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RAIN 8/27: Weekend Update Part 1



There are 15 stories in this posting.

Augusta Chronicle 8/24/01
Missing records
http://augustachronicle.com/stories/082401/met_124-6301.shtml

by Anne Cordeiro
Morris News Service
RICHMOND HILL, Ga. - Historic documents about slaves and wealthy family
estates are in the care of a Bryan County deputy after they were discovered
for sale on the Internet.
Investigators found the faded, ledger-style papers that had been ripped out
of books missing from the Bryan County and Thomas County courthouses.

BBC News /24/01
Inquiry into Burton diary 'theft'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_1507000/1507551.stm

A diary written by the actor Richard Burton may have been stolen from the
BBC after being lent to the Corporation by his widow, Sally.
The BBC reported the diaries missing to police last month and an
investigation into their disappearance is under way.


Christian Science Monitor 8/24/01
Commentary: From the KGB's Oswald files
http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0824/p11s1-cods.html

by Daniel Schorr
WASHINGTON - The documents from the KGB file on Lee Harvey Oswald that
President Boris Yeltsin presented to President Clinton have now been
translated. There are no sensations, but there are interesting sidelights on
the two years that Oswald spent in Russia before he came back to the United
States and eventually assassinated President Kennedy.


Freedomforum.org 8/24/01
Anti-abortion activists ordered to take medical records off Internet
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14689

AP
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - A judge has struck a blow against three anti-abortion
activists who allegedly posted on the Internet a southern Illinois woman's
medical records detailing complications from an abortion.
Madison County Circuit Judge George Moran issued a preliminary injunction
Aug. 22 to Daniel and Angela Michael of Highland and Stephen Wetzel of
Omaha, Neb., barring them from publishing the photograph, medical records or
medical data about the unidentified woman.


Georgetown Times 8/23/01
Records to be on display
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2264045&BRD=2081&PAG=461&dept_id=3
85210&rfi=6

by Scott Harper
A large portion of the written history of the city of Georgetown will soon
be on display at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History in
Columbia.
As the renovations at Georgetown City Hall have been taking place, stacks of
books containing minutes from city and town council meetings, dating back to
the 1800s when Georgetown was a town governed by an intendant and wardens
have been found. Georgetown was reincorporated in 1893 as a city with an
elected mayor and council.



Bucks County Courier Times 8/23/01
History Keeper
http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/news/news/0823swayne.htm

by Jo Ciavaglia
At George School, history hangs like cobwebs in corners. It's heard in the
creaks of wooden floorboards and watches wide-eyed from senior class photos
that stretch for decades along a lobby wall.
Pieces of the past flaunt themselves around the 108-year-old private Quaker
high school campus - like its ornately carved chestnut trim. Other bits hide
- like the punched tin decorations behind Main Hall staircases.



Journal Sentinel 8/24/01
12 subpoenaed in inquiry over records destruction, source says
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/aug01/caucus24082301a.asp

by Richard P. Jones
Madison - State authorities investigating legislative aides have subpoenaed
12 people over allegations that the Assembly Republican caucus staff
destroyed public records, a source close to the investigation said Thursday.
In another development, state GOP Chairman Richard Graber on Thursday urged
Attorney General James Doyle and the Department of Justice to withdraw from
the investigation because of a potential conflict. Doyle, a Democrat running
for governor, refused.


Journal Sentinel 8/24/01
Erin leaders battle over access to records
http://www.jsonline.com/news/ozwash/aug01/erin24082301a.asp

by Lauria Lynch-German
Erin - A spat that has escalated to a shouting match pits the town clerk,
who feels that town records are her sole domain, against an elected town
supervisor who wants keys to the office.
Catherine Whelan, the town clerk, said that her office and her papers should
be secured and even town supervisors should not be allowed unfettered
access.
Whelan said that at least three times, items including a map and a file on a
computer have gone missing from the office and the town vault. Additionally,
she said, she has had a shouting match with Town Supervisor Patrick Landon,
who wants keys to the office.



KFWB 8/24/01
Government releases secret testimony form Hollywood figures
http://kfwb.com/news/local/l082413.html

AP
(AP) 8.24.01, 2:15p -- During the hunt for communists in the 1940s,
congressional investigators heard hours of secret testimony about how
left-wingers in the movie industry were trying to paint Tinseltown red.
Newly released transcripts reveal the House Committee on Un-American
Activities was told that Soviet sympathizers made a science out of seeding
films with communist propaganda.


Modesto Bee8/24/01
Judge wants to see files from raid
http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,290156,00.html

by Michael G. Mooney
The fate of up to 40 felony prosecutions remained in limbo Thursday after a
Stanislaus County judge said he is likely to review scores of computer files
seized from a Modesto private investigator.
Judge William Mayhew, presiding judge of the Superior Court, indicated his
plans to examine all materials taken by district attorney investigators last
week from Alan Peacock's home and office.


New York Times 8/24/01
As public records go online, some say they're too public
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/nyregion/24VOTE.html

by Amy Harmon
A new new Web site that makes New York City voter registration records -
including home addresses - freely available on the Internet has become the
latest example of a growing tension between the individual's right to
privacy and the public's right to public records in an electronic age.
As local, state and federal governments begin to make public records of all
kinds available online, easy electronic access to personal information is
increasingly raising concern. Advocates of open records see the Internet as
a means to make records like court proceedings and property rolls accessible
to a wide group of citizens. But privacy advocates worry that by making
information like a neighbor's home sale price or a battered woman's address
or criminal allegations against a prospective employee as convenient as the
nearest computer, the Internet in effect makes public records too public.


New York Times 8/24/01
Documenting ordinary scenes of South Africa then and now
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/arts/design/24KIMM.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Michael Kimmelman
David Goldblatt's photographs have borne witness since the late 1940's to
life in his native South Africa. More than 150 of his pictures are in a
retrospective of the years 1948 to 1999 now at the Axa Gallery.
They have borne witness, but not in the way that news photographs of
oppression and upheaval usually do, by recording extreme violence or
suffering or protest. Like many photographers who came of age after World
War II and dreamed of escaping their middle-class lives and experiencing the
world, Mr. Goldblatt wanted to pick up a camera after he thrilled to
pictures by Capa and Cartier-Bresson in magazines like Life and Look.


For this next item you will have to scroll about half-way down the webpage
for the real story.
New York Times 8/24/01
Flashback to the Future
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/movies/24FLIC.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Dave Kehr
"Ghosts of Mars," which opens across the country today, is John Carpenter's
19th feature film in 28 years. Like the movies that made him famous -
"Halloween" (1978), "Escape From New York" (1981), "They Live" (1988) - it
belongs to the genre that Mr. Carpenter affectionately describes as the
science-fiction horror-thriller.


Tampa Tribune 8/24/01
Plans for home sold by LaBrake can't be found
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA9CAKBRQC.html

by Laura Kinsler and Michael Fichter
TAMPA - City officials are at a loss to explain how plans for a house built
by embattled housing chief Steve LaBrake vanished.
LaBrake's current house construction project with his girlfriend and
assistant, Lynne McCarter, is the focus of a criminal investigation.
Now, city workers say they can't find documents related to the construction
of a Davis Islands house LaBrake sold for $319,000 late last year.


Associated Press 8/24/01
Precious Yellowstone art languishes in basement
http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/WYO/24YellowstoneArtwork.html

by Kimberly Beekman
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - Yellowstone National Park's thermal
basins and wildlife are widely considered treasures of national
significance, but few park visitors know of the valuables hidden in a
basement at the Mammoth Hot Springs park headquarters.
A collection of priceless items that would make the Smithsonian Institution
proud sit out of public view in the park's archives in the Albright Visitor
Center basement.



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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