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First class of med techs
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| Albany gurgle
| draws crowd
$ ALBANY, Ga. (UPl)—Charley Power, 13, discovered
the “little round hole gurgling” on the grounds of the
Banks Haley Art Gallery Wednesday night.
“I called the police but they didn’t believe me,” said
Power, who returned to the hole and found that it was
g getting bigger.
“I called the police again and told them to get right
down here, and they did.”
In a matter of hours, the gurgling hole grew from one
foot wide to 30-feet wide and 22-feet deep.
$ The word spread and a crowd of 100 persons gathered to
watch the lime sinkehole gurgle and grow. Police had to
cordon off the area to keep the spectators from getting too
:$ close to the hole.
Doug Wilson, a geologist with the State Department of
Natural Resources, was summoned.
$ Wilson said the hole was caused by recent heavy rains
which collapsed a pocket in the ground. The pressure of
underground water is causing the gurgling and rapid
erosion, he said.
He said the art gallery, 50 feet from the hole, was in no
immediate danger.
City engineers piled sandbags around the hole in an
effort to halt its progress. The sandbags were gobbled up.
By midnight, the hole had grown to 40 to 50 feet wide.
Engineers theorized they could stop the gurgle and,
hopefully, the erosion, by draining the water from the
hole.
:$ That was to be the city’s priority project today.
Burglars chased
Mrs. Ruth Parks who
operates Triangle restaurant on
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Wayne Brown, (1) coordinator of the bloodmobile program
for Griffin and Spalding County, presents certificate to Girl
Scout Senior Troop 102 members for their work with the blood
program here. The Girl Scouts are (1-r) Tina Howard,
leader; Marianne Deignan, Julie Dorton, Laura Hunter,
Highway 19 just south of Griffin
scared away four young men in
the process of burglarizing the
place yesterday about 11:30
a.m.
Two were inside, one was in a
car, and another was on the
grounds, Mrs. Park told
Sheriff’s Investigator Richard
Cantrell.
Mrs. Parks had left the
restaurant to pick up an em
ploye. When the two returned,
they found the burglary
suspects.
Nothing was reported
missing.
The four believed to be in
their 20s fled in the car.
They help with bloodmobile here
GRIFFIN
DAI LY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Twenty-four men who have
completed training to be
medical emergency technicians
will graduate tomorrow.
The ceremony will be held at
the Griffin-Spalding Hospital
where they received their 110
hours of instructions.
The staff in this field of
training at Upson Vocational
Technical School at Thomaston
came here to give the course.
The training program began
last November before the new
ambulance service was in
stalled at the hospital.
When the funeral homes here
were forced to give up offering
ambulance service because of
new state vehicle and training
requirements, the community
turned to an ambulance service
under the supervision of the
hospital here.
The service began in January
with borrowed ambulances
from the firm which sold
Spalding County the three new
ambulances it operates now.
The service began with
drivers who were in training.
Twelve of the 24 men com
pleting the training tomorrow
are employed at the hospital
here. Some of the others work
for Miller’s Funeral Home in
Griffin which still offers private
ambulance service in the
community.
Still others are employed by
funeral homes here and ( in
nearby communities.
Several of the people com
pleting the course work part
time for the hospital ambulance
service here.
The 12 graduates who work
for the Griffin-Spalding am
bulance service are Merrill E.
Bishop, Charles Castellaw,
Joseph C. Colwell, Henry N.
Ethridge, Donald W. Florville,
Roy D. Hardy, Jerry B.
Johnson, Warren A. Kelly,
Patrick W. Murphy, Danny
Oldham, Jerry A. Parham and
Perry G. Wells.
Others who will graduate are
Robert E. Brooks, Jerry S.
Hayward, Horace Head, Jr., J.
T. Hubbard, Sherman D.
Lemon, Willie D. Lemon, Otis
Charles Mayes, John Roger
Miller, Horton Moses, James C.
Padgett, Glenn Shepard, and
Charles E. Stinson.
Patricia Hunter and Kathy Windom. Beth Campbell also is in
the troop. Brown said the next bloodmobile visit would be
June 26 at the Cheatham building of First Baptist Church.
The Girl Scouts will be on hand to help with the visit.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, June 7, 1973
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Another sign of the times is this message board in front of Griffin High. Teachers finished their work
yesterday. Equipment to repair the building’s roof can be seen in the background.
Sloan says he feared
Watergate retribution
WASHINGTON (UPI) - For
mer Nixon campaign treasurer
Hugh W. Sloan Jr. testified
today that he asked for and
was granted a meeting with
presidential aide H.R. Halde
man early this year because he
feared “retribution” for telling
the truth about Watergate.
Sloan, appearing for a second
day before the Senate Water
gate Committee, said he went
to Haldeman’s White House
office in late January to talk
about his future and possible
employment opportunities.
Sloan had quit the Nixon
campaign in July in the wake
of the Watergate break-in and
had been cooperating fully with
investigators. He had been
unemployed for five months
until early January, when he
went back to the finance
campaign staff as a consultant
to help “wrap things up.”
“Your position was that you’d
need the support of the
administration in finding jobs
in the future?”' asked Sen.
Lowell P. Weicker Jr., R-Conn.
“No,” Sloan replied. “I
wanted to be sure there would
be no effort to inhibit my own
efforts along those lines.”
“It was a fear of retribu
tion?” Weicker asked.
“Yes sir, retribution,” Sloan
replied.
On Wednesday, Sloan said he
had told Haldeman at that
meeting he felt he “had been
blacklisted, essentially,” since
he quit the campaign. He also
said he had told Haldeman he
had been pressured to commit
perjury or to invoke the Fifth
Amendment when questioned
about Watergate, but had
refused to do either.
Fix-it walk in space starts
HOUSTON (UPI) - Com
mander Charles “Pete” Conrad
emerged from Skylab today on
a risky spacewalk to cut a
jagged aluminum snag and
open a solar electric generating
wing critically needed to
prolong the productive life of
the space station.
Joseph P. Kerwin handed
Vol. 101 No. 135
Four arms, four legs at birth
Baby now has chance
for a normal life
MIAMI (UPI) — Joan and Mike married
at 19. She wanted a baby more than
anything. First she had a miscarriage.
Then, she saw the look on the nurses’ faces
when Joe was born—with four arms and
four legs.
But Joan’s and her husband Mike’s
faith—and the skill of a surgeon in
Miami—has given them a 10-month-old
boy with fluffy blond hair and four new
teeth, who smiles, plays pattycake with his
dad and has an excellent chance for a
normal life.
The names are not their real names
because the parents want nothing to cast a
shadow on Joe’s life. The case of “Joe,”
and the work of Dr. Marc Rowe, chief of
pediatric surgery at the University of
Miami’s School of Medicine, came to light
in a study published Wednesday by the
Miami Herald.
23rd Case in Three Centuries
Joe was only the 23rd case of dipygus
documented in nearly three centuries.
Mike and Joan learned that Rowe, one of
the few doctors in the world who could help
them, was right in their own city.
The infant was only 21 hours old when
the first 5%-hour operation began. Doctors
inserted dye in his veins and used Xrays to
guide the surgeon as he cut off the extra
limbs and stitched up the wounds.'
Now, Joe faces one more operation to
makeshift tools through the
open hatch before joining the
veteran space pilot on the four
hour attempt to do what no one
has ever done before—walk in
space to repair a spaceship.
The full success of their 28-
day mission, and possibly two
56-day flights for six other
astronauts, hinged on the
Irwin named to defend suspect
COLQUITT, Ga. (UPI) —
Judge Walter Geer of Colquitt
Wednesday appointed Dawson
attorney John R. Irwin to
defend one of the Donalsonville
murder suspects.
Irwin replaces state Sen. Jul-
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
80, low today 63, high yesterday
81, low yesterday 65, high
tomorrow in low 80s, low tonight
near 60.
correct a condition in his digestive tract.
The parents, now 22, are optimistic about
his future.
Joan said she took no drugs nor
hormones during her pregnancy. When she
entered the delivery room, she told the
doctor she wanted to be awake for the
child’s birth.
She Sees Nurses’ Expressions
“I had a local anesthetic,” she said. “I
saw him come out when he was born, but
he was face down. Then I saw the
expression on the nurses’ faces.” The
nurses wrapped Joe in a blanket before
they showed him to Joan. A doctor said
there were some problems.
Joan learned to accept Joe as he was,
even before the surgery. “I am the type
who lives one day at a time,” she had said.
The couple met at a little fundamentalist
church which teaches literal belief in the
Bible.
“I feel there’s a comfort in faith; it
really keeps things together,” said Mike, a
lay minister.
“I think if we both hadn’t had the Lord,
things possibly could have gone a lot
differently,” said Joan.
“It worked out beautifully,” Rowe said.
“Maybe she has something we all ought to
know because she handles it so well.” —
outcoiAe of the historic effort to
end Skylab’s power shortage.
The third member of Ameri
ca’s first space station crew,
Paul J. Weitz, remained in a
pressurized section of the
airlock module, a small com
partment forward of the main
laboratory living section.
Most of Skylab’s interior
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ian Webb of Donalsonville who
asked Geer to relieve him of
the court appointment because
of personal and professional
ties with members of the vic
tims’ family.
Webb also contended it would
be unethical for him to act in
a case where the death penalty
might be asked when he recent
ly proposed a bill to reinstate
capital punishment in Georgia.
lights and fans were turned off
to provide enough power for
exterior floodlights illuminating
the area around the open hatch
when Skylab passed into earth’s
shadow. Conrad had to wait for
daylight to proceed down the
damaged side of the station to
the stuck solar wing.