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Griffin Daily News Thursday, Mar. 23, 1972
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Public Service Commission
opens door to ‘sunshine’
ATLANTA (UPI)- The State
Public Service Commission
opened the doors Wednesday
“and let the sunshine in.”
The PSC would have to do it
anyway when Gov. Jimmy Car
ter signs the “sunshine law”
next week so the agency voted
to open up its meetings to the
public immediately.
“We saw no reason in wait
ing,” Chairman Ben Wiggins
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said. “We knew we were going
to have to open up these meet
ings”
The so-called “government in
the sunshine” law will prohibit
certain closed “executive”
meetings of governmental agen
cies on the theory that it’s the
people’s government and the
people ought to have a right to
know what is going on.
The first open-to-the-public
executive meeting of the PSC
saw the commission withhold
action on several rate increase
proposals until federal price
control guidelines are clarified.
Commissioners called the price
rules “ambiguous” and impos
able to apply in their present
form.
Wiggins said members would
meet with a price commission
spokesman next week in Biloxi,
Miss., to iron out the problem.
Among the matters before the
PSC is a >24 million rate in
crease sought by the Southern
Bell Telephone Co., and other
rate increases by public and
private carriers.
The PSC, as its first order of
Banker slain trying
to stop hold-up trio
HOUSTON (UPl)—James S.
Garbs, 45, vice president of the
South Park National Bank,
believed in being prepared for
robberies, He kept a loaded
shotgun handy in his office
during working hours.
When three gunmen held up
his bank of nearly $19,000
Wednesday, Garbs grabbed his
gun and chased them out the
door. They fled to a parking lot.
Garbs had just rounded the
comer in pursuit when he was
shot in the chest and head and
killed.
“He never even got off a
shot,” said Police Lt. W. C.
Doss.
The gunbattle continued, and
a policeman and one of the
robbers were critically wound-
business Wednesday, amended
its own rules to make all execu
tive sessions open to the public
with only certain meetings to
be closed.
The first executive session
went well except for a minor
incident involving a television
photographer.
“We’re glad you’re here,”
Commissioner Crawford Pilcher
told the camerman. “But I’m a
little hard of hearing. Could you
hold it up for a minute.”
The PSC took no action on re
quests to allow Georgia Power
Co. to extend its lines to a new
subdivision south of the Dublin
city limits and by the Atlanta
Gas Light Co. to cross into Ten-
ed. Police later captured the
bandits.
Once in the parking lot, the
robbers engaged in a brief
gunbattle with two policemen
who responded to a call for
help from the bank. Officer
Tommy G. Morris was shot in
the chest and critically wound
ed.
Morris’ partner D. C. Wells
wounded one of the robbers.
Two of the bandits escaped
on foot and the wounded one
jumped in the vacant police car
and drove away. He abandoned
the squad car in a neighborhood
nearby and police shot him with
a .30 caliber rifle. He was
critically wounded.
The other two robbers were
caught later, hiding in houses in
nessee to serve a copper plant.
It asked for more information
on a Jones County rate increase
request by the Georgia State
Telephone Co. The commission
has investigated consumer com
plaints about poor telephone
service in Gray and after hear
ing a report that the company
has improved its facilities, the
PSC directed a staff member to
contact users to confirm the re
port.
The PSC called for a public
hearing on a proposed merger
between the General Telephone
Co. of the Southeast and Gen
eral Telephone of Alabama.
the neighborhood. Police said
they also arrested two other
persons as suspected accompli
ces.
The three bandits entered the
bank before noon with pistols
and shotguns and ordered
onployes to lie on the floor
while they took $18,974 from the
cash drawers.
Doss said the bulk of the
stolen money was recovered
from the squad car used in the
wounded bandit’s getaway. But
he said hundreds of dollars
were spilled by the fleeing
robbers and later scooped up by
police from lawns in the
neighborhood.
Doss said authorities were
unable to account for $451.
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Demos
to pick
13 more
ATLANTA (UPI) - Georgia
Democrats will complete their
delegation to the National Demo
ocratic Convention April 7 at a
statewide convention in Macon.
Zell Miller, executive director
of the party, announced
Wednesday the date for the
meeting at which 13 delegates
will be chosen along with seven
alternates.
Miller also opened qualifying
for candidates to the remaining
delegation posts with seven per
sons, including one pledged to
Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New
York, becoming the first to sign
up-
state Democrats have
already elected 40 delegates
and 30 alternates at district
meetings and the state con
vention, made up of that group,
will elect the remaining at-large
representatives for the Miami
Beach convention.
The convention is aimed at
balancing out the makeup of the
delegation in accordance with
national party guidelines. Gov.
Jimmy Carter has said mere
women delegates are needed.
Thus far, the delegates in
clude 10 who have said they
are committed to presidential
candidates — five pledged to
Rep. Chisholm, four to South
Dakota Sen. George McGovern
and one to Rep. Wilbur Mills of
Arkansas.
In qualifying Wednes
day, Mrs. John Evans identified
herself as a supporter of Rep.
Chisholm while the other seven
initial qualifiers indicated they
were uncommitted.
Indians
threaten
mountains
By GREG CONNOLLEY
Copley News Service
OTTAWA — Indian raids
may be launched on the federal
government if officials don’t
return precious wampum relics
stolen by the white man.
Members of the Mohawk
tribe have threatened to raid
Ottawa museums and the head
quarters of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police to regain his
toric Iroquois artifacts.
The Mohawks claim some of
their most precious possessions
were seized at gunpoint by fed
eral police decades ago. They
say some of the articles are in a
museum in Ottawa while others
are still being held by the red
coated RCMP.
The prospect of the Indians
launching attacks on federal
museums and the RCMP has
caused a good deal of embar
rassment, especially to the
Mounties.
The Indians are particularly
anxious to regain wampum
belts made in the early 17th
Century which record the con
stitution of the Iroquois confed
eracy of the Six Nations
founded in the mid-15th Cen
tury. They are of irreplaceable
historic and ceremonial value.
The Mounties and the museums
deny possession of the precious
Indian relics but the RCMP has
promised to search its records
to see if there is any trace of
them.
The museum in Ottawa
which houses Indian exhibits
seems to be under some kind of
a curse and much of the time is
dosed for repairs. It appears
the white man built the muse
um on top of a swamp and ev
ery year the building tilts and
sinks, necessitating expensive
repairs.
Newsmen appeal «
contempt case |
ATLANTA (UPI) — Two Ba
tan Rouge, La., newspaper re
porters go before a three-judge
federal panel today to appeal
their criminal contempt of court
convictions for violating a ju
dicial order.
Larry Dickinson of the State-
Times and Gibbs Adams of the
Morning Advocate were found
in contempt by U. S. District
Court Judge E. Gordon West
and fined S3OO each on grounds
they published testimony given
in open court in violation of
West’s verbal order.
The newsmen conceded the
violation but said West’s order
was unlawful and violated the
First Amendment right of free
dom of speech and freedom of
the press.
The sentence stemmed from
an open court hearing in which
Frank Stewart, a Baton Rouge
civil rights leader, sought to
stop his prosecution in state
court on charges involving an
alleged plot to assassinate Ba
ton Rouge area political lead
ers.
After the proceedings had got
ten under way in West’s court,
the federal judge ordered news
men not to report the testimony
“to avoid undue publicity which
could in any way interfere with
the rights of the litigants.”
Dickinson and Adams report
ed the testimony which was
published and the two newsmen
were found guilty of contempt.
In appealing the sentence,
Adams and Dickinson said it
was “difficult to see how pun
ishing the reporters for exercis
ing fundamental rights under
the United States Constitution
can enhance the dignity or au
thority of any public institution.
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“It is much more likely tha
punishment under these drcuir
stances will diminish the court’
dignity and authority and public
respect for the courts.”
Auto
stamps
forged
ATLANTA (UPI) - Polia
have charged seven person!
with counterfeiting or having
stolenautomobile inspection cer
tificates, including one suspect
who police believe feigned sui
cide to escape arrest.
Marvin William Farr Sr., 40,
was being sought today on two
warrants for the manufactur of
an estimated 6,000 false stick
ers.
A spokesman for the Public
Safety Department’s inspection
division said a car belonging to
the Macon printer was found
perked by a river in Bibb Coun
ty with a suicide note inside.
However, police said a suitcase
Farr was known to have with
him was not in the car and
“we don’t think he jumped
in the river.”
The department announced
Wednesday that Farr’s son,
Marvin William Farr Jr., 20,
was arrested last month for
possession and sale of counter
feit stickers. He was placed
under $7,500 bond in Fulton
County jail.
In addition, five persons were
arrested in the Marietta area
as the result of an estimated
170 stickers stolen from a ser
vice station owner.