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Box 4689 266 Pages 15 Sections Allanla, 30302, Sunday, October 6, 1968 IP lH' V. i 1 PINEY WOODS PETE Says: Red Rocket Fire Rains on 2 Cities velopments" at Stone Mountain have done that I am going to have to swallow hard three times before I can give this thing a fair judgment. The fees they charge at the mountain are such that a man must almost mortgage his house to go and take his family. Yours truly, PINEY WOODS PETE DEAR MISTER EDITOR: I read where the carvers are about to finish their work on the Stone Mountain Confederate memorial, and I want to come up to the mountain and take a look at it. I am going to try to be open minded.

But I confess that I am so burned up about what the politicians who managed the "de SAIGON and South Vietnamese forces set up a cordon of men around the outskirts of Hue and captured 203 Viet Cong prisoners and killed 85 others, U.S. spokesmen said Sunday. Meanwhile, other Viet Cong gunners launched rocket attacks on Da Nang and Pleiku early Sunday. U.S. 101st Airborne Division paratroopers and South Vietnamese infantrymen began inching through the marshy swamplands around Hue nine days ago in the second major operation near the old imperial capital in less than month.

U.S. military spokesmen said the 203 Viet Cong prisoners caught in the cordon around Hue one of the biggest prison- er hauls of the Vietnam war-were confirmed from 336 suspects detained during the operation. Fifty miles south of Hue, Viet Cong gunners slammed mortar fire into a U.S. Navy hospital and a Seabees' headquarters near Da Nang, wounding four Americans. American commanders directed artillery at the Communist gunners' positions and killed one Viet Cong soldier before his comrades fled.

FOUR ROUNDS of mortar fire hit a naval support activity hospital, a large facility where m-m i i 1 1 K'-'afe- 'Mmr i i i i awjMwwiiMaiir Chaos LocDDimSp Voters ToW Failure to Revise Senate Could Bring 'Dire' Results By STEVE BALL JR. If Georgia voters should reject a proposed constitutional amendment increasing the membership of the Georgia Senate there would be "dire consequences," according to the General Staff Photo Dwiflht Ross Jr. FRENCH AMBASSADOR LUCET VIEWS 'THE SHADE' AT DEDICATION OF ARTS CENTER With Richard H. Rich (Right), Chairman of the Atlanta Arts Alliance RALPH Slums Stay Cool Calm-- Arte Center dedicated Here by, French Envoy GIs wounded in battle are often flown by helicopter, and wounded two Americans. Five other rounds hit the Seabees' head- Assembly's top legal authority.

MCGILL McCcrrfiysm In Reverse And Converted Legislative counsel Frank Turn to Page 6A, Column 7 By RALEIGH BRYANS Trail of Agony and Ecstasy Leads To Proud Moment for Atlanta By CHRISTENA BLEDSOE French Ambassador Charles Lucet pulled the slender, white string and a silk-like cloud of red and blue material fell swiftly to reveal a bronze casting of Rodin's statue "The Shade." A university president, young, progressive, who heads an institution highly honored and re- of fairly apportioned districts easier. The House change was accomplished by statute, since the number of representatives is not fixed by the Georgia Constitution, but that document sets the number of senators at 54. "THE GENERAL Assembly," explained Mr. Edwards, "when passing the resolution proposing this amendment, reasoned that it would be far better to add two senators rather than to change all the senatorial districts and reapportion the entire state. The courts accepted the reapportionment act of the General Assem- Turn to Page 16A, Column 1 Edwards, in an opinion requested by Fulton Senate candidate Jack Hardy, warned that if voters turn down amendment No.

3 in the Nov. 5 general election it will cost the state at least $500,000 and "would cause untold turmoil and confusion and an almost chaotic condition." In completing a reapportionment plan for itself early this year, the General Assembly decided to decrease the size of the House from 205 to 195 members and increase the size ol the Senate from 54 to 56 members since the new figures, in both cases, made the allocating STREET SCENES Sign of times: Blasted safe sitting outside Ponce de Leon shop which is closed and locked in broad daylight. Wizened and feeble little woman studying bright travel posters in Forsyth Street window. A genuine antique still serving Decatur Courthouse Square: "Unlawful To Park Buggies and Carriages Here." tcgrity and vision, talked out of a troubled mind. The 1968-1369 term was beginning with registration.

Soon he would INSIDE TODAY Art and Music 3F Around Town 19A Billy Graham 10D Books 8, 9D Business and Finance 16-19H Classified Want Ads 2-40E Crossword Puzzle 9D Deaths 18, 19C Dixie Living 1-18F Dr. Alvarez 20C Editorials 18, 19A Gardening 7F Georgia Speaks 9C Goren on Bridge 2F Harold Martin 19A Jeane Dixon 3C Jumble 4F Know Your Name IOC Leo Aikman 19A Real Estate 4F Reg Murphy 19A Society-Women 1-18G Southeast Empire 2D Sports 1-15H Television, Radio 16. 17F Theaters 8-13F Travel, Resorts 14, 15F Weather Map 14C Wishing Well 2F be meeting with Nixon Camp Charges Demos Carried Hecklers to Rallies and HARMON PERRY "They now say 'we' instead of says "little mayor' Ed Billups of the people in Dixie Hills, an Atlanta neighborhood where Negroes rioted during the spring of 1967. What he means is that Dixie Hills residents during the course of this summer came to think of him as something other than an emissary of some foreign princi-pate. Mr, Billups in fact represented Atlanta City Hall.

The city called him a 'City Services Coordinator," but people called him a "little mayor" and knew his outpost as a "Little City Hall," It is his considered judgment that his work went far to diminish the alienation of Dixie Hills people and to convice them they have a city government that cares. HIS JOB WAS to learn when people were unhappy about the way city services were being rendered and to pass complaints along to the downtown City Hall for action. At first, says Mr. Billups, people greeted him' with suspicion. "I got the, 'Oh yeah, you're from the city' treatment.

"These are people who heretofore had an attitude that they couldn't get anything done by the city," he says. But they did get things done this summer, he adds. "The city really bent over backwards. Of the 404 complaints registered, I was able to get 217 answered to the complete satisfaction of the citizens involved. "And as the summer went on, complaints fell off.

Now I can go into a neighborhood meeting and ask, 'What's and Turn to Page 16A, Column 3 The unveiling of the gift of the French government to the Atlanta Memorial Arts Center Saturday was smooth, quick and easy, But a long road led to that simple gesture. For speaker after speaker at the dedication Satuday of the $13 million massive arts center on Peachtree referred to the agony and despair that had wracked Atlanta six years ago when more than 100 cultural leaders were killed in a fiery plane crash at Orly, France. The 50-minute ceremony, in a large hall packed by thousands was a long-dreamed-of tribute to those who perished, Cool Spell To Continue In Georgia Georgians can expect cool temperatures again Sunday with a chance of rain by late afternoon. The showers are expected to end by early Monday morning, according to the U.S. Weather Bureau in Atlanta.

Skies will be clear and temperatures mild on Monday. Lows over the state early Sunday morning were in the 40s north and the 50s south. Highs during the day will be in the upper 60s and lower 70s north and upper 70s south. Atlanta has a 30 per cent chance of rain by Sunday night. Predicted temperature extremes for Sunday are 48 and 72,.

to those whose memory was the inspiration for the building of a major art center in Atlanta. Despite these stirring memories, it was a proud moment for Atlanta, not a weepy one. "This is a historic moment of great good," Mayor Ivan Allen told the crowd. With the opening of the gleaming white center, Atlanta and the state would have, the mayor said, "for the first time a magnitude of art which we have never had before." "VERY REAL to us is the memory of the Atlantans who lost their lives," said Richard H. Rich, chairman of the board of the Atlanta Arts Alliance.

The ceremony, Mr. Rich said, "witnesses the realization of a beautiful dream. Each person in this house contributed either time or substance or both to bring it into being." Described as "a complete home of the arts," tte new Atlanta center is thought to be unique because it houses under a single roof an art museum, facilities for symphony, theater, ballet, opera and an art school. Begun in 19G6, the center was built around Atlanta's existing High Museum of Art. The colonnaded, five-story edifice is 232 feet in width, 394 feet in length and rises 50 feet high.

"THIS CENTER must become a place where every man, woman and child finds excitement," Mr. Rich stressed. The center now must be a cradle to foster the growing arts dents. He was troubled by the fervor "of intolerance that one so often finds, not merely in the sayings of George Wallace, but in the academic and intellectual communities." "It, was said of Mc-Carthyism," said the university president, "that he was able to infect the nation with fear and distrust and to erode the Bill of Rights because he insisted that communism was such an immoral force that to get at it, the rights and dignity of individuals need not be considered. Frightening Attitude "Now," he said, "there is.

a reverse, from-within attitude that is frightening. I encountered a faculty member of old acquaintance at an educational meeting recently. He was passionately against our involvement in Vietnam. "In our discussion the faculty member said, 'This war is such an immoral thing that it is not possible to allow President Johnson or others the right of a hearing or dissent. That is why we must deny armed force recruiters the right to talk with students or the students the right to talk with them.

We can-Turn to Tage IfiA, Column 1 in Atlanta, for all, not an elite few, he said. Mr. Rich warned that continual financial support to sustain an active center would be necessary, but he reflected that the ceremony was a time of joy. teeming northern New Jersey under tight security, stressed in interviews and r.tws conferences that he and his new running mate, retired Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, do not differ in their positions cn the use of nuclear weapons in the war in Vietnam.

LeMay, who says he is traveling with Wallace on this trip as "a training flight" for politics, smiled and waved as he and his wife moved to the platform for a rally in Jersey City. His performance contrasted with the stoic impression he had given in earlier appearances. The Jersey City rally marked the first time in a seven-day, seven-state tour of industrial cities in the Midwest and East that Wallace had escaped heckling. Wallace's familiar phrases, often drowned out by jeers and chants, roared out in Jersey City with much the ring of his tours of the South. From Wire Reports NEW YORK Richard M.

Nixon's campaign organization Saturday accused that of Hubert H. Humphrey of transporting hecklers to a recent Republican rally in Hartford, Conn. The charge came from Robert Ellsworth, Nixon's political director, who said the Democrats had "reached a new low" in campaign tactics. The heckling at a Hartford Jly produced a shouting match between supporters of the Republican presidential nominee and a youthful band of demonstrators, Ellsworth said Humphrey, the Democratic nominee, has faced hecklers throughout his campaign. "Last night, the Humphrey campaign provided transportation for these same hecklers to a Nixon rally." HE SAID Nixon partisans drcwned out the demonstrators, "but the point is not that the blow at our campaign was unsuccessfulthe point is that the Humphrey managers are hitting below the belt." In Jpokane, Republican officials said they would file a complaint with the National Fair Campaign Practices Committee.

The charge from the Nixon camp came as the former vice president campaigned in populous Long Island in his quest for suburban votes vital to winning New York State's 43 electoral votes, the nation's largest single bloc. He was accompanied by New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, whom he defeated for the GOP nomination, on a meandering motorcade through Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Meanwhile in nearby Newark, George Wallace won an enthusiastic response with no heckling.

Wallace, moving through "Let us enjoy a moment of arrival, before setting out on another fulfilling journey," he said. Speaking from a platform flanked by American and French flags, Ambassador Lucet said for himself and his companions, "How deeply moved we are to be here." "Cruel fate strikes blindly, and we know what a loss for the city of Atlanta, for the entire United States, was the disap- Turn to Page 6A, Column 1 INSIDE GEORGIA PRISONS--NO. 1 Life Behind Bars: Chained to Yesteryear I EDITOR'S NOTE: Staff reporter Gene Stephens traveled more than 2,000 miles inspecting 45 prisons, prison branches and county work camps in Georgia in preparing this series. He talked to prisoners, guards, wardens, state and county officials and prison authorities. By GENE STEPHENS Seventy-five per cent' of the inmates leaving Georgia prisons will return within five years.

Georgia's penal system is de signed to detain and punish the lawbreaker to avenge a wrong. It is not designed to change an inmate into a law-abiding citizen. Prison psychiatrists what few there are in the nation say punishment does not work as a method of correction. This year, records show, 25 to 50 per cent of those coming into Georgia's penal system are repeaters. The Georgia system is not finding out why a prisoner com- mitted his crime and taking steps to eliminate the problem whether it be educational, vocational, social, mental or a combination, as is usually the case.

MEN LEAVE Georgia prisons and work camps daily with only bus fare home and a lecture from the warden on staying out of trouble. A recent, unreleased study of Georgia prisons, tells it this way; "We have not progressed far beyond the traditional punitive approach in the handling of social offenders. Stern discipline is the order of the day with emphasis on the performance of staff in maintaining control over inmates, whereas the more progressive correctional philosophy is therapeutic in nature and cultivates the development in the inmates of the ability to control and manage themselves." And Dr. Karl Menninger, founder of the famed Menninger Clinic, says in his new book, "The Crime of "There is great public apathy to proposals for more intelligent control of crime and rehabilitation of criminals. Why? Because we have a persistent, intrusive wish for vengeance.

persistent demand to 'Make him pay his debt to society! Crucify him! Crucify represents our crime We must renounce the ancient, obsolete penal attitude in favor The reforms have been aimed at ending brutality, bad diet, cruel working conditions and unsanitary conditions in prisons. Maddox and the State Board of Corrections, under Director Robert Carter, say they intend to keep up the pressure. But Georgia prisons still are plagued by violence, illicit sex, pills and narcotics, "buck" (low-grade liquor), and boredom, among other problems, Turn to Page ISA, Column 1 of a modern, therapeutic one," Menninger says. GEORGIA FACES a variety of problems which must be overcome if th: 92 "correctional institutions" in this state are to have a full rehabilitation role. Gov.

Lester G. Maddox made penal reforms a major part of his administration's program. He says there has been more progress in the prison system in the past 21 months than in the previous 25 years. 1 1.