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Court Reversed ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Supreme Court today reversed Glynn Superior Court’s action which had en joined a Brunswick optome trist from advertising the price of eye glasses on a sign board. Cotton Is High WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department esti mated this year’s govern ment-controlled cotton crop today at 15,159,000 bales -of 500 pounds gross weight. This is 1 per cent more than forecast a month earlier. Contract Signed ATLANTA (AP) — Eco nomic Opportunity Atlanta, Inc., signed a $1,977,628 con tract today for an employ ment evaluation center to help the hard-core unem ployed and provide informa tion for the nation. Athens Man Sentenced In Ticket Forgery Case - Athens printer Ronnie Paul Condron has been fined SSOO and sentenced to one year on probation for attempted forg ery in the counterfeiting of 150 tickets to the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta last April. The sentence and fine were levied Thursday by Superior Court Judge James Barrow after the 31-year-old Condron pleaded guilty to a reduced charge. He previously had been charged with forgery after security guards confis cated the tickets at the tour nament. The charges still are pend ing against the students — Robert B. Lee, 22, of Atlanta: Samuel Sadow, 20, of Ross ville; Sam Meyer, 20, of At lanta, and Jack Davis of Barksdale, La. Davis is a member of Chi ATHENS BANNER-HERALD PHONE 543-2512 For Policeman’s Murder Convict Gels Death LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) —A Superior Court judge sen tenced 34-year-old Venson Eu gene Williams to die in the elec tric chair on Nov. 22 for the murder of a policeman, Jerry Everett. Judge Charles Pittard sen tenced Williams at 10 a.m. fo day. The federal convict who was convicted Thursday showed no emotion. He stood with the aid of crutches to hear the sen tence. NO MERCY The death sentence was man datory since the trial jury did not recommend mercy. Williams was returned to jail in Gwinnett County. Previously he had been held in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta where he was serving time on a federal conviction. A defense attorney has said he would appeal. “We’ve laid the foundation for an appeal on several points and we don’t intend to abandon them,” said attorney James Dorsey, the dapper former chairman of the state Repub lican Party. HOUR’S DELIBERATION A male jury deliberated for exactly one hour Thursday be fore returning a guilty verdict. Williams, a slight, dark-haired man, crippled as a result of an auto accident heard the verdict without emotion, as did his at tractive, black - clad, brown haired wife, who sat in the front row of the courtroom. Phi fraternity, which Univer sity officials said was used as a headquarters for the coun terfeit tickets. The students, who were ar rested at Augusta the week end of the Masters Tourna ment, are free on bond of SSOO each. University officials closed the Chi Phi house after the counterfieting scandal. The chapter is now active on a limited basis. According to Dean of Men William Tate, the fraternity will move back into its house winter quarter and may have its charter re turned by spring quarter. The charter is now held by a trus tee of the fraternity. The Chi Phi house is being used this quarter by the Lamb da Chi fraternity, whose new house is not yvet ready for oc cupancy. Williams, Wade Levi Truett, 33, of Hartsville, S. C.. and for mer Gwinneit deputy Alex Evans, 38, of Buford, all were indicted for the murder of the 28-year-old Everett and fellow officers Ralph K. Davis, 49, and Marvin Jesse Gravitt, 52. However, Williams was tried only for the murder of Everett. Truett, promised immunity, testified for the state. Evans, who probably will be tried at the next regular session of Gwinnett Superior Court in mid- November, waived his right not to testify under the Fifth Amendment and was one of three witnesses called by the defense Thursday. CROWD GATHERS A crowd of about 75 persons gathered to watch state and federal officers take Williams back to the federal penitentiary from where he had been brought each day of the four-day trial in a special session of Superior Court. But officers sneaked Williams out a side entrance to the 9%4- year-old white brick courthouse and sped him back to Atlanta in a State Patrol car. There was an air of satisfac tion among relatives of the slain officers as they walked out of the courthouse and through the crowd waiting for Williams. “That’s the verdict I want ed,” said Everett’s brother, J. K. Everett, a Norcross police man. “I think they got the right man.” NO COMMENT State attorneys reid Merritt and Luther Hames had no com ment on when Evans might be tried, but there were indica tions it might be in the next regular session of court. Williams, Evans and Truett all were serving federal sen tences when they were indicted last summer for the officers’ murder. The indictments cli maxed more than a year of in tensive investigation by state officers. The three policemen were found handcuffed together and shot with their own guns off a rural road in Gwinnett County | April 17, 1964. | In his testimony Wednesday.‘ Truett said Williams and Evans killed the officers to hide the theft of a car stolen by the three conspirators. | Evans testified Thursday he had never had any dealings with either Williams or Truett. Under cross - examination by 'Hames, he insisted he had not| been at the murder scene. SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA SINCE 1832 ATHENS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1965 Earlier, Williams said in an unsworn statement, net subject to cross - examination under Georgia law, that he was inno cent. He said he couldn’t remember where he was the day of the murder, but added he might have »een with his family in Atlanta. He said he was in partner ship with Truett in the auto parts business, but insisted it was legitimate and had nothing to do with car theft as Truett had testified. Merritt asked for the death penalty in his closing state ment, referring frequently to Biblical quotations. Dorsey hit hard at Truett’s testimony, say ing it was uncorroborated and that Truett, who admitted he took barbiturates, might have had hallucinations. Hames asked the jury to show no mercy, saying Williams had shown none to the three offi cers. Apparently Dorsey intends to concentrate on the corrobora tion angle as one of his points for appeal. Another point prob ably will be his contention that the defense was denied due pro cess of law when Pittard turned down his request to see a signed statement that Trueit said he had signed. Pittard was careful and com prehensive in his charge to the jury but almost slioped up when he nearly allowed the two alter nate jurors to go into the jury room to deliberate with the other 12. He apologized to the alter nates after they had been called back, saying this was the first trial he had conducted where two alternate jurors had been selected. Athens High Wins Citation Athens High School has been awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Mathematical Asso. of America for outstanding proficiency as a result of the school’s record in the recent an nual mathematics contest, principal A. Q. Hagan announced todav. The mathematics competition is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Asso. of American and the Society of Actuaries. Athens High’s team score was in the top ten per cent of scores made by 125 high schools in-Georgia. The team score is the sum of the three highest scores made in a school. The team members and high scorers from Athens High Scheol are: Roger Hendrix, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Hen drix, 235 Habersham Dr.; Keith Gibson, son of Dr. and Mrs. Frank K. Gibson, Barnett Shoals Rd.; and Roy Segars, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Segars, 260 Roberts Dr. Hendrix was grad uated in June, 1965. Gibson and Segars are members of the present senior class. “These young men have achieved an over-all superior record during their high school careers,” Hagen said. Their work in mathematics has been particularly outstanding.” Johnson Rests After Surgery LBJ Is 'Doing Well WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Johnson's gall bladder op eration was performed without complications today, and three hours later he was reported “do ing well.” However, White House press secretary Bill D. Moyers said Johnson, as would any patient recovering from a gall bladder operation, was ‘‘experiencing mild discomfort.” The operation itself went “beautifully and as expected,” in the words of one of the doc tors. COMPLETE SUCCESS It was pronounced a ‘‘com plete success.” The surgical team did find and remove a kidney stone in the ureter as well as removing the faulty gall bladder. The ureter is a passage through which urine is voided. Johnson was in the operating room from 7 a.m., EDT, to 9:15. Moyers reported that Johnson began to emerge from an anes thetic sleep less than an hour after the surgery by a medical team enlisted in part from the famed Mayo Clinic. He said he had talked with the President about 11 a.m. Moyers said the doctors told him the operation was “rou tine.” He said there was no cardiac irregularity at all and that the President’s blood pres sure remained normal through out. FAMILY PRESENT During the operation, Mrs. Johnson and daughter Luci, 18, remained in the bedroom across the hall from the President’s. A general anesthetic was used. The medical estimate was that the President should re main in the hospital for 10 days to two weeks. As is customary in abdominal surgery, there will be an early effort to get the patient to take a few steps and maintain mus cle tone. The first may come be fore the day is out. Vice President Hubert H Humphrey, acting under ar rangements made by the Presi dent, took over as standby chief executive of the nation. A few minutes after the sur gery, Moyers gave word to newsmen that the operation was over and said the President was “resting well in the operating suite.” - N , - ERD ! f . e A R “35/ i i A | S - (3 L R i 4 i L. iy, = B g | A 4 : I ‘ ! z i b }w e B g il R ) { (i P il 111 T T N i A i :'fl“ o 5 "%: R i ‘ Gl e %‘;y " g b‘“"ik' AT -. . 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Thomas Thompson talks to President Johnson by telephone from his hed at Letter man General Hospital in San Francisco. The President placed the call after receiving letters from former ROTC students of Thompson when he was an instructor at a Third Failure Lunik Hits Moon == Hard MOSCOW (AP) — The un manned Soviet satellite Luna 7 hit the moon earlv tol v and Tass indicated it was a crash landing. It was the third unsuccessful Russian z‘tempt in six months to make history’s first soft land ing on the moon. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, announced that “most operations necessary for a soft landing were fulfilled during the approach to the moon.” | But it added that “some oper-. ations, however, were not car ried out in accordance with the program and needed additional development.” | The Tass announcement was the first official indication that l | | Mi ATLANTA — Officials of the | Southern Christian Leadership | Conference and the Taliaferro | County civil rights movement | will seek an avdience with Gov. Carl Sanders this after- | noon in an effort to mediate ‘ the Crawfordville racial crisis. DEATHS Rabon C. Nix, Athens Norman T. Guerard, Baitimore (Details on Page 2.) 16 PAGES TODAY ON SUCCESS President Calls A Sergeant Luna 7 had attempted a soft landing. No specific mission for Luna 7 had been announced in advance. Tass said the scientific instru ment package landed on the moon in the area of the Ocean of the Storms, west of Kepler Crater, at 1:08 a.m. iocal time (5:08 p.m. EST Thursday). The landing was on schedule. Bi-Racial Group Studied ATLANTA—Gov. Carl Sanders is reportedly in the proe ess of establishing a bi-racial commission to investigate ra cial problems in the state. The commission would look into problems and make ree ommendations to the Governor. : Sanders has been thinking about establishing the commis sion for some time but Wednesday’s all-day session with white and negro leaders over the touchy Taliaferro County situation emphasized the need for such a group, a reliable source said. The commission would be composed of well-known Geor gians and would be modeled after a similar group in Louisi ana. The Louisiana Commission was established after racial troubles beset the state. Sanders would like to aveoid such trouble in Georgia and thinks the bi-racial commission could help, the source said. Press secretary John Harper said the rcport was prema ture and would not comment on it. ~ However, a Negro leader in Atlanta said the Governor’s of tf:;e was asking questions about what affect the group would ve. North Hollywood, Calif. school. The sergeant was paralyzed from the waist down when a Viet Cong mine explosion overturned his jeep. Sgt. Thompson’s wife, Patricia, and father, Thomas Thompson Sr. of Brea, Calif., look on. But the Russians waited more than 13 hours to announce it, in dicating that the landing had been unsuccessful. Successful shots are announced quickly. Sir Bernard Lovell, director of Britain’s big Jodrell Bank radio telescope, said all evidence indi cated that the unmanned moon rocket had destroyed itself on hitting the moon. Banner-Herald Atlanta Bureau ‘WEATHER Cloudy and mild this afternoon and Satur day; fair and cool again tonight. 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