Ledger-Enquirer from Columbus, Georgia • 3

(Johinibiisilntiuircr Columbus Ga ebruary 10 1981 THE CITIES TODAY A 3 MR BACK A familiar face reappeared at Columbus meeting last Tuesday Emilio Masciovecchio a local auto mechanic and outspoken citizen went before the council to point out ways the city government could save money But before making his remarks Masciovecchio explained his appearance The mechanic who often fiercely criticizes council members admitted his attendance violates a New resolution to stop attending the council meetings One reason Mascoi vecchio gave for changing his mind was that he slipping into on cityissues Another reason? felt like rjnany of you had missed he said MAYBE SOMEONE WAS TESTING THE POLITICAL WATERS A water line breakon the sixth floor of the Columbus government Center Saturday "caused a change in the greeting patterns of Mayor Harry staff Monday Besides receiving warnings that the carpet was wet and the floor was slippery visitors to the office Monday morning were met with greetings like: How are you this morning? Would you like to wade on Later in a Government Center elevator City Manager ranklyn Lambert was asked about the cause of the pipe break The city manager replied that from could have caused the break Theft he added: I feel like coming apart GENERIC JOKE You run across some interesting ideas in old minutes from Russell County Commission meetings or instance: Dolly Wilson suggested that the county and city should get together and consider using genetic drugs for jail BANK ON IT One of the highlights of recent Chamber of Commerce banquet was a drawing for door prizes The new president Ted Wilson understandably was a little red in the face when he won a $25 savings account from Auburn Bank Trust promise you not the former president said I rom Enquirers Past eb 10 1980 LAKE PLACID NY (AP) The Carter administration finally had its head on confrontation with the International Olympic Committee Saturday night over the issue of whether the Summer ilOlympics should be held in Moscow eb 10 1956 ATLANTA A MuscogeeCounty resident opposed toannexation has threatened to discontinue doing business with a Georgia assemblyman unless hemoves to defeat the pending annexation legislation Columbus has a seven to one chance of being contaminated by radioactive fall out if enemy airplanes bomb nearby cities DETROIT (AP) Layoffs for another 5400 Chrysler workers 1 were announced The layoffs have been frankly labeled by the employers as made to reduce huge inventories of passenger cars eb 10 1891 WASHINGTON (SPECIAL) A fine piece of news for Columbus is the approval by President (Harrison) of the bill appropriating $100000 for a public building at that place The coal market has advanced considerably of late Coal dealers in Columbus however have been very liberal with their customers and have not made them feel the rise in prices I as the people in other cities have (9 Town Talk Plant Manager: Columbus ashions Closing By Nita Birmingham Enquirer Stuff writer Columbus ashions predicted in 1973 by its first manager to have a stabilizing influ on textile indus try is closing according to a local official plant is closing but still operating Plant Man ager Siegfried Knoferl said Mon day Only about 15 of the 125 full time employees were working Monday he said Those employees were finishing an order he said Neither Knoferl nor local union chairwoman Glenda Spear knew when the clothing manufacturer at 3719 Joy Road will close Mrs Spear said she has called her headquarters in At lanta and the home office of Butte Knitting Mills which owns Co lumbus ashions in Spartanburg SC But she said she has been un able to get any information on the closing Butte Vice President Lachlan Hyatt was out of town Monday on business related to the closing of Columbus ashions according to his wife Other company officials would not return telephone calls Knoferl said his guess the manufacturer is closing because of competition from foreign firms Columbus ashions opened in July 1973 Butte Knitting Mills is a divison of Jonathan Logan a man ufacturer of ready to wear clothing The clothing produced at Columbus ashions is sold under Jonathan and labels When Columbus ashions opened most of the textile plants in Columbus operated on a con tract basis Williams said in 1973 Butte would provide a regular flow of work to avoid layoffs he said Monday morning nine female employees who were temporarily laid off about four weeks ago met with reporters outside the plant The employees said they heard rumors the plant was closing but they said company officials and Mrs Spear refused to provide any information The employees have been get ting partial unemployment pay ments They said they want fuil unemployment compensation if the plant is closing Mrs Spear said Columbus ash ions probably mail notices to each employee The firm will send the local unemployment office a termination sheet with each em name on it she said A room would be set up for employ ees of Columbus ashions to file for unemployment benefits she added tried to represent the ma jority of the Mrs Spear said As soon as she knows when the plant is closing or has any more information she will hold a meeting with union employees she said JZ Campbell (L) and Allison With Certificates A llison TA Student or Muscogee County By Nolan Walters EnquirerStaffWriter Kenneth Ray Allison a senior at Brookstone School with a perfect 1600 on the Scholastic Aptitute Test was named Mus cogee 1981 STAR Stu dent Monday night Allison the son of Mr and Mrs Ray Allison in turn hon ored John Campbell Jr a Brookstone rench teacher by naming him the 1981 STAR teacher of the year The STAR or Teacher Achievement Recogni program is sponsored locally by the Columbus Cham ber of Commerce and statewide by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce Selection is based on success on the SAT basic college entry exam although the students also must be in the upper 10 percent of their class academically Allison a slender 6 foot 2 also plays on the Brookstone basket ball team and belongs to the chess and math clubs deciding where to pur sue his goal of becoming either a computer or biomedical en gineer (someone who designs medical equipment) As for picking Campbell as his STAR teacher Allison said had many good experi ences at Brookstone but he felt the most important thing a teacher could do was to treat students as individuals which Campbell had The other 10 STAR students each holding the top SAT in his or her respective high school showed themselves to be as different in manner as they were similar in academic ability One confessed that since his STAR teacher had introduced the wonders of computer sci ence to him become ad dicted go into withdrawal he said when he find a machine to pro gram Tom Boyd III the president elect of the chamber had only one request for them to con sider after finished their college educations: back to he said help us run this The other 10 STAR students their high schools and their STAR teachers are: reddy Ingram Baker High School Charles Liner Ber nard Paul Palmer Carver High School Betty Seabury Rachel Susan Lieberman Columbus High School Sam Tucker Haynes Morgan Brooke Har daway High School Joseph Skinner Douglas Summers Jordan High School the Rev William Wilson Michael Douglas Dailey Kendrick High School Laura Ward John Wil liam Britton Pacelli High School Sister Mary Gratia Thomas Laurie Ann Safar Shaw High School (tie) Betty S4vell Kenneth Martin Van Hom Shaw High School (tie) Lillian Wooldridge and Kelli Lynn Burgin Spencer High School Linda Skinner Amerson Case Probe Starts By Susan Counts EnquirerStoHWriter The Columbus investigation into the widely publicized and opinion wrapped demotion case of for mer irst Assistant ire Chief Jefferson Amerson got off to a relatively quiet start Monday Before a crowd of spectators members of the coun cil spent most of their time setting up rules for the meetings that will follow They each agreed to review information about the Personnel Review hearings of case Also they agreed to hire outside legal help and to sul poena five public safety employees to the next special meeting scheduled for riday At the suggestion of Councilman Charles Rector the council summoned ire Chief Robert Ledford Public Safety Director Robert Reinke Battalion Chief Charlie Ledford Battalion Chief rank ussell and Amerson to the riday meeting The council will decide then whether to allow testi mony from all of the subpoenaed employees At least six council votes will be required to subpoena future witnesses or documents the council members agreed Clerk of Council Lemuel Miller called the meeting to order and the attending council members chose Coun cilman Jack Land as temporary chairman The council voted 6 3 to seek the outside legal coun sel Lawyer orrest Champion will be interviewed about providing the help the council members said The decision was made in a closed session because qualifications were discussed the council members said The city attorney or his two assistants should not advise the council in the case because they have indi cated they disapprove of what we are Rector said comments refer to City Attorney Lennie opinion last week that the council cannot over rule the Personnel Review Board in the Amerson case Rector contends the review demotion of Amer son from first assistant chief to battalion chief has al ready been carried out and that any action by the council will be Councilmen Mike Henry John Wells and Land op posed hiring outside legal help Land said he believes the city attorney or his staff would provide objective advice regardless of the opinion The use of the city staff also would save money Land said Amerson who contends his demotion was for politi cal rather than disciplinary reasons has appealed his case to Muscogee County Superior Court The for mer first assistant fire chief was originally demoted to lieutenant by ire Chief Ledford The review board changed that demotion to battalion chief American amily Sells WYEA TV By Nita Birmingham EnquirerStoHWriter American amily Corp always looks for chances to expand its ownership of television stations and the sale of WYEA TV in Co lumbus will add flexibility to the search said Chief Operating Offi cer Leroy Paul American amily Corp Monday announced the sale of WYEA TV to Lewis Broadcasting Co of Sa vannah Ga for an undisclosed amount Lewis Broadcasting owns WLTX TV Columbia SC and WJCL TV Savannah Its president is Curtis Lewis a former mayor of Savannah Related Story PageA 5 The ederal Communications Commission prohibits ownership of two television stations in one market It also prohibits a cor poration from owning more than seven television stations American amily Corp owns six television stations including WYEA TV which it bought in March 1978 The sale will allow the corporation to acquire another sta tion and add two stations to its list of five The CC has to approve the sale which will take about six months Paul said WYEA TV is a UH station and an affiliate of the NBC television network It is the smallest station owned by American amily Corp a holding company with interests' in specialty insurance and broad casting The audience market size and the strength of WYEA signal were causes of the sale Paul said American amily Corp has 500 employees in its broadcasting group now Paul said Other American amily stations are WTOC TV Savannah WA TV Huntsville Ala KVS TV Cape Girardeau Mo KWWL TV Wa terloo Iowa and KTIV TV Sioux City Iowa Meetings Still Closed to Reporters The regular meetings held by Columbus Mayor Harry Jackson with members of his staff and some Columbus Council members remained closed to reporters Monday ive council members Edna Kendrick rank Ches ter red ranklin Mike Henry and John Wells attended this meeting Jackson explained last week that the meetings are only to review the agenda of the next council meeting He said the meetings allow council members to have their questions answered before the council meetings so valuable time will not be wasted The presence of reporters at the meetings reduces the attendance by council members the mayor said Phenix Considers Applicants Eight applicants are being considered for the job of police chief of Phenix City John ranklin city manager said Monday Those eight include some applicants who are cur rently with the Phenix City Police Department ranklin said The decision which is up to the city manager should come by eb 20 he said Last week ranklin said he had interviewed approxi mately 20 outsiders who have applied for the job The position came open with the resignation of Larry Brewer last June Department members who have applied include Maj Bobby Ellis who is acting chief Maj Rufus Davis head of the patrol division and patrol Capts Aubrey Harbert and Preston Robinson alse Arrest Award Ordered A State Court jury last week ordered a company that runs a Columbus department store to pay a Columbus Local News Briefs woman $37500 for false arrest The jury ordered Gayfers Montgomery air Co to pay the money to the woman after hearing testimony that she was stopped by store security on suspicion of shoplifting and then had an epileptic seizure According to testimony in the trial Mrs Connie Beasley 35 of 1114 Opel Ave was shopping at Gayfers in Peachtree Mall on Nov 27 1978 Store employees thought she may have been shoplifting but testified they did not see her remove anything Shortly after being accosted by store security she fell and had an epileptic seizure said her lawyer Under Georgia law being stopped for any amount of time to be questioned amounts to an arrest Mrs Beasley was never arrested and charged by the Columbus Police Department however i Rape Case Mistrial Granted Superior Court Judge John Land Monday granted a mistrial in the case against a Columbus man charged with breaking into a home beating a woman with a hammer and then raping her Land ruled that Larry Carter a Columbus detective prejudiced the jury in answering a question about how he knew the defendant Anthony Williams According to the lawyers in the case Carter replied that he had previouslyarrestedWilliamsonothercharges Mike Reynolds the prosecuting attorney said 'the case against Williams will not be dropped He will come to trial the next criminal term in court 1 IX Wh A I thhff CHARLIE ROSE ormer BI Agent District 93 Votes in Runoff By Dean Barber Enquirer StaH Writer Two political newcomers will find out today which one will sit in the Georgia General Assembly and rep resent the 93rd House District as a state representa tive The opponents in a runoff election today for the seat are: Charlie Rose 56 a former BI agent and a Republi can He has stumped south Colurhbus telling all those who would listen that he favors cutting government spend ing and will search for ways to relieve the tax burden on residents He also proposes get tough crime legislation Wayne Hudgins 29 is an insurance agent and a Dem ocrat Hudgins said he wants to work for tax relief He favors exempting the first $5000 of the income of military taxes He said he will also push for "Corridor a four lane highway from Columbus to Albany to Brunswick The runoff will decide who succeeds Albert Thomp son who represented the 93rd House District for 14 years and resigned in December when he was ap pointed a Superior Court judge The district includes four voting precincts Baker Eddy North Lumpkin and St Mary's The polls will open at 7 am and close at 7 pm There are 5606 persons registered to vote in the dis trict When the polls were closed in the special election on Jan 27 1622 had cast their votes Rose got more than 49 percent Hudgins 35 percent and Elden Elz worth the third candidate was eliminated WAYNE HUDGINS Insurance Agent if wPT I Mi.