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Tuesday, July 18, 1967
Griffin Daily News
Wreck Kills
Calhoun Man
CALHOUN (UPD—A Calhoun
man was killed Monday after
noon on Georgia highway 53 in
Gordon County when he lost
control of his car and went
over an embankment.
Henry Parker, 41, was pro
nounced dead on arrival by au
thorities at Floyd County Hos
pital in Rome.
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World Briefs
EASE RESTRICTIONS
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
United States has removed
restrictions on American travel
to Lebanon imposed because of
the Middle East war. The State
Department’s action Monday
still left in effect restrictions on
travel to Egypt, Syria, Iraq,
Algeria, Libya, Jordan, Sudan,
and Yemen.
WAR ON PIRATES
MANILA (UPD—The Philip
pine military was mobilizing
modern weaponry today to
eliminate the age-old threat of
piracy.
President Ferdinand E. Mar
cos ordered the mobilization
under the code name "Opera
tion Dragnet” Tuesday after
pirates attacked fishings boats
within Manila Bay. Other pirate
bands have struck along isolat
ed coastal areas.
BICKFORD RECOVERING
WEST LOS ANGELES, Calif.
(UPl)—Veteran film and televi
sion actor Charles Bickford
continued to improve today at
the UCLA Medical Center,
where he was undergoing
therapy for bronchial pneumo
nia.
The 76-year-olu character
actor currently is co-starring in
“The Virginian” television se
ries.
LEAVES HOSPTAL
WASHINGTON (UPD—For
mer President Dwight D.
Eisenhower was scheduled to
leave Walter Reed Army
Medical Center today after two
days of tests and dental work.
The 76-year-old general en
tered the hospital Monday for a
48-hour series of tests on his
he a rt and chest and follow-up
checks on the intestinal disorder
that hospitalized him for 13
days last May. The dental work
was for precautionary treat
ment of his gums.
DELIVERIES INCREASED
WASHNGTON (UPD—Parcel
post deliveries will be increased
from five to six days a week in
5,000 of the nation’s most
populous cities by the end of
July, according to the Post
Office Department.
The six-day service was cut in
a 1964 economy move but
Congress appropriated $8.5 mil
lion this year to restore the
service, the department said
Tuesday.
PAPER PROBLEMS
CLEVELAND (UPD—Presses
rolled again early today at the
Cleveland Plain Dealer after
members of Local 53 of the
Typographical Union left their
jobs for about five hours
Tuesday.
The walkout, which began
about 5 p.m. EDT, was believed
triggered by the firing of a
typesetter.
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BALLUTE'S INNARDS —Seams —some 30,000 of them—on the
inside of Goodyear’s ballute make it symbolize a water
fountain. The ballute is the biggest space brake ever made
—for getting spacecraft down to Earth safely. It inflates
automatically to nearly three stories high.
Strike Hits North
Harder Than South
ATLANTA (UPI) — Shrilling
railroad whistles and chugging
engines were generally nonexis
tent on railroad tracks across
the United States Monday. A
strike by shopcraft unions
against the nation’s major rail
roads silenced the great iron
monsters.
The Southeast did not feel
the crippling effects as much
as the Northeast megalopolis,
but the inconveniences were
just as real. Passenger train
service was cancelled by most
major lines and freight moved
by rail only in limited in
stances.
George R. Beauchamp, gen
eral chairman of District 4 of
the striking machinists, said in
Atlanta workers would obey
Georgia Actress
Dies In Atlanta
ATLANTA (UPI) — Gertrude
Ikyon Mcßae, who ran away
from her Sugar Valley, Ga.,
home at the age of 15 to be
come a leading silent screen
star, died Monday in a hospital.
Mrs. Mcßae, whose stage
name was Gertrude McCoy, be
gan her career as a New York
model, became a “Gibson
Girl,” then went into movies,
gradually moving up from ex
tra and bit parts to stardom.
She starred in “The Blue
Bird,” “The Working Girl,”
“On The Stroke of Twelve,”,
and “The Silent Witness”, She
also starred in a serial, "Win
some Winnie.”
At the height •of her film
fame, a theater in Baltimore
was named for her.
She married British actor
Duncan Mcßae in 1919 and they
made many films in England,
Germany and South America
after World War I.
She returned to Atlanta in the
1930 sto care for her aging
mother.
Private funeral services were
scheduled today.
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any legal order to go back to
work. However, he insisted such
an order would enslave em
ployes.
“This strike is a spontaneous
action of American working
men who have no intention of
being enslaved,” Beauchamp
added. He accused railroads of
making “no real effort” to end
the wage dispute through nego
tiation.
W. Thomas Rice, president of
the Seaboard Coast Line Rail
road said he was distressed by
the strike and urge swift Con
gressional action.
“With our country at war in
Vietnam, we are facing a great
calamity,” Rice said.
The Louisville & Nashville
line was hardest hit with at
least 500 workers on strike in
the Atlanta area, according to
Supt. E. H. Civils. Six passen
ger trains operating daily out
of Atlanta were halted.
The Southern Hallway system
appeared to be the least affect
ed among major carriers.
About 35 shop workers at Chat
tanooga reported “sick” but
about 200 reported to work.
Other points reported Southern
service about normal.
Weltner May
Run For
House Seat
ATLANTA (UPD — Former
U.S. Rep. Charles Weltner is
expected to announce Wednes
day he will be a candidate in
1968 for Fifth District U.S. Rep
resentative.
Weltner withdrew from a
campaign for reelection in 1966
rather than keep a party
pledge to support Lester Mad
dox.
He had previously served
three terms in Congress from
the Atlanta area.
Soldier’s Body
Found In
Garbage Dump
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPD—The
body of an Officer Candidate
School student was found in a
garbage dump on the military
reservation according to an an
nouncement Monday by Ft.
Benning authorities.
The victim was reported
missing last Tuesday several
hours after he checked out an
M-14 rifle. The rifle was found
with the body.
The identity of the man was
not revealed pending notifica
tion of relatives.
Woman, 20,
Charged In
Killing
MOULTRIE, Ga. (UPD —
Mrs. Betty Ann Norman, 20,
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.a the death of her husband’s
former wife, Sherron Bryant
Norman, 23.
Deputies said Mrs. Norman
is pregnant and has been trans
ferred from the jail to a hospi
tal, where she is being held
without bond.
The shooting took place near
the community of Funston Sat
rday night. It followed a court
ruling against Wyman Norman
by his first wife charging non
support of two children.
The victim died Saturday
about two hours after she was
shot several times with a .38
caliber revolver.
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Woman Hit
By Car Dies
MACON, Ga. (UPD — Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Green, 32, of
Gray, died Monday at a local
hospital of injuries she sus
tained on July 3, when she was
struck by a car near her home.
Six teen-year-old Larry Ennis
of Bradley, the driver of the
vehicle which struck Mrs.
Green has been bound over for
i trial on charges of driving too
; fast for conditions.
Under the proper conditions television does
not harm the eyes. View it from a well
lighted room, sit 10 to 12 feet from the
set and don’t view it lying down. Make
sure your set is properly adjusted—then if
your eyes trouble you, you may need visual
attention. (The lines are parallel.)
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