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41 TO 56 THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL PAGES 41 TO 56 MEMPHIS, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1969 Memphis Police Chiefs Break Tradition By Visiting Sites Of Latest Slayings By BETH J. TAMKE Fire and Police Director Frank Holloman and Police Chief Henry Lux have broken local tradition by visiting the scenes of major crimes since they have been in office. Both officials rushed to the scene of the Dumas and Jackson slayings this month and several others since they took office as opposed to the procedure of former Fire and Police Commissioner, Claude Armour. Mr. Armour did appear at unusual fires but he left the crime scene to the police.

Former Police Chief J. C. Macdonald rarely went to a crime scene. Chief Lux said yesterday there were several reasons connected with their going to the scenes. "We are directly responsible.

When you get down to bare facts the people are going to look to us. Both of us have had extensive experience with homicide with Mr. Holloman being trained by the FBI. We Jury Pause Raises Dawn Of Hope Before Defeat By WILLIAM GREEN Michael Edward Muratore, a divorced butcher from Brooklyn, said he did it because of death threats from Mafia loan sharks. The jury apparently did not believe him.

Yesterday evening at 4:51, the seven men and five women who listened to three days of testimony found the tall, husky, 32-year-old defendant guilty on all eight counts of this LIQUOR LEAFING E. C. 'Buddy' yesterday with the Shelby County Election Krausnick, chairman of Volunteers for Commission. Petitions call for a liquor-byFreedom of Choice, leafs through some the drink referendum, which probably will of the 1,913 pages of petitions--b be held Oct. 23.

about 20,000 signatures--his group filed -Staff Photo (Story on Page One) forging and cashing United States Savings Bonds at various banks here last March 25. Chief Federal Judge Bailey Brown set sentencing for 11 this morning. The maximum penalty on each count is 10 years in prison and $1,000 fine. Muratore has been free on $5,000 bond since his arrest in Miami Beach, last December. POLITICS morning Issues May Give Personalities A Race In Arkansas In 1970 By WILLIAM Unless substantial portions the room floor, the as attention to issues cutting, elections.

The state Constitutional completed a session of nearly review Jan. 12 of what it approval will go on the ballot The January meeting complete its work. Then, comes the tough sold to the voters. Personalities will enter is no way to keep them proposed, including the offices. Sweeping revisions have al all down the line, and from a purely political keeping in mind that not take effect until get by all the hurdles.

The terms of state tional offices, including nor, would be increased years to four, and few for public office would argue with that. standpoint, they would 1974, if they B. STREET of the picture wind up on Arkansas electorate may pay as to personalities in the 1970 Convention, which has just 90 days, will start making a has done. Matters given final in November, 1970. will have up to 30 days to part.

The package has to be into the picture because there out when drastic changes are elimination of certain statewide been given semi-final approvseveral are worth mentioning constituthe goverfrom two aspirants want to It has been pointed out on several occasions that an Arkansas governor has to start running for re-election as soon as he takes office. Time was when Arkansas usually gave a governor one en- Kelly Bryant dorsement term to round out four years and provide a chance for him finish his program. By the same token, the voters usually denied him a third term. Former Gov. Orval Faubus made hashmeat out of both traditions by, first, knocking the late Gov.

Francis Cherry off the totem pole after one term, and then proceeding to win a third term and a fourth and a fifth and a sixth, and who knows where it would have stopped if Faubus hadn't just decided to quit the game The endorsement terms were getting to be a habit, tradition had disappeared from the scene and Arkansans SO far forgot it as to elect a Republican, Winthrop Rockefeller, to succeed Faubus, and that certainly wasn't traditional. Next item is in the state office structure. The convention has proposed that the state land commissioner be abolished. Well, maybe not Commissioner Sam Jones, but his office, which, politically, might amount to the same thing. The proposal would also combine the offices of lieutenant governor and secretary of state, and state auditor and state treasurer.

Auditor Jimmie 'Red' Jones and Treasurer Nancy Hall can take consolation from the fact that this wouldn't take place until 1974. Odds are strongly against the possibility that Republican Maurice Britt would still be lieutenant governor then, although Democrat Kelly Bryant might still covet the secretary of state's position. both sides of the issue fence, Twenty principal departments of government would supplant about 170 present agencies, boards and commissions, and, this, friends, is where the real danger lies. If is thus reduced, the people are going to be bureaucracy able to fix more readily the blame when things go wrong. Buck-passing might become a lost art.

The legislature could fix the salaries of its members, call itself into special session and meet in annual regular session for 60 days when it determines this is needed. Legilsators would also be required to enact a state governmental code of ethics, and could lower the voting age of 21 to 18 if they wish. On the other hand, a 60 per cent vote would be needed instead of a majority to override a veto. The changes would be drastic, and Tennesseans who are prone to think that two-year gubernatorial terms went out with the dinosaurs might do well to remember that the Volunteer State was electing governors to two-year terms until 1954. Frank Clement, after serving a two-year term, won the longer one in that year.

The proposed constitutional measures will make a big election year in Arkansas even bigger. And it may well be that the personalities involved in 1970 races will line up on attend to try to assist any in any way possible." He said they went to help cut red tape the officers sometimes encounter. He said they helped procure additional equipment the department might not have and they also have had occasion to authorize spending of money without having prior paperwork. Chief Lux said the actual investigation was in the hands of Capt. R.

A. in both slayings and Mr. Cochran, Holloman did not interfere. When asked if the presence of the top officials at the scene might make the officers a bit nervous, he said, "certainly not. The officers work as a team and I don't think our presence would affect their work." A survey of five somewhat comparable cities yesterday showed that top police officials in four of the cities do not usually go to crime scenes.

Birmingham Police Chief Jamie Moore, said, "I don't ordinarily g0 but I see nothing wrong with going. "I have superior officers who notify me of the situation but I don't feel it is necessary for me to attend. I work 40-hour-week five days a week and I don't have time to go. If I do have free time, I usually spend it on another project." Atlanta Police Chief H. T.

Jenkins has not visited a scene for several years, a top aide said yesterday. "He has a staff to do the work," Fred Beerman, superintendent of the service division, said. In New Orleans the police chief visits every major homicide. "Chief (Joseph Giarrusso is in charge of the investigation while he is on at the scene, superceded only by the coroner," Lt. Albert Rainer, aide to the superintendent, said.

Dallas Police Chief Charles Bachelor doesn't go to the scene often. Chief M. W. Stevenson said Mr. Bachelor would probably attend only "if a hotel with 100 murder vic- NIGHT ATTACK The foursomes played on at Galloway Golf Course yesterday despite broken flag poles and ripped-up greens left by vandals.

The broken poles were used to dig holes in tims is found. He doesn't have time with his other duties." Col. Curtis Brostron in St. Louis does not interfere with the investigation. "It has been practice of the past few years for the chief to become involved only at headquarters.

Mike Davis, police public relations officer, said. "It involves a lack of time and it is not possible to see all homicides in St. Louis personally. Statements to the press are released only from headquarters." Meanwhile, the investigation of the three strangulations in 11 days in Memphis continued secretively yesterday. Chief Lux did say part of the evidence would be sent to the FBI laboratories in Washington today.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy K. Dumas were found strangled in thei apartment at 1133 South Cooper Aug. 14 while Mrs.

Lelia Witt Jackson was found at her home at 21 North Somerville Monday night. Both murder scenes bore "marked similarities" according to police. the greens. Vandals also struck at the Mid- South Coliseum where 13 concession stands were broken into. Damage to the coliseum was estimated at about $2,000 and eight juveniles were arrested.

-Staff Photo by Robert Williams William Fowler Dies At Age 82 William B. Fowler William B. Fowler, former city engineer of Memphis for 43 years, died at 4:20 p.m. yesterday at his home at 104 North Bellevue, apparently of a heart attack. Mr.

Fowler, who was 82, was appointed city engineer for the Department of Public Works on May 1, 1919, by Mayor Frank Monteverde. He is cred-' ited with the construction of Memphis' 400-mile sewer system as well as such projects as the Summer Avenue viaduct, the Aulon viaduct on Poplar and the South Third Street viaduct. As an appointive official, Mr. Fowler weathered a long line of political administrations until his retirement Jan. 1, 1962.

He first joined the city pay roll in 1900 as a high school student working as a water boy on a city sewer job. His career spanned a period in Memphis' growth from the era of the horse and buggy to the traffic jams of the 1960s which he helped unweave in designing the circumferential expressway. Time gets heavy when the jury is out and the prolonged deliberation yesterday gave encouragement to Muratore's attorney, Robert E. Rose, who paced the floor outside the courtroom from the time the walnut door shut behind the jurors at 2 p.m. It woud have been quite a victory, too, if Mr.

Rose, a former FBI agent in New York City, had won an acquittal on his unusual defense. Many In Church Are Often Blind To Obligations By BILLY GRAHAM The other morning after a particularly heated discussion the night before at our church on social concern, I picked up the morning paper to read that a black child had died of malnutrition in our so-called affluent community. It seems to me that we have drifted far afield from Christ's about love and concern. Do you agree? D.E. There is much truth in what you say.

The church (some sections of it) has been afflicted with a blighting isolationism. Many people in the church are living in a co fortable world of illusion. They talk glibly about patriotism, yet cheat the government on their income tax. They contribute to Afr i a Billy Graham missions, yet refuse to welcome black people to their church fellowship. They argue for orthodoxy, yet practice materialism.

These people Jesus called, "hypocrites, blind leaders of the blind." Others say the Apostles' Creed, yet do not believe it. We need a revival of both theology and realism in the church, a realism that sees. life, not as we wish it to be, but as it really is. And then, with our eyes and hearts open, go out into a world of need and practice Christian action. Some of the greatest social movements of the past, like the Salvation Army, the Red Cross, the YMCA have grown out of spiritual revival and There was no denial that Muratore cashed and forged the $200 Series bonds here in March the defendant himself admitted it but the defense's argument was that he did not do it voluntarily or "wilfully" the word used in the federal indictment.

The defendant did it, the defense hammered, under death threats against Muratore, his widowed mother and his 6- year-old son from Mafia loan sharks from whom he said he borrowed $2,000 to bail his little butcher shop out of debt. Both the government and the defense agreed that if the jury found that the crime had indeed been committed under duress, then the defendant should be found innocent. Muratore, 6-feet, 2-inches tall and 245 pounds, testified that after he fell behind in repayment of the high-interest loan, hoodlums ordered him to forge and cash the nearly $10,000 worth of bonds and accompanied him to Memphis to make sure he did as they said. The 47 bonds used as evidence in this case were among nearly 200 stolen from the home of a Long Island couple by persons still unknown. The only distinguishable fingerprints found on the 47 bonds were those of Mr.

Muratore, Secret Service agents testified. Murratore, who watched nervously yesterday as his mother and first cousin testified, revealed the names of the men who allegedly accompanied him to Memphis as Paul Carbonaro and Frank Carbonaro. The two were sentenced by a federal judge in Little Rock, in January to 5 and 10 years in another stolen United States Savings Bond case. After first refusing to "bring them into the picture." Muratore haltingly and named the names during stiff cross-examination by Asst. United States Atty.

Henry L. Klein. "I just find his story hard to believe," prosecutor Klein said after the verdict was returned. "I must say, though, that it was a unique defense." Although the jury apparently found the elaborate story unbelievable, Muratore stuck to it to the end. Standing outside the Federal Building puffing a cigaret, he said: "I know I'm not guilty Just one thing try not to mention those names.

You know my mother must return to METER MAID -In an effort to end its much debated and criticized policy of estimating monthly utility bills, Memphis Light, Gas Water Division announced yesterday that it plans to hire meter maids, a practice which was discontinued Legal Aid For Indigents Termed Indispensable By CHARLES Legal aid for indigents is an order in Memphis, the Kiwanis "If the poor are barred from our legal system, anything else and order is doomed to fail," luncheon meeting at the Mr. Borod, co-chairman of that operated for six months' on Mississippi Boulevard, urged favorable action by the Memphis and Shelby County Bar Association on a plan for an OE0-financed legal aid program in Memphis. The bar will act on the proposal Sept. 5. Memphis has had a legal aid office for the poor since 1918, Mr.

Borod said. But he said its present budget of $11,000 a year is inadequate. For a program meeting its standards the OE0 is ready, he said, to grant $100,000 a year. the new meter readers should make it possible to read almost every meter every month. The computer estimating system which the division has been using has been suspended, pending a review.

Guy Coady, meter department supervisor, shows Mrs. some 20 years ago. Carl Crawford, Ann Jordan the meter reading ropes. public relations director, said A leg of the expressway was named in honor of Mr. Fowler in 1962.

He served as engineering consultant to the Public Works Department after his retirement. A past president of Kiwanis Club and the Engineer Club, Mr. Fowler was also a past potentate of Al Chymia Temple. He was a member of Desoto Lodge No. 299 where he was a 32nd degree Mason.

He was a member of First Mehodist Church. Services will be at 4 p.m. tomorrow at Memphis Funeral Home on Union with burial in Memorial Park. Mr. Fowler leaves two sons, William B.

Fowler Jr. of 4564 Willow and John W. Fowler of 1416 Glen Oaks; two daughters, Mrs. Marjorie F. Davis of 566 North Claybrook and Mrs.

Ernest Stuber of 4205 Minden; a sister, Mrs. J. P. Moody of 309 South Watkins, and 12 grandchildren. His wife, Mrs.

Margaret Fowler, died July 13 and a daughter, Mrs. Sydney F. Mitchell, died July 29. The family requests that any memorials be given to the donor's favorite charity. EDMUNDSON indispensable part of law and Club was told yesterday.

full and equal participation in we may do in the name of law Ronald Borod told the Kiwanis Sheraton-Peabody. a volunteer lawyer aid group "What we really have in America," Mr. Borod said, "is not one but two systems of justice. The well-to-do man sallies forth into legal battle, his trusted lawyer at his side, confident in the inherent fairness of the system. "The poor are not participants but victims.

Victims of unjustified wage garnishments filed without notice and without a hearing. Victims of eviction notices in retaliation for complaining to city officials about housing code violations. Victims of unconscionable sales contracts and wrongful reposessions. And victims of unlawful investigatory practices by welfare officials and arbitrary denial of welfare benefits." Memphis, Mr. Borod said, has the "dubious honor" of being the only one of America's 50 largest cities without a federally funded legal services program.

Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Columbia, Shelbyville, Tullahoma and Fayetteville have such programs, in Tennessee he added. The OE0 legal aid program, Mr. Borod said, has introduced the concept of setting up law offices in the poor community, in easily accessible locations such as abandoned store fronts, churches or community' centers. "The neighborhood law offices are concerned not just with representation in court, but also with preventive law with educating the poor to their rights before they become entrapped in a legal snare. They are committed to the reform of the legal system wherever it impinges unjustly on low-income citizens.

"They assist the poor by organizing day care centers where mothers may leave their children so they may be gainfully employed, by organizing buying cooperatives and by obtaining Small Business Administration and other public and private loans for small The legal aid programs, he said, have stimulated many law schools into offering courses in welfare law, housing and consumer law, and law-course credits in legal services programs. Ronald Borod Procedure Called Key To Obscenity Check Police in Atlanta recently rest were tried on faulty proce- in reference to smut peddlers. raided a theater where an Andy Warhol film was being shown. They arrested the projectionist, confiscated the film, and took pictures of the audience to check against their file for known deviates. A minister in the audience filed suit against the solicitor general as a result.

Asst. City Atty. Frierson M. Graves Jr. related such an incident, in a talk about the problems of censorship to the Civitan Club at the SheratonPeabody, He has represented both sides in a number of cases dealing with movie obscenity since 1966 in Tennessee and several other states.

In only one cise was the litigation on o' scenity. The dures, he said. Proper procedures should be followed to determine if a book, magazine or film is obscene. If it is, then litigation should be brought against the producers, rather than the local distributors, he said. In Tennessee, the district attorney has the responsibility to petition for an adversary hearing to determine if a book, magazine or movie is obscene.

A temporary injunction can be imposed following the hearing. A second hearing must be held before a permanent injunction is granted. "What it down to is, simply don't do weiness with these people," Mr. G1. ves said If there is to be a change in the amount of obscene materials available, there must be a change in the community, he said.

Last May, after the first raid on a Memphis news stand, the gross daily receipts went from $300 to $500; after the second raid, they went to $700. Israelis To Rebuild TEL AVIV, Aug. 27. (AP) The Israeli military governor of the Jordan west bank said on a visit to Zeiti that Israel will help rebuild the village, damaged in the 1967 sixday war. Brig.

Gen. Rafael Vardi also said the Israelis will build a new junior school there..