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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.
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Cloth shrouded in mystery
Coin aids Turin study
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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.
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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
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