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Patient burglarized during surgery at St. Joseph Page 3 ® l,e Augusta News-Seutetu Volume 13, Number 21 Al Green visits local church, talks of life in ministry “I never thought I’d be singing ‘Amazing Grace.’ I thought I’d always be singing ‘Love and Hap piness.’ “People sometimes ask me what turned me over to God, and I tell them, “A pot of God’s grits,” the Rev. Al Green told the congregation at First Mt. Moriah Baptist Church where he visited Sunday morning. The Grammy-winning former soul singer turned to the ministry six years ago after an incident in which his girlfriend reportedly scalded him with a pot of grits. Green was in town Sunday where he was the star attraction at a civic center concert honoring the eighth anniversary of Pee Wee and the Psalmsters. In an interview at the Hilton Hotel, Green told the News- Review that he maintains essen tially the same lifestyle that he did before entering the ministry. He lives in the same mansion north of Memphis. Mayors disagree on Black candidate DETROIT Five Black mayors came to town for a panel dis cussion as part of Dena Sigma Theat’s 37th National Con vention and, while they disagreed on whether a Black should run for president in 1984, they all agreed the primary objective of Black voters in that election should be to unseat President Ronald Reagan. The five mayors gave individual presentations, then responded to a panel of journalists, which in cluded Philadelphia Daily News Senior Editor and columnist Chuck Stone. The panel was moderated by Washington, D.C. journalist Ethel Payne. M wi rl vWOt bB;/, '. ' J ‘ ' ■■ \ 1I lif V"' 11 ■" • '* ,, y?r l x yX"'- v ' j, ®: Bffiß ■« .fe - ' '■-•■is® A- ' flEr ' ‘~-jSW ” I CLOUT CITY...Mona H. Bailey (third from right), out going national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, lie., greeted five of the nation's 232 Black mayors"who ap peared during the group’s 37th national convention, held Kcently in Detroit. I From left are: Andrew Young, Atlanta, former Am- ‘Hitman’ Hearns shares Sept. 9 card with Aaron Pryor Page 2 “I’m bacheloring it again. Then laughing, he added, “When I get bored I go outside and wash a car and comeback inside and read some more.” He said that many people atten d his church, Full Gospel Taber nacle Pentecostal Church, just to see and to hear him sing for free. “They come to see and to be seen. They come for every reason that you can imagine. “As a minister, my job is to cap ture fish when it comes, for whatever reason.” Three months he returned to the concert tours. Asked why, he replied, “Reality has started to set in.” “I think that I shouldn’t need anything if the God I serve owns everything. “There are so many blessings out here that you didn’t know were out here, and God turns it over and it’s a blessing in disguise. So many things are filled with the blessings of the Lord.” “We do not have the luxury to unite behind a Black candidate who can’t win and re-elect Ronald Reagan,” said Chicago Mayor Harold Washington heatedly. But Mayor Johnny Ford of Tuskegee, Ala. as well as Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind. ex pressed the opposite opinion. “I fully expect to see a Black elected president by the year 2000,” Ford said, advocating that a Black run for president and all other government posts. “Run for everything...we must move to the city house and next the state house and then the U.S. House, for they all affect our MAYOR Edward M. Mclntyre presents Key to the City to the Rev. Al Green. house,” he said to the 2,500 per sons present. “I’m not willing to wait that long (until the year 2000),” Hat cher said. “We can pull together what it takes to run a serious national (campaign in 1984),” he said. Hatcher said there are enough unregistered Black voters in key states to elect a Black president. Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young was cautious in answering questions about whether a Black should run. Especially whether the Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of Chicago-based Operation PUSH, bassador to the United Nations; Johnny Ford, Tuskegee; host Mayor Coleman A. Young of Detroit; Mrs. Bailey; Harold Washington, the former Illinois congressman who was elected Chicago’s first Black mayor in April, and Gary, Indiana’s Richard Hatcher. Burglars take J cash, merchand* / from residence Page 3 September 10,1983 should. He said he is in touch with Jackson often. “I talk to Jesse all the time so it’s hard for me not to support Jesse. But I think we (Blacks) ought to be in any campaign where the candidate is likely to be elected president,” he said. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, like Chicago’s Washington, had no trouble, however, in saying Jackson should not run. “I don’t want to get into the question of Jesse...l say to you that the major task of Black America today is to get rid of see Candidate, page 6 I Glenn Hills’ Bullock T<i ek Less than 75 percent Advertising y 'Ms i ' ' ■F 14HHB 1 . ’ GREEN throws roses to fans at civic center. Ex-Josey student earns doctorate Cordell A. Briggs says that he was just an average student when he was at T.W. Josey High School in Augusta. He graduated in 1968. Now he has Ph.D. in English with a concentration in socio linguistics. He is also completing a book on the dialect of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry. Dr. Briggs teaches at Loma Lin da College in Riverside Calif, where he is director of Freshman English and an assistant professor. He attributes his success to the constant support of his family, particularly his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Briggs Wiley, of 3206 Tate Road. “There have been a few dynamic teachers in my life. They gave me motivation and a sense of con fidence. The two from high school were Mrs. Bernice Tillman and Mallory Millender,” he said. “Then I had a dynamic English professor in college. When I was in graduate school my linguistics protessor saw tnat 1 nad an interest in languages more than other students. She encouraged me to pursue linguistics.” Not the least among the factors contributing to his success, he said, was leaving Augusta. “I think that more students should leave and see what lies beyond the state line. “I’m not talking about material things. I’m talking about being ex posed to individuals of different social and cultural backgrounds.” Briggs earned his bachelor’s degree from Oakwood College in 1972. He then studied at Andrews University. — nßaammanmamamn Williams appointed K Dr. Roger Williams, dean for Academic Affairs at Paine B * College, was appointed by city K Jm council Tuesday to a 3-year term WL on the Data Processing Board. Chairman W.S. Hornsby 111 and WBk. s . Williams are the two Blacks ser- . ving on seven-member com- dTI While in Michigan, he worked as educational coordinator for the Berrien County Sheriffs Depar tment Inmate Rehabilitation Program. He and his wife, Mellie, still do volunteer work with prison inmates. He earned the doctorate in 1982 from Howard University. Briggs’ work with the prisoners is indicative of his philosophy on Black self-help. “Everybody knows that the B .mBB ’ Cordell A. Briggs 1980 s are years in which Blacks must demonstrate potential to do for ourselves. I am convinced that we must, as Blacks, realize we’re going to have to do it for ourselves. “If we aren’t motivated enough to enhance our own. No one else is going to do it.” The Briggs have two children, Cordell Alzregory 11, and Medelf Christen.. 4. 30c