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^Hell-raising church to stay United Press International DENVER — The pastor of a Capitol Hill church says he will not move despite complaints of neighbors to police about midnight serv ices and hell-raising parishioners. "We are permanent parties here,” said the Rev. Maurice Gordon, pastor of the Livingway Inner City Pentacostal Church. “They are not gonna lick us so they might as well join us.” Gordon, 47. pastor of a church in Grand Rapids, Mich., until moving to Denver two years ago, said he intended to “continue to preach against homosexuality, against witchcraft and other works of the devil.” "How many times they’ve woke me up, I couldn’t tell you,” said retired trucker Frank Shaputis, 68, who lives near the church. “Along about 11 or 11:30 at night, the kids come out and raise hell. "They holler and scream, hold hands and run around the church [yelling, hallelujah,’ and praise the Lord.’ I don’t want to get rid of Ithein, said Shauputis. I just want to keep them quiet.” Gordon said after coming to Denver he began conducting services in the basement of his rented home and six-times weekly preached over a local radio station. He said the parish grew after he began holding ervices on the steps of the Capitol. Gordon said he was asked to leave temporary church halls rented om the Knights of Columbus, and an Episcopal Church, and from a church rented with $3,000 donated by a homosexual. He said his congregation was made up of “former homosexuals, former prostitutes, former drunkards.” Gordon said he was afraid homosexuals were going to “take over” and said he and parishioners during the past two years conducted burnings of sexually oriented books they considered offensive. Shaputis said services at the church sounded like “a drunken bar. When I go to church, we kneel down, we pray, we listen to the sermon. But holy God, these people are crazy. The jump up and down, they scream. If they re going to raise hell, the least they could do is close the doors.” utionf# y l)e»a und an Howai t for slit t Mila ampaifi us guni am t Not. eforrti isbani to tb icrsdli she ph \ emit ■ yiHin I neven u aresli exwpli Bell juror cast decisive ballot Juryman regrets vote change THE BATTALION Page 9 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1977 campus " activities United Press International DALLAS — The foreman of a jury that awarded $3 million in a slander suit against Southwestern Bell Tele phone Co. says he regrets his deci sion to change his vote in favor of the judgment, according to a news paper. Perry Penn, a school teacher and foreman of the San Antonio, Tex., jury, changed his vote on the last day of deliberations and prevented a hung jury, the Dallas Times Herald said in a copyrighted story Sunday. Penn told the newspaper he first sided with Bell and then proposed a $200,000 judgment but relented and voted with the majority after another juror threatened to deadlock the two-women and 10-men jury if the $200,000 figure was accepted, the . newspaper said. But he now regrets the decision. I m probably sorry I didn’t hang it stick with his original vote and cause a hung jury,” he told the newspaper last week. “I don’t think they really convinced me.” The jury, in a 10-2 decision last week, ruled Bell libeled and slan dered fired Bell executive James Ashley and the former Texas head of Bell, T. O. Gravitt of Dallas, during a company investigation. Gravitt committed suicide at the height of the investigation. Civil cases in Texas do not require a unanimous decision, only that at least 10 of 12 jurors agree on the verdict. If Penn had voted against the plaintiffs and caused a mistrial, th e case would have had to be retried by another jury. During the second day of delibera tions, Penn, who had voted with Bell on a preliminary vote, told other jurors if they could convince him Ashley and Gravitt had been slan dered he might vote in their favor. Two jurors then produced a letter, which was part of the evidence pres ented during the trial, indicating the company’s investigation was widely discussed. However, Penn told the news paper he continued to hold out be cause he felt the $3 million judgment other jurors were planning was too much. He proposed $100,000 be awarded to each plaintiff, but it was bitterly opposed by several other jurors. The major point of contention dur ing the two and a half days of deliber ation was money, said jurors inter viewed by the newspaper. However, the highest award voted on was $9 million. “We ployed around like poker players,” one juror told the Times Herald. “We bobbed and bobbed and smoked and smoked.” Another juror said the telephone company overdid its portrayal of the two executives as “dirtv old men” and “lechers” who handed out pro motions in exchange for sexual favors from female workers. It made the company "look like a whorehouse,” he said. Bell president Zane Barnes said after the verdict that pretrial public ity was the cause of the jury’s verdict, and "the jury found us guilty of try ing to keep our own house in order. ” Barnes said the $3 million would be considered a business expense and ultimately paid by telephone customers, but attorneys for the Texas Utilities Commission said it would be unlikely the award could be made part of a future rate increase proposal. Tuesday . 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