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Nearly 10 Pet. Of
Negroes Attend
Integrated Schools
By ED ROGERS
United Press International
WASHINGTON (TJPI)—A fed
eral computer analysis today in
dicates about 9.8 per cent of Ne
gro school children in Georgia
are attending racially-mixed
schools this year.
This is the computer's sum
mary of questionnaires mailed
in by school district officials
last October in a nationwide
survey of school-by-school racial
composition.
The computer’s analysis of the
Georgia questionnaires listed
298,151 Negro children as being
enrolled, with 29,376 of them
attending schools that have
some degree of racial integra
tion.
Officials of the U. S. Educa
tion Office said these figures
might not quite Jibe with local
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enrollment figures because some
school systems did not send in
fully completed quetionnaires.
The computer, in one of many
preliminary “printouts” being
made, showed 237,867 white
children attending 502 all-white
schools and 268,775 Negroes at
tending 471 all-Negro schools.
There remained 412,276 child
ren attending 692 “mixed”
schools. Of these 29,376 were
Negro, 1,919 “other non-whites,”
and 380,981 were white.
An Education Office spokes
man said that on later calcula
tions the computer will be pro
grammed to give more informa
tion about racial composition, to
show how much racial “isola
tion” there is.
The analysis at present does
now show whether there are
few or many schools among
those listed as “mixed” which
have more than “token integra
tion.”
There were 1,013 schools listed
as having all - white teaching
staffs totaling 19,831, and 342
schools having all Negro teach
ing staffs totaling 6,959.
This left 319 schools with mix-
ed teaching staffs totaling 8,299.
While the computer analysis
is incomplete it generally re
flects findings of separate in
vestigations which have resulted
in action to cut off federal funds
for a number of Georgia dis
tricts.
The long administrative cut -
off procedure required under the
1964 Civil Rights act has been
completed and the money actu
ally halted in five Georgia coun
ties—Glascock, Terrell, Toombs,
Seminole and Randolph.
The education office this week
took the last step toward cutting
off funds to Camden County.
This step consisted of giving
Congress 30 days’ notice of the
impending cutoff.
Such proceedings have been
begun against 33 other systems.
They include three city sys
tems — Americus, Newnan and
Vidalia—and the following coun
ty systems: Appling, Atkinson,
Ben Hill, Bleckley, Brooks,
Burke, Calhoun, Decatur, Doo
ley, Early, Echols, Effingham,
Elbert, Evans, Hart, Jenkins,
Johnson, Jones, Lamar, Lee,
Madison, McDuffie, Miller,
Montgomery, Morgan, Ogle
thorpe, Screven, Stewart, Sum
ter and Tattnall.
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WASHINGTON (NEA)
If Michigan’s Gov. George Romney could win perhaps five
iontested, binding primaries, he might enter the 1968 Repub
lican Convention, with roughly 600 of the 667 delegate votes
needed to gain the presidential nomination.
The “if” is, of Course, 'very large, but it Is the big presump
tion which underlies the Romney candidacy. Any sizable fail
ure in primary tests would obviously doom him. Success on
the indicated scaie would likely provide him with nearly ir
resistible momentum.
Despite that prospect, his present chief with rival, Richard
Nixon, could himself enter the convention upwards of
500 votes and make exhibited a hard fight staying to the end—provided his
delegate supporters primaries. power against a Rom
ney tide in the
Other presumptions afe laced into this early estimate. It is
hazarded here that the bnly durable favorite-son holdouts at
convention eve would be California’s Gov. Ronald Reagan (86
votes), Gov. James Rhodes of Ohio (58) and Sen. John Tower
of Texas (56).
Much of the favorite-son talk comes from pro-Nixon GOP
figures who, acting clearly in close concert with him, wish to
conceal at this stage how,much of his probable delegate
strength would come from the Goldwater-oriented Old Sbuth.
All these early judgments are founded on checks with
leaders in many states over the past two months.
Among such key primary states as New Hampshire, Massa
chusetts, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Oregon and possibly New
Mexico and Washington (if pending primary bills are en
acted), Romney must score well. It will not be enough simply
to stay high in public opinion polls.
The benefit of winning would be more psychological than
numerical. Even if he should win five, the delegate gain
would not exceed 100 by very much. If favorite-son Califor
nia and Ohio be set aside, the remaining eight binding pri
maries can lock up less than 200 delegates. Washington and
New Mexico could add another 38.
A really impressive string of Romney victories might break
the 1968 race open, and ‘even lead sizable elements of the
Reagan-Rhodes delegations into his camp.
Any serious faltering by the Michigan governor might find
moderates switching such strength as they could to Sen.
Charles Percy of Illinois. But Nixon might be the crucial
beneficiary, if he has meantime outdone Romney in impor
tant primary tests.
Nixon, however, faces potential danger from another side.
If, as is presently indicated, Reagan allows his name to go on
the ballot in all-candidate primaries such as Oregon, Ne
braska and Massachusetts, he might either outdo or seri
ously undercut Nixon with conservative voters—-and con
tribute critically to his defeat.
At some stage, conservatives might try to shift massive
allegiance to Reagan. But, as with the moderates and a pos
sible move to Percy as a substitute tiger, such an effort
might come too late and be too ineffective to block a charg
ing Romney.
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★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
Romney Could Lock Up
Nomination in Primaries
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
Newspaper Washington Correspondent
Enterprise Assn.
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Eyes Maddox
Confrontation
ATLANTA (DPI) — Negroes
said Wednesday they lost their
“one hope” In the Maddox ad
ministration when Morgan Red
wine was forced to resign as
the governor’s executive secre
tary.
At the same time, Redwine
departed the capitol with a blast
at his old boss, accusing the
governor of being afraid to
make “reasonable concessions”
to Negroes.
“It would mess up his folk
hero image with rednecks,”
Redwine said.
State Sen. Leroy Johnson, who
became the first Negro to serve
in a southern legislature in
more than 50 years when he
was elected five years ago, said
the prospect of Negroes getting
jobs in state government now
“looks dim.”
Johnson promised a “con
frontation” with Gov. Lester
Maddox in the near future and
said “his true face is going to
be revealed.”
Redwine “showed a true con
cern for the minority groups in
this state,” Johnson said. “He
would welcome us into his of
fice and then he would try to
do something.”
Redwine quit last Friday aft
er four youths were arrested in
his car and charged with pos
sessing alcoholic beverages. He
admitted lending the youths the
car and buying them beer and
whisky.
Before leaving, Redwine said
Maddox faced serious problems
unless he hired Negroes for
state Jobs by summer.
He added, “The governor told
me he’d be letting a million
people down if he hired any
Negroes.”
Maddox, who said he fully in
tended to hire Negroes, called
it “regrettable” that persons
who have problems they can’t
solve “go off into tantrums."
State Rep. J. D. Grier, a Ne
gro minister affiliated with the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, said “we are going
to see that there are Negroes
in sta*e jobs even if it means
going to the federal courts.”
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