Page 2-Tuesday, February 27, 1979-The Michigan Daily Diggs votes despite Repubican warning LIBRAR Y DISPLA Y SPURS CONFRONTA TION: Skirmish closes N.C. KKK exhibi1 WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep. Charles Diggs (D-Mich.), voted on legislation yesterday and said he will continue to do so, despite a request from several Republicans that he ab- stain pending a decision on his appeal in a payroll kickback case. It was Diggs' first recorded vote sin- ce the start of the congressional session, and his decision to continue means some Republicans are almost certain to seek a full House vote on his expulsion. Diggs is appealing the three-year prison sentence he drew as a result of his conviction last October, and the House ethics committee is trying to decide what to do about him in the meantime. Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), and several other new GOP House mem- bers had asked Diggs directly not to vote until the case is settled. But Diggs told Gingrich he intends to exercise all his rights as an elected member of Congress. Gingrich said that if Diggs refused to abstain, "Those of us who are concer- ned about the standards of the House would have no alternative but to offer a motion of expulsion." He noted Diggs has obtained a two- month extension in the deadline for filing his appeal, and now has until April 2 to make his move, leading some observers to say the process could con- tinue through most of his two-year term in office. Gingrich has focused his efforts against Diggs on one specific vote that is scheduled for Wednesday in the House - whether to raise the national debt ceiling. In a letter to his colleagues, Gingrich said, "There's a distinct possibility a convicted felon will be voting on in- creasing the national debt for each man, woman, and child in the United States by $174." He said that if Diggs votes on the measure, he will "promptly" offer the motion to expel Diggs - possibly within a day or two after the debt limit vote. Diggs won re-election from his Detroit district despite his conviction last year on charges of payroll padding and mail fraud in the kickback scheme. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP)-An exhibit of Ku Klux Klan materials closed 45 minutes after it opened last night-an hour and 45 minutes earlier than scheduled-when a shouting match developed between blacks and- some whites who were wearing Nazi, armbands. About 200 people had packed the tiny auditorium of the Forsyth County Public Library to see the display. A WHITE MAN identifying himself as David Burtt of Greensboro, who said he was with "the United National Workers Organization," shouted, "What we ought to do is rip this stuff off the wall-the Ku Klux Klan is a damned trick to set blacks against whites." Tempers flared and four young white men wearing beige uniforms and red and white Nazi armbands suddenly ap- peared and began shouting, "White power, white power." Burtt and his supporters began shouting, "Ku Klux Klan, scum of the land," and the chant was picked up by blacks in the crowd. POLICE MOVED in and separated the shouting factions. One of the men wearing a Nazi ar- mband would only say that he and the other uniformed men were members of "the regional unit of the National Socialist White People's Party." Outside, officers worked to separate Klansmen-including two wearing white robes, one carrying a Con- federate flag and the other waving an American flag-from blacks. AT LEAST four people were taken in- to custody but it was not known whether charges would be filed. Authorities said several blows were exchanged among those in the crowd, but no one was hurt. . Klansmen left the area shortly after the library was closed. The Klan's display consisted of robes hung on the wall, Klan publications and pictures and other items such, as six- .inch statuette of a hooded Klansman. THE EXHIBIT was designed as a white "version of Roots," according to exhibit organizer Vernon Logan, head of the local Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. "Roots," a book by Alex Haley about a black man retracing his an- cestry to Africa, has been the basis for two popular television miniseries. Logan said the exhibit contained no offensive material. "Hell, anything they put in there is of- fensive to me," declared Patrick Hair- ston, president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advan- cement of Colored People. Hairston, three fellow NAACP mem- bers and a college professor had begun a protest walk outside the library with protest signs in the afternoon. "We're not trying.to keep people from going in and out, we're trying to draw attention to the fact the Klan is an outlaw organization. I don't think it's needed in America," Hairston said. THE LIBRARY, meanwhile, set uD its own exhibit on the Klan in a glass cabinet in the lobby. That exhibit con- sisted of newspaper clippings about local Klan activities in recent years and history books dealing with the Klan. Library director William Roberts III said that exhibit was set up in reaction! to the Klan exhibit. "The library board said we ought to have something up there a little more unbiased, and it sounded fine to me," Roberts said. ROBERTS DEFENDED the library's scheduling of the Klan exhibit as an exercise in free speech and of Fir- st Amendment rights. "To me, it's historical, if you want to know the truth," Roberts said of the Klan display. "It's no different from the local Black Panthers group. If the Pan- thers wanted to use it, they certainly could. It's not up to us to pick and choose." SOME LIBRARY officials, including Irene.Hairston, chairman of the county library board, criticized Roberts for scheduling the exhibit without bringing the matter before the board. She is no relation to Mr. Hairston. But Roberts said it was standard procedure to schedule -any group that wanted to make use of the library without consulting with the board. City Council vetoes 800 SOCIAL WORK POSITIONS OPEN NOW IN ISRAEL TEACHERS ALSO WANTED MSW's and BSW's needed now in Israel's urban centers and developing towns. Community workers especially sought. Orientation programs, retraining, courses, pilot trips planned. A real opportunity to live a quality Jewish life wh i l e making a meaningful contribution. Interviewers coming from Israel this month. Arrange now to speak with them. EMPLOYMENT SERVICES DIVISION (Continued from Page 1) downtown renewal. The partisan nature of the two economic development strategies was clearly evidenced as Council rejected the DDA and established the EDC in July, both votes along strictly party lines. EDC supporters justify the cor- poration in strictly economic terms of widening the tax base and increasing employment. Belcher explains his commitment to EDC as a means of bringing "economic, stability" to Ann Arbor, furthering an overall strategy of "trying to make Ann Arbor as recession proof as possible.". THESE SUPPORTERS say EDC is an economic device that, with sufficient citizen input, as stated in its founding provisions, is accountable to the public. They also say EDC is necessary to en- courage business in Ann Arbor because over 110 Michigan communities have established similar corporations since the State Legislature approved EDC guidelines in 1975. Since the Ann Arbor EDC's founding,, it has presented two plans to Coun- cil-last week's Elias Brothers project and a few weeks earlier, a preliminary approval of expansion for Bechtel Cor- poration's existing operations. In both sessions, Democrats urged that criteria other than strictly financial be used in approving EDC bonds. The arguments voiced were similar to those of last summer's controversy over the creation of EDC and DDA. Councilman Earl Greene (D-Second Ward) said some of these non-financial concerns should be: "The need of the corporation (for EDC financing), desirability-is it needed in the com- munity," and certain "minority guarantees" concerning the company's personnel policies. GREENE STRESSED the need for Council guidelines to ensure some of these non-economic factors are in- cluded in decisions on EDC projects. Such criticism has led Belcher to remind Council, "EDC is not a finan- cing arm for marginal companies and it is not for helping small business operations (but) is a conduit of sale of bonds for strong companies who have the ability to back up the bond sales." Belcher's view is evident in the EDC guidelines which prohibit consideration of any project seeking less than $250,000 in bonds and those up to $1 million are strongly discouraged. EDC counsel Peter Long cites the $650 EDC ap- plication filing fee as a further deterrent against requests from "marginal" companies. The emphasis on "strong companies" is further guaranteed by requiring the company to clearly demonstrate it will not have first EDC proposal any trquble finding a buyer for its bon- it is a chain-store which would be coin- ds; often the bonds have already been peting with three locally managed 1ig pre-sold, as with the Elias Brothers Boys already operating in Ann Arbor( project. THE RESULT is that Democrats THE ELIAS BROTHERS project, remain unjeasy with EDC and its which was to be constructed across the guidelines, considered by many Council street from Win Schulers on Plymouth members to be sufficiently vague :to Road between US 23 and Green road, "justify any firm on those criteria," contained specific characteristics according to James Cmejrek (R-Fifth which led several Council Republicans ward). - to join the generally anti-EDC Belcher, however, insists "there will Democrats in rejecting the proposal. be projects killed at EDC." He pointed Consequently, Belcher, who is also an to the other projectsapproved, and un- EDC board " member, said the vote der review, by EDC as evidence "we merely "indicates to EDC that Council are not grovelling for business (but) isn't going to be too much in favor of are in a position to pick and choose restaurants." Similarly, Greene inter- carefully." In addition to Elias prets the vote as a "philosophical Brothers, the EDC board has already statement about fast foods, and beyond approved the Bechtel expansion, a this I don't think there's going to be major reisearch center for Research much opposition on future projects." Park, and the $10 million renovation of In addition to the nature of the Big Arborland. Projects under review in- Boy's operation, opponents argued that clude a large downtown office building. Daily Offical Bulletin lCENTER 25900 Greenfield Rd., Suite 352 Oak Park, Michigan 48237 Tel: (313) 968-1044 A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, JR. LECTURES: thomas aeffensou to i3akke: race aruo the amrYerzican LegaL Przocess" THE MICHIGAN DAILY (LISPS 344-900 ) Volume LXXXIX, No. 124 Tuesday, February 27, 1979 is edited andmanaged by students at the University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morn- ings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor. Michigan 48109. 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