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v-1 TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1974 Ztyt fionlgnmfrg Aitarrttwr PAGE 13 A yewitness rromise oay siaym DONALSO.NVILLE. Ga. AP) Special prosecutor Peter Zack Geer told a Seminole County Superior Court jury Monday that he will produce an eye-witness to the mass slaying of six members of the Alday family. Geer. in his opening statement to the jury trying Carl J.

Isaacs, apparently referred to the defendant's 16-vear-old brother. Billy Isaacs. The young Isaacs pleaded guilty last week to charges of burglary and armed robbery and murder charges against him were dropped. He was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. Geer also included the younger Isaacs on his court list of approximately 70 witnesses.

"We expect to have an eye witness to what Isaacs did." (leer told the newly seated jury. The slate does not expect to prove that Carl Isaacs personally shot each one of the dead members of the Alday family." (Jeer said. "The state does expected to prove that he shot some of the Alday Carl Isaacs, his half-brother Wayne Coleman. 26. and tion of the jury except for members of the Alday family and members of those of the defendants.

Isaacs, a slight, pale youth with long dark hair and a short beard was surrounded by state troopers when he was taken into the courtroom Troopers were strategically placed about the courtroom and other officers stood guard at the entrances to the courthouse as well. During of the jury, defense questions centered heavily on how well each prospective juror knew the Alday family. When special prosecutor Peter Zack Geer asked one man if he believed in capital punishment. Hill objected. "It's not a proper question.

It's unconstitutional." he said. Hill was a strong advocate for abolishing the death penalty in the Georgia Legislature. Judge Walter I. Geer. an uncle of the special prosecutor, overruled temporarily Hill's motion that such future ques-iions be stricken.

He indicated a formal ruling might come later. Several of the prospective jurors said in response to questions that they had attended the mass Alday funeral. The six family members are buried in a rural churchyard outside of Donalsonville. a huge black marble monument with the inscription. "The Aldav Familv." serving as a marker for all A tourth defendant.

16-yearold Billy Isaacs, was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment earlier this month after he pleaded guilty to charges of burglary and armed robbery. Murder charges against him were dropped. The four defendants were linked with the slayings when a car belonging to Richard Wayne Miller, 19, of McConnellsburg. was found parked at the Alday trailer. Dungee was caught six days later following the holdup of a country store in West Virginia.

The others were apprehended the next day when bloodhounds found them sleeping beneath a rock ledge near Yukon. W.Va. George Dungee, 35. all escapees from a Maryland prison, are charged with six counts of murder in the shooting deaths last May. The bodies of Ned Alday.

62. and his son. Jerry, 35. Chester. and Jimmy.

25. and his brother Aubry. 57. were found in a mobile home owned by Jerry near the family farm home. The nude body of Jerry's wife.

Mary Alday. 26. was found the next day in a field on a neighboring farm about five miles away. Police said she had been raped, tortured and shot in the back of the head. The jury selection of six men and six women took the entire day.

Two of the jurors are 20 years old and seven are black. Judge Walter I. Geer excused the court appointed attorneys for Coleman and Dungee until next Monday after attorneys for the defense and the state said testimony in the Isaacs case would take several days each. Geer later told newsmen he expected to call only about half of the witnesses, many of whom are from Maryland and West Virginia, where the defendants were arrested. Spectators were barred from the courtroom during selec TVA Reports 73 Record Sales FRONT Port Record Claimed Tuesday, will range from a 14 per cent boost to residential consumers to 23 per cent for large industrial users.

Reporting on other aspects of its operations. TVA said: -Towns and counties, in the Tennessee Valley must find ways to provide improved services for people in rural areas in the region is to maintain its economic growth without encountering the troubles of over-urbanization. Its flood control mechanism got its severest test during the year following the heaviest rainfall in the Tennessee valley in 83 years. TVA estimated its flood control operations averted $574 million in damages, principally in the Chattanooga area on the Tennessee River. -Its national fertilizer development center at Muscle Shoals.

continues to create new products for farmers and introduce more efficient production methods to industry. The authority, which has spent $120 million since 1966 on air pollution control at its steam power plants, said it plans to spend an additional $270 million to meet air quality-standards in Tennessee. Alabama and Kentucky. These environmental 'improvements must be passed along to its power customers in the form of rate boosts, the agency said. WASHINGTON (Al't The Tennessee Valley Authority reports record power sales of 103.5 billion kilowatt-hours in fiscal 1973 but says obstacles confront it in meeting future energy demands.

The agency, in its annual report to the President and Congress, said its power operations "reflected the intensifying pressures felt by utility systems nationally in providing increasing supplies of electrical The authority added more than 2 million kilowatts of electricity to its power system during the year, boosting the generating capacity to 21.9 million kilowatts. This makes TVA the largest single power producer in the country. Increased use of power by residential, industrial and other customers gobbled up TVA additional electricity. And the authority said the demand is expected to grow at an annual compound rate of 7 per cent during the next decade. To meet this anticipated demand.

TVA is building or planning nuclear power plants that will add more than 17 million kilowatts of generating capacity by 1982. The agency also told the President and Congress that a steady rise in construction and operating costs are forced to raise its power rates. The new rates, which go into effect rsf 3k iiwiiHiumw atV? Ki44 Vi4Mii MOBILE. Ala. (AP) The Port of Mobile has surpassed record 1972 water-borne commerce in the first 11 months of the current year.

This was disclosed in a monthly report for November released Monday by Alabama Docks Director Reuben E. Wheelis The November figure of tons boosted the port's total so far this year to 26.82 million tons. This compared with a record 25.58 million tons for all of 1972. The November total, fourth highest in port history, compared with 2.57 million tons in October and 2 14 million tons in November 1972. Shipments of crude oil and petroleum products retained their place as the No.

1 commodity handled by the port at 734.531 tons, followed by imports of iron ore for the Birmingham steel didstrict at tons. Coal shipments were in third place with 406.375 tons. Imports of bauxite, basic ore of aluminum, were the port's fourth major commodity at 205.474 tons. Operations of the State Docks' public grain elevator continued at a high rate with 275,018 shipped through the elevator during the month. Most of the activity involved soybeans and soybean meal.

Senator Engineers Award Contact For Work On Waterway MOBILE. Ala. (APi Army Engineers Monday announced award of a second multimillion dollar contract for work on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. The Mobile District office said the $14,151,922 contract went to Al Johnson Construction Co. of Minneapolis.

Minn. The offer, submitted by the Minnesota firm earlier in December, was almost $180,000 below the government estimate of $14,331,339. The contract is for construction of an 817-foot dam including a concrete spillway on the Tombigbee River at Gainesville, in west-central Alabama. The work is scheduled for completion in about 3 'a years. The first contract for work on the Gainesville project totaled $18.49 million and was awarded to Guy James Construction Co.

of Oklahoma City. last year. James Construction is build ing a lock and excavating for a canal under that contract. The Gainesville lock and dam is the first structure to be built on the 253-mile Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway linking the Tombigbee River in Alabama with the Tennessee River in southwest Tennessee. The waterway will extend mainly through northeast Mississippi.

The over-all project, which will cost in excess of $514 million, will provide a slack-water barge route between the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile with the heart of the Midwest. Body AH Wirephoto Identified Power fl fW flilflmnrh' plosives Sunday, as more than 1,000 people i.tiinintui watched Controlled Demolitlon Inc handled The Hanselman Building, a long standing Kala- explosion, which lasted five seconds, as the 10-sto- mazoo. landmark, was blown down with ex- ry building settled into a pile of rubble. Post Eyed By Mims Hydro-Electric Plant In Randolph Nixon Impeachment, Other Issues Face Congress in New Year MOBILE, Ala. (APi State toxicologists Monday identified a badly decomposed body found last week near a Baldwin County marina as that of a missing Floridian.

Toxicologists Nelson E. Grubbs and James Small said the body was identified as that of Jerry Hartley of Pensacola. He was described as in his 40s. Cause of death could not be determined because of the body's condition. The body was found near the Trent Marina at Orange Beach, about 1'2 miles from the Alabama Point Bridge.

Grubbs said members of Hartley's family discovered his truck parked at Alabama Point and reported him missing. FLOMATON State Rep. Maston Mims. of Uriah, has announced that he will qualify as a candidate for state senator from the new district composed of Clarke, Escambia. Conecuh and Monroe Counties.

Mims stated that his service in the lower house put him in a position to be of greater service to the people, should they see fit to elect him to the senate. "It has been a challenge and a blessing to serve my people and the experience I have gained can be of benefit to Southwest Alabama and the state as a whole," Mims said. Mims is a partner in Mims Brothers Farms of Uriah. 2 Bodies Found Near ANNISTON. Ala.

(APi Alabama Power Company officials are awaiting receipt of a license to build a hydroelectric generating plant in Randolph County. The license was approved Friday by the Federal Power Commission, but company officials said 58 conditions were tacked on that must be complied with before the plant can be built. Homer Turner vice-president of the power company's eastern division at Anniston. said he does not know what the conditions are. The license to build the plant was applied for in 1968, but has been delayed by various studies and surveys, most of which brought about by environmentalists who opposed the dam.

The plant would be known as the Crooked Creek Dam Project and would be located on the Tallapoosa River 10 miles southwest of Wedowee. The project would create a lake with about 270 miles of shoreline. When originally proposed in 1968, cost of the project was put at $27.5 million. Company officials say that coast would now be $40 million. Turner said that if all conditions can be met.

construction will start "right away." He said the conditions are "usually the type thing that can be negotiated." 25 Tons Marijuana Goes Up In Smoke TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Twenty-five tons of Colombian marijuana worth about $20 million has gone up in smoke. Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials burned the marijuana over the weekend, fearing that revelers at a New Year's Eve dance might try to steal the pot from a storeroom near the site for the party. The weed was confiscated Christmas Eve and officials said it was the biggest marijuana seizure in U.S. history.

Officials spent eight hours burning the marijuana in an incinerator at a paper mill in Perry, about 50 miles southeast of Tallahassee. WASHINGTON AP i A mass of unresolved issues awaits Congress in the new year, topped by possible impeachment proceedings against President Nixon. Normally. Jan. 3 would be the opening date for the new session.

But the legislators adjourned just before Christmas and will not return until Jan. 21 unless called back by Nixon or their own leaders. The Senate and House members will be able to pick up where they left off in the first session of the 93rd Congress rather than start all over again as at the beginning of a new-Congress. One immediate task will be to try to complete action on an emergency energy bill that produced a deadlock between the Senate and House in the final hours before adjournment. The measure would provide authority for gasoline rationing and other fuel-saving actions, but it bogged down in a dispute over windfall profits for oil companies and other provisions.

The administration, meanwhile, has announced a standby plan for gasoline rationing that could be used if the legislation is passed. However, the administration has said it hopes this will not be necessary. Other left-over issues range from election reform to foreign trade. The Senate has passed a bill to limit campaign contributions and expenditures and to set up new enforcement machinery outside of the Justice Department. New efforts to get House action on it are expected early in the year.

And in the Senate, the Rules Committee is committed to action within a month after Congress returns on another bill to provide federal financing for presidential and congressional election campaigns. Also awaiting action in the Senate is a House-passed bill to give the President broad new trade negotiating authority. A major issue involved is whether the Soviet Union is to be denied U.S. trade concessions given most other nations unless the Soviets lift restrictions on emigration of Jews and others. The House has yet to act on a Senate-passed bill to reform private pension plans, and new efforts are expected to pass legislation vetoed by Nixon last year to raise the minimum wage.

Then there is the question of what will be done about wage-price control authority, expiring April 30. Also lying ahead are tax reform, health insurance, new housing programs and legislation for. a vast research and development program for new sources of energy. And with a federal budget of around $300 billion in prospect, Congress will try to set in motion new procedures for handling government spending. The House already has passed a bill designed to give Congress better control over appropriations and a similar measure is awaiting Senate action.

Also, the Senate and the House will make renewed attempts to agree on legislation to curb the President's impoundment of appropriated funds. Separate bills were passed by each branch last year. However, overshadowing these and other legislative issues in the election-year session may be the Watergate affair and its impact on the President. The Senate's special Watergate committee is due to wind up its investigation and report its findings and recommendations. And in the House the Judiciary Committee will report on whether it has found evident warranting impeachment action against Nixon.

If the House should vote impeachment the Senate will sit in judgment with Chief Justice Warren e' Burger presiding. No Plans For Burned Plant FLOMATON No definite decision has yet been made on whether Fountain Industries will rebuild its Mobile plant, destroyed by fire here on the night "of Nov. 11. Donny Fountain, president of Fountain Industries, has stated, "Right now we haven't reached a decision. We would hope to get back in production as soon as we get a few things settled, but it's hard to say.

Ilartselle HARTSELLE, Ala. (AP) A Morgan County work crew found the bodies of a man and woman Monday in the flood waters of Obar Creek near Hart-selle. A submerged car was nearby. The victims were identified as William H. Garner, 43, and Jessie L.

Morrow, 24, both of Hartselle. Coroner Guy Hollo-way said they probably drowned last week. The top of the car became visible as the waters receded Monday and the bodies were discovered shortly after the workman spotted the car. It was parked on a road which was inundated by the flood..