The Columbus Ledger from Columbus, Georgia • 4

It I LBfe THE COLUMBUS LEDGER Thursday November 5 1981 Before going on vacation Jack Swift sprouted a moustache resembling that in the photo above Ledger staff artist Angelo ranco got to wondering how Jack would look with various styles of hirsute facial adornment one of versions The Adolph ST 'SL $3 vb i JKL jP Jm J1 WO fiiata ieldcrest Wants to See Dam Plan By Constance Johnson Ledger Staff Writer A recommendation for increasing the generating capacity of ieldcrest dam on the Chattahoochee River under joint public private ownership has mill officials in a waiting posture have anything to say until we get the report and have an opportu nity to study William Crumley ieldcrest vice president and general manager in Columbus said Wednes day Raising the height of an existing dam is more economically feasible than constructing a new bridge dam at the foot of 12th Street engi neers with two consultant firms found during an eight month study Results of the study made by Black Veatch of Kansas City Mo and Motor Columbus of Baden Switzerland were summarized Monday for members of the Columbus River Resources Com mission Any further development of a mid city stretch of the river must include ieldcrest Mills the consultants said ieldcrest has a federal license to dam the river a few hundred feet upstream from 12th Street and to generate power Printed copies of the full report will be available in about three weeks the Black Veatch representatives said Monday Meanwhile ieldcrest will place on hold its own plans to increase the height of its dam and to step up its present 35 megawatts generating ca pacity to 17 megawatts according to Crumley do anything sure until we see the Black Veatch study if it comes out when they said it he said The study originally centered on the possibility of constructing a bridge dam at 12th Street that would harness the full electrical energy potential of the drop The dam would be topped by a four lane road way But at interest rates the con sultants concluded that such a struc ture be economically viable Construction alone was estimated at $53 million in 1981 dollars Inflation could put the cost to $144 million by the time the power plant went on line in 1988 The consultants also ruled out as im practical a dam at 13th Street that affect the existing ieldcrest (Jam The alternative recommended by the consultants increasing the output of the ieldcrest dam parallels the own plan However the consultants' propose increasing the generating ca pacity to 388 megawatts or more than twice what ieldcrest contemplates George Neill of Black Veatch said ieldcrest might find it more attrac tive financially to have a 17 megawatt share in a larger facility under joint ownership than to build and operate its own 17 megawatt plant Crumley said he comment on this idea until he sees the detailed report Lawmakers Hear Both Sides of Byssinosis Issue By Nolan Walters Ledger Staff Writer The question was whether Geor compensation law should be changed to provide more readily for victims of byssinosis or an occupational dis ease caused by cotton dust The byssinosis sufferers and their friends knew what they wanted the textile executives knew what they wanted or want And the Georgia legislators who will decide how to change the law if at all? They were well cau tious came with no preconceived ideas about what should be done or be done We came to learn from you the people who represent labor or the people who represent said Rep John Mostiler But after carefully giving indus try and labor representatives equal time Mostiler volunteered that companies be ap for the good job they are doing cleaning up and that he was sure that industry wants to do right by its employees Another legislator ended by warning company managers that the federal government has begun concern about other occupational hazards Staff Photos by NoIon Walters A 14 AjO Bw rWSr I BHMr Js NiWjsHHHHIIHnil JUflHHHHHHHHMHIHIIHHHHBH Yale Professor Dr Neil Schacter (L) Swift Textiles rank Williams (R) Speak at Hearing in Columbus Mostiler is chairman of the Georgia House Industrial Rela Subcommittee on Compensation which is holding hearings this week on a proposal to allow workers with byssinosis to file for compensation within a year after being disagnosed As is the workers must file within a year after being exposed to the cotton dust an uncommon provision among com pensation laws and one that shuts out retired workers who may have been unknowingly exposed years ago opponents of the law say Rep Mary Jane Galer of Co lumbus has offered the change as House Bill 674 help write a fair law that allows people who have this occupational disease to get into the Mrs Galer said to the three members of the subcom mittee who came to Columbus Wednesday night Mostiler Rep Ed Mullinax of LaGrange and Rep Charles Martin of Buford absolutely said Columbus lawyer James Butler of the present law he said requires a textile worker to diagnose Listening to the stories told by textile workers that qome to him for help Butler said like step ping back into the 17th century into a Charles Dickens about exploited workers On the other side industry spo kesmen repeatedly produced com pany gathered statistics that showed is no epidemic of according to Marriner medical director for the Dan River company to what some would have you believe the safety health and well being of our em ployees has been and is of vital concern to the textile industry in our said rank Williams of Swift Textiles of Columbus Swift Textiles seemed to strike one of the rare notes of compro mise on either side Williams saying that the company support Mrs bill as writ ten but that with that would some changes in the occu pational disease section of the law might be acceptable The industry was ready for the much anticipated presentation of Dr Neil Schacter a Yale Univer sity medical professor who is con tinuing that long tradition of studying The issue of byssinosis quickly became mired in the same bog of conflicting studies and statistics it has wandered in for years Schacter said his study of more than 300 South Carolina mill work ers indicated that smoking explain the abnormally high amount of obstructive lung disease in the workers Cotton dust and smoking were separate and distinct causes he said Haven Newton of ieldcrest Mills out of North Carolina coun tered that that company has found only 2 percent of its workers dur ing a recent survey showed any See LAWMAKERS Page 2 Staff Photo bv Allen Horne 'wr i EU tOsiisa Sit jBsy jgk Anna Margaret Donaldson at Re Creation of landers ield on Broadway at 1 2th Street in Columbus Poppy Day in Columbus During World War I they sprouted and blos somed on the lemish battlefields amidst the graves of fallen soldiers Today the poppies are worn to remem ber the tragedy and carnage of war and the renewal of life Saturday is Poppy Day in the Columbus area when the green and red crepe paper flowers handmade by veterans across the country will be worn to honor those who came home from war (Veterans Day is Nov 11) In Columbus the poppies will be offered Satur day in shopping malls and other areas around town Donations will aid disabled veterans and thei dependents Marty Martinez commander of American Legion Unit 35 1808 Victory Drive said donations from the poppies totaled about $2200 last year The American Legion on Victory Drive also will have a barbecue and rummage sale Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm Martinez said The chicken and pork barbecue plates will be go on sale after 11 am for $250 each The public is invited Phenix letcher McCollister Post 135 have a poppy sale said Bill Oaks post commander Instead the American Legion will have a barbecue Monday from 4 to 8 pm for members only AME Church Will Dedicate New Retreat Center By Myrna May Ledger Staff Writer More than 2500 African Methodist Episcopal church members from Georgia are expected to attend the cor nerstone aiu dedication service for the Bishop Talbot AME Retreat Center in Columbus at 10 am ri day The service concludes Convocation III a three day conference of church members which began Wednes day in Columbus trustees of the Southwest Georgia Annual Con ference purchased the retreat about six weeks ago for the Sixth said the Rev Luis Strick land pastor of St James AME in Columbus The center on a wooded 6 34 acre site at 5000 St Road will be directed by the Rev rank Mad dox pastor of St Paul AME in Columbus center will be used as a spiritual retreat and renewal center where groups may retire to do their See AME Page 2 Daniel Sentenced To Electric Chair In Police Slaying By Jim Houston Ledger Staff Writer Death in the electric chair was decided Wednesday for George Daniel 24 in the murder of a Hurtsboro police officer A Russell County Circuit Court jury deliberated almost three hours on the penalty It had two options: death or life without pa role When the eight woman four man jury pronounced his doom Daniel continued the stoic expres sion had through the trial He sat with arms folded and stared at the jury as the verdict was read Although Daniel change expression defense lawyer James Curtiss Bernard of Phenix City flinched at the verdict Judge Paul Miller set formal sentencing for Dec 4 at 2 pm Then the sentence will be automat ically appealed to the Alabama Su preme Court Daniel was convicted by the jury Tuesday of murdering Hurtsboro patrolman George Claypool 43 a Columbus resident who had atr tempted to arrest Daniel for loi tering in the Russell County town Daniel had refused to enter Clay police car a struggle en sued and Daniel shot Claypool with the gun Daniel was arrested shortly af terwards in a house about a block from the ditch where Claypool died of a bullet wound on Jan 27 District Attorney William Ben ton presented no evidence to the jury during the penalty hearing He relied on trial testimony that Claypool was a law enforcement officer performing his duty which state law recognizes as requisite for a death sentence Defense attorneys Bernard and Ruben King sought life without pa role on the grounds that Daniel had no prior record of criminal ac tivity and that he was under ex treme mental or emotional duress when he killed the patrolman These are two of six grounds a jury may consider mitigating cir cumstances Lily Daniel of Montgomery the mother testified her son had never been in trouble and that he was confused and irratio nal when she saw him in the Rus sell County Jail after his arrest: even know who I was when I went to the jail I just kept talking to him I said what are you doing He said Dr Robert A Rose a psycholo gist with the East Alabama Mental Health Center testified he exa mined Daniel three times in the jail and found his behavior and He said he tell whether Daniel had a major mental illness or was faking symptoms so he re commended examination by the staff at Bryce Hospital in Tusca loosa Dr Edwin Seger a Bryce psychologist called by the prosecu tion said Daniel was observed and examined for almost a month Then the staff concluded Daniel was or faking a mental illness: other words he talked crazy but he act King suggested the jury had enough evidence to support life without parole Benton urged jurors to ask themselves how many Hurtsboro police officers would have to die before the death penalty would be imposed If ever a man ought to be put in the electric chair and pay the capital price he ought to Benton said pointing at Daniel About an hour after retiring the jury split seven to five apparently for death Then this narrowed to 10 to two Shortly afterwards Miller asked the panel if it was progressing or having difficulty The foreman Thomas Phillip of Phenix City said he felt a verdict was near Almost three hours after they began deliberating the jurors un animously agreed on death Benton thanked each juror as they left the courtroom The slain widow Sil watched from the first spectator row Sobbing she said she had wanted to personally thank the jurors: wanted to tell the judge the jury the police officers I just appre ciate she said Mrs Daniel showed no emotion as she heard her son condemned to death i 1.