The Augusta news-review. (Augusta, Ga.) 1972-1985, March 16, 1985, Image 1

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VOLUME 14 NUMBER 42 Let us remember when... . F V> ? •’ r ' v*''wl r* BF * **■ * A \ - fM ' L I ■ jbi i < I && fr4K w I &-,. I V j, Jp I a w > Sk I < fi * 4MI - Rev. Arthur D. Sims Grady Abrams E. T. Olds Edward M. Mclntyre 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 ___| “ F A ' II F' u " . WMF ; SK ’ ■ W ■■ l■ . . 1 *K r < < \ A" ’■ a i I # mJBtU •- It 88-Jtahte . Mlk 1 Ms AJK Bm i c’ * 1 i fV< <-• 1 <yW >B*t X<• mL - K J Rev. Robert Padgett ' *“'■'■■ /mW V- \ 4 *~' k SCLC elected Rev. Robert 1 Padgett chairman of its board i 4 of directors »i , ~ if *' Citizen of THE DAWSON FAMILY produced Augusta’s only ambassador, Horace Dawson Jr. w 7 M (top center) Horace Sr. is seated. Dawson was appointed ambassador to Botswana by |HP ■ President Carter WIV -A V/K* ■ s. * «Bfe* * \ & w .* \>, .Tffw'Mlr' k • > /. B SO -~c* ifa-* jmLv* *sb ,/IS^J^ 1 Bl ‘\ SOME OF OUR FRIENDS have passed on. They include, from left, Raymond Jenkins, William L. Lamback, Dr. Lucius H. Pitts and Calvin Thornton Sr. $w> z? iMHHMHHHIH jfitei * f :!■ S Wk * 4B ■ 1 / i-- k - A I A CARRIE MAYS, a then-member of City Council, chats MISS LOUISE LANEY with then-Congressman Andrew Young, carries on the family name (Hie Amuwtu NeuiH-iaEUteiu Final Edition March 16,1985 W' n * x ■£ 1 x W a “** ■% ». il®i ’ fw*'' \ • *• ”‘® i ' tV ■ ' 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 Editorial 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.