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NEELYVILLE, Mo. — Firemen work to extinguish a fire
at one of several burning tank cars of a Missouri-Pacific
freight train Thursday. The tank cars, believed to be
carrying vinyl chloride, caught fire after two Mo-Pac
Court rules workers have no legal right
to day off because of religious reasons
WASHINGTON (AP) - Con
gress soon will be asked to wipe
out the effects of a Supreme
Court ruling that says workers
have no legal right to take a day
off for religious reasons.
“The Supreme Court decision
is wrong,” Sen. Jennings Ran
dolph, D-W.Va., said Thursday
after hearing the high court’s
ruling. “I shall renew my legis
lative efforts in this issue.”
It was Randolph who in 1972
pushed legislation through Con
gress making it clear that under
the Civil Rights Act of 1964
employers would have to ac
commodate religious employes
whenever possible.
But the Supreme Court, in a 7-
2 decision Thursday, ruled that
employers are not required to
give an employe certain days
off because of religious beliefs if
a seniority system bars such
accommodation or if such
action would amount to
preferential treatment.
“In the absence of clear stat
utory language or legislative
history to the contrary, we will
not readily construe the statute
to require an employer to dis
criminate against some em
ployes in order to enable others
to observe their sabbath,” Jus
tice Byron White said in the
majority opinion.
The ruling is a major legal
defeat for millions whose reli
gions dictate that they not work
on particular days of the week.
It carries impact for Orthodox
Jews, Seventh-Day Adventists,
Seventh-Day Baptists and
members of the Worldwide
Church of God.
Randolph, a Seventh-Day
Baptist, indicated he would seek
a new law that could not be
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misinterpreted by the court.
“Our great tradition of reli
gious freedom and our nation’s
accommodation of religious di
versity has been severely dam
aged,” he said in referring to
the high court’s action.
The court’s two dissenters
used even stronger language.
“All Americans will be a little
poorer until today’s decision is
erased,” said Justices
Thurgood Marhsall and William
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freights collied about 1 a.m. Thursday near Neelyville,
which is south of Poplar Bluff, Mo. The locomotive of one
of the derailed freights is in the left of the picture. There
were two minor injuries reported in the crash. (AP)
Brennan. “The ultimate trage
dy is that, despite Congress’s
best efforts, one of this nation’s
pillars of strength — our hospi
tality to religious diversity —
has been seriously eroded.”
The case decided by the court
involved a Trans World Airlines
worker, Larry Hardison, who
was fired in 1969 for refusing to
work from sundown Friday to
sundown Saturday, observed as
the sabbath by the Worldwide
Church of God.
Hardison sued TWA and his
union, the International Associ
ation of Machinists, charging
religious discrimination. He
won in the Bth U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals, but TWA and the
union appealed, arguing that
the 1964 Civil Rights Law and its
1972 amendment violate the
Constitution’s ban on gov-
Change
of venue
denied
LaGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — Se
lection of 52 prospective jurors
for the resentencing trial of
convicted murderer Curfew
Davis was completed Thursday.
The final 12-member panel is
expected to be completed today
in Troup County Superior Court
before opening arguments are
heard in the case.
Defense attorney Millard
Farmer asked for a change of
venue Thursday but the motion
was denied by Judge Lamar
Knight.
Davis, 40, was convicted of
murder and sentenced to die in
the electric chair in the 1974
slaying of Anne Starnes, 22, of
Columbus.
The U.S. Supreme Court
overturned the death sentence
last December because poten
tial jurors opposed to capital
punishment had been excluded
from the trial. The conviction
stood.
2 on dean's list
at Ga. Southern
Two Spalding County
residents have been named to
the Georgia Southern College
dean’s list for the spring
quarter.
Paula A. Westmoreland and
Mary K. Woodward were cited
for academic achievement.
ernment entanglement in reli
gion.
The Justice Department
urged the high court to rule for
Hardison, saying TWA did not
do enough to accommodate
him.
But White wrote that TWA
had met its legal obligation and
that anything more it could
have done would have imposed
undue hardship.
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Senators voted with majority
WASHINGTON (AP) - Geor
gia’s U.S. senators voted with
the majority Thursday as the
chamber approved a declara
tion that any decision to with
draw U.S. troops from South
Korea should be made by Con
gress and the President.
Sens. Sam Nunn and Herman
Talmadge voted with 77 of their
colleagues in the decision. Fif
teen senators voted against the
measure.
Meanwhile, in the House, all
of Georgia’s representatives
sided with the majority as that
chamber passed an amendment
Inmate
escapes
LaGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — A
29-year-old Troup County Cor
rectional Institution inmate es
caped Thursday from a work
detail at the county courthouse,
officials said.
A spokesman for the Depart
ment of Offender Rehabilitation
said Ward Thomas Evans of
Avondale Estates was last seen
getting into an automobile with
a Louisiana license plate.
Evans was serving a five-year
sentence for statutory rape and
child molestation.
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barring use of federal funds by
the Department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare for trans
portation of students to schools
that are not nearest to them.
The amendment would elimi
nate HEW’s power to control
desegregation in compliance
with the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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Brinkley, Billy Evans, John
Flynt, Ronald “Bo” Ginn, Ed
Jenkins, Elliott Levitas, Daw
son Mathis, Larry McDonald
and Wyche Fowler voted with
216 of their colleagues for the
amendment. There were 157
votes against the proposal.
