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By Quimby Melton
[o, Not Despairingly” is the
n chosen for the hymn of
week. It was written by
itius Bonar (1808-1889). We
v we have used it before,
it is such an encouraging
n we use it again.
not despairingly
le I to Thee ;
not distrustingly
d I the knee:
hath gone over me,
this is still my plea:
is hath died.
mine iniquity
nson hath been,
nite, infinite
upon sin:
of not loving Thee,
of not trusting Thee,
nite sin.
d, I confess to Thee
ly my sin;
I am tell I Thee,
I have been:
•ge Thou my sin away,
sh Thou my soul this day:
•d, make me clean.
thful and just art Thou,
■giving all;
ring and kind art Thou
en poor ones call:
■d, let the cleansing blood,
iod of the Lamb of God,
ss o’er my soul.
en all is peace and light
is soul within;
us shall I walk with Thee,
e loved Unseen;
aning on Thee, my God,
ided along the road,
thing between.
Heart attack
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
Pl)—The “chest pains” suf
ed by former President
ndon B. Johnson Friday were
icially diagnosed today as a
irt attack.
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High winds knocked down this boat house on Mathis Lake last
night during a tornado alert. The winds also stripped some
limbs off trees and uprooted some small ones in the Thomas
street area Mathis Lake subdivision. Residents in the area
Hijacker jumps
with half million
Suspect
birds
destroyed
ATLANTA (UPl)—State agri
culture officials say they have
destroyed almost all of the ex
otic birds which were shipped
to Georgia from a quarantined
area in California and that the
state must spend at least $7,000
to reimburse the pet stores that
had the birds.
Meanwhile, State Agriculture
Commissioner Tommy Irvin has
demanded an explanation from
the U. S. Department of Agri
culture of why federal regula
tions broke down and allowed
shipment of the birds from an
area infected with the deadly
Asiatic Newcastle poultry dis
ease.
Dr. Guy W. Eberhardt, assis
tant commissioner in charge of
the animal industry division,
said Friday that among the
more than 100 birds brought
into Georgia, the ones remain
ing alive were those in one shop
in Statesboro.
“We have had no problems in
getting cooperation of pet shop
owners,” Eberhardt said.
“There hasn’t been any prob
lem either in the disease
spreading and we don’t expect
any.”
He said the state would have
to bear the whole cost of de
stroying the birds, estimated at
between $7,000 and SB,OOO. He
said the federal government re
fused to pay part of the cost
because it was not proven the
birds had Asiatic Newcastle dis
ease.
“We felt the danger was
there even though it might be
remote and we felt we could not
take a chance on spreading the
disease into the Georgia poultry
industry,” Eberhardt said.
“As soon as we receive copies
of invoices from pet shop own
ers, we will start making pay
ments.”
Irvin said he had written a
letter to Dr. Frank Mulherin,
administrator of the federal an
imal plant health inspection
service, asking for prosecution
of persons breaking the quaran
tine or for tightening restric
tions if the quarantene was
broken inadvertently.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Sean Howell, 3, shakes his eyes
from glare while being photographed after he and his
grandmother, Mrs. Richard MacMillan of Denver, were
among the 85 passengers released from hijacked plane at San
Francisco Ihternational Airport. Sean and his grandmother
were seated close to the hijacker in the rear of the plane.
(UPI)
Nixon keeps low
profile on war
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (UPI)
—President Nixon is maintain
ing the lowest possible profile
regarding the battle in Indochi
na which he once called the
final test of his policy of
Vietnamization.
The President is spending a
long weekend in the sun at his
villa beside Biscayne Bay.
Aides said he is keeping close
touch with the Vietnamese
fighting.
But White House spokesmen
turned aside almost all ques
tions about the Communist
offensive, referring newsmen
either to the Pentagon or State
Department.
Nixon arrived at his turquoise
and white one-story home
Thursday afternoon and has
been secluded behind its high
hibiscus hedge most of the time
since.
The President and his friend,
C. G. “Bebe” Rebozo, took a
90-minute cruise aboard Re
bozo’s houseboat Coco Lobo II
who were awake when the storm hit said it made a loud noise
that lasted a few moments. Limbs were scattered about the
area this morning.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, April 8, 1972
Friday afternoon. It was his
<mly foray away from the
compound during the day.
Nixon told his most recent
news conference March 24 that
he was confident the South
Vietnamese forces could re
pulse an offensive which was
then widely expected.
He said if South Vietnam’s
lines held, it would be the
“final proof of the success” of
the Vietnamization policy.
Since the offensive began last
week, the White House has
been reluctant to discuss it. The
silence became almost deafen
ing during press secretary
Ronald L. Ziegler’s regular
briefing Friday.
Ziegler was asked if Nixon
had placed restrictions on the
targets which U. S. bombers hit
in North Vietnam.
“The question of limiting the
area of activity has been asked
over the last few days of the
Defense Department, the State
Department and, indeed, today,
I am sure, the secretary of
defense,” he responded.
PROVO, Utah (UPI)-A cool,
bespectacled man armed with a
pistol and grenade pulled off
the most expensive hijacking of
a domestic jetliner Friday and
[dunged into the cold night sky
with half a million dollars and
a bugged parachute.
A Utah Highway Patrol
spokesman said a radio signal
from the parachute had been
spotted in mudflats between
Utah Lake and the Provo
Airport. Mud in the area is
between one and eight feet
deep, said highway patrolman
Ron Law.
“Nobody much goes down
there, just ducks,” he said.
FBI agents, highway patrol
men and sheriffs deputies with
dogs had converged on the
area. Helicopters, equipped
with searchlights, swept over
the mudflats and dropped
flares.
The United Air Lines Boeing
727 landed safely in Salt Lake
City late Friday night and
police headed into the region to
look for “T. Johnson,” the
name the hijacker used to buy
his ticket.
Hijacker Dons Jumpsuit
“It would seem that the
hijacking was well thought out,
well planned and he obviously
had knowledge of parachutes,”
said a United official. The
hijacker donned a jumpsuit just
before parachuting out.
It was the highest ransom
ever paid in a U.S. skyjacking.
The highway patrol said the
money was in a black attache
case and included 5, 10, 20, and
100 dollar bills.
The man, described as 30,
whitp, medium build and
wearing a wig and fake
mustache, pulled off the crime
without ever leaving his seat.
He took over the plane and
handed typewritten notes to a
stewardess who carried them to
the pilot.
Earlier the airline said the
hijacker bailed out over Neva
da, but the report proved
erroneous. The company said it
was an “honest mistake”
because the pilot radioed when
he saw a signal light flash on to
indicate the rear exit was open.
The hijacker took over the
plane a few minutes after it left
Denver for Los Angeles. He
forced it to fly to San Francisco
where $500,000 and several
parachutes were loaded aboard
and the passengers allowed to
disembark 3 1-2 hours later.
Plane Takes Off
The plane then took off and
flew north over the snowy
Sierra Nevada, then east over
Nevada and Utah where the
hijacker parachuted out and
disappeared into the night.
“I saw him open a bag he
had and take out a hand
grenade and put it in his coat
pocket. My heart jumped,” said
Joseph Zaleski, a passenger
sitting across the aisle from the
hijacker.
A stewardess said the hijack
er sent an envelope to the pilot
containing the pin from a
grenade.
The 95 passengers and
crewmen aboard the plane sat
inside during most of the 3%
hour ordeal on the ground at
San Francisco, in which the
hijacker pressed crewmen and
a convict who was being
transferred to San Quentin
Prison into service.
“A half hour after landing the
hijacker handed me a note
saying, ‘Go see the captain,”’
said the prisoner, William R.
Coggin, 21, Sacramento, Calif.
He said the captain told him to
bring aboard the plane two
satchels containing the $500,000
ransom money.
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AUGUSTA, Nicklaus sinks a birdie putt in Masters competition in Augusta. Fourth and
final round of the international event will be held tomorrow. (UPI)
Nix urges teachers
to act with reason
ATLANTA (UPI)-Jack P.
Nix urged Georgia’s teachers
Friday to act with reason and
unity in the face of a society
“populated with assorted groups
of people, all of whom think
they know how to run the
schools better than educators
do.”
In a prepared speech to the
Georgia Association of Educat-
Fire won’t quit
ATLANTA (UPI)-A massive
gasoline fire in suburban Dora
ville raged on today, defying
repeated doses of chemical
foam aimed at smothering the
two-day-old blaze which has
killed two persons and de
stroyed three nearby homes.
Flames in one of three turn
ing tanks went out Friday, ap
parently after all the gasoline
in that tank had been con
sumed, but fires in the other
two tanks continued. Firemen
continued spraying thousands of
gallons of water on adjacent
tanks to keep the fire from
spreading.
The threat of further explo
sions appeared to have eased,
however, and DeKalb County
Chief Deputy Dudley Martin is
sued an all-clear for the com
munity with the exception of
two streets in the immediate
area of the tanks.
Martin said of the fire, “It’s
beat back everything we’ve got.
If you had enough foam, if you
had enough water, enough pow
der, enough sand, maybe you
could stop it. But that’s a let of
if’s.”
“This fire is right where it
was when we got here yester
day (Thursday). That should
speak for itself.”
Firemen tried stopping the
fire with foam four times Fri
day and were expected to try
ors, Nix said a credibility gap
would continue between teach
ers and the public but “a unit
ed education profession can
meet these new challenges’just
as it has confronted and solved
problems in the past.”
He praised the teachers for
their efforts in facing “appar
ently impossible tasks of at
tempting to teach in situations
again today. Each time the
foam was applied the flames
subsided, but when the foam
ran out, the fire sprang back.
Sections of one tank col
lapsed, apparently preventing
foam from reaching all the
flames.
“We don’t know what the hell
to do now,” said petroleum fire
expert Jack Edwards. “We’ve
got a new problem now.”
The fire began shortly after
dawn Thursday with a thunder
ous explosion which shook
homes as much as 10 miles
away and sent flames leaping
300 to 400 feet in the air.
Killed were Eugene Smith, 31,
a workman at the refinery, and
Waycross policemen
seek welfare aid
WAYCROSS, Ga. (UPl)—Thir
teen Waycross policemen want
to be put on welfare and two
have been accepted.
“All we ask is enough money
to be able to support our fami
lies without having to depend on
welfare,” said one patrolman,
joining his fellow officers in ap
plying for food stamps.
Welfare officials said the ap
plications of two policemen
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where even discipline seemed
unattainable.”
Nix said the past seven years
while desegregation has been
carried out “have been es
pecially trying for you, the
classroom teachers who have
borne the responsibility of mak
ing sure that learning takes
place no matter what the racial
composition of the students as
signed to your classroom.”
James Sloan, 29, an occupant of
one of the houses destroyed.
A number of others were in
jured, including firemen, while
scores of firefighters were over
come temporarily by the fierce
heat.
State Comptroller General
Johnnie Caldwell, who also
serves as fire marshal, has
promised an immediate investi
gation into the blaze.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
66, low today 48, high yesterday
77, low yesterday 56. Total
rainfall .43 of an inch. Sunrise
tomorrow 6:21, sunset
tomorrow 6:58.
have been processed and they
are eligible to receive the
stamps.
The starting pay for a Way
cross policeman is $391 a
month, but Police Chief H. E.
Bond said the salaries are no
lower than salaries paid in
cities of comparable size. Way
cross has about 30,000 people.
Asked if the patrolmen need
ed the food stamps, the chief
said: “I don’t think so.”