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The Augusta News-Review September 15.1984 Tony ’.v Brown Journal How I escaped lynching, author recalls horror “They came back and untangled Tommy from the jailhouse win dows and dragged him like a dead horse with a rope around his neck up to the tree where Abe was hanging and hung him alongside of Abe, and then they came back and got me,” recalls James Cameron, the only survivor of the last lyn ching north of the Mason-Dixon line, on the next edition of TONY BROWN’S JOURNAL, “How I Escaped Lynching.” As the only man to experience a lynching and live, Cameron vividly relives the horror and pain of that night in 1930 when thousands screamed for his death. His grip ping story of terror and murder is told for the first time on national television. In August of 1930, 16-year-old James Cameron and two other from page 1 they continue to support the city fighting the suit. She added she is “anxious to see it settled” and is willing to compromise. ♦Pressuring the countyschool board to keep inner-city schools HSe-- vel HBRf mHUbi *mH W ; ■'"' \. ■ wHBHHmHHBMI .■«& IgF W JgF i . |Oh ▼ C WOA K ' |Rg MIST. i raze iMw w ■Nra» BHI 4jhF fa&w ME | <BB % '‘>W4' e 4 'B »• ÜBBrv ‘ f I' ; '***” B .awl 1 k,_> -* wy} /j • sass lIIISKBEIIIBfr f^'*** s** 5 ** **7 GO MISTING TONIGHT At home, or at your favorite bar, when you go Misting, you make any night special. So experience the smooth mellow lightness of Canadian Mist. An imported Canadian Whisky. IMPORTED BY l-f SPIRITS LTD N Y CANADIAN WHISKY A BLEND 80 PROOF g 1982 Black youths were accused of murdering a white male and raping his girlfriend. A mob of more than 10,000 people stormed the jailand lynched Abram Smith and Thomas Shipp. Despite Cameron’s plea of innocence, the mob came back for him. “Then the mob closed in,” Cameron remembers. That’s when they grabbed me, and beat me all the way down the steps, all the way up to the cour thouse lawn, then put the rope aroudn my neck.” How he escaped is still a mystery to the members of the lynch mob. But Cameron, as sure today as on that night 54 years ago, gives the answer for the first time on television. The program will be seen in this area on WCES-20 at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 18. DeVaney, Wylds respond to Mays open. DeVaney said a neighborhood cannot be revitalized without schools, but that “as far as undue pressure, no, I wouldn’t do that.” Mrs. Wylds said she “would not so much as put pressure on the Page 2 «. & XV. 1 u jp James Cameron Board of Education,” but that there’s always a need for inner-city schools. ♦Dealing with politics in city departments, which Mays said has caused many to leave in spite of their pay. 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In an effort to help 10th grade students prepare for the statewide CBE Test (Competency Based Education) that will be ad ministered in Richmond County Schools the week of Sept. 17, the Augusta Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.will sponsor a Test Taking Skills Workshop. The workshop will be given at Lucy Laney Comprehensive High School in the lunchroom, Sept 15 from 9 a.m. until Noon. Refresh ments will be provided at mid session. Dr. Robetta McKenzie, director of guidance, counseling, and testing, and Mrs. Sandra Bowman, testing consultant in the Richmond County school system, will be the presenters. They will present and demonstrate the latest materials in test taking skills. Patricia Williams is Employee of the year Patricia Elam Williams was recently nominated Employee of the Year at the Annual Employees Awards Luncheon of The Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Co. For this honor, she received various awards including an all ex pense paid trip to Freeport, Grand, Bahamas. A graduate of Berkeley Business College, Paterson, N.J., Mrs. Williams has been employed at Pilgrim for 10 years and has worked in several clerical positions in the Accounting Department where she presently serves as ad ministrative assistant in charge of payroll and secretary to the chief accountant. She also serves as assistant secretary to the Board of Directors of the Credit Union. Mrs. Williams is a member of the Cumming Grove Baptist Chur ch and serves with the Roy Elam Chior. She also seves on the Board Program quells adult fears Last fall, 102 Augusta area adults discovered a new program at Augusta College that banished their fears about entering college for the first time. The Life Enrichment Program, coordinated by the AC Office of Admissions, is for adults who have been out of high school for at least eight years and who have never at tended college. The program’s main attraction is that participants don’t have to take the often-dreaded Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) to eain en trance to AC. A total of 246 persons have taken advantage of the program since it was initiated on campus, according to Dr. Donald Smith, AC director of admissions. “It’s a boon for students who are entering college for the first time and who are nervous about it,” Dr. Smith said, adding that many adults hesitate to enroll because they fear failing tests such as the SAT. Life Enrichment is an optional program available to colleges in I II Patricia Williams of Directors of the Augusta Chap ter Gospel Music Workshop of America. She is the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Roy T. E.am and the mother of two daughters, Nichole and Shaunna. the University System of Georgia. Fees are the same for all students. The program also limits the number of credit hours which can be earned without setting an educational goal. x After 30 hours (six courses), the students must decide whether he or she wants to request admission to a degre seeking status. If the student has achieved a “C” average or higher on all credit work, he will be gran ted full admission to a degree seeking status, he said. Although an entrance examination is not required for admission, a placement test is given during the first quarter of enrollment in order to assist the student and college counselors in making appropriate course selec tions. Though the deadline to apply for the fall quarter has already passed, the admissions director said he would be willing to con sider late applications for in terested persons if they would con tact his office immediately. Fall quarter classes begin Sept. 19 and continue through Dec. 6.