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Subject: Bush praises Scott, former presidential aide, journalist
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Date: 6 Apr 92 22:01:12 GMT
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	WASHINGTON (UPI) -- President Bush praised the late Stanley Scott
Monday for ``his life to service of family, country, and the betterment
of his fellow man,'' particularly black Americans.
	Scott, businessman, corporate executive, former journalist and
political appointee who served in the White House administrations of
former Presidents Nixon and Ford, died in New Orleans Saturday, of lung
cancer. He was 58.
	In 1988, Scott was chairman of the convention committee for Vice
President George Bush's presidential campaign, assisting in preparations
for the Republican National Convention in New Orleans. Bush later named
Scott to the Commission on the Art and Humanities.
	Scott is credited with being a catalyst for breaking down racial
barriers, donating time and money to the United Negro College Fund. As a
black man from the South, Scott appeared an odd addition to the
Republican Party.
	In the 1950s the Atlanta Daily World, owned by the Scott family,
endorsed Dwight Eisenhower for president. ``We felt our vote was being
held hostage by a Democratic power structure that opposed voting rights
for blacks in our part of the country,'' Scott said later.
	Bush said in a statement, ``Stan was universally admired. He was
equally at home in the worlds of government, business, sports and
education.''
	A native of Bolivar, Tenn., Scott grew up in Atlanta, where his
family started the Atlanta Daily World newspaper. He attended the
University of Kansas before graduating from Lincoln University with a
bachelor's degree in journalism.
	He served in the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1956.
	After working as a reporter for the Atlanta Daily World, the nation's
first modern black-owned daily, Scott joined United Press International,
which nominated him for a Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for his coverage of
Malcolm X's assassination.
	The following year, Scott became the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People's assistant director of public relations,
moving in 1967 to the staff of WINS radio in New York as the station's
first black broadcaster.
	Scott joined the Nixon administration in 1971, becoming a special
assistant for domestic affairs. During the Ford administration, he
served as assistant administrator of the Agency for Internatinal
Development.
	In 1977, Scott was hired by Philip Morris Companies Inc., rising to
the positions of vice president of corporate affairs and assistant to
the chairman.
	Scott purchased a subsidiary of Philip Morris in 1988, Crescent
Distributing, and moved to New Orleans to direct the beer
distributorship's activities until he became ill and in July sold the
business back to the corporation.
	Scott was a member of the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank's branch
in New Orleans, the Urban League's New Orleans chapter, Alerion Bank,
Xavier University, Chamber of Commerce, New Orleans Symphony, New
Orleans Sports Foundation, Audubon Zoo Commission and Odyssey House.
	Survivors include his wife, Bettye Lovejoy Scott; a daughter, Susan
Scott; two sons, Stanley S. Scott II, and Kenneth E. Scott of Atlanta;
two sisters, Doris J. Lake of Bolivar, Tenn., and Clinora Turner of
Chicago.
	Funeral services were scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Dillard
University's Lawless Memorial Chapel in New Orleans. Memorial services
will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the First Congregational United Church
of Christ in Atlanta, with burial in Westview Cemetery in Atlanta.
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