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A- arm-- -r -f 1 j- 1 1 1 THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION I ji 1 jj g. i- Saturday, July 10, 1982 Page 1-B 'NsJt VJ-A KJ KJ lOvJ ron MUcaii iter vims iim iiuuim oarii pian hudspcth 1 I Is banishment from Smyrna By Gail Epstein Stiff WrlMr Former President Jimmy Carter appears to have taken an active personal role in pushing for Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young's Great Park plan during recent weeks, including a telephone conversation with Gty Councilman Ira Jackson on the day the full council approved Young's plan. Jackson said Friday that during the Tuesday council meeting at which Young's plan was approved, Carter said during a telephone conversation that he appreciated the councilman's efforts to reach a compromise that would ensure passage of the plan. In addition, officials said Carter may. meet personally with the state Department of Transportation Board next week before the board votes on the plan.

A major component of Young's proposal is Carter's proposed presidential library, which under provisions of the mayor's plan would be built with private funds and maintained by the National Park Service at no cost to Atlanta taxpayers. Carter has said repeatedly that if the library couldn't be built on the Great Park land with the provision of adequate access, he would be forced to have it built elsewhere. Neighborhood groups have campaigned against construction of a roadway through the proposed park, but the City Council Tuesday approved Young's park plan including the road with some modifications. The neighborhood groups have not opposed location of the presidential library in the park. Carter spokesman Dan Lee said this week that a visit by Carter to the DOT board "has been discussed," but that no firm commitments had been made pending the return of DOT Commissioner Tom Moreland from an out-of-town trip on Monday.

When asked if Carter would address the DOT board, DOT Deputy Commissioner Hal Rives said this week: "I think there's some consideration being given to that." v. Angelo Fuster, the mayor's Great Park coordinator, said it was his understanding that "the president or a high-level representative will meet with the DOT board sometime next week." Lee pointed out that he, Carter confidant Charles Kirbo and former Attorney General Griffin Bell had all addressed the DOT board at yarious times as Carter representatives regarding the issue of building a multilane parkway through the 219-acre plot of land known as Great Park. Carter also sent handwritten letters to City Council members on the day of a crucial council Transportation Committee vote on the plan urging council members to vote for See PARK, Page 3-B same as death? Short shots around town: Death in Smyrna is redundant I Armchair I wonder if being banned from that won-fderful hamlet is the same? I'll soon' find out, for the other night the Smyrna City Council officially passed a resolution "banning Ron Hudspeth and his silly haircut from the city limits of I Smyrna until he has apologized to her citizens." The proclamation claims Hudspeth works for "a Yankee newspaper" and is guilty of continuing "to ridicule, slander, humiliate and poke fun at the City of Smyrna." Gee, folks, u'm sorry. Can I help it if everytime someone mentions the word "Smyrna," I everyone laughs? Maybe you should take the lead of your sister city, won-derful Snellville do I hear snickers out there? and manufacture a bumper sticker. "Everyone In Smyrna Is Ladies, are you dat-fing, or worse yet, married to a Russ Fisher type? Russ claims he's helping solve the gasoline crisis.

He never takes his dates anywhere. 'Dying words9 verdict reversed generals convene Gathering of warriors ncludes 'dragon hunters9 i RimfPPti STintims- This one spotted by Douglasville's Frank Ellis: "Be Very Careful. End Is In Katie Fisher saw this one on the back of an old, old Cadillac at Perimeter Mall: "If You mmmm. mmsk "i 4 5 1 iii-rni umi inn wrraniiin if 'it 'tip- AaiM i i i "in i ii i'i ii i -mi Don't Have An Oil Well, Get One." And Booth O'Bryant came across this bumper. snicker at Piedmont and Peacbtree: "Twins Are Two With politicians campaigning everywhere these days, College Park George Denny spotted this one: "Never Re-Elect The old Excelsior Mill on North Avenue re opens next Friday night as the Excelsior Cinema Pub, featuring booze, food, movies and the popular $1 admission.

Will Atlanta go ape? If it's like other cities, it will when Channel 46 shows the 3-D movie "Gorilla at Large" July 22. When the movie played Miami, 500,000 bought the 3-D glasses. In Philadelphia, 1.3 million purchased the special specs. The glasses cost a half, buck and Can be purchased at any Reeds Drugs. Channel 46 officials say part of the pro- By BeauCutts Stiff Writw -4-wra The state Supreme Court Friday reversed the Dodge County murder conviction of 49-year-old Arthur Lee' Holcomb because the jury was not properly instructed on the legal uses of a "dying declaration" by the man who was killed.

In a unanimous decision, the court noted that a jury can listen to hear- say testimony related by someone wh6 heard a "dying declaration," but the dying person must be "in the article of death" in immediate danger, of dying at the time of the declaration. In this case, Elijah "Junior" Sheffield, who exchanged gunfire with Holcomb at Eastman on Nov. 8, 1980, claimed he was dying, then related the circumstances of the shooting and asserted that he fired in self-defense, according to testimony in the trial given by Sheffield's sister and in-law. However, a physician testified that when Sheffield made the he was in good condition and in no danger of dying. After medical com-j plications occurred two days later.

Sheffield died. According to testimony during the. trial, Holcomb fired five shots and, Sheffield three, and both men were; hit. Holcomb eventually lost a kidney. The shooting stemmed from a rock-' throwing incident involving one of Holcomb's children.

The Supreme Court's ruling said the trial judge had stated he would, instruct the jury on elements of a "dying declaration" but failed to do so. The ruling does not preclude a retrial of Holcomb, who had been given a life sentence. See COURT, Page 5-B By Howard Pousner Stiff Wrltif Stephen Ford was so embroiled in a tense game of Atari's "Empire Strikes Back" Friday morning that he hardly noticed the sweat sopping through the bill of his Ford (as in Motors) baseball cap. ASGARD '82 (or Atlanta Simulation Gaming, Adventure, Role Playing and Demonstrations) was just revving up at the Sheraton Airport Inn, but the overalls-clad Ford was already in overdrive. His game finally over, the 26-year-old unemployed electronics worker grabbed the white towel wrapped around his neck and ran it across his flushed face.

Around him, dozens of war-game enthusiasts were still arriving for the three-day convention, billed as the first ever in the In all, some 400 were expected to converge there to do battle in such games as "Dungeons Dragons," view fantasy flicks such as "Dragonslayer," attend demonstrations in miniature soldier painting, dress up, in outfits of armor and the like for a costume contest, and check out rows and rows of war' games with names such as "Attila the Hun," "Campaigns of Napoleon," "Pirates and Plunder" and "Zulu Attack." The irony of the scene an army of war-game and fantasy fanatics organizing at a time when nuclear disarmament has become a national issue didn't escape Ford. "While playing war and video games, you release aggressions. If you didn't release them here, Lord knows where it all would go," he said. Perhaps. Extra sessions of advanced "Dungeons St Dragons" a fantasy role-playing game in which participants assume the roles of adventure-seeking characters, search for treasures and fight monsters and other vile creatures had to be added for the weekend.

"There's no winning or losing in except if you die. Then, of course, you lose," said Kenneth Raymer, 20, one of the conven yceeds will go to the Easter Seals char- ny. me movie, uictuenuuiy, is in SUN Ptwlo-Sltve Out Terry Wilk measures his next shot to see if he can get a general. i vintage and, surprisingly, has a cast that includes Cameron Mitchell, Anne I Bancroft, Raymond Burr, Lee J. Cobb ana Lee Marvin.

t- HUDCAPS: Speaking of ape-like ac tivities, U-Zoo And the southside bar trying to flood the Guinness Book of Records, will host a soccer party Wednesdcfe night, and members of the The growing interest in soldiering and sorcery, which seeded on high school and colli lege campuses, doesn't necessarily signal the emergence of a generation of warmongers, Williams said. "Most of us would rather play war games on the table than to see one hap-pen," he explained. "Bascially, they're a lot of fun," said Bar- rett. "They're escapist You can forget about I bills and all the other stuff. It's the same rea- son why movies are popular.

Network TV has deteriorated so bad, I hardly touch the dial anymore." Raymer, who attends Qemson University; started playing three years ago, as did his partners Georgia State University student Bill Williams, 21, and Georgia Tech student Joel Barrett, 19. The trio noticed the preponderance of conventions devoted to "Star Trek" and comic books and decided that "we needed a convention in Atlanta," said Raymer. "So we spent the whole summer organizing it" War-gaming is Ail-American fun, Wil-. liams said. "The strong point is that it gives people a chance to get together, talk and have a good time." (Georgia Generals will attempt such stunts as bouncing bait around.

the air while patrons drink kre'e if ever the au ipupflasuw? r. Ana, yes, n.i ti MiwuwKv'Wim. vavyi Valley. See GAMES, Page 7-B tion's three "executive directors." one i only tain questioniMith vi(aad''nd 'Cap riinnins the i n.ouraPHiuis i.os Chambers gets life for murder of woman jOcring AitrttiisriJiaf vou don't think Braves, feyeji Sizzling, consider 29,000 seats have already been sold to the July 30 banner night game against the Dodgers. "I'm sure it's the most tickets we've ever sold in advance for I a game that far away," says Braves' PR man Robert Hope.

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X' 1 II 1-, Mi. expensive to watch the Braves on vision. Everytime Steve Bedrosian pitches, his fast ball sets off the smoke alarm in his living room. Kazza- matazz, the Roswell Road cabaret which opened its doors only a couple months ago on the site of the old Lati- tude 33, has closed, but new manage- ment says it may reopen in a few weeks with a new concept. Jour- I ney's End out in Cobb County reopen-! ing with a new contemporary music with Miss Fuller when Chambers burst into the apartment brandishing a large automatic gun and a pistol.

She said Chambers accused Miss Fuller of "snitching" on him and then dragged her into the trunk of a Cadil- lac. What she was supposed to be "snitching" on was never established. Assistant District Attorneys Paul Howard and Parker implied throughout the trial that Chambers was a big-time drug dealer in Atlanta with a drug organization that included Miss Mitchell and Miss Fuller at the bottom of the hierarchy. Chambers took the stand in his own defense this week, admitting that he helped tie up the woman and throw her off the bridge but that he did not shoot the woman. He claimed Redmond went beserk after mixing drugs and alcohol and forced him to take part In the murder.

Chambers also said that when he saw Redmond about to shoot the woman, he ran away from the scene and was about 75 feet away when he heard shots. Parker, however, introduced Chambers' bloody shoes as evidence. Experts testified that the pat-tern of blood on the shoe could only be made by a "blowback" from a close-range gun shot club format. Veteran Atlanta y. nightclub operator Johnny Esposito planning to open a "Playboy-type" club Stiff Photo-louH FivorM I 1 i II 1 in taie summer or eany iau in uie uiu By Vanessa Orlando Stiff Wrlttr Jimmy Lewis Chambers was convicted Friday of kidnapping and murdering a 25-year-old woman and throwing her body off a bridge and was sentenced to life in prison.

The guilty verdict, which took the Fulton County Superior Court jury a little less than an hour to reach, came at the end of a three-week trial that saw over 20 witnesses testify. The jury deliberated three hours over whether, to give Chambers life in prison or the death sentence. After it returned its verdict, Judge William Daniel then gave Chambers 10 years not to run concurrently on the kidnapping charge. Angela Pitts Fuller's body was found just off Enon Road near Camp Creek in South Fulton County last December with a bullet in her head and stomach. She had been raped and sodomized and her arms and legs were tied with sheets and wires.

Chambers was indicted for the kidnapping and murder along with Ronald Redmond and Benny Green. Redmond and Green have not been tried yet. During the trial, Assistant District Attorney Russ Parker brought in almost 20 witnesses, including experts in ballistics and psychiatry, police officers and the victim's best friend, Yvonne Mitchell. Mfts Mitchell testified that she was Moonraker Restaurant on Wwiw Rudeen Jackson stressed need to remember missing American soldiers Ceremonies Honor missing servicemen: PEOPLE SPOTTER: Gene Barry, in town starring in "Watergate; A Musi cal!" at The Alliance, having his car iiwpH frnm Pnlnnv Rniar Whpn ht cot downtown to retrieve his im pounded car, the guy in the cage gruffly took his money and then recog nized Barry and asked him for his i autograph. James Edmondson wonders if Oral Roberts can heal, why Gov.

George Busbee also signed a proclamation de-' claring Friday, POW-MIA Day in Georgia. At least 12 other states had scheduled similar ceremonies. Mrs. Rudeen Jackson, Georgia coordinator of the state's League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, stressed to thef audience the need to remember missing American sol, diers. "We should try to convince the government that we don't want our boys declared dead," she said.

Her, son, Sgt. James Jackson a Marine, has been missing since Sept. 1, 1969. "There1 are 300 witnesses who have seen live American prisoners as late as 1980. So we are trying to, get a move on to do something about the prisoners in Hannl cairl I Hid he need to build a hospital? rV By Connie Green Stiff well 1 Georgia had its first Prisoners of War-Missing in Action Recognition Day Friday morning in front of the State Capitol in connection with a nationwide observance of the day.

The Capitol ceremony, held to focus attention on plight of American prisoners in Southeast Asia, was co-sponsored by Georgia Secretary of State David thress and the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. About 50 people, including POW families and friends and state officials, attended the program. Last month. President Ronald Reagan approved congressional legislation declaring July 9t'National POW-MIA Recognition Day. EBirthday congratulations: Arlo Guthrie, University of Georgia auarterback nTomtty.

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