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— Griffin Daily News Friday, Dec. 3,1971
Page 12
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SAVANNAH—Unidentified girl student is arrested by
Tompkins High School. The incident was touched off over a
Tear gas used
in school melee
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) -Po
lice used tear gas to break up
a rock-throwing melee between
some 400 white and black high
school students Thursday that
results in a dispute over a ping
pong game.
There were no reported in
juries.
Police Lt. Billy Freeman said
seven students were arrested—
five whites and two blacks.
The school, Tompkins High
which had been predominantly
black before it was integrated
this fall, was closed down—the
sixth such closing of a Chat
ham County school since classes
started this fall under a federal
court-ordered plan calling for
an enrollment of 60 per cent
white and 40 per cent black.
An estimated 30 local and
state officers rushed to the
school in an attempt to put
down the confrontation that
erupted after a white student
and a black student exchanged
words during the ping pong
game.
County Police Chief Al St.
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Lawrence said he tried to bring
the students under control “with
manpower...but it didn’t work
out this time.”
St. Lawrence said the stu
dents were so angry “we
couldn’t even talk to them.
“We told them three separate
State toll roads
get thorough study
ATLANTA (UPI) - A joint
House-Senate committee Thurs
day heard proposals Thursday
for the construction of a toll
road network in metropolitan
Atlanta.
“We’re well on the way to be
ginning toll roads in Georgia,”
Rep. Clarence Vaughn of Con
yers told the committees.
Vaughn said legislation would
be proposed in January to
amend the current toll bridge
authority law to allow the state
police during racial disturbance at
ping pong game. (UPI)
times to go back to school or
we would have to disperse
them,” St. Lawrence said.
Finally, the officers began
throwing tear gas into the
crowds.
Principal Roger Jones ordered
the school closed.
to sell bonds to finance toll
roads.
Highway Director Bert Lance
said that one of the top prior
ities in Georgia is completion of
the interstate and other major
road routes.
“The toll road idea gives us
the wherewithal! to get it done,”
Lance said. “It works every
where else and I just can’t help
but believe it will work in
Georgia.”
The Highway Department was
asked to consider the possibility
of toll roads in other areas of
the state and State Sen. Floyd
Hudgins of Columbus proposed
a toll road running from the
Tennessee line at Chattanooga
through west Georgia to the
Florida line.
Hudgins asked the committees
to tell the department to “get
out and get some feasibility
studies in some place other than
Atlanta.”
Lance said that if toll roads
were built the rest of the high
way system would not be aban
doned. But he said using toll
roads in the Atlanta area would
free funds for use in other
areas of the state.
Self-styled genius
held in twins deaths
HOUSTON (UPI) - Veteran
police detective Paul Nix has
helped work on a string of
bizarre crimes recently in
Houston. But the latest one, he
admitted today, “shook me
up.”
He referred to the case of a
nonstudent who frequented the
Rice University campus and
befriended twin brothers, elec
trical engineering honor stu
dents from Oklahoma. He
convinced the twins to help him
with a thermonuclear project.
The two brothers were
executed Wednesday.
“He asked them to stretch
out side by side on their
stomachs and shot them in the
tops of their heads,” Nix said.
Murder Charges Filed
“This case got to me. It
shook me up. I don’t know,
maybe I’m getting too old ...”
Police charged Herman P.
Beiersdorf, 22, of Dallas, a
slender 6-foot-2, 175-pounder,
with the murders of twins
Leslie and Larry Owens of
Enid, Okla. They were 19.
Police said Beiersdorf was
active in student affairs on the
Rice campus and even attended
some classes although he was
not enrolled. A Rice spokesman
said Beiersdorf “liked to call
himself a genius” and had a
magnetic personality.
He persuaded the Owens
brothers to drop out of school
and help him in a thermonu-
McCormack’s
wife is dead
WASHINGTON (UPI) -For
mer House Speaker John W.
McCormack and his wife
Harriet were married 51 years,
and the Massachusetts Demo
crat liked to remark that they
had never spent a night apart.
Thursday, Mrs. McCormack,
87, died at Providence Hospital,
where she had been under
treatment for more than a year
for heart disease.
During her period in the
hospital, McCormack, 80, who
retired from Congress last year
after 42 years service, spent
every night and most days in
an adjoining room with a door
cut through the wall.
Friends and hospital staff
members offered to stay with
Mrs. McCormack to allow the
former Speaker to leave the
hospital, but he replied:
“This is not a sacrifice, and
it is not a duty. I want to be
with Harriet, and I will be.”
Mrs. McCormack was the
former Harriet Joyce of Boston.
She married McCormack in
1920 when he was a young
Boston lawyer and she was an
operatic contralto. He said she
gave up a career in opera to
marry him.
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clear research project, authori
ties said. He was charged with
killing the twins Wednesday
night when they decided to
back out of the project.
Executed Victims
Police said Beiersdorf drove
the brothers to a secluded spot
50 miles northwest of Houston,
whereupon he drew a .22-
caliber pistol and ordered them
to lie on their stomachs on the
ground.
“It’s a bad scene up there,
I’ll tell you,” Nix said. “They
were both good-looking boys.”
Beiersdorf said he surren
dered to police at the advice of
a psychiatrist. He drew a map
leading police to the bodies.
“He said he could not get
them to come back to the
project and they could not
make him understand why, so
he knew he would have to kill
them with a pistol he bought a
few days before for this
reason,” Nix said. Police
recovered the weapon.
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Bowling Suits
Number Thirteen lane at a
neighborhood bowling alley really
was unlucky. If a bowler hap
pened to step on a certain spot
in a certain board, the board
would bend downward, causing
the heads of two nails to pro
trude.
One evening a bowler stepped
on the spot, snagged his shoe on
the nails, and went sprawling.
Painfully injured, he determined
to claim damages from the owner
of the alley.
At a court hearing, the owner
protested that he simply had not
known about any weakness in the
board. But the court held him
liable anyhow, in the light of
evidence that the situation had
existed for weeks.
Generally speaking, a bowler is
entitled to protection not only
against obvious hazards but also
against hazards that an attentive
management would notice.
But the bowling alley does not
guarantee perfect safety. As in
other places of public recreation,
things can go wrong that are out
side the scope of the manage
ment’s responsibility. Here are
two examples:
A bowler slipped on a dab of
ice cream lying at the edge of the
foul line. But no one knew how
or when the ice cream had been
dropped there. Result: no man
agement liability.
Political motive
suggested of Nix
ATLANTA (UPI) - A federal
official suggested Thursday that
Supt. Jack Nix could have been
politically movitated in getting
an unnecessary ruling granting
Georgia teachers pay raises.
Nix denied it.
International Revenue Ser
vice official E. A. Biondi made
the suggestion after State Attor
ney General Arthur Bolton is
sued a ruling earlier in the
week that unfroze funds to pay
raises to some 33,000 teachers,
some two weeks after Phase II
of President Nixon’s economic
policies went into effect.
Nix had written local school
superintendents that raises
could be granted and that he
had been “increasingly con
cerned about the lack of official
guidance from Washington” on
pay raises.
“It was well publicized that
after Nov. 14 IRS was responsi
ble for everything that was pre
viously handled by OEP,”
Biondi said, “but Nix did not
turn to us for clarification.”
Biondi added that the guide
lines had clearly stated that all
wage increases that had been
contracted for before the freeze
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have been politically motivat
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Nix said that around Nov. 12
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freeze would be lifted.
“Then within hours we re
ceived additional word not to
take any further action until
further notice,” Nix said.