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Newspaper Page TextCommunities not required by law to change zoning By RICHARD CARELLI Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Poor urban blacks or other minor ities who dream of leaving the inner city for the more affluent suburbs cannot necessarily count on the Constitution for help in finding low-income housing, the Supreme Court says. Lawyers involved in housing suits indicated the court ruling did not necessarily sidetrack similar cases and said the jus tices left them other avenues to pursue. The high court said Tuesday that communities are banned from intentionally keeping any one out for reasons of race. But, the court said, nothing in the Constitution requires pre dominantly white towns to change zoning laws to allow construction of low-income housing that would attract poor minority residents. The court did list standards that lawyers in similar cases could use to demonstrate that a zoning body had an illegal intent to discriminate. Lawyers, for instance, could show a zoning board departed from normal administrative procedures to draw up rules barring low income housing. The court also left open the possibility that existing federal statutes might be used to attack such zoning laws. In their decision, the justices reversed a lower court ruling and found the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights did not un constitutionally discriminate against blacks by refusing to alter its zoning code to permit construction of low income housing. The court’s 5-3 decision evoked sharp criticism from James Compton, executive di rector of the Chicago Urban League. He said the court’s ac tion means blacks and low in come families will continue to be trapped in disproportionate numbers in deteriorating inner cities. “It sets progress back consid erably. The Nixon-Ford era has been a damaging one as far as progress in housing, jobs and social legislation is concerned,” Compton said. But Arlington Heights Mayor James Ryan said the decision protects the rights of local gov ernments to preserve the char acter of their communities through reasonable zoning standards. “It means that zoning is going to be a matter decided at the local level, rather than 1,000 or 2,000 miles away in Washington,” he said. The plaintiffs had attacked the zoning laws as uncon stitutional under the 14th Amendment’s safeguards of ■riA PORTRAITS InW ■ 14 LIVING COLOR ■ F . w 1 $ 1.95 * Sit " S ■ DEPOSIT WHEN Al V B PHOTOGRAPHED W~- «JE ’• O ■ 5 9.00 i ■ ON DELIVERY //. M ) -J| : ■ * ./W . a ' <\ VJ ■■*♦•**■<*•*« Nr-4B BB ■ I x V/i JTi 9/jßSgg :fg ■■_. ■ $ |£9 ‘J '']■ s°siza -k &=s™ , I£S ©1 ©| »srluts vi */l *?jl ■ ->. r/'R - jJIjH ,)•■ ,1 ■QM / I £ '*4l in ,hree weeks £Ve| I DATES: Jan. 13,14,15 IjjfflftVl equal protection. ( The court’s decision ex- ( panded a major discrimination ( ruling handed down last year. The justices said then that the Constitution bars only in tentional racial discrimination. I In the Arlington Heights case, 1 the court said those persons who 1 think they have heen dis- Economist predicts unemployment decline By ROBERT A. DOBKIN ] AP Labor Writer I WASHINGTON (AP) - A top Ford administration economist forecasts a probable decline in j the December unemployment ( rate as a prelude to a year of gradual improvement in the na tion’s bleak job picture. The forecast, by John W. Kendrick, the Commerce De partment’s chief economist, will be measured against to day’s report on unemployment from the Labor Department. The department also was scheduled to report on whole sale prices for December. A dip in the jobless rate would be one more sign the economy is reviving after a summer-fall period of stagnation and rising joblessness. In November, the unemploy ment rate rose to 8.1 per cent of the labor force, with 7.8 million Americans unable to find jobs. In October, the rate was 7.9 per cent. i Wholesale prices rose six- ; tenths of 1 per cent in October and November, an indication i that inflation pressures were i continuing but not accelerating. In predicting a drop in the i unemployment rate, Kendrick noted there has recently been a sharp decline in the number of i Escapees convicted MACON, Ga. (AP) — Two South Carolina prison escapees were convicted of kidnaping Tuesday in U.S. District Court. The jury deliberated 19 minutes before convicting Ralph V. Delahoussaye, 23, and William R. Morgan, 41, who escaped from the Central Correctional Institute at Columbia, S.C., IN November. They were charged with abducting Herbert Gardner, a Columbia (S.C.) Record circulation manager, and forcing him to drive them to Macon, where he was released unharmed. They also were charged with forcing Steve Underwood of Macon to drive with them 45 hours through four southern states before they locked him in the trunk of a car. Morgan was captured in Mississippi near the Mississippi Louisiana border. Delahoussaye crashed into a police roadblock in Louisiana. Judge Wilbur D. Owens delayed sentencing for the two men pending a pretrial investigation. criminated against must prove discriminatory motives prac ticed by government officials. It is not enough to point to the “ultimate effect” relied on as proof by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the justices said in an opinion written by Lewis F. Powell Jr. persons collecting jobless bene fits. He cautioned, however, that an abnormal growth in the labor force could offset a decline in the jobless rate. Today’s reports followed a spate of encouraging economic statistics in recent weeks show ing, among other things, indus trial production picking up and retail sales for December re bounding sharply. A survey of business leaders, the Commerce Department re ported Tuesday, indicates that growth in the purchase of new facilities this year may double over the 1976 total. Economists regard business spending on new plant and equipment as a key economic indicator. Despite recent improvements indicating “that the worst of the 1976 lull is ending,” Alice Rivlin, director of the Congres sional Budget Office, said con tinuation of current economic policies would reduce the job less rate only moderately to be tween 7.1 and 7.8 per cent by the end of the year. She testified Tuesday before the Senate Budget Committee as Congress began preliminary work on President-elect Car ter’s economic plan. ki? ■■ j From President Susan Kapiloff and Charles Futral, Griffin High students, display letters they received from President Ford in response to a Christmas Card they sent the nation’s chief executive. What’s happening ROTARY CLUB Al Thrasher will give the Junior Achievement interim report at the regular weekly meeting of the Griffin Rotary Club on Thursday, at noon, at the Moose Club. LIONS CLUB The Griffin Lions Club will hold a meeting Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. in the Griffin Moose Lodge. Dr. Robert Gordon of the Griffin Area Development Center will present the program. Girl Scouts begin taking cookie orders The 1977 Pine Valley Girl Scout cookie order taking will get underway on January 14 and continue through January 22, Mrs. Jean Lowry, cookie chairperson, announced today. This year, Girl Scouts will again be selling the large, family-size box for $1.25 in five varieties, mint, peanut butter, sandwich, shorties and peanut butter pattie. Something new this year is that girls will compete for prizes. For each 50 boxes of cookies a Girl Scout sells, her name will be placed in the appropriate age level box. Prizes will be awarded in each age level. In 1976 cookie money was used for repairs, maintenance and equipment for the three council owned campsites 4 charged in killing ATLANTA (AP) — Four men have been charged with murder and arson in the deaths of an Atlanta nightclub owner and two other men. Robert Llewellyn, 36, owner or part owner of three Atlanta nightclubs; Danny Neal Millirons, 23, of Atlanta; Robert Schneider, 23, of Atlanta, and Michael Sherwood Day, 22, of Atlanta, who is serving time in Florida, were charged in the case, according to Fulton County police. The bodies of Peter Michael Winokur, 31, a nightclub owner; Floyd King, 17, and Keith Stamm, 19, of Miami, Fla., were found last April in a heavily wooded area in southwest Fulton County, police said. All three had been shot. All three had been reported missing after Winokur’s nightclub burned last February, authorities said. ROGERS RESTAURANT 908 E. Solomon St. STEAK SPECIAL Top Sirloin Strip or T-Bone Potatoe and Salad from the Salad Bar Two For $550 Thursday from 5 P.M. including dutch ovens, life jackets and tents. A hot water heater was purchased for Camp Cecil Jackson. Also a new council van for camp and troop use was purchased with cookie money. Mrs. Mace Palmer may be contacted if additional cookies are needed or if Girl Scouts do not make a contact. Storfc Club MASTER JOHNSON Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson, Jr., of 87 Spalding Heights, announce the birth of a son Jan. 11, at the Griffin- Spalding Hospital. MASTER QUICK Mr. and Mrs. James A. Quick, of 438 Pickens drive, announce the birth of a son Jan. 11 at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital. Page 3 J*j * { 2. m M Until Thursday 30 20 JO O-1O -20 . - / zV 10 fww Snow \ X ML | ' J i gures show Flurries '°* Fxxxxl V 40 empefa ’° ret Rom 40 30 X °' °' e ° Cold Warm 60 i Dol ° f'om 50 Stationary Occluded NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA—Fair and cold tonight with low near 20. Increasing cloudiness and not quite as cold Thursday with high in the mid 40s. .... -~ - M Hospital Report The following were dismissed from the Griffin-Spalding Hospital: Mrs. Sryell Coates, Jack Gaddy, Terrell Bunn, Danny Morgan, James A. Landers, Grady Leonard Harper, OPEN ALL DAY WEDNESDAY January Sale and Clearance CONTINUES.... 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Woman’s disappearance still mystery NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly six weeks after the wife of for mer presidential counsel Leon ard Garment disappeared, po lice say they don’t know “if she just flipped,” “got amnesia,” or “knows what she’s doing and doesn’t want to call home.” Grace Garment, 49, who wrote for the television soap opera “Edge of Night,” was last seen on Dec. 3 at Pennsylvania Station in midtown Manhattan, shortly before she had a psychiatric appointment for treatment of depression. “We’re totally in the dark ... The family hasn’t heard any thing,” Sgt. Max Sanders of the Police Department’s Missing Persons Squad said in an inter view Tuesday.