P ortla id /D bse rve i August 14, 1972 Page 1
Appeals court to
Golden State
reaches $1 billion
bear Detroit case
ATLANTA BRAVES center fielder. Dusty Baker, records a ••Register to Vote** message fo r tie
Youth Citizenship Fund (YCF). 1 he Fund Isa non-partisan voter registration agency alined at reg
Is to ring the nation’ s 25 m illio n unregistered I» to 25 year olds. Recording tie message is YCF’ s
Sand B rim .
To Be Equal
By Vernon E . Jonlan, J r.
1 le re ’ s a new kind of hack-
lash around today. T ie old
tyjes are » till with us. of
course, fulminating against
welfare, (using and ¡sibllc
housing. But tie lew , sophis
ticated backlash la m o s t
clearly seen In some of tie
statements and research pro
jects coming iu t of tie aca
demic world.
Peiliapa tie most prom Kent
of tie so is tie publication of
studies by D r. A rth u r Jenaen
that p u q xirt to show that IQ la
genetically
d e t e r m in e d .
Blacks neasure lower on 1 q
tests. It Is charged, not le -
cause of poverty, lack of edu
cational opportunities and
other environmental reasons,
lu t le cause Intelligence Is
p rim a rily a factor of in h e ri
tance.
This lernlclous theory has
teen demolished by Jensen’ s
le e rs In tie scientific world,
Who have pointed out his meth
od« h.gl a i r : :
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that IQ tests are biased In fa
vor of the verbal and behavior
patterns of the m iddle-class
whites who design tle m , aid
the fact that w h in /b la ck d if
ferences are small enough to
te acccxinted for by a variety
of o tte r factors. Also, o tte r
research demonstrates tliat
b la c k s often score higher
when environmental factors
are In H e ir favor.
'Tie controveisy (le t broke
over tills study was lesed on
tie dangers of such stands at
a time of volatile racial prob
lems. We just have to look at
tie experience of a nation like
Germany under tie Nazis to
see where such racial tlieories
can lead.
I le IQ cent, oversy is lu t
une instance to tie kind of aca
demic sabotage that sets up
roadblocks In the way of end
ing racism . Several lew stud
ies claim to show that in
tegrated
education doesn't
work. Newlless to say, tie re
searchers claim to le all for
Integiation aid Isn’t ita shame
their figures argue tie otter
way.
B a s ic characteristics of
tlese studies Include lack of
souid research methods; tie
flim sy use of m aterial from
which broad conclusions are
drawn, and tie avoidance of
relevant factors In approach
ing tie problem. Forexamplt.
one Harvard study on lusing
used outdated m aterial andex-
cludetJ cities In which lusing
is working out w ell.
Another study that got na-
tlo ie l attention tile d to prove
tliat Head start programs aid
sim ilar early schooling does
n’ t work and tliat children
shouldn’ t s ta ll school until
they are older, seveial stud
es,
including the famous
Coleman
Report, condemn
progiam s ol ’ ’ comiensatory
education’ ’ although it actual
ly lias yet to le tile d on a
scale large enough to judge its
worth.
Despite tle lr taults, such
research is used to argue
against more school tuidsand
more teachers, so important
(Xihllc policy is based on led
research lathei than on ex-
pertment and exjenence.
While tie anti-education re
sea re fe rs
haven’ t yet re
sorted to geneuc arguments,
those old faculty geies liave
leen used to explain why black
children are more likely to te
victim s ui lead poisoning tien
whites. Why go throughgene-
Uc excercises when it is so ob
vious Het a fa r greater per
centage of blacks tien whites
are poor aid live in slum hous
ing whose walls are s till cov
ered with dangerous lead-
la sed paint. It Is the socel
and economic d is p a rité s In
our society tliat account for
tills, not genes.
H e re Is no point In pretend
ing that most of this kind of re
search is value-free, f h e rd s
no such thing as "p u re " re
search in human a f f a i r s .
I lese poorly chosen aid de
signed projects, with t le lr
liasty and ill-d ra w n conclu
sions. serve only to strengtten
ti e racism latent in our so
ciety and constitute a sophis
ticated form of a n ti-b la ck
backlash.
Such studes are a throw-
lack to tie nueteenth century
theorists who adopted Social
Darwinism - the survival of
the fittest - as a means of bol
stering the privileged classes
ol society. That school of
science w ittered In tie more
istlonal light of our own time,
lu t now this old and ugly tra
dition is teing revived. I le -
Jieve a more fe rtile new field
of study would te of tie racism
embodied in tie new, sophis
ticated lacklash.
Same Old Story...
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A fte r almost two years of
fe ttlin g In the courts, the
D e tro it Board of Education has
gone alead with plans fo r a
normal school ofiening In tie
fa ll—one which would not in
volve c ro s s -d is tric t busing
of students.
I le U.S. 6th C irc u it Court
of A[i[«eals ordered a tem
porary delay on tie purchase
of 295 buses to transport stu
dents from D e tro it's predom-
li.aritly
black
schools to
schools in 52 predominantly
white su’ uiban d is tric ts . l i e
Apieals .ourt scleduled a
tearing o. oral aiguments
for August ’4.
D e tro it School Supt.Charles
J . Molfe sari tie court's action
" te lL us to go a cad now to
do our planning fo r Fall open
ing in te r m s of r e g u l a r
scho is.”
"W e have waited tuget some
firm direction to move in and
we can't wait any longer,”
Wolfe said. We’ ll go right
ahead with regular planning.
If something Is changed Aug.
24. tlien we’ ll have to consider
it at that tu n e ."
The Appeals Court, acting
on Hie request of tie State of
Michigan, w ill review rulings
by U ^ , D is tric t Judge Stephen
Roth which laid the ground
work fo r implementation of
tie c ro ss-d istrict Integration
plan on a lim ited tests this
fall and on a full-scale lasts
ui Septernler 1973,
Roth ruled last septernler
that D etroit's schools were
deliberately segregated. He
certified his finding as final
Thursday so tie case could
le appealed.
The Appeals court said it
would perm it a special II-
mamber desegregation pane!
created by Roth to continue
its work on tie details of the
Integration plan so that ’ ’ there
w ill te no unnecessary delay
In the ultimate steps contem
plated in the orders of the
D is tric t Court in the event
tie decision of tie D is tric t
Court Is affirmed on appeal."
Court asked to halt
redistricting move
The Department of Justice
today filed suit to halt re -
d lstrlctin g and reapportion-
ment of the school toardw ar is
lii St. M ary Parish In Wes
tern Louisiana.
Attorney General Richard
G. kleindier.st said the c iv il
a n t was filed in I .s. D is tric t
Court In Shreveport against
St. M ary Parish School Board
and Ogden E , Stansbury, its
president; 14 board members;
the s t. M ary Parish Demo
cratic Executive Committee
and its chairman, FJJ. Win
chester; and, the St. M ary
Parish Republican Committee
and its cliairman, Howard E.
Whitney, J r.
The
suit charged tliat
changes in voting procedures
proposed by Hie school board
to re d is tric t and reajiportlon
tlie school board warJs vio
late provisions of tlie Voting
Rights Act of 1965.
The Justice Department liad
twice objected to tie proposed
re d istrictin g and reappor
tionment plan, tie second time
on January 12, 1972. The com
plaint said tie plan "would . .
have tie effect of denying or
abridging the right to vote on
account of race.’’
The Justice Department
said that despite its objec
tions,
the school board,
through a May 11. 1972 re
solution, proceeded with the
re districting measure pre
paratory to a prim ary elec
tion scheduled fo r August 19,
1972.
Requesting a "speedy and
expeditious
hearing"
be
cause of tie short time re
maining le lo re election day,
the suit asked that the de
fendants he enjoined from:
— implementing tie St. Mary
Parish School Board reap-
portionment; and,
--implementing any voting
procedure
different
from
those previously in effect un
less such procedure had not
leen objected to by the U.S,
attorney General, or unless
a favorable declaratory judg
ment liad been obtained from
the L'.S. D is tric t Court fo r the
D is tric t of Columbia.
According to tie suit, no
action has leen instituted in
tlie L’Jj. D is tric t Court fo r
the D is tric t of Columbia and
without it the Justice Depart
ment contends the school
b o a r d 's
reapporiionment
"le g a lly unenforceable.’ ’
The suit asked tie Federal
court in Shreveport to direct
the board to adopt a reap-
portlonment plan conforming
to the 14th and 15th Amend
ments and meeting the L'JS,
Attorney
General’ s objec
tions.
A lternatively, tlie suit re
quested that tlie Court devise
a reapportionment and re-
d istrlctin g plan through ap
pointment of a Special.Master.
Such a plan would be e f
fective on an interim basis
fo r tlie 1972 elections o r until
the next decennial census.
Black, Chicano
win NASA contract
Golden State Mutual Life
Insurance Company, a 47-
year - old corporation head
quartered in Los Angeles, has
become the second black-
owned insurance organization
to reach $1 b illion in life in
surance in force.
The West Coast firm , cur
rently licensed to operate in
20 states, moved i to the
b illlo n -in -fo rce class with tie
awarding last week of $30
m illio n of group insurance to
tlie firm by the American Can
Company of Greenwich, Conn.
Ivan J. Houston, FLM I,
president of Golden state, said
tie achievement also makes
his company the firs t m inor
ity-founded
life insurance
firm to reach the 10-figure
in-force mark " d u ri g tie
lifetim e of its founders."
Norman O. Houston, chair
man of tie board, and George
A, Beavers, J r., a d ire cto r
and form er chairman, were
two of the company’ s original
organizers in 1925. Both w ere
present to witness the formal
presentation
of American
Can’ s commitment at Golden
State's home office. W illiam
Nickerson, J r „ who headed tie
founding trio , died in 1945.
American Can’ s decision to
grant the black firm a portion
of its employee group life
insurance was based in pert
on the Connecticut company’ s
concern fo r "corporate re
sponsibility in a period of
rapidly changing social stan
dards and accompanyi g op
portunities,’’ according to its
chairman, W illiam E. May.
Golden State has fo r tie
past two years teen engaged
in a concentrated e ffo rt to at
tract group life insurance
business from m ajor indus
tria l firm s, which, according
to Houston, have traditionally
looked past black companies
when considering c a rn e rs fo r
th e ir group coverage.
May, responding to a pro
posal from Golden State’ s
senior vice president and
agency d ire cto r, Ernest Shell.
Maurice
M ost rea s o n a b le shop in town
Carlos
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Electricity is
20 years
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W hilv p r i m for must every thing h .n c riven, the iver-
.ige cost of .1 unit of residential eleeirieils is .ictu.iiL less
today than it w as 2«l years ago R eally ' l l i . i n i„i> ,» 'ek e•
Incity one of Ihe greatest household values sou II hnd
But. (hough H e behind the lim es in priee. elect m i l s '■>
as m odern as today in convenience. Ih e typical hom e
now has twice as many w ork-saving appliances as it did
- 0 years ago. After all. we re eco nom ical, but not old-
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Portland, O re g o n
A. Dawkins,
Two minority-owned con
T ie tra in e r hardware sup
struction firm s liave pooled
port fa cility now being built
th e ir resources to qualify for
by RO&AS is an addition to
a Small Business A dm inistra
a building housing instruments
tion (SBA) award. The award
used in theCenter's simulated
is fo r construction of a trainer
flights, conducted In a large
hardware support fa c ility at
fa cility opposite the construc
the National Aeronautics and
tion site. T ie new structure
Space Adm inistration (NASA)
w ill serve as a storage faci
Manned Spacecraft Center
lity fo r the delicate electronic
(MSC), Houston. Tex. Black-
instruments used in the si
owned Roy i>wens Interests.
mulated space flights.
Inc., and Mexican-American
Garza said both firm s had
firm , Advance Systems Con
done work under the 8(a) pro
struction, ln c „ both Bouston-
gram before, tu t nothing of
Ivised firm s , formed RO&AS
this magnitude. He said that
Joint Venture In order to win
RO&AS Joint Venture is an
the $200,IKK) award. It marks
experiment in working to
tlie firs t time in NASA’s ex
gether fo r the two companies,
perience that two m inority
and if it proves successful,
lusinesses liave joined forces
the firm s may use it fo r other
In a contractural e ffo rt.
business engagements.
"R oy Owens and Joe Hau-
CUja, owner of Advance Sys
tems. had never form ally met
before," said Carlos Gai a,
an o fficial at MSC’ s M inority
Business Enterprise Office,
"and when we met to discuss
tlie joint venture possibility
they had less than 48 hours
to make a decision.**
A fte r the prelim inary ne
gotiations tlie owners con
ferred with their attorneys and
agreed to Hie plan. NASA
engineering and technical of
ficia ls approved of it and tlie
SBA undertook negotiation of
Hie contract.
Garza said Hie joint ven
ture agreement combined tlie
Mexican - American fir m ’s
managerial experience with
tlie black firm 's ability to as
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Executive Vice-Chairman of
OIC of America addressed Hie
Republican Party P latform
hearings in M iam i, Florida
and delivered a message on
behalf of Reverend Leon H.
Sullivan, Founder and C h a ir
man ot the Board of the OIC
movement.
Reverend sullivan, who is
also the firstB la ckm e m h e ro f
the Board of General Motors,
challenged
the Republican
leadership to he aware of the
dangers of expanding unem
ployment t) at has doubled in
the Black communities from
the general rate of 5.5 per
cent.
D r. Dawkins quoted Rever
end
Sullivan’ s declaration
H>at. "P resident Nixon has
done more than any President
in the history' of the United
States to assist Black A m eri
cans and other m inorities
enter the mainstream of busi
ness e n te rp rise ." He then
went on in his testimony to call
the Republican Party to draft
a plank in the platform that
would give equal p rio rity and
make a m ajor e ffo rt in the
field of job development and
job training, with specific
plans to expand O lC intoevery
city that is strivin g to get pov
e rty stricken citizens off of
welfare ro lls and onto f>ay-
ro lls .
Real
Orëéotl
^Banl^
C LU ,
stressed American
Can’ s willingness to p a rti
cipate
in "Golden
state
Mutual
efforts toward tie
achieveme t
f competitive
equality I ,r minority-owned
enterprises m me economic
mainstrea: r - our country,”
Ivan
Houston welcomed
American Can's action as
"another positive step in the
development and expansion of
economic
opportunity
fo r
black business.’ ’
American Can is one of tie
country's largestproducersof
metal containers and paper
products.
Golden state, one of the
nation’ s largest black-owned
financial enterprises, ended
1971 with $957.2 m illio n of
insurance in force as me
fastest growing of the 40
black-owned companies which
comprise the National In
surance Association.
Sullivan
asks jobs
D r.
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