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A small twin-engine plane crashed in a residential area
east of here hitting the rear of a house setting it ablaze,
but causing minor damage to the structure. The craft was
DeKalb crash kills two
ATLANTA (UPI) - Two men
were killed late Friday when
their small twin - engine plane
crashed into the rear of an oc
cupied house on an approach
to a suburban airport.
The pilot was identified as 52-
year-old John Ottley McCarty
of Atlanta, and the passenger
was 40-year-old Clifford Jerome
Harris of Decatur. No other in
juries were reported.
The plane hit the rear of a
house owned by Mr. and Mrs.
Warren Dobson. Dobson, a 53-
Half in prison mentally
By JACK WILKINSON
ATLANTA (UPI) - The per
centage of mentally retarded
persons in Georgia’s prison
system is staggering.
More than one-third of the
adults and nearly half the
juveniles in the state’s penal
network fall into that category,
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year-old retired worker for the
National Center for Disease Con
trol here, had just set the table
for dinner and walked into his
living room when the plane’s
wing clipped the wall of his
kitchen and burst into flames.
His wife arrived home about
25 minutes later.
A Federal Aviation Admini
stration spokesman said the
Beechcraft Baron was enroute
from Jackson, Tenn., to the De-
Kalb-Peachtree Airport when it
according to a survey, and the
number could be higher.
The estimate was based on a
survey of 4,799 adult prisoners
and 875 incarcerated juveniles
by the Atanta Association for
Retarded Children. They repre
sent about half the state’s
entire prison population.
The association, which has a
on a flight from Jackson, Tenn., and was making an
approach to a local airport when it went down. Two
persons were killed in the accident. (UPI)
went down in DeKalb County,
east of Atlanta, about 4:30 p.m.
The spokesman said the pilot
had been in touch with the con
trol tower just prior to the crash
but had not reported any trouble.
John Beech, a DeKalb County
deputy, said he saw the plane
flying toward the airport and
“suddenly it nosed down.” He
said he rushed to the scene when
he saw the smoke from the
crash.
The four-bedroom house in a
wooded area did not catch fire.
two-year study under way,
wants to find ways of keeping
these people out of prison in
the first place, to provide
community programs, and to
better educate the police and
the public.
For one thing, says young
Pat Norton, one of the pro
gram’s driving forces, “there
has to be a distinction made
between mental illness and
mental retardation. You never
cure mental retardation.”
But a retarded person can
have a useful life, both to
himself and to society if given
the chance.
“It’s difficult to get people to
accept a retarded person,” said
Norton. “It’s going to be a little
more difficult to get them to
accept a retarded offender.”
Norton, on leave from the
Department of Offender Reha
bilitation, maintains there is a
great need for change in
Georgia’s criminal code in
order to better deal with the
retarded person. But he is
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The two-seater plane, which
was owned by the pilot and
based at the DeKalb-Peachtree
airport, had nosed into the car
port beside the house.
The victims were business as
sociates at Audichron Co. Inc.
of Chamblee, where McCarty
was president and Harris man
ager of field engineering.
Authorities said the cause of
the crash was unknown, but is
being investigated by DeKalb po
lice and the FAA.
quick to point out he is not
blaming any segment for the
plight of the mentally deficient
who runs afoul of the law. It’s
just that there are not enough
alternatives, not for the police
man, not for the courts, not for
the prisons.
“We are not indicting any
one . . . because they recognize
the problem,” he said. “We’re
simply trying to say there is
something better. We know
we’ve got the problem. What
the ... . are we going to do
about it?”
Acting with the full support
of Offender Rehabilitation Com
missioner Ellis MacDougall,
Norton and his cohorts are
studying alternate methods of
dealing with retarded persons,
including a series of meetings
planned statewide “to sell the
idea at the grassroots.” They
are evaluating the prison
system’s diagnostic procedures
and interviewing selected con
victs to see if they got a fair
shake in court.
Kennedy’s son
has cancer surgery
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
12-year-old son of Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy, D-Mass., un
dergoes surgery today for
cancer. His right leg will be
amputated above the knee.
The operation will be per
formed at Georgetown Univer
sity Hospital where Edward
Moore Kennedy Jr., has been
confined since Tuesday.
The illness once again
brought tragedy to the Kennedy
family, this time on what was
to have been a joyous day.
Kathleen Kennedy, the 22-
year-old daughter of the late
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and
Ethel Kennedy, will be married
ERA backers
confident
ATLANTA (UPI) - Two dip
theria deaths have spurred a
vaccination drive among Na
vajo Indians in Arizona and
New Mexico, the National Cen
ter for Disease Control (NCDC)
said Friday.
The NCDC said the deaths of
a 32-year-old Indian and a 41-
year-old Indian woman near
Shiprock, N.M., and two addi
tional cases in the area were
reported to the Indian Health
Service.
“Since the highest attack
rates have been in adults, vac
cination campaigns aimed at the
Navajo population are being
carried out in Gallup, Shiprock
and surrounding areas,” the
NCDC said.
The new cases brought to 48
the total number of diptheria
cases reported on the reserva
tion this year.
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retarded
They are, as Tom Graf, the
assoc iation’sexecutive director,
puts it, “seeing what is the
best program anywhere in the
world . . . then seeing what we
have and what needs to be
done.”
The mentally retarded per
son, says Norton, “doesn’t need
to be in prison. There, he
becomes the victim ... the fall
guy. As the IQ goes down, the
disciplinary reports go up.”
With poverty playing a major
role, the South has more
retarded persons than any other
area of America, statistics
show. Nationwide, about 10 per
cent of the prison population is
retarded, based on an IQ level
of 69. On that level, Georgia’s
incarcerated retarded convicts
would hit 27 per cent.
But Norton thinks an IQ of
79 would be more meaningful,
catching the “borderline”
cases. Using that formula, 39
per cent of the adults and 44
per cent of the juveniles in
penal institutions would be so
classified.
“In many cases, our whole
system penalizes the retarded,”
Norton said. “When he gets
into the (criminal justice) sys
tem, he can’t speak for himself,
his defense is very little. We
are not reaching these people.
All we can do is warehouse
them, provide custodial care.
We don’t provide rehabilitative
care or treatment, except in a
small number of cases. We
simply don’t have the programs
at this point.”
Georgia is not unique in this,
he said. ‘ Ihere are very few
programs in the United States
which deal with the retarded
offender,” he said.
One early step, he says, is
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to David Townsend, a 25-year
old Harvard doctoral student.
Dick Drayne, Kennedy’s
press secretary, Friday an
nounced young Kennedy’s ill
ness and the operation after the
youth was told.
Immediately after the an
nouncement, President Nixon
telephoned Kennedy and talked
to him and to young Kennedy.
Drayne said the senator and
his wife were “deeply touched
by the President’s thoughtful
ness.”
Drayne said the malignancy
is below the knee, although the
leg will be amputated above the
knee, and added that it was
correct to term the ailment
bone cancer.
Bone cancer is relatively rare
and difficult to treat but it is
one of the more common
cancers in boys, the National
Cancer Institute said.
Bone cancer, which accounts
for only one half of one per
cent of all cancers among all
Americans, is the fourth most
common cancer among boys
under 15 after leukemia, brain
cancer, and cancer of the
lymph nodes.
Statistics compiled during
1955-64 indicated that the
median survival rate for bone
cancer patients under 25 was
1.6 years.
Sen. Kennedy has been at his
son’s side constantly since he
first went to the hospital for
tests last Friday. Mrs. Kennedy
rushed home from Europe to be
with her son.
Young Kennedy is a seventh
grade student at the private St.
Albans School in the District of
Columbia. He was described by
Drayne as a typical, average
sized 12-year-old who plays
football, sails with his father,
and enjoys all the other
pursuits of a 12-year-old.
The Kennedys have two other
children, Kara 13, and Joseph
Patrick, 6.
better police training in this
area, expanded educational
programs teaching officers
“how to deal with the culturally
deprived, like the kid from the
inner city, who is mentally
retarded.”
“But too often, the policeman
says, ‘I don’t have time to be
an analyst or psychologist when
a kid has a gun on me’,”
Norton said. “This is not what
we’re about. We’re not telling
the policeman not to protect
himself. We’re merely saying
we can help you understand
what a mentally retarded
person is, how he acts, and it
may make your job a little
easier. We want to help him
(the policeman) give the kid a
chance to stay out of jail.”
Once in court, often the only
alternative is to plead guilty
and serve at least a third of
his sentence, or plead “innocent
by reason of reduced mental
ability” and be sent away,
perhaps for life, to a mental
institution, Norton said.
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New flu
outbreak
reported
ATLANTA (UPI) —Outbreaks
of influenza in western Australia
and England were reported Fri
day by the National Center for
Disease Control. (NCDC).
The NCDC said the causative
virus in the widespread Austral
ian epidemic had been isolated
and was similar to the A-Eng
land-42-72 virus that was wide
spread last winter.
Two influenza outbreaks in
England were centered in boys’
schools in northern and south
ern England.
The NCDC said its report on
the influenza outbreaks in Aus
tralia and England were based
on data furnished by the World
Health Organization.
The NCDC said there have
been no confirmed cases of the
disease in the United States this
fall. But it said “syifaptoms of
influenza are indistinguishable
from those of a wide variety of
viral infections, and many feb
rile upper respiratory illnesses
that occur between October and
March may be mistakenly called
influenza.”
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