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Page 10 — Griffin Daily News Saturday, August 27, 1977 Gang battles San Quentin Prison is a prison in crisis By JACK SCHREIBMAN Associated Press Writer SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Burly “Big George” Sumner, warden of San Quentin Prison, glared across the shiny confer ence table and spit out the words like they were tough meat: “We will be in control!” Despite all the authority the 6- foot-3,250-pound prison boss put into the statement, it remains more hope than fact. For San Quentin, in the 125th anni versary of its tempestuous exis tence on a sunny hook of land jutting into San Francisco Bay, is a prison in crisis. In July, gang-inspired racial battles left three convicts dead. Now, nearly a third of the cons are “locked down” in the east block — 600 men penned in their cells all day under maximum security. MORE s<4 NEWS YHt BAD NEWS BUBS ARE DUE YUROUEB AND ONE YEAR WILDER Wpif .♦». MR” 1 . ... 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Srhneer • Rav Hanyhauwn • nwws Sam Wanamaker ’ F,lmedtnr^rama.i>^-^<- GCBIHUUAUOCKB 1m- - t PARKWOOD CINEMA II Tonight 7:15-9:15 Another 100, hardened gang leaders and members, are iso lated under the gun in the north block with little likelihood of ever returning to the main pop ulation. The rest go about their business within the walls in an uneasy peace Sumner prays will stick. Officers scan this last group for “underground” gang members who face the north block if found. “I don’t have any reason to believe the same thing would not happen again,” Sumner ad mitted ruefully of the day of violence. His main complaint is one shared in varying degrees by most of the men who have held the warden’s post at one of the world’s most notorious peniten tiaries. In short, trouble brews when hard cases are mixed with peaceful inmates who are unable to defend themselves against hate-filled crazies whose solution to disputes is sudden death at the end of a filed-down spoon. “I think the great, great ma jority of inmates want to have a peaceful, tranquil place,” he said in an interview. “But we’ve been at the mercy of gangs for some time. We were controlled. “If they decided they wanted to kill somebody, we weren’t in a position to do a heck of a lot about it.” On July 12, the decision came. Sumner said it was little con solation that the bloody ex plosions were the result of a “mistake” that pitted the nor mally peaceful Black Muslims against the Nazi-type whites of the American National Social ists and Satan’s Few mo torcyclists. As Sumner told it, the whites mistakenly killed a Muslim in the morning, thinking he was a member of the Black Guerrilla Family. The Muslims, who pro fess to be law-abiding and aloof from the troublemakers, back ed up a standing threat to re taliate when one of their mem bers is hurt. Nine hours later, the warring factions clashed with clubs and knives, turning prison corridors into a bloody battlefield. When it was over another two in mates, whites, were dead, in cluding a man who was hurled from a third-story tier. Within a few percentage points, the racial mix at 2,200- inmate San Quentin is fairly representative of the statewide prison population: White, 41.9 per cent; black, 39.7; Mexican- American, 16.7; other, 1.7. The average age at Q is about 30. Sumner says there are signs peace may return to the old bastille now that the gangs are isolated from the mainline. The warden guesses the “really hopeless bad guys” make up no more than 2 or 3 per cent of all inmates, and “the guys that be long to the gangs and have to do what the gangs decide at be tween 15 and 20 per cent at most.” Their segregation, says Sum ner, has brought hope to the peaceful inmates who could not stand up to the killers. “Now that most of the gang guys are out of the population, Vision The eye is the window of every person’s body According to the American Association of Ophthalmol ogy, the Biblical saying that the eye is the window to the soul can be extended to in clude the body. A halo in the eye, known as corneal arcus— may be a clue to diseased coronary ar teries, a condition which fre quently leads to heart attack. The halo can be seen just by looking at your eyes. Tiny hemorrhages in the eye may reveal diabetes; if not treated this can lead to permanent blindness. Eyes that bulge forward often indicate disease of the thyroid gland. Sometimes the bulge is so severe that the the peaceful prisoners are ex pressing opinions that it’s a good thing,” he said. “It’s my intention to keep the gang guys completely separate from the rest of the prison.” In the same vein, Sumner plans to create a number of small “prisons within a prison,” in the face of the legislature’s rejection this year of an ad ministration proposal for $92 million to build at least two new flexible-security prisons in California. ‘l’m trying to divide San Quentin up into small sections. ... It’s impossible to work with masses of people,” Sumner said. Even in the hard-bitten north block, swarming with hostility, Sumner entertains hopes of spiritual reconstruction. “I think some of the gangs can be dissolved, if we can work with these people as individuals and (have them) make in dividual decisions.” Then Sumner sets his jaw again: “As far as the gangs go, we have to be in control — and I’m going to do so. And they know it." He admits to much anxiety about the crowded east block, calling it a “large, unmana geable situation,” and the in mates there “600 question marks.” He adds wistfully: “It’s hard to really know in mates. ... It’s difficult to deter mine when to let them out. I don’t have any reason to believe the same thing (repeat violence) would not happen.” Sumner is unhappy with the lockdown because “it’s unfair. When lockdowns occur, many who aren’t guilty of anything are locked up with the bad ones.” He noted with profound dis appointment that feeling guided his release of a lockdown prior to the July killings. He said he had met with gang leaders “and impressed on them my intention of having a peaceful prison here. They assured me they would work to gether in harmony. They made truces with each other ... then they went out and broke them.” The gang members, he said in a voice that almost trailed to a whisper, "trusted each other, but it didn’t come about. ... They were inundated by their own hatred for each other." eyelids won’t close, even dur ing sleep. In addition, the ophthal mologist can identify signs in the eyes which reveal the presence of arthritis. For in stance, children with rheu matoid arthritis often have opaque areas of the eye known as secondary cataract. Crohn’s Disease, which af fects the small intestines, re veals itself in the eyes which are reddened and the iris is inflamed. Most people know that lack of Vitamin A can cause night blindness. But they don’t know that it can also lead to lack of tears. Thiamine (Vitamin Bl) de ficiency causes a jerking of the eyes known as nystag mus. Deficiency of Vitamin 812 reveals itself in small hemorrhages in the eye as a clue, often accompanied by loss of vision. Eyes often provide the first early warning that a stroke is in the making. When vision is momentarily interrupted in one eye and the arm on the other side is weak. Imperial Showtime Weekdays - 7:28 & 9:80 P.M. Sunday - 5:38-7:28 & 9:00 P.M, Happy Hooker g Goes To cquor Washington Showtime 8:30 ® One On One COLOR Roseßud color j. IF BJ - Ju J’ BL JB £1 L * J a [pC w| " HL ' * Pkl i - Bert’s and Zell’s dads The fathers of Bert Lance and Lt. Gov. Zell Miller were among the classmates of the Rev. Walter Twiggs at Young Harris College in North Georgia. Rev. Twiggs lives in Griffin with his daughter, Mrs. Phronia Smith. Those in this old class picture are (top, 1-r) Norman Allison, Jack Lance, father of Bert Lance, and Rev. Twiggs, (seated) Vasco Lance, Roy Curtis, Frank Miller and Grady Miller, father of the lieutenant governor. Rev. Twiggs is a retired Methodist minister and at one time was district superintendent of the Griffin District. Religion History ungrateful to the Samaritans By JOHN VINOCUR Associated Press Writer TEL AVIV (AP) - Since Jo seph begat Ephraim and Ma nasseh, history has been an in grate to the Samaritans, caught in a free-fall toward oblivion. The hint of a respite from the dark line downward is appear ing only now. The descendants of the sons of Joseph and the Biblical Good Samaritan, who Jesus revered for his rescue of a wounded man ignored by priests and Levites, have barely managed to set up camp on this side of extinction. One hundred twenty-six gen erations ago, according to their chronicles, there were 750,000 Samaritans in what is modern Israel. Today, four families, the Danfis, Cohens, Marchivs and Tsedakas, 470 people in all, maintain the sect’s rites and traditions, half of them living in a grubby Tel Aviv suburb called Holon and the others in Nablus, near the Samaritan holy site of Mount Gerizim where Joshua blessed his people. Nablus is in occupied Jordan and in the 10 years since the Six Day War, the Samaritans have fallen on the windfall of free passage between the formerly separated communities to meet, marry and beget. Since the war, 102 Samaritan children have been bom, increasing the world’s Samaritan population by almost a quarter. But for the sect’s historian, the births are barely a jot on a graph of precariousness 20 centuries long. SOLAR ENERGY IS FREE Let the SUN heat your hot water... With a new Grumman Sunstream Solar Hot Water System. It uses free solar energy to heat water for residential, commercial and industrial uses - at a fraction of the price you’re presently paying. Visit our working display August 25-27 in front of Rose’s at Spalding Square on highway 19 Smith. WHELCHEL SOLAR ENTERPRISES, INC. Chamblee, ta. 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J Prices Effective Thru Sunday, Aug. 28th putackq fried Vmm place in town for two kinds of chicken. 131 East Solomon St. 1477 W *’ t a<J Mc,ntosh Phono 227-3678 Phone 228-2432 Owned and Operated by Ralph & Ginny Freeman Sugar trail Bicyclists of all ages ride 25-mile route By ROBERT O’MEARA Associated Press Writer NEWGLARUS, Wis. (AP) — There’s a different kind of trav eler on the rights of way where steam locomotives once chugged through the rolling green countryside of southern Wisconsin. Bicyclists, young and not so young, are riding the 25-mile Sugar River Trail that connects the little towns of New Glarus, Monticello, Albany and Brod head. The trail, developed and maintained by the state’s De partment of Natural Resources over the abandoned roadbed of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, is one of four in Wisconsin. The state considers itself a leader in giving bicyclists safe, scenic and level places to ride. Trails in the state using old railroad lines now total 91 miles. “There are thousands of miles of rights of way up for abandonment nationwide and we get lots of requests for in formation from other states about our program,” said Dave Weizenicker, deputy director of the DNR’s Bureau of Parks and Recreation. “We’ve been a stimulator.” Weizenicker says after the state buys the abandoned lines, the tracks and ties are tom up and replaced with fine-ground gravel, five to six inches deep. Between Elroy and Sparta in western Wisconsin there is the 32-mile line which the North western Railway sold the state in 1965 for $12,000. Bicyclists riding the full length travel through three tunnels and over 33 trestles. The Milwaukee Road property, purchased eight years later, cost the state $150,000. Northeastern Wisconsin has the 15-mile Ahnapee Trail, us ing a former roadbed of the Ah napee and Western Railroad. Far northern Wisconsin has the newly opened Heafford Junc tion Trail, 19 miles long. All the trails are free to the public. Officials say there is no way to determine exactly how many riders take to the trails annual ly. You can register at the headquarters of the Sugar Riv er Trail here — the handsomely refurbished Milwaukee Road station — but only a few riders do so. Weizenicker estimates a total of 100,000 people ride this trail and the Elroy-Sparta Trail each year. Bob Martin, chief of resource area studies for the Lake Cen tral region of the federal Bu reau of Outdoor Recreation, based at Ann Arbor, Mich., says “there certainly is a lot of activity” in other states follow ing Wisconsin’s lead in devel oping old rail lines into bicycle paths. State Patrol cautions businesses The Georgia State Patrol in cautioning businesses throughoutthestatetobe wary of publication firms soliciting donations in the name of the Georgia State Patrol. Georgia Public Safety Commissioner Colonel Herman Cofer said the State Patrol endorses no law enforcement publication other than the Georgia Peace Officer’s Association Magazine and said he felt it was wrong for any firm to use the name of the patrol in soliciting. “There may be many legitimate organizations doing police charitable work and offering good publications, but for them to raise money using the State Patrol’s name is unethical. We suggest any firms being approached by such publication firms to get references and check them with the nearest State Patrol Post,” he said. Colonel Cofer said the patrol had gotten many complaints about solicitation firms around the state. “We just want to set the record straight,” he said. Vision to appear in Griffin Vision, a group of young adult singers from the Atlanta area will appear in concert at the Searcy Memorial United Methodist Church in Griffin on Sunday, August 28 at 7 p.m. The group sings a variety of religious songs and is directed by Karen Wise. The Rev. Maurice “Bud” Moore is pastor of the Searcy Memorial United Methodist Church.
