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ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Monday, SECTION Feb. 2, 1987 Lewis Grizzard A yacht race? I don't even own any deck shoes This may sound unpatriotic, but -1 find myself not giving a hoot who wins the America's Cup, the yacht races between the United States and Australia. It's been tough feeling this way, because many of my fellow citizens have developed a keen interest in the event. Just a short time ago, there were Super Bowl parties all over the county. Now, people are giving America's Cup parties and are standing around in front of television sets actually watching reruns of the races.

They say things like, "What marvelous tacking!" and they chant, "U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" as they lift their glasses of champagne. Not only are the races televised, but I picked up my morning newspaper and the America's Cup was the lead story in the sports section. I got complete coverage of a yacht race going on 6,000 miles away, but could find not one word on the results of the wrestling matches the evening before. Frankly, I have felt like an outcast throughout the America's Cup. competition.

I have no idea what "tacking" is, and I don't own a double-breasted blue jacket or a pair of white deck shoes. Growing up yachtless As my friends discuss the races, I try to join in by making stupid comments like, "How much horsepower does it take to make a boat go that fast?" and "Has anybody seen the movie 'Crocodile I've even tried to learn to say, "G'day, mate," but my Australian is terrible. The truth be known, I think the main reason I have no interest in the America's Cup is 1 come from a yacht-deprived background. We didn't have a yacht when I was growing up, and neither did anybody else in the community. The Wardlaws had a flatbottom for fishing for mudcats on Stinkweed Pond, but that was about it, boatwise.

As I grew older, I began to realize that growing up yacht-deprived could hurt me in later life. I said to my mother, "Do you realize I'm 15 years old and we still don't have a yacht?" could sense my mother realized how such a thing could set me back socially, but what could she do on a first-grade teacher's salary? We did have a '55 Chevy "Son," she said to me, "why don't you go over to the Wardlaws and paddle around in Stinkweed Pond?" Regardless of the fact I grew up yachtless, I still can look back on my youth and count many blessings I actually did have. may not have a yacht, but my grandfather had a mule, and I could ride her anytime I pleased. My mother bought a 1948 Chevrolet in 1955 which she traded in 1960 for a 1955 Chevy. It was green and had four doors and no radio.

In 1962, I turned 16 and got my driver's license. I asked Kathy Sue Loudermilk, the com-. munity sex symbol, for a date. We drove the green '55 over to Stinkweed Pond after the movde and parked. Kathy Sue taught me things that night I did not know existed' nor would have believed physically possible.

After that, I lost all interest in yachts and to this day, believe it or not, I still don't own one. In the meantime, when does baseball season start again? Page 1-E Lewis pushes fund to revitalize 'Sweet Auburn' WASHINGTON John Lewis has found a way to combine his role as a civil rights leader with his new career in Congress: He's promoting legislation to help revitalize black businesses near the Martin Luther King Jr Historic Site. "Atlanta is the capital of black America, in my estimation," Lewis said in an interview late last week. "It has the only real shrine to black America with the "King Historic Site." But the area around the site should also be a shrine, an economic show By Scott Shepard Journal-Constitution Washington Bureau which has oversight responsibility al parks, historic sites and I think a neighborhood with healthy black businesses is a fit- issues. ting tribute to Dr.

King. Lewis is the first black ever Lewis the committee. "That's a special Congressman John ity for me," he said. His Sweet Auburn proposal is this he 1985 study by the city of Atlanta case for a prosperous black America." "just in the discussion stage at point," tional Park Service. To jump-start the stalled commercial de- said.

"It can in lot of different The study recommended that velopment of the "Sweet Auburn" neighbor- still develop a $100 million be set to hood, Lewis is proposing the creation of a re- he added. "But there will be a business up activity finance volving fund of public and private money for bill before too to spark along low-interest loans. Once it is introduced, the bill will go to Legislation necessary for such a fund is the Interior 1 and Insular Affairs Committee, See LEWIS, Page 800 JUL ETTE RICH Railroad sign marks the once-lively town of Juliette named for ground across the railroad tracks (left) is the deserted Juliette a railroad engineer's daughter in the late 1800s. In the back- Milling Co. Juliette 'dead town' with mills closed Monroe community longs for the return of industry By David Beasley Staff Writer JULIETTE, Ga.

The giant gristmill, which once turned out thousands of pounds of corn meal and grits, is empty now. So is the old textile plant where hundreds of Juliette residents once earned their living producing cotton yarn. "There was a crowd of people here once," recalled 77-year-old Juliette native Green Chambless, who worked 44 years in the textile mill. "But almost all of them have moved away." On the hills overlooking the Ocmulgee River in Monroe County about 60 miles south of Atlanta, sev-1 eral dozen white mill houses, built around the turn of the century when Juliette was a thriving town, still stand. Many of them have met the same fate as the mills.

They too, are abandoned. Some are covered with kudzu vines. The stores of downtown Juliette are empty as well. "They had five grocery stores down there once," said Chambless. "There was a justice of the peace there.

And a Mason's lodge. But it's just a dead town now." See JULIETTE, Page 3-E "There was a recalls J.C. Daugherty, 63, attorney, former state legislator, dies By Alisa Perdue black members. Staff Writer Daugherty developed a reputaJ.C. Daugherty an Atlanta tion for effective, non-confrontaand one of the state's tional leadership, legislative obfirst black servers and colleagues said attorney legislators in more than half a century, died of prostate Sunday.

cancer Saturday at his home. He "He was a fine legislator, said was 63. very independent fellow," His cancer had been diagnosed House Speaker Tom Murphy. "We in 1983, according to a family were very close friends. I on relied member.

him very heavily. The funeral will be at noon "He worked within the frameMonday at Antioch Baptist Church work of the what he organization, believed and He he North with burial at Lincoln worked for in. was a statesman." A 21-year veteran of Grace Hamilton, another of the Cemetery. the Legislature, Daugherty was elected to black House members who began new seat in the House of Repre- serving in 1966, said Sunday that sentatives in 1965 and began serv- the Fulton County delegation was ing in 1966, the same year that Ju- the focal point of the black preslian Bond was originally denied his ence. "Mr.

Daugherty was a very seat in the state Senate. It was the faithful member of the delegafirst time since 1907 that the Georgia Legislature included any See DAUGHERTY, Page 4-E 8 i 4 615 The Southern Christian. Leadership Conference called Sunday for an investigation of a judge's decision that a 13-year-old Barrow County boy should be tried as an adult for the stabbing death of his elementary school principal. SCLC President Joseph Lowery charged that the ruling, issued Saturday by Barrow County Superior Court Judge James Brooks, was racially 1 motivated. "I can't see anything other than bias," the Rev.

Lowery said during a press conference at Cascade United Methodist Church of Atlanta, where he is senior pastor. Lowery said the SCLC will ask the U.S. Justice Department, Gov. Joe Frank Harris, Attorney General Mike Bowers and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to determine whether the rights of 13-year-old Keyvin Jones are being violated.

He also called for legislative hearings to determine whether black students are being "abused" by school sys: tems in Georgia. Brooks, presiding in Juvenile Court, ruled Saturday that Keyvin should stand trial in Superior Court because there was no guarantee he would remain incarcerated if he were found guilty as a juvenile. The judge could not be reached for ment Sunday on Lowery's statement. Keyvin, a fifth-grader at Bethlehem Elementary School near Winder, said in court Saturday that he stabbed Principal Murray O. Kennedy with a file after Kennedy shoved him to the floor in the principal's office on Nov.

19. The youth's mother, Sherry Lyle, had requested a meeting with Kennedy to discuss a paddling her son had received two days earlier for fighting. Ms. Lyle; Keyvin's father, Franklin Jones; and other relatives of Keyvin met with Lowery in his office Sunday to discuss the SCLC's involvement in the case. Lowery said the civil rights organization had established a fund for Keyvin's legal defense in addition to calling for.

investigations. Ms. Lyle said Keyvin was "hurt, See SCLC, Page 2-E SCLC: Ruling on teen biased By Charles Walston Staff Writer Walston RICH Chambless. Behind him is the office and the abandoned mill. Wounded officer tried to turn youths from crime, friends say By Larry Copeland "He was always trying to see and Donna Williams Lewis whether he could turn some of them Staff Writers in the right direction," Stephen WilFor the past five years, Atlanta liams said.

police Detective Richard E. Wil- Last Wednesday, Detective Williams has committed himself to liams was shot twice, allegedly by a black youths in some of the city's 14-year-old he had arrested for tresrougher communities trying to He passing was at an Atlanta high school. get them to realize they have op- in satisfactory condition tions other than a life of crime. Sunday at Grady Memorial Hospital. Williams often would pay out of Willie Jordan, the youth who alhis own pocket to attend youth legedly shot Williams; his brother, crime prevention seminars and Tobias Jordan, 13; and 19-year-old work on his own time to help pre- Dexter G.

Boyd were arrested by vent youth gang violence. He also Williams on trespassing charges at strived to develop a rapport with Booker T. Washington High School. the students on his beat. Williams was shot as he drove the The 13-year veteran loves work- three teens to the school detectives: ing with kids, said Officer Stephen office.

Williams, who is not related to the Willie Jordan is a pupil at Ardetective but has known him since cher High School in northwest Atthey attended the Police Academy together. See DETECTIVE, Page 4-E for nationenvironmental to serve on responsibil- rooted in a and the Na- a fund of 26 projects Auburn Ave- 2-E 88 8 crowd of people here Green 77-year-old Juliette native post J.C. Daugherty was 'effective' legislator, colleagues say. Rat.