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GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
Hospital
• Eighty people who were patients at
the Griffin-Spalding Hospital during a
recent month rated the care they got as
• excellent. Seventy-three rated their
care as good. Four rated it as fair and
one rated it as poor.
• These were the results of a survey the
hospital conducted and reported to the
authority at its monthly meeting last
• night.
Patients were asked to answer 25
questions about the hospital care they
received. They could sign their names
• or remain anonymous. Some signed
and some did not.
Administrator Carl Ridley said the
• survey to him indicated hospital per-
Stockbridge may lose traffic law powers
ATLANTA (UPI) - The Georgia
• State Patrol Monday charged the
Stockbridge Police Department with
misconduct in enforcing traffic laws
, and recommended the Henry County
community’s traffic law enforcement
powers be suspended.
The State Patrol charged Stockbridge
* police with harassing motorists,
conducting illegal searches of vehicles
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BARNESVILLE, Ga. - L. L. (Bud)
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■ County Schools, announced he had filed
[ a damage suit for $3,930,000 in federal
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Most rate it excellent to good
sonnel were doing an outstanding job in
meeting patients’ needs.
The authority instructed the ad
ministrator to continue to negotiate
with a group of doctors which furnish
emergency room service here.
Mr. Ridley said the service indicated
it needed a minimum of SIB,OOO a week
to staff the emergency room with
doctors seven days a week.
The agreement under which the
service is provided now on weekends
runs out at the end of this year. Mr.
Ridley will continue to negotiate with
the service.
The authority agreed to employ its
own personnel to handle inhalation
and maintaining faulty records of
money collected from traffic fines.
Stockbridge, a town of 1,561 about 17
miles south of Atlanta, has collected
$59,949 in traffic fines and forfeitures
this year, the patrol said, but out of
4,800 traffic citations, 1,381 were not
accounted for in Stockbridge police
records.
The patrol also charged Stockbridge
Mrs. Ruby Hill, Spalding County Tax Commissioner, looks over 1976 vehicle tags which
have arrived at the courthouse. They’ll go on sale in January.
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He named Edward McGarity, district
attorney for the Flint Judicial Circuit,
as one of the defendants.
McGarity, as prosecuting attorney
for the court, took part in the trial of
Jenkins earlier this year in Lamar
County on charges of theft by taking.
The Lamar jury found Jenkins in
nocent.
Jenkins said he filed the suit for puni
tive and actual damages.
Others Jenkins named in the suit
included Benson Ham, a Forsyth at
torney who assisted McGarity in the
case; Gus M. English, former Lamar
County commissioner; George T.
Henry and S. B. Traylor, Lamar County
medical doctors; Mattie Gordy, a
secretary; James Shiver, a Lamar
businessman; J. Wendell Morgan of
Milner, and William W. Dennis, editor
and publisher of the News-Gazette, a
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treatment when the new wing opens.
The authority also approved the
purchase of microfilming equipment
for its records, including the medical
records, now handled through an
outside service.
The hospital will have to have a full
time person to handle this job in the
beginning because of the heavy backlog
of microfilming to be done, Mr. Ridley
explained.
He said the hospital is being buried in
red tape and record keeping and that
microfilming was the answer to the
problem.
Cost of the equipment was listed at
$7,624.
police used traffic money to build a big
police force, stopped women and asked
them for their telephone numbers and
when they got off work. Police also
stopped firemen on the way to a fire and
held them when they had not violated a
law, the patrol said.
Police Chief Paul Collier, who was
cited for threats of physical abuse, was
not available for comment, but Mayor
newspaper published in Barnesville.
The Jenkins trial in Lamar County
arose in a dispute over the handling of
some school funds. Jenkins was found
innocent of the charges against him.
Jenkins alleged in his suit that the
dispute resulted from a conspiracy
against him and he filed to recover
damages.
The suit claims that District Attorney
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Authority member Mrs. Jo Pollard
reported some $15,000 had been donated
for furnishing rooms in the new wing.
She said the hospital is always open to
receive such contributions from indivi
duals or organizations.
The hospital hopes to have the new
wing open in about two months.
Ramone Garcia, comptroller, noted
in his financial report that payment of
bills had dropped to about 80 percent.
He said people spending money for
Christmas probably accounted for the
drop. But he said the hospital was in
good financial condition and that
collection of bills had improved very
much in the last few months.
George Hart said there had been “no
wrongdoing” by the police department.
He said the patrol’s investigation into
the allegations had been “very
haphazard and I believe they will be
proved to be false.”
A spokesman for Gov. George Busbee
said a hearing will be held in early
January to determine whether the
suspension recommendation is war
ranted.
Irregularities
‘Tough to understand’
By the Griffin Daily News
Irregular transactions, admittedly
“tough to understand” by both at
torneys and a certified public
accountant who audited the Commer
cial Bank & Trust Co. books, continued
•to be discussed in testimony today at
interpleader proceedings in Atlanta
concerning the estate of the late C. T.
Parker. 1
Bank losses, including some $400,000
in interest, have been set at more than
$2-million from Parker’s alleged em
bezzlements.
Testimony has brought out that he
lent hundreds of thousands of dollars to
corporations, which either did not exist
or that he owned or controlled.
Proceeds of those loans, according to
G. J. Bruner, whose bank auditing firm
was hired by Commercial Bank & Trust
to find out what happened to the money,
were used to pay off other alleged
irregular loans or pay interest on them,
to purchase real estate and stock in C.
T. Parker’s or his family’s name, to
cover prior irregularities and for his
own personal use.
In cross examination, Albert Phillips,
attorney for Continental Insurance Co.,
has attempted to show the bank’s losses
actually are less than Mr. Bruner
McGarity presented evidence to a
Lamar Grand Jury “in a manner
calculated to obtain an indictment
against Leeman Leroy Jenkins, and did
conceal and withhold from the grand
jury evidence which was within his
knowledge which would have totally
exonerated Leeman Leroy Jenkins.”
McGarity said today all he knew
about the suit was what he had read in
the morning newspaper.
He said he could not comment, since
he didn’t know what he was being sued
for.
He said he might have a statement
later.
Attorney Harold Martin of Jackson
and Barnesville represents Jenkins in
the federal damage suit.
He was with Jenkins yesterday after
noon when the superintendent an
nounced the suit.
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Deadline near
Minnie Belle Thompson (1) and Jan Moore work on Spalding County tax
collections in the tax commissioner’s office at the courthouse as the Dec. 20
deadline draws near. Payment of taxes is running about 20 percent behind
this year, over the same period last year, officials said. They reminded
citizens that taxes paid after the Dec. 20 deadline will be subject to penalties
of nine percent.
reported, because, he contends, some of
the proceeds from the irregular
transactions remain in the bank in
various accounts.
Continental had insured the bank
from any loss due to dishonest or
fraudulent acts by its employes, but has
refused to pay the claim.
Phillips also questioned the manner
in which interest was computed on the
missing money.
One irregular transaction, which
Phillips admitted, “Boggles my mind,”
concerned a $20,000 cash payment
which Griffinite Bill Mason said he
brought to the bank on Jan. 3, 1974, and
gave to Parker for deposit in a savings
account.
“It boggles my mind, too,” Bruner
answered.
According to Bruner, the money was
to be used as collateral for a $20,000
loan Mason obtained from the bank.
Bruner said Mason told him Parker
had agreed the interest on the note
would be two percent higher than the
interest he would receive on the savings
account.
Mason told Bruner he did not receive
a savings book and said he had made a
similar transaction on an earlier
occasion.
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On the same date, $20,000 in unidenti
fied cash was received into the bank
and a loan to Mason for $20,000 was
approved by Parker, Bruner continued.
The bank claims Parker kept the
cash for his own use instead of turning
it over to the bank as collateral.
Chalet Properties, Inc., a supposedly
bankrupt corporation, also was
discussed yesterday.
According to Bruner, Parker used
proceeds from an irregular loan to pay
off construction loans for houses built
by Chalet Properties.
Bruner said there are many unan
swered questions about Chalet
Properties and Parker’s interest in it.
Records concerning the corporation are
not available, he explained. Two checks
of Chalet Properties were converted to
Parker’s own use, he testified.
One loan of $250,000 was made to a
fictitious corporation, Two Dozen
Realty Developers, Inc., while bank
examiners were at the bank, some
three days before Parker’s death,
testimony indicated.
A federal bank examiner, A. A.
Prosser, testified last week that the
examiners had noticed a loan to Griffin-
Spalding County Development
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