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Griffin Daily News Thursday, September 29, 1977 Page 10 Mayor Jackson says investigation clears Eaves ATLANTA (AP) - Mayor Maynard Jackson says the city attorney’s investigation into al legations of cheating on police promotional examinations com pletely clears Public Safety Commissioner A. Reginald Eaves. Jackson said he sent a copy Os the report to the city council with an invitation to take what ever action it desires. Four officers have charged that the exam was released to black officers so they could study it in advance. “Commissioner Eaves did not, repeat, did not release the Presley’s body going to Graceland again MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Elvis Presley is going home to' Graceland Mansion one last time. The family of the singer re ceived approval Wednesday to move his body and the body of his mother, Gladys Smith Pres ley, to the grounds of the 13%- acre, wooded estate he bought in 1957 for SIOO,OOO. “We just want to bring Elvis home,” D. 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For additional information, phone 227-5787 □CUT ME OUT fl U AND CUT Q B *75 OFF 0 R THE PRICE OF ANY U M REFRIGERATOR U u Whirlpool in stocks D mm Offer expires 10/4/77 LI H L7X?l~lTkT3~n77i 729 W. Solomon St. R ■ WIV k vj lC) Phone 227-3597 H last map 11 ;VI IIT4 iW J O exams to any unauthorized per sonnel for any improper pur pose and did not, repeat, did not, prior to the examinations being given, have knowledge that the examinations had been disclosed to unauthorized per sonnel," Jackson said at a news conference Wednesday. The investigation did show, Jackson said, that the tests giv en to persons applying for ser geant and captain in the fall of 1975 were leaked. Candidates seeking to oust Jackson in next month’s city election have been trying to make political hay out of the Board of Adjustment, which voted unanimously to approve the transfer application. Presley and his mother are to be moved from a white marble mausoleum at Forest Hill Cem etery to a site called Meditation Garden. Smith said the bodies would be buried in a grassy area be tween a fountain and a crescent shaped stone wall containing four stained glass windows depicting religious scenes. Sev eral statues, including one of Jesus, are in the garden near the southern boundary of the grounds. Smith refused to say when the bodies would be transferred to the estate, which overlooks Elvis Presley Boulevard. “I wish I could answer your ques tion. I can’t,” he said. Smith filed the application Sept. 7 at the request of the singer’s father, Vernon Presley, the executor of the estate. “Mr. Presley wants other people to be able to enjoy the use of Forest Hill Cemetery and not be hindered by the crowds,” Smith told the nine-member board Wednesday. “And he wants to have a greater assurance of safety for his wife and son’s bodies.” The application asked that as many as six graves be allowed at Graceland. Presley, 42, died Aug. 16 at Graceland of an apparent heart attack. He was entombed two days later at Forest Hill, about three miles north of Graceland. Mrs. Presley died Aug. 14, 1958, at age 46. Her body was moved to the Forest Hill mau soleum after her son’s death. “When Elvis Presley died I accusations. Businessman Harold Dye has called on Jackson to fire Eaves, but the mayor said he sticks by Eaves, whom he appointed. Jackson said the claim of leaked tests is nothing new. “Every year there are ru mors that the tests were out,” Jackson said. “I believe every mayor has investigated such rumors.” “The controversy that has surrounded my appointment has not been of my making," Eaves said in a statement. “I think I have been controversial because people did not want to accept change.” don’t think anyone realized how much he meant to the world,” Smith said. “This was evident by the crowds of people who flocked to Memphis to pay their respects to the man.” Smith said it was a hardship on the estate to maintain the Presley graves at Forest Hill. He also cited what he called an attempted theft of Presley’s body and the expense of secur ity. The Presley family placed around-the-clock security at the crypt at a cost of S2OO a day after the Aug. 29 arrest of three men near the mausoleum on trespassing charges, Smith said. One of the men was later identified as an informant who tipped authorities of a pur ported plot to steal Presley’s body and hold it for ransom. Police Director E. Winslow Chapman later called the mat ter a hoax. Engineers to build ponds to protect ducks LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) - The state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are plan ning to bring some good duck hunting to the West Point Wild life Management Area. Since there can’t be any duck hunting without ducks, the wild life officials plan to build four duck ponds to attract the flocks. Plans are in initial stages, and there are no opening dates set, but cost estimates fall in the $500,000 range. The state Game Management Division will “manage” the ponds, which means it will control water flow and will Jury list revised THOMSON, Ga. (AP) — The McDuffie County Grand Jury Commission has been ordered to revise traverse and grand jury lists by next month to “fairly represent” the county’s young adults and women. Judge Robert Stevens issued the order this week, telling the commission to bring the jury lists into line with the county’s population. Four hundred names are to be added to the 2,100 already in the traverse box, from which grand jurors are chosen. Stevens’ order grew out of a challenge filed against the selection process in the case of William Tripp, a 23-year old Atlanta man indicted for burglary. B 'JO Mayor Maynard Jackson Weiss lake catfish polluted ATLANTA (AP) - Catfish taken from Weiss Lake in Che rokee County, Ala., are highly polluted and should not be ea ten, according to the regional administrator of the Environ mental Protection Agency. “Tests continue to show that channel catfish from the lake are contaminated by a toxic chemical (polychlorinated biphenyls) and are unfit for human consumption,” John C. White said Wednesday. EPA first cautioned citizens against eating fish taken from Weiss Lake in November, 1976, after high levels of PCBs were found in both commercial and game fish. plant Japanese millett and oth er weed-type vegetation which ducks consider essential to a good diet. The four ponds would cover about 100 acres. The Corps expects to begin work next spring and will finish within six months, said Paul Metz, chief of its recreational planning branch at Savannah. Sometime after that the wild life officials will flood the ponds, plant greens and, eventually, open the area to hunters. The management area covers 8,300 acres and provides range for deer, turkey, quail and dove. > TTie Fall Wardrobe Builder ■.jSj By mgsridge V CUSTOM FABRIC wMßfchj It 5 the fundamental fashion...the coat that's - - 1’ wnßb \ always correct...the go-everywhere, do- bß* everything Navy BLAZER tailored by XmP 'Sb kingsridge. 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The alco hol would not be fit for human consumption, she said, because it would be "scorched" in pro duction. The $86,000 project was hailed by Gov. George C. Wallace as an “answer to the problem of rising fuel costs which make family farm ownership so ex pensive.” Dr. Randolph T. Blackwell, director of the Office of Minor ity Business Enterprise, said the project also could “revita lize the agriculture sections of Alabama and the nation.” Blackwell said the alcohol would be used initially in farm equipment and later would be sold to public institutions as a means of reducing gasoline bills. He noted that gasoline-oper ated vehicles could use a 10 per cent alcohol mix without modi fication. The governor said he had al ready discussed with Blackwell the possibility of adapting state vehicles for use of alcohol fuel. 8 CARD OF TOANKS i X The Zack MUI Family, 8 R would like to thank you for A O the flowers and all the X X kindness you good people 5 I showed in his death last 8 ' June; also Mr. Halsten’s 8 i funeral home and all his co- R ! workers. The doctors and R ! the Griffin-Spalding Q [ County Hospital and its 8 staff. Thanks to everyone. X i Mr. Oscar Milk j Mrs. Sally Proctor Mrs. Fannie Ashley 1
