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liifcAi I A 1 i IPS, i i-. May 22. 1 4L. Trial his mother money or "took her to buy The jury also heard testimony Thursday from a 22-year-old black man, Samuel Gresham who said that while strolling in Grant Park nine years ago, be was approached by Wilcoxen. The first black identified by prosecutors in connection with the predominantly white set ring, Gresham testified that Wilcoxen seduced him when he was 13 years old by offering him a ride on a "fancy motorcycle." Wilcoxen paid him from to 120 to submit to sodomy once a week for more than six years thereafter, he said.

Speed declined to say whether other blacks had been identified in connection with the operation, which is believed to have involved hundreds of Atlanta-area youngsters and is still under investigation. However, there is still "no evidence linking" the operation to the deaths and disappearances of 28 young blacks, Speed said. v-' The names of five other witnesses, ranging in age from 12 to IS, are being withheld because of their ages. Mrs. Lerow, who presented no wit- nesses in Wilcoxen's defense, said she planned to appeal on the grounds that she had not been given "sufficient time" by Williams to do so.

The start of the trial had been delayed two days at her request Mrs. Lerow, the junior member of a father-daughter legal team that also represented Hardy at his trial two weeks earlier, said she had just taken over as "lead counsel." But she "lost" her only witness Sunday night when a man she had planned to call to the stand committed suicide. Williams rejected her request for a further extension, she said. The disclosure of Wilcoxen's Navy record came after the verdict was read and before the sentence was imposed by the judge, who had asked for "mitigating or aggravating" evidence from attor-' neys. Wilcoxen had been court-martialed on 17 counts of Article 134 of the military code, which prohibits "indecent acts with minor children," in August of 1954, Speed told Williams.

Wilcoxen was sentenced) to two years in a military prison and a bad-conduct discharge from the Navy as a result of those proceedings, according to documents produced by Speed. Continued From Ptgt 1-C Seven boys testified in the course of the trial that they were paid from 2 to 20 by Wilcoxen in exchange for permit-Ungtim to sodomize them or for posing 'for: nude Polaroid snapshots or home 'movies. Williams' fourth-floor courtroom wa' filled to overflowing with student croups, court workers and curiosity-seek-era, The lights were dimmed at one point so that a movie, depicting Wilcoxen and Hardy watching a boy undressing, could shown to the jury. irWbatever they (the boys) did, whatever they are and whatever they will become, I submit, is largely thanks to John David Wilcoxen," Speed declared. "Mrs.

Lerow, whose closing arguments followed Speed's, said she was disturbed by his contention that Wilcoxen was to blame. "Where were their parents when these kids were out on the streets prostituting themselves?" she wanted to know. A 19-year-old, Jeff Osborne, testified that he had "lived with" Wilcoxen for a few with his parents' permission, and that Wilcoxen occasionally lent 4 Lee "We bad over 70,000 people last year" at the festival and hope to have an equal number this year, said Dino Santangelo, of Festival Productions, the producer of the concert "We've asked performers, the Stadium Authority and everyone involved to cooperate" in lowering the expenses ofthe event so the net proceeds will be higher than usual, he added. Santangelo and other of ficials estimated that expenses for the festival would run about $250,000. Reserved seat tickets are available for $8.50, $10.50 and $12.50, with an average income of about $11 per person.

With 70,000 or so patrons, the festival could gross more than $770,000, officials said. Santangelo Joined Mayor Maynard Jackson! and other officials at a City Hall news conference Thursday morning, where the mayor praised the "tremendous outpouring of compassion and concern" for Atlanta children from around the country. The festival will feature the Itley. Brothers, the Spinners, the Manhattans and Johnnie on Friday night, with Aretha Franklin, Cameo, Peabo Bryso and. the Jones Girls scheduled to appear Saturday.

Both performances are scheduled to begin at I pin. and will be hosted by actor Tim Reid of television's HWKRP In ancinnaU." i ieteoatf chlS. ii CoDtinied From Page 1-C In another development, missing-persons investigators Issued a general alarm for Ronald Crawford, a 22-year-old black man who disappeared from his home at 38 Young St S.E. on Monday. Crawford, who has been described as slightly mentally disturbed, is approximately 6 feet 1 inch talk and weighs 140 ponds.

He was wearing a white T-shirt with a design on it lue jeans, and a multi-colored jean jacket when last seen. His mother reported him missing Wednesday night Crawford works at a Church's Fried Chicken restaurant on Candler Road in Decatur. Meanwhile Thursday, organizers of the newly established Atlanta Children's Foundation, a non-profit agency set up to raise funds for social activities, said recreation and job programs for low-income, inner-city youths will be the beneficiaries of this year's two-day Kool Jazz Festival The 10th annual concert scheduled at the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium June 12 and 13, could mean I boost of about $500,000 in the foundation's checkbook if the event draws a crowd of 70,000 this year, as it did last year. children's, foundation, established under the control of Economic Opportunity Atlanta two months ago, has already receded contributions totaling about $120,000, EOA's executive Moore, said Thursday. So far, the agency baa spent Do funds, according to Moore, although it expects to add some money to the city's Safe Summer '81 recreation program.

Moore said the foundation, which is operated by a 47-member board of directors, will try to develop job programs fotuiemployed Atlanta youngsters. V-3; Ijl. Society Recognizes Dalion Priest 'j- 5el, 10 Constitution vt CHICAGO An 83-year-old Dalton, Catholic priest who earned a reputation as the "trailer priest" of rural Georgia received the Catholic Extension Society's fourth Lumen Christ! award here Thursday. -The Rev. Joseph G.

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