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ATLANTA—Georgia lawmakers rejoice at their adjournment for the day after a
with reorganization. The House passed the non-controversial non-veto portion of the
governmental reorganization measure. Shown are (l-r) Rep. George Busbee; Rep. Quimby
Melton, Jr.; and Rep. Clayton Brown. Melton and Brown are the Spalding-Fayette district
representatives. (UPI)
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from a zookeeper’s house in
suburban Florence Thursday
and was shot to death by police
when keepers failed to capture
it with nets.
The lion, named Ringo, had
been taken to the home of
Pistoia Zoo Director Francesco
Cangemi to be photographed.
The lion broke its chain and
fled to a nearby field.
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Viet Cong bombard
targets in south
SAIGON (UPl)—The Viet
Cong bombarded three South
Vietnamese positions today in
widely separated attacks that
killed a child and two soldiers
and wounded 18 other persons.
U.S. 852 bombers carried out
raids today against North
Vietnamese base area 702 just
inside the Cambodian border in
the Central Highlands.
South Vietnamese artillery
fire and a flare-dropping AC47
gunship were summoned a few
hours before at Fire Base 5
when electronic sensors detect
ed a Communist unit moving
toward the base. The unit fled
after the artillery barrage.
The base is near Dak To, 280
miles north-northeast of Saigon.
Military sources said 100
rounds of 82mm mortar fire
struck a South Vietnamese
militia command post and an
artillery platoon early today
southwest of the Mekong Delta
town of Gia Rai, 140 miles
southwest of Saigon.
The attack killed one soldier
and a child and 12 persons were
wounded. The military position
was heavily damaged, the
sources said.
Viet Cong gunners also killed
one South Vietnamese soldier in
a shelling and ground attack
early today against a ranger
company camp near Ben Cat 27
miles north of Saigon. Military
sources said six South Vietna
mese soldiers were wounded in
the assault.
The Communist artillerymen
used 82mm mortars and 122 mm
rockets against a South Vietna
mese ranger position northeast
of Katim, 70 miles northwest of
Saigon. There were no casual
ties.
A company of South Vietna
mese infantrymen killed nine
Communist troops in a clash at
a weapons storage bunker the
allied forces discovered near
Tien Phuoc on South Vietnam’s
central coast Thursday.
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Caldwell charges
firm with harassing
ATLANTA (UPI) — Comptroller General Johnnie Cald
well moved Thursday to suspend the license of an Atlanta
finance company for allegedly “harassing” loan holders
by illegally levying on their homes.
Caldwell set a hearing for Feb. 18 for the Geiger
Finance Co. to answer five charges and show cause why
its license should not be suspended.
One of the charges alleges the company “no longer
possesses the financial responsibility, character and
general fitness that will command the confidence of the
public and warrant a belief that the business will not be
operated unfairly or unlawfully.”
The comptroller accused the firm of the “habitual
levying on the homes of persons indebted to Gieger
Finance Co. who were not legally subject to levy because
of the outstanding mortgages.”
These tactics were used, he added, “solely for the
purpose of harassing the defendants ... and leading them
to erroneously believe the defendants were about to be
evicted from their homes...”
Flu spreading
in North Georgia
ATLANTA (UPI) — The State Health Department has
reported that outbreaks of the flu have reached epidemic
proportions in the northern third of Georgia.
Officials said health care facilities, especially for chil
dren, have been crowded by flu sufferers, and businesses,
schools and industry have reported high absenteeism.
Dr. John E. McCroan, public health epidemiologist, said
the flu outbreak is now in “mild epidemic proportions”.
Seven flu-related deaths were reported in Atlanta
during the two-week period of Jan. 9-22.
The number of persons affected by the disease is
“extensive” McCroan said.
The National Center for Disease Control, headquartered
in Atlanta, said reports of the illness were largely
confined to the area of the state from Atlanta to Augusta
and northward. The disease center this week added
Atlanta to the list of areas reporting regional outbreaks of
the flu.
Crime lab rules
murder-suicide
ELBERTON, Ga. (UPI) — A man and his wife were
found dead Thursday in their rural home near here, and a
state crime lab doctor has ruled that the deaths were a
murdersuicide.
Authorities said J.V. Scoggines, 54, died of a self
inflicted gunshot wound from a .22 caliber rifle.
They said an autopsy by Dr. Larry Thomas of the state
crime lab in Atlanta had determined that Scoggins’ 29-
year-old wife died of strangulation.
Elbert County Sheriff Adger Moore said Scoggins had
phoned his office from their home in the Goss community,
to report his wife had committed suicide. When officers
reached the home, both were dead, Moore said.
The couple had a 12-year-old daughter.
Publisher Scott
buried yesterday
ATLANTA (UPI) — Lewis A. Scott, a member of a
pioneer newspaper publishing family and father of a
presidential aide, was buried Thursday.
Scott, brother of C.A. Scott, editor and general manager
of the Atlanta Daily World, was 67. He died Monday. He
was the father of Stanley Scott, formerly of Atlanta and an
aide to the president.
Scott had been in semi-retirement recently after
serving as head of circulation for the Birmingham World.
He had helped the late W.A. Scott II found the Alabama
newspaper, and also worked for the Memphis World.
He was with the Atlanta World after its founding in 1929
as a weekly.
LIFETIME PASS
LONG BEACH, CaUf. (UPI)
—Orin Miller, 48, of Excelsior
Springs, Mo., was piped aboard
the former luxury liner Queen
Mary by bagpipers and given a
lifetime pass to the ship,
celebrating his status as the
millionth visitor since the liner
was opened to the public as a
tourist attraction nine months
ago, the ship operators reported
Thursday.
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ATLANTA—House Appropriations Chairman Rep. James “Sloppy” Floyd of Trion (1) talks with
Rep. Joe T. Wood of Gainesville on the House floor. The Appropriations committee began closed
door meetings to begin work on proposed cuts and increases in the 1972 supplemental
appropriations bill. (UPI)
Exile group
suspected
BELGRADE (UPl)—Govern
ment officials said today that
an exile group known as the
Ustachi may have caused the
crash of a Yugoslav airliner
that killed 27 persons.
The Yugoslav Airlines (JAT)
DC9 exploded and crashed in
northwestern Czechoslovakia
Wednesday on a flight from
Stockholm to Belgrade.
Authorities also said the
Ustachi also may have been
responsible for the explosion
Thursday aboard a train en
route to Vienna from Belgrade
in which six persons were
injured.
Police said the bomb could
have been planted aboard the
airliner before it left Stockholm
or during its brief stopover in
Copenhagen.
Vesna Vulovic, a 22-year-old
hostess from Belgrade was the
only survivor of the airline
crash. She remained in critical
condition at a Belgrade hospital
today and police waited to
question her hoping she could
explain what happened.
Police sources said they
suspected that the Ustachi—a
band of exiled anti-Communists
from the Yugoslav Republic of
Serbia—were responsible for
the airline blast. An alleged
Ustachi member, in a telephone
call to a Swedish newspaper,
said the group put the bomb
aboard the plane before it left
Sweden for Yugoslavia.
If true, it could be the most
serious act in a 25-year-old
campaign of mayhem aimed at
separating Croatia from the
Communist Yugoslavia of Pres
ident Tito, sources said.
The Ustachi take their names
from legendary Croatian rebels.
During World War 11, they ran
Croatia for the Nazis and
carried out mass murders
against both Jews and Croats,
their traditional enemies.
With the defeat of Nazism
their leaders fled and set up
headquarters in Western Eu
rope. Their leader today is Dr.
Branimir Jelic, 64, who pub
lishes a newspaper, Hrvatska
Dezhava (Croatian State) from
a base in West Berlin.
The train explosion occurred
as the leaders of Yugoslavia’s
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