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TAMPA, Fla—An unidentified FBI agent gingerly checks package to see if any explosives are
inside. Package was dropped by woman who told teller at First National Bank it contained a bomb.
TTie woman fled with an undisclosed amount of mofley. The package contained only the ticking
alarm clock. (UPI)
Nixon reviews
plans to trim
THURMONT, Md. (UPI) -
President Nixon today reviewed
results of meetings with four
Cabinet members and chief
advisers about means of
trimming the federal bureauc
racy.
He was expected to break
away from his familiar yellow
legal pad, covered with detailed
notes about two days of
intensive domestic talks, to
relax this afternoon with Mrs.
Nixon and his long-time friend,
C. G. “Bebe” Rebozo of Miami,
Fla.
The President went into
detailed discussion Friday with
domestic adviser John Ehrlich
man and special assistant H. R.
Haldeman in what was believed
to be the final decision-making
process.
Ehlrichman and Haldeman
No compensation for widow
of policeman killed on duty
LONDON (UPI) -On Feb.
15, 1971, police constable
Michael Ince, answering an
emergency call, raced his
patrol car through downtown
London with its blue dome light
flashing and klaxon horn
blaring.
As Ince gunned the car
through a red light, the squad
car collided with another,
answering the same emergency
call. Ince, 25, one of London’s
few black policemen, was
killed.
Lord Widgery, Britain’s lord
chief justice, ruled Friday that
although Ince was killed in the
line of duty his widow Linda,
21, should receive no compensa
tion from the government.
Widgery, in a decision that
officers said could dissuade
policemen from risking their
lives while on duty, ruled that
huddled with Nixon, the White
House said, following meetings
Friday with Defense Secretary
Melvin R. Laird, Treasury
Secretary George P. Shultz,
Commerce Secretary Peter G.
Peterson and Caspar W.
Weinberger, director of the
Office of Management and
Budget.
White House Press Secretary
Ronald L. Ziegler said the
substance of the meetings was
to find means of making
structural changes in the
federal government in Nixon’s
second term.
The President said last week
that he wanted to trim the
“bloated” federal bureaucracy
and return some autonomy to
state and local governments.
Ince’s death was caused by his
own negligence because he
drove through a red light.
The lord chief justice said he
had to uphold with “deep
regret” a decision by the
government’s Criminal Injuries
Compensation Board that Mrs.
Ince should not receive the
state compensation normally
paid to widows of policemen
killed in the line of duty.
After the ruling, the Police
Federation, a labor union
representing 80,000 law enforce
ment officers in Britain,
instructed its members not to
drive through red traffic lights
“however urgent the emergen
cy call is.”
Attorney John Walker, who
argued the case on Mrs. Ince’s
behalf, said the ruling means
that “any police officer cross
ing a traffic light on an
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Open house
planned
Citizens of this community
will have a chance to see what
the Griffin Association for
Retarded Children offers in the
way of training programs
Tuesday. Open house will be
held for the four programs.
Two of the programs, the
nursery and the Play-To-Leam
school, are housed at St.
George’s Episcopal Church
educational facilities.
The Way To Earn Center and
the Sheltered Workshop
facilities are located on the
Hamilton boulevard complexes.
Open house at all four
facilities will be held from 9:30
a.m. through 2:30 p.m.
A total of 109 students are
being served through the four
programs and there is room to
serve mere, officials pointed
out.
The open house will be held in
connection with the observance
of National Retarded Children’s
month in November.
emergency call, however urgent
it may be, puts himself and his
family at peril if he has an
accident.”
The federation said it would
appeal Friday’s ruling.
A federation spokesman said
Ince’s death was the result of a
“tragic coincidence and the
courts should treat it as such
and see that his widow is
properly taken care of.”
A police spokesman said Mrs.
Ince, whose son was born nine
days after her husband was
killed, received a policeman
widow’s pension but the pay
ments are small because Ince
had served only a few months
with the force.
Police cars answering emer
gency calls in Britain rarely
stop at red lights. Motorists are
usually quick to give way and
accidents seldom occur.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, November 18, 1972
By United Press International
The United States and North
Vietnamese will resume Viet
nam draft cease-fire negotia
tions in Paris Monday. The
meeting is at the request of the
United States which said at
least one more session was
needed to clear up remaining
differences.
The White House said Friday
Presidential adviser Henry A.
Kissinger would fly to Paris
Sunday morning and was
expected to meet with North
Vietnamese Politburo member
Le Due Tho on Monday in what
many feel is the last round of
negotiations on the way of the
agreement to end the Vietnam
War.
In a radio report monitored in
Tokyo, the official Vietnam
News Agency (VNA) said,
“Talks between special adviser
Le Due Tho and (foreign)
minister Xuan Thuy on the one
hand and Dr. Henry Kissinger
on the other will resume in
Paris on Nov. 20.”
Kissinger is Adamant
The North Vietnamese earlier
had insisted the United States
sign the cease-fire draft on Oct.
31, but Kissinger was adamant
on his stand for another round of
secret talks and said at that
time the remaining differences
“could be settled in one more
negotiating session with the
North Vietnamese negotiator,
lasting, I would think, no more
than three or four days.”
Presidential Press Secretary
Ronald L. Ziegler said Friday
the Paris meeting would last
“several days or more” and
would be the final bargaining
session. However, he added the
meeting betwen Kissinger and
Tho was not expected to
produce an immediate peace
settlement and probably would
be followed by further consulta
tions with South Vietnamese
officials and perhaps the North
Vietnamese.
Tho returned to Paris Friday
after stops in Peking and
Moscow. Upon his arrival, he
said he hoped the new round of
talks with Kissinger would lead
quickly to peace.
In the meantime, Gen. Tran
Van Don, a member of the South
Vietnamese parliament,
arrived in Paris Friday to
observe the talks. He is a close
associate of South Vietnamese
President Nguyen Van Thieu.
Kissinger, the man who many
credit with getting the North
Vietnamese to go along with the
nine-point cease-fire proposal,
spent part of Friday at the
presidential retreat at Camp
David, Md., where he briefed
President Nixon and received
final negotiating instructions.
Kissinger’s deputy, Brig. Gen.
Alexander M. Haig, and three
other members of the national
security staff will accompany
the former Harvard professor
on the peace sojurn.
Tho Expresses Optimism
When he arrived in Paris, Tho
expressed optimism that an
agreement would be rapidly
readied. He said:
“My presence in Paris shows
once again our serious attitude
and good will. The U.S. side
should also have a really
serious attitude and good will so
as to enable a rapid conclusion
of the agreement.
“On this occasion, I reaffirm
our determiniation to abide by
the provisions agreed upon
between the Democratic
Republic of (North) Vietnam
and the United States in the
agreement.”
It is believed there remain
substantive issues to be re
solved in the negotiations
including any efforts by the
United States to extend the
proposed cease-fire to all
countries in Southeast Asia,
instead of Vietnam by itself.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-Charles H. Peters (1) and Trooper
Donal Spurgeon (r) reminisce with childhood pictures as
they had just recently found out they were brothers. In fact
Donald Spurgeon had issued a speeding ticket to his brother
Charles 14 months ago and this week found out if was his
Enraged Maddox accuses
Carter of bribe attempt
ATL.ANTA (UPI) - Lt. Gov.
Lester Maddox, steaming under
the collar from his latest battle
with Gov. Jimmy Carter, ac
cused the governor Friday of
trying to bribe one senator and
using his influence to get an
other elected.
Enraged because Carter said
members of the senate were
controlling him, Maddox diot
back that Carter had offered
cme senator a job in private
industry if he would resign from
the senate Democartic caucus.
“He told the senator I know
you are having financial difficul
ties and I can get you a job
in private industry,” Maddox
quoated Carter as saying.
Maddox also charged Carter
had $200,000 diverted from the
University System of Georgia
to build an agriculture center in
Calhoun County. The lieutenant
governor said Carter diverted
the funds in order to help elect
Beverly Langford to a senate
seat.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Mr. and Mrs. John Hester wait anxiously in front of their home for word
from police officers and dogs who searched for 10 hours for the newborn baby their daughter, Judy
Hester, allegedly abandoned in the woods minutes after it was born. The baby was found by one of
the dogs and was in serious condition at a local hospital here. No charges have been formally
lodged against Judy who was also hospitalized in fair condition. (UPI)
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Langford’s daughter is
married to Carter’s oldest son.
Red faced and indignant, Mad
dox predicted attempts to strip
him of his power to appoint
Senate committee chairmen
would fail.
Some 21 senators resigned
this week from the Democratic
Caucus in the first test of stren
gth between Carter and Maddox
forces in the Senate.
The defectors, headed by Sen.
Bobby Rowan of Enigma, claim
that with the help of Republican
senators they can strip Maddox
of his powers over the upper
chamber. Maddox says they
can’t.
“I can’t see them coming up
here saying we don’t like Lester
no more,” concluded Maddox.
“I can’t see them saying that.”
Maddox said the 21 who
dropped out of the caucus are
“welcome back” and said “they
are in serious trouble” if they
don’t return.
The lieutenant governor, who
repeatedly called the governor
a “rascal,” said Carter was on
the phone, along with highway
director Bert Lance and other
officials the night before the 21
senators resigned from the cau
cus, trying to stir up more sup
port for the walkout
He said Carter and Rowan
brother whom he hasn’t seen for 18 years, when they were
separated to foster homes. There is also 10 other brothers and
sisters which are being contacted as to the newly found
brother. (UPI)
knew “they were defeated; de
feated so bad they couldn’t
stay on the floor. The pirates
have failed to take over the
ship of the Senate.”
Grocery
robbed
of SSOO
A nervous man and his'
shorter companion robbed
Shackleford’s Grocery Store at
North Star last night of SSOO.
Four people were present at
the time and gave this account:
The two men entered the
store, both armed with pistols.
They took the money, made the
four lie on the floor and the
nervous man kept saying,
“Everything will be all right if
you don’t look up.” They
remained on the floor until sure
the two crooks had left then
notified the sheriff’s office.
Both men were described as
in their 20s, and the nervous
man as tall and thin. Both were
black.
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Football
plane
crashes
ELKTON, Ky. (UPI) —A
twin-engine Beechcraft airplane
chartered by a group of football
fans apparently exploded in
flight about midnight Friday
and crashed in a field near
here. All 10 persons aboard
were believed killed.
Four badly mangled bodies
were recovered and a search
for other victims continued
over a wide area of Todd
County today.
Capt. Charles B. Crutchfield,
commander of the state police
post at Madisonville, Ky., said,
“it’s difficult to tell how many
there are, because of the
condition of (the bodies)
found.”
The owner of the plane,
Charles Gray, of Bardstown,
Ky., president of Metro Air
System, Inc., said the plane had
space for 10 passengers, plus
the pilot. There was no co-pilot
aboard.
Gray said the Beechcraft had
been chartered by a group of
football fans from Richmond,
Ky., who had attended the
Class A playoff game between
Richmond-Madison and Trigg
County High Schools at Hop
kinsville Friday night.
The plane had taken off from
Hopkinsville’sMemorialAirport
a short time before the crash.
Witnesses reported a blinding
flash, indicating it had exploded
in flight.
Frost, freeze
Therometers in Griffin fell to
the 32 degree freezing point
early this morning and the area
had its first good frost of the
year.
Forecasts that the tem
perature would go into the 20s in
this area did not materialize.
The forecast for tomorrow
called for rain with warmer
readings.
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“A man can not be given the
right to succeed unless he also is
allowed a chance to fail.”