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ALPHARETTA, Ga.—Murder suspect, 29-year-old Jerry
McCranie, holds a pistol to the neck of his ex-wife in the back
of a police car. McCraney agreed to give himself up after
Miracle comes true
MAIDSTONE, England (UPI) -Carole
Sinclair wiill not have to run away from
home again.
The 11-year-old girl ran away a week ago
and left a note saying she was leaving so
her mother could use the money spent on
her for food to finance a trip to Lourdes for
her 2-year-old stepbrother Peter.
Peter suffers from spinal atrophy and
doctors say he will die within a few years,
but Carole said she wanted more than
anything to see him go to Lourdes, the
French religious shrine many Roman
Catholics consider the site of miracle
cures.
Now, thanks to generous strangers,
Peter will go after Christmas and Carole
will go with him.
Griffin again to send gifts
to patients at Central State
The City Commissioners
announced last night that
Griffin again would participate
in the annual state wide
program to collect Christmas
gifts for patients at Central
State Hospital in Milledgeville.
The Mayor’s Morotcade is
sponsored by the Georgia
Municipal Association.
Gifts for patients should be
brought to any of the three
Griffin fire stations before Dec.
11 so they may be processed and
made ready for delivery to
Central State Dec. 13.
Padcages wrapped must be
labeled as to their contents and
should include the name and
address of the donor.
Millard A. Beckum of
Augusta, chairman of GMA’s
Mental Health Committee, is
coordinating thie year’s
program.
Officials of the M-Day
program asked citizens to keep
in mind that some gifts can be
harmful to patients.
They made the following gift
suggestions:
Dresses, hose, pocketbooks,
Houses, skirts, head scarfs,
hats, stoles, belts, sweaters
(coat & bolero), shoes (dress,
size 6-10), coats, costume
jewelry, panties, brassiers
(incl. extra large sizes), slips
Commissioners cut
water rates 10 pct.
Her mother, Mrs. Janet Sinclair, said
donations have flooded into her home from
throughout Britain and even some places
in the United States.
“We have had so much post that the
GPO (post office) has had to make special
deliveries,” she said. “The telephone
hasn’t stopped ringing with offers of help.
We have even had calls from America.”
The Sinclair’s plight came to public
notice when Carole ran away from home
and a policeman found her, took her home
and told newsmen the story.
Lourdes is where Catholics believe
Bernadette Soubirous repeatedly saw
visions of the Virgin Mary and it remains a
place reputed as a source of miraculous
cures for invalid faithful.
(cotton and nylon) pettipants,
girdles.
Pajamas, gowns, house coats
(short and long), bedroom
dioes (cloth, corduroy), rain
coats (plastic), umbrellas,
overshoes.
Rouge, lipstick, emery
boards, face powder, compacts,
perfume, toilet water, cologne,
nail polish, manicure sets,
diampoo, bobby pins, rollers,
hair nets, bath powder, combs,
brushes, bath salts, bath oil,
bubble bath, deodorant, hair
spray.
Cigarettes, cigarette lighters,
cigarette cases (leather &
plastic), cigarette rolling
machines.
MEN
Socks, suspenders, shirts,
pants, short coats, gloves, ties,
belts, sweaters, caps, hats, cuff
links, shorties, T-shirts,
pajamas, robes, bedroom shoes
(cloth & corduroy).
Raincoats, overshoes, rain
hats, talcum powder, electric
razors, safety razors, shaving
cream, after shave lotions (non
alcoholic), shaving soap.
Cigarettes, smoking tobacco,
cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco,
cigarette lighters, cigarette
cases (plastic & leather),
cigarette rolling machines.
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
police surrounded him in the woods near here, but still held
his ex-wife hostage getting into the back of the police car.
Read how story ended on page 24. (UPI)
GENERAL
Stationery, pencils, ball point
pens, postage stamps, candy,
soft & hard, cookies, instant
coffee, small cans juice,
chewing gum.
Nail clippers, bath powder,
chapstick, deodorants, tissues,
lotions, shower caps, soap, bath
cloths, plastic soap containers.
Tooth paste, tooth brushes,
denture cream or powder,
plastic toothbrush container.
Handkerchiefs, small clocks,
watches (inexpensive), good
books, billfolds, coin purses, gift
wrapping paper, gift wrapping
ribbon.
Puzzles, games, stuffed toys,
rubber toys, picture books,
playing cards, dolls, paint by
number sets, crochet thread,
scarfs, for embroidery, incl.
thread.
Shoulda stayed
SEASIDE, Calif. (UPI) —
Officer Keith Adams, head of
Seaside’s police burglary prev
ention program, should have
stayed home.
While he was on the job,
someone broke into his home
and took a stereo set, a
television and three nfles,
police reported Tuesday.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, November 15, 1972
Stadium
force
beefed
ATLANTA (UPI) — When the
Atlanta Falcons play their three
remaining home games, there’ll
be a beefed-up police force to
protect fans from an outbreak
of robberies and thefts in the
Atlanta Stadium area.
That was the promise from
Assistant Chief Joseph H.
Amos of the Atlanta Police De
partment Tuesday after a rash
of holdups and thefts were
reported, including the armed
robbery of U. S. District Judge
Richard Freeman last Sunday.
Freeman and a friend were
held up at gunpoint as they
returned to their car following
the Falcon-New Orleans Saints
football game. The bandits fled
with the men’s cash, credit
cards, and wallets.
Amos promised all available
foot patrolmen would be on
duty for the last Falcon games,
but warned fans to park in
designated stadium parking
areas.
Greater love hath no man...
LOTHIAN, Md. (UPI) - Michael David
Hensen, 19, his clothes singed and smoking
from repeated trips into the burning
trailer, shielded his charred face and
pushed back inside in search of what he
apparently believed to be the fourth
missing child.
The door sucked shut behind him and
flames enveloped the $14,000 trailer.
When the trucks from the rural Lothian
and Harwood volunteer fire departments
drove into the Maryland Manor Trailer
Park Tuesday, there was nothing left to
salvage.
Hensen, who police estimated made four
to seven trips into the inferno to help
Sandra Long and her four children to
NEWS
Griffin City Commissioners
voted last night to cut water
bills 10 percent beginning with
billings after Jan. 1.
They also voted to make a
study of putting electric bills on
a level rate rather than charge
a higher rate in the summer
months when power demands
are at a peak.
Mayor Louis Goldstein
stepped aside temporarily as
board chairman to make the
motion to cut water rates. He
asked 0. M. Snider, Jr., vice
chairman, to preside.
City okays
deposit
refunds
The City Commissioners
voted last night to return Light
and Water deposits to
customers who establish a good
bill paying record over a two
year period.
The new policy will begin Jan.
1.
Customers will have to make
application for return of their
deposits under the new policy.
A Light and Water Depart
ment spokesman said about
$115,000 was on deposit from
customers. Not all of this will be
subject to refund.
Each individual request for a
refund will have to be con
sidered on its merits, under the
new city policy.
The new policy was an ap
parent response to an inquiry a
few weeks ago as to why the city
didn’t pay interest on utility
deposits or refund them.
200 expected
to attend
Newcomers ’
Some 200 people are expected
to attend the Newcomers dinner
tomorrow night at Jackson
Road elementary school’s
cafeteria.
The program will begin at 7
p.m.
Some 50 couples who have
moved to this community
during the past year will be
welcomed.
Gloria Neel, chairman of the
Newcomers event, will
moderate and introduce
representatives of city and
county government and the
churches.
The Towaliga Indian Dance
team will present dances.
The Women’s Division of the
Chamber of Commerce spon
sors the affair. Mrs. Dora Jane
Smith is president.
Youth gave life saving others
Vol. 100 No. 269
All commissioners voted for
the water rate cut.
While Snider had the floor, he
said he would like to take the
move a step further and called
for the level electric rate study.
Goldstein returned to the chair
man’s seat, called for a vote on
the study, and all the com
missioners voted for it, too.
The 10 percent water rate cut
will mean an estimated savings
to city customers of some
$50,000 to $60,000 per year.
Goldstein said:
“I campaigned on this
promise of cutting your water
bill and asked you to give me a
chance and I’ll show you. You
gave me that chance and I’m
grateful to you.”
He said when water rates
were raised so drastically a
couple of years ago, he opposed
the increase and said he still felt
the same way.
“This 10 percent (cut) may
not be much, but how long has it
been since anything was
lowered?” Goldstein asked.
Snider said that in defense of
raising the water rates, it
enabled the city to meet needs
then. He said the rate adjust
ments had made it possible for
the city’s Light and Water
operation to receive a top
financial rating.
As a result, he continued, the
city was able to get an interest
rate of about 5.5 percent on a
million and a half dollars worth
of revenue certificates a few
weeks ago. (The city’s fiscal
agent said this was an excellent
rate.)
The money will be used for
continued improvement and
expansion of the service here.
Snider said he was glad the city
now was in such good financial
shape so as to have a high
financial rating and was glad
the commissioners now could
vote the water rate cut.
There was no indication of
how long the electricity rate
study might take.
Snider noted that in summer
months when demands on
power supplies are greatest, the
rates the city charge go up. He
wants the city to go to a fixed
year round rate, if the study
shows it is feasible.
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“What makes life fun are
little things you hardly notice
when they happen.”
safety, was dead. In the confusion he
apparently miscounted the children and
believed one of them was still inside. He
died during the last rescue attempt.
Mrs. Long, 29, and her four children,
aged 2 to 9, were lying on the ground when
firemen arrived. With them were three
friends who had also escaped the burning
trailer.
Police Capt. Franklin Pillsbury said
facts were uncertain. “Hensen can’t tell us
because he’s dead, and the only other
person we can find (Joan Hiffett) is under
sedation.”
Pillsbury said Mrs. Long and her
children were treated for bums and
released from the Prince Georges County
General Hospital. They apparently had
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LUNA PIER, Mich.—A resident of this small flooded
southeastern Michigan community smiles as a stray, wet and
bedraggled dog attempts to climb into his snow covered
rowboat in an effort to get out of the cold torrent from Lake
Erie. Most of the town was covered with at least five feet of
water from the overflowing Great Lake. Michigan’s Gov.
William Milliken called national guardsmen in to aid in
rescue efforts and help prevent looting. (Story, picture page
10). (UPI)
Ticket sales
start tomorrow
School officials announced that tickets for the football
game between Griffin High School and the Region 8-AAA
winner will go on sale Thursday at 9:00 a.m. at the
following locations:
Superintendent’s Office- reserved and general
admission tickets (adult and student).
Griffin High School - reserved student tickets.
Spalding Junior High I, 11, 111 - general admission
(student).
Advance sale adult tickets will be $2 and advance sale
student tickets will be sl. AU tickets sold at the stadium
gates will be $2.
Reserved tickets are being held in the superintendent’s
office for aU footbaU patrons who held season tickets for
the 1972 season. Season ticket patrons will occupy the
same seats for the play-off game as during the regular
season games. These tickets my be picked up no later than
5:00 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 17. After this time, they wiU be
sold to the general pubUc.
Since the superintendent’s office wiU be closed
Thursday and Friday (Nov. 23-24), tickets wiU be on sale
at the stadium booth on Friday, Nov. 24, from 1:00-5:00
p.m.
gone with friends and could not be found to
answer questions, the captain said.
Also missing from the scene were
Robert Magee, 23, and Terry Porter, 16,
visitors at the trailer when the fire began.
Pillsbury said Hensen, who lived in a
nearby suburb of Washington, D.C., had
also been visiting Mrs. Long when the fire
started.
The cause of the blaze was a candle that
tipped over in a bedroom of the 10-by-60
foot trailer and ignited bedding shortly
after 2 a.m. EST Tuesday.
“I don’t know why they were using a
candle,” said Pillsbury. “As far as I know
there wasn’t anything wrong with the
electricity.”
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