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— Griffin Daily News Monday, Dec. 6, 1971
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Bankruptcy laws
obsolete: Glaus
By CARL PLAIN
Copley News Service
Obsolete bankruptcy laws
are penalizing creditors, 0. D.
Glaus Jr., head of the nation’s
largest trade association, has
charged.
Glaus, president of the 36,200-
member National Association
of Credit Management, cited
the example of multiple fees
paid in some bankruptcy pro
ceedings to a receiver, a trus
tee and an attorney for each of
them.
“All this, we feel, is a dupli
cation of administration which
increases expenses and re
duces the amount of recovery
by the creditors,” Glaus said in
an interview.
One of the NACM’s most im
portant current projects, he re
ported, is seeking comments
from its 102 member associa
tions on U.S. bankruptcy laws
and asking recommendations
for changes.
In turn, the NACM will pre
sent the views of the wholesale
credit groups to a new Bank
ruptcy Commission created by
Congress and consisting of
three members appointed by
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“The commission will work
two years to review the bank
ruptcy laws and recommend
changes that would update
them and make them more
workable and meaningful,”
said Glaus.
“We feel that there are in
creasing numbers of (business)
bankruptcies and failures, es
pecially in major metropolitan
areas. The average size of the
bankrupt estate also is larger,
indicating that larger firms are
failing.”
Glaus is a credit executive of
Gensco, Inc., the world’s big
gest apparel firm, with sales of
$1.4 billion a year. Headed by
Franklin Jarman, 39, Geneseo
is both a manufacturer and a
retailer.
“We supply about 45,000 re
tailers,” said Glaus, who joined
the Nashville, Tenn., company,
then known as Jarman Shoe, 23
years ago, after graduating
from Vanderbilt University
and teaching accounting there
for a short time.
Bankruptcies among
Geneseo’s retail accounts, he .
said, are up about 15 per cent
this year over last.
With the advent of tight
money and recessionary eco
nomic conditions, there has
been a tendency for weak firms
to fail, he said. “It is a problem,
and it increases the cost of do
ing business.”
One of the continuing dan
gers lies in retailers selling
credit terms, rather than a
product on its merits, Glaus ex
palined.
How does the NACM regard
reductions in the cost of
money?
"This is good,” answered the
executive. “We hope it will
come down further.”
As for the battle against in
flation, Glaus commented, “We
are in complete agreement and
accord with the President’s
proposals. We have indorsed
them at the National.
“We believe the competitive
and cooperative spirit of the
American people will, in the
main, support them.”
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Santos Ortega, Grandpa
Hughes on As the World
Turns, got his first radio job
because of his Spanish name.
His Castilian vocabulary was
limited to his last name, but
he quickly learned some
morp words
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It is quite clear then that the old culture which
we wish to sweep away cannot be isolated from
the old politics and old economy of our nation.
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Twenty-two years have passed since the
"agrarian reformers” led by Mao Tse-tung be
gan sweeping away the old culture of China, a
nation with a history of nearly 4.000 years.
Yet the revolution that has overtaken China
under the Communists is but a continuation of
the revolution set in motion more than a century
ago when Europeans began knocking vigorously
at the door of “the sleeping giant.”
It is a paradox of our time that the new China
remains as remote and mysterious to many
Westerners as the old China was to the Romans,
who knew of the Chinese as “the Silk People.”
Thus all the greater has been the shock of
recent developments: A U.S. president, who as
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Prayer
issue
debated
By VERNON E. BROWN
Copley News Service
Congress recently saw fit to
turn down an appei for prayer
in our public schools.
I can well appreciate every
parent’s option, as it relates to
their children being involved in
prayer while at school. I will
personally tip my hat to the
nearsighted congressman
whose rationale it was that
prayer, in school, would be con
trary to our American Consti
tution.
I am always amazed when in
1971 Congress becomes so
adamantly Constitution
minded. All you and I need do is
look back on their records and
we can see that very few are
very earnest and sincere fol
»wers of our Constitution.
I am reminded that many
years ago a lady brought suit.
As a result of her efforts, our
children were not allowed the
right to thank God for their
existence on that particular
day.
I am reminded that when
ever a public state or federal
gathering begins, as Amer
icans, we pay homage to the
flag, oftentimes singing the
“Star Spangled Banner,” and a
great many times, an invoca
tion is given. If there be those
among you who are of the
opinion that prayer is wrong, or
unconstitutional, or that it
would deprive us of our Amer
ican way of life, then you have
problems.
Let’s disucss the benefits and
some of the uses of prayer. I
will not cite any denomination,
faith or religion. I will remind
you that some form of prayer
has been in existence since the
beginning of man.
I appreciate the agnostic’s
point of view. I don’t buy it, but
it’s his thing. I can understand
the atheist’s philosophy, by the
same token. He’s also entitled
to his view.
But I would imagine, if you
gave me an agnostic, an
atheist, a hammer, a dozen
nails and some thorns to put
around their heads, that very
quickly they would believe in
God.
There are many uses for
prayer. When a marriage is
performed, prayer is used.
When our children are born,
they too, enter the world with
prayer. When we become
SHOWBEAT
Hackman Makes
Good 'Connection'
By DICK KLEINER
HOLLYWOOD - (NEA) —
“The French Connection” is
gravely ill, near death, prayer
is administered by those people
who pray for us. At funerals,
prayer is offered so that our
souls may rest in peace, and
those left behind may continue
to live a normal life. For the
mentally and physically handi
capped, for the blind, deaf and
lame, how many prayers go out
to help them endure a condi
tion, not brought upon by them
selves?
How many of us, or our loved
ones, have been involved in
accidents? How many prayers
have we said in such situa
tions?
When an individual walks his
final step from death row to the
gallows, there is prayer.
In this day of troubled times
and massive corrosion of the
spirit, our young people’s
minds contain a huge amount
of frustration. Must we now
take the opportunity of prayer
from our young?
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a senator gained fame as an arch-foe of com
munism. announcing he would visit Peking:
the overwhelming vote in the United Nations to
oust the Nationalist Chinese government on Tai
wan and seat the mainland Chinese, the sudden
emergence of Red China as an influential world
power after two decades of self-imposed isolation.
But with the largest population in the world,
estimated at more than “00 million —roughly
one-fourth of mankind—and with the third
greatest land area, by sheer size alone China
must inevitably play a leading role.
China is a half-million square miles larger
than the 48 United States and occupies about
the same latitudes on the opposite side of the
globe. But because of the severe nature of most
of the interior, the vast bulk of her population
lives in an area half the size of the United States.
Seriously lacking in many of the natural re
sources required by an industrial nation, China’s
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GENE HACKMAN, left,
stars in “The French Con
nection” as Popeye Doyle,
a character based on a
real life New York city
police detective whose
partner is Sonny Grosso,
above. Grosso was a cast
ing consultant (nearly ad
vising against using Hack
man) and also appears in
the movie.
a wild and wonderful film.
It may win some awards but
what’s more important is it
will make millions and give
a whole lot of people a couple
of hours of splendid escape
entertainment.
If they give Oscars for
chases, they’ll have to make
“The French Connection” a
winner. There’s a chase in
which Gene Hackman, as a
New York detective named
Popeye Doyle, commandeers
a car and goes zipping along
following a gunman who is
overhead in an elevated
train.
“The French Connection”
is based on a true story, but
the chase wasn’t part of the
real thing. Producer Philip
D’Antoni stuck it in for good
luck — and good entertain
ment.
“The real life c h a s e,”
D’Antoni says, “was only
about two blocks long. But
I’d had so much success with
the chase scene in my first
movie—‘Bullitt’ —that I en-
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getic. inventive, long-suffering people. The Chi
nese had seen most forms of government and •
social experiment—feudalism, monarchs, social
ism, totalitarianism—2.ooo years before Char
lemagne, Louis XIV. Marx. Hitler.
Today, however, at least to outward appear- *
ances, they have been molded into a cohesive. :$
single-minded entity not known before in their
long history. The ancient ways seem to have
been utterly overthrown and China is deter
mined to enter the modern world and regain
her historical place as the “Middle Kingdom”
—the center of the world.
Nevertheless, modern China rests on founda
lions 4,000 years deep in history, and whoever :*
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larged it. 1 wrote it in and
plotted it very carefully.”
That chase was done under
what Hollywood calls “con
trolled” conditions, meaning
all the vehicles you see are
driven by stuntmen and the
police have blocked off all
other traffic. Bill Hickman,
the second unit director and
stunt coordinator, was in
charge.
It was done on 86th Street,
near Coney Island, in Brook
lyn. Hickman says that
Hackman (be sure to keep
your Hickmans and Hack
mans straight) did 85 per
cent of his own driving—
“ He’s an old race driver,
and I taught him a few
things and he caught on real
quick,” Hickman says.
“Gene is a real cool driver.”
Hickman says they
cracked up $15,600 worth of
cars in the chase scene. The
chief vehicle was a specially
built Pontiac LeMans.
“I did the driving,” Hack
man says, “or as much as
I could, because I felt it
made it look more real. The
funny thing was that the big
crash scene was a mistake.
It happened on the first day.
Bill Hickman was driving the
other car, and we crashed.
“D’Antoni and director
Billy Friedkin decided to
leave the scene in. But we
had no coverage—there was
only one camera going at
the time. So we had to re
stage it, do it all over
again.”
D’Antoni says all the rest
of the on-street stuff was
shot without any controls.
He says the principals
walked or ran around New
York and Brooklyn streets,
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with the cameras hidden,
either in trucks or in second
story windows.
The story deals with the
drug ring-busting work of
two real New York cops,
Eddie Egan (changed to
Popeye Doyle for the film)
and Sonny Grosso. Both
Egan and Grosso worked on
the film and appeared in it.
Grosso has since done other
acting — he’s in “The God
father”—and he says he likes
acting but isn’t about to give
up police work. (Egan is cur
rently involved in another
narcotics case; he has been
charged with holding back
drugs he obtained on police
raids.)
When they were casting
the picture, D’Antoni let
Egan and Grosso look over
the prospective actors.
“I just couldn’t see Hack
man playing Egan’s part,”
Grosso says. “At least, not
at first. The first time I met
him, he was in bell-bottoms,
a lovely shirt, a mustache,
lovely hair. He was gorgeous.
But I came around and he
did a helluva job.”
In fact, Grosso’s mother
saw the picture and got very
angry. She thought Hackman
looked so authentic he must
be a cop, and she was mad
about it—she figured if they
were going to let a real cop
play the part, they should
have given it to Egan.
Everybody’s glad now they
stuck with Hackman. He’s
sure to get an Oscar nomina
tion and, the way it looks
now, the voting should go
down to the wire between
him and Topol for “Fiddler
cn the Roof.”
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)