Word: tarver
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plea, which normally enables the accused to avoid the death penalty, Samuel Barlow, 18, Foster Tarver, 17, and Sharon Wiggins, 17, were sentenced to die in the electric chair for first-degree murder. To be sure, the three had not shown any mercy to George Morelock, a bank customer who was shot six times when he advanced toward Sharon after being ordered to stand against a wall. "This was a murder in cold blood," said one of the three judges who handed down the death sentence...
...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...
...More? News coverage is severely damaged by Tarver's refusal to establish bureaus or send reporters to cover stories outside Atlanta. The paper, for 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...
...Looking. There is no evidence that Georgia Power complained, but its influence is so pervasive in Atlanta that it does not have to. The night the column appeared, B.J. learned that Tarver felt her column should be limited to "topics she is qualified to write about." Next morning B.J.'s resignation was on Patterson's desk...
Patterson, upset, demanded that the resignation be rejected and that he maintain control of his editorial page. When Tarver refused, Patterson himself resigned, and was hired as managing editor of the Washington Post, replacing Benjamin Bradlee, who became the Post's top editor when J. R. Wiggins was appointed U.N. delegate (see THE NATION). B.J. also got a job at the Washington Post. Back in Atlanta, Tarver put in his own man to run the editorial page: Reg Murphy, 34, a freelance writer who once served as the Constitution's political editor. Three years ago, he had resigned...