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ABRAMS MAY RUN
FOR CITY COUNCIL
Former Second Ward City
Councilman, Grady Abrams,
announced Sunday on
WRDWS “Face to Face”, that
he may run for City Council in
C&S First In
Nation With Stock
Purchase Plan
The Citizens and Southern
National Bank is introducing a
convenient new program which
makes it possible for customers
of C&S National Bank and its
affiliate banks to purchase
shares of C&S National Bank
stock on a regular monthly
basis. The service initially is
being offered to present
stockholders through an
enclosure with the September
15, 1971, quarterly dividend
payment.
The bank is preparing to
institute participants’ accounts
under the C&S Stock Purchase
Plan beginning October 1.
Persons who are not now
stockholders of C&S National
can obtain information and
applications from any C&S
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Ex-Convict
ATTICA JUST
A BEGINNING
Emory Giles is a local
businessman. He is also an
ex-convict. His crimes (state
and federal) range from car
theft to armed bank robbery.
Twenty-one of his forty years
have been spent in
penitentiaries in New York
state. Giles was never in Attica
but has many friends there
whomhemetin such prisons as
Comstock and Sing-Sing.
He views the Attica uprising
as “an appeal on the part of
those guys (the prisoners)
because of conditions within
these prisons. It’s an appeal
asking outside organizations,
some outside groups of citizens
please come and investigate
these things that are happening
within these penitentiaries to
us and correct them.
“A man in a penitentiary is
less than a human being. He’s
much, much less than a human
being: he’s a number. He’s
subjected to the will or
whatever of the officials there.
If he doesn’t play ball, they
pass the word on him. He’s
abused, misused and everything
you can think of.”
Giles says that he holds no
grudges against any prison
officials. But “these inmates
that are involved - especially at
Attica - there has to be a
reason, there has to be a cause
for them to do this. And the
cause is within the framework
of the administration of that
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the second Ward in October.
Abrams, who resigned from
the second Ward seat in July,
said in an interview with the
News-Review that he has not
decided whether he will run
again. Shortly after resigning
Abrams stated that he planned
to attend law school in New
York or Washington D.C. His
plans did not materialize
although he is presently
attending Augusta Law School
where he says “I can do my
thing and go to school at
night.”
Abrams says that in many
ways he has found that he is in
a better position writing for
local Black newspapers and as
host of the radio talk show
Face to Face, “saying the
things I really want to say
without being hesitant because
I’m a public official.”
As a newsman, Abrams says
that he can speak without the
restraint of having to represent
all the people as he had to do
as a City Councilman.
On the other hand /-Abrams
says that he feels he has
matured and the question to be
answered now is, “How can I
be most effective in the Black
community?”
penitentiary and other
penitentiaries. The operation
of the penitentiaries from
within is so inhuman that it
gets kind of sickening. I’ve seen
fellows get visitors, their
mother, wife or cliildren, come
to see them. These fellows
would relate to their parents or
loved ones something that had
happened to them in the
penitentiary. The parents and
wives would believe it. So if
the parents and the wives
wouldn’t believe the sincere
telling of something that took
place. The reason they didn’t
believe it is that it seems just
animal. But if the parents don’t
believe it, it can’t be- Expected
that the people on the outside
would believe it. But the
discrepancies in this Attica
thing were the administration
saying one thingand the medical
examiner saying another.
Somebody is lying. No throats
were slashed at all. And
through all this the inmates are
going to catch the bitter end of
the stick. Many of them will
get life sentences for that first
guard that died. The state
officials are looking for the
“weak link” in that inmate
population. They are now
looking for the inmates who
will testify against the other
inmates whom they will
eventually charge. And what it
boils down to from the lowest
level of the administration to
the highest level is a “cover
up”. If something goes wrong
on the lower level, nobody
wants it to get to the top or
out to the public. So they
begin, even at the lowest level,
to cover up. Anything that the
public finds out about,
anything that is released to the
public is what the prison
administrators want the public
to hear. You always get a
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destorted, one-sided picture.
When newsmen go into prisons
for interviews, the prisoners t<4
be interviewed are handpicked.
“I’m not getting a grudge
off; I made it out and I’m very
fortunate. I’m very fortunate
to have made it out because
many of the things that were
done to me during this last
sentence I had -1 had a twelve
year sentence for bank robbery
and I did eight years of those
twelve years. Many of the
things that took place kept
encouraging me that, Baby, if
you come back to one of these
penitentiaries you just deserve
what is handed to you.
“The places are actually
schools because kids come in
who have never done anything
in their lives except maybe
steal a car. Now this
rehabilitation aspect that is
supposed to be taking place -
you’ve got to be the right type
of inmate before you can apply
for the courses. The officials
view whatever concerns an
inmate as - if I do this, which I
have the authority to do, is it
going to help me? Is it going to
look good on paper for me? In
other words, I’m looking for
this promotion, if I enroll
twenty students in this
program and seventeen of them
fail, that don’t look too good.
Attica is 85% Black and
Puerto Rican. This is
deliberately done. These men
upon sentencing are sent to a
reception center and screened,
and deliberately sent to these
prisons where the populations
are predominantly Black.
Whites are committing crimes •
now understand that I’m not a
racist - White fellows are
committing crimes but the
state itself segregates the
inmates. The state is
encouraging racism.
Grady Abrams
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When a new guard comes to
the penitentiary to work, he’s
the most beautiful gentleman
you’ll ever meet in your life,
because his heart is involved at
that time. He is sympathetic in
seeing all these men doing 99
years, 108 years, double life, -
so during the first few years he
is sympathetic with the
inmates. But the guards who
have been there for 15-20 years
begin talking to the new guard.
They tell him “you’re either on
one side or the other. Now
you’re going to shape up or
you’re going to find yourself in
a jack pot.’.. You’ll slowly
observe that new guard begin
to change. At first it was ‘how
you doing?’ Wat can I do for
you’? Three or four weeks later
it’s, ‘Shut your mouth, move
along!’ Then they bag-up
looking for retirement. So this
is the kind of person he’s going
to be for twenty years.
And they still have these
whippings. They will whip a
man in those penitentiaries by
shifts. A man is in punishment,
a new shift comes on, there
will be these certain guards
that like to do this kind of
thing. They’ll be told to go
down to segregation (solitary
confinement) and see what you
see in there. They’ll go down
there and pound a man
senseless. The next shift comes
on they’ll tell them “Go on
down there and see so-and-so.
They’ll go down there and
pound him senseless again. The
next shift they just keep it up.
All of a sudden somebody dies.
Then the rumor is around the
penitentiary among the
inmates that they beat him to
death. This information
doesn’t get out on the streets.
I saw a guy that weighed at
least 195 pounds, lifted
weights everyday, perfect
specimen of health only 24 or
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CANDIDATE SYOUNGi
MOTHER JAILED
Mrs. Arthur J. Young,
mother of second ward City
Council candidate Jimmy
Young 111, was arrested and
carried to jail in a paddy wagon
as she returned home from
church.
Mrs Young said she had been
a hostess and sang in the cho ir
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Monday
The NAACP will hold a
meeting on Monday September
27, at 8:00 P.M. at the
Tabernacle Baptist Church.
All members are urged to
attend and to bring a friend.
Concerned dedicated
volunteers are needed to give
some of their time for a good
cause. Let’s make Augusta a
better place in which to live
and work. We can do it ,
tighten up!! Support Build
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uwuuicn aueet extension is a heavily traveled street in our community. Until recently, this
heavily traveled artery in our community was in need of re-surfacing.
Citizens can travel with ease now that it has been re-surfaced, Commissioner Ed Mclntyre,
Chairman of Public Works, points with approval as the work is completed.
25 years old. I was talking to
him through the window of the
hospital about 10:00 one
morning. He told me to get
him some potato chips and
popcorn from the commissary,
he’d be coming out that
evening. By twelve o’clock he
was dead.
“Another problem is
medical attention. It’s hard to
see a doctor, hard to see a
doctor in federal penitentiaries;
they got what they call
M.T.A.’s (Medical
Technicians). If he thinks you
at silver tea at her Second
Ebenezer Baptist Church in
Hepzibah. She left the church
with a cup of tea and drove
home with the cup of tea on
the beverage tray in her car.
She said that she occasionally
sipped from the cup as she
drove.
As she neared her
Wrightsboro Road home a
policeman began following her.
After several blocks the officer
pulled beside her and said
“Keep driving.” Mrs. Young
asked if she had done
something wrong and was told
to keep driving. Finally she was
told to make a right turn and
stop. Mrs. Young said she was
told to get out and “you’re
driving under the influence.”
The officer proceeded to
search the car then asked,
“What are you doing?”
According to Mrs. Young, she
replied, “I’m standing here like
you told me.” To which the
officer snapped, “Don’t talk
big to me.”
The officer telephoned and a
Dr. Williams
Trinity Men’s
Day Speaker
Trinity Christian Methodist
Episcopal Church, corner
Eighth and Taylor Streets, will
observe their Annual Men’s
Day, Sunday, September 25,
1971 at 11:15 A.M.
Dr. William Coye Williams,
Dean of Instructions, Paine
College will be ‘ the guest
speaker.
Dr. Williams received his
Doctor of Philosophy Degree
recently from the University of
Georgia.
are sick enough to see a doctor,
you’ll see a doctor. He’s not
authorized to examine,
diagnose or prescribe medicine,
but this is what they do.
The fellow I mentioned
complained of pains in his
chest; they took him to the
operating room, gave him some
kind of a shot and he died. On
the medical records there is no
indication that he was given
medication in that operating
room at all. The information
was reported by the inmate
attendant in the emergency
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paddy wagon arrived. Mrs.
Young protested having to ride
in a paddy wagon but was told
it was required by law and
“Get in,” in spite of a drunken
man lying on the floor of the
wagon.
An angry crowd gathered,
but Mrs. Young said she
insisted that she didn’t want to
cause any trouble.
At the jail she was given a
Charlie Pugh
Transferred
Charlie L. Pugh
Mr. Charlie L. Pugh of
143 834 Sunset Avenue
Augusta, Georgia has recently
been transferred to Columbia,
South Carolina.
Mr. Pugh has been with the
Army and Air Force Exchange
Service for 22 years. At Fort
Gordon, prior to his recent
assignment, Mr. Pugh has
served as Assistant Manager of
Retail Warehouse serving Fort
Gordon and Robins Air Force
Base, and Manager of Food and
Expense Warehouse.
Mr. Pugh is now serving as
Assistant Warehouse Manager
of AAFES Regional Warehouse
located in Columbia, South
Carolina, serving Army and Air
Force Bases in North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia.
room and he had no cause to'
he. But strange as it may seem
that same inmate was suddenly
transferred from that
penitentiary.
In the government programs
involving inmate labor,
programs that cost 12-15
million dollars a year making
mattresses, mail bags, etc. for
most of the government
installations, this is the federal
government and when I was in
that penitentiary there were no
Blacks in a supervisory
capacity at all. 4t the hospital
sobriety test, put in a cell, and
later released.
At Monday’s City Council
meeting, Jimmy Young 111
made an emotional appeal for a
thorough investigation of the
case. Police Chief, James Beck,
who was present at the
meeting, said he had no
knowledge of the case. Mayor
Millard Beckum asked Beck to
make a ‘‘thorough’’
investigation.
Mrs. Young said she plans to
take the case to court.
MISS BUTLER
STUDENT PRES.
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Cecelia Butler
For the first time in over 20
years Paine College has a young
lady as the president of the
student body. She is Miss
Cecelia Butler of Agnes Street
in Augusta.
Why was she elected? She
says it was “probably my
mouth. Students probably say
she will speak up if she sees
something going down wrong.”
The 20-year old senior says
that she is not in favor of
women’s liberation as far as
black people are concerned.
“Black women have always
been able to do more things. I
feel that I have the respect of
male and female students.
“I’m not trying to destroy the
strong male image on campus.
We are not hollering women!
women! So I don’t see where it
will affect anything.”
Leadership is nothing new
for the petite (5’,8616 pound)
T.W. Josey graduate. At Josey,
Miss Butler served as
vice-president of the Student
Council and later as President.
During this academic year
Miss Butler plans to organize
tutoring programs for
elementary and high school
students in English,
mathematics and reading. The
tutors will come from the
Paine College student body.
Seminars on Black History, a
book-review club, and a
student council scholarship for
Paine students are being
planned.
Miss Butler also plans to
work toward more activities
with the Medical College and
Augusta CoL _
“I want to help students
learn that their lives don’t
begin and end at Paine College.
What happens in the
community affects them,” she
said.
there were no Blacks at all, not
even clerical help.
It’s a bad scene in a
penitentiary; death is
immediate • spontaneous.
There were these murder
gangs, guys hooked on drugs,
they would kill anybody a man
wanted killed for ten cartons
of cigarettes. For as little as
S2O you could designate the
time and the place you wanted
him killed- They would take a
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