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— Griffin Daily News Friday, April 4,1975
Page 14
Ga. Power chief says
it was bad judgment
ATLANTA (UPI) — The
president of Georgia Power Co.
told the Public Service Com
mission Thursday a Georgia
Power executive in Columbus
used company executives and
equipment to landscape his
front lawn.
Georgia Power President
Robert Scherer said the ex
ecutive, Andrew B. Speed, used
“terribly bad judgment” in
using three employes for the
landscaping.
Scherer testified during a
PSC hearing on Georgia
Power’s request for a $305
million permanent rate in-
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Scherer said he had given a
“serious reprimand” to Speed,
who initially had denied that
the lawn workers were em
ployed by Georgia Power.
Scherer assured the five PSC
members there would be no
such “abuse” of company
employes in the future and that
he was informing all his
executives to make certain no
company employe or equipment
is made available for private
use again.
The PSC first heard about the
Columbus incident from Jerry
Vinson, a former Georgia
Power employe who opposed
giving the company a rate
increase because he alleged
there was “corruption” and
“graft” going on within the
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business with production of
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The newspaper Moskovskaya
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the newspaper said.
VATICAN BUYS
ROME (UPI) — The Vatican,
with 350 citizens and 1,000
employes, bought 919.5 tons of
pasta, 134 tons of sweets and
50,000 gallons of liquor from
Italy in the first 11 months of
1974, the Central Institute of
Statistics said Thursday.
Business sources said a large
share of the imports were for
the Vatican’s new self-service
restaurant for religious pil
grims.
company.
Vinson was fired by Georgia
Power, Scherer said, because
he had been “curbing” electric
meters —that is, estimating
their readings without getting
close enough to read them
properly.
Vinson also charged that he
had bought “hundreds of
dollars worth of liquor” for the
company to wine and dine
people and that the expense
was charged off to miscellane
ous office supplies.
Scherer said the company in
the past has considered it a
“good business practice” to
provide meals and alcoholic
beverages for businessmen who
the company felt might move
industrial plants to Georgia.
He said he would go to
Columbus immediately after
the PSC hearings to investigate
the charges of liquor-buying
and any other irregularities.
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Service pins awarded
Service pins for Crompton-Highland employes went to (kr) Carl Moore, 35 years; Anna
Lane, 40years; Roy Holland, plant manager who made the presentations; Alton McKinley,
30 years; and Adel Head, 35 years.
Convictions
overturned
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPI) —
The convictions of two men who
allegedly murdered Drs. War
ren and Rosina Matthews in
1971 were thrown out Thursday
on grounds the state wilfully
withheld evidence in the trial.
U.S. District Court Judge
Charles A. Moye ordered the
convictions of James Edward
Creamer and George Emmett
“vacated,” and ordered them
released from the Georgia State
Prison at Reidsville unless re
tried within 120 days.
Creamer and Emmett were
two of seven men convicted of
murdering the two Marietta
pathologists on May 7, 1971.
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The convictions of the others
were not affected by Moye’s
ruling, which came after 16
days of testimony in the habeas
corpus hearings.
Cobb County authorities
refused to release several
documents to the defense
during the jury trials, and
Moye said, “withholding of
those pieces of paper irretrieva
bly damaged the defense.”
Emmett could be released
from Reidsville under bond in a
few days, as soon as Moye’s
order is written and signed.
Creamer, however, is serving
time for an unrelated kidnaping
incident and cannot be freed.
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ATLANTA (UPI) - Allen L.
Ault, commissioner of the
Georgia Department of Correc
tions and Offender Rehabilita
tion, says “returning to the
good old days" is not the way
to solve Georgia’s crime
problem.
Ault took issue Thursday with
opinions expressed in a speech
Wednesday night by J.O.
Partain Jr., a member of the
Georgia Board of Pardons and
Paroles.
Partain called the Georgia
parole system “a big ripoff”
and said the system began
going downhill when the field
services of the parole and
probation board were combined
with the corrections department
in the 1972 governmental
reorganization.
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“Every indication statistical
ly and objectively shows that
parole probations services have
increased and improved since
reorganization in 1972,” said
Ault.
“Returning to the good old
days, as Mr. Partain suggests,
is not the answer to Georgia’s
crime problem,” said Ault.
“The Department of Correc
tions and Offender Rehabilita
tion is proposing a new,
positive and objective system
through contracting with in
mates,” he said.
“There will be very specific
criteria for inmates to fulfill in
order to be released. This new
program will place the respon
sibility on the inmate for his
release rather than on the
subjective opinion of the parole
board.”