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Augusta Neuts-iteutnu
Volume 13 Number 14
Feels ignored by sheriff
Frank Thomas dissatisfied with
handling of East Augusta shooting
When a Black man was shot by a
white deputy in East Augusta on
Dec. 3,. the Human Relations
Commission investigated, and its
report sharply contradicted the
version released by the sheriff’s
department, which cleared the
deputies of any wrongdoing.
A representative from the
sheriff’s department and HRC
Executive Director Frank Thomas
then did a joint investigation. And,
according to Thomas, the wit
nesses repudiated the sheriff’s
department’s version even more
strongly.
Thomas recommended
disciplinary action against the
deputies that reportedly beat and
kicked Donald Wyman, and shot
| Willie Fludd who attempted to
stop them from beating Wyman.
| He also recommended better training
I for deputies and a halt to police
' brutality.
♦ Totally ignored
| “We got a reply from (Sheriff J.
! B.) Dykes, but he never mentioned
| disciplinary action. I was not
f satisfied with his just totally
n ignoring our call for disciplinary
■ action.’’ Thomas said, indicating
[ that the sheriff agreed to the
■ training for deputies provided that
■ citizens are also trained.
I “The bottom line is that I was
■not satisfied,” Thomas said. “I
Kam still not satisfied, but I’m
■trying to work within the system,
lland I have a board that I have to
■[answer to.”
Self-respect
■ He said that the board knows
■ that he was not satisfied, “I’m
■ looking at my self-respect,” he
■continued. “If I’m not doing what
■ I’m paid to do, then there is no
I need for me to be there. The (coun
ly) ordinance mandates that I look
I nto every situation where a citizen
lias been treated unjustly, without
legard to race, color or creed.”
| He said that he would have pur-
■ ued the case just as vigorously if
■ he victims had been white.
fl “I resent individuals who in in
stances like this bring up race. In
■ny mind, it was not race. It was
■ •verreaction by two individuals
■ vho brought bodily harm to an in-
■ lividual. There have been whites
■ •’ho have come into my offices
I omplaining of excessive force.”
Concessions
H Thomas said that the HRC
■ card felt that some concessions
Had to be made to keep com-
■ junications lines open with the
lieriff’s department. “I’m all for
■oncessions,” he added. “But
I here do you draw the line?
I ou’ve got a situation of an in
lividual (Wyman) who is lying
■ ice-down in the dirt (while
■ legedly being beaten and kicked
H'' deputies). Everybody is human,
lid they’ve got the right to be
leated as humans.”
I Thomas said that he, Dykes and
I e HRC board have their respec
l/e jobs to do. “I think that the
■ •ard has good intentions. And I
■ low that you can’t always please
I erybody. But you have to take a
I md on what you’re committed to
I d live with it.”
I Thomas said that he expects the
loblem to be solved in court.
I IRC has done all that it feels it
In do, and I’m working under the
I-ection of the board.
■ “It doesn’t make me feel that
loud, because I’m the one
■ ading the agency. How can I feel
lit I’ve rendered a service to an
Jesse Jackson
spurs registration
in Augusta
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Frank Thomas
17 elders to be
inducted Sunday
The Roster of Distinguished
Black Augusta Living Elders will
increase its numbers Sunday when
the Augusta Black History Com
mitee inducts 17 new members at
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BEST COLUMN—Mallory K. Millender displays award
at National Newspaper Publishers Convention in Gary,
Ind.
News-Review wins
national award
The Augusta News-Review
won second place in the National
Newspaper Publishers
Association’s 1983 Merit Award
Contest at the 43rd annual
NNPA convention in Gary, Ind.
The paper was presented the
Emory O. Jackson Award for ex
cellence in column writing and a
S3OO cash prize donated by Sears.
The winning column, “A
Thought for Busy Fathers’’
(News-Review, June 18), written
by Editor Mallory K. Millender,
agrieved party when a person does
not meet us half way. I think that
we just have to step across the line
to do what we can to right the
wrong.”
The Rev. Peter Thomas, chair
man of the HRC Board of Direc
tors, said that he was surprised
that Thomas feels that way, but he
acknowledged that Thomas had
indicated at the time that he was
not satisfied. “I didn’t feel that the
(HRC) commission disagreed. I
thought we were dealing with
another issue. I felt that the issue
that we had to address hurriedly
was police brutality.
The Rev. Thomas said that he
feels that it’s important that there
have been no more reports of
1 Trinity C.M.E. Church at 4 p.m.
1 Among the inductees will be the
i Rev. N.T. Young, pastor of
Thankful Baptist Church and for-
t mer vice president of the Rich-
and was inspired by an auto ac
cident that he had in 1982.
The first place award went to
the Chatham (Chicago) Southwest
Citizen. The Orlando Times won
third place. The Buffalo Challen
ger, edited by Paine College grad
uate Barbara Banks, won third
place in the community service
category.
The National Newspaper Pub
lishers Association is comprised
of more than 200 Black newspap
ers and magazines.
News-Review
presented
national aw~- d
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police brutality. “There were eight
cases in November, eight or nine in
December, and a few in January,
but nothing since. I feel that we did
a significant deed on that point.”
On the issue of disciplinary ac
tion for the deputies, he said, “I
agree that it would be nice, but the
Merit Commission is fighting over
that issue right now.
“I feel that we responded very
well and were able to effect several
things, and in Augusta, Ga., that’s
a big win.”
He said that NAACP President
Otis Smith commended the com
mission on its pursuit of the case.
“If the commissioners raise the
issue again, I have no problem
with that,” he concluded.
mond County Board of Education;
the Rev. J.S. Wright, pastor of
Macedonia Baptist Church; the
Rev. L.R. Neal, presiding elder of
the Augusta District of the C.M.E.
Church, and the Rev. Charlie
Moore, pastor of Crawford Bap
tist Church.
Others to be inducted include
Mrs. Mary B. Cummings, Mr. and
Mrs. James Starks Jr., Mr. and
Mrs. Hubert Wilson, Mrs. Ruby
T. Jenkins, Mrs. Hertha Blount,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Brown,
John G. Floyd, Theus Perry,
Willie W. Simpkins, Mrs. Sarah
Washington and Ernest J. Shanks.
Hans and Krause, program
director for WRDW TV-12, will
recieve the Interracial Brotherhood
Award. Other award recipients will
include, Donnell Jones, Frank
Thomas, Henry Howard, Mallory
K. Millender, Herman Lodge,
Woodrow Harvey, John H. Ruffin
Jr., Dr. Paul Weston and Mrs.
Margaret J. Weston.
Six “pioneers” will be
recognized: former City Coun
cilwoman Carrie J. Mays, Dr. Ar
thur Shaw, Roscoe Williams,
James E. Carter 111, Eugene Hunt
and Joseph C. Jones.
Detective
shot on
Ninth Street
Detective Henry N. Paschal was
shot Monday on the 500 block of
Ninth Street as he and Detective
Sgt. Thomas Carr sought to invest
igate a man and woman acting
“suspiciously.”
Carr said that a Black man and
white woman saw them and ran in
to an alley behind the Red Star
Restaurant.
The Black detectives drove into
the alley and as they were getting
out of the car, heard what sounded
like a gunshot.
Paschal was wounded in the
lower left leg. The bullet passed
through the leg without touching
the bone. Carr speculated that
someone was surveying the scene
from an upstairs window, sensed!
that the pair was in danger from
the police, and fired.
Paschal is recuperating at home,
according to Carr.
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JESSE JACKSON at Paine College
Majority of eligible
Blacks in Georgia are
unregistered voters
“There are more Blacks in
Georgia who are not registered to
vote than there are Blacks who are
registered,” the Rev. Jesse
Jackson told a capacity audience at
Paine College Sunday.
Jackson said that is Georgia
there are 515 mayors, and only 10
are Black; 10 congressmen, 0
Blacks; 56 senators, 4 Blacks; and
180 representatives, 21 Blacks.
There are 19 majority-Black
counties in Georgia, with no
representation at all, he said.
There are 625 commissioners, 20
Black; 691 judges, 8 Black; 152
coroners, 2 Black; 159 sheriffs, 0
Blacks; 429 justices of the peace, 5
Blacks; and 1,114 school board
members, 51 Blacks.
Jackson said that those figures
mean that some peach fuzz has
gotten into his eye, and “We need
social Murine. We need to look at
this situation again.”
At the University of Georgia
where Hershel Walker took the
school to the Sugar Bowl two con
secutive years and kept the school
in the national spotlight week after
week, there are 1,700 faculty
members and fewer than 25 are
Black, Jackson said.
There are 1,800 administrators
and secretaries, but fewer than
four percent are Black, he said;,
noting that 55 percent o* - the
janitors are Black.
In spite of the success of Black
athletes at the University of
Georgia, the school ias graduated
between six and If Black athletes
since 1971.
“That’s why we must have
Paine and Morehouse and Clark,
because these schools accept
students, tr ain them and graduate
them. That’s why they are impor
tant,” "ae said as the audience
drowned him out with applause.
“We must have our share of
students in the Chemistry Depar
tment, the law school, the
engineering school and the medical
school. We must have our share of
faculty members and ad
ministrators. We must have our
chance to be the chancellor of the
University of Georgia.
“We don’t want anything
Sandy’s win
division title
in softball
special. We just want equal protec
tion under the law.”
Jackson said that Reagan won
the presidency “not because he
was so capable and so
superior—even with the aid of
stealing some books —it was with
the aid of a coalition of the rich
and the unregistered” that he won.
He said that Reagan won Illinois
by 376,000 votes; there were
700,000 Blacks unregistered. He
won New York by 137,000 votes;
there were 900,000 unregistered
Blacks. He won South Carolina by
17,000 votes, there were 260,000
unregistered Blacks. Reagan won
North Carolina by 39,000 votes,
there were 505,000 unregistered
Blacks.
Prior to the speech at Paine,
Jackson said at a puncheon at the
Uptowner Hotel v>‘nere he met with
a group of immunity leaders,
“We’ve got to structure a plan that
will liberate. And I’m convinced
that we’ve got to liberate the
leaders *before we can liberate the
masse*.”
H e urged the leaders to keep the
fa*ah. “You can’t give off heat if
•you’re not on fire. And if you’re
not on fire, no one else will catch
any heat.
“You must be convinced that
there is value in getting folk
registered. If you believe it, you
can teach it.
“If we had 26,000 more
registered voters in Richmond
County, what difference would it
make? You figure that out and
you’ve got a story to tell the
unregistered voter,” said Jackson
who visited local churches Sunday
morning where he signed up large
numbers of unregistered voters to
be registered later.
After calling unregistered voters
forward at Paine College, he asked
those remaining to repeat after
him. “I swear on the Holy Bible
that I am a registered voter. If I’m
lying, I hope my right arm will fall
off. If I’m lying I hope my tongue
will cling to the roof of my mouth
and I’ll catch cancer all over by
midnight tonight.”