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WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Louis E. Martin, President
Carter’s special assistant on
minority affairs, has flatly
denied that he accepted any
money as payment for
information he passed on
concerning a merger between
International Telephone and
Telegraph Corp, and Hartford
Fire Insurance Co.
Martin, former president and
editorial director for
(Reprinted from The State)
WASHINGTON -President
Carter nominated Matthew J.
Perry of Columbia Tuesday to
be a federal district judge in
South Carolina.
The Justice Department and
the American Bar Association
cleared the former NAACP
attorney for the post last week.
Perry’s nomination had been
delayed, pending receipt of the
nominee’s income tax returns
of the last three years.
“I’m pleased,” Perry said
upon learning that his
nomination had been
forwarded to Capitol Hill. “I’ve
longed to return to South
Carolina.”
Last year Congress adopted
an omnibus federal judgship
bill which granted the Palmetto
State three additional jurists.
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MINISTERS LUNCHEON - A group of Ministers met
for lunch at the Uptowner Restaurant Wednesday to
assess the News-Review Church-Ministers contest. They
are (from left foreground) Rev. Jerry Poole, Rev. R.B.
Green, Rev. E.H. Whitley, Rev. Gene R. Dean, Rev.
R.A. Lark, Rev. R.L. McCoy, Father Richard Horton,
Augusta Nms-ißntjatt
Carter’s top black aide
denies he took payoffs
Sengstacke Newspapers, has
been linked with 549.000 in
stocks, which were allegedly
passed on to him for providing
information of the merger to
some Texas stockholders to
learn in advance if the merger
had been approved by the
Connecticut insurance
commissioner.
Martin said the charge is
“completely untrue.” The
report was published in the
Hartford Courant newspaper.
The former deputy chairman
South Carolina black
is federal judge nominee
South Carolina currently has
five sitting federal judges and
two full-time magistrates.
Carter has already
norrinated attorneys Weston
Houck of Florence and Falcon
Hawkins of Charleston for the
two other judgeships.
The Senate Judiciary
Committee, of which Sen.
Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., is
ranking minority member, will
hold confirmation hearings
July 23 on all three nominees.
No serious problems are
anticipated.
Perry, Houck and Hawkins
were recommended by Sen.
Ernest F. Hollings, D-S.C., for
the judgeships after being
screened by a merit selection
conrnission headed by U.S.
District Judge Robert Hemphill
of Chester.
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unemployment
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of the National Democratic
Organization, under both John
F. Kennedy and Lyndon
Baines Johnson, spent more
than eight years in Washington
prior to his becoming president
of Sengstacke Newspapers.
Martin said that he would
seek out legal advice to
determine what action he
should take concerning the
report.
“I don’t know why they
(the press) would even intimate
that I might be involved in any
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Matthew J. Perry
Rev. J.S. Wright, Rev. R.E. Donaldson, Rev. Essie M.
Mclntyre, Rev. Johnnie Bussey, Rev. Floyd Heard, Rev.
Rosa Williams (not visible), and News-Review staffers,
Paul Walker, Mrs. Geneva Gibson, and Philip Waring.
Restaurant co-owner James Johnson is standing.
type of payoff,” Martin said.
“I don’t really need the
money.”
Martin, who began his career
in the newspaper business in
the late 30s at the Chicago
Defender, rose to prominence
over the following 20 years,
having built Sengstacke’s
Michigan Chronicle in Detroit
and returning to Chicago as
editor of the Defender.
He later went to Africa to
build a chain of newspapers for
various African governments
Perry, 58, has been serving
on the U.S. Military Court of
Appeals since early 1976. He
was recommended for that job
by Thurmond and appointed
by President Ford on Dec. 9,
1975.
Reflecting on his current
position. Perry said, “it has
been an interesting experience.
I’ve been rather a hard worker.
I’ve dealt with matters around
the scope of the globe. It's
been an enlightening
experience.”
Nevertheless, he added, “I
look forward to going home.”
Perry has kept his house in
Columbia, and he pointed out,
“I still have South Carolina
license plates on my cars.”
Perry was born in Columbia
in 1921. He graduated from
law school at South Carolina
Hosea Williams
pleads guilty
to felony charge
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July 21, 1979
and returned here where he
was offered a position in the
Democratic organization under
the Kennedy administration.
Martin, who has of late been
referred to as the “Godfather”
of black politics, has been
responsible for increasing the
number of blacks in national
government and was “the man
behind the scenes” during the
Johnson administration when
more blacks than ever before
received presidential
appointments.
State College and first
practiced law in Spartanburg in
He was there for 10
years before moving to
Columbia where he formed his
own law firm. Prior to his
appointment to the Military
bench, he was a partner in the
firm of Perry, Jenkins and
Pride.
Perry is a lifetime member
of the NAACP and a former
member of the Democratic
National Committee. He ran an
unsuccessful race against Rep.
Floyd D. Spence, R-S.C., in
1974.
Perry, his wife and son,
Michael, presently live in
Alexanderia, Va. They will
return to Columbia when his
nomination is approved by the
full Senate.
Federal District judges are
paid $54,500 a year.
Ministers
Contest
Leaders
1 . Antioch
Baptist Church,
Rev. R.E. Donald
son, pastor; 11,600
points
2. Greater Mt.
Canaan Baptist,
Rev. Nathaniel
Irvin, Pastor; 10,525
points
3. Olivet Baptist,
Rev. R.L. McCoy,
pastor; 6,400
4. St. Mary’s
Episcopal. Father
Richard Horton,
pastor; 4,400
5 . Good
Shepherd Baptist,
Rev. Essie M.
Mclntyre, pastor;
3,200’
Remaining
churches have 1,000
points or less.
Note: Ministers
requested and
received an
extension of the
deadline until the
end of August.
Less than 75% Advertising
Anti-busing amendment
poses serious threat
We were saddened to leant that
our 10th District Congressman I).
Douglas Barnard has signed a
petition that will bring an
anti-busing amendment to the floor
of the House of Representatives
July 24.
I’he resolution, known as the
Mottl amendment, saxs that I) "No
student shall be compelled to
attend a public school other than
the public school nearest the
residence of such student which is
located within the school district in
which such student resides and
which provides the course ol study
pursued bx such stuuenl. 2) "I’he
Congress shall have the power to
enforce this article bx appropriate
legislation and to ensure equal
educational opportunities for all
students.”
If Molli. Barnard et al are
successful, the courts would be
prohibited from ordering busing
hex ond the nearest school, even it
that were the only wax’ - to
overcome illegal segregation and
grant children their constitutional
right to an equal education.
The amendment would weaken
the Constitution, limit the
protections of the 14th amendment
and breach the separation of
powers bv placing restraints on the
Hosea Williams
pleads guilty
ATLANTA - State Rep.
Hosea Williams, D-DeKalb,
pleaded guilty in Atlanta
Thursday to a felony charge of
driving while his license was
revoked and was sentenced to
pay a SI,OOO fine and serve
three years on probation.
Fulton Superior Court Judge
Osgood Williams also declared
the 53-year-old civil rights
leader to be a “first offender,”
which means that Williams will
lose none of his civil rights due
to the conviction.
The judge’s sentence was
lighter than Fulton County
prosecutors had recommended
and followed a plea by
Williams’ attorney, Al Horn,
that the legislator was
“courageous,” hard-working
and self-sacrificing and “had
never been in any real trouble
with the law.”
Williams’ probation is more
lenient than the general
probation granted to many
offenders, in that it can be
revoked -- and Williams sent to
jail - only if Williams again
drives his car without a license.
If Williams were given a
Army Reserve reducing unemployment
The Army Reserve Program
is becoming a qualified
government source for
reducing unemployment in
major urban areas, say Army
officers and civil rights leaders.
Eligible young minority men
and women, who apply for the
Army Reserve Program, are not
Antioch leads
church-ministers
circulation contest
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abilitv of the federal courts to
correct injustieies.
We think that Congressman
Barnard should be held accountable
for this slap in the face when he
comes up for re-election.
We urge our readers to contact
Mr. Barnard and express their
displeasure with the position he has
taken. It is not too late for him to
undue what he has done. But if we
wait until after his vote is east, it
may be too late for all of us.
Not onlv did Barnard sign the
petition permitting the resolution
to come to the House floor, but so
did the rest of the Georgia
representatives with the exception
of Wyche Fowler of the sth
I tistriet.
We urge that you write all of the
Georgia congressmen and oppose
this amendment. They are, in
addition to Barnard, Jack Binkley,
3rd District; Bo Ginn. Ist District;
Ed Jenkins, 9th District; Dawson
Mathis, 2nd District; Larry
McDonald.
This community ami nation can
ill afford the racial disharmony that
will be spawned by re-flaming the
busing issue. Let the congressmen
know that you support the
Constitution and that you insist
(hat they do.
general probation, Horn said,
an unfriendly judge could
revoke his probation for
civil-rights activities when “all
you really want to do is keep
him (Hosea Williams) from
driving.”
Assistant Fulton District
Attorney Wallace Speed has
recommended that the judge
give Williams a five-year
probated sentence with a
“stiff fine. The maximum
allowable sentence would be a
five-year prison term.
Speed concurred with the
decision to grant first-offender
status to Williams, saying “it’s
nothing more than we would
do for anyone else” who had
not been convicted of a
previous felony. Under a
plea-bargaining agreement with
Horn, Speed agreed not to
oppose the special probation
terms.
Hosea Williams earlier had
vowed to fight the case against
him to the limit, but Horn said,
“We had to recognize the
realities of life... What can you
do when there’s a policeman
saying he saw Hosea driving the
only paid for learning
productive skills applicable to
civilian careers, but also receive
an incentive bonus for enlisting
in the Army Reserve Program,
officers point out.
Qualified minority
applicants, they add, will be
offered a choice between a
car?
Williams himself said after
being sentenced that he tought
Judge Williams “was very fair
in the sentencing.”
“I never said 1 did not
drive,” said Williams, whose
license was revoked in 1975
after a DeKalb County judge
declared him to be an habitual
violator. “I don’t mind taking
my lumps. 1 don’t want to hide
behind the law. I am a man.”
Williams was acquitted by a
Fulton Superior Court jury of
another habitual violator charge
in 1976.
The latest case involved the
arrest of Williams by Georgia
State Patrol Tropper T.L.
Thornton on March 1. Williams
allegedly ran Thornton and
anomer motorist off the
Downtown Connector when he
allegedly made an improper
lane change.
After the arrest, Thornton
and Williams got into a scuffle,
and Williams was charged with
the improper lane change,
habitual violation and simple
battery.
$1,500 cash enlistment bonus,
or $2,000 in educational
assistance funds.
It is explained that these
men and women must be high
school graduates or seniors
See “RESERVE”
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