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Byrd To Test
Guidelines
WASHINGTON (UPI) — For
mer Georgia Lt. Gov. Garland
Byrd said Monday his plan to
' challenge in state court the ad
ministration of federal school
desegregation guidelines will
serve “to get the ball rolling
In the entire South.”
Byrd, whose envisioned suit
Is the first of its kind in the
Bouth, told United Press Inter
, national bis legal action will
seek to enjoin the school board
of Taylor County, where he
lives, from complying with the
guidelines.
The proposed action touched
Off speculation that Byrd is
seeking to enter the governor’s
race. He was forced out of the
1962 race because of a heart
, attack.
The former lieutenant gover
nor said he will not challenge
the constitutionality of the 1964
Civil Rights Act, but will
charge it is being unconstitu
tionally administered by the
federal government.
So far, only the Americus
and Sumter County school sys
tems have said they will open
. ly defy the new guidelines. Late
Monday compliance pledges
had been received from 170 of
the state’s 195 school systems.
Funds Cut-off Threatened
Both Byrd’s proposed chal
lenge and the statements of
non-compliance from the Amer-
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icus and Sumter systems came
only a day after U. S. Educa
tion Commissioner Harold Howe
n said that Georgia was sub
mitting compliance forms on a
regular basis and “by the new
deadline there should be no
problem for Georgia.”
The new deadline is May 6.
It was extended by the U. S.
Office of Education last Friday,
which was the original deadline
for submitting pledges.
The Americus and Sumter
systems and the remaining sys
tems which have not submitted
pledges will face a cut-off of
federal funds if they do not
submit forms.
In his challenge, Byrd said
Howe violated “congressional
intent" by threatening the halt
ing of funds to schools which do
not produce a certain degree of
racial balance.
Will Challenge Suit Personally
Byrd said the Civil Rights
Act states that federal funds
cannot go to a school that is
segregated or that discrimin
ates racially, but he said that
does not mean a school must
achieve any specific racial bal
ance.
The suit, which Byrd said
will be filed in Taylor County
Superior Court when he has it
prepared, would place Atty.
Gen. Arthur Bolton in the posi
tion of defending indirectly fed
eral policies that Gov. Carl
Sanders himself has attacked.
Sanders headed a protest last
year by Southern governors
against the faculty integration
requirement of the guidelines.
Byrd, who said he plans to
personally bring the challenge
in court, said Bolton might con
cede the legal point of the suit
is correct.
The former lieutenant gover
nor said an injunction suit in
state courts would not require
a jury. He said the judge would
have only a question of law to
decide . as the facts probably
would be agreed upon.
“This is the first test,” Byrd
said. “The first to get the ball
rolling in the entire South.”
If Byrd heads a personal
court fight against the guide
lines many observers believe he
will be in a position — whether
he wins or loses — to Jump into
another gubernatorial race.
World Briefs
PAINTING DAMAGED
GLASGOW, Scotland (UPI)
— The director of the Glasgow
Municipal Art Gallery said
Monday a vandal had slightly
damaged a portrait by the 19th
century American painter
James Whistler valued at
$28,000.
Dr. Stewart Henderson said
that as a result, all of the
gallery’s valuable oils would be
encased in glass to protect
them from damage of this sort.
Henderson said the damage^
not discovered until Monday,
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consisted of a scratch beginning
on the frame and running
across the bottom right hand
corner of the portrait of
Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle.
The painting was bought from
Whistler in 1891.
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WINS SHIP TRIP
TOKYO (UPI) —A round-trip
voyage to the United States
aboard an American President
Lines ship was the door prize
at a special “American night”
sponsored by the foreign
correspondents club of Japan
The sweeping stairway occupying
the workmen at left is soon to be
an elegant backdrop for one of the
most bos glittering debuts New York
ever seen. The city has a date
in September for the second com
its ing out party of a grand old lady of
cultural history — the Metro
politan Opera. With a celebrity
packed first night assured, the
world-famous company is moving
oat of cramped old quarters in the
Times Square area to a luxurious
new uptown home in the rapidly
developing complex. Lincoln Center cultural
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Wagner and Puccini, now houses intricate
sea Holding.
this week.
The prize was won by R. C.
Franzman, assistant manager
of the United States (steam
ship) Lines Co., a competitor of
the American President Lines.
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LAUNCH PROJECT
MANILA (UPI) —Forty-two
Philippine civic organizations
today formally launched a
project to send a privately
financed Filipino medical team
to South Viet Nam.
The project, called “Opera
tion World Freedom,” is aimed
at raising $62,500 needed to
finance the 12-member medical
team for one year in Viet Nam.
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PAINTING HUNG
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) —
An oil painting presented to the
United Nations by Pope Paul
VI on his visit here last
October was hung in the lobby
of the secretariat building
near the Chagall
stained glass window memorial
Dag Hammarskjold.
The painting, which measures
18 by 24 inches, is “Christ
by the French artist,
Roualt. It represents a
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is the fifth individ
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Post Office’s new “Promi
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blue, two-cent stamp show
ing the architect against
one of his most famed
circular buildings, New York City’s
Guggenheim Mu
seum, goes on sale June 8
with ceremonies at Spring
taught Green, Wis., where he
during his last years.
rare instance of religious art
being exhibited at U.N. head
but a spokesman said
Pope’s gifts were “without
and created no
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Columnist Suffers
Mild Heart Attack
STUART. Fla. (UPI) —Lyle
C. Wilson, national columnist
lor United Press International,
has been hospitalized after
suffering a mild heart attack.
Wilson, 66, ids suffered the
attack at home here
Sunday. Be is under treatment
at Martin Memorial Hospital
here and his doctors reported
Monday he was respond
ing well. He was expected
to remain in the hospital for
about three weeks. He had a
severe heart attack in January,
1965 .
Formerly vice president and
Washington manager for UPI,
Wilson relinquished these posts
in September, 1984, but has
continued to write regular
commentaries for UPI under
the title "National Window."
LION-TIGER STADIUM
DETROIT (UPI) —The De
troit Tigers announced Monday
that they had renewed a lease
for the Detroit Lions to use
Tiger Stadium for another 10
years.
The present lease expires for
the National Football League
club at the end of the 1966
season.
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when a scene with an over
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