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News—Review - July 1, 1971, THE NEWS-REVIEW PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 930 Gwinnett Street - Augusta, Georgia Mallory K. Millender Editor and Publisher Mailing Address: Box 953 Augusta, Ga. Phone 722-4555 Application to mail at Second Class postage rates is pending at Auguste, Ga. 30901 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance One Year in Richmond County $2.50 tax incl. One Year elsewhere $3.00 tax incl. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Classified Advertising Deadline 12 noon On Tuesday Display Advertising Deadline 12 noon On Tuesday Office Hours - 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mon, thru. Fri. 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 *♦**♦*♦♦♦♦*♦*******♦*♦*** The League of Women Voters, a non-partisan organization, does 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. ************************* 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? ************************** 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) Page 2 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. ( "GOING mm. • ■Ur) 4**' PLACES” Ffc i 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 .s'. lb •- KSA 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. *****•********••**••**•**•*••*•• 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.” ***•*•««*•*********••••***•*** 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.” Walking WITH DIGNITY BY Al IRBY