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(. Jf 05 IO77 I WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1977
Grand jury charges
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By TOM BARTON
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Photo by TALBOT NUN ALLY
The diversity of David
Folk guitarist David Bromberg displayed his talents at the Last Resort Monday
evening. His particular brand of music did not please some rock and roll
afficianados. but the crowd seemed generally receptive. For more on David
Bromberg, the concert and American music in general see the review on page 5.
STUDENT FEUD
Judiciary debate
By BRYANTSTEELE
Campus editor
Jackson
triumphs
in Aft onto
ATLANTA (UPI)—Atlanta Mayor May
nard Jackson, the only black mayor of a
major Southern city, won his bid for a
second term without a runoff Tuesday
night.
With 151 of 194 precincts reporting,
Jackson received 61.2 per cent of the
vote, followed by northside businessman
Harold Dye with 18.8 per cent.
Fulton County Commissioner Milton
Farris was third with 15.0 per cent,
followed by former city Administrative
Services director Emma Darnell with 4.1
per cent and Socialist Workers' Party
candidate Vince Eagan with 0.5 per cent.
There were two other write-in candi
dates
Jackson. 39. had the support of much of
the white business establishment and the
city’s two major newspapers. Two of his
opponents—Ms. Darnell and Eagan —
were black and the other two were white.
The non-partisan elections were the
first in which Atlanta's black voter
registration exceeded white voters.
Fulton County Chief Voter Registrar
Joseph Honstein said the precinct voting
lists now included 53.5 per cent blacks
compared to 49 per cent when Jackson
was first elected in 1973.
A runoff would have been held in two
weeks had Jackson failed to gain a
majority of the votes.
Election officials estimated a light
turnout of 40 per cent despite mild sunny
weather. Officials reported widespread
violations of the prohibition against
campaigning within a 250-foot limit of the
polls.
The mayor's race led the ticket but
voters also had to decide on 13 contested
posts of the 18-member city council and
eight of nine jobs on the Atlanta Board of
Education.
At present the council is evenly divided
racially with nine blacks and nine whites
Depending on the vote, any change could
range from 12 blacks and six whites to 10
whites and eight blacks
Jackson had stated earlier that he
expected his major competition to come
from Dye. a former deputy commissioner
of the former Department of Industry
and Trade
Dye. along with Darnell and Farris,
criticized Jackson on a number of issues
prior to the election, including charges
that the city has deteriorated Jackson's
leadership
Hearing today
in Harty case
The accused murderer of Theodore K
Harty will face a preliminary hearing in
Magistrate's Court this morning
Elmo Liston Florence. 46. 729
Bonaventure. N.E., Atlanta, will appear
Judge Pierre Boulogne, who will
decide it the prosecution has sufficient
evidence to bind over the suspect to a
high court.
Florence was arrested at his home on
Sept 23 by members of the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation, the Atlanta
Fugitive Squad, and the Clarke County
Police
Grants totalling 152 million have been
approved for 190 colleges and universities
deemed needy by the U S Department of
Health, Education and Welfare (HEW)
Of the $52 million. $1,800,000 will go to
Georgia schools, an HEW spokesman
said.
Sinclair Jeter, chief of grants initiation,
maintenance and review section of the
Basic Institutional Development Pro
gram for HEW said six Georgia schools
were deemed needy of government
funds: Albany College, Albany, $700,000.
Armstrong State College, Savannah,
$200,000; Gainesville State Junior Col
lege. Gainesville, $150,000; Gordon Junior
College. Bamesville. $100.00c, Columbus
College. Columbus, $100,000, and Paine
College. Augusta. $550,000
OF THE 45 states and three
dependencies listed as receiving grants,
the three highest allocations went to
southern states: Alabama. $5,183,480.
North Carolina, $4,139,340; and Tennes
see. $3,429,080
According to an HEW spokesman, the
grants will help schools “achieve a
greater degree of academic and financial
independence ”
To reach those goals, the grants will be
used to aid schools in improving faculty
and curriculum, increasing administra-
The issue of whether members of the
Student Judiciary are serving without
senate confirmation has turned into a
political feud between members of the
legislative and executive branches of the
Student Government Association (SGA».
SGA Administrative Vice President
Grant Raeside has accused senate
Judicial Committee Chairman Mark
Segura of being prejudiced in his
selections of judicial candidates and of
making recommendations for judicial
positions on his own without convening
his committee.
Raeside also said Segura has no
credibility.
“I know you have to objective, but it’s
too bad The Red and Black has listened
to Mark His credibility is shot He
proved that last year with the
pie-throwing incident,'' Raeside said
(Segura and Ed Green, a former
student senator, burst into a senate
meeting last spring quarter and threw
pies in the face of a senator. )
“HE’S SHOWN vocal prejudice against
(judicial applicants) regarding their
fraternity, their color, their creed,”
Raeside continued.
"He got the people he wanted in there,
because he was the only one at the
interviews.
"I felt the people Mark had interviewed
weren’t necessarily the best, but they
still had to go through the president and
the senate as a check
"If no other confirmation had been
required. I’d be skeptical." Raeside said
live efficiency, and developing student
services, he said.
Jeter said that to be eligible for the
grants. schoola'Have to be accredited by
an accrediting agency and have to show
proof that outside financial assistance
was necessary for them to continue
expansion and student attraction
HE FURTHER stated the money would
go directly from the HEW to the colleges
and universities and will not be routed
through the state Board of Regents
Jeter said 410 schools from throughout
the nation applied for grants during
November and December of last year,
and that six months later, in early June
of this year, the 410 had been cut to 190
after a five member panel had ranked
the applicants according to the necessary
requirements
Only 190 were chosen because by the
time school 190 had been passed "we
were out of money,” Jeter explained
According to the grants chief, part of
the money given to the institutions would
go to supporting National Teaching
Fellowships, which are funds used to
strengthen the faculty of a school
A FACULTY MEMBER could Be sent
back to school to earn a higher degree < a
masters or doctorate) and would, through
the fellowship, be paid $7,500 per year
plus $600 per dependent while the
member was in school. Jeter said
EVEN IF Segura's recommendations
cleared the president and the senate, the
best qualified people may have been
turned away by Segura. Raeside added.
“Mark turned away people on his
personal prejudice. He wouldn't recom
mended people from fraternities he didn't
like, like the Fijis or TKEs. They may
have been qualified people
“(Segura's recommendations) were
made by a committee of one,’ Raeside
said, referring to his own allegations that
Segura often interviewed judicial candi
dates without other members of the
Judicial Committee present.
"If anyone believes Mark, they just
need to look back to spring quarter. He
was making the senate look like a
circus." Raeside said
SEGURA IS trying to blame the
alleged lack of a confirmation vote on
other people. Raeside said
"Everybody's denying everything (Se
gura has said).'' Raeside said "It's not
anybody's fault but Mark's."
"Some of my best friends are Fijis,"
Segura said in response to Raesides
allegations. He named Mike Bozeman
and Steve Hathorn as Fijis he'd
recommended who were now serving in
the Judiciary.
"A couple of Fijis took the test and
never came back." Segura said.
IIE ALSO named Gary Diffley as a
TKE he had recommended to Judiciary.
"I can't think of another TKE who ever
applied The only one I can think of is
serving," Segura said
He added that sometimes applicants
don’t enter any fraternity affiliation on
their applications The reason the
question is asked on the form is to try to
determine if the applicant could render a
fair verdict on a case involving a
fraternity brother. Segura said
"I believe sincerely Raeside—I don't
want to sound paranoid—is out to get
me," Segura said, “because of the
pie-throwing incident and because I
deserted the fold I changed my opinion
on some things we used to agree on And
Raeside is a vengeful guy
"I WAS disgusted with (Raeside and
his political associates > being adminstra*
tion lackeys I made it clear spring
quarter I would fight that The pie
business was the final blow," Segura
said
"This thing has been exploited by the
Raeside gang They've made a mountain
out of a molehill," he added
Segura said he didn't recall expressing
vocal opposition to any judicial candi
dates
"If I did. I wouldn't have done it in the
presence of Grant Raeside or anyone who
would talk to Grant Raeside. he said
SEGURA SAID he believed some
people were using the issue to get
revenge on him
He said he did not believe SGA
president Rob Hancock was part of this
group, however
Segura said earlier that he had told
Hancock spring quarter that some justices
were serving without confirmation
Hancock later denied talking with Segura
or having any prior knowledge of the
matter
I don't think Rob would be involved in
trying to shaft me. but it's surprising he
doesn't remember. Segura said “I
guess g could happen, though
Rob just doesn t remember Raeside
is trying to screw me "
The Clarke County Grand Jury has
charged that Sheriff Larry Williams "did
not have complete control of his
department and did not act with
responsibility," concerning prison leave
practices at the county jail
In a report issued yesterday afternoon,
the grand jury released the results of
a four-day investigation over alleged lax
jail practices and made several
recommendations on how the operation of
the jail can be improved
After hearing the sworn testimony of 21
witnesses, the grand jury found that
Williams had an “unwritten policy"
where off-duty deputies could escort
certain prisoners away from jail for
reasons "other than medical or
emergency The Chief Jailer was to be
the judge of which prisoners could be
granted leave, but he was given no
guidelines by the sheriff on which to base
his decisions
The report stated that several
decays
THE CONTROVERSY began last week
when The Red and Black reported that at
least two justices were serving on the
Judiciary without receiving a confirma
tion vote from the Student Senate as
required by the student body constitution
Segura confirmed that report, and said
there were other justices besides the two
named in the story serving without
senate confirmation
The justices were appointed by former
SGA President J Tom Morgan near the
end of his administration in the 1977
winter quarter
One of the justices in question. Keevin
Griffin of Mam Court, and Segura both
said Morgan didn’t attend senate
meetings to present his appointees for
confirmation.
IN A STORY in yesterday’s Red and
Black. Morgan denied missing any
meetings and said the appointees didn't
show up at the meeting he attended to
present them
However. Associate Justice Chuck
Graham said it is not necessary for
appointees to attend the meeting in order
for the president to present their names
for the confirmation vote
Segura said that the Chief Justice at
the end of winter quarter. Robert
Mumford. allowed the justices to begin
serving their terms and told him not to
worry about the confirmation vote.
The Red and Black has been unable to
contact Mumford for comment
Current Chief Justice Jeff Lamer said
he had no knowledge of anyone serving
without confirmation and that he would
try to determine who might be serving
under those circumstances
Griffin said he was told at the time that
the confirmation vote would be sent in on
ballot
THE ANSWER to whether any justices
have failed to receive confirmation and
who did or did not attend those final
senate meetings of winter quarter 1977
should be found in the minutes of the
senate
However, a check at the SGA office
found the minutes in question to be
missing Both Hancock and Raeside have
said that copies of the minutes should be
available
"The problem is trying to find a
senator from last year who still has the
minutes." Hancock said
Copies of the minutes are sent to each
senator However, senate terms expired
shortly after the meetings in question
Current senators who were also in last
year's senate may not have retained
their copies of last year's minutes
See JUDICIARY, p.2
Concern over the great number of
speeding tickets issued in Athens was
voiced at the bimonthly meeting of the
Clarke County Democratic Committee
this- week
Martin Van Horn, committee member,
said. "I sincerely believe Athens has
become a speed trap It seems that
stopping speeders has become a
revenue raising device rather than a
regulatory device "
prisoners "appeared to be going over the
chief Jailor s head, and that "deputies
assumed early in the year that specific
permission was not required" for these
prisoners to leave the jail.
THUS, "numerous instances of unes
corted leave" occurred, with 1 no
consideration of the reason for the
prisoner's incarceration or the potential
risk to the public created by these
prisoners' releases "
The grand jury outlined several
instances of prisoners leaving the jail,
both escorted and unescorted
Julian Donegan. who was convicted of
voluntary manslaughter and aggravated
assault in 1975, was permitted to leave
the jail with the apparent “specific
approval of the sheriff" to do repairs on
the sheriff's county vehicle in Winder He
also did automobile repairs on "at least"
two deputies' personal vehicles.”
DONEGAN W AS then more frequent
ly absent from the jail than present on
weekends." and usually left under escort
on Friday or Saturday mornings He then
returned Sunday on his own
Donegan made several other escorted
trips away from the jail, and was even
allowed to take a honeymoon trip
With the sheriff’s permission, Donegan
was married while in jail, then left for
Cherokee. N.C., on a honeymoon. He and
his wife were accompanied by a deputy
and the deputy's wife.
The grand jury found that Donegans
activities away from the jail were noticed
by the sheriff during the summer, but
"the sheriff took no action to curtail them
or clarify his policies "
Van Horn stated that many unneees
sary tickets issued caused a problem
with the driver's insurance “With
insurance rates already high." he said,
"a speeding ticket makes rates even
higher
One member felt that the increase of
tickets came with the influx of students
into the city Another stated that he had
been driving in Athens for 10 years
without receiving a ticket Van Horn
thought more attention should be given to
the reckless or drunken driver than to the
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ANOTHER prisoner. David Drake,
convicted of motor vehicle theft in 1976
and serving a seven year sentence,
regularly left the jail overnight “to
accompany an off-duty deputy who drove
a delivery truck to Gainesville for a local
bakery " He also went home on
weekends, apparently unescorted." and
admitted to deputies that he "sometimes
slept in private residences with female
companions "
Over a period of two to three months,
another prisoner. John Andrew Ransom,
was authorized by former Chief Jailer
Billups to leave the jail on Saturday
mornings "to do repair work on his
house." He then returned either Saturday
or Sunday night, and would call the jail if
he was to be late
Ransom wounded himself with a
firearm at home while he was on leave
and unescorted, which focused public
attention on the jail leave practices
"It is understandable that the sheriff
cannot perform all of the duties of the
department as one individual." the report
said "However, delegation of duties does
not reduce the responsibility of the
sheriff: it is his duty to oversee the
department and insure that all members
are performing in the best interest of the
community."
The grand jury recommended that "a
strict policy" should be followed in the
future when temporarily releasing
prisoners, "keeping them under constant
custody and strictly accounting for all
absences "
Each employe of the sheriff's
department “should have a clear
understanding of his duties" and should
be given "a written job description "
driver who is barely over the speed limit
No action was taken on the matter
Committee chairman George Bullock
read a letter of resignation from James
A Thorson who occupied Post 3 from
Militia District 220 and 241 An election
will be held at the December meeting to
fill his post Anyone interested in running
for the post should submit a $10
qualifying fee lo William L. Foster,
secretary of the Committee, or to Gail
Dendy or Linda Lyon, committee
members Qualifying deadline is noor.
November 28
Colleges to get grants
totalling $52 million
By MIKE ROBERTS
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Fnoto hv DAVID CRUSH*
After the dog days
Some people play tennis for recreation Some jog Others sieep. eat. watch
television, play golf or any other of various and sundry ways of relaxing But it
would seem that this young woman has decided the ultimate in taking it easy is to
simply sit on the grass and sketch nature At least this way you don't get hot and
sweaty
Is Athens a speed trap?
B> JULIA MARTIN and
DENISE TRAYLOR