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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1978
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United Press International
ASHINGTON -— Tlie head oi
General Services Administration,
ing to break open what may be
, biggest money scandal in gov-
" ment history, is asking 35,()()()
ployees to tell what they know
ut payoffs their colleagues took
11 contractors.
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man.
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01 ^ administrator Jay Solomon pre-
:e d at a news conference VVed-
day a long-running federal grand
investigation will result in brib-
and fraud indictments against
mt 50 people, including GSA
ployees, employees of other
ncies it serves, and private ven-
and contractors.
he GSA s top investigator, spe-
counsel Vincent Alto, said he
-believes payoffs to GSA officials
aled “in the millions of dollars,
blomon indicated the investiga-
probing wrongdoing over the
several years, is still growing,
said its success will depend in
;e part on cooperation from
ncy employees.
The employees are saying to us,
has been going on a long time,
e known it, Solomon said.
Isay, Why don t you come forth
tell usd If you know it’s there
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pipe
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By DOUG GRAHAM
Battalion Staff
Water was rising in the quad be-
unts wt nd Mclnnis Hall, but the resi-
evidentti nts weren’t hauling tlieir belong-
ted iti a. ;s to the roof.
Instead they stood and watched
nnie Bilbo, a foreman with the
soiigiitL ea maintenance section of the
s lii liversit y’ s facilities department,
ro was taking pictures with a
laroid camera.
iii i P' c b> r cs were of a manhole
I rer which had been partially lifted
u ' '"" sli water rushing out of the storm
V l )r,, ' s ' wer.
This is to prove that this is flood-
he said.
•a The sewer flooded during the rain
/~|y? nirsday at Texas AtScM University.
UV Bbo said the sewer overflowed be-
' pise of blockage.
. lh esa id the physical plant had run
'f/y a rod through the line, but that for
vV home reason it was stopped up any-
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ive hojjji
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curai
istidoiili
or have
been scared.”
He said the decision to reinstate
two GSA whistleblowers — Robert
J. Tucker and Robert Sullivan, who
were dismissed for removing agency
documents in an effort to expose
abuses in Massachusetts — was an
attempt to show GSA employees
they can trust the agency’s current
leadership.
Solomon, named to head the GSA
a year and a half ago, has spent
much of the time trying to clean up
the scandal involving evidence do
zens of contractors — sometimes at
their own initiative and sometimes
at the suggestion of GSA employees
— delivered huge cash payoffs to
obtain business and circumvent
competitive bidding procedures.
Asked if there was a chance the
massive investigation would drive
him to give up his job, Solomon said
many employees “are betting I’m
going to leave . I’ve got to beat that
bet.”
Justice Department officials have
expressed concern that without
more witnesses they will have diffi
culty bringing indictments against
many suspects in the case, despite
evidence middle-income employees
have hundreds of thousands of dol
lars stashed in bank accounts.
Solomon and Alto have estimated
the scandal already has cost the gov
ernment $66 million in fraud —
mostly to contractors who were paid
above competitive prices, provided
inadequate work or products, or
were paid for work never done.
United Press International
FELSENTHAL, Ark. — Nes
tled just where the Ouachita
River flows south into Louisiana,
Felsenthal once again has be
come a town after 67-years.
Townspeople have elected a
city government, revived the
town s incorporation and are
making plans for a resort —
which they hope will have better
success than their hopes for a
boomtown 74 years ago.
Felsenthal already has 175
people, a wilderness river, the
promise of an Army Corps of En
gineers lake and wildlife refuge
and supposedly fantastic fishing.
All it really needs to become a
resort town is a sewer system.
. “We knew we could get better
\help through grants and such as
that if we were incorporated,”
said the new mayor, J.T. Young,
whose civic pride runs to prac
ticalities.
“We have the potential of hav
ing one of the biggest recreation
centers that there is in Arkansas
here,” he said.
When it first was incorporated
in 1904, citizens had high hopes
of gaining a sawmill to make Fel
senthal grow. But the sawmill
moved to Huttig and the disap
pointed citizens let the incorpo
ration lapse in 1911.
And that’s the way things
stood until this summer.
Forty of the town’s 60 regis
tered voters signed petitions fa
voring incorporation, and the
county court revived Felsenthal
as a legal town July 17. This
week. Young was elected mayor
along with five aldermen and a
city recorder.
The federal government is
planning to dam the Oachita
River to make a lake and pre
serve some of the land as a
wildlife refuge, which overlaps
the Felsenthal city limits.
Hunting will he allowed in the
refuge, and the already good fish
ing is expected to improve be
yond imagination, say Young and
refuge manager, Charles Strick
land.
The town is growing almost
too fast for them to keep up.
One developer already has
cleared the land for a 20-unit
motel, Young said by telephone
from his combination home and
city hall.
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Bilbo agreed with area mainte-
ancesuperintendent Gordon Dean
hat (lie problem probably came
rom the collapse of a line.
Dean said the line could.have
I rin crushed by heavy equipment
1®^ I” Gilding.the mall.
Bilbo said the crushed portion
probably near the gushing
snhole because a drain farther off
still functioning. It was there
at the ankle-deep pond disap
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As soon as the water settles,
start work on it.” Dean said,
can estimated it would take
out a week to finish the repair.
n the meantime, while mainte-
[ n , ce workers faced another job,
Nents from Moore Hall, next to
F nnis, scrambled inside of their
prm.
j for hammers and nails to build an
| °pe. They were trying to get up
game of mud football.
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