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People
...and things
Big red-haired, bearded man with
look alike big red Chow dog going into
local vet’s office.
Man digging hole under squash row,
the only soft spot in his yard, to bury pet
dog just killed by car.
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Son of Sam suspect (1) with officer Edward Zigo. (AP)
Son of Sam suspect held
By JACKIE STONE
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - A $35 ticket for
parking too near a fire hydrant led
police to a reclusive postal worker they
said was “Son of Sam,” the night
stalker who killed six young persons
and wounded seven with his .44-caliber
revolver.
The arrest came as David Berkowitz,
24, left his apartment house Wednesday
night in suburban Yonkers and encoun
tered police, who had staked out the
building.
Police said that as Berkowitz stepped
into his car, they asked him who he
was, and Berkowitz replied: “I’m Son
of Sam. Okay, you’ve got me.” He of
fered no resistance, police said.
“We have him,” a police spokesman
for Ist Deputy Police Commissioner
James Taylor told reporters later.
Berkowitz was formally booked today
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Lift from mayor
Mayor Raymond Head helps Roger Vaughn, Play-to-Learn student, on
amusement ride at Northgate shopping center. Students were guests of the
merchants in the center. They were served refreshments during their visit.
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
City, school board
break money jam
at the 84th Precinct in Brooklyn on
charges of second-degree murder, at
tempted murder, assault and
possession of a deadly weapon in the
murder of Stacy Moskowitz, 20, the
killer’s latest victim. Her date, Robert
Violante, 20, was wounded and may
never see again.
' Wearing womout blue jeans, a light
blue and white striped shirt and light
brown suede shoes, Berkowitz smiled at
reporters as a cordon of police moved
him out of the precinct house and took
him to a nearby criminal court for
arraignment later in the day.
Police said the most serious charge
was second-degree murder because
New York State law permits first
degree murder charges only in cases
where the death penalty is allowed, as
in the slaying of a police officer.
Neighbors in Yonkers, a city of
150,000 on the northern border of New
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, August 11,1977
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Officer Zigo displays pistol
police found in suspect’s
apartment.
York City, described Berkowitz as “a
nice guy” who kept to himself.
Police said they seized two shotguns
in his seventh-floor apartment and a
.44-caliber Charter Arms Bulldog
revolver Berkowitz carried with him as
he entered his cream-colored Ford
Galaxie sedan outside his apartment
house. They said he also carried a
brown bag with two dozen bullets and a
poem.
Ballistics tests early today confirmed
the revolver was the same one which
was used in the killing of Miss
Moskowitz, police said.
The poem described the death of a
young woman — "... And huge drops of
lead poured down upon her head until
she was dead ...”
Police said they found a submachine
gun in a gunny sack in Berkowitz’ car
and also found several notes in his car
and apartment, one of which warned
that Son of Sam would kill again.
“I want to see the animal’s face that
took my baby’s life,” Miss Moskowitz’
mother, Neysa, said today. “And I want
him to see me.”
A newspaper, a television station and
columnist Jimmy Breslin said today
that police had told them that
Berkowitz, a night superintendent at a
post officee in the Bronx, said he
planned to strike next in Suffolk
County, on the far end of Long Island.
They said he allegedly planned to use
the submachine gun in a discotheque or
night club.
Police said previously that the same
.44-caliber gun had been used in all
eight attacks by the Son of Sam. Five
women and one man died, three men
and four women were wounded.
One of the detectives who arrested
Berkowitz, John Longo, said, “We were
just lucky we were there. We got the
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Goldstein charges bad management
City Commissioner Louis Goldstein
has leveled another blast at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital charging bad
management of the ambulance service
and billing system and that the hospital
has a “department head to cover
everything.”
“It’s worse than the Army General
Hospital,” he declared.
At times no ambulance is available to
answer calls, he charged.
An example occurred last week, he
said, when a call was received to pick
up an apparent heart attack victim.
The only ambulance had been
dispatched to a stabbing victim,
leaving the public without service.
Finally city police were contacted.
They called Miller’s Funeral Home to
bring in the heart patient. The patient
died several hours later, Goldstein said.
Griffin ambulances serve adjoining
NEWS
The Griffin-Spalding School Board
and city commissioners each have
agreed to take SIB,OOO less in federal
public works money, apparently
breaking a log jam on the money.
Herman Lisle, a school administrator,
said the school board was polled
Wednesday and members agreed to
take the SIB,OOO cut.
He said City Manager Roy Inman had
polled the city commissioners and they,
too, had agreed to take a SIB,OOO cut.
The city wanted $604,000 to replace a
water tank and the school board wanted
$330,000 for kindergarten rooms.
Both figures will be cut by SIB,OOO.
Federal people had suggested this
would be one way to resolve the conflict
and get the money on the way to the city
and school board.
Without the compromise, the
allocation could have been held up
months and months, officials believed.
Now that the matter has been
resolved, federal people can proceed
with getting the funds for Griffin.
The community qualified for the
federal money based on unemployment
rates here.
Murderer used
cue to escape
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A lookout was
being kept today for a convicted
murderer who used a pool cue to
overpower a prison supervisor and a
fellow inmate before fleeing from a
Jackson Diagnostic Center work detail,
authorities said.
Officials said John E. Watson, 33, of
Slidell, La., was working at the state
owned home of the center’s superin
tendent when he overpowered the
maintenance supervisor and another
inmate, tied them up and fled in a state
pickup truck.
The superintendent was out of town at
the time of the escape.
Watson, a husky six-footer with the
words “Born to Lose” tattooed on his
left thigh, was considered “extremely
dangerous.”
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“I guess it’ll soon cost a
million dollars to build a house
— we’ll need a lot of
millionaires ”
counties and after midnight only one
unit is used. If that unit is sent out of the
county, will our Spalding County
citizens have to run the risk of dying
because of bad hospital management
decisions in not having more than one
ambulance available? Goldstein asked.
Roger Miller serves as a backup for
the hospital and has been on standby,
with his ambulance at all times. He has
responded to calls, at the direction of
the hospital staff, yet has never been
paid one dime by the hospital, Goldstein
said.
Goldstein said the public “is up in
arms” over the “outrageous” billing
system. No one can ever seem to get his
bill straightened out, he said.
Many accounts which have been paid
in full have been turned over to a
collection agency, which threatens to
sue, Goldstein said he was told.
“This disenchantment is wide-spread
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“I had never eaten like that before, everything right out of a paper bag.”
Austrian visitor
She learned about grits, religion, American
language, handshaking and Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Ulli Lang is winding up an 8-week
stay in the Griffin area and is leaving
with “the laughing and weeping eye.”
The 21-year-old Austrian has been
working as a counselor at Camp Pine
Valley Girl Scout retreat located in
Meansville.
She refers to her coming to the states
as “a decision of 5 minutes” following a
conversation with on? of her friends in.
Austria. She had wondered how she
would spend the summer when the
friend suggested she take five students
on a tour of the United States.
Miss Lang took her at her word and
applied to the OKISTA, a local touring
organization, which in turn submitted
her application to the International
Camp Council Program (ICCP). Her
request was accepted and she was
scheduled to make the first leg of her
tour in the Griffin area.
Miss Lang talked about her first
No dividend costs
Lance about $40,000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Embattled
Budget Director Bert Lance is facing
another financial setback and an ex
panding federal investigation of his
banking activities.
Lance, who gave up the presidency of
the National Bank of Georgia to join the
Carter administration, learned Wed
nesday that the bank has decided
against paying its normal 20-cent-a
--share dividend for the second quarter of
1977.
The move apparently will cost Lance,
the bank’s principal shareholder, about
$40,000. He owns 200,767 of the bank’s 1,-
228,628 shares.
and if the Hospital Authority doesn’t
wake up and get it straightened out, the
hospital will be on a collision course to
financial disaster. Many, many citizens
have told me they would use other
hospitals rather than get tangled up in
this financial boon-doggle,” he said.
Since Executive Director William
Feely’s arrival, there is a department
head to cover everything, Goldstein
charged.
There is a director of fiscal affairs;
internal auditor, including 3 certified
public accountants (all from out of
town); director of admissions; patient
representative; personnel director; in
service department; social work
department; public relations depart
ment; maintenance department;
security department; housekeeping
department; materials management
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Continued hot with chance of afternoon
and evening showers through Friday.
Low tonight near 70, high Friday in
lower 90s.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry unit
66, high Wednesday 91.
impressions of America with her first
encounters being very pleasant.
She had worried that the children at
the camp would speak in American and
she perhaps would not be able to un
derstand them. She said she was a bit
shy at first and afraid but quickly won
the kids over.
She taught them Austrian folk dances
and was purely exhilarated when one
day the kids asked her to play an
American pop tune and danced an
Austrian folk dance instead of the usual
American dances.
“It was a very pleasant experience,”
Miss Lang said.
With reference to speaking
American, Miss Lang has added to her
extensive English vocabulary the
words, kids, stuff and hi. Kids and hi in
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The Georgia bank’s decision was
based on its net loss of $125 million — or
sl.Ol a share — during the first six
months of 1977, said bank President
Robert P. Guiton. He said it is the first
time in 10 years that a quarterly
dividend payment has been skipped.
Guiton stressed that the National
Bank of Georgia, with deposits of
$340.17 million at the end of June,
remains stable and competitive. He
noted that the bank also has equity
capital in excess of sl9 million.
Guiton said the deficit was primarily
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department; laundry department;
outpatient services department;
ambulance crew coordinator;
dietitian; director utilization review; 5
pharmacists; projects coordinator;
infection control head; environmental
services department, and possibly
more, Goldstein said.
In addition there are 2 administrators
and 1 assistant, making $69,000 per
year, plus fringe benefits, he said.
“Can you imagine the number of
rooms used for offices to handle all of
these ‘chiefs’ ? It’s no wonder they
have to keep raising room rates and
service charges to pay for the ‘dead
wood’ in our hospital”, he said.
Goldstein said the administration still
will not give him the salaries paid to
some of the key personnel.
“What are they trying to hide?. . .
Public reaction to the hospital ‘mess’ is
unbelievable,” he said.