Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1978 — Page 18
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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7,'lt7*
Supreme Court
College students benefit from Expo 78 profit Nearly half Indiana Black Expo 78's approximate net profit was distributed to deserving students through the organization's scholarship pro-
gram.
Re-elected along with seven others by the Expo board at a recent state meeting, Execu-
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racial bias.
Government lawyers, citing a major threat to federal efforts to improve to set aside Weber’s
victory.
In another case with potential national impact on the minority civil rights movement, the court will judge the validity of a court order that forced Los Angeles County’s fire department to accelerate its hiring of blacks and Mexican-Americans. The fire department is mak
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understood.
To drive home that message to Carter, the caucus staged a
march at the Capital.
At the opening session of the eight annual Congressional Black Caucus legislative
represent unconstitutional dis- weekend last Friday, Mitchell crimination against the poor, and other caucus members
A Georgia woman says her Supreme Court was wrong when allowing such practices. Imprisoned rather that placed on probation because she could not afford a $165 fine, the woman says that such actions
Titus and Company of New York City; and Bert W. Smith, Jr. and Associates of Washing-
ton, D.C.
Last Year, at the recommendation of a compliance task force of the Federal Energy
live Vice-President Charles sure that at least 20 per Williams said $8500 of Expo’s cent of its new employees are $18,000 1978 net earnings went °j a< * ^ 20 . P 61- c ® nt a f e for scholarships, while an addi- Mexican-Americans. But the tional $2500 was earmarked for countr y f? 8 * shouldnt have emergency tuition aid. to comply with lower court Others re elected to positions orders . t0 so because it never for next year’s Expo, set for mtent.onally discriminated aJuly 7 and 8 in the Expo g«nst minority applicants. Center, were: Johnny Florence ^ appeal offers a test as to regional vice-president; Dr. whe he / the same requireFred Draper, regional vice-pre- ™ ents for consitutiond sident: Vincent Smith. Bias-proof of mtent-is needed vice president, finance; Robert m cases involving alleged yiolaBernard. vice-president, enter- turns of federal anti-bias laws, tainment; Homer Smith, vice- Should the justices extend president, sales; Reginald the intentional bias requireBoone, vice-president, public ment, it could make it more relations; Hoyt Diamond, trea- difficult to file successful civU
surer; Artricia Chandler, secre- rights suits,
tary; and Leo Madden, general The court also will decide coordinator whether non-contributory penNewly elected was Phyllis sion P ,an8 covering millions of Carr, a former board member. actl ve and retired workers are named as vice-president, spe- 8ub J ect to federal securities cial events. aws ‘ , , ,
among the other cases the court has agreed to hear during its current term are those
involving:
SEXUAL EQUALITY Whether state laws proving alimony payments only for women foster unconstutional sex discrimination. The test
-Whether poor people charged with minor crimes are entitled to court-appointed lawyers when a jail term is possible. At issue is a test case from Illinois are two interpretations of a 1973 Supreme Court ruling. One view of the decision is that any criminal defendant facing misdemeanor charges for which jail is a possible punishment has a right to a court-appointed lawyer if he or she cannot afford legal help. The second view is that the court’s ruling applies only to those criminal defendants who actually do get jail sentences and not those who are merely
fined.
linked arms with Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and led nearly 1,000 persons in a silent mass march across the Capitol grounds to
the Senate steps.
The demonstration lasted 30 minutes. Later, the marchers — many of them black elected officials from around the country — visited their senators to lobby for the
bill.
The measure would establish as a national goal reducing the overall unemployment rate to 4 per cent by 1983. It received administration support after being watered down from its original form.
Man convicted
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couldn’t sleep.
Diana: Tm not too old’ NEW YORKSinger Diana Ross says she doesn’t think she’s too old to play Dorothy in the cinema version of "The Wiz,” which is quite the opposite of what Hollywood critics and film industry bigwigs. Ms. Ross consented to a rare interview with McCall’s magazine, which will appear on newsstands in October, and quoted the Motown superstar as saying: “I heard people saying to me, ‘Don’t you thing you might be too old for that part? ‘And it shocked me...And then I got very defensive and told myself. It’s not about a little girl. It’s about people, and is should be ageless and timeless and colorless." “I don’t know why it was so important to me to play Dorothy. But it was, and I’m sticking to that instinct.”
The bill has passed the House, and is on the Senate calendar. Mitchell said the President promised to work with Senate leaders to put the bill into position for an early
vote.
Mitchell said he doubted Carter “would have gone this far” to pledge support for the bill ‘‘if he had any doubts, that
he could do this.”
Rep. Crawford CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 outlined the benefits to be derived from the breakfast program. It can have a significant positive impact on students’ learning ability. A “needy” student is defined as one eligible to receive free meals under the current national school lunch and breakfast programs. At present, students from families have incomes of less than 125 percent of the federal poverty level are eligible for free meals. “This plan would cost $2.8 million annually,” Rep. Craw- MOVING ON: Although Barford said. But he noted that the bara Jordan, the fiery black expansion of the program former president of the Texas would not cost the state of State Senate, is leaving ConIndiana additional dollars. Ex- gress after three terms, She pansion would mean increased intends to pursue her interests federal dollars would come into in Washington, it was revealed the state to cover the cost of last week. Ms. Jordan, who the meals provided. In addic- gained national attention as a tion, Indiana’s farmers would member of the House Judiciary benefit from the increased Committee that recommended purchase of food products. A the impeachment of President similar plan in Michigan result- Richard Nixon and as a main ed in a $2 million increase in speaker at the 1976 Democratic sales for Michigan farmers. National Convention, will join The Human iservices Com- the board of directors of the mittee will vote on the break Evening Star Newspaper Co., fast proposal at a meeting publisher of the Washington scheduled for October 24. Star.
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Gunshot death
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 disability leave, Matthews was labled a friendly neighbor, “although he had a temper,”
witnesses told police.
It is believed that Mrs. Matthews had gone to the home to visit her children--who were also witnesses to the bizarre incident. Described as a. “devoted mother," she was employed as a medical aid at Indiana University Medical Center--also working a second job at the time of her death.
Smith named
Bloom, DOE Special Counsel „
for Compliance, said “the con- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 tract audit services, including found to a degree among other
Adm., the Office of Special Counsel, which is part of DOE’s Economic Regulatory Adm., was created to audit the 34 major refiners. The audits of the 15 largest refiners are to be completed by December 1979. In April 1978, the DOE competitively awarded an $8.5 million contract to Alexander Grant & Company to perform the compliance audits. At the strong urging of NAMCPAF, DOE agreed to set aside 15 per cent to 20 per cent of the total contract hours for minority CPA firms. Paul
those provided by the minority firms, will support the audit and enforcement efforts of the staff of the Office of Special Counsel in order to complete the intensified audits within the designated time period.” NAMCPAF Executive Direc tor, Lydia A. Hill, said she is pleased with the results of NA
MCPAF’s efforts.
racial groups including Greeks, Italians, Spanish, Turks, Puerto Ricans, and American Indians. Ms. Boswell added that sickle cell disease as yet has no cure and can prove fatal. But, she noted, early testing, diagnosis and treatment can result in its victims leading productive
lives.
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ABORTION Whether a state may require
fetus is capable of surving outside the woman’s body and, if so, try to abort the fetus
into a tub, where Burkhalter an doctors to carefull y deter ' beat the boy’s head against the m * ne ^ e ^ ore performing a retub and drove his knee into his 9 uested abortion whether the
abdomen.
Eric died May 26 of the
injuries.
Samuel Oates, Burkhalter's a oprirru wf h r WOU H dn td 7 Whether teachers may be hut th S a ^ e aro “ n ^ fired for making critical statebut not with intent to kill. ments about ^ ^ to
administrators.
The test case from Mississippi could resolve what appears to be an irony in loser court rulings. Under them, if a teacher goes public with criticism about school administration m a 11 e r s, the Constitution’s free-speech guarantees offer protection. But if the teacher raises criticims in private, no constitutional protection exists.
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-Whether judges may base a convicted criminal’s probation on his or her ability to pay a fine.
Arbitrators strip AAU governing reigns WASHINGTONThe American Arbitration Association, in a landmark ruling, has declared the United States Wrestling Federation will be the national governing body for the sport, stripping the enforcement responsibilities from the wrestling division of the AAU (Amateur Athletic Union). Affiliates of the 50,000 member USWF, including executive director Steve Combs, expressed delight at the AAA's finding, that the USWF offers the best program and is more representative of its interests. The AAA decision was the first since the C.S. Olympic Committee’s constitution was revamped to set strict criteria for becoming a national governing body of a sport in Olympic and Pan American Games competition. The USWF is aligned with the NCAA, considered an archrival of the Indianapolis headquartered AAU.
Inflation cause life style changes and adjustments
By DOUGLAS KRUEGER Though inflation rates have been higher than in 1978, the cumalative inflation impact of the past four, eight and 12 year intervals is taking more than a modest toll in lifestyles, living standards and livelihoods. Living standard are now being significantly compromised by inflation’s evils. We’re just talking about those who live on modest fixed incomes, like retired persons. Or those in lower income levels, though their problems are clearly very critical. Were talking about almost evey wage bracket in the Internal Revenue Service spectrum. The lifestyle changes and adjustments are many, varied, and all uniformly for the worse. No exceptions. Dining out, for example, is curtailed-or the cuisine adjusted to fast fotnl franchises. Steak and other classic entrees appear less frequently on the family dinner table. Vacations tend to be trimmed back, or cancelled altogether. Small car sales are going up for reasons other tnan luel economy. u>uegc education is getting to be a luxury that more and more cannot afford. The rise of the condominium may be attributable to inflation-adjusted lifestyle too. Corporations, no matter how rich and resourceful, do not escape corrosive inflation by any means. In their struggle for productivity-and profitabilitysome pipers have to be paid. Quality is occasionally a pawn. Price always is. Consider, for example, if prices keep moving higher, more and more products and services get priced out of more pocketbook ranges. It’s but one of the end results of prolonged inflation. Items can simply no longer be afforded. Sometimes even necessities can’t. When this occurs speculate along with us as to what happens in the job market. When sales of goods and services slow down, somebody gets laid off. If prices rise so much that sales are significantly impacted a lot of workers can lose jobs and ! unemployment rates start to move up. In a free economy-such as ours-successful selling of
products and services are often a pure function of price. Lower prices mean greater sales volumne because the items offered can be afforded by more. Higher prices mean the opposite. It’s as simple as that. Inflation’s role always hurts sales. If ""checked it hurts employment. It can cause businesses to love money anu ultimately to fail. It can undermine whole industries. Indeed, infation is the biggest culprit of them all in cause and effect recessions. Consumers (voters) know that governments cause most inflation-thourgh not all of it. Since governments are the collectors of our taxes, they have accordingly been admonished to cool it. Taxpayers can make up for a little of their lost purchasing power by
voting themselves a tax reduction. By so doing they can also put profligate politicans on notice to alter their spending propensities, or split. So, at least some of the voters-consumers are concluding right along with us that inflation is not only harmful to your current economic health, it can virtually change the financial landscape and destroy the inbestment environment with an ecological pollution which in the final analysis can wipe out our free enterprise system -great history and rich traditions notwithstanding. It is possible to reach the economic armageddon from here. [Douglas P. Krueger is a securities broker with the NYSE firm of Thomson McKinnon Securities, Inc., 6100 North Keystone Avenue].
AMONG THE FINEST: Mattie Coney, Ctisena Forum founder, is pretested as awared noting her community relations leadership, during the second annual Frederick Donglasa Awards Banquet. Making the presentation is Jaama Smith, Fart Wayne attorney. [Recorder photo by MarceD Wffliaau.)
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