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Ga. man accused of
killing father
BOSTON (AP) - Police
have arrested a man in the
stabbing death of his father.
\Villiam Davis, 45, was
taken into custody Saturday
and charged in the killing of
Lacey Davis Jr., 73.
William Davis told police
he and his father had gotten
into an argument that may
have led to the stabbing.
“He called 911 himself
and said he had stabbed his
father and that he wasn’t
breathing,” Boston Police
Chief Chuck Weaver said.
Police arrived to find the
father dead in a bedroom.
22 people die on
Georgia roads
ATLANTA (AP) - The
nurhber of people killed on
Gedrgia roads over the Labor
Day holiday period rose from
last year, according to the
Georgia State Patrol.
Car crashes killed 22
people during the period
beginning Friday evening
and ending Monday night.
That’s an increase from last
year’s total of 17 fatalities.
The number of vehicle
crashes also rose to 2,667;
up from last year when there
were 1,930 crashes.
But the number of inju
ries was 729; down from last
year when there were 931
injuries caused by crashes.
Trauma chief: Mare
centers needed
ATHENS (AP) - Georgia
has too few trauma cen
ters and the ones it has are
not well distributed across
the state, according to the
head of Georgia’s Office of
Emergency Medical Services
and Trauma.
Dr. Patrick O’Neal spoke
at the first of five public
hearings scheduled by state
Rep. Mickey Channell, R-
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Greensboro, to study trauma
care issues before the legis
lature convenes in January.
There are 15 certified
trauma centers in Georgia.
Only four of them - in
Atlanta, Augusta, Macon
and Savannah - can treat
patients with injuries so
severe that regular hospi
tal emergency departments
typically cannot address.
Channell, who’s a member
of a joint state house-Senate
study committee on the
issue, said that the centers
need more money because
they are very expensive to
run.
“In order to be approved
(as a trauma center), there
are all sorts of things you
have to have, like having
doctors on call 24 hours in
all sorts of different special
ties,” he said. “That’s very,
very expensive, and at the
end of the day, that’s the
root cause of it. Money is
what it’s going to take to
change it.”
James Mathews, director
of emergency medical ser
vices in Oglethorpe County,
said that having trauma
centers in Athens and other
parts of the state would
help save lives by getting
patients to the appropriate
care quicker.
“We have something in
EMS we called ‘the gold
en hour.’ The quicker the
patient gets treated, the bet
ter chance the patient has,”
Mathews said.
Ga. Hispanic voter
drive under way
ATLANTA (AP) - A
Georgia office leading a
voter registration drive for
Hispanics received a threat
ening call the same day a
nationally-known Spanish
language radio host visited
the state to energize the
effort.
“We need to run you out
of this country. You are
destroying it,” said the
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caller, according to a tape
of the call made available
by the Georgia Association
of Latino Elected Officials,
which is leading the voter
registration drive.
Since then, the volun
teers in 10 Georgia counties
that are working to regis
ter Latinos have been told
to work in teams for their
safety, said GALEO’s direc
tor Jerry Gonzalez.
“It demonstrates the dan
gers of political rhetoric
fanning the flames of anti
immigrant sentiment,” he
said.
After mobilizing the immi
grant population with rallies
and marches to promote the
legalization of illegal immi
grants and their access to
taxpayer benefits, advocacy
groups across the country
are trying to make true on
the promise that was shout
ed and ensconced on march
ing signs - “Today we march!
Tomorrow we vote!”
An Associated Press review
of voter registration fig
ures from Atlanta, Chicago,
Denver, Houston and other
major urban areas that saw
large rallies, however, shows
no sign of a historic new
voter boom that could sway
elections.
In Georgia, it might be
too early to gauge the effec
tiveness of the registration
effort, because it got under
way in the last few weeks,
having missed the primaries
but with more than a month
before registration closes for
the November vote.
In some of Georgia’s most
populous counties where
large numbers of Latinos
reside, such 'as DeKalb,
Fulton and Gwinnett coun
ties, voter registration
through the end of July is up
from last year, when there
were no statewide or nation
al elections.
But the registration num
bers are as much as 40 per
cent lower than it was in
the first seven months of
2004, before the presidential
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election, according to figures
compiled by the Secretary of
State’s office.
About 70,000 out of
more than 4 million reg
istered voters were identi
fied as Hispanic in 2004 in
Georgia.
While joining the national
effort to register a million
new voters by 2008, GALEO
has been warning its volun
teers to keep their expecta
tions low.
Since many Hispanics are
not U.S. citizens and there
fore can’t vote, Gonzalez
has told his teams to plan
on registering one out of 10
people they talk to, adding
up to about 1,000 through
the end of August. The vol
unteers are active in Carroll,
Chatham, Clark, Cobb,
DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett,
Hall, Troup and Whitfield
counties.
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OBnUAWES
EDWARD A, LONGENECKER. JR.
WARNER ROBINS - Edward A. Longenecker, 81, passed
away Saturday. He was bom May 25, 1925 in Petersburg,
Pa.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Jean Haag
Longenecker, Warner Robins; daughters, Linda Hall, Kay
Smith and Terry Karloff; five grandchildren, two great
grandchildren and his twin brother, Edwin C. Longenecker,
Petersburg, Pa.
JOANN KAY TAYLOR
KATHLEEN - JoAnn Kay Taylor, 47, passed away
Saturday. She was bom Dec. 21, 1958 in Missouri Valley,
lowa. Her birth father, Frederick N. Smith, adopted father,
Gerald R. Webber, paternal grandparents, Fred Smith and
Marie Ramsey and maternal grandparents, Lester Motz and
Trudy Robison, all of Harrison County, lowa, all preceded
her in death.
Ga. bills are being
copied in other states
By Walter C. Jones
Morris News Service
ATLANTA - Forecasting
can be pretty simple some
times. To see what the
weather will be like, often
it only requires a glance to
the West to see the patterns
moving this direction.
That’s usually the place
to look for clothing fashions
and other trends as well.
Included in those trends are
governing.
Often, legislative propos
als, like hem lengths and cold
fronts, originate in California
and gather strength as they
blow across the country until
finally gaining acceptance in
the Peach State.
Even though Georgia has
twice the number of legisla
tors - or maybe because of it
- Californians have tended
to be more innovative. And
since they are full-time law
makers there with more than
2,000 staffers (at an average
staff salary of $56,000), they
have generally hashed out
their legislation pretty thor
oughly before it’s passed.
Of course, that doesn’t
mean bad ideas don’t
become law there as they do
here. It only means that the
mechanics of the legislation
has usually be completely
explored to limit unintended
consequences.
Lately, though, the wind
has been blowing the other
direction.
Several recent bills have
originated in Georgia that
are being considered west of
here. Georgia has become a
source for legislative creativ
ity that other states’ politi
cians are copying.
That’s in spite of Georgia
legislators having to make
do with fewer than 825 staff
ers who earn a pittance com
pared to their West Coast
cohorts.
When political report
ers from several states get
together, there are always
lots of questions for those
who work in Atlanta. The
list of topics has gotten lon
ger recently, too.
Sure, Georgia hit a few
home runs in the past that
everybody has tried to copy.
There are pale imitations
of the HOPE Scholarship
tucked in the legal codes of
several states, for instance.
But that’s old news, even
though it’s going to be
mentioned repeatedly dur
ing this fall's gubernatorial
campaign.
Here are six current topics
where the Gold Dome team
was out of the gate first: the
academic bill of rights, the
gas-tax holidays, sex offend
ers, eminent domain, illegal
immigration and voter-IDs,
Most were in the headlines
here and generated heat on
the pro and the con side
of the arguments, but you
might not have heard much
about the academic bill of
rights. A 2004 resolution
by Sen. Eric Johnson, R-
Savannah, the bill of rights
expressed the Senate’s posi
tion that “faculty members
should not use their courses
for the purpose of political or
ideological indoctrination.”
More states might imi
tate additional Georgia bills
once the measures clear the
courts. Lawmakers can be
reluctant to enact legisla
tion that has been declared
unconstitutional already
somewhere else. Suits are
pending on the sex-offenders
crackdown and the require
ment to have a government
issued photo ID to vote.
Not every Georgian will
find the attention flattering,
naturally. Some are down
right embarrassed that they
live in a state that could enact
these laws. Still, becomihg a
role model is a sign that
things have changed here.
One of those changes is
the shift in control from the
Democrats for 13 decades to
the Republicans.
Another reason Georgia is
becoming a trendsetter of
sorts is its newfouhd size.
The population surge of the
last 20 years had made it the
ninth-largest in the country.
Such size comes with a lit
tle more respect and added
attention from the national
media.
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