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Griffin Daily News
Labor Day Death Toll
Well Under Last Year’s
By United Press International
The Labor Day holiday ended
at midnight Monday with
traffic deaths running behind
last year's total. Drownings,
however, added to the total of
accidental deaths as vacation
ers coped with warm, sunny
weather at lakes and pools.
A National Safety Council
spokesman said today the final
tally of traffic deaths would
almost certainly be well under
Respect Foreigners,
Libya’s Regime Says
TUNIS, Tunisia (UPD—Li
bya’s one-day-old military re
gime today ordered citizens of
its new Socialist republic to
respect foreigners and protect
their possessions.
The order, broadcast by
Libya Radio and monitored
here, indicated the Libya army
officers who seized power in a
bloodless coup Monday do not
want to do to unset
revenue-producing agreements
with Western oil companies.
It also was seen toy some
Western observers as an
indication no immediate move
was planned against the air
base at Wheelus, biggest U.S.
military installation in North
Africa.
The discovery of oil in Libya
10 years ago changed the
kingdom on the Mediterranean
coast of North Africa from one
of the world’s poorest countries
into one of the more potentially
prosperous.
Operations Normal
In Los Angeles, a spokesman
for the U.S. Occidental Pe
troleum Co., one of 46 Western
concessions that pump out
about $340 million in oil a year
to world markets, said its
operations were proceeding
normally.
The country’s share of the oil
revenues is about 60 per cent.
In Washington, a State
Department spokesman esti
mated there were about 10,000
Americans in Libya and said
that according to preliminary
reports, there was no danger to
them or to U.S. property. He
estimated U.S. Investment in
the country at $1 billion.
The coup ousted King Idris I,
79, who was in Bursa, Turkey.
He has used most of the
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AMERICAN SERVICE
CENTER
Corner of 6th A Taylor St.
Any man who thinks he is more
intelligent than his wife is mar
ried to a smart woman.
• • •
Adolescence: When your kids
are sure they’re more mature
than you are.
• • •
Stomach: a round organ which
requires a square meal to fill it.
• • •
FBI secretary to visitor: “He’s
not in—would you care to leave
your fingerprints?”
• • •
The fellow who goes on a vaca
tion to forget everything dis
covers, when he opens his suit
case, that he did.
• • •
One thing you won’t forget: the
low estimate and careful motor
work at American Service Cen
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Tuesday, Sept. 2,1969
last year’s record 688. When all
I reports are received, he said,
i the final total will probably be
I in the “very low 6005.”
, The council had estimated
E that between 625 and 725
. persons would die in traffic
■ during the summer’s last long
weekend.
I A United Press International
[ count at 4 a.m. EDT showed
I 570 persons had died in traffic
• since the start of the holiday at
revenue from the oil deposits to
improve the social and econom
ic life of the nation’s 1.7 million
people.
Extend Recognition
Egypt and Iraq, leaders in
the militant anti-Israel bloc of
Arab states, extended full
recognition to the Libyan
Republic regime Monday night.
The leaders of the coup said
nothing to indicate they would
align their nation more closely
with the Egypt-Iraqi faction in
foreign affairs.
The Revolutionary Council
described the aims of its coup
Monday in a radio broadcast as
“undertaking to build a revolu
tionary, Socialist and progres
sive Libya which will fight
against racism and colonialism.”
King Idris’ newphew and heir
apparent, Prince All Hasan al
Rida, broadcast a statement
from Tripoli supporting the
coup completely and denounc
ing “all my legal and constitu
tional rights to the throne.”
The head of the Revolutiona
ry Council was Identified by the
radio broadcasts as Col. Saad
duddin abu Schweirib, accord
ing to Moroccan news reports.
Little was known about him.
Ted Kennedy
Not Expected
To Block Inquest
By PHILIP BALBONI
EDGARTOWN, Mass. (UPD
—The Dukes County prosecutor
said today he doubted attorneys
for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
would try to block with a
federal court injunction an
inquest into the death of Mary
Jo Kopechne, set to open
Wednesday.
Walter E. Steele of Edgar
town, who has been on a first
name basis with Kennedy since
they served together in 1961 as
assistant district attorney’s in
Boston, told UPI, “My educated
guess is the senator wants to
get it over with as quickly as
possible, my guess is the
lawyers won’t do it.”
There had been speculation
here that attorneys for the 37-
year-old senator and other
witnesses to be called to the
inquest into the fatal auto
accident July 18 would go to the
federal court in Boston with a
request for an injunction.
At a pre-inquest hearing last
week, in Edgartown District
Court, the lawyers argued
strenuously that the inquest
was “accusatorial” in nature.
They unsuccessfully sought to
win the right to cross-examine
witnesses and seek rulings from
Judge James A. Boyle, who will
preside at the Judicial review.
Edgartown Police Chief Dom
inick J. Arena said he was
making careful security precau
tions to protect Kennedy and
Dist. Atty. Edmund S. Dinis,
whose life has been threatened.
Steele said attorneys for the
five girls who with Miss
Kopechne attended a party
before the accident on Chappa
quiddick Island, met here
Monday for a strategy session.
Steele also predicted the
Inquest would run from four to
five days. “It will go no less
than four days,” he said. Dinis
previously estimated a three
day inquest.
6 p.m. local time Friday.
The breakdown:
Traffic 570
Drownings 91
Planes 12
Miscellaneous 44
. Total 717
California reported 59 dead in
traffic, Texas 46, Wisconsin 27,
and Illinois 26.
New Hampshire and Washing
ton, D.C., reported no traffic
deaths during the holiday
period.
RAY CROMLEY
Drug Use by the Young
Stirs Nixon to Action
By RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
President Nixon’s 10-point antidrug program is prompted
in part by Justice Department studies which indicate an
unbelievably high level of drug experimentation and use
among junior and senior high school students.
The data is fragmentary. What there is is disturbing.
A survey of juniors and seniors in three high schools in
the Castro Valley Unified School District in California
discloses that 51 of the 1,272 students have used heroin one
or more times. That’s equivalent to 4.7 per cent of the
boys and 3.4 per cent of the girls.
Some 15 per cent of the boys and almost 9 per cent of
the girls had used LSD.
At Mamaroneck Junior High School, New York, about
one out of every hundred students admits to having used
heroin. Some 107 had tried glue-sniffing.
Though it is often not made clear in the surveys which
students have used drugs regularly and which have tried
once and stopped, 4 per cent of the male students at one
high school in San Mateo County, California, admit to using
LSD “three or more times.”
One out of 10 of the boys and one out of 20 of the girls
from one “upper middle-class San Francisco Bay area
suburban high school” reported they had used one
psychedelic drug or another (LSD, Peyote, DMT or STP).
Seven per cent of the boys and 1.5 per cent of the girls said
they were currently on these drugs.
As is well-known, marijuana is even more popular among
high school students. In a self-administered questionnaire
almost a third of the boys and 28 per cent of the girls at a
middle-class suburban high school near San Francisco said
they had used marijuana. About one out of seven had tried
LSD. In a “lower middle-class and working-class” high
school in the same general area, about one out of eight
boys and one out of 14 girls said they’d been on marijuana.
Only one out of 20 admitted to LSD.
Overall, the surveys tend to indicate that drug use is
more prevalent among the well-to-do middle- and upper
middle-class students in the suburbs than among students
from what are called lower middle-class and working
class families. Some private schools seem to be partic
ularly hard hit. Experimenting with one drug or another
apparently runs like wildfire through some institutions.
Take hashish, tried, at least, by 13.5 per cent of the
students at one private school surveyed in Michigan. Or
morning-glory seeds, used once or more by 3 per cent of
the students at a rural high school on the Upper Peninsula,
Michigan.
(Hewspaper Enterprise Assn.)
Marciano’s
Funeral Friday
BROCKTON, Mass. (UPD—
The body of Rocky Marciano
was brought today to his native
city for two days of mourning
before being flown to Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla., for burial.
The former world hea
vyweight champion died Sunday
night In a plane crash near
Newton, lowa. Marciano’s .body
was pinned In the wreckage of
the single-engine plane which
apparently lost power, struck a
tree and landed In a small
ravine.
Two other men died in the
crash of the green and white
Cessna. They were Identified as
Glenn Eugene Belz, 37, the
pilot, and another passenger,
Frank Farrell, 23, both of Des
Moines, lowa. The men were
headed for Des Moines for
Marciano’s birthday party. He
would have been 46, Monday.
The body of the “Brockton
blockbuster”, arrived early
today at Boston’s Logan
International Airport and was
transported to the Hickey
Funeral Home In Brockton.
His wife, Mrs. Barbara-
Marciano, came from their Ft.
Lauderdale home with their 16-
year-old daughter Mary Ann for
the funeral services.
Marciano, born Rocco March
egiano, the son of a shoe
factory worker, captured the
world heavyweight champion
ship by knocking out Jersey Joe
Walcott In 13 rounds at
Philadelphia Sept. 23, 1952.
He reigned until April 27,
1956, when he retired as
undefeated heavyweight king.
He had compiled a perfect
record of 49 victories —43 of
them by knockout—ln his
professional bouts.
A funeral Mass will be
celebrated Thursday at Brock
ton’s St. Colman's Roman
Catholic Church where the
Marcianos were married.
Another mass will be sung at
St. Pius Church in Ft.
Lauderdale Friday with burial
in the Queen of Heaven
Cemetery.
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agencies are represented in this “flying wedge” of officers un
dergoing riot training this week at the Thomaston Police De
partment. Left to right, they are Rogers Butler, Griffin Police;
D. M. Spradlin, Newnon Police; Calvin Posey, Taylor County
Sheriff’s Office; Preston Ard, Thomaston Police; Calvin Peacock,
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US Destroys Major
Cong Guerrilla Base
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SAIGON (UPD—The U.S.
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major guerrilla base camp near
Cambodia by American war
planes dropping bombs and
napalm.
The camp 70 miles northwest
of Saigon and two miles from
Cambodia was in the area from
which the Communists were
expected to launch new attacks
today on Hanoi’s 24th Indepen-
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