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Then he started swinging
wildly with deadly sickle
By GARRICK LEAVITT
GRASS VALLEY, Calif. (UPI)-
Kenneth Garbe and his wife were playing
cards in their tent when a heavyset,
bespectacled man tore back the flap and
said, “hello there.”
Then the stranger began flailing wildly
with a sickle.
Garbe saw the deadly blade flash through
the air and descent toward his wife, Jean,
23. He leaped at the attacker, allowing his
wife to escape, and the two men grappled
to the tent floor. But the stranger,
weighing about 200 pounds, tossed Garbe
into the corner.
Garbe threw up a hand to protect himself
but die ugly, curved blade slashed him. He
managed to scramble to his feet and fled,
but not before the sickle raked his back on
the way out of the tent.
The mysterious assailant killed two
persons, wounded three others and
terrorized 17 campers Monday night at the
remote campsite along the Bear River 50
miles northeast of Sacramento. He
disappeared after 30 minutes without a
trace.
From the Garbe tent, the man went to
the campsite of John Simmons, 29, of
Weimer, Calif. Simmons saw him coming
and fired three shots from a .22 caliber
pistol It was too late and the attacker was
too near. The assailant overpowered
Simmons, hacked him to death and took
the gun, police said.
Mrs. Donna Fitzhugh, campaing nearby
Cities back tax hike
• JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (UPI)
—The Georgia Municipal Asso
ciation concluded its annual ccn-
t vention here Tuesday with an
endorsement of a state sales tax
increase and a plea to Congress
to shift the nation’s priorities
• concerning cities.
The 1500 delegates passed a
resolution urging the Legislature
to approve a one-cent sales tax
' increase, with the additional
revenue earmarked for schools
and local governments. They
4 also became the first municipal
organization in the country to
adopt a national municipal pol
icy, asking that the “greatest
• spnphasjs” in the country’s pri
3rities<all on improving cities
and towns.
Despite warnings from Lt.
‘ Gov. Lester Maddox earlier in
ttie convention, the delegates en-
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Hello, there
with her sister-inlaw, Mrs. Martha Marie
Parker, and their six children while their
husbands mined for gold 20 miles away,
ran out of her tent with a .22 caliber rifle.
But the Ontario, Calif., woman could not
release the gun’s safety lock and the man
killed her.
He cut and gouged Mrs. Parker, 24, of
Walnut, Calif. He took her to a tree, laid
her neck over a bough and tried to
decapitate her, police said. The woman
was reported near death today in a local
hospital
Then the stranger disappeared into the
heavily wooded sierra foothills as
mysteriously as he appeared.
A search for the man was called off
today.
There were 17 persons— including five
women and 10 children—at the remote
campsite when the killer struck Monday
night The campsite was at a spot called
Dog Bar at an altitude of about 2,600 feet in
the old gold rush mining country.
Garbe said the killer “was laughing,
grumbling and growling like an animal”
Another witness said he was “making
animal noises” and still another said he
had a “maniacal laugh.”
The police bulletin said he was a middle
age white man, 5-feet-8 to 5-feeWO-inches
tall, “heavy or chunky” in build, having
thick glasses and wearing a light colored
shirt tan pants and a tan jacket Brown
said the man also had the .22 pistol and a
.41 magnum taken from Simmons.
dorsed a general revenue-shar
ing plan to assist state and lo
cal governments.
A number of city officials
took the floor to castigate the
Legislature for its failure to
pass a sales tax increase to
help cities earlier this year.
Brunswick city manager Ed
Hutes said his city faced “deep
financial stress” because of the
Legislature, which he said had
already cost Brunswick $50,000.
Alma Mayor Henry Bishop
termed the last legislative ses
sion a defeat for Georgia’s cit
ies and added, “If they won’t
support us, let’s get new legis
lators in there.”
Officials also criticized the
change in this year’s disburse
ment of state funds to munici
palities. Mayor Jack Leßoy of
Ailey, outgoing GMA president,
said, “We should have been al
lowed to explain our position be
fore the legislators changed the
distribution.”
• The convention also approved
measures calling for
—national air quality stand
ards;
—a three per cent tax on ho
tels and motels and a 10 per
cent tax on mixed drink sales;
—a ban on newspaper adver
tising of X-rated movies.
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Money crisis
Carter plans
selective cuts
ATLANTA (UPI) - With the
disclosure that state revenues
will fall about $57 million below
estimates this fiscal year, Gov.
Jimmy Carter said he will ask
state department heads to make
“selective cuts” in their budg
ets.
“We now face an overesti
mate of about $57 million, or
about 5 per cent of the total
state expenditure,” Carter told
a news conference Tuesday.
“That means we’ll have to re
duce state spending this year
by $57 million,” he said.
Carter attributed the diortage
to the rate of economic growth,
which he said was only about
half of what was anticipated.
He said he was not planning
any across the board reductions
at this time but said that fewer
new employes would be hired to
compensate for the overesti
mate.
The cutbacks, he said, would
come “through normal attri
tion” and would not involve lay
ing off current state employes.
“Between now and September
I’d like to do as much as I can”
to cut expenditures, Carter said,
leaving open the possibility he
may ask the General Assembly
to consider the matter when it
meets in special session Sept.
27.
During the last legislative
Carter reduced the income esti-
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Staggers
blames
networks
By ED DOOLEY
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Rep.
Harley O. Staggers blamed the
“awesome power” of the
television networks for the
House decision Tuesday not to
press contempt of Congress
charges against CBS President
Frank Stanton and his network.
Conceding the battle is over,
the West Virginia Democrat
said Tuesday’s 226 to 181 vote
to send the contempt citation
back to his Commerce Commit
tee had killed the attempt to
cite CBS for defying a
aibpoena. Staggers had wanted
to see film edited out of the
CBS documentary “The Selling
of the Pentagon.”
“I feel this is a sad day for
the American people,” a
somber Staggers said after the
vote. “The vote today showed
the awesome power of the
television networks and the
news media ... brought to bear
on the house of representa
tives.”
Nonetheless, Staggers held
cut hope he could still win
approval of legislation dealing
with the networks, although he
refused to say what his
committee might do.
After the vote Stanton said
“we are very pleased by the
decisive House vote against the
Commerce Committee’s resolu
tion citing CBS for contempt.
As responsible journalists, we
shall continue to do our best to
report on public events in a fair
and responsible manner.”
Staggers pressed the House to
a vote despite opposition from
(he leadership and in the face
of a Democratic poll which
showed the effort would fail.
Voting to kill the contempt
citation where 131 Democrats
and 95 Republicans. Voting not
to recommit the bill were 105
Democrats and 76 Republicans.
Staggers said he could have
won if the leadership had
supported the citation. House
leaders did cushion the rebuff
to Staggers by abandoning a
last minute plan to send the
citation to the Judiciary Com
mittee for further study.
mate for last fiscal year by $lO
million and said he has man
aged to cut an additional sls
million in state spending since
then.
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JAIL BABY
DALLAS (UPI) —A 26-year
old woman arrested last week
for loitering in a bus station
gave birth to a baby boy in the
city jail this week.
Jail officials said Tuesday
that so far as anyone could
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HOT WATER
TACOMA, Wash. (UPI)-An
unusually wet year in the
pacific northwest has inspired
this local sign: “It must be
summer—the rain is warmer.”
Griffin Daily News:
50 DROWN
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan
(UPI) — An overloaded bus
plunged into the River Swat,
drowning at least 50 persons,
according to reports reaching
here Tuesday.
Wednesday, July 14,1971
3
Officials said 11 persons were
injured in the accident which
occurred outside Kalam near
Peshawar. The officials said
the bus apparently rolled into
the river when its brakes
failed.