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l I I OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY Southeast Regional Office 730 Peachtree Street, N. E. Atlanta, Georgia 30308 Phone: · 526-3194 NEWS for immediate release REGIONAL DIRECTOR MAKES - PRESENTATION The Regional Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity will present Urban Servic·e Awards to seventeen Geo.rgia individuals and organizations at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, January 23, at Atlanta's City Hall. Dr. Ralph A. Phelps, Jr., - will make these presentations on behalf of Sargent Shriver, Director of OEO, who announced the name~ of Georgia honorees last week. This honor is for those individuals and organizations "whose dedicated efforts to alleviate the proplems of the poor in America's cities have helped create a better life for our citizens," according to the award. The individuals in Georgia included: in Columbus,,Mrs. Virginia .Barfield; in Athens, Judge James Barrow; in Augusta, Reverend E. O. Waldron; and in Atlanta, Mrs. Mattie Ansley, Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr., Boisfeuillet Jones, Dr. Vivian Henderson, William W. Allison, Dr. William Holmes Borders, Dan Sweat, Mrs. Earl Metzger, Jr., and the award to Charles O. Emmerich, Sr., the late Director of Economic Opportunity Atlant~, will be accepted by his widow and son. Receiving the awards made to organizations will be: Augustus· H. Sterne for the Atlanta Chamber of Comme rce; Ray Moore, Jim Giltmier and Abe Gallman for ' television WSB; Editor Jack Spalding for the Atlanta Journal; Editor Eugene Patterson for the Atlanta Constitution; and Publish er N. S . Hayden ann Reporter Bob Ingle for the Athens Banner - Her a ld a nd At hens Da i ly News.

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