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Corps of Engineers awards equal opportunity
Raymond Chang and Virginia Shea, who
were honored tor their work aa equal
employment opportunity counselors.
Corps EEO Officer Kev Collins said
Johnson “has assisted the Corps of
Engineers in its summer aid program, its
EEO program, its training functions,
community contacts, and recruiting in
general.” Johnson also worked for the
Corps part-time as a summer aid
counselor in summer 1973.
Collins said Garcia has helped the
Corps' EEO program by referring job
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honored five persons for their contribu
lions to the equal employment oppor
tunity program at the Coips’ Portland
District.
Cited were I^eon T. Johnson, director
of youth services for the City of Portland;
Jose Garcia, director of migrant educa
tion for the Washington County Interme
diate Department; and Patricia McAvoy
of the Grant High School work ex
perience office.
Also awarded were Corps employees
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Equal Employment Opportunity award winners (left to right)
Patricia McAvoy, Leon T. Johnson, Jose Garcia, Virginia Shea,
and Haymond Chang are congratulated by Colonel Clarence 1).
Gilkey, then Portland District Engineer for the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers. They were awarded for contributions to
the Corps’ equal employment opportunity program.
Court accepts Black’s redistricting plan
A federal District court ruling on
February 26, 1970, accepting a redistrict
ing plan drawn by Black plaintiffs in a
Mariettta, Georgia case, could have
dramatic effects Southwide if used as a
model for action against racial gerry
mandering which denies political repre
sentation to minorities, according to the
Voter Education Project, Incorporated
(VEP).
"The court approved redistricting plan
for political subdivisions which had been
gerrymandered in Marietta is a long
awaited answer to the petitions of Black
people who have been unlawfully denied
representation," said John Ix-wis, execu
tive director o f the Voter Education
Project.
"The Marietta case demon
strates that local citizens can organize
and achieve redress of such grievances
and inequities and that's a lesson we can
pass on to minorities in hundreds of
.similarly situated local municipalities
throughout the South," said Lewis.
In a ruling for the U.S. District Court
for the Northern District of Georgia,
Atlanta Division. Judge Charles A. Moye,
in effect approved a redistricting plan
submitted by Donald P. Edwards,
attorney for local Black plaintiffs who
began their court challenge three years
earlier. The same court had earlier ruled
in favor of the plaintiffs that the existing
city council ward boundaries unlawfully
excluded minority political represents
tion.
Stanley Alexander, VEP’s research
director who provided the local plaintiffs
with consultation in preparing both the
court action and the redistricting plan,
asserted that the Mariettta rase should
serve as a warning to the "hundreds of
racially malappointed municipalities in
the South and especially those local
governments which have consistently
refused to comply with provisions of the
Voting Rights Act."
One of the local plaintiffs, Hugh
Grogan, pointed out that the Marietta
decision means that Blacks need not be in
a majority in a city or town to achieve
equity in political representation. “Blacks
in Marietta constitute only about fifteen
to sixteen percent of the population,"
Grogan states, "but now, after all these
years of work and waiting, we finally
have a situation where it is not virtually
impossible for a Black candidate to be
elected to public office.
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Director, decried the action of this Board
and expressed shock that it was initiated
by liberals on the Board.
The measure, initiated by Kathy
Brown Rice and Howard Miller, states:
"Now therefore be it resolved by this
Board that there be no compulsory
bussing of students in the l>os Angeles
Rangel asks investigation
of Nixon China trip
Congressman Charles B. Rangel (D-
N.Y.) has urged an investigation by the
General Accounting Office into the use of
public funds to finance former President
Richard M. Nixon's recent trip to the
People's Republic of China.
Rangel, in letters sent to the directors
of the General Accounting Office and the
General Services Administration, re
quests an investigation and report
concerning government expenses in
curred because of Nixon's trip.
"Mr. Nixon's trip was clearly not an
official mission on behalf of the people of
the United States," Rangel said. “Yet an
untold amount of taxpayers' money was
spent to provide a number of services for
Mr. Nixon and his party on this private
excursion."
“The American people have a right to
know how much of their money is being
spent to provide luxuries to Nixon as a
private citizen travelling abroad on
unofficial business."
Rangel, who represents the Harlem.
East Harlem and Upper West Side areas
of New York City, said that given the
fiscal austerity program we are currently
experiencing, there was no rationale for
any government expenses related to the
China visit, regardless of any briefings
Nixon might provide the Ford Admini
stration on his meetings there.
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"We have achieved our rights only
because we, as a local community group,
pressed the issue and shouldered the
burden of our own defense," said Grogan.
"Our efforts were helped immeasurably
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Los Angeles anti-bus role called cheap politics
Passage of an anti bussing resolution
by the Ixis Angeles U n ifie d School
District Board of Education has been
labeled "an insult to the California State
Supreme Court and a cheap political
gimmick" by the Regional Director of the
West Coast Region^ NAACP.
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The resolution passed the Board on a
four to three vote: Voting for the
segregationist measure were: Kathy
Brown Rice, Howard Miller, Julian Nava
and Phil Bardos. Voting against were:
Dianne Watson, Dr. Bob Doctor, Presi
dent of the Board and Richard Rerrara.
Mrs. Canson said, "This action is
shocking. It is difficult to understand
how a professor of law, a lawyer and
officer of the court could stoop to cheap
politicizing of the bussing issue to exert
public pressure on the State Supreme
Court.
“Los Angeles Board of Education is a
defendant in a case now pending before
the California State Supreme Court.
Crawford vs. Board of Education was
heard before this high court on January
8th. Mrs. Canson commented on the
affirmative vote of Board member Julian
Nava.
She said, "This vote is particularly sad.
The Black minority's historic struggle has
been directed to righting the wrongs
through the courts and the legislature.
Education is the cornerstone of this
struggle. The Black struggle has laid a
legal foundation which undergirds the
fight being waged by other minorities
and women.
“It is a disservice to the struggle for
minority politicians especially to appease
the racists."
Canson concluded, "This Board which
governs the largest school district in
California, has thumbed its nose at the
courts.
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