The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 3

I iHarntt Inside ront SATURDAY MORNING DEC 8 1973 PAGE 3A Robbery Techniques Similar News Capsules Death Attributed To Broken Arm AM a con man who died Thursday night in a local hos pital from of a broken was under in vestigation by Macon detec tives in connection with an al leged robbery attempt According to detective Lt Russell Joyner rank Jack son Jr 20 of a Buckner Ave nue address also was shot in the arm Jackson is linked to the' attempted robbery be cause of the gunshot wound Joyner said Deputy Bibb County Coro ner Harry argason Jr said however Jackson death resulted from cations of a broken adding that the gunshot wound had nothing to do with the broken arm Joyner said the shooting in cident happened outside a Broadway Street liquor store Nov 30 after Leonard Robin son of 436 Bay St got several pay checks cashed there He said that Robinson saw Jackson and several others inside the store Joyner said Robinson had been robbed before and' was carrying a pistol He said that someone threw a coat over head when he got outside the store and said Robinson fired the pistol at the person i see any body but he said the person hollered fell down jumped up and ran after he shot Joyner said Joyner said Jackson turned up at Grocery on Chap el Street about 30 minutes lat er and said he was suffering from a gunshot wound in the arm The detective said that Jackson reported to police of ficers that he had been shqt by his wife but Joyner said his investigation revealed that Jackson was not married Joyner said Jackson was admitted to the Medical Cen ter of Central Georgia Nov 30 for treatment of the gunshot wound and a broken arm He did not know how Jackson sustained the broken arm The detective said Jackson was dismissed from the Medi cal Center Dec 2 but was readmitted the next day when his arm began swelling Joyner said Jackson died there about 7:40 pm Thurs day By PHIL BURGERT Telegraph Staff Writer Three men convicted last week in the Bank of Molena kidnap robbery will now be investigated for possible in volvement in similar robber ies in three South Georgia towns Authorities across the state have seen similarities in the method of operation used by gangs in earlier robberies at Glenwood Dexter and i man William Beardsley director of the Division of Investiga tion said this week that the DOI would now investigate oossible correlations in the cases ear of prejudicing the trial conducted last week in Zebulon prevented any earlier investigation decided yet that there is a correlation but going to put all of our information together and go through investigative proce dures to look at these Beardsley said A Allen 50 of Com merce Charles Waymon Pa trick 25 of Maysville and Daniel Warren 36 of Nichol son were convicted riday by a Pike County Superior Court jury on charges of bank rob and kidnaping They were sentenced to idtentical terms of life plus 87 years in prison All three men have denied any guilt Allen is suspected by state and federal authorities of being a kingpin in North Georgia crime Beardsley said he has on what a re investi gation of the three men might turn up He said they have not been cooperative so far Allen is not in the ha bit of a 1 i to me about these kinds of thing he said Beardsley has said that the robberies at Glenwood Dex ter Quitman and Molena seem to be in their method of Quitman Police Chief Hir am Bemby said there is a link between his case and involvement in Molena ran a car down that was in town (the night of the Quitman robbery) which was registered to Dave Allen of Commerce That could be a fictitious Bemby said He said fingerprints collect ed in Quitman and reports he had read of the other robber ies indicated that they were connected Allen and Patrick have also been indicted in South Caroli na and i a on federal charges Blackshear Project Is Cited AMERICUS The Lake Blackshear stump clearing project was cited as the most outstanding work done by the Middle lint Area Planning and Development Commission this year at the eighth annual meeting of the commission Bobby Lowe execu tive director of the planning com mission of Ellaville said think we will have an en tirely new lake for all Georgi ans when the water is raised And it will be one that is much safer than it has ever been LOWE announced that a $53000 grant has been re ceived to help complete the project Post Office Open Saturday The main post office on College Street will extend Satur day operating hours for the next two Saturdays Dec 8 and 15 because of the Christmas season mail rush Postmaster orrest Hartley said all other post office sta tions in MaconwilLobserve the normal half day Saturday op erating hours Industrial Group Names Durrett William Durrett has been appointed executive director and secretary of the Macon Bibb County Industrial Authority Durrett has been manager of economic development for the Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce and secretary to the Macon Bibb County Industrial Authority He has served as an assistant director of the Macon Area Development Com ipission orward Macon program The Authority was created through the state legislature in 1962 and provides local bank and revenue bond financing Bibb Receives Legal Aid Grant Bibb County is one of the prime beneficiaries of a $271000 grant which will provide legal services for persons unable to afford personal lawyers The offices of Sens Herman Talmadge and San Nunn announced that a $271000 grant from the Office of Eco nomic Opportunity (OEO) has been given to Georgia Legal Services Inc (GLS) an Atlanta based agency which has nine state offices including one in Macon GLS provideo legal counsel in civil cases including di vorces child custody or consumer welfare and housing prob lems 4 Although the funds are for statewide application 'over a six months period special emphasis will be given to Bibb Muscogee and Chatham counties GLS provides legal counsel in civil cases including di director John Cromarta Those wishing to receive legal aid should apply at one of the state offices ree services are provided to those meeting financial eligibility guidelines set by the OEO In Macon these services are provided by the Macon Le gal Aid Society 406 Grand Building Christmas Seed Donations Drop Seal contributions in Bibb County have de clined this year according to Dr Goodloe Erwin MD president of the Georgia Lung Association Donations have so far totaled $10682 in Bibb indicating the downward trend in contributions in over a decade Erwin said He asked that people respond more generously to the Christmas Seal letter in order for the lung association to maintain programs aimed at finding cures for lung diseases ire At Prison HARDWICK Ga (AP) Inmates of the Georgia Reha bilitation Center for Women have been evacuated and re turned to quarters after a fire Thursday night Authorities said there were no injuries Damage from the blaze was estimated at $400 but officials said there was also extensive water damage in extinguishing it An investigation into the cause of the fire was under way ft 1ft it i Photo by Phil Burger! Mrs Maye and Judge ood in Court City Court Clerk Charges Sex Bias By RANDALL SAVAGE Telegraph Staff Writer Mayor Pro Tem Sydney Pyles said riday his finance committee will take no furth er action on a city employe's job discrimination complaint until the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rules on it Mrs Ola May Maye the as sistant chief clerk of Macon Municipal Court filed a discrimination in com plaint in November after the finance committee refused to award her the same pay scale as the four previous assistant i 1 1 again saying strongly feel that it will be a i 1 a i of principle and furthermore a violation of constitutional law to discrimi nate against her by not classi fying her as a Grade un der our classification sched But the finance committee took no further action on the matter and Mrs Maye filed her complaint with the equal employment commission The commission notified the city riday that if has the complaint under investiga tion Arrests To Continue In Drug Crackdown The massive Middle Geor gia drug raid launched in Ma con Thursday night by state and local law officers wound down riday afternoon after 16 of 29 suspects were arrest ed But drug squad Capt Julian Seymour said a search for the remaining 13 suspects would continue until arrests are made Seymour said the suspects have been charged with viola tions ranging from selling marijuana to selling heroin hashish and prescription drugs Although Seymour said those arrested represented the lower level of the distribu tion system he said they are the people to whom major suppliers sfll Asst Dist Atty Don Thompson said the persons charged with selling narcotics would be held in jail without bond Thompson said a 1973 act by the Georgia General As sembly permits law officers to handle narcotics pushers like capital felons adding that only a Superior Court judge can set bond for them Seymour said of those arrested were users but some were not The agents made buys ranging from $5 a buy for a capsule to a buy on heroin for $100 3 He predicted that drug traffic in Macon had been crippled by more than 50 per cent adding that a strang er is in town you can't buy any Seymour said that overall Macon is probably in better shape than other comparable cities He said that state De a of Investigation raids in other cities some times produce 100 200 arrests Seymour said three persons including one juvenile were arrested in Jones County The adults were Grady Lee Rhey and Barb Rhey of Joycliff Road Rte 3 The Macon arrests included Larry Burnett 22 of 4077 Blair Court Harry Harold Woods 21 of 2279 Line o'ln Ave Jimmy Ixie Hamilton 21 of 1332 Third St Wayne Lawson 31 of 579 Woolfolk St Jimmy Moore 25 of 857 Balim Court Rufus Sellett 20 of 565 Concord St Terry James Hunt 21 of 2475 Reacton Road rederick Joseph Swanson 25 of a Vineville Avenue ad dress reddie Lee Salette 26 of 565 Concord St Robert Lee Simmons 20 of 556 Short St Herman Layfette Pitt 20 of 593 Maynard St Anderson Norwood 36 of 596 Bowman St James Hostly Coleman 19 of 2671 Sewanee Ave Tho raids began about 9 pm Thursday Seymour de Should Plan Telegraph Houston Bureau WARNER ROBINS Call ing it a to have car after car drive to work with only one occupant state Sen Ed Barker has asked Georgia industries to voluntarily de vise car pooling plans Admitting that car pools would be unpleasant to many Barker said got to consider the alternatives Soon we may have no fuel at When one industry employs most of the people in a com munity Barker said that firm should be responsible for de vising a plan so employes could drive to work together most people work at the same place then the only problem 1 be coordina tion and finding efficient routes of Barker said should be left up to industry to solve and I think that's the way He noted that at Robins Air orce Base some 16000 em ployees travel to and from work daily car pooling plan could maybe cut in half scribed the operation as the largest of its type ever car ried out in Middle Georgia He said 42 warrants had been issued for 29 suspects in the operation Seymour said the raids end ed a month long undercover operation by DOI agents He said that he asked the agents to come into Macon and make the drug contacts because lo cal authorities do not a the necessary investigative capacity The raiding officers consist ed of DOI agents Macon nar cotic officers Bibb County deputies and investi gators from the district attor office Car Pools the number of cars and the amount of gas Barker said WHERE available buses might be used to transport workers to their jobs he sug gested Even a small idle church buses for example could be used to transport workers he said When Gov Jimmy Carter was here Wednesday Barker said he briefed him about the car pooling proposal said he thought it was a desir able prospect but that the state enforce it Carter said that to signifi cantly reduce gasoline sumption by 30 per cent some mandatory controls in a i tion to rationing might be needed me this must mean car pooling" Barker said it should be Barker who says he is that a voluntary car pooling plan could be suc cessful plans to ask the gov ernor to contact major Geor gia employers through state agencies Barker Says Industry clerks Those clerks held a city job classification which now carries a $7238 per year sala ry Mrs Maye has a job clas sification nine and earns $1622 less Municipal Court Judge James I Wood recommended Mrs Maye for the position with classification Sept 25 when the former assistant clerk was transferred to an other city department Mrs Maye was a deputy Municipal Court clerk then and held a job classification eight She had been a deputy court clerk for six years when Wood made the recommenda tion The finance committee chaired by Pyles promoted Mrs Maye to assistant chief clerk Oct 12 but it stipulated that the i i would be downgraded to a classi fication Mayor Ronnie Thompson told the committee Oct 12 that it should give Mrs Maye the classification be cause he said feel that if she is going to have the same responsibilities as her prede cessor she should be given the same The finance committee re considered its action but again denied Mrs Maye the higher classification Pyles said the committee took the action because the city personnel director recom mended that the position car ry the lower classification Thompson wrote the com Japanese Educator Likes Bibb Schools By PHIL BURGERT Telegraph Staff Writer The man from Japan walked up to the Macon stu dents and started talking He wanted to know what they were studying and he asked Satoshi Akague supervisor of a school system in Japan that enrolls almost 500000 stu dents on his first visit to the United States is looking for teaching methods to use in his schools share the classroom crisis of the education explo Akague said explain ing his visit people have come to have a keen interest in educa tion and ways to improve he continued should do something anything and perhaps everything to help Akague has spent the past week visiting 12 Bibb County public schools observing teaching methods and study ing the curriculum He was sent by his school system to look for ways to solve problems of high school education in the Kobe area of Japan AKAGUE is supervisor of the public schools in Hyogo Prefecture one of 47 state like governments in Japan He is responsible for educa tion in more than 1300 schools On his current visit he has seen schools in nine American cities Most of the cities were chosen because of their vo cational schools something Akague is interested in But Macon was picked a because Akague said like to see only the large cities very happy I chose this He said he believes the Bibb system is ambi and he was impressed by' the displayed by Bibb teachers Innovation in education should be carried out by he said INNOVATION is what Akague is most interested in viewing Specifically he looks for individualized teaching and learning methods the uses of teaching machines and ways to make curricula more flexible In Japan there are few teaching machines and indivi dualized study programs he said He is collecting books and study materials to send back to the educators he represents at home He complained that ft'Sw Ts jj MU MLa MMii Photo by Pnil Burgin Akague With Southwest High Students funding and supportive materials offered in Japan do not compare with what is of fered here Akague hopes to institute more systematic educational methods and create more complox type high schools like he found in Bibb County when he returns to Japan Church News Metro Record Stolen Vehicles December 7 1973 whitewood grain Chevrolet Su Cheyenne Pickup Truck license number TO 5000 owned by Groover Sassaman of 1609 Wesleyan Hi Drive Stolen from the Wesleyan Hill Drive address during the morning Traffic Accidents 5 04 pm Hazel Street two autos Driver: rederick Harrington 18 of 1556 Railroad Ave Driver: Willie rank Tatum 46 of 2600 Ellsworth 5:10 pm Houston Avenue one auto one pedestrian Driver: A Joiner 42 of Montezuma Pedestrian: Shirley Boone 7 of 1675 Houston Ave 5:56 Pm Pio Nono Avenue two au tos Driver: Lois Jacobs 58 of 3070 Rice Mill Road Driver: Reese Vaughn 48 of 2962 Thornwood Drive 6:50 pm 1 75 and Riverside Drive two autos Driver: Terri A Hall 18 of 1875 Springwood Drive Driver: Melvin I Kruger 44 of 566 Taylor Court December 6 1 36 pm Sixth Street two aulos Driver: William Scott Parker 56 of Rte 1 Driver: Robert Louis Jackson 29 of Lithonia 1:58 om Corbin Avenue and Mc a I Avenue two autos Driver: John Lamar Johnson 61 of 213 Alber marie Place Driver: Toni Marie Davis 17 of 2440 Lenora Place 3 pm irst Street two autos Driv er Wannie Davis Tucker 22 of 4 Wilshire Woods Apartments Driver: Julian Beasley 26 of Kennesaw 3 05 Pm Napier Avenue and Black mon Avenue two autos Driver: Mica hel Keith Washington 19 of 2845 Co lumbus Road Driver: Rhonda Marie Stokes 19 of 6681 Skipper Road 3:10 Pm John Dailey 73 of 4157 Shearwater Drive Driver: Hank Blount 16 of 3977 Mickey St 3:35 Pm irst Street and Mulberry Street Iwo autos Driver: Vanessa Mer riweather 17 of 1763 Dexter St Driv er: Leonard Stokes 55 of Lizella pm Belvedere Drive and Os borne Street two autos Driver: Roger Morris McMillan 47 of Atlanta Driv er: Charles Randall Perry 16 of 3722 Broadway and Walnut Street two aulos Driver: Alvin Glowers 23 of 3353 West Victory Court Driver: red Gabriel Lezart 67 of 2948 Clairmont Ave 4:18 pm Vineville Avenue one auto one nedeslrian Driver: James Sher rill 17 of 2387 Mafield Drive Pedestri an: Ellsworth Bale 80 of Vineville Towers 4 40 pm Cedar Avenue two autos Driver: Waller McGee Jr 38 of 540 Ell St Driver: Ruby Lee Thompson 38' of 038 Cedar St December 7 8:30 am Montpelier Avenue and Ni nadel two autos Driver: Donald Ed ward Jackson 21 of 406 Jackie Blvd Driver: Willie Lee Moore 56 of 1533 Ninadel 8:45 am irst Street and Poplar Street two aulos Driver: Robert Neal 26 of 1339 Satdium Drive Driver: Jo seph Genone 53 of 1756 Hawthorne Road Property Transfers December 7 rom Martin Peed and Mrs Alma Peed to Gas Industrial Equip ment Co property al 4828 Munford Road Approximately $72900 rom Truett Smith to Robert Stanley Jr property at 5014 Wesleyan Woods Drive Approximately $43000 Marriage Licenses December 7 Turner Pearman Gaines Jr 28 of 3900 Northside Drive Ant 11 and Kathryn Yvonne Nicholson 21 of 3148 Bloomfield Drive William Creswell Key Sr 51 of 6961 Wimpey Road and Judy Reynolds Rob ertson 42 of 7580 Goodall Mill Road James Martin Compton 20 of 571 Avalon Circle and Rebecca Kay Evans 20 of 2304 Danbury Drive Charles Robert Sussman 22 of 36 Thackerv Place Savannah and Lynn Ellen Kruge20 of 566 Taylor Court Christmas Observances Abound By ED CORSON Telegraph Staff Writer Bah humbug? keep Christmas your way and keep it grumped Scrooge can keep says John Bankrupt as the gift bills pile up and he hopes it won't snow and make the fuel run out The churches do their best with special music special services and other reminders to Christ in Actually there is some question as to how He got mixed up with Dec 25 in the first place Jack Drake writing in the Church of God Evangel maga zine points out that no one knows just when Christ was born or the first 300 years of the faith confusion reigned Then Bishop Liberius of Rome gave orders to celebrate Dec 25 He probably did so says Drake because the Romans al ready observed it as the (pagan) east of Saturn marking the winter solstice Still not everyone obeyed The independ ent Eastern Orthodox Church picked Jan 6 THIS MAY not please the advertisers but the editors of Christianity Today magazine note that a Washington group called Alternatives has published an Alternate Christ mas Catalogue It suggests people purchase no gifts make the Christinas gifts they give and contribute the money saved to charita ble religious or other groups people and the The editors like the basic idea they say but caution that people will have to be changed before they stop buying and start donating They suggest an Alternative New Eve instead This column would like to hear from readers with special ways of keeping Christmas Your idea might make it a better seasoifor someone else a Christmas Concerts It's oratorio time again The chancel choir of irst Bap tist Church 511 High Place will present Camille Saint Christmas Oratorio at 5:30 pm Sunday with four soloists and five string instrumentalists in addition to organist Marian Gordon Minister of Music Gerald Brown will conduct Across the street at 8 pm that night the Handel Society of Savannah will perform Handel's Messiah at St Joseph Catholic Church 830 Poplar St Wesleyan organist John will give a preconcert recital on the newly restored organ Two concerts by major touring college groups are also set for this weekend The 50 voice Concert Choir of Atlanta Chris tian College will sing in the 7 pm service Sunday at North side Christian Church which meets in the Seventh Day Ad ventist sanctuary at 640 Wimbish Road Over in orsyth on Saturday (today) the University of Georgia Singers and Orchestra will present excerpts from Messiah at 7:30 pm in irst Baptist Church The church's interim minister of music local man Herb DeLeGal is one of the Georgia Singers The choir at ree Methodist Church 3220 Napier Ave has set its performance of John Peterson's Carol of Christ mas for Dec 16 Missionaries and Others Since the week of Dec 2 9 is the time for the big push to raise the Southern Baptist foreign missions budget called the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering some area churches are hav ing furloughing missionaries as pulpit guests Macon native Edgar Tharpe pastor and professor iryt Kowloon Hong Kong Baptist college and his teacher wife will speak at both the It am and 7:30 pm services at irst Baptist Church orsyth On the Methodist side the Rev Maclin who han served in Kenya and what was once the Congo will speak at the 7 pm service at Mulberry Street United Methodist Church 719 Mulberry St The Rev Arthur Detamore long active in promoting outreach in the Christian Church brotherhood will be guest speaker Sunday morning at irst Christian Church 2306 Vineville Ave The Rev Nathaniel Linsey of Atlanta general secretary of evangelism for the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is speaking al Holsey Temple CME Church 1011 Washington Ave at 11:15 am Sunday Special Events The Business Missionary League will meet 6:30 pm Monday for a covered dish supper at irst Baptist Church on High Place Mrs Albert Cardwell and Mary Jane Card well will present the program The Rev and Mrs Jack Harvey will be evangelists at a revival Sunday through Sunday at Napier Avenue Church of God 3686 Napier Ave Sunday services will be at 11 am and 6:30 pm others at 7:30 pm with no Monday meeting New Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Maynard St will have its eighth annual Appreciation Day honoring the pastor the Rev Edscl Davis with services at 11 am and 3 pm Sunday The Rev Harry icklin will be guest speaker at a Youth Program 11:30 am Sunday at Damascus Baptist Church Hollingsworth Road a ft.