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trial” by deliberative news
leaks.
The government was on
a “fishing expedition,” he
said, with agents in
terested in his income tax
returns for 1979 and 1980.
American Express-in a
letter addressed to “Ms.
Hastings”—notified him
that his credit card records
have been subpoened.
And FBI agents r‘ready
School news
ARC plans open house
The Academy of Richmond County will hold Open
House on Tuesday, Dec. 8, at 7 p.m. at the school.
There will be an orientation on Competency-Based
Education in the auditorium, followed by classroom
visitation.
Title I meetings scheduled
The Title I District-wide Parent Advisory Council
will meet Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. at the Richmond County
Boaid of Education, 2083 Heckle St.
Dr. Bob C. Brewton, director of Lawton B. Evans
Child Center, will speak on Parental Involvement
Techniques for Caring For and Loving Children.
Barton Chapel Elementary School Title I School
Advisory Council will meet Dec. 9, at 2 p.m. at the
school. The program will include a workshop for
parents.
Terrace Manor Elementary School Title 1 School
Advisory Council will meet Dec. 8, from 7 to 9 p.m.
at the school. The program will include a workshop
for parents.
Christmas programs planned
William Robinson Elementary School will have a
Christmas Concert Friday, Dec. 11, at 10 a.m. at the
school. The Christmas Concert will be presented by
Lucy Laney High School Chorus.
Floyd Graham Elementary School Chorus, direc
ted by Lizelle Beasley, will present a Christmas
Program on Monday, Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in
Davison’s Department Store (lower level) at Augusta
Mall.
The T.W. Josey High School Choir will present a
Christmas Concert on Dec. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the
school cafeteria.
Floyd Graham Elementary School’s Annual
Christmas Program will be Thursday, Dec. 17, at
7:30 p.m. in the gymnasium at Hephzibah Middle
School.
PT A meetings to be held
William Robinson Elementary School Parent-
Teacher Association will meet Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at
the school. The program will be a choral and band
concert.
Windsor Spring Elementary School Parent-
Teacher Association will meet Thursday, Dec. 17, at
7 p.m. in the school cafeteria. Windsor Spring
students will perform “Our Christmas Play,” which
was written by the music teacher Judy Dunn.
Tutt Junior High School Parent-Teacher
Association will meet Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the
school. Christmas music will be presented by the
chorus and band.
A. Brian Merry Elementary School Parent-
Teacher Association will meet Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m.
at the school. Fifth grade students will present the
Christmas program.
Roy E. Rollins Elementary School Parent-Teacher
Association will meet Monday, Dec. 14, at 7 p.m. at
the school. A Christmas program will be presented
by Rollins’ students under the direction of Mrs. Alice
Mcßae.
Forest Hills Elementary School Parent-Teacher
Association will meet Dec. 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the
school. The program will be “The Littlest Angel,”
presented by the multiple handicapped class.
National Hills Elementary School Parent-Teacher
Association will have its Christmas meeting on
Thursday, Dec. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the school.
Southside Elementary School Parent-Teacher
Association Meeting and Christmas Program will be
Thursday, Dec. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the school.
East Augusta Middle School Parent-Teacher
Association will meet Thursday, Dec. 10, at 7:30
p.m. at the school.
Hephzibah Elementary School Parent-Teacher
Association will be Thursday, Dec. 10, at 7:30 p.m.
at the school.
T. Harry Garrett Elementary School Parent-
Teacher Association Christmas Program and
Meeting will be Thursday, Dec. 17, in the school
cafeteria. The program will be presented by the
school chorus.
Lou Gossett receives
minor burns on set
HOLLYWOOD—A
phosphorus flare ignited
during filming of a new
television series, burning
actors Lou Gossett Jr. and
Peter Barton.
Barton was listed in fair
condition Friday at Coun
ty-USC Medical Center
with third-degree burns on
his arm, thigh and but
tocks suffered Thursday.
Gossett was treated for
first-degree burns to his
hands and neck and
released. The incident oc-
Judge defies FBI
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have examined his bank
records as well as his Visa
and Carte Blanche credit
card accounts.
“They have Ml -the
tools,” Hastings said. “I
have not been given a
hook, a line or a sinker.”
Grand juries, guided by
prosecutors, often con
duct cash flow analyses to
see if potential defendants
spend or receive funds
curred while the actors
were filming for the series
“The Powers of Matthew
Starr” at an auto
wrecking company near
downtown Los Angeles.
Fire officials said Bar
ton, who stars in the
show, tripped and fell on a
flare while dragging a
chair that Gossett was tied
to. The flare ignited and
Gossett fell backward on
to Barton, setting his
clothes ablaze. Crew
members quickly ex
tinguished the flames and
called paramedics.
beyond their reported in
come.
The judge volunteered
that his associates had
been asked whether he had
a Swiss bank account
when “I hardly have any
bank account.” They also
were asked whether I had
a vacation home or a
yacht.
“If I had a zillion
dollars, I would not own a
Swiss bank account, a
vacation home or a
yacht,” said Hastings,
who lives with his mother
in Lauderhill (near Fort
Lauderdale). “They just
don’t know Alcee.”
He said he didn’t know
why the government was
doing what it was doing,
but “I do know this:
They’re not doing it
well.”
The scope of the probe
“is in the nature of an at
tack beyond the context of
any bribery investigation
and I do consider it
harrassment,” he said. >
Hasting said he was »
notified in a letter dated
Oct. 5, 1981, that he owed
an additional $1,093 on
his 1979 income tax.
Prosecutors decline to
respond to Hastings’
charges.
In other developments,
alleged Florida Mafia
mobster chief Santo Traf
ficante has been sub
poenaed to testify before
the Miami grand jury in
vestigating Hastings.
Prosecutors are expec
ted to ask Trafficante
about allegations that he
paid a SIOO,OOO bribe to
Hastings’ friend, William
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Washington, D.C., attor
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given with the understan
ding that the judge would
dismiss a racketeering
charge filed against the
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Trafficante is not expec
ted to agree to testify.
Long considered Florida’s
No. 1 organized crime
figure, he repeatedly has
taken the Fifth Amen
dment when subpoenaed
to testify before the grand
juries.
Borders was arrested
Oct. 9 in Washington after
allegedly making
arrangements to accept
the second of two bribe
payments from an under
cover FBI agent on
Hastings’ behalf.
Hastings said he has not
talked with Borders since
Nov. 9, the day Hastings
talked with Justice Depar
tment officials in
Washington. He said Bor
ders and he went to a
liquor store and to Bor
ders’ office, but he
declined to discuss their
conversation.
Asked if he expected to
be indicted, he said,
“What the hell do you
have a target for if you are
not going to hit it?” He
said government attorneys
are “loading up their guns
to shoot at me.”
Asked point blank if he
was innocent, he said, “I
will not be convicted of
anything.” While that
kind of response may
leave room for
speculation, “I just don’t
think it’s proper for me to
discuss guilt or innocen
ce,” he said. _
SCLC asks schools to adopt anti-Klan curriculum
The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference recently
applauded the publication,
“Violence, the Ku Klux Klan and
the Struggle for Equality,” a new
curriculum published by the
National Education Association,
the Council on Interracial Books
for Children and the Connecticut
Education Association.
“The lesson plan is a vital
document for the next generation
of American young adults. SCLC
is calling upon school officials in
every corner of this nation to
review and adopt the new
curriculum during this school
year,” SCLC President Joseph
Lowery said.
“The widespread resurgence of
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Dec. 4-5
The Augusta College
Reese Library will hold a
book sale Friday and
Saturday, Dec. 4-5 in the
lobby of the library, it was
announced today by
Librarian A. Ray
Rowland.
Approximately 3,000
volumes—“all duplicate
gifts that we do not
need”—will be sold on
Dec. 4 for $1 each. Bocks
that do not sell the first
day will be reduced to a
quarter on Saturday, Dec.
5.
“Many of the books are
in mint condition,” he
said, with some valued in
the S2O-$25 range. The
books cover all categories
and are not just tex
tbooks.
Hours of the sale on
Dec. 4 will be from 7:45
a.m. to 10:30 p.m. On
Dec. 5, hours will be from
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Augusta News-Review-Detanbet 5,1981
the Klan and Nazis is shocking. It
is poisoning the very atmosphere
in which our children are raised.
In one town a black teenager is
run out of school by the Klan. In
another a black pre-teen is shot
by night-riding Klansmen in her
home. White teenagers are now
being openly courted by the Klan
while young whites who dare to
associate with blacks become
targets for harrassment.
“The new curriculum must be
taught. Its contention that the
Klan could not flourish without
deeply imbedded racism in our
society is incontrovertible. We
f ’ take issue with recent
.uments by the Anti-
Defamation League which con
tend that the Klan is simply an
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isolated “abberation.” One need
only witness the open refusal by
the Reagan administration to en
force existing anti-Klan statutes
to understand the soil in which a
Klan flourishes. The Klan men
tality is neither isolated nor
restricted; it flourishes in every
sector of our national life and
must be countered ideologically.
“The truth about both official
and extra legal racism and the
violence it breeds must be taught.
SCLC is working with a broad
range of education, community,
religious, womens’ and labor for
ces to insure the new curriculum
is taught in thousands of schools
across America by the end of this
school year.”
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