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GAMBRELL & MOBLEY 3900 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BU I LDING ATLANTA , GEORGIA 30303 DAV ID H . GAMBREL L JOHN H. MOB LE Y ALBER T SIDNEY JOHNSON August 26 , 1969 J . ROBERT OWENS 404 / 525-8571 ROBERT D. FEA GIN III JEREMIAH LUXEMBURGER LEON L . RICE III Mr . Lewis Dinkins Acting Exe cut ive Director Atlanta Children & Youth Services Council City Hall Annex 3 121 Memori al Drive , S . W . Atlanta, G e orgia 30303 Re : Atlanta Children & Youth Services Council Dear Lewis : Duane Beck of Community Counc il has had a series of meetings with people in the 14th Street Hippy community and one of the results of the meetings ha been to dramatize the need for a drug education program in that community . Many of Atlant a ' s young teen-age children come to that community during the weekends and are exposed to the use of drugs. Also there are other people who come from outside of Atlanta who are not knowledgable about the dangers of drugs. Duane Beck bas asked the Youth Council to undertake a drug education program in the Hippy community and it is his suggestion that if it is to be effective it must avoid moralizing over the use of drugs and it must involve members of the community . Art Auerback:, Telephone Numbers 872-9492. , 622-0919, i a young m.an in the community who is interested in the project and who can be of assistance . Bruce Donnelly, a Minister, at Twelfth Gate Coffee House is also interested in the project. 1 am asking tbat you, as the Acting Director of the Council, make the establishment of such a program in that community an item of first priority. It is a logical follow up on the conferences which we had on drug use and abuse earlier thi spring. �Mr . Lewis Dinkins August 26, 1969 Page 2 If it is necessary for you to take a staff person and assigning him full time to the project you should feel free to do so . By copy of this letter I am informing Dan Sweat at the Mayor ' s office and the other members of the Executive Committee of the immediacy that this project has taken on as a result of requests from other agencies in the community. Very truly yours , ~ JL/lc cc : ~ E . Sweat, Jr . Mrs. Rhodes Perdue Michael H. Trotter Fletcher Coombs Clarence Elsas . Robert M. Wood burger �