Word: escambia
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...have petitioned for review of their convictions. Court calendars are jammed; distraught prosecutors are working overtime searching petitioners' records and drawing up answering briefs; county budget directors are hunting desperately for funds to pay for retrials. The only hope for straightening things out, says the clerk of Escambia County's court of records, is to give some "Gideonite" a new trial and reconvict him. "If we give him a heavier sentence than he got the first time, maybe that will serve as a lesson to the others...
...never refuse to help anyone, whether he can pay or not. Last week Southern physicians gasped as they heard of a bold infringement of this humanitarian code. Five of the eight doctors serving the 3,000 souls of Atmore, Ala., and five of their colleagues in cotton-growing Escambia County printed an advertisement in the Atmore Advance warning Escambia County's prospective mothers that henceforth they would demand cash on delivery. The ad: "We wish to take this means of letting the public know that ... all obstetrical (labor) cases will be done on a strictly cash basis...