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Weekend Notes:
Jittery nerves round the world
• were taxed when Arab guerril
las hijacked an American TWA
Jetliner shortly after it had tak
en off from Rome for Athens and
* Tel Aviv and forced it to fly to
Damascus in Syria. There were
115 persons aboard. The flight
.originated in Los Angeles.
A| Diplomatic protests were qu-
made, the Arabs seemed
■ to sense they had rubbed salt
r in an open wound, and all bu t
w six Israelites, four women and
two men, were allowed to be
flown to Athens on a trip back
to Rome. Sunday It was announ
ced the four women would be
• free to leave, but as this is writ
ten there has been no mention
of the two men. The captain of
the TWA jetliner also remained
* In Damascus, bls own decision,
until the plane could be repaired
enough for him to fly it out.
When news of the hijacking
a was first received It was "spe
culated” that the guerrillas had
seized the plane thinking a high
Israli official of United Nations
v was aboard. However it was la
ter stated he had taken an ear
lier plane.
The "Incident” has not been
, entirely explained as yet, but
for the time being, at least, there
seems to be no danger it might
spark off World War three.
* News from Vietnam Is that
North Vietnam is not sending
enough men into action to re
place those killed or wounded.
* The U. 8. State Department is
sued a statement that this might
mean enemy forces are shrink
ing.
• American losses were 190, com
pared with 244 the week before.
And there was continued talk
that more American troops
• would be evacuated from South
Vietnam.
But state and city officials,
who had been counting on get
, ting federal aid In solving their
"growing pains”, had a b o m b
explode their dreams. Patrick
Moynihan, urban affairs advisor
. to President Nixon, said the sl9-
■ Billion it had been estimated
I would be available for urban
r aid, once the war in Vietnam
' was settled, simply would not
.•be (period).
| However, amid all the spot-
I light news from round the world,
’ the President and bls lady, found
• time to honor former President
Lyndon Johnson and his wife,
Lady Bird, on bls 61st birthday.
The Johnsons were entertained
■ at the California "White House”
and then they and the Nixons
and members of both families
went to a northern California so-
wbere a grove of redwood
r had been set aside in honor of
Mrs. Johnson’s conservation
efforts.
Here in Georgia:
The American Legion held its
51st national convention. Special
speakers included Secretary of
•Defense Melvin Laird who war
ned against additional cuts In
defense money; Col. Frank Bor
man, commander of Apollo 11;
• and Director Lewis Hershey of
the draft board.
Newly elected National Com
mander Milton Patrick in clos
i • Ing the convention called on the
i Legion to lead a natlon-w ide
I move to make “ÜBA” — "Unl-
F ted for Service to America” the
' slogan of the year.
* Also Georgia’s tax receipts for
August showed a 17 percent in
crease over August of last year.
Here in Griffin schools opened
* Friday with a few hundred few
er enrolled en opening day than
had been estimated.
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* The Country Parson
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“Money if something you
4 earn, spend, give or owe.”
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I Roger Butler, of the Griffin I S
£ w Fyfl Police Department, and D. M. MBtW
Spradlin, Newnan Police officer, <ss
,■ : | put the riot stick to Patrol Sgt.
Cecil “Red” Roberts in a demon- I
stratlon of riot control at the
Thomaston PoUce Department.
Francelia Renews
Power, Threat
Syria Releases
4 Israeli Women
DAMASCUS (UPD— Syria to
day released all four Israeli
women who had been aboard
the Trans World Airlines
jetliner hijacked to Damascus
Friday. It kept the two Israeli
men.
The women flew out on an
Alitalia airliner that was taking
them to Athens, where most of
the other 113 passengers and
crewmen arrived Saturday fol
lowing their release.
The departure of the four
Israeli women left 10 persons
from the plane, three
hijackers, the plane’s pi ln t and
an injured Filipino woman and
her four children. The woman
has a broken leg.
Arriving from Rome, the
Italian Caravelle jet stayed in
Damascus only an hour, picking
up the Israeli women—two of
them elderly—and letting off
four TWA executives.
Aboard the Alitalia plane
were TWA President F. C.
Thomas Hungton, Richard Wil
son and Gordon Gilmore.
A TWA spokesman said the
four officials planned to remain
in Damascus to discuss the
hijack with Syrian authorities.
They were expected to press
for the release of the Israeli
men.
Israel had demanded the
immediate aijd unconditional
release of all six Israelis
defined in Damascus after the
TWA plans was diverted there
Friday while en route from
Rome to Athens with 113
persons aboard.
The official Syrian Sana news
agency, in announcing Sunday
the planned release of the
Israeli women, said: "The
authorities concerned today
completed their interrogation of
the detained Israeli women.
The necessary arrangements
are being made for their
departure to Rome."
Sana made no mention of the
Israeli men, who were identi
fied in Tel Aviv as Prof.
Shomlo Samueloff, 48, a lectu
rer in medicine at Hebrew
University in Jerusalem, and
Salah Moualem, a travel agent
from Tel Aviv.
The Israeli women were
Identified as Mrs. Have Freud
and her daughter Dalia, 15;
Mrs. Victoria Shamash, and
Mrs. Ardit-Hana Ardltl.
In Tel Aviv, there was
speculation Syria intends to
hold the two Israeli men as
hostages to trade them for two
Syrian jet pilots who landed
Soviet-built MIGI7 jets in Israel
last year.
But the Israel government
said Sunday night after a
cabinet meeting in Jerusalem
that there would be no
bargaining for any Israeli
citizens held in Damascus.
In a hint at possible
retaliatory action, the Israeli
state radio warned Syria that
Damascus Is less than 30 miles
from Israeli-occupied positions
on the Golan Heights.
One of the freed passengers
who arrived In Tel Aviv Sunday
night from Athens said two of
the detained Israeli women
were elderly and in a state of
shock.
MIAMI (UPI) — Caribbean
Hurricane Francelia renewed
Its power and Its threat early
today as It drifted westward
toward Central America’s Gulf
of Honduras with 75 mlle-per
hour winds.
After spending a stalling,
disorganized Sunday, the sea
son’s sixth tropical storm
showed signs of slow intensifi
cation early today. A Navy
reconnaissance plane in the
storm reported the hurricane
was becoming better organized
and Its eye was re-forming.
At 6 a.m. EDi’, the National
Hurricane Center said France
lia had reorganized and the eye
of the storm was "now circular
and well-formed.” The storm
was centered near latltutde 16.5
north, longitude 81.0 west, or
about 200 miles east southeast
of Swan Island. It was moving
toward the west northwest at 12
miles an hour.
"Indications are for Francelia
to continue its present move
ment and gradually Intensify
today and tonight,” a hurricane
advisory said. "This movement
will bring the center near Swan
Island early tonight.
"Interests around' Swan Is
land, the gulf of Honduras and
the eastern Ycatan Peninsula
should watch for future advices
and small craft In the area
should remain in port.”
Rocky Marciano
Killed In Crash
By LARRY FRUHLING
NEWTON, lowa (UPD—
Rocky Marciano, the only world
heavyweight champion to retire
undefeated, was killed Instantly
Sunday night when the light
plane he was In lost power,
smashed into a tree and
plummeted Into a pasture.
Marciano, who would have
been 46 today, died with two
Des Moines men, Glenn Eugene
Belz, 37, and Frank Farrell, 28,
in the crash of the single engine
Cessna 172.
Jasper County Medical Exa
miner John Maughan said Belz
was the pilot.
Marciano, who lived In Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., was trapped
in the main wreckage, deputies
said, and the bodies of the
other men were thrown clear.
Maughan said all three men
died Instantly.
Maughan said Belz and
Farrell, a long-time friend of
Marciano’s, were flying the
former champion from Chicago
to Des Moines for a speaking
engagement.
Engine Conks Out
"The only thing we can find
out so far was that the engine
conked out and they went
down,” said Hurley.
The crash occurred about l>/ 2
miles from the new municipal
airport in this community 25
miles east of Des Moines.
Part of the wreckage ended
up about 200 feet from a small
farm pond. One wing was
ripped loose and came to rest
200 feet from the wrecked
fuselage. The engine was 20
feet from the main wreckage.
Marciano was a native of
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GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, Sept. 1, 1969
McDonough
Post Office
Contract Let
A contract has been signed for
construction of a new post office
at McDonough. It will be on the
North Sidle of Keys Ferry road.
The Post Office Department
signed contracts for the McDon
ough post office and one at Nor
cross last week.
The one story, air conditioned
building will have 6,984 square
feet of interior space with 642
square feet of loading area.
Estimated cost of construc
tion Is 1162,000. T. L. Caron Co.
of Pompano Beach, Fla., was
tlie succe-Aiiu. biuder. '.lie Post
Office Department will lease the
building from the Florida firm
for 818,532 per year for 20 years.
Libya’s Military
Overthrows King
LONDON (UPI) Libya’s
armed forces overthrew King
Idris at dawn today to form a
republic In the huge, 011-rlch
North African nation, Libya
Radio said.
A domestic broadcast said
the military had proclaimed the
country the "Arab Republic of
Libya.”
The broadcast reported Inter
mittent volleys of gunfire In
Tripoli, the largest city, and
said the army had set up
roadblocks to enforce a curfew.
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(UPD
NEWTON, IOWA — Former
world heavyweight boxing champ
Rocky Marciano waa killed late
yesterday, along with two other
men—identified as Glen Beltz
and Frank Farrell — when the
single-engine Cessna 172 in
which they were flying crashed
about two miles south of here.
Marciano, who would have been
46 today, broke into professional
boxing in March, 1947, and re
tired undefeated as world champ
in April, 1956. He was elected
to boxing’s Hall of Fame in 1959.
He was a native of Brockton,
Mass.
Brockton, Mass., a Boston
suburb.
One of the most popular
boxers since Jack Dempsey
ruled as heavyweight king,
Marciano compiled a perfect
record of 49 victories—43 of
them knockouts—before retiring
It ’s Bad News In Georgia
Jis 19 People Die, But It’s
Good News In Griffin
As Death Takes Holiday
Butts County Escapee
Decapitated By Train
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — (UPI) — The de
capitated body of Buddy Ray Bowen, 28, of Duluth was
pieced together and identified Sunday afternoon after
he was hit by a Southern Railroad freight train that
morning.
Police said Bowen was an escaped convict from the
state prison at Jackson. His grisly remains were found
alongside the tracks just outside the city limits of this
tiny Hall County town, which is located north of Buford.
Bowen is believed to have posed as a construction
worker in his escape from the Georgia Diagnostic and
Classification Center in Butts County. He was serving
eight to 10 years for burglary.
Military Junta
Formed In Brazil
„■ RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI)—
President Arturo Costa e Suva
suffered a stroke Sunday and
Bazil’s three top military men
formed a junta to temporarily
take over the government,
reaffirming military control
over Latin America’s largest
and most populous nation.
The ministers of the army,
navy and air force waived a
provision of the constitution
that the vice president should
assume presidential powers if
the chief executive is incapaci
tated.
A medical bulletin said Costa
e Silva, a 66-year-old retired
army marshal, was in satisfac
tory condition at the presiden
tial palace. "He is not so sick
he needs to be removed to a
hospital,” one of the president’s
physicians said.
A spokesman for the U.S.
Embassy declined comment
as undefeated heavyweight
champ on April 27, 1956.
Wins Heavyweight Title
He won the world hea
vyweight title by knocking out
Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 rounds
at Philadelphia on Sept. 23,
1952. His last bout took place
Sept. 21, 1955, when he knocked
out Archie Moore in nine
rounds in Mew York.
Marciano, son of a shoe
factory worker, started his pro
boxing career in 1947. Gross
receipts for his fights totaled
four million dollars. His purses
in seven title bouts, not
including radio, totaled approxi
mately $1.5 million.
Marciano was born Rocco
Marchegiano, son of Piecino
"Pete” and Pasqualina Marche
giano. As a youngster he played
baseball and football. His first
serious exposure to boxing
occurred while he was in the
Army.
Marries In 1950
He married Barbara Cousens,
a Brockton police chief’s
daughter, in 1950. They have a
daughter, Mary Anne.
Marciano was elected to the
Baxing Hall of Fame in 1959.
Last year a ‘‘World Series”
of heavyweight boxing was held*
by computer. The records,
moves, abilities of each of the
foremost heavyweight champs
were fed into computers, and
the results of the mythical
bouts carried on radio.
The fights were broadcast as
if they were actually being
held, complete with crowd
noises and thud-on-canvas.
In tlie final Marciano defeat
ed Jack Dempsey.
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whether the United States
would recognize die junta. U.S.
Ambassador Charles Burke
Elbrlck, in the name of the
American government, sent
Costa e Silva a letter wishing
him a speedy recovery.
The junta’s first action was
to order all banks and the stock
market closed today.
A War Ministry announce
ment said creation of the junta
was “imperative for the
security of the nation” while
Costa e Silva “remains unable”
to work.
The ministry announcement
made no mention of Vice
President Pedro Alezio, a
civilian, who met Sunday with
the three military chiefs to
resolve the crisis caused by
Costa e Silva's illness.
The three chiefs of staff who
took over the government are
Gen. Aurelio Lira Tavares of
the army, Marshall Marcio de
Souza e Mello of the air force
and Adm. Augusto Rademaker
Grunewald of the navy.
State’s Death
Toll Rising
By United Press Internationa!
A man was thrown from his
car early today and killed when
the vehicle pinned him against
an embankment, pushing the
Labor Day holiday traffic toll
in Georgia to at least 19, the
state patrol said.
Jack Meadows, 33, of Easom
Hill, died about 1:30 a. m. His
car skidded Into a ditch eight
miles west of Cedartown and he
was thrown out and pinned by
his car.
Sheila Mullinox, 17, of Alpar
etta, died late Sunday when a
car crossed the center line and
struck the Car in which she was
riding. The accident happened
north of Roswell on Holcom
Bridge Road.
Three fatalities, all in South
Georgia late Sunday, remained
unidentified.
Sue Tootle, 20, of Glenville
was the latest reported victim.
The patrol said she apparently
lost control of her car, weaved
back and forth across the road
then hit an embankment. All
three occupants were thrown
from the car. The accident hap
pened just Inside Reidsville’s
city limits Sunday afternoon.
Roosevelt Green Jr. also died
Sunday afternoon. He was a
passenger In a car that went
out of control, skidded Into a
culvert and overturned Sunday
afternoon near Sasser. Green
was thrown from the car.
Eight more fatalities were re
corded In the dim pre - dawn
hours Sunday. Three died in
one accident.
Hoyt F. Farmer, 28, of Dora-
10 People Hurt
In Area Wrecks
A Hogansville man was killed
and 10 people injured In Labor
Day Weekend traffic accidents
Investigated by the Griffin Post
of the Georgia State Patrol.
Sander Ralph Russell, 31, of 70
West Main street, Hogansville,
was killed when the car he was
driving ran out of control on
Georgia 74 east of Culloden in
Monroe County and overturned.
The accident happened Sunday
morning at 4 o’clock.
The fatality raised the toll in
the five county area patrolled by
the Griffin Post to 42, two shy of
the number of fatalities for the
same period last year.
Roosevelt Dewberry, 26, of
311 East Tinsley street, Griffin,
suffered a fractured pelvis and
sternum in a wreck three miles
west of Griffin on Georgia 362.
A state patrol report said the
car driven by Dewberry round
ed a curve, ran out of control
and slammed into a parked car
owned by Daniel Patrick Slade
of Williamson. The Slade car
was parked In a store park
ing lot.
Dewberry was treated at the
Griffin-Spalding County Hospl
al.
Damage to the two automobil
es was estimated at $3,400.
Earl Eugene Sherflled of Rou
te Three, Griffin, suffered cuts
and bruises to his body in an ac
cident four miles west of Grif
fin on Georgia 16. He was trea
ted at the Griffin-Spalding Coun
ty Hospital.
Sheffield told troopers he ap
parently fell asleep while driv
ing. His car ran out of control
and down a ditch.
Damage was estimated at S2OO.
John Olin Puckett, 25, of Sen
oia, suffered lacerations to his
left arm and body in an accident
five miles west of Griffin on Ge
orgia 16. He was treated at the
Grlffln-Spaldlng County Hospi
tal.
ville, James Edward Davis, 24,
of Cummings and James Sing
ley, 49, of Roswell were all
killed Sunday.
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TRENTON, N. J. — "What’s
B new ewe?” New Jerseyites Paul
■F * Biondo, 10, of Milltown, and his
cousin, Angela Biondo, 6, of New
Stjf' Brunswick, look a little sheepish
gp jOJBf XHi M they hold cuttlngs from *
Jp S’ year-old Dorset ewe being pre
? pared for the sheep exhibit at
? the Ncw Jersey SUte Fa,r ' The
ffigjjr 1$ 8 Garden State’s annual display of
pW'"•"■Wfik industrial and agricultural pro
gress, the oldest in the U. S.,
gal opens Sept. 12. Similar scenes
will take place here when the
* Spalding County Fair opens Oct.
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Puckett also told troopers he
apparently fell asleep while
driving. Damage was estimat
ed at $1,200.
A 15-year-old Culloden boy
suffered a broken arm and la
cerations when the horse he was
riding was struck by a car on
Georgia 74 west of Culloden.
Joe Holmes Pearson was treat
ed at the Monroe County Hospi
tal in Forsyth.
Ernest Floyd Berry, Jr., 41,
of 1131 Ousley drive, Macon, was
listed as driver of the car.
Damage to the car was esti
mated at SSO. The Appaloosa
horse was valued at S4OO. It was
owned by J. J. Pearson Jr.
Two people were Injured In a
wreck at Georgia 20 and Geor
gia 81 a mile and a half west of
McDonough in Henry County.
Victor Burke, three, and Car
olyn Herrington, both of Dublin,
were treated at a doctor’s office
in McDonough for lacerations to
their heads.
They were passengers in a car
driven by Genola Adams Burke,
27, of Dublin. Damage was esti
mated at SSOO.
Willie James Daniel of Macon
was Injured in an accident three
miles south of McDonough.
Cars involved were driven by
Colleen W. Mize of Atlanta and
Gomez Browning Luaenz of
Jacksonville, Fla. Damage was
estimated at SI,OOO.
Three people were injured In
an accident three miles east of
Stockbridge at East Atlanta and
Rex roads.
Patricia Anne Hill of Stockbr
idge suffered head injuried and
fractured bones. She was taken
to Crawford W. Long Hospital
In Atlanta for treatment. Mrs.
H. G. Grogan of Decatur suffer
ed internal Injuries. Mrs. Ethel
Moore of Atlanta suffered inter
nal Injuries. She was taken to
Georgia Baptist Hospital.
Damage was estimated at s2,<
250.
Local Weather
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti-
mated high today 85, low today
70, high yesterday 80. low yes
terday 68. Total rainfall .21 of
an Inch. Sunrise tomorrow 7:12,
sunset tomorrow 8:04.