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Minister Goes Beserk,
Breaks Windows,
Destroy Church
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Volume 10 Number 54
Ex-Atlanta Official Raps
Atlanta Leaders For
F ailure T oCatch Killer
Atty. Emma I. Darnell,
former Commissioner of the
Department of
Administrative Services erf
Atlanta, this week accused
Atlanta leaders of failing to
solve the Atlanta child
murders because the
victims were not from
“middle class” families.
Atlanta officials didn't
move to catch the killer for
over a year, she said,
because “It wasn’t my
child and it wasn’t Julian
Bond’s child.”
“This classman, this
elitism, that is what has
cost us the lives of our
children,” she said.
L.A. Minister Goes Berserk
Los Angeles- A dispute
over a $43,000 donation has
led to the arrest of the Rev.
Al Dortch, a local human
rights activist who believes
the money should be turned
over to the church to which
he belongs rather than
held by conference officials.
lhe money tn question
was given to the Immanuel
United Church of Christ by
the Church of Downey
when it closed 'in 1979.
Dortch is a member of
Immanuel, which is
pastored by the Rev. Edgar
Edwards.
According to the Rev.
Fred Register, conference
minister for the Southern
California Conference of the
United Church of Christ,
only the interest on the
$43,000 is supposed to be
turned over to Immanuel.
Two Tuesdays ago
Dortch went to the con
ference headquarters in
Pasadena to demand the
money.
He reportedly was
refused the cash and then
turned over furniture, broke
out windows and destroyed
church property.
Register said that
police who were nearby
because of unrelated
problems resulting from the
activities of toughs in the
USC Workshop To Focus
On Black Women In the 80s
* WBR r
Janice Mclatoah
A one-day workshop on
Black Women Perspectives
in the ’Bos will be held
May 30 at the University of
South Carolina at Aiken.
Topics to be discussed
included: Psychology of the
Black Woman Coping with
Stress: Health Care:
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Atty. Darnell was the
Women’s Day speaker at
Trinity C.M.E. Church here
Sunday.
Continuing, she said,
“It’s not the fault erf city
hall. It’s the fault of Black
women’ who won’t con
front city hall.
“In a town that is
controlled by Blacks like no
other in this country, how
much longer will it take us
to make up our minds
about what it is that we
must do to see that these
children live in freedom
and die on time, rather
than before time?
“Who is willing to say
area arrested Dortch.
He later was freed on
bail.
Prior to the incident at
the church Dortch had said,
according to a story by
James Cleaver of the Los
Angeles Sentinel, that he
was going to Pasadena and
if he didn't get the money
would "run the money
changers out erf the tem
ple."
Dortch’s pastor, the
Rev. Mr. Edwards, said the
Claremont College
ministerial student went to
Pasadena after it had been
concluded at a church
meeting that the $43,000
would not be turned over to
Immanuel.
He said: "Although we
were told by the donors
that we were to receive the
$43,000, the board of the
church told us that we were
only to receive the interest
from the money.
The conference had
taken charge of the monies
and had invested them and
we felt as though we
should be consulted about
what is going to happen to
our church.
"We asked for the
money because we need a
new roof for the church and
the church needs some
serious repairs and it
Gweo Tharmoad
Parenting; and Surviving
the Money Crunch.
Among the workshop
leaders will be Judy Carter,
assistant professor
education at the University
of South Carolina at Aiken,
Janice Mclntosh, area*
manager of SPA Lady in
Augusta, and Gwen
M. M. Scott Housing
Project Dishonors
Scott’s Memory
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that if the killer isn’t
caught within 30 days
we’ve got to have another
commissioner of public
safety?
She agreed with critics
who have said the killer
would have been caught
long ago had the victims
been white. “The white
community will not tolerate
10 of their children being
killed and still no
evidence.
The killer has not been
caught because “we’ve
trying to protect city hall
and some of the money a
few of us are getting out of
appeared that we were
going to be refused. That is
why Rev. Dortch went to
Pasadena.
Register explained the
situation differently.
"The pastor of the
church of Downey may very
well have told Rev.
Edwards that the money
was coming to the church
(Immanuel),’* he said.
"But the facts of the
matter are, when the
Downey Congregational
Church closed its doors in
1979, its assets were
distributed to certain
churches in the district
and Immanuel was one of
those churches.
"I was instructed by
the moderator (who
supersedes the pastor) that
the principal was to be kept
intact and the church was
to receive the interest only
and that is what I have
done.”
Register said Immanuel
has been receiving ap
proximately $4,800 annually
interest from the $43,000.
Edwards, formerly
head of the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference’s West area,
has been pastor of
Immanuel about 16 years.
The church was closed
Jady Carter
Thurmond of WATU-TV 26.
The workshop is
sponsored by the USC
Aiken's Continuing
Education Division. Dr.
Alfred Reed is the Director.
Persons seeking ad
ditional information should
contact Dr. Reed at (803)
648-6851, ext. 214.
May 23,1981
it,” she said.
Ms. Darnell, who was
fired by Mayor Maynard
Jackson in 1977, took issue
with former U.N.
Ambassador Andrew
Young, now a candidate for
mayor of Atlanta. She said
Young has said the
children's murder is not an
appropriate issue for the
mayoral campaign. "If it
isn’t then what is the
environment, consumer
laws?” she asked derisvely.
Mrs. Darnell said that
State Sen. Julian Bond
“didn’t say one word about
the child murders until he
attacked the parents of the
in 1959 when the neigh
borhood began to in
tegrate. It opened as a
community church a year
later with mostly Black and
Rise Above Plight,
Jackson Urges
“I am somebody! I
may be Black, but I am
somebody! I may be poor,
but I am somebody!....No
one can save us from us,
but us!”
These immortal words
rang through the Health
and Physical Education
Complex when the Rev.
Jesse L. Jackson recently
addressed the audience at
Alcorn State university’s
annual Honors Program
Day convocation.
Jackson, director and
founder of Operation PUSH
(People United to Save
Humanity), challenged the
people present “to rise
above our circumstances.”
He urged them to dare to
be somebody special, to
rise above averageness and
excel, to exercise at all
costs our right to vote.
Reaga nornics is the
political thrust of today, he
said. It’s a government
structure whose policies
have completely "turned
it’s back on the poor"
leaving us three options:
bow, accommodate or
resist.
Os the three there is
only one viable choice,
Jackson declared, mass
resistance by a people who
should know the penalty for
being compacent.
"We not only should
vote," he implored, "we
have to vote. It's political
suicide not to.
"That is not enough,
though. We have to get our
brothers and sisters
registered and at the polls
for every election. There
are seven million Black
people of voting age, that
are not registered to vote;
300,000 of them in this
state alone.”
While it is necessary to
be in school and make good
grades, Jackson said, "A's
today are unimportant
when the government
makes a political decision to
take away scholarships and
you can't come back to
school. A's today don’t
Reagan Seeks
To Exceed Carter
In Minorty Hiring
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victims for accepting
money.
She accused SCLC
President Joseph Lowery of
unconscious elitism when
he said in an interview
that Blacks were concerned
about the murders, but
‘‘poor Blacks, that;s
another story.”
I don’t knock
education, we’ve fought to
long to get it, but degrees
don’t make us better than
other people,” she said.
She called on Black
women and the city of
Atlanta to “shut the town
down” in order to catch the
killer.
brown members.
Dortch, who formerly
ran Operation Bread
basket, works for Coun
cilman Robert Farrell.
matter when the govern
ment closes schools and
builds jails. A’s today won’t
make a difference if the
government shuts down
CETA (Comprehensive
Employment Training Act)
and stops job training for
military training.”
"The Reagan
government has threatened
our Black schools, our jobs
and our entire way of life,”
he said, "we must fight by
exercising our right as a
people to vote. We must
achieve against the odds.
"We can no longer
allow ourselves to be
scapegoats for this nation
because the industry has
collapsed. It is not the
‘poors' fault that the
economy is in a bad way,
but we suffer. We cannot
allow ourselves the luxury
of being apathetic. It’s a
disgrace to our race; it’s
voluntary slavery.”
Black institutions of
higher learning in this
country must make a
conscious effort to ensure
that its students are
registered, Jackson
declared. No one, he
demanded, should be
allowed to enter, graduate
or join a Greek organization
in an university without
being a registered voter.
"We have to make
ourselves a political
threat," he said. "We can
no longer sell our souls by
not voting. There must be
something about you that
isn’t for sale, that’s non
negotiable and irreducible.
"Force yourself to be
the George Washington
Carvers, Jackie Robinsons,-
Marion Anderson, Stevie
Wonders, W.E. B. Dußois,
Fannie Lou Hamers and the
Malcolm X’s. Achieve
against the odds. Be
nonconformists.
"There is nothing more
powerful in this world than
a made-up mind." He
concluded. “So make up
your mind and be
somebody!"
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Editorial
The M.M. Scott
housing project, now in
the final stages of
construction, is a
disgrace to “Skipper”
Scott’s memory. The
project is a slum before a
single occupant moves
in.
It is a shame that
beautiful homes like the
Hatcher house were torn
down to build barracks.
And to show how little
the city thinks of the
people who live there,
the backs of the projects
fact the street, with
clothe lines less than
Reagan Seeks To
Exceed Carter In
Minority Hiring
WASHINGTON-- The
Reagan administration
seeks to show that it is
outdoing the Carter ad
ministration in appointing
women. Blacks and
hispanics to important
federal jobs.
E. Pendleton James,
Reagan’s director for
presidential personnel, has
released a set of figures
comparing the number of
minority appointees after
four years of Jimmy
Carter’s presidency with
those appointed so far by
President Reagan.
The "raw numbers" -
the total number of women,
Blacks and Hispanics
appointed by Carter - were
"impressive," James said.
But, he said, "Once you
pick apart his numbers they
were not at all impressive.”
"They really phonied
up the issue," James said.
"Obviously they stacked
the boards and com
missions.”
James and his
assistant, Jay Moorhead,
found that at the end of the
Poor Black La. Families
May Become Millionaires
Poor Black families are
among those cashing in on
the oil boom in Pointe
Coupe Parish.
Some of them are
going to be millionaires.
The oil and gas finds
here in communities like
New Roads. Ventriss and
Lakeland are touching
eservone in what seems to
Poor Black Families
In Louisiana May
Become Millionairs
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thirty feet from the main
street in the black
community.
Who wants to live in a
housing project where
they will have their linen
waving in the breeze in
full view of every
motorist that drives
down Laney-Walker
Boulevard.
This is “colored”
treatment. City officials
would not build such
housing for whites.
M.M. Scott was not
about slum housing. He
is the person who had the
Carter’s term, 266 women,
178 Blacks and 7 4
Hispanics were among
employees in 1,902 ad
ministration positions.
"At the end of six
months, I bet we exceed
Carter’s record after four
years,” James said.
Comparing minority
appointees to the top 400
administration jobs at the
end of the Carter ad
ministration and in the
Reagan administration,
James reported:
Women - under Carter,
women held 54 of the top
400 sub-cabinet and high -
level posts. Reagan so far
has named 17 women and
another 10 names are being
processed to those top-level
posts.
Blacks - under Carter,
Blacks held 37 of the top -
level jobs. Reagan so far
has named five Blacks to
some of the “top 400” slots
and another five names are
being processed for a total
of 10.
Hispanics - under
Carter, 11 Hispanics held
be a 20-mile wide discovery
strip running across
Louisiana.
It is quickly changing
the financial fortunes of
people here but may not
wash away other traditions
in an area where schools
still are segregated and
Blacks have to take drinks
from rear doors of certain
vision to buy and
develop Bel Air Hill
Estates where houses
have three and four-car
garages, and some are
valued at over SIOO,OOO.
The M.M. Scott
housing project
dishonors Scott’s
memory, the black
community and the
people are expected to
live there. It would be
fitting that the proposed
occupants refuse to
move in until they are
accorded some privacy
and respect as people.
top -level jobs. Reagan has
named 11 Hispanics to
those top slots.
If Reagan were to meet
Carter's hiring record in
the top 400 positions, 47 of
the 80 posts still vacant
would have to be filled by
minorities.
James said the new
administration is having
trouble finding Blacks to
accept posts. He said six
Black women turned down
the top spot at the Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission.
"It’s difficult enough
to recruit qualified people
to serve in this ad
ministration due to the
difficulties that they have
to overcome with the ethics
in government, the financial
disclosure, the turnaround,
the FBI clearance, the
financial sacrifice, the
personal sacrifice,” he said.
"That has made the
job difficult enough as it is,
but in the recruitment of
minorities it’s even com
punded. Blacks didn’t elect
Reagan.”
drinking places if they
choose to patronize them.
In an area where the
discovery of a well could
bring in up to $40,000 a
day before costs are taken
out, few owners of small or
larger acreages are taking
advantage of offers of
$9,000 an acre from in
vestors and speculators
pouring into the county.
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