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Carter visits Newnan center
Is the peanut man coming?
NEWNAN, Ga. (UPI) - The
poster by the pool table says it
all.
Like the entwining of groping
fingers, it sounds out such mel
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ments as “I love being, I love
warmth, I love together ... I
hate empty, I hate hungry, I
hate lonely ...”
‘‘That was a gift from my
wife, and it pretty well sums up
the stories of these kids,” says
Larry Norris, 26-year -old ex
school teacher who runs the
youth rehabilitation center in
Newnan.
It was a hot, steamy after
noon as Norris prepared the 20
youngsters for a very special
visitor. Gov. Jimmy Carter was
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going to drop by, and several of
the parents were there, too. It
had been raining on the big
frame house two blocks from
downtown Newnan and it would
rain again.
Inside several of the younger
children sat patiently on a ping
pong table. Two boys shot a
game of billards in another
room. On the wide front porch,
10 boys and girls, who probably
would have been in some kind
of penal institution had it not
beenfor theNewnan center, lined
up to greet the governor.
“Is the peanut man coming?”
one asked in wide-eyed humor
and everyone laughed.
The Newnan center is one of
eight across Georgia designed
One man’s confession frees another
CHICAGO (UPI) - Wilbur
McDonald strode from the
courtroom a free man Wednes
day after spending three years
in prison for a murder he said
he never committed.
Cook County Circuit Court
Judge Frank J. Wilson, who
sentenced McDonald to 100 to
150 years in prison on a murder
charge stemming from the
July, 1970, slaying of Agnes B.
Lehman, ordered McDonald
freed on $20,000 recognizance
bond Wednesday.
Authorities decided to reopen
McDonald’s case after another
man, Lester Harrison 49,
Chicago, signed statements
which the Cook County state’s
attorney’s office said related to
the Lehman murder.
Harrison was charged Tues
day with the murder of Judith
Elaine Ott, 28, who was stabbed
to death in a public washroom
in Grant Park. Mrs. Ott was
one of four women killed in the
past year in the lakefront area,
three of them in broad daylight.
“We are reviewing the facts
of McDonald’s conviction for
the possibility that we may
have convicted an innocent
man,” a spokesman for the
state’s attorney’s office said.
The spokesman however, would
not reveal the content of
Harrison’s statements.
Wilson ordered McDonald to
return to court Sept. 25 for
another hearing on his case and
' said McDonald’s murder con-
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as an alternate to sending
youngsters repeatedly in trouble
for minor offenses to an institu
tion. They live at home, attend
school but show up daily
for sessions at the center. Cur
rently there are 20 youngsters,
called “clients” by Norris, at
the center, 15 boys and five
girls. Only two of them have
both parents at home.
“We try to instill self confi
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“Some feel rejected, a lot have
the biggest chip on their should
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you just can’t walk around like
that. Most kids have a school
related problem. We talk with
the parents and the teachers
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The ages range from 12 to 17
and the kids were chosen for
this work after an extensive
weeding out process. Still, Nor
ris says, “we get eight of every
10 kids who are taken to court
for minor offenses here.”
Those sentenced to the rehab
center must attend sessions for
a minimum of six months. Nor
ris said therapy mostly consists
of “one on one,” but there are
group sessions as well. He has
a staff of three.
Norris, who taught school in
Meriwether County for three
years after his graduation from
West Georgia College, is partic
ularly pleased that only 10 per
“I ain’t bitter, said McDo
nald. “People are only human.
cent of the youths who go
through this center are repeat
ers, compared to a 45 per cent
rectivismrate among those sent
to detention institutions. And, he
says, it costs SI,OOO per child
per year, one-fifth of what it
costs for those imprisoned.
“I love it,” Norris said. “I
feel we are doing a good job.”
He points proudly to a teen
aged boy from a family of 15
brothers and sisters who was
sent to the center a second time
and now has become an inspir
ing leader to the others.
Carter, after greeting the
“clients” and their parents,
sought out the boy. “I’m proud
of you,” he told him.
I didn’t know it would happen
this way. I thought the
Supreme Court would do it.”
A jury found McDonald guilty
of murder in October of 1971.
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 16,1973
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