Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...achievements. A committee of the Colorado state legislature has just announced that it will soon propose two laws to help the convicts. One will reform parole procedures; the other will permit indeterminate sentences so that a prisoner can win an early release if he shows signs of rehabilitation. Warden Patterson says that it is too early to tell whether his program has really changed the inmates. But he does give the men credit for sincerity. "They believe that they are saving kids from a life of crime. And that begins to work at a prisoner's innards...
...Patterson's frustrations came to a head two weeks ago, over an article by a bright young girl columnist named B.J. (for Billie Jo) Phillips. Three weeks ago, her editorial page column tackled the Georgia Power Co., which is seeking a rate increase to offset the 10% federal income tax surcharge...
Eight years ago, Eugene Patterson stepped into the shoes of the legendary Ralph McGill as editor of the Atlanta Constitution. Responsible for the editorial page, he soon filled it with some of the most literate and penetrating political commentary in the South. His editorials reasoned relentlessly against the racism of Georgia's whites and the demagoguery of its politicians. His own daily column won him last year's Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Last week the columns stopped abruptly as Patterson, fed up with the Constitution's management, resigned...
...source of his unhappiness was obvious. Like most newsmen on the Constitution and its sister Atlanta Journal, Patterson, 44, has often complained about the pinchpenny policies of the papers' owner, James Cox, and Cox's chief executive officer, President Jack Tarver of Atlanta Newspapers, Inc. Salaries are so low that many of the Constitution's most talented reporters have left Atlanta to go to work for other newspapers. Tarver simply replaces them at around $100 a week with earnest young men who flock to Atlanta from all over the South, drawn mostly by the reputations of Patterson...
...example, did not even send its own man to cover the 1965 disturbances at Selma, Ala. The Journal and the Constitution are each allowed only one correspondent in Washington, and the correspondent's activity is largely restricted to reporting the utterances of Georgia's Senators and Congressmen. Patterson and other editors have argued for more money for their staffs and more coverage of the news, but their efforts have met with little success...