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Nixon housing
policy blasted
By NORMAN KEMPSTER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Lead
ers of minorities have assailed
President Nixon’s statement
that the government will not
force communities to accept
unwanted public housing
projects for the poor as a
retreat from moral conviction
and a “mockery of the
Constitution.”
In an 8,000-word policy
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statement on housing segrega
tion issued Friday, Nixon
pledged vigorous enforcement
of the 968 open housing laws
which bans racial or religious
segregation. But he assured
jittery suburban dwellers by
saying the government has no
legal authority to force econom
ic integration.
Carl Stokes, the black mayor
of Cleveland, charged Nixon
had “removed the possibility of
economic and racial integration
in this country.”
“I don’t think he needed 8,000
words to say no,” Stokes said
Friday night in a commence
ment address to the University
of Minnesota Law School. “By
saying no, he made a mockery
of the Constitution of the United
States and a mockery of the
ideals for which so many people
have come here.”
The National Urban Coalition
said in a statement issued in
Washington Nixon had shown
his administration “is willing to
abandon to local determination
a problem that demands a
forthright national policy
backed by active national
leadership, incentives and mor
al conviction.” It dismissed his
report as “an 8,000-word essay
on the practical problems of
public administration.”
Nixon drew a sharp distinc
tion between racial and econ
omic segregation. As interpret
ed by the President, the open
housing law guarantees every
one an equal right to live
wherever he can afford.
Nixon also pointedly noted
that although many Negroes
are poor, “the terms poor and
black are not interchangeable.”
He said there are also poor
whites and affluent blacks.
“By equal housing opportuni
ty, I mean the achievement of
a condition in which individuals
of similar income levels... have
a like range of housing choices
available to them regardless of
their race, color, religion or
national origin.”
Nixon noted arguments that
Utilities must
hike interest
ATLANTA (UPI)-As of July
1, utility companies in Georgia
must not only pay back custom
er deposits after 24 months of
service, but must also hike in
terest on the money from 4%
to 5 per cent.
The ruling came Friday from
the Georgia Public Service Com
mission and put an end to the
long-standing practice whereby
the utilities hold customer de
posits until service is discon
tinued.
Under the new procedure, cus
tomers can request a return of
their deposit at the new interest
rate after 24 months of contin
uous service, as long as the cus
tomer’s account has been paid
promptly during that time.
Douglas Smith, senior utilities
engineer for the commission,
said it is “difficult” to say how
long it would take to pay off
those customers in line for de
posit pay-backs.
He said the ruling applied to
the Georgia Power Company,
Savannah Electric and Power
Company, Atlanta Gas Light
Company, Gas Light Company
of Columbus and United Cities
Gas Company of Gainesville.
Bond's suit
dismissed
ATLANTA (UPI) - A three
judge federal panel dismissed a
lawsuit Friday that would have
declared unconstitutional a state
law requiring a majority vote
for candidates in runoff and gen
eral election.
The class-action suit, brought
by state Rep. Julian Bond and
former congressional candidate
Andrew Young, had charged the
statute was designed “to perpet
uate white-only office retention”
in Georgia.
But the federal judges dismis
sed the suit, contending the law
is not unconstitutional on its
face and adding, “The plaintiffs
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poverty perpetuates itself when
the poor are by the laws of
economics forced to live in
often overcrowded low-cost
neighborhoods. He said a
frequently suggested remedy is
to “scatter the poor among the
more affluent” by building
public housing projects in
middle-and-upper-class neigh
borhoods.
The President said his
administration would “encou
rage” construction of public
housing in the suburbs but he
said “a municipality that does
not want federally assisted
housing should not have it
imposed from Washington by
bureaucratic fiat.”
The decision on whether to
accept public housing will be up
to the local community.
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have not suffered any adverse
impact” from its application.
The panel consisted of sth U.S.
Circuit Court Judge Griffin B.
Bell and district judges Sidney
0. Smith Jr. and William C.
O’Kelley Jr.
Attorneys for the American
Civil Liberties Union, who
argued for plaintiffs, said they
have not yet decided on further
action in the case.
Gov. Carter
denies pact
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
Jimmy Carter denied charges
Friday that he had packed his
judicial reform study committee
with Democrats in order to per
petuate Democratic judgeships.
Mims Wilkinson Jr., first vice
president of the state Republi
can Party, made the charge at
a Capitol news conference.
“This is an example of Demo
cratic one-party politics at its
worst,” he said.
Wilkinson said he had written
Carter urging him to appoint
Republicans to the committee
which is helping the governor
work out reforms in the state
judicial system.
Asked later about the letter,
Carter said he would not
comnlv with the reouest. “I
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New attacks
SAIGON—The U.S. Command today reported another
in a series of attacks by American fighter-bombers
against communist antiaircraft sites inside North
Vietnam. For the first time in the war, the communists
shot down a Cambodian helicopter.
Falcons probed
MEXICO CITY—The government began today an
investigation of the mysterious “Falcons," a paramilitary
organization that broke up Thursday’s massive student
riot with gunfire and clubs and left at least eight students
dead and 45 other persons seriously injured.
Retake Alcatraz
SAN FRANCISCO—Armed federal guards patrolled
desolate Alcatraz today to prevent any Indian attempts to
recapture the island.
U. S. Marshals took back the rocky island in San
Francisco bay in a surprise move Friday. The last 15
occupants offered no resistance and were carried off to a
downtown motel.
The Indians had wanted to build a cultural center on the
island. They charted they were betrayed by the
government on orders of President Nixon. Some vowed to
reclaim the island.
Arms cutback
MOSCOW—The Soviet Union campaigned today for
talks on worldwide cutbacks in arms, including warships
on the high seas and troops in central Europe.
Leonid I. Brezhnev, general secretary of the Soviet
Communist Party, established the line of the campaign
Friday with an offer to bargain with the United States on
pulling back the two nations’ mighty naval fleets from
distant shores.
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don’t plan to appoint high school
or college students, blacks or
women, or others, just because
they complain they should be
represented,” Carter said.
“I don’t even know if they are
Democrats or Republicans,” he
said of the members of his Ju
dicial Processes Committee.
Most of the 14 appointees, he
said, were recommended by
judges, district attorneys and
lawyers associations.
Blacks call
Macon meet
ATLANTA (UPI)-Black lead
ers were scheduled to meet in
Macon today to determine their
next step toward getting the
state to act on demands in rive
areas.
Hosea Williams of Atlanta,
head of the Statewide Black
Leadership Coalition, called the
meeting after he was told by
Jimmy Carter that Jefferson
County Sheriff Zollie Compton
would not be suspended without
an investigation.
Williams had called for the
suspension after a young black
inmate of the county jail was
found hanged in his cell about
two weeks ago.
Carter met with the civil
rights leader at the Capitol and
told him that both the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
were investigating the incident.
But he added, “I am not about
to suspend a public official just
because some peopoe have ac
cused him of violating the law
until an investigation shows he
is guilty.”
Illinois solon sees
school resegregation
NEWTON, Ga. (UPI)-An Il
linois congressman, who visited
Georgia to determine the effect
of desegregation orders on small
school systems, said Friday he
found what he expected to find—
“the schools are becoming re
segregated.”
Rep. Roman Pucinski, an illi
noise Democrat and chairman
of the House Subcommittee on
General Education, spent all day
Friday talking with school offi
cials and students.
The conclusion he reached, he
said, is that white enrollment in
public schools will continue to
decrease and the enrollment of
private schools will continue to
increase until the point of seg
regated schools is reachedagain.
“I believe the same thing is
happening all over this nation,”
Pucinski said. “The schools are
becoming resegregated.”
Among those testifying at the
hearing conducted by Pucinski
was Eugene Hall,superintendent
of Baker County schools. He
said white attendance at public
schools dropped from 355 to 220
during the first year of desegre
gation.
He said he expects less than
100 white students to be enroll
ed this fall. “We are going to
lose public support of our
schools,” Hall said.
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Both of the county’s schools—
East Baker elementary and high
and Baker High School—were
ordered by federal courts to in
tegrate last fall. Os the county’s
3,792 residents, 52 per cent are
black.
Among students testifying
were Don Wright, 18, a black
graduate of East Baker. He said
“I can’t say I learned anything.
I learned a lot more when I
was going to an all-black
school.”
Another East Baker senior,
Daisey Hall, 18, accused teach
ers of cursing students and re-
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voking privileges from black
students that were ordinarily
accorded to white students.
During the hearing, Pucinski
asked Hall what could be done
to halt the migration of white
students away from public
schools.
In Memory of Billy L. Short
who passed away June 12th
1970.
Just today I was thinking,
But then that's nothing new,
I thought of you yesterday.
And the day before too.
I'll think of you tomorrow.
And each day through the
year
I'll think of you forever,
You always seem so near,
And when evening shadows fall,
And I am all alone,
In my heart there comes a
longing
If only you could come home,
The pain I've learned to live
with
As time goes swiftly by.
It's just the hours of loneliness
That sometimes makes me cry.
For the life we shared together
Isn't easy to forget.
Each one of those precious
memories.
Oh! How they linger yet.
And as I ponder over them,
Each step up memory's hill,
The sweetest one I live with
Is that I gave you the roses
while you lived.
Missed by:
Wife: Jeanette Short
Children: Jan, Kenneth, &
Tommy
Brothers: Paul, Jake & O'dean
Sisters-in-laws : Rose, Jackie &
Bernice