Newspaper Page Text
Civil rights leaders
blast SCLC
and Jesse Jackson
Page 1
Vol. 9 No. 23
■l*.. ""Jf! 3 EfT ■6-
* 5E
yjji iR I J|
■kv i
{■&< •
‘ " <pfe|ifcM
IB -
Mill'- igy-W fc- '”■ ..
■,o.'-:
■ Pt ■" ‘ t >1
PIGGLY WIGGLY GIVES TO PAINE - Maron J. Milbum (2nd from right),
division manager of Piggly Wiggly Supermarkets, presents $450 check to Paine
College President Julius S. Scott Jr. The check represents a SSO increase over last
year’s gift.
Bennie Freeman (left), market manager, and Lewis Harris, market consultant,
witness the presentation.
Milbum said the money is to be used to help with the “many programs and
teachings that the college represents. We want to be involved in the community.”
Plaintiffs’ attorney disappointed
Mayor appointed
police receiver
A petition filed by Augusta
Atty. John H. Ruffin Jr. asking
that Augusta Police Chief A.L.
Scott be held in contempt for
failure to implement a
court-ordered affirmative
action plan may have led to a
change in the receivership of
the APDlast week.
U.S. District Judge Anthony
Alaimo has named Mayor
Lewis A. Newman receiver for
the police department,
replacing Scott.
As receiver, Newman is to
increase minority employment
in the police department to 40
percent and keep the court
informed of progress in his
efforts.
no reason was given
for the change in receivers,
Ruffin thinks it was a result of
the petition he filed in July.
“Some change had to be
made,” he said.
But Ruffin said Monday he
objects to Newman being
appointed as “successor”
Police lose ‘discrimination
CINCINNATI-White police
officers in Detroit, Mich., lost a
“reverse discrimination” case
Friday.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals ruled against the
white officers’ claim that
Detroit Police policy of
promoting blacks ahead of
whites to make up for past
discrimination against blacks
represented “reverse
discrimination.”
The court said recent
Supreme Court rulings in the
Bakke and Weber reverse
discrimination cases indicate
that discrimination against
whites must be judged
differently than discrimination
against blacks.
“Bakke and Weber make it
clear that in a case involving a
claim of discrimination against
members of the white majority
is not a simple minor image of
a case involving claims of
discrimination against
minorities,” the court said.
Augusta Nems-Rsttjem
receiver.
“For the longest, he
(Newman) has been one of the
chief obstructionists” in
minority hiring,” Ruffin said.
“He has never made it clear
that he was not going to
tolerate racial and sexual
discrimination. The word has
not gotten down.”
Ruffin said Newman will
probably be able to reach the
numerical goals of the courts in
the police affirmative action
plan, but the problem is more
attidues than specific goals.
“Oftentimes, you hear that the
law cannot change attitudes,
but with strict enforcement of
the law, attitudes can change,”
he said.
Ruffin said the city needs a
“no-nonsense person running
the city government” to
effectively deal with
discrimination in city
departments.
Mayor Newman is not that
person, Ruffin said. Such
“One analysis is required
when those for whose benefit
the constitution was amended,
or astute enacted, claim
discrimination. A different
analysis must be made when
the claimants are not members
of a class historically subjected
to discrimination.”
However, the court also said
that programs favoring blacks
over whites-such as the Detroit
police “affirmative action
plan” that promotes blacks
ahead of whites-are only
temporary measures and must
be ended once past
discrimination against blacks is
rectified.
Until Friday’s decision,
white Detroit police officers
had succeeded in blocking the
“Affirmative Action Plan” that
favored blacks.
Complaining specifically
that whites were passed over
for promotion to sergeant in
favor of blacks with lower
standing on the eligibility list,
Man drops knife,
severs artery,
bleeds to death
Page 3
P.O. Box 953
persons are needed in all areas
of city government, he said.
“Obviously we need people
in the police department whose
concern is law enforcement.”
Ruffin said he has adopted a
“wait and see attitude” in
regard to Newman as receiver.
But he said that if Newman
also fails to implement the
affirmative action plan, Ruffin
will petition the court to hold
the mayor in contempt.
City officials had agreed to
have the percentage of blacks
in the police department up to
40 percent by September
1977. So far the percentages
have never been higher than 37
percent.
It is currently about 35
percent.
The department has been
under court order to increase
the number of blacks and
women in the department since
March 1973. At that time,
blacks made up 18 percent of
the police personnel.
the Detroit Police Officers’
Association won a permanent
injunction against the plan
from U.S. District Court Judge
Frederick W. Kaess, now
deceased, on Feb. 27, 1978.
But Kaess’ decision was
tossed out Friday after the
Burglar takes $3,000
A robber broke into the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Southward, 1233 Joseph St.,
and took about $3,000 in
valuables while the Southwards
were at church Sunday.
Mrs. Southward said she has
been told the robbery is one in
a series of thefts and burglaries
taking place while the
homeowners are presumed at
church.
The assailent apparently
October 27, 1979
Senate Confirmation Hearings
judgeship for local attorney
By Mallory K. Millender
WASHINGTON - Black and
vhite Augustans were among a
proup of witnesses who
estified Thursday before the
Senate Judiciary Committee
ipposing the nomination of an
Augusta lawyer and fund-raiser
'or Sen. Sam Nunn to a new
federal judge ship.
“If we are going to select
federal judges on the basis of
merit, this nominee would not
be here,” Fletcher Farrington,
an attorney from Savannah,
told the committee.
He and six other witnesses
urged the Judiciary Committee
to recommend that the full
Senate reject the nomination
of lawyer Dudley Bowen to a
newly created federal judgeship
in the Southern District of
Georgia.
Augustans testifying against
the confirmation of Bowen
were Paine College professors
Roy C. Delamotte, Marcus
Clayton, Mallory K. Millender,
who is also editor and
National Urban League
president Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
and veteran civil rights activist
Bayard Rustin took Rev. Jesse
Jackson, Rev. Joseph Lowery
and Walter Fauntroy to task
last week for meeting with
representatives of the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
Jordan told the National
Conference of Catholic
Charities at a meeting in
Kansas City that “the black
civil rights movement has
nothing in common with
groups whose claim to
legitimacy is compromised by
cold-blooded murder.”
Earlier last week, Bayard
Rustin called the meetings
ill-advised. He went to Israel to
meet with Israeli Prime
Appellate Court considered an
appeal by the city officials.
“The judgment of the
district court is reversed and
the injunction entered by it is
vacated,” said Appellate Judges
Pierce, Lively, Anthony J.
Celebrezze and Gilbert S.
entered the home by prying
loose bars on the back window
of the home and left by the
front door where hinges had
had to be removed because of
deadbolt locks on the door,
Mrs. Southward said.
Items taken included two
color television sets, a stereo
component set, a diamond
ring, a set of diamond earrings,
two gold chains and four
Mayor to have
charge of police
hiring, firing
Page 1
Augustans oppose federal
publisher of The News-Reivew,
and NAACP President
Georgene Seabrook.
According to a report by the
Southern Regional Council, a
civil rights research
organization in Atlanta,
Bowen, his father-in-law Dr.
John M. Martin and a local
banker were Nunn’s top
fund-raisers and campaigners in
the Augusta area.
Nunn denied witnesses’
allegations that he had
manipulated a new,
merit-based selection process
so that he and Sen. Herman
Talmadge could select Bowen
instead of more qualified
lawyers and judges in the
district.
In so doing, they passed over
black Atty. John H. Ruffin Jr.,
who was rated “well qualified”
by the state merit panel.
Steve Suitts, director of
the Southern Regional Council,
testified that the merit panel
submitted to the Georgia
Senators the names of five
candidates the panel judged as
Civil rights leaders blast
Jesse Jackson and SCLC
Minister Menachem Begin.
“I am making this trip to
indicate to the people of Israel
that there are many who
simply disagree with Jackson
and Lowery and Fauntroy.
Jackson’s trip was dangerous.
It weakened our coalition with
Jews and others in the civil
rights movement,” Rustin
reportedly said.
Jordan calls the
disagreement by leaders of the
civil rights groups as just that.
“There is a fundamental
disagreement in the black
community. The recent
preoccupation of some black
leaders with the PLO has only
served to distract the nation
from survival issues of blacks.
In the past several weeks,
suit’
Merritt in a unanimous
decision.
The court threw out all the
white officers’ claims that their
rights under the 1964 Civil
See “POLICE SUIT”
Page 2
watches, she said.
Clothes were dumped on the
floor and the house was left in
disarray.
A neighbor saw the assailent
believing him to be a
repairman, Mrs. Southward
said. The discription matched
that of a man Mrs. Southward
had seen sitting in a car next to
her house before she left for
church, she said.
Less than 75% Advertising
“well-qualified” and three
alternates. Bowen was not on
either list. Only when Nunn
asked for the names of all
candidates who were “ at least
minimally qualified” did
Bowen’s name appear.
Although Nunn insisted that
Bowen was qualified,
Farrington argued that the
Omnibus Judgeship Act called
for ‘‘outstanding”
qualifications.
Editor Millender told the
Senate Committee that a
judicial selection process based
on merit should strive to
“select from the top, not the
bottom.”
Bowen was also criticized
for his lack of experience. He
said he had tried two cases in
federal court and that he
served as a federal court
bankruptcy referee for two
years.
The nominee was also
criticized for his membership
in four segregated clubs
including tire Augusta Country
Club. Bowen announced at the
we’ve seen more concern
exhibited about Palestinian
refugee camps than about
America's ghettos,” he said.
“We’ve seen more concern
about the PLO’s goal than
about black American’s
aspirations for equality.”
Jackson, president of People
United to Save Humanity
(PUSH), answers that blacks
should be concerned about
what happens in the Middle
East because it affects blacks.
“We see the economic
impact of our present foreign
policy in the Middle East as
being potentially disastrous for
blacks,” he said.
“If the price of home
heating oil goes up, we are
the first to freeze,”
Jr: r-
- A WB'
. 77.../.'
W - ■ I
1
v - obmim
WALTER J. JACKSON POST No. 3887 recently purchased a piano for the Shiloh
Community Center as part of its Community Service project.
Mrs. Ruth B. Crawford (left), executive administrator of Shiloh accepts check
from James Mitchell, commander of the post. Mrs. Beatrice Lyons, president of the
Ladies Auxiliary looks on.
Paine College Library H
1235 15th St.
Augusta, GA 30901
J ’ _ Sample Copy
&
$3,000 in goods
as family worships
Page 1
hearing that he has resigned
from the clubs.
Testifying in his own behalf
Bowen said he circulated a
petition to get the first blacks
admitted to the Augusta Bar
Association. He said he
regretted “having to give up
membership in the segregated
clubs” because he wanted to
“fight for change from within”
as he said he had done in the
Augusta Bar Association.
Savannah Atty. Orion
Doudas was not convinced. He
told the Committee that
Bowen’s “eleventh hour
conversion” was not due to
any “moral upsurge” but only
to facilitate his confirmation
by the Senate.
Paine College ethics
professor Roy Delamotte told
the Committee that his
students “don’t believe in what
we’re doing here. They think it
is all a fake.” Delamotte, who
said he does believe in the
system, said he has tried to
convince black students that if
Lowery, president of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC), said the
SCLC differs with Jordan and
Rustin on the “Begin” policy
and urges them to challenge
the Begin Administration to
recognize the human rights of
the Palestinians.
“We have urged both sides
to recognize the human rights
of the other and bring an end
to the killing and human
suffering in the Middle East,”
Lowery said.
“We respect Mr. Jordan’s
right to his opinion and suggest
that there is room for
disagreement in the black
community just as there is
disagreement among members
of the Jewish community.”
they go to college, work hard
on their jobs and do all of the
things that John Ruffin has
done, then the American
system will reward them. “If
Dudley Bowen is confirmed, I
challenge the members of this
committee to come to my
ethics class and tell the
students why.”
Following the testimony
against Iris confirmation,
Bowen said he was very
concerned that “there are
people in my part of the
country who don’t know me
well enough, who don’t
understand me well enough to
endorse my nomination.”
Testifying in favor of Bowen
at the hearing were Nunn, Sen.
Herman Talmadge,
Congressman Doug Barnard of
Augusta; Rep. Bo Ginn of
Millen; Augusta Bar
Association President Thomas
R. Burnside and Charles M.
Tatebaum of the Eastern
District of die Commercial
Lawyers League of America.
Lowery said the SCLC
“concurs” with Jordan and
Rustin and Jewish leaders in
support of the right of Israel to
be secure in her nationhood.
But Lowery added that the
SCLC would continue to
“preach the gospel of peace
with justice, nonviolence and
reconcihation, for that is
consistent with the moral
imperatives of our faith.
“We affirm our right and
responsibility to communicate
directly with all parties
engaged in violent conflict -
face to face and faith to faith,
and we respectfully urge other
religious leaders and
government to do the same,”
Lowery said.