Carswell nomination "sad"
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark said Sunday that President Nixon's nomination of Federal Judge G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court "is a sad one for this country."
Clark, asserting that black Americans still look to the high court more than to any other institution for aid in their fight against racial discrimination, accused the President of "tinkering with the confidence of a major part of our people" by naming Carswell.
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There has been little or no violence since the Supreme Court's "desegregate now" orders began going into effect in Dixie, but there have been colossal problems. Thousands of white students defected to private schools or no schools at all, teachers quit, and school officials have had to contend with mammoth refurnishing and relocation tasks.
After the statement was read, McKeithen emphasized that the governors were not fighting integration, but "forced integration."
"To say that you have to sit on the front seat of a bus even if you don't want to, that's not America," said McKeithen. "If everyone were treated alike the people of this country would rise up. I'd like to see what would happen to Chicago or Detroit or Los Angeles if they attempted the same kind of desegregation there."
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our country and . . . the problem of race is a major part of the underlying difficulties," Clark said in a UPI Washington Window interview.
By choosing Carswell, he added, "you give the appearance of someone who has been unwilling or reluctant to fulfill the rights of people who have waited many generations to have their rights fulfilled and are still waiting.
"So I think the nomination is a sad one for this country," said the 45-year-old Washington-New York attorney.
Carswell has repudiated a speech made 22 years ago during a Georgia election campaign when he advocated white supremacy. He also has denied charges he was hostile to government civil rights
lawyers and biased against their cases.
He contended there were at least as many outstanding jurists from the South "proportionately as any other part of the country" if Nixon wanted a Southern judge.
Most of the liberal-moderate Republicans who helped scuttle the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr, are holding back any commitment on the appointment of G. Harrold Carswell to the high court.
They are, for the most part, keeping their options open—waiting to see if any new information comes up before the nomination reaches the Senate floor.
On the Haynsworth nomination, 17 Republicans deserted
President Nixon and their votes were a decisive factor in the 55-to-45 rejection of the appointment. Of this group, only Sen. Charles E. Goodell, R-N.Y., has come out with a formal announcement of opposition.
Goodell, charging that Carswell had failed to "heed and promote" the civil rights revolution, is one of three senators who have declared their intentions. The others are Democrats—Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota and William Proxmire of Wisconsin.
On the basis of an informal survey among the 17 GOP senators who opposed Haynsworth, it appears that Sen. Jacob K. Javis of New York will vote against confirmation of Nixon's latest selection for the Supreme Court.
But the survey also indicates that four of the 17 dissidents, including Sen. Republican Leader Hugh Scott, Assistant Senate GOP Lealer Robert P. Griffin, plan to vote for Carswell. Taking a similar stance are Sens. John Sherman Cooper, Ky., and Richard S. Schweiker, Pa.
The commitments of Cooper and Griffin, at least, are not endlessly binding, however. Cooper's support is firm only if nothing unexpected should surface before the vote and Griffin gives a similar indication.
Griffin, who at first backed Haynsworth and then changed his mind, said, as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee: "If it came to a vote today, I would vote to report him out."
Details uncertain in Gore accident
Lawrence police reported Saturday that the car in which David L. Gore, Pawnee Rock junior, was killed Thursday night, turned off 19th Street onto Iowa and into the path of the car driven by Danny J. Jennings. 21. RR 5. Lawrence
Police have no indication whether Gore's car had stopped at the intersection before pulling onto Iowa, nor in which lane of traffic the accident occurred.
Jennings told officer his car hit the rear of Gore's car, and hit a curb. He said he did not remember anything else.
Gore's car apparently crossed the center line of Iowa and collided with the one driven north by Herbert L. Williams, 41, 1002 W. 24th.
Police were unable to give details of the accident Friday until they had talked to Jennings. Jennings was held overnight Thursday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, then released Friday morning.
Funeral services for Mr. Gore will be at 2 p.m. today at the United Methodist Church in Larned, with burial in the Larned Cemetery.
Born Nov, 20, 1949, he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Gore, Pawnee Rock; two sisters, Mrs. Beth Ann Hown, Toronto, Ont., and Sherry, of the home; two brothers, Allen, Manhattan, and Ronald, Larned; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Smith, Larned.
This accident was the third fatality on Iowa Street in 13 months.
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