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Friday, April 15, 1966 Griffin Dally News
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Georgia
i Murder Retrial Motion
WOODBINE, Ga. (UPI) — A
retrial motion will be heard to
day by Circuit Judge Winebert
Flexer in the case of a Negro
convicted of first degree mur
dfcr and sentenced to death
Thursday.
Attorneys for the defendant,
Bay that 32-year-old Robert Pul
ton Moore was convicted by a
Camden County Superior Court
jury on circumstantial evidence.
Flexer set May 20 as Moore’s
execution date after the jury
Court Sides With Landowners
ATLANTA (UPI) _ Hie Geor
gia Court of Appeals sided with
McDuffie County Landowners
Thursday in ruling the state
must pay eight times more for
11 acres of highway right-of-way
than it contended the laid was
worth.
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The high court upheld a Mc
Duffie County Jury award of
$85,503 to Pete Knox, chairman
of the State Board of Industry
and Trade, for 11.7 acres the
Highway Department had ap
praised at $11,135.
It was the second time In two
days the Court of Appeals had
agreed with a McDuffie jury
/feward. On Wednesday, the
court upheld the awarding of
Youths Indicted In School Burning
ATHENS. Ga. (UPI) A
Clarke County Grand Jury
Thursday Indicted two Athens
youths on charges of burning
ttie Childs Street Elementary
School Feb. 9.
Charged with second degree
arson and larceny were Dennis
O’Dillon, 17 and Donald Delay,
19. The two allegedly destroyed
the school after they broke Into
It and were angered at finding
only a small amount of cash in
a vending machine.
Police said the youths ap
parently started the fire by
Cafe Operator Sentenced To Life
CARROLLTON, Ga. (UPI) —
A former LaGrange cafe op
erator was convicted of murder
and sentenced to life Impri
sonment Thursday in a retrial
In a Carroll County Superior
Court.
The retrial for Oscar Thomas
Wilson, 53, was ordered by
Judge Lamar Knight because he
said he erred in charging the
irial Jury during Wilson’s earlier
last October.
Wilson was sentenced to life
Imprisonment in both trials for
the shooting death of 3-year-old
Employe Injuries Pinch Budget
ATLANTA (UPI) _ Injuries
to state employees while on the
Job not only hurt employees, but
l inched the state budget by at
east $500,000 in direct expenses
and about $1.5 million in indi
rect costs, Gov. Carl Sanders
said Thursday.
For the mutual benefit of
employes and employers, con
sequently, an accident control
program to help reduce injuries
800-Room Atlanta Hotel Sold
( ATLANTA (UPI)—In a rec
ord real estate deal, the un
completed 800-room Atlanta
Regency Hotel was sold Thurs
day to the Hyatt Corp. of
America.
The Hyatt Corp. paid $16.5
million for the hotel. Hyatt,
which operates 50 hotels and
motels In the country, bought
, Alert Issued For Mental Patient
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) — A
mental patient, who told nurses
he intended to kill President
Johnson, walked away from a
Veterans Administration hospi
tal Thursday.
An alert for Paul Brooks, 44,
a Negro was issued in Georgia
and South Carolina and the FBI
was notified of the situation.
i Authorities said Brooks, 6-feet
Negro Principal Assigned School
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) — The
Richmond County Board of
Education Thursday assigned a
Negro principal to an all-white
elementary school.
Mrs. Annie Mae Williams was
Shifted to the Martha Lester
school from the Fifth Ward
Caller Warns King About Viet War
WASHINGTON (UPI) — One
of Congress’ most ardent civil
rights advocates has warned
Dr. Martin Luther King and
other rights leaders to "stick
to their own knitting” and stop
meddling in the Viet Nam war.
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found him guilty of killing
Oliver Wainwright of Jesup
after Wainwright and Troy Con
ner tried to repossess Moore’s
car Feb. 25.
Moore was also accused of
Conner’s shooting death in the
incident. The two victims were
found dead near their car on a
Woodbine road.
Police said the slayings were
apparently the result of an at
tempt by the two men to claim
Moore’s car for repossession.
$22,500 to A. B. Edmunds for
1.8 acres of land the state had
appraised at $9,900.
State Highway Department of
ficlals were up In arms last
November after the McDuffie
County jury had awarded land
owners from double to eight
said the land was worth.
times more money than the state
The land was needed for the
construction of Interstate 20 be
tween Atlanta and Augusta.
Attorneys for the Highway De
partment have Indicated the de
cisions will be appealed If suf
ficient grounds can be found.
The Court of Appeals has not
ruled on whether the awards
were excessive, but has upheld
technical points.
pouring flammable duplicator
fluid on the floors of the old
building and lighting it. Fire
men fought the blaze for six
hours before it was controlled,
but the school was gutted.
Students at the school were
transferred to neighboring
schools, creating an overcrowd
ed situation which was partly
remedied Thursday when voters
approved a new school bond is
sue.
A $1,285 million bond Issue to
build two new elementary sc
hools was voted 2567-581 by
Clarke County citizens.
Wanda Faye Yancy of Carroll
ton in June, 1965.
The shooting apparently oc
curred during a domestic quar
rel when Wilson came to the
Carrollton home of Lloyd Doss
and demanded that Wilson’s
estranged wife return home
with him.
An argument ensured, and Wil
son apparently shot at Doss sev
eral times. One of the bullets
glanced off Doss and hit the
Yancy child in the head, killing
her.
will be instituted Immediately in
the state, Sanders said.
Sanders said a meeting with
safety experts and state depart
ment heads will be scheduled in
the near future, and a training
session for safety officers will
also be held.
The State Merit System of
Personnel Administration’s train
ing division will sponsor the pro
gram.
the Regency from Phoenix In
vestment Co. of Atlanta, Tram
mell Crow of Dallas and archi
tect John C. Portman of At
lanta.
Phoenix president Richard
Sorenson, said he believed the
sale price was a record.
The land the Regency was on
was not a part of the deal.
6-lnches, 130 pounds, was un
dergoing psychiatric treatment
at the hospital. He walked off
the hospital grounds, which
have no gates or rigid security,
about 2 p.m. EST Thursday.
Officials said Brooks earlier
had told nurses he planned to
go to Washington and kill the
president. Johnson currently is
visiting Mexico.
school, an all - Negro school
closed in compliance with the
new strict federal school deseg
regation guidelines.
County School Supt. Roy Roll
ings said the doors to Martha
Lester school were open to Ne
gro students if they wished to
enrolL
Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y.,
Issued a stinging statement
Thursday, cautioning King and
other civil rights leaders that
they may "seriously Jeopard
ize” a new civil rights bill this
year by their criticism of U.S.
policy in Viet Nam.
Educators Told New Concept
Requires School Integration
By ED ROGERS
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A
federal official told a group of
Southern educators and Con
gressmen Thursday the concept
that the Constitution outlaws
discrimination but does not re
quire integration no longer is
legally sound.
Derrick Bell, deputy assistant
to Health, Education and Wei
fare Secretary John Gardner,
said the trend of court decisions
is toward positive steps to abol
ish “white” or “Negro” schools
as such.
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series of meetings between XJ.
S. Education Commissioner Har
old Howe II with Southerners
attacking Howe’s new school de
segregation guidelines.
Florida Delegation
Howe was to meet with a Flor
Ida delegation today, the dead
line for schools to file a certifi
cate of intention to comply with
the guidelines and list specific
plans. Only 539 of 2,000 prev
iously segregated Southern
schools had filed the certifi
cates Thursday,
The guidelines require the
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Nix Sees Little
Loss In Federal
School Money
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI) State
schools Supt. Jack Nix has ex
pressed optimism that Georgia
wU1 lose little, if any, federal
money because of new federal
desegregation guidelines.
Today was the deadline for
^ of Georgia’s school systems
submit compliance forms say
^8 they would abide by the
strict guidelines set down by the
U. S. Department of Health, Ed
nation and Welfare,
By Thursday afternoon, 111
systems had handed In compli
ance forms, leaving 72 systems
yet to sign. Systems which do
not send their forms to either
Atlanta or Washington today
face a cutoff of federal educa
tion funds.
However, Nix said Thursday
R was doubtful any system
would lose money for being just
a few da y s late>
“The U .8. Commissioner of
Education has assured me that
systems getting their compli
ance forms in a few days late
are not In danger of losing any
funds,” Nix said,
Nix predicted that in the long
run, Georgia will lose "little, if
any, federal funds” because of
noncompliance.
“I have not had a system
superintendent say he would not
comply,” Nix said, “It Is not a
characteristic of the Georgia ed
ucator to defy the federal gov
ernment."
Nix said he was pleased with
tjje fj ow 0 f compliance forms
into bis office.
The guidelines provide for
strict desegregation not only of
classrooms but of faculties. A
representative of the U. S. Of
fice of Education has said there
must be some facility desegre
gation in every school system,
although not necessarily in
every school.
A check with the Department
of Health, Education and Wel
fare Thursday showed that of
2,000 previously segregated sys
terns in the Deep South, only
539 compliance forms had been
received,
Twelve systems in Georgia do
not have to submit compliance
forms. Seven systems are un
der court order to desegregate
and thus are not subject to the
guidelines, and five counties in
which there are few Negroes do
not operate segregated school
systems,
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schools to achieve a certain
percentage of integration next
fall under “freedom of choice”
plans to show they are “work
ing.” Otherwise, federal aid
funds will be out off.
A start toward faculty deseg
regation also is required, but
Howe said this must be in each
school system and not necessar
ily in each individual school.
North Carolina’s state super
intendent of public instruction
Charles F. Carroll, read Howe
a 12-page attack upon the guide
lines, listing five ‘‘points of ir
ritation” and seven broad legal
questions, all concerned with
whether Howe exceeded court
and Congressional authority.
Court Settlement
“I think we can throw law
cases at each other for a long
time,” Howe said. “I think the
real place to settle them is to
go into court. We encourage
them (schools) to do this.”
Howe earlier had told a Mis
sisslppi delegation that, where
local problems are forcing a de
lay. would temporarily ac
ce Pt a letter of explanation in
lieu of the certificate and the
plans. This exception, he em
phasized, applies only to Mis
sissippi.
Bell had argued the legal
technicalities of the guidelines
with Carroll, Reps. David N.
Henderson and L. H. Fountain,
both of North Carolina and
members of the North Carolina
attorney general’s staff.
The North Carolinians de
manded to know where Howe
got his authority to Jay down
the stringent guidelines. Bell re
plied that the guidelines were
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Fountain said that requiring
advance certificates of compli
ance with the guidelines and
with possible later amendments
“frightened” local school offi
cials who fear they are signing
away their right to sue In court.
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Friday, April 15, 1966 Griffin Daily News
Washington Window
Well, It’s Different
With Labor Unions
National Window
(Opi“lon)
By LYLE WILSON
United Press International
Zealous politicians will not
dare subject discriminating
labor unions to civil rights
standards such as were im
posed on large areas of the
South to assure that Negroes be
permitted to vote, qualified or
not.
Congress and the public
generally found much of the
South guilty of discriminating
against Negroes to deprive
them of the ballot. The usual
alleged method of discrimina
tion was by means of literacy
tests so rigged that even a
reasonably intelligent and well
educated person could not
qualify.
Politically powerful Northern
Negroes were enraged by such
discrimination. Northern politi
cians were intimidated by the
enraged Negroes who were
able, willing and ready to take
their Northern votes elsewhere
If the politicians did not
produce. Out of this brew of
anger, frustration and fear of
losing office, the President and
Congress collaborated In legisla
tion fit for a Ripley belleve-it-or
not eye-popper.
Prodded by the President,
Congress abolished all such
voting tests, literacy and
otherwise. The 1964 Civil Rights
Act specifically forbade any
tests of ability to read, write,
understand or interpret any
matter. No matter that an
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ignoramus so permitted to vote
would influence decisions on
publio affairs but without th e
faintest understanding of what
was involved.
Thus were the Southerners
punished for their infamous
conduct in barring Negro
citizens from the polls. It added
up to this: A wholesale dilution
of the electorate In some
Southern states on the theory
that a test which might be
discriminatory could only be
abolished.
Now come the labor unions.
Not all of them discriminate
against Negroes but many of
them do. The federal govern
ment is much gentler with the
discriminating moguls of orga
nized labor than it ever was
with the Southern governors
and other officials accused of
discriminating in the vote.
That, in itself, is discriminato
ry because if the federal
government must crack down
hard on states to prevent voting
discrimination it should crack
down no less hard on those
elements of organized labor
which deprive Negroes of jobs.
This union discrimination Is
effected by means of tests. The
U.S. Civil Rights Commission Is
trying now to compel plumbers
In Cleveland, Ohio, to admit
Negroes.
“We have never turned down
anyone who could qualify,” said
George Fink, spokesman for
Local 55.
“The story is always the
same to all cities,” replied
Griswold. “The test always is
nondiscriminatory, yet the fact
is almost no Negroes are in
unions.”
An exactly similar situation
with respect to the Southern
Negro vote obtained Congres
sional abolition of the literacy
test. What is good tor the
Southern states should be good
for the unions. So the time has
come for Congress to abolish
the tests of skills required of
applicants to become union
carpenters, bricklayers, metal
workers, plumbers and such.
Why not?
If the republic can survive
the dilution of the electorate
with ignorance, the trades
union should be able to survive
the dilution of their collective
skills by acceptance of the unit
as members.
Of course there might be
some built-in problems, such as
an ignoramus plumber hooking
the sewage system into the
household tape water. But in
principle if an ignoramus is
entitled to vote an ignoramus
should be equally entitled to
install your plumbing and
electrical system. In principle,
yes. In politics, no!
HOPES FOR TALKS
PARIS (UPI) Israeli
“peace pilot” Abie Nathan said
Thursday he hopes to fly to
Moscow April 24 to talk with
Soviet leaders on the possibility
of their mediating the Israeli*
Arab dispute. Nathan, who
already has visited France, the
United States and Britain on
self-appointed peace missions,
applied for a Soviet visa in
London earlier this week.
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