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The Augusta News-Review - January 11, 1973,
The People Speak
Question: Do you feel that
January 15 should be declared
a national holiday in honor of
Martin Luther King? Should a
local street be named for him?
Why?
Trudy Davis, First Street
I think they should. He was
a great man, a great leader of
Black people as well as poor
whites. He deserves it.
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Finnel Bonner
Moncrief Avenue
Damn right. Due to Dr.
King’s hard work for Black
people and dedication to the
underprivileged, Blacks as a
whole owe this to him.
America owes it to him.
In all past times there have
been holidays for white men.
Never before has there been a
holiday for a Black man. If this
is a nation for ALL men, then
why are they keeping this from
us?
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Rebecca Dixon
9th & Wrightsboro Road
I think so because he
brought the colored people
where they are at. And I think
they should have a holiday and
a street named after him.
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Yes. I believe it should. He’s
done a lot of things and the
nation should recognize him in
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Teddy Brown, Walton Way Ext.
It’s time that Black people
get ahead. It’s what’s
happening to get this. There
are holidays like George
Washington’s birthday. Why
not Martin Luther King’s
birthday? The Jews have their
holidays. The Catholics have
theirs. We don’t have a day at
all. It’s only fair. Why not
Martin Luther King Day.
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Annette Smith, 12th St.
It’s right to do it. They
should show respect for him by
doing this.
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FORT GORDON
KING MEMORIAL SERVICE
AT FORT GORDON
Memorial services on the
birthday of the late Dr. Martin
Luther King will be held at
Fort Gordon on January 15.
The services are set for 7:30
p.m. at Chapel 9 with all
Augusta-area residents invited
to attend.
A former associate of Dr.
King, Dr. Nelson W. Trout, will
be the guest speaker. The
52-year-old Doctor of Divinity
has served as a Lutheran
minister since 1952 and is
currently the executive
director of the Lutheran Social
Service in Dayton, Ohio. He is
also the immediate past
president of the Lutheran
Human Relations Association
of America.
Scheduled to sing during the
service is Paulette Pearson, the
first black woman to compete
in preliminary competition to
the Miss America contest. Miss
Pearson was the first runner-up
in the 1971 Miss North
Carolina contest and is
presently seeking a graduate
degree in music from the
Academy of Arts in Winston
Salem, North Carolina.
Chaplain Henry Harvey says
the purpose of the service is to
“memoralize a great man, a
man who really accomplished
something for our nation.”
The memorial service will be
followed the next day by a
race relations seminar
conducted by the fort’s equal
opportunity office.
FAMILY FINANCE
SEMINAR PLANNED
Military families interested
in professional advice on
finances will have a chance to
get it first hand during a
seminar set for this month at
Fort Gordon. Army
Community Service (ACS) is
sponsoring the course from 6
to 8:15 p.m. on January 24-26
at the Center Conference
Room.
The information will be
geared to military families and
relate to financial planning and
personal affairs. The classes are
being held in the evenings to
allow attendance by both
husbands and wives. Persons
interested in attending are
asked to call ACS at
791-2149/2201.
Topics and instructors are as
follows:
Jan. 24: BUDGETING AND
CREDIT BUYING - Mr. Archie
McCracken, Asst. Vice-Pres.,
Consumer Lending - Georgia
Railroad Bank and Trust Co.
CREDIT UNION - Mr. J.C.
Duncan, Manager, Fort Gordon
Federal Credit Union.
Jan. 25: BANKING - Mr.
C.G. Antonakas, Asst.
Vice-Pres., Georgia Railroad
Bank and Trust Co.
INSURANCE - CSM (Ret)
Jesse E. Cofer (Instructor for
two years at Education
Center.)
INVESTMENTS - LTC
James A. Hanlon, Headquarters
Command.
Jan. 26: RENTING AND
LEASING - CPT John T.
Husson, Legal Assistance.
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FORT GORDON OFFICERS
WIVES PLAN BENEFIT
AUCTION
The Officers Wives Club will
hold a Benefit Auction at the
Fort Gordon Officers Open
Mess on the 2nd of February.
All proceeds will be donated to
CSRA charities. The auction,
to be conducted by Mr. Hugh
Boyce, a professional
auctioneer from Keysville, will
offer items furnished by
Augusta merchants, as well as
some unique merchandise
donated by extraordinary
individuals and agencies.
The Benefit Auction is open
to all Officers Wives Club and
Fort Gordon Officers Club
members and their guests.
Because the proceeds of the
auction will benefit local
charities, local merchants are
encouraged to contribute items
to be auctioned.
Among items donated by
Augusta merchants are silver,
crystal, paintings, small
electrical appliances, linens and
clothing. Some of the unique
items include a number of
interesting things donated by
the White House, a football
autographed by the Atlanta
Falcons, a personally
autographed golf glove from
Arnold Palmer, a basketball
autographed by the Augusta
Barbara Jordan, First
Black Woman Elected
To Congress From South
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep.
Barbara Jordan, the first black
woman ever elected to
Congress from the South; Rep.
Louis Stokes, Chairman of the
Congressional Black Caucus;
and Clarence M. Mitchell,
widely known national
legislative representative of the
NAACP, will address the
Mid-Winter Workshop of the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association (NNPA) here
January 24-27 at the
Mayflower Hotel.
These workshop program
features were announced this
week by NNPA President
Garth C. Reeves, Sr., of the
Miami Times.
Another highlight of the
three-day workshop will be a
discussion of ways of
expanding the circulation of
black newspapers. In addition
to highly successful NNPA
member publishers, the
panelists will include: George
S. Wiedemann, circulation
director of Time magazine,
Robert H. Fentress, vice
president of Johnson
Publications; Jack F. Patterson,
circulation director of the
Washington Post, and Robert
Macklin, assistant general
manager of the International
Circulation Managers
Association.
Workshop sessions will also
discuss: (1) the extent to
which black Americans may be
College Jaguars, and more.
Tickets are being sold at
SI.OO each for an opportunity
to win a Portable Panasonic
Pop-up TV AM/FM Radio or
one of four separate $25 cash
prizes. The Officers Club will
offer a special dinner menu and
beverage prices for the evening,
plus dancing to the music of
the Burrell Bates band. As an
added feature, the Special
Sweethearts of the Officers
Wives Club will act as
waitresses with all of their tips
going to the charity fund.
A group of approximately
15 foreign'military officers will
tour Fort Gordon on January
31. Sponsored by Department
of the Army, the tour of Army
installations has included Fort
Gordon for the past five years.
Representating Central and
South American countries, the
officers are all distinguished
military graduates of their
respective military academies.
Major General Harley L.
Moore, Jr. will welcome the
group to the fort. Their tour
will include visits to the
Military Police School, the 4th
Brigade, and the Southeastern
Signal School. At noon, the
Junior Officer Council will
host a luncheon for the
visitors.
The group will depart the
Augusta area on February 1 for
a visit to Fort Bragg, North
Carolina.
expected to benefit in the
future from the programs and
services of the Departments of
Housing, Labor, and Health,
Education and Welfare; (2)
how Black publishers may
acquire more radio and CATV
stations; (3) the results of the
recent national election; and
(4) how Black newspapers may
share more fully in Hollywood
advertising.
During the workshop,' the
publishers will share with new
members of Congress in a
reception hosted by the Capital
Press Club in the Caucus Room
of the Cannon House Office
Building. And they will visit
the new national headquarters
of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association at
Reston, Va.
This Week
At Your
Library
READING READINESS
WORKSHOP AT THE
LIBRARY
A Reading Readiness
Workshop is scheduled at the
Main Library at 902 Greene
Street for two Saturdays:
January 20 and 27 from 10:00
a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This is a free
workshop open to all who
work with young children.
Among topics to be
presented during the first
session on Jai uary 20 will be:
a film; a discussion and
demonstration on how to plan
and conduct picture book
story hours; use of poetry for
young children; teaching
concepts and demonstrations
on the use of library materials;
and puppet making.
For the Second session,
January 27: demonstration on
audio visual aids for
pre-schoolers; poster
techniques; library services
available for pre-school
programming to include
bookmobile support.
Consultants and leaders
include: Mrs. Laura Adams,
Mrs. Muriel Applewhite, Miss
Edna Cunningham, Mrs. Phyllis
Easley, Mrs. Sanunie Lackey,
Miss Janet Myers, and Mrs.
Alyce Simpson.
All who plan to participate
must have registered by name
by January 16 and only those
who have registered by then
can be enrolled. Participation
will be limited to the first
ninety who register so that all
who attend can learn and
Indigent Defendants
Courts’ Credibility Suffers
When Defense Is Inadequate
ATLANTA (PRN) -“When
a poor person goes to jail
without having had the benefit
of adequate legal counsel,
both the credibility of the
judicial system and respect for
law suffer.”
That conclusion was
reached by speakers in Macon
at a recent meeting of the
State Bar of Georgia in a panel
discussion on “The Bar’s
Continuing Challenge:
Providing Legal Representa
tion to Indigents Accused of
Crime”.
Irwin W. Stolz, Jr., judge of
the Court of Appeals of
Georgia, told the lawyers that
only by providing competent
legal counsel at the pre-trial
and trial stages, can the
“endless appeals which are
creating a problem of
credibility be stopped”.
“These appeals,” he said,
“rarely have to do with the
guilt or innocence of the
accused, but instead point to
errors in procedure which may
have violated the defendant’s
Constitutional rights.”
Judge Stolz said that in
1962, the U.S. Supreme Court
said for the first time that an
accused person in a state court
had to have a lawyer at his
trial.
“Since that time,” he
declared, “that principle has
been extended so as to require
that legal counsel be made
available from the time of
arrest for any person who
could be subject to any form
of confinement - even in
juvenile and traffic courts.”
Another speaker, Lewis R.
Slaton, district attorney of the
Atlanta Judicial Circuit, cited
a survey showing- a varied
share.
For further information
contact Mr. Carl Shurtleff,
Workshop Coordinator, at the
Main Library, 724-1871.
On exhibit in the glass
display cases of the
Augusta-Richmond County
Public Library through
February 14 are the pressed
flower pictures arranged by
Louise Thigpen of Augusta.
Preserved in their natural
colors, flowers of the garden,
field and roadside have been
combined to make framed
floral pictures, bookmarks,
trays and lockets.
This nostalgic exhibit, in the
second-floor lobby of the Main
Library, is open free to the
public during library hours.
PROGRAMS FOR
PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN
Programs are planned for
pre-school children who are old
enough to enjoy books.
“Pre-school Story Hour” will
be held at the Wallace Branch,
1237 Gwinnett Street, on
Wednesday at 11 a.m. and at
the Appleby Branch, 2260
Walton Way, on Thursday at
4:30 p.m. The “Picture Book
Half Hour” at the Main Library
at 902 Greene Street will be
held on Thursday at 10:00
a.m.
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pattern of meeting the
requirements of the Supreme
Court rule in Georgia.
“Each county is on its own
as to how it will comply,” he
said. “There are full and
part-time public defenders,
contracts with Legal Aid
societies and court-appointed
attorneys who, depending on
the case or the locality, will
receive adequate payment,
token payment or no payment
at all.”
Mr. Slaton said the
Governor’s Commission on
Judicial Processes has
recommended that the State,
rather than the counties,
should be responsible both
financially and administrative
ly for providing defendants
with legal counsel.
“1 think this is the current
approach,” he said, “because
it will give us a uniform
system, and lack of uniformity
from one court or jurisdiction
to another, is in itself an
invitation to appeals of
convictions.”
Atlanta attorney Edward
T.M. Garland, also on the
panel, said a major problem is
that most lawyers prefer other
types of practice than
representing criminals.
“But more lawyers will have
to become willing to do
criminal work if the legal
profession is to carry out its
responsibility of maintaining
respect for the law,” he
declared.
Mr. Garland said if lawyers
cannot be paid full fees for
representing indigents, the
State could take certain steps
that would make it easier for a
court-appointed attorney to
conduct an adequate defense.
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In this connection he
mentioned:
* Full disclosure of
information held by the
prosecutor,
* Uniform rules of
procedure in all trial courts,
* Making State crime lab
facilities available to the
defense on the same basis as to
the prosecution, and
* Establishing a staff of
investigative personnel the
lawyer could utilize.
Mr. Garland pointed out
that it is no longer “adequate
and competent” defense for a
lawyer merely to enter a plea
of guilty for an accused.
“That accused, when he is
sitting in prison, can think of a
lot of things the lawyer didn’t
do in his defense, and he can
not only petition for habeas
corpus, but he can also sue the
lawyer,” Mr. Garland said.
He said recent court
decisions have made it clear
that “adequate and
competent” representation
must include the interviewing
of all witnesses, the analysis of
evidence for legality, and
determining that any
confession was properly
obtained and search, seizure
and arrest were properly
conducted.
“The volume of criminal
law work will continue to
increase,” Mr. Garland said,
“because the population will
increase and there will be
more indigents entitled to a
full defense in their trials and
appeals.
“Also,” he concluded,
“more activity in society will
be of a criminal nature, due to
new laws dealing with
consumer rights and
environmental protection.”