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WARRANT SWORN FOR
COUNCILMAN ELECT
The News-Review learned
from the North Augusta Police
Department that a warrant had
been sworn for the arrest of
Eighth Ward City
Councilman-elect Tom
Huggins.
Huggins, who is an attorney
in the law firm of
Cumming-Nixon-Yow-Waller
and Capers, had been
mentioned in connection with
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Former heavyweight champion Jersey Joe Walcott,
newly elected Camden County, N.Y. Sheriff, takes a
stroll in Camden.
By WALTER O’KEEFE
Former heavyweight
champion Jersey Joe Walcott is
still winning new titles and new
friends. Walcott, who had five
cracks at the boxing crown
before he won it, was elected
Camden County sheriff
Tuesday in his second try. He
lost in 1968.
The post-election stories
made much of the fact that
Walcott is the first black sheriff
in the state’s history, but to
him the office simply provides
a better base for the work to
which he dedicated himself the
night he won the heavyweight
the purchase of stolen goods.
Donald Martin and Shannon
Montgomery who have been
charged with possession of
more than $25,000 worth of
stolen goods, told North
Augusta Police that some of
the goods had been purchased
by Tom Huggins.
According to the warrant for
Huggins’ arrest, he is charged
title in 1951.
In a television interview
from the ring after he knocked
out Ezzard Charles with a left
hook in the seventh round,
Walcott said: “I want to thank
God for helping me to win. I
always said if God is on your
side you’re bound to win
sooner or later. I want to be a
worthy champion and try to
help the youth of this
country.”
And yesterday he had this to
say: “I promised God before
the fight if he’d let me be
champion, even for one day,
I’d devote my life to the kids.”
930 Gwinnett St.
with a felony. The warrant
stated that Huggins entered a
garage located in the rear of
512 West Avenue, North
Augusta, South Carolina, and
took into his possession one
Johnson outboard motor, one
electric starting Evinrude
motor, valued in excess of
$50.00. The goods belonged
to J.P. Timmerman of Decatur,
Ga. The warrant said further
WORKED FOR $lO
He made good on the
promise. After losing two title
matches to Rocky Marciano,
he went to Camden Mayor
George Brunner in 1953 and
offered to work with city
youngsters for expenses.
“I was appointed a juvenile
officer and got $lO a day,” he
recalled. In 1965 he was
appointed deputy public safety
director by former "’Mayor
Alfred Pkav<s, and three years
ago was named city
community relations director
by Mayor Joseph Nardi.
But to Walcott the jobs were
just titles that allowed him to
perform basically the same
task, working with the young
and the troubled in the city’s
slums to find out their
problems and to see if he could
help solve them.
He carries no credentials as
an urbanologist but nobody
knows Camden and its poor
like Walcott. He was one of
them.
Walcott, whose real name is
Arnold Cream, left school after
the seventh grade to help
support his mother and 11
brothers and sisters. He won
his first professional fight at
the age of 16 in 1930 by a
knockout. His pay-$7.50.
The next 15 years saw him
pursue a fight career that was
fistically but not
financially—successful. He won
most of the fights but often
received only S3O for a night’s
work. “Sometimes there was
no meat on the table,” he
said, “and sometimes no
bread.”
Walcott married the
daughter of a Methodist
minister and raised a family of
six children, but he had to
work between fights as a
garbage collector, cement
mixer, truck driver and hod
carrier.
He also spent more than a
year on the relief rolls receiving
$9.50 a week to help feed his
family.
In 1945, he was ready to
quit the ring but Camden fight
promoter Felix Bocchicchio
talked him into continuing his
career. Two years later, he
climbed into the ring as a
virtual unknown against the
aging champ Joe Louis. When
the fight was over he climbed
out again, the loser of a
controversial split decision, but
no longer unknown. He had
decked Louis twice and,
though he lost the return to
Louis and two fights with
Charles before he finally won
the title, he became one of
boxing’s most popular
THE PEOPLE’S PAPER
that Huggins received the
property after having paid
Shannon and Montgomery
some $ 100.00 and “having full
knowledge that the said
property was stolen.”
The 28 year old Huggins was
elected to the eighth seat on
City Council on October 12.
He is scheduled to assume
office in January.
performers.
Walcott is still a hero in his
home town. Reporters who
covered some of the city’s
racial problems recall
witnessing Walcott’s ability to
command respect, especially
from the young, even in the
most volatile situations.
When he takes up his duties
as sheriff, Walcott wants to
institute a new drug
rehabilitation program in the
county jail, and to provide
some improved work and
recreation programs for the
inmates. Administration of
these programs will probably
be handled by professionals
but Walcott sees new
opportunities to use his special
talent for getting people to
work together.
“I want to improve
personnel relations, right from
the top on down,” he said,
“and I intend to work closely
with all police departments in
the Country, with church
groups and interested
organizations to try to improve
our ability to work together. I
hope to help make the streets
safe and I want people to be
able to rest easy in their
homes.”
(Reprinted from N.Y. Daily News)
N-R OFFICES BURGALARIZED
The News-Review Office,
located at 930 Gwinnett Street
was burglarized sometime
between 7:30 Saturday evening
and 10 p.m. Sunday.
Police said the burglar(s)
entered the building by a rear
door. They smashed a glass
panel in the door leading to the
News-Review Office. Also
burglarized, apparently at the
same time were the
headquarters of the Progressive
Political Club, located across
the hall from the
News-Review, and the
Hammond and Ross
photographic Studio, located
in the same building.
The burglary was discovered
by News-Review editor,
Mallory Millender, Sunday
COMMUNITY ACTION
COMMITTEE TO HEAR
SPECIAL REPORTS
The Community Action
Committee will meet at 8 on
Monday night, November 15,
at the Community Action
Agency, 1325 Greene Street.
Chairman John M. Smith, Jr.
reminds CAC members that
special reports will be made as
a follow-up of suggestions at
the October meeting.
Augusta Ga Phone 722-4555
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James Brown greets well-wishers prior to joining wife
and daughter (top right) for a flight to New York.
(Lower right) A large crowd was on hand at Bush Field
to view Brown’s new Commander Jet.
Augusta, Georgia, is rapidly
on the way towards becoming
one of the “soul” capitals of
the country, thanks to the
interests of it’s most famous
native son, soul singer James
Brown. Completing a total
move that began last year when
Brown bought ? $ 125 000
home in suburban Augusta, the
complete offices of James
Brown Productions have
recently moved to the
Eastern-Georgia community.
Licensed to conduct
business as MAN’S WORLD
ENTERPRISES, Brown’s
promotion and production
offices are now located in a
sprawling seven room office
suite in Augusta’s downtown
section. Brown’s main office
was previously located in
Cincinnati, Ohio. The decision
to move was finally reached
when Brown left Cincinnati’s
King Record Company to sign
a new exclusive contract with
New York’s Polydor label.
Many of Brown’s employees
also hail from Georgia thus
night between 10-10:15 p.m.
Reported missing were two
cameras from the Hammond
and Ross Studio, and a
calculating machine from the
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Shown above is Mrs. Ernestine Williams presenting her
grandson, Fredrick, the cadet sabre.
Last Tuesday 23 members of
the Richmond Academy Cadet
Corp were commissioned to
the rank of Second Lieutenant.
The commissions were by
Colonel Eratus W. Roberts,
Senior Army instructor.
Participating in the
ceremony were mothers and
James Brown Comes Home
strengthening the company’s
roots in the “Peach” state.
All of Brown’s business will
be conducted from the new
office except the promotion of
his recordings. (His agreement
with Polydor calls for office
space for promotion directors
Charles Bobbit and Eugene
“Speedy” Brown in New
York). Johnny Terry, Brown’s
Booking Manager,serves also as
Office Manager, replacing Alan
Leeds who has been retained
by James Brown to do public
relations and publicity work.
Terry’s staff includes Bobby
Jackson, promotion and
advance for the James Brown
Show, Buddy Nolan, Tour
Director, and Road Manager
Freddie Holmes. Former Tour
Director Bob Patton has
formed an independant
advertising agency/public
relations firm and has also been
retained by Brown to
“trouble-shoot” special
projects.
The City of Augusta has
welcomed Brown and his staff
News-Review. Money was
taken from a coke machine
located in the Progressive
Political Club Office.
other guests of the honored
cadets.
Among the many
commissioned was Fredrick
McClellan, Jr. of 1542 Forest
St. Fredrick is also a national
merit semi-finalist for the
1970-71 school year.
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witn open arms. A petition is
currently before Augusta’s city
council proposing that the
main street in Augusta’s Black
community (Gwinnett St.) be
renameu after the popular
entertainer.
Brown’s other interests in
Augusta include several
businesses, the home-base for
his new nine-seater Jet
Commander airplane and
WRDW the flagship radio
station of his four station
chain. Well known locally for
their firm editorial viewpoints,
Haineites seek
Legal advice
If District Judge Alexander
Lawrence approves the
proposed desegregation plans
submitted by Rhode Island
guideline experts, Lucy C.
Laney High School, the pride
of Black Augustans, may
become a junior high instead of
a senior high school. Due to
the fact that Laney is the
descendant of Haines Institute
the Haines Alumni Association
has seen it advisable to consult
Attorney John Ruffin for legal
advice pertaining to this issue.
In 1947 Haines Board of
Trustees made the lease with
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WRDW has inspired many
Augusta community leaders to
commend Brown for his
leadership in the community
among both blacks and whites.
Biown still piefeh. to be
known as a “man” rather than
a leader or politician bound by
party ties and views, but one
can never tell what lies in the
future. After all Augusta has
already been represented in the
White House... Brown’s home
lies less than a mile from the
former estate of the late
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
the Richmond County Board
of Education for the use of its
property where Lucy Craft
Laney High School now stands.
The president of Haines
Board of Trustees, Livingston
Wallace, said that “The Board
of Richmond County
Education has probably
violated some of the lease
provision.” Therefore Haines
Alumni Association feels a
necessity to get legal counsel to
guide them; but if the Board of
Education has violated some of
the provision of the lease,
formal action will have to be
taken, Wallace said.
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