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A U.S. prisons spokesman called it unprecedented. But Louis Altmark had just spent a year and five days longer than he should have in the Atlanta federal penitentiary. Altmark was given a bus ticket to Miami, the customary new suit of clothes and $95 when he was released' hurriedly from prison earlier this week. He was told that he had served beyond his sentence — but not how long or why. Altmark, 41, had been convicted on federal car theft charges four times since 1961. E. Michael Aun, a spokesman for the U. S. Bureau of Prisons in Washington, blamed the mistake on a “bureaucratic error.” He said it was discovered last » - * BF r - Adam Speerstra, four, heads back home to Alaska with his father, Terry, after an incredible lifesaving trip. (UPI) Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, February 26, 1976 confidence that his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination would end in victory. Many in the crowd Waved placards, although some didn’t turn out just right. They were supposed to read “Jimmy” on one side and “Carter” on the other. But on some of the cards, made by area high school students, Carter came out backwards. “It’s been a long 13 months, but I have something different from the other candidates —a close relationship with and the support from those from my home state,” Carter told the crowd, who waited about a half hour after the candidate arrived because his wife Rosalynn’s plane was a little late. “There are 11 people in my family In prison year too long Saturday by a worker making routine checks in the classification and parole section. Aun said Wednesday that Troy Peak accidentally discovered an order reducing Altmark’s sentence had been placed in the prisoner’s file but not on the master card at the front the file folder. UJS. District Judge Newell Edenfield sentenced Altmark to his initial five year sentence. He modified his order four months later to a 30-month sen tence. Edenfield said Wednesday that “some secretary probably goofed” in transcribing his modification order. “The records department at the prison had to have gotten my order because part of it was put into Altmark’s daily file and part wasn’t,” Husband, wife team to fight world hunger Delia and Jaime Amaya-Farfan of the Versaille Apartments are unique in that they just might have more education than any couple in Griffin. Both are research scientists and hold 8.5., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Having done post graduate work, Mrs. Amaya-Farfan has even more education than her husband. And he is proud of her. Jaime (pronounced Hy-me) was bom in Neiva, a town in the southern part of Colombia, South America. campaigning fulltime, but I feel that everyone of you is a part of my family.” Carter warned the group that he might not always be victorious. “It would be a tiring procedure for you to welcome me home after every primary. I dont want you to be disappointed if I come in second every now and then,” he said. “There’s no way a peanut farmer from Plains, Ga., can come in first every time.” Carter had predicted repeatedly throughout the day that he would win the nomination on the first ballot. “We are not going to have a deadlocked convention,” he told an airport crwd in Charleston, S.C. “I will win the nomination on the first ballot.” he said. “The thing I can’t understand is why Altmark didn’t know he was being kept past the expiration date of his senten ce.” Each inmate gets a copy of any court order affecting him, Edenfield explained, “and according to the warden Altmark must have gotten his copy. Why Altmark didn’t scream bloody murder, I’ll never know.” The prisons bureau is now trying to locate Altmark to tell him all the facts. Justice Department spokesman Dean St. Dennis says a detailed memo is currently being prepared by Prisons Director Norman Carlson for U. S. They won death race SEATTLE (UPl—Four-year-old Adam Speerstra won his brush with death in the Arctic and has gone home to Alaska — wearing a protective helmet and a big smile. Adam’s father, Terry, was content with just the smile when the two left Seattle-Tacoma Airport for Fairbanks. The helmet protects a head injury that nearly claimed Adam’s life in an accident at Speerstra’s hunting camp 260 miles southeast of Fairbanks Feb. 12. Speerstra was feeding four ill horses about eight miles from the cabin when Adam was either kicked or stepped on by one of the animate. “I didn’t know he was injured,” said Speerstra. “He was lying on the ground. It was 15 below zero and I told him to get up.” When he didn’t, Speerstra knew his son was badly injured. Thus began an Arctic race with death. Delia is a native of the Philippines. They met while doing graduate work at the University of Rhode Island. The couple moved to Griffin last year where Jamie accepted a temporary research job in the food science depart ment of the Georgia Experiment Station. Delia came to Griffin several months after her husband. She stayed in Rhode Island until after the birth of their daughter, Karen, last May. She con tinued with her research in food Vol. 104 No. 48 He told the Jacksonville, Fla., Donkey Club it is no longer a political disadvantage to be a southerner. “The vote in New Hampshire shows that, as a southerner, I have not suffered because of the place of my birth,” he said. “I believe from the bottom of my heart there is no disadvantage in being a southerner any more.” During the morning, he said Florida’s March 9 primary would be a political showdown for George Wallace. “If he does better in Florida than he did in 1972, it will show he has the momentum. If he does worse, it will show a very good retrogressing in his strength.” Attorney General Edward H. Levi. Once the memo arrives, St. Dennis says “the department will study it to determine what should be done to try to compensate” Altmark. Prison sources say there have been occasions in the past where a prisoner was kept a day or two beyond the date his term expired. But they say “Altmark’s case is unprecedented.” Edenfield said he had “never seen anything as gross as this.” Sources said personal files of the 2,000 inmates at the maximum security prison in Atlanta are duplicated on microfilm, but the master cards on the folders normally are the sole controls on release times. Speerstra, a Glennallen engineer, stripped to the waist, strapped Adam to his body with his belt, put his clothes back on and made a 30-minute snowmo bile dash to the cabin. He tucked Adam in a sleeping bag and began the two-hour job of thawing the engine of his light plane, unfreezing the skis and refueling the craft. Speerstra took off for Northway, a Federal Aviation Administration field station 90 miles away, over 9,500-foot mountains. There he found an Alaskan businessman with a faster plane who took them to Big Delta, where they were loaded into a helicopter and taken the final 100 miles to a Fairbanks hospital. Despite the seriousness of Adam's injuries, neurosurgeons there would not attempt brain surgery because they could no longer get or afford malprac tice insurance. Speerstra hired a registered nurse and booked a pigmentation at the university until two days before Karen was bom. Jaime was chosen in nationwide competition from some 60 applicants for the Griffin position. His main research here has been to study the nutritive quality of peanut protein and to measure the amino acid, tryptophan, in a number of varieties of peanuts. Tryptophan is important for normal growth in children, as well as in young animals. As most of the world’s food needs must be met with vegetables, ’«L |. Dr. Jaime Amaya-Farfan (r) and Dr. A.L. Shewfelt of the Georgia Experiment Station use machine to measure peanut protein. Pike Jaycees go for record The Pike County Jaycees hope to set a charter membership national record tonight when it gets organized. The national record is 125 members and Pike County Jaycee backers think they can top that by at least one. The club will have its charter night program at the elementary school in Zebulon. It will be under sponsorship of the Griffin Jaycees. Fred Harp, president of the Griffin Jaycees, will lead a delegation from Griffin to share in the charter program. Jerry Hammond, a worker in adult education, is the president of the new Pike Club. People —and things Newly appointed District Attorney Byron Smith of the Flint Circuit lives in Barnesville but sometimes plays golf in Griffin where he has the reputation of hitting the longest drive of anybody. He is 34 years old and plays to a handicap of two. Yellow flowers and more stately camellias adding beauty to Griffin yards and Spalding fields, but some of them shrivelled from cold nights. Man on tractor north of town breaking field for spring planting. commercial flight to Seattle. The journey from accident to hospital took 12 hours. Surgeons repaired much of Adam’s skull and brain damage. Now it’s up to time to heal the injury. The Country Parson Illi “An education won’t hurt a fellow if he has good morals.” which usually are low in proteins, it is important that scientists determine which varieties of plants contain most of the essential proteins. Jaime has developed an automated method for measuring trypotophan in large numbers of peanut samples. He can measure approximately 200 samples a day. It may take years, but eventually, farmers throughout the world, particularly in the poorly fed countries, will know which variety of (Continued on page 5) News summary By United Press International No naive child SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Two controversial issues arose Wednesday in Patricia Hearst’s bank robbery trial The first was when Prosecutor David Bancroft questioned psychiatrist Louis West about Miss Hearst’s use of drugs before she was kidnaped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Bancroft said his purpose in the questioning was to show the defendant was not a “naive school girl.” The judge permitted the cross-examination to continue. Campaigning Before the hue and cry had died down over the New Hampshire primary all eight major Democratic candidates started campaigning in Massachusetts, where the next primary will be held Tuesday. On the Republican side President Ford said he was “very happy” with his 51 to 50 per cent win over Ronald Reagan. And Reagan said he “couldn’t be more pleased” with his near break even showing against an incumbent president. Muzzled WASHINGTON (UPI) - The House subcommittee on government information and individual rights has challenged a claim of executive privilege that has muzzled witnesses in its investigation of intercepts of private overseas cable communications. It seems Attorney General Edward Levi and Defense Secretary Donald S. Rumsfeld had been ordered by President Ford, to instruct the witnesses, who had been subpoenaed, not to comply with subpoenas. Americans freed BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) - Charles Gallagher, 44, and William Dykes, 55, two U.S. government employes, who were kidnaped at gunpoint four months ago, were released Wednesday to U.S. Embassy officials. Lebanese sources said the two men were freed in exchange for the release of two Palestinian guerrillas jailed in Israel, but the U.S. Embassy denied any knowledge of such an exchange. Nixons on tour KWEILIN, China (UPI) - Richard Nixon, in a Britishmade Trident belonging to China’s civil aviation fleet, flew the 1,100 miles from Peking to Kweilin today. He and his wife Pat arrived in light rain that prevented them from viewing the rock formations that make the city one of the most beautiful spots in China.