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As county faces new year
Jack Moss eyes
roads, center
A regional juvenile detention
center and road improvement
were uppermost on Jack Moss’
mind as the county heads into
1973.
Moss, vice chairman of the
Spalding County Com
missioners, is slated to become
chairman when the board meets
Tuesday to organize.
Moss will succeed David
Elder as chairman. Elder
decided not to run for the board
again after completing some 17
years of service as a com
missioner.
P. W. Hamil, Spalding farmer
and businessman, was elected
to succeed Elder on the board.
He will begin his six-year term
in January.
One of the first orders of
business on the agenda Tuesday
morning will be organization of
the board. If it follows customs,
Sandy Morgan will become vice
Ambulance rates
are revised here
Two ambulances on loan to
the Griffin-Spalding Hospital
arrived yesterday and will be
put into service here Sunday at
midnight.
The ambulances will be used
until the three new vehicles can
be delivered to the community.
They are due about Jan. 20. The
service will operate through the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
With the arrival of the
vehicles, the county also an
nounced a revised rate of
charges to be made for the
service.
County Commissioner Jack
Moss said the county com
missioners had discussed the
matter and revised the rates to
be S2O for trips within Spalding
County and a 75 cents per mile
one way for out of Spalding
trips.
Originally the rate was set at
sls per in-county trip and $1 per
mile one way for out of county
trips.
Moss said the commissioners
had checked several other
community ambulance services
similar to the one to be provided
sere and the Spalding rates still
were well below all the others.
The charges will not make the
ambulance service self sup
porting so the county com
missioners will make up the
difference from federal revenue
glaring funds.
The Griffin-Spalding Hospital
Bomb
halt
ordered
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres
ident Nixon has ordered a
bombing halt and announced
that peace negotiations will
resume in Paris Jan. 8, the
White House said today.
“The President has an
nounced that all bombing will
be discontinued above the 20th
parallel as long as serious
negotiations are under way,”
Gerald L. Warren, the deputy
press secretary, said.
chairman and Hamil the junior
member.
Moss said he had discussed
the possibilities of a regional
juvenile detention center with
Mclntosh Trail Area Planning
and Development Commission.
Moss is of the opinion that a
regional center supported by
the eight counties in the Trail is
the best approach. He doesn’t
believe any of the counties can
carry the financial load of a
center alone.
The chairman-elect pointed
out that a Spalding Grand Jury
last February had recom
mended that a juvenile
detention center be studied.
Wade Pierce, Mclntosh Trail
director, had the organization
gather some data which he
presented at the June term of
die Grand Jury. At that time the
study was incomplete.
Moss said he had discussed
will be in full charge of the new
service. The county simply
purchased the three vehicles to
get it started.
Griffin funeral homes with
the exception of Miller’s an
nounced last fall they would
discontinue ambulance service
at the end of Dec. 31.
They said new state re
gulations made it impossible
for them to continue to provide
the service.
The state legislature adopted
the regulations suggested by the
federal government.
Legislators said had not
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MIAMI, Fla.—A mother breaks into tears as she gets her baby at the Palmetto Hospital in Miami
following a Tristar jet crash near Miami with 167 persons aboard. The woman said her husband
found the baby under the seat of the crashed jet (UPI)
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the center with Bob White who
is in charge of the law en
forcement section of the trail.
He said he also discussed the
matter with local legislative
representatives.
Moss said he would like very
much to see some actual work
bet started on a detention home
soon.
Turning to roads, he noted
that some Spalding streets and
roads are in bad shape and need
of repair.
He suggested the board of
commissioners might study
using some of its federal
revenue sharing money in the
months ahead to help improve
county roads.
Moss pointed out that the
county was prohibited by law
from reducing county taxes,
based on the amount of federal
revenue sharing money it
received. If the county did so, it
Georgia adopted the rules, it
would have lost millions of
dollars in highway funds.
Persons needing ambulance
service after midnight Sunday
will call the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital.
Carl Ridley, administrator of
the Griffin-Spalding Hospital,
said a crew of 12 ambulance
attendants has been employed
to provide the 24-hour am
bulance service. The crewmen
were selected from a class
being trained under an Upson
County Vocational Technical
School course.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, December 30, 1972
would lose the money, Moss
said.
In view of that, he said he
would look with favor on using
some of the federal money to
improve streets and roads.
Moss said that the county was
running behind its schedule in
water line installations. But he
said Spalding was not alone in
this.
Other counties are running
behind too, because of labor and
other problems, Moss pointed
out.
Moss said the county would
continue to push for completion
of the water lines expansion.
The commissioners for
several years have placed top
priority on getting more water
into the county. They have
indicated they believe this is an
important key toward growth of
the community.
No paper
on Monday
The Griffin Daily News will
observe Monday as a New
Year’s Day holiday and will not
publish on that day.
Regular publication will be
resumed Tuesday.
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MIAMI, Fla.—Blood runs from the arm of a survivor of a jet
crash in the Everglades as hospital workers give him
Jet hits in Everglades
78 survive crash;
89 are feared dead
MIAMI (UPI) —An Eastern
Airlines super jet on a holiday
flight from New York to Miami
plunged into the murky, alliga
tor-infested Everglades without
warning Friday night on its
landing approach. At least 78 of
the 167 aboard survived but the
other 89 apparently perished.
The crash occurred at 11:48
p.m. EST and rescuers worked
through the night with helicop
ters and airboats retrieving the
injured from the trackless
swamp.
By dawn, an Eastern spokes
man said 78 survivors had been
counted, and officials apparent?
ly believed most had been
rescued, since many of the
ambulances were dismissed.
The dead were left lying in the
wreckage while all efforts were
concentrated on getting aid for
the living.
The Lockheed L-1011, on
Eastern flight 401, marked the
first crash of one of the so
called super jets, such as the
747’s and DClOs. Airways into
Miami had been jammed for
days with persons streaming in
for the Orange Bowl football
game.
Flying over the crash scene
in a helicopter, UPI reporters
saw three main pieces of
wreckage. The main fuselage
appeared to be in one piece
with a wing and the tail section
nearby.
The plane fell about 17 miles
northwest of Miami, near a
water control dike running east
west across the Everglades. A
trail-like road atop the dike
enabled ambulances to get
within a few hundred yards of
the scene, but getting survivors
cut proved a Herculeen task.
Helicopters with their spot
lights playing over the muddy
waters and quivering sawgrass
criss-crossed the scene looking
for survivors.
When a survivor was found,
an airboat would race to the
spot, get the person and then
return to the dike, where
rescuers formed a human chain
to get the stretchers up the
steep banks.
Most of the injured were
covered with mud and blood.
One woman was able to walk
but was obviously dazed. She
was put on the front seat of the
Vol. 100 No. 306
ambulance, because the back
was filled, and sat with her
head on her chest, obviously in
shock.
Another woman, barely visi
ble in the blankets heaped on
her stretcher, was lifted into an
ambulance sobbing and crying
out incoherently.
Coast Guardsman Don Sche
nick, one of the first rescuers
to reach the scene, reported
seeing looters taking watches
and wallets from the dead.
Schneck also said he man
aged to reach one man whom
he believed to be the pilot, but
the man died while he was
trying to rescue him.
“We were looking for live
people when we got there,”
Schneck recalled. “While we
were working out there, a lot of
Ga. Power says it
will raise rates
despite PSC ruling
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Georgia Power Co. said Friday
it plans to implelent a $17.8 mil
lion dollar rate increase Jan. 2,
despite Georgia Public Service
Commission (PSC) rules to the
contrary.
The company said the newly
granted increase wasn’t enough
and has filed for a rehearing.
PSC chairman Ben Wiggins
said receipt of the petition
automatically suspends any
amount of increase granted
until the PSC can make a ruling.
However, Georgia Power said
it knew of no such rules and at
torneys for the utility said Geor
gia’s “file and suspend” law
ought to permit the increase to
go into effect.
Under the file and suspend
statute, a utility may
implement a rate increase
proposal if the PSC has not
reached a decision within six
months after the case had been
filed.
However, several other road
blocks to the increase cropped
up Friday. The AFL-CIO Labor
treatment. 167 persons were on the Eastern Airlines Tristar
that crashed while coming from New York to Miami. (UPI)
us noticed the looters. I saw
them taking watches and things
from dead people... But what
can you do? We were there
trying to help the survivors and
get them out of there.”
Schneck said he found a piece
of the plane that turned out to
be the cockpit although he
didn’t recognize it as that
because it was bent, broken off
from the main part of the
fuselage, and tilted crazily in
the mud.
“I crawled in and it just
didn’t look like a cockpit. The
throttles and some of the
instruments were just hanging
on wires. There were two
people in uniform there. One
was alive and one was dead
when I got there.
“I think the one that was alive
Council, represented by attor
ney Larry Thomason, filed two
briefs with the PSC seeking sus
pension of the hike.
Thomason said he would seek
an injunction against Georgia
Power in superior court if the
utility implemented the in
crease.
In his briefs Thomason said
Georgia Power originally asked
for $47 million and the reduction
meant adjustment are in order
for various classes of
ratepayers and that these
changes have not been aired in
a public hearing.
Additionally, he said the PSC
received additional evidence
from Georgia Power after the
case was closed.
The Georgia Power Project a
consumer group fighting the in
crease, also asked the PSC for a
rehearing on the case. A project
spokesman said the group
contends it was denied due pro
cess because some evidence in
the case was discarded as ir
relevant.
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was the pilot, but of course I
can’t be sure. I talked to him a
minute. He seemed to think he
was going to die. I told him he
was still alive and still lucky.”
Schneck said he had to move
an injured stewardess from a
passageway in order to get the
man out.
This took some time, he said,
“because she said her back was
hurting and you really have to
be careful with a back injury ”
Schneck said he helped the'
stewardess on a stretcher and
then into a helicopter, “and
when I got back inside the
cockpit, the man was dead.
Pike, Henry
on county
jobless list
Pike and Henry Counties may
be eligible for federal aid
because they are among 28 in
Georgia experiencing an
unemployment rate of six
percent or more.
Pike was among the counties
listed in the persistent unem
ployment category. This group
includes counties experiencing
an unemployment rate of six
percent or more for the
calendar year and that have
remained so for the past two to
four years.
Others listed with Pike in
clude Union, White, Miller,
Paulding, Dawson, Douglas,
Dodge, Ben Hill, Clay, Lanier,
Long, Fannin, Effingham,
Truelten, and Towns.
Henry was among the
counties listed as eligible for
federal aid because it currently
falls in the six percent unem
ployment criteria range. Others
listed with it include Cobb,
Pierce, Murray, Rabun, Clinch,
Meriwether, Telfair and
Brantley.
Counties listed with sub
stantial unemployment that is
expected to continue two
months or more included the
counties of Mitchell, Cherokee,
Polk, Forsyth, Gilmer,
Glascock, Jones, Pulaski,
Pickens, Bryan, and Crawford.