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News—Review - July 1, 1971,
THE NEWS-REVIEW
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ENDORSEMENT
The NEWS-REVIEW has tried to make a careful evaluation of
the candidates for Sheriff of Richmond County so as to
determine which one is best qualified and will most fairly and
efficiently enforce the law in Richmond County.
We are impressed with the qualifications of all the candidates,
however we feel that Daniel Cross has one particular advantage
that stands out above the rest.
On the one hand he has seventeen years of experience in law
enforcement. And he has served (and is currently serving) as the
president of the local chapter of the N.A.A.CP. which is often
involved in cases against the police department. We feel that the
experience that he has gained as an enforcer of the law and as a
public defender against abuse of the law, gives him the unique
sensitivity to apply the law forcefully, but justly.
We are proud to endorse Daniel Cross for Sheriff of Richmond
C ° Unty NON-PARTISAN ELECTION INFORMATION
SHERIFF OF RICHMOND COUNTY
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not support or oppose candidates. We do present, as a public
service, biographical information and answers to questions on
political issues. This information is presented, as nearly as
possible, in the exact words of the candidates. League
membership is open to all women of voting age.
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QUESTIONS ASKED CANDIDATES:
PRESENT OCCUPATION:
EDUCATION:
BACKGROUND:
MOST PRESSING PROBLEM: What is the most pressing
problem facing the Sheriff s office? What would you do about it?
COOPERATION BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES: What would you do to promote greater
cooperation between the Sheriffs Office and the City Police
Department, the Georgia State Patrol, the South Carolina State
Patrol?
PERSONNEL SELECTION, PROMOTION & TRAINING: In
order to assure the best possible staff, how do you feel the
Sheriffs Department personnel should be selected and promoted?
Would you favor special training for county jail staff?
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William A. Anderson Age 35 1707 Fairwood Court
PRESENT OCCUPATION: Criminal Investigator, Richmond
County Sheriffs Department; also serve as instructor at the
C.S.R.A. Law Enforcement Training Center.
EDUCATION: Graduate - Academy of Richmond County;
attended Augusta College and University of Georgia Extension.
Completed following courses: Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous
Drugs; Criminal Investigation and Homicide Workshop, Georgia
Police Academy, Atlanta, Georgia. Police—Commun. y Relations,
University of Georgia. F. 8.1. Fingerprint School. 1970 Graduate
of the F. 8.1. National Academy, Washington, D.C.
BACKGROUND: Born and reared in Augusta, Georgia, attended
Augusta schools, spent two years in U.S. Navy, adjustor with
mortgage firm; Administrative Assistant, Remington Rand
Univac; joined Richmond County Sheriffs Department in 1962
as a deputy, promoted to criminal investigator 1966. Married to
the former Gail Remley and has a son, Duane-7, & a daughter,
Dawn -1. Member of Pierce Memorial United Methodist Church -
past member of the Official Board, and member of Christian
Concerns Committee.
MOST PRESSING PROBLEM: Our rising crime rate, due
primarily to increased use of narcotics in our community.
Increase the number of investigators assigned to the special
narcotics and drug abuse group, to further equip and train these
men. Intensify efforts against suppliers and pushers. Work closer
with the Augusta Police Department and CID at Fort Gordon to
coordinate efforts in this area. Arrange with the Medical College
of Georgia to utilize their facilities and personnel to test drugs
and testify as expert witnesses in local courts.
COOPERATION BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES: Initiate a C.S.R.A. Crime Clinic where
representatives of all law enforcement agencies in the area could
meet regularly to exchange information on apprehensions, modus
operandi of criminals crime problems and trends. This would
provide a “bank of information” for agencies and provide a closer
working relationship among them.
PERSONNEL SELECTION, PROMOTION & TRAINING:
Applicants for positions would be required to undergo oral and
written tests, background investigations and a rigid physical
examination. Deputies should be promoted on their performance
record, written and oral examinations and seniority. Promotions
should not be politically motivated. I favor special training for jail
personnel in security, first aid and human relations.
Daniel H. Cross Age 43 1140 Fourteenth Avenue
PRESENT OCCUPATION: Retired Sgt. U.S. Army.
EDUCATION: Received Elementary and High School Training
from the Public Schools of Huntsville, Alabama. Attended the
United States Provost Marshall General’s School, Fort Gordon.
Have taken correspondence in investigation and criminology
through LaSalle College of Chicago, Illinois, and has done further
study at Augusta College, Augusta, Georgia.
BACKGROUND: Native of Huntsville, Alabama, but has
established residence in Augusta, Georgia since 1959. Retired
from the United States Army after twenty-one (21) years of
service. While there, was a recipient of several awards. Travel
experience includes three (3) continents: Europe, Asia and North
America: including Japan, Korea, Germany, Spain, England,
France, Berlin, Mexico and Cuba. Civic affiliations are wide and
varied: Chairman of the Human Relations Committee which was
set up by the U.S. Justice Department, President of the NAACP,
and works door to door after work hours for needed community
residents through various civic projects. Member of the
Tabernacle Baptist Church, and is married to the former Miss
Aretha Bennett. He is the proud father of two (2) children, Mary
Jane and Daniel H. Cross, Jr.
tyOST PRESSING PROBLEM: Lack of a solution to methods of
preventing crime. I plan to: (1) Have all officers follow the sth
Amendment pledge, (2) Improve the physical plant of the place
of confinment for persons arrested, (3) Encourage all officers of
the Sheriffs Department to attend a school or an in-service
program or special glasses designed jo better inform officers, (4)
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Use the Deputy’s car as a referral station and (5) Have a
“Richmond County Day With The Sheriff.
COOPERATION BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES: Stress among members of each department that
public safety is of primary importance. The important thing is
that the respective departments combine their resources to insure
that public safety is always guaranteed.
PERSONNEL SELECTION, PROMOTION & TRAINING: In
order to insure the best possible staff: A. Selection - All Sheriffs
Department personnel will be selected on the basis of
qualification and dedication. B. Promotion - All deputies will be
promoted on the basis of Performance of Duty and Seniority. C.
I do favor special training for county jail staff whether through an
in-service program or any classes designed to better prepare the
staff. They should be trained in courtesy and tact.
George Johnson, Jr. Age 37 623 Aiken Street
PRESENT OCCUPATION: Service Station owner and operator.
EDUCATION: High School graduate.
BACKGROUND: Military Service
MOST PRESSING PROBLEM: A. The most pressing problem in
the Sheriffs department is “Drugs”. B. Training, and special drug
squads.
COOPERATION BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES: Meet with the heads of each department and work
out the best solution that is beneficial for all.
PERSONNEL SELECTION, PROMOTION & TRAINING: They
should be promoted on a merit system first, and seniority. The
Sheriffs department staff should be selected from a wide range of
applications, and the best qualified personnel used. All county jail
staff should be properly train in handling prisoners and visitors.
John R. Tebow Age 44 Rt. 3, Box 127, Mcßean
PRESENT OCCUPATION: Law Enforcement Officer, presently
serving as Captain of the Safety Division of the Richmond
County Sheriff’s Department.
EDUCATION: Attended grammer school at John Milledge and
graduated from Hephzibah High School. I have completed courses
in Traffic Engineering and safety at the University of Georgia,
and attended three drug seminars at the Police Academy in
Atlanta.
BACKGROUND: Served one year as turnkey at the Richmond
County jail, ten years on the Road Patrol, two years as
Lieutenant of the Road Patrol, and past seven years as Captain of
the Safety Division of the Sheriffs Department.
MOST PRESSING PROBLEM: We have several pressing
problems. To name a few, we need more and better training for
our law enforcement men, we need a new jail with more space
and better security, and we need an effective, co-ordinated
City-County program to combat drug abuse.
COOPERATION BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES: In the past we have experienced cooperation
between the above named agencies and law enforcement agencies
in adjacent counties. With the installation of our new radio
equipment, we will monitor the State Patrol and City Police
Department, and I believe this will greatly increase and assist
cooperation among said law enforcement agencies.
PERSONNEL SELECTION, PROMOTION & TRAINING: I
would favor special training for the County Jail staff to promote
and insure a safe jail, and adequate supervision and humane
treatment of the inmates.
N. Francis Widener, Jr. Age 47 2925 Deans Bridge Rd.
PRESENT OCCUPATION: Owner of Widener Arms, 3030
Milledgeville Road, Augusta.
EDUCATION: Boys Catholic School, Augusta, Georgia.
BACKGROUND: World War II Veteran, and holder of the
Bronze Star. Served as County Commissioner for eight years, of
the eight two as Chairman. Member of: George Walton Masonic
Lodge, Augusta Shrine, Alee Temple, American Legion Post 205,
V. .W., Peace Officers Assn., Augusta Consistory Club, National
Rifle Club, Woodlawn Methodist Church, Assistant Coroner for
approximately 20 years.
MOST PRESSING PROBLEM: The most pressing problem is
qualified personnel. As Sheriff I will give this my immediate
attention to work within the framework of the budget of the
Sheriffs office to upgrade the qualifications for hiring new men. I
will incorporate a training program with special interest put on
human relations. In addition, I will do my very best to see that
the laws in this County are enforced properly and efficiently.
COOPERATION BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES: I would propose that as Sheriff of this County I
will meet with the Chief of the City Police Department and
together discuss and exchange ideas that would be beneficial to
both Departments, that whereby either Department could assist
the other in improving and enforcing the laws. I will try to get the
Georgia State Patrol Barracks here in Richmond County and
personnally try to have good working conditions with the State
of Georgia.
PERSONNEL SELECTION, PROMOTION & TRAINING: As
Sheriff I would propose to try to find good people who are
interested in law enforcement work. With the schools available to
train people, I would hope to have better qualified and more
dedicated personnel. In order to keep good people, they have to
be promoted on qualifications rather than political. Tlus would
be a must in my program to assure a safer and more secure jail.
These people have to be more qualified for that job..
A.B. Williamson Age 43 2054 Greene Street
PRESENT OCCUPATION: Business manager of a Community
Planning and Development Firm.
EDUCATION: Finished Hands High School of Madison,
Connecticut. Completed special Police Courses at the University
of Georgia.
BACKGROUND: I joind the Augusta Police Department in
1949 as a private, working my way up thru the ranks to the post
of Captain. I resigned in 1970 to enter private business. I
completed several courses at the University of Georgia, where I
was awarded certificates as training instructor for police recruits,
and also in Police Community Relations. I completed a course in
Police Management, conducted by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation for which I received a certificate. I have also had
extensive training in Riot Control, conducted at Fort Gordon,
Georgia, also completed a course on enforcemnt of the New Fire
Arms Act, conducted by agents of the fire arms division of the
Internal Revenue Service which I received a certificate. I have
attended fourteen Federal Bureau of Investigation Schools of
instructions on the latest crime fighting techniques.
MOST PRESSING PROBLEM:’ Illegal drug traffic. I intend to
set up a narcotic squad separate from the vice squad. These men
will be trained at the finest schools available in order that they
will gain the knowledge on the best way to help stop this evil in
our country.
COOPERATION BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES: As far as I know, all the above law enforcement
agencies have good working relations. I intend to keep this
working relationship on a very high level.
PERSONNEL SELECTION, PROMOTION & TRAINING: (1)
Before anyone is hired in the Sheriff, Department, I would have
the past work record along with a character reference of the
person checked out very closely. I will keep an efficiency record
on all personnel in the department. (2) Promotions would be
given on the outcome of oral and written examinations along
with the study of the person’s personal record with the
department. (3) I am in favor of having trained jail staff, also a
twenty-four hour a day supervisior at the jail. (
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Philip Waring /
NEW JERSEY BLACK MAYOR TO SPEAK
AT AUGUSTA-AIKEN REUNION
Honorable Matthew Carter, Black Mayor of Montclair, NJ.,
will speak at the second annual Augusta-Aiken Reunion slated for
Sunday afternoon, July 18, 2 to 4 p.m. at the Robert Treat Hotel
in downtown Newark, NJ., stated Philip Waring and LaVozier
LaMarr, who are again heading this get together of former
Southern residents.
Last year some 103 different persons gathered in the same
hotel at which time Mayor Kenneth Gipson of Newark addressed
the group who came from four different Northeastern states.
AMSTERDAM NEWS FEATURES MALLORY MILLENDER
The Amsterdam News, which calls itself America’s largest
Black weekly newspaper, recently featured a photo and
background material of NEWS-REVIEW Publisher-Editor Mallory
Millender. All of us felt proud in reading this good and timely
coverage on an Augustan.
EVERS IS TOP SOUTHERN POLITICAL LEADER
This data is from a recent lead editorial in the nation-famous
St. Louis Post-Dispatch of June 15th.
NEW POLITICAL FORCE IN MISSISSIPPI
Led by Mayor Charles Evers of Fayette, who is a candidate for
Governor, Mississippi Negro politicians this year are making the
most massive bid for political office ever undertaken by blacks in
that state. It is a campaign which promises to produce results
favorable to the long unrepresented interests of Negroes in
Mississippi, even if it does not achieve the main but exceedingly
difficult objective of putting Mr. Evers in the Statehouse.
By announcing that he will not run in the August Democratic
primary, Mr. Evers made the valid point that he will not accept
state officials’ refusal to recognize nationally loyal black
Democrats as the legitimate Democratic Party of the state. (As a
result of the old-line Mississippi Democratic Party’s failure to
open its ranks to full participation by Negroes, an Evers-led
delegation of blacks and whites un-seated the regular state
delegation at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and Mr.
Evers was named Democratic National Committeeman from
Mississippi).
In not entering the August primary, Mr. Evers also freed Negro
Democratic voters to influence the outcome in the race among six
white candidates, at least two of whom are unreformed
segregationists. As between the two candidates who seem most
moderate on the race issue, Mr. Evers has spoken favorably only
of Lt. Gov. Charles Sullivan, considered the leading contender.
This may have the effect of driving the most ardent anti-Negro
voters to the four candidates who are less tainted in segregationist
eyes, thus equalizing the chances between Mr. Sullivan, who
would get a sizeable Negro vote and Robert D. Ladner, the only
candidate who has appealed for Black votes.
If Mr. Sullivan should be nominated and subsequently elected
(because of his already strong support in the state), he would be
for Negroes a far more acceptable occupant of the executive
mansion than the present Dixiecrat Governor John Bell Williams.
If Mr. Ladner should be nominated, he would be perhaps a less
formidable opponent for Mr. Evers in the general election, where
whites would divide their votes between him and the Republican
candidate.
In any event, Mr. Evers and some 210 black candidates for
lesser offices (who are expected to run on his independent slate in
November) have mobilized a political force to be reckoned with.
With registered Negro voters in Mississippi numbering 285,000, as
against 650,000 registered whites, Negroes can’t count on any
outcome. But acting together under good leadership, they cannot
be ignored and suppressed as they have been for so long in
Mississippi.
Frank
Yerby
Profile
Frank Yerby has always been a kind of mystery man. He is
black, he lives in Spain, he writes fantastically successful novels,
he gets fantastically bad reviews (when he is reviewed), he
ignores racial themes and makes plots of moonlight and
magnolias and swords and pistols. These are the hearsay things
you vaguely “know” about Frank Yerby. But what is he
Why does he live in Spain? How does HE feel about his books.
Does he really make all that money?
Yerby was in New York a few weeks ago and obligingly
answered questions. Light-skinned, with a warm, jolly manner,
he laughed, joked and talked amusingly about lus Castilian
wife- “She’s tiny, she’s beautiful, she’s fiery, she’s a pepperpot.
She’s so much fun. Cole Porter might have invented her. So
might romance-writer Frank Yerby.
At 29 Yerby won an O. Henry Memorial special prize tor nis
first published story. Educated at Fisk and the University of
Chicago, he was working for the Ford Motor Company at the
time. He now has 23 books in print in 14 languages, total sales
21 000,000. His next will be “The Dahomean, (Dial Press,
August). About his critics, he says: “I wonder what would
happen if my novels were published under another persons
name. I don’t think they’re as unliterary as people say they
are.” He admitted his work did not always satisfy hirri. It 1
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FRANK YERBY
(BLACK COMMUNITIES COME UP WITH OWN BLACK LAW
AND ORDER TO COMBAT BLACK HOODLUMISM)
Black communities all over the country have begun to upgrade
their position on “Law and Order,” through seminars, clean-up
campaigns, and many other self-help projects.
The President’s announcement that he would not force public
housing on suburbs was anticipated by many black non-political
leaders; and their programs to give pride and progress were well
ahead of the expected President’s decision. The inner-city blacks
bear the brunt of urban crime, and are taking positive steps to
protect themselves.
Mrs. Selma Whownes, a black woman active in civic affairs in
New York City’s Bedford-Stuyvesant area, the nation’s most
populous black ghetto, exemplifies the new black attitude with
this statement: “Our big problem in black areas is the lack of
police protection. You know we used to hate cops, but not
anymore. Blacks have stopped calling cops pigs. Now people in
the streets are fussing with cops because they’re never around.
In 21 large American cities, an independent survey strongly
indicates that police-community relations are improving rapidly.
The survey showed too that many ghettos are organizing their
own neighborhood guards against murderers, rapists, muggers,
and burglars.
In the heart of Cleveland’s “Black Belt”, that area East of 79th
Street and Hough Ave., an auxiliary police force has been
organized to protect residents of a large apartment project
sponsored by a Black Catholic diocese. Rev. John Garrity, the
priest who oversees the redevelopment project had this to say of
the volunteer protective force: “These patrols have been very
effective in reducing the number of robberies, break-ins, mailbox
thefts and vandalism.”
Many other inner-city residents are organizing private
policemen with a new activism all their own. They are furnishing
volunteer sidewalk patrols and are forming networks of watchers,
who report suspicious doings to the regular police and neighbors.
The militant Jewish League was the first to use this urban
protective self-help in Brooklyn. Blacks and Puerto-Rican toughs
were preying upon the Jewish communities until the Jewish
League organized patrols of EX-G I and other young men to
combat this growing menace to their communities. This strategy
completely stopped these hoodlums, now Jews are safe in their
homes and on the streets.
Here in Augusta, especially in the new suburbs where black
families are being harassed Blacks should emulate these tactics to
protect their homes, and families. The regular police can do but
so much; it’s up to the residents to aid themselves. We have grown
into a metropolitan area, so we must fight fire with fire.
(A PERSPICACIOUS AND PROGRESSIVE SHERIFF NEEDED)
IN RICHMOND COUNTY IN 1971
In the approaching Sheriff election there should be special
efforts made to elect a man with broad, and new outlook on
police-citizen relations. The new Sheriff will have new problems
and responsibilities to an ever growing political concious black
citizenry. Blacks will have to help the police if their
neighborhoods are ever going to be safe, but in the mean time,
they must be treated like other people.
The Third Police District in Washington, D.C., offers a good
example of how new attitudes can be turned into action.
Residents of the previously crime-ridden Third District not only
join in seminars with police to discuss police-community
relations; the police formed citizen riders, to ride with police in
scout cars, and monitor station-house procedures around the
clock, observing and making reports on police performance. This
is truly a police-citizen project working together. Os course the
citizens are not involved in the law enforcement portion of what
the police do. The black citizens of the Third District are involved
in those non-criminal functions the police had been doing. The
theory is that by having citizens perform these social,
non-criminal functions, it releases the policeman to handle his
peace-keeping missions. This might be far-fetched for Richmond
County, but who knows, If we get the right man in office, this
may become a reality.
wrote what I want to write, I wouldn’t be able to earn a living.
I would depict people as they really are instead of the way
they would Like to be.”
But he says he has put more than melodrama and
heart-throbs into his novels of the Old South. “Younger blacks
don’t approve of me. Nobody under 30 has ever heard of me.
But I’ve done successfully what no other novelist has - made
people who fought for Georgie Wallace read racial themes. I
snuck it in.”
About the money he makes, Yerby says even though he lives
in Spain, U.S. taxes take around 60 percent of his American
royalties. When he went abroad 20 years ago he first settled in
the hills near Nice in France. “In away I left America because
of the racial situation, although it wasn’t that bad. I liked the
fresh air and sunlight on the Cote d’Azur and thought.it would
be a good idea for my children to grow up in a civilized
country.” He left France after a divorce from his first wife. “I
had gone down to Spain to Visit a friend, with no intent or
desire to remain. But the secretary of my friend was very
charming and I have never escaped.”
His Nur children all live in the States. “My oldest son is in
Stanford, married to a Thai girl. Both my sons-in-law are Jewish
and my youngest son is engaged to an Irish girl.” Yerby had an
Irish grandfather. His brother Alonzo is Dean of the Harvard
School of Public Health. Their father was a porter.
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Life in Madrid as he lives it sounds comfortable and happy
and unmilitant. “I get up in the morning and go into my office
and write until I get tired, or it starts coming too easily. Then I
know I’m getting hopped up and it is going to be bad, and it’s
time to go out and have a drink and go to the club and spend
some time with the boys. My wife rides and we go to horse
shows. We belong to a country club, and entertain quite a bit
at home. No bullfights. My wife is Vice President of the
Spanish A.S.P.C.A. She belongs to every society for the good
treatment of animals, children and plants.”
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Mr. Yerby is also a graduate of Haines Institute and Paine
College and is a native of Augusta, Georgia, as stated on the
book jacket of almost all of his books.”
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Al IRBY