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Vol. 9 No. 2
Dear
Reader
BY HARRY MURPHY
The comedy of the whole
thing could have been
enjoyed - if it hadn’t affected
so many prisoners’ lives.
That two-day hearing last
week conducted by a joint
House-Senate committee
investigating the State
Pardons and Paroles Board
was an open invitation for
anyone to air grudges.
Board Member Joseph G.
Maddox, whom former Gov.
Lester Maddox tried to fire,
remarked at one point that
there was so much animosity
between Mrs. Rebecca
Garrett, a deceased board
member, and Chairman J.O.
Partain Jr. that Partain named
one of his ulcers “Becky” and
the other “Garrett.”
One senator wanted to
know if there was a board
prohibition against wearing
civic and fraternal
organizations’ pins in employes’
lapels. “No,” answered an
employe, “I’ve got a PTA pin
in my own lapel.”
“What’s the PTA?” queried
another sanator.
“The Parent-Teacher
Association,” the employe
answered incredulously.
“The senator is
unmarried,” another
legislator explained.
The investigation
supposedly was brought on
by paroles dropping at the
rate of 500 a year and the
solons said they wanted to
know why.
If they had stuck to this
goal, they would have been
alright, but witnesses called
strayed far afield, as it could
have been predicted they
would.
Most of this spleen was
vented on Chairman Partain,
a likely target because he’s an
uncongenial fellow, but
apparently an honest one.
This combination is deadly
in politics, because you have
to deny a lot of requests, but
with tact.
Partain inherited a rats’
nest when he was made board
chairman and he ruffled a lot
of feathers in cleaning it out,
including plumed legislators
and others accustomed to
having their parole requests
granted, no matter how
hardened the inmates.
These legislators saw their
chance when the Board fired
Ed Kendrick as state
probation director and
launched the investigation,
calling many witnesses who
had been ruffled similarly by
Partain.
But in spite of all the
character assassination
attempted on the chairman,
he appears to have survived.
Some legislation undoubtedly
will be introduced to
straighten the board’s
administrative snarl, allowing
quicker decisions on parole
requests, and this is good.
With Dr. Thomas Jenkins,
a Negro with impeccable
credentials, coming on the
board, and possibly a new
third member, retired federal
parole board chairman Dick
Chappell, the future of
Georgia’s jailed appears
brighter.
Coupled with a new
corrections director, Ellis G.
MacDougall, who believes in
rehabilitation, with emphasis
on paroles, the new board can
become a model for the
nation.
Someone once remarked
that a society is known by its
attitude toward those under
its care - prisoners, mentally
ill, welfare recipients and
such.
Prison reform is headed for
improvement.
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ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA
The Georaia Bu
SERVING GEORGIA’S 71 NORTHERN COUNTIES
Thursday, January, 14, 1971
$5 per year
Magazine’s Choices For 13 Living Saints
CHICAGO (NC) - Critic Magazine, semi-monthly commentary on the arts and modern life published here, has named 13 living saints.
In previous years, the magazine has selected the most important Catholics, the most contentious Catholics and the most hopeful
bishops. The “saint” choices are left to right, beginning with the top row: Ethel Kennedy, the late Sen. Robert Kennedy’s widow;
Dorn Helder Camara, Archbishop in Recife, Brazil and a leader against government oppression there; Yves Congar, a Dominican
theologian; Mother Theresa, a Yugoslavian nun who received the first Pope John XXIII peace medal for her work among the poor;
Alan Paton, South African author and apartheid foe; Caesa- Chavez, head of the United Farm Workers’ Organizing Committee;
Andrew Young, Southern Christian Leadership Conference official and an unsuccessful candidate for Atlanta’s 5th Congressional
District seat; Bishop James Walsh, released last July after 12 years in a Communist Chinese prison; Fathers Daniel and Phillip Berrigan,
imprisoned for damaging draft records; Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Soviet novelist and Nobel prizewinner; Bernadette Devlin, Irish
socialist leader and member of the British parliament, and Ralph Nader, a crusader for consumer protection.
$250,000 Drive’s
Co-Chairmen Set
Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan has named Robert D. Hennessy and William H.
Izlar Jr. as co-chairman of the annual Charities Drive Sunday, March 7.
sent to the pastor. Priests and
parish drive chairmen will
come together at three
deanery meetings this week
to discuss procedures and
organization.
The drive is an annual
event in the Archdiocese. The
money received is used to
finance programs and projects
contained in the
Archdiocesan Budget.
The co-chairmen are
enthusiastic about the drive.
“The history of the drive in
Atlanta is one of great success
because of our parish
organizations and our
priests,” said Hennessy. “It is
our hope that we can
continue in this winning way
this year.”
1971 Charities Drive
(Goals approved by Archbishop after consultation with the Archdiocesan Finance
Council and a special committee of pastors).
Metropolitan Atlanta Parishes goals
CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE KING $ 30,000
HOLY SPIRIT 12,000
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION 3,500
IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY 21,000
MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT 7,000
OUR LADY OF LOURDES 750
OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION 22,500
SACRED HEART 9,000
SAINT ANTHONY 5,000
SAINT PAUL OF THE CROSS 4,000
SAINT JUDE 24,000
SAINT JOHN VIANNEY 2,500
HOLY CROSS 15,000
SAINTS PETER AND PAUL ,...15,000
SAINT THOMAS MORE 21,000
SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST 10,000
SAINT PHILIP BENIZI 4,000
SAINT JOSEPH’S, MARIETTA 9,000
SAINT THOMAS THE APOSTLE 4,000
SAINT PATRICK’S, NORCROSS .: 3,000
Both men are members of
the Archdiocesan Finance
Committee. This year’s goal,
approved by the Archbishop
after consultation with the
Finance Committee and a
special committee of pastors,
is $250,000, the same as that
of last year’s drive.
Hennessy is president of
Hennessy Cadillac and has
served as chairman of the
Archdiocesan Finance
Committee. He is a member
of the Cathedral Parish.
Izlar is a member of the
law firm of King and Spalding
and has served on the finance
committee since its inception.
Each parish’s goal has been
CO-CHAIRMAN
Hennessy
_ . , . ,i . „ . , TOTAL ....$ 222,250
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Pentagon Denies Lettuce Prejudice
" OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP, CARROLLTON 1,000
WASHINGTON tNCl — Defense Department labor problems that would Department was obligated to SAINT BERNADETTE S, CEDARTOWN 1,000
officials here have denied charges that the nation’s have, prevented contract buy from that company. SAINT MARK’S, CLARKESVH.LE 500
military forces stepped up lettuce purchases from a fulfillment. An tle, affected by boycott c \ ,mt haithm i snn
subsidiary of Dow Chemical Co. while reducing Ag a he added? ot its lettuce, has plenty of ^AINT GERARD’S, FORT OGLETHORPE '!!!'!!! !!!.' i!!!!!!!!!2^00
t-, ii7 i ) Ov(Tnni7in(y CoTTimittPP tIJFWOCI comparing last year’s figures jf^iate * sale ^ to the SAINT MICHAEL’S, GAINESVILLE 3,000
Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC). with this year’s gives a false nment SACRED HEART, GRIFFIN 3,000
impression of the g SAINT PETER’S, LA GRANGE 3,000
Originally made in an government in the first governments lettuce-buying Ear ij er , using the same SAINT MARY’S, ROME 4,000
UFWOC press release and quarter of fiscal 1971 than m activities. principles in a similar set of. MOTHER OF OUR DIVINE SAVIOUR, TOCCOA 750
repeated in a syndicated the entire fiscal year of 1970. The Navy officer also said circumstances, the Pentagon SACRED HEART, M1LLEDGEVILLE 2,000
Moreover, the two charged, “ 5ST SA,NT JOSEPH'S, WASHINGTON 500
the charges stated that Antle is receiving more than pol,C [ ° rb , b p ract ^ ces boycotted by the United TOTAL $ 27 750
defense officials purchases the market value for its ^ Judj l those Lctices Farm Workers. GRAND TOTAL " $ 250 000
from Bud Antle, Inc., had lettuce and more than the except wnere mose practices 5 zou.uuu
soared while purchases from Pentagon is paying other might interfere wi l con rac
the UFWOC-organized lettuce producers for their Performance, Because Antle, .^:Wv.v.v.v.v^
InterHarvest had dropped. lettuce. unionize y ie . earns ers, . mT s -< • A 1 Ttjf rjl r
Fis „e S 7,,^ by Qu , sti „»e d ,to Ut -- Se ,he rS£ Peace Prize Nun Gives Award Money To Lepers |
Mankiewicz and Braden charges, a Pentagon &
indicated that Antle sold spokesman told NC News Pptpr Pnul VATICAN CITY (NC) — Mother Teresa, winner of the The archbishop admitted that many international
more lettuce to the j ba t ^e figures given were ^ ’ 5 first Pope John XXIII peace prize, told a news conference organizations would have been worthy recipients of the
accurate, but added that they , . . that she will use the $25,000 prize money to build homes peace prize, but he said he felt that they lacked the
i o i ic* had been lifted out of 10th Anniversary j:-: in India for some of the 35,000 lepers cared for by her human element of an outstretched hand of help
High schools set context. $ Missionary Sisters of Charity. epitomized by Mother Teresa.
Registering Time Navy Lt. Frederick R. anniversary o” Sts 'pete/and I she also said that she wiu come to the United States in He called her dedication to the poor that element of
. . Gorell said that while the p au l parish Decatur there $ May to open a house in Harlem for work among New human warmth that allows Christ to walk among men.
Registration deadlines are Pentagon had purchased more will be a covered dish dinner Sj York’s poor. $
this month for students leU uce from Antle so far this at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20 in the % While Archbishop Benelli and others spoke of her
entering both the year than in all of last year, school cafeteria The 60-year-old missionary nun, who has worked missionary work among the destitute on four continents,
Archdiocesan high schools, j. wo f ac ^ ors fh a t Braden and ¥: among the world’s poorest, was introduced to the press by the tiny Mother Teresa sat quietly, hunched over, with
St. Joseph’s and St. Pius X. Mankiewicz omitted should Honored guests will be $ Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, substitute secretary of state. eyes cast down.
be entered into the increased Father Joseph A Ware She received the P eace P rize from Pope Paul the previous
Jan. 15 is the deadline for buying figures . pastor, ass £ tant ' pastor $ da ^ Mother Teresa’s work shows that money alone does not
students entering St. Pius Father Michael Woods and $ b lng peace ’ Arc hbishop Benelli told newsmen. :$
from parochial schools and First, he said, is the fact Father Paul Reynolds, Sister $; Mother Teresa told newsmen that everyone loves and
Jan. 16 from 10 a.m. to noon that tbe government generally Laetitia and the Sisters'of Sts $ respects her nuns-even in some of the toughest sectors of “Justice must be accompanied by love as the basis for
for students entering from ma kes its major lettuce Peter and Paul School $ the World. The fact that they are Roman Catholics has an y true peace,” he said. “Our society is aware of the
public schools. purchase from Antle in the Monsignor Michael Manning |§ been no barrier in dealing with persons of other religions power of money, but Mother Teresa is aware of the power
first quarter of each year. former pastor, all the formed $ or no religion, she said. of poverty This is a power to be used in gaining
Jan. 22 is the deadline for . . f . , •• development.
... assistant pastors of the parish, » r *M
incoming parocmai students Comparing first quarter present and past $ The nun won loud applause when she explained how
at St. Joseph’s and Jan. 16 purchases over the past three presidents of all parish sbe would answer the criticism that the Church is too Mother Teresa could not wait for money to come to
from 10 a.m. until noon for f| Sca i years, he explained, societies Iv rich: her before helping the poor, he said, “because life and
public school students. revealed that this year’s death were to be seen everywhere she looked.”
purchase matches almost All parishioners and friends §1 “No one has ever said that to me. When the poorest of
St. Pius registration fee is exactly the purchase made of Sts. Peter and Paul have the P oor are d y in & on the ground and we come to help The P eo P le to whom Mother Teresa has dedicated her
$30 and St. Joseph s $10. two years ago in the first been invited to bring their $ them, they do not ask how rich we are.” life often do not count for anything in modern society, he
quarter, before the lettuce spe cial dish with the recipe $ said because they are too poor and too sick. But they
St. Josephs will hold an workers’organizing began. on a small index card and join $ Archbishop Benelli said he felt that Pope Paul had counted to Mother Teresa, and this is the true meaning of
nrosnective students and" Second, he said,"last year’s the parish birthday party | f <Hmd in Mother Teresa and her nuns “the incarnation of b ™ tb ^ b ° od and the reason wh Y the Po Pe honored her,
parents Jan 18 at 8 p m "n Purchase from Antle did go sponsored by the Ladies S the tenet that man is my brother. he concluded. g
the school gym. down considerably because of Auxiliary.
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