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Griffin Daily News Friday, April 14,1972
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years; A. D. Chasteen, 35; Jennie Woodruff, 25; Jeanelle
Feds say ex-banker
blew million gambling
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authorities claim that former
banker Lamar R. Hill, the cen
tral character in a $4.7 million
bank embezzlement probe, blew
$1 million in gambling casinos
in Las Vegas and the Bahamas.
But the authorities couldn’t
account for the remainder and
U.S. Attorney John Stokes suc
cessfully pressed for a half mil
lion dollar bond for Hill to keep
him from fleeing the country.
“He is a prime suspect to
run,” Stokes told U. S. Magis
trate J. Roger Thompson at
Hill's arraignment Thursday.
Stokes intimated that Hill had
stashed away huge sums of
money, possibly in the Carib
bean and asked that his pass
port be cancelled.
An FBI agent testified that
the 49-year-old Hill used two
Howell, 25; Clarice Clark, 25; Luther Chambers, 25; and
Hazel Faulkner, 25.
different charter jet airplane
services, making as many as 34
trips on his forays.
Hill, lean and graying, was
pictured as a man who pre
ferred the glitter and fast ac
tion of such places as Ceasar’s
Palace, the Desert Inn and Ba
harnan Amusements Limited in
the Caribbean to the cool, green
hills of north Georgia where he
was, until last February, the
president of the First National
Bank of Cartersville, population
10,000.
Up until Thursday, federal
authorities had been close
mouthed about the shortage at
the bank, first described as
being a false entry of $62,000 in
late February.
But last week, the acting
president and chairman of the
board of the bank, W. N. Shad
den, acknowledged that the
bank had written off a loss of
$4.7 million as the result of an
audit of its accounts.
And while Hill appeared on a
single charge of making a false
entry in the bank’s books
books involving $200,000 in
Thursday’s hearing, FBI Agent
Bob Keefe testified there had
been “dozens upon dozens” of
false entries totalling $4.7 mil
lion.
Keefe testified that $2.6 mil
lion had been removed from
the bank in cash and another
$2.1 million in securities over a
period of two and a half years.
“He did not rob the bank
with a gun but we think he com
mitted a dual crime because he
obligated the bank to trust him
with duties and responsibili
ties,” Stokes said.
Keefe said a trace of checks
Hill had given indicated that he
lost $90,000 in the single month
of January of this year.
“The funds in many cases
went in checks to well-known
gambling establishments in the
Las Vegas area,” Keefe told the
court in describing the disap
pearance of the money from
the bank.
Keefe said the FBI investiga
tion indicated the checks
ranged from SIO,OOO to $40,000.
The FBI agent testified that
Hill used Jet Atlanta, Inc., for
14 trips to Las Vegas and Jet
America, headquartered in
Washington, on 20 trips to the
Caribbean.
Thompson told that
Hill had been “divesting” him
self of his assets since the first
bank audit in February and
Keefe said Hill had written
checks and deposited checks in
several banks and apparently
had funds in several other ac
counts which he controlled.
Donald Gettle, one of three
lawyers appearing with Hill at
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the hearing, protested that the
bond set for Hill was excessive
and “way out of proportion.”
He asked Thompson to continue
the $25,000 bond on the original
charge.
“He had every opportunity
to flee,” Gettle said of his well
dressed client.
But Thompson said he was
setting the bond at $500,000 be
cause of “the magnitude and
gravity of the crime.”
Gettle said the bond would be
posted.
Way cross policemen
win SSO monthly hike
WAYCROSS, Ga. (UPI) -Po
licemen have won a SSO a
month across the board pay
raise as the result of a 48-hour
walkout in this south Georgia
city where pay had been so low
some officers had applied for
relief.
The city also agreed to furn
ish “leather” — holsters and
belts —for the officers, upped
their court appearance pay
from $1.50 to $3.00 and agreed
to run a survey before the next
budget aimed at raising pay
comparable to other cities in
this part of the state.
The officers had demanded a
raise of SIOO a month from their
base pay of $391 and the city
had offered $25.
Amtrak plans new
coast-to-coast run
By DONALD S. PHILLIPS
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Am
trak’s summer timetable will
add more Metroliners in the
Northeast Corridor and provide
new service to western long
distance routes, including a new
coast-to-coast route through
Kansas City, it was learned
today.
However there will be some
service cutbacks on long
distance routes in the East
including one which apparently
violates the Amtrak law.
Most of the schedule changes
in the Northeast go into effect
April 30, and in the remainder
of the country on June 11.
Following earlier patterns,
most of the changes will be
aimed at improving service in
the Washington-New York-Bos
ton corridor, the only line in the
country where some trains turn
a profit for the corporation
which took over most of the
nation’s rail passenger service
May 1, 1971.
The number of high-speed
Metroliners on the New York to
Washington run will be in
creased from 12 to 15, allowing
hourly service from 6 a.m. to 6
p.n). with an additional run at 8
p.m. Present nonstop Metroli-
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Neither city officials or of
ficers would comment immedi
ately on the details of the set
tlement which becomes a part
of the city records.
“The city police reduced their
demands and we upped our of
fer and we have come to an
agreement," said City Manager
Erin Johnson after the settle
ment had been hammered out
at a close meeting.
City officials had set a dead
line of 8 a.m. Friday for the
officers to return to their posts
which had been taken over in
the emergency when more than
30 of the officers had walked
out.
But'the settlement enabled
the 2 p.m. shift to return to
nets will be eliminated with all
Metroliners making most stops.
Overnight regular train ser
vice from Boston to Washington
also will be restored. This was
the only train cut in the
Northeast Corridor when Am
trak originally took over.
The New York to Los Angeles
through service will operate in
conjunction with a rescheduled
New York to Kansas City train
and a new train—to be called
the Chief—to be added to the
Chicago to Los Angeles route.
The one train now on that route
—the Super Chief—has proved
to be Amtrak’s most successful
long distance run.
A through coach and sleeper
will be transferred from the
New York train to the Chief at
Kansas City.
The new through run brought
about the apparent law viola
tion because it was necessary
to reschedule the New York-
Kansas City train. Until now,
Amtrak’s Washington-St. Louis
service had been merged with
the New York-Kansas City train
at Harrisburg, Pa.
However, it will now be
rtecessary for Washington-St.
Louis passengers to change
trains at North Philadelphia,
Pa., where a Metroliner will
make a special stop to connect
with the New York-Kansas City
train. The Washington-Harris
burg train will continue to
provide through car service for
the Washington-Chicago run
and will not be rescheduled to
fit the St. Louis service.
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duty and officials said the
would be no reprimands ov
the strike.
Some officers have appli
for relief in an effort to dram
tize their pay plight. Two <
fleers had been ruled eligib
for food stamps.
Steve Dunsmore, president
the Fraternal Order of Poli<
chapter, said the officers wou
have sought other jobs ha
they not won substantial pt
raises.
Police Chief H. E. Bond sa
the “question of salaries hi
been resolved by the parties
the satisfaction of all cor
cerned” and that the return <
the officers was “on a friendl
basis.”
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By United Press International
MEETING AGREED
NEW YORK (UPl)—Negotii
tions between United Pres
International and the Wir
Service Guild adjourned at 1
p.m. EST Thursday with a
agreement to meet at 10 a.nr
today.
Commissioners Samuel W
Hacker and George V. Byrne
of the Federal Mediation an<
Conciliation Service, were ii
attendance.
GUN DEATH
HAYWARD, Calif. (UPI)-
When Douglas J. Dowd, 15
whipped out a .45 calibe
automatic pistol from th<
waistband of his trousers, hi
told friends:
“Cover your ears—it makes i
loud noise.”
The weapon discharged an;
the slug struck him in the head
Police said the incident oc
curred Sunday. He died Thurs
day.
TAKE NO CHANCES
BELFAST, Northern Irelant
(UPl)—The army took nt
chances with four suitcase!
piled atop each other near i
liquid gas tank.
A bomb disposal team placet
small charges against the case:
Thursday night in a downtowi
parking garage and blew then
open.
Inside each case they fount
shoes.