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By Quimby Melton
Sunday’s International Sun
day School lesson has as its title
“Endurance and Christian
Hope.” The Hymn “My Hope Is
Built" by Edward Mote (1797-
1874) is appropriate for this
week’s column on hymns.
My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and right
eousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest
frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’
name.
On Christ, the solid rock, I
stand;
All other ground is sinking
sand,
All other ground is sinking
sand.
When darkness veils his lovely
face,
I rest on his unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
His oath, his covenant, his
blood
Support me in the whelming
flood;
When all around my soul gives
way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
When he shall come with trum
pet sound,
0 may I then in him be found!
Dressed in his righteousness
alone,
Faultless to stand before the
throne!
Underwriters
supporting
heart drive
Griffin Association of Life
Underwriters will support
Heart Month. Members will be
calling on business establish
ments Feb. 14-21 to deliver
literature on the heart and blood
vessel diseases.
They will accept con
tributions to the heart fund fbr
the Griffin-Spalding area.
C. B. Reeves is president of
the underwriters organization.
He called on Griffinites to
support the drive.
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NEW YORK—Author Clifford Irving and his family consisting of son, Barnaby, 2, (1), wife Edith,
and son Ned, 4, talk with newsmeu in hotel lobby. Irving is at the center of a controversy over the
alleged autobiography of Howard Hughes. (UPI)
Justice Dept, rejects
Griffin congress unit
Biederman
Chicago businessmen
found shot to death
GARY, Ind. (UPI (-Three
Chicago businessmen who
disappeared mysteriously three
days ago have been found shot
to death within a seven-mile
radius of Gary.
Police said today they were
looking into the possibility of
“corporate finagling” as a
possible motive for all three
murders, but robbery was not
ruled out as a motive.
The men, partners in Lincoln
Educational Institute located in
Chicago’s Loop, were identified
as C. Foley, 29,
Chicago Heights, Ill.; Daniel
Tobias, 29, Chicago and James
M. Biederman, 30, Downers
Grove, 111. All had been shot
once in the head. All three
disappeared Tuesday night.
Foley’s body was found
Friday morning sprawled in a
snow-covered car which had
been parked for several days
on a street on the west side of
Gary. There was a bullet hole
in the rear window of the car—
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Tobias
which belonged to Biederman.
Biederman’s brief case was
also found in the car.
Other Bodies Found
Several hours later and seven
miles away in Portage, Ind.,
authorities found the bodies of
Tobas and Biderman—about 50
feet apart behind an abandoned
motel lying face down and
frozen stiff.
The FBI joined police from
Gary, Portage, Chicago
Heights, Downers Grove and
Chicago in conducting the
investigation.
All the men were fully
clothed, but all identification
papers were missing. Police
concluded that Tobias and
Biederman apparently were
killed where they were found,
but that Foley was not killed in
Gary.
There was no visible sign of a
struggle at either location,
police said although a .38
caliber slug was found under
neath Tobias’ head.
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Authorities said the murders
looked like a professional job.
“Very Good Location”
“It was a very good location
to hid bodies,” police said of
the area behind the motel. “No
one ever goes there.”
Biederman and Tobias were
last seen about 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday when they stopped
briefly at Tobias’ apartment.
Mrs. Millie Sanchez, Tobias’
sister, said she was in the
kitchen when the men entered,
stayed briefly and left for a
meeting at an unknown loca
tion.
Foley’s wife told authorities
that her husband left home
shortly before 7 p.m. to join
Biederman and Tobias but did
not say where the meeting
would take place.
Police said they learned each
man had recently taken out
$40,000 life insurance policies on
themselves, payable to the
school in the event of their
deatli.
Life calls it hoax
NEW YORK (UPI (-Life
magazine described Clifford
Irving’s purported autobiogra
phy of Howard Hughes as a
“hoax" Friday and announced
it would not publish excerpts
from the book.
In a separate statement,
McGraw-Hill publishers, which
had paid a total of $750,000 for
the book, said investigative
reporter James Phelan had
provided “additional informa
tion concerning a possible
source of the material” in
Irving’s book. Time Inc. also
talked to Phelan.
Meanwhile, Capt. Joseph
McNally, a handwriting expert
for the New York Police
Department, said after testify
ing before a Manhattan grand
jury that “there’s been a
tremendous amount of effort on
someone's part to perpetrate
this fraud." The grand jury is
investigating whether fraud,
perjury and grand larceny were
involved in the preparation of
the book.
Federal Jury Involved
A federal grand jury also has
been hearing evidence to
determine whether mail fraud
was involved. Irving already
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Justice Department Friday re
jected the Georgia General As
sembly’s proposed redistricting
of the sth and 6th congressional
districts on grounds the plan
might dilute black voting
strength in the Atlanta area.
The government approved the
redistricting proposals for Geor
gia’s other eight congressional
districts.
Rep. John J. Flynt, Jr., of
Griffin is the Sixth District
congressman, Rep. Fletcher
Thompson of the Atlanta area is
the Fifth District congressman.
Griffin and Spalding County
woe kept in the Sixth District
when the lines were redrawn
last fall by the General
Assembly.
In the revamp move, Bibb
County with Macon and other
middle Georgia counties were
removed from Rep. Flynt’s
district and some bordering on
the Atlanta area were added
The redistricting plan was
passed in October at a special
session of the General Assembly
after lengthy debate. Black
leaders charged the legislators
gerrymandered the sth and 6th
districts to dilute the black vote
and to prevent a black from
being elected to Congress.
Assistant U. S. Attorney Gen
eral David L. Norman, in a let
ter to Georgia Atty. Gen.
Arthur K. Bolton, said a study
of the proposed redistricting left
the Justice Department “unable
to conclude, as we must under
the Voting Rights Act, that
these boundaries will not have
a discriminatory racial effect
on voting by minimizing or di
luting black voting strength in
the Atlanta area.”
In Atlanta, State Sen.
Johnson, leader of Georgia’s
black legislative caucus, said,
“Os course, this is very good
news to us. We have contended
all along the plan was drawn...
with the purpose of protecting
the sth District’s incumbent
congressman (Republican Flet
cher Thompson)”
Johnson predicted black legis
lators “will have a more effec
tive input into any plan that is
drawn (by the General Assem
bly) to reapportion the sth and
6th districts."
has appeared before it.
Phelan, who built a reputa
tion as an investigative report
er in the 19605, spent two years
working with Noah Dietrich,
now 83, who was a major aide
to Hughes from 1925 until 1957.
Phelan dropped out of the
project before the book was
published, but Dietrich, with
tlie writing aid of another
reporter, is having the book
called “Howard, the Amazing
Hughes” published soon by
Fawcett Publications.
Phelan was questioned about
the Irving book by McGraw-Hill
executives for several hours
Friday, then discussed it with
executives of Time, Inc.
After its talk with Phelan,
Time Inc. issued a statement
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“A fellow’s getting old when
he begins to brag about the
things he tried to conceal while
he was doing them.”
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NORTHHAMPTON, Mass.—Affectionate meeting between little John Alexander of Florence,
Mass., and fawn who is a resident of the zoo at Look Park, makes this tender winter scene. (UPI)
Budget writers asked
for trooper pay hike
ATLANTA (UPI) - The joint
House - Senate Appropriations
Committee was urged Friday
by Public Safety Director Col.
Ray Pope to approve a sl,ooo-a
-year across-the-board pay raise
for state troopers and Georgia
Bureau of Investigation (GBI)
agents.
The committee, holding an
other in a series of public hear
ings on Gov. Jimmy Carter's
1973 budget, also heard from
Agriculture Commissioner Tom
my Irvin and Ben T. Wiggins,
chairman of toe Public Service
Commission.
The committee will resume
hearings Monday.
Pope said the starting pay for
saying: “Time (magazine) in a
cover story to be published next
week, will provide full details
explaining how Irving put
together the manuscript and
carried out his hoax. The Time
cover story will be released to
tlie press on Sunday, Feb. 13.”
SIOO,OOO Already Paid
Time Inc. had promised to
pay McGraw-Hill $250,000 for
serialization rights, and already
had handed over SIOO,OOO of
that sum.
In another development, Al
bert Osborn, head of Osborn
Associates, a handwriting anal
ysis firm, said there was
“definite" evidence of attempt
ed forgery of Hughes’ handwrit
ing in documents in McGraw-
Hill’s possession. The docu
ments allegedly were written
by Hughes.
Reports persisted that Irving
was offering to cooperate with
federal investigators if his wife
and his research assistant
Richard Suskind were guaran
teed immunity from prosecu
tion. But U.S. Attorney Whitney
North Seymour has stated some
of these reports may have been
inaccurate and damaging to the
investigation.
tlie state’s law officers is S2OO
a month below that of the At
lanta Police Department. He
said a SI,OOO raise would raise
the base pay for troopers and
GBI agents to $7,499 per year.
In his report to the commit
tee, Pope said 25 additional
GBI agents approved by the
General Assembly last year
have investigated 704 drug
cases and have seized drugs
worth $2,037,054.
In answer to a question from
committee Chairman James H.
(Sloppy) Floyd, Pope said the
GBI was doing “some drug in
vestigation work on college
campuses around the state.”
Floyd asked, “Don’t you think
we ought to put a lot of em
phasis over there the way they
are voting and some of the
ways they’re acting at the Uni
versity of Georgia?”
Pope replied, “I think if you
will look at the percentage of
tlie total student body that
voted the other day, you’ll find
that most of our students are
level-headed and have their feet
on the ground.”
Pope was referring to a cam
pus referendum which showed
over half the students voting as
favoring marijuana. About one
fourth of the university’s 18,000
students voted in the poll.
Irvin appeared before the
committee to ask it to come up
with $140,000 for the State Farm
Market Bulletin, a weekly pub
lication distributed free by the
Agriculture Department to 266,-
000 readers.
Gov. Jimmy Carter has pro
posed cutting the bulletin back
to a bi-weekly publication with
more pages. Cost of the bulletin
last year was $451,000.
Wiggins told the panel the
$879,000 budgeted for the Public
Service Commission was the
least the PSC could get by on.
He cautioned members of the
committee not to vote for leg
islation giving the PSC addi
tional duties unless they are
willing to provide more money.
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Mills
enters
race
By United Press International
Wilbur D. Mills, the tax
writing congressman from Ar
kansas, has finally decided to
run for the Democratic presi
dential nomination after months
of testing the political waters.
“Knowing that my home
state will offer my name in
contention for the nomination at
the Democratic National Con
vention, and knowing that
Democrats in other states will
go to the convention committed
to support my home state, I
cannot at this time submit the
affidavit that the laws of
Wisconsin require of me to
remove my name from the
ballot,” Mills said Friday in a
statement to Wisconsin Secre
tary of State Robert C.
Zimmerman.
Mills, chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee,
issued a similar statement to
Nebraska Secretary of State
Allen J. Beermann.
Mills’ entry into the race
brought the total of major
Democratic candidates to a
dozen. Only two Republicans,
Reps. John M. Ashbrook of
Ohio and Paul N. McCloskey of
California, have announced
their intentions to run.
Meanwhile Alabama Gov.
George C. Wallace and Sen.
Henry M. Jackson of Washing
ton-campaigned in Florida
where Mills plans to turn his
attention soon.
Wallace told an audience in
lakeland Friday night that the
Communists should be given
the responsibility of rebuilding
North Vietnam, not the United
States as Nixon has suggested.
Wallace called Nixon’s proposal
“a generous offer.”
Jackson, speaking in Jackson
ville, called for an easing of
criticism of Nixon on Vietnam
issues as the President pre
pares for his China trip. “Let’s
give him some elbow room ... a
little moratorium.