Word: mclntosh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ashley also discovered that Sheriff Mclntosh was dealing sternly with two people who resented this largely connubial personnel policy. Bernie Scale of Booneville, source of the original tip, had drawn 30 days in jail for drunkenness. Nedra Gabbard, twice divorced, unemployed and the mother of five, was arrested for driving up a hill too slowly. Both had applied for jobs that went to officials' relatives. Mclntosh dismissed the two as ne'er-do-wells unworthy of public employment. Of Mrs. Gabbard he added: "Besides, she doesn't even have...
...chief administrator, had a peculiar way of parceling out the jobs. Acting on a tip, Ashley found that Judge Campbell had appointed his wife as his executive secretary at $400 a month, and his niece as secretary to the county clerk at $300 a month. Sheriff Charley Mclntosh had taken on his wife as an assistant at $227 a month, and the county clerk had engaged his wife as county planner for $800 a month...
Ashley's prodding led to a statewide anti-nepotism order. But the Booneville officials retaliated: Campbell announced that the county would accept no more federal employment funds, and Mclntosh busted Ashley on the charge he had falsely identified himself as a lawyer when he interviewed Scale in jail...
...Calley jurors?all up-from-the-ranks officers, all combat veterans, all but one of whom fought in Viet Nam ?defended their unanimous verdict. Said Major Charles Mclntosh: "It had to be done. Somebody had to do it. We were the six." Said Major Walter Kinard: "We looked for anything that would prove Lieut. Calley innocent. We gave Lieut. Calley every benefit of doubt." Somberly Major Harvey Brown confessed: "I wanted to believe it didn't happen, that it was a hoax. I'll have to live with this verdict the rest of my life...