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ATLANTA, GEORGIA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1968
IMPACT
OF OPEN
HOUSING
A lawyer, a Negro woman
who lives in public housing, a
mortgage banker and a real estate
broker discussed the impact of
open housing Monday night at
the Cathedral Center.
“We want to have an honest
dialogue,” said Paul Anthony,
executive director of the
Southern Regional Council, who
served as moderator. “The great
social issues of our times have
centered on education and
housing. ”
The attorney, Duane Aldrich,
said the recent open housing act
outlaws discrimination in the sale
or renting of housing on the
grounds of race, color or creed or
national origin after a bona fide
offer has been made.
“It is also unlawful to
represent that property is not
available,” he added.
Aldrich said the law, which
comes in full force Jan. 1, 1970,
will cover single-family dwellings
if a broker is not used.“A person
complaining that he has been
discriminated against may bring a
civil action in district court and if
necessary can be awarded
attorney fees if the case is
successful. The court may also
award damages up to $ 1,000 in a
case. The law also provides that
the attorney general on his own
initiative can begin proceedings in
his own name.”
He said the recent Supreme
Court decision, based on an 1866
law, does not have the
administrative remedies provided
under the new law or “the
elaborate enforcement
proceedings” as the open-housing
law.
Mrs. Louise Whatley,
co-chairman of the Fair Housing
. Committee of the Metro Atlanta
Summit Leadership Congress,
told the audience that open
housing will not help those in
public housing.
“People who make $5,000 a
year or under cannot buy houses
that are being built.” She said
public housing should be built in
all . areas of the city, in Buckhead,
in Sandy Springs and not just in
one section of Atlanta.
“We can't wait until 1970 on
something that should have been
started 15 years ago,” Mrs.
Whatley said. “The talk on this
issue should begin in the
churches. The churches have
failed to tell their members that
it is. an obligation to have fair
housing.”
She also urged that persons
attending pay their maids the
minimum wage, $1.65 an hour.
“You should find out how many
children they have, how much
they pay for rent, what type of
house they live in.
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A YOUNG swimmer gets a lift from a teen-age aide, Jodie Coffey,
during a swimming program sponsored by Concerned
Churches-Lynnwood. (See Page 7 for story).
Arc hb ishop Donnellan:.
Religious Need Unity.
Diversity, Balance
Archbishop Thomas A.
Donnellan told nuns attending a
workshop on renewal of
community life that a good
community must have unity and
diversity.
4 ‘Both characteristics must
exist together, and both must be
held in balance,” the archbishop
said in his address at St. Mary’s
College, Notre Dame, Ind., last
week.
“That balance is a delicate
one,” he said, “and to maintain it
is one of the great problems for
all communities and, particularly,
for those who lead such
communities. Circumstances and
needs will often cause both the
members and those who exercise
authority to emphasize one
characteristic or the other. When
this happens the delicate balance
is threatened, and even put in
danger of being destroyed, with
great harm to the community
both in its existence and in its
activities.”
the Church, as the community of
the whole People of God, must
manifest unity and diversity.
“The Church manifests to the
world a most remarkable
unity. . .at the same time, it also
manifests a most remarkable
diversity. It embraces all the
different peoples of the earth as
was shown to the apostles at
Pentecost. That diversity, in fact,
is the aspect of the Church’s life
to which special attention has
been given in our time.”
The archbishop said the whole
concept of community in its
inner nature and as the source of
the work of the apostolate is
being closely examined.
“Through experimentation,
the Church has given to religious
the responsibility of working
toward renewal in a mature
manner. Some are frightened by
this responsibility and are
unwilling to follow the mandate
of the Council for renewal and
adaptation.
Pope Asks Blessing
On Those Who Favor,
Oppose Encyclical
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy (NC) - Pope Paul VI has asked the
Lord to bless all those who have accepted his ban on the use of
artificial birth control, as well as on those who have opposed it, in the
hope that their consciences may be enlightened.
Speaking to visitors at his
summer home here, Pope Paul
discussed his encyclical on birth
control, his efforts to bring peace
to the world and his forthcoming
visit to Latin America.
On the subject of his
encyclical, Humanae Vitae, the
Pope said:
“You know the comments on
our last encyclical, Humanae
Vitae, in defense of the
transcendency and dignity of
love, of liberty and of the
responsibility of married couples
and of the integrity of the family.
Very many comments are very
noble and favorable, others not
so.
“We ask that the Lord
comfort our teaching
with His authority,
with His serenity and with His
goodness. May all those be
blessed who have accepted it as
may also they who have rejected
it, so that tbeir conscience may
be illumined and guided by
doctrinal and moral, true and
higher uprightness. If nothing
else, they have been invited to
reflect on a theme of such vital
importance.”
Speaking of world peace, Pope
Paul said that he hopes that those
nations which are seeking new
approaches to peaceful
settlements might find peace
according to tHe expression of
Pope John XXIII, that is, a peace
conforming to “truth, to justice
and liberty, to love, as well as to
brotherhood among men and
solidarity among peoples. And we
hope that also our discreet and
silent efforts of charity and
concord may be well received by
the interested countries and that
they may be blessed by God.”
Pope Hopes
For Results
On Biafra
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy
(NC)-Pope Paul VI has sent the
emperor of Ethiopia a personal
message hopeful for “positive
results” from the resumed
meetings of the parties involved
in the Nigeria-Biafra civil war.
The English-language message
was addressed to Emperor Haile
Selassie 1 and. was disclosed by
the Vatican on the same day
(Aug. 12) on which the Pope
received Bishop Godfrey Okoye
of Port Harcourt, formerly the
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main port held by the Biafrans,
and John M. Garba, Nigerian
ambassador to Italy, in separate
private audiences at his summer
home here.
Ambassador Garba, after the
audience, revealed to the press
that the Pope had offered his
personal services to both sides in
an attempt to bring the Biafra
war to an end. The offer had
been contained in a letter dated
July 15. Ambassador Garba said
that the letter had been delivered
to the Nigerian head of state and
that he, Garba, had handed
President Yakuba Cowan’s
answer to the Pope during the
audience. He declined tp discuss
the letter’s contents.
Community’s Statement
Supports Fr. Foust
Archbishop Donnellan said (Continued On Page 2)
The Community of Christ Our
Brother has supported its
administrator, Father Conald
Foust, who has publicly opposed
the encyclical “Of Human Life,”
and has urged other priests and
laymen to state their opinions on
the papal letter banning artificial
contraception.
The community approved a
statement last week after Father
Foust told members that the
recent encyclical ignores the
advance of the Church.
Father Foust asked in his
statement, “How can Catholics
oppose the papal authority and
remain loyal to the Catholic
Church? The total Church has
come to realize that the Spirit
reveals the Church to all, that the
search for truth is a dialogue
between all members of the
Church. . .
“The hierarchical organs of
the Church have a definite
function, but we have come to
realize that this is not a function
in isolation, nor of absolute
power. Paul VI did not
acknowledge this awareness,”
Father Foust said.
The Atlanta priest said Pope
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