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Shaw Trial Witness Says
He Made Whole Thing Up
By H. D. QUIGG
NEW ORLEANS (UPD—It
was Falstaff contrite. At the
end of an amazing afternoon in
court, a roly-poly man admitted
he made the whole thing up.
“Clay Bertrand was a figment
of my imagination,” Dean
Andrews said Tuesday. ‘‘l’ve
been carrying on a farce.”
Andrews, wearing green sun
glasses while testifying for the
defense at the trial of Clay
Shaw for conspiracy in the
assassination of President John
F. Kennedy, had no explanation
for his behavior except:
"Once you’ve made a fool of
yourself, you’re stuck with it.”
Andrews’ shocking testimony
was in direct opposition to that
he gave the Warren Commis
sion. He told the commission a
man named "Clay Bertrand”
Knight Chain Buys
Macon Newspapers
MACON, Ga. (UPD— Knight
Newspapers, Inc., has pur
chased the Macon Telegraph
and the Macon News, daily and
Sunday newspapers serving 28
middle Georgia counties.
The papers and the weekly
Union Recorder of Milledgeville
and Drlnnon, Inc., a photograph
ic and engraving firm which
aerves the newspapers and oth
er clients, were purchased by
Knight from publisher - owner
Peyton Anderson for an undis
closed amount.
The announcement Tuesday
was made jointly by Anderson,
publisher and president of the
Macon Telegraph Publishing Co.
and James L. Knight, chairman
of the board and chief execu-
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had set aside 30 per cent of his
estate to be divided among
everyone who showed up at his
funeral.
Nearly 100 persons will share
in part of Wilkie’s estate, the
value of which has not yet been
determined.
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called him the day after
Kennedy was murdered in
Dallas and asked him to
represent Lee Harvey Oswald,
the accused assassin.
Tuesday he said he made it
all up. Nobody had called and
asked him to defend Oswald. He
decided to do it himself, and
pulled the name Bertrand from
his memory of a "fag wed
ding."
Andrews summed up in a
lonely man’s sentence his self
admitted "farce.”
"I don’t have any explanation,
Mr. Alcock—once you’ve made
a fool of yourself you’re stuck
with it.”
James L. Alcock is the
courtroom engineer of Dist.
Atty. Jim Garrison’s attempt to
send Clay L. Bhaw to prison on
a charge of using the name
tive officer of Knight Newspa
pers, Inc.
Anderson, who is retiring and
will serve on the Knight board
of directors, said he chose
Knight newspapers "as the best
qualified organization I know to
carry on in the future.”
Knight praised the newspa
pers’ reputation and said “we
intend to preserve and build up
on that reputation.
The morning paper, the Tele
graph, was founded in 1828 and
the News, the afternoon paper,
was founded in 1884. They have
a combined total of 228 years
of continuous publication.
Knight said no staff changes
are anticipated.
Bert Struby will be in charge
of publishing affairs as execu
tive vice president and general
manager. William A. Ott will
continue as editor of the Tele
graph and Joseph Parham as
editor of the News.
The Telegraph and the News
came under the same owner
ship in 1930 and since then the
Telegraph has absorbed at least
seven smaller papers.
Other Knight executives in
Macon for the announcement
were Lee Hills, president and
executive editor; Alva Chapman
Jr., executive vice president,
and J.M. Curtis, Vice President
for development.
Clay or Clem Bertrand while
plotting the assassination with
Oswald and David W. Ferrie.
Called by the defense, An-
Georgia News
College Gets
Grant For Dorm
WASHINGTON (UPD — Rep.
John Davis, D - Ga., Tuesday
announced fjnal approval of a
$510,000 loan for construction of
a five - story men’s dormitory
at Covenant College at Lookout
Mountain, Ga.
The facility is part of a ma
jor building program at the col
lege, and will house 100 male
students.
The Department of Housing
and Urban Development ap
proved the loan. A $150,000
grant for a library, classroom
and physical education building
was approved earlier this week
by the Appalachian Regional
Commission.
GAPR Criticizes
Gas Price Hike
ATLANTA (UPD—The Geor
gia Association of Petroleum
Retailers today strongly criti
cized recent gasoline price in
creases by two major oil com
panies.
A spokesman said the Geor
gia retailers were especially
critical of a 1.6 cent hike per
gallon to retailers by Texaco
that would make gasoline cost
two cents more per gallon to
the public.
Phillips Increased its per-gal
lon price to retailers by .7 cents
representing an additional one
cent rise in cost to public con
sumers, according to the GAPR.
If the Georgia General As
sembly passes a proposed one
cent per gallon tax hike on
gasoline, the price would rise
to 41.9 cents per gallon for pre
mium.
In a press release, the GAPR
said, "GAPR opposes this ac
tion by Texaco and Phillips be
cause all - time record high net
profit reports indicate such an
increase by major oil firms is
not Justified at this time.”
Three Georgians
Killed In Vietnam
WASHINGTON (UPD — The
Defense Department has identi
fied three more Georgians killed
in action in Vietnam.
They were Army Specs. 4
Robert L. Jones, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ulysses G. Jones, Waynes
boro; Henry R. Strobo, husband
of Mrs. Evelyn M. Strobo of
Valdosta; and Charlie L. Wild
er, son of Mrs. lona C. Wilder
of Fairbum.
Resolution Opposes
General’s Visit
ATLANTA (UPD — A resolu
tion has been introduced in the
Georgia House of Representa
tives opposing the appearance
at the U. S. Naval Institute of
a Japanese general who planned
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The resolution, by Rep. Mc-
Kee Hargrett of Jesup, urged
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Idrews testified he had never
known Shaw, who certainly was
not "Bertrand,” had known
Ferrie but never heard him nor
the Georgia congressional dele
gation to speak out against the
appearance and referred to the
general, Minoru Genda, as a
“war criminal."
Hargrett said that to call Gen
da an "honored and disting
uished visitor is an outrage.”
Genda’s appearance at the
institute would be "insulting to
’ the families and countrymen of
his victims,” the resolution de
clared.
Genda is scheduled to visit
the institute at Annapolis, Md.,
, on March 3.
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Campbell Speaks
At Davidson
DAVIDSON, N. C. (UPI) —
Northern Negroes may begin a
mass migration back to the
South, a professor at Atlanta’s
Morehouse -College told David
son College students and faculty
members Tuesday.
"Blacks have to the idea that
the South is home,” said Dr.
F. C. Campbell, an English pro
, fessor at the Negro college.
. "It’s awful to make a black
man live in a city ghetto.”
Projects like Soul City, the
planned black - built and black
owned city in North Carolina,
might hasten the return of Ne
groes to the South, Campbell
said.
Quirks
By United Press International
ON TARGET
DETROIT (UPD—The Detroit
area’s first bomber was right
on target.
Wayne County sheriff’s police
report that Bomber n, the
area’s first marijuana-smelling
police dog, sniffed at the
handbag of a passenger on a
flight from San Francisco—and
four bricks of uncut marijuana,
worth an estimated $3,200 on
the street, were found in the
bag.
Carolyn Beachem, 19, San
Francisco was charged.
GOOD NAME
NEWTON ABBOT, England
(UPD—When blizzards and
flooding over the past week
kept his trucks in a garage, coal
merchant Sam Robers worried.
It was the first time in 10 years
he had failed to make deliveries
as promised and , Sam was
concerned about the inconve
nience he was causing to his
customers.
Sunday, Roberts bought 10
seven-second commercials on
television to apologize to his
customers and explain the
difficulties. “I was very worried
what my customers might think
of me,” he said.
CHANGES party
HONOLULU (UPD—The De
mocratic majority in the state
’ senate increased by one Tues-
I day when Sen. James Clark
giving trading stamps at the
■ Republicans—and became a
I Democrat.
Oswald mention Shaw, nor had
heard Ferrie mention Oswald.
Alcock on cross examination
tore into him about his “lies”
about Bertrand to the Warren
Commission in 1964 and to three
sessions of the grand jury here.
Andrews was convicted in
August, 1967, of perjury in a
case based on inconsistencies in
his grand jury testimony. He
has appealed to the state
supreme court.
Near day’s end, Andrews
said: "Clay Bertrand was a
figment of my imagination—a
cover that I assumed in
November, 1963, when I was
questioned by Regis Kennedy of
the FBI, a fiasco that I had
continued ever since . . ." His
moon face was stem and his
voice rose:
"Up until now!”
Garrison had introduced testi
mony that two years after the
assassination Shaw, retired
businessman, had signed an
airline V.I.P. room guest
register as Clay Bertrand. ‘Die
defense called a handwriting
expert today to rebut that
testimony.
Wall Os Mud Buries 17
In Fire Station; 5 Die
By JOAN SWEENEY
LOS ANGELES (UPD—A 20-
ton wall of mud buried alive 17
storm refugees seeking shelter
in a fire station, killing at least
five, in the latest in a series of
rainstorms that brought death
and destruction to Southern
California.
About 12,500 persons were
temporarily homeless today and
helicopter crews were evacuat
ing thousands more stranded by
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TWISTED TRAIL of tire marks on a highway near
Lebanon, Wis., would seem to lead to an accident, but
motorist escaped injury—this time.
Private Detectives Held
GBI Agent Fired
In Wiretap Case
ATLANTA (UPD — Two pri
vate investigators have been ar
rested and a Georgia Bureau of
Investigation agent has been
fired in connection with an il
legal wiretap found at an At
lanta business.
Col. R. H. Burson, Georgia
public safety director, identified
the private investigators as Fer
rell Nixdorf and Mel Falk of
Atlanta and the agent as five
year veteran officer Glen Wea
thington.
According to Burson, Weath
ington took GBI equipment to
help the two men set up a wire
tap in the offices of Commu
nication and Studies, Inc., a di
vision of Pacific International,
Inc.
When the equipment proved
insufficient, Weathington flew
with Nixdorf to Miami last
weekend to buy the proper de
vices, Burson said.
According to the GBI chief,
the incident was discovered
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Job-O-Rama
Miss Dale Sellars, student from Newton, Ga.; Miss Vicki Barnes, Griffin; and
Thomas Jones, director of instruction, Griffin; (1-r), are shown participating in
the second annual Job-O-Rama at Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Ga.
Thirty-three school systems sent representatives to the campus to interview 180
prospective teachers for the 1969-70 school term.
floodwaters.
At least nine deaths were
blamed on the killer mudslides,
including a family of four
trapped when a hillside col
lapsed and crushed their two
story home.
Hundreds of homes slid down
hillsides made soggy by a
month and a half of rain during
Southern California’s worst
winter in 85 years. Clearing
weather was forecast for
tonight.
when another agent noticed the
equipment missing from GBI of
fices and noticed Nixdorf at
GBI headquarters.
Burson said taps were put on
four of five telephone lines and
a monitor was placed on anoth
er floor of the downtown sky
scraper where the Communica
tion and Studies offioe isolated,
in violation of state and federal
law.
When questioned about the
equipment missing from GBI
headquarters, Weathington told
Maj. Garney Ragsdale, chief
of the GBI, “the whole thing,”
Ragsdale said.
Ragsdale said that Weathing
ton, although fired from the
force, had not been charged in
the case pending a grand jury
; investigation. The two investi
. gators were charged with pos
sessing wiretap equipment and
entering the premises of anoth
-1 er for eavesdropping.
Griffin Daily News
At Santa Paula in Ventura
County, 5,000 persons—about
one-third of the population—
were evacuated hours before
the raging Santa Paula creek
broke through dikes at several
points.
Buried Alive
Seventeen persons were
buried alive at a fire station in
Orange County’s Slverado Can
yon where a 20-ton wall of mud
swept through the building
housing 60 refugees whose
homes were threatened by
floodwaters. Five were known
dead and crews dug through the
muck today searching for more
bodies. Twenty others were
injured.
Leroy Carter, 36, was trying
to cross the creek outside the
station when the hill gave way.
"It went through the back of
that station like it wasn’t even
there,” he said. “And in a
moment, I saw fire engines and
people and everything else . . .
coming out the front.”
The body of one of Carter’s
neighbors was the first to be
brought out.
Mrs. Teresa Wilkins, 58, was
inside the station when the mud
hit.
"It was horrible. Like an
explosion. I ran. I crawled. I
scrambled across the floor to
the front door of the place. The
mud and the rest of it was right
behind me. I coulldn’t move fast
enough.”
The mud pushed a fire truck
against the front door and
forced it open, and the debris
carried Mrs. Wilkins through
the opening to safety.
Worst Since 1884
The latest assault of rain on
Southern California began Sun
day and by early today the
storm had dumped more than
12 inches of rain on some
mountain areas. The onslaught
came at a time when many
communities were still digging
out from two back-to-back
tropical storms in late January.
They added up to Southern
California’s wettest winter since
1884.
Gov. Ronald Reagan ordered
National Guardsmen to active
duty in San Bernardino county
to aid in evacuating persons it
by floods and to guard against
looting. Armories were opened
to house refugees.
Two crocodiles and two
ANNUAL STATEMENT
For the year ending December 31, Con-
dition ofthe MIDDLE GEORGIA MUTUAL INSUR
ANCE COMPANY of Griffin, Georgia,
Organized under the laws of the State of Georgia
made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of
Georgia in pursuance to the laws of said State.
Principal office — 118 South Hill Street, Gnffm,
Georgia
1. TOTAL ASSETS: (Actual
Cash Market Value) 11,535,183.60
2. LIABILITIES:
Cash Capital Paid up None
Surplus Over All Liabilities 1,193,766.16
Total Liabilities 341,417.44
3. INCOME 12 MONTHS 1968 528,457.95
4. DISBURSEMENTS 12 MONTHS 1968 337,498.14
A copy of the Act of Incorporation, duly certified, is in the
office of the Insurance Commissioner.
STATE OF GEORGLA
COUNTY OF SPALDING
Personally appeared before the undersigned J. W. Warren,
who, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the Secre
tary of Middle Georgia Mutual Insurance Company ,and that
the foregoing statement is correct and true.
By J. W. Warren
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 24th day of Feb
ruary 1969.
Juanita G. Brown
Notary Public, Spalding County, Ga.
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Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1969
hippopotami broke uoose Tues
day from the Africa, U.S.A,
wild animal compound in Acton,
northeast of Los Angeles. They
were last seen making their
way down the flood-swollen
Santa Clara river.
A spokesman for the com
pound said the four beasts were
considered "extremely dange
rous” and that big game
hunters would attempt to
destroy them from helicopters
when the weather breaks.
SCLC Plans
Observance
Os King’s Death
ATLANTA (UPD—The South
ern Christian Leadership Con
ference has announced plans for
a special anniversary observ
ance of the April 4 assassination
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In making the announcement
Tuesday, King’s successor as
SCLC president, the Rev. Ralph
D. Abernathy, described the oc
casion as a week-long program
of "commemoration and con
frontation.”
The April 4 program will
probably Include prayer vigils
and services focusing on the
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
in Montgomery, Ala., where
King began his civil rights work
by leading a bus boycott.
Abernathy said demonstra
tions and protests are planned
for April 7- 12, including some
kind of confrontation in Mem
phis, Tenn., where King was
felled by a sniper’s bullet dur
ing a garbage workers strike
last spring.
Abernathy said 30 civil rights
leaders from 25 major cities are
meeting in Atlanta to plan the
program. He said the demon
strations here could be a “gi*
gantic and mammoth march at
the close of services on Good
Friday.
The SCLC leader also said the
Atlanta - based organization is
encouraging the observance of
a Black Easter season, when
persons would patronize busi
nesses in poor areas and wear
old clothes.