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VOLUME 14 NUMBER 11
NAACP demands county affirmative action
The local NAACP this week
called on the County Commission
to create a panel to find out why
Blacks constitute only 28 percent
of the county payroll and women
only 32 percent.
The NAACP said that the coun
ty has a “disgraceful” promotion
record and that Blacks are assigned
to the very lowest levels of the pay
scale. The organization also called
for the county to establish an af
firmative action program to be
placed “on the front burner.”
The Rev. Charlie Moore,
NAACP vice president, said the
County Commission failed to give
Length of imprisonment
uncertain for Mclntyre
Federal Judge Dudley Bowen
sentenced former Mayor Edward
M. Mclntyre to five years in
prison, five years probation and a
SIO,OOO fine Monday. Bowen said
the sentencing was the culmination
of a “very unfortunate event” for
Augusta and Richmond County.
Mclntyre could have been senten
ced to 60 years and a $30,000 fine.
Prior to the sentencing, the
judge asked Mclntyre if he had
anything he wanted to say. Mcln
tyre said that while he was disap
pointed with the jury’s verdict, he
still maintains “the highest regard
for the judicial system and the
court.”
He described himself as a “25-
year public servant” trying to
make things better for this com
munity. “I hope for greater things
and to see that the community
grows and prospers.
“My conscience is clear and I’ve
set myself right with my Lord.
“This has brought some em
barrassment. I hope this will pass
away.”
Mclntyre noted the national TV
exposure that Augusta got for its
second heart transplant and con-
NAACP
Claxton
Benjamin L. Hooks, executive
director of the NAACP
association for the announced last
week that the NAACP’s Legal
Department is currently in
vestigating the recent trial and con
viction of Michael Moore in Clax
ton, Ga.
In the event the results of the in
vestigation are supportive of the
facts as they have been presented
to us, the NAACP will initiate a
national fund raising campaign
“to prevent the legal lynching of
the 18-year-old Black honor
student and to free him from
prison,” Hooks said.
Hooks said there appears to be a
“blatant miscarriage of justice in
which a young man has been sen
tenced to life in prison by an all
white jury in a county that is more
than a third Black.
We are advised that the evidence
was inconclusive and that the
prosecution failed completely to
prove this young man’s guilt
“beyond a resonable doubt.”
Explaining why the NAACP was
investigating the case, Hooks said:
“As it was with our defense of
Lenell Geter, we are attempting to
prevent yet another legal lynching.
the NAACP a copy of the Human
Relations Commission report in
vestigating the hiring and
promotion practice of the county,
saying that it had not read the
report. However, within a few
hours, the contents of the report
were being aired by the news
media, the Rev. Moore said.
He said the action was
“deliberate, unfair and unethical,
and was intended to put the
NAACP in a weakened and em
barrassing position.
He called for an apology, noting
that the NAACP had asked the
commission for the HRC in
vestigation.
cluded, “I hope I can continue to
serve the city I love so oearly.”
In asking for leniency Mcln
tyre’s attorney, Robert Fierer,
said, “In all of the years I’ve prac
ticed law, I’ve never had a case
that called out more convincingly
for probation.”
He said of Mclntyre, “There
was a war of morality waging in
this man. All of us have morality
skirmishes but I wonder if all of us
have an all-out assault on our in
tegrity.”
“Give him a chance to keep his
head up high,” Fierer pleaded, “so
he can continue to serve the com
munity he loves.”
Sentenced with Mclntyre were
former City Councilman Joseph
C. Jones and real estate broker
Mary Holmes.
Jones, who plea bargained and
testified against Mclntyre, was
sentenced to three years, to be
followed by five years of
probation, and fined $7,500 on
two extortion charges to which he
pleaded guilty.
Mrs. Holmes was sentenced to
four years in prison, to be followed
by five years on probation and a
investigating
murder case
One reason for our very existence
is to prevent, as much as it is
humanly possible, the wrongful in
carceration of Black youths
because they are Black.
Earl T. Shinhoster, the
NAACP’s Southeast regional
director, said, ‘‘The Michael
Moore case, coming out of the
small, rural town in Georgia, ex
poses for the world to see the con
dition of Black people in this coun
try when they are powerless and
with little or no representation in
local government bodies because
of their weak showings at the
polls.”
Moore, was convicted on June
1, for the violent murder of Mrs.
Rebecca Futch, a 39-year-old white
woman, on the evening of Feb 1.
He was sentenced to life in
prison on June 2. Court records
show that Moore was the
boyfriend of Mrs. Futch’s 17-year
old daughter, Sheri, and that the
interracial dating was the source of
many arguments between the
mother and the daughter.
Both Moore and Miss Futch
testified in court that the girl was
then pregnant for the second time
this year, with Moore’s child.
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$7,500 fine.
Jones told the court: “As I
stand here, I am guilty of those ac
ts for which I have been charged.
And I’m very sorry for those acts.
Thank you very much.”
Mrs. Holmes did not plead for
leniency, but she told the News-
Review as she left the court, “I
didn’t expect much mercy con
sidering the justice I got in there.”
She could have received 40 years in
prison and a $20,000 fine on the
two extortion charges on which she
was convicted.
Jones and Mclntyre declined
comment on their sentences.
Prior to sentencing, Judge
Bowen called all three defendants
“hardworking.”
He said that Mclntyre and Jones
had “done as much in the
promotion of good race relations
as any two people I know of.”
He said he also could not ignore
the problems a criminal conviction
will impose on a defendant’s
family and family background.
However, he noted that a “cer
tain motiviation among all of them
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Court records show, in addition,
that the mother and daughter
quarrelled constantly over money
matters.
Futch family members a/id
neighbors had urged law enfor
cement investigators to pursue
their case against the dead
woman’s daughter.
Shinhoster has noted, in his own
investigation, that there was no
evidence that this had been done.
The Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation, in refusing to make its
own records available to
Shinhoster, has reported that its
investigation of the case is con
tinuing.
George Hairston, the NAACP
staff lawyer who led the legal fight
that eventually freed Lenell Geter,
has been assigned to investigate the
Moore case for the NAACP.
The NAACP activity has
brought a response from the Ku
Klux Klan in the Region. Several
Klan members recently distributed
literature in Claxton to protest the
entry of the NAACP. A town of
about 2,700, Claxton is known as
“the fruitcake capitol of the
world.”
July 14.1984
SALARIES
Grade Salary Scale BM % BF % WM % WF % OTHER
10-13 $602-81029 48 4.70 44 4.31 28 2.74 74 7.25
14-17 $732-$1251 21 2.06 21 2.06 35 3.43 81 7.93
18-21 SBB9-$1521 69 6.76 14 1.37 198 19.39 26 2.55
22-24 SIOBO-$1761 19 1.86 12 1.18 92 9.01 19 1.86 1
25-27 $1251-$2038 13 1.27 0 0 82 8.03 4 .39 1
28-30 $1449-$2359 1 .10 0 0 22 2.15 2 .20
31-33 $1677-$2731 0 0 0 0 12 1.18 0 0
Unclassified * 7 .69 7 .69 42 4.11 28 2.74
TOTAL 174 98 511 234 2
% 17.43 9.61 50.05 22.92 .20
2nd Black heart transplant
draws international attention
by Theresa Minor
Back-to-back heart transplants
performed Saturday on 35-year old
Fred Davis, a Black military
dependent of a Ft. Gordon, Ga.
soldier captured the attention of
the nation and at least two other
countries, according to University
Hospital spokesperson Rebecca
Rogers.
“We thought really the interest
would only be local, but we
couldn’t be more wrong.” said
Rogers. “Because Mr. Davis got
those two phenominal transplants,
we have talked to places as far
away as Perth, Australia and
Calvary, Canada.” In addition,
the story was carried on major
network radio and televsion
newscasts, she said.
The marathon procedure began
at 7:40 p.m. Saturday and lasted
nearly 18-hours when the heart
from a Ft. Meyers, Fla. teenage
female donor stopped beating in
Davis’ chest about 30-minutes af
ter he was taken to recovery. In a
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TRANSPLANT TEAM—University Hospital transplant team works to transplant a
second donor heart in Fred Davis. From left to right: Dr. G. Lionel Zumbro, Dr. Stacy
Storv. anesthesiologist, Dr. William Kitchens and Gloria Carpenter, RN.
Less than 75 percent Advertising
life saving measure a second tran
splant took place.
Dr. G. Lionel Zumbro, lead
surgeon of the transplant team,
recalled the touch-and-go event.
“We knew we had problems
from the beginning in that the
initial heart was difficult to
resuscitate,” he said. But after an
hour on the heart-lung machine
and the use of drugs, the heart
began to function on its own. It
failed midnight Saturday and
Davis was rushed back to the
operating room as his heart was
kept going by “external massage.”
Zumbro attributes the prompt
location of the second heart donor,
a 27-year old North Carolina man,
to Mary Anne House, director of
the organ procurement program at
the Medical College of Georgia.
“She knew that there was
another heart available from the
first moment that we realized our
first heart was malfunctioning.
“If it were not for her alertness
wer could not have done it and Mr.
Davis couldn’t have gotten his
second heart. I think it was short
of a miracle.” said Zumbro.
Zumbro said the second heart
had three times the function of the
first and “looked very good.” At 6
a.m. Sunday it was in place and
beating on its own.
Davis’ prospect for surviving
“the tremendous insult to his
body are not as good as it would
have been had the first heart
worked,” said Zumbro. But he
remains cautiously optimistic.
“I think our main future
problem will be concern for infec
tion,” he said. “Having his chest
open for such a prolonged period
waiting on the other heart to get
here exposes it to the air.”
At press time, Davis is listed in
serious but stable condition and
has only brief moments of con
ciousness.
Meanwhile, 31-year-old Tyronze
Ingram, the state’s first heart tran
splant patient, may be released by
the end of July, according to Dr.
Zumbro.
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