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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS. GEORGIA 30602
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Records. See p.7
TI'ESDAV, OCTOBER 4. 1877
Justices’ eligibility
being investigated
Graham said it is not necessary for
appointees to appear before the senate to
be confirmed.
“I never appeared before the senate I^i
was recommended by the SGA president 11
and voted on. Appearing before the
senate has never been a requirement.''
he said
On that basis. Graham said he had
assumed the justices in question had
been confirmed. Relating events from the
last senate meeting of the winter 1977
quarter, the meeting which Griffin said
he did not attend. Graham said:
“Segura told me Morgan submitted an
entire list of names and those people (the
justices in question) were on it
“(Segura) told me he’d check it out. If
anybody wasn’t confirmed, he said he’d
let me know I never heard from him, so
I assumed everything was okay.”
Segura has never denied that there are
justices serving without confirmation.
According to him, when the judicial
appointees did not get confirmation at the
end of Morgan’s administration (winter
quarter 1977). .Segura obtained a promise
from the new SGA president, Rob
Hancock, to reappoint Morgan’s nomi
nees so they could get confirmation
Due to the confusion of changing
administrations and the lack of pressure
from the Judiciary to get the vote, the
matter was dropped. Segura said
Hancock, however, denies any know
ledge of the issue and said he never
talked to Segura about reappointing
anyone or about any justices serving
without confirmation
"I need a list of whoever it is. They
need to come back over here and go
through interviews again.” Hancock said
Segura has maintained that he told
Hancock about the matter at the
beginning of his administration
“I told him everything about it. He
knows,’ Segura said
McDonald:
Impeach
Young!
WASHINGTON (UPD—Ten congress
men Monday introduced a resolution
calling for the impeachment of U N.
Ambassador Andrew Young
Rep Larry McDonald. D-Ga , who
announced the action at a news
conference, said Young has made
"racist” remarks, and "aligned himself
with world revolutionary forces.”
The resolution cites 21 points against
Young, including his failure to oppose
admission of Vietnam to the United
Nations, calling former Presidents
Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon
"racists” and support for some
Communist leaders
The resolution concludes:
"For the foregoing reasons, we the
undersigned members of Congress
manifest our deep concern regarding the
performance of UN. Ambassador
Andrew Young and hereby convey our
lack of confidence in his fitness to
continue in the position to which he has
been appointed, and call for his
immediate impeachment under Article
II, Section 4. of the United States
Constitution .”
McDonald said Young "obviously”
committed the ‘‘high crimes and
misdemeanors” required by the Consti
tution to bring articles of impeachment
The House must vote to impeach and the
Senate then conducts the trial.
McDonald, a member of the John Birch
Society, was the only member of
Congress to oppose Young’s confirmation
at a hearing last January
United Way
fund drive
begins
Nearly 200 University representatives,
along with several local volunteers, are
joining forces in hopes of raising $100,000
in the University's annual fund drive for
the United Way.
The campaign goal for this year is
nearly double that of last year’s There
are several reasons for this sudden
increase, one of them being the fact that
contributions may now be taken out
through payroll deductions. University
officials say
Pawn shops abound,
offering varied goods
By JAN MII.LEK
Would you like to purchase a TV set, a
guitar, or a stereo but cannot fit it into
your college budget? Why not try a pawn
shop' 1
There are a number of pawn shops in
the Classic City and, according to Roy
Morris and Perry Reeves, co-owners of
Athens Pawn Shop on Prince, college
students make up about 25 per cent of
their business
When a person steps into a pawn shop,
there are a few items he is almost
certain to find Guns, musical instru
ments. stereos, jewelry and kitchen
appliances are among the melange of
items a shopper will encounter. Cluthing,
however, is hard to find
Unusual items can be found there In
the Athens Pawn Shop, you may find
yourself walking out with a pumpkin, a
wig or a beautiful silver pot dated 1790.
Contrary to popular belief, a pawn shop
is not stocked full of "hot" items. "An
item is held to days on a purchase and 30
dayt on a loan," Reeves said "We also
keep a record of everything the store
buyi The police gel copies of these
Irouiections twice a week and run them
through a computer
If a stolen article has been reported, it
shows up immediately The item is not
placed on the shelf to be sold until the
time limit is up
Pawn shops also do a lot of trading A
person can enter the shop with a Polaroid
camera and leave with a crock pot
without spending a penny But, Reeves
said, only items in good working
condition are accepted
Pawn shops are fast becoming a
vanishing breed According to Morris.
Athens had several shops to years ago
but most have closed down
“It is not unusual for a pawn shop to
close its doors after only six to nine
months of operation," Morris said
Athens presently has three pawn shops
with one behind the counter in a grocery
store
Morris and Reeves said that they have
regular customers and that the only
items they carry that are not already
used are a few guns
If you ever feel like browsing around, a
pawn shop is the place to go Who knows’
You might find a real bargain for
yourself or a gift for the person who has
everything
for run-off berths in today’s election
appointments for the confirmation vote
Griffin and Dickson, along with other
justices whose names Segura couldn't
remember, were at that meeting, he said
Former Chief Justice Robert Mumford.
according to Segura, then allowed the
justices to begin serving and told Segura
not to worry about the confirmation
"He <Mumford) said. ‘Mark, don’t
worry about it There's no rush as long as
it’s done.’” Segura said
The Red and Black has been unable to
contact Mumford.
Since that story was published. Morgan
has denied missing the senate meeting in
question.
“I did not miss a senate meeting to my
knowledge.” Morgan said. “As far as
appointees go. I believe those (judicial
appointees) had been called on and not
shown up.”
But Griffin has also said Morgan missed
senate meetings, although his account
differs slightly from Segura’s. According
to Griffin, there were three senate
meetings near the end of the 1977 winter
quarter Griffin attended the first two of
these, but Morgan did not show up. he
said. Griffin said he himself did not
attend the third meeting
Griffin also said it was his understand
ing the confirmation would be sent in on
a ballot.
Administrative Vice President Grant
Raeside. after the story appeared in The
Red and Black, accused Segura of
recommending people to fill judicial
positions without having a quorum of his
committee present at interviews.
The process of filling judicial positions
calls for candidates to appear before the.
Senate Judicial Committee, chaired by
Segura. The committee then sends a list
of recommendations to the SGA
president, who selects his appointments
from the list.
Next, the president is supposed to
present his appointments to the senate
for a confirmation vote. According to the
constitution, confirmation requires
two-thirds of the voting senate.
According to Raeside. Segura often
recommended candidates on his own.
without convening his committee. That
happened in the case of Griffin, Raeside
said
Segura admitted he often interviewed
candidates on his own. without any
member of his committee present.
However, committee members were
always informed of meetings and were
simply careless about attendance. Segura
said
“I can’t force them to come," he said.
He added that Raeside’s charges have
no basis because there is no quorum
requirement for committee meetings
Graham said yesterday that the
Judiciary would try to check out the
minutes of the senate meetings in
question to help determine if any justices
do not have senate confirmation
"If it comes up through the minutes
that some have not been confirmed, we’ll
pull them off and try to get them
confirmed ” Until that time, the justices
would continue serving. Graham said.
According to Senate recorder Anne
Wooten the minutes are too incomplete
and vague to be of any use
William Tate, emeritus dean of men at the University,
recently celebrated his 74th birthday by honoring a pledge to
give a dollar for each year of his life to the fund for a *'cw
student center at the University Tate presented a $74 check to
Melinda Farris, president of the University Union, as H Perk
Robins, vice president for development and university
relations, looked on
By BRYANT STEELE
Campus editor
The Student Judiciary has sent a letter
to Student Government Association
(SGA) President Rob Hancock in an
effort to determine whether any justices
are serving without Student Senate
confirmation, according to Associate
Justice Chuck Graham
Unless such a determination is made,
"we will assume everyone has been
confirmed." Graham said.
Meanwhile, other SGA members
outside the judicial branch are making
accusations as to who is to blame if there
are indeed justices serving without the
senate's confirmation.
The controversy began last week when
The Red and Black reported that at least
two justices, Keevin Griffin of Main
Court and Doug Dickson of Residence
Court, were serving without the
confirmation of the senate as required by
the student body constitution.
In that Sept. 28 story, senate Judicial
Committee Chairman Mark Segura was
quoted as saying that former SGA
President J. Tom Morgan did not show
up at the senate meeting in which he was
to have brought up his judicial
By YVONNE WILLIAMS
Assistant state editor
Only the hopelessly misled or
uninformed will be surprised if Atlanta
Mayor Maynard Jackson captures a first
ballot victory in the 1977 city elections
1
But with a little luck and a whole lot of
votes, one of three veteran political
1 warriors opposing Jackson could force
the incumbent mayor into a runoff.
The triumvirate of candidates most
likely to tangle with Jackson in the event
of a runoff is composed of: Emma
Darnell, a black distaff candidate and
former city commissioner of administra*
live services; Milton Farris, an 18-year
city alderman; and Harold Dye. once
deputy commissioner of the former state
Department of Industry and Trade.
Dye is apparently the man to watch in
today's city elections, since Jacxson has
repeatedly labeled him his chief opponent
In the race. A 59-year-old At’.anta
businessman, Dye lost his bid for the
mayorship in 1973, but garnered a
iurprising 8 9 per cent of the vote in the
11-way battle for the city’s top office.
ONLY A YEAR later Dye watched the
Republican gubernatorial nomination slip
from his fingers as former Macon Mayor
Ronnie Thompson eased him out of
contention in primary balloting by only a
few hundred votes.
Dye, Darnell and Farris have
succeeded in gathering steam for their
campaigns while igniting sporadic
political fires under the feet of incumbent
Jackson during the past few weeks.
The trio have criticized Jackson on
a number of issues, ranging from
charges the city has deteriorated under
his leadership to attacks on the size of
Jackson's $27,000 campaign coffer.
Opponents have also taken Jackson to
task over a police cheating scandal,
which some have maintained involved
Public Safety Commissioner Reginald
News
analysis
Eaves. In the meantime. Dye has
charged that Jackson and Eaves have
covered up widespread crime in the
state's capital city.
WHILE UNITED in their opposition
and criticism of Jackson, the other three
major mayorial candidates hold widely
diverse opinions as the planks of their
political platforms
On the issue of unemployment. Darnell
favors specific job development pro
grams, such as employe stock ownership
plans for businesses, creation of an
“urban inustrial park” and an "equity
funding bank” to fund development of
minority business
Dye has maintained he would attempt
to create 25.000 new jobs a year by
bringing light industry and warehousing
to the city. He also favors free port, free
trade zones and an industrial authority.
Farris has said he would seek to stave
off unemployment by wooing heavy
industry to locate in the city. He also
favors the creation of an industrial
authority.
CONCERNING the tax issue, Darnell
said she will not support a local-option
sales tax, but would throw her suport
toward a local-option income tax.
Dye says he favors lower property
taxes as a ploy to bring industry back to
Atlanta, while supporting a local option
sales tax or one per cent increase in
hotel-motel taxes.
Farris has contended the city "does not
need additional sources of revenue.”
Jackson, on the other hand, opposes
both a local option sales tax and income
tax, but favors a payroll tax.
He said he would like to attract light
industry through the Atlanta Economic
Development Corporation to help combat
unemployment, adding that he does not
believe an industrial authority is
necessary.
THE INCUMBENT. Jackson will
apparently feels little if any pressure in
today’s race from three minor candidates
who are political newcomers They are
Socialist Worker’s Party candidate Vince
Eagan and write-ins Rayanna Childers
and Ernest Moschella.
Meanwhile, the race for the No.2 slot in
city government has been less lively
than the mayoral campaign, and the
election results for the City Council
president will probably be equally
unsurprising
Incumbent Carl Ware is predicted to
maintain his post on the Council by most
political observers The other candidate
opting for the job is Johnny B. Edwards,
who has done a minimum of campaigning
and is not considered a serious threat to
Ware’s post. (Again, no surprises if Ware
offers for mayor in 1981.)
Voters going to the polls today must
also decide between a host of 32 politicos
combating 11 incumbents for posts on the
city council.
In the races for posts on the
nine-member Atlanta Board of Educa
tion, six incumbents and 18 challengers
will square off against each other.
The only certain victory in that race
will go to Richard Raymer in District
Four He is unopposed and probably the
envy of a half-dozen colleagues
Birthday gift
Photo by GEORGE SICAY
Nancy and Ann
These two young ladies, along with the rest of the band Heart, still some tickets available, and may be purchased at the
will be appearing at the Coliseum tonight at 8 p.m There are Memorial business office for $3 student. $f» general admission.
Maynard’s the favorite
But Darnell, Dye and Farris will be pushing