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Referral service matches
lawyers with clients
ATLANTA A new
Statewide Lawyer Referral
service, designed to put
middle-income Georgians in
touch with lawyers who can
provide legal help with
specific problems, began
operations on November 15.
A project of the Younger
Lawyers Section of the State
Bar of Georgia, the service
includes as its principal
features a toll-free telephone
access (800-282-5851) to the
referral office, and a
15-minute consultation with
an attorney at no charge to
determine if the problem is
one calling for professional
legal services.
According to R. William
Ide, 111, Atlanta, president of
the Young Lawyers Section,
studies have shown that
middle-income persons are
those most unlikely to have a
regular relationship with a
lawyer, and are also among
those most reluctant to seek
out a lawyer when problems
develop.
“For individuals in the
upper 10-15 per cent income
range, obtaining legal service
is no problem. Because of the
nature of their affairs, they
make regular use of lawyers
and cost is not a factor.”
“At the other end of the
spectrum,” he continued,
“the poor have access to
Legal Aid services which have
expanded dramatically in
recent years throughout the
State.”
Mr. Ide said the American
Bar Association has reported
that in 1973 some 300,000
persons used lawyer referral
services similar to the new
Georgia program to obtain
legal counsel and assistance.
Cubbedge Snow, Jr.,
Macon, president of the State
Bar of Georgia, said the
statewide lawyer refereal
service will fill an important
public need and at the same
time “help fulfill its
responsibility to make legal
services easily and
conveniently available to all
persons.”
“In far too many
instances,” he declared,
“because of the erroneous
fear that they cannot afford
legal services, individuals will
rely on non-professional
advice or simply ignore
problems which may develop
Rare white lion cub
born in Florida Safari
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
(UPI) — A rare white lion cub
has been bom at Florida’s Lion
Country Safari —the third,
according to officials, to be
born in captivity and the
second boro here.
' Lion Country officials dis
closed the birth today. The cub,
named “Sukari” (Swahili for
sugar), was reportedly boro
sometime after the 640-acre
wildlife preserve closed on
Sunday, Nov. 10, but officials
withheld announcing its birth
while they observed the animal
during “the first critical days
of its life.”
Sukari, a fourth-generation
relative of Elsa, the famed
lionness of the “Born Free”
motion picture, was bom to a
normal three-and-a-half year
old lioness named Jill.' A
normal male cub also was bom
and the two have been removed
to the park’s animal hospital,
Lion Country officials said.
The world’s first known white
lion cub, a female named
“Lucky,” was also born at Lion
Country nearly seven years
ago. A second white cub was
reportedly boro several months
ago at a privately-owned zoo at
Fort Payne, Ala.
However, both animals have
undergone color changes.
Lion Country veterinarian Dr.
Clarence Kidder said “the
hormone which produces pig
mentation in the hair is not now
present (Sukari).” But he
added that the cub is “definite
ly not albino.”
Kidder said he had noted the
presence of pigment in the
cub’s eyes and some black hair
behind her ears.
The fact that the littermate of
Sukari is perfectly normal
indicates that two different
eggs were fertilized in the
mother, the veterinarian said.
“Unlike cases of white tiger
cubs which are genetically
linked, I believe these white
lion cubs are the direct result
of some hormonal deficiency,”
Kidder theorized.
Park officials said Sukari and
her brother were taken from
the mother’s pen because the
lionness had previously rejected
another litter which produced
only normal cubs.
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THE SCOPE of the Statewide Lawyer Referral Service is
visually represented on an “at-a-glance” reference map used by
lawyer referral coordinator, Karen Larsen. She can refer a caller
immediately to an attorney close by who can provide
competent legal assistance. The toll-free number is:
800-282-5851. (PRN)
into serious difficulties.”
“Through this service,” he
continued, “a person can at
least talk with a qualified
attorney who can tell him
whether or not he has a legal
problem and, if so, what
needs to be done about it.”
Atlanta attorney James L.
Smith, 111, chairman of the
LRS Committee, described
how the service will operate:
“A person wishing to
consult a lawyer will call the
toll-free number. A staff
member will ask the caller
questions from a prepared
form designed to gain the
maximum information in the
least time. If it appears the
individual does have a legal
problem, an in-person
appointment will be made
with an attorney who is
practicing in a location -
convenient to the caller.
“The attorney’s name will
be taken from the top of a
list of other attorneys who
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have agreed to handle specific
types of cases - divorce,
consumer truth-in-lending,
landlord-tenant, etc. Some 36
different fields of law have
been designated by the 280
lawyer-panel members who
have signed up for the
program.
“At the beginning of the
appointment, the LRS
attorney will advise the
prospective client that there
is no charge for the initial
15-minute consultation; and
that fees for any services or
consultation beyond that
point will be subject to
discussion and agreement
between the attorney and
client.”
Mr. Smith said the new
YLS service will not make
referrals for callers in the
metropolitan Atlanta area
because it is already served by
the Lawyer Referral Service
of the Atlanta Bar
Association. (PRN)
Searchers looking for bodies
MACON, Ga. (UPI) - As
about 500 searchers comb a 75-
mile stretch of central Georgia
looking for two hostages be
lieved murdered by ex-convict
Paul Knowles, the suspect’s
attorney is in custody of U.S.
Marshals pending a custody
fight over a tape-recorded diary
of Knowles’ travels in recent
weeks.
Old Bible
helped
find heirs
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
The seven-year search for the
lost heirs of a $1.5 million
fortune has ended with the aid
of an antique Bible.
Nashville tobacco plantation
owner Ben Drane died in a file
seven years ago, at the age of
100, leaving an inheritance to
Mrs. M.W. Lackey, 75; George
Drane, 73; Walter Drane, 89,
and Lee Drane, 30.
Drane’s wife, Martha, had
left him in 1914 and moved her
family west, finally settling in
Oklahoma City. When she died
in 1948, she had not re
established contact with Drane.
Martha Drane had told her
children they stood to inherit
some money when Drane died,
but they “thought it was all a
pipedream,” a spokesman for
the family said Monday.
Drane’s Nashville lawyer sent
two investigators, Ben Jones
and J.R. Jones, to contact
every Drane they could find
across the country, in hope of
finding the heirs.
“It was tough tracking these
folks down,” Ben Jones said as
he and his partner prepared to
fly back to Nashville Monday,
their work finished.
“I’ll bet they can use the
money, though,” Jones added.
“I wouldn’t describe any ot
them as real poor but they
aren’t rich either, until now,
that is.”
In order to establish their
relationship with Ben Drane,
the heirs used a 125-year-old
’ family Bible brought to
Oklahoma by Martha Drane.
The date of the couple’s
marriage was recorded in the
Bible, along with names and
birthdates of all five of their
children.
One of the children died
several years ago.
The attorney, Sheldon Yavitz
of Miami, said Tuesday he has
tapes that record a verbal
diary made by Knowles. Police
want the information in connec
tion with their investigation into
murders in four states.
Yavitz said Knowles gave
him the recordings with a letter
instructing him not to listen to
them until Knowles’ death or
other instructions, and he had
not played the tapes. He did not
say when the tapes were made
but implied they were recorded
since Knowles’ parole from a
Florida prison last May.
U.S. District Judge Wilbur
Owens declined comment on
the case after a 30-minute
closed-door hearing, after
which Yavitz was led away by
the marshals. Yavitz said to
turn the tapes over to the FBI
would violate the confidentiality
of the lawyer-client relation
ship.
Knowles, a suspect in mur
ders in Georgia, Alabama,
Florida and Ohio, has remained
silent in his Macon jail cell
except for giving his name and
Orlando, Fla., address when
questioned by authorities from
the four states.
“The search has not turned
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up any thing at this point,” said
Georgia Highway Patrol
spokesman Bill Wilson. “We
feel that we have been able to
narrow down the territory
somewhat, however.
“We have a highly reliable
witness who sold gasoline to
Knowles and the two hostages
Saturday afternoon at Abbeville
about 4 p.m. We believe the
hostages are somewhere be
tween Abbeville and Macon.”
Authorities fear the hostages
—Florida state trooper Charles
E. Campbell and James Meyer,
a 29-year-old Wilmington, Del.,
businessman —were killed and
dumped along the road, proba
bly near U.S. 129.
Wilson said Knowles bought
some clothes at a department
store in Macon Saturday night
with Campbell’s credit card,
and that he was alone when he
checked into a Macon motel
about 9:45 p.m. Saturday.
Knowles, accused of two
murders and a suspect in
perhaps 10 others, was cap
tured after he ran a roadblock
Sunday in McDonough about
125 miles north of Abbeville.
The highway patrol set up a
'command post in Perry to
coordinate the search, which
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, November 20, 1974
was hampered by poor visibili
ty which kept search aircraft
grounded most of the day.
The Abbeville service station
attendant told authorities he
pumped gas into a 1974 blue
ALTON D.
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SHERIFF of
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A life-long resident of the
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Ford Torino occupied by
Knowles and the two hostages.
He said Knowles was in the
back seat and he believed
Campbell was driving.