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THEY’RE OFF! The first four rigs roll out to attack the 400 miles of sage, sand and rock-lined washes between
them and $50,000 in prizes. First machine to finish was a cycle.
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CYCLIST LOSES IT in soft stuff near the pits. He went
down, but was uninjured and was able to continue. Falls
were common hazard for riders as danger markers be
came obscured along course.
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?d PENSIVE TASTE, but it’s milk, not champagne, that
“Rum” finds so lip-smackin’ good. “Russ,” a 9-year-old
Russian blue cat, is insured for $60,000, the amount he
has earned in the last six years for appearances in films
and television.
Georgia News
ROME AIR SERVICE
ROME, Oa. (UPI) — The
Floyd County Commission plans
a public hearing on plans by
Eastern Airlines to turn over
its Atlanta-to-Rome air service
to Georgia Air Service, Inc.
Eastern complained of a loss
of *116,000 a year on the line,
and proposes to pay the smaller
airline *55,000 a year if it will
take over the service.
NEW ROMES FOR POOR
WAYNESBORO, Ga. (UPI)—
This town of 6,500 has asked
the Department of Housing and
Urban Development for funds
to conduct an urban renewal
program to rebuild or tear
down 400 substandard homes
and to build low-rent housing
projects.
Mayor Ben Brooks estimated
the renewal project would take
more than 10 years. He said it
was apparent that private in
dustry was unable to ease the
low cpst housing shortage in
the town.
FIRE DESTROYS TIMBER
WAYCROSS, Ga. (UPI)—An
estimated 100 acres of timber
land were destroyed Tuesday in
a forest fire farmed by shifting
winds on land owned by Sea
board Coastline Railroad.
Officials said it was the big
gest forest fire of the year in
Ware County. Units from seven
fire companies and aircraft
were used in a two and one
half hour battle to bring the
flames under control.
RIOT CONTROL GEAR
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia
counties may join together to
purchase riot control equipment
without violating state law, ac
cording to Atty. Gen. Arthur
Bolton.
Bolton said Tuesday that Joint
purchase and use of the equip
ment would be legal. H. Oliver
Welch, head of the State Plan
ning Bureau, had asked for the
ruling from Bolton.
Firm Promotes
U. S. Machines
By LEROY POPE
UPI Business Writer
NEW YORK (UPI) — Per
suading foreign citizens to like
American ways enough to buy
the American machinery that
makes them possible is big
business.
Sometimes it succeeds, some
times it doesn’t.
Take the international opera
tions of American Machine &
Foundry Co.
In recent years, Merlin Nel
son, AMF’s head of internation
al operations in London, has
been promoting, among other
things, automatic bowling pin
spotters and baking machinery
for mass producing wrapped
bread American style.
“Both are going great in Ja
pan,” Nelson said. “And the
Scandinavians like bowling so
much we have been able vir
tually to saturate the market
for pin spotters there.
"We are selling our bread
processing machinery pretty
well in Germany and Britain
but we haven’t been able to
overcome the fondness of the
French and Italians for bread
made in small neighborhood
bakeries in the traditional fash
ion. They still want to buy it
almost fresh from the oven and
unwrapped.”
In Japan, where American
style bread was first introduced
in the 19205, it has grown
steadily in popularity. This
growth is accelerating and giv
ing AMF an excellent market
for baking machinery.
“But tlie Japanese bowling
boom is perhaps our most
spectacular foreign market at
present,” Nelson said. “Ten
pin bowling was introduced in
Japan by the G-I’s after World
War n. It caught on rather
slowly but now the Japanese
boom is relatively bigger than
the one in the United States in
the 19505.
There are now 700 bowling
centers in Nippon with 17,000
lanes and Hideki Yokoi, a ship
ping magnate has just op
ened a 242-lane center in Tok
yo that is the largest in the
world outside the United States.
A March 11th article in the Ni
hon Keizal Shimbun says bowl
ing satisfies a Japanese bowl
er’s instinct toward destruction.
"I think the two big attrac
tions of bowling to the Japarf.
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CLOSED-COURSE FORMAT of race brought competi
tors past same spot eight times in two-day event to
delight of thousands of spectators who lined the route.
This buggy ran in experimental class.
ese are, one, that they are
prosperous with an extremely
high rate of disposable person
al income. Secondly, their
mode of living makes public
entertainment places highly at
tractive to them. Their homes
are tiny so they necessarily
spend many hours away from
home.”
Migrant Worker
Series Wins
Green Shade
ATLANTA (UPI) — A series
on Florida’s migrant workers
camps by St. Petersburg Times
reporter Samuel Adams won
the top Green Eye Shade award
Tuesday night from the Atlanta
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi,
professional Journalism fra
ternity.
Adams’ series won the sweep
stakes award and the top news
paper award in the annual com
petition. Separate awards given
this year for the first time went
to Hal Suit of WSB-TV in At
lanta for a documentary on
“The Return of Private Young
blood,” and to Dick Jensen of
radio station WFGW, Black
Mountain, N.C., for a docu
mentary, “Safety in the Air.”
Adams’ series concentrated
on Camp Happiness in Collier
County, Fla. He was spurned in
an effort to become a resident,
but worked for Several days on
“day haul crews” tha tworked
the field with Camp Happiness
residents.
He was taken on a tour of
the camp, and his Interviews
confirmed earlier reports of vio
lence, death, disease, hunger,
filthy housing, low pay and poor
working conditions.
The articles led to investiga
tions by the Department of La
bor, lawsuits against two state
employment service, a pay in
crease for camp laborers and
other federal and state correc
tive action.
The WSB-TV documentary
concerned the death and funeral
of a Rabun County, Ga. soldier
killed in Vietnam. It was writ
ten, directed and produced by
Suit.
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Griffin Daily News
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Wednesday, April 9, 1969
Any time you get more than 200
entrants for a motor race, it has
to be considered BIG. When total
prize money exceeds $50,000, you
know it’s RICH. But if only 20 of
those 200 vehicles finish, how
else can you describe the event
except as ROUGH! That is the
way the 1969 Mint “40(P Desert
Rally added up in Las Vegas • ■ •
the biggest, richest and roughest
off-road race in the country.
Cycles, production cars, expert
mentals and dune buggies
participated in the 480-mile,
closed-course event over the ’-
rugged Nevada desert.
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CHARGING AHEAD, buggy of Jim Taber and Roy Me*
Intire, San Fernando, Cam., moved up from 29th start
ing position to 10th overall at end of lap one. Grading
pace, however, was too much and it failed to finish.
Griffin Daily News
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