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Retired coal miner
arrested in hijacking
By HOWARD FIELDS
WASHINGTON (UPI) -A
retired West Virginia coal
miner, suffering from black
lung disease, was arraigned
early today on charges of air
piracy for the hijacking of a
United Air Lines 737 that he
wanted flown to Israel.
The short-haul, two-jet plane
was bound from Charleston,
W.Va., to Newark Friday night
when a man, identified as
Glenn Elmo Riggs, 59, forced it
to land at Dulles International
Airport in suburban Virginia
and then demanded a bigger
plane to take him to Tel Aviv.
After his arrest, Riggs was
asked why he wanted to go to
Israel, and replied, “You know
about as much as I do.”
Riggs admitted he had been
drinking heavily Friday and
didn’t “even know how I got on
the plane.”
The 66 passengers and crew
aboard the plane that was
commandeered for three hours
were apparently as confused as
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The Bridge Builder
An old man, going a lone highway,
Came at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm, vast and deep and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim - -
That sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned, when he reached the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man.” said a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting strength in building here.
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way.
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build you the bridge at the eventide?
The builder lifted his old gray head.
"Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
"There followeth after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been naught to me
To that fair haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him.”
Will Allen Dromgoole.
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W. A. Gregory
Riggs. The Hijacker was
described, at one point, as
being “foreign looking.”
U.S. Magistrate A. Stanley
King, in a rare post-midnight
session, ordered Riggs held
without bond in the Alexandria,
Va., city jail until his prelimin
ary hearing June 11. Riggs was
handcuffed and led away with a
chain around his waist.
Air piracy is a capital
offense.
The hijacking came exactly
one year after a former bakery
truck driver from Phoenix,
Ariz., angered over the Su
preme Court’s refusal to hear
his complaint that the Internal
Revenue Service overcharged
World Briefs
By United Press International
BLACK RESERVE GENERAL
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Senate has confirmed the
promotion of the first black
general in the U.S. military
reserves.
Brig. Gen. Benjamin L.
Hunton, 51, of Hyattsville, Md.,
will work in his new rank at the
Defense Department on active
duty two weeks a year as a
minority affairs officer. In
civilian life, Hunton is Assistant
Director of the U.S. Bureau of
Mines in charge of education
and training.
AIRCRASH SETTLEMENT
SANTA ANA, Calif. (UPI)—
The survivors of four California
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CENTER of controversy
again, Otto F. Otepka has
drawn fire from liberal
forces as a nominee to a
full four-year term on the
Subversive Activities Con
trol Board. Suspended from
the State Detpartment post
by Secretary Dean Rusk
during the Johnson admin
istration for allegedly leak
ing information to congres
sional investigators, he has
been a figure of dispute
between liberal and con
servative groups since.
lum $471 on his taxes, hijacked
a TWA plane.
That hijack ended when FBI
agents shot out the tires of the
plane after it landed at Dulles.
The agents and the crew
overcame the suspect, Arthur
G. Barkley, whose case is now
before a U.S. District Court.
In Friday’s hijacking, the
suspect allegedly placed a .32
revolver at the head of the
plane’s second officer, Gregory
D. Colliton, 30, Spokane, Wash.
Colliton said Riggs “cocked
that gun 50 or 60 times.” He
described Riggs as “almost out
of contact with reality, it
appeared. His eyes seemed to
glaze.”
men killed in a 1968 plane crash
in nearby Fullerton have been
awarded $21.75 million in
damages from the Beechcraft
Aircraft Corp. Inc. of Wichita,
Kan.
The award was given Friday
by an eight-woman, four-man
superior court jury which had
deliberated for one week.
SAWFLIES VS ANTS
QUEBEC CITY (UPI)-Saw
flies in the jackpine forests of
Quebec are about to do battle
with an army of ants.
Three hundred thousand ants
were flown over from Rome
last month to feast on the
sawflies, which defoliate and
destroy trees.
The ants were collected by
the shovelfull from their nests
in the Italian Alps and placed
in barrels for their trip to
Canada.
JAIL BAKER
CORDOBA, Mexico (UPI)-
Inmates of the local jail went
on a hunger strike Friday to
get their own baker back.
The leader of the prison
revolt, convicted murderer
Daniel Barragan, said jail
authorities without explanation
took the job of jail baker away
from Jose Guadalupe Brenis, a
fellow inmate.
They said the jail bread is
now coming from a downtown
bakery. They made it clear
they’re not complaining about
the quality of the bread, but
they want one of the inmates to
have the baker’s job.
THE
FAMILY LAWYER JL
Parking Lot Perils
As part of its service, a neigh
borhood market maintained a
parking lot behind the building.
Near one corner of the lot, the
stump of an old post jutted up
from the ground. One evening a
woman shopper tripped over the
stump and fell, dislocating a hip.
Was the market legally liable
for her injury? In a court hear
ing, the owner insisted that she
should have kept a sharper look
out for danger. But when the
woman pointed out that the light
ing was poor at the site of the
accident, the court upheld her
claim.
The law places upon the owner
of a parking lot a basic responsi
bility to keep it in safe condition.
Furthermore, he is usually liable
for injuries caused by the negli
gence of his hired help.
Nevertheless, the owner does
not guarantee absolute safety.
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the Junior College Committee office passing out material to be used in the walk to Mrs. Horace
W ilson and Mrs. John Carlisle, area leaders. The walk will be Sunday.
Laird raps Saigon’s
efforts on drugs
WASHINGTON (UPI) -De
fense Secretary Melvin R.
Laird, in rare public criticism
of the South Vietnamese
government, has expressed
dissatisfaction with Saigon’s
efforts to slow the flow of drugs
to U.S. troops.
Laird’s complaint came Fri
day through Pentagon spokes
man Jerry W. Friedheim.
“He’s not yet satisfied that
all the steps that can be taken
have been taken,” Friedheim
said of Laird’s views on the
heroin traffic in Vietnam.
Friedheim made the com
ment when he was asked if
Laird was pleased that rela
tives of Prime Minister Tran
Thien Khiem had been fired
after complaints they were
Some accidents are simply not
his fault. Thus: a man got hurt
in a parking lot when he slipped
on a gob of ice cream. Demand
ing damages in court, he argued:
“It is up to the attendant to
keep the place clean. Since he
failed to do so, his employer is
liable.”
However, no one had any idea
how long the ice cream had been
lying there—or who had dropped
it in the first place. Rejecting
the man’s claim, the court said
there was “no evidence that the
condition had existed long enough
for the (attendant), in the exer
cise of reasonable care, to have
discovered and remedied it.”
Suppose the accident is caused
by someone’s careless driving
within the lot. May that be
blamed on the lot owner?
That question arose when a
motorist drove the wrong way in
a one-way aisle and knocked
down a small boy. The boy’s
parents tried to pin liability on
the owner of the lot, on the
theory that it was his duty to
“police" all drivers on his prem
ises.
However, the court held the
owner not liable, because even a
watchful attendant could hardly
have acted quickly enough to be
helpful. Preventing this kind of
an accident, the court felt, would
call for closer policing by the
management than the law could
fairly expect.
involved in the drug traffic.
Friedheim said the South
Vietnamese government has
taken “a number of steps” to
stop the traffic. But, he said,
Laird “would expect a continu
ing effort.
President Nixon discussed the
drug problem with Laird at a
meeting Thursday.
The Senate Narcotics sub
committee, chaired by Sen.
Harold E. Hughes, D-lowa, will
open hearings Wednesday on
the drug problem among Gls in
Vietnam.
Hughes said he was informed
by Assistant Defense Secretary
Roger T. Kelley that the
Pentagon would be ready to
present details of a new plan it
is developing to attack the
problem at a supplementary
subcommittee hearing June 22.
Despite Laird’s criticism, the
State Department said Friday
it had received “generally
positive and cooperative” re
sponses from Asian nations in
the fight against the drug
problem.
“We look forward to active
assistance of the governments
concerned in meeting this very
difficult problem,” said Charles
W. Bray, State Department
press officer.
In another development Fri
day, Attorney General John N.
Mitchell announced U.S. federal
narcotics agents and ’Spanish
police had seized a record 249
pounds of heroin Thursday
night in Valencia, Spaia
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The heroin was headed for
the United States where it
would hvve been worth $35
million to S4O million, Mitchell
said. He said it was found
hidden in an automobile.
LITTER ON THE RIVER
is no more along a stretch
of the Maumee near Water
ville, Ohio, thanks to
Scouts of Troop 101. Sev
eral of the boys tow bags
filled with some of 1,300
plastic bottles they re
trieved from the river and
its banks. Recycling to
make drainage pipe is des
tination of the polyethelene
bottles collected in the
drive sponsored by Owens-
Illinois, Inc.
Griffin Daily News
Senate avoids election
year stand on draft
By JOHN HALL
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Inan
atmosphere heavy with pres
idential politics, the Senate has
spared President Nixon—and
itself—from having to take a
stand on the draft next year
before the election.
A close 49 to 43 vote Friday
killed an amendment by Sen.
Richard Schweiker, R-Pa., to
extend the draft only for one
year. If it had passed, the
President would probably have
been forced to request, and
Congress to grant, another
extension only months before
they face 10 million newly
enfranchised 18, 19, and 20-
year-olds in the 1972 elections.
It was another victory for
President Nixon in his fight for
a two-year extension of draft
authority. Opponents of the
draft, seeking to deny Nixon
manpower to conduct the
Vietnam War, have lost every
test so far and have turned to a
filibuster to force an automatic
end to the draft when the
current Selective Service law
expires June 30.
An amendment by Sen. Mark
O. Hatfield, R-Ore., to end the
draft on that date was buried
67 to 23.
The Schweiker amendment
was as close as draft opponents
have come to changing Nixon’s
double-barreled proposal to
continue conscription and raise
military pay and allowances in
an effort to attract enough
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The only trouble was that the
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Blackery, 23, was fined $8 for
careless driving. The driver of
the other truck was banned
from driving for six months
and also fined S4B on the same
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volunteers to make the draft
unnecessary by mid-1973.
Schweiker said four hours
before the vote he thought he
might have a chance to win but
the administration—with heavy
lobbying—convinced about a
half-dozen senators that another
draft debate next year might
embarrass the administration
politically.
Schweiker, however, said
administration officials flatly
promised wavering senators
that Nixon would not ask for a
draft extension again in 1973—
when the new draft law will
expire. The election will be
over by then.
Four Democratic presidential
hopefuls—Edmund S. Muskie,
D-Maine, Hubert H. Humphrey,
D-Minn., Birch Bayh, D-Ind.,
and George McGovern, D-S.D.
—voted for Schweiker’s amend
ment, along with Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy, D-Mass. Sen.
Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash.,
considered another contender,
voted against it.
But on Hatfield’s proposal to
junk the draft now, only Bayh
and McGovern backed the
measure. The others refused to
join Hatfield in his strategy of
denying Nixon the manpower to
continue the war in Vietnam.
CARD OF THANKS
Sincere Appreciation, we
would like to convey our
most sincere graditude for
your expressions of concern
and sympathy during our
moments of breavement. We
are greatfully appreciative
of the generosity of the
Fuller Chapel United
Methodist Church and pastor
also friends of Pike and
Fulton counties and Zebulon,
Ga. The services of the
ministers, choir, pianist,
pallbearers; flowers, and the
efficient services of the
official staff of the United
and Union Society Funeral
Homes.
The late Mr. Ray Evans
family