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Ford apologizes
to Olson’s family
WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Ford
has apologized to the family of Frank
Olson, a scientist who committed suicide
in 1953 after he was given LSD by the CIA
without his knowledge.
He met privately in the Oval Office
Monday with Mrs. Olson and her three
children. Afterward, the White House
released a statement on behalf of the
family that said:
“We hope that this will be part of a
continuing effort to ensure that the CIA is
accountable for its actions and that people
in all parts of the world are safe from
abuses of power by American intelligence
agencies.”
The President expressed “the sympathy
of the American people and apologized on
behalf of the U.S. government for the
circumstances of Dr. Frank Olson’s death
in November, 1953,” press secretary Ron
Nessen said.
Olsen fell to his death from a New York
hotel window. The Rockefeller
commission, which investigated the CIA,
Gunrunners exploiting
state’s gun laws
ATLANTA (UPI) - Federal
agents told a House subcommit
tee hearing Monday that gun
runners are exploiting lax gun
laws in Georgia, Florida and
South Carolina so they can
supply criminals in northern
cities with weapons.
Three Treasury Department
agents described what they
called the “southern connec
tion” at a regional hearing of
the House Judiciary Commit
tee’s crime subcommittee.
Agents Durwood Russell,
John L. Piper and Robert P.
Lane agreed that the major
reason for the “southern
connection” was that Georgia
and Florida have no waiting
requirement or limit on the
number of guns a customer can
buy, and rank with South
Carolina as major suppliers of
guns to northern cities.
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said he was given LSD without his
knowledge several days before his death.
Ford invited the Olsen family to the
White House. Nessen said the family asked
to be told all the facts concerning his
death.
The President told them he had
instructed the legal counsel’s office “to
make information available to them at the
earliest possible date,” Nessen said.
The family is considering suing the
government. Nessen said Ford told them
Attorney General Edward Levi has been
asked to meet with their lawyers to discuss
the claims.
Nessen told reporters the President
“feels very strongly about this and that’s
how this meeting came about.” He said
Ford “felt he wanted to apologize
personally” to the family.
“We are grateful that President Ford
has given us his support for our effort to be
fully informed about Frank Olsen’s death
and to obtain a just solution of this entire
matter,” the family’s statement said.
Committee Chairman Rep.
John Conyers, D-Mich., asked
the officers to trace the
connection from Georgia and
South Carolina pawnshops to
the streets of New York and
Detroit, where he said strict
local gun laws are not reducing
crime because guns smuggled
from the South are easy to get.
Russell testified that of 1,970
guns used in New York
criminal cases, 500 came from
South Carolina, 273 from
Florida and 214 from Georgia.
The officers pointed out that
a new South Carolina law,
forbidding dealers to sell more
than one gun to a customer in a
30-day period, is easily thwar
ted.
“We have found few cases
involving a conspiracy between
the dealers or purchasers,”
said Russell. “In most cases,
an out-of-state purchaser pre
sents temporary identification
such as a South Carolina voter
registration or driver’s license,
both of which can be obtained
in one dav.”
Rep. James Mann, D-S.C., a
member of the subcommittee,
said his hometown of Greenville
became popular with New
York’s black market gun
dealers because “it was the
first place down 1-85 with loose
gun laws.”
Atlanta Mayor Maynard
Jackson was the hearing’s lead
off witness and proposed that
proponents of gun control form
their own lobbying groups to
“out-lobby the anti-gun control
lobbyists.”
Jackson yielded part of his
time to Mrs. Leslie Morris who
recounted to the subcommittee
a personal experience.
She said she and her husband
were “approached by two men
with handguns and for 40
minutes we were kicked,
beaten, bound, robbed, gagged
and told we were going to die.
“As I lay on the floor,” she
said, “I reflected how easy it
was for those guns to journey
from the manufacturer to the
dealer to the criminal to the
back of my head...l am merely
a living, breathing, raging
stastic.”
Georgia state Sen. Bob Bell,
R-Atlanta, and Rep. Billy
McKinney, D-Atlanta, testified
that handgun laws would not
cut down on urban crime. In a
joint appearance they told the
subcommittee only swift and
sure punishment deters crime.
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Let voting rights act
die, Stennis pleads
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen. John C.
Stennis, D-Miss., Monday said an
extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
for another 10 years would inflict
undeserved punishment on the South.
“How much longer must we suffer this
double standard of justice?” the
Mississippi Democrat asked in a plea to let
the act expire next month. Stennis said
during a Senate debate that the law has led
to “a hypocritical situation which imposes
sanctions on the South for alleged
discrimination but lets discrimination in
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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, July 22, 1975
Leaf prices
on increase
VALDOSTA, Ga. (UPI) -
Tobacco prices rose Monday to
meet a better quality of leaf
being offered on warehouse
floors of the Georgia-Florida
Flue-Cured Tobacco Belt, as
the third week of sales began.
The Federal-State Market
News Service reported an
average price per hundred
weight of $93.63 for Monday,
about six dollars above the
season’s average. Georgia mar
kets did better than their
Florida counterparts with an
average price per hundred
weight of $94.46, in comparison
to Florida’s $89.34.
But the higher prices did not
satisfy a group of growers
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meeting in Tifton Monday
night, which unanimously
passed a resolution saying it
would take its crop off the
market if prices did not soon
exceed the government support
price by 25 per cent.
The 35 to 40 farmers from
seven counties agreed the only
price they could accept would
be about $1.25 per pound for
high quality leaf and about
sl.lß for lower quality.
Julian Bennett, state presi
dent of the National Farmers
Association, pointed out that
Monday’s price increases were
“not in proportion” to the
tobacco’s improvement in quali
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