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4A The Jackson Sun, Jackson, Saturday, April 21, 1990 Fifanadl as bhE FoifdPs lawwei? saifs MEMPHIS (AP) U.S. Rep. Harold Ford lived well, borrowed heavily and gave political support to two rich Tennessee bankers, but none of that means he broke the law, his defense lawyer yer William McDaniels said in his closing argument to Ford's trial jury. Ford, a Memphis Democrat, has been on trial since Feb. 12 on conspiracy, bank and mail fraud charges.

He is accused of taking political payoffs from former bankers Jake and C.H. Butcher Jr. The government says Ford got loans totaling more than $1 million from the Butchers between 1976 and 1982 and he was not expected to repay many of those debts. The Butchers' banking empire collapsed in 1983 and only then did Ford begin trying to settle his loans, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Dan Clancy.

"He did not have the ability to repay all this stuff," Clancy said in his closing statement Thursday. the government says Ford took Butcher payoffs to finance a lavish lifestyle. Prosecution witnesses said Ford bought a $35,000 car, $10,000 worth of oriental rugs and contracted for $94,000 in home renovations while heavily in debt to the Butchers and other bankers. Ford puts his Butcher loan total at $650,000 and says all of the debts have been settled. He settled his obligations on one loan, a $350,000 debt assigned to a company called Tenn-Ford by paying $25,000 to a bankruptcy trustee.

Ford is on trial with three former Butcher aides, accountant David Crabtree and lawyers Karl Schledwitz and Douglas Beaty. They are accused of helping him get and hide Butcher payoffs. The case is expected to go to the jury early next week and Ford could face up to 95 years in prison if convicted on all 19 counts of an indictment issued in Knoxville three years ago. Ford, who has held a safe congressional seat since 1974, said during a break in the trial that he is sure of acquittal. "I feel confident that my fate is in the hands of these 12 people," Ford said of the trial jury.

Prosecutors called 29 witnesses in presenting their case, and government and defense lawyers filed more than 170 exhibits for the jury. The defense rested its case without calling any witnesses. Ford said he spent more than 500 hours preparing to testify but decided not to take the witness stand because he regarded the government's case as weak. McDaniels said the government failed to show what Ford supposedly did in exchange for Butcher Harold Ford said Friday at the congressman's bank fraud trial. "If you are to remove a political leader for his politics or his lifestyle, that is to be done at the ballot box, not the jury box," law At payoffs.

Prosecutors showed only supported Jake Butcher's attempt to become governor that he had a copy of a letter a bridge C.H. wanted built in Memphis. "You support a Democratic and get (carbon-copied) one letter and all of a sudden turn into bribes and payoffs," McDaniels said. The government says helped the Butchers in their and political ventures was called upon to help find money for a Memphis to Butcher-owned property. Good old days of music Ex-election chairman helped Rocky Top probe that he failed and concerning Butcher politician on loans Ford business and federal bridge Candidate reportedly hospitalized MEMPHIS (AP) A relative and a campaign aide to Carroll C.

Turner III, Republican hopeful for governor, said the candidate was hospitalized Friday for exhaustion. Officials at Baptist Memorial Medical Center, where Turner's grandmother said he was taken, said they had no record of his being admitted. "I have this real great Catch-22 here," said Michael Calhoun, mar keting services director for the Memphis hospital. "If the family requests no publicity, I have no way of telling you anything." Calhoun also said he was unable to say if such a privacy request had been made. The candidate's grandmother, Mrs.

Carroll Turner, said her grandson was tired and needed a rest. Pam Shurley, Turner's executive secretary, also confirmed the candidate was exhausted and had been hospitalized. The 32-year-old Memphis businessman announced his campaign on April 5, joining a primary race with Scott Shepherd, a former Ku Klux Klan organizer whom the Republican Party has refused to recognize as a GOP candidate. The state Republican Party also has refused to endorse Turner. In Nashville, Gov.

Ned McWherter said he was not disturbed by Powell's apparently recording conversations with others. "I happen to believe that any person that betrays the public trust, then whatever means you use to get them out of office is permissible," McWherter said. "When people elect you to public office, they ought to be able to trust you," the governor said. He said the fact the investigation continues while he prepares to campaign for a second term doesn't bother him. "I've been straight forward and honest all my life," McWherter said.

"My mother taught me that when I was growing up." Powell was indicted in June on charges of tax and mail fraud, obstruction of justice, running an interstate gambling operation and perjury. He pleaded guilty to two counts of the 13-count indictment. A date for sentencing has not been set. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and $500,000 in fines. Powell, a former legislator, sponsored a charitable bingo law in 1973 that permitted labor unions as well as educational and church groups to operate bingo for fund-raising purposes.

He and seven others were charged in connection with two illegal gambling halls in Memphis. I hi iftniHil--1 i intn-m r-- 1 a Charles Templeton of Starkville, University. Beside him is a 1906 model of donated a half-million dollar collection of the symbol of RCA. The collec-antique music items to Mississippi State tion includes instruments and sheet music. Transplant patients unwanted in workplace, surgeon claims MEMPHIS AP) The former chairman of Tennessee's election commission pleaded guilty Friday to charges he conspired to operate illegal gambling parlors in the name of two Memphis churches.

A federal nrncppntnr tnlH U.S. District Tommy Powell Judge Odell Horton that the former official, labor leader Tommy Powell of Memphis, had worn a recording 'device to help gather evidence in political corruption cases. The government said Powell organized illegal bingo games for the Holy Family Miracle Temple and the Fairway Baptist Church. In a brief statement as he left the Memphis courtroom, Powell said, "I'm sorry that it happened. I'm sorry for my family.

I want to get it behind me." He declined to answer questions. Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Parker said Powell, who pleaded guilty earlier in a scheme to sell ballot boxes to the state, has cooperated extensively with federal investigators in the so-called Rocky Top probe. IN THE STATE Mayor proposes disaster shelter MEMPHIS (AP) Mayor Dick Hackett has proposed a $4.4 million underground emergency operations center that would be used during earthquakes and other natural disasters. The two-level center would be built at Memphis State University to coordinate efforts with the school's Center for Earthquake Research and Information.

Scientists have said for years that Memphis and West Tennessee are prime targets of an earthquake because of the New Madrid Fault. Hackett's proposal must be approved by the Memphis City Commission and the Shelby County Commission. The city has applied for a $2.6 million federal grant that would be used for the center. The city's current emergency center is in the basement of City Hall. Baseball card show will benefit library Friends of the Library in Haywood County are sponsoring a fund-raising baseball card show Saturday at the Cpl-lege Hill Gymnasium in Brownsville.

The cards in the show are being donated by Jim Powell and all proceeds will go to the Brownsville-Haywood County Library. The baseball show begins at and runs until 4:30 p.m. For more information, call Lydia or Jim Powell at 772-6406. Recreational rafting resumes at Ocoee CHATTANOOGA (AP) -The Ocoee River, flooded earlier by heavy rains, has reopened to recreational rafting, a state official said Friday. The river's rafting season usually begins on March 24.

But that was delayed this year because of the rains in February and March, said Bob Allen, scenic river coordinator with the Department of Conservation. Allen said a launch area that hadn't been used since 1984 has been upgraded so rafting could resume. NASHVILLE (AP) Trans-" plant patients face an uphill battle in the workplace because of insurance hassles and discrimination, a Vanderbilt transplant specialist says. A study of 65 heart transplant patients showed that fewer than one-fourth were employed, al- though 80 percent were healthy enough to return to work a year after their operations, Dr. William H.

Frist said. "Direct and indirect job discrimination, based totally on inadequate knowledge and understanding, is costing this country economically," said Frist, who heads the heart and lung transplant program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Most of the unemployed patients had applied for at least three jobs in the past six months, Frist said in a news conference Thursday. "Why is that? The big thing is, nobody wants to insure them on company policies, and people don't know how effective transplantation can be," he said. There were 13,290 organ transplants performed in the United States in 1989 according to statistics from the United Network for Organ Sharing.

More than 70 percent of heart transplant patients are alive 10 years after their operations, figures show. As part of next week's National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week, six transplant patients will bicycle 615 miles from Bristol to Memphis to publicize the need for organ donors. One of the bicyclists, 33-year-old Jimmy Moore, was Vanderbilt's third heart transplant recipient. "There's nothing in life we can't do," said Moore, who is a rock-climber, scuba diver and five-time triathlon participant in the past year. However, Moore said that when he applied for a full-time job with the Pickens County, S.C., sheriffs department, he was told he could not be employed because he had had a transplant.

That is ironic, Moore said, in light of a job that he was offered. "An insurance company wants me to sell insurance for them but they won't give me insurance," said Moore, a self-employed electrician in Easley, S.C. Moore, who also works as a reserve volunteer deputy sheriff, said he encounters resentment on the job. He said some co-workers have told him, "I don't want you riding with my partner. I don't know if I can trust you." Moore said he feels stronger physically than he did before he contracted a viral infection that damaged his heart muscle, which brought him to Vanderbilt in March 1986 for his transplant.

Associated Press Gerald Howell Warman PARIS Services for Gerald Howell Warman, 73, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Stockdale-Malin Funeral Home in Big Sandy. Burial will be in Ramble Creek Cemetery. Mr. Warman, a retired employee of Henry County Coop, died Friday at noon at Henry County Medical Center.

He was married to Bernice Brewer Warman of Paris. They had three children, William Warman of Paris, Randy Warman of Savannah and Hazel Rick-man of Dyer. For more information, call the funeral home 593-3731. Vernon Will Thomas Martin Sr. MOSCOW Services for Vernon Will Thomas Martin 59, will be at 2 p.m.' Sunday at the Dancyville Assembly of God Church.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Martin, a retired Moscow police officer, died Friday morning at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. He was married to Jessie M.

Martin of Moscow. They had eight children, Mattie Lou Goodman, Robert "Shorty" Martin, and Bobby Glenn Martin, all of Somerville, Vernon W. Martin Jr. and Thomas "Bubba" Martin, both of Brownsville, Kenneth "Sponge" Martin and Edward Lynn Martin, both of Moscow, and Dorothy M. Taylor of Memphis.

For more information, call the Brownsville Funeral Home at 772-1551. Open Horse show, 2 p.m. Chester County Equine Association Arena in Henderson. There will be 12 classes of competition in added money. Concessions will be provided by the Chester County Equine Association.

Admission $1 per person. Sponsored by the West Tennessee Quarter Horse Association. (688-5168) United Methodist Hymnal workshop, p.m., Forest Heights United Methodist Church at 863 W. Forest Ave. Sponsor: Work Area on Worship for Memphis Annual Conference.

Workshops designed to help people get best possible use from new books. (668-5209) Groundbreaking ceremony for St. Mary's Catholic new church, 3:30 p.m., U.S. 45 Bypass in front of the present school. Jackson Chapter of the National Lane College Alumni Association, 6 p.m.

Alumni Development Center at Lane College. Officers will be elected. (422-, 1348). BIRTHS BROWNSVILLE Methodist Haywood Park General Hospital Friday: Tina Johnson, boy, Stanton; Ira Byrum, boy, Brownsville. DEATHS Ola Petty TRENTON Services for Ola Petty, 90, will be at 2 p.m.

Sunday at Shelton Funeral Home. Burial will be in Follis Chapel Cemetery. Mrs. Petty, a homemaker, died Friday morning at Gibson General Hospital. She was married to the late Bryant Petty.

They had seven children, Elizabeth Acklin of Halls, Kate Harris, Mary Brannon, Amos Petty, Andy Petty, and Dan Petty, all of Milan, and Ruth Prince of Trenton. For more information, call 855-1621. Hurbert Porter Pugh SHARON Services for Hurbert Porter Pugh, 88, will be at 2 p.m. today at Assembly of God in Sidonia. Burial will be in Tansil Cemetery.

Mr. Pugh, a retired security guard of the W.S. Wormser Company, died Wednesday at Volunteer General Hospital in Martin. He was married to Madalene Pugh. For more information, call Gardner Funeral Home at 456-2300.

Jack Watson DYER Services for Jack Watson, 80, will be at 2:30 p.m. today at Karnes Funeral Home. Burial will be in the New Bethlehem Cemetery. Mr. Watson, retired farmer and land owner, died Wednesday at the Gibson General Hospital in Trenton.

He was married to Mary Watson. They had a daughter, Helen Nelson of Kent, Washington. For more information, call the funeral home at 692-3711. RECORD WHAT'S GOIfiG Oil -TODAY r- Rummage sale, 7 a.m., Big Springs Community Center at Five Points. Sponsored by the West Madison Ruritan Club.

12th Annual Old Hickory Street Rod and Classic Chevy Car Show, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.. Holiday Inn, U.S. 45 Bypass. Free. (668-3800).

"Worship in the Old Testament" seminar for church laity, 9 a.m., Wisdom Parlor of Lambuth College's Jones Hall administration building. Instructor: Dr. Walter Harrelson, a professor of Old Testament at Vanderbilt University. $5. (425-2500) United States Army Delayed Entry Program, 1:30 p.m.

Old Country Store in the Casey Jones Village. Featured speakers include James Wolfe Jr. (668-8864) Beech Bluff Ruritan Hamburger Supper, p.m., Beech Bluff Ruritan Center. Hamburgers cheeseburgers and barbecue $2. SUNDAY Gibson County Ambulance Authority open house, 2-4 p.m., Milan High School.

Off-duty ambulance employees will be present to show equipment and talk about how it works, plus advise residents on how to help a patient while waiting for an ambulance. Darthy Fisher BROWNSVILLE Services for Darthy Fisher, 67, will be at 1 p.m. today at London Branch Baptist Church. Burial will be at Rosenwald Cemetery. Mrs.

Fisher, a homemaker, died Monday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. She was married to Albert Fisher of Brownsville. They had two children, La Vern Bond of Brownsville and William Hines of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. For more information call, Rogers Funeral Home at 772-0962.

Sara Carter SARDIS Graveside services for Sara Carter, 68, formerly of Sardis, will be at 3 p.m. today at the Sardis Cemetery. Mrs. Carter, a homemaker, died Sunday at Village Oaks Humana Hospital in Live Oak, Texas. She had five children, Peggy Hensley of Morris Chapel, Johnny Carter of Ci-bolo, Texas, Timmy Carter of San Antonio, Texas, Ronnie Lynn Carter of Big Bend, Texas and Gary Harris, of Amarillo, Texas.

For more information, call Shackelford Funeral Home at 925-4444. DEATHS ELSEWHERE Jacobo Trujillo, weaver CHIMAYO, N.M. (AP) Jacobo "Jake" Trujillo, a sixth-generation weaver in this northern village, died Wednesday after a lengthy illness at age 78. POLICE PLOTTER These reports were on file Friday! night at the Jackson Police and Madison County Sheriffs departments. I Thefts and burglaries over $500 Markam Dry well, 60 Fairway 12 $50 buckets of Dry-vit Primus adhe-; sive.

Arrests Michael A. Finley, 45, 95 charged with assault and battery. Freddie F. Terry, 45, address unavailable; charged with unlawful possess-: ion of a weapon. HUE CALLS These reports were on file with the Jackson and Madison County Fire Departments.

CITY Friday 9:44 a.m. 708 W. Forest, accidental alarm. 3:07 p.m. Fairground Street and Williams intersection, automobile.

3:22 p.m. 54 Carolane residential. 9:31 p.m. 2 Stonehaven Woods Drive, residential. 9:38 p.m.

120 Mcintosh Drive, residential. COUNTY Friday 10:32 a.m. Woodruff Road, grass 6:43 p.m. Gooden Cove, brush. Oak Ridge National Lab gets super collider grant OAK RIDGE (AP) The Oak Ridge National Laboratory was awarded $388,000 in grants Friday to work on detectors for the $4.4 billion superconducting super collider.

"The super collider presents special challenges in developing technologies and equipment to detect the results of experiments," said Fred Gilman, associate director of the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory in Dallas, near where the giant project will be built. The grants are for $200,000 for basic detector studies and for improving existing detector systems. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in association with numerous universities and other research institutions, is working to develop a detector proposed by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sam Ting. Ting, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, proposes a detector called LSTAR. It is an enlarged version of a detector he designed for the European parti-cal accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland.

The LSTAR would be enormous, in striking comparison to the things it is designed to detect. Ting estimates the machine will be eight stories high and weigh about 50,000 tons. The super collider's design includes spots for six detectors, but only two or three are likely to go into the original structure. Ting's LSTAR is considered a leading contender for one of the spots. The super collider, if built, will be a 53-mile oval around which beams of protons can be moved in opposite directions.

The beams can be accelerated to nearly the speed of light, then smashed together head-on..