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VOLUME 14 NUMBER 42
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WHEN WE BEGAN, among the major newsmakers were and Augusta’s first Black police lieutenant E. T. Olds,
the Rev. Arthur Sims, then-City Councilman Grady Abrams and County Commission candidate Ed Mclntyre
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SOME OF OUR FRIENDS have passed on. They include, from left, Raymond Jenkins,
William L. Lamback, Dr. Lucius H. Pitts and Calvin Thornton Sr.
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CARRIE MAYS, a then-member of City Council, chats MISS LOUISE LANEY
with then-Congressman Andrew Young, carries on the family name
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March 16,1985
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James L. Kendrick
James L. Kendrick, owner of
Augusta Blueprint and Microfilm
is our Citizen of the Year. He star
ted his business in 1971 with two em
ployees, and grossed $38,000 that
year. The company has grown to
12 employees and this year grossed
more than SBOO,OOO.
Kendrick was invited to the
White House last year and his
company was selected National
Small Business Os the Year.
Small Business Os the Year.
He is a member of several boar
ds including the CSRA Business
League, the Department of Family
and Children Services. He is vice
chairman of the Richmond County
Human Relations Commission and
former chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Augusta Oppor
tunities Industrialization Center.
Less than 75 percent Advertising
It ’s been our pleasure
by Mallory K. Millender
Barring a not necessarily
desired miracle, this will be
our last issue.
Early this week, the Inter
nal Revenue Service gave us
ten days in which to come up
with more than $12,000 in
overdure witholding taxes,
interest and penalties. We
won’t have the money, so the
IRS will shut us down.
I have mixed emotions
about it. My tired, tired body
is jumping for joy, while my
heart fights to find away to
continue the struggle.
Interestingly, my head is a
disinterested observer. For it
has lived through too many
News-Review deaths and
rumors of death to get ex
cited, and it realizes that
there are other battles to be
fought— and that this one
has run its course.
While I have enjoyed
doing the New-Review, in
many ways it has been a
burden from which I have
literally prayed for relief. I
am fully of the opinion that
the News-Review has played
a vital role in this com
munity since it was started,
March 25th, 1971. However,
it is more than a full-time
job. And to have to do the
News-Review in addition to
my full-time job is an
awesome burden. After
nearly 14 years of ripping
and running, working day
and night, I am just tired.
And anyone who wants to
stop me from doing it at this
point is more than welcome.
Some times I regret not
having had the sense to stop
on my own.
Os course, we are not
stopping. We will be stop
ped. Let me explain briefly
why. As most of you
probably know, this paper
was started with SSOO and a
lot of goodwill, which
usually took the form of
bills. We struggled for dear
life until 1980, when we were
confronted with an internal
legal battle that we and
everyone else thought would
put us out of business.
Somehow we survived, but
part of the price of survival
was even more debt than we
had before. There was
$15,000 in printing owed to
the printer who bailed us
out. There was $5,000 owed
to the former printer, plus
legal fees. We still owe
almost all of those debts.
We paid our staff as best
we could. They often went
weeks without pay. And we
often came out of our
pockets to pay for the papers
to be mailed and other essen
tials. When we were able to
pay staff, it was always just
enough to pay the net
amount, but we wouldn’t
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have enough cash to pay the
amount that should be
deposited to the government.
In the past when that
amount had accumulated to
a point that the IRS would
write to us or visit us, I’d
take out a loan and pay it
off. Presently I have pledged
my own assets and collateral
against such loans to pay the
IRS. And for more than two
years I have personally been
paying for the larger of those
two loans. I am not able to
go into further debt. And I
would not ask anyone else
to do so, considering that all
of the circumstances that
caused the indebtedness in
the first place are still
present.
We wish to thank all of
you who have given us so
much support over the years.
While, I am tempted to try
to thank people individually,
that is dangerous and space
wouldn’t permit me to do it
anyway. I would like to
thank our staff, our adver
tisers and our creditors who
have not pressed us even
when they should have, and
my wife who has been a
pillar of strength.
In this issue we are prin
ting pictures of many of the
people who have affected
our lives over these past 14
years. Some of them have
chieved greatly, others have
died, and still others have
moved away. And so it is
with life. We play our roles
for a brief moment and move
on. The News-Review is no
exception.
We believe that we have
fulfilled our mission. For 14
years, we have delivered both
information and a perse pec
tive that our community
otherwise would not have
had. Editorially, we have
provided a voice that other
wise would not have been
heard. We have been honest,
forthright, and uncom
promising in our commit
ment to truth and justice for
all people.
Not only have Black
people been better informed
about the realities of this
community, whites have too.
We said in our very first issue
14 years ago that “only when
people understand each
other can they move toward
a meaningful relationship
wherein the differences of
each individual are respected
and the dignity of ail is in
sured.”
The News-Review has won
awards locally and
nationally. However, our
gretest reward is the pleasure
of having served you, and
the hope that something that
we did or said made your life
a little brighter. God bless.
