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Vol. 8,
Regents drop merger of Albany State
From The Atlanta Constitution
The Georgia Board of
Regents soothed a lot of ill
feelings Thursday when it
dropped a merger proposal for
predominantly Black Albany
State College and
predominantly white Albany
Junior Collge from its S4O
million plan to desegregate the
state’s three Black colleges.
But the action, coupled with
deletion of a 25-30 percent
white enrollment quota for
Albany State by the end of the
1981-82 school year, could
jeopardize approval of the
desegregation package by the
U.S. Department of Health,
Files two pleas
Marvin Gaye’s bankrupt
LOS ANGELES
Singer-composer Marvin P.
Gaye Jr. has two voluntary
petitions before Federal
District Bankruptcy Judge
Richard Mednick here.
Gaye is petitioning in a
personal bankruptcy situation,
correlated with a petition for
bankruptcy for his Righton
Productions. Both were filed
early this year.
What appears to be the latest
filing his personal action is an
undated plan submitted to the
court estimating that Gaye
would pay off debtors in less
than three years “if reductions
can be accomplished.” No
totals of assets ana liabilities
were available for this petition.
In the Righton petition,
$l.B million in liabilities and
$1.27 million in assets were
estimated. In the projected
arrangement filed in the
personal bankruptcy, Gaye
would turn over to the court
$7650 per month less $832
administrative fee for
disbursement.
Creditors in his personal
petition inlcude the following
claims for legal services:
Carlton Robinson,
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Education and Welfare,
officials said. HEW had insisted
that both provisions be kept in
the Albany proposal.
An HEW spokesman said
Thursday afternoon that no
official comment will be made
on the plan “for a few days.
But we do expect to review it
very quickly since they have
already had two extensions,”
said Lou Mathis, a public
information officer for the
federal agency.
U.S. District Judge John
Pratt ruled last year that HEW
must establish adequate
guidelines for desegregation of
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Marvin Gaye
$123,000; Patrick Cavanaugh,
$138,364; and Gregory C.
Burgin, $1.6 million. The
petition declares Gaye owns
$522,314 for 1974-75 returns.
His 1976-77 returns are being
prepared, as is his indebtedness
to the state of California. His
unsecured debts are estimated
at $6,946,058.
It is evident that Gaye, who
produced his own masters
which in turn were turned over
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has filed
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the University System of
Georgia as a result of a 1970
suit filed by NAACP attorneys
against 10 states, including
Georgia. The plan for Georgia’s
predominantly white
institutions was approved by
HEW earlier this year.
During the summer, HEW
monitored the drafting of the
plan for the Black schools and
apparently was ready to
approve it if the plan were
presented intact, Regents
Chairman Milton Jones of
Columbus said. “I’m afraid we
might be right back into
negotiation with HEW,” he
to Motown by Righton
Productions, was slapped with
a bill for sales and use tax by
California State Board of
Equalization.
The state’s tax unit tried to
asses a 5 percent tax on all
such industry dealings in the
early ’7os. The attempt to tax
masters fell through when an
industry group was able to gain
a legislative bill which kayoed
the board’s move.
But not before a number of
labels and produers were hit
with hefty tax levies. The
court record shows Gaye was
advanced $176,000 by
Motown Records in January,
1978, to make an unidentified
payment to the Equalization
Board.
The advance is shown as a
liability, along with a $50,000
advance tendered Gaye in
April, 1977, by ASCAP. The
court dossier indicates Gaye
was paid SIOO,OOO in royalties
by ASCAP in 1976 and
nothing in 1977.
Gaye filed with the court a
statement of estimated
monthly earnings of $40,000
against a personal expenditure
monthly of $34,960.
Beauty of
the Week
Lisa Michelle Powell is a
business major at Paine
College. She hopes to become a
fashion merchandiser.
A graduate of Glenn Hills
High School, she enjoys tennis
and swimming. Her
measurements are 36-25-38.
Lisa is the daughter of Mrs.
Mamie W. Powell and the late
James W. Powell.
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said after the meeting. ”1 don’t
think they will approve it.”
But Jones said he is hopeful
that HEW will okay the
Savannah State and Fort
Valley State College portions
of the proposal - which the
board approved Thursday -
and leave the Albany section
for negotiation during the next
45 days.
Part of the merger proposal
called for the relocation of
Albamy State to the Albany
Junior College campus. “I
don’t think this board should
commit the state of Georgia to
$24 million to move one
school six miles,” said Regent
Rufus Coody of Vienna.
“I don’t think Albany State
For GOP hopefuls
Nixon is still
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By C.J. Moore
Pacific News Service
WASHINGTON - “Stupid.”
“Unviable.” “A disservice to
the party.” “Hopelessly
dishonest.” “I don’t want him
in my district.”
Richard Nixon is on our
television screens again.
Crowds cheer him;
commentators speculate about
him; foreign statesmen speak
of him with respect.
But with next month’s
congressional elections fast
approaching, Republican Party
leaders and regulars - the
former president’s staunchest
supporters from the days of
the 1952 Nixon fund crisis to
his resignation over Watergate
in 1974 - make no bones
about it. They still consider
Nixon a political skeleton best
kept in a tightly-locked closet.
Speaking a out the former
president on and off the
record, Republicans on Capitol
Hill agree nearly ten-to-one
that Richard Nixon should not
venture out during the current
campaign on behalf of GOP
candidates. “I’ve got a tough
enough battle for re-election,”
one Republician senator said,
“even without the Nixon
albatross around my neck.”
Although there has been
much softening of Republican
animosity toward Nixon over
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Festival series
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can be desegregated 25-30
percent in four yrars,” said
Charles T. Oxford of Albany.
“I’m going to have to vote
against this part for that
reason.”
The merger drew heated
opposition from Black students
and alumni of the schools
during Wednesday’s board
meeting, but the criticism
dissapated Thursday when the
merger was rejected.
“We are satisfied at this
point, but now we need funds
to enhance the school,” said
John Lewis, Albany State
student government president.
“We find ourselves back where
we started from.”
Rep. Mildred Glover,
D-Atlanta, said that merger
the past few years, most party
members express continuing
disfavor with the ex-president
and lay blame for the lopsided
Democratic majorities in both
houses squarely on Nixon’s
Casa Pacifica doorstep.
Southern Republicans
remain especially embittered
against the party leader they
believe destroyed the GOP’s
entire “Southern strategy.”
The Republican Party, they
note, had been making steady
gains in the New South for 20
years - until Nixon’s disgrace
undid decades of patient
political work.
“He’s done tremendous
damage to the party,” said
Rep. William L. Dickinson of
Alabama. “Everything we
worked so hard for was torn
apart by his inability to accept
the blame for his acts. He
brought the entire party
down.”
Would Dickinson invite
Nixon to his district? “I
suppose if someone asked me
to invite him I would, but I
would not take the initiative.”
Like many Republican leaders
around the country, the
Alabama congressman said he
can see no future role for
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rejection was a “painful
decision that represents a step
forward.” Her colleague, Rep.
David Scott, D-Atlanta, also
praised the merger decision but
said he hopes that HEW rejects
the Savannah and Fort Valley
State plans. He said the
proposed program-sharing
between those two schools and
white institutions represented a
“step in the direction of
merger.”
The Regents Thursday
approved:
* Five new programs ar
Albany State, including a
master’s degree in graduate
education, bachelor of Science
degrees in computer science,
social welfare and political
science, plus creation of an
Albany State/Albany Junior
College Extension and Public
Service program by the end of
the 1981-82 school year.
* Increasing minimum SAT
requirements from 650 to 750
overall, with additional
minimum scores of 330
Quintin Johnson (38) runs for 16-yard touchdown in the Laney-Westside football
game Friday night.
Westside won the battle of the unbeatehs, 14-13.
God is alive and well
and living in Centerfield
By Raymond Mungo
Pacific News Service
Reggie Jackson of the New
York Yankees, with typical
modesty, told an ABC-TV
interviewer during the recent
playoff series with the Kansas
City Royals that he is a
religious man, prays to God
daily and that God helps him
hit home runs.
Tom Lasorda, manager of
the Los Angeles Dodgers, prays
to the Big Blue Dodger in the
Sky. His rival manager, Danny
Ozark of the Philadelphia
Phillies, predicted the Phils
would beat the Dodgers
because he wears the No. 3 and
it was the third playoff
meeting between the two
teams. Every major league
baseball team now has fervent
Christian “born-again” players,
who hold prayer services in the
clubhouses and Christian
retreats in the off-season.
If baseball players, long
known to be a rascalious
bunch, are getting religion, it’s
also fair to say that the
national pastime itself has
become a kind of religion to
Americans. The season just
ended was a record one for the
game, with over 40 million fans
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required on both the verbal
and math sections of the test.
* Creation of a rural life
center specializing in lanscape
development and maintenance,
natural resource development
and other agricultural courses
at Fort Valley State College.
* New programs at Albany
State and Fort Valley State
Colleges to improve teacher
education programs.
* Expenditure of $6 million
to $9 million to improve
educational programs at the
three Black schools over five
years, and allocation of about
sls million for physical
improvements. Jones said,
however, that the physical
improvements may cost $35
million over five years.
* Transferring business
administration programs from
predominantly white
Armstrong State College to
Savannah State College, and
sending teacher education
programs from Savannah State
to Armstrong.
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The program swap between
those two schools now looms
as the most controversial
feature of the plan. Rep. Scott
claims that teacher education is
often the “heart” of many
Black schools, but Regent
Eldridge McMilian of Atlanta
and Savannah State would have
lost its teacher education
program in two or three years
anyway because of the low
scores its teacher graduates
make on standardized tests.
The board approved the
Savannah plan even though
Regent Erwin A. Friedman of
that city argued that it was the
wrong thing to do. Friedman
said Armstrong State and
Savannah State would resemble
“junior colleges” if the plan
was approved.
HEW’S rejection of the
desegregation plan could cause
the University Syatem of
Georgia to lose $72 million
annually in federal funds for
higher education.
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