w U & -4 1 4 4 4 I -Ar- T AV -V - lk 4 4 A Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, July 3, 1970 Friday, July 3, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY HEW: WASHINGTON /P)-Reviving a civil rights weapon that was largely abandoned a year ago, the Department of Health, Edu- cation and Welfare yesterday threatened t h r e e segregated southern school districts with loss of federal funds unless they dismantle dual systems for blacks and whites. Secretary Elliot L. Rickhard- son said the districts' federal education money would be cut off in 30 days unless they com- ply with desegregation guide- lines. With one exception, the cutoff device-used extensively by the may cut southern schools' Johnson administration to en- force Supreme Court desegrega- tion orders-has lain dormant since last August. Named yesterday as targets for loss of federal assistance were the Hendry County Board of Public Instruction in Florida, Nacogdoches Independent School. District in Texas and the Ches- ter County School District in South Carolina. The South Carolina and Flor- ida districts were among hold- out, segregated southern districts- threatened with legal action by the Justice Department. - Richardson said his depart- ment will "maintain communi- cation" with the three districts and "provide all assistance nec- essary to bring them into com- pliance with the law." Spokesmen for the depart- ment could not say immediately how much money is involved in the cutoff threat. The only other such action in the past 10 months was May 12 against the Pewitt Independent School District at Omaha, Tex. The district's federal funds have been shut off. Nixon administration officials indicated last year they pre- ferred taking holding districts to court through desegregation suits rather than ending federal asistance. They maintained the cutoffs hurt the students, black as well as white, more than the school boards responsible for the dual systems. Civil rights groups, however, saw the policy shift then as a backing away from the federal commitment to end illegal segre- gation in Southern schools. Jerris Leonard, chief of the Justice Department's civil rights division,rhinted Wednesday the administration would resume use of the cutoff provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to gain desegregation compliance. Asked about the possibility 'following a meeting with Rich- ardson, Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell and Postmaster Gen- eral Winton M. Blount, Leonard replied: "That's a potential course of action." But Leonard indicated the administration will attempt to avoid using "an iron fist" against districts that have es- caped federal legal action for funds 16 years after the high court's dictum to erase dual school facilities for blacks and whites. After the Wednesday meet- ing Leonard said the emphasis this fall would be on securing local cooperation as it has been for most of this year. He did not rule out the pos- sibility of bringing statewide suits in areas where school segregation is too widespread to handle by individual litigation, however. "DAZZLING AND TO THE POINT!" -Penelope Gillioft, The New Yorker "BRILLIANT! REMARKABLE! -Joseph Morgenstern, Newsweek Cool 4 DIAL f,. PRESIDIO CASES: Army throws out mutiny convictions WASHINGTON (P) -- The Army Court of Military Review' yesterday threw out mutiny convictions against 12 soldiers who were involved in a 1968 sit- downwdemonstration at the San Francisco Presidio stockade. At the same time, the review court upheld court-martial con- viction of the 12 on the lesser offense of willful disobedience of an order of a commissioned officer. The court also affirmed find- ings against a 13th soldier who was convicted of willful dis- obedience. The action completes review of court-martial convictions handed out to a total of 24 sol- diers in connection with the Presidio incidentmon Oct. 14, 1968. Thus all 23 men convicted of mutiny have been cleared of that charge. Previously, one case was thrown out and convictions of 10 other soldiers were reduced from mutiny to disobedience of an order. The 24 soldiers were tried af terthey sat down near the stockade in protest against what they called mistreatment by guards, poor food unsanitary living conditions and overcrow- ding. After refusing an order to go back to the stockade, most of them were charged with mutiny. Courts-martial levied sen- tences as severe as 15 years in prison and dishonorable dis- charges. The military review court has reduced penalties to bad con- duct, discharges, forfeiture of pay and allowances and im- prisonment at hard labor for as much as one year. The new Army announcement said conviction of Pvt. Danny R. Seals of Orangevale, Calif., on charges of disobedience of an order was upheld along with a sentence of bad conduct dis- charge, confinement at hard labor six months and forfeiture of all pay and allowances. In the case of the other 12, the review court held that the evidence "was sufficient as a matter of fact to support a con- viction of the offenses of mu- tiny." But the Army review court held that the evidence sustained court martial findings of guilty of the willful disobedience 'U FRIDAY and SATURDAY July 3 and 4 THE BLACKBOA'RD JUNGLE dir. RICHARD BROOKS, 1955_ Starring: SIDNEY PORTIER GLENN FORD ANNE FRANCIS The Pioneer of Ghetto Films (Cinema Guild takes this space to wish all its patrons a happy Fourth of July) 7 & 9:05 ARCHITECTURE 662-8871 75c AUDITORIUM Order Your Daily Now- Phone 764-0558 BILLIARDS TABLE TENNIS BOWLING FOOSBALL M UNION. OPEN THIS WEEKEND I ORSEnN IS FEAR A CARLO PONTI PRESENTATION DISTRIBUTED BYI] SIGMA 1I. 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THE NATION'S JOBLESS RATE dropped from five per cent to 4.7 per cent in June-the first decline in six months-the government reported yesterday. The Labor Department said the decline occurred almost entirely among adult women, as unemployment for adult males, married men and teen-agers remained virtually unchanged over the month. Nonform payroll employment declined by 215,000 in June to seasonally adjusted 74,671,000, the third consecutive monthly reduc- tion. About one-half of .the drop occurred in durable goods manu- facturing, where employment has fallen by nearly 700,000 since last September. ATTY. GEN. JOHN MITCHELL yesterday outlined guide- lines police should follow in handling political demonstrations. In a speech at San Antonio, Tex. Mitchell said peaceful exercise of freedom of speech and assembly should be encouraged by state and local officials even though it may create some inconvenience.' 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