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Fayette taxpayers
win first round
Fayette County taxpayers
won a round yesterday in their
fight against property tax
assessments revised by the
State Revenue Department.
Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr., of
the Griffin Judicial Circuit
ruled that Fayette com
missioners and tax assessors
were proceeding illegally and
ordered a halt temporarily to
the taxing process.
He based his ruling largely on
the contention that taxpayers
Thomaston Mills plans
expansion here: ups pav
Thomaston Mills which
operates a mill in Griffin today
announced a pay raise and an
expansion program for the
Griffin Division.
The pay raise was general for
the Thomaston Mills organiza
tion but the expansion program
will affect the Griffin operation.
It will create some 60 new
jobs at the Griffin mill.
Minimum wage at Thomaston
Mills will rise to $2.20 per hour
when the general wage increase
is effective Dec. 17.
Total payrolls will be in
creased approximately
$1,250,000 per year. Os this
amount, about $1,000,000 will be
paid in Upson County and about
$250,000 in Spalding County.
The Griffin division is being
re-tooled for the production of
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WASHINGTON—Mrs. Pat Nixon proudly displays the Gingerbread House which once again will
be one of the Christmas features at the White House. It stands in front of the mirror in the State
Dining Room. (UPI)
Many Griffin stores will be open all day Wednesday
were not served proper notice of
the proposed assessment
changes. Judge Whalen ruled
this denied them due process
under the law.
Charles T. Ballard, attorney
for Fayette commissioners and
assessors, said he would file an
immediate appeal in the case,
seeking to overturn Judge
Whalen’s order.
Some Fayette citizens sued
county commissioners and
assessors in a class action after
heavy goods which will increase
employment in that division in
1973 by approximately 60 people
with an additional payroll of
about $300,000, Thomaston
officials said.
Total payrolls of Thomaston
Mills will exceed $19,000,000 in
1973, the highest level in the
history of the company.
Hourly wages will range from
$2.20 to $4 per hour, depending
upon job, skill and efficiency of
the employe, officials said.
Overtime generally is
available, the company said.
Overtime rates will range
Hospital attendants
aid wreck victim
An ambulance was not needed
yesterday afternoon when a
woman who was injured in a
headon collision near the
Hospital Discount Drug Store
was carried to the emergency
room by Griffin Spalding
Hospital attendants who rolled
a stretcher across the street to
pick her up.
Police said Mrs. Hazel
Kilgore Faulkner of 1319
Atlanta road was injured when
her car collided with a pickup
truck on South Eighth street at
the rear of the hospital about
5:50 p.m. They said Mrs.
Faulkner was attempting to
make a left turn into the drug
store parking lot when her car
collided with the truck, driven
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they got their tax bills and found
many of them increased.
The State Revenue Depart
ment had ordered the Fayette
County tax digest factored and
the Fayette officials complied.
One section of the taxpayers
suit contended that they were
not given proper notice of the
changes made in their assess
ments and thus were denied due
process. Judge Whalen agreed
with the contention, citing cases
in his order.
from $3.30 an hour to $6 an hour.
The company said that
courses to help employes up
grade their skills and earnings
are operated continuously.
Two additional paid holidays
will be added also, making the
total of five per year,
Thomaston announced. Paid
holidays are in addition to
regular paid vacations.
Thomaston Mills is an “Equal
Opportunity Employer.” The
firm said that all jobs are open
to personnel, regardless of sex,
race or religion.
by Johnny Gaddy, 41, of Route
Four, Box 94-A.
Although Mrs. Faulkner’s
head shattered the windshield,
her glasses were not boken. She
was pinned between the seat
and dash in her foreign-made
car. A doctor who happened to
be in the drug store rushed out
and gave Mrs. Faulkner first
aid treatment until they could
get her out of the car and onto
the stretcher which hospital
attendants had rolled to the
scene.
Mrs. Faulkner suffered cuts
and bruises about the head, legs
and knees. After treatment in
the emergency room she was
dismissed from the hospital.
Gaddy escaped injury.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, December 12, 1972
Judge Whalen said that
whether the changes, correc
tions or equalizations ordered
by the Revenue Department
were proper should have been
determined after proper notice
had been given that the changes
were being proposed.
Pike County Commissioners
have been following the Fayette
suit closely. They said they plan
to fight the Revenue Depart
ment’s order to factor the Pike
digest.
Hanoi rejects Yule
cease-fire offer
SAIGON (UPI) —President
Nguyen Van Thieu today
offered a Vietnam Christmas
truce and a prisoner of war
exchange but again rejected the
U.S.-Hanoi peace agreement.
The Vietnamese Communists in
Paris almost immediately
branded his offer “absurd and
unreasonable.”
In an impassive speech
delivered to an equally impas
sive joint session of the National
Assembly, Thieu said there can
be no permanent peace while
North Vietnamese troops
remain in South Vietnam.
He said specifically he was
Kennedy
minister
of year
The Rev. Hartwell Kennedy,
pastor of the Second Baptist
Church for 17 years, today was
named Minister of the Year for
1972.
The award was announced
this morning at a meeting of the
Griffin Area Ministerial
Association at Capri
Restaurant.
Members of the Rev. Ken
nedy’s congregation nominated
him and he was elected to
receive the award by members
of the ministerial organization.
The Rev. Jesse Hilton, pastor
of the Mclntosh Baptist Church,
is president of the ministers or
ganization.
It called for nominations from
the public this fall of pastors to
be eligible for the award. From
the letters received, the
ministers picked the Rev.
Kennedy.
The award last year went to
the late Rev. J. K. Kelley,
retired Methodist minister who
was city chaplain at the time of
his death.
Truman’s
body signs
‘unstable’
KANSAS CITY (UPI) -The
, vital body signs of Harry S
Truman became “unstable”
today. The 88-year-old former
president’s heart beat and
breathing quickened and his
temperature rose.
“Former President Truman
remains serious,” said a
morning medical report on his
condition. “His vital signs
became somewhat unstable
during the night—his respira
tion, pulse and temperature
increased.”
John Dreves, spokesman for
Research Hospital, would not
divulge Truman’s pulse rate,
temperature or blood pressure.
Joseph Chapman, chairman
of the Pike Commissioners,
declined to comment today on
the Fayette ruling.
He said he wanted to read the
order of Judge Whalen.
The other Pike Com
missioners are Lanier Johnson
and J. M. King.
Mr. Chapman said he planned
to meet with the other two com
missioners tomorrow and
review their situation.
making his offer on behalf of
U.S. POWs, adding that the
truce could be extended indefi
nitely and negotiations could
continue in the meantime.
Thieu suggested direct negotia
tions between North and South
Vietnam.
Communist delegates to the
Paris peace talks rejected
Thieu’s cease-fire terms as an
attempt to delay peace and
called on the United States to
sign immediately the U.S.-
Hanoi draft peace pact an
nounced Oct. 26.
A Viet Cong delegation
spokesman said, “The obstinate
attitude and the absurd and
unreasonable demands of the
Thieu administration merely
further unmask his design to
block a correct peace solution
for the Vietnamese peace
problem.”
The spokesman told United
Press International, “Thieu has
once again proved to be the
major obstacle on the road to
peace, national concord and
reconciliation.”
The United States, the Viet
Cong spokesman said, has the
power to put a prompt end to the
war by ignoring Thieu’s
opposition to the basic political
and military terms of the draft
accord, now being refined in
private Paris talks by White
House aide Henry Kissinger and
Hanoi’s Le Due Tho.
Thieu has offered truces,
prisoner exchanges and direct
talks before, but Hanoi has
always rejected them—
although brief holiday truces
are commonplace in the
Vietnam war.
Bunn becomes
commissioner
tonight
Preston Bunn, Griffin
businessman, will be sworn in
as a city commissioner tonight
when the board meets at city
hall at 7:30.
Bunn will succeed 0. M.
(Pete) Snider, Jr., who
represented the third ward and
was vice chairman of the board.
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ON THE MOON—Gene Ceman sets in tubes for lunar samplings during first moon walk. (CBS
Photo Via (UPI)
Astronauts find
“geologist’s paradise”
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPI) —Apollo’s last explorers
found evidence early today
suggesting their picturesque
base in a lunar valley might be
the scene of one of the moon’s
last volcanic upheavals.
Eugene A. Ceman and
Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt
worked long and hard on the
first of three excursions from
the Apollo 17 spacecraft Chal
lenger. They were rewarded
with a view of the most
exquisite lunar scenery seen
first-hand by man.
“Oh, my golly, unbelievable,”
exclaimed Cernan when he first
set foot on the moon.
“A geologist’s paradise,” said
Schmitt, the first geologist to
go to the moon.
The astronauts’ quest for
rocks spanning the ages of
lunar evolution resumes at 5:03
p.m. EST today when they
drive their moon buggy 3 Vz
miles to an avalanche at the
foot of a sun-washed mountain
7,790 feet high.
In orbit overhead, command
module pilot Ronald E. Evans
flies the mothership America
on a lonely surveillance mis
sion. He added to the scientific
output of the nation’s final
planned moon expedition by
Nixon orders salary
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres
ident Nixon has ordered his
salary and that of other
government leaders frozen and
announced his intention to
continue economic controls in
1973. But Democrats in Con
gress’ Joint Economic Commit
tee say controls should be lifted
immediately.
The Economic Stabilization
Act, which gave the President
authority to appoint the Pay
Board and Price Commission
as monitors of the economy,
expires April 30. The law can
be extended only with congres
sional approval.
Treasury Secretary George
P. Shultz and Director Caspar
W. Weinberger of the Bureau of
Management and Budget told
reporters Monday of the
President’s intentions.
“I’m ruling out just going
back to an uncontrolled system
with a statement that everyone
ought to behave in such and
such a fashion and hoping that
they do,” Shultz said.
Sens. Jacob K. Javits, R-
N.Y., and John Tower, R-Tex.,
said in separate statements
that they agreed with the White
sighting two flashes of light on
the dark lunar horizon. Scien
tists thought he may have seen
meteoroid impacts.
272 Feet Off Target
Challenger landed only 272
feet from its target Monday
afternoon, and six hours later,
Cernan and Schmitt had an
American flag flying from
man’s sixth base on the moon.
Their home for three days was
ringed by rounded, knobby
mountains and a 300-foot cliff.
The two explorers spent 7
hours, 12 minutes on their first
outing across the rolling, pock
marked floor of the valley
called Taurus-Littrow. They
returned to Challenger at 2:07
a.m., tired, dirty and satisfied
with the job they accomplished.
“I’m very pleased with what
we got done,” said Flight
Director M. Pete Frank after
the astronauts were back in
Challenger and settling in for
eight hours of sleep to recover
from an arduous 22-hour work
day.
“I thought the crew did an
outstanding job. They worked
extremely hard.”
Despite the labors, Cernan
and Schmitt were in good
spirits throughout the first
excursion. At one point, as he
House, but the senators said
there should also be plans for
ending controls.
Democrats on the Joint
Economic Committee said in a
statement that controls had
curbed wages, but failed to
restrain prices. The Democrats
said they should be allowed to
expire with the law.
The AFL-CIO said in Septem
ber that nine of every 10 wage
increases this year had been
held to the President’s guide
lines of 5.5 per cent or less.
The Labor Department re
ported last week that the
wholesale price index increased
faster in the first 11 months of
1972 than it had in 1971.
Consumer prices from January
to October also rose, but the
department said except for
some items such as food and
lumber the rate of increase was
less than in 1971.
Rep. Wright Patman, D-Tex.,
said he believed that Congress
would “make an independent
judgment on the continuation of
the program regardless of what
the President may recom
mend”.
Patman is chairman of the
Forecast
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loped across the surface like a
kangaroo, Schmitt sang, “While
strolling on the moon (me day,
in the merry, merry month of
May... December.”
Fender Bender
The only casualty of the day
was the moon buggy they are
counting on to cover 23 miles of
terrain. Cernan knocked off a
fender by accident and black,
grimy dust rained on Schmitt
every time the buggy moved.
“Oh boy, that’s going to be
terrible,” Cernan said. “That is
really going to be bad.”
Following their remaining
two moon excursions today and
Wednesday, Cernan and
Schmitt are to blast off
Thursday and rejoin Evans in
moon orbit. The Apollo 17
mission, which began with a
delayed liftoff from Cape
Kennedy early Thursday, aids
with a Pacific splashdown one
week from today.
Most of the first moonwalk
was devoted to setting up a $25
million nuclear-powered science
station and the astronauts
drove only 1.8 miles. But
tonight they plan to cover 10
miles, and engineers on Earth
looked at ways a makeshift
dust guard might be rigged on
the electric car.
frozen
House Banking Committee,
which he said would hold
hearings early next year on the
administration’s proposal.
Before the administration
decides on the details of the
extension, Shultz said it will
consult with representatives of
consumer groups, labor unions,
industry and Congress.
Shultz said the President
planned to hold federal spend
ing this fiscal year below $250
billion despite the 92nd Con
gress’ refusal to adopt the
ceiling.
Nixon was freezing federal
hiring, his salary and the
salaries of the vice president,
cabinet members, Supreme
Court justices and members of
Congress.
Shultz also said Nixon was
reducing the White House staff.
“The hope is that everyone else
in government will play follow
the leader,” he said.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
68, low today 51, high yesterday
65, low yesterday 53, high
tomorrow in mid 60s, low
tonight near 50. Total rainfall
.02 of an inch. Sunrise tomorrow
7:37, sunset tomorrow 5:28.