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Gov. Maddox’ Gamble
Called Great Success
ATLANTA (UPI) —Gov. Les
ter Maddox’s gamble on 153
young prison Inmates apparent
ly has paid off.
According to figures released
today by the Pardon and Pa
role Board, only eight of the
teenagers who were released
prematurely from the Georgia
Industrial Institute at Alto as a
“pilot project” have been re
turned to jail.
Reports from parole officers
around the state indicate after
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Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1967
three months of freedom many
of the young offenders are bet
tered behaved now than before
they were imprisoned. Most
have jobs or are in school and
training programs.
Among the descriptions from
officers were, “subject’s at
titude better now than when in
carcerated,” and "seems to be
adjusting well,” and “a little
hard headed, but all right.”
Maddox released the young
sters Sept. 8. All of them had
less than six months to serve,
had good conduct records and
promised they would go
straight. If they committed a
crime, they had to serve the re
mainder of their original sen
tence.
The eighth inmate to be re
turned was Rufus Gray of Crisp
County, who was ordered back
to jail last week for allegedly
stealing S4OO in pecans and
changing a check from $6 to
S6O.
In addition, one Inmate was
killed in a bar room fight he
apparently started.
These are apparently excep
tions to the rule, however.
According to a Labor Depart
ment report on 132 of the in
mates, 61 are working, 11 have
been referred to employers, 14
have gone back to school, three
had been fired from jobs, nine
had applied or the Job Corps
and other such training and 26
could not be contacted. The
others had either returned to
jail or were deceased.
Parole Board member J. O.
Partain Jr. said some of the in
mates not covered In the labor
survey had gotten jobs through
other means.
“I think it’s been a great
success,” said Partain.
700,000 Pounds
Os Yarn Destroyed
In LaFayette Fire
LAFAYETTE, Ga. (UPI) —
Some 700,000 pounds of yarn
was destroyed when a fire
struck a large warehouse near
here Monday night, causing an
estimated $75,000 damage.
Authorities said fire units
from four communities were
called to battle the blaze at the
warehouse on U. S. 27 about
three miles south of here. There
were no injuries reported.
The yarn was to be used by
area textile mills in the making
of carpets.
ATTENDED BALLET
STOCKHOLM (UPI) — Prin
cess Lee Radziwill and King
Gustav VI Adolf were in the
audience Friday night for the
opening of Tchaicovsky’s “Nut
cracker Suite” ballet with
Rudolf Nureyev at the Royal
Opera.
DISPUTED QUESTION
The question as to which Pha
raoh ruled Egypt at the time of
the exodus of the Israelites re
mains in dispute. The traditio
nal and most general view is
that Rameses n was the Pha
roah o fthe oppression and eith
er Mernepta or Menphthal of
the Exodus.
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He Made Picture
Weatherman Horace Westbrooks recognized the photograph of a steam engine
published in the Griffin Daily News as one he made some 20 years ago. West
brooks, then a member of the Griffin Camera Club, said it was the only one he
ever submitted that was graded 100 percent. It was displayed in many camera club
exhibits across the nation. He made the picture of a steam locomotive passing under
the Sixth Street bridge.
Victimizing Os Inmates,
Families Must Stop,
Partain Tells Board
ATLANTA (UPI) — Pardons
and Paroles Board Member
J. O. Partain Jr. today recom
mended strict new legislation to
control unscrupulous attorneys
and “influence peddlers” who
he said are victimizing prison
inmates and their families.
Partain said in a letter to the
board that prison sentences and
fines should be given to any
person who accepts money to
influence the board or who even
claims to have influence on the
board. The legislation would al
so prevent attorneys from rep
resenting inmates until after
they had first been turned down
by the board.
Partain said, as an example,
he himself has been offered
$5,000 to influence a state de
partment head.
In addition, he said, a north
west Georgia attorney had col
lected SI,OOO for representing a
Rep. Albert Charges:
March On Pentagon
Partly Communists
ATLANTA (UPI) — House
Democratic Leader Carl Albert
has blasted the recent peace
march at the Pentagon as "ba
sically organized by internation
al Communism,” in the most
resounding attack by a Congres
sional leader on critics of the
Vietnam war.
Admitting that the march in
cluded well meaning persons
with honest differences of opin
ion with the administration,
Albert said the marchers “in
cluded every Communist and
Communist sympathizer in the
United States who was able to
make the trip.”
He branded war dissenters in
this country “a Communist
serving fifth column.”
The Oklahoma Democrat
called for dissenters to “stop
stabbing our soldiers in the
back. Stop helping the enemy.
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prisoner before the board, then
dropped the case and kept the
SI,OOO when the family couldn’t
afford to pay more. He did
nothing for the inmate, who
wasn’t even eligible for parole
until 1970, according to Partain.
Partain also said a legislator
had charged a prisoner SSOO to
influence the board. He said the
legislator was not even a law
yer.
“Almost daily I am sickened
by the callous trafficking In the
lives and freedom of prison in
mates and the victimizing of
them and their families by un
scruulous persons who are
nothing more than influence
peddlers,” Partain said.
“We need a massive broom
to sweep the influence peddlers
out of the state Capitol, and the
historic old building needs to be
fumigated,” he said. “Let’s
drive the money-changers out.”
“Yes, everyone who makes a
speech, everyone who writes an
article lambasting our war ac
tion in time of war shows a
lack of responsibility and is like
another bullet aimed at the
back of an American soldier
fighting for freedom and liberty
on the battlefields of Vietnam,”
Albert charged.
Speaking here Monday night
to the Cotton Producers Asso
ciation, Albert said Communism
in Vietnam is lossing militarily,
but gaining moral ground
through encouragement from
critics in the United States.
He said those who oppose this
country’s war policy are help
ing the Communist cause
through a "vicious personal at
tack” on President Johnson,
"contending loudly that we
should withdraw from Viet
nam.”
Partain’s proposed legislation
would provide prison sentences
and fines for:
—Anyone other than an attor
ney charging or accepting fees
or gifts for helping an inmate.
—Any attorney claiming he
can obtain release of any in
mate.
—Any person "making a false
statement or repeating a false
rumor about influence in obtain
ing a release from the State
Board of Pardons and Paroles
or repeating any statements or
charges that cannot be proved.”
—Any person who makes a
false statement to keep an in
mate from being granted parole
or to keep a parole from being
revoked.
—Any person who discrimi
nates in pay to a parolee or ex
convict.
In addition, a lawyer would
be subject to a prison sentence
if he charged a fee to represent
an inmate the first time he is
eligible or parole or transer.
Attorneys would be allowed to
represent Inmates in appeals of
board decisions.
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Some Reservists
Must Travel 390
Miles To Meetings
By DANIEL RAPOPORT i
WASHINGTON (UPl)—Rep. (
Charles A. Vanik, D-Ohio,
charged today that thousands of
Army reservists were being :
forced to travel hundreds of '
miles for weekly drills or else
get called back on active duty. .
Vanik said more than 30,000 j
men were headed back into .
uniform for 12 to 16 months '
because of their failure to fulfil
reserve obligations "under these '
difficult circumstances.”
In a speech prepared or
House delivery, Vanik accused
the Army of administering .
“cruel punishment” to reset- ;
vists and of wasting $225 million
to call up men who are not
needed. 1
The travel problem arose, '
Vanik said, after the Pentagon
ruled that all active reservists
would have to attend drills. This
included men unable to join
units in their communities
because there were no vacan
cies, and who were excused
from meetings.
These men, assigned to paper
“control groups,” now have to
travel long distances one day a
week, travel they must pay for
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themselves, Vanik said.
Vanik said in his city o
Cleveland most “control group’
reservists face a choice o
joining units either 130 miles
away in Leetsdale, Pa., or 19
miles away in Frazier, Mich.
“In either situation, the
reservist is called upon tc
travel either 240 miles or 39C
miles (roundtrip) each week in
order to fulfill his military
obligation,” he added.
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