Recent p*rno Ruling Still Being Studied By JOSEPH BONNEY Associated Press Writer The recent Supreme Court decision on p*rnography has apparently caused little prosecution in Mississippi, but has had the effect of; removing books and magazines from some store shelves. Several city police chiefs and local prosecutors contacted in an Associated Press survey said they are still trying to determine the effect of the court decision. Some prosecutors have made headlines by warning of crackdowns on allegedly obscene books, magazines and films. However, few arrests have been reported as a result of the decision, which said local authorities can determine the prevailing standards of their com- Hospital Notes Century Funeral Home is in DISMISSED Mrs. Effie B.
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Burial will follow at the Mary Grove Cemetery at Drew. Mrs. Washington is survived by her husband, Johnny Washington and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Phillips of Drew. The Clarksdale Press Register Thursday Afternoon, July 19, 1973 Page 7 Special Master Sought At Penitentiary JACKSON, Miss.
(AP)- Civil rights attorneys said they would seek appointment of a special master today while investigations continued into alleged inmate brutality by civilian guards and a hom*osexual prisoner at the Mississippi State. Penitentiary. Four civilian guards were suspended Wednesday for allegedly slapping and kicking three inmates involved in a July 15 escape. FBI agents said they were continuing their probe of Phase 4 Plan Announced Continued from Page One) struction industries will have special regulations. -The new ceiling prices for gasoline and the gasoline octane rating must be posted on service station pumps after they take effect.
Aug. 12. Objectives The objective of Phase 4 was stated as "to moderate the rate of inflation existing during the first six months of 1973 with a minimum adverse effect on supply." Inflation was increasing at an annual rate of about 9.2 per cent a year at the time the freeze was imposed June 13, with food prices increasing at the virtually unprecedented rate of 22.4 per cent. Shultz told newsmen the administration would make no new forecast for inflation or the increase food prices. "We have not tried to make a precise estimate.
Our record in trying to forecast food prices leaves you a little humbe," he said, drawing laughter from reporters. Nixon said in his statement that the increase in prices should be less in the second half of this year than in the first half, and that by next year, "we should be able to achieve a much more moderate rate of The President also said. he will aim for a balanced budget of $268.7 billion in fiscal 1974. To meet this goal, he said, a number of civilian government employes will have to be cut from the federal payroll. However, the administration plans to increase the staff of Cost of Living Council and the Internal Revenue Service by about 1,200 to enforce Phase charge of arrangments.
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Josh Bogen said the decision provided "an ideal opportunity for grandstanding by county and district attorneys to further their political ambitions. "I think you'll find that most of the activity will come around election time," he said. "A number of self-righteous people would like to set themselves up as judges of their fellow man. Oppose Censorship "The local majority shouldn't be allowed to dictate to a local minority on what they should see, read or get through the mails as it pertains to adults." Hinds County Atty. Dale Danks has warned Jackson magazine dealers to remove or conceal publications which may be considered obscene.
Some dealers have returned "obscene" material to publishers, or have hidden it from public view. Biloxi Police Chief Lester Thompson says his officers have made "surveys" of local reading material and that some stores have acted independently to get rid of allegedly obscene material. Police chiefs in Meridian, Columbus, Pascagoula and Gulfport said they are still researching the decision. Chiefs in Tupelo, Greenville, Vicksburg, Laurel and Hattiesburg said they have had few complaints of p*rnography. Atty.
Gen. A.F. Summer's office and the University of Mississippi Law School have announced a seminar in Jackson on Aug. 23-24 to explain obscenity laws to prosecutors and law officers. "There's a gray area about what local community standards are," Summer said.
"We've always had national standards but local community standards have not been determined by anybody." No Arrests Greenwood City Prosecutor Robert Carpenter, asked if any magazine vendors in his city had been arrested or warned about p*rnography, said, "It's my view of the opinion that it does not call for that kind of "The type of magazines I've seen here," he said, "I don't think would be considered p*rnography under the Supreme Court decision. No one has come forth yet to make an isof it." sue He said magazine vendors are worried, and prosecutors and police chiefs in other towns agreed. "About a week after the decision came out," said Dist. Atty. Rex Jones of Hattiesburg, "we met with magazine regard to taking off all hard-core p*rnography and any that was questionable.
"We've had pretty tight control on hard-core p*rnography all along," Jones, who described "questionable" p*rnography as magazines such as Playboy. Display Limited On so-called questionable material, he said, "we ask them to separate it from anybody 17 years or under and to keep it out of public view so that shoppers don't have to look at something that's offensive to them." Tupelo Police Chief Ed Crider said, "We had one complaint at one store and by the time we got there, the manager had taken his books off and said he would keep them off." Bogen, the Washington County attorney, said that his office primarily handles felony cases, and that misdemeanor cases are usually prosecuted before city judges or justices of the peace. "As a county attorney, I do not plan to become involved in prosecution of obscenity cases," he said. Greenville Asst. Police Chief Robert Skinner said his department has received no complaints of p*rnography.
"If there is an adult in the county who wants to read dirty books and look at dirty pictures," Bogen said, "in a free society he's got that right, unless, perhaps, minors are involved. "I think it reflects the type of warped thinking that the Nixon Administration has personified: i.e. Watergate; i.e the ITT and all the other sordid affairs it's (charges made by a 17-year-old who said he was almost blinded by another inmate whose hom*osexual advances he resisted. Oasia L. Barnes said he had scalding lye water poured on his face by Bobby Reid.
Barnes' charges came in a $75,000 damage suit filed by federal court against prison officials. Barnes said prison officials refused to transfer him to another inmate camp after he reported the advances and threats prior to the attack. Reid was sentenced to seven years for the incident in a Sunflower County trial. Suspects Exaggerations Gov. Bill Waller announced the guard suspensions shortly after telling conference that he felt reports of new brutality may be exaggerated and part of an organized complaint campaign.
Suspended were guards Nelson Wade, Harrison Winters, Fred Childs and David Johns. Attorney Roy Haber said a federal court there would also be asked to order Waller, Acting Supt. W. I. Hollowell and penitenitary board members to show why they should not be held in contempt of court.
He noted U. S. District Judge William C. Keady ordered an end to prisoner beatings last year in his landmark ruling on unconstitutional conditions and practices at the prison. Haber said he had received reports of a "goon squad" which had been involved in beatings at four camps at the penal farm.
He said permitting of guards involved in former 1 beatings at the prison to remain "was the most criminal of all activity." to Hollowell said the suspensions followed inmate; accusations of being slapped and kicked when being apprehended an escape. Short-Termers Childs, he told The Associated Press, was the only guard who had served longer than six months. He had been at the penal farm three years. The superintendent said state investigators had talked to 25 or 30 people within the past three days and "we haven't found one thing concrete about any other Waller said he concurred with the suspensions. The governor otld newsmen earlier Wednesday he had invited FBI investigation into brutality reports.
"The evidence may disclose or might not disclose that the complaints are valid," Waller told newsmen. "We don't condone mistreatment. We will correct any mistreatment immediately. It won't require a lot of lawsuits. We can do it administratively," he said, noting that he did not "have all the facts.
I won't say it didn't happen, but it appears to be exaggerated." Waller noted reports of brutality began last Thursday, coming to his attention Monday. Civil rights attorneys said they had complaints from more than a dozen inmates in four camps that there had been treatment. Mistreatment was contrary to prison policy, Waller said, and usually resulted when a guard overstepped his authority. Such actions, he said, would lead to suspension or dismissal of guards. Other Topics Waller also told the press conference: -He had asked his education study committee to look into six sensitive matters, including early childhood education and how to finance public schools.
-And, the state's Army National Guard was now No. 1 in the nation in percentage of authorized strength achieved. He said he also asked the eight-member education group to give top priority to al-technical training, an expanded state board of education, utilization of 16th section lands, and teacher certification. Dr. Douglas McDonald, on leave from Delta State College, will serve as executive director of the committee.
The work is being financed with a $50.000 federal grant and Waller said the committee will function through the next session of the legislature. The committee is composed of six legislators, businessman J. C. Redd of Jackson and Asst. Supt.
of Education W. S. Griffin. Continued from Page One) present central complex contains 1,000 beds and the satellite hospital in Whitehaven has 134 beds open. The Sherard Wing, originally known as the Phase II project, is being built to meet the anticipated increase in the workload for ancilliary services, such as x-ray, laboratory and physical therapy.
The increased demand for these services is the result of more efficient delivery of health care being afforded the patient today and the shorter length of stay for the patient. Most patients utilize the service facilities of Methodist Hospital during the first days of their hospitalization. Therefore, when the length of stay is shortened, this resuits in a higher utilization cf hospital facilities because of the increase in the number of patients. A basem*nt will house a new general store r00m. Emergency Room facilities will be tripled in size and the Outpatient Departments will be greatly expanded.
The entire ground floor will contain space for these services. What's Included The first floor will contain business offices and the second floor a new 19-bed Intensive Care Unit. The third floor will expand the operating room facilities. A total of 13 new operating rooms will be added to the already existing 20 rooms, bringing the total to 33. Many of the new operating rooms will be designed for new and sophisticated special surgery procedures, such as total hip replacement and open heart surgery.
The fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh floors will all be utilized to enlarge and expand departments such as X-ray, physical therapy and laboratory. Basically, the structure will consist of a basem*nt and 4 lower floors with 20,000 square feet each and 4 additional floors with 20,000 square feet each and 4 additional floors with 6.000 square feet per floor. All will be attached to the back of the present hospital complex, and more specifically, the Thomas Wing. During the noon meeting L. M.
Stratton, III, was re-elected LEVINGSTON'S PRE INVENTORY SALE NOW IN PROGRESS UP TO SAVE FLOOR SAMPLES IN LIVING ROOM AND BEDROOM FURNITURE SAVE! ODD END TABLES BARGAINS GALORE! HURRY IN AND SAVE! LEVINGSTON FURNITURE COMPANY 164 Delta Ave. "Free Delivery" Dial 627-7339 president of the Board of Trustees and D.A. Noel was re-elected chairman of the board of managers. Sherard was elected chairman of the board of managers mind J. C.
Portis was elected treasurer of the board of trustees. Lon Mann is a new member of the board of managers. Awards Special awards were presented to the following people for their leadership in the recent $1,000,000 campaign conducted in the Methodist churches throughout the North Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church: Rev. James R. Grisham, Rev.
W. R. Lott Dr. Richard S. Hollis, Mrs.
J. G. Carpenter, Rev. Johnny A. Dinas, and Dan F.
Crumpton Jr. of Clarksdale. Porter Grace, former vice chairman of the board of managers, was named to emeritus status of the board and special recognition was given to his many years of service by Stratton. Commencing at 1:45 p.m. on the site of the new Sherard Wing, the contract for construction of the structure was signed by Stratton, Harmon Construction Company and C.
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