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f6-A CTtte Atlanta Journal and CONSTITUTION SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1 977 1 Universities 4 i I i MW I To Push Hiring Of More Blacks A coulan -J "WLQ convert 0 Florida University System. Georgia Vice Chancellor John Hooper admitted that the current clearinghouse services were not as productive as hoped. But he said an effort wiU be made to improve them and that the expanded services are worth a try, even if they don't pan out. The committee also will report to the full board next Friday. The board is expected to ratify the committee's work on the new plan before it is submitted to HEW.

The guidelines also call for a means of monitoring progress under the plan, and the regents' committee will propose that the board appoint a "special regents' committee on desegregation." According to Hooper, the committee will follow through on some of the issues raised during the development of the new desegregation plan. The committee will assess such issues as special studies, a remedial program which has been criticized by some groups during the discussions; admissions practices in light of a suggested open admissions policy; standardized testing; increasing the number of university level institutions; and stepping up recruitment efforts, as well as the progress of the plan. Six More After Seats On Council By JAY LAWRENCE Six more persons have announced for election to the Atlanta City Council, including one incumbent seeking reelection. Qualifying for the Oct. 4 municipal election will begin Monday and run through next Friday at City Hall.

In District 1, a former real estate salesman and city housing code inspector, Harvey Collier, 28, said he will be offering for the post now held by John Calhoun. Collier resigned his city job to get into the contest. Lou Hohenstein, a professional engineer, opened campaign offices this week in his drive for the District 7 seat of George Cotsakis. Cotsakis has announced that he will not seek reelection; two others are also in the District 7 race. Bob Lane ran against District 9 Councilman Arthur Langford in 1973; the past vice president of the Atlanta NAACP and current vice chairman of his Neighborhood Planning Unit has announced he will try again.

In District 11, Jan Meadows said she will be running. Mrs. Meadows is a member of the Urban Design Commission and the Southwest Community Groups. She will oppose incumbent Bob Waymer. Robb Pitts, 35-year-old president of a building supply company, said he will seek the Post 13 at-large seat now occupied by Gregory Griggs.

Griggs narrowly defeated Pitts in 1973 in the same at-large race; Pitts has also been a candidate for the Fulton County Commission. The incumbent to seek reelection is District 3 Council- man James Howard. A fresh- man on the council, Howard claimed responsibility for a number of community im- provements including two new public swimming pools and other recreation projects. Plane Crashes MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -A private airplane crashed into two cars and two trucks on a freeway here Friday, killing at least three people, the California Highway Patrol said.

Pageant Picketed Gay rights protesters picket the Miss National Teen-Ager pageant Friday in Sybil Shaffer, and not because of her campaign against a gay rights ordi- Atlanta, opposing the choice of Anita Bryant as "America's Greatest Ameri- nance in Miami. Lavelda Fann of Gadsden, was crowned Miss can" by the 3,500 pageant finalists. Miss Bryant was chosen for her reli-. National Teen-Ager later Friday night. (Staff Photo-Minla Linn) gious impact on the women in the pageant, according to pageant director By ALEXIS SCOTT REEVES Georgia's University System will step up its efforts to get more blacks and women on its faculties and other staff positions to meet new federal desegregation guidelines, a Board of Regents committee said Friday.

The committee restated the board's committment to take affirmative action in its employment practices as it reviewed the final sections of a new desegregation plan which must be submitted by Sept. 1 to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). However, committee member Elridge McMillan of. Atlanta, said he was dissatisfied with this section of the guideliness and the board's response to it.

McMillan, one of two blacks on the 15-member board, said the current affirmative action plans among the 32 units of the University System have met with little results. "I'm just convinced-and this board is not excluded that no one really cares about affirmative action," McMillan said. "If our institutions knew that somebody really meant business, then something would happen." McMillan conceeded, however, that the proposed regents' response to continue the board's committment to affirmative action would satisfy this section of the new federal guidelines. In addition, the University System will tell HEW that it is going to expand its applicant clearinghouse office services as a means of increasing the number of blacks in faculty and administrative positions. Currently, the clearinghouse is used as a pool for institutions to draw on in seeking potential instructors.

A list of applicants to the system is housed at a clearinghouse center at the University of Georgia at Athens. The expansion of the clearinghouse will include a listing of all job vacancies within the system and a new applicant exchange program with the SLUSH FUND PROBE Ex-Bell Official May Get Reward Eizenstat To Speak Here Former Atlanta lawyer Stuart Eizenstat, the top domestic policy adviser to President Carter, will speak at a fundraising dinner for veteran civil rights leader John Lewis in Atlanta Saturday night. The $25-a-plate dinner will defray campaign debts from Lewis' unsuccessful bid to succeed former Fifth District Rep. Andrew Young last spring. Lewis, former head of the Voter Education Project, is now deputy director of ACTION, the federal volunteer agency.

the money was to be kicked back to the political fund. Eleven company officials were subsequently indicted by a grand jury in Charlotte, but charges were dropped when Southern Bell assumed responsibility for their actions. In separate proceedings, Ryan, Rast and the three executives were indicted Aug. 2. All five have denied the charges.

Ryan, 57, who worked for Southern Bell for 27 years, now lives in a tiny $100-a-month apartment and admits his life has changed drastically since he disclosed the existence of the Southern Bell fund. "When you write this, tell them John Ryan was near enough to the bomb that when he lit it, he knew the explosion would hit him. But tell them the target was worth it," he said. CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) John J.

Ryan, who blew the whistle on an alleged political slush fund within Southern Bell Telephone may get a reward from the government for revealing key financial information about the company, according to The Charlotte News. In its editions Friday, the News said it had learned that the Internal Revenue Service is investigating whether there were tax violations in the operation of the slush fund and is considering paying Ryan the standard reward given to individuals who supply such information. But The Charlotte Observer quoted sources close to the case in its Saturday editions as saying any reward for Ryan was "not likely." Ryan, former, head of Southern Bell's operations in North Carolina, was indicted by a grand jury in Charlotte two weeks ago. He is charged with maintaining an illegal slush fund through falsified expense vouchers and embezzling money from the company. Also indicted in the slush fund case were Southern Bell President L.E.

Rast of Atlanta and three top officials. Ryan, who lives in Charlotte, was fired from his job in 1973. Two years later, he told newspaper reporters that Southern Bell, which is based in Atlanta, had operated an illegal political slush fund. The company eventually admitted corporate money was channeled into political funds through falsified expense vouchers. Although Ryan has talked about the fund, he has denied any knowledge of falsified expense vouchers.

If the IRS decides Bell illegally diverted those funds and falsified its tax returns, Ryan could earn as a reward up to 10 per cent of what the IRS might seek in back taxes. Larry Coffin, press relations manager of American Telephone and Telegraph which is Southern Bell's parent company, said in New York that he had no knowledge of a special audit by the IRS. Local Bell officials declined comment. A spokesman for the IRS in Washington said it would be illegal for the IRS to confirm or deny the report. The News quoted a Charlotte tax attorney as saying if the slush fund came from fake pay raises, as Ryan said it did, then tax returns filed by would have illegally reflected false wages.

The attorney said the IRS would then order to pay back the government. When Ryan disclosed the existence of the fund in 1975, he said that Bell department heads received special raises with the understanding part of SCLC Leaders Hope Factions Are Unified Staff Photo Jane Abrams She Pushes Job Options For Women By STEVEN A. HOLMES When Alexis Herman was growing up in Mobile, her father used to say, "No child can ever be anything he or she never heard of." Now, Miss Herman, an attractive 30-year-old government official, says her goal is to increase the career options for the nation's women to let them hear of more things they can be. In line with that goal, Miss Herman, named by President Carter to head the Labor Department's Women's Bureau, has sucessfully pushed for the establishment of federal regulations requiring federal contractors to set goals and time tables for increasing the number of women working as bricklayers, carpenters and in other skilled construction jobs. Miss Herman, who was in town to speak at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convention, said currently women hold only 1.2 per cent of all construction jobs.

Under the regulations being prepared by the Labor Depeartment, contractors must set up programs that would eventually give women 20 per cent of apprenticeships and up their number to 3 per cent of all construction employes. "We're not saying that all women want to be construction workers," said Miss Hermnan, a former Atlanta resdent and one-time head of the Atlanta-based Black Women's Employment Program, "but those who want to should be given that option." In addition to attempting to increase the number of female construction workers, Mrs. Herman said her office, which has been in existence since 1920, is involved in a variety of other programs. Among the activities her 100-man office handles is the reviewing of programs sponsored by the Labor Department under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to insure that thev include tate In Brief One of 4 Ga. Drivers Has No Car Insurance Journal-Conslilulion Slate News Service AUGUSTA-One out of every four motorists on Georgia highways today has no automobile insurance, State Sen.

Jimmy Lester said here Friday. Lester, a member of the Senate committee to study no-fault insurance, made the statement in an address to the Augusta Association of Life Underwriters. State law requires motorists to show proof of no-fault insurance before buying an auto license plate, Lester pointed out. He said many purchased insurance for one month in order to get a tag for the vehicle, then let the policy lapse. Insurance companies report the lapsed policies to the state, Lester said, and the State Patrol is supposed to pick up the license plates.

But, he added, the State Patrol had been unable to keep up with the problem because of a manpower shortage. Montezuma Talks Called Successful Journal-Conslilulion Stale News Service MONTEZUMA-The head of the Montezuma Human Relations Council said Friday "we feel that we have the lid on" after the sixth meeting of his group with a committee of blacks in this racially disturbed town. L.H. (Bud) McKenzie said discussion at the most recent meeting centered around a school that was not adequately heated during the severely cold weather last winter. McKenzie said efforts were being made through the state Board of Education to obtain auxiliary heating units to correct the problem.

Man Sentenced to Die in Slaying SAVANNAH (UPI) Kenny Dampier, who admitted he may have killed a service station attendant while under the influence of drugs, was sentenced to die in the electric chair by a jury that deliberated 6Vz hours. Dampier, 21, of nearby Port Wentworth, raised his eyebrows as the jury foreman read the sentence but showed no other emotion. He had cried Thursday night when the same jury found him guilty after only 50 minutes deliberation of abducting and murdering Michael Hilton, 19, last February. District Attorney Andrew Ryan said he was pleased by the verdict because the victim had been on his hands and knees pleading for his life when he was murdered. Powers' Crossroads Store Burns Journal-Constitution Stale News Service NEWNAN-The Powers' Crossroads Country Fair and Arts Festival will still be held Labor Day weekend, although a fire Friday destroyed the historic country store that was a year-around gathering place in the tiny Coweta County community.

While the exact cause of the blaze was not determined immediately, Coweta County Fire Chief Bill Lott said arson was not suspected. Lott said the fire started in a restroom area. The structure, near the Coweta-Heard County line, dated back to the early 1800's when it was used as an Indian trading post. GIVEN THAT OPTION' Alexis Herman provisions for the special needs of women workers and the establishment of programs for certain "target" groups within the work force, such as teen-age and older women. "Most people don't realize that one-third of the female labor force is made up of women over the age of 45," she said.

Miss Herman said most of these women are just reentering the labor market after having dropped out to raise families. Thus, she said, many of them possess skills that are outdated and must be retrained. But she said one of the more important programs she would like to set up is a coordinated effort among schools, labor and industry that would create an environment that would allow women more options. Miss Herman conceded that her job has been made increasingly difficult by last year's Supreme Court ruling that employers did not have to include maternity leave in their health benefits plans. She said her office has been lobbying to amend Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to include a prohibition of discrimination based on pregnancy.

the Advancement of Colored People, called for financial support of civil rights organizations to allow them to shuck their dependence on foundations and the government. "If black folk can't support organizations like SCLC, NAACP, Urban League and PUSH, then there's something wrong with us," Hooks told the delegates assemble at Wheat Street Baptist Church. Mrs. Marnesba Tackett, a delegate from Los Angeles, agreed with Hooks and said she felt there was "a feeling springing up among black people" to dig in their pockets to help out fiscally strapped civil rights groups. Mrs.

Tackett pointed to the $3,000 raised Thursday night when the hat was passed and the $7,000 the Los Angeles chapter raised in one night as examples of what she meant. Yet even if it can find money, SCLC still faces other difficulties. One of the organization's problems could be seen when one viewed the sagging paunches, receding hairlines and specks of gray in the afros of most of the delegates. "The young people have to be brought back in," said board member Jim Lawson Jr. "It's just the opposite of what it used to be when SCLC was dominated by young people." Lawson said he was also concerned with how SCLC is viewed by government leaders and the nation.

"At one time we would get a fair number of black visitors to our conventions, people who weren't delegates but who just wanted to be there," he said. "This time we had few guests." Lawson and other delegates emphasized that local chapters continue to be strong and the organization must be revitalized on the national level. "In many cities the local chapter is still recognized as an organization that must be dealt with," he said. "It used to' be the same thing on the national level, but it hasn't been that way for a number of years now." By STEVEN A. HOLMES Like a battered and wobbly boxer who has been given a quick whiff of smelling salts, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ended its three-day convention Friday with its leaders optimistic that it had patched up any divisions within the 20-year-old organization and some delegates believing the recently achieved unity may prove to be fragile indeed.

The civil rights organization managed to avoid a serious rift when the delegates voted Thursday to provide places in the hierarchy for the two main contenders for the SCLC presidency. Further, many observers say, the selection of Joseph E. Lowery as president and state Rep. Hosea Williams as executive director places them in positions where they can best use their particular skills. "We've got the right members of the team in the right places," said one SCLC official.

"Lowery is an excellent spokesman and is good at raising money while Hosea has shown the talent for implementing programs." The official, who asked not to be named, said another important cog in SCLC's machinery would be Rep. Walter Fauntroy, who was named chairman of the organization's board of directors. Fauntroy gives SCLC a direct pipeline to the Congressional Black Caucus, allowing both organizations to better coordinate their activities. However, despite the handshakes, embraces and statements of unity that followed Thursday's vote, several delegates expressed skepticism that Lowery and Williams will be able to work together. "It's like during World War II," said Arnett Hartsfield a delegate from Los Angeles.

"You had a general like (George Patton who was a tremendous general, but he needed (Gen. Omar) Bradley to give him direction and keep him under control." Hartsfield, who said he did not support any candidate for SCLC's presidency when he first arrived at the convention but eventually wound up backing Lowery, said he was concerned that Williams' would result in Williams trying to make policy rather than follow the wishes of the board or Lowery. The ability of the members of SCLC's hierarchy to work together is seen as critical if the organization, founded by the late Rev. Martin Luther King is once again to become an effective national civil rights advocate. Delegates from several cities have stated that for the last few years their local chapters have received little communication and even less support from the national office.

Mary Gayton, a delegate from Jasper County, said her three-year-old local chapter has received no support from SCLC's national staff. "That's why we're hoping that a new president and new leaders could start doing something," she said. SCLC staffers say the lack of funds to hire workers is the main reason for the lack of 1 material assistance and communication with SCLC's 36 chapters and 41 affiliates. "When I first came here in 1969 this department had 10 people," said Fred Taylor, in charge of looking after chapters and affiliates for the national office. "When I became director we had three.

Now there's just one (himself)." However, Taylor added, "Whenever we get a call for help from a chapter, we're there." SCLC's paucity of funds and lack of an independent financial base are underscored when one views the source of income for most of the national staff. According to records provided by Atlanta's Department of Community and Human Development, seven of the organization's 12 staffers are paid through the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act program. The total salaries of the seven workers could not be immediately determined. During his address Thursday nighty the Rev. Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for MARTA EXTENSION Chamber Backs Sales Tax By SHARON BAILEY A majority of northwest members of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce favor an extension of MARTA's 1-cent sales tax beyond 1982, according to a poll whose results were released this week.

About 180 members of the chamber, about four-fifths of them from northwest Atlanta and the others from Cobb County, responded to the poll, sent out by the chamber's West-Northwest Area Council. MARTA's 1-cent sales tax is scheduled to drop to a half-cent in 1982, but the transit agency wants the legislature to keep it at the 1-cent level to provide more money for rail construction and operating expenses. About 60 per cent of the survey respondents they favor the proposed tax extension. About four-fifths of those in favor of the extension said they would support the 1-cent tax until bonds needed for the rail program are paid off, while the rest said they would favor the 1-cent tax "in perpetuity." Answering other questions, about 80 per cent of the respondents said they favor construction of the MARTA system beyond the original 13.7 miles now under way. About two-thirds agreed that Cobb, Clayton and Gwinnett counties should pay a "prorata share of costs to date" if they join the MARTA system in the future, and about 90 per cent said the three counties should have to pay the same sales tax as Fulton and De-Kalb if they join.

The chamber supported the MARTA tax extension in the legislature when it was introduced last year. The bill stayed in committee, bin is expected to be discussed again in January. Apartment Fire Kills 3 Children ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -Three children were killed and five other persons were burned when a fire engulfed a smjll apartment here. 'O children's father appar-' ently brought a gasoline container too close to a flame on the kitchen stove, causing an inferno Thursday that quickly spread through the small second-story apartment..