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DURHAM, N.C.—Don Morton, a 13-year-old from
Jacksonville, N.C., is comforted by his aunt, Mrs. Janice
Parker. Donald was flown here Monday from Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada after the White House instructed that an Air
Force plane be made available. The boy was hospitalized in
Thieu ices over
world peace talks
President Nguyen Van Thieu
Tuesday iced over international
talk of an imminent Vietnam
peace by imposing rigid condi
tions on any cease-fire and
rejecting Commmunist propo
sals for a coalition government
in Saigon. “At this point there is
still war. We have to continue
fighting to wipe out the
Communists,” he said.
In a two-hour televised speech
in Saigon at the conclusion of his
talks with Presidential adviser
Henry A. Kissinger, Thieu said
peace would come “very
quickly” if Hanoi withdrew its
troops from South Vietnam,
Laos and Cambodia and if there
were international
guarantees—principally by the
Soviet Union and China.
Kissinger briefed President
Nixon for an hour Tuesday in
Washington on his five days of
Historic well polluted
TEL AVIV (U Pl)—Pollution is fouling a
well in Nazareth that Christians consider
one of the holiest sites of the Holy Land.
The well, according to Christian
tradition, marks the place where the
archangel Gabriel told the Virgin Mary
she would give birth to Jesus.
A search for the cause of the pollution
uncovered what one expert said is possibly
the source of the well dribbling from rocks
27 feet underground.
“To my knowledge, no one has found the
source before, and we think this is it,” said
Fuad Farah, a civil engineer responsible
for the water supply in Arab villages
around Nazareth.
Farah said the pollution was discovered
18 months ago and said he thought it was
connected in some way with the city
sewage system.
talks with Thieu on the
prospects for a Vietnam
settlement, now believed to
hinge on Thieu’s hard-line
cease-fire terms.
May Hold Press Conference
White House Press Secretary
Ronald L. Ziegler said Kissin
ger might hold a press
conference later in the week,
perhaps on Thursday, on his
last two weeks of secret talks
with the North Vietnamese
delegation to the Paris peace
talks. There was speculation
Kissinger may return to Paris
for another session—presuma
bly to assess how far Hanoi
would be willing to go to meet
Thieu’s cease-fire conditions.
The White House refused all
comment on recent intensive
negotiations in Paris and Saigon
except to stand by Kissinger’s
comment Monday night on his
“There are many pilgrims who come to
visit the well and many of them would like
to drink the water,” Farah said, “and
that’s why we started a campaign to find
the source of the pollution.”
After crawling on hands and knees and
clearing away debris that had fallen into
the aqueduct, workers reached a cave
about four yards wide. Water dribbled
from the rocks of the cave at three points,
running over the lip of the aqueduct and
down toward the well.
Above the cave, Farah said, the workers
found a shaft lined with crumbling stone
that rose to within six feet of the earth’s
surface. He said it might have been an
ancient well.
Did he find the pollutants?
“Not yet,” Farah said, “but we’re
probably going to treat the source.”
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
Canada after accidentally shooting himself in the head with
a .22 revolver, he is blind and partially paralyzed from the
gunshot. Doctors at Duke University Medical Center are
running tests to determine what steps will be taken. (UPI)
return from Saigon that “some
progress has been made”
toward a settlement. Kissinger
conferred with Nixon
immediately upon his return
and met again Tuesday with the
President and Secretary of
State William P. Rogers.
“We have totally rejected any
talk of a coalition government,”
Thieu said. “They (the Commu
nists) still hope they can win a
victory by defeating our allies
in propaganda warfare. On that
basis, we can never accept a
cease-fire. They only seek a
coalition so they can have a
brief recess from the fighting,
after six months of which they
will resume their fighting.”
He said military pressure will
be kept up on the Communists
until “they will be suing for
peace. The United States will
continue its bombing and its
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, October 25, 1972
blockade (of North Vietnam)
because we do not think North
Vietnam can put up with it for
many more months. We have to
continue fighting to wipe out the
Communists. There is no
change.”
Would Welcome Settlement
Democratic presidential
nominee Sen. George S.
McGovern said Tuesday in
Milwaukee he would welcome a
Vietnam settlement before the
Nov. 7 elections—and “damn”
the political consequences. He
also insisted “the time has
come to make it clear to
President Thieu that if he wants
to carry on the war—that’s his
option, but he’s going to have to
do it without any American
blood and any American
dollars.”
Thieu said, “We have not
agreed to any cease-fire. Any
cease-fire has to be the result of
a political and military
agreement.” He said a cease
fire “would have to be
guaranteed by the Soviet Union
and Peking.” Thieu then
predicted: “But even at that
point, the North Vietnamese
Communists would continue
invading us.” He said a halt in
military action means that the
leaders in Hanoi “would have to
withdraw their troops to North
Vietnam.”
“Most bad habits are easier to
prevent than to cure.”
NEWS
City Commissioners last night
gave final approval to a million
and a half dollar revenue bond
issue for improvement and
additions to water and sewer
lines.
Officials indicated they were
pleased with the four and one
half percent interest rate the
city will average paying on the
15-year agreement.
They said the city received an
A rating when the bonding
people considered the request.
Lex Jolly, fiscal agent who
handles bonding affairs for the
city, was somewhat surprised
at the good interest rate Griffin
was able to get on the revenue
bonds.
City Manager Roy Inman said
the good rating Griffin has with
the bonding companies in
dicated the city has a good
financial standing.
The revenue bonds are issued
against the anticipated income
from the city owned Light and
Water Department.
Revenue bonds of this type do
not require a vote by citizens for
approval as in the case of
general obligation bonds.
The City Commissioners put
the revenue bond issue on first
reading at a special called
meeting Oct. 19. They put the
issue on second and final
readling last night.
In other business, the com
missioners approved an option
al plan under which city fire
men can come under Social
Security, if they wish.
Firemen will be given one
opportunity to come under the
plan beginning next year.
Firemen employed in the
future will come under Social
Security automatically.
Luther Cox, retired Army
man who purchased Ira Slade’s
Clothing Store on North Hill
street, asked the commission
ers about the city policy on light
and water deposits.
He said all other utility
deposits he had put up paid
interest and were refundable
within a period of time.
He said the City Light and
Water deposits paid no interest.
Mayor Louis Goldstein said
that the present city policy had
been in effect as long as he
could remember. He said it was
a source of some city revenue,
however.
Commissioner Scott Searcy
suggested that the income from
the deposits probably is ab
sorbed in the cost of handling
such charges.
The commissioners said they
would review the deposit policy.
They put on second and final
reading an ordinance requiring
purchasers of hypodermic
syringes to register with the
seller, these registrations being
open to public inspection. The
ordinance is aimed at curbing
drug abuse.
They also made final a
revision of the city ordinance
against idling and loitering,
removing the term habitual
from the law.
Placed on final reading was
the annexing of some Elks Club
property at the request of the
lodge and rezoning, to commer
cial use some land bounded by
Fourteenth, Solomon, Wright
and West Broad streets.
Bloodmobile
due Oct. 31
The American Business Club
will sponsor the next visit of the
Bloodmobile here. It will be Oct.
31 in the Cheatham building of
First Baptist Church.
The goal is 200 pints of blood.
Donors may go to the center
between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m
Vol. 100 No. 251
Robinson
grave near
Ebbets field
NEW YORK (DPI)-Jackie
Robinson will be buried in
Brooklyn just a few miles from
the site of old Ebbets Field
where he became one of
baseball’s all-time greats and
started a post-war social
revolution which continues 25
years later.
Robinson died Tuesday morn
ing at his home in Stamford,
Conn, of a heart attack. He was
53.
Just a week ago Sunday he
was honored at the beginning of
the World Series for his
accomplishments in baseball.
He took the moment to urge
again the naming of a black
manager in baseball.
“This nation in which he gave
much in his lifetime will miss
Jackie Robinson, but his
example will continue to inspire
us for years to come,”
President Nixon said in leading
the nation in mourning the Hall
of Famer who broke the color
barrier in major league base
ball.
Bom in Georgia
Robinson, the grandson of a
slave who was born in Cairo,
Ga. and grew up in Pasadena,
Calif., will rest in state in a
Harlem funeral home today. On
Thursday, respects will be paid
at Riverside Church where the
funeral services will be held
Friday before burial in Brook
lyn.
The site of Ebbets Field is
now an apartment complex, but
on April 15, 1947, the stadium
became a civil rights landmark
when Robinson became the first
black man to play a major
league baseball game.
This was less than two years
after the United States had
fought World War II with a
segregated Army, in which
Robinson served as a lieuten
ant, and “Jim Crow” laws were
commonplace.
Brooklyn Dodgers general
manager Branch Rickey signed
Robinson to a professional
baseball contract on Oct. 23,
1945, thereby making him the
first black player in the
previously all-white sport.
Some said the move was too
radical while others said it was
way overdue. But it was the
beginning of a change in
American racial attitudes
which was lead to the civil
rights upheaval of the 1950 s and
19605.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
66, low today 42, high yesterday
75, low yesterday 62, high
tomorrow in low 70s, lows
tonight in 40s. Sunrise tomorrow
7:45, sunset tomorrow 6:47.
Bolton asks no parole
for those on death row
ATLANTA (UPI)-The Geor
gia Supreme Court has been
asked to give life sentences
without any chance of parole to
14 Georgia prisoners who were
previously sentenced to death.
The request was made by
State Atty. Gen. Arthur Bolton.
He reasons that prisoners un
der the death penalty received
that sentence to permanently
separate them from society and
a life sentence without parole
would serve that purpose.
Bolton mentioned only 14 of
the state’s 46 inmates now un
der the death sentence. How-
Remember
WASHINGTON (UPl)—Daylight Saving Time ends
Sunday, and the nation gets back the one hour’s sleep it
lost in April when the clock was turned ahead. S
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But gone are the days when “clock-turning” resulted in :£
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The Uniform Time Act, in effect since 1967, has done
:$ just what its name implies—made the changeover :•<
$: uniform, or at least mostly uniform. :£
:$ Three states—Arizona, Hawaii, and Michigan—will
ignore the procedure as will parts of the state of Indiana.
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Act to exempt themselves from use of daylight time.
The confusion that exists today is mainly in the minds of £
S householders on whether to turn the clock ahead or back, g
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Absentee
Some already
have voted
Some people already have
voted for President.
They are among those who
have obtained and returned
absentee ballots.
Registrar Joe Burson said
that the deadline for registering
to vote in the Nov. 7 elections
has come and gone, but some
people still want to register.
The absentee ballots can not
be opened until after the polls
close on election day.
Burson said some 350 to 400
absentee ballots already have
been sent out to those
requesting them.
Absentee ballots must be
voted in the registrar’s office or
at a post office, the registrar
said. He said people with ill
nesses that would keep them
away from the polls may make
written requests for ballots. He
said doctor’s certification of the
illness is necessary for such
requests.
Stores here set
Christmas hours
The Steering Committee of
the Chamber of Commerce has
recommended Christmas
shopping season store hours for
Griffin merchants.
The schedule calls for stores
to remain open all day on
Wednesdays beginning Novem
ber 22, and that starting
November 24 they remain open
Ex-Griffin lawman
heads State Patrol
Hugh Hardison who got his
start in law enforcement as a
State Patrol license examiner in
Griffin then became a Griffin
policeman has been named
commander of the uniformed
division of the State Patrol.
He succeeded Major Herman
Cofer who was promoted to an
administrative post in the State
Department of Public Safety.
Col. Ray Pope announced the
changes.
Cofer replaced Lt. Col. Lewis
G. Bell in the Department of
Public Safety after friction with
Gov. Jimmy Carter developed.
Col. Bell resigned.
Hardison, a native of
Cedartown, worked as a license
ever, any ruling on the 14 pre
sumably would include the rest.
The action by Bolton results
from an earlier U. S. Supreme
Court ruling throwing out the
death penalty in Georgia as
“cruel and unusual punish
ment.” An appeal by the state
was denied on Oct. 10.
The ruling by the U. S. Su
preme Court has left the state
in a quandry as what to do
with the death row inmates.
Bolton said the Georgia Gener
al Assembly could not authorize
a new sentence for the inmates
needing resentencing from the
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Ballots to be mailed more
than 300 miles from here must
go out five days before the
election. Those to be mailed
within 300 miles must be mailed
within three days.
Burson said absentee ballots
may be used at the registrar’s
office through the day before
election.
The office in the Spalding
i Courthouse is open weekdays
from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. and on
I Saturdays from 9 a.m. till noon.
, Persons wishing to vote in the
school board by absentee ballot
must get separate ballots for
, this.
Persons voting in the regular
election on election day will find
the school board election on the
( voting machines to be used
, here.
, City voters also will find a
, place on the machines to cast
, ballots in the city commission
election.
until 8:30 p.m. on Fridays.
Regular night openings will
vary according to individual
businesses.
Also, the committee plans an
After Thanksgiving Promotion
for all retail outlets with the
special sales events to be held
November 24-25, Friday and
Saturday.
examiner at the Griffin State
Patrol Post when Lt. H. W.
(Red) Barrow was in charge of
the post.
Later he worked as a Griffin
policeman under Chief Leo
Blackwell before returning to
State Patrol work.
Before his latest promotion,
Capt. Hardison was in charge of
the northwest section of the
State Patrol.
As a high school student, he
played football at Cedartown
and remembers playing in
Griffin. He attended Georgia
Tech and played on the football
team there under Coach Bobby
Dodd.
death penalty as a result of the
ruling by the high tribunal.
So instead he requested the
Georgia court to “prohibit re
lease from imprisonment for
the remainder of defendant-ap
pellate’s natural life.”
An assistant attorney general
for Bolton said the legislature
could still pass death penalty
laws in the future. The U. S.
Supreme Court decision seemed
to indicate that the death penal
ty could be invoked for certain
unusual crimes.