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Carter continues tour
ATLANTA, Ga. (UPI) — Gov. Jimmy Carter will be in
six central Georgia communities today, meeting with
residents and taking their questions and complaints as
part of Carter’s Operation Feedback.
Carter will make stops in Barnesville, Forsyth, Warner
Robins, Perry, Hawkinsville, Cochran and Eastman.
Carter, after two days of visiting small communities,
said Tuesday the energy crisis is the dominant issue on
people’s minds. He said 90 per cent of the comments he
has received have been about energy shortages.
Hammond Smith retires
ATLANTA (UPI) — The Atlanta regional director of the
U. S. Civil Service Commission for the past 19 years,
Hammond B. Smith, said Tuesday he is retiring, effective
Jan. 1.
Smith was appointed in 1954 by President Eisenhower.
He has been cited by the CSC several times for
outstanding contributions to federal government and was
presented the Commissioner’s Award in 1967.
Truck patrol continues
ATLANTA (UPI) — The state Department of
Transportation said Tuesday it will continue its motorist
aid truck patrol “as long as fuel is available to operate the
trucks.’’
A DOT spokesman said this weekend the service would
be reevaluated to determine if it should be discontinued
because of the energy shortage.
The department maintains a 24-hour-a-day patrol on all
interstate highways in Georgia, helping stranded
motorists with flat tires and disabled engines and giving
them fuel if they need it.
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Slain man taped to tree;
Emory coed rape victim
LAKE PARK, Ga. (UPI) - A
hitchhiking young man was
murdered “execution’ ’ style and
his companion, a college coed,
was raped by two men believed
to have stolen a car in Florida,
police said today.
The 21-year-old coed from
Emory University in Atlanta
told police in that city about
the slaying and her sexual
assault after having been re
leased in the state capital.
The murder victim, identified
from a driver’s license as
James Melton Edwards, 26, of
Takoma Park, Md., was found
near this south Georgia town
Tuesday bound to a tree and
shot three times in the head
with a small-caliber pistol.
A Lowndes County farmer
searching for his missing dog
discovered the body of the
long-haired man in woods off
U. S. 41 and Sheriff Jewel
Futch said the slaying was “an
execution-type killing.”
Atlanta detective G. E. Sell
ers said the coed told him she
and Edwards had been picked
up by three men as they were
hitchhiking in north Florida
and that Edwards was killed
Rebozo faces call in mystery
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Nixon’s close friend
Charles G. “Bebe” Rebozo
almost certainly will be asked
to testify about a SIOO,OOO Nixon
campaign contribution from
Howard Hughes when the
Senate Watergate committee
hearings resume next month.
Chairman Sam J. Ervin, D-
N.C., said Tuesday “there’s
very little doubt Mr. Rebozo
will be called.”
Ervin made the statement
after an aide to Hughes opened
a brown attache case before the
startled committee and dumped
SIOO,OOO in SIOO bills on the
table, saying “here’s the
.... money.”
Chester Davis, general coun
sel for the Hughes-owned
Summa Corp., said the money
was that which Rebozo re
turned to Davis last June.
Another Hughes aide has
testified he gave the money to
Rebozo for Nixon three years
ago.
In other Watergate develop
ments:
—White House chief of staff
Alexander M. Haig was expect
ed to testify in federal court
today about flaws in the
Watergate tapes. Administra
tion lawyer Samuel J. Powers
told Judge John J. Sirica
Tuesday that Nixon’s secretary,
Rose Mary Woods, may have
been responsible for 5 minutes
of an 18-minute gap in one tape,
but he couldn’t explain the
other 13 minutes.
—The Phillips Petroleum Co.
and its retired chairman,
William W. Keeler, pleaded
guilty to making an illegal
contribution of SIOO,OOO in cash
to President Nixon’s 1972
campaign. U.S. District Court
Judge Howard F. Corcoran
fined Keeler SI,OOO and the
company, $5,000.
—President Nixon is consider
ing asking a joint committee of
Congress to review his tax
returns and financial papers,
according to Sen. John C.
Tower, R-Tex., who, along with
other GOP congressional lea
ders, met with Nixon Monday.
—The Watergate grand jury,
due to expire today, was
extended to June 4, and the
Senate voted another $500,000 in
White House
not so sure
about tapes
WASHINGTON (UPI) - De
spite its assurances to Judge
John J. Sirica last week, the
White House now apparently
isn’t so sure a secretary’s
mistake erased 18 minutes of
one of President Nixon’s crucial
Watergate tapes.
Sirica will continue to look
for answers to the mystery
today when Gen. Alexander M.
Haig, who succeeded H. R.
Haldeman as White House
Chief of Staff, is called to
testify at the hearings on the
tapes case.
At issue are White House
claims two subpoenaed tapes
never existed and recent
disclosure a third is marred by
an 18-minute “hum” obliterat
ing a Nixon-Haldeman discus
sion about the scandal June 20,
1972—three days after the
bugging arrests.
when he objected to sexual
advances made toward her by
the men.
She said the men abandoned
their car after the killing and
tried to steal a truck but were
frightened off. They then split
up and agreed to meet in
Atlanta en route to New York.
Smith said the woman said
she was forced to accompany
one of the men to Atlanta,
hitchhiking along 1-75. Fulch
said the girl’s identification
card was found in a car
reported stolen in Tampa, Fla.,
and found stuck in a ditch near
where Edwards was slain.
The body was discovered by
J. B. Smith who lives on a
nearby farm. Smith told depu
ties he was looking for his dog,
which had disappeared after
two men had tried to steal his
jeep about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.
He said he awoke when he
heard noises outside his house.
He went outside and found two
men trying to take the jeep.
The men fled into the woods
when he fired a rifle over their
heads.
A late model automobile was
found wrecked in a ditch near
expenses for its Watergate
committee, bringing its total to
$1.5 million.
Davis is Questioned
Davis, who earlier refused to
testify except in public, was
questioned in executive session
by the committee for nearly
four hours. Ervin said the
witness “cooperated fully” and
answered all questions.
A spokesman for the Summa
Corp, said: “From the begin
ning of this matter, we have
sought only one thing—to tell
our story in public so that the
public can hear all the facts.
The committee has repeatedly
denied us this right.”
When the money was dumped
before them, the startled
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the body It had been stolen by
two men from a Plant City,
Fla., man Monday night, Futch
said.
Futch said the youth may
have been killed when he
“threatened to rat on the gang.”
Jim Aaron Moore Jr., of Plant
City, told Florida authorities he
picked up two hitchhikers in a
Tampa bar. He began driving
the men to nearby Plant City.
One of the men found Moore’s
pistol in the glove compartment
and Moore was forced out of the
car in some woods off 1-75.
Police found Moore beaten
and tied to a tree. He was treat
ed for minor injuries and re
leased at a Plant City hospital.
Futch said the murder prob
ably occurred shortly before the
two men tried to steal Smith’s
jeep. He said the youth was ap
parently forced from the stolen
Florida car while struggling,
taken to the tree, taped to it
and then murdered.
The two men apparently
turned the car around and were
driving back to U.S. 41 when
they ran it into the ditch, Futch
said.
senators scrambled to find a
Senate sergeant-at-arms to
guard the bills. The bills were
photo copied for their serial
numbers and returned to Davis.
The committee had subpoena
ed the bills to obtain their
serial numbers, which will now
be investigated to check Rebo
zo’s statements that he kept the
money in a safe deposit box at
his Key Biscayne, Fla., bank
for three years and never gave
it to Nixon.
The committee is reportedly
investigating the possibility the
money was among that given
Nixon by Rebozo and another
close friend, Robert G. Ab
planalp to finance the Presi
dent’s San Clemente home.
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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, December 5, 1973
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ATLANTA (UPl)—The Geor
gia Public Service Commission
approved rate increases Tues
day that will mean an addition
al $965,000 a year in revenue for
the 12 bus companies operating
in the state.
The new rates include a 10
per cent passenger fare in
crease and a 16 per cent in
crease in package express
charges.
The increases, requested by
the National Bus Traffic Asso
ciation in October, will take ef
fect in about two weeks.
The new rates will mean an
additional $250,000 a year for
Greyhound alone, according to
PSC Executive Director David
O. Benson. Continental Trail
ways, the other major carrier
in Georgia, is also included in
the increases.
Benson said the rate increas
es were granted because of
overall economic problems fa
cing the bus companies and not
because of the energy shortage.
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