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VOLUME 14 NUMBER 21
DeVaney escapes runoff,
Mays scores big
Despite losing the mayoral race
Wednesday to Mayor Pro Tern
Charles DeVaney, Second Ward
Councilman Willie Mays surprised
many political observers with his
strong showing and he defeated his
three opponents in half of the
city’s eight wards.
DeVaney, who also represents
the First Ward on City Council,
lost that ward to Mays, 469 to 479.
Inez Wylds had 79 votes, and J.W.
Spence had 7.
Mays, a city councilman from the
Second Ward, won that ward with
1113 votes. DeVaney had 153.
Mrs. Wylds had 15, Spence had 5.
The Third Ward was closer, but
Mays won that with 699 votes.
DeVaney had 401, while Wylds
had 56, and Spence 9.
But Mays was to make his best
showing in the Fourth Ward where
he had 118 Q votes to 49 for
DeVaney, 10 for Wylds and 5 for
Spence.
Cal Thornton spearheads
Charlotte Family Day
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On last Saturday, 14 Charlotte,
N.C. communities celebrated “We
Are Family Day” at Revolution
Park, and spearheading the
celebration was none other than a
former Augustan, Cal Thornton.
Cal recently left Augusta to
become operations manager of
radio station WGIV in Charlotte
and from the likes of things he
seems to be doing a bang-up job.
Emphasizing that there were no
gimmicks or tricks to Saturday’s,
celebration, Thornton stated that,.
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Blacks make up about 47 per
cent of Augusta’s registered
voters, and 60 percent or better of
each of the first four wards.
Through four waards, not in
cluding absentee ballots, Mays had
3,471 votes; DeVaney, 1072;
Wylds, 160; and Spence, 26.
But as the racial composition of
the upper four wards changed to
70 percent white or better, so
changed Mays and DeVaney’s vote
totals.
In the Fifth Ward, DeVaney had
795 votes to Mays’ 109. Wylds had
107 and Spence 33.
DeVaney’s highest total came in
the Seventh Ward where he gar
nered 1371 votes. Mays had 388,
Wylds 117, and Spence 29.
In the Eight Ward DeVaney had
1131; Mays, 353, Wylds, 104; and
Spence, had 16.
DeVaney also led in the absen
tee ballots. He had 206, Wylds
placed second with 24, Mays had
Cal Thornton...operations manager WGIV.
“The family is the strongest in
stitution in the Black community”
and “we are trying to affirm that
valuable institution.”
Thornton commented that the
concept of “family” included
single people. “They are a family,
too,” he asserted.
Saturday’s celebration consisted
of families coming out and bringing
picnic baskets and grills, and
having a good time. Activities in
cluded bands, clowns, gospel
singeres, rhythm and blues groups,
ana a senior citizen fashion show.
21 and Spence 2.
DeVaney escaped a runoff by
capturing 50.7 percent of the vote.
Mays had 42.3 percent. Wylds, 5.8
percent and Spence, 1 percent.
Following the election DeVaney
said. “I really can’t describe the
feeling of winning on the first
ballot. It is very gratifying that the
people had the confidence in me to
elect me on the first ballot.”
Mays, appearing o« a TV inter
view with DeVaney, said, “I fell
very happy. I said to my suppor
ters last night that you have to
determine what is winning and
what is losing. We won when we
entered the race.
“In the Black community, we bad
to ressurect our spirit due to some
things that happened this year.”
“We were happy to see that we
got substantial votes across racial
lines. There were different issues
that we had to bring out in this
election and we did.”
A Voter Task Force was on hand
to register voters and neigh
borhood groups participated with
displays. According to WGIV’s
Thornton, Saturday’s “We Are
Family Day” is expected to
become an annual tradition, and
may be the forerunner of a “Black
Family Month.”
Augustans can certainly be proud
of its homegrown talent and the
enthusiasm Mr. Thornton has
managed to convey to a new com
munity.
October 13, 1984
Brown to
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State Rep. George Brown, D-
Augusta, has been named to a
special five-member legislative
subcommittee which will study
Hazardous Materials in the Work
place.
The study committee, created
via the passage of HR 523 which
was authored by Rep. Brown
during the 1984 legislative session,
will scrutinize situations in which
Georgia workers are exposed to
potentially dangerous chemical
substances at their places of em
ployment. A major focus of the
committee will be on the possible
of employees to asbestos.
“The National Institute of
Health estimates that 11 million
workers nationwide have been ex
posed to asbestos since the early
1940’5” said Brown. “Further, in
1978 and the U.S Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
concluded that as many as 5.6
million Americans may die of
diseses resulting from workplace
exposure to asbestos.”
More than 15,000
attend Caucus week-end
WASHINGTON, DC The
14th Annual Congressional Black
Caucus Legislative Week-end
recently met to discuss issues of
importance to Black Americans.
The Congressional Black
Caucus Foundation sponsored
issue forums, “brain trust
workshops,” exhibits, and a
distinguished scholar lecture series.
Open to the public, over 15,000
people of international origin at
tended the three days of events,
which included such diverse topics
as “Women is Business,” Black
Family Conferences, “Internal Af
fairs Seminars,” including a well
attended “Peace In The Middle
East” conferences, and the United
Nations Development Program.
The sessions were generally well
attended showing a new depth of
Black political savvy and concern
for the future.
The Foundation Program was
established by Black Congress
Little Richard sued
for $3 million
Rock and roll star Little Richard
Penniman was sued for $3 million
last week by the head of a record
company who claims the enter
tainer slandered him during a radio
interview.
According to the lawsuit, Arthur
Rupe, president of Specialty
Records, Inc. charged the singer
with maliciously implying he was a
racist when he told KABC Talk
Radio host Michael Jackson
during an interview last month that
Rupe has said: “All that a Black
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The committee will consider the
need for state regulation in the
area of workplace exposure to
hazardous substances. Recent
federal actions have focused on
members to advance the causes and
to improve the position of Black
Americans, and as a bi-partisan
association.
The highlight of the week-end
was the Annual Awards Dinner at
which Rev. Jesse Jackson was
presented the Adam Clayton
Powell Award.
Jackson spoke eliquently on the
need to defeat Ronald Reagan in
the Nov. election. He urges voters
to vote character, not face, saying
that it is a presidential race. “If
the race is reduced to face, Reagan
has had 75 years to work on his
act.”
Rev. Jackson also declared that
the constituents of those attending
the dinner could not survive four
more years of Reagan, that there is
a new white-out, a conspiracy of
silence happening in South Africa,
and another Watergate going on in
Central America.
Presidential contender Walter
person needed is $12,000 a year,
they aiun t need any more.
Rupe denied ever maxing such a
statement and thinks the prejudice
implied by the remark is “totally
repugnant,” said Rupe’s attorney
Ronald Rosenfeld.
Little Richard was on Jackson’s
show discussing the federal suit he
filed against Rupe’s company and
others to recover royalites from his
songwriting.
The singer contends that even
though he signed a release in 1959,
awareness and prevention as
avenues to lessen the risks to
current and future employees who
are exposed to hazardous
materials.
“We will begin by taking a look
at steps taken by other states, in
cluding ‘right-to-know’ statutes
which require employers to notify
employees of potential hazards,”
Brown said. “Other states have
also adopted legislation which
requires that information be
provided on the safe handling of
specific chemicals and that creates
employee education programs on
the risks of working with hazar
dous substances, as well as how to
reduce these risks.”
Rep. Brown, who is completing
his first year in the Georgia House,
is a member of the Industrial
Relations, Insurance and
Regulated Beverages committees.
The study committee will be
chaired by Rep. Jerry Jackson, D-
Chestnut Mountain. Other mem
bers include Reps. G.D.Adams, D-
Atlanta; John Mostiler, D-Griffin;
and Charlie Watts, D-Dallas.
Mondale preceded Rev. Jackson’s
talk and appealed to the nearly all
Black audience to reject President
Reagan.
Mondale made a strong pitch to
the listeners by denouncing Apar
theid in South Africa saying
“Reagan was cozing up to South
Africa,” and that President
Reagan is not for civil rights.
Mondale received a burst of
audience appreciation when he
said, “The election is not about
sending a teacher into space. It’s
about educating our children right
here.
He spoke out against nuclear
war, and received more strong ap
proval by finishing with a quote
from Dr. Martin Luther King
saying, “Let us be dissatisfied until
every man, and woman can have
justice until intolerance is found
only in textbooks as history, and
until all victims of oppression can
breathe the sweet air of freedom.”
it did not cover songwriting and he
is seeking the money due him.
Specialty asserts that he sighed a
full release covering record sales
and songwriting.
In his Los Angeles Superior
Court civil suit, Rupe is seeking $1
million in general damages and $2
million in punitive damages,
alleging that the singer’s comment
has damaged his reputation and
business.
Rosenfeld said KABC was not
sued because the station is plan
ning to broadcast a retraction.
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