Show ‘EtoughF sheriff ’s testimony traps gamblers weirtox W County tAPK-Hancoc- k Jntnced ' Sheriff get DoneU is with a high powered Guns are now part of the Donells sheriff's daily Ufe Alice DoneU the a wife was taught how to shoot by who sometimes policewoman staved with the family Nearly house ranch-stylevery room in the has a loaded weapon within easy reach "You're not going to catch me gowithout a ing out of the house said as he pistol' DoneU 34a shmv silver carefuUy tucked revolver into his trousers DoneUs daughters Alison 8 and Aimee 6 have been escorted to school each day by state troopers Metal plates were installed in the windows of the girls' bedrooms DoneU consented to be inters only after the last of the trials was completed that of Weirton atDoneU torney Emmanuel Loucas was the government s key witness in the trial Last Thursday night Loucas District was found guilty in Court in Wheeling on one count of traveling in interstate commerce to promote and manage unlawful Ronald DoneU shares a grim joke with his friend Bob Leach When DoneU turns the ignition hey in his cruiser Leach steps back plugs his ears and grimaces He looks as if he expects the car to explode The macabre ritual was born of the fear that has gripped DoneU and his family since last January when he blew the w histle on county Prosecutor Robert Altomare and a score of gamblers who paid Altomare to escape prosecution The indictments made DoneU an his unpopular figure in Weirton hometown of about 25000 people Many considered him a turncoat who d sold out his friends Since the indictments e lew-e- and through the months of trials rumors circulated that DoneU would be killed that his house would be fire bombed Rumors twice prompted police to send the family away and stake out the home The sheriff said he has heard a local tape recording in which a hoodlum tUs friends the wav to d lS Altomare was earlier conto 10 vears in prison on federal conof racketeering victions of justice and spiracy obstruction of obstructing the enforcement slate law He is appealing 20 were Of 25 persons indicted convicted or pleaded guilty four nere acquitted and two had trials delayed because of illness DoneU would By appearance have to be considered an unlikely-herHe is baby faced and At the trials his glasses nose he kept slipping don his back up repeatedly shoved them with a finger He was elected sheriff on the Republican ticket m 1976 During his campaign DoneU said he was approached by a known gambler who said a good sheriff could make 100000 a year tax free- - by taking payoffs The gambler gave him a signed card for free meals at a Pittsburgh restaurant and sent him two cases of whiskey and five cases of beer DoneU testified DoneU said he was not surprised that people thought he could be bought awmiemmnmonmntmiowwH BOOKS 000's of USED out of print and hard to find books Also paperback exchange for 20 1 BOOKS OF YESTERDAY I L I 36 West Center 8 Logan 753-383- MaNMNMNaNNMINlMCJMMMlS Friends of the Elderly Orientation Wednesday Oct 24 4:00 Walnut Room 224 "1 was no different than any other sheriff that walked in there-had a price UK" he said "They I was naive figured I was young we don't really have to offer him 1 that much" The indictments and convictions were obtained on the strength of calls tape recordings of telephone and personal conversations involvothers ing Altomare and the During one conversation between the sheriff and the prosecutor durwere emptying a ing which they confiscated slot machine Altomare pulled the last tissue from a tissue box and almost discovered the tape recorder concealed inside When the grand jury indictments came down in January many in the community rallied to Altomare s defense and turned against DoneU "There s a lot of family ties in Wet volved in something like thk DoneU said "It's not as if stranger It became very pern with a lot of people It eug't whether they were doing right or I was doing wrong-o- r right or 1 wrong" But DoneU said he sensei ioa changes in attitude now that the trials are over big enough chasga that he is considering running hr "I contend there'll kt of good people in Hancock County They don't want to see their pubhc officials paid off" DoneU also said there b security in being sheriff "As long as I'm sheriff the pro lection is there for my femilyei long as I'm carrying some kind oi bad badge 1 1 brings too muck hat on them" condemned T-shi- rts LARAMIK Wyo lAPbTorroer Yippie leader Jerry Rubin is sparking campus demonstrations again but his latest target wasn't The War or The Establishment or even The Government It was wet Kubin one of the Chicago 7 antiwar protesters spoke at the University of Wyoming last week and his words led to a protest contest sponagainst a wet sored by a campus fraternity About 15 persons including two men picketed the contest I riday on grounds it was "sexist and degrading" to women Rubin singl- WATCH FOR FRIGHT FACTORY ed out the contest for criticism is his speech Rubin also criticized the goitre menl big business and sociihso and predicted the 1980s will bring i return to activism "I think people are tired of tb b separation of the ‘Me Decade'' said of the 70s “The 80s will b I people's movement" Rubin caUed for breaking up oil companies and cresting national energy corporation to energy decisions would be public He also predicted Abbie Hoff man another Chicago 7 deiendut would emerge in the 80s umfcr u assumed name in a position of power Hoffman has been in biding since 1973 and stiff is sought by tb FBI Rubin said he's interviewed Hoffman for a forthcoming mngsziniie ticle but he wouldn't say where b Oct 26—31 is The Great Race 9 o'Q Put a Little Love 'm your Life! 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