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Utrljmond tmrs-tjspatch Section Area 2 10 State oooaooaooo 1-10 a Ride I Get 1 1 1 Off Patler Patler said "to sense the way in which people should be approached" Prison Patlersaidgavehimanopportunitytoexplorehisar-tistic abilities realized I only wasted them before But what'stheuseofgoingtoallthetroubletotrainamanwhenyou just reject him when he gets An unfavorable ruling from the board of visitors would be nothing more than slam the door in the face of the whole I study-release program It's like tellinga black manhehas to get out of town before sunset never felt more comfortable with myself It took me a -long time to grow up Iguess I was just a soldier on the wrong side politically" he said His political tendencies now he said are of center I'm for the equality of all people against anybody who holds anybody else as inferior" 1 The telephone in Max office rang shortly after 6 o'clock Friday evening Jenkins Patler's lawyer picked up the receiver and glanced toward his client The call obviously was from the board of trustees student Not as a dorm student" Jenkins said into the receiver Patler looked straight ahead and then said quietly accept anything less than going as a full student The only reason doing this is because an There was no mention that the board of visitors recommend- ed a long list of other provisions for student Inmates and 1 parolees and those on probation: curfews review periods restrictions against participation In intramural activities and the possibility of automatic dismissal for any Infringement Patler said he plans to enroll next week as a day student and -will consider appealing the decision with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union which has had handled his case since the 1967 conviction live my life in he had said earlier when asked if reprisals against him from American Nazi party members are a possibility going to walk the streets and continue to There is a lot behind me I can't escape that like a ride I can't get off of Put I accept By himself finally for the first time Friday and perhaps for the first time in years Patler walked down maple-lined Tyler Avenue bordering Radford College The sunset crashed headlong against the red brick buildings and lush green grass "The way you look now John is like most people look today And you still look real Jenkins had said Patler answered people don't associate my name with who I am in By Bill McKelway Times-Dispatch State Staff RADFORD John Patler who eight years ago was convicted in the slaying of Americal Nazi party leader George Lincoln Rockwell and who was released on parole from the state prison system a week ago still claims that he is innocent of the crime and now espouses equality for all people The 37-year-old ex-American-Nazi Jarty member in a far-ranging interview that took place while the Radford College board of visitors discussed guidelines Friday for handling inmates and parolees as students at the college portrayed Rockwell as talented genius whose talents were on a fanatical cause Patler described his own role in the American Nad party in much the same terms and said that (considered Rockwell sort of father until the two had "a falling about the membership of the Arlington-based right-wing party five months before Rockwell was assassinated' Rockwell was fatally shot Aug 25 1967 as he left a laundromat in an Arlington shopping center Patler was apprehended about 30 minutes later about a mile from the scene He was convicted of the crime in December 1967 and was sentenced to 20 years in prism An appeal to the US Supreme Court was unsuccessful Patler actually spent only about years in confinement he said During that time he was a model prisoner according to penal authorities and attended three different educational institutions in the state acquiring an associate degree in preteaching The youthful-looking Patler who now wears a full beard and long hair but declined to be photographed said that he is a year away romcompleting courses at Radford College for a degree in art education He recently won a first-place award in a nationwide contest among prison inmates for a cartoon he drew Although Patler entered Radford College on a study -release program a year ago college officials there realize until two weeks ago that he and a handful of other students were from the Pulaski Correctional Unit The men were immediately banned from enrolling for the fall term until formal guidelines could be established for them For Patler who had enrolled under his original name Pat-salos the first indication of a problem came when he went to the college tofindthedormitory he wouldoccupy during the coming term "My application was approved and I had deposited my he said But he noticed that in the housing list his name was circled in red and marked with an asterisk Although he had been assigned room 315 in Tyler Hall there was a note saying that room confirmation should not be sent Then Patler recalled he read newspaper articles saying that he and other inmates had been banned from enrolling but I did Andlhen all this Patler rolled a napkin in his fingers and continued the long wait Friday for word from the board of visitors about his future status as a student at Radford College John Patsalos grew up in New York Gty feeling in his words hatred for who I was and what I When Patler was 5 years old his father shot and killed his mother served seven years in Sing Sing Prison and came out broken Patler paid never even called him Dad "My brother and I lived with my grandmother on my mother's side when he was away and we were brainwashed to hate In 1955 when he was 17 years old Patler attended his first American Nazi party meeting and saw Rockwell for the first time "He was a magnetic kind of person and 1 guess was sort of a father figure to Patler said The party offered a kind of ordered existence for him Patler conceded and he gradually immersed himself in its philosophy He was in the Marine Corps for two years from 1958-60 but continued his Nazi beliefs and received a dishonorable discharge "I was an outright racist" Patler said He said he despised himself because of hisdark complexion Greek parentage and browneyeft He envied his brother because his eyes Patler said would have done anything I didn't care what happened to He Americanized his name from Patsalos to Patler In 1966 a newspaper reported that a Close friend of Patler's a member of the American Nazi party was a Jew The man committed suicide because of the disclosure Patler said The man's death forced Patler to reassess the direction the party was taking and the effect it had on people he said feelings told me I shouldn't be there but 1 couldn't understand the intellectual he said Rockwell no longer had the same appeal for him and efforts by Patler to have more Puerto Ricans and men with dark complexions admitted to the party were rebuffed He dropped out of the party he said and denied that he was "drummed came to the realization that I couldn't run away from who I he said Then came Rockwell's death five months later Patler said the years In prison have left him with a sense of frustration more for the prison population as a whole than for himself "Once you've broken the law you're supposed to be nothing As long as they prison officials have that idea there is no hope There has to be a mutual respect prison you are never right You can never express your real feelings There will be no rehabilitation until there is a mutual respect between inmates and those who have control over their The words are not forced but come steadily and with an insistence that suggests credibility "I had the ability in prison" Arrowheads Range in Age From 4500 BC to 1000 BC By Bob Poole Media General News Service I WASHINGTON The Federal Power Commission and the Department of the Interior apparently ignored federal laws in one important aspect of the New River case Last year before a license was granted for construction of the Blue Ridge power project on the river neither agency met its legal responsibility for protecting the archaeological resources of the New River Valley in North Carolina and Virginia Atty Gen Rufus Edmiston of North Carolina thinks the omission may be serious enough to warrant an amendment to a case that his state has brought before the US Court of Appeals here In that case the state is asking the court to void the project license and the court has temporarily suspended the license until it can rule on North petition Whatever the legal issues may be scientists agree that archaeological resources in the valley offer a key to understanding the human history of North America FROM THE earliest occupation of the continent about 10000 years ago by the ancestors of the American Indian the river valley has been a primitive highway of sorts a major migration route and cultural center according to archaeologists They say preliminary investigation shows that the area is rich with artifacts of bone stone and pottery that help to explain the early history All may be covered by two reservoirs in the Blue Ridge project which would flood 40000 acres of the valley None of this was mentioned in the FPCs formal hearing record which was 7500 pages long Nor was it discussed in the agency's final environmental impact statement for the project It is a curious omission In 1963 when Appalachian Power Co obtained a preliminary permit for the project the FPC required thepowercompany tosur-vey the archaeological resources of the area Appalachian had two such surveys done one in 1965 and one in 1969 but never sent the survey results to the FPC The FPC which had requested the surveys never asked to see the results Instead the agency granted a license for the power project in June 1974 The FPC's failure to discuss what effects the flooding of the valley would have on archaeological resources may be a violation of the National En vironmental Policy Act of 1969 which requires federal agencies to help important historic cultural and natural aspects of our national Further Excavations Would Be Major Contribution to Archaeology UVa's Dr CG Holland Found Numerous Artifacts Along New River Wheeler said the Interior Department had record of a survey having been made that comports directly with the statute The department did have notice of the plans for the power project I think you can make a case that someone violated the letter of the law if you go on the IT IS CLEAR that the Interior Department had not yet arranged for the survey by June 1973 when the FPC published its final environmental impact statement for the Blue Ridge power project results and recommendations from such a the Interior Department said "should be included in the final environmntal statement so that an evaluation of impacts upon cultural resources may be At no point in the comments did the Interior Department indicate that it had already performed its own survey although the department had had more than a decade to do so In response to Interior's comments in the impact statement the FPC staff said that Appalachian Power Co was to expand funds for such a survey upon receipt of a license toconstruct the pro- Continued on Page 10 CoL IN THE CASE of the Interior Department the interior secretary apparently ignored the Federal Historic Preservation Actof 1960 which law requires the secretary to order professional archaeological surveys of areas to be flooded by of a dam No such survey was ever begun When Edmiston was informed of the federal bureaucracy's handling of the matter he said most definitely planto do something about it I will call on the state archaeological experts and will assess and assemble the manpower necessary for more investigation This is very significant legally" he added When asked to explain the Interior role neither Douglas Wheeler a deputy assistant secretary nor James Watt director of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation could explain why the Interior Department failed to conduct its own archaeological survey A rchaeologists Worried By New iver Proposal I Williamsburg Ready for Hirohito Media General Newt Service WASHINGTON The archaeologist was looking at a map of the New River as he sat drinking coffee in the shade of an old oak tree Damming the New River he said be comparable to damming the Dr William Gardner chairman of anthropology at Catholic University here was reminded that the Nile had already been dammed he said the archaeologists there had years and years to do the salvage work They came away with many artifacts but they also probably missed a Appalachian Power Co proposes to build two dams on the New River in Virginia as part of the Blue Ridge power project The project would flood 40000 acres in both Virginia and North Carolina The prospect of such a flood distresses scientists 1 like Gardner who contends that the New River Valley is something more than simply a swell place from which to generate peaking electric power is extremely important to a whole section of knowledge about eastern North American said Gardner not trying to make this out to be the Fertile Crescent but this was probably one of the major migration routes during the past 10000years At a minimum the valley has been occupied from 8000 BC on according to the artifacts found It is Gardner's theory that the predecessors of the American Indian used the river which slices northward through the Appalachian Mountains a primitive highway IN THE process those who used the left behind a litter of arrowheads pottery stone axes hearths jewelry and other artifacts that give silent testimony to the theory In a recent book published by the Smithsonian Institution Dr CG Holland of the University of Virginia showed that the area "received an unusally large number of cultural influences from many directions and was truly a cultural crossroads" But he added was also a center of development with its own To substantiate his argument Holland showed that artifacts found in the area exhibited cultural influences the Northwest and North: from the Midwest: from the South and from the Also Holland said that arrowheads and other "projectile point found in the area the entire range of aboriginal occupation for the eastern United indicating that the region was continuously from Palco-Indian times (about 8000 BC) to the Historic Period (about AD 1540)" In a recent interview in Charlottesville Holland a lecturer in anthropology said the river valley bound to be a tremendous passageway of aboriginal transport It is a passageway of concepts and styles very important to the whole story of man's He said it is one of the few areas left where scientists can study every level of human development in the continent YOU go on the things that have been found there the whole history of Indians in theeastern Continued on Page 2 Col I facilities with typewriters Telex machines and telephones but provisions De Samper said also have to be made for darkroom facilities in addition to elaborate requirements for both US and Japanese television Sessoms who has read three books on Japan and the emperor this summer noted that planning activity for the trip has been extensive even though there is still more than four weeks before his arrival most visits of heads of Sessoms explained primary contacts are with the US Protocol Office and our State Department But unlike those visits and because of the scope of this event we've already had two major planning visits in June and in mid-August by Japanese officials Continued on Page 10 CoL I crowd as large as the more than 25000 persons who lined Duke of Gloucester Street to see Queen Elizabeth II during her visit do expect several thousand persons to be here many of them Japanese-Americans Hugh De Samper director of the Colonial Williamsburg press bureau said that already he anticipates than 300 media persons to cover the emperor and maybe as many as 400 by the arrival Plans are under way to house and handle at least 200 Japanese journalists DE SAMPER SAID said that credentials are expected to be required for the domestic Japanese press the European press Washington-based Japanese correspondents the US press corps and area newsmen The press will require not only the traditona! press center sburg departing Oct 2 for formal ceremonies with President Ford at the White House The Japanese royal couple are scheduled to spend two weeks in this country Sessoms acknowledged that the initial preparations that he made more than six months ago based on a hunch I read about the visit to the United States in a Washington newspaper and decided to make reservations in our visitor accommodations office on the feeling that he might come here WHEN we were contacted by State Department officials in March I could easily say we were prepared to handle the visitors almost Colonial Williamsburg and State Department officials while they do not expect a By Wilford Kale Times-Dispatch State Staff WILLIAMSBURG The visit next month of Emperor Hirohito of Japan to Williamsburg will generate the most planning involve more people and be of a broader scope than any visit of a foreign dignitary since Queen Elizabeth II of Britain visited here in 1957 That was the observation Friday of Richard Sessoms director of special events (protocol chief) for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation who said that preparations for the imperial visit have been under way here since mid-February According to the State Department Emperor Hirohito and Empress Hagako are scheduled to arrive Sept 30 at Patrick Henry International Airport in Newport News and remain two nights in William Emperor Hirohito Third Major Trip.