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-Griffin Daily News Thursday, July 6,1972
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Drugs
Mother tells how they killed son
MIAMI (UPl)—Three months
before he died of an overdose of
pure heroin, Michael Fletcher
told his mother the name of the
man he bought the narcotic
from. She passed the name on to
police.
The man was arrested, and
released on bail. “My son was
afraid he might be killed,” Mrs.
Fletcher said.
He was killed, by heroin, “and
two boys dumped his body in the
Mt. Sinai Hospital parking lot
by the bay,” she testified
Wednesday during the first day
of three days of hearings by the
House subcommittee on crime
and drug abuse which is
examining drug use in schools.
Retail sales up
ATLANTA (UPI) — Retail
sales rose 15.7 per cent in Geor
gia during the first quarter of
1972, according to figures of the
state Chamber of Commerce.
A survey of all 159 counties
showed sales of $3,047,886,000
Not the Bishop
ST. ALBANS, England (UPI)
—Churchgoers heading for St.
Alban’s cathedral were a bit
surprised by what they heard
coming from Bishop Robert
Runcie’s adjoining garden.
Wolf whistles and the strains
of such secular songs as
“Daisy, Daisy” and “Happy
Birthday” where hardly what
they expected from their
bishop.
The undignified racket
stopped when Kaffa the mynah
bird was captured from the
garden and returned to its
owner, who lives a street away.
Said a spokesman for the
bishop, “I’m sure no one would
believe it was the bishop
whistling. Bishops don’t do that
sort of thing, do they?”
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Teen-Agers Called
Today, teen-agers were called
to testify.
The boys who dumped
Michael's body pleaded guilty
to first degree murder June 18
and were sentenced to two
years in prison. A third boy who
was to testify at the trial died of
a drug overdose, Mrs. Fletcher
said.
The peddler met a violent
death.
“I can only guess that
organized crime had a great
deal to do with these three
deaths,” she said.
Hers was only one of the
stories the subcommittee heard
during the day.
for the first three months as
compared with $2,633,269,000 for
the same period last year.
The chamber based its survey
on Department of Revenue in
formation for adjusted gross tax
amounts.
The report showed Jeff Davis
County, in south-central Geor
gia, with the biggest percent
age increase in retail sales,
49.5 per cent. Macon County
was second with 41.3 per cent.
In volume, Fulton County led
all the counties with sales of
$827.6 million, up 12.2 per cent.
DeKalb was second with $273.5
million, a rise of 25.0 per cent.
Sales were up 12.7 per cent
in Chatham County with $138.1
million; Muscogee increased 6.6
per cent to $109.3 million; Cobb
was up 25.8 per cent to $134.3
million; Richmond rose 15.5 per
cent to $116.4 million; Bibb up
8.3 per cent to $113.5 and Clarke
$52.9, a rise of 14.4 per cent.
Baker County, located in the
southwest corner of the state,
was the only county to show a
decline in retail sales — down
3 per cent to $941,000.
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Another woman, Mrs.
Prescola Benaby, wife of a
postal worker, said her 18-year
old heroin addict son locked
himself in a room and strangled
his 5-year-old sister while the
mother pounded helplessly on
the door.
In Mental Hospital
“There he was strangling my
little baby daughter and I
couldn’t get in,” Mrs. Benaby
said. “Where he is at now, I
tried and tried to get him there”
before the strangling. The son is
in a mental hospital.
Both mothers, and a third
whose son also died of a heroin
overdose, said their sons
Gambrell won’t support McGovern
ATLANTA (UPI) - Sen.
David Gambrell, running for
election to a full term, an
nounced Wednesday that he will
not support George McGovern
for the presidency.
Gambrell said he made the
decision several weeks ago be
cause of the South Dakota sen
ator’s negative stance on school
busing.
Other candidates in the
crowded field for U. S. Senate
tossed out statements Wednes
day. Former Gov. Ernest Van
diver charged that Gambrell
had once tried to change the
Chess match may start Sunday
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI)
—The president of the World
Chess Federation (FIDE) said
today the much-postponed
match between Bobby Fischer
and Boris Spassky may finally
get under way Sunday.
Dr. Max Euwe, president of
FIDE, said “The match will
start on Sunday or at the latest
Tuesday.” He said he felt the
major outstanding differences
had been settled at a meeting
between FIDE, the Icelandic
organizers and Spassky’s advi
sers early today.
But Lothar Schmid, the FIDE
referee for the match, wasn’t
so optimistic. “This is if
everything goes according to
plan,” he said. “Things can still
go wrong.”
Fischer Challenges Spassky
Fischer, a 29-year-old chess
genius from Brooklyn, is
challenging Spassky, a Russian,
for the world championship
Spassky now holds'. The match
originally was to have started
last Sunday but Fischer failed
Nixon makes review
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.
(UPl)—President Nixon called
in his top political aides today
for an election-year review of
his administration’s legislative
program.
Clark MacGregor, Nixon’s
campaign manager who until
last week was his chief liaison
with Congress, will attend the
meeting along with William
Timmons, now the chief con
gressional liaison, and domestic
adviser John D. Ehrlichman
and Fred Malek, MacGregor’s
assistant on the campaign
state’s method of selecting state
judges and State Rep. Sam
Nunn rapped foreign aid expen
ditures.
Gambrell said he was notify
ing McGovern about his non-sup
port decision by telegram. He
charged that McGovern had
failed to deal honestly with so
called forced school busing in
that he had failed to give any
assurances that the South would
not be discriminated against if
he should be elected.
“Therefore, regardless of his
stands on other issues, I will
not support George McGovern
to show up in time, touching off
a furor.
Schmid said the draw of lots
to decide who is to play white
in the first of the 24 games in
the $250,000 match will be held
tonight (4 p.m. EDT).
Euwe said a new meeting,
also involving Fischer’s advi
sers, will be held today.
He said he felt the Soviet
demand for a penalty for the
American challenger for show
ing up late for the start of the
match “might be settled later”
at the FIDE congress in
Skopje, Yugoslavia.
But Schmid said the Soviet
demand that Fischer forfeit the
first game—and a crucial point
in the battle for the world title
—was still not completely
solved..
One other point to be settled
was Spassky’s demand for a
signed apology from Fischer.
No such document has yet been
presented to the Russian world
champion but Euwe said he was
satisfied that it would be for-
committee.
Press Secretary Ronald Zie
gler said the session was called
to discuss pending legislation
and to assure a smooth
transition in the office charged
with managing the White
House’s relations with Con
gress.
Nixon is here for a two-week
working vacation while the
Democrats pick his opponent in
the November elections.
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started on the drug path by
smoking marijuana, and pro
gressed to heroin.
However, Harold Gibber, one
of five school teachers involved
in annti-drug programs who
testified before the committee,
said he thought the legalization
'of marijuana would lead to a
sharp reduction in its use by
school children.
Rep. Claude Pepper, D-Fla.
heads the group of seven
congressmen holding the hear
ing in an all-black junior high
school in Miami’s Liberty City,
scene of rioting during the 1968
Republican National
Convention at Miami Beach.
as a candidate for president of
the United States,” Gambrell
said.
Vandiver said that when
Gambrell was president of the
Georgia Bar Association he
tried to ram through the legisla
ture a bill which would have
done away with the present sys
tem of electing judges in the
state.
“He wanted to gut Georgia’s
judicial system, which has
worked so well for us and has
been rough on criminals, and
move toward the federal sys
tem, which coddles criminals
thcoming.
Fischer presented an apology
of sorts Wednesday when he
broke his silence with a
statement regretting the delay
of the match. Fischer said it
was not Spassky’s fault that the
match had been delayed and
said he “respected grandmaster
Spassky as a player and man.”
Russian officials said the
statement was expected to
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Griffin representatives to the Georgia Youth Temperance Council in Duluth Ann Shockley and f
Larry Taylor join Mrs. Clayton A. Hoskins, YTC general secretary, for a week-long encampment
at Young Harris College. Mrs. Hoskins is director for the state-wide encampment.
and punishes decent citizens by
busing their children,” Vandiver
said.
Nunn, speaking at Macon,
said that if he is elected to the
Senate he will vote against any
foreign aid expenditures that
cannot be “shown to me clearly
to be in the best interest of the
United States.”
Nunn cited as “poor foreign
investments” such items as
$20.4 million to Albania, $43.7
million to Cuba, $1.3 billion to
Chile and $8 billion to India.
satisfy Spassky if delivered to
him with Fischer’s signature
attached.
Euwe already fulfilled two
other Soviet demands Wednes
day night when he issued a
condemnation of Fischer’s be
havior in failing to turn up in
time and also admitted that he
himself had violated FIDE
rules by granting a postpone
ment of the first match.
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