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Autopsies Performed
In Cordele Cemetery
CORDELE, Ga. (UPD —Au
thorities said today examina
tions would begin next week to
determine if the deaths of three
members of the family of wid
ow Janie Lou Gibbs were
caused by “foul play and un
lawful means.”
Mrs. Gibbs, a plumpish form
er farm wife of 35 who ran a
nursery service here for work
ing mothers, has been charged
with murdering her 19-year-old
son, allegedly by lacing his cof
fee with arsenic.
Medical authorities, armed
with a court order, stood be
neath a sprawling tent at a hill
side cemetery plot Wednesday
ana performed autopsies on
three of the Gibbs’ bodies after
digging them up from their
graves.
The autopsies on Mrs. Gibbs’
husband, Charles, who died two
years ago, and her other two
sons, Melvin, 16, and Marvin,
13, were ordered after Superior
Court Judge William L. McMur
ray ruled Wednesday, "They
died under unusual and suspi-
Reserve Order Expected
To Make Money Tighter
WASHINGTON (UPD—Money
for business and personal loans
is expected to get somewhat
tighter as a result of the
Federal Reserve Board's order
to banks to hold a greater
percentage of their deposits in
reserve.
The board, in an effort to
check inflation and discourage
the flow of dollars from the
country, told its 2,000 member
New Prosperity
Predicted For 1968
By JAMES SRODES
WASHINGTON (UPD-Com
merce Secretary Alexander B.
Trowbridge said today produc
tion, employment and purchas
ing power hit new peaks this
year. He forecast a “new wave
of prosperity” in 1968.
Trowbridge, in an address for
the American Marketing Associ
ation, said the gross national
product should reach $785 billion
by the end of the year—“a
healthy gain of $42 billion or 5.5
per cent, over 1966.”
He went on to predict the
GNP will increase by a
minimum of SSO billion next
year “and the potential gain is
substantially higher.”
The GNP is the value of all
goods and services produced by
the nation's economy.
Set New Records
Trowbridge said the nation’s
new economy undoubtedly will
set more records in 1968.
"This new wave of prosperity
should produce significant gains
in employment, income, profits
and purchasing power,” Trow
bridge said. “The signs clearly
point to strong sales and a high
rate of production.”
Trowbridge tempered his
optimistic forecast, however,
with a warning about possible
erosion of the gains by inflation.
He called on Congress to
“enact the income tax surch
arge to help finance the
Vietnam war, to head off
inflation, (and» to help moder
ate high interest rates.”
At the same time, he urged
business and labor leaders to
resist pressures for “excessive
wage and price increases.”
Consumer Spending Up
Some of the more significant
increases which Trowbridge
predicted for 1968 include:
—Consumer spending on food
and beverages, up 3.5 per cent
to slls billion.
—Clothing and shoe sales, up
New Device
Developed For
Heart Patients
WASHINGTON (UPD — The
National Heart Institute says it
has successfully tested an
electronic device which permits
some invalid heart patients to
resume normal physical activity
by pressing a button.
The apparatus consists of a
small transmitter worn outside
the body which patients suffer
ing from angina pectoris can
switch on before engaging in
activities that might cause pain.
The transmitter, by electrical
impulse, stimulates the carotid
sinus nerves in the neck to
reduce blood pressure and blood
vessel tone, thus reducing heart
work and oxygen requirements.
The Heart Institute said
Wednesday the nerve stimula
tion enables patients to work 15
times longer than before the
devices were installed.
DEEP MINES
World's deepest mines are said
to be near Johannesburg, South
Africa. Deepest workings of one
are at 11,246 feet and 20,645 feet
at the other.
clous circumstances and there
are reasons to believe that
their deaths were caused by
foul play and unlawful means.”
Five members of the family
died within a two-year period.
Mrs. Gibbs, 35, was arrested
Saturday after an autopsy in
vestigation on the body of Rog
er Gibbs, 19, her last living son,
who died in October, revealed
several miligrams of arsenic in
his body.
Authorities theorized he died
from systematic doses of rat
poison containing arsenic put in
his coffee. He was the fifth to
die in two years.
“We’re suspicious,” said
Capt. Hugh Smith of the Geor
gia Bureau of Investigation
Wednesday of the possibility
doctors would also find arsenic
in the bodies of the other mem
bers of the family.
Cars of onlookers skirted the
cemetery ground Wednesday as
workmen exhumed first the
body of Melvin, followed by
that of his father and then Mar
vin. Each operation took about
banks Wednesday to increase by
one-half of one per cent the
funds they keep on reserve to
back up checking and savings
account deposits in excess of $5
million.
The move will have the effect
of taking out of circulation by
the middle of January about
$550 million that ordinarily
would have been available for
loans and investments.
The action was not expected
6 per cent to $43 billion.
—Automobile production, up
to 8.5 million units compared to
7.4 million units in strike
hampered 1967.
—Construction, up 8 per cent
to a record 183.5 billion, despite
a decline in federal construction
projects.
—Raw steel production, up 2.5
per cent to 130 million tons.
—Chemical sales, up 6 per
cent to $43.5 billion.
—Civilian aircraft sales, up 24
per cent with aerospace Indus
try as a whole recording a 5 per
cent increase of $13.6 billion.
—Spending by state and local
governments, up $9 billion over
SB6 billion spent in $967.
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45 minutes. The vital organs
were removed and the bodies
were returned immediately to
the graves.
Authorities said the body of
Mrs. Gibbs’ infant grandson,
Ronnie Gibbs, who died three
weeks before his father, Roger,
last October, would not be ex
humed.
Before Mrs. Gibbs’ arrest
over the Christmas weekend,
she told Wright Tilley, state ed
itor of the Albany Herald, “I
don’t question God’s work
about” the quick-succession of
deaths of her family.
“The Bible says they will get
their reward,” she said, “and
I’m sure they will.”
Her husband, Charles Clayton
Gibbs, 40, an appliance repair
man, died Jan. 21, 1966, of an
apparent heart attack. On Aug.
29, 1966, Marvin died of a rare
muscular disease.
Melvin died in January, 1967.
In September, Ronnie Gibbs,
her month-old grandson, died
and three weeks later Roger
died.
to create any immediate money
crisis or lead to a new push for
higher interest rates. But
observers said it would tend to
make bankers more cautious
about investments, particularly
abroad.
Lloyd E. Clarke, president of
the National Association of
Home Builders, said the housing
industry is apprehensive that a
tight money situation could
develop in 1968.
He urged the government to
“identify national housing
goals” and to make sure enough
money is available in the
longterm mortgage market for
home building needs.
The American Bankers Asso
ciation termed the Federal
Reserve Board’s order “a
modest step toward reducing
the rate of credit expansion” in
line with its recent recommen
dations.
The step marked the second
time in a little more than a
month that the Federal Reserve
Board has acted to put a
damper on bank lending.
The board’s latest order
requires that member banks in
major cities increase the
amount they keep on reserve to
back up deposits in excess of $5
million from 16.5 to 17 per cent,
effective Jan. 11. On Jan. 18,
banks in smaller cities must
Increase their reserves from 12
per cent to 12.5 per cent for
deposits exceeding $5 million.
Griffin Daily News
Thursday, Dec. 28, 1967
$301,000 Taken
From Armored
Car In Robbery
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (UPD—
Authorities in three states today
searchei for a 1959 automobile
believed used by bandits who
escaped with $301,000 taken
from an armored truck in a
daylight burglary at a suburban
department store.
Police said they believed the
theft Wednesday was an “inside
job.” They said the thieves
overlooked $39,416 in a rear
compartment of the truck.
Donald Hawkins, police chief
of Boardman Township where
the theft occurred, said the car
was “the strongest lead we
have.”
“We haven’t found the car
and there is an all-points out for
it in Ohio, Pennsylvania and
West Virginia,” Hawkins said.
The car was seen following
the stolen Kane Secret Service
Inc. truck into Mill Creek Park,
about a mile and a half from
the Almart Department Store.
The truck was found abandoned
in the park 30 minutes after the
theft.
Burglar Has Key
The truck had been locked
and parked in front of the store
while the two guards were
inside making a delivery.
Hawkins said witnesses report
ed that a man dressed in a dark
uniform similar to ones worn by
the truck’s guards used a key to
unlock the truck then drove it
away.
"We think three people were
involved because of the short
time it took to move the money
from the truck to the car,”
Hawkins said.
NAMED STATE
ponce de Leon, who discover
ed it on Easter Sunday, gave
Florida its name. The Spanish
name he gave it was "Pascua
Florida,” meaning “feast of flo
wers.”
POPULATION
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lation is the point upon which
the United States would balance
if all the people were of equal
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