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Judge lectures defendants
in drug and lottery cases
Twenty-six persons entered
guilty pleas and were sentenced
in Spalding Superior Court
yesterday. These included six
who had been charged with
various drug violations and
eight who were arrested April 6
on gambling charges in raids by
state and local law officers at 10
places throughout Griffin and
Spalding County.
Before imposing the lottery
sentences, Judge Andrew
Whalen Jr. said that the April
raids were the first time to his
knowledge there had been a
concerted effort by the state to
break up the bug business in
Spalding County. He said the
county has had it for as long as
he could remember but this was
the first set of cases since 1954
which indicated that there was
anything akin to organized
crime here.
He noted the closeness of
Griffin to Atlanta (“where they
have just about every rotten
situation you can find”) and
said “if those folks want to
finance this and you are fool
enough to take the rap, then
you’ll go to the penitentiary.”
He told the suspects that they
had been stupid and dumb to
take such risks and make
someone higher up rich. He
added he could not understand
San Jose:
Concerned, but good humor prevails
By WES PEYTON
The doomsayers both ama
teur and professional are hav
ing a field day with the Wat
ergate revelations, which,
heaven knows, are distressing
enough, but it remains argua
ble that the Republic is about
to go the way of the Roman
Empire.
As 1973 pushes inexorably
into summer, the mood in San
Jose, is surprisingly good
humored, even optimistic.
This is not to say that Wa
tergate has left the average
San Josean untouched. To the
contrary, the sense of hurt,
\ MOOD OF
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disgust — even betrayal — is
real enough. What the mood
doesn’t encompass, however,
is despair. President Nixon,
who carried San Jose handily
in 1972, might have a rougher
time at the polls if the elec
tion were to be rerun tomor
row.
On the other hand, he might
not — especially if he were
pitted against Sen. George
McGovern again.
The average San Josean,
that hypothetical distillate of
doctor, lawyer, merchant,
Some businessmen
have wrong opinion
The Internal Revenue Service is finding that many
businessmen are of the erroneous opinion that the current
price freeze does not apply to them. In checking out
complaints of price increases IRS is finding out that many
owners and managers of grocery stores, restaurants,
service firms and other businesses are under the
impression that they are exempt from the freeze because
of the size of the business, the type of business or the type
of some of the products they are selling.
John W. Henderson, District Director of the IRS in
Georgia, said today that all wholesale and retail sales are
subject to the price freeze including agricultural
products. Also subject to the freeze are prices charged for
services rendered such as TV repairs, legal fees, etc.
Henderson explained that the only time agricultural
products are exempt from the freeze is at the sale of orgin
which is when the farmer sells the product to the market.
how they got involved and
warned “whoever is banking
this thing to take their money
and paper slips somewhere
else.”
Those sentenced on the lot
tery charges were: Mrs. J. H.
Willard, 1214 Seago drive, 12
months to be served on proba
tion, provided a fine of $1,500 is
paid; Jesse Hugh Willard, 1412
Seago drive, 24 months proba
tion if fines totaling $2,000 are
paid; Mrs. N. S. Williams, 332
Atkinson drive, sentences
totaling 48 months probation if
$3,000 in fines are paid;
Freeman Miller, 47, 705 North
Hill street, 12 months probation
and SI,OOO fine; Annie Ruth
Jackson, 125 Crawford street,
fines of $2,750 and probated
sentences of 48 months on four
counts; Florine Beck, 59, 127
Short street, 12 months
probation and $1,000; Hessie
Blalock, 33, 112 Quincy avenue,
24 months probation and $2,500;
James Edward Harris, 44, 436
North Sixth street, 24 months
probation and $2,500.
Walter McCrary, 127 Charles
street, who was arrested during
the lottery raids for possessing
intoxicants, was sentenced to 12
months probation and fined
$250.
Other Griffinites who face
San Jose, California (pop. 445,779) is in
the Santa Clara Valley, with the Mount
Hamilton Range on the east and the
Santa Cruz Range on the west. Founded
as Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe in
1777, it is the oldest incorporated city in
California.
chief, housewife, student, en
gineer, waitress and shoe
salesman, is angry about
Watergate, but he remains
convinced, even if he doesn’t
put the feeling into so many
words, that the nation is
strong enough to absorb chica
nery of even this magnitude
and still survive intact.
Life, in short, goes on, and
in San Jose it has a habit of
going on quite comfortably for
most folks, thank you. To
understand why this is so re
quires a brief look at San Jose
and the men and women it
produces — or attracts — and
sustains.
As a generality, the average
San Josean considers the pur
suit of happiness a perfectly
reasonable enterprise. To
him the good life is not only
something he can hope to at
tain, it is something he can
define for himself with a min
imum of interference from his
neighbors. The reasons for
this are as much historic and
cultural as economic. For
example:
San Jose is an old town; in
fact, it is California's oldest
settlement. About 17 per cent
of its citizens still bear Span
ish surnames.
San Jose is a polyglot of
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
gambling charges but did not
plead guilty were excused until
Thursday morning.
Two men who were accused of
having large quantities of mari
juana in their possession
pleaded guilty and were given
maximum sentences.
Jeffery L. (Jeff) Scott, 20,638
West Poplar street, and Arthur
Leyon Turner, 34, of Elm street,
Hampton, were sentenced to
two years in prison and fined
$2,000 each. Scott had been
accused of possessing some $270
worth of marijuana at his home
where seeds, pipes, incense and
other related items were found.
Turner was charged with
having $195 worth of marijuana
in his possession.
Emmett Rucker Jr., 18, 530
North Hill street, was sentenced
to a year in prison on two counts
of violating the Georgia Drug
Abuse Control Act.
Judge Whalen told Rucker he
was “thoroughly ashamed” of
him, that he had a fine father
who has served as a juror in this
court for years, but something
had to be done and he hoped the
sentence would help. He told the
youth that his involvement with
drugs had hurt his father.
Three others pleaded guilty to
possessing marijuana and were
sentenced to 12 months
ethnic and cultural mixes, and
its mayor is a Japanese-
American with the Italian
sounding name of Norman
Mineta.
San Jose is a big town. In
deed, it is California’s fourth
largest city. It is served by
three universities and a clutch
of community colleges, and its
industry produces everything
from tortillas and Pintos (Ford
variety) to computers and
nuclear reactors.
San Jose is the sort of place
where a citizen can, when
properly motivated, still be
persuaded to vote school
bonds — even though that
requires a two-thirds majority
in California — and tax himself
for 10 years to buy and devel
op new parks and recreation
areas.
The average San Josean is,
in sum, a relatively unselfcon
scious sophisticate, unflappa
ble without being smug, an
individual who finds it almost
second nature to blend passion
with perspective. No wonder,
then that Watergate, inflation,
the New Morality, the energy
crisis tend to be deplored pro
Word to Nixon:
Stop bombing
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
word to the President is plain:
Congress wants the bombing in
Cambodia stopped.
Whether the President will
follow congressional wishes,
however, is still open to
question.
The House Monday by voice
vote joined the Senate in
demanding that the bombing be
stopped.
The White House said Presi
dent Nixon “regrets the re
sults” of the House vote
Monday and will decide wheth
er to veto the legislation.
The fund cutoff cleared the
House following a 204 to 204 tie
that defeated a move to permit
the bombing to continue two
more months.
The measure, part of a $3.3
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, June 26, 1973
Warns lottery bankers
to take money and paper
slips somewhere else
probation provided fines of
SI,OOO each are paid. They were
Shirley Williams, 24, of
Spalding Heights; David Roy
Jones, 24, 1115 Thompson
street; and Gary B. Phagan, 22,
Forest Park.
Other drug trials will begin
Wednesday at 9 a.m.
Willie Pack, Jr., 623 East
Central street, was sentenced to
three years for shooting at
Police Lt. Paul Short last Sept.
2.
Merrell Duane Harris, of an
out of state address, pleaded
guilty to entering the home of
Vince Sell on Tanglewood trail
and making a long distance
phone call. He was sentenced to
either 12 months or a $250 fine.
Other guilty pleas and sen
tences included Charlie George
Ray of 330 East Quilley street
and Terry James Taylor who
received three year sentences
for burglarizing the Day and
Night Laundry and breaking
open five coin operated
machines; Rudolph Williams,
three years for burglary of Uni
form Rental Co.; Deland Keith
Atkinson, one year and S3OO fine
on a theft charge; James
Wesley Taylor, 35, 273 Payton
place, one year, theft by taking;
Willie Frank Jones, 21, 202
forma — and lived with as
tolerable irritants rather than
impending tragedies.
San Jose has had its ups and
downs over the past two cen
turies and still managed to
endure graciously and grow.
It was, for example, the first
capital when California was
admitted to the Union in 1850
but lost that honor because of
among other things, a lack of
decent rooming houses. San
Jose has endured earthquake,
flood, fire and every Washing
ton administration since Mil
lard Fillmore’s and has still
kept its sense of history and
humor.
It is no accident, surely,
that the Santa Clara County
district attorney’s last five
attempts to close down San
Jose’s premier topless-bot
tomless lounge and hard core
porno movie house have re
sulted in three acquittals and
two hung juries. San Joseans
are a live-and-let-live lot.
They seem to know instinc
tively that life is for living
and that getting there isn’t
half the fun; it’s all the fun.
To expect this crowd to
misread the seamier side of
human nature for the apoca
lypse is wholly unreasonable.
They just won't do it, although
they will invariably give
Chicken Little a courteous
hearing and invite him in for
a drink before sending him
about his business.
billion supplemental appropria
tion bill, passed the Senate 63
to 19 on May 19.
Following the House vote, the
supplemental bill went back to
the Senate for what was
expected to be routine final
approval before being sent to
the White House. The President
has 10 days to act on the bill
after it lands on his desk.
The 10-day period allotted by
the Constitution will probably
expire when Congress is in a
week’s recess for the Independ
ence Day holiday. Whether
Nixon can use that week-long
congressional vacation to pock
et veto the bill is a constitution
al question that has not been
resolved by the courts. If he
does, it would deprive Congress
of the opportunity to override
his veto.
NEWS
Morris street, a total of four
years for forging a check he
admitted stealing from Bordon
Chemical Co.; Dorothy Taylor,
25, 719 South Eighth street,
Charles Edward Bell, 515 Lane
street, and Carol Rollins, 18,
Route One, were sentenced to
one year each on separate
forgery charges.
Wayne Fonfield, 493 New
Lane street, who was sentenced
in February, 1972, to
five years probation for
burglary, pleaded guilty yester
day to burglarizing the Fair
mont Youth Center and was
sentenced to another five years
to run consecutive with the first
sentence. His probation was
revoked.
Judge Whalen told attorneys
for Dr. Marvin Marchman of
Atlanta that he will hear several
motions they wish to make on
Friday, July 6. He scheduled the
second trial for Monday, July 9,
when a special session of the
criminal court will convene.
Marchman was sentenced to
one year in prison in October
but was granted a new trial by
the Georgia Court of Appeals
because of a misspelled word in
the indictment. He was charged
with the theft of an aircraft
radio from the Griffin Airport.
Bill Byram
Byram named
phone manager
in Griffin
Bill Byram has been named
Southern Bell’s manager in
Griffin, according to District
Manager J. D. “Dixie” Walker.
He succeeds Albert Harrell who
has been transferred to Warner
Robins Southern Bell division.
Byram, a 1959 graduate of
Emory University, joined
Southern Bell in 1959, in
Atlanta. Previously Byram was
commercial staff supervisor in
Southern Bell’s Georgia opera
tions.
Byram served in the U. S.
Navy from 1952 to 1956. He is a
member of the Rotary Club and
former vice president of the
Cobb County Chamber of
Commerce.
Byram and his wife, Mary,
have two children, Laura and
Whit. They plan to move to
Griffin soon.
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“A bad sermon is a clerical
error.”
Vol. 101 NO. 151
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WASHINGTON—Sen. Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., smokes a cigar as he listens to the testimony of
former White House counsel John Dean HI, during the Senate Watergate hearings Monday. (UPI)
Dean says Nixon tried
to keep scandal quiet
WASHINGTON (UPI) - John
W. Dean 111 testified today he
was sure that President Nixon
not only knew about the
Watergate cover-up as early as
last fall but also helped try to
keep the scandal quiet.
Outwardly calm, his voice
hoarse after reading a 95,000-
word statement to the Senate
Watergate Committee Monday
detailing his own knowledge
and participation in the plot,
Dean answered “That is
correct” several times when
asked if he was charging Nixon
with complicity in a massive
White House effort to cover up
the Watergate scandalm
He said he became sure of
the President’s involvement
Sept. 15, the day seven men —
none of them White House
officials —were indicted for the
Watergate bugging, when the
President called him in to
congratulate him for his han
dling of the case.
“Did you have any doubt in
your mind what the President
was talking about?” asked
Samuel Dash, the chief commit
tee counsel.
No, I did not,” Dean replied.
“Therefore, Mr. Dean, wha
tever doubt you may have had
prior to Sept. 15 about the
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
87, low today 59, high yesterday
86, low yesterday 64, high
tomorrow in upper 80s, low
tonight in mid 60s.
Food market basket
increases .9 percent
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
annual cost of a typical family
food market basket rose .9 per
cent to a record $1,493 in May
largely because of another
increase in middlemen’s char
ges, an Agriculture Department
report showed today.
The hike in prices paid by
consumers compared with an
advance of 1.6 per cent in April
and was the smallest since the
current burst of food inflation
began five months ago.
For the second consecutive
month, the boost in consumer
food bills was due more to
higher middlemen’s charges
which rose 1.2 per cent in May
than to higher farm returns
which rose only .4 per cent.
Until April, most of the food
inflation which began last
December had been attributed
President’s involvement in the
cover-up, did you have any
doubts with yourself about this
after Sept. 15?" Dash asked.
“No, I did not,” Dean replied.
While Dean conceded he had
actively participated in the
cover-up himself — which he
said involved perjury, payoffs
to the original Watergate
defendants to keep them quiet
and impeding the FBI investi
gation—he denied that he was
implicating Nixon in an effort
to gain immunity from criminal
prosecution.
“Mr. Dash, I have been
Bus drivers, city
reach agreement
ATLANTA (UPI) - Striking
bus drivers and city officials
reached a tentative contract
agreement late Monday night
after a marathon nine-hour ne
gotiating session.
Federal mediator Robert Cal
laway said bus service could be
back to normal by Thursday
morning.
The agreement came on the
heels of a stern warning from
U.S. District Judge Albert J.
Henderson who gave the drivers
until Wednesday to either end
the strike or face possible con
tempt charges.
The city’s 1,100 bus drivers
went on strike last Thursday
againsttheMetropolitan Atlanta
Rapid Transit Authority
(MARTA) for higher wages and
a shorter contract.
to skyrocketing farm prices.
The market basket report
showed retail beef prices in
May held steady at a record
average of $1.36 a pound for
choice grade cuts. Returns to
farmers for 2.28 pounds of live
cattle (equal to one retail
pound) edged up 1.5 per cent to
92.7 cents a pound and
supermarket margins widened
1.9 per cent to 37 cents a pound,
but these gains were offset
when the meat packer’s margin
was slashed 25 per cent to 6.3
cents a pound.
Retail pork prices in May
edged down to a fraction over
$1.02 a pound and were .3 per
cent below April. As in the case
of beef, returns to farmers and
supermarkets rose, but packers
narrowed their margins enough
to more than offset the other
gains.
Forecast
mid
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asked to give testimony,” Dean
said. “That testimony happens
to involve the President of the
United States. I have no motive
of using that testimony to
obtain immunity from prosecu
tion.”
Dean has been granted im
munity for what he tells the
Senate investigating com
mittee. But federal prosecutors
have rejected his efforts to gain
a promise that he will not be
prosecuted at all, and he is
known to be a target of the
grand jury that is investigating
Watergate.
Callaway said union officials
would recommend approval of
the contract at today’s meeting.
A full union vote is scheduled
for Wednesday from 7 a.m. to
7 p.m. and “buses could be ex
pected to be in service the fol
lowing morning,” Callaway
said.
The walkout has left 120,000
commuters stranded and caused
massive traffic jams at rush
hours.
The standoff in the contract
negotiations has been over
wages and the length of the con
tract. The drivers had wanted
their present $4.35 hourly rate
boosted immediately by 50
cents, and a one year contract
to be renegotiated next year.
MARTA had offered a wage
hike stretched over two years.
The market basket report
covers a collection of domesti
cally produced farm foods
needed for a hypothetical
average household of 3.2
persons. The $1,493 annual rate
cost in May was .9 per cent, or
sl3, above the $1,480 rate in
April; 11.6 per cent, or $155
above last December’s rate of
$1,338; and 15.4 per cent, or
$l9B on an annual basis, above
the May, 1972 rate of $1,295.
The .9 per cent May gain in
retail costs compared with
increases of 1.6 per cent in
April, 3.5 per cent in March, 2.5
per cent in February and 2.7
per cent in January. Retail
meat prices were under federal
control when the May figures
were gathered, but retail prices
on other foods were not frozen
until mid-June.
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