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Ronald E. Cook, 28, father of two children, gave up the practice of law because there were
too many frustrations in the legal profession — so he gave it up to become an apprentice
potter. (UPI)
Two more companies
marked for sabotage
ORLANDO, Fla. (UPI) -
Two more Southern utility
firms have disclosed they were
among the targets marked by
extortionists threatening death
and maiming of company
executives and sabotage of
plants if undisclosed sums of
money were not sent to a
Mexican bank account.
The FBI at Jackson, Miss.,
has confirmed that a national
investigation of the bizarre plot
is underway.
Spokesmen for Middle South
Utilities of New Orleans and
School employe groups
say officials harassing
ATLANTA (UPI) - Re
presentatives of two school
employe organizations that
participated in a one-day strike
last week charged Tuesday that
Atlanta school officials are
harassing their members and
said they may strike again.
“We have a specific exam
ples. Principals are observing
teachers. It’s a form of
intimidation,” said Jesse
Moore, executive director of the
Atlanta Association of Educa
tors who joined the American
Federation of State, County and
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the Southern Company of
Atlanta, both holding compa
nies controlling nine electric
power firms in Louisiana,
Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama,
Mississippi and Georgia, admit
ted Tuesday that extortion
letters, similar to those re
ceived by power company
executives in Florida and
California, had been sent to
their firms.
A spokesman for Middle
South said his firm was “one of
several utilities” whose presi
dents received threatening let-
Municipal Employes in the
walkout last Tuesday.
Members of AAE, which
represents about half of the
city’s 4,800 teachers and AFSC
ME, which represents about
one-third of the city’s 2,900
classifeid employes — mostly
custodial workers — have also
been asked to fill out forms
indicating their absence during
the strike, Moore and other
employe representatives char
ged.
But Supt. Alonzo Crim said
the forms were being used to
document the abscences becau
se, “the board is not able to use
public funds for payment of
staff for nonwork.” Crim said
that although those who par
ticipated in the strike would not
be paid, he did not consider
that recrimination
Members of both employe
groups are back at work after a
federal injunction was imposed
for 10 days or until a
determination could be made
whether the case belonged in
federal or state court.
ters ordering money to be paid
into the account of “Albrecht
K. Mascher” at the Banco
Longoria, Matamoras, Mexico.
Meanwhile, the Orlando Senti
nel Star, which first disclosed
the extortion letters Sunday,
reported Tuesday that Roberto
Molino of the Banco Longoria
confirmed that an account had
been opened last week in the
name of “Albrecht K. Mas
cher.”
No money had been deposited
Both sides, in accordance
with the injunction, had agreed
to discuss various proposals on
working conditons, hours and
wages in the presence of five
neutral observers during the
period.
But in a press conference
Tuesday, AAE and AFSCME
representatives charged that
school board is “dragging its
feet” in efforts to end the
dispute. AFSCME spokesman
Willie Bolden said if talks did
not resume, he would ask his
members to resume the strike.
“Both organizations intend to
have a membership meeting
Saturday to make a progress
report,” said Bolden, “If we
don’t have anything to carry to
them, I’m sure they’ll vote to
go back on strike.”
Later Tuesday, Crim said
meetings had been scheduled
with AFSCME on Thursday and
AAE on Friday. The injunction
ends Thursday.
Disenchanted
By WARREN TALBOT
CHEPACHET, R.I. (UPI) — Ronald E. Cook tried
corporate law but didn’t like it. Then he went to work
helping prison inmates with their legal problems, but
found there were too many frustrations in that, too.
After four years at Providence College and three more
at Catholic University Law School in Washington, D.C.,
Cook has given up his dream of becoming an attorney and
joined the ranks of disenchanted professionals who are
turning to other lifestyles.
He is now an apprentice potter.
“I was working with a law firm in Providence. I was
doing the corporate law bit and making money at it, but I
just couldn’t get off on corporate law,” Cook said.
That was in 1973, right after he got out of law school. In
those days Cook, 28, said he looked like a lawyer. “I wore
a suit and my hair was trimmed. It was the whole gig,” he
said.
Now he wears his brown hair shoulder-length and has an
equally healthy beard. He wears blue jeans most of the
time while learning to be a potter at Cone Ten Pottery in
this rural community closer to Connecticut than it is to
Providence. His wife Kathy, 28, paints designs on the
pottery.
In April of last year Cook went to work for the Inmate
Legal Services at the Adult Correctional Institutions to
fulfill his social responsibilities. “It was always in my
by closing time Monday, Molino
told the newspaper. Monday
was the deadline given in the
Extortion letters mailed last
Thursday from Alexandria, Va.
The newspaper said a copy of
one of the extortion letters was
signed by a “B.A. Fox, B.R.
Fox Co., 2701 Fairview Drive,
Alexandria, Va.” It quoted a
woman living across the street
from the Alexandria address as
saying the property was now
vacant. The telephone there
also had been disconnected.
Another of the extortion
letters, sent to Andrew Hines,
head of Florida Power Corp.,
St. Petersburg, the newspaper
said, claimed to represent a
group of Vietnam veterans and
an unidentified explosives ex
pert with a French Foreign
Legion background.
The July issue of Penthouse
magazine reported that the
B.R. Fox Co. went out of
business last November, the
Orlando newspaper said. The
article said the firm made
explosive devices for the
Central Intelligence Agency,
such as “flashlights and tele
phone receivers loaded with
explosives.”
Georgia officials urge
careful study of drilling
ATLANTA (UPI) — State
officials were in Washington
today to urge that environmen
tal considerations be carefully
studied before leases for oil
drilling off the Georgia coast
are issued next year.
Members of the Georgia
Conservancy and the Sierra
Club have raised questions
about the planned schedules for
leasing drilling areas off the
Georgia coast. The groups
charge that the schedules call
for the leases to be issued
before environmental studies on
the drilling can be completed.
Norman Underwood, execu
tive secretary to Gov. George
Busbee, said Tuesday the state
is also “concerned” about time
problems involved in the
Department of Interior’s
schedule to issue the licenses.
The DOI is scheduled to
award leases for land off the
South Atlantic Coast — Geor
gia, Florida, North and South
Carolina — in November, 1976.
Underwood said that the state
hopes to persuade DOI officials
to perform the necessary
studies without delaying the
lease schedule.
“We are concerned, and we
would like to get the Depart
ment of Interior’s attention as
to the need for these studies
without having to delay them,
because these leases will have
an economic benefit for the
state,” Underwood said.
Conservationists have called
for a delay in issuing the
offshore leases, but Underwood
said state officials will wait
until the federal' government
responds to their pleas today
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WOODBURY, Ga.—Elaine Hamrick of Atlanta strikes a fetching pose with some of
Georgia’s bumper apple crop In an orchard near Woodbury. (UPI)
before deciding whether to call
for a delay in the leasing.
June Whalen, special assist
ant to Interior Secretary in the
Southeast Region,said environ
mental considerations are
“very important” to federal
officials. She said every effort
is being made to obtain input
from the states before offshore
leases are issued.
Some cabs
uninsured
ATLANTA (UPI) — Perhaps
as many as 60 per cent of the
2,000 taxis in Atlanta operate
without state-approved insur
ance under the no-fault law
passed by the General Assem
bly, Public Safety Commission
er J. H. Cofer estimated
Tuesday.
Cofer said also that his state
troopers have arrested more
than 1,000 cabbies, many of
them in Atlanta, for not having
required coverage and would
continue to crack down on
violators.
The law provides that taxicab
companies can either purchase
no-fault insurance from a
Georgia-licensed company or
put sufficient money in escrow
to cover claims against their
cabs.
Cofer said that one Atlanta
company has been given a self
assurance certificate and three
others have such applications
pending.
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mind to get into something socially active,” he said.
But philosophical disagreements with corrections
department officials became a problem. He left after 14
months.
Cook speaks scornfully of the prison and judicial
systems: “The inmates are smarter than the people in the
administration ... No decisions are made unless it is
politically expedient ... Court decisions are just
meaningless compromises that a group of lawyers will
work out because of sheer exhaustion.”
Cook says he was becoming a heavy drinker because of
his frustrations in the inmate program. “I took a good look
at myself and asked, ‘What am I doing to myself and my
family?”’ He has two children aged 2 and 5.
He jumped at the chance for an alternative lifestyle
when two friends offered him a chance to become a
partner in a fledgling pottery and crafts business.
The dropout lawyer says he and his wife are learning to
become self-sufficient. Instead of law books, Cook is
reading books on how to do things with his hands —
fanning, blacksmithing and carpentry.
Eventually he and several other disenchanted
professionals hope to move into the woods of northern
New England.
“Our intentions are to cut as many ties as possible. I’m
going to do a lot in my life. I’m going to learn how to build
things. I’m looking to become a Renaissance man," he
said.
Rail opens
year ahead
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania
(UPI) — China’s most abitious
overseas project — the SSOO
million, 1,200-mile Tanzam
Railroad linking landlocked
Zambia with the Indian Ocean
— will be officially opened
Wednesday, nearly a year
ahead of schedule.
The project, denounced by
the Soviets and some Western
nations as an effort by Peking
to subvert East Africa, took
60,000 workers and engineers
five years to build, laying four
miles of track a day.
The track, nicknamed the
Uhuru (Freedom) railroad, was
built to help move the bulk of
Zambia’s huge copper exports
to the Indian Ocean,
INMEMORIAM
A precious one from us is
gone,
A voice we loved is stilled,
A place is vacant in our
home,
That never can be filled.
In memory of our mother
Mrs. Lillie Mae Njchols,
who passed away two years
ago October 20, 1973.
Daughter of: Mrs.
Margaret Kitchens
Mother of: Patricia
Loggins and Gloria Linton