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Georgia Power halts
work on new dam
ATLANTA (UPI) — The Georgia Power Company has
interrupted work on its $97 million power facility near
Eatonton after the state Public Service Commission
refused to grant the company its full rate hike request.
Edwin I. Hatch, president of Georgia Power, said
construction of the Wallace Dam project had been halted
because “we cannot support our projected construction
program with the reduced revenue.”
The PSC granted Georgia Power a $17.8 million rate
hike, but the company had sought $47.9 million. Earlier
this week, the utility filed a petition with the PSC for
reconsideration off the full request.
One PSC member, Bobby Pafford said he felt as a
consumer that Georgia Power was using “some mighty
high-handed tactics” in its fight for the entire rate hike.
The massive dam is expected to generate 324,000
kilowatts of electricity on completion. It would back up an
18,000 acre reservoir located in Hancock, Greene,
Putnam, and Morgan counties.
Maddox critical
of purchasing plan
ATLANTA (UPI) — Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox charged
Wednesday that Georgia’s new purchasing plan under
reorganization is costing the state thousands of dollars.
Maddox said the method of mass buying of state
supplies under Gov. Jimmy Carter’s governmental
reorganization plan had pushed the cost of buying some
items up 27 per cent in the last year. Formerly, the state
negotiated individually for supplies.
The lieutenant governor said he would ask the Senate
Committee on Economy, Reorganization and Efficiency
in Government to investigate the new buying procedure.
In addition, Maddox charged officials at Alto and
Jackson state prisons were “abusing personnel,
equipment, supplies and stock.”
Man kills self
as police close in
ATLANTA (UPI) — A young man wanted on charges of
carrying a concealed weapon shot and killed himself
Wednesday as police urged him to surrender from inside
his motel room.
The victim, Charles Stanley Scott, 25, had told officers
outside that “I’m armed and I’ll kill the first person who
comes through the door.”
Police said the man, thought to be the person who fired
on a hotel security guard earlier, was found dying on the
floor when they entered the room after shots were heard.
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Rollins to purchase
oil, gas company
ATLANTA (UPI) — Rollins Inc. of Atlanta said
Wednesday it will purchase an oil and gas production
service company in Louisiana.
Rollins, an environmental service company, announced
plans to acquire the Patterson Companies of Houma, La.
The sales price was not disclosed.
Patterson works as a serving, rental, and handling
agent for pipes, tools, and equipment used by oil and gas
companies and drilling contractors in seven southern
states.
Other fields included in Rollins operations are
broadcasting and outdoor advertising, termite and pest
control service, professional building maintenance,
burglar, and fire protection systems, and consumer
buying.
Georgians get more
federal grant money
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Georgia Sens. Herman
Talmadge and Sam Nunn announced Wednesday a series
of federal grants to Georgia firms and local governments.
The Defense Supply Agency awarded to $3,925,530
contract to Thomaston Mills in Thomaston to furnish
cloth, the senators said.
In addition, a grant of $1,668,540 was given Fulton
County by the Environmental Protection Agency for
wastewater treatment construction.
Recreational grants of $243,152 and $3,800 went to
Snellville and Liberty County, while another EPA grant of
$541,380 was given Newnan for wastewater construction.
Number of autos
is up in Georgia
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia automobile statistics for
1972 show more cars, more revenue, and more profit, the
state Revencue Department’s Motor Vehicle Unit said
Wednesday.
Figures show an increase in registered cars of 174,971
and a boost in revenue through November of $2,033,113.
Officials said the margin of profit should also rise
because metal tags did not have to be replaced in 1972
under a new five year plan where Georgians will receive
stickers in place of new tags.
Alcoholics offered
new open door plan
ATLANTA (UPI) — Alcoholics in Georgia are being
offered a new “open door" treatment program at
hospitals in four cities in the state.
The Georgia Department of Human Resources said a
seven-day-per-week plan would grant admission to all
problem drinkers at hospitals in Atlanta, Augusta, and
Savannah, and the regional unit of the Middle Georgia
Human Resources Campus in Milledgeville.
Wallace gets
pain device
MIAMI (UPI) - Alabama
Gov. George Wallace was fitted
with a battery-powered pain re
lieving device Wednesday.
Dr. Daniel Robinson, director
of Veterans Hospital, said Wal
lace was fitted with “an external
dun stimulator,” consisting of
battery operated electrodes.
Robinson said the device is
designed to cause a sensation in
the skin near a spinal injury
which diverts the pain pathway’ ’
Parents indicted
in beating death
CHICAGO (UPI) -Seven
year-old Johnny Lindquist died
last August after lying in a
coma for 34 days from a
beating allegedly inflicted at
home because he had asked to
be allowed to return to his
foster parents.
On Wednesday, a Cook
County grand jury indicted his
parents, William and Irene
Lindquist, on charges of mur
der.
While Johnny lay in the
comma, his foster parents,
Robert and Florence Karvanek
of Tigerton, Wis., were at his
bedside, and their attorneys
waged court battles in efforts
to gain custody of the child. But
Johnny, whose story attracted
national attention, never re
gained consciousness.
“I said in Chicago, it will all
come out,” Karvanek said from
his Tigerton home after hearing
of the murder indictments
Wednesday.
“If they have to be punished,
that’s it... I don’t know. We’re
still not settled here, not over
Johnny yet. We had bought him
presents for Christmas. It was
from the injury.
Wallace is visiting friends on
Key Biscayne this week and
took a trip to the hospital to try
the experimental device in ef
forts to relieve the pain inflicted
by a would-be assassin’s bullet
in the spine.
Wallace has been in pain
much of the time since being
wounded May 15 on a campaign
appearance in Laurel, Md. He
since has had the bullet re
moved.
a dull Christmas just thinking
about Johnny.”
Johnny turned 7 shortly
before his death Aug. 31, and
the Karvaneks were there with
cake and presents, but he never
knew it.
The grand jury returned the
indictment after reportedly
hearing testimony from neigh
bors that on one occasion Mrs.
Lindquist slammed the boy’s
head into a door repeatedly and
beat him on the back with a
broomstick in forcing him to
kneel.
It was charged that she beat
him to the floor July 28, and
witnesses said Johnny was
forced to kneel for eight hours
and was refused water. Also, on
July 28, her husband alledgedly
beat the boy because Johnny
was unhappy about leaving his
foster parents.
Lindquist has been held in
jail since the beating. His wife
was arrested after the indict
ments were returned Wednes
day. >
Maddox
names
Coggin
ATLANTA (UPI) - Lt. Gov.
Lester Maddox named Sen.
Frank Coggin, D-Hapeville, a
political ally, Wednesday to
chair the powerful Senate Ap
propriations Committee.
Coggin will replace temporary
chairman Sen. Hugh Gillis of
Soperton, who assumed the post
during the last legislative ses
sion when Sen. Lamar Plunkett
resigned.
Maddox’s appointive powers
are currently under contention
by his opponents, who hope to
strip him of his powers when
the General Assembly convenes
Jan. 8.
Coggin’s early appointment,
Maddox said, was an effort to
give the senator time to consid
er Gov. Jimmy Carter’s pro
posed $1.6 billion budget.
“The budget represents a
$343 million increase over the
current budget and I didn’t
want our chairman to go into
that cold,” Maddox said.
Coffee may be factor
in heart attack cause
BOSTON (UPI) -A team of
researchers has found that
coffee may be a factor in
causing heart attacks.
“The team found that people
who drink more than five cups
of coffee a day are twice as
likely to suffer heart attacks as
people who drink no coffee at
all,” a spokesman for Boston
University Medical Center said
Wednesday night.
The researchers, headed by
Drs. Hershell Jick and Dennis
Slone, studied records of 276
heart patients at hospitals in
the United States and other
countries. They compared them
to a control group of 1,100
hospital patients with similar
backgrounds who suffered from
other ailments.
“They found that all of them
varied very little in their
medical history—a number of
both groups smoked, for
instance—but when they addi
tionally compared their coffee
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Commies shoot down
two more 852 planes
SAIGON (UPI) — Communist
antiaircraft gunners downed
two more 852 bombers and a
rescue helicopter in post-
Christmas raids over North
Vietnam by American war
planes, the U.S. command said
today.
The downed craft raised to 14
the number of 852 s shot down
since the full-scale air war
resumed 11 days ago.
But U.S. command spokes
men refused to discuss many of
the details of the latest combat
losses or the continuing intense
bombing of targets in and
around Hanoi and the port of
Haiphong.
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consumption, that’s where there
was a really substantial differ
ence,” the spokesman said.
“AU of the heart attack victims
consumed much greater quanti
ties of coffee.”
Jick and Slone did most of
their work at the BU medical
center, the spokesman said,
comparing records from the
other hospitals with the aid of
computers. An article on their
research was published in a
recent issue of the English
medical journal Lancet.
The hospitals used in the
study were Massachusetts Ge
neral, Boston State, Boston
Veterans Administration, the
Massachusetts Mental Health
Center; Westminister and St.
Joseph’s in London, Ont.;
Hebrew University and Hadas
sah in Jerusalem; Auckland
Hospital in New Zealand;
Roger Williams General and
Brown University in Pro
vidence, R.I.
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, December 28, 1972
U.S. military sources and
reports from official North
Vietnamese radio and news
agencies confirmed that raids
deep into the Communist
heartland continued today.
Spokesmen said at least six
Americans from one of the
852 s were “missing” when
their plane was downed near
Hanoi late Tuesday, placing
official statistics since full-scale
bombing of the North resumed
Dec. 18 on President Nixon’s
orders at four U.S. fliers dead,
five wounded and at least 64
missing.
The second 852 limped back
to Thailand, where its six-man
crew bailed out and was
rescued early today.
The stricken Air Force CHS3
Super Jolly Green Giant rescue
helicopter—only the 11th chop
per to be lost over North
Vietnam in the entire Vietnam
War—crashed in Laos Wednes
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rescued, spokesmen said. They
provided no further details.
The U.S. command, after
lifting the first veil of secrecy
on the raids into North Vietnam
Wednesday with an incomplete
report of bomb damage during
the first seven days of the
raids, refused again today to
discuss all aspects of the
bombing raids.
The official (North) Vietnam
News Agency (VNA) today
gave its version of the downing
of the 852 over Hanoi.
“A big ball of fire erupted
high in the sky of Hanoi” when
the plane was hit by a surface
to-air missile Tuesday night,
VNA said.
The agency did not give
names, but said two crewmen
of the six or more on board
were captured. It said one was
an Air Force master sergeant,
the other a second lieutenant
and co-pilot of the plane.