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Back in the saddle
NEW YORK — Famed cowpoke, movie star and western
singer Roy Rogers, right, smiles along with his son,
Dusty, during a news conference in New York Friday.
Rogers was in town to promote his chain of restaurants
and to talk about his lifestyle, which includes hunting,
personal appearances at his restaurants and periodic
television appearances. (AP)
Atlanta man accused
of threatening Carter
ATLANTA (AP) — Charles
Marion Cleveland, 50, made two
calls to the White House last
week, threatening to “shoot the
President" each time, a Secret
Service agent testified Friday.
Agent George A. Waldrop tes
tified at a preliminary hearing
in U.S. Magistrate’s Court that
Cleveland, charged with mak
ing the theatening calls, called
the White House twice last Sat
urday, each time giving his
name and address.
Before the second call, Wal
drop said he and another agent
went to Cleveland’s Atlanta
apartment.
Tiny infant abandoned
on roadside at Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - A
tiny infant, abandoned five
hours after he was bom, will
spend several weeks in Univer
sity Hospital before he is old
enough to be placed in a foster
home, authorities say.
Passersby told police they
saw a motorist stop his car
about 5 p.m. Friday on the side
of Powell Road near the Rich
mond-Columbia county line and
place a cardboard box in some
bushes.
The man, described as about
28 and with brown hair, then
sped away, the witnesses said.
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“He was drinking and was in
a depressed state,” Waldrop
said.
Cleveland was arrested after
the second call although the
agent testified that Cleveland
said he “wanted to shoot the
President" while making the
first call.
During the second call, Wal
drop said Cleveland stated he
would “shoot the President”
and “kill the President."
U.S. Magistrate Allen Chan
cey ordered Cleveland held un
der |IO,OOO bond. Court officials
said Cleveland would be given a
psychiatric examination.
One passerby went to the box
and found a white baby boy
wrapped in a dirty sheet, Rich
mond County sheriffs deputies
said. They said he had been
bom about noon.
Officers rushed the infant to
the hospital, where he was list
ed in very good condition.
The baby has been nicknamed
“Richmond County Powell” by
officers, who reported he was
awake but quiet when he was
found. They said the hum of the
police cruiser’s air conditioner
lulled him to sleep on the ride to
the hospital.
Organized crime
‘The typical member of crime ring was Georgian’
By MARK O’BRIEN
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) — Gambling
and narcotics give the under
world millions of dollars to fi
nance more crimes and under
write the infiltration of legiti
mate businesses, says a report
on organized crime in Georgia.
The Georgia Organized Crime
Prevention Council said illegal
gambling, narcotics, prostitu
tion, pornography and stolen
goods were multimillion dollar
rackets for organized crime in
1976.
Gambling — sportsbetting,
lotteries, bolita — was organ
ized crime’s single most lucr
ative business, the council said
in its annual report.
The typical member of a
crime ring was Georgian, the
quasi-state agency said. Only a
small share of illegal activities
was run by the Mafia. Organ
ized crime in Georgia was
dominated by the “local home
grown garden variety” of crim
inals.
“It (the Mafia) is not the most
serious part of organized crime
that exists in our state today,”
the report said. “Our most
serious concern in the area of
organized crime is the local
home-grown garden variety..."
The council defined organized
crime as any group of persons
who make most of their money
by collaborating or conspiring
to commit crimes on a regular
basis.
Much of the report was based
on the council’s findings in met
ropolitan Atlanta, Columbus-
Muscogee County, Savannah-
Chatham County, Bibb County,
Albany, Glynn County, Au
gusta, Valdosta, Tifton and
Athens. The chairman of the
seven-member council is De-
Kalb County Police Chief F. D.
(Dick) Hand.
Here is a summary of the
council’s report on organized
crime.
—Metropolitan Atlanta, in
cluding Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb,
Fulton and Gwinnett counties:
About $260 million is made
through gambling. A significant
portion of gambling revenues is
funneled into other vice-related
activities, and also invested in
legitimate businesses.
Narcotics produced about
$202 million. Atlanta is a major
distribution point for drugs
brought from as far away as
South America to be resold
throughout the Southeast.
Pornography is “a multimil
lion dollar industry." Criminals
also reap millions from prosti
tution and organized theft rings.
Peanuts
will stay
in family
ATLANTA (AP) - Gold Kist
Inc. has been named to manage
the Carter family peanut ware
house in Plains, Ga., but the
business will remain in the
family, says Atlanta attorney
Charles Kirbo.
Kirbo, who serves as trustee
for the President’s portion of
the business, said Friday that
President Carter “had ex
pressed a wish prior to the ex
ercise of the trust (before he
took office) that the business
continue to serve its customers
in the area.”
Gold Kist, an Atlanta-based
farmers’ cooperative, will man
age the business for the current
harvest season. Kirbo added
that it is not buying a share of
the business which is owned by
the President, his brother Billy,
and his mother Mrs. Lillian
Carter.
About 500 major organized
crime figures live in the area,
but only a few are directly
linked to the Mafia. Most are
local or regional operators.
“Ten to 12 La Cosa Nostra
families can be identified
through their operatives within
the metro area, although no
family maintains any signifi
cant control over Illegitimate
activities.”
-Columbus-Muscogee Coun
ty: Bookmaking is shared by at
least three different groups,
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who have an estimated gross
income of more than $2 million
a year. Heroin and cocaine
bring in more than $lO million,
and marijuana and soft drugs
produce about $1 million.
No decrease in organized
crime is expected in the future,
particularly in the areas of
gambling, prostitution and nar
cotics.
-Savannah-Chatham Coun
ty: Nine national organized
crime figures and 21 local
persons were involved in
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gambling, burglaries, nar
cotics, fraud and infiltration of
legitimate businesses. Lotteries
continued to flourish in the
area. There was a marked
decrease in the number of
narcotics seized after a drug
ring was broken. An undercover
operation resulted in the
recovery of about SIIB,OOO in
stolen property and the in
dictments of 55 persons.
—Bibb County: income from
gambling is about $8 million a
year. Prostitution is increasing
— Griffin Daily News Saturday, August 27, 1977
and may be connected to drugs,
which account for about $lO
million a year.
—Albany: Gambling was the
No. 1 source of revenue — more
than $1 million. About 450
persons were arrested for drug
violations, and drugs brought in
more than $1 million. Between
10 and 15 residents specialize in
burglaries in Georgia, Florida
and Alabama.
—Glynn County: Drug
smuggling along intercoastal
waterways is still seen as a
major problem.
—Augusta: The biggest drug
problem in this area is mari
juana, with a total of 346 cases
in 1976.
—Valdosta: The estimated
annual revenue from lottery op
erations and bookmaking is $5-
$6 million, and the drug trade
was a $2 million business.
—Tifton: Gambling provides
more than $500,000 a year.
—Athens: Fencing operations
will be a priority for investiga
tors in 1977.
