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BILLY DEE WILLIAMS IS EARTHBOUND Billy
Dee Williams, Luke Skywalker’s swashbuckling companion
in “Return of the Jedi,” returns to earth to star in Pen
thouse’s Celebrity Fashion Feature in the October issue.
Williams’ energy and versatility mixes well with the active
feeling of Autumn.
Ex-chief deputy:
My testimony convicted Red Evans
■I During the two years that Willie
51aze worked as an undercover
.gent for the Georgia Bureau of
nvestigation and for international
Irug smuggler Doug “Red*'
ivans, his life was in danger—par-
Icularly after Evans told him that
‘e had a GBI agent on his payroll.
1 At that point Glaze turned to the
*BI. But the danger persisted. “I
Irould get out of bed to meet Mr.
tvans all times of night...l never
'new when Mr. Evans was coming
y the house. He'd just pop up. 1
fever knew what he knew when he
une to see me, because he had a
it of information.
1 “It always kept me on nerves.”
With Evans sentenced to 40
Sars in prison and a $250,000 fine
kd ten others sentenced to prison
firns, Glaze has time to reflect on
Is work.
|| “I feel like I did a job none of
fem (Lincoln County law enfor
fment officers) up there would be
pie to do, because the GBI never
lit any time in it. It was all on me
what I told (FBI) agent Jones
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Miss America
says country
not racist
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was what he based his case on.
“My testimony was the one that
convicted Mr. Evans, because I
had the damaging tapes and the
damaging information.”
Glaze said that he knew he
faced danger both during the in
vestigation and in testifying.
“I told the FBI that if I took the
stand against Goolsby (district at
torney of the Toombs Judicial Cir
cuit) that Mr. Goolsby was going
to come after me. They said I
didn’t have to worry about him.
Immediately Goolsby put a call to
the sheriff’s department and put a
statement in the paper that I was
fired.
"I was never told that I was
fired by Sheriff (8.C.) Danner.
I’ve never turned over
anything—badge, keys, uniform.
My boss man has never asked me
for anything. He won’t even stop
to talk to me.
“The sheriff won’t come to me
like a man and tell me he fired me
and for what reason.
“Everybody in Lincoln County
who wanted to stop the flow of
Week honors enterprises
George F. Myles Jr., president
of Southside Electrical Motor Co.,
Inc. 2062 Old Savannah Road,
has been named Minority En
treprenuer of the Year in the ser
vice category.
Southside Electric Co. is a
family-owned enterprise, Myles’
son Micheal serves as secretary
treasurer of the corporation. The
business was a project of the
Business League in 1980, when it
was still just a dream on the
drawing boards.
“We are most pleased with the
impressive development of George
and Micheal’s firm, starting with
modest resources and facilities and
with our financial packaging
and some technical assistance has
grown into a substantial and im
pressive operation,” a league
spokesperson said. “George
Myles’ 43 years of experience in
the electrical equipment field and
his three years as owner of his
business is a model for other
minority entrepreneurs who are
either beginning or are contem
plating starting a new business.”
Applications were distributed to
candidates through the Minority
Business Development Center
(MBDC), which are local public
and private organizations
federally-funded to provide
technical and management
assistance to minority en
trepreneurs. All applicants are
clients of MBDCs and winners are
Loans to help Augusta businesses
One of the major obstacles con
fronting minority businesses is
inadequate capital for efficient
operation.
To confront this problem as well
as improve employment and in
crease the city’s tax base, the
Augusta City Council at the re-
Miss America says country not racist
ATLANTIC CITY She walks
into the Golden Nugget Hotel con
ference room and calmly surveys
the assembly of press that awaits
her, her green eyes as clear as the
50 camera lenses pointed at her.
The reporters could not guess
that within minutes Vanessa
Willie Glaze
drugs through that county came to
me. They said I was the only one in
the department they could trust.
I’d just tell them, ‘l’m working on
it.’ I went into the operation in the
fall of 1980 and stayed in it until
September of 1980.
Everybody suspected that big
names were involved, and most
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HONOREES Michael and George F. Myles, second right and center, respectively,
receive Minority Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Augusta Minority Business Cen
ter.
Others from left are Harvey Johnson, Eugene Hunt and Joseph D. Green. President
Reagan designated Oct. 2-8 Minority Enterprise Development Week. Mayor Edward M.
Mclntyre issued a proclamation at the center’s Open House Tuesday.
selected on the local, regional and
national level. The CSRA Business
League’s Board of Director’s
Executive Committee selected the
quest of Mayor Ed Mclntyre ap
propriated funds creating a
revolving loan fund at the CSRA
Business League.
This.fund, established in 1982-
83 consisted of $50,000; this year
(1983-84) that amount has
doubled. To date nine projects
Williams, the first Black Miss
America, would be shattering
illusions about beauty queens and
the blandness of their opinions.
When asked about abortions,
Williams came right back with an
answer. Every woman should have
the right to have them.
law enforcement officers around
that area were scared to touch it.
So I took the chance to stick my
neck out.
“I took it upon myself to be a
good lawman, to outsmart Mr.
Evans. And I think I did a good
job of it, because he didn’t know it
was me that was turning him up
until he got in jail.
“I still had enough smart about
me to go back and smooth it over
with Red Evans before he went to
jail.”
Glaze said that the FBI whisked
him and his family off to Savan
nah, “so we had a chance to think
about it.
“I decided I didn’t want to run
that way. So I went back to Lin
colnton and I went to see Mr.
Evans to see what he thought
about it. He had heard it but he
didn’t believe it.
“I challenged him (Evans). 1 did
him in. He considered himself to
be a good crook. And I consider
myself to be a good lawmen.
Glaze said that drugs are still
being trafficked in Lincoln Coun-
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Augusta winner.
MED Week is a part of the Ad
ministration’s initiative for
minority business development
have been approved for loans
totaling SBI,OOO. Some of the
financed businesses are a printing
company, bakery shop, upholstery
shop, small retail shop and
building purchase. Approximately
sixteen jobs have been created.
In addition to creating or ex-
Six burly guards clear a patn to
the table, and Williams, 20, settles
herself into a thronelike chair,
looking a perfect Miss America
from the jeweled crown on her
head to the tawny, baby-fresh
complexion of her face to the
peach chiffon frock that sets off
ty. “I feel for the people because
the law enforcement officers they
have now can’t handle it.”
He said that sheriff Danner was
a good sheriff “in his day.” But
Glaze added, “In those days the
only thing you had to be to be a
lawman in that area “was to be a
white man, big, and be able to slap
a man side his head. Today, you
need brains.”
As chief deputy, Glaze said that
it was he who made the decisions.
“The sheriff wouldn’t say nothing
one way or another. He was just
there with a badge. Every decision
that was made in that sheriffs
department, I made it.”
Glaze said that ever since he
joined the Lincoln County
Sheriffs Department in 1978, he
has wanted to become sheriff.
There is no Black sheriff in
Georgia, but next year Glaze hopes
to change that. I wouldn’t run on
anything racial only outlook to get
into that (drugs) operation was to
clean that county. A good sheriff
could make that county about
crime free.”
which has goals of assisting 60,000
firms during the next ten years and
purchasing sls billion worth of
goods and services by 1985.
panding business, loan funds can
also be used as equity, capital
guarantees for lines of credit, bon
ding assistance for contractors,
and leveraging dollars (providing a
base amount of capital that will
make lending institutions more re
see Loans, page 2
her 34-24-34 figure.
She smiles her Miss America
smile (“I never wore braces,” she
confides) as she answers enough
questions to fill a presidential press
conference. Here’s what she had to
say:
On racism: Is America a racist
society? “No.” Is it segregated?
“Definitely not.”
“She’s just telling it the way she
knows it,” said Vanessa’s father,
Milt Williams, 47, a music teacher
at the Alice Grady Elementary
School in Elmsford, N.Y.
“When we moved from the
Bronx to a our home in Millwood
when Vanessa was one year old, we
were the first Black family in town,
and she’s always lived in an in
tegrated world.”
On being the first Black Miss
America: “I didn’t set out to break
barriers. I just needed the scholar
ship money very much, and I
needed the exposure. But it is
significant, because I’m making
waves —I’d like to make sure
there’s no differentiation between
me, as a Black Miss America, and
the other Miss Americas. I think
I’m qualified and I’ll do my best.
Just because I’m Black, though,
that doesn’t mean I have to be in
favor of every Black cause. I make
up my own mind on things. But I
think it will give Black kids added
confidence in their lives.”
On her politics: “I'm registered
as an independent. Sometime? I’m
liberal, sometimes conservative,
depending on the issues.” On
abortion? “It’s a right that women
should have. But I don’t think
every woman should use it.” On
the equal rights amendment?
“Liberal.” On legalizing
marijuana? “Conservative.”
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