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Dawn Deßendittis
She is
interested
in history
Editor’s Note: This is another
in a series of articles by Griffin
High Students in connection
with the Optimist Club’s ob
servance of Youth Appreciation
Week.
By DAWN DeBENDITTIS
For as long as I can
remember I have always en
joyed reading. When I was in
elementary school I would be
about a book ahead of the class.
They always read too slow. I
will read almost any type of
book but I enjoy reading love
stories the most. Along with
reading, I enjoy cooking, and
will try almost any new recipe I
find. I also enjoy bike riding —
for the exercise and to relax.
In school, I will try to be as
active as my schoolwork will
allow. I am a member of the
Keywannettes and the Band of
Gold (marching band and
hopefully symphonic band). I
have been in Program
Challenge since the ninth grade
but I am not taking any courses
in it right now due to a full
schedule. I was just asked to
join the Beta Club and
nominated for Governor’s
Honor’s in Social Science. My
favorite subject in school is
History and I hope when I
graduate from high school to
attend college and major in
some area of history.
Sometimes I wish that Griffin
had a fanstastic history
department. I am not saying the
one now is bad, I just had a
dream of a department where
students were constantly
working on different projects in
their favorite areas of history.
Sometimes students need more
than just lectures and term
papers to do. Maybe one day I
will see this dream come true.
When I graduate from
college, instead of going
straight into an area of history,
I would like to travel. I have
hopes of being an airline
stewardess and seeing different
areas of the world and learning
different cultures. To me that
would really be exciting.
Outside of school, I par
ticipate in Junior Achievement
and I am the secretary of my
company. I also am an active
member of the Kle Klub and
enjoy attending the dances.
I love Griffin so much that I
would not trade it or Griffin
High for all the places in the
world. Griffin High and the
teachers there have given me a
very encouraging look at what a
good future I can build for
myself, if I try.
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granddaughter, Mrs. Bonnie Hallman.
His son-in-law is comptroller for the
city of Griffin and former head of the
ROTC program at Gordon Junior
College.
Capt. Howland has many tales of the
sea and some of those include:
Panama Canal
He was aboard one of the first, not the
first, ships to pass through the Panama
Canal. A landslide blocked a portion of
the canal and his ship lay at anchor for
a week while the mud was cleared from
the Gaillard Cut.
Capt. Howland was aboard many
ships that passed through the canal on
their way from the West Coast to the
East Coast or vise versa and to other
parts of the world.
He recalls an experience in the Suez
Canal when the ship was boarded by
Egyptians who wanted to see the ship’s
logs for the prior 10 years. If the ship
had been used to transport materials to
Israel, it would not be allowed to pass
through the canal. Luckily, the ship had
not made any trips to Israel, although it
was owned by firm headed by a group
of Jews.
Hurricane
During the Hurricane of 1915 that hit
Galveston, Texas, Capt. Howland was
aboard a ship off the Texas coast.
“We were battered and tossed about
for a couple of days,” he said.
When the hurricane subsided and his
ship went into port, a ship that had been
at dock had been tossed between two oil
tanks where his ship was to unload.
Some ships were pushed a mile inland,
he said.
None of the ships he was aboard were
ever struck by an iceberg, but he was
aboard one ship where people would be
sledding along side the ship as it moved
through a channel. This was on a trip to
Finland.
An icebreaker was ahead of the ship
and towed it through the frozen waters
of the Baltic.
“We’d lower a ladder and some of the
people along the way would come onto
the ice and board the ship,” Capt.
Howland said.
300 Monkeys
One of the most unusual cargoes
Capt. Howland carried was 300
monkeys. However, the monkeys were
never delivered.
The ship had left India with the
Lawyer suggests return
to 12 member juries
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
U.S. Supreme Court should res
cind its ruling that smaller
juries are sufficient for state
trials because juries need 12
members to decide “commu
nity standards” in obscenity
cases, says a Georgia lawyer.
Atlanta attorney Michael
Klutter told the nation’s highest
court Tuesday that it should
stop its descent down a “slippe
ry slope” it greased in 1970
when it approved use of juries of
less than 12 members in state
criminal trials.
“That rule is inapplicable in
obscenity cases,” Klutter said,
noting that juries must not only
determine guilt or innocence in
obscenity cases but decide the
“community standard” to be
applied in judging obscenity.
In a Florida robbery case
seven years ago, the Supreme
Court said criminal defendants
could be tried before six-mem
ber juries in state courts. Fed
eral jury trials require 12 mem
bers.
The justices left unanswered
“what minimum number can
still constitute a jury,” stating
only, “We do not doubt that six
Sea captain
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is above the minimum.”
Klutter was in court Tuesday
representing Claude Ballew,
who was manager of Atlanta’s
Paris Art Theater when he was
arrested in 1973 for showing the
film “Behind The Green Door.”
A five-member jurh in the
Fulton County Criminal Court
ruled the film obscene and said
Ballew knew it was obscene. He
was convicted, fined $2,000 and
sentenced to one year in prison.
The Georgia Court of Appeals
upheld the conviction, ruling
that Ballew, who has remained
free pending appeal, was not
denied a fair trial by having his
guilt decided by a five-member
jury-
‘Miss Lillian’ likes
nip in the afternoon
ATLANTA (AP) - “Miss Lil
lian,” President Carter’s moth
er, revealed today before a de
lighted television audience that
she likes “a little bourbon in the
afternoon.”
“How do you manage your li
bations when the White House is
monkeys and was hit in the side by
another ship in heavy fog. The monkeys
were killed in the collision.
“We were in port for 153 days in
Ceylon while the damage to the ship
was repaired.”
Although Capt. Howland’s ship was
hit in the side and several others ran
aground, he never lost a ship at sea.
“Once we ran aground in a fog in
Japan and were in front of a restaurant
where reporters were awaiting the
return of the first Japanese prisoners
from Russia after World War 11. It gave
them something different to write
about,” he said.
Vietnam
On a trip to Vietnam during
peacetime, the ship was boarded by
French soldiers who would fire their
weapons at guerrillas from the ship.
“They called it the Paris of the East,
but as far as I was concerned they could
have it,” Capt. Howland said.
Aboard one of his ships, Capt.
Howland had an all-Chinese crew.
“They were a good crew and if you
had anything to tell them, you told the
number one man for each section and
he gave directions to the others,” he
said.
“I was a captain for a total of 10 to 15
years and often would find myself
looking for another job. The merchant
marine business was up and down and
if a company went broke, you were
looking for a job.
“When you went to work for another
company, you did not start at the top,
but had to work your way back up,” he
said.
At Sea 51 Years
Capt. Howland served aboard ships
powered by wind, coal and oil and has a
longing to be near the ocean, but not to
be on the seas again for long periods of
time.
“I was on the sea for 51 years and that
is long enough for one man. I like the
ocean and would like to be near it, but I
am happy to relax and enjoying some
fishing now,” he said.
He had a longing to be on the seas
when just a small boy in New Bedford.
He watched the ships as they would
come and go from the port and made an
early decision that his career would be
on the seas.
“There were some trying times, but I
loved every minute of it,” he said.
“How many jurors are neces
sary to issue a fair trial?” asked
Fulton County prosecutor
W. Rhodes.
But Rhodes appeared to run
into difficulty when Justices
Potter Stewart and John Paul
Stevens quizzed him on a Geor
gia law concerning a defend
ant’s knowledge that material
he distributes is obscene.
In all obscenity cases, it must
be proven that the distributor
knew the material was obscene.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1974
that the requirement can be met
when prosecutors show that the
defendant knew the character
and nature of the material.
dry?” asked TV host Phil
Donahue, who brought his show
from Chicago to Atlanta to in
terview Miss Lillian over
WAGA-TV.
“Listen, I take one drink ev
ery afternoon,” she replied. “If
the White House is dry, I won
der where it comes from.”
Miss Lillian, when asked if
she had tried Billy, a new beer
just sponsored by her youngest
son, replied with equal candor:
“I’ve tried it. I’ve tried it. I
had it and a hamburger and one
or the other gave me in
digestion.” Then she added,
“I’m not a beer drinker.”
When Donahue began a racy
account of her having “lost her
slip this morning,” she inter
rupted him and said, “Let me
tell it.”
Then she explained that in the
car, driving to the television
studio, she noted that as she sat,
her slip showed.
“So Gloria (Spann, one of her
daughters) just cut the straps
off and I slipped it off.”
Later she said Georgia Tech
students wanted to auction off
the slip with the proceeds going
to the Leukemia Society.
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NEW YORK — It’s been said of New Yorkers that they’re
so blase or hardened by life in the city that nothing really
fazes them. The theory was put to the acid test Tuesday
Kleindienst denies he had illegal
role in $24-million insurance deal
By MIKE SHANAHAN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - For
mer Attorney General Richard
G. Kleindienst, testifying before
a Senate subcomittee, denies he
had any illegal role in the
awarding of a $24 million
Teamsters Union life insurance
contract.
Under questioning by a Sen
ate Government Operations
panel, however, Kleindienst ac
knowledged under oath Tues
day that he received $125,000 to
help California insurance man
Joseph Hauser get the lucrative
contract.
After the contract was
awarded to Hauser in May 1976,
the insurance promoter
siphoned off some of $7.3 million
in premiums from union
members for non-insurance
purposes, including in
vestments in Switzerland,
according to earlier testimony.
Kleindienst testified that he
knew nothing of the alleged
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misuse of the funds by Hauser.
And he steadfastly maintained
that his role in the contract
award was aboveboard.
Kleindienst, however, con
ceded that he used his friend
ship with Teamsters Union
President Frank Fitzsimmons
to help obtain the contract for
Hauser.
Hauser and Fitzsimmons
were summoned to testify be
fore the subcommittee today.
Kleindienst, now in private
law practice in Washington,
was interrogated by senators
who are investigating Hauser’s
operations. In a separate case
last March involving union pen
sion funds, Hauser was con
victed in Los Angeles of bribing
or attempting to bribe union
members.
Previous testimony has re
vealed that while a Teamsters
committee was considering
competing bids for the $24 mil
lion insurance contact, Hauser
was seeking to influence the
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday/ November 2,1977
morning at a mid-Manhattan bus stop as Laura Brandel
returned her Halloween party costume. She said she found
it easier to wear it than to carry it. (AP)
Richard Kleindienst
outcome of the award by quietly
hiring Kleindienst and ar-
I ranging other similar contacts.
Besides the $125,000 paid
Kleindienst, a second Wash
ingon lawyer and a public rela
-1 tions consultant also shared an
other $125,000. Kleindienst said
I he did not think those were ex
cessive amounts to be paid for
obtaining the award for Hauser.
An independent audit has
shown that a competing con
tract bid by the Prudential In
surance Co., would have pro
vided the same service for less
money to Teamsters members.
The Teamsters have filed suit
seeking to retrieve the $7.3 mil
lion, and at least five firms
controlled by Hauser are in
bankruptcy.
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