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The Red and Black » Thursday, March 15, 1990 • 6
Lankford trial begins
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Pulton County
Sheriff Richard Lankford “ex
ploited both his office and his
power ... to get kickbacks from a
businessman,” the prosecution
told the jury Wednesday as his
extortion trial began in federal
court.
Lankford, the first black
elected sheriff in Georgia, is on
trial in U.S. District Court on 27
extortion and tax evasion counts.
He is accused of extorting more
than $27,000 from the caterer
who held the food service con
tract at the county jail.
The case will match the word
of the popular sheriff against the
word of his chief accuser, 70-
year-old caterer and restaurateur
Jack LeCroy.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Wil
liam Gaffney, in opening argu
ments, told the jury 23 separate
stories of times when the sheriff
demanded — and usually got —
cash from LeCroy, whose com
pany enjoyed millions of dollars
in contract work at the Fulton
County Jail.
LeCroy regularly slipped the
sheriff unmarked envelopes of
$100 bills at his restaurant, a
truck stop, the jail and even in a
Fulton patrol car parked at a sub
urban Conyers liquor store, Gaf
fney said.
LeCroy was “approached by
the sheriff for money, and he was
J laying the money out of fear” —
ear that his company would lose
the lucrative jail food contract,
Gaffney said.
Gaffney conceded that that Le
Croy is unable to recall the pre
cise dates of some 23 extortion
attempts by the sheriff over four
years.
But LeCroy will testify in de
tail about the payoffs, he said.
Another allegation against
Lankford concerns $2,000 wired
by a LeCroy aide to Lankford
while the sheriff was in Las
Vegas at a convention.
Kayaking for world peace
The Associated Press
BLAIRSVILLE, Ga.- Kayaking
and world peace will go together
this week on the wild riverB of
north Georgia, North Carolina and
Tennessee.
About 250 mostly amateur raf
ters and kayakers from 18 nations
will take to the water in the second
international White-Water Cele
bration and Global Environmental
Conference, which begins
Thursday. The conference is spon
sored by Project RAFT, which
stands for Russians and Americans
for Teamwork.
Project RAFT was founded in
1986 by two river guides from
northern California to foster coop
erative rafting trips around the
world.
Competition will begin Monday
and conclude March 25. Events
will take place on the Nantahala
River in North Carolina, the Ocoee
in Tennessee and the Chattooga in
Georgia. The three are among the
most challenging white-water
streams in the Southeast.
Paddlers will live in tents in a
National Forest campground near
the Nantahala River.
Speaker calls for women’s memorial
By MARY RATCUFFE
Contributing Writer
Female military veterans, now numbering in
the millions, deserve a national memorial,
according to Tommie LaCavera, a senior his
tory mejor and member of the Georgia Home
Guard.
LaCavera, the field representative for the
Women in Military Service Memorial, spoke to
students at the Tate Student Center as part of
Women in History Month.
LaCavera attends the University on a full
scholarship from the United Daughters of the
Confederacy and has focused her studies on
women in the military. Her daughter also
serves in the military as a naval intelligence of
ficer.
The $15 million memorial, to be placed in Ar
lington National Cemetery in 1992, will honor
all women who served in the military since
1776, she said.
George Abney, director of student services in
the College of Journalism and Mass Commu
nication and a 23-year veteran of active and re
serve duty in the Air Force and Coast Guard,
was enthusiastic about the memorial.
"This one will recognize the significant con
tributions women have made throughout his
tory."
‘These grandmothers you see in amusement
parks are the same women who were in combat
—passing ammunition and secret codes,” LaCa
vera said. “The winning designer said his
grandmother had served.”
Women have been involved with the military
for centuries, LaCavera said, often disguised as
men. During the American Revolution, a 20-
year-old teacher named Deborah Sampson
fought for three years before being discovered
when she was wounded.
The legend of the American Revolution her
oine “Molly Pitcher,” is the true story of a
woman who took charge of a cannon when her
husband was wounded, she said.
Both Sampson and Pitcher set the precedent
for dozens of other women who wanted to serve
their country as foot soldiers and spies, rather
than as cooks in mess tents or nurses in sick
bay, LaCavera said.
However, it was not until 1916 that the mili
tary formally recognized women when “the Sec
retary of the Navy asked if there was a law
preventing yeomen from being yeowomen,” she
said. There wasn’t a law against it, so women
were finally granted military status.
By the end of World War 1, 34,000 women
had served in the military Nurse Corps. In
World War II, 400,000 women served as nurses,
pilots, drivers and spies.
Today than are 1.2 million female military
veterans in America, LaCavera said, and 10
percent of UJ9. troops are women. That number
is climbing, she said, because women are more
“anxious” to enlist than men.
BONDING
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and helpful to student needs.
He has even at times been
known to let a student work off his
bond fee — but that depends on
whether his house needs painting
again or if his wife decides she
wants more azaleas in the front
yard.
Many students that are bonded
from jail by Elliott don’t remember
his name too long after his services
are completed. They do however re
member that a nice man helped get
them out of jail.
Leigh Bennett, senior adver
tising major, said “He was really
nice and helpful and he helped
calm me down because I was real
upset.”
Elliott said there’s nothing that
sets him apart from other bonding
companies here in Athens. He con
tinually advertises, contributes to
the community and sponsors
John Elliot: Owner of Aaron
Bonding
events.
Elliott works at Aaron Bonding
company with two other indepen
dent contractors. All three work
out of their answering services and
beepers. They are ail on call 24
hours a day, seven days a week.
Elliott said,"Usually from
Wednesday night on, it’s pretty
much every night, all night.”
Elliot explained the company's
slogan “Aaron Bonding Compa
ny.Where its always springtime."
“It is just a term I picked up
watching the old gangster movies,”
he said. They would say “Get down
here and spring me.’ ”
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