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1 Deaths Classifieds THE ATLANTA 6 6 CONSTITUTION SECTION Friday, May 22, 1981 Wilcoxen Gets 30 Years In Chi Sex Case a Lewis Gizzard Double-Check Checks Before Leaving Home PARIS I was sitting alone at the bar at the Hotel de Crillon, across from the Place de Concorde, trying to warm a slight chill. Paris is cold for May. I asked the bartender for a brandy. drank it slowly, savoring each sip. cute French thing walked in and sat down at the other end of the bar.

model, I concluded. jour," she said to me, lighting a cigarette she held in her red, slightly pouting lips. four, mademoiselle," 1 replied, turning any back to her. The French women have this thing about all bandsome, mustachioed American men. Let rotate Just then, I beard loud voices comins from a table behind me.

waiter and an American customer, who was wearing a hat, were involved in a heated argument. do you mean these traveler's checks are do good?" the customer in the hat the waiter angrily. "I am worry, monsieur," the waiter the replied, "but it policy of hotel 'I Never "Policy of the Bar know without this brand of in the world!" be true, Hotel Crillon, one the finest hotels in Europe, prefer a check with a bit more, well, sa than those checks of yours. You Americans have such little taste." With that, the customer lunged from his chair and was about to rearrange the waiter's face when I stepped into the ugly "Maybe I can be of some I said, moving between the waiter and the customer, his face the color of the model's lips in his rage. I knew the sort of traveler's checks the waiter wanted.

Not some everyday, garden variety check they would advertise, say, on American television, but a more exclusive brand, suitable for such quarters as the plush, expersive Crillon. this take care of the bill?" 1 asked the waiter, handing him a crisp $100 check I knew to be more befitting the surroundings. The Tasteful Choice of course, monsieur," he said, bowing away. "And may I compliment you on your I waved the waiter to leave us The American customer took off his bat and sat back down at his table, obviously pleased the rather embarrassing scene was over. "Please join me, and thanks," said.

"My pleasure to aid a fellow countryman in distress," I replied. "I lied whee I told the waiter my traveler's checks had never been turned down before," said the man. "This is happening to me more and more often. Last week in Rome, I had to wire home for money just to get out of the hotel." "Europeans," I said, "they're a picky The French broad finished her drink and left the bar, pouting little, think. Sorry, baby.

You win some, you lose some. The American and I had another shot, and then I stood to leave. "By the way," be said, "I never got your name." I told him. "Mine's Malden," he said. "Karl Malden.

Look 1 me up when you're back in the states. And, please, you won't mention this little episode to anybody, will you? It's important you don't." "Don't sweat it, Malden," I said. buttoned my coat and walked out into the night. Paris is cold for May. A truck driver accused of introducing several young boys to homosexuality and taking "indecent liberties" with them in his southeast Atlanta home was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday after prosecutors disclosed that he had been court-martialed by the Navy on similar charges in 1954.

An attorney for John David Wilcoxen, 55, of 1980 Compton Drive S.E., who was found guilty on two counts of child molestation and one count of sodomy, said she would appeal. By Carole Ashkinaze Constitution Staff Writer Wilcoxen, the last of three men to be in connection with what police described as molestation ring of potentially "staggering" tions, was sentenced by Fulton County Court Judge Osgood Williams to serve a total of 30 years on the two molestation and 20 years on the sodomy count. Lionel St. Louis, 40, and Francis Hardy, 49, both of Atlanta, had previously tenced to 12 and 30 years respectively on charges. Wilcoxen's lawyer, Catherine Lerow, wad be Residents Patty Blackwell And Hank Stram Watch Firemen Fight Blaze Fulton Redistricting Is Subject Of Hearing By Bean Cutts Constitution Staff Writer The subject of a state Capitol public bearing Thursday was reapportionment in Fulton County, but the sense of doom filling the meeting place was Indicative of the painful task of politicians removins some of their group from office.

The pruning hasn't occurred yet, but when it does, Atlanta and the remainder of Fulton will likely find their voices in state government noticeably meeker. Rather than 24 members in the Georgia House of Representatives, the count will be 19. And two of eight state senators residing in Fulton will no longer belong to the Senate. Exactly who will survive is of keen interest to the legislators, and the ultimate decisions on reapportionment will also affect direct participation by blacks in lawmaking in Georgia. Fulton had 51.5 percent black population in the 1980 census.

The question of having single-member House districts, where candidates compete for one seat in a district of about Inside DOT Warned U.S. Aid Is Endangered Page 2-C Military, IRS Must Aid Drug Fight-Bell Page 3-C convicted to persuade the jury that his accusers, seven youths following a child- between the ages of 12 and 22, were "nothing but the 12 propor- male prostitutes" who had engaged in homosexual concurred Superior sex acts with other adults for money and would The concurrently probably "be back out on the streets tomorrow." argued, counts But the jury of nine men and three women, on a who deliberated for less than 70 minutes Thursday Nathaniel before finding Wilcoxen guilty, appeared to have they were been sen- been swayed instead by an emotional closing argu- the jurors similar ment from Assistant District Attorney Wallace started Speed. bad tried At Mrs. Lerow's request, the jury was polled Arson Suspected At Midtown By Jee Brown Constitution Staff Writer Arson investigators with Fire Bureau say a blaze which damaged Midtown apartment Thursday morning appears to deliberately set. No tenants were injured in the two-story brick complex at N.E, bat all have been forced And one resident, Jack Koch, meat was directly above a vacant floor unit where the blaze began, ally all his belongings.

According to the arson report, the fire was "of incendiary combustible of some kind have been used to set two fires cant apartment, in the living room and one in the report says. The arson investigator found door of the apartment open, were no signs of forcible entry, to the report. "If you have two points and a back door that was open fire, that would to me indicate a spokesman for the arson squad. that samples of the "accelerant" ently used to start the fires were are now being analyzed. Koch, who was interviewed glumly sorted through what was furnishings Thursday afternoon, he wan't by the fire, which started about Coat was put about normally awakes.

"My alarm didn't go off," don't know if it was that I just You how you just naturally when you know you have to get know if it was that or smoke. up and something didn't smell was no smoke in my apartment, opened up my window to see if a burning, a gust of smoke that was almost enough to knock "Just this tremendous cloud rolled into my window, and I the building was on fire. I could heat," said Koch. the fire at 203 18th St. to move.

whose apart- 4-3 groundlost virtu- 1 8 investigator's nature." appears to in the corner of the hallway." the the back and there according of ignition prior to the arson," said He said appartaken and the Atlanta extensively complex have been as he left of his said that said Koch. woke up. wake up up? I don't But I woke right. There but when I something came in me over. of smoke knew, I knew feel the Firemen Put Coweta County Probate Judge Carlton McCoy testifies before hearing on reapportienment.

(Staff Phots- -Calvin Cruce) 30,000 people, or of creating multi-member districts was a primary issue at the public hearing, held in the chamber of the Georgia House. Members of the legis are's reapportionment to meats on both sides. Rep. Latter Colbert, R-Roswell, opposed the present arrangement in Fulton of 21 single member House districts and three representatives elected countywide. Colbert and his neighbors in fastgrowing north Fulton have almost enough people in the district to divide it and have two seats in the House.

His district has 87.5 percent more people than required for a single-member district. By maintaining or increasing the number of at-large seats, north Fulton's influence in the House would be diminished, since single-member districts throughout Fulton would then have more than the statewide norm of 30,357 people. See REDISTRICT, Page 5-C Rights Activist Randolph Blackwell Dies By Barry Saunders Constitution Staff Writer Dr. Randolph T. Blackwell, founder of Southern Rural Action Inc.

and a former associate of the late Dr. Martin Luther King died Thursday at the age of 53. He was praised by King's widow as "one of the unsung giants of civil rights Dr. Blackwell, an Atlanta resident, founded SRA in 1966 as a non-profit organization promoting small-business ownership in Southern communities. At the time of his death, he was director of the Atlanta office of the U.S.

Commerce Department's Office of Minority Business Program and Development. He served for two years as program director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which was founded by King, and in 1975 was named winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Non-Violent Peace Prize. When informed of Dr. Blackwell's death, Coretta Scott the reading of the verdicts, and each of rose in turn to declare flatly that he or she with the finding on each count.

"real tragedy of the case," Speed had was "that this man set them (the boys) out pattern" of deviant sexual behavior. "They'd never done it before. This began when children," Speed said. The questions for to determine, he told them, were: "Who 'em out? Who dangled that money?" See TRIAL, Page 4-C In Fire Apartments 20 de King, president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for NonViolent Social Change, said: "I was deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend and co-worker Randy Blackwell.

He was even more than a close friend and co-worker of Martin Luther King he was one of the unsung giants of the civil rights movement whose many contributions to carrying on Martin's unfinished work earned him the Non- Violent Peace Prize which bears my husband's name in 1975. "Of all my husband's co-workers in the civil rights and peace movement, no one was more dedicated and courageous or gave more selflessly than Randy Blackwell," said Mos. King, "He will be sorely missed, but his many contributions to the struggle for justice and equality will inspire future generations of activists to emulate his example." State Rep. Tyrone Brooks, also a civil rights activist, said Dr. Blackwell's death "is a tremendous loss not only for black people, but also to poor people, the nation and the world See BLACKWELL, Page 6-C Staff Photos- Bill Out Fire On Second Floor 'The Person' Located In Duncan Case By Kea Willis and T.L.

Wells Constitution Staff. Writers Douglas County Sheriff Earl Lee said Thursday that his investigators have located an "out-of-state" resident they have been wanting to interrogate for weeks in the case of 21-year-old Eddie "Bubba" Duncan, but he said he has not been able to determine whether the person can provide valuable information. One source indicated that Douglas County investigators for some time had bad a description of a man who reportedly was the last person seen with Duncan, one of 27 young Atlanta-area blacks slain in the last 21 months. Someone then gave the investigators the name of a person who fit that description, and that is the person located by investigators sometime Thursday. "We have located the person that we want to talk to, but we are not sure if that is the person we are seeking," said Lee.

He declined to elaborate. Lee said his investigators "talked to the person on the telephone, and he has answered all of our questions so far." He said the person is "out-of-state." Duncan, who was considered mentally "slow," reportedly told some of his friends on the day he disappeared that someone had offered him money to help him move to either South Carolina or North Carolina. Duncan's nearly nude body was pulled from the Douglas County side of the Chattahoochee River on March 31, one day after the body of 13-year-old Timothy Hill was found in the river. Duncan had disappeared from the Techwood Homes housing project, where he lived, on March 20. The cause of Duncan's death was not determined.

Like many of the other young black victims, Hill had asphyxiated. See LEE, Page 4-C.