’d love to stay
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FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE—Conrad Scott argues the black
church should play a role in the economic development of the
black community. He is supported by Mrs. Rosa Burke (center)
and Mrs. Julie Wise.
Johnny Ford heads
PUSH-Bud weiser
boycott negotiation
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October 23,1982
92 percent black and she had not
voted in two years and 10 months.
Thomason sanctioned everything
Newman did. I couldn’t forget that.
“I would not be personal in terms
of Willie Mays, but I would question
that person’s (Thomason) respect for
the make up of the second ward. It’s
92 percent black. If he’s going to do
something like that, it leaves
questions in my mind if that person
can be trusted.”
“When Inez Wylds disagrees at
least I knew where she was coming
from. I don’t think that cuts into
Mclntyre. That was just my own per
sonal reason for voting for her. I’m
not going to allow anyone to use that
to form a wedge between us. If
anything it will make us stronger.”
Returning to his support of Mcln
tyre, Mays said he was the only coun
cilman who supported Mclntyre from
the beginning of his mayoral cam-
around here. But I don’t know
anybody (who can promote her
career) or what to do. I just know that
I have the talent.”
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Edward M. Mclntyre
Community unity
The clash between Mayor
Ed Mclntyre and City Coun
cilman Willie Mays over
support of different can
didates in the first ward
councilmanic race strikes at
the heart of a matter that had
to be dealt with sooner or
later —unity in the black
community.
There is no way to
overestimate the importance
of unity. Everything that we,
as a people, have gained has
come because we stuck
together.
However, it cannot be ex
pected that any two people
or group of people will
always agree. Honest
disagreement is not only
inevitable, it is healthy. No
idea or proposal is so good
that it should not be tested.
A test of ideas forces one to
Johnny Ford seeks
to resolve boycott
CHICAGO —Johnny Ford, mayor
of Tuskegee and president of the
National Conference of Black
Mayors, has been appointed head of
Operation PUSH’S negotiating team
in its battle with Anheuser-Busch, the
St. Louis-based manufacturer of
Budweiser Beer and other popular
beverages, over a reciprocal trade
agreement.
Ford’s appointment was announ
ced by the Rev. Jesse Jackson,
president of Operation PUSH, who
called for a boycott of Anheuser-
Busch products after August Busch
111, chairman and president of the
company, refused to meet with the
PUSH negotiating team.
In what amounts to a counter of
fensive, Anheuser-Busch has attem
pted to discredit the Rev. Jackson
and the economic justice movement
he spearheads and to isolate him from
other civil rights leaders, Jackson said.
“But,” the Rev. Jackson con
tinued, “we’re not playing a per
sonality game. We’re fighting for
NAACP’s Hooks,
Wilson deny
rumored dispute
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paign. “Some black councilmen
weren’t supporting either black can
didate—(Dr. C.S.) Hamilton or
Mclntyre. They were ducking and
dodging, talking about “a black can’t
win.”
He said his campaigning for Mcln
tyre was like “campaigning for a
member of my own family. For me to
be the only councilman—black or
white—to support him from the
beginning, I’d be the last person to do
anything to him or to the things we’ve
put together.
“The election of two whites is not
going to do anything to our frien
dship. I’ve supported him for the last
16 years. I supported him when he
ran for the state house and lost. I
supported him in ‘Bl, and the next
time he runs, I’ll be with him again.”
Mclntyre’s only response was, “I’m
surprised at the actions and comments
made by Councilman Mays.”
Editorial
examine those ideas. An idea
or position that cannot stand
close examination is one of
which we ought to be wary.
And there are times when
one cannot and should not
support the majority
position. The majority is
sometimes wrong. But the
important thing is that we
communicate with each
other.
No matter what position
one takes, if everyone under
stands the motivations —while
the parties still may not agree—
there is at least the expectation
that the disagreement is short
term.
It is only when there is
open communication from
all sides that there will be the
trust necessary for genuine
unity, and we cannot afford
to be fragmented.
black America’s fair share of trade
with corporate America.
“We are broadening our base of
leadership. Our mandate for change
is much broader than a personality or
an organization.”
In an acceptance speech at PUSH
headquarters, Mayor Ford revealed
that the board of directors of the
National Conference of Black
Mayors—whose 212 members
represent 26 states and 10 million
citizens—is “100 percent” in support
of the Anheuser-Busch boycott.
“Our board of directors has voted
unanimously and we stand 100 per
cent behind Operation PUSH and the
boycott of Anheuser-Busch and
Budweiser. That’s the message we
send to Corporate America: We want
our fair share!”
Fifteen percent of Anheuser-
Busch’s sales are made in the overall
Afro-American Market. In the top 50
markets, 22 percent of Anheuser-
Busch’s business is done with black
see PUSH-Budweiser page 4
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