2—The D«Uy Reflector, Greenville, N.C.—FrWay. Jai,uary 14.1977
Fate Of Claudine Longet In Hands Of Jurors
Unwilling To Hughes Will'
Claim One Is Phony
By BILL GARDNER Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES <AP) - A Howard Hughes attorney says he's unwilling to label as phony a Hughes will that would make a multimlllkmalre of former gas stathm manager Melvin Dummar. even though he says Dummar admitted being the mystery man who delivered It.
Harold Rhoden, attorney for the will's executor, former Hughes aide Noah Dietrich, said Dummar still hasn't told how he obtained the will, but has agreed to testify in a Las Vegas, Nef., court, where it was filed for probate.
"I want to bring him to the witness stand, where he knows that if he lies it will mean time in prison," Rhoden said Thursday. "It's no crime to lie to the press or to your lawyers.”
Rhoden told reporters that at a loigthy "grilling session" in Ogden, Utah, on Wednesday, Dummar admitted bringing the will to the Salt Lake City headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon.)
Claims for the document’s authenticity had been generally discounted- after repeals that the FBI found Dummar's fingerprint on if. ■
Dummar, at that time, denied the report and suggested the print was planted. But Rhoden said Dummar admitted to him that his fingerprints would probably be all over the will because he had steamed c^ien the envelope to look inside.
Dummar, however, denied writing the will or knowing who
did. Rhoden said The former service station operator was unavailable for comment, but his attorney. George Handy, said:
“Mr, Dummar, out of all the grilling we put him through, and it was very harsh and unkind. denies that he wrote the will, had anything to do with the writing of the will and does not know who wrote the will."
Rhoden said Dummar gave him several conflicting stories as to how he got the will, and he added; "I didn't believe him and told him so. He’s not ready to tell the truth about how he got it."
Rhoden said that before de
ciding whether he thinks the will is fraudulent or not, he wants to see the final FBI re-p(»l on it.
"What if they find fingerprints of Howard Hughes on the will?" he asked, adding that the same four handwriting experts who told him Dummar wrote on the envelt^ also said Hughes wrote the \rill.
Dummar ran a service station when the will turned up giving him one-sixteenth of the billionaire’s estate. He said he had once given Hughes a ride when he found him wandering along a Nevada desert road at night.
By BILL PARDUE Associated Press Writer
ASPEN. Cdo, lAP) - It look a week to find 12 citizens of this swinging ski town wlw didn’t already think she was guilty. Now. after four days of testimony, they must decide whether Claudine Longet was reckless or just the victim of an accident when her lover died.
The French-born entertainer’s mansiau0iter trial was to
go to the jury today following lawyers’ closing arguments and instructions from state District Court Judge George E. Lohr.
Both sides rested Thursday after testimony on why a gun went 0» in Miss Longet’s hands, killing champion skier Vladimir "Spider" Sabich. 31, in the bathroom of his $290,000 mountain home last March.
Miss Longet's former husband. singer Andy Williams, greeted her with a kiss during
D. H. Conley Highlights
Poor Diet Seen Major Problem
By JEFFREY MILLS Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Poor diets are one of the leading public health problems, a Senate committee report said today. It recommended a major new federal program to educate Americans on what they should eat.
"The public is confused about what to eat to maximize health,” Chairman George McGovern, D-S.D., of the Senate nutrition committee said in the report entitled “Dietary Goals for the United States."
The report said changes in
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the average diet in the United States since the beginning of the century "may be as profoundly damaging to the nation's health as the widespread contagious diseases of the early part of this century.”
“The over-consiimption of fat, generally, and saturated fat in particular, as well as cholesterol, sugar, salt and alcohol have been related to six of the ten leading causes of death; heart disease, cancer, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, arteriosclerosis and cirrhosis of the liver.” It sald-
Over-consumption in general is a major problem but undernourishment due to dietary patterns may also lead to malnutrition, the report prepared by the committee staff said.
In Its suggestions to consumers. the report recommended increasing consumption of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, poultry and fish. It recommended decreasing consumption of meat, foods high in fat, eggs and other high cholesterol sources, sugar and salt.
It blamed the changes in diet on higher incomes that allowed movement away from diets high in greens,' beans and whole grains to meat and othery hirglra“¿7o Znd'm more expensive foods. It also blamed television advertising of
By Linda Cox
The D. H. Conley JROTC has been pr^aring for an annual formal inspection which will be held March 15 by practicing drills during extended homeroom. t
The JROTC meets in the gymnasium and holds a mass formation and drills. Adjutant CPT John Baker calls the unit to attention, the Drum and Bugle Corps plays the adjutant’s calls, and the absentee report is presented. Batallion Commander, Trent Knight then tells his company commanders to take charge of individual drills. Following the drills, the units are called together and the bat-tallim is critiqued.
The Future Business Lea(^ of America (FBLA) is making preparations for the District I meeting which is scheduled to be held in Farmville January 31.
Student Council members are selling spices and light bulbs. The spices are $1.25 for each jar and the bulbs are 6 for $2. 'Hie money will be used to help pave the student parking lot.
The Future Homemakers will sponsor a Sweetheart Prom in February. The members of the
An Old Truck Is Gift Choice
HILLSBORO, N.H. (AP) -Dick Kemp gives his lady friend an old Mack truck instead of jewelry. Instead of taking her out to dinner, he invites
“junk foods.
EXPECTS MORE - Phllft)-pines Foreign Secretary Carlos P. Romulo gestures during an interview in Manila in vriUch be said his country expected the Carter administration to offer more aid to keep U.S. bases in the Philippines, (APWirqihoto)
paint the track.
Kemp collects old trucks, tractors, cr£^. On his lot here sit nearly * 70 snow-covered trucks, most of them Macks, models from 1916 to 1953.
"I do it strictly for a hobby,” says the 45-year-old bachelor. “I just love old trucks, I guess, I hate to see them destroyed, cut up."
His pride is a,1937 Mack Junior that was classified as junk. He is fixing it up for his lady friend, Lorraine, as a ^ow-piece.
“She does ail the sanding and the painting and I do the body work,” he says. “She’s crazy over them.”
INVITED TO GUILFORD
GREENSBORO - Monica R. Lee and Freager R. Sanders, both students at J.H. Rose Hi^ School in Greenville, are among a number of academically superior black high school seniors from North and South Carolina to participate In a National Achievement Scholar Visitation Day at Guilford College on February 10,
club may invite one person. Arrangements for the dance are being handled by club members. The event is one of the htghli^ts of the club’s activities.
Seniors ordered their cap and gown portraits this past week.
The mid-term exam schedule was posted Thursday. Each exam will be scheduled to last two hours and the first one begins January 25. The exams will count '/4 of the term grade.
LWV President Speaks For ERA
Ruth C. Clusen, president of the League of Women Voters of the United States, spoke in Raleigh yesterday at a luncheon for League members from across the state on the Equal Rights Amendment.
Mrs. Clusen has held advisory positions to the federal government and to national and international org^izations in such areas as the environment, urban problems, civil rights and women's issues. As chairman of the LWV Education Fund, she played a principal role in developing the Presidential Forums of 1976 for presidential and vice presidential candidates to meet face-to-face in nationally televised debates.
League members invited their legislators to a reception last evening to meet Mrs. Clusen.
Martin Luther King Day Set
The Southern Chrisflan Leadership Conference (SCLC) will sponsor Martin Luther King Day activities in Greenville Saturday, January 15.
Speeches and remarks will be presented at the Roxy Theatre from 2 to 3 p.m. Dr. A. A. Best will be the featured speaker and musical selections will be provided by the A. A. Best Chorale.
At 3 p.m. a march will be conducted from Albemarle Street to the Pitt Cminty (Courthouse.
In 1976 Mayor Percy Cox established January 15 as Martin Luther King Day in Greenville.
a short court recess. Actor Jack Nicholson, who said he “just wanted to see the trial." sat in on the day’s proceedings,
E)e(ense and prosecution ^nt almost four hours In the judge’s chambers debating Instructions for the jury In Its deliberations.
"This is a case Involving some difficult cxmcepts of negligence. recklessness." defense attorney Charles V. Weedman said.
Earlier, the prosecution cross-examined Sabich's best friend in an effort to prove that Miss Longet, 35. ‘ likes to take chances."
James Llllstrom. an advertising executive from Boulder, said the affair between Sabich and Miss Longet began in 1972 after a glass-tossing incident In a bar.
Prosecutor Ashley Anderson had said when the jury was out: “The way Miss Longet got Spider's attention was she threw a glass and hit him in the chest, and he turned and said, ‘I guess she wants to talk to me."’
But Llllstrom indicated Anderson's version was wrong. “We heard Spider’s name called out very loudly," he testified. “We both turned to look.
and she (Miss Longet) tossed the glass at him.
“He had plenty of time to get out of the way. 1 think for dramatic effect he let it hit him."
Also testifying was a firearms expert for the defense Lama Martin, who works with a private laboratory In Maryland, said the pistol that killed Sabich was fired from a range of two to three feet.
A prosecution ballistics expert has estimated the firing range from four to six feet. The distance is important because Miss Longet says the gun discharged while ste was standing dose to Sabich as he taught her to handle the semiautomatic pistol.
Both sides agreed the gun’s safety mechanism was inoperable.
Martin also told jurors the pistol’s Internal parts may have been damaged by a gummy layer of oil that could have allowed It to fire without the trigger being pulled. But he admitted under cross-examination that the only way he could get the pistol to fire in testing was to pull the tri^er.
Miss Longet could spend up to 10 years in the Colorado state prison and pay a $30,000 fine if she is convicted.
$975,000 Grant For Jamesville
Local Rescue Squad Receives Check
A check for $100.00 is presented to The Wlnterville Rescue Squad Captain, Ashley Dail (right) from Marion Peaden, president of the Pitt County Broadcasters C.B. Club. The money will be used towards the purchase of new equipment for the squad. The Pitt County Broadcasters have about 30 members and they raise money through turkey shoots and "Coffee-Breaks" during the holidays.
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WASHINGTON - North Carolina District Congressman Walter B. Jones today announced final approval and commitment of funds by the Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, in the amount of $975,000 to the Town of Jamesville
These funds will be utilized in the construction of a complete sewage collection system and also a treatment facility to treat wastewater prior to its being discharged into the Roanoke River.
The technical design of this sytem will involve the construction of approximately 9,525 linear feet of outfall sewers, 21,100 linear feet of collection sewers, two sewage pumping stations, and an extended aeration type waster treatment facility. The project will also include water treatment units to remove rust and hardness from the Town’s drinking water.
“I wish to compliment the mayor and members of the town administration, as well as the citizens of Jamesville on their dedicated efforts in providing this new facility to better serve the present and future needs of the community, “Jones said.' The town’s consulting engineer Jim Stewart of Jacksonville, is also to be commended for his efforts in assisting the town in planning the project and applying for the grant. Ad ditionally, the construction of this much needed new facility will pcovide additional em ployment for citizens of Martin County, where the unemployment rate presently exceeds 11 percent,” Jones added.
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