The Camden News from Camden, Arkansas • Page 15

WILL BE OPEN Short Brims, Long Brims or Tam Styles With Bills White, Beige, Green, Navy or Red Lightweight, Cool Straws One Size Fits All DISPOSABLE UCHTERS Cotton In A Choice of Colors Solids With Solid Contrasting Trims Great For The Hot Weather Ahead Ladies Sizes 6 to 16 Butane Lighters with Adjustable Flame Choice Of Colors Convenient For Home, Car, and Office Use Dynamics Innocent ()l Counts KURT WORTH, Tex A ruled Monday ihat General Dynamics Corp builder of the Kill warplane, is innocent of criminal conspiracy charges. The panel of seven men and live women rejected govern ment claims that company conspired to the Air Korce out of $114,000. The indictment, handed down last year, accused I he company also ot attempting to disguise the alleged Iraud by altering records. I' S. District Court Judge Leo Brewster had sent jurors home Kriday after two weeks ot testimony.

by reminding them of the seriousness of the charges against the company. The judge advised the jurors they could consider testimony saying Air Korce regulations forbid granting contracts to companies convicted of trying to defraud the government. "It a luultibillion dollar con- Brewster told the panel, adding that the regulations specify the firm upon conviction. Cuwipany attorney William Konville of Dallas contended tal Dynamics would not tMiuusly have tried the Air Korce out ot $114,000 it has been working under a $4 i billion contract to product- the swmgwmg aircralt Five ounded in High Court Texas 1 unbattle SAN AUGUST INK, lex. (AP) A man holed up in a ramshackle farm house in this re mote pmey woods area wounded five persons, including three law officers, as they approached the house Monday looking for a 58-year-old woman fatally shot less than an hour before.

Victor Van I-acy, 67, was later charged with murder for the death of Mattie Mae Clark, 38, ins common law wife. He also was charged with five counts of assault with intent to murder for the other shootings. Stories pieced together from witnesses indicated that the three law officers, an ambulance driver, and an onlooker were hit by shotgun blasts as they made their way one at a time from a led dirt road up to the house San Augustine County sheriff's deputies refused any comment on the incident arid told some witnesses not to talk to reporters. The sporadic shooting began at 8 a when Mrs. Clark was shot, and ended two hours later when Van Lacy surrendered to officers outside his home in the isolated Attoyac bottom region, 20 miles south of San Augustine.

Van Lacy had been armed with a long-barrelled I6guage shotgun and a .22 caliber rifle, the Department of Public Safety said. Ambulance driver Lonnell Garner, 45, was the first casualty. He was hit in the arm and shoulder as he drove up to the house in response to a call from an unidentified woman about the Clark shooting. Then came San Augustine County Deputy Sheriff Richard Davis, 20 who was hit in the face with four buckshot pellets and caught another in the eye. Roger Williams, who had been riding in the car with Davis, was hit in the head with another volley.

Barricades Erected DALE, Ark. (AH) Ific state Highway Department has erected barricades on old Arkansas 94, which runs into Beaver in the hope of preventing further loss of life. Del Kendall of the department's office here said Monday large signs were being constructed and, when in place, the barricades would be moved. Kendall said the two "open signs will be 1,500 feet from the water. Similar signs will be located 1.000 feet from the water and speed brakes will l)e installed near the end of the road, he said Two persons drowned recently after driving into the lake Backs Ruling; By Goodson Palmer News Bureau LITTLE RUCK Clark Circuit Court Judge John W.

Goodson Jr. was correct when he awarded the Monsanto Co. and Matthews Oil Co. the cost of defending themselves in a personal damage suit, the Arkansas Supreme Court said Monday. The companies' appeal grew out of an accident which occurred Aug.

3, 1970 at a Clark County Lion Oil Co. station. An employe of the station, Wendell Wade, was burned as he was putting gas into a vehicle owned by the South Central Ark. Electrical Cooperative Inc and driven by William G. Helms A Clark County jury later awarded Monsanto Co.

and Matthews Oil Co. a $20,500 judgment against Helms and the electric cooperative on grounds the driver had been negligent because he lighted a match while his vehicle was being filled. Monsanto and Matthews received the sums to cover the costs of their defense based on indeminity clauses in their lease agreements. Monsanto leased the station to Matthews Oil which, in turn, subleased the property to laymon Buck Buck filed the appeal, saying he was liable only for workmen's compensation which he had paid to Wade. 14 Comden (Ark.) Comden Newt Tuesday, July 3, 1973 Former Mayor Indicted On Bossier City Corruption Charges BOSSIER CITY.

La. Indictments were returned here Monday against former Mayor George L. Nattin and four other men on charges growing out of an investigation into alleged corruption in the city. The indictments included charges ranging from public bribery, malfeasance and failure to report income Named in the indictments were Nattin, his son George Nattin his brother Waylan Nattin, assistant Police Chief Sammie Teutsch, and police major D. Methvtn, who was in charge of the vice squad A spokesman for the Bossier Parish Sheriffs Office said Sheriff Willie Waggonner refused to mug, iiool, or print any of those indicted late Monday, although they were booked The former mayor was ac cused of one count of public bribery in allegedly accepting $300 from a Shreveport contractor to permit the contractor to install air-conditioning equipment in Bossier City.

George Nattin Sr and his son were accused of one count of public contract fraud by using their positions to secure expenditures of public funds into the Louisiana Soil Stabilization of which the former mayor was a stockholder Nattin senior and Waylan Nattin were accused of three counts of public bribery. According to the indictments, they accepted between $100 and $300 weekly from a night club operator to allow the club to conduct gambling games and ignore legal closing hours, and also accepted $1,500 from the same club operator in 1968 and another $700 in 1970. Waylan Nattin, an agent for the Stale Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, was indicted on three counts of public bribery 1971 and 1972 and on malfeasance. He was suspended without pay Monday by the ABC Commission Director, Virgil Joffrion Nattin senior, Methvin and Teutsch were also indicted for two counts of malfeasance for allegedly failing to enforce public laws and "knowingly prohibiting other police officials under their authority to enforce gambling and liquor Methvin was accused of one count of public bribery' by accepting weekly payments of $100 to $150 from nightclub owners to permit gambling on their premises. He was also charged with failing to report income of $1,752 in 1970 and $1,776 in 1971, both allegedly paid him by a Shreveport construction firm Bonds were set at $1,000 on each count other than public bribery, and at $2,500 for the public bribery charges..