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Monday, April 3, 1967 Griffin Daily Newt
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Interstate On Downhill Leg
Over the halfway mark in construction but still a long
way to go—that’s the status of the National System of
Interstate and Defense Highways project. Completion
date of the 41,000-mile system has been set back two
years, from 1972 to 1974, by a federal cutback of funds.
• At the end of 1966, 10 years after the program’s in
cepton, 24,476 miles of the Interstate are open to traffic.
Work on another 5,653 miles is under way. Engineering
or right-of-way acquisition is in progress on another 10,292
miles, meaning that 96 per cent of the 41,000-mile total
is either under way or completed. \
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Atlanta Chief Says
Drunkenness Is
Sickness, Not Crime
ATLANTA (UPI) — The At
lanta chief of police has joined
a growing number of law en
forcement officials who agree
drunkenness is a sickness and
not a crime.
Police Chief Herbert Jenkins
Urged state or county agencies
to find some place to which
habitual drunks could be taken
for treatment in lieu of the city
jail.
“We are in complete agree
ment with those who say public
drunkenness should not be a
criminal offense and that al
coholism is an illness and not a
crime,” Jenkins said following a
conference with city attorney
Henry Bowden over the prob
lem.
“The detention and care of
habitual drunks is one of the
most unpleasant and difficult
duties placed upon the Atlanta
Police Department by law and
public demand,” he said.
Jenkins said 40,000 to 50,000
persons are arrested here each
year for drunkenness. A federal
report revealed recently that 76
per cent of the city's arrests are
for drunkenness.
The report said Atlanta and
Washington, D. C., rank hghest
In the nation in the percentage
of arrests for drunkenness.
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Jenkins cited federal court de
cisions that hab’tual drunkennes
"amounts to alcoholism, is an
Illness and not a crime.” He
said persons known to be habit
ual drunkards should be hos
pitalized — and not imprisoned.
“This city has no hospital fa
cilities for alcoholics and no
such facilities have been provid
ed by the county or the state,”
Jenkins said.
“Persons on the public streets
who are (drunk)... are liable to
hurt themselves or injure oth
ers,” he said. “We must pick
up these persons and take them
some place to keep them off the
streets and prevent such in
juries.”
Jenkins said this costs the city
thousands of dollars a year,
does not help the habitual
drunkard and takes considerable
police time.
"We have no desire to engage
in any legal argument about
these unfortunate people,” he
said. “We recognize that they
are sick.”
He called for city, county and
state support and understanding
in helping to remedy the situa
tion.
The American Civil Liberties
Union of Georgia and the Emory
University Alcohol Project have
announced that a case scheduled
for Municipal Court April 13
would be made a test case.
WAS HE MASKED?
WICHITA, Kan. (UPI) —
Wichita police have the horse.
Now they are rather curious
about the rider.
Officers said they bad a
report of an Intoxicated man
riding through downtown Wichi
ta on a white horse Saturday
night. They checked and found
the horse, but the rider had
disappeared.
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tem since 1956. When finished, the cost—ss4 billion—
will far exceed earlier estimates. • States now having
the most mileage open to traffic are: Texas, 1,826; Califor
nia, 1,135; Ohio, 998; New York and Pennsylvania, each
with 975. • In the 10 years to date, more than 208,000
miles of highway have been completed in improving pri
mary and secondary highway systems and their urban ex
tensions. Total cost of this phase: $16.5 billion. (Data
furnished by the Bureau of Public Roads, U. S. Depart
ment of Commerce.)
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first time in Palatka, Fla., represents an awful lot of living,
Bob Hill (left) is 115 years old, and Rev. Tobey Crosby is
103. Both were slaves and moved to Florida in the 1800 s.
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Climbs To 18
By United Press International
Three persons died Sunday in
the mangled wreckage of an
automobile struck by a high
speed passenger train near Na
hunta in Brantley County. The
crash boosted Georgia’s week
end death toll to at least 18
persons.
The state patrol identified the
victims of the crash at Twin
Rivers Crossing as Marion E.
Grover, 55, his wife Eva R.
Grover, 55. and Jesse S. Pope,
75, all of Alma.
Officers saia wreckage was
scattered along the track for
nearly two miles. The body of
one of the victims was thrown
under the Atlantic Coast Line
train and part of the wreckage
was found in nearby Satilla
River.
In addition to victims of traf
fic accidents, a Macon man
died Saturday when fire swept
his one-room home. He was 1-
dentified as Lonzo Ling, 38.
Kathy Brown, 24, Syracuse,
N. Y., and Phillip Reed, 26,
Bloomington, Ind., died Sunday
when the car in which they
were riding went out of control
and crashed in Tift County.
Alex Aldrick, 53, died late
Saturday when he walked in
front of a truck near Blitchton
on U. S. 80 in Bryan County.
Mrs. Vira W. Ivey, 64, was
killed Saturday when she step
ped into the path of a car in
Cairo.
Other traffic victims were:*
Dennis R. Norman, 18, Edison;
Luther Palmer, 32, Soperton;
Jonny Sanford, 43, Milledge
ville; Elce Massey, 57, Colum-
ARCHIE’S BACK
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Age
less Archie Moore, former light
heavyweight boxing champion,
has been named a consultant to
the federal antipoverty agency
to work with youngsters in poor
areas.
Moore’s appointment was
announced during the weekend
by Rep. Robert L. Leggett, D-
Calif., who suggested it to the
Office of Economic Opportunity
(OEO).
The former champ started a
program of his own in
California called “Any Boy
Can’’ (ABO in which he worked
with groups of up to 100 boys
aged 8 to 15.
WIN AWARDS
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Rep.
Melvin R. Laird, R-Wis., and
Speaker Jesse M. Unruh of the
California State Assembly have
been named to receive the
"George Washington Award” of
the American Good Government
Society.
Frank M. Cruger, society
president, said Sunday that
Unurh, a Democrat, and Laird,
who is chairman of the House
Republican Conference, would
be honored at a dinner in
Washington April 20.
KILLER COMING UP
NEW PORT NEWS, Va.
(UPI) —The nuclear powered
attack submarine Ray, the
second of its kind to be built by
the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Dry Dock Co., will be
commissioned Wednesday.
The vessel, designed as a
submarine killer, features rock
et assisted and guided torpe
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bus; Frances Copeland, 42, Ma
con; Gary Sebasky, 17, Colum
bus; Mrs. Sara Allen, 32, Al
bany; Clarence Copeland, 42,
Macon; Henry Bodie, 40, Bates
burg, S. C.: and Clarence Per
ry, 65, Buena Vista.
In addition, a University of
Georgia coed, 19-year-old Mar
garet E. Walsh of Atlanta, died
Friday night of injuries re
ceived earlier in the week in a
car-train accident at Athens.
Gen. Abrams
May Succeed
Westmoreland
United Press International ..
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
Much-decorated Gen. Creighton
W. Abrams Jr., Vice Chief of
Staff of the Army, is believed to
be in line to replace Gen.
William C. Westmoreland in
Vietnam.
A top-level reshuffle could
bring Westmoreland home to be
Chief of Staff, the Army’s top
post, any time in the next 15
months if he is willing to leave
his post as U.S. military
commander in Vietnam.
Abrams, who led Gen. George
C. Patton’s armored spearheads
in World War II and broke
through to Bastogne during the
Battle of the Bulge is due back
in Washington this week from a
tour of Vietnam.
Wheeler To NATO?
He is 52 years old, 6 months
younger than Westmoreland,
and only a month junior to him
in four-star rank.
The reshuffle, if it occurs, is
expected to send Gen. Earle G.
Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, to the new
NATO headquarters in Belgium
as Commander-In-Chief for Eu
rope.
Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, the
present NATO commander, will
be 68 years old in August and
will have served three years as
a retired officer recalled to
active duty.
Wheeler, 59, is reported to be
highly regarded in Europe. His
appointment to the supreme
command would be regarded as
a move to bolster the sagging
morale of NATO.
Westmoreland Likely Chief
Gen. Harold K. Johnson, the
present Army Chief of Staff, is
regarded as a likely successor
to Wheeler as Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs.
This would leave open for
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Selection Os
Coppolino
Jury Begins
By H. D. QUIGG
United Press International
NAPLES, Fla. (UPI) — Dr.
Carl Anthony Coppolino, sun
bronzed and confident, returned
today to this sub-tropical resort
where he honeymooned in 1965
to stand trial in the alleged
slaying of his first wife, who
died just 40 days before that
new honeymoon began.
Selection of a jury from a
mong the predominantly agri
cultural citizenry of Collie r
County’s 30,000 population was
expected to take at least
Man Killed On
‘Death Row’
Near Atlanta
ATLANTA (UPI)—Two cars
collided head-on on Atlanta’s
South Expressway early today
and one of the vehicles burst
into flames, burning to death its
driver.
The victim was Identified by
police as Benjamin Bennett, 23,
of Forest Park.
Two others were injured and
taken to Grady Hospita. They
were listed as Robert J. Spratt
of the Atlanta area and Marty
Hunter of Charlotte, N. C. They
were not believed seriously
hurt.
Westmoreland the job as Army
chief, for which he was in line
when Johnson was appointed in
1964.
At that time, the pressing
importance of the Vietnam
assignment got the nod over the
highest military appointment in
the Army. However, when
asked recently “what is the tour
of duty for four-star generals in
Vietnam?, Westmoreland is
reported to have replied:
“That’s what I’d like to
know.”
He is rounding out three
years as commander-in-chief in
Vietnam.
Abrams, a native of Spring
field, Mass., wears oakleaf
clusters on the Distinguished
Service Cross, Silver Star and
Legion of Merit, as well as the
Bronze Star medal with valor
device and a number of other
decorations.
a week before Circuit Judgg
Lynn N. Silvertooth.
The defendant, a beak-nosed,
lanky, handsome retired anes
thesiologist, hypnotist and au
thor, arrived Sunday and mov
ed into a plush motel with his
second wife, Mary, 39, and
three of their children—-one of
his two daughters by his first
marriage and two of hers by a
previous marriage.
Coppolino, who will be 35 on
May 13, was on trial for his
life for the second time in four
months. On Dec. 5, his trial on
charges of murdering his
friend, retired Lt. Col. William
E. Farber, had begun in Free
hold, N. J.
On tne ninth trial day, Dec,
13, it took a jury of 10 men
and two women four hours and
27 minutes to return a. verdict
of innocent. The state had con
tended Coppolino broke a neck
cartilage when he pressed a pil
low onto the colonel’s face.
Coppolino has been free on
$15,000 bond since his return to
Florida immediately after his
acquittal.
The first wire, Dr. Carmela
Musetto Coppolino, 32, died on
Aug. 28, 1965, in the bedroom of
their home on fashionable Long
boat Key, a Sarasota suburb.
Death was attributed to a heart
attack. The state will contend
Coppolino killed her with an in
jection of an anesthetizing drug
that was thought to be untrace
able in the human body.
The state apparently will
assess as motives greed for the
money of the heavily - insured
first wife and attraction to an
other woman.
On Sept. 21, 1965, Coppolino
and Mary Williams Gibson, 39,
an attractive and wealthy di
vorcee, applied for a marriage
license. They were married on
Oct. 7 and part of their honey
moon was spent here.
But Mrs. Marjorie Cullen Far
ber, widow of the colonel who
had died in 1963 while they
were neighbors of the Coppoli
nos in Middletown Township,
N. J., went to Sarasota authori
ties and pointed an accusatory
finger at the doctor as her
former lover.
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