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Show In conference at Salt Palace Two bills labeled 'racist' by NAACP conference Two University students also received scholarships and awards at the banquet. Mr. George Woods, a senior medical student, received a scholarship from the association and Miss Marsha Boyd, a freshman majoring in sociology, also received a scholarship. Miss Boyd also received recognition for her excellent work in organizing a drill team for the Salt Lake City branch NAACP under the direction of Mrs. Alberta Henry. The banquet closed Saturday night with remarks from Salt Lake City branch President James Dooley where he noted that we must all join forces with the NAACP and within ourselves to combat racism and to fight and rally against all the bigots that oppose our freedom for equality. The final session of the conference ended Sunday after a successful convention in fighting racism. By CLIFFORD L. WILLIAMS and )OE KAPLENK Chronicle Staff "There are two bills in Congress that are mam reasors why black people in this wuntry are being held back from reaching 'heir goals," said Clarence Mitchell, sector of the Washington bureau, national Association for the Advancement colored People (NAACP). "Those two are Student Moratorium Act and the ronically misnamed' Equal Educational Opportunity Act," he said. Mitchell addressed a crowd of approximately ap-proximately 700 people in the Salt Palace "day night for the NAACP West Coast 8'onal Conference and Freedom Fund Jnquet. His talk, for the 53rd Life moersnip Conference, was presented to state 11 different surrounding in'?, bi"S in Congress are simply t Srfnl b6hind and the status f wnshir rY'8'ueS b'acks a 'second-class citi-minist,,' citi-minist,,' n0ted" "The Nixon Ad-blacks Ad-blacks on 'S sabota8'n8 all efforts for Produrm ac,hieve racial equality by 'ng such bills," he added. "T-rrluratinnal Opportunity Act (EEO), would prevent federal courts from issuing busing orders in school desegregation cases until 1973. "The bill emphasizes so-called neighborhood schools to which members of racial groups not living in the neighborhood could be admitted after taking into consideration 'school capacity' and 'natural boundaries,' boundar-ies,' " noted Mr. Mitchell. 'The racists and backsliders," he said, "are those people who have come out for or will come out in support of the two bills dealing with busing in public schools." "Without meaning to do so, President Nixon has given us a good opportunity to identify the racist and backsliders on human rights in Congress," he added. Mr. Mitchell, in testimony before the House Committee on Education and Labor on March 28, 1972, called for complete rejection of both bills. He noted in his speech Saturday night that the administration ad-ministration has been trying to water down and short circuit almost all gains made by blacks in the courts and Congress. The Nixon Administration was accused of undermining the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by trying to eliminate a requirement in the act which said that the Attorney General or court must review any voting laws that are suspected of being discriminatory. "Mr. Nixon and his anti-busing friends in Congress have gone further than the infamous in-famous George Wallace, governor of Alabama, who stood in the schoolhouse door to prevent desegregation rf the public schools," said Mr Mitchell. "Nixon and his supporters want to stand in the school bus door so that black children cannot even enter to ride the bus on the school grounds," he added. Also present at the banquet were distinguished Utah representatives, Gov. Calvin L. Rampton.Sen. Frank E. Moss and Congressman Sherman P. Lloyd. Senator Moss was awarded a Life Membership Appeal for the NAACP and Congressman Lloyd was presented with the "President's Award." Mr. Mitchell noted that any senator or congressman who supports the Student Moratorium Act or the EEO Act is "not your friepd." He noted that, "we owe a great deal to Sen. Moss for his consistent support of civil rights and most especially for his firm support of the United States Supreme Court by opposing the Carswell and Haynsworth nomination." "Are the Constants of Nature Constant?" will be the topic of the Frontiers of Science lecture, Monday, 7 p.m. in the Orson Spencer Hall Auditorium, given by Freeman J. Dyson, professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. |