Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current, May 27, 1977, Image 1

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C At a disposition hearing for a 15-year old boy who in January had pleaded no c contest to charges of second-degree 1 sexual assault, Simonson said the boy’s 1 reaction was understandable. r Complaining about provocative women’s clothing, Simonson asked, “Should we punish severely a 15-or 16- ( year-old who reacts to it normally?” i Asst. Dist. Atty. Meryl Manhardt ■ called the judge’s courtroom remarks 5 “particularly sexist.” She said the rape i was the most serious crime in the • history of Madison public schools. The judge said in an interview 'Thursday that it was “normal for 'impressionable juveniles to react J violently” to some women’s clothing because they are “groping to decide .what is proper conduct in this world.” . “Their sexual juices really start to flow at 14,15 and 16,” said the 52-year old judge. “It doesn’t take much to provoke the guy. Whether you like it or hot, a woman’s a sex object and they’re the ones who turn the man on, generally.” Oral vaccine near in rabies fight LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Scientists are nearing perfection of an oral vaccine which could be the “beginning of the end” of rabies among wild animals, the national Center for Disease Control says. ; JfMML I “Folks ought to forgive others more readily than themselves.” DAILY Daily Since 1872 Simonson found the youth delinquent and ordered him to remain at home for a year under court supervision. The boy must be tutored at home and continue receiving treatment at a nearby youth center. A 14-year-old boy accused in the case was sentenced to one year at a group home in Milwaukee. A third boy was given immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony against the others. Simonson said his remarks should not cause women to fear appearing before him in sexual assault cases, but the women protesters disagreed. “Rape is a violent crime, a terrible crime, and here is a judge calling it a normal reaction,” said a statement issued by the protesters, whose action was sponsored by the local chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). “Simonson’s usefulness is over as far as his continued judgeship is con cerned,” NOW said. “What woman would ever believe that she could receive fair treatment from him?” The protesters, including women dressed in bikinis and parkas, said they objected to Simonson’s courtroom remarks, not to the punishment ordered for the youth. In the interview, Simonson said that community attitudes toward sex can influence attitudes in a teen-age boy. He said he did not mean to imply that trying to understand why juveniles commit sex crimes condones such behavior. “We think that we are very, very close,” Dr. George Baer, chief of the CDC's viral zoonosis branch, said Thursday. A zoonosis is a disease which can be transmitted to man by animals. “Once we have this (the vaccine) in the field, I feel it is the beginning of the end of terrestrial wildlife rabies,” Baer said. Baer said researchers at the New York state health department in Albany and at the CDC facilities in Atlanta have developed a tablet which works on the same principal as patent medicine “time” capsules— the tablet has a core which is surrounded by layers of sub stances which dissolve within a given time. The vaccine was to be field tested when Jerome Andrulonis, a laboratory GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, May 27, 1977 in the area who might want it for a private lake. If there are no takers, it will be turned loose in a swamp area in Crawford County. Judge Archie Simonson People ••• and things False teeth sticking out of freshly poured section of sidewalk. Gardner checking young tomato plants to see if rain had helped. Griffin High senior to another, “The loot is beginning to trickle in.” technician at Albany, apparently suffered a laboratory infection of rabies, Baer said. Andrulonis is said to be showing improvement in a hospital, and if he recovers he would be only the second American to survive rabies. “We felt that we were very close to the initial field trials,” Baer said. “I think that there will have to be some changes (in the project) to make sure such an accident doesn’t happen again.” Baer said experiments to find some way of immunizing wild life have been under way for about 15 years. He gave much of the credit for recent research to Dr. J. G. Debbie, a veterinarian with the New York Health Department. NEWS Children are free ASSEN, The Netherlands (AP) — Four days of doubt and fear ended for 105 Dutch children and their parents early today when armed Asian ex tremists released all of the students — half of them ill with a stomach virus — and one teacher from a village school house. At least 55 hostages remained the captives of a separate band of South Moluccan terrorists on a train 15 miles north of the school. Police said three teachers and the principal remained captive in the school at Bovensmilde, a farming village in northern Holland. Authorities had said six adults were being held but the freed teacher said only himself and four others were in the crowded school. More than 50 of the children, aged 6 to 12, were suffering from a virus in fection which swept through the students crowded together in the one story elementary school, officials said. The ailing children were taken by ambulances to a hospital in nearby Assen, where 26 were admitted. Their conditions were not known. The illness was understood to have to a II * K 1 Sf« J IiJKmI L. - /J Heavy damage Vol. 105 No. 125 What a gator! see you later An 8-foot alligator, captured between Digby and Hollonville, is on his way to Crawford County. Ken Grahl, a state wildlife biologist, was in Griffin to pick up the stray gator. The alligator was captured in Spalding County by Jerome Huckaby, Gary Hubbard and V. J. Garrison, of the Georgia Game and Fish Commission. Huckaby was on his way home from work last night when he saw the gator crossing the road. The gator escaped into a cornfield. Huckaby got a neighbor, Gary caused vomiting and diarrhea at the schoolhouse. Red Cross officials told parents to give their children a hot bath and send them to bed. The children were told not to eat or drink too much at first. Dutch Justice Ministry spokesman, Wim van Leeuwen, said the six Moluccan terrorists at the school ap parently decided to let the children go as one after another fell ill. “They’re going to be all right,” said van Leeuwen. In The Hague, Premier Joop Den Uyl told reporters the government was encouraged by the developments and would work on “patiently” to win the freedom of all the hostages. Justice Minister Andreas van Agt said in a radio broadcast, “Things threatened to go wrong for a moment, but now they (the children) are all out of the school building.” He apparently referred to a terrorist complaint at one point that the operation was not moving fast enough. The government had refused to begin serious negotiations unless the children were freed. In response to questions, van Agt Fire heavily damaged the BCP building on the North Expressway last night, according to the Griffin Fire Department. The cause of the fire was listed as lightning. The building houses an automobile sales company and a machine shop. The fire was reported to the Fire Department by James Edward Pattillo who saw smoke coming from the building. The firemen responded at 8:20 and did not get all of their equipment back into the station until 11:30. Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Partly cloudy and mild through Saturday with chance of showers, mainly in the afternoon and evening. Low tonight in the low 60s. High Saturday in the mid 80s. LOCAL WEATHER — Low this morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit 64; high Thursday 84, rainfall .78 of an inch. Hubbard, and they tracked the gator. When they discovered how large it was, they contacted Mr. Garrison, a member of the State Game and Fish Commission, who lives in the Brooks Community. “I figured they found a 3 or 4 foot gator,” Mr. Garrison said. “I never dreamed the alligator would be that big.” The men lassoed the gator then tied its mouth. “He did a lot of slashing and jumping during the capture,” Mr. Garrison said. The gator was tied out in a yard until taken south this morning. denied that food sent to the hostages and gunmen had been tampered with. Authorities have been making regular deliveries of food, water and medicines to the school. The release began just after 4 a.m. and took 214 hours. Parents were held by police behind crash barriers a distance from the school. State police said seven other Moluccan extremists continued to hold their hostages aboard a passenger train they hijacked Monday. Police and troops ring the train, sitting in lush farmland north of Assen. The gunmen took the train and school hostages in a bid to force the Dutch government to free 21 Moluccan ex tremists jailed for terrorist activity in this country. The terrorists also have demanded a jumbo jet to fly themsleves and their comrades out of the country. The terrorism stems for the militants’ desire for independence for their pacific island homeland. The south Moluccas, formerly the Spice Islands, were ruled by the Dutch for centuries but became part of Indonesia in 1949 when that former Dutch colony was granted independence.