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Lawyer says
Dean split
was victory
By WILLIAM COTTERELL
•ATLANTA (UPI) - Although Sen.
Roscoe Dean’s seven-day trial on
charges of cheating on his expense
accounts ended with a hung jury, his
chief defender sees the 9-3 split in his
favor as a vote that “completely
exonerates him.”
A jury of eight women and four men
worked nearly 14 hours on the evidence
— which Dean did not dispute —
showing he took $1,424 in state
compensation for trips he did not take.
The jurors were split 8-4 through most
of two days, then announced at 6 p.m.
Tuesday that they were “making some
progress” and had narrowed the gap to
M.
The jury foreman, Mrs. R. H. Hurd,
told Fulton County Superior Judge
Charles A. Wofford less than an hour
later that the jurors were hopelessly
deadlocked, and he declared a mistrial.
“I have great faith in the jury system
and the judiciary system,” the jubilant
Dean said afterward. He thanked his
parents for sitting with him through the
trial and helping finance his defense by
attorneys Wesley Asinof and Denmark
Groover.
Asinof noted that the 9-3 split was for
acquittal, not conviction, and said,
“That’s a 3-1 margin that completely
exonerates him.”
Mrs. Hurd said the jury was
ensnarled by technical wording of the
law, which says legislators can be paid
$25 a day for living expenses during the
legislative session and 10 cents per mile
for one roundtrip home each week, or
may collect their actual expenses.
Asinof had contended throughout the
trial that nothing in the law says a
lawmaker may not be compensated for
trips he did not make personally.
Although the prosecution team, headed
by Deputy Attorney General Robert S.
Stubbs, showed that Dean was often in
places other than where his expense
accounts put him, there was no proof
that an aide did not make the trips for
the senator.
Because the burden of proof lay with
the prosecution, Asinof said, he did not
have to produce those aides — in fact,
the defense rested without calling a
witness of its own.
Assistant Attorney General Andrew
Ekonomou said it has not been decided
whether to prosecute Dean again. If he
is re-tried, the trial could not be
scheduled sooner than March because
of Wofford’s crowded court docket and
the 1976 legislative session.
Members cannot be investigated or
tried while the General Assembly is in
session.
Dean expressed some disap
pointment that the jury did not reach an
innocent verdict.
“I’ve been up here all week, and I’ve
got to get back to representing my
people, with this thing out of the way,”
he said.
They’ll settle it two days before Christmas
Griffin City Commissioners will
decide on a chairman at their Dec. 23
regular meeting.
Chairman Louis Goldstein made the
announcement at last night’s regular
commission meeting at city hall.
Goldstein was sworn in for a four
year term last night. He was elected to
succeed himself on the board.
Beginning this year, the board will
elect its own chairman. The chairman
will serve for one year and not be
eligible to succeed himself.
Other commissioners besides Gold
stein the current chairman, are Preston
Bunn, R. L. (Skeeter) Norsworthy,
Raymond Head and Ernest (Tiggy)
Jones.
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Howard D. Goodman, 1420 West Mclntosh road, Griffin, at right, watches as
ambulance personnel and U.S. Army men put his new born daughter board
helicopter at Griffin-Spalding Airport. The infant was flown to the Columbus
Medical Center for treatment on the very same day it was born. The
Jackson editor
Doyle Jones
dies of stroke
Mr. Doyle Jones, Jr., of McDonough
road, Jackson, died this morning at
Emory University Hospital where he
was taken after suffering a stroke
Sunday.
He was the editor and publisher of the
Jackson Progress-Argus.
He was the son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Jones.
Mr. Jones was a member of the
Jackson Presbyterian Church.
He took over management of the
newspaper at Jackson in 1955 following
the death of his father.
Mr. Jones was a graduate of the
University of Georgia and was a long
time member of the Jackson Kiwanis
Club. He was active in civic, church and
community affairs in Jackson and
Butts County.
Mr. Jones was a member of Griffin
Lodge 1207 of Elks and a frequent
visitor in Griffin.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Martha Griffith Jones, a brother,
Vincent Jones.
Haisten Funeral Home of Jackson
will announce arrangements.
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Mercy mission for Griffin baby
Atlanta okays library
ATLANTA (UPI) — Atlanta voters
Tuesday approved a $18.9 million bond
referendum for construction of a new
city library while narrowly rejecting
the sale of S3O million in bonds for
streets, storm sewers and parks.
The voter turnout — 28 per cent of the
city’s 195,000 registered voters — was
slightly higher than expected. Elections
officials had predicted as few as 16 to 20
per cent of the voters would participate.
“Tragically enough,” said Fulton
County Election Supervisor Tom
Malone, “that is a pretty good turnout
for an election of this kind.”
The bond issue was promoted as a
“vote for Atlanta’s future” by Mayor
Maynard Jackson and some 50 civic
organizations.
Approval of the library bonds will
mean a slight increase in the millage
rate to retire the bonds over the next 30
years.
Griffin pilot made history 45 years ago
The 45th anniversary of airline
passenger service in Atlanta is today.
Eastern Air Transport, predecessor of
Eastern Airlines, inaugurated the first
scheduled passenger service in 1930
with an 18 passenger Curtiss Condor.
The first flight went to New York — in
eight hours with nine stops. The
passengers deplaned in Greensboro for
lunch.
Norsworthy
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, December 10, 1975
GRIFFIN
helicopter came here from Ft. Benning to pick up the little girl. Her father
boarded the craft and accompanied his little girl on the trip. The mother
continued as a patient at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
The bonds for a new downtown
library were approved by a vote of
28,801 to 24,558, with 53.9 per cent voting
in favor of the issue.
The proposal to sell $lO million in city
bonds for storm sewer and drainage
improvements failed by a very narrow
margin, with 50.6 per cent voting
against it.
Fifty-two per cent of the voters
rejected the $lO million bond issue for
improvement of the Grant Park Zoo
and other parks. The bonds would have
included $1.5 million for restoration of
the deteriorating Cyclorama, a 30-year
old three dimensional mural depicting
the 1864 Battle of Atlanta.
The $lO million traffic and streets
bond issue also failed by a narrow
margin, with 51 per cent of the votes
cast against it.
Malone said the vote totals released
Tuesday night do not include absentee
or defective ballots.
The pilot of the first flight was Doug
Davis, already a famous barnstormer,
before he joined Eastern. He was from
Griffin, and his widow Mrs. Glenna
Mae David, lives in East Point.
Edwin S. “Happy” Hogg said he was
“hanging around the airport that Dec.
10.1 was trying to get a job and three
days later Eastern hired me as a stock
clerk.” This Dec. 13 he becomes the
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“We’re all generous, but with
different things like time,
money, talent — criticism.”
first Eastern employee to attain 45
years of seniority.
The airport in 1930 was the old
Candler field, the center part of a
former auto raceway. Hartsfield
Atlanta International Airport still has
the same location.
Today Eastern, Atlanta’s first
airline, operates 210 daily jet flights
from Atlanta with 4500 employees.
Jones
Vol. 103 No. 292
Fictitious
accounts
revealed
By the Griffin Dally News
An accountant with an independent
bank auditing firm began lengthy
testimony yesterday in a hearing
concerning alleged irregularities
discovered in June, 1974, at Commer
cial Bank & Trust Company in Griffin.
Gerald J. Burner of Burke-Bumer &
Co. said his firm was hired by the bank
after the alleged irregularities were
found by federal bank examiners.
Burner testified in an interpleader
proceeding in Atlanta under attorney
Charles Gowan, appointed special
master by a federal court.
Testimony brought out that the firm
spent some 800 hours conducting an
examination of the bank’s books.
Its report concluded that bank’s late
president, C. T. Parker, had embezzled
money. The firm’s auditors determined
what he did with it, according to testi
mony.
The firm’s audit report indicated the
money still was on the books, checks
payable to the bank and not received,
cash brought to the bank and converted
to Parker’s personal use, charges of
interest for time deposit reserves and
some 120 irregular expense checks.
Bank records showed that Parker
made loans to companies in which he
was the sole stockholder and whose
officers apparently did not exist in two
of three of them.
Three such corporations brought out
yesterday were ADN Corp.; Two Dozen
Realty Developers, Inc.; and Griffin
Commercial Properties, Inc.
— The Griffin-Spalding County
Development Authority also is a
fictitious body, testimony revealed. It
also contended that the bank lost
$160,000 in connection with ADN
transactions.
The bank holds an outstanding
promissory note, dated April 12, 1973,
for $160,000 which was endorsed by A.
D. Norton, an employe of Parker’s.
Mr. Norton has denied endorsing the
note and the bank believes his signature
was forged by Parker, according to a
claim filed by the bank.
Accountants traced the ADN Corp,
loan and found that $153,000 was used to
pay off a loan on the estate of T. R.
Smith at the First National Bank of
Griffin. That payment released 126
shares of Concord Banking Co. stock,
which were given to Robert Parker, son
of C. T. Parker. The remaining $7,000
went directly to C. T. Parker’s personal
account, which Parker used to pay IRS,
Mr. Bruner explained.
All deposits made to the ADN Corp.,
came through Parker, the sole stock
holder, testimony revealed.
Testimony alleged the bank lost
almost $250,000 in a loan paid to Two-
Dozen Realty Developers, Inc., a
company whose officers apparently are
fictitious. Parker initiated all tran
sactions involved, Mr. Bruner stated.
He said the company lists James
Shaw as president and Jerry Law as
secretary, both apparently fictitious
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Goldstein takes oath.