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By Quimby Melton
I Weekend Notes:
1 President Nixon will arrive in
ashington tonight after his
liek long visit to Red China
other places in the Orient.
, Jny attempt to evaluate the
- jits of the meetings with
, Ktnier Chou En-lai, Com
bust party leader Mao Tes
|i' and others would be
fish. But it is hoped the
Z teetings will bring lessening of
*’nsions and opening the door
v>r settlement of differences
Zetween the two big and
.-powerful nations.
B There were meetings galore;
I there was entertainment and
* banqueting; and Chinese
newspapers, controlled by the
government, actually published
, pictures of the American
president, his wife, and some
others on the American
mission.
* There were statements
saying that friendship between
Uncle Sam and China would
result. Just how long this
“friendship” will last, no one
knows.
President Nixon’s departure
« from China was held up several
hours. It was finally reported
that a special last minute
“called meeting” was being
* held. Then it was announced
that the two nations had
“pledged” that neither would
, attempt to dominate Asia.” It
also was announced that
President Nixon had promised
to remove all American troops
• from Formosa.
The President’s plane will
arrive in Washigton tonight
about 9:00 o’clock.
’ Left behind at Peking were
five newsmen—four newspaper
reporters and one magazine
correspondent.
Arab commandos hijacked a
plane over Bombay, and had it
flown to an airfield in Southern
• Yemen.
Among the 122 passengers
was Joseph F. Kennedy 111.,
eldest son of the late Senator
Robert F. Kennedy. The
passengers finally were
released when |5-million in
* ransom was paid.
When a dam that held back a
lake in the mountains of West
• Virginia broke, a wall of water
swept into the coal-mining
valley. The death toll has been
set at 60 and it is feared will be
much larger when all the
rubbish and wreckage has been
deared. President Nixon has
. radioed sympathy to the
Governor and says he will
declare that area a disaster
area and provide help.
The Georgia General
Assembly after its two week
( “leave” met this morning with
a full calendar of bills to be
considered in the nine
remaining days of the regular
< session.
Leaders of both Houses and
the Governor are hopeful all
> business will be dared by the
end of the session.
Here at home:
■ Three men were arrested and
charged with having broken
into Jim Pridgen Hardware and
stealing thousands of dollars
worth of guns and ammunition,
which they transported in the
company truck. The truck and
rknost of the loot has been
recovered.
F-
Griffin had its first fatality in
an auto wreck for the year.
Thursday night a snail car left
he South Hill-Eighth street
„ nteresection, turned over
leveral times killing Miss
Hunt and injuring three
ither young ladies, one them
ler twin sister.
)
i Dr. Earl (“Rip”) Savage of
i \ the Georgia Experiment
-Station, considered one of the
best experts on peaches in the
South, said in spite of the un
* predictable brand of weather
we have been having, the peach
| crop in Georgia has not been too
J badly damaged.
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President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai bid each other
farewell at Shanghai airport, ending historic meeting. (UPI)
Senate tackles
power measure
ATLANTA (UPI)-The Geor
gia Senate tackled a controver
sial electric power bill today,
but delayed action for a short
while until all of the proposed
16 amendments could be print
ed.
Similar to a measure which
died in the House, the bill would
permit the State Public Service
Commission to regulate terri
torial boundaries for all pro-
Spalding
paving
bids asked
The State Highway Depart
ment has called for bids on two
paving projects in Spalding
County.
One seeks bids for widening
and resurfacing the Griffin-
McDonough road, State Route
155, for 8.65 miles. The project
will begin at Route 16 in
Spalding County and go to the I
-75 intersection.
The other calls for paving
2.462 miles on the County Line
road near State Route 3 North of
Sunny Side and extending east
to Rocky Creek road.
Bids on both projects will be
opened at 11 a.m. March 17 in
the State Highway building in
Atlanta.
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MAN, West Virginia—Ten-year-old Diana Pierson holds her two-month-old sister in refugee
center. The girls are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Pierson of Lorado, one of five coal
towns levelled by a flash flood. The Pierson family, including a grandfather, escaped the flood to
higher ground with water lapping their ankles. (UPI)
GRIFFIN
DAI IA NEWS
Daily Since 1872
ducers of electric power in
Georgia.
Involved are the Georgia
Power Co., rural electric coop
eratives and about 50 municipal
ities which furnish their own
power. The House bill died be
cause the three power groups
could not agree on certain fea
tures of the bill.
Among the amendments of
fered—to be considered later to
day—was one to exempt all
areas served by the Tennessee
Valley Authority, which includes
a small portion of northwest
Georgia, and another which
would allow a one-mile buffer
zone for expansion. 1
Senate action on Gov. Jimmy
Carter’shuman resources board,
a part of his reorganization
plan, was expected to get under
way after adjournment today
when the Committee on Econ
omy, Reorganization and Ef
ficiency in Government meets
to report out the bill.
However, the form of the
measure is not expected to meet
with Carter’s approval nor to be
the same as the one approved
by the House which Carter pre
fers. The House bill abolished
the State Health Board and put
the department under a 15-
member board that includes 15
physicians.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, Feb. 28, 1972
Taiwan concession
undercuts Chiang
ANCHORAGE (UPI)-Pres
ident Nixon is on his way home
from China and “the week that
changed the world.”
His “Spirit of ’76” jetliner
returned Nixon to American
soil shortly after 5 a.m. EST
today when it landed at snow
covered Elmendorf Air Force
Base near Anchorage.
A motorcade whisked him to
the home of Lt. Gen. Robert
Ruegg, the U.S. Alaska military
district commander, for a nine
hour rest before Nixon leaves
Alaska for tonight’s arrival at
Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
The jetliner flew over the
North Pole from Shanghai
where the President and
Chinese leaders Sunday an
nounced the result of their
week of talks.
Nixon and his hard-bargain
ing ideological opposites from
Peking agreed upon exchanges
of visitors, trade and ideas.
But Nixon made a major
concession to the Communists
which undercuts his Nationalist
Chinese ally, Chiang Kai-shek,
and casts a cloud over the
future of the “other China” on
the island of Taiwan, 100 miles
offshore.
No comparable concession
from the Chinese was apparent.
President Seems Convinced
But the President seemed
convinced today that his
mission was a success and that
he had broken two decades of
mutual distrust which twice in
a generation—in Korea and
Vietnam—have seen each coun
try supporting opposite armies
in Asian wars.
On the flight from Shanghai
to Anchorage, Nixon conferred
in private with chief aides and
worked on papers.
A big welcome from Nixon’s
official family and the Washing
ton diplomatic corps awaited
him and his wife, Pat, in
Washington but it was not yet
certain whether the ambassa
dor from Taiwan would attend
<r would boycott it to register
his country’s “shock” at
Nixon’s agreement with his
Communist hosts.
Nixon feels that more impor
tant than the document he and
Premier Chou En-lai produced
in 18 hours of taxing private
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CAPE KENNEDY—The launch of Pioneer 10 Jupiter was rescheduled for tonight after an electric
power failure postponed the trip last night Weather had threatened to delay the experiment but
cleared and the launch was on a scheduled countdown when the power failure occurred. The
spacecraft, powered by four nuclear generators, is scheduled to reach Jupiter about Dec. 21, 1973.
It is the fastest and fartherest journey in space ever undertaken. (UPI)
Water board okays
dredging on Flint
The Georgia Water Quality
Control Board voted 5-1 today to
allow property owners on Flint
River in the Clayton County
area to resume dredging.
Sane other property owners
in Clayton opposed to the
Bloodmobile
here tomorrow
The bloodmobile will be in
Griffin tomorrow for the first of
its five visits here this year.
Lin Thompson, chairman,
hopes that 240 pints of blood can
be secured. He pointed out that
since the number of visits has
been cut from six to five per
year, more blood will be needed
during each visit to keep
Griffin’s program active.
Headquarters will be set up at
the First Baptist Church
Cheatham building from 11 a.m.
till 5 p.m.
GO known dead
300 missing
MAN, W.Va. (UPI) -When
the lights went out in their
homes, the miners of Buffalo
Creek Valley knew what that
meant —the coal waste dam
holding a mile-long, rain
swollen pool of water at the
head of the steep, narrow
valley had given way.
Picking up mud, rocks, cars,
bridges, people, parts of houses
and whole houses as it roared
down the 18-mile-long valley
where 6,500 persons lived in 14
mining communities, the 30-
foot-high wall of water swept one
small town off the map
Saturday and piled debris 10
and 20 feet above some of the
bridges which span the valley.
Gov. Arch Moore declared it a
disaster area and President
Nixon, in China, promised
federal aid.
By today, 60 bodies had been
recovered from the planks and
mud; 300 were missing, and
4,000 were homeless.
Vol. 100 NO. 48
dredging indicated they would
take the fight to court. They
said they would file a suit in
Clayton County against the
dredging.
R. S. (Rock) Howard,
Georgia’s top water pollution
fighter, had fought to stop the
Flint dredging.
The Georgia Water Quality
Control Board opened a hearing
on the dredging fight in Atlanta
today.
Prior to the meeting, Mr.
Howard said to a Griffin Daily
News staffer at the meeting:
“Will Griffin intervene if we
lose? I think there’s a chance
we will (lose).”
Howard appeared pessimistic
in this round of his fight to stop
dredging near Riverdale.
Dr. John Venable, State
Department of Hellth Director,
conducted the hearings this
morning. He is a former
resident of Griffin and former
Health Department director
National Guardsmen today
searched the wreckage of every
house for more bodies.
Like an Ocean
“It was like an ocean,” said
Mrs. Roy Deese, who escaped
with her husband and three
daughters from their home at
Stove, two miles below Lorado,
the town which was destroyed.
“There were waves tossing all
over.”
Albert Kilgore of Lorado
which had 700 or 800 residents,
watched from a hillside as a
man ran back to untie a dog
from a stake.
“The water just swept over
him. His mother was standing
on the porch. We couldn’t get to
either of them before the house
was washed away,” he said.
Mrs. Naomi Hall lives atop a
hill at Robinette and can see
seven miles along the valley.
“We stood on our porch and
watched seven miles of what
used to be homes for a lot of
here.
Howard has contended that
dredging will endanger the
water supply to Griffin from
Flint River.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
70, low today 36, high yesterday
45, low yesterday 39. Total
rainfall Saturday .52 of an Inch.
Sunrise tomorrow 7:12, sunset
tomorrow 6:30.
JiX
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1 “Folks used to limit their
I wants according to advice in the
Good Book — now they’re
guided by their checkbooks.”
people go by,” she said.
Banks Serve as Dams
In Logan County where the
valley is, and neighboring
Mingo County, 25 large banks of
coal waste serve as dams,
though many of them were not
engineered for that purpose,
said the U.S. Geological Survey
in Washington. It said they lack
overflow channels and adequate
s>illways. It estimates there
are at least 75 such dams in
Kentucky, Virginia, West
Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Last Thursday, after a 25-
inch snowfall and on the first of
three days of heavy rain, two
small coal waste dams further
up the valley gave way.
The water from their settling
pools rushed into the large pool
north of Lorado. The dam there
held back the steadily mounting
water for two days.
At 8 a.m. Saturday, the lights
went out in the miners’ homes.
Inside Tip
Taiwan
See Page 7
Richmond
schools
boycotted
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) - A
one-day boycott of Richmond
County and Augusta schools to
protect racial busing shut down
public schools today and also
affected newly-created private
academies.
The boycott, the second in
two weeks aimed at massive
busing ordered by a federal
judge to desegregate all schools,
found both white and black
parents alike keeping their chil
dren home.
Related story page six.
At the Wilkinson Garden
Elementary School, one of seven
affected by the federal order,
only four students of the enroll
ment of 85 in four classrooms
appeared.
At John Milledge Elementary,
another involved in the court
ruling, Mrs. Louise Morris, who
normally has a class of 20, in
duding one black reported
none of her students appeared.
“I guess I’ll just spend the
day straightening up, getting
ready for tomorrow,” Mrs. Mor
ris said.
The “Freedom School,” a pri
vate institution set up at Craw
ford Avenue Baptist Church af
ter the first boycott, said virtu
ally none of the normal enroll
ment of some 300 students ap
peared today.
In contrast to the first boy
cott, when large numbers of
white parents appeared at the
affected schools, the campus
grounds were deserted.
Although boycott backers had
urged a statewide walkout, it
appeared that most of the pro
test would be confined to Rich
mond County.
However, one north Georgia
system, Butts County, was
closed today by Supt. Bill Jones
after three anonymous calls
that a bomb had been planted
in Jackson High School and was
set to go off at 10 a.m. A
search by police failed to turn
up any excplosive device.
The boycott followed a Sun
day rally at which Lt. Gov. Les
ter Maddox denounced five
Democratic presidential candi
dates as “liars and hypocrites”
before an estimated 6,000 cheer
ing persons.