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Experts Agree on Effect of Court Desegregation Ruling
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By The Chronicle's Washington BureauTeague Assails McGovern Interest
Rep. Olin Teague, D-College Station, has accused Sen.
George McGovern, D-S.D., of evidencing a "sudden burst of
enthusiasm for veterans' causes (which) is directly related to
the fact that he is opposed in his re-election bid by a distin-
guished former serviceman." In a statement inserted in the
Congressional Record, Teague noted that McGovern has said
he "personally will not tolerate" exclusion of tuition subisdy
allowances in a veterans bill now in conference committee.
Teague, former chairman and still-powerful member of the
House Veteran's Affairs Committee, is adamant against the
tuition subsidy included in the Senate version of the bill. He
characterized McGovern's statement as "the height of arro-
gance" and contended the senator had never shown "more
than a passing interest in veterans' affairs" before this elec-
tion year.
Rural Caucus Invites Two Texans
Two Houston representatives who serve urban congression-
al districts have been invited to join the Congressional Rural
Caucus. Democrats Barbara Jordan and Bob Eckhardt have
been approached by the caucus but have not joined. A
spokesman for the 42-member caucus explained that invita-
tions were issued based on representatives' voting districts.
Mini-Mint Sought for San Antonio
Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, D-San Antonio, says he will ask
the Treasury Department to consider putting a "mini-mint"
in San Antonio. Instead of using a recently-allocated $11.8
million to build a large new mint near Denver, Gonzalez
says, the department should build several smaller mints in
other areas, such as San Antonio. He said a Spanish gover-
nor set up a mint in San Antonio in 1815. The coins made
there were decorated on one side with a star-"The first
time this symbol was used to denote the Lone Star State,"
Gonzalez said.
Military Spending Votes Targeted
The Project on Budget Priorities, a group pressing for
reduction of military spending, has targeted three Texas
congressmen as "important for future successful votes."
They are Reps. Alan Steelman, R-Dallas, Jack Brooks, D-
Beaumont, and J. J. Pickle, D-Austin. On six military spend-
ing issues, Steelman's votes pleased the group four times;
Brooks' twice; and Pickle's once. Rep. Barbara Jordan, D-
Houston, was credited with all six "correct" votes and Rep.
Bob Eckhardt, D-Houston, voted "correctly" four times and
was absent twice.
Slight Rise in Families on Welfare
Family welfare rolls increased slightly - a tenth of a per
cent - from January to February, 1974. The Department of
Health, Education and Welfare attributed the increase in
February to a rise in the number of families with unem-
ployed fathers. In Texas, however, the number of family
welfare recipients dropped six-tenths of a per cent between
January and February and 2.1 per cent between February,
1973, and 1974.TEAGUE GONZALEZ
White Flight to the Suburbs
BY JACK CLELAND
Chronicle Washington Staff
Washington - Civil rights
leaders a n d urbanologists
generally agree that the Su-
preme Court's divided opinion
in the Detroit school busing
case can only add impetus to
white flight to the suburbs.
The Supreme , Court's deci-
sion came last Thursday.
Spokesmen for inner city
school systems like those in
Detroit, Cleveland and New-
ark have no hope of achieving
meaningful desegregation un-
less they are merged with
their adjacent suburban sys-
tems.
Any such consolidation of
school systems would have to
involve the busing of school
children out of their neighbor-
hoods and former districts.
Manyspredominantly black
city school systems' seem to
have nowhere to go to achieve
the racial balance mandated
by the Supreme Court 20
years ago.
And as the growing core of
all-black schools in cities,
such as Detroit, perpetuates
segregation, so does it have a
rippling adverse effect on the
economies of those cities.
As the SupremerCourt itself
noted in an earlier school
desegregation case: "People
gravitate towards school fa-
cilities, just as schools are
located in response to the
needs of people. The location
of schools may thus influence
the patterns of residential
development of a metropolitan
area." (Swann vs. Charlotte-
Mecklenburg County Board of
Education.)
The plight of the inner city
schools in the industrialized
cities of the North is the re-
sult of a combination of fac-
tors, according to urbanolo-
gists, and none of them deal-
ing directly with school inte-
gration.
Between 1940 and 1970 there
was a migration of 4.5 million
blacks from the South, mostly
to the larger cities where job
opportunities and social serv-
ices existed.GOP House Leader
Unsure of His Vote
Cc) 1974, Los Ang~eles Times-
Washinaton Post N'WS Service
Washington - House Repub-
lican leader John Rhodes of
Arizona said he has not de-
cided whether to vote for im-
peachment of the President if
the House is asked to do so.
Aides said Rhodes was in
seclusion this weekend with
armloads of Judiciary Com-
mittee material to read.
They said he intends to
meet with Republican mem-
bers of the committee after
they cast their vote to discuss
their decision and will not
make up his mind until after
that.
Prof. Robert Koch an-
nounced in Berlin his discov-
ery of the pathogenic germs
of tuberculosis on March 24,
1882.This mass migration of
blacks to the cities was cou-
pled with an exodus of whites
to the suburbs where most
new homes were built.
As the white families left
the cities, their children went
with them, leaving their for-
mer schools to become pre-
dominantly black as a result
of the population shifts.
The U.S. Census Bureau
estimates that in 1970 the per-
centage of blacks in the largercities was 20.6 percent, a 4.3
percent increase over the 1960
census.
Although it's tho early to
estimate, the Census Bureau
says that migration of blacks
out of the South has subsided
substantially over the past
few years.
According to bureau offi-
cials, blacks are leaving the
rural areas of the South but
are moving to nearby large
cities where job opportunities
are available.The court's ban on cross
district busing, according to
Justice Thurgood Marshall,
will increase the flight of
whites to the Detroit suburbs
and make the city's school
system virtually all black.
The same pattern is expected
in other major cities, includ-
ing Houston and Dallas.;.
In his dissenting opinion,
Marshall stated: "School dis-
trict lines, however innocently
drawn, will surely be perceiv-
ed as fences to separate theGiven 1
races when, under a Detroit-
only decree (for integration),
white parents withdraw their
children from the Detroit city
schools and move to the sub-l
urbs in order to continue them
in all-white schools."
Marshall noted that the
court majority may have re-
sponde'd to political and public
pressures stemming from the
emotional issue of school bus-
ing.
"Today's holding, I fear, is
more a reflection of a perceiv-Push
ed public mood that we have
gone far enough in enforcing
the Constitution's guarantee of
equal justice than it is the
product of neutral principles
of law," he said.
"In the short run, it may
seem to be the easier course
to allow our great metropoli-
tan areas to be divided up
each into two cities - one
white, the other black - but
it is a course, I predict, our
people will ultimately regret,"
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