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Kidnap
Terror Grips
Textile Town
By LAWRENCE C. FALK
GAFFNEY, S.C. (UPD—
Terror gripped this textile town
today. A publicity-seeking stran
gler possibly has killed as many
as four women and threatens to
kill again unless he’s caught.
A 15-year-old Negro girl may
be the latest victim of the
kidnap-slayer, who telephones
newspaper editor Bill Gibbons
in “Dear Abby” fashion to
confess the killings.
Opel Dianne Buckson was
jerked screaming into a car
while waiting for a school bus
Tuesday morning. No trace of
her has been found and
authorities expressed doubt she
still was alive.
Seven FBI agents entered the
investigation Wednesday night
after waiting the 24 hours
required by law before federal
intervention in kidnap cases.
Residents Ann
But that did little to ease the
fright in the town, where streets
become virtually deserted after
sunset. A hardware owner said
he had sold more than 200
pistols in two days. A restau
rant operator said he had no
supper customers, and a service
station operator said “business
is falling off all over town.”
Gibbons, the "middleman”
between the killer and the
police, said he feels he’s "in the
middle of an Alfred Hitchcock
drama. The only thing is,
Hitchcock solves his crimes in
an hour.”
Sitting behind a cluttered, old
rolltop desk in his office in the
twice weekly Gaffney Ledger,
Gibbons apprehensively watched
his telephone Wednesday. He
expected a call from the
mysterious strangler, but he
hoped he was mistaken.
He first received a call last
Thursday from a “calm-voiced”
man who told him where the
bodies of two missing White
women, Mrs. Nancy Parris, 20,
and Nancy Rinehart, 14, could
be found. The bodies, nude and
strangled, were exactly where
the caller said they would be.
Admits Third Slaying
The man also admitted,
Gibbons said, slaying another
woman, Mrs. Roger Dedmon of
Spindale, N.C., whose body was
found in adjoining Union County
last year. He said the woman's
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husband, Roger, 28, sentenced
to 18 years in the killing, “is
serving my time.”
Gibbons said the man had
called again Monday night
before the Buckson girl was
kidnaped.
She Got Her Man
Bride’s Neck Broken;
Honeymoon To Wait
By GENE STEPHENS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPD—
Connie McGuffie got her wish.
She was married on Valentine’s
Day. But the honeymoon will
have to wait — until her brok
en neck heals.
Today Connie is Mrs. Verlon
Moore. It was a simple cere
mony Wednesday night in the
University Hospital chapel.
Connie was a beautiful bride
in her special white gown of
lace and net.
The fact that she had to at
tend her wedding ceremony ly
ing on a hospital bed didn’t
seem to bother her. Standing
beside her, holding her hand,
was her man, Sgt. Verlon
Moore.
He had come 900 miles on
special leave from Offut Air
Force Base near Omaha, Neb.,
to marry her.
The 19-year-old bride held
a bouquet and a Bible through
the ceremony. The 21-year-old
groom was nervous and just
held her hand, tightly.
The best man was Brad Mar
tin and he was very much a
part of the events that brought
about the hospital wedding.
The romance started two
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“If they don’t catch me,
there’ll be more deaths,” the
man told Gibbons.
“I think he wants to be
caught,” said Gibbons. “But
he’s not going to give up. He
likes his press notices.”
years ago in Alabaster, Ala.,
where Moore, a native of Bax
ley, Ga., was working for West
ern Union. He met and started
dating Connie, who then was
attending high school.
Their original marriage plans
had to be postponed when Moore
was shipped to the Far East.
When he returned recently he
was sent to Nebraska as a se
curity policeman. New marriage
plans were made and Connie was
to Join him in Nebraska for the
wedding.
Then, on Feb. 1, Martin and
Connie had a wreck in Mar
tin’s car near their homes in
McCalla, Ala. Connie’s neck and
hand were broken.
"She was laid up and didn’t
have anything else to do. So
she decided it would be good to
marry on Valentine’s Day,”
Moore said.
From that point the nurses
took over, and planned the wed
ding and small reception as
carefully as if it were their own.
“I went along with it and ever
since I have been too scared to
say anything except ‘Yes, mam’
and ‘no mam’ to everyone,*
Moore said.
Commissioner In
Fair Condition
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPD—Rich
mond County Commissioner N
Francis Widener was listed In
fair condition today in the Uni
versity of Georgia Hospital, suf
fering exposure, shock, broken
bones and lacerations as a re
sult of a traffic accident.
Authorities said that Widener
lay in his car most of Tuesday
night, with temperatures dip
ping as low as 18 degrees, be
fore he was seen by passersby.
Investigators said the com
missioner’s car apparently spun
off Georgia 28 and careened
down an embankment. The
wreckage was discovered at
6:45 a.m. Wednesday.
Widener apparently was en
route to his cottage at nearby
Clark Hill Lake to see that a
water pump was protected from
the cold.
GOP Plans Fund
Raising Dinners
ATLANTA (UPD — Six Re
publican fund raising dinners
are planned In Georgia on May
15, GOP officials announced
Wednesday.
The dinners are scheduled for
Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, Rome,
Savannah and Albany.
Featured will be out-of-state
politicians and speeches by long
distance telephone hookups by
former Vice President Richard
M. Nixon, Michigan Gov.
George Romney and California
Gov. Ronald Reagan.
Live keynote speakers at the
dinners will be Pennsylvania
Gov. Ray P. Shafer in Atlanta;
Rep. John Buchanan, R - Ala.
in Savannah; Rep. Bill Dickin
son, R-Ala. at Albany; Rep.
Bill Brock, R-Tenn„ in Macon;
Rep. Dan Kuykendall, R-Tenn.
at Rome; and Rep. Donald Lu
kens, R-Ohio at Augusta.
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Griffin-Spalding Jaycettes will collect funds from
Griffin businesses for the Heart Fund through Feb.
20. Mrs. John L. Herbert and Mrs. Frank W. Gold
show some of the literature being used in the drive.
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Senators Struggle
For Tax Option Bill
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPD — Senators
fighting to keep the locay option
sales tax bill alive plan their
next move today in a strategy
designed to put the measure
into debate.
Atlanta Sen. Dan Maclntyre
said he will ask the Senate to
meet as a committee of the
whole to bring the bill out of
the grip of the rules committee,
where it has been stalled since
Monday. Maclntyre said he will
instruct the Senate to change
the bill slightly, a maneuver to
get it into debate bafore an out
right negative vote.
The measure to give cities
and counties the chance to levy
an extra cent of sales tax
passed the House last year but
was killed in the Senate.
The House hoped to begin
consideration of two budget bills
totaling nearly $1 billion for the
next two years as submitted by
Maddox if the appropriations
committee finished with them
in time.
Maddox has announced he
will sign into law at noon a
measure regulating the 300 strip
mining operations in Georgia.
Other Senate business includ
ed a pulpwood truck safety bill,
companion to one passed
Wednesday by a 48-0 vote. Val
dosta Sen. Frank Eldridge de
scribed the approved bill as a
compromise that “brings the
timber industry under weight
controls for the first time.”
The bill establishes maximum
weights of 23,000 pounds per
axle or 75,000 pounds total for
pulpwood trucks. It gained wide
attention after 10 deaths oc
curred recently in accidents in
volving logging trucks.
The bill goes back to the
House for concurrence with
more liberal control set by the
Senate.
The upper chamber also ap
proved 32-19 a measure putting
Georgia in an educational com
pact among states which Rome
Sen. Battle Hall said “would
help delay or stop” any trend
toward a national education
system.
“This is the way to influence
what happens to us in educa
tion,” Hall said.
The House - passed bill giving
legislators the right to name
retirement beneficiaries after 10
years of service. Other state
employes get that benefit only
after 20 years service.
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Patrolman Shot;
Inquest Planned
DAHLONEGA, Ga. (UPD—A
coroner’s Inquest is scheduled
here this afternoon in the shoot
ing death of Atlanta Patrolman
William Malcolm Gray.
Lumpkin County officials
would say only that Gray, 34,
had been shot to death Wednes
day morning in Dahlonega.iThe
sheriff’s office said no details
of the incident would be re
vealed until after the inquest.
Officials said Wednesday af
ternoon that no one had been
jailed in the case.
Two members of the Atlanta
police security squad were sent
to the mountain town to in
vestigate the shooting.
Funeral services for Gray
were scheduled today in Atlan
ta.