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Griffin Daily News
LA Police Seek
Execution Robber
LOS ANGELES (UPD—The
man won’t take “yes” for an
answer.
He points the pistol, and asks
for money. People give It to
him and he shoots them through
the head. He's done It five
times.
His “execution” robberies of
small businesses have made
him the terror of south-central
Los Angeles, a largely Negro
district.
Beefed up details of patrol
men and detectives prowled the
area today, carrying an artist’s
composite drawing of a goateed
negro In his late 20s or early
30s. He Is slightly over six feet
tall with a medium build.
Described by police as a
•’homicidal maniac,” the man Is
blamed for the slayings of two
persons in a liquor store
robbery Tuesday night and the
deaths of a couple who operated
a "mom-and-pop” restaurant
Wednesday. He also Is believed
to have killed a liquor store
employe In the nearby city of
Commerce on Jan. 16.
The three holdups are be
lieved to have netted him about
12,250.
The last two occurred at
businesses operated by non-
Negroes In a mostly Negro
area. The victims of the three
stlckups Include three White
people two Japanese-Amerlcans
and a Negro.
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Friday, January 31, 1969
Victim of the Jan. 16 robbery
was David Munoz, 30, a clerk In
the Commerce liquor store.
Tuesday night, Los Angeles
liquor store owner Ben Dreskln,
53, was shot In the neck just
after Dreskln uttered his last
words to the store’s clerk:
“Give him anything he wants.”
The gunman then shot a
customer who was standing In a
corner sipping a soft drink. O.
B. Hunt, 46, a Negro, died the
Amendment To Hike
Corrections Board
Number May Wait
ATLANTA (UPD —Gov. Les
ter Maddox said Thursday he
might wait until next year to
propose a constitutional amend
ment increasing the five-mem
ber State Corrections Board to
15 members.
Maddox said he preferred his
plan to that suggested earlier
by the House Institutions and
Properties Committee that
would prevent wardens from
being members of the prison
board.
The committee had been con
sidering a bill Introduced by At
lanta Rep. Kil Townsend to
have Jefferson County prison
camp warden John Stanley im
peached because he was also a
member of the Corrections
Board.
The committee rejected the
idea of impeachment but said
its new proposal, If made Into
law, would force Stanley to re
sign one of the positions.
Maddox said he was satisfied
with the decision not to Im
peach Stanley. “Even though
Mr. Stanley Is part of the sys
tem, it’s no use to make him
next day.
Wednesday night the robber
sipped coffee at Rozy’s, a small
restaurant run by Ryozo Devln
na, 53, and his wife, Misao, 56.
Other customers finished and
left. A few minutes later the
Devlnnas were found dead on
the floor, with their cash
register empty.
They had been shot In their
faces from point blank range.
‘it’,” the governor said.
But Maddox declined to take
a stand on the proposed legis
lation, saying “I don’t know
that they’ll have a bill.”
He said he will probably wait
until next year to propose his
own plan because the General
Assembly Is Jammed with
budget and tax matters and the
amendment could not go to the
people before November 1970.
A similar administration bill
failed last year.
NEAR MISS
BLACKPOOL, England (UPD
—Student John Keys guzzled 30
pints of beer with time to spare
Thursday and confidently
boasted he had the new world's
record.
However, a quick check with
the record book showed he had
failed by .79 of a pint.
Keys thought the old record
was 24 pints in an hour and
stopped drinking In his attempt
with about a minute to go after
downing 30 pints. However, he
found that German Horst
Pretorius held the record with
30.79 pints In exactly one hour.
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Paper 97 Years Old
Quimby Melton, Sr., (1) publisher of the Griffin Daily News, accepts a giant
birthday cake for the newspaper from Albert Harrell of the Griffin Southern Bell
office. Thursday was the paper’s 97th birthday.
Commission Recommends
State Not Buy Rail Yard
ATLANTA (UPD— The State
Properties Control Commission
Thursday recommended that
ths state not buy the sls mil
lion Tilford Railroad Yard here.
The commission also pro
posed purchase of eight sets of
industrial tracks off the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad and
postponed consideration of a bid
to lease the state-owned Henry
Grady Hotel in downtown Atlan
ta.
All of the necommendatios of
the commission must now go
before the General Assembly
for final approval.
Social Security
Retirement Near?
Cheek Birth Data
Are you thinking of retiring
and collecting your Social Sec
urity benefits? When that time
comes will you be able to prove
how old you are? If you don’t
have a record of your age made
at birth or in early childhood,
contact the people at your Soc
ial Security office. They will be
glad to help you.
Q. I have recently hired a yo
ung lady as a baby sitter on a
regular basis. She doesn’t have
a Social Security card and does
n’t want to take out the tax.
What should I tell her? 0.M.,
Griffin.
A. Tell her the law requires
that if you pay her as much as
fSo in cash wages in a calendar
quarter, you are required to re
port these wages along with her
name and Social Security num
ber to Internal Revenue Service.
The tax must also be paid. She
should get a Social Security card
from any Social Security office,
if she doesn’t have one.
Q. We recently hired a yard
man who is 65 years old and is
receiving Social Security checks.
He says I’m not supposed to
take out Social Security taxes
from his pay. Is he right? C.H.,
Griffin.
A. No. Earnings for work in or
around a private home must
be reported if they amount to
SSO cash wages, or more, in a
calendar quarter. It doesn’t mat
ter how old the employee is.
Q. I began getting Social Se-
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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA
Ford, Bacon and Davis con
sulting engineers recommended
that the state not purchase the
Louisville and Nashville Rail
road’s multi-milllon-dollar yard
here because It said the state
owned W&A would not need the
giant terminal.
It also said the L&N might
abandon Tilford rather than
rent it if the state bought it un
der an option in the lease. Lt.
Gov. George T. Smith cast the
only dissenting vote.
The L&N, which has leased
the state-owned Atlanta to Chat
tanooga railroad for the past
curity checks in July, 1968. I
earned $3,600 before I stopped
working full time and made only
$l3O a month from July on. Do
I have to file a report of my
earnings with social security?
E.M., Griffin.
Q. Yes. A person who earn
ed over $1,680 in 1968 and got a
Social Security check for any
month in 1968 must file an an
nual report of his earnings with
Social Security no later than
April 15, 1969. This is required
even if the yearly total is the
same as was estimated earlier
in the year. However, since you
earned less than $l4O a month
from July through December
1968, you will still be entitled to
the checks for those months.
Q. I have several doctor bills
and I wish to file a claim for
payment from Medicare. How
should I file my first claim? A.
H„ Griffin.
A. Since you have never filed
a claim before, it would be a
good idea for the Social Secur
ity office to help you with your
first claim. Bring all your item
ized bills and your Medicare
card. It is not necessary for
the bills to be paid to file a cl
aim.
If you have a question about
Social Security or Medicare, wr
ite the Social Security Adminis
tration at 435 West Solomon st
reet in Griffin. All Inquiries
must be signed and should incl
ude addresses.
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HONOLULU (UPD—Portions
of Hawaii were hit by a brief
hail storm Thursday, startling
and confusing island residents.
One person, Robert Yagi of
Kuliolu Valley on the island of
Oahu, said he had never
experienced anything like it in
his 50 years in Hawaii.
His reaction to the ice? Yagi
said he and his neighbor ate it.
half century, won another lease
last year which will last until
1995.
The engineers recommended
purchase of the spur tracks,
half In Tennessee and half In
Georgia, “to retain the Integri
ty of your railroad and Insure
its future earning power.”
The state has the right to
buy the tracks, built by L&N,
for 125 per cent of the cost.
Based on current value, the
price would be about SBOO,OOO.
The decision on a bld to lease
the Henry Grady Hotel was put
off until Feb. 11, mostly due to
the urging of Gov. Lester Mad
dox who said “other people are
interested but not available and
I think wie need to explore it
further before awarding of
these.”
The bid was submitted by
Jamestown Shopping Center,
Inc., of Georgia at a rate sever
al times the current $47,000 in
come from the hotel.
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Lt. Gov. Smith
Opposes Bills
ATLANTA (UPD — Lt. Gov.
George T. Smith made it clear
Thursday that he Is opposed to
two bills presently before the
House which would increase the
state’s burden in financing edu
cation.
One of the bills, Introduced
by Rep. Hines Brantley, would
set the state burden at 90 per
cent and the local share at 10
per cent.
Another measure would have
the state assume the entire bur
den.
At present, the ratio Is 82-18,
but Ideally under the Minimum
Foundation Program the ratio
of state to local funding would
level off at 80-20 after several
years.
Smith said lessening the bur
den of local government would
create a situation “worse than
the federal guidelines they talk
about. These local school dis
tricts don’t know what they’re
asking for.”
Gov. Lester Maddox Is ap
parently In sympathy with the
move in the House to increase
the state’s share of the educa
tion load and has Indicated he
would support a reduction of
the local share to 15 per cent.
Radioactivity
Found In Deer
ATLANTA (UPD—Hunters in
southeast Georgia could Include
Geiger counters with their hunt
ing gear If they want to bag
the limit.
A forestry expert said here
Thursday that signs of radioac
tivity had shown up In the meat
of deer, fox, squirrels and rab
bits slain in southeast Georgia.
H. E. Ruark, director of the
Georgia Forestry Research
Council in Macon, said the ra
dioactivity was apparently
caused by Red Chinese atomic
bomb test explosions.
James H. Jenkins, professor
of wildlife management at the
University of Georgia, studied
the problem and reported to the
council that the radioactivity
posed no threat to humans who
ate the meat.
But he said the investigation
should continue.
Ruark said the radioactivity
was the heaviest in the coastal
plains section of the state and
seemed to follow a pattern
caused by the feeding habits of
the animals.
The level seemed to peak in
February, he said, and was at
its lowest ebb In the spring and
summer.
Ruark told of the radioactivi
ty before the Joint House-Sen- •
ate Appropriations Committee,
as he requested $502,300 for fis
cal 1969 and $467,400 for fiscal
1970. .
He said the U. S. Public
Health Service knew about the
radioactivity among wildlife in
the Coastal Plains, and that it #
had also been detected in Flor
ida, North and South Carolina
and Virginia.
Bin Would
Abolish Council •
ATLANTA (UPD—State Sen.
William A. Searcey of Savan
nah said Thursday he was not
optimistic about a bill he is •
drawing up to abolish the Edu
cational Improvement Council.
Searcey said he was opposed
to the council when it was first *
created to “act as a go
between” for the Department
of Education and the University
System.
“Once an agency is created *
it’s hard to get rid of it,” he
said. But he said he felt it was
“an unnecessary state agency”
and suggested its limited func- •
tlons could be taken over by
the Department of Education.
He complained that the coun
cil bad no authority and it was •
unclear to him exactly what
service It provided.
Searcey is a member of the
joint House-Senate Appropria
tions Committee conducting two
weeks of budget hearings. The
council is asking that its mem
bers be Increased from four to
eight and that its appropriation •
for the next two years be set
at $259,500.
Smyrna Man Held
For Unlawful Flight *
ATLANTA (UPD— Dewey F.
Traweek, 43, of Smyrna, Ga.,
was being held here on SIO,OOO
bond today on a charge of un- *
lawful flight from Louisiana to
aovld prosecution on theft
charges.
The FBI announced that a- „
gents had arrested Traweek In
Smyrna Thursday where he was
employed as a construction su
perintendent for an apartment
complex. •
He had previously been ar
rested in Jacksonville, Fla., fol
lowing his escape in March
1968 from Bryce Mental Hospl- •
tai In Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Traweek was released on
bond In Florida but failed to
appear for an extradition hear- ,
ing last August.