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THE RED AND BLACK
Athens, Ga. Vol. 91, No. 124
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Thursday, July 26, 1984
News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Judge sets
Sept, date
to begin
Hall’s trial
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Superior Court Judge Joe Gaines has
set a Sept 10 trial date (or
Warren Reid Hall, the Ila man charged
with the December 1983 slaying of
University coed Donna Lynn Allen
Gaines also re-issued a "gag order,"
which prohibits lawyers, court staff and
law enforcement officials from
discussing the case with the media,
because of Hall's re-indictment by the
grand jury on July 11
Hall. 23. was originally indicted last
February in connection with Allen's
death
The July 11 re-indictment followed
allegations by defense lawyers that the
original jury that indicted Hall wasn't
chosen in accordance with state law
Gaines issued the first gag order on
April 19
In defense of the new gag order,
Gaines said, "This court is concerned
with the possibility and necessity of an
order concerning the problems of
prejudicial pretrial and pretrial
publicity, the trial Judge's respon
sibility to control court proceedings and
the Trial Court's duty to protect the
defendant's Constitutional rights to a
fair trial."
Gaines cited the “considerable public
interest and media coverage” in the
Allen case as the main cause for his
issuing the order
The gag order does, however, permit
any attorney or court officer to quote or
refer without comment to public
records of the court dealing with the
case, and to announce the scheduling or
result of any stage in the judicial
process.
Allen, a 19-year-old University
sophomore, was slain on the rainy night
of Dec 21, 1983, as she walked to her
car. which was parked In the Candler
Hall parking lot behind the Academic
Building
Autopsy results showed that Allen,
whose body was found by a campus
patrolman, died of multiple stab
wounds
Allen's murder was the first murder
known to have taken place on the
University campus since 1918
Reagan visits Atlanta
President to speak at suburban mail
Aaaariatrd Prn» Courtesy of The Athens Banner Herald
Kona Id Reagan
From Staff and Wire Reports
ATLANTA — In his first campaign tour since the
Democratic Convention, President Reagan will address a
rally of Southern Republican leaders and supporters in the
Atlanta suburb of Marietta today.
The president's speech comes a day after nearly too state
party officials and Atlanta leaders met for five hours of pep-
talks, lectures and political analysis.
Georgia Republican Party Chairman Bob Bell said the
state political leaders heard many speakers during their
closed-door session declare that the "solid South" that used
to deliver for Democratic nominees no longer exists.
"Our biggest problem as Republicans in Georgia now is
avoiding euphoria and complacency," he said. "We've got to
make sure that the people who are going to vote for the
president are registered and then get out and vote."
U S. Sen Mack Mattingly, R Ga., told the leaders that
Democrats would portray the South as "a region of simple-
minded and uneducated voters who can be placated by token
appointments,"
That is not the case, he insisted
Georgia's junior senator said the region is "a microcosm of
America" and the best Southern strategy for Reagan and
other Republican candidates is simple — "more of the
same.”
He said Republicans should point to the record of the past 3
1/2 years, promising a climate conducive to business and
pledging to new taxes.
U S. Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., described the South as a
key battlefield for the November election and said the
fighting will center in Arkansas, Georgia and North Carolina
- the only states which he said Walter Mondale might hope
to take.
"If you write a list of the electoral votes it takes to
nominate and if Mondale can’t carry those three states, he
probably can't put it together," Gingrich said
"Mondale has got to fight every inch of the way for
Georgia. North Carolina and Arkansas or the race is over I
think he is conceding the presidency if he doesn't,” Gingrich
said.
House allows prayer meetings in public schools
WASHINGTON (API - Reversing a
decision two months earlier, the House
passed 337-77 and sent to President
Reagan on Wednesday a bill to allow
student religious meetings in public
schools.
The measure had come up short in
May of the two-thirds majority needed
under a special House rule But a
Senate version, passed 88-11 by that
chamber a month ago. modified the
original language and won enough
reversals in the House to make the
difference
Before Wednesday's vote, the author
of the Senate version, Jeremiah Den
ton. R-Ala , said he asked supporting
groups to lobby House members and
“called at least a dozen" himself
Denton said "we really sweated
blood” in carefully drafting the bill,
which Reagan told his news conference
Tuesday night that he would sign
After the vote on the religious
meetings language, the House voted
393-15 to pass its parent legislation — a
bill to provide almost $1 billion over two
years to strengthen the teaching of
mathematics and science in the
schools
Only 5 Republicans and 72 Democrats
voted against the school meetings
amendment, compared to 181
Democrats and 156 Republicans who
backed it. The House used the same
two-thirds rule as it did in May when
the vote was 270-151 for the bill — 11
votes short of the needed majority.
It became apparent during debate
that attitudes had changed because of
the modifications in the Denton bill.
Democratic Reps Barney Frank of
Massachusetts, Pat Williams of
Montana, Neal Smith of Iowa and
William R Ratchford of Connecticut all
said they would support the measure
despite their "no" votes last time.
The new wording, Ratchford said,
"limits activities to before and after
school hours, keeps out non-school
personnel and clearly allows school
personnel to maintain discipline."
One of the most controversial por
tions of the earlier House bill was a
federal fund cutoff for schools refusing
to comply. The new measure prohibits
discrimination against small groups —
a protection not in the prior bill — and
says no school employee can be com
pelled to attend a meeting, even as
monitors The new bill also includes
protections for all types of speech, not
just religious speech
Frank told colleagues that "All
groups, as long as they don't break the
laws or the furniture, ought to be able to
meet in school buildings If we're going
to allow young Republicans or young
Democrats in, we ought to allow all
groups in. I do not sec any damage to
the fabric of society."
Athenians say federal act will hinder
further downtown development
But Rep Charles E. Schumer, D- public schools
NY. argued, "This bill allows school
administrators to decide what is
religious and what is not
"Nothing prevents a student-initiated
baptism or a catechism in the
classroom. Is that what our forefathers
died for?"
Rep Henry J Hyde, R-Ill., countered
that "If Sister Boom Boom," a San
Francisco gay rights activist, "wants to
head a religion, he or she ought to be
accepted as someone who can exercise
free speech."
Some, but not all supporters of the
meetings bill consider the measure a
substitute for a Senate-defeated con
stitutional amendment proposal to
permit organized, spoken prayer in
Frwm NtiN and Wire Reports
The new federal Debt Reduction Act
that became law last week will hurt the
development of downtown Athens by
squelching the incentive for businesses
to move downtown, officials of the
Athens Downtown Development
Authority said Wednesday
"It affects all businesses that want to
use downtown space rather than
developing suburban plots,” said
ADDA Executive Director Joe Burnett.
"By taking away their incentive, it's
going to really slow down the
development we've seen in the past few
years "
Gov Joe Frank Harris on Wednesday
signed an executive order setting up a
Extension building burns
By I .OK IK. BROWN
K*d and Mark Staff Mr Mar
It will be two months before
restoration can start at the charred
remains of the Hoke Smith Annex of
the University's Cooperative Ex
tension Service, University officials
said Wednesday
According to E Walter Wilson, an
assistant director of management
operations for the extension office, the
office and storage areas destroyed by
the Sunday night fire will be unusable
for at least one year
‘The fire could have
been much, much
worse’
— Cooperative Ex
tension agent
Clarke County Assistant Fire Chief
Wendell Faulkner said the depart
ment was notified of the blaze at about
11:30p m Sunday
University Fire Marshal Clint
Almond said the cause uf the blaze,
which took 32 firemen an hour to
extinguish, is still unknown because
investigators can’t get into the
building because of unsafe conditions
"There is heavy equipment, such as
desks and file cabinets, resting on the
shaky remains of the third floor,"
Almond said. "The equipment is just
waiting to come down."
“Absolutely nothing indicates arson
so far, but we cannot rule it out until
further investigation is completed."
he added
Almond said the fire started on the
second floor, then spread to the third
floor and the attic. The first floor was
also water-damaged, he said
There is also extensive smoke
damage throughout the building, he
added
Approximately 10 offices were
destroyed in the blaze, including the
extension’s Home Economics, 4-H,
Resource Development staff and
Computer Service deparments.
Wilson said these offices have been
relocated now in scattered locations
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Fireman stoops to see inside damaged building
around campus
Almond said the fire destroyed
personal computers, typewriters,
calculators, adding machines, file
cabinets, desks and book shelves
Printing equipment and computer
software were also destroyed by
smoke and water, added Wilson
Although total damage is not known
yet, Almond said he "heard estimates
anywhere from 8300,000 to 8500,000 ''
Wilson commended the fire fighters
for containing the blaze. "The fire
could have been much, much worse,"
Wilson added
According to Faulkner, three
firemen were hospitalized from heat
exhaustion and smoke inhalation. All
three were reported in satisfactory
condition Wednesday
way to allocate the maximum Georgia
is allowed in industrial development
bonds under the new federal Debt
Reduction Act - 8850 million That act
became law last week
The impact the new ceiling will have
of the Athens-Clarke County Industrial
Development Authority is unclear,
officials said: but some impact upon
the financing mechanisms used by the
ADDA can already be predicted.
For some time now, about 84 7 million
in low-interest loan applications has
been held by the downtown develop
ment authority while Congress debated
ways to cut abuses in the system
Mitchell Delk, a legislative assistant
to Sen Mack Mattingly, R-Ga , said the
act will cut between 8100 million and
8200 million in state-apportioned tax-
exempt bonds
"This will severely limit the funds
available to the entire state, -and I
assume that some of that loss will
trickle down to Athens.
“Sen Mattingly was strongly against
this per capita cap. and I think the
entire Georgia delegation voted against
it," Delk said
Delk added that the Senate version of
the bill included reductions in tax-
exempt financing for historic sites, but
that the measure was ammended in
conference.
“There was a lot of concern about
that, and I know that there are a lot of
people in Athens interested in funding
to renovate such buildings as the
Morton Theater. This way, I think such
historic preservation projects will not
be as severely affected as they might
have been," Delk said
Joe Burnett
Burnett said. "The tax credits for
historical properties are still an open
question The real deciding factor will
be who wins the presidential race and
the congressional races," he said
The good news. Burnett said, is that
loan applications "induced” before
June 19 are “grandfathered" in under
the new law, and a whole year's
allocation is available for use during
the remaining five months of this year
But the bad news, he said, is that
sometime in 1988, low-interest
development bonds aimed at com
mercial uses — such as the ADDA's
efforts — will no longer be allowed
under federal law
Burnett criticized the new law as
"going back to the same old horse they
have ridden for years with the Small
Business Administration block grants.
It is a cost-heavy, bureaucratic way to
spread money around
“Most of our work has been done by
little people,” Burnett said “In other
areas, it is only the big corporation!
and investment groups who can put th<
capital together."
"You do not see shopkeepers do whai
we have done here without in
ducements," he said.
As for the “pure” industria
development bonds backed by tlx
Athens-Clarke County Industria
Development Authority, the impact ii
less clear, according to Mayor Laurer
Coile, who sits on the boards of both the
ADDA and the ACCIDA
; really t
bondin
total bonding amount issued
Georgia,” Coile said "There are
authorities in Georgia capable of
issuing bonds, but there is no clearing
house that totals up the amounts. We
couldn't build a trend line for the past
five years.
"So when you start talking about
allocation* and impact, we just don't
know,” he said
Frat alumni hold Pikes’ charter
pending probes and reorganization
By ANDY SMITH
W and Mark Asiarlal* Nrai Kdltor
Although the University will take no
action in the matter, the national
chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity
will make effort* to straighten out
problems in its Athens chapter
"The problem is a lot of different
things within the fraternity," said
University Vice President (or Student
Affairs Bill Mendenhall
“Their guardian chapter is holding
their charter, and they are doing some
reorganizing, " he said
Mendenhall said the National
Chapter will conduct individual in
terviews with local chapter members
"They will probably choose to suspend
some individuals," he said.
Mendenhall said whatever action the
national chapter takes won't hinder the
fraternity's usual activities including
rush and participation in the In-
terfratemity Council
“The problem is between the local
chapter and the national chapter," said
University Director of Student Affairs '
Bob Nettles
"We (the University) have extended
our hand to help but we won’t be
directly involved This is not like the
SAE deal at all,” he said
Mendenhall said the Pike national
chapter will hold the fraternity's
charter and set up an alumni group to
run the chapter until, “Things are back
in line."
Nettles said he was aware of the
causes of the problem but refused to
disclose them
"The information I’ve got would be
privileged," he said “II wouldn't be
right of me to say anything at this
point.”
Chapter member Glenn Griffin said
the national chapter sent out letters last
week inviting all local members to a
meeting scheduled for next week
Griffin said a passible cause of the
National intervention is the present
condition of the Pike house and
BUI Mendenhall
grounds.
He added that none of the fraternity’s
members were fully aware of the
purpose of next week's meeting. "None
of us know anything right no**,” he
said