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Crippled Ship
Catches Fire
PENZANCE, England (UPI)
—A crippled American tanker
leaking tons of oil
threatens to pollute British
resort beaches exploded and
caught fire today.
First reports said the Italian
captain and three members of
the 36-man crew still manned
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the Torrey Canyon, disabled
when it hit a reef Saturday, and
that one man was injured.
The explosion came as the
Royal Navy frantically tried to
break up with detergents the 35
mile-long 20-mile-wide Atlantic
area covered with oil. The
government ordered a $1.4
million effort to keep the oil
from ruining summer beach
business and there were calls to
blow up or bum the vessel to
stop it oozing of oil.
The oil is drifting in the
English Channel toward the rich
tourist area which Includes
Sc illy Isles, Prime Minister
Harold Wilson’s favorite vaca
tion spot.
The Liberian-registered 61,000
ton Torrey Canyon is owned by
the Union Oil Co. of California.
Ten of its 18 oil compartments
were ripped open when It ran
aground.
If the floating oil reaches the
beaches, it will spell
for summer tourist
trade for the area.
The Armada of ships sprayed
oil with chemicals in an
to dissolve it.
If that fails, a second line of
boats is prepared to try
to divert the oil with hand tools.
Defense Minister Denis Hea
ley said the British government
prepared to spend $14
million to try to keep the oil off
beaches.
Navy Minister Maurice Foley
about the possibility of
Navy jets destroying the tanker,
said the American owners
would have to give their
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JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (UPI)
—Mrs. Lester Maddox will pre
sent a $1,000 savings bond to
the youngster who finds the
"golden egg” at the annual
Jekyll Island Easter celebra
tion Sunday.
The governor and his wife
will participate in the festival
which is billed as the "world’s
largest Easter egg hunt.”
The sponsoring Georgia Egg
Commission said more than 30,
000 eggs will be boiled, dyed
and hidden on the island. Many
eggs will be marked for special
pmes such as bicycles, live
rabbits and vacation trips.
A sunrise service at 5 a.m.
Cotton Acreage
Declines In Ga.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Th<
Agriculture Department Mon
day estimated that Georgia far
mers would plant 375,000 acres
of cotton this year.
Last year, Georgia farmers
planted 403,000 acres.
The department estimated the
nation’s farmers would plant 10
million acres, about 4 per cent
less than was cultivated in 1966.
Capitol Plants
Survive Freeze
ATLANTA (UPI) —Secretary
of State Ben Fortson said Mon
day “I think we have saved all
of the flowers” he had plant
ed around the capitol.
Sub - freezing temperatures
over the weekend threatened
the 7,000 flowers and work
crews covered them with plas
tic covered wooden frames.
Fortson annually has thou
sands of flowers planted at the
capitol. He said the workers
would prefer to plant greenery,
“But I like a lot of pretty
flowers.”
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at the Jekyll Aquarama will
open the festival. An Easter pa
rade for youngsters will be held
at 10 a.m., followed by the
hunt. Some 15,000 persons par
ticipated in last year's festival.
Mental Health
Group To Hear
Psychiatrist
ATLANTA (UPI) World
famous psychiatrist Dr. Karl
Menninger was scheduled to ad
dress the Georgia Mental
Health Institute today.
Menninger Monday told a
gathering of dentists that psy
chiatrists and de n t i s t s have
much in common.
"Both are hard to get ap
pointments with and both have
only recently been admitted to
the medical fold,” he said. “As
a matter of fact, there is still
some doubt about psychiatry.”
Menninger spoke to the 55th
annual Thomas P. Hinman Den
tal Meeting.
He told the dentists “You are
often deeply influential on your
patients without realizing it.
“You become a representa
tive of an internalized figure of
power, related to someone in
authority in the patient’s past.
"You have magical powers,
You can take away pain or
make pain. You can do some
thing which the patient cannot
do for himself.”
Menninger told the dentists
they can accomplish much for
a patient with “a smile or a
hopeful attitude.” .
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I’ll Take Three
ALBANY, Ga. (UPI)—"Yes,
Sir,” the 17-year-old high school
student replied when Judge
George L. Sabados asked him if
he understood what he was do
ing by entering a plea of guilty
to charges of forgery.
“Yes sir” Charles Fields said
when the judge asked if he
were aware he would be punish
ed for what he had done.
“In fact,” the judge added,
“you can get from three to sev
en years in prison for this.”
“I’ll take three,” the Negro
boy said quickly.
As soon as the laughter died,
Judge Sabados replied, “Well, I
don’t blame you for that.”
He set sentencing for Friday.
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PSC To Hear
Complaints
ATLANTA (UPI)— The Geor
gia Public Service Commission
today was to hear complaints
filed by the Atlanta Gas Light
Co., and the Gas Light Co., of
Columbus against the Georgia
Power Co.
Georgia Power vice president
Joe B. Browder said the other
two companies were complain
ing against Georgia Power’s
rates and promotional prac
tices.
Browder contended customers
should not be denied the bene
fits rseulting from Georgia
Power’s rates and promotional
programs at the request of
competing utilities. He said the
other companies apparent
ly were unable or unwilling to
offer comparable advantages.
Browder said his company’s
rates and plans were on file
with the Public Service Com
sion and the complaining com
panies had not made their pro
motional practices known to the
commission. j
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Midwestern Farm
Bureau Tour
Bobby Hamil, representing
Spalding County, left Saturday
on an eight day program study
tour of midwestem state and
county Farm Bureau operations,
tions.
Hamil, who operates a dairy
farm in Spalding County, is one
of 76 Georgians making the
trip.
Monday, the group toured the
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
operations and programs in Col
umbus, Ohio, and the Indiana
Farm Bureau in Indianapolis.
Today they visited the Cham
paign County Farm Bureau in
Illinois and visited the Illinois
Farm Bureau Operations in
Bloomington, Ill.
During the remainder of the
week, the group will visit simi
lar operations in Illinois and
Iowa and will visit cattle, hog
and steer operations in those
states.
Gov. Maddox
Vetoes Bill
ATLANTA (UPI)— Gov. Les
ter Maddox has vetoed a bill
which would have enlarged the
membership of the Atlanta Sta
dium Authority, published re
ports said today.
The Atlanta Constitution said
not even the bill’s sponsor, Rep.
John Hood, was aware the mea
sure was killed until asked for
comment,
The bill would have enlarged
the membership from nine
to 11.
Fortson Pushes
Study For New
House Building
ATLANTA (UPI) —Secretary
0 f State Ben Fortson Monday
recommended a legisla tive
s md y 0 f the possibility of new
building to house the General
Assembly.
Fortson envisions using the
capitol more as a state museum
with only a few offices.
He said he will ask Lt. Gov.
George T. Smith and House
Speaker George L. Smith to es
tablish an interim committee to
study the situation and to re
port to the 1968 session.
Fortson estimated a new
building would cost .$7 million
to $10 million.
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ATLANTA (UPI)— Dr. Paul
R. Beall will step down as pres
ident of Oglethorpe College on
May 1.
Beall has been head of the
school since October, 1964. Hhe
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HOLLYWOOD (UPI)—Maria
Cole, widow of singer Nat
King) Cole, presented two of K
her late husband’s prized
possessions to entertainer
Wayne Newton monday.
Mrs. Cole gave Newton her (
husband’s appearance last Fri
day at a charity event marking
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