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A group of Massachusetts businessmen and their wives
visited the estate of Irenee duPont, now the restaurant,
Las Americas, about 80 miles east of Havana, during their
five day tour of Cuba. Patrons enter at entrance, left, and
Cuba using mansion as restaurant
HAVANA (AP) — For about baronial mansion of one of the
86, a Cuban farmer can dine on richest families in the world,
red snapper at a table in the the du Ponts of Delaware.
Georgia news
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New judge sworn-in
ATLANTA (AP) — Arthur W. Fudger was sworn in
Tuesday as a judge in the Tallapoosa Superior Court
circuit.
He succeeds Judge Harold Murphy, who was named a
judge of the U.S. District Court for the northern district of
Georgia.
Judge’s decision stands
LAKELAND, Ga, (AP) — A defense request that Judge
John Langford reconsider or modify his change of venue
order for the trial of Henry Willis was denied Tuesday.
Willis is one of three Moultrie men charged with the
murder of Ray City Police Chief Ed Giddens in February
1976.
Langford issued an order last week which moved the
trial at least 75 miles from Lakeland because of publicity
surrounding the case.
The judge said attorneys must agree on a new location
by Nov. 4 or submit names of 15 potential counties by Nov.
11.
Tax reassessment voided
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A Superior Court judge has
thrown out Cobb County’s property tax reassessment and
has ordered officials to draw up a new one.
Superior Court Judge Howell Ravan signed an order
Monday throwing out the assessment mailed last week.
The order means the tax bills will be delayed several
months until the new assessments are completed.
Cobb officials had reassessed property in accordance
with a state order. Attempts were made to return to the
old assessments when taxpayers complained, but the
state would not approve the tax digest.
State Sen. Roy Barnes and his law partner then filed a
class action suit against the new assessments, resulting in
Ravan’s order.
Escapees recaptured
DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama authorities say
two escapees from a Troup County, Ga., work camp were
recaptured Tuesday.
Carl Baxter of Atlanta, serving five years for burglary,
and Houston Henderson of Kellyton, Ala., serving three
years for motor vehicle theft, were apprehended by
Tallapoosa County, Ala., sheriff’s deputies.
The men escaped Monday by climbing over a fence,
Georgia authorities said.
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pass by an N. C. Wyeth original painting and photographs
of his wife and daughters, right, left virtually untouched
on the furniture, as they were when the house was seized
by Castro’s government in 1911. (AP)
The Communist government
of Fidel Castro seized the 450-
acre estate in November 1961
and turned it into a restaurant,
Las Americas, at the end of a
peninsula near Varadero
leach, a resort 80 miles east of
Havana.
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Irenee du Pont, who died at
age 86 in 1963, built the house,
complete with nine-hole golf
course, in 1929, right before the
stock market crash.
Diners sit among du Pont’s
books, his original N.C. Wyeth
paintings and even photographs
of his wife and daughters, left
virtually untouched on the fur
niture, as they were when the
house was seized.
When the house was taken
over, there was talk in Cuba of
turning it into a nautical school
for boys. Now Castro says it will
be kept as evidence of Cuba’s
‘‘reverence for the past."
Drinkers balance on tiny
chairs in the cubbyhole bar in
what used to be the du Pont
wine cellar with five niches, one
each for the wines of five
countries.
In the main dining room, a
velvet tapesty carries the verse
of poet Samuel Taylor Cole
ridge:
“In Xanadu did Khubla Khan
a Stately Pleasure Dome De
cree ..."
Du Pont called the place Xa
nadu.
The main dining room is the
show piece. It has high, wood-
State Supreme Court
affirms sentences
ATLANTA (AP) - The Geor
gia Supreme Court has affirmed
voluntary manslaughter and
armed robbery convictions of a
woman and approved life
sentences given three men in
other cases.
The court Tuesday affirmed
the voluntary manslaughter
and armed robbery convictions
of Dessie Woods in the 1975
death of insurance man Ronnie
Home.
beamed ceilings. Its walls are
hung with tapestries. A dining
table set with damask linen
seats a dozen in red velvet
chairs.
The plates are gold-rimmed
and set off by three wine
glasses, plus a fourth for cham
pagne.
The food is simpler than the
furnishings, running to fish,
roast pork, tenderloin tips and
chicken soup. A party of eight
ran up a bill of approximately
S6O, including Portuguese white
wine at $1.90 a glass.
Atop the house is a pavilion,
open to the sea breeze on four
sides. It has a marble floor with
an air chute to the first-floor pipe
organ, so its music can be heard
from two stories below. The
comers of the pavilion are
. decorated with stone carved in
the shape of the prows of Viking
ships.
Las Americas is far from
being Cuba’s most expensive
restaurant.
A group from a delegation of
Massachusetts business per
sons discovered a candidate for |
that distinction in Havana. It
was a restaurant called La I
Ruina, the ruin, built in 1973. <
After ordering from a menu
without prices the party was |
handed a bill for $625. Paying ,
took almost every centavo they '
had. (
“Lucky we were in a Com- ,
munist country,” said Norma I
Fine, a specialist in economic (
development in the office of ]
Boston Mayor Kevin White. I
“We didn’t have to leave a tip." j
She originally was charged
with murder and armed rob
bery of Home, who had given
her and a companion a ride as
they hitchhiked from Reidsville
to Atlanta. But a jury convicted
her of the lesser charge and she
was sentenced to 22 years in
prison.
In other decisions Tuesday,
the court:
—Affirmed the life sentence
imposed on Whitley Bailey, also
known as Willie Moore, in
Clarke County for the 1976 slay
ing of his wife.
—Upheld the life sentence im
posed on Sammy Miller, 17, in
Bibb County for the 1976 death
of Virginia Howell Denmark.
—Affirmed the life sentence
imposed against Henry Cum
mings Jr. in Richmond County
for the 1974 armed robbery of
the Peacock Lounge.
Ms. Woods claimed that
Home became abusive and
wanted to party with her and
her hitchhiking companion. She
said she saw him reach for a
gun and believed he was a “hit
man” sent to kill them. She tes
tified she grabbed the gun, a
struggle ensued and she killed
him and took his wallet.
In an appeal of the trial
court’s decision, her attorneys
contended that the verdicts of
voluntary manslaughter and
armed robbery were inconsist
ent because there was no evi
dence of the crimes or of crimi- |
nal intent to commit them.
Extradition hearing set for J. B. Stoner
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia
authorities have scheduled a
Nov. 29 extradition hearing for
BOOK AWARD
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hans
Toch recently won the Hadley
Cantril Memorial Award for his
book, “Men In Crisis.”
The award is presented an
nually “to the author of the
publication judged by an
awards committee to represent
an especially significant contri
bution to the social and behav
ioral sciences.”
The award consists of a me
dallion and a citation.
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Marietta attorney J. B. Stoner,
the avowed white supremacist
indicted in a 1958 Alabama
church bombing.
The 10 a.m. hearing will be
conducted by Julie Clifford, a
legal assistant to Gov. George
Busbee.
Stoner, who has denied any
part in the bombing of the
Bethel Baptist Church, is fight
ing the extradition to Alabama.
Although no one was injured
in the bombing, Alabama au
thorities based the indictment
on a state law which makes
bombing a building near an in-
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, November 2,1977
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