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Daddy King Passes: A Great Tree Has Fallen Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., Class of 1930, a patriarch of the civil rights movement died on Sunday Nov. 11 at Atlanta's Crawford Long Memorial Hospital. And at a special memorial service organized by Morehouse College on Nov. 13, President Hugh M. Gloster noted that George Washington was called "THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY” but King was it’s Daddy. The next day, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young presided over what was billed as“A celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Sr.,” “a triumph over racism, ignorance, hatred and violence,” at the King Chapel, built in loving memory of hisson Martin Luther King Jr., also an alumnus of Morehouse. The audience numbered about 1,000 first file past the body. One Speaker after the other showered praises on the 84-year-old “piller” of the world renouned Ebenezer Baptist Church... ... ■ — The body was moved to the church which has been syn- onomus to the King family over the years where the powerful and the humble came to pay their final tribute to the man many called "Daddy King.” The funeral itself was a parade of dignitaries. Besides former Presi dent Jimmy Carter, and Vice- President and Mrs.GeorgeBush, were Gov. Joe Frank Harris, Sen. Sam Nunn, Mayor Andrew Young, and three former mayors of Atlanta, Sam Massell, Ivan Allen, and Maynard Jackson. Also in attendance were the Rev. Jesse Jackson, director of Rainbow Coalition, Con gressman Walter Fauntroy of District of Columbia; 5th District Congressman Wyche Fowler of Atlanta; former Calif. Gov. Jerry Brovyn, Bert.loanee, chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party; former President Carter’s daughter, Amy; the Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Fulton County Sheriff-elect Richard Langford. While these dignitaries marched into Ebenezer, at least 1500 mourned outside behind a police barricade. At Southview Cemetery, where he was laid to rest beside his wife, Alberta, flowers were laid on the tomb on behalf of the SCLC, Morehouse College and the 1984/5 staff of The Maroon Tiger. weDeconcon VltOaiON! Be Baek on January 11. 1985 at 5:00 pm $ to r o V Morehouse Celebrates 11th Fast for a World Harvest Section B ) Reagan's “Landslide’ Page 11 f SGA; A Shame Page 8 \ “The economic problems of Black Africa results from a lack of intellectual capacity and one of the best things the slave traders did for you is to drag your ancestors over here in chains.” — William Coors, chairman and chief executive officer, Adolph Coors, speaking to an ^ audience of Black businessmen in Denver, CO.