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Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 18,1974
Jury selected
EAST HARTFORD, Conn.
(UPI) — A jury of four men
and two women has been
selected to determine if the
film ‘‘Deep Throat,” seized at a
Rockville, Conn., theater in
January, is obscene.
One prospective panelist was
asked if he had seen the movie
and replied that he attended the
theater where it was playing,
but fell asleep during the
performance. He was rejected
as a juror.
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Sailor held in deaths
By ROBERT GREEN
FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (UPI)
— A Bible-toting sailor was
charged late Wednesday night
with the murder of three teen
age girls whose bodies were
buried in sand dunes near this
quiet resort town.
Police said Richard R.
Valenti, 30, led officers to the
graves of two of the girls about
a block from the house where
he lived with his wife and three
small children.
Valenti, stationed aboard the
submarine tender USS Petrel at
the Charleston Naval Base, was
charged in nine counts, includ
ing three for murder and one
for assault. Charleston County
Police Chief Paul F. Hartline
said Valenti made a statement
to police after being picked up
on the assault charge Wednes
day afternoon.
Hartline said Valenti then led
police, carrying lanterns and
flashlights, to the grave sites
Wednesday night. A search
uncovered the bodies under two
feet of sand, about 30 feet
above the Atlantic Ocean’s high
tide mark.
Officers said Valenti asked to
be allowed to return home to
pick up his Bibles before he
was taken to jail, and he
carried two of them with him to
his cell. Police said Valenti was
from Massachusetts, but no
hometown was immediately
available. He had been in
Charleston about two years.
Two of the bodies were in the
same grave, a few feet from
where the body of Mary
Earline Bunch was found
Tuesday. She was the 16-year
old daughter of former Folly
Beach police Chief Julian
Bunch.
The two girls were identified
tentatively as Alexis Ann
Latimer, 13, and Sherri Jan
Clark, 14, missing since May
23,1973. Both were bound with
rope, as was the Bunch girl,
who was found after a resident
told police his dog acted
strangely whenever it passed a
stretch of dunes on the eastern
end of Folly Beach.
After the Bunch girl was
found, police suspected more
bodies might be in the dunes
and brought in bulldozers,
which dug into the sand all
Wednesday without success.
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By United Press International
| More subpoenas coming
jij: WASHINGTON (UPI) — The latest in the series of x
&: subpoenas coming at President Nixon from all directions, :£
is one from former presidential aide Charles Colson. He <
asked Wednesday that a subpoena be issued for materials :•
:£ pertaining to the Watergate cover-up before his trial
scheduled for Sept. 9. Colson was indicted March lin the x
cover-up along with seven other ex-White House and
Nixon re-election officials.
| Nixon talks to DAR
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon will address a :j:j
x gathering of the Daughters of the American Revolution
>•: today, but no hint of the subject of his speech has been
v revealed. Meanwhile, although the Republican candidate
for whom Nixon campaigned in Michigan, lost the special £
•j: election Tuesday, the President’s aides said he will g
campaign for other Republicans in the future, if invited. x
Philosophy about same
$: WASHINGTON (UPI) — Former energy chief William jg
:j:j E. Simon was nominated Wednesday by President Nixon >:j
to replace George P. Shultz as Treasury secretary. g;
Although the philosophy is expected to remain the same,
there probably will be a change in flavor at the Treasury
when Simon takes over. Shultz is soft-spoken and X
x academic, whereas Simon has a reputation for a quick x
x temper and a penchant for publicity.
Families may sue now
•i; CLEVELAND (UPI) —As a result of a U.S. Supreme $
v Court ruling Wednesday, families of students shot by Ohio
v National Guardsmen in a 1970 antiwar demonstration at
Kent University, may bring civil suits against the >•:
involved state officials and guardsmen. Two suits asking :$
total damages of sll million were reinstated for lower
court action by the ruling. «
| Political prisoners reported |
SAIGON (UPI) — Well-informed South Vietnamese gj
sources claim approximately 8,500 persons, who could be
* classified as political prisoners, are being detained in four
•j: prisons and used as negotiating pawns between the Saigon x
x government and the Viet Cong. The government officially :g
x claims all the detainees have been turned over to the Viet j:j
•j: Cong.
jij Arms smuggling reported
:j: BELFAST (UPI) — According to army sources a x
smuggling ring, supplying arms from Canada to
Protestant militants in Northern Ireland, has been
x smashed by British intelligence agents. However, sources
said, huge quantities of weapons and ammunition were *
•j: sent to the Ulster Defense Association before the ring was
ij: broken up. x
Papers battle
censorship
decision
By IRA ALLEN
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Miami Herald says forcing
newspapers to give free space
to politicians the newspaper at
tacks in editorials amounts to
censorship. TheWashingtonPost
says governmental denial of in
terviews with prisoners violates
the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court heard ar
guments by both newspapers
Wednesday and took under con
sideration their positions and
those of the federal government
and two states in a pair of ma
jor free press issues.
“Compelling a newspaper to
print is the same as telling it
what to print,” argued Herald
lawyer Dan Paul. “It is cen
sorship prohibited by the First
Amendment.”
The Florida “reply law,” dat
ing from 1913, requires a news
paper to give free space to politi
cal candidates criticized in edi
torials, news stories, columns
and cartoons. A1972 Democratic
legislative candidate, Pat Tor
nillo, sued the Herald demand
ing free space the newspaper
refused to accord.
Arguing in support of the law,
George Washington University
law professor Jerome A. Bar
ron said it “does not detract
from expression one iota. What
it does is add to expression.”
But Paul responded that
“there is no First Amendment
right for a citizen to use the
press.” The framers of the Con
stitution, he argued, chose to set
up a free press, not necessarily
a fair one.
The Post asked the high court
to uphold an appeals panel rul
ing letting reporters into federal
prisons to interview inmates.
“It is our firm belief that one
reason prisons are in the condi
tion they are in today is because
the First Amendment has not
been allowed to operate to let a
little sunshine in and let news
men go into prisons and get
their stories out,” said Post
lawyer Joseph A. Califano.
But Solicitor General Robert
H. Bork said there is already a
wide range of sources reporters
can use for writing about pris
ons. They include prison tours,
random interviews of inmates,
and talks with prison officials
and former inmates.
Bork agreed with California
Deputy Attorney General John
T. Murphy, who argued in a
similar case Tuesday that a rul
ing saying inmates themselves
may demand interviews would
turn certain prisoners into jail
house celebrities and lead to
discipline problems.
New suggestion
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) —
Texas highway officials have
come up with a new suggestion
for alleviating the energy
shortage — harnessing cow
burps.
Putting bovine burp power to
use, the April issue of Texas
Highways suggested, would
curb air pollution as well as
helping the nation’s energy
problems.
“Career ecologists have
figured out that cows burp 50
million tons of hydrocarbons
into the atmosphere every
year,” the magazine said.
“They have even calculated
that 10 cows burp enough gas in
one year to provide all the
space heating, water heating
and cooking requirements for a
small house.”