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Wednesday, August 11,1971
Hanged in mishap
ROCKY FACE, Ga. (UPI)- A
seven-year-old boy accidentally hanged himself at his
home in this North Georgia community Tuesday in a
game he was playing with other children.
Authorities identified the victim as Anthony Morris, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Morris.
The mother told investigators the children were playing
with a long piece of rope. She said her son threw the rope
over a tree limb, apparently thinking it was long enough to
reach the ground and pretended to“hang” himself.
Long reinstated
ATLANTA (UPI) — The Long County welfare director,
placed on probation earlier this year because of
“procedural errors” uncovered during an investigation,
has been resinstated to permanent status.
State Welfare Director Jim Parham said today Mrs.
Ada Hendrix was returned to full status as county director
after he received reports showing “considerable
progress” had been made in correcting the errors
pertaining to welfare payments.
Parham said of 44 errors uncovered, eight were
attributable to mistakes on the part of welfare recipients
and 21 others were minor, requiring no report to the U.S.
Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Georgian charged
HONG KONG (UPI) — Two U.S. servicemen and a
Chinese woman today pleaded innocent to charges of
possessing dangerous drugs for illegal trafficing.
Cp. Paul Howard Wright, 20, Atlanta, Ga., and PFC
Robert Washington Finex, 21, of Delhi, La., were here on a
rest-and-recreation visit from a U.S. military base in
Vietnam.
They were arrested last Aug. 6 along with a Chinese
resident, Miss Hui Chi-Mei, 19, at a Kowloon apartment
They were found with 16 packets of drugs containing 1.3
grams of morphine, a matchbox containing 0.1 gram of
babbitone and a cigarette with 0.1 gram of morphine.
Calls it fishing
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) — Sen. Herman Talmadge,
pessimistic about any improvement in SinoAmerican
relations, has called President Nixon’s planned visit to
mainland China “a fishing expedition and political in na
ture.”
The Georgia Democrat said he did not object to the
President’s trip because he did not think it would
influence future relations. He said he couldn’t see any
drastic change “just because they have played ping pong
together.”
Talmadge made the comments during a news con
ference while here Tuesday to dedicate a new housing
development for low income families and the elderly.
In his speech Talmadge called for “decent housing
within the reach of every citizen” during the 19705,
regardless of where they lived.
He praised the $4.5 million, 250-unit housing project as
an example of “community action at its best in
cooperation with the federal government that has been
translated into meaningful and tangible benefits.”
Boundary fuss widens
ATLANTA (UPI) — The federal government is entering
the boundary dispute involving Georgia, Tennessee and
North Carolina—a move that delights State Rep. Larry
Thomason of Decatur, who is pushing Georgia’s claim to a
disputed area of about 200 square miles.
Thomason said Tuesday he had received a letter from
Rear Adm. Don A. Jones, director of the National Ocean
Survey, which advised that the federal government would
survey the disputed boundary.
The Georgia legislator said Jones’ letter recommended
that officials of the three states meet with representatives
of the National Geodetic Survey to discuss possible
approaches to settling the problem.
Jones’ letter said such agreements are “usually
accomplished by establishing a line of reference from
which boundary stones can be set upon mutual agreement
of the political entities involves. Once they are referenced,
the exact regional location of the stones can be de
termined in the event they are disturbed.”
Thomason, who said he was delighted by the
government decision, indicated he felt the survey would
settle the longdisputed question once and for all.
Corn crop good
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) — With only minor blight damage
reported, Georgia appears headed for one of its best corn
crops in years, according to the Georgia Crop Reporting
Service.
The service, in a report Tuesday, said prospects remain
good for virtually all crops despite excessive rainfall that
has hindered the effectiveness of pesticides.
The tobacco harvest, now in its second week and
drawing record prices, is three-fourths complete.
Cotton is rated mostly good but frequent rains have
caused problems with insecticide applications for control
of weevils and bollworms.
Soybeans and pecans are rated good and the peach har
vest is 94 per cent complete. Light digging of Spanish pea
nuts began last week and farmers found white mold and
leafspot disease were widespread due to excessive
moisture.
Bond on Maddox
NEW YORK (UPI) — Georgia state legislator Julian
Bond, in a broadcast interview taped for airing tonight,
called Lester Maddox “a better governor than most
people thought he thought he would be" but declared "on
the whole I think we are better off without him as
governor.”
Bond also called Alabama Gov. George Wallace “a dan
gerous, dangerous” man in the interview on the David
Frost show.
Bond said Maddox, now Georgia’s lieutenant governor,
“had a lot of difficulty I think because he really didn’t
know what being governor of a state means. But he did
have some very good interests.”
Bond praised Maddox’s interest in “prison
reform...(and) in the plight of poor people whether they
were black or white.”
About Wallace, Bond said “he is a dangerous man
because he is an intelligent man. Now there are many
other Southern racists who don’t have his mind. I think
he’s a master politician, and for that reason, a dangerous,
dangerous man.”
Bond said it was “dangerous to make him (Wallace) a
figure of fun, because he potentially can do so much harm.
I mean, the old saying he had in ’6B about if you lie down in
front of my car that’s the last car you’ll lie down in front
of. I think he means that. That he’s capable of ordering his
driver to run over a demonstrator or do bodily harm to
someone else.”
Censorship eased
ATLANTA (UPI) — Acting on the recommendation of
Corrections Director Ellis MacDougall, the state Board of
Corrections has eased censorship of prisoners’ mail and
eliminated a provision that limited inmates’ mail to seven
letters a week.
The board meeting Tuesday, also amended the rules
which barred prisoners from using prison equipment in
preparing appeals and named three new wardens and a
deputy warden.
New wardens named were R. C. Wright, Fulton County;
Fred A. Banks, Gwinnett County, and George T. Smith’
Jefferson County. Appointed deputy warden in Jefferson
County was William Hadden.
Wiggins mayor
ALBANY, Ga. (UPI) — Attorney M. M. Wiggins won the
Democratic nomination for mayor Tuesday in a three
man race to seek a successor to retiring Mayor James
Clark.
Wiggins’ victory is tantamount to election since the Re
publicans will offer no candidate for mayor in the Nov. 2
general election
Wiggins got 4,879 votes to 2,945 for businessman George
Plummer and 259 for attorney Wingate Dykes.
Two city councilmen were unseated by political
newcomers in the voting. Mayor pro-tern Buford Collins, a
veteran of six two-year terms on the council, was beaten
by Proctor Johnson Jr. 5,749 to 2,206, and councilman Joe
Whittington was fefeated by Richard Rhodes 3,992 to 2,517.
Clash over boards
ATLANTA (UPI) — A state legislative committee
considering stricter billboard regulations for Georgia
heard conflicting testimony Tuesday on the effect of
billboards on motorists.
Dick McGinnis, an executive for Turner
Communications Co., said billboards help break the
monotony of long trips and promote safe driving.
But Mrs. Worth Jones, representing Save America’s
Vital Environment (SAVE), testified billboards pose a
danger for drivers.
The committee was told by Claude Williams Jr.,
president of the Outdoor Advertising Association, that the
present Georgia law is “good” but “just hasn’t been
enforced.”
U.S. Transportation Secretary John Volpe has said
Georgia may lose more than $lO million in federal
highway funds if them state billboard law is not brought in
line with federal regulations.
Volpe has given Georgia until November to comply with
regulations but a delegation of officials will ask Volpe
Friday for an extension.
The General Assembly is expected to consider the
billboard issue this fall.
Push for delay
ATLANTA (UPI) —The Senate reapportionment
committee is joining its House counterpart in pressuring
Gov. Jimmy Carter to postpone a special session of the
General Assembly until block census figures are avail
able.
Sea Frank Coggin of Hapeville, chairman of the Senate
panel, was to recommend the delay today in a meeting
with Carter. The House group, chaired by Rep. Bill
Williams of Gainesville, made a similar request last
month.
The U. S. Census Breau says block figures for the
Atlanta area will not be available until around Oct 15,
three weeks after the Sept 27 start of the special
legislative session called to reapportion the state.
Coggin said Tuesday, “I don’t want to vote on any plan
until I know what these block grouping figures are.”
He said legislators ought to have at least a week to study
the census information once it becomes available
Carter turned down the House panel’s request for a
delay in the special session, arguing that other states had
been able to get along without block data.
Hit abortion law
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court has been
urged by seven women’s organizations and 47 women to
strike down the abortion laws of Texas and Georgia. The
court is expected to rule on the status this fall.
A brief filed Tuesday declared a woman has a
“fundamental constitutional right to determine the
number and spacing of her children.”
The brief said this right can be impinged upon by a state
only where “a most urgent and compelling contrary
interest exists” and that there is none so far as the Texas
and Georgia cases are concerned.
The associations included the American Association of
University Women, the YWCA national board, the
National Organization for Women, the National Women’s
Conference of the American Ethical Union, the
Professional Women’s Caucus, the Uniterian Universalist
Women’s Alliance of the First Uniterian Church of
Dallas.
Individuals included anthropologist Margaret Mead,
Commissioner Bess Myerson of the New York State
Department of Consumer Affairs and former Sen.
Maurine B. Neuberger, DOre.
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