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Carter rejects request to appoint
special prosecutor for Korean scandal
WASHINGTON (AP) - Atty.
Gen. Griffin Bell says he ex
pects prosecutions to result
from the Justice Department
investigation of the South Ko
rean influence-buying scandal
on Capitol Hill.
Bell made the statement
Monday after President Carter
turned down Republican re
quests for appointment of a
special prosecutor, patterned
after the Watergate special
prosecutor, to pursue the Ko
rean scandal.
Asked what the Justice De
partment investigations might
produce, Bell said, “We expect
Business briefs
Redfern reports profit
ATLANTA (AP) - Redfern
Foods Corp, has reported a
profit of $6,000 or one cent per
share for the first half of 1977,
on sales of $23.24 million.
The Atlanta company report
ed a profit of $35,000 or five
cents a share for the second
Cox adds to system
ATLANTA (AP) — Cox Cable
Communications Inc. has ac
quired Humboldt Bay Video
Co., a cable system serving Eu
reka, Arcata, McKinleyville
and Humboldt County, Calif.
Food firm shows profit
ATLANTA (AP) - Allied
Foods Inc. of Atlanta reported
sales of $5.4 million and a net
income of $8,247, or one cent per
share for the third fiscal
quarter.
During the comparable peri
od of last year, the company
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there’ll be prosecutions.”
The attorney general said the
investigation is being handled
no differently from other cases,
except that it is perhaps being
conducted at a faster pace be
cause “it touches the public in
terest.”
Meanwhile, Speaker of the
House Thomas P. O’Neill said
he would take personal charge
of the troubled House ethics
committee investigation of the
Korean scandal.
O’Neill said he wants quick
appointment of a new chief in
vestigator to replace Philip A.
Lacovara, the former deputy
Watergate prosecutor who re-
quarter on sales of $11.36 mil
lion, citing warmer weather as
a factor.
Company directors declared
a quarterly dividend of 7% cents
per share, payable Aug. 8 to
stockholders of record July 25.
The Atlanta firm announced
the acquisition, noting that the
Humboldt acquisition gives Cox
Cable’s 40 cable television sys
tems more than 460,000 sub
scribers.
sold $5.2 million dollars of food
and lost $79,566, or eight cents
per share.
The company reported that
sales of $16.4 million brought a
net loss of $511,747 or 48 cents
per share, in the first 39 weeks
of 1977.
23-year-old
charged
in murder
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.
(AP) — A 23-year-old man has
been charged with murder in
the death of Paul Steve Lemons
of Marathon, Fla., Gwinnett
County Police said.
Authorities would say only
that Lemons’ body was found
near a street in Lawrenceville.
Details on the slaying were not
released.
PERSPECTIVE ON
AMERICAN ART
NEW YORK (AP) - “Thirty
Years of American Art, 1945-
1975,” featuring selections from
its permanent collection, is on
display at the Whitney Museum
through October 23. The exhibit
focuses on five main artistic
modes: abstract ex-
pressionism, American
surrealism, the precisionist
aesthetic and minimalism, pop
art and realism. It is the first of
a series of exhibitions focusing
on twentieth-century American
art in the Whitney’s permanent
collection.
signed last week in a dispute
with Rep. John J. Flynt, D-Ga.,
chairman of the ethics panel.
Lacvara said mutual trust
needed'to complete his investi
gation did not exist.
O’Neill said a new investiga
tor will be able to bypass the
ethics committee and take his
complaints straight to the
speaker’s office.
O’Neill said Flynt offered to
turn the Korean investigation
over to some other House com
mittee. The speaker scheduled
further meetings to determine
whether any more action is
needed.
More than 50 House members
of both parties had joined in
calling for Carter to name a
special prosecutor, but the
President said in a letter to Re-
newsj
Jasper man arrested
JASPER, Ga. (AP) — A 37-year-old Jasper man has
been arrested in the shooting death of Billy Franklin Ray,
38, of Roswell, officials said.
Pickens County authorities said Joe W. Bridges was
being held Monday after Ray was shot with a 20-gauge
shotgun in front of the Pickens County hospital.
Walthall appointed
ATLANTA (AP) — Frank Walthall Jr., president of
Walthall Oil Co., has been appointed to the state
disciplinary board, the disciplinary enforcement arm of
the State Bar of Georgia.
The appointment was announced by Chief Justice H.E.
Nichols of the Georgia Supreme Court.
Dr. Webster appointed
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The Medical College of Georgia
has named Dr. Paul D. Webster 111 chairman of its
department of medicine.
Webster received his B.S. in chemistry from the
University of Richmond, Va., and his MD from Bowman
Gray school of Medicine at Wake Forest University.
Limit water
WARNER ROBINS, Ga.(AP) - Residents of Warner
Robins and a portion of Jones County have a choice, ac
cording to Jones County water system superintendent
Robert Andrews.
“It’s either they can limit the amount of water they are
using, or they will run out,” he said.
Officials said Warner Robins, which draws its water
from wells, has been hard hit by the state’s drought.
"We need a heavy rain and we need for the weather to
cool off because the tanks are almost empty every night,”
said Mayor Foy Evans of Warner Robins.
Gunman robs bank
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A gunman robbed the
Citizens Bank of Douglasville Monday, escaping with an
undisclosed amount of money, Douglas County authorities
said.
Deputies said the man entered the bank about 5 p.m.,
displayed a weapon and fled with some cash.
A car believed to be the getaway vehicle was found in a
wooded area near here, but tracking dogs were unable to
pick up a scent, detectives said.
publican leaders:
“I have decided that appoint
ment of a special prosecutor
would be inappropriate and un
warranted, and would probably
impede the (Justice Depart
ment) investigation.”
He made the comment in a
letter to House Republican
Leader John J. Rhodes and
senate Republican Leader How
ard Baker, who had held a news
conference to urge the
President to name a special
prosecutor.
Baker said the Democrats
should investigate the Korean
scandal as vigorously as they
did the Watergate scandal. He
was not deterred Monday by
Carter’s refusal. He suggested
Lacovara “would make a great
special prosecutor.”
Tobacco
prices
increase
VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) - Av
erage prices on the Georgia-
Florida flue-cured tobacco
markets rose on Monday, the
fourth day of trading, the U.S.
Department so Agriculture
reported.
Compared to last Friday,
most heavy grades sold for $6 to
$9 higher Monday, USDA said.
In addition, the quality of of
ferings was better, although
volume continued to be light on
several markets, the USDA
added.
Primings and nondescript
grades made up more than 70
per cent of the sales.
First week auction sales
grossed 11.2 million pounds and
average $79.34 per hun
dredweight. The average repre
sented a decline of $13.92 com
pared to the first week of auc
tions last year, when sales
grossed 20.6 million pounds and
averaged $93.26 a hundred.
Receipts at the stabilization
Corp, last week amounted to
23.8 per cent of sales compared
with 33.2 per cent during the
first three days of auctions in
1976, the TJSDA reported.
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Grand Prairie, Tex. —These three men were in the lounge
of the barracks where this Naval Reconnaissance plane,
RF-8, crashed Monday. The pQot ejected safely, but two
occupants in the barracks were Injured. The accident
Opposes freight hike
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) - The Georgia Poultry
Federation has called “completely unreasonable” a
planned 20 per cent increase in rail freight rates for feed
grain shipments in the Southeast.
The hike, proposed by the Southern Freight Association
for the Sept. 15-Dec.ls grain harvest season, affects ship
ments among points in the Southeast, Indiana and Illinois.
Poultry Federation President Ed Houston said the rate
hike “confronts us with the need to look to the trucking
industry as a possible alternative to some $1.25 million in
additional freight costs.”
THE CENTRAL GEORGIA
ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP
CORPORATION’S
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INDIAN SPRINGS STATE PARK
August 3, 1977
Registration 9:00 A.M.
Program 10:00 A.M.
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Donated by Polk Tire Company of Jackson and General Electric
Company in cooperation with The Central Georgia Electric
Membership Corporation.
The first 700 members to register will receive a bag
of light bulbs or Plastic Pitcher with four
tumblers.
SPEAKER: O. Franklin Rogers
Southern Engineering Company of Georgia
LUNCH:
A barbecue chicken lunch will be served again this year. Tickets
will be available through August 2, 1977 at $2.75 each from the
places listed.
The exchange Club of Jackson will be in charge of the lunch.
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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, July 19,1977
Close call
occurred at the Naval Air Station near Grand Prairie,
Tex. The men are, from left, Rick La Mont, Venturra
Ybarra, and Bill Marsarr.
(AP)
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