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Griffin Daily News Tuesday, April 25,1972
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Abducted businessman
feared hurt or dead
CHICAGO (UPI)-A police
hunt covered the city’s South
Side today for a wealthy
businessman who was abducted
for 1100,000 ransom. Police
feared Alan J. Bernstein was
seriously injured or dead.
Lorenze Turner, 40, a busi
ness associate of Bernstein,
was charged Monday with
kidnaping, two counts of
intimidation and unlawful use
of a weapon. Two other
suspects were sought, police
said.
Bernstein, of suburban Floss
moor, was reported missing
late Friday by his wife, Kathy.
Mrs. Bernstein told police that
she received four telephone
calls demanding SIOO,OOO during
a 12-hour period on Saturday.
She received no telephone calls
Sunday and Monday, police
said.
Victim’s Car Found
The victim’s 1972 car was
found on the South Side Sunday
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Sandwiches must
bear date made
ATLANTA (UPI) — Effective May 1 all prepackaged
sandwiches sold in Georgia must bear the date they were
made, State Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin has
reminded.
Stricter regulations which require that sandwich labels
clearly state when they were made and packaged go into
effect then, Irvin said.
Senatorial candidates
to speak in Athens
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) — The major candidates for the U.
S. Senate will speak here for eight minutes each Thursday
at a political forum sponsored by the Inter Fraternity
Council at the University of Georgia.
Candidates to appear include David Gambrell, the
incumbent, State Rep. Sam Nunn, state Treasurer Bill
Burson, former Gov. Ernest Vandiver, all Democrats,
and Congressman Fletcher Thomspon, a Republican.
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near one of the cleaners he
operated. The car was splat
tered with blood, police said.
“...From the trunk of that
auto has been taken out
approximately one pint of blood
which is the same type as that
of the victim,” said Assistant
State’s Attorney Ronald Banks
during a hearing for Turner
Monday.
Banks asked for a bond of
SIOO,OOO for Turner. But Judge
John F. Hechinger set bond for
$35,000 and continued the case
until May 10.
Turner was arrested Sunday.
Police said at the time of the
arrest Turner had in his
possession a .38 caliber revol
ver and ammunition.
Banks told the court “We
have a confession on the charge
of aggravated kidnaping.”
Turner Confesses
Officials said Turner had
confessed to having a part in
the kidnaping and the telephone
ransom demands of SIOO,OOO
made to Mrs. Bernstein.
Bernstein and Turner had
financial interests in one South
Side cleaners, the Lake Mea
dows Cleaners near where the
victim’s car was found. Another
cleaners, the Michigan Clea
ners, had recently been sold by
Bernstein to Turner.
More than 30 plainclothes
investigators and scores of
uniformed police participated in
the search. FBI agents were on
the case during the weekend.
Bernstein was last seen about
4 p.m. Friday when he
allegedly received a telephone
call at the Lake Meadows
Cleaners. Police said that
Bernstein had been told to meet
a “Mr. Turner.”
Turner told police he did not
know where Bernstein was.
Methodists refuse to erase
remarks about Graham from record
By JACK WILKINSON
(UPI) - United
Methodist Church delegates
have refused to erase from the
record an attack on evangelist
Billy Graham as “a sort of
high priest of a kind of new
American folk religion.”
The remarks were made
Monday by Dr. Richard D.
Pittinger of Huron, S.D., dur
ing a session of the two-weeks
long general conference of the
11 million member denomina
tion. Graham is a Baptist.
Pittinger described Graham
as “one who wields vast influ
ence with people in high places,
who has become a sort of high
priest of a kind of new Ameri
can folk religion.”
He said the evangelist has
“on at least two occasions in
my hearing made this comment
on pending legislation relating to
rat control in the ghetto: ‘We
had rats when I was a boy and
we didn’t ask the federal gov
ernment to get rid of them for
us. We got rid of those rats
ourselves.’
“I submit the United Metho
dist Church must somehow pub-
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radical insensitivity.
“I wonder if Billy Graham
would have made that same
speech to those who share in
the ministry to families be
reaved when their babies died
as a result of rat bites suffered
in a ghetto apartment house,”
Pittinger added.
A later attempt to erase the
remarks from the record failed
in a show of hands despite a
plea from Harry M. Gordon, a
delegate from Pennsylvania.
“I do not feel it is in the
spirit of this great conference to
castigate or condemn Dr. Gra
ham,” Gordon told the 1,000
delegates.
Gordon made a motion to
send greetings to Graham
which would have had the ef
fect of erasing Pittinger’s re
marks. But the motion also
failed.
The Graham incident came as
delegates continued debate on a
vast reorganization plan aimed
Terrorists
toss bombs
at fiesta
By VICENTE MALIWANAG
MANILA (UPl)—Terrorists
threw hand grenades into a
crowd at a fiesta 200 miles
north of Manila today in
another incident in the long
standing political feud between
a provincial governor and his
aunt.
The Red Cross said at least
16 persons were killed in the
explosions and 200 wounded.
The intruders threw the
grenades into a dance in an
open air auditorium in the town
square of Cabugao in the
province of Ilocos Sur. One of
those wounded was provincial
Gov. Luis “Chavit” Singson, 30,
who told newsmen he believed
the attackers were after him.
The terrorists escaped in the
confusion after the blasts.
The province of Ilocos Sur
has been a trouble spot because
of the feud between Singson
and his aunt, former Gov.
Carmeling Crisologo. Mrs. Cri
sologo’s husband, Rep. Floro
Crisologo, was shot to death
inside the Roman Catholic
cathedral in Ilocos Sur in
October, 1970.
Police said there had been 65
slayings in Ilocos Sur in the
past nine months, all of which
were blamed on the feud.
Authorities said the struggle
had resulted in both families
establishing private armies.
President Ferdinand E. Mar
cos sent a peace-keeping force
of 200 marines to Ilocos Sur
earlier this month. He issued
shoot-to-kill orders for all
wanted criminals in the pro
vince.
The Crisologo and Singson
families have been at odds not
only because of political differ
ences but because of rivalry in
the rich tobacco business in the
province, Philippine Constabula
ry officials said.
Singson, who was wounded in
the left shoulder, said at least
two grenades were thrown into
the crowd. He said one of them
rolled over his foot and
exploded some distance from
him. He said both celebrants
who were dancing and those in
the crowd were struck by
fragments from the grenades.
at keeping the church abreast
of the times.
The restructing proposal was
one of the conference’s hottest
issues. Representatives work on
sections of the proposals Mon
day.
One of the first sections dealt
with resolutions setting up a
council of ministries, a body of
115 members and to be made
up of bishops, ministers and
lay people, including at least
one person under 19 years of
age.
One of the resolutions — to
set up within the council a 33-
member executive committee—
was dropped after opponents at
tacked it as the basis for form
ing a potential “dictatorship.”
The 115-member council, as it
was drawn, virtually would be
the governing body between
quadrennial general confer
ences, establishing policies and
making decisions governing
functions of the church. The
council also would coordinate
programs within the church and
oversee consolidation of over
lapping functions.
The delegates had a minority
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report that would reduce the
size of the council on grounds
it would be too unwieldly for
efficient work.
In other actions Monday, the
1,000 delegates gave unofficial
approval to a worldwide evange
lism crusade involving 130 de
nominations and evangelism
groups and considered an out
line of a S2O million Fund for
Reconciliation to mend “broken
relationships between people.”
About $2 million of the fund
would go to Vietnam and an
other $1 million to the black
Community Developers — peo
ple working for the church in
troubled areas.
Yet to come in the two-weeks
conference is the statement on
social principles which con
demns war and put the church
on record as supporting those
who resist military service.
Another proposal would brand
the U. S. involvement in the
Vietnam war as “a crime
against humanity." It calls for
withdrawal of all foreign forces
from Indo-China by the end of
this year.
Drury no longer
murder suspect
ATLANTA (UPl)—David Theodore Drury, the 27-year
old former mental patient who confessed and then
repudiated two murders, is no longer a suspect in the
slaying of nine-year-old Debbie Lynn Randall of Marietta.
But Drury, of Morgantown, N. C., may be charged with
arson for allegedly setting fire to a Salvation Army home
where he was staying last Februrary.
Drury was brought here to undergo lie detector tests
after telling police at Myrtle Beach, S. C., last week that
he was the slayer of Debbie Lynn last January and Mary
Ruth Whited, 17, in Atlanta last November.
Authorities indicated at the time they suspected the
confessions were false.
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