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SPECIAL RUNOFF
ELECTION
SPALDING COUNTY, GA.
JUNE 17, 1975
FOR COBtfS COMMISSION®
(ToiflfttW unexpired term of
Sandy Morgan, resigned.)
• (Vote for One)
John Ellis, Jr.
Frank A. Thomas
Lawyers not exempt
from anti-trust laws
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Supreme Court ruled 8 to 0
today that the practice of law
as a profession is not exempt
from the restrictions of federal
antitrust law.
This is the first time the
Court has addressed itself to
whether federal laws against
price fixing apply to the
“learned professions.”
The opinion was written by
Chief Justice Warren E. Bur
ger. Justice Lewis F. Powell
Jr. did not participate.
The case was started by
Lewis H. and Ruth S. Goldfarb,
who encountered minimum fees
for title searches, issued by the
Fairfax County Bar Associa
tion, when they bought a $54,000
house in Reston, Va., in 1971.
Under ethical standards of
the Virginia State Bar, title
examinations can be handled
only by lawyers.
The Goldfarbs contacted 20
attorneys, all of whom told
them there was a set fee for
various services related to
home buying. They paid $637.50
for title insurance, a deed of
trust and other papers.
The case now returns to U.S.
District Judge Albert V. Bryan
Damage award stands
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Supreme Court today let stand
a damage award against a
Georgia state official who was
found to have denied a
residence job to a white man
because the applicant was
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~IWS. ‘
“Every time dishonesty wins,
it gets harder to convince kids
that honesty is the best policy.”
By RUSSELL NIELSEN
RENO, Nev. (UPI) — There was a time when Reno was
the undisputed “Divorce Capital of the World.”
Socialites and movie stars took advantage of Nevada’s
divorce laws, enacted in the 19305, which required only six
weeks residence to shed a spouse on grounds of “mental
cruelty.”
But last year, the number of divorces in Reno declined
—in sharp contrast to a rapid rise in the divorce rate
elsewhere in the United States.
One reason is other states have liberalized their laws,
and Nevada’s are almost strict by comparison.
A United Press International survey showed there is a
Jr. in Alexandria, Va., who will
determine damages not only for
the Goldfarbs but for 2,400
others who bought homes in
Reston —a new town near
Washington, D. C. —during the
four years prior to the filing of
the suit.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals |iad ruled that the
Sherman Antitrust Act reaches
only “trade or commerce” and
not activities of the “learned
professions.”
But Burger said “whatever
else it may be, the examination
of a land title is a service; the
exchange of such a service for
money is ‘commerce’ in the
most common usage of that
word.”
“It is no disparagement of
the practice of law as a
profession to acknowledge that
it has the business aspect,” the
opinion said.
It cited an earlier Supreme
Court opinion saying that the
act on its face shows “a
carefully studied attempt” to
bring within its terms “every
person engaged in business
whose activities might restrain
or monopolize commercial in
tercourse among the states.”
married to a black.
The official is Director James
D. Clements of the state
Retardation Center in Atlanta,
who must pay a $7,188.75
judgment. The award, by U.S.
District Judge Sidney O. Smith
Jr. of Atlanta, was affirmed
early this year by the sth U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals.
The complainant, Andrew
Faraca, 34, a native of
Wisconsin, now teaches school
in Tampa, Fla. He is married
to the former Ophelia Harts
field, also working in the
Tampa school system as a
“drug specialist.”
Faraca applied for a job as
Cottage Program Administrator
in 1971 when the couple was
visiting the wife’s sister,
Bernice Manning, in Atlanta.
Faraca has nine years of
college training and holds two
degrees, plus additional certifi
cates in child training. The
U.S. divorce rate is rising rapidly
Voters decide tomorrow
who’ll be commissioner
Griffin and Spalding County
voters will have a chance to go
to the polls tomorrow to decide
on a county commissioner.
Some local political observers
wondered how many would turn
out.
In the special election three
weeks ago, about 30 percent of
the registered voters went to the
polls.
Traditionally, runoff elections
draw fewer votes.
Frank Thomas and Dr. John
Ellis were the top runners in a
field of seven candidates the
first go round.
They’ll face each other
tomorrow in the runoff which
has been a relatively quiet
campaign.
The winner will fill the
unexpired term of Sandy
Morgan on the board of county
commissioners. He had this
year and next left to serve in a
six-year term when he resigned.
Commissioners P. W. Hamil
and Reid Childers called the
special election under Georgia
law to fill the vacancy.
The polls will open tomorrow
at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.
All of the regular voting
places in the city and county
will be open.
A total of 15,705 people are
registered to cast ballots.
Judge George Imes of the
Probate Court will handle the
election. He is the designated
election manager.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
84, low today 65, high yesterday
80, low yesterday 66, total
rainfall .09 inches, high
tomorrow in mid 80s, low
tonight in mid 60s.
center officials were at the
point of hiring him when,
according to the sth Circuit,
Clements vetoed the move,
“voicing grave concern about
the effects of the racially mixed
couple on visitors and possible
adverse reaction from state
legislators.”
Faraca sued under a post-
Civil War statute giving blacks
and whites the same rights so
far as making and enforcing
contracts are concerned. The
Supreme Court has never
interpreted this provision but
had upheld a similar one
dealing with buying and selling
of property.
Georgia Atty. Gen. Arthur K.
Bolton’s appeal did not chal
lenge the law but concentrated
on the plea for more definite
standards as to when a state or
local official supposedly acting
without malicious intent may
later be sued.
trend toward “no fault” and dissolution of marriage laws
among the states. Couples need only declare their
marriage a failure and work out problems of property and
child support.
The stigma once attached to divorce is gone. Now it is
acceptable to stay home, rather than “go to Reno.”
“There is a trend nationwide —in fact, worldwide —
toward more divorces,” said Samuel Schoonmaker, a
Stamford, Conn., lawyer who specializes in divorce cases.
“It involves all kinds of social attitudes from women’s lib
through a quest for personal identity and a sense to be
your own person.
“There is definitely a tendency on the part of some
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Down to earth
Threaten skies didn’t hold up the air show at Warm
Springs yesterday afternoon. Flint River Academy
sponsored it to raise money for a school program. Here
one of the jumpers in the show floats gently to earth after
bailing out of a plane.
LAKE WORTH, Fla. (UPI) -
Brenda Van Vels Evans was
angry because it was her
wedding and her new father-in
law was getting all the
attention.
“This is my wedding, if you
don’t mind,” a tearful Mrs.
Evans cried out as two Palm
Beach County sheriff’s deputies
arrested Nelson Roy Mulligan,
father of bridegroom Douglas
Evans, on charges of failing to
pay more than $115,000 in
alimony and child support to
his former wife.
The deputies waited until the
end of the wedding ceremony at
the Lake Worth Christian
Church Friday night before
arresting Mulligan. But the
wedding party was less than
receptive as they approached
the receiving line.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon,
Father-in-law
took the cake
While her new husband tried
to restrain her, Mrs. Evans
flailed at one of the deputies
with her bouquet. Members of
the bride’s families admonished
the officers for carrying out the
arrest in a “sacred” place.
“The church is a sanctuary,”
said the bride’s uncle, the Rev.
Gerald Van Oyen, who per
formed the ceremony. “This is
a very dangerous precedent,
arresting somebody in church.”
The arrest warrant was
signed by Beverly Evans,
Mulligan’s former wife. It
charged Mulligan, a Detroit
auto dealer, with failing to pay
more than $115,000 in alimony
and child support under a 1966
divorce agreement.
Mulligan was booked into the
Palm Beach County Jail and
was later released on $50,000
bond.
women to dissolve marriages because they want to seek
their own identity. The pressure of the current recession is
putting heavy pressure on some marriages,”
Schoonmaker said.
The divorce rate last year climbed about 5 per cent in
most states. In New York, the increase was was 16 per
cent.
“People can get married literally at the snap of a finger,
but our divorce laws have been unthinkably onerous,”
said State Sen. Roy Goodman of New York City.
In Boston, the divorce rate has increased over the last
eight years even though the population has declined. John
McNichols, chief probate officer of the Family Services
Pay increases
on jury agenda
The June term of Spalding
Superior Court got under way
this morning with the hold-over
grand jury reconvening to
consider recommending a
separate juvenile court judge,
pay raises for elected county
officials, and a jury com
mittee’s study of the county’s
uncollected bond forfeitures.
Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr.
said since he already had
charged the jurors in February,
he would not do so again.
He asked that they appoint a
justice of peace to the Union
District to replace Fred F.
Edwards, Jr. who has resigned
for health reasons.
The grand jury, whose fore
man is Walter E. Jones, will
Chemistry prof pushes
solar heated schools
ATLANTA (UPI) — A 60-
year-old chemistry teacher
wants to see all schools in this
country equipped with solar
energy heatwalls by the end of
1975.
Mrs. Rosalyn Switzen was in
Atlanta to round up support for
the “National Solar Energy
Year 1975 for Schools,” a
program which officially began
this month.
Mrs. Switzen said the energy
heatwalls would save 75 per
cent of the gas and electricity
now used.
Profumo
‘The past is dead’
LONDON (UPI) - John
Profumo, disgraced in a 1963
scandal with party girl Chris
tine Keeler, says his return to
favor won’t change his new life
as a social worker.
“I will be back there at my
desk on Monday,” Profumo
said after Queen Elizabeth II
honored him for his welfare
work among the poor of
London’s East End.
The queen made Profumo a
Commander of the Most Excel
lent Order of the British
Empire Saturday, a dozen
years after he resigned in
disgrace as secretary of state
Daily Since 1872
serve until the October term of
court.
The jurors will report on
whether or not they recommend
a separate full-time juvenile
court judge. They have been
studying the costs of such a
court since February and said
they would make their re
commendation in June.
Other grand juries in the
Griffin Judicial Circuit (Pike,
Fayette and Upson Counties)
already have recommended the
judgeship.
Under Georgia law, for the
court to be established, two
successive grand juries in each
county must recommend it.
The jury also said it would
reconsider recommending pay
The studentrmade solar heat
walls are made by cutting cans
in half and mounting donated
old table tops on them, she
said. Glass is then placed over
the tops and around the sides
causing a greenhouse effect.
The heatwalls are then placed
in the sun where they store and
retain heat. The two-hour
student project, Mrs. Switzen
said, would not only save
energy, but would curb pollu
tion.
Mrs. Switzen is chairman of
for war.
“The past is dead,” Profumo
said of the queen’s decision to
put him on her birthday honors
list. “Everybody has been so
kind.”
Profumo has been working
without pay for Toynbee Hall, a
welfare agency aiding the
underprivileged of London’s
East End, since being forced
from office in 1963.
“All I want is to retain my
anonymity and to continue my
work at Toynbee Hall,” the
wealthy Profumo said.
The discovery that Profumo
shared the same mistress with
Office, blames the economic situation in part.
“A lot of marriages were just hanging together because
the money was coming in,” he said. “The average.age of
those getting divorced is younger, probably in their mid
205.”
But in Illinois, Circuit Judge Simon Friedman of
Springfield said many of his divorces involve partners
breaking up after 20 or 25 years.
“Their family is grown and there’s no pressure to work
toward a goal. They just lose interest in each other,” he
said. “I also get the kids who got married for the wrong
reasons. They expected bells to ring and grabbed the first
excuse to call it quits.”
raises for all county elected
officials. The jury said it did not
recommend them in February
due to economic conditions. If
the raises are recommended,
they will be considered by the
General Assembly during its
1976 session.
A large number of criminal
indictments were expected to be
returned this week.
One is that of Otis Berry, 19,
of Boyd row, who was charged
with armed robbery and
murder in connection with the
shooting death of Robert
Beatty, manager of Callaway’s
Package Store and the robbery
there on Jan. 28.
the board of Mass Education
Resources Institute of Technics
Inc., a research group that is
trying to gain more attention
for the use of solar energy.
Mrs. Switzen feels Congress
is moving toward legislation
that would allow entire classes
of students to work with a full
time teacher to develop the
heatwalls.
Sens. Hubert Humphrey and
Henry Jackson have already
cosponsored a resolution pro
claiming Oct. 26 “National
Solar Energy Day.”
Capt. Eugene Ivanov, the
deputy Soviet naval attache in
London, touched off a scandal
that rocked the British esta
blishment.
Profumo told Parliament he
never had sexual relations with
the woman —2O-year old
Christine Keeler —but he later
admitted it was a lie. He said
he had tried to protect the
feelings of his wife, actress
Valerie Hobson.
The secretary of state for
war resigned from public life
after Parliament found him
guilty of contempt of the House
of Commons.