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c-t ft THE TENNESSEAN, Sohirdoy, $ptmbw 4, 1974 Jury Suggests Adams Execution TVA Director May Resign If J--, f- I JL "i i scribed how he had helped his wife dispose of the child's body. He said he did it because he loved her and he didn't want to see her go to jail. PATRICK, according to the testimony of Dr. David Beaver, had suffered a fractured skull, broken jaw, broken nose, torn ear and mouth and an injury to the penis and scrotum, perhaps the result of a kick. Beaver also said the boy's eyes had been punctured, perhaps with a fork.

But that answer was striken by Burns. Color pictures of the body were not allowed into evidence. But investigators testified how the small, naked body was found in a ravine in Pickett County three days after Mrs. Adams reported her son missing, and how they got sick themselves when they saw the horrible injuries. There was testimony from both husband and wife that the child had said, "Daddy, I love you," before he died.

"I DON'T think the child the agency. The day-to-day operations of the agency though they are governed by the board are largely the responsibility of TVA General Manager Lynn Seeber. On several occasions, Jenkins has resisted proposals by the staff to diminish the board's day-today control, particularly over large purchases and certain employe-relations matters. WITHIN THE board itself, Wagner and Jenkins have differed sometimes publicly over the course TVA should take. Earlier this year, they disagreed on how much the agency's legal debt ceiling should be increased.

Wagner favored an increase from $5 billion to $15 billion, but Jenkins saying he feared the high interest payments that could result from such heavy borrowing said $15 billion was too high. Wagner prevailed, and the $15 billion level became TVA's formal recommendation to Congress which later approved that increase. JENKINS ALSO opposed TVA's two newest nuclear plant construction projects mainly because of financial objections. On that issue, he was outvoted by Wagner and TVA Director Don McBride, who left the board when his term expired last year. UPI Taltphato Quite a TAAL ISLAND, Philippines Tool Volcano erupts, spreading ash showers and gases.

The 984-foot volcano awoke this week from six-year sleep. To Await Funds: (Continued From Page One) able to select an entire TVA Board during one term in office. JENKINS, a Nixon appointee, was formerly a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives and, in 1969, was the first Republican to be elected speaker of the snte House since Reconstruction. He also was an attorney in Rogersville, where he still lives. During the past year, Jenkins has said he would like to return to his Rogersville law practice after leaving TVA.

Jenkins said yesterday it is possible he would decide to leave the TVA Board before his term ends in 1981. "ANY PLANS which I might make for the future will take into account the best interests of the people who are served by TVA," he said. "Even if I did decide to resign, if that action would impair the ability of the agency to function, I of course would not make any plans to leave until the board is fully constituted. "The fact that I have considered other opportunities does not mean I have reached a decision," he said. Jenkins, who earns $39,900 annually as a TVA director, apparently has experienced some frustation with his role in Projects PLAINS, Ga.

(AP) -Jimmy Carter said yesterday that if he is elected president he will delay the populist spending programs he has promised until the money to pay for them is available. Charting a political course that responds to Republican accusations that Democrats are reckless, big spenders, Carter told a news conference his administration would attack unemployment and inflation before launching costly new programs. "THERE WILL BE no new programs implemented under Rosy Job (Continued From Page One) jobs their No. 1 issue, charging that Ford has focused too much attention on inflation and too little concern on jobs. Carter accused Ford yesterday of causing the highest unemployment "since the Hoover depression" and said he lacked the leadership and vision to bring about "what this country can be." Rep.

Richard Boiling, vice chairman of the congressional Joint Economic Committee, said the latest figures indicate "more than a lull or pause in economic expansion; it might presage real trouble." AFL-CIO President George promises I have made as aggressively and quickly as we can," he said. "But it doesn't help to give people a little more on Social Security or welfare or veterans benefits or housing programs and then to rob them with inflation." The Democratic presidential nominee and his running mate, Sen. Walter F. Mondale, told reporters they are pleased with the results of the campaign so far and of the improved standing of the ticket in public opinion polls. State Hands Volunteer A Setback (Contioued From Page One) proposal appears to be "unfair, unjust or inequitable." Volunteer Secretary-Treasurer Harry Lester of Nashville said he had not seen the complaint or the order and said he could not understand why Oakley would take such action.

"They are going to have to have some pretty good reasons and they had better be able to back them up," Lester said. "I don't know what in the world we have done to warrant that treatment." WITHOUT CITING specific allegations in the complaint, State Insurance Department spokesmen said the complaint was developed basically along the lines of information about Volunteer which has been published in the Tennessean. Reports on the company's operations began after officials filed in March for the authority to issue $500,000 worth of stock at 50 cents per share. It was the fourth time the company had made a stock proposal since being formed in 1973. The first stock issue was for 5-cent shares, the second for 10-cent shares and the third for 25-cent shares.

During the period, the company acquired only three interests and its largest single source of revenue has been the stock sales. SINCE THE stock application was filed, it was reported that one of the company's interests a cattle ranch in Williamson County-was ended when Volunteer president C. Jon Erwin liquidated $30,000 worth of farm machinery and equipment at auction. That transaction apparently was not reported to the state even though the stock application was still pending. Attempts have also been made to sell the company's 25-acre tract in Coffee County.

A third Volunteer project, a trailer park in Paris, is the object of a legal battle involving former Volunteer president Willie Neese of Paris, a one-time state legislator. OAKLEY'S OFFICE said the specific allegations in the complaint against Volunteer will be made public if the hearing is requested. Volunteer lawyer Larry Snedeker was served a copy of the complaint yesterday, according to insurance department spokesmen. Neither Snedeker nor Erwin could be reached for comment. Oakley's decision to revoke the company's authority to do business came as Volunteer attempted to withdraw its stock proposal and thus remove the matter from the state's hands.

THE COMMISSIONER reported that the letter seeking withdrawal was received late Monday. It was dated Aug. 25 and postmarked Aug. 27. It was also reported that all the allegations in the complaint are against Volunteer as a company and not against specific individuals.

"The investigation is continuing," according to department information officer George Schnitzer. "This order in no way ceases our investigation." DURING THE period allowed for a response to the order, the company can continue its business operations although it has no stock that currently is authorized for sale, according to state officials. If a hearing is requested, it must be held within five to 15 days after the request, and a commissioner's ruling on the hearing is normally made within 30 days. The company first drew widespread public attention because of its stock sales and, in part, because of an "advisory board" listed in the stock prospectus as including numerous prominent Tennessee political figures. INCLUDED IN the list was State Atty.

Gen. Ray Ashley, who has now announced his resignation from both the advisory board and as attorney general. Others included State Supreme Court Justice Joe Henry, State Democratic party Chairman William Farris, State Court of Criminal Appeals Judges Houston God-dard and Lloyd Tatum. All of those have also asked that they be removed from the list of advisers. Hopes Withdrawn (Continued From Page One) made up before they started, didn't they?" Adams told a telvision newsman as he was quickly returned to the Putnam County jail.

Adams already has spent a year in jail, without bond, awaiting a calmer atmosphere in which to try the most shocking case of child abuse in the county's history. Before her husband was driven to Nashville to the Tennessee State Penitentiary, where he will join 29 other men on Death Row, Lorelle Adams was arrested in Crossville and brought to the jail. She was charged yesterday with being an accessory after the fact of murder, a charge which carries a penalty of from one to five years. THEY DID NOT meet, Putnam County Sheriff Jerry Ab-ston said. Abston signed the warrant against her, based on her statements from the witness stand.

He was also the prosecutor in the state's case against Adams. Lorelle, 30, living with her third child, Susan, 3, since last year, "said she kind of expected it," Abston reported. She is in jail in lieu of $25,000 bond, he added. ADAMS, 36, a man for whom speech seems almost painful, had nothing else to say yesterday except to express some surprise he was being taken to the prison so quickly. Abston said it was for "safekeeping." Circuit Court Judge Leon Burns Jr.

deferred sentencing until after Adams' attorneys file a motion for a new trial. "Of course the defendant will want to do so," defense attorney John Poteet told Burns in court. Poteet said later the case presented "some real keen legal questions," including Burns ruling that Lorelle could testify against her husband, despite the old common law rule ttiat one spouse may not testify against another. To do otherwise, Burns said, would be contrary to the rule' purpose of preserving the family, in the case of a crime against a child. FEW PEOPLE expect the death sentence to be carried out, in view of Gov.

Ray Blan-ton's stated opposition to it and the questionable legal status of Tennessee's present law making capital punishment mandatory in the event of a first degree murder conviction. Juror Jerry Cantrell said the panel, which opened its deliberations with a prayer, had no qualms about capital punishment. "Some of them said, 'It doesn't matter what we do, when we don't have the final Poteet said he is relying on Blanton. "I'm confident ne's not going to change his mind," he said. POTEET HAD hastened to shake hands with Dist.

Atty. Gen. Baxter Key Jr. at the end of the hard-fought trial. "Congratulations," he told Key.

hat for?" Key replied. Key said later he thinks the death penalty in Tennessee will be upheld, despite the Supreme Court's ruling striking down similar laws in other states. Adams, he said, is the fourth man he has prosecuted to receive such a sentence in 14 years. The only member of Adams' family present yesterday was his father, Granville Adams, of Indianapolis. He said he had spoken with his son only "a few minutes" during the week.

"HE TOLD me, 'Don't come to me, because you can't talk to me. I'll be under Granville Adams said James had never discussed with him what happened in the family's small house in Algood a year ago. "The only thing I've ever heard him say about anything is on the Witness stand," the old man said. The younger Adams sobbed several times when he de the clerk of the House or any other public body. "NO DETAILED accounting has been made for public scrutiny.

"I believe that the credibility and prestige of the House can be sorely uestioned unless the collection and use of these funds can be shown to be necessary in the official capacity of a member after all public funds have been exhausted." 'Yawn' Carter THE TWO THEN separated, with Carter flying by small plane to Atlanta for a four-hour briefing on national business conditions by a panel of top corporation executives. They included the chief executives of U.S. Steel Metropolitan Life Insurance Reynolds Metals American Telephone and Telegraph Du Pont International Business Machines and Delta Air Lines, and the heads of the New York Stock Exchange and American Bankers Association. lessness among women edged up from 7.6 to 7.7. Jobless rates for white and black workers, at 7.1 and 13.6, respectively, were unchanged last month.

But the rate for black teenagers, which had dropped sharply in July rose from 34.1 to 40.2. THE AVERAGE length of unemployment held steady at 15.5 weeks. Average hourly earnings rose 1 cent over the month to $4.87 in August, boosting average weekly earnings 36 cents to $178.24. Since last August, weekly earnings have risen $11.34, the Labor Department said. Resigns June 14 one for $740, the other $8,152.46.

The suit adds that when the checks were returned to Fidelity Federal, he erased his own name and substituted the names of two businesses, IBM and Lanier Business Products. The third check for $16,825.50 was issued July 26 and was subsequently changed to show NCR Corporation as the recipient, the suit claimed. The suit said the financial institution "has reason to believe" Fee may have written other checks in the same manner. Chernau said auditors are examining the institution's records to check for any other irregularities. High set a court hearing in the case for 8:30 a.m.

Sept. 15. my administration unless we can be sure that the cost is compatible with my goal of having a balanced budget before the end of my term," Carter said. He said a tough management program must first be installed and that useless programs must be weeded out. "If that requires a delay, for instance, in implementing welfare reform or health care in order to accomplish the goal that I have set of a balanced budget, then these delays would be there," Carter said.

"WE'LL CARRY out the Outlook Meany, who supports Carter, noted that during the two years of Ford's presidency unemployment has risen from 5.5 to 7.9. "The President says he's going to run on his record," Meany said. "Well, so be it." Unemployment had declined gradually since reaching a recession peak of 8.9 in May 1975. But it jumped .2 in June and another .3 in July. The unemployment rate is based on a nationwide survey of 47,000 households.

A more accurate but less extensive survey is made of non-farm business payrolls, which in August showed employment rose by 240,000 to 79.4 million. his position, which he had held since February 1975. Fee joined Fidelity Federal in September 1974 as financial manager after previously working as a CPA with the firm of Peat, Marwick and Mitchell, the accounting firm for the financial institution. Stanley Chernau, the attorney who prepared the lawsuit, described the incident as "a very sad sort of thing." "MR. FEE IS a very nice guy," Chernau said.

"He has a family. He's very religious. He goes to the Church of Christ. He doesn't smoke or drink "As far as we know, he's a very cheerful guy quiet, not flashy." Fee's salary was described as being in the neighborhood of $20,000 per year. Records in ever regained consciousness," juror Cantrell, an insurance salesman, said.

He and Ramsey, who works for General Telephone, said the jurors did not believe either parent was telling the truth in their testimony, even when they agreed. "I think they were both lying," Ramsey said. "They may have been right, up to a point. But we had to not put too much emphasis on what either one said. Relying on what they felt were "objective" witnesses, like Beaver and Abston and TBI agent E.C.

(Dusty) Hale, the nine men and three women on the jury concluded Adams was guilty, Ramsey said, but divided 10-2 on the question of premeditation. "The main thing and why it was tnrasned around so many hours, was in trying to decide if it was premeditation or not." He said the jury finally decided that Adams must have meant to kill the child, because he kept on and on with the beating. Key said yesterday he will present evidence to the grand jury this month against Mrs. Adams. "I'm going to give them the whole ball of wax and let them pick their own program," he said.

"If they believe her, they can indict her as an accessory after the fact. If they don't believe her, they can indict her as a principal." THERE WERE reports yesterday that some of the jurors felt so strongly they had asked to testify against Mrs. Adams before the grand jury, Defense attorney Poteet ad charged that Key was acting improperly in not indicting Mrs. Adams in the first place. Beard Special Fund Said Not Taxable Rep.

Robin Beard of the 6th District flatly denied yesterday a report in the Tennessean that he would have to pay taxes on a $26,575 constituent service" fund The report was based on an interview with Beard's accountant, Stan Huckaby, in Washington. I WOULD have to pay taxes on that money if any was left over or if one penny of it had been spent for personal use. That is not the case on either count," Beard said. The congressman said there is slightly more than $5,000 left in the three-year-old fund, which he said he uses to pay expenses beyond his congressional allow ances. He said the $5,000 will not be used until after the Nov.

2 election. MEANWHILE, a spokesman for the Internal Reve nue Service said vesterdav the IRS considers the money as income for the member of Congress, but added that the member can take deductions for legitimate office ex penses. "To the extent that they (office accounts) are used for legitimate business ex penses, the congressman can get a deduction," said Rod Young, an IRS spokes man in wasnington. The Tennessean reported yesterday Beard To Pay i axes on una. i ne newspa per regrets the error.

Fidelity Officer Named in Suit JULIUS SHISKIN, commissioner, of labor statistics, said the summer surge in unemployment was due in part to the rapid rise in the labor force. He noted in congressional testimony that the work force has risen by 930,000 since May, a number far greater than the economy was able to absorb. There were a few encouraging developments in the August figures, including a decline in the jobless rate for adult especially those heading households. Their unemployment rate declined from 6.1 to 5.9. However, unemployment among teenagers, which had been falling since January, rose from 18.1 to 19.7.

Job the Metro property assessor's office show he purchased his Oak Hill home for $48,900 in April 1975. CHERNAU SAID he did not know of any financial problems Fee was having. Hollins declined to discuss his client's financial condition. Hollins said he has discussed the case with Asst. U.S.

Atty. Joe Brown, but Brown said he could not comment on whether criminal charges will be brought. Overton stressed that any losses which the financial institution may suffer are covered by the federal government and by separate bonds carried on all employes. ACCORDING TO the suit, Fee issued himself two checks service or other forms of constituent aid. Bass said official House records show that Beard did not use his 33 congressionally-paid trips to the district last year, but apparently made some trips on money from the fund.

BASS REQUEST for a formal audit of the fund was made in a letter to Rep. John J. Flynt chairman of the House Ethics Committee. By KENNETH JOST Joseph A. Fee, described as a quiet, religious family man, resigned yesterday as treasurer of Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association after being charged in a civil suit with embezzling more than $25,000.

Fidelity Federal Board Chairman Stanley Overton said Fee resigned after the suit was filed yesterday morning in Chancery Court. FEE, 32, OF 876 Forest Acres Drive, could not be reached for comment. His lawyer, John Hollins, said: "The matter is still being investigated and we're cooperating fully with Fidelity Federal and with officials at the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office." The suit charged that Fee issued himself three checks totaling $25,717.96 in June and July, deposited the funds to his own account, then erased his name and substituted the names of businesses when the checks were returned. CHANCELLOR C.

Allen High issued an order freezing any accounts held by Fee at Nashville's three largest banks. Deputy sheriffs served the court papers on the three banks before going to Fidelity Federal's downtown office, where officials had confronted Fee with the charges. Overton said Fee resigned Bass Asks House Agency To Audit Beard Fund (Continued From Page One) IN A STATEMENT after Bass released a letter calling for the audit, Beard said he welcomes an investigation of the fund by the press, the public or the Ethics Committee. Bass said one reason the fund is questionable is that Beard has not spent all the public money available for travel to the district, telephone "A member of the House of Representatives, namely Robin L. Beard, has admitted the generation and use of private funds, which he states are to pay the expenses of carrying out his official duties as a member of Congress since public funds are not adequate," Bass wrote to Flynt.

"Exhaustive research reveals that no accounting of these funds has been filed with.