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Lockheed pushes
for new AF order
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPI) — Lockheed-Georgia has
stepped up its drive to get an Air Force contract to build
an advance medium short takeoff and landing transport
aircraft, promising the government it would assign some
of its top personnel to the project.
Lockheed President L. 0. Kitchen said today Lockheed
and its partner in the bidding, North American Rockwell
of Los Angeles, would put on the project “the very best
military airlift aircraft people in the country.”
The Air Force will give contracts to two firms and each
will produce two prototype aircraft.
Under the Lockheed-North American proposal, R. B.
Ormsby would be named to a new vice presidency to
manage the project and R. V. Williams would be deputy
manager.
Other Lockheed personnel with major jobs would be W.
P. French, C. B. Payne, C. H. Cannon, C. L. Johnson, E. C.
Mort, A. Vierek and C. M. Vandersee.
The proposal also calls for a small prototype shop where
Lockheed and North American specialists would work
side-by-side.
Georgia districts
in disputed cases
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Five desegregation cases
involving school districts in Georgia are among about 50
cases in federal courts that might be affected by
President Nixon’s proposed moratorium on new busing
decrees, according to an unofficial list compiled by United
Press International.
The Georgia school districts are Atlanta, Decatur City,
Elbert County, Newton County and Taylor County.
A case involving Tift County, which is now in the formal
hearing stage, also might be affected.
In addition, dozens of other cases across the country
where busing already has been ordered could be reopened
later if Congress passes all of Nixon’s proposals.
Among those that might be reopened are four Georgia
cases involving Bulloch County, Clayton County, Chatham
County and Valdosta.
Elberton man
held in explosion
ELBERTON, Ga. (UPl)—Police have charged an
Elberton man with murdering his mother-in-law and
injuring his estranged wife by wiring up a dynamite
charge that went off when the two women started their
car.
Arrested Saturday was Johnny Isom, 23, who had been
separated from his wife for several weeks, according to
Sheriff Adger Moore.
The blast Friday killed Mrs. Mamie Moore, 40,
demolished her car and sent Isom’s wife to the hospital
with bums. She later was released.
Search resumes
for Athens man
ELBERTON, Ga. (UPl)—Authorities resume
searching today for an Athens man who tried Saturday to
swim 200 yards across the Broad River but went under as
friends watched from the shore.
Rescue units dragged portions of the rain-swollen river
Sunday for the body of Harrison Hall, 41, without success.
Authorities feared the body was caught on submerged
debris.
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Atlanta doctor
battles smallpox
BELGRADE (UPI) — An Atlanta physician, Dr.
Michael Lane, is directing a team of American doctors
helping Yugoslav health officials fight a smallpox
outbreak which has claimed 21 lives so far.
The U. S. medical team brought along 24 vaccine jet
injectors each capable of dispensing 1,000 shots an hour.
The doctors were assisting with the vaccination program
in Belgrade and Kosovo province.
Health authorities said they had nearly completed
immunizing all of Yugoslavia’s 20 million inhabitants and
that the worst of the outbreak apparently was over.
Anti-trust suit
filed against GOA
ATLANTA (UPI) — A $1.65 million anti-trust suit has
been filed against the American and Georgia Optometric
Associations and the State Board of Optometric
Examiners.
The suit, filed Friday, charges the organizations of
attempting to monopolize business and inflate prices.
The suit was filed by nine Georgia optometrists and two
consumers. It asks SIOO,OOO in actual damages for the
optometrists and $450,000 for 150,000 Georgians who wear
glasses. Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act triple
damages can be collected.
The suit alleges that some 150,000 persons bought
eyeglasses in Fulton County last year and paid more than
the fair market price.
The GOA and the AOA have harassed and intimidated
the plaintiffs in order to eliminate competition and set up
high prices, the suit alleges.
“The AOA, in conspiracy with other named defendants
and with state optometric associations and state
examining boards in all 50 states and the District of
Columbia, has restrained competition in the eye care
field, resulting in creating an artificially high cost of eye
care including glasses and other ophthalmic appliances,
to the public,” the suit says.
Man, wife’s uncle
die in gunbattle
ATLANTA (UPI)—A man and his wife’s uncle were
killed Sunday night in a shootout which climaxed a
domestic quarrel.
Police identified the victims as John Weston Vaughn, 27,
and Robert Lewis Sr., 63.
Officers said Vaughn went to an apartment complex
looking for his wife and fired a shotgun blast through a
door when she refused to come out.
Police were summoned to the scene and Vaughn left but
returned when the officers went to his apartment. He
asked again for his wife but she hid, witnesses said, and he
went next door to the apartment occupied by Lewis.
Vaugh fired another shotgun blast, police said, and his
fire was returned by Charlie Lyons, who was in the
apartment with some others.
Lyons said he then heard several shots and went outside
to find both Lewis and Vaughn dead. Vaughn had been hit
in the chest and Lewis was shot in the back of the head.
Suspects seeking
trial site change
CUMMING, Ga. (UPI) —Two of four men charged with
killing two Forsyth County deputies learn today whether a
superior court judge will approve their request for a
change in location for their trials.
Blue Ridge Circuit Judge Marion T. Pope received the
requests last week from Marcus Wayne Ratledge and
James Lingerfelt and said he would make a decision
today.
The two men were among four accused of shooting
deputies Bill Cantrell and Larry Mulkey and stuffing their
bodies in the trunk of their patrol car Jan. 8.
Water bill
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPl)—The
postmark on the envelope was
April 1. Inside, a water bill for
a student in the amount of
$10,015 charging him for
999,971,400 gallons of water
during the month of March.
“That’s almost a billion!” the
student, William T. Hooper Jr.
said when he got the bill.
Hooper, who attends the
University of Texas, received a
water bill of $2.88 last month.
“I own a small house on a
snail lot —no swimming pool,
no nothing,” he said. Hooper
planned to take the bill back to
the water department today for
an explanation.
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MANN, W. Va.—Survivors of the Buffalo Creek Hollow flood Feb. 26 take part in Easter egg hunt
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Burson starts walk
DILLARD, Ga. (UPI)-State
Treasurer Bill Burson stepped
off on a 1,066 mile campaign
Smoking
expected
to jump
WASHINGTON (UPI)-In a
reversal of earlier forecasts,
government economists now see
a chance that the average
American smoker will be
lighting up more cigarettes per
day by 1980 than he is now.
One year ago, following three
straight years of declining per
capita cigarette use, experts
predicted consumption would
drop from the current rate of
near 200 packs a year to about
150 packs by 1980 —a 25 per
cent decline.
But in 1971, use recovered to
203 packs per capita and that
figure now is expected to hold
steady in 1972. As a result, an
Agriculture Department report
said today, new projections hold
out the possibility that 1980 per
capita consumption “may fall
only slightly from the current
level, or even increase slightly,
depending on the health issue,
prices and the makeup of the
population.”
The report, based on an
earlier speech to an industry
meeting by economist Robert
H. Miller, said the biggest
gaining population age-group
during the 1970’s probably will
be the 25 to 34 year old.
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hike today which he hopes ulti
mately will take him to the
U. S. Senate.
It was shortly after 8 a. m.
when Burson, accompanied by
his wife and two daughters,
stepped across the North Caro
lina line on his way to “Tybee
Light byway of Columbus to
meet the people of Georgia.”
A small crowd braved the 32-
degree temperatures and freez
ing rain to watch Burson launch
his campaign.
He told reporters he hopes to
make about 10 miles a day and
will aim at reaching Tallulah
Falls before the day is over.
Burson is a Democrat and an
avowed supporter of Alabama
Gov. George Wallace.
During the last session of the
General Assembly, over his loud
objections, Burson was stripped
of most of his duties as treas
urer and a referendum this fall
will decide if the office of treas
urer is abolished altogether.
Burson said he believes that
“stabilization of the economy
and quality education” will be
the two main issues in the Sen
ate race.
Burson joins a packed field,
which includes the incumebnt,
Sen. David Gambrell. Others in
the race include state Rep. Sam
Nunn of Perry, former gover
nor Ernest Vandiver of Lavonia,
Wyman C. Lowe of Atlanta and
J. B. Stoner of Marietta.
Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox has
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taken a poll of Georgians to find
out if they want him to run, but
said last week he couldn’t tell
much from it. He had indicated
he would rather run for gover
nor than senator.
Another possible candidate in
the Democratic primary is State
Public Service Commissioner
Bobby Pafford.
AtlantaCongressmanFletcher
Thompson has already jumped
into the race for the Republican
senatorial nomination.
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HUD quits
contract
with D & B
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Housing and Urban Develop
ment Department (HUD) has
suspended contracts with Dun
and Bradstreet Inc. for credit
ratings on single family home
mortgages.
Dunn and Bradstreet, the
nation’s largest credit rating
organization was indicted last
Wednesday in New York City in
connection with an alleged
credit scheme that would cost
the federal treasury $23 million.
HUD said in a .statement
revealing the suspension Sun
day that earlier reports of
losses in the hundreds of
millions were inaccurate. No
tice of the suspension was
made in telegrams last Thurs
day to Dun and Bradstreet and
the Federal Housing Adminis
tration’s (FHA) 87 regional
offices.
FHA, the arm of HUD that
underwrites home mortgages,
had contracts with Dun and
Bradstreet for reports on
individual credit standings
based on commercial and court
records.
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