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state/national Battalion/Page 61 January 29,' Commissioners admit accepting kickbacks Warped United Press International OKLAHOMA CITY — Fed eral prosecutors have won guilty pleas from Five former county commissioners who admitted accepting kickbacks or pay ments from material and equip ment suppliers. The five men pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to a single count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. In Tulsa, a former Osage County commissioner also pleaded guilty to a kickback- related charge, and a former Pawnee County commissioner has paid $3,700 in restitution for kickbacks. The commissioners pleading guilty in Oklahoma City federal court were Jere Johnson of Gar field County, Isaac Roberts of Jefferson County, Monroe Thompson of Alfalfa County, Ragnol Pickens of Bryan County and Floyd Rudd of KingFisher County. The Five men had signed plea agreements with federal pro secutors. Johnson, Roberts, Thompson and Rudd resigned their posts last year in the wake of the fed eral investigation. Pickens lost a re-election campaign in 1978. Former Grant County com missioner G. Wayne Northcutt, who also lost an election bid in 1978, was to have appeared Wednesday, but his case was continued. Former Osage County Com missioner Eldon Grigg faces sentencing March 1 after plead ing guilty in Tulsa to a charge negotiated with prosecutors. Grigg, 51, of Fairfax, admitted taking $5,000 in kickbacks while in ofFice. He told U.S. District Judge Thomas Brett he received payoff money from Hugh Wein, owner of Keystone Equipment Co. of Sand Springs and North ern Equipment Co. of Enid. Former Pawnee County com missioner James Lester Thur- ber, who pleaded guilty Dec. 22 to a kickback-related charge, paid $3,700 in restitution to Pawnee County, his attorney said. By Scott McCuWi GOOD GRIEF!! I DIDN'Ti| KNOW THERE WAS A version of "corm-tj JOE .' JOIN fi LERDER UN I ON GEEST IN THE. WORLD. OHRBIDE RHNKS HMONG THE INDUSTRIAL OOMRANIES UNITED STATES AND THE OUR OHEMIOALS AND RLASTIOS ORERATIONS ARE STRENGTHENED BY OUR COMMITMENT TO TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION. AS GRADUATES. WE ORRER YOU THE CHALLENGES OR DEVELORING AND RROVING NEW TECHNOLOGY. BECOME A RART OR UNION CARBIDE AND COMMIT YOURSEI R TO AN INDUSTRY LEADER. INTERVIEWS FEB. 1 & 2 WE ARE LOOKING ROR GRADUA' IN THE ROLLOWING RIELDS: "ES • OHEMICRL ENGR. • MECHANICAL ENGR. «» INDUSTRIAL ENGR. • SAEETY • ELECTRICAL • ANALYTICAL • RHYSICS ENGR. CM. S. D ENGR. CHEM. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER CONTACT PLACEMENT CENTER FOR CAMPUS INTERVIEWS Cloth shrouded in mystery Coin aids Turin study United Press International DURHAM — Using a Byzan tine coin and icon, Dr. Alan Whanger believes he has dated the Shroud of Turin eight cen turies closer to the death of Christ than any historical record now known. Whanger, a Duke University professor of psychiatry and amateur photographer, said Wednesday he has used a pro jector and polarized Filters to su perimpose photos of the sixth- century coin and icon depicting Christ onto a photo of the face revealed on the shroud, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus. The similarities reveal the coin and icon were made by artists who must have seen the shroud, Whanger said. Currently, historical records date the shroud to 1357, when it was found in France. There is no documented historical record of the shroud before the 14th cen tury. The shroud, now in Turin, Italy, is a piece of cloth more than 14 feet long and a little over 3 feet wide. It bears the front and back imprint of a man who was crucified. Whanger said he had studied a Byzantine icon painted about 590 A.D., now located in St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai, and a gold Byzan tine coin, about the size of a nick el, issued between 692 and 695 A.D. “The coin and icon relate with astonishing exactness to the fa cial aspects of the shroud,” he said. “My evidence then indi cated the icon and the coins were copied from the facial imprint on the shroud approximately 800 years before the shroud i il iiaiyl turned up in France. Dr. Adam Otterb dent of the Holy which coordinated tesii shroud in 1978, called ger’s claim a majordevel in historical veri shroud. “The historical evk the shroud has always of the weakest areasofll that has been done,' said. Whanger, while say lieves the shroud is I cloth of Christ, saidhisdl does nothing to adra theory scientifically. Prosecutors to play recordings of conversations in Brilab trial United Press international Brilab trial in which officials are HOUSTON — The govern- charged with accepting bribes ment plans to play 80 secretly for influence in awarding insur- taped conversations in the latest ance contracts. Windglider /elected olympi BnnzoTcenicR M S C The conversations involve the defendants, undercover agents and unnamed, unin dicted co-conspirators from New Orleans. The recordings may seem like an opera performed in a foreign language because the apparent poor quality of the tapes makes conversations difFi- cult to understand. As most operas provide prog rams to follow the story line, the federal government, which is trying the case, has provided transcripts to follow the conver sations. Defense attorneys, claiming parts of those transcripts do not accurately reflect the tapes, have said they plan to give the jury their own version of the conver sations. On trial are Deer Park labor leader L.G. Moore, 47, and Houston Port Commissioner John Garrett, 59 — each charged with one count of con spiracy and two counts of plot ting bribes through interstate phone calls. Although the men charged as co-conspirators were not named in the indictment, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ron Woods has said they are Carlos Marcello, con victed in a separate Brilab case, and lawyer Vincent Marinello, who was acquitted of Brilab charges. Wednesday the jun idea of how poor the be when they listened conversation betweenl Councilman Jim West and an FBI agent posiii insurance man. Westmoreland has charged in the Brilab has been a suspect in a cy case involving influei city council to approl opposed health insuram tract for city employees Westmoreland hasdf accepted any bribes or volved in any contract acies. The city council on 1979, approved the Pi Insurance policy preSeftM the undercover agents ter city investigation rev improprieties in maki| award to Prudential The tape, recorded agent Larry Montague, conversation he had will moreland in a hotellotiffl 11, 1979. Loud ChristiM| and jazz music in tilt ground drown out mud conversation. But Westmoreland i telling Montague if tials’s bid is one of the topi can get you in.” No mention of a b| payoff was made, howl A^GIE CINEMA^ PRESE NTS It’s not October, but it is liilllili Friday & Saturday Midnight Aud. R sta R r,nc,ALAN ALDA • CAROL BURNETT • LEN CARIOU • SANDY DENNIS Friday & Saturday, January 29 & 30 8 p.m. Rudder Auditorium R All tickets $1.50 with TAMU ID. Tickets available at the MSC Box Office Mon.-Fri. 9-4:30 and 45 minutes before showtime. W«T^ UR kx? BARBRA STREISAND SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 BRING A CARROT AND SAVE 5CL RYAN O’NEAL 7:30 P.M. G