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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION UivSMe 8 9 Deaths Classifieds SECTION Thursday, April 23, 1981 Johnston Gets 6 Months For Bribery Ex-State Rep. To Appeal Verdict, Challenge Special Prosecutor LCVVISi Gnzzara 1 i court last October to prosecute the case because the bribery attempt involved the district attorney. However, a representative from Peek's office had presented evidence on the matter to the grand jury which returned the indictment. "My contention is that if a special prosecutor was needed after the case got under way, a special prosecutor should have presented it to the grand jury," Childs said. Special prosecutor Martin, who has a private law practice in Atlanta, said Wednesday he would have been surprised if the case had not been appealed.

Martin noted that Childs had raised the special-prosecutor issue prior to the trial but that U.S. Magistrate Joel Feldman had ruled that the involvement of the district attorney's office did not prejudice the presentation of the case to the grand jury. Bardill's. The charge against Bardill was dropped after it was disclosed that he was an undercover agent for the FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation at the time of the bribery attempt. After his sentencing Wednesday, Johnston told U.S.

District Court Judge Horace Ward that he was "very sorry. I wish I was not the fellow standing here this morning." Johnston is free on a $10,000 bond pending the appeal. The former legislator's attorney, Mobley Childs, said he filed a notice of appeal in Judge Ward's court immediately after sentencing. Childs said that he tentatively plans to appeal on the grounds that evidence presented by the state failed to prove that Johnston had a "predisposition" to commit bribery, and that there was confusion over the selection of a special prosecutor in the case. Special prosecutor Jack Martin was appointed by the By Linda Field Constitution SUff Writer Former state Rep.

Joe Johnston, convicted on an attempted-bribery charge, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court to serve six months in prison and was fined $1,500. Johnston's attorney filed a notice of appeal, preventing immediate execution of the sentence. In addition to the prison term, Johnston was sentenced to serve 18 months on probation. The former DeKalb County legislator and Terry Wayne Bardill, who is now serving time in federal prison in another case, were indicted last September on charges of attempting to bribe then-DeKalb-Rockdale County District Attorney Randall Peek.

According to taped evidence and testimony presented during Johnston's trial, Peek was offered $1,000 by Bardill to drop a burglary charge against the nephew of a friend of 'Only 1 Word Needs To Be Said: Amen SIX MONTH SENTENCE Ex-Rep. Joe Johnston This column recently examined certain fund-raising techniques of television evangelists Oral Roberts and Jimmy Swaggart Not everybody was happy about that However, a number of readers have offered to pray for this column, and this column would like to say bow much it appreciates the concern. Now, the mail: "You are going to burn in hell for eternity!" A Christian Atlanta A 'RaiseSy NotR Witness: Williams Case Car 'Stolen' "I pray your eyes will be opened. Jesus loves you." Marylyn Green Tunnel Hill "What a disappointment you have become. I thought you were Uie last of the good guys.

However, it seems you have scraped bottom in your continuing attacks on Christianity in general, and Baptists in particular. "If what's-his-name wants to give $46 to Jimmy Swaggart or Reverend Ike, it is his business and his right until newspapers finally destroy Christianity, which is their intent, according to every paper I pick up." Margaret E. Kallock Forest Park if "iivi S.M tS- I lit! -nUvAsJ r'Nsl- -v A 4 i yt'M "I'd say guys like Jimmy Swaggart have done more good in this world than all the newspapers ever written. Guys like you have been writing columns like yours ever since papyrus -and what good has it done? haven't stopped one crime, changed a single life, cured one alcoholic, or healed one sick person. Mike Triable Marietta By Charlene P.

Smith-Williams Conililution Stiff Writer A rental car which figures in a felony traffic case against state Rep. Hosea Williams was stolen before the wreck which led to Williams' indictment, a witness testified Wednesday in DeKalb County Superior Court. However, Terry L. Randolph, general manager of Williams' establishment the Bingo Palace, said she did not notice the theft until after the crash. Williams, D-DeKalb, was indicted last summer on felony charges of operating a motor vehicle after having his driver's license revoked as a habitual offender and of leaving the scene of an accident in which the other driver was injured.

Mrs. Randolph who also is an em- ployee of the Atlanta chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference told the court that as far as she knew, Williams was in the Bingo Palace when the rental car was stolen and the wreck occurred. The witness said she had put about $1,400 in Bingo Palace receipts in the trunk of the car before the theft. The money was still in the trunk after the accident according to other testimony. In addition to her duties at the Bingo Palace and the SCLC, Mrs.

Randolph works part time at the Southeastern Chemical Co. which, according to Williams' attorney, Ray C. Norvell, is owned and operated by the Williams family. "It is a corporation, and they are the owners and controllers," Norvell said. After completion of her testimony, Judge Richard Bell sequestered Mrs.

Randolph from other witnesses after court officials told him that she had been discussing her testimony with witnesses See TRIAL, Page 2-C "Would you have been as concerned if he (the old man who was asked for $46 by Jimmy Swaggart's wife) had spent the $46 on booze or cigarettes, or if he had gambled it away? I doubt it" Evelyn Brantley Marietta "I still enjoy reading your columns, but please leave God's anointed alone, orjrou will regret it. God is a powerful Mary Batter Alabama 2 Nabbed In Try To Fly Red Banner "Your recent article about Oral Roberts was very good. Several years ago, I wrote to him, asking him to pray for me. I got a letter from his organization saying if I'd send a donation, Mr. Roberts would pray for me.

"So, I said, 'No Mrs. James Martin York, Ala. Slot Hnotot ttnna iwindwr Pat Frugoli And Cloria Thomas (left) Cheer While Men Listen (right) To Skit By 'The Sisters Of No Mercy (top) Nine-To-Fivers Tell It To Their Bosses In Central City Park "You are going straight to hell, and I. for one, am glad of it! It's exactly what you deserve." A Follower of Jesas El Paso, Texas "In reference to your article about Jimmy Swaggart, only one word needs to be said: 'AMEN! Sharon Ward Henderson Birmingham, Ala. By Carole Ashklnaze CemiilutiM SH Writ Susan Miller had a question for the working women in a crowd of about ISO at Central City Park Wednesday.

"How many of you got roses for National Secretaries Day?" A couple of dozen hands went up. "How many of you got raises?" she asked. No hands went up. "How many of you would like to trade in your rose for a raise?" Dozens of women who had been sitting on the grass jumped to their feet, waving both hands in the opportunities" for advancement, she said. To drive home their point, the sponsors gave away flowers of their own, put on a skit debunking bosses who expect their secretaries to fetch their coffee and dry cleaning, asked women to fill out questionnaires about the "stresses" of their jobs, and told "Raises, Not Roses" T-shirts, "9-to-5" calendars and records, and coffee mugs with the inscription, "I Pour My Own." "You want to know what stress is?" asked Pat Bradbury, who works as a secretary for five certified public accountants.

"I've got hives from the See SECRETARIES, Page f-C air. The point of the gathering, which had been billed as a "Raises and Roses Celebration," was to focus attention on what secretaries and other office workers really want from their bosses. It's not the "token" recognition that comes once a year on National Secretaries Day with a gift of flowers, a box of candy or a free lunch, according to Virginia Hewitt-Mauras of Atlanta Working Women, which sponsored the event on behalf of an estimated 200,000 women office workers in the metro area. Working women, who earn an average of 59 cents for every dollar earned by men, want "raises, not roses, respect all year and Increased By Fran Hesser Contlltutton tH Wrlfer Two members of the Revolutionary Communist Party were arrested by security guards at the state Capitol Wednesday while attempting to hoist a red cloth up the flagpole in an early celebration of May Day on May 1. The pair had boasted beforehand in a prepared press release that by the time reporters received the message, "the Red Flag will already be up over the Capitol where the eyes of people all over the world can see what has been done." "Shows you can't believe everything fou read, doesn't it?" quipped Steve oik, director of the Georgia Building Authority, whose security guards nabbed the pair in the process of hoisting their red flag in the air.

Polk said Sandra Marie Plunkett, 24, of 2549 Jones St, East Point and Joseph Jewell Young, 52, of 71 Memorial Drive S.E. were charged with criminal trespass and misuse of the flag. A spokesman at the Fulton County Jail said the two were being held in lieu of $1,000 bond each. He said guards had been alerted to the possibility of trouble as May Day approached after an incident in last year when a man was arrested for painting communist slogans on the state Capitol with black spray paint Polk said Young and Ms. Plunkett had succeeded in lowering the American flag and the flag of the state of Georgia and were preparing to hoist a piece of red cloth when guards nabbed them.

"There's nothing that can stop the Red Flag from going up not here, not anywhere in the world," the press release had said. IRS Sells Thevis Firm's Property Inside "I know there are some TV and radio preachers out for the almighty dollar, but Jimmy Swaggart is NOT one of them. He Is truly carrying forth God's wort "Those that know the Lord know the Holy Spirit enlightens Christians, so they know by listening to these preachers which ones are of God and which ones to turn off and pray for. Mr. Crizzard.

there are many Christians praying for you." Linda Stewart Birmingham, Ala. It will be a cold day In hell when one of those leeches uses my money to buy his $300 suits or his Cadillac Wayne Sanders Cullman, Ala. "Despite your attacks on his workers and his followers, Jesus still loves you. But that don't mean I have to." An Ex-Ruder Macon company's office equipment, netting only $14,000 against the $11 million IRS claims Fidelity owes the government In Atlanta, two cash registers and three movie projectors brought IRS $200, said Hollingsworth. Other auctions occurred in Columbus and Athens, Ca4 Austin, Houston and San Antonio, Texas; Memphis, Birmingham, New Orleans, and St Louis, Mo.

Last month, federal authorities said that Thevis, although behind bars of a VS. prison, continued to communicate with personnel of Fidelity. IRS officials determined that Fidelity was dispersing Its assets, and IRS obtained a federal court order to auction the company's property in an attempt to meet the tax liability, IRS agents padlocked Fidelity's bookstores and movie outlets in preparation for the auctions. By Bean Cstts CaniMutio vtfi mm The Internal Revenue Service, attempting to satisfy a tax assessment of $11 million, auctioned on Wednesday property In six states of the Atlanta-based Fidelity Equipment Leasing which was once the central company of Michael Thevis' nationwide multimillion-dollar pomograpy business. Not sold Wednesday wen between 12 and IS tons of sexually explicit movies, books and magazines seized by the MS last month.

An IRS spokesman acknowledged the "sensitive" nature of what would be a federal agency selling material that in some localities would be obscene and unlawful to possess. The present official position of the IKS, laid spokesman Giles Hoi-lingsworth, Is that "no decision as to the disposition of the 'adult' material has been made Suit Fights Flea Market Evict Date Page2-C Perdue, Underwood Reach Truce Page 2-C See AtCTION. Page I What was told at auction Wednesday was part of the See FLAG, Page 2-C I 4.