News Tribune, The (Newspaper) - March 28, 1975, Fort Pierce, Florida The News Tribune Friday March 28 1975 Page 2 Testimony Contradictory in Gurney Case TAMPA Fta lUPI Jurors in the federal Irial of former Sen Edward Gurney began a day Easter recess today after hearing a government witness testify Thursday in direct con- tradition of an earlier ment witness Former Slate Republican ly Finance Committee Chairman George Anderson testified day hat Williams was not hired until after the Jan 19 1971 meeting at the senator's Winter Park home and that the hiring was done by either himself or former State GOP Chairman Earl M Duke Crittenden Crittenden had testified earlier that Williams was hired by Gurney in a telephone call the senator placed from his home that night He said he and son had arranged to have Williams standing by for the call Gurney the first senator to be indicted while in office in five decades is charged in the ment with having made that call from his home He has denied all along that he hired Williams or that Williams even worked for him Williams was hired after the Anderson said day under cross examination That is my recollection Either Duke or him after meeting Both Anderson and Crillenden were named as defendants in the indictment as were former Gurney aides James Groot and Joseph Baslien and former Federal Housing Administration officials Ralph and K Wayne Swiger Anderson and Crittenden had their trials severed from that of the others in a plea arrangement Crillenden pleaded guilly to a misdemeanor charge and faces six months in prison or a fine after trial Anderson's arrangement calls for all charges to be after the trial Anderson's testimony day differed from that of Crittenden on two other matters both dealing with personal bank notes signed by Crillenden He that he signed a note early in the 1968 campaign of Gurney with the un- Anderson would be No Out of Pocket Expenses No Registration Fees No Notes To Sign No Paper Work REGISTER for SPRING TERM MARCH 28 1973 Attend DAY or EVENING CLASSES while you your present fob Call Today for FREE INFORMATION JONES COLLEGE FORT PIERCE CAMPUS 121 North 2nd Street on the Downtown Mall they swap the A pRayeR Indeed From beginning to end the Episcopal Prayer Book IS Bible in some form or another It's possibly the finest key able to understanding the Bible The person who uses this book faithfully finds himself reading the New Testament twice and the Old Testament once in a year's time The Prayer Book is so arranged hat the minister cannot depart from the Bible He is prevented from dealing in ideas that have no Biblical foundation or from belaboring his congregation over and over with his own favorite passages Episcopalians are never required lo accept any belief that cannot be proved from or is not agreeable lo the teachings of Holy Scripture Your nearest Episcopal minister would be happy lo explain why for him and his congregation Bible will never be obsolete It's all a mailer of viewpoint and here's no obligation on your part if you'd like to understand the Episcopal One of a series presented by Those Crazy Episcopalians in your area ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL PARISH Rev Howard S Meeks Rector Sundays and Thursdays Wednesdays P.M 210 SO INDIAN RIVER DRIVE FORT PIERCE responsible for half of it bul that it was paid off early in the as contributions flowed in He said he has a second note for outstanding after the arain wilh the ding Anderson would be sible for half of it He said that note was paid off in April of 1971 with funds collected by Williams Anderson said he had no arrangement to be responsible for any of the money and said the was for Crittenden's sonal use My recollection is that II was for the purpose of buying slock in of son aid Duke wanted to buy 000 shares of stock He said he knew nothing of a second note and had searched bank records as had the FBI without coming up with any record of it Dillmar is to resume his cross examination when court resumes Monday morning and will be followed by attorneys for the other defendants The 1975 INCREASE in Gl EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS is O'Malley Case Stymies State TALLAHASSEE Fla Leon County Judge Charles McClure must decide whether to give the state a third try at prosecuting the Petroleum Marketers Association on the charge it tried to bribe Treasurer Tom O'Malley Assistant State Attorney Robert Willis agreed with lawyers for the association Thursday that an indictment charging it tried to bribe O'Malley with to keep self-service gasoline stations out of state is legally defective Pollution Rule Studied ORLANDO Fla UPI The state's Board of Pollution Con- trol has completed three days of hearings on whether it should back off on its pollution regulations but will not take a final vole on the issue until April 15 At issue is a regulation that would require generating plants to start using oil or coal of lesser sulfur content beginning July 1 Peter P the ex- director has proposed that of the regulation be delayed years in light of the present economic crisis The general mood through three days was thai the relaxing of clean air standards to prevent an increase in electric bills was supported Jacksonville Mayor Hans said Thursday clean air standards would force the cost of using electricity up an increase many people cannot afford We have people wilh nickels and dimes asking me how they're going to pay their electric said If you don't change this rule f hope we've got enough to protect our poor beleaguered members of the utility authority Tanzler noting Jacksonville consumers would save an average of four per cent on their electric bills if standards are relaxed said he wanted to see some balance between what we'd like to have and can afford to have FREE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE SUNDAY MARCH P.M BY NORMAN B HOLMES OF CHICAGO ILLINOIS AT CHURCH AUDITORIUM PARKWAY at SUNRISE Who Runs Your ALL ARE WELCOME Willis asked McClure to dis- miss the without allowing the state to file the charge again this lime by direct information The oil dealers lobby was in- along with O'Malley last October but that charge was thrown out by the Supreme Court's Floyd Christian decision which affected all investigations handled by Jacksonville State At- torney T Edward Austin and his assistants including Willis said the new issued Feb 21 did not contain magic linking language tying it with the original charge Lawyers Joe Jacobs and B.C Deeno Kitchen representing the association said Willis should not be allowed to the charge and argued for seven other motions seeking dismissal of the misdemeanor count They brought it twice Mr Willis wants to try to do it Kitchen said Jacobs and Kitchen also con- lend among other things that the two-year statute of limitations has expired and that the organization is immune from prosecution because its officers and records were subpoenaed by the grand jury leading to self- incrimination McClure took the motions un- der advisement giving no tion when he will rule Willis conceded that if McClure dismisses the charge on any of the other motions the state will not be able to prosecute The grand jury charged that Uie marketers collected to get O'Malley as state fire marshal not to allow self-service gas stations The jury said Simpkins of Cocoa treasurer of group delivered the money to Ollie Evans Jr general counsel who was supposed to give it to his boss Willis says Evans kepi the money under his bed for several months finally returning it to the marketers association when a central Florida state attorney started asking questions CELEBRATE LIFE Eternal Life Abundant Life Life in Christ YES CELEBRATE LIFE BY WORSHIPPING LIFE HIMSELF THE LIVING WORD JESUS CHRIST We Invite you to join us in worshiping Him on this EASTER DAY Northside Baptist Church ST LUCIE BLVD AIRPORT ROAD SUNDAY SCHOOL SUNDAY P.M JAMES BILES PASTOR It's Worth a Trip to Northside FOR PERIOD ENDING 7 EOT During Friday night snow will occur over North Dakota and the southern Rockies while rain and showers will be ex- in the mid Mississippi valley the lower Lakes portions of the Northeast and the valley Minimum readings approx max temperatures in parenthesis Atlanta 54 Boston 31 Chicago 29 Cleveland 37 Dallas 48 Denver 8 Duluth 9 Houston 51 ville 63 Kansas City 23 Little Rock 45 Los Angeles 46 Miami 75 Minneapolis 15 New Orleans 60 New York 35 Phoenix 40 San Francisco 37 Seattle 36 St Louis 34 49 and Washington 38 SOUTH BRIDGE TIDES Today High p.m Low p.m Tomorrow High p.m Low p.m Jelly Tides Two Hours Earlier LOCAL DATA YESTERDAY High Low Rainfall Rainfall to Date BArometer Sunset Today Sunrise Tomorrow Zones Forecast Zones 18 19 21 Partly cloudy warm and rather windy today and Saturday Highs ly in the upper 80s and lows tonight near 70 East to southeast winds 15 lo 20 miles per hour diminishing seme at night Zones 20 22 23 Partly Blacks Get 199 Years JACKSONVILLE Fla DPI A Circuit Courl judge called the slaying of a white youth last June a premeditated racial hatred murder and sentenced Iwo of four young blacks con- of the crime to 199 years each in prison Judge Hudson Olliff also com- pared the so-called Black tion Army BLAI slaying of Stephen A Orlando wilh Nazi's annihilation of the Jews results of which judge said he saw as a young combat in- in World War 11 Brad W Evans 20 and Dwyne Crittendon 21 received the sentences Thursday They were convicted of second degree murder alter a three-week jury trial earlier this month Still sentencing in the murder are Jacob John Dougan Jr 27 and Elwood Clark Barclay 23 The jury found them guilty of first degree murder and ed the death penalty for Dougan and a line sentence without parole f r 25 years for Barclay Crittendon and Dougan are scheduled lo go on rial April 14 for the second so-called BLA slaying Hie June 22 stabbing death of white Steven Roberts 17 of Jacksonville cloudy warm and rather windy today and Saturday Only a slight chance of showers Highs mainly in the low 80s and lows tonight in the 70s East and southeast winds 15 to 20 miles per hour Rain probability 20 per cent today tonight and Saturday By United Press International Today is Friday March 28 the day of 1975 with 278 to follow The moon is between its full phase and last quarter The morning stars are Mercury and Jupiter The evening stars are Venus and Saturn Those bom on this date are under the sign of Aries American bandleader Paul Whiteman was born March 28 1890 On this day in In 1797 Nathaniel Briggs was awarded a patent for the first washing machine He called it an improvement for washing clothes In 1939 Madrid surrendered to the Nationalist forces of Generalissimo Francisco co in the Spanish Civil War In 1942 British forces led by commandos raided occupied St Nazaire France and blew up harbor tions in one of the most daring feats of World War H In a federal jury convicted Billie Sol Estes on four counts of mail fraud and one of conspiracy after he was charged with swindling finance companies in mortgage deals involving million A thought for the American man of letters Oliver Wendell Holmes said Man has his will but woman has her way Easter Breakfast After Service Trinity Lutheran Church south 13th St Fort Pierce Fla Xom And Wilh
