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Howard Baker, Andy Young, Joseph Lowery Highlights King Birthday Celebration Page 1 Aityiwta Nruni-ißrttr . Volume 10 Carrie Mays Among Electors Making Reagan Victory Official WASHINGTON- Maryland Gov. Harry Huges jokingly called it a “landslide” because all 10 of the state’s presidential electors officially cast their ballots for President Carter. But in most other states, it was overwhelmingly Ronald Reagan’s Show. Reagan’s election to the presidency was confirmed Monday by the Electoral College in 50 states, under a con stitutional process that many believe should be abolished. As predetermined by the results of the election Nov. 4, Reagan and George Bush defeated Carter and Vice Pr esident Walter Mondale. Reagan carried 44 states with 489 electoral votes, and Carter carried six states and the District of Columbia with 49 electoral votes. The formal count will not be confirmed until the ballots of the Electoral College are counted Jan. 6 in a joint session of Congress held in the House of Representatives. Monday’s meetings apparently produced no “faithless” electors - those pledged to one candidate, but who vote for another. Georgia’s 12 presidential electors officially cast their ballots Monday for Senator Baker, Young, and Lowery Highlight King Birthday Celebration ATLANTA - U.S. Senate Majority Leader- Elect Howard Baker will join former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young, S.C. L.C. President Joseph Lowery, Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall, opera and concert star Leontyne Price and scores of public figures during a five-day ob servance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 52nd birthday anniversary, it was announced today by Mrs. Coretta Scott King. “With all of the recent activity in behalf of a Jan 15 holiday it is appropriate that we will have with us one of the strongest and most influential supporters of the King holiday legislation, Sen. Howard Balker,” said Mrs. King, president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change. “Senator Baker brings a long and distinguished career in public service to our January program. As the leader of his party in the United States | ■Bk M rs. Carrie J. M ays native son Carter, but not all of them were happy about their role in formalizing Carter’s defeat. “I wish the cir cumstances had been different,” said elector Coretta Scott King. The electors gathered at noon in Gov. George Busbee’s office to cast the votes com mitted to Carter as winner of the state’s popular vote Nov 4. King arrived 10 minutes later and almost missed the chance to cast her first • 0 - 6s? . 0 ° * ”) ' 0 £ sex>* MAY IT BE YOUR BEST EVER! stands on a number of issues have earned him the respect of people of good will across the political spectrum.” The Tennessee senator, who will become Senate Majority Leader on Jan. 5, is scheduled fto ad dress the Community Kick-off Rally at 7 on Jan. 12 at Ebenezer Baptist Church. In addition to Senator Baker and Ambassador Young, Dr. Jospeh Lowery. President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, will deliver a major speech during the King birthday celebration. Dr. Lowery will give the principal address at The Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize Award Ceremony at 11 a.m., Jan. 14 at Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and The King Center will co sponsor the “Tribute tu King” rally and mass march on January 15th and the Ministers’ Seminar on January Governor Appoints Black Judge in Columbus Page 1 December 27, 1980 ballot as an elector. The remaining 11 electors were in the process of selecting an alternate to cast her vote when she arrived. Other electors were state Democratic Party Chairwom-an Marge Thurman, Phyllis Jenkins Barrow, Maxine S. Goldstein, Herb Mabry, Carrie J. Mays, Eileen O’Brien, Calvin Smyre, Horace Tate, W.D. Trippe, and Robert Walling. Elsewhere, the meetings of the Elec toral College, held in statehouses across the nation, were marked by patriotic speeches and joviality: .That’s what you call a landslide,” Hughest said after all 10 of Maryland’s electors voted for Carter. . Journalists out numbered Vermont’s electors by a 3-1 margin. Vermont has only three electoral votes. Other public figures confirmed to participate in the King birthday celebration include: Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson; Mrs. Coretta Scott King. President of the King Center; Dr. Martin Luther King Sr.,; Bishop Fredrick Hilburn Talbot, Prelate of the Sixth Episcopal District, A.M.E. (Georgia); Dr. William Howard, presidentfof the National Council of Churches; The Rev. Kelly Miller Smith, president of the National Council of Black Churchmen: Rabbi Donald Tam, Temple Emanu-El; The Rev. Otis Moss, pastor of Mount Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio; Ms. Addie Wyatt, international vice president of the United Food and Commerical Workers, AFL-CIO; Mindell DeWindt. Board Chairman of the Eaton Corporation; and Dr. Lerone Bennett senior editor, Johnson i -Life & ' ; 111 « Former Augustan Chairs’ National Association James H. Norman, director of the Michigan Department of Labor’s Bureau of Community Services, was recently elected chairperson of the National Association of State Economic Opportunity Office (SEOO) Directors. Norman, a native of Augusta, and son of Mrs. Janie Norman, 1444 Forest St., graduated from Lucy C. Laney High School. Each state, organized territory or commonwealth having an SEOO can be members of the association. The group has 53 members in cluding Puerto Rico, the Virgin Island and the U.S. Trust Territories. The Association is advocate for state and national legislation dealing with issues important to low-income citizens. As bureau head Norman directs statewide programs involving I f / '3S <; -■ . ■' t ~ t -- „ New Georgia Judge State Rep. Albert Thompson of Columbus was appointed Superior Court judge by Gov. George Busbee Friday. Number of Black Elected Officials Increase to 6.6% Page 1 Number 32 watherization, em ployment, aging, youth, child development, nutrition and housing. Prior to becoming director of the bureau, Norman worked at a local community action agency. There he was instrumental in ex panding the senior citizen nutrition program and the dial-a ride program. He previously was a parent consultant with the Kalamazoo Public Schools and a job development coor dinator with the Douglass Community Association in Kalamazoo. He is a graduate of Mercer University, and has a masters of social work from Western Michigan University. He was formerly chairperson of the SEOO’s Region which includes Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois. Indiana and Minnesota. Columbus attorney will take over the judgeship of Oscar D. Smith who is retiring. Thompson has been a Georgia legislator Less than / Number ot Black Elected Officials Increases 6.6% WASHINGTON, D.C. - The number of black elected officials in the United States increased by 6.6. percent between July 1979 and July 1980, according to a survey conducted by the Joint Center for Political Studies. This is the largest annual percentage in crease since 1977 when there was an 8 percent rise in the number of black elected officials. The increase dropped to 4 percent in 1978 and to 2 percent last year. The 1980 edition of the Joint Center’s annual National Roster of Black Elected Officials lists 4,912 officials in 44 states, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands. This represents a net in crease of 305 officials over the 4,607 officials identified in the 1978-79 Roster. Black officials elected after July 1980 are not included in this edition. The scope of these gains is reflected in the fact that 29 states ex perienced increases in the number of black elected officials while only nine experienced declines. Additionally, increases occurred in virtually all categories of elective office. The 6.6 percent in crease in the number of Bond Named Senate Committee Chairman ATLANTA- State Senator Julian Bond of Atlanta has advanced to the position of chairman of the Senate Consumer Affairs Committee and will serve on a total of four key Senate panels including the highly important Reap portionment Committee, in the upcoming 1981-82 term of the Georgia Assembly. Bond’s committee assignments include reappointment to the Senate Governmental Operations and the Human Resources Committee. “The Chairmanship of the Senate Consumer Affairs Committee will give me a greater op portunity to work in the area of consumer protection legislation and I welcome the challenge to oppose fraud in the market place," said Bond. Bond and other members of the reap portionment panel will study and recommend legislation on the complex problem of redrawing political boundary lines for Georgia's Congressional Rosa Parks Receives Top Accolades of NAACP Image uvertising black elected officials reverses the steady decline, since 1975, in the rate at which blacks were elected to public office. With this in crease, blacks, for the first time, now hold one percent of the 490,200 elective offices in the United States. However, blacks remain grossly underrepresented in elective offices throughout the country. There are about 19 black elected officials for every 100,000 blacks in the population while there are 252 non-black officials for every 10 ,000 non-blacks. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, blacks comprise 11.8 percent of the total U.S. population. The five states with the largest number of black elected officials are: Mississippi (387), Louisiana (363), Illinois (298), Michigan (284), and the District of Columbia (261). The Joint Center’s survey also shows, once again, that no black elected officials have been identified in the following seven states: Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming. On Nov. 4. 1980, a black woman was elected ot the House of Representatives in Wyoming. districts based on the new 1980 population census. Governor Busbee is expected to call a special session of the General Assembly in late 1981 for the purpose of drawing up a reapportionment plan. The Senate Gover nmental Operations Committee of which Bond is a member studies and recommends legislation dealing with the management and operation of state government agencies. As a member of the Human Resources panel Bond studies and recommends legislation relating to mental and physical health, social welfare, rehabilitation programs and the Department of Human Resources, the largest agency in state gover nment. The appointments were made by a three member selection committee headed by Lieutenant Governor Zell Miller. Bond was recently reelected to a 4th term from Atlanta’s 3rd district, he previously served nine years in the The states with the largest increases in the number of black elected officials are: Mississippi (60. Louisiana (29) and Texas (22). By category of office held, black officials are still most numerous at the municipal level. There are now 2,356 blacks holding municipal offices, 132 more than in 1979. This represents 48 percent of all black elected of ficials. Os the total number of municipal officials, 182 are mayors. Last year there were 175. The second largest number of black elected officials serve in education positions. Last year, 1,144 black held elective offices at this level. This year, there are 1,214 blacks in educational positions, representing 25 percent of all black elected office holders. At the judicial and law enforcement level, there are 526 black of ficials, 40 more than last year. At the county level, there are 451 black officials, 53 more than last year. The number of Blacks on regional governing bodies remained the same this year at 25, while at the state legislature level, there was an increase of 16 officials, bringing the total of 323. In July 1980, there were 17 blacks in the U.S. House of Representatives. However, the number will increase tc 18 when the 97th Congress convenes next year. In the November 4th elections blacks gained two new seats with the election of Gus Savage (D-Ill.) and Mervyn Dymall (D-Calif.), but lost one seat when Dr. Melvin Evans (R-VI) was defeated. Also, two new black Represen tatives will fill seats previously held by blacks. harold Washington (D-Ill.) will replace Bennett Stewart whome he defeated in the democratic primary, and former Judge George Crockett (D- Mich.) will fill the seat vacated by Charles Diggs. The Joint Center’s 1980 Roster shows that 976 black women now hold elective office. 11118 is 94 more than in 1979 and represents 20 per cent of all black elected officials. Black elected women are distributed by level of office in much the samtf way as are all black elected officials. Most black female of fice-holders serve in municipal and educational positions. There are 450 black 25(