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ATLANTA—The Georgia House of Representatives restored a series of non-controversial vetoes
they made in Gov. Jimmy Carter’s government reorganization plan. House Majority Leader
George Busbee (I) of Albany, and House Speaker George L. Smith confer during deliberation on
the measure. (UPI)
Convicted by
j SIO,OOO for 30 years J
g LANSING, Mich. (UPI)— Charles Lee
£ Clark went to prison in 1938 as a convicted
g murderer.
S Thirty years passed. A second trial was
g held and Charles Lee Clark was declared
g an innocent man.
g Friday, Gov. William G. Milliken
g presented Clark with a SIO,OOO tax-free
g check—“just a token” for 30 years lost
g from a man’s life.
$ “Thank you very much, governor, and
g thank you, the people of the state of Michi
g gan.”
g There was a hush in the governor’s office
g as newsmen and onlookers strained to
g hear Clark’s frail voice. Before the
g formalities began, Clark told Milliken
g about the weather conditions on a trip
g. from Detroit, his home, and his last
g Christmas which he described as his “best
g ever.”
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“People have been so nice to me,” he $
said.
Milliken signed the legislation $:
authorizing payment of the SIO,OOO and
presented the check and a copy of the bill
to Clark. Clark slowly and carefully read £
the two-paragraph bills to the dozen or so :£
persons in the governor’s office. ®
“This check is just a token,” the $
governor said. “There is no way we can $1
ever repay you for 30 years of your life.”
Clark, who lives in Detroit on a $136 a $
month welfare check, said he doesn’t have
any special plans for using the money yet.
But some of it, he said, will be used to pay
off back legal fees and property taxes.
Born in Georgia S;
Clark was born in Americus, Ga. in 1899 -jj
and moved to Detroit when he was 21. He
was 39 when he began his 30-year term
behind bars. §
Pakistan troops left
boneyards of skeletons
DACCA (UPI) —Searches in
the southern district of Khulna
have led to the discovery of
four “boneyards” of skeletons
of victims of Pakistani occupa
tion forces, the Bangladesh
news agency reported today.
The news agency, run by the
new government, said investi
gations by authorities had
uncovered an abandoned ware
house stacked with human
skeletons, a cemented-over pool
filled with coagulated blood and
other evidence of mass killings.
It quoted officials as estimat
ing the death toll in the district
at 100,000 during the civil war
that began March 26, 1971.
World Bank President Robert
S. McNamara, meanwhile, left
New Delhi today for West
Pakistan on his tour to
determine economic needs of
countries in the subcontinent.
Sources said the visit would
probably come on Monday after
McNamara finishes two days of
consultation with Pakistan
President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
and other officials. The World
Bank chief would stop only a
few hours in Dacca and meet
with Prime Minister Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman, they said.
The Bangladesh news agency
reported that the boneyards
and execution grounds used by
the Pakistani army to execute
Bengalis during the nine-month
liberation struggle were near
the railway station and a ferry
landing in Khulna as well as on
the outskirts of the nearby town
of Gallmari.
At Gallmari there were
scattered human skeletons and
torn pieces of clothing, some of
them with ropes attached to
them, the news agency said.
The reports of the evidence of
atrocities in the Khulna area
followed by two days the
uncovering of about 500 bodies
on a series of mass graves in a
former Pakistani army base at
Comilla in the eastern sector of
the country.
Khulna is a river port located
about 80 miles southwest of
Dacca and Comilla is a district
town about 50 miles east of the
capital.
STAYED TOO LONG
EGGENFELDEN, West Ger
many (UPI)—Two men who
broke into a scrap dealer’s shop
Thursday night smashed a
beer-vending machine in the
store and drank so much of the
brew they fell asleep.
Employes found the pair
slumbering in the shop the next
morning and summoned police,
who arrested them.
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ATLANTA—The only challenge to a series of non-controversial vetoes which the House restored to
Gov. Jimmy Carter’s reorganization came from Rep. Denmark Groover of Gray. He sought to
leave the present board of the Department of Public Safety as it is now constituted. Groover is
shown as he voiced his objections to the bill during debate. (UPI)
Jobless
listing
reduced
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Six
areas have been removed from
the Labor Department’s list of
major regions with “substantial
unemployment,” decreasing the
list to 54, compared to the
recent high of 65 recorded in
October.
Unemployment dipped below
tile “substantial” 6 per cent
level this month at Boston,
Philadelphia, Rockford, 111., and
Sacramento, San Francisco-
Oakland, and San Jose, Calif.,
Secretary James D.
Hodgson said in a monthly
report Friday.
The six regions were shifted
to the moderate unemployment
group, which runs from 3 to 5.9
per cent, Hodgson said.
The labor secretary pointed
out the new list was drawn up
before the renewal of the West
Coast dock strike.
Tacoma, Wash., where unem
ployment had been estimated at
12 per cent or more, also
showed improvement and was
moved to the 9 to 11.9 per cent
bracket, Hodgson said.
Hodgson said 809 smaller
areas were listed as having
substantial unemployment. Re
moved from the list this month
were Trinidad, Colo.; Waterloo,
Iowa; Monnet, Mo., and Ken
ton, Ohio. But added to the list
were Angel City, Calif.; Ban
gor, Maine; Fillmore, Utah;
Quincey, Fla., and Kerrville,
Tex.
Hodgson conferred with Pres
ident Nixon Friday and told
him strikes in the construction
industry had been cut in half
and pay increases had been
reduced from 16 per cent to
about 10 per cent since Nixon
established an industry stabili
zation and collective bargaining
commission last March.
The labor secretary said the
number of strikes in the
construction industry totaled
424 in 1970 and averaged 42
days. In 1971, he said, there
were 232 strikes that lasted 31
days each.
Hodgson said the commission
had turned down as inflationary
about 20 per cent of the
proposed settlements that came
before it.
In other economic develop
ments:
—A Treasury Department
spokesman described as “ridi
culous” a prediction that
Treasury Secretary John B.
Connally would leave Nixon’s
Cabinet by summer. The
prediction was made by Demo
cratic National Chairman La
wrence F. O’Brien.
—The Cost of Living Council,
further defining its definition of
raw agricultural products, ruled
all dehydrated fruits, whether
dried artificially or in the sun,
are freed from price control
restrictions. It said concentrat
ed, chilled and canned fruits
and fruit juices, which make up
77 per cent of the nation’s fruit
consumption, are still subject to
controls.
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ATLANTA—Rep. Quimby Melton, Jr., of Griffin, chairman
of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, ponders
question by reporters. Melton said he will ask Gov. Jimmy
Carter to veto a one cent statewide tax proposal to build a
World Congress Center in Atlanta.
Gov. Wallace willing
to sign Demo pledge
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPI)
— Alabama Gov. George Wal
lace demanded fair treatment
from the national Democratic
Party Friday and said he would
sign a loyalty oath to support
the party nominee if all the
other candidates were required
to sign.
“I will abide by the rules ap
plied to the other candidates,”
said Wallace in response to
Deoocratic Party Chairman
LawrenceO’Brien’srequest that
he sign an oath swearing to
support the 1972 Democratic
nominee.
“I am a serious candidate for
the presidency in this primary
and I don’t like the fact that
O’Brien wants to treat me dif
ferently,” said Wallace.
“Hubert Humphrey ran in
Minnesota under some kind of
socialistic farm party label,”
continued Wallace. “Mayor
(John) Lindsay has run in
every part in New York City
except the Communist Party.”
Wallace also said Rep. Shirley
Chisholm, D-N.Y., and former
Sen. Eugene McCarthy had indi
cated they might not support
the party nominee and no one
had asked them to sign a loy
alty oath.
Wallace said he presently
plans to go “the national Demo
cratic route” in seeking the
presidency, but he declined to
rule out the possibility of re-ac
tivating the American Independ
ent Party under whose label
he sought the presidency in
1968.
The Alabama governor said
he could not support any of the
announced Democratic candi
dates at the present time, but
this could change if one of the
candidates should begin adopt
ing some of his views.
“If these senators can change
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can change on busing of school
children, on taxing the poor,
on foreign aid and on law and
order,” he said.
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Fingerprints point
to fugitive
CLEVELAND (UPI)—A 1970 escapee from a Georgia
prison farm who had been serving a life term for murder
was arrested here through fingerprinting, the FBI
announced Friday.
Agents said Robert Davis, 30, Cleveland, turned out to
be Morris L. Harp, the escapee, when his prints were
checked. They said they obtained the prints when Davis
was arrested on a rape charge.
' He pleaded guilty to the rape charge Jan. 5 in Cuyahoga
County Common Pleas Court.
Asst. U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Potts said Harp was sen
tenced to death in 1959 for the slaying of an Atlanta bus
driver. He said Harp had his sentence commuted to life in
1964 after receiving three stays of execution.
Bandit flees
empty handed
BALLGROUND, Ga. (UPI) — The bandit wearing the
ski mask who dropped in on the Citizens Bank of
Ballground Friday was a little bit less than nervy. He
dropped his cool when he discovered he had been spotted
prematurely and fled empty-handed.
The attempted bank robbery and a real holdup of a bank
in nearby Fairmont by three men in dark green
sweatshirts set off a massive manhunt in Cherokee
County.
Bank customers here said they watched as the would-be
bandit drove up the bank about 2 p.m., donned a ski mask,
took out a pistol and started toward the door.
“We were waiting for him,” one customer said.
The bandit entered, saw the customers clustered
together, became confused and fled.
Authorities later found the old model car he had been
driving south of town and a search was organized.
An undetermined amount of cash was taken by the three
bandits at Fairmont, some 20 miles snorthwest of
Ballground in neighborning Gordon County.
Authorities were unable to determine if the two
incidents were related.
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