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(Hir vraimtAiia I l®nSusJveJ Vol. 1 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 SEE C&S Page 4 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 SUPPORT YOUR NAACP BY SENDING YOUR DONATIONS TO NAACP POST OFFICE BOX 2800 SAND HILL BRANCH AUGUSTA, GA. 30903 THE PEOPLE’S PAPER 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 930 Gwinnett St. SV - 09% * "J® || * I E S ft i Jr F ■Lift (f « 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 WANTED NEWS BOYS WANTED! 100 News Boys Good Pay CALL ' News—Review Office 930 Gwinnett St. 722-4555 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 Augusta Ga Phone 722-4555 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 NAACP Meets 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 Fund Drive - let’s get that building with togetherness. The NAACP needs you. You need the NAACP. Bfc H H ■j Vote H ■ 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 September 23, 1971 # 27 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. J.H v 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 SEE GILES Page 3