The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 65, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 1983 Page: 1 of 12
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THURSDAY. JULY 7. 1983
VOLUME 65 NUMBER 30
TWELVE PAGES
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TULSA. OKLAHOMA 71101
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Two 't'scnmination lawsuits filed
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The US must give Chicago 1250
million to .i; I school desegregation
luvau-sr the government failed to
honor i i iHirt decree to help
of 130,000 per year. Wilson is said
to be earning $39,000 at the Health
Science Center.
The commissioners had set a
salary range of $30,000-338.000 per
See HUMAN RIGHTS Page 4A
On July 4, Michael K. Davidson
was accosted by two men outside
Tim's Playroom at 11th and Lewis
at 6:50 p.m. where they demanded
his wallet at knife point and told
him to hit the tracks. He returned
to Tim's Playroom, called the
police dispatcher who advised him
that since the suspects had left the
recent open forum. Bishop Beltran
said the nuns’ superior in New
Orleans, Mother Tekakwitha Dega,
pulled the order out of the diocese
after the Bishop dismissed Sister
Charlotte Rubit from her position as
principal earlier in June. He did
not give a reason for her dismissal.
Bishop Beltran did say he would
encourage school personnel to hire
some black teachers for the school.
However, he said it is the
responsibility of the principal, not
the bishop, to hire teachers.
There will be no black teachers
at Holy Family School and the
person hired as principal will not
likely be black according to Beltran.
The Holy Family Sisters came to
Oklahoma from New Orleans in
1939 to staff St. Monica School.
They then moved to Okmulgee at
the Uganda Martyrs from 1953 to
1957 and then came to Holy Family
in 1966.
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We make America better
when we aid our people."
EL. Good* in. Sr, Publisher
0902 1978)
commented, “it seems like everytime ‘they’ close
something down, its on the north side." Photos by
Jackson.
Wire
adverse counsel Sidney
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political debate
See TEACHERS Page 4A
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settled June 15 when AP agreed to
pay black and women news staffers
nearly $1.1 million in back pay and
bonuses.
• blacks and
reimburse the
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a.sa
While the American Red Cross
and other health officials are
sending out warning bulletins about
the hazards of summer heat,
Northside children are trying to
find the ’coolest" way to make it
through the hot summer months.
The communities served by B.C.
Franklin and Ben Hill parks are
phaseout of the programs
the agencies time to acquire
ding from another source,"
seeing 70 to 80 children daily play
in creeks or sitting under trees to
stay out of the heat instead of
cooling off in what was supposed to
be their neighborhood pools.
Some children are even becoming
brave enough to attempt crossing
Highway 75 instead of using the
drainage ditch underneath as some
cording to Charles W
agency relations and
director
SOPHIA “Sissy" HEN
DERSON, Ebony Fashion
Fair model will be guest
model for '63 Fashion Show
Production, “Color Tyme
Voyage *N Summer and
Fall". (See related article
on Page 3.1
Nonprofit agencies that provide
services in the Tulsa area and have
lost government funds can make
application to the United Way for
special safety net funds, it was
announced recently ‘ The safety net
grants will insure an orderly
AP also agreed as a part of the
settlement to hire certain
centages of blacks, women
Hispanics, to establish a summer
intern program for blacks
Hispanics, and to
ding to the children talked to, the heat makes them
very frustrated and in some cases, sick. One child
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THIS SHALLOW CREEK WHICH IS located behind the closed swim-
ming pool at B.C. Franklin Park serves as a “cooling out" area for some
of the 70 to 80 neighborhood children who cannot use the pool. The creek
is a haven for snakes and all kinds of insects, including ticks, as well as
being unclean.
Tulsa part of job project
Labor, will train youngsters in
housing maintenance and building
skills. Since jobs in these areas will
exist for a long time to come, we
are preparing these young people
for permanent employment."
Proposed participants would
receive about 4 months of training
and then would be placed tn private
industry housing jobs Pierce says
he hopes the program will be un-
See YOUTH Page 4A
New NEA president ‘squares off
A native Virginian. Mrs Futrell
has been elected to the post just as
the status of education in America
has become a matter of fierce
discriminatory etfect. resolving
complex civil rights issue.
The court threw out a portion of
a 1975 lawsuit over the hiring of
blacks and Hispanics by the New
Non-profit organizations safety net funds
or allow
fun-
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on behalf of black
AP editorial employees
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Equal made up "only seven percent of
Com-
mission in 1973 by the Wire Service
Court tightens basis for discrimination
The Supreme Court ruled recently
that people who invoke a federal
law to sue over alleged racial and
sexual bias must prove
discriminatory intent, not just
Hatwood Futrell, newly-
elected president of the Nation s
teacher organization, the
National Education Association, is
ready to square off against
politicians and the President about
the status ol education in America
’ I am determined that all
political leaders shall be held
restsii !>’ 1 thcr rhetoric their
Northside kids stay hot
as pools stay empty
of the other children to get to a
pool at Lincoln Park.
The Park Board has said the low
attendance figures forced the
closing of the pools.
David Barclow, a member of the
Park and Recreation Department
said there were several reasons for
not opening the pools this season.
Barclow said the B.C. Franklin
pool has problems with equipment.
The department was to make an
attempt to fix it but there wasn’t
enough community interest until it
was "too late.’’
When asked the reason for the
closing Barclow said “there was
just no interest." He also said the
decision on which pools to close is
based on need and the amount of
interest voiced.
AP gives blacks and women $1.1 million
plaintiffs in the suits for $500,000 in
legal costs.
The suit came from a complaint
filed with the U.S. I
Employment
Police refuse to make arrest
Victim catches thief
scene, there was no need to have
police present. Disappointed,
Davidson went to River Parks to
watch the July 4 celebration where
he again spotted one of his
assailants. He approached a police
officer who refused to give him
assistance. Not to be outdone,
Davidson made his own arrest.
Human Rights Director resigns
I. Beth Wilson, newly-appointed
executive director of the state's
Department of Human Rights, has
resigned that position following a
salary dispute.
Mrs. Wilson, attorney, now ser-
ving as affirmative action officer of
the Health Science Center of the
University of Oklahoma, apparently
accepted the Department of Human
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their departure was confirmed by
Bishop Eusebius J. Beltran at a
public forum held recently.
The nearly all-black school was
staffed by three Holy Family
Sisters, one of whom. Sister
Charlotte Rubit, served as principal.
Questioned by parents at the
Tulsa is among 21 cities which
will participate in what federal
officials say is a measure to
combat chronic unemployment
among minority youth.
The program was revealed at a
Washington news conference by
Samuel Pierce, secretary of the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development iHUDi
According to Pierce. HUD, in
conjunction with the Department of
AP’s news staff, while blacks
constituted one percent. Promotions,
the union said, for blacks and
women were rare.
The Guild and seven past and
present female AP employees filed
suit in federal court in 1978. ac-
cusing AP of discrimination against
blacks and women The EEOC filed
a similar suit a year later, adding
Hispanics to the class action
Under the proposed settlement,
women who worked on the AP
editorial staff between November
1972 and July 1983 will share
$725,000 in back pay
service Guild general
I hitman estimated
that between 4)0 and o00 women
See AP Page 4A
• ol* city Police ucparunetii by a
5 to 4 vote.
However, the court voted 7 to 2
on the central issue in the case,
intent as opposed to effect
The decision is said to be a
major setback for civil rights ac-
tivitst because the standard of proof
required in lawsuits over alleged
bias often dictates whether the suits
will succeed or fail Discriminatory
intent is much more difficult to
prove than proving an
effect on certain minorities
See COURT Page 4A
Holy Family nuns return to New Orleans
After forty-four years in Eastern
Oklahoma, the almost all-black Holy
Family Catholic School is
without its only black sisters to
have served in the Diocese of
Tulsa.
The Congregation of the Sisters of
the Holy Family left the school and
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CHILDREN AS A WHOLE DO NOT understand
why their neighborhood pool is closed down. Accor-
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Barclow said each year the Board
has to review each pool, and if a
pool has a particular problem the
financial requirements must be set
aside early.
According to some of the many
community residents near the pools
they have petitioned the city and
gone to City Commission meetings
to try and get their pools opened.
One citizen said they fought to keep
their pool open the summer of 1980
and it stayed open through the
summer of 1981. Then last year the
pool was closed. And it hasn’t been
opened since.
l^st year a petition was cir-
culated in Heritage and Seminole
Hills communities asking that the
pool at B.C. Franklin be opened.
The City Commission replied it was
too late in the year. Barclow said
March is almost too late to bring
support to the attention of the
Board and the City Commission.
There have been volunteers from
the community saying they would
lifeguard several days out of the
week for free if the pools would be
opened. But who would be liable in
of a drowning prevents the
See POOLS Page 4A
Rights appointment with an un-
confirmed salary.
According to an undisclosed
source, Mrs. Wilson resigned when
the commissioners who supervise
the department decided on a salary
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Goodwin, E. L., Jr. The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 65, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 1983, newspaper, July 7, 1983; Tulsa, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1806545/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.