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— Griffin Daily News Monday, August 14,1972
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Three men taken from plane
after shotgun blast in Atlanta
ATLANTA (UPI) - Three
men were taken from an East
ern Airlines jet preparing to
take off for Miami Sunday night
after a shotgun went off in the
plane’s baggage compartment,
federal authorities have dis
closed.
The authorities said the men
arrested were a father and son
from Norcross, Ga., Andrew
Jackson Curry Sr., 44, and An
drew Jackson Curry Jr., 19, and
Ray Price of Heflin, Ala.
The FBI and the Secret Serv
ice were both investigating the
incident because the plane was
bound for Miami, where the Re
publican National Convention is
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A sawed - off shotgun, three
pistols, a quantity of ammuni
tion and a shoulder holster were
recovered from a suitcase
aboard the plane, Eastern
Flight 685, Bob Lane of the Fed
eral Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire
arms agency said.
I.ane declined to comment
when asked what the trio
intended to do with the weapons.
He said all three were charged
with possession of the shotgun
and with failure to give written
notice to the airlines that they
were carrying weapons. They
could face up to 15 years in
prison and $15,000 in fines if
Stricter laws for sailor’s sake
By WM. T. McKEOWN .
WASHINGTON—(NEA )—
Drowning is becoming more
difficult for pleasure boat
men. It’s practically against
the law.
In April a new regulation
went into effect requiring
life preservers on all boats.
That includes rafts, canoes,
sailboats, dinghies, skiffs,
kayak s—anything, in fact,
that can float a passenger.
Even water skiers must have
approved preservers waiting
for them in the tow boat
ahead. Previously small row
boats, sailboats and all craft
using less than 10 horse
power—all the ones that tip
over easily—needed no life
preservers aboard.
The new national laws
only cover federal water-
found guilty of the charges.
A. B. Wentz, special-agent-in
charge of the Atlanta Secret
Service office, said after an all
day investigation, authorities
were satisfied there was no con
nection between the guns and
the GOP convention.
“They don’t seem to be any
threat to our protectees,” Wentz
said.
The agent said the Secret
Service’s interest in the case
was: “Whether or not anybody
was going to Miami with the in
tention of shooting the Presi
dent or any of the candidates
or somebody we are assigned to
protect.”
ways, but many states are
putting similar regulations
into effect. A rowboat on an
inland farm pond seven feet
deep can be just as lethal as
being on open ocean can be
for a six-foot oarsman.
And the Coast Guard is no
longer kidding about en
forcement.
“If you live through the
first moments of a car acci
dent you’re likely to survive
ashore,” says Rear Admiral
Austin (Red) Wagner, chief
of the Office of Boating
Safety. “But afloat when you
flip, your troubles have just
begun.”
The admiral has proved
to be a hard-nose who feels
there is no need to live with
accident figures, even small
ones, if something can be
done to prevent them.
Newest regulations that
will be going into effect this
month give specially trained
Guardsmen the right to tell
stupid boatmen to go home.
A craft observed operating
with an obvious hazard can
be inspected by a boating
officer. Lack of sufficient
life preservers or fire extin
guishers, overloading, leak
ing fuel or faulty lights are
possible problems. Then the
officer can order the hazard
corrected on the spot. If this
is impossible, the boat can
be sent back to port.
The men were charged with
possession of an illegal sawed
off shotgun and regulations pro
hibiting loaded weapons on a
commercial aircraft. They were
arrested by agents of the U. S.
Treasury Department’s Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms Division.
The shotgun discharged while
passengers were boarding the
jetliner about 8:15 a.m. Sunday
for a scheduled departure at
8:30 a.m. No one was injured by
the blast, the plane was not
damaged and finally departed
the Atlanta airport at 9:36 a.m.
and flew to Miami without fur
ther incident, Eastern officials
said.
Running through bad
weather isn’t necessarily a
hazardous condition for a
boat hull. But it can count as
reckless and negligent oper
ation on the part of a skip
per, particularly with a small
and overloaded boat. That
can be grounds for directing
a craft to head back for dry
land.
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GOP rejects Demo type
reforms for convention
MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-With
all segments of the party
rejecting the kind of quotas
imposed by the Democrats,
moderate Republicans today
asked for adoption of other
techniques that would bring
more women, young people and
minorities into the GOP.
The “reformers” noted that
despite its control of the White
House, the Republican party
was still a minority party. They
said that unless steps were
taken to open its doors, it would
remain that way.
“I am concerned that...we
could lose a whole generation of
young voters and political
activists,” said Sen. Jacob
Javits, R-N.Y.
Javits and other change
seekers laid their views before
the Rules Committee of the
Republican National Conven
tion, which officially starts next
Monday.
Besides nominating President
Nixon and Vice President Spiro
T. Agnew for second terms, the
convention will adopt a 1972
campaign platform and set the
party’s course for 1976.
To Change or Not
Witnesses went before the
Rules Committee today either
to call for varying degrees of
change or, in some cases, to
hold fast.
One principle that all Repub
licans here seemed agreed upon
was their opposition to quotas.
Democrats required that dele
gations to their convention last
month take all possible steps to
see that youths, women and
members of minority groups
were represented in proportion
to their numbers in the
population.
“I don’t see the Republicans
moving to quotas,” Republican
National Chairman Robert Dole
said Sunday. “I see no need for
quotas. I don’t know of any
Republicans who have suggest
ed we have quotas.”
Even Javits, whose overall
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husband Edward Cox hit the campaign trail as the pair made
an appearance at a shopping center in nearby Montgomery
reform views are among the
most radical in the party, said
the GOP could not be opened
up “by imposing upon state
parties quotas of delegates by
age, race, sex, color and ethnic
origin.
But Javits, in testimony
prepared for delivery, did
propose that a “national
council” be established to assist
and prod state organizations to
bring about fair representation
within the party of all
Republicans — specifically in
cluding women, the young, the
old and members of racial and
ethnic minorities—-who seek to
participate in the 1976 conven
tion.
Other Developments
In other pre-convention deve
lopments:
—The Platform committee
began going over a draft of the
campaign document that al
ready had been refined by top
party leaders and approved by
the White House. Although
nearly 300 witnesses were to
testify, little real controversy
was expected except for the
language on women’s rights.
—GOP National Chairman
Robert J. Dole said President
Nixon should campaign as
though he were “just one vote
ahead.” Saying he once down
graded Democrat George S.
McGovern but no longer does,
Dole said “we should never be
overconfident. We are the
minority party. We have to
attract Democrats and indepen
dents.”
—Dole also termed “prepost
erous” the charge by Sargent
Shriver, the democratic vice
presidential candidate, that
President Nixon missed a
“golden opportunity” to end the
Vietnam War in 1969 when
North Vietnam offered to
withdraw 90 per cent of its
forces from the south. The GOP
leader said “the facts don’t
support him.”
—Republican Platform Chair-
man John J. Rhodes, appearing
at another news conference,
said McGovern’s proposed S3O
billion military spending cut
would make the United States a
second-rate power that would
have trouble defending Hawaii.
He called McGovern an isola
tionist.
Javits was backed by Com
mon Cause. John Gardner,
chairman of the citizens lobby,
observed in prepared testimony
that polls have shown an
“ominous erosion” in public
confidence in political parties.
That erosion, he said, has hit
the GOP particularly hard with
statistics on young voters
painting an even gloomier
picture.
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