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Bullet Wound
Is Mystery
DECATUR, Ga. (UPI) —
Burke Ferguson, 19, is recover
ing in a hospital from a mys
terious bullet wound suffered
late Monday night while he
was working at a service sta
tion.
Ferguson, who moved to De
catur from Cornelia to be near
a younger brother who was
burned in a fire during Octo
ber, says he was working on a
car when he fell to the ground
with a sharp pain in his hip.
He is in serious condition at
DeKalb County General Hospi
’tal. His brother, 16 - year -old
Dennis Ferguson, is in another
hospital.
Ceiling Falls On
Expectant Mother
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPI) —
Mrs. Doris Wheley, an expect
ant mother, was shopping in a
store Tuesday when the celling
caved in, knocking her down
under a pile of plaster and in
sulating debris.
“I don’t want to lose my
baby,” she screamed as she
was freed to be rushed to a
hospital. Doctors said she
probably would not lose the
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baby.
A large portion of the ceiling
of HUI Brothers Self Service
Service Shoe Store and Clothing
Mart collapsed on Mrs. Wheley.
No one else was injured.
Ex-Chief Draws
Fine, Suspension
ABBEVILLE, Ga. (UPI) —
Former Police Chief Wilson
Rawlings, dismissed from the
force two weeks ago after a
state trooper found 96 bottles of
wrisky in his car, was fined
SSOO and given a one-year sus
pended sentence Tuesday.
Rawlings was charged with
possessing more than the legal
limit of whisky.
Columbus GI
Dies In Viet
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Army
Sgt. Gerry G. Chesnut of Co
lumbus, Ga., was among 14
U.S. servicemen identified by
the Pentagon Tuesday as the
latest victims of the Vietnam
War. •
Madison Man
Held In Theft
BALDWIN, Ga. (UPI) — E.R.
Wilbanks of Madison was
brought back from Arkansas
Tuesday to face charges of sell
ing equipment that had been
stripped from a stolen van last
week.
Habersham County Sheriff
Grady Crocker said Wilbanks
turned himself in to authorities
in Blytheville, Ark. Two other
men charged in the case, John
W. Puckett of Decatur and El
bert H. Whitten of Atlanta, still
are being sought.
They are charged with in
volvement in the Nov. 25 theft
of a truck from the Atlantic
Tank and Power Co., of Atlanta,
and sale of about $2,200 worth
of equipment. The truck and
most of the equipment has been
recovered.
Man Arrested In
Mail Theft Case
ATLANTA (UPI) — FBI
agents arrested Manuel Sam
Harrison at a downtown hotel
Tuesday on mail fraud charges
from Columbia, S. C.
After a hearing before U. S.
Commissioner Robert D. Feagin
111, the 57-year-old Harrelson
was remanded to the custody of
U.S. Marshals in lieu of $2,000
bond.
He is charged with passing
fraudulent interstate checks.
DOG'S BEST FRIEND
FRANKFORT, Ind. (UPI)—
“Tinkerbelle” could bark again
today because of fireman Ken
Wright, who found the chihua
hua dog unconscious in a fire
and revived him—with mouth
to-mouth resuscitation.
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Salesmen Tour Mill
Salesmen for Dundee Mills got their first look at the new addition to the com
pany’s No. Five plant in East Griffin. Henry Walker (1) of Griffin talks with
(1-r) Kenneth Whipple of Detroit, Joe Brady, Sr. of New York, Art Henninger of
New York and Chuck Visser of Los Angeles. The new addition nearly doubled the
size of the No. Five plant. The salesmen were taken on a tour of the facility. They
are in Griffin for the annual sales meeting.
Fx-Georgia Solon
Rattles Disease
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Form
er Rep. Russell Tuten, D-Ga.,
expressed hope Tuesday that ex
perimental medication will en
able him to win a bout with a
disease now considered incur
able.
Tuten, cochairman of the
Coastal Plains Regional Commis
sion, is suffering from amyotro
phic lateral sclerosis. Among its
many victims was the late Lou
Gehrig, New York Yankee base
ball star.
Tuten, 56, is under the care
of Dr. Donald T, Quick of the
University of Florida Medical
School at Gainesville, Fla., who
is experimenting with a possible
cure.
Tuten, now active in his job
despite wasting of muscles that
already limits use of his legs
and one arm, said some of
Quick’s patients have shown
signs of improvement.
The treatment through diet,
medication and therapy is based
Conviction Os
Rome Detective
Upheld In Court
ATLANTA (UPD—The Geor
gia Court of Appeals Tuesday
upheld the conviction of a form
er Rome, Ga., detective for as
sault and attempt to murder an
Atlanta policeman.
The court said the contention
of William Barkley Terhune,- 51,
a 28-year veteran of the Rome
police department, that he was
temporarily insane at the time
of the shooting of the patrolman
was "without merit.”
Terhune was given a five
year prison sentence last Feb
ruary after conviction in the in
cident in which Atlanta patrol
man Crarles Hix was shot in
busy expressway traffic.
Terhune’s defenders had
sought a reversal on grounds
that the former detective was
insane at the time, and that the
trial judge had abused his dis
cretion by refusing a third con
tinuance in the case to allow
more testimony on his mental
state.
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on a theory that malfunction of
the pancreas causes the disease,
Tuten said.
While the medical profession
does not yet recognize the
theory as being valid, he said,
he said, the experiments have
been reported in medical jour
nals and are attracting increas
ing attention.
“The experiment has not gone
far enough to really establish
the cause or treatment,” Tuten
said. ‘l'm working and exper
imenting on the basis of faith
and hope. I’m determined to get
the job done.”
His physician expects the cru
cial time of determining the ef
fectiveness of this treatment will
come early next year, he said.
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They Know What
‘Dry’ Means
OCILLA, Ga. (UPD—Resi
dents of this south Georgia
town, knowing now the true
meaning of living in a "dry”
county, were expected to have
water by this afternoon.
A brass bearing burned out in
the shaft of the city’s well,
leaving the town with virtually
no water since Saturday.
“We’ve got just enough to
wash our faces with, cook,
drink and that’s about all,”
said a spokesman for the city,
as repairs neared completion.
One small pump, the only op
erable portion of the shaft, pro
vided small amounts of water
for the more than 3,000 resi
dents of this Irwin County seat.
There was virtually no pres
sure.
"If we had a bad fire we’d
really be in trouble,” a police
official said. He added that a
small fire had caused some
worry this morning but the wa
ter in a tanker truck proved
sufficient to extinguish the
blaze.
(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
Wife, Kin
Slain In
Shoot Spree
BYROMVILLE, Ga. (UPD —
A farm worker Tuesday night
shot and killed his wife and
mother-in-law and critically
wounded his father-in-law be
fore placing the barrel of his
16-gauge shotgun against his
own chest and making his
8-year-old son pull the trigger.
Claude Spivey, 40, a Negro,
fell dead on the bloody floor of
his farm home while three oth
er minor children watched the
action.
Sheriff H. C. Johnson and po
liceman Louis Burnham said
the wild shooting spree started
when Spivey shot his mother-in
law, Mattie Neal, on the front
porch of the house.
She fell mortally wounded
and Spivey turned toward his
wife who fled into the yard.
Spivey opened fire and she fell
about 25 yards away.
Then, the officers said they
were told, Spivey leveled on his
father-in-law, Causey Neal, 60.
Neal broke and ran across a
road and, although critically
wounded, found a hiding pice
under another house. He was
listed in critical condition today
at a Montezuma hospital.
Officers said they believed
the mass shootings resulted
from an extended family argu
ment.
The 8-year-old son, Claude
Spivey Jr., told the officers that
after his father had shot all the
others he placed the gun barrel
to his chest and told the boy
that if he didn’t pull the trigger
he would kill him.
Restored Home
In Lee Burns
ALBANY, Ga. (UPD—A fire
of undetermined origin exten
sively damaged a century-old
restored antebellum home in
nearby Lee County.
Authorities said no injuries
were reported and no one was
home at the time of the blaze,
discovered Wednesday by pass
ing motorists who at first
thought the flames were Christ
mas decorations.
The home, dating back to Civ
il War times, was owned by
Mrs. William Roberton, 38, a
widowed mother of two sons.
Firefighters reported a series
of small explosions occurred
when the flames reached a col
lection of antique firearms in
one room of the house.
Officials said they also dis
covered more guns, artillery
shells, ammunition rounds, and
some practice hand grenades in
a burning attic. The small ar
senal was apparently part of
the collection, and none of it
went off in the flames.
EXPENSIVE BITE
CHICAGO (UPD—Mrs. Willie
B. Jimerson, 29, was fined SIOO
in boys’ court Tuesday for
biting the bailiff’s arm.
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Vote Roundup
Richmond Elects
Republican Sheriff
By United Press International
Republicans were elated in
the aftermath of still another
elction victory in a major
Georgia city, Augusta, but they
were not holding much hope for
a repeat performanc from the
GOP write - in candidate chal
lenging incumbent Athens May
or Julius Bishop today.
Bishop is running unopposed
on the ballot, but University of
Georgia Young Republican
leader John A. Williamson, 23,
is seeking the job as a write-in
candidate.
Williomson and another stu
dent, Jack A. Brookner Jr. of
East Point, unsuccessfully
sought Tuesday to have the city
balloting temporary enjoined on
grounds they were denied the
right to vote because of resi
dency rquirements. U. S. Dis
trict Judge William A. Bootle
denied the injunction but did
not rule on their eligibility or
request for $50,000 in damages
from election officials.
The Richmond County sher
iff’s race and victory for GOP
frontrunner E. R. Atkins, Au
gusta police chief, headlined a
series of local elections through
out the state.
Atkins defeated Democrat
Francis Widner Jr. in the run
off vote to succeed the late
George C. Mutimer as sheriff,
becoming the county’s first Re
publican to fill that job. The
GOP has scored significant wins
during the past year by captur
ing the mayor’s races in Macon
and Savannah.
In the central Georgia city of
Perry, incumbent Mayor Rich
ard B. Ray beat a challenge by
Emmett W. Cater for his third
consecutive two-year term. The
victory insured Ray’s succes
sion next year to presidency
of the Georgia Municipal Asso
ciation, of which he is now vice
president.
Miss Katie Pauline Lewis lost
a bid for Perry City Council to
D. K. Roughton and Mrs. Louise
Wofford of Gainesville was un-
Rep. Spinks
Suggests
Four Meetings
ATLANTA (UPl)—State Sen.
Ford Spinks of Tifton proposed
Tuesday that the Georgia Legis
lature split its sessions, meeting
for three weeks in January and
two weeks in April, July and
October.
He said he will introduce
such a plan, which would re
quire a constitutional amend
ment, when the General Assem
bly convenes in January.
“Being a practical man and a
businessman,” Spinks said, “I
can’t be away from my busi
ness for long periods.”
Spinks, who owns a tractor
distributorship, said legislators
would meet for three weeks in
January and the first two
weeks of April, July and Octo
ber under his plan. The actual
number of meeting days would
not be changed.
Spinks said he expects sup
port from other businessmen
legislators who would find it
difficult to serve if sessions
were lengthened, as has been
proposed by many legislative
leaders including Lt. Gov.
George T. Smith.
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come that city’s first woman
commissioner. Mrs. Wofford lost
to Don Carter.
Calvin Parker was named
Woodstock’s new mayor to suc
ceed Charles Bell, and Twin
City residents chose incumbent
Mayor J. H. Quarles over Billy
Bishop by a large margin in
Emanuel County.
The citizens of Folkston de
cided Okefenokee was not their
lot and refused to change the
name of their town to match
that of the nearby swamp.
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change would draw tourist trade.
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FCC Okays Gray
TV Purchase
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Federal Communications Com
mission has approved an appli
cation by Georgia Democratic
Chairman James Gray to buy
an Arkansas television station
and by relinquishing legal con
trol of Gray Communications
Systems, Inc., in a $3.25 million
transaction.
The FCC Tuesday approved
transfer of television station
KTVE, Inc., at El Dorado, Ark.
from Fuqua Nations, Inc., to
Gray’s firm for $3.25 million.
Fuqua is owned by former
Georgia Democratic Chairman
J. B. Fuqua, of Augusta.
The FCC said Gray, of Al
bany, will reduce his stock in
Gray Communications from 81.5
per cent to 42 per cent by sell
ing some of his shares to the
general public, but he will con
tinue to have actual control of
the firm.
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