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Sr Xrnifi-SlruiriiT Vol. 1 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 JERSEY JOE WINS THE DECISION AS SHERIFF OF CAMDEN COUNTY i /' f IT LI- 5 .A- aEgSMr M .& ' j|HR ™ Tp, . Mb mMRMHNHMRRb il||g '->w w*l JwMrL_'itL j «*-<• j&eajMal mNKKKIiIIWSSK&ji i tab.>i i c r>,=^,> aPlsHgSf i B T & r £ lEy 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 ■ 1 * -s'}. ® 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 iWfwLt ' - . - 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. November 11, 1971 No. 34 c._». KI 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 fc SUBSCRIBE I TODAY P.O. BOX 953 ■U AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 30903 SUBCRIBER ■ | ADDRESS MJ CITY One year (in county) $2.50 One year (out of county) . . . .$3.00 yPljy 5 years (in County) .$12.50 5 years (out of county)... $15.00 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. I