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Flynt denies impropriety
as guest of Rockwell Corp.
ATLANTA (UPI) - Three
members of the Georgia
congressional delegation are
among government officials
who have accepted free hunting
trips from the Rockwell Inter
national Corp., according to the
Atlanta Constitution.
The paper reported in its
joint Thanksgiving Day edition
with the Atlanta Journal that
Sen. Herman Talmadge and
Rep. Dawson Mathis have been
guests of the corporation at its
south Georgia “Pine Bloom”
estate. Rep. John Flynt has
been a guest at Rockwell’s
hunting lodge on Wye Island,
Md., the paper said.
The three lawmakers, all
Democrats, confirmed they had
made the outings and denied
any impropriety in their accept
ance of the contractor’s hos
pitality.
Rockwell is the prime defense
contractor for the s2l billion B
-1 bomber and for the $5.2
Fromme
appeal
planned
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI)
— An attorney for Lynette
Fromme, convicted of attempt
ing to assassinate President
Ford and facing a possible life
sentence, says she will appeal
the decision of the eight
woman, four-man jury.
If U.S. District Judge Thomas
Macßride sentences the follow
er of convicted mass murderer
Charles Manson to the max
imum prison term Dec. 17 it
will be the first life sentence he
has levied in 14 years on the
bench.
Defense attorney John Virga
said he would immediately file
notice of the appeal, based on
grounds the prosecution sup
pressed evidence crucial to the
defense, but another lawyer
specializing in appellate mat
ters will then take over the
case.
Miss Fromme, 27, an avowed
vegetarian who has refused all
meat dishes at the county jail
where she is held in a
maximum security cell, skipped
the traditional turkey and
dressing dinner served other
prisoners Thursday. Jail offi
cials refused to release her
dinner menu.
Her conviction was the first
under a new federal law
dealing with attempted assassi
nations of U.S. presidents.
Jurors in the historic trial
declined to discuss the verdict
with reporters and returned
home for the first time since
they were sequestered Nov. 7.
Virga indicated earlier an
appeal also might be based on
Macßride’s ruling that wit
nesses were allowed to give
their opinion about Miss From
me’s tone of voice after the
Sept. 5 incident during which
she aimed a loaded .45-caliber
pistol at the President.
Several prosecution witnesses
described her as angry, frus
trated and disbelieving when
she shouted immediately after
the incident in the state capital
park, “It didn’t go off. Can you
believe? It didn’t go off.
Virga called that testimony
“speculation” but was over
ruled by the judge.
He indicated that ruling may
be grounds for appeal.
billion development of the
space shuttle. It also has a $4.2
billion contract for guidance
system of the Minuteman
missle program.
Both Talmadge, chairman of
the Senate Agriculture Commit
tee, and Mathis, who represents
the Albany area, said they had
used quail hunting facilities at
“Pine Bloom,” a south Georgia
plantation, when it was owned
by Rockwell.
Talmadge said: “I’ve been
quail hunting with (board
chairman Willard F.) Al
Rockwell on his farm in
Georgia. It was several years
ago. I killed some quail and
missed a turkey.”
The senator said the corpora
tion’s hospitality did not influ
ence his vote on defense issues
or contracts going to the
company.
“If I was going to sell my
vote,” he said. “It would be a
much higher price than a
hunting trip.”
Mathis, a member of the
House Agriculture Committee,
said he has “been hunting with
the Rockwell people once or
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twice” and has flown from
Washington to his hometown of
Albany on a Rockwell plane.
“I’ve never had a defense
contractor ask me to intervene
for them with the federal
government,” Mathis said.
“I hope the people of the
Second District know I couldn’t
be bought with a bird hunting
trip. I might be bought, but it
would take a..• . .lot more
than that,” he said.
Flynt said he went goose
hunting last January at Rock
well’s hunting lodge on Chesa
peake Bay in Maryland.
He is chairman of the House
Ethics Committee and member
of the Appropriations Commit
tee and its subcommittee on
defense spending.
“I’ve known Al Rockwell for
many years, long before he
ever became connected with
North American,” he said.
Rockwell International Corp,
was formerly known as North
American Rockwell.
Flynt said there was no
discussion of government busi
ness or legislation during the
trip.
Busbee raps N.Y. aid as ‘trend’
ATLANTA (UPI) — Gov.
George Busbee says President
Ford’s proposal to make
federal loans available to
financially-ailing New York
City could lead to an erosion of
local fiscal authority nation
wide.
“I can forsee a trend building
in Congress in which efforts
will be made to prevent the
New York situation from
happening in other states,”
Busbee said.
“What this could lead to
would be legislation in which
someone like the secretary of
the treasury is given broad
authority to write regulations
limiting and restricting the
rights of state and local
governments to handle their
own fiscal affairs.”
N.C. S/teZf
will hold
on oil drill
RALEIGH, N.C. (UPI) - The
Outer Continental Shelf off the
North Carolina coast will not be
used for oil and natural gas
exploration in the near future,
the U.S. Department of Interior
has told state officials.
Dr. Arthur Cooper, in charge
of resource Management for
the state Department of Natu
ral and Economic Resources,
said nine major U.S. oil
companies had suggested the
probable sites for oil and
natural gas exploration on the
East coast. The companies said
seismic and geologic tests
indicated sites off the South
Carolina and Georgia coasts
would be better sites for
exploration.
However, the department
said Thursday the state will
take it upon itself to study the
feasibility of having petroleum
refining facilites and oil ports
along the coast.
The federal Bureau of Land
Management will ask East
Coast states to comment on the
possible environmental effects
of exploration and extraction of
oil or natural gas from the
proposed Georgia and South
Carolina sites.
The Georgia and South
Carolina sites will be screened
to protect commercial fishing,
according to Cooper.
President Ford Wednesday
night proposed legislation for
$2.3 billion in short-term
seasonal loans to be made
available to New York City to
enable it to avert default.
State Auditor Ernest Davis
said: “The fact that New York
City had to be bailed out by the
federal government may be a
milestone in the gradual
erosion of the rights of local
governments.”
Georgia has had a Moody’s
triple A credit rating from the
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next year. Busbee and Davis
attributed the high rating to
Georgia’s constitutional prohibi
tion from deficit spending.
The state constitution also
limits the bonded debt to 15 per
cent of all treasury receipts,
less refunds, during any given
fiscal year.
Georgia recently completed
the sale of more than $47.7
million in general obligation
bonds — s3l million for the
Georgia Ports Authority at
Savannah, $12.7 million for
— Griffin Daily News Friday, November 28, 1975
school construction and $4
million for waste water treat
ment facilities on Jekyll Island.
Davis said the 6.28 per cent
interest rate the state had to
pay borrow the money “is a
high rate historically for us, but
when compared with what
other governments are paying,
it’s not that high.” New York
state is paying more than 10
per cent on its bonds.
Davis said New York’s fiscal
crisis has not had any direct
effect on Georgia’s ability to
sell bonds, but “smaller com
munities and states with a
fairly low bond rating have
been much hurt by the
situation.”
Busbee and Davis said
current interest rates are being
affected by a shrinking
“municipal bond spread” — the
difference between the interest
rate paid on a taxable bond and
a tax exempt bond — and
because banks are no longer a
major customer.