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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Note:
Judge Andrew Whalen Jr.,
ruled that the runoff elections
for school board and a city com
missioner could be held on the
same day — Tuesday Nov. 28.
Two men, charged with
shooting livestock in this county
were arrested.
City Commissioners cut
water rates 10 percent.
Highjacking of Southern
Airlines plane held spotlight. It
finally landed in Cuba and
hostages returned to America.
Negotiations may come bet
ween Uncle Sam and Castro to
better control such events.
Following humiliating defeat
of the McGovern-Shriver ticket,
Democrats seek ways to pick up
pieces of party. Some of the
party leaders want to ditch Mrs.
Jean Westwood, radical party
chairman, but she says she
won’t step down and will fight
any move to get rid of her.
Some Georgia Congressmen
plan to offer Congressman Phil
Landrum as candidate for
Speaker of House.
Maddox-Carter sued con
tinues.
Presidential advisor Henry
Kissinger was back in Paris to
resume peace negotiations
amid talk that there was hope of
“getting the boys back home by
Christmas.”
National Safety Council es
timated “between 580 and 680
deaths on highways over the
Thanksgiving period. Readers
of this column can help prevent
as many deaths by having their
automobiles checked and made
as safe as possible.
And since we will have no
other chance before
Thanksgiving — May we wish
everyone a Happy
Thanksgiving.
And may we close out this
column by reproducing the
beloved 100th Psalm.
Make a joyful noise unto the
Lord, all ye lands.
Serve the Lord with gladness:
come before his presence
with singing.
Know ye that the Lord he is
God: it is he that hath made
us, and not we ourselves; we
are his people, and the sheep
of his pasture.
Enter into his gates with thanks
giving, and into his courts
with praise: be thankful unto
him, and bless his name.
For the Lord is good; his mercy
is everlasting; and his truth
endureth to all generations.
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“It’s easier to endure being
deprived of something if
everybody else is being
deprived of it.”
At Jackson
Missing girl found in auto with man
JACKSON, Ga. — April Marie
Stone, six-year-old DeKalb
County girl who had been
missing from her home since
Sunday morning, was found in
the automobile of a man
Jackson police stopped to
question.
Police identified the man as
Chester Thomas Akins, 32, of
Route Two, Browns Bridge
road, Covington. But police said
tiie man actually lives several
houses away from the little girl.
Her home was in the Scottdale
area of DeKalb County.
Jackson Police turned over
the man to DeKalb County
authorities and the little girl
was returned to her home. She
was examined at the Sylvan
Grove Hospital in Jackson.
Ambulance classes
set up at hospital
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PARlS—Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger (1) delivers short speech upon arrival at Orly
Airport here as Saigon’s ambassador to the Paris Peace Talks, Pham Dang Lam, listens at right
(UPI)
Peace
Secret talks on schedule
PARIS (UPI) -A North
Vietnamese official said today
secret peace talks between the
United States and North
Vietnam were taking place as
scheduled, but by agreement
with the United States, he
refused to say where or when.
“The new talks are being
held today as scheduled,” said
the North Vietnam spokesman.
“Any announcement.,.will
come from the White House,” a
spokesman for the American
delegation said.
Both presidential adviser
Henry A. Kissinger and Hanoi
negotiators Le Due Tho and
Xuan Thuy expressed cautious
optimism when they arrived in
Paris to resume the private
talks the United States sought.
Kissinger said he would stay in
Paris as long as necessary to
work out a settlement with
Hanoi.
“If our North Vietnamese
interlocutors have come here in
the same spirit of understand
ing and flexibility which cha
racterized our meetings in
October, a rapid settlement of
the war is probable,” Kissinger
said when he arrived Sunday.
Tho, the senior North Vietna
mese negotiator, arrived Friday
from Hanoi and said his
government agreed to the U.S.
request for a new round of
talks.
He told newsmen, in words
similar to Kissinger’s careful
optimism, that with goodwill on
both sides, the new talks could
result in an early peace.
Meanwhile, the Viet Cong
marked the opening of the new
talks with a declaration con
demning U.S. shipments of
modern weapons to South
Jackson police had charged
the man with driving under the
influence of intoxicants.
They gave this account:
Akins pulled into a Jackson
service station and sideswiped a
tank. He stopped and went
inside the station where he
attempted to pawn a saw.
When the man drove away, a
station attendant who was
suspicious of him, called police.
The officers stopped the car and
found him with the little girl.
She told officers that the man
had threatened to kill her with a
butcher knife. Officers said they
found a butcher knife in the car.
Police at first thought the
little girl might be the daughter
of the man.
Police said they found a bottle
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Vietnam to bolster it against
the Communists before a cease
fire takes place.
The Viet Cong statement said
weapons deliveries “must be
halted immediately.”
The Communist newspaper
Humanite said several other
persons will attend today’s
negotiating session, among
them Nguyen Co Thach, a
North Vietnamese deputy
foreign minister who arrived
with Tho.
Humanite listed the U. S.
delegation as including Gen.
Alexander M. Haig, Kissinger’s
deputy, and William Sullivan,
former U. S. ambassador to
Laos.
Both sides have said the
meeting will be the final one in
a series of secret contacts
between Kissinger and Tho
which resulted in a draft cease
fire agreement Hanoi announ
ceed Oct. 26. At that time,
Hanoi called for the United
States to sign the accord Oct.
31, saying it was the agreed
date. Kissinger said furthur
meetings were needed to clear
a number of issues and asked
for a final session.
“The President has sent me
here for what he hopes will be
the final phase of the negotia
tions to end the war in
Indochina,” Kissinger said.
He said the U.S. government
believes “we have come so far
that both sides have an
obligation to remove the
remaining obstacles.”
“We shall consult frequently
with the South Vietnamese
ambassador to the peace
talks,” the White House envoy
said. Ambassador Pham Dang
Lam joined American officials
of pills in the car, too.
Hospital personnel said the
little girl had been burned on
the back several times with a
cigarette. She also appeared to
have been given pills of some
kind, hospital personnel said.
The little girl had been the
object of a widespread search
that started when her relatives
awoke Sunday morning to find
she was missing.
Her mother said the girl had
watched television with her
five-year-old brother until 3
am. Sunday morning. Then the
girl went to sleep in a chair.
Her mother said her daughter
was no more than three feet
away from her in the chair.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, November 20, 1972
who welcomed Kissinger and
his party at the rainswept
airfield.
In Saigon, U.S. Ambassador
Ellsworth C. Bunker conferred
for half an hour Sunday with
President Nguyen Van Thieu.
No details were disclosed but
they met shortly before Kissin
ger left for Paris.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
56, low today 42, high yesterday
61, low yesterday 47, high
tomorrow in the low 50s, low
tonight in mid 30s. Total rainfall
over the weekend .91 of an inch.
Sunrise tomorrow 7:17, sunset
tomorrow 5:30.
Police siren falls
from cycle, hits auto
At least seven persons, in
cluding three children, were
injured in Griffin area traffic
accidents over the weekend.
Anthony West, three of 221
North Third street, suffered
abrasions of the scalp Saturday
morning when he was struck by
an auto in the 300 block of East
Chappell street.
Police said he ran in front of
the car. No charges were placed
against the driver, E. 0. Geiger,
49, of 2061 Lakewood drive.
A woman driver suffered cuts
when the siren fell from the
motorcycle of a police officer
who was on his way to in
vestigate the Chappell street
accident.
Mrs. Corine C. Holbombe of
209 Mobley street, escaped
serious injury when the siren
fell from a passing police
motorcycle and crashed
through the windshield of her
auto. It bounced into the rear
seat and then to the floor. She
was cut from the glass of the
windshield.
Officer Jimmy Sutton was
traveling on the Old Atlanta
road, near Upland drive, when
the heavy steel siren fell off the
motorcycle and bounced onto
Mrs. Holcombe’s car. Officer
Sutton was enroute to the West
accident.
Walter Dwight Holmes, five,
of 605 North Sixth street, suf
fered a bump on the head when
he ran into a stopped car near
his home around 5:30 Saturday
afternoon.
Police said the driver, Len
ward Phillips, of 421 North Sixth
street, was traveling south on
Sixth street, when he saw the
child run across the street. He
stopped his car and the boy ran
into the stopped vehicle, of
ficers said.
Trooper D. E. Halstead of the
NEWS
Two classes to train am
bulance drivers have been
scheduled to begin at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
Administrator Carl Ridley
said one class with 16 students
already is full and another with
14 can take only two more
students.
The class that already is full
will begin Nov. 29 and the other
will begin Dec. 1.
Emmett Presley of the Upson
County Vocational Technical
School at Thomaston will
coordinate the classes. Under
the Upson County school, Mrs.
Hortense Stowe, a nurse with
special training in ambulance
service, will be the instructor.
The courses will be 110 hours
and will be taught once a week
with four hour sessions. It will
take about three months for
students to complete the course.
All funeral homes in this
community except one have
announced plans to discontinue
all types of ambulance service
Jan. 1.
Mr. Ridley said that since the
students in the classes will be in
training at that time, they will
be eligible to be ambulance
drivers on a temporary basis
until they complete their
training.
The hospital here will operate
three ambulances and have a
staff of 12 drivers.
They will work under the
hospital administrator and be
assigned other hospital duties
while they are not making
ambulance calls.
Jack Moss, Spalding County
Commissioner, has assured the
hospital that some ambulances
will be available here to begin
the service by the first of the
year.
He said that if the new am
bulances are not delivered by
then, the company which will
supply them will loan some
vehicles to Spalding County
until the new ones arrive.
Griffin State Patrol Post wit
nessed an accident about 2 p.m.
Saturday in which a four-year
old East Point boy suffered a
lacerated lip.
He said Mrs. Belinda B.
Webb, 22, of East Point, was
attempting to pass another
vehicle when she lost control of
her car on the wet pavement
and the vehicle ran off the road.
Trooper Halstead was traveling
behind Mrs. Webb’s car.
Her four-year-old son,
Michael Webb, was carried to
the emergency room of the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital for
treatment of minor injuries.
Garvin Frederick Huggins,
48, of General Delivery, Griffin,
suffered a broken shoulder
when his car skidded into a
bank Sunday around 12:05 a.m.
eight miles east of Griffin on
Ga. 155
He was treated in the local
hospital.
Two Jackson women were
injured Friday when their cars
collided in Butts County
Brownlee road.
They were identified as Mary
W. Webb of Route Three,
Jackson, and Mrs. Ethel W.
Norton, of Route Two, Jackson.
Troopers said their cars
collided at a hill crest.
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Ray Cromley learns some 'inside' on the peace negotiations—
how the North Vietnam Communists tried to use a language
gimmick to get Henry Kissinger to just
give them South Vietnam. See Page 4
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SAN FRANCISCO—AImost everything was shipshape, except for a new member of the U.S.S.
Sanctuary crew slipping on a wet gangway, as the crew hurried to the first watch. The Sanctuary,
a hospital ship, was recommissioned here. The vessel is the first in the U.S. fleet to include
women, other than nurses, aboard. (UPI)
Hanes to close
Griffin-Jaco
A dark shadow fell over the
Christmas of more than 290
Griffinites this morning with
the announcement by the Hanes
Corporation that it will close its
mill here.
Plans to phase out Griffin-
Jacoby February were
reported to employes at 11 a.m.
today by Ralph L. Beard, vice
president of the Hanes Un
derwear Manufacturing
division.
The action will affect more
than 290 production and staff
personnel, according to Hanes
officials.
Beard said that he expected
some of the employes to have
jobs through the Christmas
season.
Hanes Public Relations
Director James B. Ellis of
Winston-Salem, N.C., declined
comment on the choice of
closing dates.
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A LIFTING BODY, it’s called, and this one, NASA’s newest, the X-248, is being
unloaded at NASA’s Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. It
will be air launched from a B-52 next spring, and will be powered by a rocket
engine to attain higher altitude and more speed than predecessors.
He would not say the amount
of payroll to be lost to Griffin-
Spalding County as a result of
the shutdown.
“We are shocked and
disappointed at the decision by
Hanes to close the Griffin
plant,” said Jerry Savage,
president of the Griffin Area
Chamber of Commerce.
In announcing the closing,
Beard praised the employes for
their efforts to improve the
plant.
“As a group, you have made
continuing improvements over
the past two years.
“Your efforts have enabled us
to add paid holidays, improved
group insurance, a pension
plan and many in-plant im
provements ...” he said.
Conversely, Beard told
employes that Hanes had ex
plored “every possible avenue”
for upgrading the Griffin plant
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to manufacturing standards
established by Hanes North
Carolina headquarters.
Beard added, “The simple
truth is that the plant is no
longer a profitable one”.
He noted that the main part of
the Hanes complex in Griffin
dated 1887-85 years ago.
Hanes officials had no
comment when questioned
concerning the plant’s age and
condition when they purchased
it in 1967.
Local civic and labor
representatives met with Hanes
officials at a luncheon at the
Holiday Inn to talk over the
possible relocation of Hanes
employes in other Griffin in
dustry.
Some management officers’
in Hanes’ Griffin operation will
be given the choice of relocating
in other cities with Hanes.