The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 39

Palm Beach Post, Thursday, August 15, 1974 C3 "1 i Til i i Witnesses Claim Coverage Slanted TOYS SIXES HOIKS SP02TS JUVEKEE LIONEL PLAY WORLD IS HEADQUARTERS FOR YEAR ROUND TOYS AND WHEEL GOODS Wi thrift ban Florida's (arpst alliens, mr 4,000 toys laHtaieii ii stack, to aid day oat. few ifcis first it Usui socsiins woks to advises. Lewi st prices tenuis of ear taytiif cwtr wt kiy ktttir aid pass Ba saviais to ysi tliroBjb our low Dseaeat pricis. Our stepson iro ceostutty clacking to uiki son osr pricis an always its lowtst 850SEB (mCQSS GE) Wi QDW ROSS "EUR0PA 10" 26" 10 SPEED BIKE Fully lugged diamond frame Shimano 10 speed eagle derailleur Dual stem shifter lever controls Chainguard kick stand Complete BMA6 safety reflector pack included In carton By MONA ROSS Post Staff Writer FORT LAUDERDALE A substitute music teacher, a car salesman-fiction writer, and former Gov. Claude Kirk's campaign manager testified yesterday that they felt Post and Times coverage of the school superintendent and countv school svstem was slanted and unfair during the 1969-1972 period.

Former Palm Beach County School Supt. Lloyd Early is suing Palm Beach Newspapers its editors and education writers for libel damages exceeding $3 million. The trial enters its fourth day of testimony today in Broward County Circuit Court where the case was transferred on request of Early's attorney. Oran Gough an advertising man who was formerly with WEAT-TV. testified that following Post and Times articles concerning Early over a 14-month period beginning in 1969, the former administrator "became tired, overwrought and had difficulties in his relations with other governmental leaders and people in the community." you know of any other superintendent in Florida of which the same could not be said during that troubled era''" asked Judge Victor W'ehle.

a retired St. Petersburg judge who is presiding over the two-week trial. Gough said he could not answer the question. In his complaint Early alleges that 108 news stories, articles and cartoons appearing in the two publications "ridiculed humiliated and embarrassed" him and caused a loss of reputation, mental anguish and physical stress. Early testified earlier that the articles contained "millions and billions of half-truths." He said he felt the newspapers, some School Board members and his deputy superintendent were "working in league" to get him ousted as head of the school system.

Edgar C. Bundy. a winter Palm Beach resident who is executive secretary of the Church League of America, an organization that publishes a monthly newsletter, called the Post and Times coverage of Early "a personal attack or vendetta" as well as "irresponsible journalism." "Assuming that Mr. Early was inept, ut-terlv incompetent and unable to perform his job. and the newspaper felt that, would you still feel this was a personal vendetta?" asked the judge.

Mrs. Ruth Thomas, widow of the late John P. Thomas, an Illinois state senator, testified that Early became "very troubled, embarrassed and hurt" because of the unfavorable publicity. Mrs. Thomas, a former campaign manager for Kirk, and current Palm Eeach County campaign manager for Jack Eckerd, a candidate for the U.S.

Senate, said she advised the former governor not to suspend Early, but her advice was not heeded. Kirk removed Early from his superintendent position for a 10-week period in 1972. Wayne Fisher, a salesman for Stewart Pontiac and a fiction writer who resides in Palm Springs, said people in the community lost confidence in Early as a school superintendent because of the Post and Times articles. "A great many people knew that I had supported Lloyd in his campaign (for election)," he said. "After reading these articles in the paper they made fun of Mr.

Early and it cast a reflection on me as an associate and a friend. Consequently. I had to defend him." Mrs. Lorraine Crowell. a Jupiter mother of four who was a substitute music teacher and a columnist for "Outlook." an area weekly newspaper, said the "school system was being misrepresented in the newspapers." She described defendants Jane Arpe.

Times education writer, and Tom Sawyer, former Post School Board reporter, as "disdainful" people who would "smirk and giggle and laugh" at School Board meetings. Joseph Farish. Early's lawyer, read into the court record various depositions taken from officers of Cox Enterprises the parent company of Palm Beach Newspapers Inc. The corporate officers testified that editorial policies of both papers were placed in the hands of Robert Kirkpatrick, Times editor, and Gregory Favre. former Post editor who is now news director of WPLG-TV in Miami.

Both are named in the suit as defendants. Kirkpatrick and Favre both said in their depositions that each newspaper had an editorial goal of making the office of school superintendent an appointed one rather than elected. However, the two editors denied that their support for the appointed position colored news articles regarding Early or the school system. (eft 77 Joy SAVE 23.20 REG. 82.97 wm7.

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Ocean Blvd. since 1893, will be torn down this Mrs. John A. Lee. who inherited the house four years ago from her mother, has refused to comment on her decision to have it demolished.

Her attornev, Harrv Scuff-resistant and washable. Stewart, said. "It's just not economically feasible to keep that 80-year-old house sitting there." The house was partially damaged by fire in November 1973. and Stewart said it has been burglarized several times since then. Built during 1893-94 by Charles W.

Bingham of Cleveland, the house is named "Figulus." meaning "place of the potter." It is considered a fine example of Victorian sin- gle-style architecture, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places last year. Mrs. Lee. granddaughter of the original owner, has enlarged and renovated a cottage, just north of the main house. She plans to live there.

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The house, designed by master carpenters, is constructed of materials brought down by boat from Ohio. The concrete roof, built to withstand hurricane winds, is chained to 18-inch girders. The state study concluded that the carpenter-designed house is "perhaps more sensitive than most houses designed by architects today." The house probably will be torn down in September. A. Schaefer Motion Denied by Court The 4th District Court of Appeal has denied a petition that would have freed convicted murderer Gerard Schaefer pending his appeal.

Schaefer's attorney, Public Defender Elton Schwarz argued that Schaefer ought to be released because he was tried with- out first having been indicted by a grand jury. In her argument on the motion, Assistant Atty. Gen. C. Marie Bernard maintained that the law requiring indictments for all capital crimes had not gone into effect at the time Schaefer was tried.

-Schaefer last year was convicted of slaying 17-year-old Georgia Jessup of Fort Lauderdale and 16-year-old Susan Place of Oakland Park. Trial testimony indicated that the two had been tied to trees on Hutchinson Island, mutilated, sexually molested after death and their bodies dismembered. a former Martin County sheriff's deputy, is serving, his sentence of life imprisonment at Raiford State Prison. "Since the court dismissed the petition without prejudice, we'll bring the same issues up again at the appeal," Schwarz said yesterday. 7 HLUEAH 1 1 NORTH MIAMI 12115 BISCAYNE WESTCHESTER SHOPPING CENTER 8621 CORAL WAY 1170 WEST 49th STREET PALM SPRINGS MILE BOULEVARD AT 123rd.

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