European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago the stars and stripes wednesday june 11. 1980 kids he world o or hate one thing in common i hair never fading imagination. A Branch of recreational activity and at a Park in Versailles near Paris i group of French youngsters climb and swing and explore All the delightful possibilities of i Long and Low hanging tree condemned killer Potts changes mind rejects last minute stay on execution Atlanta i i a Federal judge tuesday granted the request of condemned killer Jack Potts and dissolved the last min Ute stay that spared him from the electric chair last week. Potts now could be put to death within a month. In taking the action . District judge William c. O Killcy said polls seemed to understand whal he was doing. He said he would Issue a written order dismissing All appeals Potts had lodged. That meant polls Csc would be returned to the two state courts where a new execution Dale would be set. O Killcy s ruling eliminates All avenues of Appeal remaining. Potts who was convicted of the Kidnap ring and murder of Michael priest in 1975, told the judge to let him die in  lie said he had Parmi Ltd attorneys to a peal his death sentence last thursday Only to please his brother. Potts his head shaved sat in the witness chair before a packed courtroom and an sue red the judge s questions about what led to his decision his physical and menial state of mind and the status of his Case. I made this decision and i did not do anything to make a mockery of the judicial system polls said. I have asked god for forgiveness and he has forgiven me and i Don l have to answer to anyone on this Earth. I made this decision on my own he said. O Killcy asking the same question seve ral limes rephrasing it each time asked Potts if he understood the consequences of what he was doing. O Killcy noted thai once the stay was dissolved the 35-year-old inmate would have no of her route of Appeal remaining. Millard Farmer an anti capital punish ment attorney who had represented Potts asked thai polls be allowed to meet with his Mother and a former Girlfriend Diane Nicholson who were both in the courtroom before the judge rendered his decision. However polls said he had nothing to Saylo them. Mrs. Nicholson sitting beside her Hus band began to cry. She had been one of those who helped persuade polls to Appeal last week. O Killcy said he thought Potts under stands what he has requested. The nature of it and the  in a letter Potts wrote to o Killcy asking that his appeals be stopped. Potts begged the judge to allow a new execution Date to be set immediately and most of All let me die while in a slate of  Potts was converted to catholicism while in prison. Potts assuring the judge he was of sound mind and body said he was refusing the help of attorneys and would not meet with reporters again As he had done several times before his electrocution Date. Farmer said polls change of mind was the Rchull of harassment he has suffered since he was returned to a fourth floor cell at the Georgia state prison in Reidsville. The Atlanta attorney claimed guards broke a Mirror that was Given to Potts by his Mother and destroyed his personal  generally they be prison guards tried to make it As hard on him As possible since he decided to go on with his appeals Farmer said. This menial frustration Ismore than he can  Carter a so honors 73 others Branch to while away a sunday afternoon. S it s photo Jimie cumm Uncle Sam Furns fief wafer off in rest rooms continued from Page i anyone  whatever the worker disenchantment things apparently could be worse at least for those not Given to cold showers. General service administration officials stressed that employees who ride bicycles to work and then Shower in Federal building gymnasiums would not be denied hot show ers. Rodgers Stewart assistant to the regional Gas administrator for the washing ton area said it would be silly and counterproductive to do anything that might drive such Energy savers Back into their cars. Gas officials in other sections of the country also May turn off the hot water if that s the Way they choose to meet require ments calling for a 5 percent reduction in Energy consumption this fiscal year. Pope close to refugees Vatican City a Pope John i urged roman catholics to Pray for cambo Dian refugees and said he was very close to them and the refugees of other countries. Rickover receives Freedom medal by Maureen Santini Washington a president Carter presented the medal of Freedom on monday to his Mentor adm. Hyman Rickover and to 13 other distinguished americans. I have said Many limes to a close Cir Cleof friends that with the exception of my father no other person has had such a profound Impact on my life the president said of Rickover. Rickover 80, is known As the father of the nuclear Navy and served As Carter s inspiration during his own Navy Days. The president placed the medal around Rickover s neck during a sunny outdoor ceremony on the South Lawn. The Admi ral in return gave Carter a Silver submarine tie clasp. This is one of the few times that adm. Rickover has walked toward me that i did not tremble Carter said. This is the thrill of Jimmy Carter s life to give this thing to adm. Rickover Judy Carter the president s daughter in Law told a reporter before the ceremony. The other winners were Ansel Adams a photographer the late Rachel Carson scientist and auth by Luci Chase Ballerina the late sen. Hubert h Humphrey archbishop Jakovos Crecli orthodox Church the late president Lyn Don Barnes Johnson Clarence Mitchell retired director of the a act s Washington Bureau Rog tory Peterson ornithologist Beverly Sills opera Singer Robert Penn Warren writer1 the late actor John Wayne Eudora Welt author and Tennessee Williams Pla Wright. The widows of Johnson Humphrey and Wayne accepted the awards for their Hus bands. Lady Bird Johnson s children Luci and Lynda also attended along with some of their own youngsters. A scr old he presidential medal of idly differing style and Are Uniec