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Clinic to aid people
with drug problem
A clinic to help people with
drug abuse problems is being
set up in Griffin.
It will be housed at 682 South
Eighth street, a building in
which Dr. John E. Clouse had
his medical practice until he
relocated.
The clinic will be operated
under the Georgia Department
of Human Resources (DHR)
and federally financed through
Drug Abuse Service Section
(DASS).
The clinic will handle all
types of drug abuse cases ex
cept alcoholism. A separate
clinic already is operated for
treatment of alcoholics.
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Welfare fraud case may
be biggest in history
SPRINGFIELD, 111. (UPI) —
Investigators probing a Chicago
welfare fraud case have uncov
ered evidence of what they say
could be the most massive
public aid-bilking scheme in the
nation’s history.
Joel Edelman, executive di
rector of the Illinois Legislative
V oting
light
here
Voting appeared to be very
light today in a runoff election
to decide two posts on the
Griffin-Spalding School Board.
Yvonne Langford and Dan
Boyd were candidates for Post
Seven. Bill Westmoreland and
Mrs. Virginia Allison were
candidates for Post 10.
The runover was necessary
because none of the candidates
in the original voting received a
majority.
The polls will be open tonight
until 7 o’clock.
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BRIDGE, Conn.—Spectators gather to keep an eye on the
home of Gerald Goodin in Bridgeport, Conn, as night
approached Monday. Witnesses have described
Jerry Stevenson, director of
the Mental Health program in
this area, outlined plans for the
clinic last night in a talk to the
Griffin Jaycees.
The club has agreed to help
get some equipment and help in
Day of Rest
law under test
A constitutional test of
Georgia’s new Common Day of
Rest law is in the works, thanks
to a test case at Columbus.
Superior Court Judge Oscar
D. Smith, Jr., yesterday issued
a temporary injunction against
enforcement of the law. The
order will allow Columbus
stores to remain open on Sun
days.
No date has been set on a
hearing to make the injunction
Advisory Committee on Public
Aid, told the committee it may
take months to finish the
investigation of charges against
Lynda Taylor, 47, of Chicago.
Mrs. Taylor was scheduled
for arraignment today in Cook
County Circuit Court on a 31-
count fraud indictment involv
ing her alleged receipt of illegal
welfare benefits, medical assis
tance, food stamps, Social
Security and veterans benefits.
“When the entire story is
told, I believe this will prove to
be the most massive case of
welfare fraud that has ever
been perpetrated in the 50
states,” Edelman said. “It
baffles the imagination.”
Edelman said evidence un
covered by the Chicago police
and state and federal investiga
tors indicates Mrs. Taylor
masterminded a sophisticated,
interstate scheme in which she
used 80 different names, 30
addresses and 15 telephone
numbers.
She is accused of receiving
benefits on behalf of three
deceased husbands and 27
children —some of them
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other ways in getting the
project going.
Stevenson said the clinic
would have a staff of three
people plus help from the
Mental Health professionals
here.
permanent. Some observers
said the case could be tied up in
court as long as two years.
In a prearranged agreement,
District Attorney Thomas W.
Hughey drew up a charge
against John Roberson,
manager of a Gaylord’s
discount store. The charge
accused the manager of selling
a pair of socks Nov. 10 on
Sunday, less than a week after
Muscogee voted to come under
the Common Day of Rest Act.
supposedly born after Mrs.
Taylor allegedly underwent a
hysterectomy in Florida.
Sen. Don A. Moore, R-
Midlothian, chairman of the
committee, said new evidence
indicates Mrs. Taylor may also
have posed as a physician in
Chicago and Michigan in a plot
to illegally obtain Medicaid
payments.
“We know for a fact she is
not licensed to practice any
where,” Moore said.
Moore said state welfare
officials cannot estimate how
much Mrs. Taylor may have
received illegally throughout
the entire scheme, part of
which he said dates to 1946.
He said she has received at
least $150,000 annually from the
state in cash assistance alone. *
Edelman said state investiga
tors will put together a report
including recommendations to
the Illinois Department of
Public Aid on how to avoid
similar massive claims in the
future.
unexplained acts of levitation in the modest home with no
apparent physical involement by anyone in the house
(UPI)
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, November 26, 1974
The clinic will begin with a
case load capacity of 20 but this
can be increased if needed,
Stevenson said.
Individual, family and group
therapy sessions will be part of
the services the clinic will offer.
The mental health coor
dinator said that the services
would be free.
He said people would be
accepted on a voluntary basis or
as part of their probation if they
are involved in court cases.
Man gets
second heart
JOHANNESBURG (UPI) — Surgeons tried today to get
two hearts to beat in unison inside a 58-year-old engineer,
the first person to have a new heart implanted inside him
without having the old one removed.
Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town said the two
hearts in engineer Ivor Taylor were out of step. A
spokesman said this caused no problems now, but the aim
was to have them beating together.
Heart transplant surgeon Christiaan Barnard made
medical history Sunday night when he departed from the
conventional transplants he pioneered at the same
hospital seven years ago to insert a new heart next to the
existing one.
At a news conference later, Barnard said the operation
has several advantages over the normal operation.
If the new heart failed, it could be removed, and even
replaced again. In conventional transplant surgery this
was impossible, he said.
Taylor, 58, is an engineer at a phosphate factory at Lan
gebaan, outside Cape Town. Barnard said afterwards his
crippled organ was “as bad a heart as I have ever seen.”
Taylor got up briefly with his two hearts Monday and
murmured, “I’m happy.”
Barnard said Taylor was in “excellent condition.”
Groote Schuur announced prior permission had been
received from the donor’s mother, Jeanette Scrikker,
before surgeons transplanted her daughter’s heart. The
10-year-old girl, killed in a road accident, was black.
Taylor is white.
“I was still in a state of shock when they asked me to
sign the papers... but thinking about it now, I would have
done the same every time,” Mrs. Scrikker told newsmen.
Barnard said the latest operation had been tried
experimentally on animals before, always successfully.
He said, however, it was “early days” to speculate on
the final outcome of his latest operation, in which
surgeons from Belgium, Argentina and Turkey assisted
him.
The operation was Barnard’s 11th heart transplant
since his first on December 2,1967. Two of his patients still
survive, and one has had a new heart for more than five
years.
People will be accepted
without regard to their age,
race, sex or financial condi
tions, Stevenson explained.
The clinic schedule will be
flexible and probably will not
conform to the conventional
business hours, Stevenson said.
He said people with drug
abuse problems usually have
their greatest needs at hours
other than the conventional
business schedules.
Setting up the clinic still is in
the early stages, he continued.
‘Unnatural happenings 9
were just a joke
By JUAN 0. TAMAYO
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (UPI)
— Police today said the
“unnatural happenings” wit
nessed by police and firemen in
a private home were a hoax
perpetrated by a 10-year-old
girl.
Detective Capt. Anthony Fab
rizi said the girl, Meredith
Goodin, adopted by Mr. and
Mrs. Gerard Goodin, admitted
tossing around furniture in the
home “when no one was
looking” and trying to make it
appear that the family cat
talked.
“The hoax was perpetrated
by the girl,” Fabrizi said.
“When she wasn’t being watch
ed, she moved things about.”
He said, “The girl is into the
spiritual bag and has read a
number of books on religious
cults and gurus.”
Fabrizi said after being
question by detectives, she
admitted to allowing herself to
be “self propelled” into a wall,
as reported by a radio
newsman who was in the
Goodin home Sunday.
The reports of strange hap-
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.—Accused murderer Paul John Knowles is taken from the Balwin
county courthouse at Milledgeville Monday after he was bound over to Grand Jury in the
stabbing-strangulation deaths of Carswell Carr and his 15-year old daughter, Mandy, at
Milledgeville on Nov. 6. Knowles is also a suspect in the killing of a Florida Highway Patrol
trooper and a Delaware man. (UPI)
Knowles bound over
to Baldwin grand jury
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.
(UPI) — Accused mass mur
derer Paul John Knowles,
surrounded by police and a
jeering crowd, was bound over
to a Baldwin County grand jury
Monday in the first two of
several murders in which he is
a suspect.
Four witnesses testified to
link him to the Nov. 6 multiple
stabbing of Carswell Carr and
the strangling of 15-year-old
Mandy Carr, as Knowles sat
silently in the Baldwin County
courtroom.
Carr was stabbed 15 to 20
times, and his daughter was
strangled with a stocking.
Assistant Police Chief Charles
Osborne testified about the
condition of the bodies when
they were found. He said that
Carr’s car and house keys were
in a car believed used by
Knowles.
Mrs. Helen C. Wray of Macon
identified Knowles as the man
who purchased a tape recorder
penings in the house brought
large crowds to the four room
bungalow on a quiet side street.
Earlier police and Catholic
Church officials expressed
doubt that any supernatural
forces were involved in the
strange goings on in the house.
“Church officials presume
that there is some natural
explanation for the event,” said
the Rt. Rev. Msgr John J.
Toomey, vicar general of the
Roman Catholic diocese of
Bridgeport.
Police Supt. Joseph A. Walsh
said, “Everyhing has a rational
exlanation. This is the work of
human powers. I don’t believe
in that supernatural stuff.”
News reports of the mysteri
ous movements of furniture at
the residence of the Gerald
Goodin family attracted about
200 tourists who milled around
outside the house, causing a
traffic jam at one point
Monday.
Three firemen, called to the
house to determine if the
strange events were the result
of shaky foundations, found no
such defects.
in her store with a credit card
belonging to the Carrs. A
fingerprint expert from West
Palm Beach, Fla., identified
some prints as belonging to
Knowles.
Although formally charged
with only the Carr murders,
Knowles is a suspect in the
stranglings of two Florida
women and the abduction and
fatal shooting of a Florida
highway patrolman and Dela
ware businessman whose bodies
were found near Perry, Ga.,
last Thursday.
Judge Joseph Duke had
officers seal the Superior Court
once all seats were filled for
the hearing, Knowles’ first
court appearance since his
capture eight days early in a
massive manhunt in Henry
County. Two guards stood at
each door while others lined the
walls of the courtroom.
A large crowd of shouting
spectators gathered outside the
courthouse as the unshaven,
Deputy Fire Chief Frederick
Zwerlein said when he entered
the living room Sunday morn
ing he saw a large recliner
floating “a couple of inches off
the floor.” Another fireman
who wished to remain anony
mous said he had seen a
television set spinning.
Tim Quinn, a newsman for
station WNAB in Bridgeport,
says he saw Meredith Goodin,
10, being slammed into a wall
five feet away “like someone
had a rope on her and pulled
her into the wall.” She suffered
a bump on the head.
Police Lt. Leonard Cocco,
who went to the house when
four patrolmen and one ser
geant couldn’t figure out what
to do, said he saw nothing
himself but trusted the reports
of his men.
Their reports included mov
ing refrigerators, slamming
doors, and flying ashtrays.
“Together they have more
than 100 years of experience,”
he said. “If they said they saw
something, they saw something.
I just don’t know what it was.”
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barefoot Knowles was led,
manacled hand and foot, in and
out by police and Georgia
Bureau of Investigation agents.
No one attempted to harm the
prisoner, who smoked a cigaret
and smiled at newsmen cluster
ing around the moving cordon
of deputies.
The lead deputy had his left
wrist linked to Knowles with
three-piece handcuffs.
The accused man is a suspect
in the murder of two Florida
women and in the shooting
deaths of a Florida state
trooper and a Delaware busi
nessman whose bodies were
found near Perry, Ga., last
week.
Authorities in Alabama, Ohio
and New Mexico suspect he
may also be linked with
slayings in those states.
Knowles’ attorney, Sheldon
Yavitz, appeared at the hearing
in the custody of two U. S.
marshals. James Peugh acted
as local attorney for Knowles
as Yavitz is under contempt
charges imposed by U. S.
District Judge Wilbur Owen in
Macon for his refusal to turn
over an alleged tape-recorded
diary of Knowles’ activities.
Yavitz, who later agreed to
Owen’s order, faces a hearing
in Macon Wednesday. He was
placed under $15,000 bond but
said he would stay in custody in
protest to Owen’s contempt
ruling.
Yavitz asked the sth U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in New
Orleans to order his release,
since he could not raise the
$15,000 bond.
He also asked the Appeals
court to stop Owens from
examining the tapes or disclos
ing their contents, as he was
forced to turn over the material
in what Yavitz considers a
violation of the legal secrecy of
an attorney-client relationship.
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