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Spinners lead Eddie Murphy NAACPasks Vanessa
singer dies ‘is actor federal probe yields title
singing ‘Sadie’ not a fighter’ in Burch killing
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VOLUME 14 NUMBER 13
Former mayor Edward M. Mcln
tyre left Augusta Monday to begin
serving a five-year prison term
following his conviction on three
counts of extortion. He was sen
tenced July 9 by Federal Judge
Dudley H. Bowen to five years in
prison to be followed by five years
probation and fined SIO,OOO.
Sunday night Mclntyre told The
News-Review that he still has
things to contribute to this com
munity and, he added, “I will
make those contributions.”
Sounding upbeat, Mclntyre:
said, ‘‘l know that I live in one of
the greatest communities in the
world because of how the majority
of the community, Black and
white, has exemplified concern and
affection for me, and still pray on
a daily basis for the Lord to give
me strength to endure these hard
times.
“The things that I have started
will continue and we will have a
greater Augusta.”
Mclntyre will be detained at a
minimum security facility at Eglin
Air Force Base near Pensacola,
Fla. He still maintains that he is
Vanessa yields title
to Suzette Charles
NEW YORK—Vanessa
Williams gave up her Miss
America crown Monday after a
controversy over nude
photographs of her published in
Penthouse magazine so that she can
pursue an entertainment career
rather than wage “a bitter fight.”
Williams, the first Miss America
to surrender her title, said she had
planned to fight, but changed her
mind only three hours before he
announcement.
She relinquished the title to
avoid “potential harm to the
pageant and the deep division that
NAACP asks federal
probe into shooting death
of Willie Lee Burch
The Augusta Chapter of the
NAACP has requested a U.S.
Justice Department investigation
into the fatal shooting of a Heph
zibah man by a Richmond Countv
police officer in May. The Reverend
. • Otis A. Smith, the Augusta Chap
ter president, told a news con
ference Monday that he expects a
prompt response from the justice
department about the death of
Wille Burch.
The 33-year-old Burch was
killed May 19th by a single shptgun
blast to the chest after police rep
sonded to a reported domestic
dispute at a nearby residence.
Police said Captain Ray Myers
Augusta
Ed Mclntyre, Jones
begin prison terms
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Edward M. Mclntyre
innocent.
Former City Councilman Joseph
C. Jones, who pleaded guilty to
two charges of extortion in April
and testified near Montgomery,
a bitter fight may cause.
“It would be difficult for me to
make an appearce as Miss
America.”
But, she said, “I am a fighter. I
will fight for what I believe is
right.”
Williams said she did not sign a
release form to permit publication
of the sexually explict photgraphs.
Penthouse publisher Bob Guc
cione said he has a release “ab
solutely authenticated.”
And, he said “I don’t feel that
I’m responsible ” for Williams
losing the title.
fired the shot that killed Burch.
Myers was exonerated in an inter
nal investigation by the police
department after being suspended
with pay for a short time.
4 ‘We believe that Mr. Burch’s
civil rights were violated,” said
Smith. He said the local chapter of the
NAACP believes that police in
competence and a lack of suf
ficient training for officers led to
the shooting.
Witnesses said that Burch,
wielding a knife, chased his wife
into a yard near the couple’s
residence and held her on the ground
for more than an hour, threatening
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Joseph P. Jones
against Mclntyre, was to report
Maxwell Air Force Base in
Alabama by Tuesday to begin his
three year term. Former Richmond
County Sheriff J.B.Dykes is ser-
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Suzette Charles
First runner-up Suzette Charles,
the former Miss New Jersey, was
named to replace Williams.
Pageant chief Albert Marks said
the September pageant, but she
to kill her and himself. Later, he
got up and carried the knife
toward his mobile home, with
police following him and asking
him repeatedly to drop the knife.
Police reports said that at one
point, Burch cried ‘‘Kill me. Kill
me.” to police officers. Police said
Burch lunged toward Myers with
the knife just before he was shot.
But in contrast to the police ac
count, Laverne, widow of the slain
man, says Myers calculatedly shot
her husband to death. Mrs. Burch
denies that her distraught husband
ever threatened Myers with a
knife.
July 1984
ving a four-year term for his con
viction on charges of obstructing
justice. Real estate Broker, Mary
Holmes is appealing her conviction
charge of conspiring with Mcln
tyre to extort from an FBI agent
posing as a real estate developer
seeking to buy city owned property
on the Savannah River, and at
tempted extortion. She is expected
to be incacerated at a women’s
detention center in Kentucky.
Judge Bowen sentenced Mrs.
Holmes to four years in prison to
be followed by five year probation
and a $5,000 fine.
Prosecutors dropped the charges
against Mclntyre in the Holmes
case in exchange for his promise
not to appeal his April 28 convic
tion on the three extortion charges.
Mclntyre was convicted on three
charges—conspiring with Jones to
extort and two attempted extortion
charges—involving a developer
who wanted to purchase city
owned property and an
engineering firm that does buisness
with the city. »
In addition to this three-year
sentence, Jones will face five years
of probation and a $7,500 fine.
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Vanessa Williams
may be listed in the printed
program.
Newsstands reported huge sales
of the magazines’s 15th anniver
sary issue.
Winningest
coach teams
with Coca Cola
ATLANTA—The nation’s win
ningest active football coach,
Grambling State University’s Ed
die G. Robinson, has teamed up
with Coca-Cola USA for
promotion of the company’s
products.
•n his two-year contract with
Coca-Cola USA, Robinson has
agreed to make public appearances,
to include coaching clinics,
speaking engagements and
promotions for bottlers. He has
also agreed to allow the company
to tape and photograph all radio
and television appearances for
possible use in television, radio,
newspaper, magazine and
billboard advertising.
Robinson will use sports equip
ment, luggage and clothing bearing
the trademark for Coca-Cola, in
cluding blazers, shirts, sweaters
and caps.
In 1966, The Football Writers of
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Spinners lead singer
dies singing ‘Sadie’
LOS ANGELES Funeral ser
vice for Phillipe Wynne, former
lead singer with the Spinners who
collapsed form an apparent heart
attack during an Oakland perfor
mance, were held July 20 in the
chapel of Angelus Funeral Home.
Wynne, 43, was renderin his
third encore of “Sadie” when he
collapsed in Ivey’s, a popular Jack
London Square nightclub in
Oakland.
According to Fred Ivey, owner
of the nightclub, Wynne’s perfor
mance was very well received by
the several hundred patrons of the
club. As they applauded him back
to the stage for a third encore,
Wynne grabbed a portable
microphone from Sonny Buxton, a
club employee, danced off stage
and was singing and dancing
around the tables on the main
floor of the club when he collap
sed.
While police, fire fighters and
paramedics were enroute, Wynne
was administered cardio pulminary
resuscitation by Louis Harvey, the
club’s assistant general manager,
America cited Robinson as “the
man who made the biggest con
tribution to college division foot
ball during the last 25 years.” He is
recognized as a football
teacher and recruiter with few
peers. This reputation is evident
today, as Robinson (312-102-15)
needs only 12 more victories to
break Paul “Bear” Bryant’s
record (323-85-17).
During his 42 seasons of
coaching, Robinson has never been
matched when it comes to
Phillipe Wynne
and by a doctor who happened to
be attending the show.
Wynne was listed as a victim of
an apparent heart attack following
an autopsy conducted Saturday af
ternoon. However, the Alameda
County Coroner ordered further
tests when the preliminary probe
failed to determine the exact casue
of death, a coroner’s spokesman
said. The results of those tests are
expected to be available within two
weeks.
Wynne was lead singer with the
Spinners from 1972 to 1976 and
recorded such hits as “I’ll Be
Around,” “Could It Be I’m
Falling In Love” and “The Rub
berband Man.” He recorded seven
albums and 10 singles as a Spinner
before he left the group and the
Atlantic Records label in 1976.
As a solo performer, Wynne
recorded several albums and a
moderate hit single, “Wait Till
Tomorrow,” last Year.
A native of Cincinnati, Wynne is
survived by his former wife, Ava
LeFlore Wynn (which is the legal
spelling of the singer’s surname),
and two sons, Emmauel, 10 and
Alvarez, age nine.
(Los Angeles Sentinel)
developing players for professional
football. Over 200 ex-Tigers have
entered the professional ranks af
ter being coached by him. They in
clude all-pros Paul “Tank”
Younger, Ernie Ladd, Willie
Davis, Roosevelt Taylor, Buck
Buchanan, Charlie Taylor and
Doug Williams.
More important than
developing the Grambling T* t ;rs
into a perennial football power,
however, is the fact that more than
80 percent of Robinson’s players
have graduated.
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