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Juvenile sleeps
on floor of jail
The juvenile cell at the
Spalding County jail is so
inadequate that one of five
youths being held there had to
sleep on the floor last night.
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert
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academy
invitation
Griffin Police Chief Leo
Blackwell announced today that
Captain Wallace E. Pitts, head
of the department’s detective
bureau, has been invited to
attend the next session of the
FBI National Academy.
Capt. Pitts is the sixth person
from the department to be in
vited. Chief Blackwell, who
retires Thursday, is the only
man still on the force who
graduated from the FBI school.
Pitts will attend the 97th
session which begins April 1 and
continues through June 21.
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WIGHAM, Ga. — Snake hunter W. L. Stucky listens with a
length of hose for the sound of a buzzing rattler down a
gopher hole during the Annual Rattlesnake Roundup here.
Stucky found a cold-blooded 6-footer, deep in the hole and
coaxed it out by pouring gasoline down the hose. These
doesn’t like it. He believes the
state ought to do something
about it.
He said it is the state’s
responsibility to provide facili
ties for juvenile detention.
The sheriff said he had wired
Rep. George Busbee and Rep.
James (Sloppy) Floyd stating
the need for detention facilities
for this area and asked them to
support a move in the legisla
ture to get one built.
PUSHES BILL
Rep. Clayton Brown has been
pushing for funds for a facility
for the Mclntosh Trail counties
in this session of the General
Assembly.
Sheriff Gilbert said the
modern concept in dealing with
juvenile offenders is that they
should not be housed with
adults.
Sheriff Gilbert said he agreed
with this concept.
But he said there is no
provision for detaining
juveniles here so he has to use a
cell in the Spalding jail.
FEMALE CELL
He houses them in a cell
previously used for female
prisoners.
It’s the best he can do, the
sheriff said. And he doesn’t
think that is good enough.
He said the youngster who
had to sleep on the floor did
have a mattress last night. But
the sheriff said he didn’t think it
was right to make a juvenile
sleep on the floor.
When the courts say a
juvenile should be detained,
Sheriff Gilbert said he has two
choices: put him in jail or turn
him back on the streets until
space can be found in a state
facility for him.
WHAT’s USE?
What’s the use of making
arrests, taking youngsters into
juvenile court and then turning
them back on the streets, the
sheriff asked?
He said “you might just as
well not had the court session in
the first place.”
He said he did not mean to
imply that anyone in the law
enforcement or judicial system
was at fault. He said he simply
thought the state should meet
Rattlesnake roundup
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its responsibilities and provide
detention space.
“I, like most people agree
that juveniles should not be
housed with adult criminals. I
do think many juveniles should
be placed in detention, hope
fully for correction or
rehabilitation.
POLICY
“It has been my policy for
Georgia House
defeats ERA
ATLANTA (U PI )-The House,
telling women’s rights advo
cates to, in effect, “wait ’til
next year,” rejected the contro
versial Equal Rights Amend
ment 104-70 Monday.
While the count was only 21
votes shy of the constitutional
margin needed for passage, the
decision prevents the ERA from
being reconsidered until the
1975 General Assembly.
The ERA has been approved
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
67, low today 52, high yesterday
70, low yesterday 58, high
tomorrow in mid 60’s, low
tonight in mid 40’s. Sunrise
tomorrow 8:39, sunset
tomorrow 7:13.
“The Bible’s a popular book
because folks choose the parts
they like — and ignore the
others.”
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Eastern Diamondbacks don’t like the gas fumes. Some
$695 in prize money is paid to persons getting the largest,
heaviest and the most number of poisonous reptiles.
(UPI)
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, January 29, 1974
several years not to hold
juveniles unless absolutely
necessary. When the court
sentences a juvenile to deten
tion and no space is available
anywhere in the state, then it is
necessary for me to hold them
in the county jail. Because no
space is available, I am now
holding five in jail. Because of
by 32 states and needs a “yes”
vote from six more states to
make it the 27th Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution.
The legislature will approve
it eventually, said Rep. Elliott
Levitas, D-Atlanta, who predict
ed it will become the law of the
land.
The House tackles controver
sial legislation again today
when it considers a bill that
would give bank holding
companies permission to
purchase up to 20 per cent of the
stock in smaller banks. Under
present law, banks may only
purchase five per cent.
Opponents of the move argue
it will lead to statewide branch
banking and the decline of small
independent institutions.
Amid the four hours of floor
debate on the ERA, supporters
compared it to the civil rights
controversies of the last two
decades, and opponents’ argu
ments ranged from the national
defense to Communism and
homosexual marriages.
Fearful of the effect women in
combat would have on the na
tion’s armed forces, Rep. W. W.
Larsen Jr., D-Dublin, questioned
if they could do the job and said
the safety of the country is at
stake.
“Where would we have been
when we were attacked at Pearl
Harbor if we had to line up
men and women equally?” he
said.
the type facilities at the county
jail, it is now necessary for one
of these five to sleep on a
mattress on the floor. This
problem is growing worse and,
in my opinion, efforts must be
made now by the state to
correct this problem,” the
sheriff said.
SEPARATED
He said the cell where the
juveniles are housed now is
separated from the adult sec
tion by a door. He said it’s
possible for juveniles to hear
conversations in the adult
section with not much effort.
The sheriff thinks it’s a bad
situation and wants the state to
do something about it.
Previously Spalding County,
under agreement with Fulton,
could send juveniles there until
space could be found for them in
state facilities. Sheriff Gilbert
said Fulton County had to
change its policy and no longer
can house Spalding offenders.
He said sometimes there is
some space available in the
Clayton County juvenile facility
and Spalding can use this. But
right now, Clayton can’t take
any juveniles from Spalding.
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By United Press International
Energy Bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-
Wash., said he believed both the Nixon administration and
the oil industry were engaged in “an organized effort to
defeat or recommit” an emergency energy bill the Senate
is debating.
But a key administration spokesman, John C. Whitaker,
Undersecretary of the Interior, said Nixon had done about
all he could to help solve the fuel shortage and the rest is
up to Congress.
Impeach resolution
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Republican members of the
House Judiciary Committee decided Monday to try to
include an April 30 cut-off date for an impeachment vote
in a resolution.
The resolution, on which the committee is expected to
vote Thursday, seeks a formal House mandate for
continuing the impeachment inquiry and subpoena
powers for the panel.
If the Judiciary Committee should fail to recommend
any articles of impeachment, it would not mean there
would be no House vote on impeachment, Speaker Carl
Albert said Monday.
Will not skirt issue
CAMP DAVID, Md. (UPI) — President Nixon,
according to one aide, “will not skirt the Watergate issue”
when he delivers his State of the Union address to
Congress Wednesday. There were no indications of any
legislative surprises.
Withdrawal
ALONG THE SUEZ FRONT (UPI) — In the second
stage of a phased withdrawal, Israeli troops in tanks and
trucks started pulling out today of the northern sector of a
560-square mile bulge of Egyptian land along the Suez
Canal’s west bank.
Cuts are opposed
VIENNA (UPI) — Officials of the world’s major oil
producing nations expressed doubts today about going
along with Saudi Arabia’s call for cutting soaring
petroleum prices. They said Algeria and Iran especially
were opposed.
Police alerted
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — All available police units
were on alert today to hunt for at least two gunmen who
killed four persons and critically wounded another in a
rash of apparently motiveless shootings Monday night.
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Brown and wife look over Distinguished Service Award certificate and plaque.
Award surprise
to Wayne Brown
Wayne Brown thought he had
come to the Jaycee meeting last
night to talk about the blood
mobile. Instead he was present
ed the Distinguished Service
Award for 1973.
It took him by surprise.
Brown said he almost lost his
composure when Jim Webb
started reading some
biographical information about
the person who would receive
the award.
Brown’s wife was sitting in
the wings of the Moose Club ball
room to hear the award
{resented. He didn’t know she
was there.
“He is a dedicated family
man, is married and has two
children, a girl and a boy,”
Webb began.
“He is a member of the
Mclntosh Baptist Church where
he is a Sunday School teacher in
$2-billion suit
filed against
7 oil firms
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) - A
Chatham County commissioner
and a private citizen have taken
on seven major oil companies
in a $2 billion class action suit
filed Monday in U.S. District
Court here.
Commissioner Albert A. Sad
ler, an attorney of 42 years, and
James S. Goethe HI accused
the seven companies of violat
ing the Sherman and Clayton
antitrust acts.
The suit names Amoco, Gulf,
Exxon, Standard, Shell, Texaco
and Union oil companies as de
fendants and accuses them of
“conspiring to raise, fix, main
tain, tamper with and other
wise manipulate and control
wholesale and retail prices of
gasoline and fuel oil.
The suit also alleges the com
panies have restricted the avail
ability of oil and gasoline.
“I just do not believe there is
any fuel shortage,” Sadler said.
He said he is firmly convinced
that refinery reserves are not
as short as the companies have
alleged to distributors.
Forecast
Warm
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the Young Adults Department,
a member of the Pulpit Com
mittee in 1973, a lecturer at
training seminars, and is very
active in the Royal Ambassa
dors of the Mclntosh Baptist
Church, having accompanied
them on several trips. He is
active in numerous scouting
programs.”
By now, Brown knew Webb
was talking about him. But he
still couldn’t believe it.
He (Brown) graduated from
the Georgia Southwestern
College in Americus where he
financed a vast majority of his
college expense through hard
work. He started at Dundee
Mills as a trainee, was later
promoted to training supervisor
and is now the training and
safety director for the entire
corporation, Webb continued.
Brown was chairman of the
very successful Red Cross
Bloodmobile program in 1973.
On a voluntary basis, he has
given a helping hand to the
Jaycees, United Fund and any
other worthwhile causes he has
been asked to lend a helping
hand, Webb said.
He said Brown was active in
sporting, being an expert
canoeist and a good tennis
player.
“He is, indeed, a unique in
dividual who has shown his
interest and concern for his
community through dedicated
personal, religious and com
munity service,” Webb said.
A committee of judges
screened nominations from the
public to pick Brown for this
year’s award.
Earlier in the evening Ken
Bagwell of the Jaycees had
introduced past presidents and
asked those present to say a
little about the year they had as
leader of the organization.
Another feature of the meet
ing was the introduction of
“bosses” by Jaycees who had
brought their employers to the
meeting. The “bosses” night
feature has become another
part of the awards night
program.
Dewey Vickery, president
this year, handled the program
for the evening.