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CHIC, alors!—Alfa Anderson, lead singer for Chic, talks to music class at Lucy Laney
High School. She earlier spoke to the entire student body.
Chic star urges students
to become self-sufficient
Alfa Anderson, lead singer for
the popular recording group Chic,
got a chance to come home to
Augusta and relax this mon
th—something she relishes.
She came from New York Sept.
3 for the reunion of the Morgan
family. She stayed until Sept. 25.
“I have learned to appreciate
Augusta and the pace. There is
something therapeutic about
sleeping in the same bed you’ve
slept in for 12 years. Watching bir
ds sing and sunsets energize me.
“Things here are so predictable.
The chewing gum 1 stuck on my
headboard when I was 15 is still
there.
“It’s so comforting,” she said
with a laugh.
“And I don’t know if Mama
knows that chewing gum is back
there yet.”
But the last four years have left
her with little time for such
memories.
Chic’s 1979 hit “Le Freak”
marked the first time a Black
group had gone double platinum.
It sold 2.4 million copies during
the first five weeks. It was
followed by another top 10 single,
“I Want Your Love,” which ear
ned the group a gold record.
Second Black in sheriffs race
Elmer Singley, a 43-year-old re
tired U.S. Army captain, announ
ced Wednesday that he plans to be
come a candidate for sheriff of
Richmond County.
A native of Newberry, S.C.,
Singley has lived in Augusta for 12
South Carolina’s
Black mayors meet
SUMMERVILLE South
Carolina has 14 Black mayors.
The mayors are William Holmes
of Allendale, Cleveland Stevens of
Atlantic Beach, Janie G. Goree of
Carlisle, Lewis Scott of Eastover,
Benjamin Burison Jr. of Estill,
James Risher of Gifford, Robert
Grooms of Lamar, Charles Ross
of Lincolnville, Clifton Jefferson
of Lynchburg, Henry Robinson of
Port Royal, Curtis Inabinet of
Ravenel, Hazel Parson of
Ridgeville, Franklin B. Goodwin,
Eddie Murphy
signs sls million
movie pact
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Demand for the group took
them to three sold out performan
ces in London, other appearances
in the United Kingdom included
Birmingham, Liverpool, Man
chester and Glasgow, with other
concerts in Amsterdam, Brussels,
Madrid, San Remo and Rome.
The group has not repeated the
success of “Le Freak,” and tours
now about six month a year. The
rest of the time Alfa tours with
recording star Luther Vandross,
singing background.
She said that she has known
Vandross about seven years. The
two of them used to sing
background for Chic. And when
the lead singer left the group, she
was offered the job.
When she has come home in the
past, she was able to stay only a
few days and was so tired she “felt
drained.” The last thing she wan
ted to do was to get out and visit.
This time she did visit. She
spoke to students at Lucy Laney
High School last Friday morning.
She did the same thing at Butler
High School Friday afternoon and
went to the football game between
the two schools Friday night.
Her message was simple—self-
years.
He spent 22 Vi years in the Army
and graduated from the University
of Maryland with a bachelor's in
management and an associate
degree in law enforcement. He is a
full-time graduate student at South
Jr. of Santee and Charlie B.
Wilson of Sellers.
Workshop topics for the con
ference, which included sessions in
Summerville and in nearby Lin
colnville, were rural transportation
administration, economic and
community development and
public safety.
The sixth annual convention of
South Carolina Conference of
Black Mayors met last Friday and
Saturday.
sufficiency. “Learn all that you
possibly can,” she told the studen
ts at Laney where she graduated in
1964. “You never know what skill
you can pick up here that might
bring you an income later on.”
She said that segregation,
though morally wrong, was a
blessing, in disguise for Southern
Blacks. “Banned from the larger
society, Southern Blacks were for
ced to create a parallel society.
Because whites refused to treat us,
we had to become doctors. Schools
refused us, so we became teachers,
educators, and
Segregation actually helped create a
stronger more self-reliant group of
people.”
A graduate of Paine College and
Columbia University’s Teachers’
College, Ms. Anderson taught
English at Hunter College prior to
her success with Chic. “Welfare,”
she continued, “destroyed the
willingness to work and the sense
of pride that comes from accom
plishment," she said, emphasizing
that people “who are deserving of
welfare should get it.”
Reaganomics also may force
Blacks to become more self
sufficient. she said.
Carolina State College.
A member of the Young Demo
crats, he has been active in youth
development programs at Fort
Gordon.
As a four-year veteran of the
Military Police, he said that he has
experience in “all facets of law en
forcement-corrections, physical
security, drugs... ”
He said that he is running for
sheriff because “I want to restore
dignity and integrity to the sheriffs
office and the department.”
To do that he said he will “intro
duce methods and procedures to
allow the taxpayers to become
more involved and allow them to
express their needs and desires for
improving law enforcement and
community relations.”
He said that he also plans to
meet regularly with “the Richmond
County Commission, the mayors
of Hephzibah and Blythe and
community groups to formulate
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October 1,1983
Ex-chief deputy tells how
he got inside drug ring
Second part of series
Willie Glaze, the former chief
deputy of the Lincoln County
Sheriffs Department, says that he
wants the public to know the full
story of what happened in the
Larry Douglas “Red” Evans in
ternational drugs smuggling con
spiracy. “I only regret that the
people weren’t told the whole truth
about the thing,” he said.
Even Glaze’s family was not
aware of his involvement until last
September.
He said that he first became
aware that drugs were being
smuggled into Lincoln County in
April of 1979 when a plane crashed
there carrying over a ton of
marijauna.
By early 1980, according to
Glaze, word had gotten back that
Red Evans “wanted to know if I’d
take a bribe. 1 was the only law en
forcement officer that he was con
cerned about.”
Jim Carber, who headed the in
vestigation for the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation, advised him to
say that he would take a bribe “in
order to get inside the operation”
that brought more than 43 tons of
marijauna into Lincoln County.
Evans, Glaze said, came to his
home and told him, “I didn’t need
to work against him. It could be
very profitable for me to work
with him. What he wanted me to
do was to keep him informed as to
what law enforcement officials
were doing,” Glaze said.
In exchange, he said that Evans
agreed to pay him SSOO a month.
He said that Evans paid him the
SSOO only once. He did, however,
Kenneth E. Goolsby, district at
tqmey of the Toombs Judicial Cir
cuit, Friday denied charges that he
took a bribe from convicted drugs
smuggler Larry Douglas “Red”
Evans and failed to turn in $25,000
of a $50,000 bond.
The charges were made by Willie
Glaze (News-Review Sept. 24),
who was chief deputy for the Lin
coln County Sheriffs Department
until he was fired in June following
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BLACK COLLEGES DAY—President Reagan proclaimed Sept. 26 Black Colleges Day
and invited the presidents of historically Black colleges to a White House ceremony.
Mayor Edward Mclntyre and County Commissioner Tom Tinley issued proclamations
noting the contributions of Paine College.
Marvin Griffin, president of Paine’s Student Government Association, toils bell which
hung in the tower of Haygood Hall. It was the first time the bell had rung since the
Haygood Hall was destroyed by fire in 1968.
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give him a 1978 Thunderbird, a
diamond necklace for his wife, and
in excess of $30,000 in cash. He
was paid $2,000 for each plane
load of marijuana landed in Lin
coln County.
Glaze admitted in court that he
had given false information and did
not report the cash he received to
law enforcement officials. He said
Willie Glaze
that he used the money to satisfy
business debts.
“He only gave me SSOO one
time. I had to keep letting him
know that I was strong enough to
take him down.
“Me and him got into a terrible
argument because he had done a
load and didn’t tell me about it.
“I knew 24 hours before he ran
every load, but the FBI set out to
work it from a conspiracy point of
view. That way you find out who
all is involved. I didn’t want to
jump in and get Red Evans. I wan-
his testimony in the case that con
victed Evans and 10 others. Glaze
was at the same time on the payroll
of the FBI, the GBI and Red
Evans.
Glaze was granted immunity
from prosecution prior to
testifying in the Evans case.
Regarding the $25,000 that
Glaze said that Goolsby failed to
turn in, Goolsby said that he tur
ned in the entire bond, “The FBI
ted to get in there and clean it up.”
He said that Lincoln County of
ficials knew that he was involved
with Evans but they didn’t know to
what extent. They didn’t know
that Mr. Evans was telling me
everything.
“They didn’t respect the sheriff
at all. They figured he wasn’t
going to do anything to them...
“They would sit a plane down,
throw the marijuana in the back of
the truck and go up the road just
like hay sitting on the back of the
truck. That’s how little respect they
had for the sheriff and lawmen in
that county.”
Turning back to an earlier point
Glaze said, “Everything that
Evans was telling me I was repor
ting to the GBI. I had a mini
cassette in my uniform shirt
pocket.” The first recorded con
versation of Evans was in March
of 1981, he said.
“He talked to me about having a
GBI man on his payroll. I stalled
pondering whether I should con
tinue working with the GBI. That
put my life in jeopardy, with
(Evans) having somebody on the
inside, I didn’t know what to do.
“I backed off. When the agent
called I just wouldn’t talk to him
no more about what was going on.
But it put me in a spot where he
knew I had tapes of (Evans). And I
would turn the tapes over to him.”
Glaze said he talked with a Black
state trooper that he trusted. The
friend advised him to contact the
FBI.
Third part of a series next week.
knows what happened to it. The
McDuffie Superior Court knows
it. He is just trying to get back at
me for prosecuting him.”
In denying the charges, Goolsby
said, “Willie is a perjurer, an ad
mitted liar. He admitted he took
$30,000 (from Evans). I asked the
sheriff to relieve him of his duties.
And I’m going to prosecute him
for taking a payoff.”
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