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By Quimby Melton
Friday night’s football game
tetween Griffin High’s “Awe
some” Bears and the Newton
County Rams will be the most
important game: played by
Region 6-AAA teams this week
end. For how that game comes
out may have much to do with
what team will wind up Region
6-AAA champions.
The Bears, now that the Ther
rell game has been officially
classed a forfeit, have a 4-0
record. Newton County’s stand
ing is 3-2 and they rank right
below GHS in the standings.
The game Friday night will be
played in Griffin at Memorial
Stadium. After this game GHS
will have four more to play,
two of them at home. Griffin’s
last game will be out of town, in
Macon, with Southwest Macon.
There are many who are of
the opinion that the 1971 edition
of the GHS Bears is headed for
at least a region championship.
The Bears’ win over Thomaston
last week gave a big boost to
chances the Dowis team would
“go all the way."
When the Bears take to the
field Friday night they will be
greeted, if the weather is at all
good, by the largest crowd of
the season. And that is as it
should be.
And if one wishes to further
show just how much they ap
preciate the brand of football
the Bears are playing we know
of no better way than to sign up
as a member of the Touchdown
Club. Five hundred members is
the goal — and we have a long
way to go,
Speaking of schools and
winning.
Chalk up a victory for
Georgia’s senior Senator — our
neighbor Senator Herman Tal
madge. Not only did he author
die bill that will continue feder
al financed aid in providing
school lunches for needy child
ren, but he led the way to a
victory in the Senate and now
President Nixon, has said he is
all for the continuing of the pro
gram.
In the big game, under the
dome of the National capital,
Herman Talmadge demonstrat
ed he could gain through the line
or through the air and score.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
76, low today 53, high yesterday
84, low yesterday 66. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:40, sunset
tomorrow 7:10.
Clocks checked
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Two tired
physicists returned today from the first of
two round-the-world flights to test
Einsteinian theory that time varies
according to the motions of the clocks
recording it.
They compared readings of four atomic
clocks which made the flight with a master
atomic clock at the U.S. Naval
Observatory. It will take considerable
mathematical analysis to determine the
exact differences.
Whatever they turn out to be, they are so
slight—in the billionths of a second—that
“we now know that clock travel in this
direction (east to west) has very little
effect on a clock’s performance,” an
observatory spokesman said.
He said the scientists got “very good
data.” They did have one bit of trouble at
the end of their trip. Their car’s fan belt
broke on the drive from the airport to the
observatory, delaying their arrival by
about an hour.
The physicists and their clocks will
repeat the experiment with a west to east
flight starting a week from today.
In the first half of their experiment they
flew eastward from Dulles International
Sixth District leaders here
to push tax revision plan
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Rep. George W. Potts of Newnan in action at the General Assembly.
Remap session
It’s same old story
By TOM GREENE
ATLANTA (UPI)—It was the
same old story in the Georgia
General Assembly today as the
House and Senate tried again—
and again failed—to come up
with a compromise cm congres
sional reapportionment accepta
ble to all.
For four days now, the two
chambers have debated the is
sue of drawing the lines for the
10 districts so they meet “one
man, one-vote" standards. So
far, six different plans, four
preparedby conference commit
tees, have failed to win the
needed majority of both houses.
For the past two days, the
Airport and back.
Both trips are necessary to test the
“clock paradox” of Albert Einstein’s
theory of relativity which says time
stretches or contracts aboard any moving
object according to its speed and position
relative to other objects in the universe.
The physicists are Joseph C. Hafele of
Washington University, St Louis, and
Richard E. Keating of the U.S. Naval
Observatory, which is financing the
experiments.
A consequence of Einstein’s “time
dilatation” theory is that man someday
may be able to undertake long space
flights among the stars which now seem
impossible. If Einstein was right a future
roundtrip space flight at close to the speed
of light lasting, say, 32 earth years, would
age the astronauts only 4 2-3 years while
those left behind on earth would have
grown 32 years older.
Theory says the clocks brought back
today should run about 100 billionths of a
second behind the stationary master clock
at the naval observatory. Clocks traveling
the other way around, minus the earth’s
eastward rotational speed of 1,000 miles an
hour, should gain about 300 billionths of a
second.
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
House has been the main stum
bling block, turning down three
in a row while all of them were
approved in the Senate.
Today was no exception as
they took up a plan approved by
a majority of the latest confer
ence committee. The House ve
toed it 99 to 75 while the Sen
ate passed the plan 38-17.
Rep. Mike Egan of Atlanta,
Republican minority leader in
the House, changed his mind
and voted for today’s outline ev
en though he was “not happy”
with it.
But Rep. Larry Thomason of
DeKalb said in opposing it the
proposal was “not the best we
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, Oct. 7, 1971
The proposal would create a
middle Georgia district to in
clude Bibb and Macon. It would
also have one coastal district
and split the Atlanta metropoli
tan area among three districts.
None of the current congress
men would have to run against
each other.
Sens. Culver Kidd of Milledge
ville and Ed Zipperer of Savan
nah also circulated two minor
ity plans for consideration if the
majority plan failed to gain ap
proval.
The legislature has been in
session for two weeks now, and
lawmakers have agreed on reap
portioning the state’s legislative
districts, and passed a new bill
board control act. But the prob
lem of drawing new district
lines for congressman has been
a prickly one, and of the scores
of plans introduced and consid
ered, none yet has passed both
houses.
In Wednesday’s session, the
House rejected a plan passed
by the Senate, and the Senate
rejected a plan passed by the
House.
Then, the two houses appoint
ed a joint committee to come
up with a compromise bill.
When the committee reported
back with a compromise, both
houses promptly rejected it, and
appointed a new joint commit
tee.
On a second proposed com
promise bill, the Senate agreed
to accept the changes. But the
House balked again.
A third try also ended in fail
ure.
About 7 p.m., the houses, aft
er continuous sessions of eight
hours, adjourned until today
and appointed a fourth joint
committee to try overnight to
reach a compromise that would
be acceptable to both houses.
The legislators were under in
structions from federal courts to
draw new boundaries under the
“one man-one vote” concept, al
lowing one per cent or less de
viation in population from dis
trict to district.
Any plan that includes dilut
ed voting power of blacks in the
Atlanta area or pitted one con
gressman against another is
sure to draw a court test.
Gov. Jimmy Carter urged the
legislature to finish its job to
day or quit trying.
“We are approaching a point
where there’s a strong possibil
ity reapportionment will have
to be done by the courts,” Car
ter said. “If it becomes obvious
that the House and Senate can’t
get together, they ought to ad
journ.”
Wholesale
prices
down
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Wholesale prices declined 0.4
per cent in September, the first
full month under President
Nixon’s 90-day wage-price
freeze, the government said
today.
The Bureau of Labor Statis
tics said the decline, adjusted
for seasonal factors, was the
first drop in wholesale prices in
10 months.
The decline appeared to be a
plus for President Nixon’s
economic policies. An even
more sensitive report bearing
heavily on his program is due
Friday—the September employ
ment-unemployment report.
Nixon’s program is designed
both to stop inflation and to
lower the rate of unemploy
ment, which has hovered at the
6 per cent level for almost a
year.
The good news on the
wholesale price front came less
than 10 hours before President
Nixon addresses the nation on
the “Phase II” economic
controls to follow the wage
price freeze, which ends Nov.
13.
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More than 80 city and county
officials in the Sixth District
came to Griffin today to talk up
a one cent state sales tax in
crease and a reduction in local
property taxes.
They met at the National
Guard armory this morning for
the fifth in a series of 10
congressional meetings to boost
the indea.
The city and county officials
were looking for legislative
support for the program. They
expect to push for its passage at
the next regular session of The
General Assembly.
The series of meetings is
being sponsored around the
state by the Georgia Municipal
Association and the Association
County Commissioners.
Mayor Barron Cumming of
Griffin and David Elder,
Spalding County Commission
chairman, welcomed the of
ficials to Griffin. They hailed
the joint effort to solve mutual
financial problems.
Hill Healan, executive
director of the county
association; and Elmer George,
executive director of the
municipal organization, both
were here to speak for the
proposals.
Both men are former Griffin
city managers.
“If we don’t have any major
sources of money for local
government, ad valorem taxes
may be raised three times,”
George declared.
He called for property owners
to pressure legislators for
support of the tax revision plan.
One of the keys to the
proposal would require
lowering ad valorem property
taxes in an amount equal to half
of local government and
schools’ share in the new sales
tax receipts.
This would be required of
participating counties for one
year.
After the year is up, however,
local governments would be
free to set the property taxes
again at whatever they deemed
necessary.
Under the distribution for
mula for the proposal, the city
county organization figures that
Spalding County property taxes
would be cut 4.5 mills and dty of
Griffin taxes would be cut 3.3
mills.
This would be for one year
and after that local govern
ments again would be free to set
taxes at whatever level they
thought necessary.
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“You ought always to admire
a man for speaking the truth —
especially when it isn’t
popular."
Deputy kidnaped
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
—Douglas County deputy sheriff
William Bowen, 24, was kid
naped early today by a “hippie
type character” who forced him
to drive to Atlanta.
Sheriff Claude Abercrombie
said Bowen was found later
handcuffed to his car in the hip
pie section of Atlanta, unharmed
but slightly red-faced.
According to the sheriff, Bow
en stopped an old, dilapidated
pickup truck on U.S. 78 about
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YOUNSTOWN, Ohio—When his car collided with a runaway
horse on the expressway here on the eve of his wedding, John
S. Fasline was admitted to a local hospital with a fractured
nose, injuries and cuts. Undaunted by the mishap, the bride,
Marilyn O’Shanic, met her husband as he was brought from
his hospital room in a wheelchair for the ceremony. At right
is the Rev. John Psinka who performed the ceremony. (UPI)
Nixon outlines
Phase II tonight
By NORMAN KEMPSTER
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Pres
ident Nixon outlines tonight the
second phase of his plan for
uplifting the American economy
without a renewal of inflation.
The President summoned
congressional leaders to the
White House for an advance
look at the proposals late this
afternoon and also presumably
arranged for briefings of
business and labor leaders in
advance of his 7:30 p.m. EDT
speech on radio and television.
Nixon already has made clear
fe will allow the 90-day wage
price-rent freeze to expire as
scheduled Nov. 13, but said the
follow-on program would “have
teeth” to prevent a sudden
flood of price and wage
increases.
Congressional sources pre
cticted that a wage-price review
board—or possibly a series of
boards to make wage and price
decisions—would be set up. But
they said they expected there
would continue to be an over-all
government policymaking body,
perhaps a continuation of the
present Cost of Living Council
he created for Phase I, which
started Aug. 15, to establish
general objectives such as wage
targets and price ceilings in
various industries.
Nixon asked Democratic and
Republican leaders of the
House and the Senate to the
white House at 4:30 pjn. for a
briefing by the President and
his righthand man on the
program, Secretary John B.
Connally.
A high administration official,
who declined to be identified,
said that in Phase 11, he
four miles west of Douglasville
diortly before 4 a.m. on suspi
cion of driving under the influ
ence. Five persons were in the
car and Bowen radioed for
help.
Abercrombie said Bowen took
one of the suspects in his pa
trol car and headed for the
county jail. But on the way,
Bowen said he was overpowered
and his pistol taken away from
him.
Bowen was quoted as saying
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believed decisions on acceptable
increases would be made by
separate wage and price boards
composed of representatives of
business, labor and the general
public.
53 degrees
lowest since
last May
The temperature dropped to
53 degrees here early this
morning, the lowest its been
since last May.
The mercury was expected to
climb into the mid-70’s this
afternoon.
Yesterday’s low was 66 and
the high 84.
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Con skips
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (UPI)-
Prison officials at Lake Butler
felt a personal loss when Wilbur
Edward Sullivan escaped
Wednesday.
Sullivan, 43, escaped after
serving 24 years in prison for
murder, despite knowledge that
he likely was to be paroled
within a few months.
Russell Guynn, assistant su
perintendent of the Raiford
Prison reception center where
Sullivan was a minimum
security prisoner, said he had
been a model prisoner.
“We thought the world of this
guy,” Guynn said. “We’re very
saddened by this.”
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he was forced to drive to the
intersection of Peachtree St. and
16th Street, where his car radio
was disabled and he was hand
cuffed to the vehicle.
The sheriff said that Bowen
later managed to repair his ra
dio and call for help.
Atlanta police put out an
alarm for a youth with blond
hair and armed with two pistols
—one of them belonging to the
deputy.