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Serving papers
It takes a special touch to slip them into basketball trunks of player
By ARNOLD DIBBLE
MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) — Process
server Charles Tubbs has missed his
mark only once in his 21-year career —
the man he sought was found dead in a
cemetery.
He has crashed posh parties in white
tie and tails, served papers virtually
under water and posed as a postman
and a Western Union messenger.
Tubbs, a 41-year-old, fifthgeneration
San Francisco transplant to
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News
summary
By United Press International
Near start
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Two
years ago today Patricia was carried
screaming from her Berkeley
apartment by members of the
Symbionese Liberation Army. Today
her bank robbery trial is almost ready
to start. All that remained was seating
of 12 jurors and four alternates, after
six days of interrogation of a tentative
panel of 18 men and 18 women was
completed Tuesday.
Aide indicted
CHICAGO (UPI) - A 21-year-old
nurse’s aide was indicted Tuesday on 47
counts of arson and murder. Denise
Watson has been accused of setting the
fire that killed 15 patients of the
Wincrest Nursing and Rest Home last
Friday. She said it was an accident, but
police said the woman, who is pregnant,
has a “bad history of pyromania.”
Claim debunked
DALLAS (UPI) — It seems Marilyn
Monroe’s claim that she was
illegitimate has been disproved. James
P. Cummings of Irving, Tex., says
according to public records, her father
was Martin Edward Mortensen of
Alameda, Calif., and was briefly
married to Marilyn’s mother.
Cummings found a marriage license
and says a Presbyterian minister
certified the marriage the same day the
license was issued.
Usery sworn
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Former
director of the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service, W. J. Usery Jr., is
expected to be sworn in today as the
new secretary of labor. The swearing-in
will follow Senate confirmation which is
assured. Usery succeeds John Dunlop,
who resigned, and his confirmation will
bring President Ford’s Cabinet to full
complement.
Minnesota, polished his image as one of
the best in his business last week when
he slipped legal papers into the uniform
trunks of a high school basketball
player at the end of a game between
Brooklyn Center and Mahtomedi.
The writ was served on Perry Martin
in a suit brought by Raymond Postels
Jr., a machinist. Martin, a parttime
motel bellboy, is accused of assaulting
Postels with a shovel Oct. 19.
Tubbs waited until the basketball
DAI E WS
Daily Since 1872
Check thieves stalk
mail boxes in Griffin
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Sens. Virginia Shapard (D-Griffin), Bud Stambaugh (D-Stone Mountain),
Pierre Howard (D-Decatar) and Peter Banks (D-Barnesville) (from left) make
notations as they read from a transcript of Sen. Roscoe Dean’s trial. The Senate
Judiciary Committee voted 7-4 to recommend to the full Senate that Dean be
censured. (UPI)
Sen. Dean facing
traffic charges
ATLANTA (UPI) - State Sen.
Roscoe Dean, facing possible censure
by his colleagues in a controversy over
his legislative travel vouchers, was
arrested Tuesday night on a charge of
drunken driving and speeding.
“We’ll find out what it’s all about in
court,” the Jesup lawmaker told a
reporter as he was being booked at the
city jail.
Detectives J.M. Parks and L.J.
Stephens said the senator’s car sped
past their car on an Atlanta street about
9:50 p.m.
“We saw the car weaving,” said
Parks. “When he passed us, it attracted
our attention because of the speed.”
The detectives, riding in an
unmarked car, said they radioed for a
patrol car which stopped Dean after
chasing the legislator for three blocks
with its blue light flashing.
Police Lt. L.C. Chatham said Dean
refused to take a sobriety test because
“he was taking medication and it
wouldn’t show up on the test and he was
advised by his doctor not to take the
test.”
Dean was charged with driving under
the influence, speeding 60 miles an hour
in a 35 m.p.h. zone and running through
a red light.
The arrest was the latest in a series of
developments surrounding the Jesup
senator.
Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary
Committee recommended the Senate
pass a censure resolution against him.
The Senate will sit as a giant
judiciary committee Thursday to hear
evidence about Dean’s perplexing
travel compensation claims.
Regardless of Thursday’s vote on
whether the Senate should express its
official distaste for Dean’s travel
claims, there will be the lingering
hangover of a committee roster
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, February 4,1976
game was over—“l didn’t want to spoil was the first time I had been hit — if it
the game for him.” could be called that — but I’ve been
Then I walked on the court, and I threatened plenty of times, and I’ve had
asked one of the players if he were some mighty intimidating telephone
Martin — I didn’t have a program. He calls.”
pointed to him, and I stuffed the paper Failure doesn’t come often to Tubbs,
in his trunks. In process serving all you The one exception was the day he
have to do is touch a person with the tracked his man all the way to the
P^P** 1 - cemetery. Even for Tubbs it’s
Then all hell broke loose. Martin’s impossible to serve papers on a corpse.
15-year-old sister came out of the Tubbs’ aquatic serving came a
stands and started pounding on me. It generation ago. During a baseball
GRIFFIN
purporting to show three Atlanta-Jesup
round trips by Dean on six different
dates. One of the travel records is
obviously “doctored,” both sides agree,
but no one knows who doctored it then
dumped it in the legislative fiscal office
files.
Dean, a Jesup Democrat whose
annual expenses easily outdistanced all
other members of the General
Assembly for the past two years, will
then get his first chance to personally
explain the accusations and counter
claims marking a year of controversy
over his mileage records.
He has boycotted hearings of the
judiciary committee, which voted 7-4
Tuesday to recommend he be censured
by the full Senate, and has left his
defense to Attorney Wesley Asinof. It
was Asinof who, with former State Rep.
Denmark Groover of Gray, won Dean’s
acquittal on charges of improperly
accepting $1,424 in mileage payments.
Dean denounced the censure
resolution by Sen. Virginia Shapard, D-
Griffin, as an “unAmerican” form of
double jeopardy. He said, however, he
will attend the “committee of the
whole” proceedings Thursday.
Judiciary Chairman Howard Overby,
D-Gainesville, said the Senate, sitting
as a committee, would afford Asinof
floor privileges.
If the “committee of the whole” votes
censure, fine, imprisonment or
expulsion, the senators would resume
their posture as the Senate and final
passage of the resolution would be
debated only by members.
The censure resolution left the
judiciary committee Tuesday calling
for nothing more than an official
rebuke, but several members indicated
they would like to see Dean fined $1,424
to reimburse the state for travel
monies.
Vol. 104 No. 29
Local lawmen were investigating a
rash of reports of checks stolen from
mailboxes, a usual occurance around
the first of every month.
Officers asked citizens expecting
checks to remove them from the boxes
as quickly as possible after they are
delivered or if that is impossible, to
arrange with a neighbor to do so.
They asked citizens to report any
suspicious persons seen around
mailboxes.
Yesterday a man prevented his
neighbor’s check from being stolen.
Police said Jessie McDowell saw a
man walk up to his neighbor’s mailbox,
at the home of Edward Byron, 121 East
Tinsley street, and remove a check.
Mr. McDowell yelled to the man and
then grabbed him. During the scuffle,
the thief dropped the check and fled.
Three other Griffinites were not so
lucky. Their checks were stolen.
Robert Lawrence, 115 Pearl street,
reported the theft of a $270 Social
Security check from his box.
Dorothy Ann Dennis, 626 East
Chappell street, complained yesterday
morning that a $97 Social Security
check was stolen from her box.
Lula Foster, 428 Circus street, said a
Social Security check for s6l was stolen
from her mailbox.
Spalding Sheriff’s officers said they
received a report of a stolen check, but
later a neighbor called in to say she had
removed the check to keep it from
being stolen.
Lockheed
accused
WASHINGTON (UH) - Lockheed
Aircraft Corp, paid millions of dollars
to Japanese militarist Yoshio Kodama
who influenced his government to buy
aircraft manufactured by Lockheed,
documents released today showed.
The documents released by the
Senate subcommittee on multinational
corporations also said a prominent
West German, Christian Steinrucke,
told Lockheed it would be beneficial to
the company to give money to political
parties.
Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho.,
chairman of the subcommittee, made
public a collection of letters and memos
obtained from Lockheed internal
sources and comments by Lockheed’s
accountant, Arthur Young & Co. A
subcommittee spokesman said the
accountant also supplied some
documents despite objections from
Lockheed.
Cold weather ups
home heat bills
ATLANTA (UPI) — State Energy
Officer Lewis Spruill says Georgians
can expect substantial increases in
home heating bills because of an
unusually cold winter.
Spruill said Tuesday that residents
can fight rising utility bills with heat
conservation measures, but added a
continued cold spell would probably
game between Minenesota and Ohio
State when Neil Thorpe was coaching at
the University, a player hit a ball over
the fence onto Nicollet Ave., injuring a
passerby — “who had every right to
feel safe outside the ball park.”
“I tried to serve papers on the player,
but the university wouldn’t let me close
to him. Fortunately, he was a twoletter
man, and I learned he was appearing in
a swimming meet.
“I waited until he had finished his
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Eyes have it. See page five.
Health board
hesitates
on ‘posting’
Two Spalding Health Board members
said they were hesitant to require food
handling establishments to post their
grades based on inspections.
Mike Kelley, sanitarian, suggested
the board might want to return to such
a policy. One was in use here many
years ago.
Dr. Grady Duke said he thought if
health standards were enforced rigidly
and inspections carried out carefully
there would be no need to post the
grades.
Louis Goldstein recalled that when
the policy was in force years ago “we
almost had a war” when grades were
published.
The board decided against going to
the policy for the time being and said
the Health Center should keep close
check on food handling.
Dr. Duke said he thought the situation
generally was good in the community
but there always is room for improve
ment.
The board reviewed its application to
the federal government for the mental
health complex which will be located in
the old post office building.
Dr. Guy Woodroof, chairman of the
board, and other members said they
were pleased with the work that had
been done so far. They said the outlook
for the complex is good.
offset any savings from household
conservation.
He said January was 25 per cent
colder than December, which was the
coldest month of 1975. He said last
month was 50 per cent colder than
January of 1975, and almost 16 per cent
colder than normal January
temperatures.
race and then just dived in and put the
papers on him,” Tubbs said.
“I was immediately escorted out of
the place. Heck, I was ready to go
anyway. But, man, was I wet and was I
cold.”
Tubbs feels the job takes ingenuity
and skill.
“Perhaps I inherited some from my
grandfather, who was named Talent
Tubbs.”
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 69, low
today 41, high yesterday 61, low
yesterday 35, high tomorrow in low 70s,
low tonight in low 40s.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Con
siderable cloudiness with a chance of
rain through Sunday.
“Chances are you’re pretty
old if you can remember when
children weren’t allowed to play
on Sunday.”
Bill Orr
Moose
seminar
set here
Griffin Loyal Order of Moose will
play host to the annual North Georgia
Moose ritular seminar Saturday after
noon. Wilmer H. (Bill) Orr, supreme
director of the Moose International
Titular committee, will be in charge of
the session, which gets under way at 2
o’clock.
Delegations from some 25 lodges will
attend. Officials from the state
association headed by President Lou
Chestnut and State Director Kent
Youmans are expected also.
Orr will participate in the enrollment
of a class in honor of Quimby Melton,
publisher and editor of Griffin Daily
News, on that evening. The past
national and current state champion
degree team from East Point will serve
as installing officers in honor of Melton.
Gov. Sam Cecil and secretary Roger
Bevil of Griffin Lodge expect some 75
candidates to be enrolled in the Melton
Class.