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Massacre Trial Men
To Visit Village
FT. BENNING, Ga. (UPI)-
An early January trip to Song
My village is planned by both
the prosecution and defense in
the upcoming My Lai massacre
trial.
The purpose of the unexpect
ed trip, according to Maj. Ken
neth A. Raby, will be to con
duct an intensive investigation
into the alleged incident. Raby
is defense counsel for Ist Lt.
William L. Calley, charged with
the murder of at least 109 South
Vietnamese civilians March 16,
1968.
A complete inspection of all
military records pertaining to
the affair will be made, Raby
said. As a part of the investiga
tion, villagers who lived in the
My Lai 4 hamlet at the time of
the alleged massacre also will
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Wednesday, Dec. 10, 1969
be interviewed.
Raby did not rule out the pos
sibility that witnesses, possibly
South Vietnamese, would be
subpoenaed to testify in the tri
al.
Accompanying Raby will be
Capt. Aubrey M. Daniel 111,
who has been assigned as trial
counsel (prosecutor) for the
case. Both Daniel and Raby will
be traveling on Army “special
orders”, meaning the govern
ment will incur the entire cost.
Raby said he would have to
be back at Ft. Benning by Jan.
20. At that time Trial Judge Lt.
Col. Reid Kennedy will hear a
petition filed by Raby asking
that all charges against Calley
be dropped. Raby charged it is
impossible for his client to re
ceive a fair trial.
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demolition team undergoing training at Coronado, Calif. Recruits spend 20 weeks at
the Naval Amphibious Base in which they are subjected to cold, pain, sand and misery
to see how they’ll react when physically beat.
Georgia News
Look A
k At Problems
ATLANTA (UPI)- U.S. Agri
culture Undersecretary Phil
Campbell urged Tuesday for ru
ral legislators to begin taking a
long, hard look at urban prob
lems.
Speaking at a Kiwanis Club
meeting, Campbell also looked
at the farmers’ dilemma, stat
ing, “It takes a whale of a lot
of money to be a farmer.” He
estimated that just to begin
farming today takes at least
1200,000.
Noting that rural problems
exist, the former Georgia agri-
_ Black Leaders Push
ATLANTA (UPI) - Charging
“we are through with white
folks’ politics,” the newly
formed Black Leaders’ Coalition
Tuesday reinforced its backing
of a slate of candidates it al
ready has endorsed for state of
fices next year.
The Coalition’s endorsed can
didate for governor, Albany at
torney C. B. King, said he
would announce in a press con
ference Thursday whether he
would accept the endorsement.
A well - known civil rights
worker in Georgia, King also
was endorsed by the Georgia
Voters League in a Macon con
vention. But he said he wanted
time to sound out blacks across
10 Years In LSD CasE
ALBANY, Ga. (UPI) - Su
perior Court Judge Asa Kelly
Tuesday levied a prison term of
10 years against a 19-year-old
Albany youth who pleaded
guilty of selling LSD.
Under a recently-enacted law,
the youth, Lynn Edward Smith,
could have received up to 40
years in prison for his actions.
Kelly’s 10-year sentence was
the maximum he could impose
under the new statute.
Teacher Pay Raise
NEWNAN, Ga. (UPI)-Dr.
Franklin Shumake, president of
the Georgia Education Associa
tion, said Tuesday the legisla
ture must give “No. 1 priority”
next year to salary increases
for teachers.
Shumake, speaking to educa
tors here, said there was no in
crease in teacher salary during
the past year while “several
surrounding states” increased
Baptist Missions
ATLANTA (UPI)-The execu
tive committee of the Georgia
Baptist Convention adopted a
$1,062,165 budget for state mis
sions in its first meeting after
the annual session here.
The committee deferred ac
tion on a proposal that the con
vention conduct a $3 million
drive to support Baptist colleges
in Georgia.
The convention had recom
mended raising the $3 million
locally to help the six Baptist
colleges. The recommendation
Peach Fire Probed
ATLANTA (UPI)-Chief state
arson investigator C. A. Bowden
says he believes the fire that
did $150,000 worth of damage to
the Peach County courthouse
was “definitely of suspicious
origin.”
Bowden joined the investi
gation into the pre-dawn blaze
Monday that destroyed the pub
lic library and damaged several
offices in the courthouse in Fort
Valley.
Both Bowden and Fort Valley
Fire Chief N. W. Jordan de
clined to link the fire with some
KENNEDY OBJECTS
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy has
accused Newsweek magazine of
failing to “provide a balanced
view” in the article it ran after
the death of his father, former
Ambassador Joseph P. Kenne
dy.
In a letter published in the
magazine’s current edition,
Kennedy objected to the
statements that his brother,
Joseph Jr., had been “reckless”
in the World War II mission
that took his life; that the elder
Kennedy had been “ashamed”
that his daughter Rosemary
was mentally retarded; and
that his father “sired” his
children and then left them to
“be raised by my mother.”
culture commissioner said rural
legislators must remember “75
to 90 per cent of farm children
will live in urban areas.” Be
cause of this, he said, the rural
legislator has his responsibil
ities to urban life as well.
Although farmers have been
limited in profit because of
their ability to overproduce,
brighter economic days are
ahead for them, he said. An
ever - increasing population will
more than compensate, he pre
dicted, for the former problems
of overproduction.
the state to determine if he in
fact was their choice.
The Rev. Andrew Young, a
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference official, charged
blacks in Georgia have been
forced to “play survival poli
tics” for 100 years. This, he
said, is why the Coalition ac
tively will seek to elect its en
dorsed candidate for governor.
Calling on black Georgia vo
ters to “set in motion a new po
litical movement,” Young urged
blacks to “create a power struc
ture” of their own.
In the past, he said, the only
choice black voters in Georgia
have had was between “the
lesser of evil white candidates
which white folks chose.”
Smith was arrested at an al
leged LSD party Friday at the
home of a Navy wife whose
husband currently is serving in
Vietnam. Although two girls
one 15 and one 17 years old—
another 19-year-old boy and a
Navy man also were at the
residence, they were not
charged.
The 36 doses of LSD were
found in the freezer compart
ment of a refrigerator at the
home, police said.
salaries by 10 per cent and the
cost of living “is increasing by
approximately 5 per cent.”
“The single most important
factor in quality education is an
excellent teacher,” Shumake
said. “The public must demand
that we recruit excellent teach
ers, and the legislature must re
spond to these demands with
adequate financing for teacher
salaries.”
stemmed from a debate over
acceptance of federal funds by
Baptist institutions.
The executive committee
named Dr. J. R. Robinson, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church
in Augusta, as its chairman and
Dr. James T. Burrell, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of
Bainbridge, as vice chairman.
The Rev. Waldo Woodcock of
Rome was elected secretary of
the Church Training Depart
ment.
small fires the previous day at
Fort Valley State College. The
campus blazes were started by
Molotov cocktails, officials said.
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Audit Blames
Overpayment
On Burson
ATLANTA (UPI)—A state au
dit released Tuesday charged
Welfare Director William Bur
son with the responsibility for
a $67,353 error in welfare pay
ments.
The audit also charged Bur
son had taken no corrective
measures to prevent a similar
overpayment in the future. “The
required adequate control over
computer input has not been
established,” the report said,
“and the department and the
state are exposed to further er
rors similar in nature.”
In the report, State Auditor
Ernest B. Davis cited a com
puter error in welfare checks
issued July 1, 1969. “This error
was apparently the direct result
of a change in operating proce
dure on check issuance,” the
audit said.
However, Davis said when
the changeover to the new sys
tem was made, certain controls
over input to the computers
also were eliminated “over the
written protest of the depart
ment’s fiscal officer, Mr. Henry
Jackson.”
Noting the error occurred in
the 1970 fiscal year and was not
“relevant to the 1969 audit,”
Burson said the audit report
was a play at politics.
Out of the $67,353 overpay
ment, Burson said, all but
$16,338.25 has been recovered.
He added, “We are continuing
to make recoveries daily.”
Burson said, as he stated
when the incident initially was
uncovered some months ago,
that the error was “a human”
one. He also said he had re
ceived no written protests from
Jackson about the new compu
ter procedure.
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