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LONDON—Police said they may prosecute Princess Anne
for alleged speeding. It would be the first prosecution of a
member of Britain’s present royal family. The Princess is
shown in a 1971 picture. (UPI)
Princess faces
speeding charge
LONDON (UPI) —Police said
today they may prosecute
Princess Anne for alleged
speeding. It would be the first
prosecution of a member of
Britain’s present royal family.
Police officials said Queen
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“A fellow first has to
understand that he’s lost before
he’ll try to find himself.”
Peace
North Viets demand U.S. sign
By United Press International
North Vietnam demanded
today that the United States
sign the Vietnam cease-fire
agreement “as early as possi
ble” and said Hanoi is against
any changes in the accord’s
present form.
“There is no argument which
militates in favor of a
modification of the agreement,”
said Xuan Thuy, chairman of
the North Vietnamese delega
tion to the Paris talks. He
made the statement at the start
of the 167th session of the talks.
“We demand that the United
States sign the draft as it has
been agreed as early as
possible.”
Thuy made the statement as
White House sources said a
date for another meeting
between presidential adviser
Henry A. Kissinger and North
Vietnamese Politburo member
Le Due Tho will be announced
within the next few days.
Elizabeth’s 22-year-old daughter
was stopped on two separate
occasions earlier this month for
exceeding the 70 mile per hour
limit on Britain’s motorways.
On both occasions, she was at
the wheel of an expensive
Reliant Scimitar sports car,
smilar to one given to her by
her parents for her 21st
birthday, a police spokesman
said. Her own car was being
serviced at the time.
“A report has been submitted
in the normal way,” a police
spokesman said. “She should be
treated like any other motorist
involved in speeding offenses.”
The spokesman said the final
decision on whether to prose
cute rests with the chief
constable of the wealthy
stockbroker commuter belt
northwest of London where the
alleged offences occurred.
A Buckingham Palace spokes
man acknowledged that the
princess “was stopped twice in
the last few weeks by the
police.” But he said: “This is
the first I have heard that the
police are considering prosecut
ing.”
As indications increased that
a new meeting was imminent,
the Viet Cong and the North
Vietnamese said they would
fight any attempt by the South
Vietnamese to join the secret
discussions. Previous private
talks were limited to North
Vietnam and Kissinger.
President Nguyen Van Thieu
reportedly still objects to some
provisions of a proposed
agreement. He wanted a
guarantee that North Vietna
mese troops will be withdrawn
and that there will be no
attempt to take over the Saigon
government after the United
States pulls out.
North Vietnamese diplomats
made it clear that Tho was
returning to Paris to talk to
Kissinger.
Negotiators for the United
States, North Vietnamese and
the South Vietnamese were
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
Tire missing
from auto
doing 135
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UPI) —
When Sheriff’s police finally
caught up with a car traveling
135 miles per hour and leaving
a trail of sparks down the
freeway, they discovered the
right front tire was missing.
Police said Wednesday they
finally caught the car after it
piled into a guardrail and wall.
The car, a Dodge Dart with a
340-cubic-inch engine, had the
right front tire missing and the
rim had been ground away by
friction with the pavement,
police said.
The driver, Glenn A. King
Jr., 23, Milwaukee, was fined
$350 and lost his license for 18
months for drunk driving,
police said.
Winter-like
weather comes
Winter-like weather came to
Griffin early this morning with
temperature readings in the low
30s.
Weather Observer Horace
Westbrooks recorded an official
35 degrees on his equipment in
Sunny Side.
Some therometers in Griffin
showed readings of 32 this
morning.
At any rate, it was the coldest
weather of the new winter
season in Griffin.
A warming trend was
forecast for tonight and
Retired teacher
killed in wreck
MOLENA, Ga. (UPI) - Elsie
Connally, a 71-year-old retired
Pike County school teacher,
was killed Wednesday when her
auto collided with another car
on Georgia Highway 109 about
a half mile east of Molena.
Two others were injured in
the crash, including Willie Nel
son Parks, 16, the driver of the
other car. Police said Parks’
car apparently was on the
wrong side of the road when
the mishap occurred.
either on their way to Paris or
getting ready to leave for the
French capital. Madame Nguy
en Thi Binh, head of the Viet
Cong delegation, is already
there. Pham Dang Lam of
South Vietnam was delayed
Wednesday in Bangkok by
plane trouble.
The Viet Cong again insisted
Wednesday that the United
States must remove Thieu from
power on the ground he is
standing in the way of a peace
in Vietnam.
Kissinger was expected to fly
to Saigon for another confer
ence with Thieu following the
Paris meeting.
In Saigon, U.S. Ambassador
Ellsworth C. Bunker conferred
with Thieu for 25 minutes in
their first meeting since last
Saturday when both men
conferred with Gen. Alexander
M. Haig Jr., Kissinger’s top
aide. The purpose of Wednes-
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, November >6, 1972
Sgt. A. W. Murphy, com
mander of the Griffin State
Patrol Post, said the traffic
lights at the Griffin By-Pass and
U. S. 19 & 41 intersection have
been shot out by vandals
several times in the past two
months. He warned that
lawmen will be watching the
area and that the perpetrators
will be “prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.”
Murphy said there have been
only four minor accidents since
the lights were installed during
the summer and most of them
were rear-end collisions.
Before, there was at least one
serious wreck a week, he said.
The lights, which were in
stalled by the state, are
maintained by the county.
Murphy explained they are very
expensive to replace and each
time they have been shot out, a
repairman from Forest Park
comes to repair the damage.
More important, he continued,
lives are endangered when the
lights are not in operation.
tomorrow with cloudy weather
in prospect and the possibility of
showers.
Elsewhere:
Wintry weather covered most
of the nation today, packing
snow, sleet and rain.
Freezing temperatures were
expected over most of the
nation today, extending as far
south as northern Alabama.
In the nation’s midsection,
hazardous weather was on tap.
Snow and freezing rain glazed
Oklahoma and much of the
Central Plains.
The other victim of the crash
was Mrs. Emma Harris of Mo
lena, a passenger in Mrs.
Connally’s car. Mrs. Harris suf
fered extensive internal in
juries.
Parks sustained a pos
sible broken leg.
The injured were taken to
Upson County Hospital in
Thomaston. Mrs. Harris later
was transferred to the Medical
Center in Columbus.
day’s meeting was not dis
closed.
A Saigon newspaper said
Thieu’s nephew and close
adviser, Hoang Due Nha, may
go to Paris to represent South
Vietnam at the secret peace
talks.
The report was published by
the newspaper Tin Song (Live
News) which is partially
financed by Nha, who is Thieu’s
personal secretary and the only
South Vietnamese who was
present at all of the meetings
last month between Thieu and
Kissinger. Nha also sat in on
the discussions last weekend
between Thieu and Gen. Haig.
“This is the old maneuver all
over again, aimed at delaying
the signing of the peace treaty
and prolonging the war. There
is no question of admitting the
Saigon administration to the
talks,” a Viet Cong spokesman
said.”
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Griffin look-a-likes (1-r) Mrs. Betty Stemberger, Mrs. Helen
Cox, Mrs. Sue Edwards, Mrs. Joan Rumph, and Mrs. Becky
Crawford are continually mistaken for each other by friends
Demo chairman faces hard time
in fight to keen her office
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Jean
Westwood, the embattled chair
man of the Democratic Nation
al Committee, is going to have
a hard time keeping her job, a
United Press International sam
pling of committee members
indicated today.
With about three weeks left
before the Dec. 9 showdown
meeting of the national commit
tee, 58 members from 30 states
already have decided that Jean
must go. Another 54 committee
members declared themselves
undecided, but a number of
them indicated they would vote
against Mrs. Westwood if a
replacement could be found
who would improve the pros
pects for party unity.
Only 24 committee members
put themselves on record in
favor of Mrs. Westwood, and
even some of those were shaky.
Woman
president
of Council
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) -
Madame Jeanne Martin Cisse
rapped a gavel lightly on the
podium Wednesday—and made
history.
The act officially signaled the
first appearance in 27 years of
a woman as president of the
U.N. Security Council.
The subject under discussion
when Madame Cisse, 46, called
diplomats to order was Portu
gal’s territories in Africa,
where nationalists and guerril
las are seeking self-rule.
Driver clocked
at 113 m.p.h.
Troopers at the Griffin State
Patrol Post said they arrested a
driver traveling on the North
expressway at the fastest speed
ever recorded by troopers at the
post.
Their radar clocked an
Atlanta driver at 113 miles per
hour. The radar was set up in
Henry County near the In
ternational raceway.
The man, who was traveling
alone, was turned over to Henry
County Sheriff’s officers.
The incident happened
Sunday around 11 p.m.
Vol. 100 No. 270
The national committee mem
bers were polled by UPI
bureaus across the country just
a few days after the election in
which President Nixon
swamped Sen. George S.
McGovern, the Democratic
candidate, and at the first signs
of what has become a growing
“oust Westwood” movement
among Democratic governors
and members of Congress.
Initial Sampling
It was evident from the
initial sampling that Mrs.
Westwood, who has said she
will fight for her job, does not
start with a firm backing from
the committee, which now has
278 members who cast 209
votes. Another 25 members,
with one vote each, will be
chosen at the Dec. 9 meeting to
bring the committee up to full
strength—3o3 members with 234
votes. Significantly, the 25 at
large members to be chosen
rext month are supposed to be
selected as representatives of
groups that were short-changed
—some ethnic groups, labor and
elderly persons—in the massive
party organization reshuffle
last summer.
A long list of names were
suggested by the committee
members who favored replac
ing Mrs. Westwood. Among the
most frequently proposed were
former Chairman Lawrence F.
O’Brien, who has said he isn’t
interested in the job again;
former national party treasurer
Robert Strauss of Texas; and
outgoing Gov. Warren E.
Heames of Missouri. Others
mentioned were Sargent Shriv
er, McGovern’s running mate;
Terry Sanford, former governor
of North Carolina; Robert
McNair, former governor of
South Carolina; Pierre Salin
ger, press secretary to John F.
Kennedy and Lyndon B. John
son; Robert Vance, chairman
of the Alabama Democratic
executive committee; Sen. Ed
mund S. Muskie, D-Maine; Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn.,
and Manatt.
That the controversy was
going to be heated was
confirmed by some of the
comments. An Alabama com
mittee member who declined to
be identified said “I wouldn’t
vote for Jean Westwood for
dogcatcher,” while Mary Jo
Sedita of California said “to get
rid of her would be to bring the
throughout Spalding County. Mrs. Stemberger and Mrs.
Crawford are identical twins, but the other women are
unrelated.
old guard back and ignore the
role that women now are
playing in the country.”
Some committee members
addressed themselves to the
McGovern faction of the party
rather than the specific ques
tion of retaining Mrs. West
wood. Hawaii’s national com
mitteeman, Leo B. Rodby Jr.
said he had not decided about
the chairmanship, but added “I
feel certainly they (the Mc-
Governites) have to recognize
the tone they were operating is
not the tone of the country.
They’re going to have to re
evaluate their goals and their
positions and find out where
party
lends in tragedy
BOULDER, Colo. (UPI) —lt was a very special and
happy evening for Annabelle Kindig. She had just
celebrated her 11th birthday at a supper party with eight
classmates from University Hill Elementary School.
While her parents cleaned up after the party Tuesday
night, Annabelle walked a close school chum, Jessica
Schaffner, 11, to her home nine blocks away. They never
got there.
Less than three hours later Jessica was dead and
Annabelle was in a hospital. Both girls had been shot
twice, handcuffed together and left for dead in a snowy,
remote mountain area west of the city.
“They were both nice girls,” Boulder District Attorney
Stan Johnson said Wednesday. “They were not hippies or
$: hitchhikers.”
The two girls were less than a block away from
Jessica’s home near the Colorado University campus
ft when a man in a camper pickup truck stopped and forced
them inside. He drove them into the mountains near the
small town of Gold Hill, where they both were shot.
A passing motorist found the wounded girl and
:•< immediately notified authorities. Less than a half hour
later, deputies arrested Peter Roy Fischer, 25, a chemical
;$ plant worker from nearby Aurora, Colo., and charged him
$ with murder, kidnap and assault.
Fisher, who offered no resistance and “didn’t say a
$: word” when arrested, was ordered held on SIOO,OOO bond.
Authorities said he had been arrested at least three times
in the past four years for indecent and lewd acts, but had
been released on probation each time.
Annabelle, whose parents are both teachers, was in
:$ Boulder Community Hospital’s intensive care unit where
she was reported in good condition.
Fisher, who had a predawn court arraignment at which
time he was advised of his rights, remained in a jail cell.
$ He was ordered returned to court Nov. 27.
Inside Tip
Senate
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they were out of tune and
modify their thinking.”
The other side of that
question was expressed by
Manatt, who was asked whe
ther 1972 for the Democrats
was parallel to 1964 for the
Republicans when Sen. Barry
Goldwater’s choice as GOP
chairman, Dean Burch, was
ousted.
“Goldwater was a step back
ward for the Republicans, but
McGovern was three or four
steps forward for the
Democrats,” he said. “You
don’t want to turn back the
hands of time but to go for
ward.”