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Maddox Says Ribicoff
‘Using My Speech’
By United Press International
Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox
says Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff,
D-Conn., is “using my speech”
in accusing the North of
hypocrisy over desegregation.
Ribicoff, in a Senate speech
Monday, said “the North is
guilty of monumental hypocrisy
in its treatment of the black
man. Northern communities
have been as systematic and
consistent as Southern commu
nities in denying to the black
man and his children the
opportunity that exists for
white people.”
Maddox said Monday night in
Atlanta he has been making the
same speech for some time
now. “A lot of Congressmen
and Senators would not vote
against us if they had to face
the situations we face in the
South,” Maddox said. “The
government now is practicing
more discrimination than any
race has ever practiced against
another race.
Want ‘Neighborhood Schools’
“All we want in the South is
neighborhood schools, like they
have in New York, Seattle, Salt
Lake City and Los Angeles,” he
said.
The most controversial part
220 Blacks Are Still
In Sandersville Jail
SANDERSVILE, Ga. (UPI)-
Civil rights leaders temporarily
turned their attention away
from broad demands today and
concentrated specifically on get
ting some 220 black persons jail
ed since Friday out of confine
ment.
“We got to do something,”
said civil rights leader Richard
Turner. “If we don’t get them
black folks out of the county pris
on camp right soon, they gonna
die?’
Turner, who has helped ferry
food collected by the black com
munity to the work camp some
four miles from here, said con
ditions inside were “inhuman.”
He said the black people mostly
students, had nothing to sleep
on and little to eat.
“They done got Andre Hooker
(a field worker for the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence) locked up in the seat box.
No windows, no light—nothing
in there but a bench and dark
Trial Os ‘Chicago T
Enters Final Phase
By TONY FULLER
CHICAGO (UPl)—The trial
of the “Chicago Seven,” after
193 witnesses, four and a half
months and more than 20,000
pages of transcript, entered its
final phase today.
The prosecution was to go
first in presentation of final
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Tuesday, February 10, 1970
of federal desegregation pro
grams — enforced busing to
achieve racial balance in
classrooms—continued to cause
a furor Monday.
Black and white parents
protested a busing plan in
Lamar, S.C., for hundreds of
black students boycotted clas
ses. The program provides for
the busing of 400 blacks to all
white Lamar High School and
the busing of 120 whites to all
black Spalding High School.
Wants Surpnne Court Test
At Charlotte, N.C., State Rep.
James H. Carson Jr. said he
would file suit to force the U.S.
Supreme Court to “answer the
question of enforced busing for
the entire United States.”
“It appears that the federal
court is going to try to ignore it
and not rule on it one way or
the other, and I think it should
be ruled on,” Carson said.
A bitterly opposed desegrega
tion program in metropolitan
Charlotte would require the
busing of as many as 15,000
students.
Cramer Warns Courts
A bitterly - opposed desegre
gation program in metropolitan
Charlotte would require the bus
ing of as many as 15,000 stu-
and rats and bugs. He’s sick,
and he’s gonna die if they don’t
let him go.”
In other activity in this raci
ally - troubled central Georgia
city of 6,500, Washington County
School Supt. W. B. Ouzts Jr.
said eight white teachers had re
signed rather than transfer to
the all-black T. J. Elder High
School.
“All eight were scheduled to
be involved in the transfer,
which means now we’re eight
teachers short for Elder. And in
a small community like this,
you don’t just turn up eight
teachers overnight,” Ouzts said.
The superintendent offered no
explanation for the absence of
some 1,000 students from class
Monday, nor would he predict
whether the majority would re
turn today.
“Some of them have been in
volved in the black boycotts,”
Ouzts said. “But there were a
large number of white students
who stayed out, or were kept
arguments. Each side was
allowed seven hours by presid
ing U.S. District Court Judge
Julius J. Hoffman.
If both prosecution and
defense used the full allotment,
the case could go to the jury
late this week.
First Test Os Law
At stake for each of the
defendants is a maximum
penalty of 10 years in prison
and a fine of $20,000. For the
government the case is the first
test of a controversial federal
statute forbidding conspiracy to
cross a state line to incite a
riot.
Monday the judge refused to
issue a directed verdict of
acquittal and the prosecution
charged the defense would use
final arguments to encourage
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Congressman William C. Cra
mer of Florida warned a feder
al district court in Miami Mon
day that any busing of students
to accomplish racial balance
would be illegal.
Cramer was the author of the
anti-busing and racial balance
provisions of the Civil Rights
Act, and he accused the federal
courts of misinterpreting or ig
noring these provisions.
“It’s not a question of inte
gration,” he said. “It’s a mat
ter of arbitrary racial balanc
ing and the busing of students
all over the countryside.
Around 1,000 black and white
students were absent from clas
ses at Sandersville, Ga., Mon
day, and School Supt. W. B.
Ouzts Jr. still was having trou
ble integration his faculties.
Many white teachers who said
they would quit last week rath
er than be transferred to a
black school reported to their
new school Monday. But eight
white teachers resigned.
“All eight were scheduled to
be involved in the transfer,
which means now we’re eight
teachers short...and in a small
community like this, you just
don’t turn up eight teachers
overnight,” he said.
out, also.”
The teacher situation was re
solved much better than first
had been anticipated, Ouzts
said. Sixty-eight teachers origin
ally signed a petition saying
they would quit rather than
transfer or see their colleagues
transferred under court order to
black schools.
Some of the 1,000 students ab
sent were still detained in the
county jail. They were arrested
Frida on charges of unlawful as
sembly, contempt of a local
court order and violation of an
11 p. m. to 5. a. m. curfew.
Turner said he was calling on
ministers across the United
States to come to Sandersville
and help the cause.
“I appreciate their concern
with our getting’ to the life to
come and findin’ everything
nice and rosey,” Turner said.
“But, Lord knows, us black
people in Sandersville have got
our problems right here on this
earth now.”
the jury to “engage in civil
disobedience” by disobeying
Hoffman’s instructions.
The defense asked for the
directed verdict on the grounds
the government had failed to
prove its case. The argument
was regarded as a formality
and Hoffman had been expected
to‘deny it.
Judge Sets Summations
After a review of the trial,
which started Sept. 24, Hoffman
said, “I can conclude that the
evidence is sufficient to sustain
a conviction on each count of
the indictment.”
He then granted time for
summations. The prosecution
had asked for 10 hours, the
defense had requested five.
Although it goes first, the
government may reserve a
portion of its seven hours for
use after the defense completes
its closing argument.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Rich
ard G. Schultz told Hoffman he
believes the defense will use its
summation time to emphasize
the effect a guilty verdict could
have on free speech in the
United States.
Won’t Censor Defense
Summary
“I imagine they will ask the
jury to commit civil disobe
dience by refusing to obey Your
Honor’s final instructions,” he
said.
Hoffman said he hoped “such
a thing will not occur.” But he
said he would not rule any area
out of bounds before the
beginning of summations.
The government submitted 88
proposed instructions to be
included in the final charge to
the jury. Hoffman accepted all
but two of them in total or “in
substance.”
Anti-Hijacking
System Cuts
Plane Thefts,
Airline Finds
By TOM TIEDE
NEA Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK—( NE A )—
Next time you go to an air
port, don’t be surprised if
you get the feeling that
somebody or something is
watching you.
Somebody or something
may well be.
If your clothes are a bit
baggy, or you’ve got a nerv
ous twitch, or the package
under your arm is long and
thin—you may be scrutinized
by the new “anti-hijacking
system” now in operation in
some U.S. airports.
The system, made up of
human and mechanical in
vestigatory efforts, is the air
industry’s best—indeed only
—protection against plane
confiscations.
And few deny it is sorely
needed.
The official records on sky
jackings date back all the
way to 1930. Since then, there
have been at least 195 at
tempts to divert aircraft in
the world. Os these attempts,
150 have been successful, 56
have involved U.S. trans
ports, and almost one-third
Sen. Proxmire:
Pentagon Absorbed
$lO-Billion Savings
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Sen.
William Proxmire, D-Wis., said
today the Pentagon has
“usurped,” “absorbed” or
“heisted” $lO billion in savings
that should have resulted from
defense spending cuts.
In a figure-laden speech
prepared for delivery to the
Weather Summary
Last Month Coldest
January Since 1940
BY HORACE WESTBROOKS
The January just ended had
the coldest weather since Jan
uary of 1940. Remember that
year? Twenty five days had
temperatures below the
freezing mark in Griffin, and
set five minimum records,
which still stand as all-time re
cords for January. The lowest
was five degrees set on the 27th,
followed with records of six, two
nine degrees, and a 14-degree'
record.
One of the greatest snow
storms in Georgia occured in
1940, which covered Griffin with
five inches, LaGrange with four
inches, Columbus with nearly
two inches, and Warrenton with
nearly three inches. Atlanta had
nine inches, and beyond Atlanta
measurements were ten feet or
more, with the greatest snow
fall at LaFayette with 18.5 feet.
The lowest temperature ever
recorded was near LaFayette
with 17 degrees below zero.
For the month just ended,
January 1970 recorded two
traces of snow, and there was
plenty of icing, with some sleet
observed on the morning of Jan.
6. Severe icing occured on the
7th; sleet on the 11th. Snow
flurries on the 20th, and again
on the 23rd. Precipitation for
January amounted to 3.71 in
ches, which was nearly one inch
below the normal 4.53 inches.
Four new minimum records
were recorded in January;
eleven degrees on the 7th;
beating the previous record of
15 degrees back in 1924. Eight
degrees on the Bth, which
bettered the previous record of
15 degrees set back in 1958. Two
degrees on the 9th, beating the
previous record of 15 degrees
set back in 1918, which was
another “cold” year, as was the
previous year, in 1917.
A six degree minimum on the
10th bettered the previous
record of 16 degrees back in
have ended up in Havana.
For years, airlines stood
almost passively by as the
hijackings grew. A few did
try to spot-check baggage and
passengers—but this proved
legally and psychologically
unwise. The suggestion was
made to put armed guards
on all airliners—but this was
quickly discarded. So frantic
was the befuddlement, some
body even suggested build
ing a look-alike Havana air
port in Florida.
Then, last November,
Eastern Airlines and the
Federal Aviation Agency
conspired to put the present
anti-hijacking system in use
at several ports.
And the result has been
clearly magnificent.
Gene Dubois, a spokesman
for Eastern, puts it this way:
“In the first 10 months of
1969, we had a total of 10
hijackings. Then we put the
system in. And since that
time, we haven’t had one.
That’s right, not a single
one.”
Eastern officials are over
joyed. And no wonder. Not
only have they slowed hi
jacks, they have not had to
Senate, Proxmire said an
nounced or projected savings in
defense spending for next fiscal
year amount to $25 billion.
He subtracted from that
figure $lO billion allowable for
pay increases, inflation, “dou
ble counting” and uncontrolla
ble increases and another $5.3
1962, 14 degrees on the 21st,
which came within one degree
of the 1924 record of 13 degrees.
On the 22nd, the minimum was
14 degrees, coming close to the
11 degrees back in 1961.
The highest maximums for
January were three days at 69 I
degrees; on the 26th, 27th, and
28th. The lowest maximum oc
cured on the Bth, when the
highest temperature for the
twenty-four period edged up to
only 24 degrees! Five other
maximum readings got up to
only 32 degrees. January ended
with an average of 37.1 degrees,
which was 10.5 degrees below
the normal 47.6 degrees,
making the month the coldest
since 1940.
Apparently, some of you read
the monthly weather reports,
since three inquiries have been
received about not having a
December weather report. No
excuses are necessary, since we
just didn’t get to the chore! One
elderly lady wanted to know the
record lowest temperature ever
recorded in Griffin. No records
were kept at the time, but At
lanta recorded a minus 8.5
degrees on February 13, 1899.
Estimated temperature for
Griffin would be about seven
degrees below zero on that date.
For the last month of 1969,
December broke no tempera
ture records. The lowest
minimum dropped to 24 degrees
on the sth. Six mornings had a
minimum of 26 degrees. Sixteen
mornings were 32 degrees or
below. The highest maximum
was a warm 71 degrees on the
30th, while most of the after
noons maximums were in the
50’s. The average for December
was 42.8 degrees, which was 4.9
degrees below the normal 47.7
degrees.
Total rainfall for December
was 3.72 inches. Total rainfall
for 1969 was 43.96 inches, which
was slightly over five inches
below normal.
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go to any great complexities
to do it.
Here’s how their system
works:
Certain members of East
ern’s staff and crews have
been designated as watch
dogs at various (not all)
U.S. airports. They are
trained to spot potential hi
jackers. And they do so in
conjunction with regular
duties.
Just what the staffers look
for is not known. FAA psy
chologists have studied be
havioral attitudes of all past
hijackers, but the list they’ve
drawn is known only to
authorities and “a limited
number of air employes.”
The guess is that airline
agents probably look for
peculiarities in manner or
dress — and it’s almost
certain all Spanish-speaking
customers get close scrutiny.
In any event, jonce a sus
pect (officially called a
“selective”) has been fin
gered, usually during check
in, he is then followed all the
way to the gate.
At the gate, the suspect
goes through the acid test.
Like the other passengers,
he passes automatically by
billion in savings actually
reflected in President Nixon’s
new budget. The result was $lO
billion Proxmire said the
Pentagon has “stolen.”
‘Peace Dividend.. .Robbed’
“The Pentagon has heisted
$lO billion of the peace
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a magnometer (a metal-de
tecting machine). Unlike the
other passengers, though, if
the suspect flunks the test,
and bulky metal is recorded
on him, he is asked to step
aside for questioning.
Obviously, if the man is
not armed he is apologetical
ly allowed on his way. But,
also obviously, if the man is
armed he is turned over to
law officers.
Thus far, says Eastern, no
body has been arrested.
Oh, there was one man
caught at an Eastern gate
with a .38 revolver in his
pocket. But it turned out he
had a permit. It also turned
out he was above reproach.
And that’s the closest call
the system, has had to date.
Undoubtedly, the present
anti-hijack system is far
from being foolproof. For
one thing, all hijackers
don’t fit stereotypes. For
another, the metal-sensing
machines are located at only
a airline gates. For a
third, the fact is that some
perfectly normal-acting peo
ple have hijacked airplanes
with implements that even
physical search might not
find.
dividend,” he said. “The long
suffering taxpayers have been
robbedof $lO billion in tax relief
or improved domestic services
or a combination of the two.”
He said the $lO billion in
savings were “eaten up by new
weapons systems.”
Proxmire said part of the
money will go into expansion of
the Safeguard antiballistic mis
sile (ABM), some into extra
costs of converting the Polaris
submarines to the Poseidon
system, $3 billion in extra costs
for the Air Force’s Minuteman
missiles, more for the SRAM
missile system, more for the
new over-the-horizon radar and
airborne warning and control
But the authorities know
all this. And they, in fact,
admit the anti-hijacking sys
tem is not primarily meant
to be a last line of hijacking
defense.
Rather, says Eastern’s
Dubois:
“The system’s real value
is in its deterrent effect. We
Cublicize it and want every
ody to know that it’s
around. We don’t say where
it is. It could be anywhere.
And this way, maybe, would
be hijackers will think
twice.”
This, anyway, is the hope.
“Right now,” sums a FAA
official, “we don’t have suf
ficient data to tell whether
the system is really effective
or not. U.S. hijackings have
slowed down recently, but
this could be due to any
number of things. However,
Eastern likes the system,
TWA has now installed it,
and one other airline will be
doing so shortly. Maybe it is
the answer. We’ve all got our
fingers crossed. And I’m
sure anybody flying planes
today does, too.”
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system to guard against
intercontinental bombers, $1
billion to the Navy for fleet
modernization and some to the
Army for “tanks which do not
work and duplicate antitank
weapons.”
LAUNCHES SATELLITE
TOKYO (UPI) - Japanese
space scientists have resche
duled for Tuesday their fifth
attempt in four years to launch
an 84-pound satellite into earth
orbit. High winds over Southern
Japan Sunday postponed launch
of the instrument designed to
collect information in space and
radio it back to earth.