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NATHANIEL CLARK with five of the hundreds of boys whose lives he touched in 35
years of scouting.
May Park residents oppose
use of park as parking lot
Community worker Margaret
Armstrong presented a petition to
city council Monday on behalf of
East Augusta residents opposing
the use of May Park to provide
parking space for the proposed
Joint Law Enforcement Center.
The petition bore the signatures
of residents and children who use
the park.
“We urge you not to tamper
with our park at all,” Mrs. Ar
mstrong said. “Our children use it
and take pride in it. If you take
Bussey heads Office
of Economic Development
Gary Bussey Monday became
the third Black deparment head in
city government when he was
named acting-executive director of
the mayor’s office of Economic
development.
Bussey, assistant director since
the agency was created last May,
replaces Robert Zeyfang, who
recently resigned to head the
American Cities Corporation in
the Augusta area.
Other Black city department
head are Carl Brown, judge of
Recorder’s Court, and Ernest
Thomas head of the Stockade.
A 1968 graduate of Lucy C.
Laney High School, Bussey left
Augusta 13 years ago to attend
Morehouse College where he ear
ned a degree in political science.
Blues great Muddy Waters dies in his sleep
CHICAGO—Muddy Waters,
the blues singer and guitarist who
was the godfather of modern blues
and the patron saint of rock ‘n’
roll, died in his sleep Saturday at
age 68.
Waters died of ‘‘cardiac arrest”
at home in the Chicago suburb of
Westmont, said his manager, Scott
Cameron. He was pronounced
dead at 2:17 a.m. at Good
Samaritan Hospital in suburban
Downers Grove, spokeswoman
Roberta Butler said.
away this park you will be doing
something detrimental. The park
provides recreation helps to curb
crime and juvenile delinquency,”
she added.
Mrs. Armstrong said after the
meeting that parts of May Park
have already been staked off for
use as a parking lot for the center.
“People use that park. Not only
the people in the neighborhood,
but people from all over come to
use that park.”
Gary Bussey
The rotund singer from the
Mississippi Delta hadn’t been ill
and had planned to make another
album this summer, Cameron said.
He had earned six Grammys
during his career.
Waters is survived by his wife,
Marva, three daughters and a son,
four grandchildren and several
great-grandchildren. Funeral
arrangements were incomplete.
Waters, son of a sharecropper,
was born McKinley Morganfield
on April 4, 1915, in Rolling Fork,
Residents oppose
use of May Park
as parking lot
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Mayor Edward M. Mclntyre
said that he, too, opposes using the
park as a parking facility.
“I, too, feel that we should not
tamper with that park,” the mayor
said. “To take this away from
young people would not be the
proper thing to do.”
The mayor referred the matter
to the law enforcement subcom
mittee, headed by W. Penland
Mayson, councilman from the
Eighth Ward.
He received the master’s degree
public administration from the
University of Georgia and worked
for a short time at Boggs Academy
as assistant director of Develop
ment, before returning to
Morehouse as assistant director of
admissions and assistant registrar
in 1974.
In 1977, he became the first
director of admissions at
Morehouse.
When his grandmother died in
1981, he returned to Augusta and
worked as Emergency School
Assistance Act facilitator and
coached B-team football at Lucy
Laney High School.
He is married to Alva Bussey
and is a trustee at Antioch Baptist
Church.
Miss.
He picked up his nickname in his
early days playing at fish fries and
other social gatherings along Deer
Creek.
His early musical influences in
cluded such famed bluesmen as
Son House, Charlie Patton and the
legendary Robert Johnson, and he
frequently slid a steel cylinder
along the neck of his guitar to
evoke the wailing sound of the
Mississppi Delta blues.
In turn, Waters influenced a
Blues great
Muddy Waters
dead at 6ft
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May 7,1983
Nat Clark devoted life
to organization he couldn 6 t join
Nathaniel A. Clark spent 35
years in scouting, but he never
knew what it was to be boy scout.
“I never had a chance to be a
scout. I wasn’t handpicked. My
father was a railroad worker,” he
said, explaining that when Augusta
got its first Black scouting unit in
1929, it was felt that it had to be
exemplary in order to be accepted'
by whites and the boys chosen were
handpicked.
Among those boys in that first
group were Frank Yerby, W.S.
Hornsby Jr., Livingston Wallace,
John Snipes, Joel Wallace, and
Edgar Matthews.
“Mr. Julian Collins would mar
ch the boys around 10th Street
between Miller and Dugas and I
wondered, ‘What is he doing?’
That was when I first heard the
word scouting.
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GERALD WHITE DAY—Mayor Edward M. Mclntyre (right) proclaims May 2 Gerald
White Day as his mother, Mrs. Juanita White, and coach, Don Brock share the joy of the
occasion.
White was one of eight American high school players in the continental United States
selected to represent the United States on a junior all-star team that played in the 12th Albert
Schweitzer international youth basketball tournament in Mannheim, Germany.
The mayor said White was honored because he was brought “recognition and honor” to
Augusta.
Agencies bid for $624,000 jobs money
Representatives from several
community projects requested part
of the $624,000 the Community
Development Block Grant project
has received to provide supplemen
tary funds to fight unemployment.
Federal regulations require that
the money be used by low and
moderate income groups, that it be
used to fight slums and blight, and
to meet urgent city needs.
Community Development Direc
tor Bernon Williams said the funds
generation of English and
American rock ‘n’ roll bands, in
cluding the Rolling Stones, who
took their name from a Waters
Blues song. His songs appeared on
many rock albums throughout the
1960 s and 19705.
“My feelings toward Muddy is
like a father, you know, and my
tears have been running,” said the
blues singer and guitarist Buddy
Guy, a Waters protege. “He’s the
father, one of the fathers of rock.”
Among Waters’ well-known
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“I’d see them leaving and
coming back in their uniforms. I
said to myself, ‘l’ll find out more
about being a boy scout. I’d like to
do that.’ ”
Clark said that he decided that he
wanted to have a career in social
and religious work. Scouting com
bined the two.
After he graduated from Paine
College in 1947, he applied to the
national office of the Boy Scouts
of America. He and his wife,
Catherine, moved to Buffalo,
N.Y. and on Nov. 15, 1947, he got
his first professional job. He was
one of a very few Blacks in the
country working in scouting.
His first assignment was in
Roanoke, Va. There he had
responsibility for 17 counties. Mrs.
Clark said she soon learned that
“If I was going to talk to him, I’d
have additional restrictions. The
money, he said, cannot be used to
patch a street. It can only be used
to pave a new street. It cannot be
used to repair curbs or gutters.
Individuals employed must be
unemployed 15 of the last 26
weeks.
The trees and Parks Department
has requested 30 jobs.
The Cemetery Department has
asked for 18.
songs were “I Just Want to Make
Love to You,” “Hoochie Coochie
Man” and “Got My Mojo
Working.”
Folklorist Alan Lomax found
Waters working in the cotton fields
of his native state, and in 1943 the
bluesman moved to Chicago at a
time when many Southern Blacks
were moving to the industrialized
North in search of work.
With his high-treble, throaty
voice and slide guitar style, Waters
welded the tough Mississippi Delta
Police report
says Miami cop
fired accidentally
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have to go with him.”
He was the only Black in the
Scouting Council in Virginia, and
the only one in Georgia where he
later returned.
“At conferences, he’d be the
only Black, so I’d go to keep him
from being alone,” she said, ad
ding “You have to work at a
marriage. It doesn’t work by it
self.”
She said that she read up on
scouting and decided to get in
volved. She went to the training
sessions. She has been a registered
scout leader tor 33 of the 35 years
her husband has been in scouting.
They became known as the “Nat
and Cat combo.”
The Nat and Cat combo has a
much longer history. They played
see Clark, page 3
Addie Powell of Laney-Walker
Neighborhood Association asked
that an additional public hearing
be held May 10 at 7 p.m. in order
to get input from working
Augustans and that the hearing be
held in the Laney-Walker neigh
borhood so as to be more ac
cessible to larger number of
residents of that neighborhood.
She said that she has requested
funds for that neighborhood every
year since 1979.
bottleneck blues into the cathartic
Chicago blues. “What made our
records different...,” he once said,
“we kept the Mississippi sound,
but we didn’t do it exactly like the
older fellows. We put the beat with
it, put a little drive to it.”
By 1948, he had assembled the
band that spread the sound of 12-
bar, amplified Delta blues to
millions of urban Blacks and, 15
years later, young white rock
musicians and fans around the globe.
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