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Jazz great Charles Mingus dies at 56 Page 1 Vol. 8, No. 38 Andy Young King inspired world change (From Atlanta Constitution) The life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. brought about a “rearrangement of the social order” in America that is being felt throughout the world, United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young told an audience here recently. As a result of King’s work, wheels have been set in motion that can lead to a new agreement on arms limitations, Young told the overflow crowd at Ebenezer Baptist Church attending an ecumenical service marking the 50th birthday of the slain civil rights leader. “Now as we approach our relations with the Soviet Union, we have people prepared to ‘study war no more,’” Young said, repeating words of an old Negro spiritual. The civil rights movement led by King, who was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968, has resulted in the election of politicians in America who are willing and able to negotiate and approve SALT, he said. “Martin Luther King’s movement of change has impacted on the nation and the world,” Young told his audience, which included international dignitaries. King’s life has inspired the efforts to “fight apartheid, to build a new international economic order, to bring about peace in the Middle East and to wipe out poverty,” Young said. Young called on his listeners to “let the world know that his dreams are going to be fulfilled.” He said that the “spiritual vitality” needed to fulfill the dream still “comes from the man born 50 years a ß°” Young recalled King s travels to Ghana and India in 1960, from which he returned with a “sense of the tremendous fafeßijJ HI | L*J Mffi | I EKai H I Illi 1 fir SB ,: t&nc ■ • ar + SfJI - Jft «l. E Ha - K*& >‘ wr' ■ ISillll '<.^WS^^^Klc ?/ -l' t- eL -a *’ Jffika- AStey ■ • OVERCOMING - President and Mrs. Rosalyn join hands at Ebenezer Baptist Church with (from left) Martin Luther King Sr., U.N. Ambassador Andy Young, Mrs. Coretta King, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Augusta Nms-Stett I l '/ . r Ji W A * f JKr aKK w JI /W-WW W 4 W a 3 K ■MF BwW Sfesww A . ■ * PAINE CO I,LEGE PRESIDENT Dr. Julius S. Scott Jr. was among the participants paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King last week at Ebenezer Baptist « international yearning to be free.” And rather than attack those in power who oppressed, Young said, King “talked to ordinary people with this simple revolutionary message: ‘We are all sons and daughters of God.’” King merged his religious background and the non-violent philosophy of Gandhi into a “vibrant force that made possible not only the liberation of his people, but also the liberation of the entire nation and the world,” Young said. In addition to Young, several others paid tribute to King for his impact on the Black Atlanta city councilman indicted Page 1 P.0.80x 953 areas of international affairs, organized labor, education, the arts and corporate America. King’s life and work serve as “a powerful source of inspiration to the oppressed peoples on a continent where the blacks of this country have their roots and origin,” said Ola Ullseten, prime minister of Sweden. King’s work will “hopefull make us all one day fully understand the message of peace, love and brotherhood,” he said. John Ryor, president of the National Education Association, said his organization views King as a teacher. In support of King’s president-emeritus of Morehouse College and businessman Jesse Hill. Carter received Martin Luther King Jr. Peace prize at service honoring the civil rights leader’s 50th birthday. ■ M "KM AM* 1 I * j ’J r Z * ' - £ • W ri w J * ■*** ” Church. Dr. Scott was th ' 1 r ’ director o> the Martin Luther King Center for Social Change. Mrs. Coretta King is at right. Photos by Mike Carr life and work, the NEA is initiating a nationwide fund-raising effort for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change, Ryor said. In addition, Ryor said his organization will contin,ue to appropriate funds for the center’s summer institute on nonviolence. He also said the NEA would continue to lobby for Jan. 15 as a national holiday. Earlier, Coretta Scott King, widow of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, led a group of international dignitaries to a wreath-laying ceremony at King’s gravesite next to Ebenezer on Auburn Avenue. Black leaders unite behind King holiday Page 2 January 27,1979 Atlanta councilman indicted (From Atlanta Constitution) Atlanta City Councilman Arthur Langford was indicted Thursday on charges of extortion, obstruction of justice and of perjury before a federal grand jury investigating allegations of corruption at last year’s Southeastern Fair. The three-count indictment - the first against an elected Atlanta official in eight years - also charged Langford with trying to get another unnamed government witness to lie to the grand jury about payments to fair employes. Langford, 29, was arrested Thursday afternoon, at the offices of the United Youth Adult Conference, a private, nonprofit social-service agency which he heads. He was arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Owen Forrester. The councilman, who said he had not had a chance to review the charges against him, entered a plea of innocent. Forrester, who said he “personally knows” Langford, released him on a 57,500 personal recognizance bond. The magistrate, noting that one of the charges against Langford was obstruction of justice, warned the councilman that “if you have any doubts about the propriety of your actions in investigating the case, it would be. better if you let your lawyers question witnesses. You may find y ourself in the situation where you have no bond at all.” Langford, who has served on the council since 1974, was immediately suspended from his office by Council President Carl Ware, as required by the city charger. His indictment is the first against an Atlanta City Councilman since Joel Stokes was charged with embezzlement and misapplication of public funds in 1971. Stokes was convicted and served two years of a three-year prison sentence. The indictment against Langford, issued shortly before Less than 75% Advertising Thousands mourn singer Donny Hathaway (From St. Louis American) New York police say that Donny Hathaway, 33, who worked his way out of the ghetto of the Carr Square Housing Project to top billing in the entertainment circles all over the country, committed suicide by leaping from the 15th floor of a New York hotel. His grandfather, Robert Crumwell, who along with his wife, reared the singer, told this reporter, “He visited me a couple of weeks ago just before he returned to New York and he talked alright, he looked alright, and didn’t act like he wad despondent to me.” When asked by this reporter if he thought that there was a possibility that Hathaway was having marital difficulties or troubles of any kind that would make him take his own life, Mr. Crumwell said, “He never showed any signs of it and he never mentioned anything like that.” He said, “1 don’t know what happened.” The New York coroner, with a report made by police officers there, said that Hathaway jumped to his death last Saturday, near midnight, from the 15th floor of the swank Essex House where he had registered. The singer left no suicide note, the door was locked from the inside and there were no signs of violence in the room, police said. Hathaway was in New York to join singer Roberta Flack in a recording session. He checked into the Central Park South hotel a week before the tragedy. Hathaway and Miss Flack successfully recorded several albums that were best-sellers. In 1973, Hathaway received a Grammy award for the million-seller single recording made jointly with Miss Flack the year before which was entitled “Where Is The Love?” He was excited over the publicity he received in getting the award. 3 p.m., stems from a four-month investigation into last September’s financially disastrous Southeastern Fair, held at the Lakewood Fairgrounds. Langford was charged with using his position as a councilman and as chairman of the City Council’s Public Safety Committee to extort money from fair promoter Don Pavel, after Langford and Pavel reached an “understanding” that Langford would obtain a waiver of the city’s $350-a-day licensing fee for die fair. The two men also agreed that Langford would make sure the fair would not have any problems obtaining fire and sanitation services from the city and that Langford would try to get Deputy Police Director Eldrin Bell, who headed security at the fair, to ask for a smaller security fee, the indictment says. Pavel has said that he paid Bell SIB,OOO to provide security at the fair. However, a taped conservation between Pavel’s midway manager, Harry “Buster” Westbrook, and Gene Sorrows, a carnival game operator, indicated that the security tab may have actually been $39,000. The indictment also charges that Langford lied to the grand jury last year when he denied receiving money from the fair for himself or the UYAC. The UY AC was hired to get 30 to 40 young people to clean up and collect garbage at the fair, but the contract was iviure niacKs returning South than leaving Page 2 I 1 L * V A year after getting the Grammy, he had two gold albums, “Robert Flack and Donny Hathaway,” and “Donny Hathaway Live.” Mr. . CrumweU said that Hathaway didn’t grow up singing the kind of songs that made him famous. “He sang gospel songs in churches and he got his first training from my wife, who reared him since he was a small child.” Mr. canceled, Langford and Pavel have said. Langford is quoted in the indictment as saying the UY AC “would have received some funds if we had received $14,000 from the Southeastern Fair,” but that UYAC did not actually get any money. According to the indictment, the following conversation took place between Langford and federal investigators before the grand jury: Charles Mingus Jazz artist dies Charles Mingus Donnv Hathaway Crumwell said that when he married Mrs. Crumwell. Donny was seven years of age “and he was really singing then.” Donny lived with the CrumweU’s until he became grown and married. Hathaway had an extended visit in St. Louis with his See “HATHAWAY” Page 6 Investigator: “You’ve received no compensation or money in any form directly or indirectly related to the Southeastern Fair?” Langford: “Not at all.” Investigator: “Has anyone on your behalf?” Langford: “No, not at all.” Investigator: “You have no agreements for such?” See “INDICTED” Page 6 Charles Mingus, 56, one of the first jazz musicians to use the bass as a solo instrument and a major modern jazz composer, died Friday in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He had been suffering since 1977 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disorder of the nervous system sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease. Mingus attended the White House Jazz Festival in July in a wheel chair and was embraced by President Jimmy Carter in one of the day’s most affecting moments. Mingus’ childhood friend and colleague, saxophonist Buddy Collette, said Monday that Mingus’ body was cremated Saturday and that a memorial service was being planned in Los Angeles. 25*