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Gunship accidentally wounds 12 Gls
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Wednesday, June 30,1971
cidentally fired a salvo of
rockets into an American air
cavalry unit in a battle outside
Saigon, the U.S. command
disclosed today. Twelve Gls
were wounded.
South Vietnamese military
spokesmen meanwhile reported
renewed heavy fighting near
Fire Base Fuller just south of
the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
The U.S. command said the
victims of the accidental attack
were sky troopers of the 3rd
Brigade of the Ist Air Cavalry
Division. The gunship was
supporting them in fighting 58
miles east of Saigon Monday
about dusk.
Military spokesmen said the
incident was under investiga
tion.
The air cavalrymen had
clashed twice with a Commu
nist force in the same general
area Monday. In the first of the
battles six Americans were
wounded. In a later clash three
Gls were killed and 19 wounded
and a UHI Huey helicopter shot
down. Communist casualties
were unknown.
Military spokesmen said
Communist gunners shelled a
U.S. artillery position of the
America! Division Tuesday
night 15 miles southwest of the
unit’s base camp at Chu Lai,
335 miles northeast of Saigon.
One GI was killed.
Five other Gls were wounded
Tuesday when a unit of the
101st Airborne Division’s 2nd
Brigade was attacked at early
evening eight miles southwest
of the Phu Bai base camp, 382
miles northeast of Saigon.
Communist casualties were not
determined.
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Apollos 11 and 12.
Along the demilitarized zone,
North Vietnamese gunners
again struck South Vietnamese
positions in the area around
Fire Base Fuller Tuesday.
Seven 122 nun rockets hit
nearby Camp Carroll, three
miles east of Fuller, and 10
rounds of mixed 122 mm rocket
and 82mm mortar rounds fell
into a Marine outpost on Ba Ho
mountain. Light casualties were
reported.
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First Bowl Game
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Ga. Baptists plan
150th anniversary
ATLANTA - The Georgia
Baptist Convention will cele
brate its 150th birthday in 1972,
and plans for the observance
are in progress.
Anniversary events include a
program on the anniversary
date at the site of organization,
an anniversary Sunday in the
churches, publication of a
history, and the anniversary
session of the Convention.
Convention departments and
agencies are projecting in
crease goals of 15 percent,
representing one percent for
each decade of history. The
Rev. W. Ches Smith, 111, Tifton,
will chair a committee to plan
the Convention session to be
held in Savannah in November
1972. His appointment was an
nounced by Convention Presi
dent R. J. Robinson, pastor,
First Baptist Church, Augusta;
and Searcy S. Garrison, execu
tive secretary-treasurer of the
Convention’s executive com
mittee, Atlanta.
The Convention was organiz
ed June 29, 1822, at the Baptist
church in Powelton. The or
ganization was originally
known as The General Baptist
Association of the State of
Georgia.
A statewide observance is
planned on the anniversary
date, June 29, 1972, at the
Powelton Baptist Church in
northeast Hancock County.
Many churches throughout
Georgia will have special ser
vices on the Sunday preceding
the anniversary date, June 25,
making the event.
A history of the Georgia
Baptist Convention is being
written by the Rev. James A.
Lester to be published in 1972.
A native Georgian, Lester is
editor of The Baptist and
Reflector, Tennessee Baptist
paper. From 1957-68, he was
secretary of promotion and
public relations for Georgia
Baptists.
The Christian Index, Georgia
Baptist newsmagazine, will also
celebrate its 150th anniversary
next year. Editor Jack U. Har
well is writing a history of the
Index. ► * *** •*
The State Missions staff of the
Convention is challenging
churches to seek 15 percent in
creases in conversions and
baptisms, enrollment in educa
tional and musical programs,
and in financial gifts to local
causes and to the Cooperative
Program budget of Georgia and
Southern Baptists.
Pastors, assodational miss
ionaries, a homemaker, and a
student are members of the
committee to plan the 1972 con
vention sessions.
Pastors include the Rev.
Charles O. Walker, First
Baptist Church, Jasper; the
Rev. Felix J. Turner, Bull
Street Baptist Church, Savan
nah; the Rev. Tommy Jones,
Vineville Baptist Church,
Macon; and the Rev. Clarence
L. Cannon, Orchard Knob
Baptist Church, Atlanta.
Associational missions lead
ers include the Rev. W. Robert
Rutledge, Augusta, Kilpatrick,
and Hephzibah Baptist Associa
tions; and the Rev. Doyle
Middlebrooks, Washington
Corn blight
in 13 counties
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - The
Georgia Crop Reporting Service
says that corn blight has now
been found in 13 Georgia coun
ties.
But the service also said in
a report released Tuesday that
the blight was “not considered
to be a threat”
The disease was found on
either volunteer of T-Cytoplasm
corn. Most of the state’s crop
has been seeded with N-Cyto
plasm resistant varieties, the
report added.
In reporting on other crops,
the service said rainfall had
helped growth of tobacco and
the prospects for that crop con
tinued to improve.
So bright was the tobacco
prospect that the leaf crop may
be the best in four years. About
15 per cent of the crop has
been gathered.
The condition of the cotton
crop was rated good. Seeding
of soybeans was about 86 per
cent completed and sorghums
about 80 per cent completed.
The report said abouta fourth
of the state’s peach crop has
been picked, the oat and wheat
harvests were nearly complete
and the condition of truck crops
were improved.
Baptist Association, Milledge
ville.
Mrs. Robert W. Jackson,
Forsyth, wife of the president of
Georgia Power
blames inflation
ATLANTA(UPI)—“Rampant
inflation” has forced the Geor
gia Power Co. to ask for an im
mediate |lB million rate in
crease that would affect resi
dents in 646 Georgia cities.
“We have reached the end of
our rope,” said Edwin I. Hatch,
Georgia Power president. “Con
tinuing cost increases and fi
nancing requirements require us
to seek rate relief.”
The rate hike request was pre
sented to the Georgia Public
Service Commission Tuesday be
fore a sprinkling of individual
protestors and an array of law
yers representing widely vary
ing interests.
The rate increase is aimed at
eventually securing a rate hike
of |45 million annually.
One of the private citizens
protesting the hike was Nanny
Leah Washburn of Atlanta.
“What would you do if you
were in poverty?” she asked,
leaning over the witness stand
and staring at company execu
tives. “We want a reasonable
price.
“Tax the rich and let us poor
people have our bills like they
were,” she added in turning to
the commissioners. “Have some
sympathy for the poor people
who have made the power com
pany what it is.”
Hatch said the company, one
of four subsidiaries of the South
ern Company, would need an
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Tift (Baptist) College; and Miss
Candi Graham, Georgia State
University student from Spring
field, complete the committee.
onergemey interim increase ef
fective Aug. 1 in order to fi
nance construction in 1972.
Without such construction, he
said the company could no long
er meet the rapidly increasing
demand for more electrical
power.
Government attorneys, sent
by Defense Secretary Melvin
Laird, assured the commission
that the rate increase would not
be excessive for the U.S. Army
which paid Georgia Power more
than $6 million for electricity in
1970.
Other attorneys present at the
proceedings represented the
Georgia League of Municipal
ities, the Atlanta Gas Light
Co., Gas Light Company of Co
lumbus, and the Georgia Textile
Manufacturers Association.
Tench Cox, Georgia Power at
torney, said the company was
seeking its first major rate
hike in 23 years “not because
we want to, but because we
must.”
Hatchsaidthecompany’sMay,
1971 financial statement showed
net income after prefered divi
dends was about $4.2 million be
low the comparable period in
1970.
He said this resulted from
“rampant inflation” and a ris
ing population.
PSC Chairman Ben T. Wig
gins adjourned the hearing until
July 20.