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Page 2 The Red and Black. Wednesday. January 24, 1973
Georgia mourns
Lyndon Johnson
From the wires of
United Press
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28 days in spring
ATLANTA (UPI) - From
the lowest freshman congress
man to stately elder Carl
Vinson, Lyndon Baines John
son won in death the praise
that Georgians generally failed
to give him in life.
The 88-year-old Vinson, re
tired after 30 years in
Congress, called Johnson “one
of the most forceful presidents
that I served with during the
years I was in Congress.
“He will go down in history
as one of the nation’s great
presidents." Vinson said.
Ronald "Bo'' Ginn, begin
ning his first term as a
congressman from the 1st
District, said Johnson was
successful in his leadership
"Because he knew the Con
gress and its workings better
than any President in this
century.”
GINN BECAME acquainted
with Johnson when the young
congressman served as an aide
to Sen Herman E. Talmadge.
He said Johnson was a
dynamic and aggressive
leader.
Former Secretary of State
Dean Rusk said "America has
lost a very great citizen, a
great president and I've lost a
very close friend.”
Dr. J Willis Hurst, who
became a close friend of the
Johnson family while treating
the former President through
three heart attacks in 17 years
said "I have lost a friend and
patient and I’m very dis
tressed."
And Georgians generally
poured out praise of and
mourning for Johnson who
became so unpopular in the
state during the civil rights
upheaval of the 1960s that the
state went Republican for one
of its few times in history — up
until that time — giving Sen
Barry Goldwater a margin of
94,000 votes in 1964 while
Johnson was winning the
greatest landslide in history
over the nation.
FORMER GOV. Carl San
ders, one of the few Georgia
political leaders to risk a
political future in campaigning
hard for Johnson in the 1964
election, called the former
president "one of the most
dedicated and skillful political
leaders of modern American
history.
"His presidency was one of
the most productive in our
history in terms of domestic
legislation," Sanders said. “He
was a strong and forceful man
who loved the profession of
politics, loved his country and
totally dedicated his adult life
to public service.”
J B Fuqua, a former state
senator and president of Fuqua
Industries, had flown in to the
LBJ ranch in Texas Monday to
visit Johnson as the former
President was being flown to
the hospital in San Antonio.
Fuqua was a close friend of
the President who was making
his fifth visit to the ranch
Fuqua learned of the Presi
dent's death when a secretary,
Mrs Jewel Malchek, returned
to the ranch with news of the
death.
“I'm so glad I had the
privilege of knowing him," the
shaken Fuqua said on his
return to Atlanta Monday
night.
GOV. JIMMY Carter said
Johnson was "as successful as
any president we've ever had"
as far as his legislative
programs were concerned.
"It is hard to know how
history will judge his adminis
tration which was run in
difficult times," Carter said
"The most vivid memory now
is our continued aud escalated
involvement in the Vietnamese
war But I think over a,period
of years this will be balanced
off at least in some degree by
substantial legislative accom
plishments on the domestic
scene."
Corretta King, widow of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., said
"it would be hypocritical to
pretend that one can forget a
war that still goes on.
"However, happily, one can
also reflect on the fact that the
most comprehensive and ef
fective legislation on civil
rights was enacted during
President Johnson’s incum
bency and with his sincere and
influencial support."
The Rev Ralph Abernathy,
director of the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence, said "our nation, the
world, black people and poor
people in particular lost one of
the greatest friends of demo
cracy, justice and equality.
“LYNDON BAINES Johnson
will be recorded by historians
as one of the truly great
presidents of our nation Had it
not been for the Vietnam
conflict, it is my earnest belief
that Lyndon Johnson would
have gone down in history as
the greatest president of this
republic.
"He was sensitive to the
needs of all Americans espec
ially the black, the poor and
the downtrodden."
Da Nang
on alert
SAIGON (UPI) — Da Nang,
South Vietnam's second city,
was placed on alert Tuesday
and security guards at its air
base donned combat gear as
part of nationwide moves to
thwart Communist territorial
grabs ahead of cease-fire.
UPI correspondent Alan
Dawson reported that Viet
namese air force personnel
were restricted to their base
and American servicemen
were ordered to avoid un
necessary movement in the
city of 42,000, 20 miles north of
Saigon. Security guards at
entrances to Da Nang air base
wore flak jackets and steel
helmets.
There were unconfirmed
reports that a 24-hour practice
curfew might be imposed on
Da Nang, beginning sometime
Friday, Dawson said.
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) -
The first Skylab space station
pilots plan to spend 28 days in
the orbiting space station this
spring and virtually every
minute of their record stay in
space is accounted for in their
flight plan
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Dr.
Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J.
Weitz are expected to fly up to
the house-sized laboratory
sometime in May to determine
if men can live and work in
weightless space for weeks at
a time.
Planning for the mission was
an immense job involving 10
people at the Manned Space
craft Center in Houston during
the past two years.
Crew scheduling is so
detailed that planners even
had to consider the time it will
take the astronauts to move
from one location to another in
the U-foot long space station.
IT SHOULD take about 12
seconds to move from one of
three sleep compartments to
the wardroom and two min
utes. 48 seconds to go from the
wardroom to the Apollo
command module that will
ferry the pilots to Skylab from
Cape Kennedy and return them
to earth
The Astronauts’ days in
space will generally begin at 7
a m and go until 11 p.m. Each
pilot is scheduled to sleep eight
hours a day and each will have
one day off a week.
Three hours a day will be
devoted to eating, with break
fast scheduled for 8 a m., lunch
at 1 p.m and dinner at 6 p.m.
After each meal, one astronaut
will prepare the next meal by
placing food in special ovens
with timers to have the food
hot at *hp ripht time
SKYLAB WILL be launched
with more than a ton of food in
freezers and pantries for the
first three astronauts and the
six more that will follow later
this year The last two crews
will each spend six days in
orbit.
Each crewman will have 30
minutes a day for personal
hygiene, including a shower
once a week. Thirty minutes of
exercise are scheduled daily
for each astronaut and two and
a half hours a day are
scheduled for general house
keeping operations.
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SAYS BSU'S ALLEN
Black cultural center is needed
By MIKE CLARKE
According to Roy Allen,
chairman of the Black Student
Union, this year black students
are pushing for the construc
tion of a black cultural center.
Allen sees the center as a
significant contribution to the
learning process.
“We are bringing important
speakers to the University,”
stated Allen. “We need a house
to take them to after their
lectures where we can sit down
over coffee and talk to them,
learn from them in an informal
atmosphere.”
Among the spokesmen slated
to appear on campus are
Angela Davis; Nelson Johnson,
national chairman of Student
Organization for Black Unity ,
Stokley Carmichael; Howard
Fuller, president of the Mal
colm X Liberation University;
and Betty Shabazz, the widow
of Malcolm X.
“Sure we can reserve places
in Memorial Hall and P.J.,”
said Allen, “but we would like
a house for this. With a house
we can also have a library, a
tutorial system for blacks and
a place for our proposed free
breakfast program.”
“We met with student
government on Nov. 9, and our
request for funds was turned
down We’ve tried going
through the administration
and that failed. Blacks are
quite frustrated. This house
means a lot to us,” stated
Allen
"The idea in itself is actually
not new,” he continued “Many
say. Why? Isn't it separa
tism?’ But ihat’s not the issue.
There are 21.000 whites on
campus. 700 blacks. We need
two things. First a newspaper
for blacks and secondly a place
to meet.”
Allen is co-chairman of a
national organization to elicit
support for black militant H
Rap Brown, who is currently
being held in a Long Island jail
under $200,000 bail on 24 counts
of attempted murder, robbery,
assault and possession of
dangerous weapons.
"Brown’s has been a very
unattended trial,” said Allen.
‘‘We are sending people to
attend his trial and watch it as
much as Angela Dav.s'.
“Brown is one of the most
notable and bravest blacks in
U S. history We don’t believe
him guilty.'' Allen will be in
New York City for Brown’s
February hearing
Despite their admitted lack
of time and preparation. BSU
is also sponsoring voter
registration in various counties
throughout the state
"There are blacks at this
University from all counties in
Georgia,” stated Allen. "At
election time we are sending
them out to register blacks.
"In Sandersville, the black
population is enough to control
it. Athens is one-third black.
Whites are moving to sur
rounding counties, and blacks
will increase. We can control
it, too.”
Allen hopes to procure state
and federal aid to institute a
free breakfast program.
“The idea is so simple," he
states. ‘‘Hungry children going
to school can’t study. The
mechanics involved, such as
how to pick up the kids, is a
minor problem ”
One of the major problems
Allen sees on campus today is
the black sex ratio.
"Whites at the University
are about numerically equal,
half male and half female,” he
said, “but there are five black
females to one black male.
This presents two frustrating
problems.
“First, it makes the man a
stud and he doesn't study
much. Secondly, it leaves the
woman lacking male compan
ionship and you have black
women battling black women.”
He continued saying,
"WUOG recently broadcast
how black life has changed.
Well, it has changed on the
surface but not at the core.
There are four black adminis
trators but I don’t see any as
the head of a department.
“It’s the idea of Peter
Principle. You reach the top
and can only drove sideways.
Black administrators will only
go so high, and none are
currently in a position to
institute real change.”
Allen sees the proposed
black cultural center as a
possible remedy to these
various problems blacks face.
“White America is still
recognizing its heritage and
culture. Blacks haven't start
ed,” he stated. “Africa is still
seen with a white Tarzan
swinging through the jungle."
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