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The Selma (Established Times ...7) Journal (Established 1890) VOL. 145, NO, 157 Associated Press Leased Wire SELMA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 15, 1972 Full NEA Service 28 PAGES TODAY Trammell Found Guilty; Sentencing Scheduled For Friday MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP)- A federal court jury today convicted former State Finance Director Seymore Trammell of evading income taxes in 1967 and 1968 and filing false returns for those years. Sentencing is set for next Friday. The jury deliberated for nearly eight hours before returning the guilty verdict.

Defense attorney Robert Alton said that no statement would be made at this time. He declined to comment on the chances of an appeal being filed. U.S. And Russia After receiving the guilty verdicts, U.S. District Court Judge Frank M.

Johnson Jr. said that sentencing in the case would be held at 10 a.m. Sept. 22. Maximum penality under the convictions is a $20,000 fine and 10 years in prison.

Trammell was released under the continuation of the bond he had already posted in the charges. The jury deliberated for about one hour today before announcing that they had reached a verdict. The jury found the former top-aide of Gov. George C. Arms Li Limitation OK'd WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate has approved a U.S.-Soviet five-year agreement to limit nuclear arms, and called in advance for any permanent treaty to: provide numerical equality in intercontinental atomic weaponry.

The 88-2 vote Thursday sent the amended resolution of approval to a conference with the House, which passed it Aug. 18 without the "'equality" language. The agreement, and a companion treaty limiting defensive weapons in the United States and the Soviet Union, was signed by President Nixon in Moscow May 26. The defensive treaty was ratified by the Senate Aug. 3.

The interim agreement on offensive weapons freezes intercontinental ballistic missiles to those deployed or under construction, an estimated 1,618 for the Soviet Union and 1,054 for the United States. The Soviet submarine force would be limited to 62 with 950 missile launchers; the U.S. underwater fleet would be restricted to 44 submarines and 710 launchers. Sen. Henry M.

Jackson, winner in a battle to negotiations, write said guidelines he is not for concerned subsequent about whether Soviet equality amendment survives the Senate-House conference. "The vote of the Senate is the crucial thing," Jackson told newsmen. "What is involved is a future treaty upon which the Senate alone will act. The Senate has spoken." The Jackson amendment, adopted 56 to 35, calls upon the talks president (SALT) in to continuing, equality strategic "levels limitation tercontinental strategic The White House endorsed the language of the Jackson amendment as being consistent with administration policy, but not his interpretations nor those of his Senate opponents, Chairman wow of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, interpreted the Jackson amendment as a bid for U.S. superiority.

He said the demand for equality in numbers of specific weapons ignored U.S. MIDGET WORKER- Hughes, 42, is about the most popular construction worker in Phoenix, Ariz. At an four feet tall, his employers say he can squeeze into even working areas where others can't. (AP Wirephoto) Wallace guilty of all four counts the government had brought against him. The government said Trammell evaded income taxes on some $22,000 in 1967 and 1968 and knowingly filed false returns for both of the years.

Government witnesses testified that the income which Trammell failed to report came in the form of goods and services for which the former finance director did not pay. An Internal Revenue Service agent testified that in 1967 Trammell failed to report almost $16,000 in income which ACCIDENT VICTIM Mrs. Betty Melton Seele, 41, of Selma, was injured in a two-car accident on the Old Montgomery Highway at 11:15 a.m. Thursday, according to state troopers. Troopers said Joe Jackson Arnold, 17, also of Ret By NIKKI DAVIS MAUTE City Editor The Dallas County Grand Jury in its two days of investigation this week returned 48 indictments including nine for capital offenses.

Some 59 cases were investigated and 54 witnesses questioned. A breakdown of the capital cases show indictments were returned on five robberies, three rapes and one murder in the first degree. Dist. Atty. William T.

Faile said one of those indicted by the jury was John Lewis Patterson for rape, first degree burglary and assault with to murder. Lewis is charged in connection with an Aug. 7 attack on a Selma housewife. Reports show the victim was three months pregnant at the time of the attack. focus A.

J. Cooper, black civil rights attorney who was elected mayor of Prichard Tuesday, was incorrectly identified in an Associated Press story as the first Negro since reconstruction to defeat a white incumbent for mayor in Alabama. Previously Andrew Hayden, a black candidate for mayor of Uniontown had defeated a white incumbent in that town's municipal election. Fiddlers, banjo pickers, guitar strummers, bands and buck dancers will be part of an old time fiddlers convention and bluegrass contest at the Selma Mall that began this morning and will continue through Saturday. Bluegrass, according to John Callahan of Birmingham who organized the shindig, evolved from the music of rural mountain people.

Most bluegrass tunes, he said, are sung and the music itself is performed without amplification. Richard J. Comer, chairman of the Alabama Committee to Re-elect the President, announced today the appointment of Charles H. Morris III of Selma as chairman of the Dallas County Re-elect the President Committee. Alabama's mental health commissioner.

Dr. Stonewall Stickney, who has been asked by the State Mental Health Board to resign within 60 days, said Thursday he felt the reasons for the board's action were "quite vague." A Birmingham doctor is scheduled to leave for the Soviet Union today to participate in a cooperative health study program between the United States and Russia arranged by President Nixon on his recent trip to Moscow. Details Page 7. created a tax deficiency for that year of $3,856. For 1968, the agent said the unreported income was $7,203.39, and resulted in a tax deficiency of $1,481.50.

The total tax owed the government was just over $5,300. Judge Johnson had sequestered the jury overnight Thursday after it had deliberated for six and one-half hours. The jury received the case shortly afternoon Thursday. (See TRAMMELL, Page 5) advantages in missile accuracy, multiple-warhead technology, forward air bases in Eruope, and aircraft carriers. The Senate rejected, 48 to 37, a Fulbright substitute for the Jackson amendment to set a goal for arms limitation based on "over-all equality, parity and sufficiency, taking into account all relevant qualitative and quantitative factors." One Of Twenty-One Cases Makes It To Jury Trial One case went to the jury out of 21 scheduled for jury trials during Dallas County Circuit Court's civil session during the The remaining 20 cases were either settled out of court, continued, dismissed or the jury demand was withdrawn.

A jury verdict of $20,000 was awarded James C. Crisman in his auto damage suit against Ollis Grayson et al. Crisman filed a $100,000 suit for injuries he reportedly received when he was involved in a Dec. 5, 1969, accide intersee Summerfield Road and Sixth One case, where the jury trial demand was withdrawn, was heard before Judge Edgar Russell and $740 was awarded the plaintiff in the suit Peggy Joan Carter vs. Harold Sleigh.

The plaintiff was seeking $1,500 on a loan. Judge Russell, who presided during the session, listed some 12 cases being settled out of court. These were Oliver Lee Lawrence Hoyt Lester Shields, et al; Walter Curtis Walker vs. Hoyt Lester Shields, et al; Harriet R. Piper vs.

Doug G. Williams, Clarence G. Piper vs. Doug G. Williams, The Gorham Co.

vs. Homer Holland, Stuckey Speer vs. Homer Holland, Jannette Sims vs. Kenneth G. LaPorte, et al; Lang Jewelry Co.

vs. Homer L. Holland, et al; Mavis S. Adams VS. Rex Manley; Alec George Krunosky, a minor, vs.

Donald R. Lester, a minor, et al; Lois Taylor Krunosky vs. Donald R. Lester, a minor, et al; Mutual Industrial Finance Corp. vs.

R. E. Langston, et al. Of the 25 cases listed on the docket, four were continued before the session began and four were continued during the session. The cases continued during the session were White Motor Credit Corp.

vs. E. V. Morris, Meadowview Christian School vs. Mrs.

George Mangum and F. C. Chandler vs. Robert D. Keener, James Overstreet vs.

James McGill. The demand for a jury trial was withdrawn in cases of Hal T. Sumner vs. A. W.

Talbert, individually, et al; and John W. Iddon, et al, vs. Murphy C. Massey. The case of Barbara Ann Ross vs.

Pete Broadhead, et al, was dismissed on a motion by the plaintiff. Archbishop Dies SHERBORNE, England (AP) Lord Fisher of Lambeth, the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961, died early today after a stroke. He was 85. Lord Fisher suffered a slight stroke on Thursday and was taken to a hospital in this Dorset market town. As Archbishop of Canterbury, he was primate of the Anglican Church.

He was raised to the peerage. after his retirement. As spiritual leader of the Church of England and the World's 40 million Anglicans in the postwar years of ferment and ecumenism, Fisher was the first Archbishop of Canterbury to visit the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome. He officiated at the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, buried her father, King George VI, crowned her Queen and christened her first three children. Geoffrey Francis Fisher was the youngest of the five children of a Leistershire vicar whose parish had been in the Fisher family for generations.

At 27, he was named headmaster of Repton School, a post he held for 18 years, and three years later married the daughter of a senior master there. They had six sons, one of whom became a High Court judge. He went straight from Repton to the upper ranks of the church hierarchy, being named bishop of Chester when he was 45 and seven years later, in 1939, Bishop of London. When World War II ended, he moved to the top. At 57 he was one of the youngest men ever to mount the ancient stone throne of St.

Augustine. He advocated trade with the Communists, approved of Billy Graham's revival crusades in Britain and disliked modern theories of progressive education. Selma, was the driver of the other automobile involved in the accident that occured one half a mile east of Selma. Mrs. Seele was taken to a local hospital but was not admitted.

(Times-Journal Staff Photo) 48 Harold A. Hendrix, foreman for the newly empaneled jury, reported that the Dallas County Jail was inspected of and found clean and sanitary and the bonds of election officials were found to be in order. The jury members recommended that appropriate repairs be made in the courthouse annex where leaks have caused damage to the ceiling. The group found the courthouse to be clean and sanitary. Serving on the jury are Johnny Butler, Jeanette T.

McDowell, Rosetta A. Canty, Julia Bell Coleman, Walter Harris, Harold A. Hendrex, Orbie S. Wood, Sarah Mae Davis, Flora Bell Wade, J. B.

Hutto, John D. Smitherman, Mrs. James C. Petty, Helen E. Rogers, Helen G.

Little Bailey, Sheldon J. Martin, Willie 0. Bearden, Gloria Edith Murray, Mable Labbe. National Two 17-year-old Jacksonville, youths considered "washouts" in a program for helping young people in trouble, face murder charges for the ax slaying of Blanche Jones, 88, and her nephew Wilbur Jones, 56. James Curtis Malone and Alfred Lynell George had been residents of a probation center.

They are accused of killing Jones and his elderly aunt in their home Monday night. The bodies were found Tuesday, both hacked with an ax found in the house. American party candidates, including presidential nominee Rep. John Schmitz of California, have qualified for the election in 26 states and are likely to win a place on the ballots of at least seven others, a party spokesman says. International Henry A.

Kissinger is meeting again today with Le Duc Tho of the North Vietnamese Politburo, the U.S. Embassy announced. But the Embassy refused to say where or when they would meet or even if Kissinger had arrived in Paris from London. Arab guerrillas killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded another in a clash Thursday night on the slopes of Mt. Hermon, near the Lebanese border, the Israeli military command reported today.

Weather Fair and continued hot. Details Page 6. Citywide Carnival Sidewalk Sale Saturday.