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I la tresis! I (Day Morning STREET Edition TH LANTA CONSTITUTION AT Atlanta, Ga. 30302, Sunday, July 27, 1980 308 Pages, 16 Sections Prlct May Bt Hiotier Oultidt Retail TrMina Zont Vol. 31, No. 18 P.O. Box 4689 75 Cents How.

to Left kmafc Heat, rules and confusion condemned prisoner to death in isolation cell over boiler room unventilated isolation section in the Kemper Building, as the temperature outside eased past 100 degrees, but soli, tary confinement inmates often complained of nausea and vomiting. Without examining him, she prescribed more liquids. By afternoon, Gaultney seemed unable to raise himself, and his speech had become a "gargle," another guard recounts. By then, the Baldwin County medical examiner later testified at a coroner's A log sheet that could have tipped a nurse to Gaultney's worsening condition was temporarily lost. When guards realized Gaultney might be dying and called a physician's assistant, the assistant could not get an agency car and had to take valuable time to get the keys to her personal car.

As shifts changed, guards were not informed of instructions to keep Gaultney supplied with liquids. See INMATE, A charged with his welfare and how it didn't work. As early as last September, a physician's assistant had sent a memorandum to his superior suggesting that the cell-block where Gaultney died should no longer be used because temperatures sometimes reached 120 degrees there. The memo was passed on to the prison's superintendent, but there was never any discussion of the cellblock's possible dangers, prison administrators concede. Although a coroner's jury last week declared Gaultney's death an accident, it appears to have been one caused by inflexible rules, confused good intentions, fouled-up communications and sheer bad luck.

Tor instance, a night-watch captain's order that evacuated three other inmates from the cellblock but left Gaultney behind stood unquestioned, although there were several other people who could have changed it Assuming the matter was resolved, no one bothered to alter it In the face of new developments. inquest, Gaultney's brain probably had started to swell, and his organs had started to hemmorhage. Finally, about 5 p.m. that day, his lungs collapsed, and he was dead. He had complained that he had trouble breathing.

For several hours, corrections officers had watched Gaultney dying of hyperthermia, but no one seemed to realize it The story of Gaultney's grotesque death in an isolation cell at Middle Georgia Correctional Institution, in fact, is ultimately one of the bureaucracy By RON TAYLOR Journal Staff Wrttar 1 MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. A guard recalls that John Thomas Gaultney had tried to hide his nakedness when a woman nurse came in the morning of July 14 to peer through the mesh door of his cell, where Gaultney lay on a thin, foam rubber mattress, stripped of his clothing in a futile effort to keep cooL He mumbled that he was very hot and had been vomiting. It was very hot in Cellblock the HI Says IHfe Ptas r2T f-rv Are Ta V4 From Witt fttporft AMERICUS, Ga. Billy and Sybil Carter believe their home phone has been tapped by his brother's government, The Washington Post reported Saturday. The Post said Billy Carter tails friends and lawyers from the lobby of the Best Western Motel in Americus because he believes there are wiretaps at his home and off ice.

But Justice Department officials flatly denied that Billy Carter has been the subject-of wiretaps. They said neither a criminal nor national security tap was used against Carter. In other developments in the quickly unfolding Billy Carter story: The' Washington Star reported that Billy Carter turned down a suggestion by Justice Department officials that he formally end his role as an agent for the government of Libya. His refusal means the President's brother continues to be a foreign agent despite President Carter's expressed hopes that the relationship had ended. Signaling the increased seriousness of the situation, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-W.

Va.) called on President Carter Saturday to "lay out the facts" and said both Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti and the Billy Carter has apparently done more for the Republicans than be has 1 for the Libyans. 1C Sybil Carter says Billy may not be able to talk to the press, but she can and does. 4C White House had made a mistake in first denying that the attorney general had talked to the President about the case. Civiletti faced a storm of inquiries and one call for his resignation Saturday for his stunning disclosure that he talked with the President last month about the Billy Carter case. President Carter spent the weekend at the nearby mountain retreat at Camp David calling aides for advice and pondering whether to call a press conference or offer to appear at a hearing of the Senate committee.

The White House said Saturday President Carter is confident he took "right and proper" actions concerning his brother's Libya connection, and he intends to release by the end of next week detailed material on the case. White House lawyers were poring feverishly over memoranda, telephone logs and other records to try to assemble every scrap of information about the case. See TAPS, 15A WerBell's Games Are Gung-Ho Reporter learns to cope with kill or be killed Beau Cutis, a 33-year-old Atlanta Constitution staff writer, enrolled in Mitcb WerBell's private military school for counterterrorism and trained for the dark and brutal world marked by the phrase, Kill or Be Killed This report is the first of a series that will continue in Monday's Constitution. By BEAU CUTTS Constitution Staff Writtr A red ant cautiously crossed a patch of hot sunlight on my right arm. I responded to the maddening itch with only my eyes and continued to lie motionless on the forest floor, listening for four of my classmates who were now my enemy, who were now the targets for an ambush three other students and I had planned.

Light wind hissed through the high pine needles, and below, fat drops of sweat streaked the dry pine straw dust on my face, then dripped to the wooden stock of the rifle. I was tense but ready to shoot, straining to hear the crack of a twig and the burst of AR-1S rounds to signal my rise from a loose tunnel of pine straw, to end the frustrating wait, to shoot and to kilL I hungered to stand tall and receive the compliments of my instructor, to get back to the bouse and talk about how we had done it But in shock, I heard the first shots and shouts 30 yards to my left not to the right where the ambush was to be sprung. The enemy had crept by us! They killed two of my team immediately. The enemy was running and stopping, running and stopping, coming through the underbrush seeking Ed and me. Where was Ed? What should I do? They will find me.

My mind raced, adrenalin surged. am lying here, and they will find me So I rolled up and over, spotted an enemy and fired. They shouted among themselves to close on me, and I rolled and rolled on the pine straw. I knelt at a tree and fired again. I ran and dived and could see them move on the right and left I was trapped.

Ed was dead. I was the only one left I stretched out on my stomach next to a fallen tree and fired, then heard the footsteps behind me. Before I could turn, he fired, and my upper right leg stung hot "That's it!" shouted the instructor, and the four members of the opposing team laughed and congratulated themselves. Ed and I and our two mates stood quietly in shame, dusting our camouflage clothing. I rubbed the welt on my leg where the BB shot had stung me.

For the other team, the victory was real, and for my team, the defeat hurt The exercise was surprisingly true-to-life: The waiting, the shouting, the confusion, the adrenalin, the dirt, the sensation of killing and being killed. Each See WERBELL, 10A i msm. -'-twiiir nm ar mw ara m. vvod nan A-nawa uoot; Nude Joins Cartoon Hour Bugs Bunny had just faded from the screen and Judy Dunn and her two children were waiting for Godzilla to appear on Channel 2 Saturday morning when, suddenly, they couldn't believe their eyes. "There it was, right on the screen a nude woman from the waist up, just standing there," Mrs.

Dunn of Lithonia said. Two WSB-TV technicians are just as suddenly out of work after the X-rated slip-up that caused the station embarrassment and brought it a slew of telephone calls from irate viewers. During the 8 am break between cartoon shows on WSB Saturday, a picture of a nude woman appeared in a Georgia Forestry Commission commercial on tree planting and flashed for a second and a half before thou sands of startled viewers. Fred Barber, WSB-TV vice president and general manager, acknowledged Saturday that a still image "of a woman nude from the waist up" somehow flashed across the screen. Two master control operators, longtime employees of Channel 2, have been fired, Barber said.

The men were in charge of signing the station on and off the air and worked without an engineering supervisor. Barber said the night technician apparently was in the habit of leaving surprise pieces of video for the morning man. Saturday morning, because of technical problems, the morning technician failed to notice it and the mistake occurred. DICK WILLIAMS Mil rtwfr-Otortt Clara Beau Cutis zeroes In on target with pistol during classes at WerBell's private military school Kentucky Tankers Burn As 7,500 Are Evacuated Audit Disputes Expenses Of Atlanta Gas Light Co. Ann Landers 3F Art 10E Books 4.5E Bridge 6F Business Jeane Dixon.

6F Crossword Puzzle 15B Dixie Living 1E Editorials 2.3C Engagements 8F Erma Bombeck 7F Frances Cawthon 3F Furman Bisher 1D Genealogy 2E Homes 1H Lifestyle 1F Lewis Grizzard 1B MetroState 1B Movies 7-OE Music 12E Obituaries 14.15B People 18A TV Update 2B Weather 7B Tht Alloc! ltd PrtU MULDRAUGH, Ky. Ten railroad tankers, most hauling highly toxic chemicals, jumped the tracks in a residential area near iort Knox Saturday, setting off fires and explosions and forcing the evacuation of at least 7,500 people, officials said. Police sealed off a three-mile-radius area of northern Meade County after four tankers loaded with vinyl chloride caught fire. Two of the tankers exploded. Three members of the train crew were injured when the cars derailed.

One witness said a black cloud hovered about 1,000 feet over the site where a 37-car Illinois Central Gulf, en route from Memphis, to Louisville, left the tracks. Two other derailed cars also contained vinyl chloride, one was loaded with chlorine, one with acrylonitrile and one with toluene, officials said. The 10th car was believed to be empty. The cars, which were still burning Saturday night, sent up a cloud of toxic vapor that can cause burns and irritation with brief contact said Tom Little, a spokesman for the state Office of Disaster and Emergency Services. of candy.

"This is not a legitimate operating expense," the PSC auditors wrote. Many of the company's expenses seemed to be aimed at promoting good relations with its own employees and salesmen, with the media and with home builders who build houses that use natural gas. The company spent $500, for instance, for 34 tickets to a Christmas social for the Home-builders Association of Metro Atlanta. Spectator sports occupied a prominent place in the expenditures. In addition to the expenditures for Falcons and Braves tickets, the company also spent $220 for eight season tickets to Mercer University basketball games in Macon and $295 for tickets to the Sea Pines Heritage Golf Classic.

It is not unusual for businesses to buy blocks of tickets to give away. Money also went for individual sporting and recreational events. Aside from the $1,100 for the golf outing, the company noted it had spent $700 for "cruise and fishing," $310 for 42 dozen golf balls and $1,500 for "supplies" from a liquor store at its May 1979 district managers' meeting. The PSCauditors wrote that these and See AUDIT, 17A By PETER BENJAMINSON Journal Staff Writtr When the Atlanta Gas Light Co. requested a $21.7 million rate increase last year, it asked that its ratepayers pay for $174,000 worth of what appear to be social recreational advertising and entertainment expenditures, Georgia Public Service Commission audit reports reveal Among the expenditures were: $1,100 for a golf outing.

$2,400 for purchases at a package store. $2,000 for renewal of 40 season tickets for Theater of the Stars. $600 for a buffet at a Jekyll Island convention. $800 for Atlanta Falcons tickets and $300 for Atlanta Braves tickets. Also among the expenditures were $2,000 for "refreshments, rooms and other expenses for news media dinner" and $500 for "sponsorship of luncheon at Georgia Association of Broadcasters convention." The PSC's audits of Atlanta Gas weren't thorough enough to note such expenditures by the company until thjs year.

Among the items was $100 for 14 boxes "We call this chemical bad stuff in the business," Little sail "It is highly flammable and extremely toxic." Vapors from vinyl chloride, used in the manufacture of plastics, can cause dizziness or suffocation. When burned, it produces poisonous gases which can cause inflammation or burns on even brief contact Little said acrylonitrile and toluene are also highly toxic. About 4,000 people were evacuated from the nearby Fort Knox Military Reservation, and at least 3,500 were forced to leave the Muldraugh area. Most of the Fort Knox residents were allowed to return home Saturday afternoon, Little said, but some of the Muldraugh residents would be kept away over the weekend. No more evacuations were expected, although Little had estimated earlier that 10,000 people might be asked to leave their homes and said it might be necessary to evacuate the entire military post, which houses 41,700 soldiers and civilians.

Soldiers remained on guard at the facility on the fort housing the U.S. gold supply, and there was no threat to the $38 billion worth of gor authorities said. Journal Will Publish Lists of Candidates Beginning Monday, The Atlanta Journal will publish a list of the candidates appearing on the Aug. 5 primary ballot in 16 metro Atlanta counties. Readers may want to clip and save the lists for handy reference in the voting booth.

The date and the counties listed are as follows: MONDAY: Douglas, Clayton, Fayette. TUESDAY: Gwinnett, Henry, Rockdale. WEDNESDAY: Cobb, Newton, Coweta, Forsyth. THURSDAY: DeKalb, Carroll, Paulding.v FRIDAY: Fulton, Walton, Cherokee..