ICity Commission Votes
uVeterans Pic.” As Nome
ALBANY, Ga. (AP)-The City
Commission last week voted to
rename a park “Veteran Park”
after Vietnam veterans vocally op
posed a proposal to name it after tbe
late C.B. King, a Mack attorney who
paved the way for civil rights
demonstrations in Albany during the
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The commission voted 4-2 to mum
it Veterana Park, with two black com
misaiooers voting against tbe name
One black commissioner, Charles
Sherrod, proposed naming the park
“C.B. rang Veterana Park,’’ but the
proposal failed.
Sherrod wanted the name
to C.B. rang Park to honor die promi
nent Albany attorney. King died
March 15 while undergoing treatment
for cancer in Tijuana, Mexico. He
was 64.
The park, located in a bucolic set
ting along the Flint River, has an am
phitheater and paths along the river
bank. It had previously beep known
as Riverfront Park.
Members of the local chapter of the
Veterana of the Vietnam War said
racial considerations should have no
bearing on the name selection.
i pare snouia oe nonor
ing all veterans, not Just one man,”
said Eddie Seyfarth, SB, vice com
mander of the local WW post.
“Our main goal is to unite the Viet
nam veterans with his brothers and
find the peace of mind they’ve been
searching for,” said John G. Griffin,
40, of Foulan, the post commander.
Griffin said a contingent of
veterans would attend the commis
sion meeting to argue against the
Sherrod proposal. Reeidents favoring
the C.B. King proposal also were ex
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Besides the new name, Bays has
promised the veterans a $1,000 con
tribution to help them erect a Viet
War memorial. The WW has
picked Albany as the site for its na
tional convention next year.
The mayor announced the decision
I to name the park Veterans Park dur
ing a ceremony on March 0, marking
the arrival of the Moving Wall, a
reproduction of the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial in Washington,
D.C. The wall was on display in
Albany through March 14.
Bays said ha and four commit
[slonors had signed a pledge to sup
Doit the name chantt. Sborrod anc
WllUams did not sign the pledge.
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quitted recently on theft charge
stemming from allegations that the;
had cheated on thatr city expense ac
i of C.B. King’s law firm
i Calls to Sherrod’s homi
unanswered Tuesday afternoon. >
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secretary at Williams’ insurance of
fice said be was out.
Bays said in an interview that he
plans to meet soon with Carol King,
the attorney’s widow, to discuss a
suitable memorial to honor her hus
band.
King helped defend the Rev. Martin
LuUier King and Ralph Abernathy
during civil rights demonstrations of
the early 1960s and was successful in
having an injunction lifted in June
1964 that had blocked public protests
in Albany.
i “I find it particularly unforgivable
that a few people would take such a
tragic event as the death of C.B. King
and try to use it for political gains,"
said the mayor, noting that Sherrod
has vowed to continue his opposition.
“I would hope and pray for the sake
of the [King] family that he would not
continue to do this,” said the mayor.
“It’s certainly not for their benefit,
it’s got to be for his own.
“Some have run their political
careers by screaming racism, but the
record clearly speaks for itself,”
Bays added, noting that Albany
within the last year has named its
first black police chief, its first black
recorders court judge and its first
jmvuv urvuubt.
“This town has changed. Its at
titudes have changed tremendously
and we’ve got some people who don’t
want to see change,’’ the mayor said.
“A few people don’t know how to deal
with this.”
LAWYER WONT GIVE UP
LAVONIA. Ga. <AP>—Some
black attorneys in Georgia have
called on Livonia attorney An
drew J. HUI, Jr. to give up his bid
for president of the state bar of
Georgia because of his use of a
racial slur in a conversation with
another attorney.
Hill, who is also secretary of
the legal group, said he was "Just
kidding" and will not withdraw or
resign. Earlier this month, Hill
told a colleague he had Joked with
retired Superior Court Judge W.
Colbert Hawkins, saying, "Now.
listen, Colbert, we don’t want any
nigger cases up here like you had
down in Millen." Hawkins presid
ed over a celebrated child
custody case Involving a mixed
race child born to a white woman.
Hill made the remark in the
presence of a reporter and
photographer from the Fulton
Cwtty Dally Report, so Atlanta
i legal newspaper, which reported
r the conversation.
“I don’t Intend to resign as '
' secretary, and I don’t intend to
withdraw as a candidate, and I
believe that’s all I have to say,"-'
he commented.
VIEWPOINTS
(Continued from page 4)
Moat folka that I know are vary happy that Gov. Jim Martin ia supporting
tboaa initiatives and that his Minority Executives Council is bringing before
him. That the council’s primary concerns are the affairs and well-being of our
state’s minority population, is a given. The governor especially established
the council to advise him on such matters. But why would Gov. Jim Martin
. heed the council and other black ledershlp voices around our state? Because
he knows what apparently Bob Jordan does not. The things that black leader
ship are asking him as governor to support are good for our state's minority
community and more important they are, overall, good for all of North
Carolina.
Finally, let’s not forget that racial epithets being what they are, have a
negative purpose: refer to this group by calling it something racially offen
rive, call it a name when addressing the other group and vice versa. For
black North Carolinians especially, the question becomes unavoidable, “In
closed-door meetings with us, behind our becks, if Bob Jordan is calling white
folks 'rednecks’ what is he calling us, behind our backs, when he is meeting
with white folks?’’ So the only thing left for us to decide come November of
this year is, do we really want an acknowledged redneck to become the next
governor of our state?
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EDITORIAL
(Continued from page 4)
au Americans ana outer people
throughout the world.
“Imagine life without the sub
way, the traffic light, and the
elevator,” Congressman Flake
said “Think of hew the progress of
industry might have been
hampered if railroads did not
have the making and electrical
systems they have today and if
cities wer not equipped with elec
trical systems. These advances
mtributions of black
many of whom have
ran proper credit for
ecause of their race.”
an Ernst Matteliger
to invention
ade by-hand. The
ing machine
the sole and could
sir of shoes , day
signmcani reduction in ume ana
labor costs and substantially in
creased business profits. Subse
quently, everyone Interested in
buying machinery questioned
whether it had “the real McCoy,”
and that popular expression has
continued in use today to indicate
genuine quality.
Therefore it is fitting that the
birthday of Elijah McCoy, who so
modernized the industrial world,
should be designated “National
Black American Inventors Day,”
in recognition of the contributions
of these gifted men and women.
“The passage of thin legislation
illustrates the broad support for
accurately disseminating infor
mation on the contributions of
Flake said. “By providing
recognition of the ac
complishments of these black
Americans we learn respect for
eacbother which is the foundation
for long-term cooperation of all
my colleagues across this greet
country and from every ethnic
background reflects hope for the
future as we all strive to work
toward interracial cooperation.”
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