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Highly Decorated Gl
Admits SBO Robbery
DETROIT (UPI) - Twenty
year-old Michael Bruce Sharp,
decorated 23 times for bravery
and wounded twice during a 14-
month Army stint in Vietnam,
admits to committing an SBO
gas station holdup last July.
But he can’t figure out why
he did it.
“It just happened,” he said
Monday after appearing in
court for sentencing on the
charge to which he pleaded
guilty.
“I was, like surprised to
wake up the next morning
behind bars,” Sharp said. “I’m
just not the kind of person who
robs banks.”
Sentencing was postponed
until Jan. 29 because, said
Wayne County Circuit Court
Judge Joseph G. Rashid, “Two
psychiatric reports emphasized
that his experiences in Vietnam
were so traumatic they had a
direct effect on him later.”
Sharp, a native of West
Germany who enlisted in the
Army after becoming a U.S.
citizen, could get as much as a
15-year prison sentence for the
holdup.
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Tuesday, December 30, 1969
“You get him into a veterans’ attorney, “and I’ll hold up
hospital,” Rashid told Sharp’s sentencing.”
Williams Charges
Maddox Using
Sandersville Crisis
SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
—Southern Christian Leadership
Conference field director Hosea
Williams lashed out at Gov.
Lester Maddox Monday night,
charging Maddox is using the
racial turmoil here for “what
ever he can get out of it po
litically.”
Williams’ remarks came in
response to a statement made
by Maddox Monday morning.
The governor said the Sanders
ville racial crisis was the result
of agitation by “outsiders.”
“I’m not ever surprised what
bag Mr. Maddox comes out of,”
Williams said. “I’d only be sur
prised if it would be an intelli-
gent and honest one.”
Williams, who has assumed
leadership of black protest ac
tivities in the absence of local
civil rights leader Richard
Turner, led a protest march of
some 500 persons Monday.
Sandersville blacks are pro
testing the jailing of Turner,
who is charged in connection
with the pre - dawn Saturday
shooting of a white man out
side Turner’s home. Four other
blacks also are charged in that
shooting incident.
“We could be focusing our
immediate resources on the
wrong party,” Williams said.
“Lester has gotten by four
years with his ignorance, and
it’s time for somebody to con
front him.”
Williams said he expects
“harsh, red-neck segregation
ists to come here from far and
near” in the wake of the Mad
dox statement.
Although Williams said he
was attempting to steer blacks
away from violence, he admit
ted the task was arduous. He
said he had seen evidence of
people stashing away arms, and
he warned blacks they would
be “the major loser” if a shoot
ing riot between whites and
blacks came to pass.
“I just don’t want these
young blacks to get caught up in
this violence bag,” Williams
said. “Certainly SCLC cannot
stay in here if the blacks will
not adhere to non-violence. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., gave
his life for non-violence.”
Williams said protest activi
ties had been on a small scale
until Turner’s arrest, which got
things going.
Williams said the SCLC would
start “delving into voter regis
tration, economic activity and
setting up a meaningful school
boycott.” He said he would call
for more professional SCLC
workers to be sent here to as
sist in the massive program.
Two representatives from the
U. S. Justice Department ar
rived here Monday, Williams
said. But he did not know if
they had come in response to
his telegram.
LURE OF THE SEA draws a winter visitor to Stinson Beach, about 15 miles north of San Francisco. Californians never quite abandon their
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Smaller Cruise Ships Dethrone Queens
By DICK KLEINER
West Coast Correspondent
LOS ANGELES—(NEA)-
Just as television was sup
posed to kill the book pub
lishing business—but didn’t
—so was the air age sup
posed to spell the end of
ocean travel. But plenty of
people are still going down
to the sea in ships.
“There will always be
ships,” says ship comman
der Capt. W. B. Vickers.
“It’s changing, but it will
survive.”
One of the changes is ob
US Charges Hanoi
Using POW’s As Pawns
By RAY F. HERNDON
PARIS (UPI)-The United
States accused North Vietnam
today of attempting to use
American prisoners of war as
“pawns in bargaining for an
over-all settlement of the war.”
U.S. Ambassador Philip C.
Habib presented the Communist
delegations with a list of all
U.S. servicemen missing in the
Vietnam war in the hope they
would indicate which were dead
or alive.
Borrowing a term from the
Communists, Habib told the
Viet Cong and North Vietna
mese delegates their “piece
meal process” of releasing the
Three Georgians
Killed In Wrecks
By United Press International
Traffic accidents took the
lives of at least three persons
in Georgia Monday, two of
them in the Atlanta area.
The State Patrol said Edwin
Holmes, 68, of Atlanta was
killed Monday night when his
car smashed into a bridge
abutment on Interstate 85 about
two miles north of Atlanta.
In another Atlanta area acci
dent, Ennis Arnold Childree, 26,
of Hapeville was killed when an
automobile crashed into a utili
ty pole in East Point.
An 80-year-old pedestrian,
DRAFT CALL LARGER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
draft call for February will
total 19,000, 6,500 more than the
January call, according to the
Pentagon.
The number compares with a
spread of 22,300 to 33,700 during
each of the first nine months of
1969.
The November and December
draft calls were canceled, and
the October call of 29,000 was
spread over the final three
months of the year.
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vious along the Southern
California waterfront. Tied
up in Long Beach is the
mighty marine monster, the
Queen Mary, her ocean-go
ing days over. But puffing
busily in and out of Los
Angeles harbor are dozens
of smaller, trimmer vessels.
Vickers’ command, the
Oriana, is one of them. She’s
a neat, white liner, stopping
off in Los Angeles on her
leisurely way from Australia
to England, via the Panama
Canal.
“We’ll never see ships like
the Queen Mary and the
names of prisoners was no
substitute for making imme
diate disclosure of all names.
The Communists in past
meetings have used the “piece
meal process” term to con
demn gradual withdrawal of
U.S. troops from South Viet
nam.
Prospects for a positive
response from the Communists
were not good. During the two
week Christmas holiday recess
in the talks, the North
Vietnamese made it clear they
would not be pressured on the
prisoner issue.
“Instead of treating the
prisoner question as a humani
tarian issue,” Habib said, “your
identified as William R. Adams
of near Meigs, was killed Mon
day night. Authorities said Ad
ams was standing in the right
lane of U.S. 19 when he was
struck by a vehicle. The acci
dent happened about 6% miles
north of Camilla in Mitchell
County.
Computers
Suggested
For Solons
ATLANTA (UPI)-The Citi
zens Committee on the Georgia
General Assembly was expected
to recommended Tuesday that
operations within the General
Assembly be computerized.
The 26 - member committee,
headed by Atlanta attorney
Charles L. Gowen, said, “The
Georgia General Assembly
should have the capacity to util
ize technological applications,
where feasible, in improving the
efficiency and effectiveness of
state government.”
The committee compared the
General Assembly to big busi
ness, and said, “No large corp
oration would constrict the ef
ficiency of its operations by
failure to make use of computer
technology.”
Legislators could use compu
ters for printing bills, keeping
records, storing information,
compiling legislative history
and codifying Georgia laws, the
committee said.
“A computerized legislative
information system can elimin
ate redundancy, save time, lab
or and money and aid in the
creation of clearer and more
accurate legislation,” the com
mittee said.
Going strong these days,
trim little liners such as the
Oriana cater to a new
traveling public, the cruisers.
Gone are giants such as the
Queen Mary, shut out
of the Atlantic shuttle trade
by the airplane.
Queen Elizabeth again,” he
says.
They were built for the
North Atlantic trade, to ferry
passengers between New
York and Europe. But the
airplane has taken over that
commerce. It was never a
fun voyage—foggy in sum
mer, stormy in winter—so it
was doomed.
But now a new kind of
traveling public has come
forward, the cruisers. There
are people with the leisure
time and the money to get
on a ship and go, for the fun
of it.
side apparently wishes to use
the prisoners as pawns in
bargaining for an over-all
settlement of the war.
CHENEY AWARD
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Air Force has given its 1968
Cheney Award to Sgt. Thomas
A. Newman, 22, of Milwaukee,
Wis., for heroism in rescuing a
helicopter pilot from a South
east Asia jungle.
The Air Force said Newman
lowered himself from his
helicopter in the midst of
gunfire to grab the downed
pilot, Col. Norman P. Phillips,
and hoist him to safety on May
30, 1968.
DETECTS SIGN ALS
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
U.S. Atomic Energy Commis
sion says it has detected
seismic signals from the Soviet
Union’s nuclear test area for
the 12th time this year.
The signals came from the
Semiplatinsk region and indicat
ed a nuclear explosion in the
low intermediate yield range.
The average female Atlan
tic sturgeon produces in ex
cess of 1.5 million eggs. Pre
pared and salted, these are
known as caviar.
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In Australia, a person who
has worked for a company
for 20 years is legally en
titled to four months off,
with pay. He can add on his
regular month’s vacation,
and have five foot-loose
months—and many of them
go places via ship.
California is another huge
source of cruisers. Ship com
panies realize that the
money in California is worth
cultivating. So several com
panies call in Los Angeles,
pick up passengers and take
them places—the Caribbean,
the South Pacific, the Orient
Court Rules
In Favor
Os SNC
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) - At
torneys said Monday they will
appeal a decision awarded in
favor of Williams S. Morris 111,
and Southeastern Newspapers
Corp., in civil action.
The suit, filed by three mem
bers of Morris’ family and set
at $19,128,000, charged Morris
with making “secret arrange
ments” to acquire debentures
and options that would give him
the sole interest in the news
paper chain,
Morris’ mother, Mrs. Flor
ence H. Rickenbacker, his
brother, Charles H. Morris, and
his sister, Florence Alden Mor
ris, were the plaintiffs in the
case.
After hearing the Monday ver
dict in favor of Morris, attor
neys for the plaintiffs said they
would file an appeal with the
Georgia Supreme Court within
30 days.
Richmond Superior Court
Judge William M. Fleming., rul
ed in his decision “there is no
genuine issue as to any mater
ial fact” in the case.
The Southeastern Newspapers
chain consists of the Augusta
Chronicle and Herald, the Sa
vannah Morning News and
Evening Press, the Athens
Daily News and Banner Herald
and the Southeast Alaska Em
pire at Juneau.
—from where they can then
fly home. And there are
other, orthodox cruises to
Hawaii, the Mexican coast,
Alaska.
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