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MEN CHARGED WITH $25 000 WORTH OF STOLEN GOODS COUNCILMAN MENTIONED klajfklsfjskldj Vol. 1 ——4— /y —. jyy ' /Jbhhez. \ i ML ylr O 1 3 |r tI nil r 7j —■ I j. CUTSETS | - I "Jl AMVETS ASSIST CONCERNED MOTHERS Recently, Amvets Post 616 and its auxiliary contributed over $190.00 worth of breakfast foods to the Concerned Mothers Club. This contribution is to assist the chib in its efforts to provide breakfast for needy school children. Amvets and Auxiliary members shown making the contribution are (left to right) Mrs. Mary Wilkins, Mrs. Evelyn Daggett of the Concerned Mothers Club; Mr. Charles McCann, Mr. Allen Brown, Mr. Robert Brinson, Mrs. Frances Wooten, and Mrs. Martha Franklin. Mrs. Rose Cummings is Auxiliary president, and Mr. George Thomas is Post Commander. * DR. PITTS RAPS AT MT. MORIAH * Paine College president Dr. Lucius H. Pitts urged the Men’s Day audience at First Mount Moriah Baptist Church to get out of shallow living; get out of shallow water and launch out into the deep. Pitts said that if you deal with petty things, if you’re concerned that someone feels that he is better than you or when someone talks about you, you feel that you must retaliate and tell him off, then that’s shallow living. “Big ships don’t come in shallow water,” Pitts said, “and big people don’t live shallow’lives.” Pitts, who believes in power for Blacks, told the young people the verbage of Black power’s not enough. “All right, rap,” he said, “but when you get through rapping remember that rapping ain’t nothing but shallow water. Anybody can rap.” The relevant brother is involved in his community, involved in drug abuse programs, etc. Whites love to know that blacks are rapping, Pitts said, because “they know when you get through you’ve spent all of your energy rapping.” Then “they expect you to go somewhere and find somebody’s pad and get yourself a tall cool one and be easy for the rest of the day. And while we’re rapping, they’re downtown w-r-a-p-p-i-n-g wrapping up new programs, wrapping up new projects, wrapping up new ideas, ,and wrapping up deceit, while we’re out some place waving our fists and rapping. Even while I rap now, that’s what they’re doing. Get out of shallow water.” Pitts said that if you follow God’s Commandment and fish in deep water that overcoming normally difficult obstacles becomes “finger work”. Tm a witness that when ‘Tm a witness that when you get out of shallow water the little minnows that you used to delight in catching, the irritating things that used to keep you unhappy and make you strike out and slap back at people, those things become insignificant. Bulldogs don’t bark at free. I’m a bulldog,” Pitts said. Pitts cautioned his listeners not to make character judgments based on surface impressions. Don’t decide that I’m pot relevant, that I’m an Uncle Tom because I wear my hair kind of close. Don’t decide that I’m not concerned. He said, “You aren’t smart enough, you aren’t old enough, to know as much as I know about my people; you haven’t suffered enough, you haven’t been slapped like I have been slapped. You’ve never had to make a fire when there was no lighter wood. You don’t know what it is.” Black Augustans, Pitts said, forget something Peter forgot and that is that we forget how we got where we are today. Pitts said that “some old men and some old women who didn’t have much and didn’t know much but who knew how to sing ‘A Charge to Keep I Have’ and ‘Be Not Dismayed What Ere Betide,’ sacrificed and put up little tents, set up little institutions, begged for a place and a book so that today black men can stand up and be doctors.” “Don’t get involved in shallow living by criticizing that old man. That’s what the other man wants you to do. He wants you to say, “this is an Uncle Tom”. But I don’t mind you saying that because you know what? I have learned how to swim in deep water. And I’m a bulldog. I don’t bark at fice. I don’t need to bark at 930 Gwinnett St. A Jrw <4Sr fice. I’ve got my eye on you though. Get out of shallow water.” Pitts said that “if the black people and white people decided to get out of shallow water instead of fooling around with crayfish and tadpoles and fussing with each other and making each other fuss with each other, if we black people THE PEOPLE’S PAPER $25,000 THEFT Last Tuesday, Tom Huggins, Councilman-elect from the Bth Ward and attorney in the law firm of Cumming-Nixon-Yow -Waller and Capers, admitted to this reporter his purchase of several articles, which were later proven stolen by Donald Martin and Shannon Montgomery. Martin and Montgomery have recently been charged by the North Augusta, S.C. Police Dept, with the possession of more than $25,000 worth of stolen goods. Huggins stated that he had met Montgomery through a partner in the law firm in which he is employed. Montgomery had been injured and needed an attorney to represent him in an insurance case which was settled for $6,500. Huggins said that monies which had been advanced to Montgomery to make several trios out of town, along with medical ($500) and other expenses were deducted from the $6/90 which left Montgomery a net sum of Dr. Pitts and white people moved out into the deep water and let down our nets for this community we would catch a whale of fish.” Dr. Pitts came to Paine College this year to become the first black president in the history of the 68 year old institution. Augusta Ga Phone 722-4555 By Grady Abrams some S6OO. Huggins stated that Montgomery had shown instability and had extensive family problems. His relationship with Montgomery was more than on a professional basis. He admitted having socialized with Montgomery in one of the local pool rooms, located on broad street in Augusta. Montgomery was said to have visited Huggins’ home on several occasions. On one occasion, Montgomery was given a cake which was baked by Huggins’ wife. Visits were made by Huggins to the hospital during the time Montgomery was a patient. Huggins stated that he had made several small loans to Montgomery. Some time in May, Huggins went to North Augusta, S.C. where Montgomery was living and purchased two boat motors and an oriental rug for some S4OO. Huggins stated he bought the two boat motors to sell. One of the Motors was put in one of the local marine shops for repairs and possible sale. Huggins stated that Montgomery later contacted him about the balance of payment on the articles purchased, but he was unable to make payment. Huggins said he told Montgomery he could go and pick up one of the motors which was in the shop because he could not make the balance payment. After reading of the arrest of Martin and Montgomery in the local newspapers, Huggins said he immediately got into contact with the North Augusta Police Dept, and told them he suspected he had purchased some of the stolen items from Martin and Montgomery. He returned the articles he had purchased and requested a lie-detection test which was administered. The test was favorable according to Huggins. A spokesman for the North Augusta Police Department said the result of the test is not yet known. Huggins was asked by this reporter why he thought Montgomery would implicate him in the crime since he had shown to be a close friend. Huggins replied that the only reason he could give was the fact that Montgomery wanted him to represent him. Huggins said he had to turn Montgomery down mainly because he doesn’t have a license to practice law in S.C. But Huggins added that he told Montgomery not to talk to anyone until he got himself an attorney. As of this writing, the North Augusta Police Dept, had not completed its investigation and no charges have been filed against Huggins. The Greatest Love by LeJeune H. Ellison To be... To be g00d... To be good and free... And hope for Lust of n00n... Fertility- Everlasting love. Editorial I gs WHO IS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY? £$ Last Thursday evening, the local daily newspaper carried a story revealing the contents of a letter that school superintendent Roy E. S;!; •W: Rollins wrote to U.S. District Judge Alexander Lawrence saying that if *s: Judge Lawrence would “refuse to enforce the busing orders” $£ (translation: disobey the law) “the Judge will serve to ‘restore some of the respect and esteem which our federal courts should enjoy’”. According to the report Rollins said many white parents “already :-:g have become emotionally unbalanced in the anticipation of having their small children on a bus and carried into the heart of a community” (the black community) “that has murder from gunshots and other killings almost every week It is obvious that Rollins has suddenly become concerned about the high crime rate in the black community because whites may now fall victim. It’s unfortunate that he has never demonstrated the same concern for black people. Nevertheless there is considerable good that could come out of Rollins’ concern for white children. Maybe additional policemen will be placed in the black community to protect them. They may protect :■:% blacks too, even if inadvertently. The presence of additional police in the black community may serve to curb the flow of drug traffic, it may reduce the ever increasing burgularies, it may even prevent some of the killings. Rollins said that prior to Lawrence’s appointment to the judgeship, xX- he held Lawrence in high regard. But now he continued, “it is difficult •:$ £x for me to picture you as one of those social extremists who you and I and most people know are destroying our nation.” If any of the proposed desegration plans are implemented, Rollins said, “another small part of our great nation will be destroyed. The x£: education of 36,000 boys and girls will be sacrificed for a radical social experiment” :•& The “radical social experiment” to which Rollins refers happens to •J;:: be the so-called American dream of equal opportunity for all people SK including blacks. Segregationists like Rollins have seemingly devoted their lives to Sx seeing that that dream never becomes a reality where black people are concerned. g:! The tragedy is that America has become morally bankrupt to the ■>s: extent that it heaps praise upon people who publicly beg judges to disobey the law, people who never intend to see black people free and equal, people who are opposed to practically everything America says it • stands for, and these are the same people who extoll the virtues of law and order, God and Country. These people are the real enemies of this country. They are interested in neither justice, liberty or equality, except where they are igg concerned. And they will make extremists and/or communists out of anyone who truly stands for justice and equality. &£ Mack Elected To Assn. Os Educators At the recent meeting of the Tenth District of Georgia Association of Educators, Mr. Dave Mack Jr., with full-backing of the Richmond County delegation, became 10th District Director. This district is comprised of twenty-one counties. Mr. Mack will begin his term in office at the state GAE meeting in the spring of 1972. A native Augustan, Mr. Mack is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Mack, Sr. He is married to the former Miss Inez Ruff and is the father of two children, Stephanie and Dominic Mack. Mr. Mack received the A.B. James Brown Boulevard Rally An estimated 1,000 persons attended a rally to support the changing of Gwinnett Street to James Brown Boulevard. The rally was held at the corner of 9th and Gwinnett Streets. Among the highlights was an October 28, 1971 No. 32 4** 1 ' J- Dave Mack Degree from Paine College, Augusta Georgia and the M.A. Degree in Supervision and Administration from New amplified long aistance call from Brown (from Oklahoma) thanking his supporters. Entertainment was provided by the volcanoes band. Portions of the rally were broadcast live on radio station W.RJD.W. York University. He has done further study at Atlanta University , Atlanta, Georgia. His professional career consists of having served as teacher and coach at Peter H. Craig Elementary School, as counselor and assistant principal of A.R. Johnson Junior High School, as principal of Weed School and presently as principal of John M. Tutt Junior High. He was the recipient of an N . E . A. p r e s i d ential appointment to serve on the Credential Committee from July 1968 to July 1973. i f you | PONI’T VOTE- / 1 you don't / count:., j