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Skylab crewmen
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HOUSTON (UPI) - Re
freshed after their second
showers in two weeks, the
Skylab astronauts today
planned a 6,000-mile earth
resources picture-taking survey
from Washington state to Brazil
during a full day of research.
“It looks like a good day,”
said commander Charles
“Pete” Conrad as he, Jospeh P.
Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz
reviewed the day’s flight plan.
The earth resources sweep
was designed to look at the
after effects of flooding at the
confluence of the Ohio and
Defends ROTC
Gen. Sais raps
academic arrogance
ATLANTA (UPl)—The future
head of U. S. land forces in
southeast Europe Friday de
nounced the “remarkable aca
demic arrogance” of schools
“It’s 100 bad man’s span of 70
years must be crowded with
cemuries of worry.”
Terry Eugene Norman and his mother, Mrs. Betty Norman,
1504 Old Atlanta road, get ready to celebrate their birthdays
tomorrow. They both were born on June 10. Terry will be 14.
His initials spell ten.
Mississippi rivers, evaluate
strip mining in Kentucky and
take high resolution photos for
Department of Interior maps.
The resources pass was only
the second of the record
endurance mission not curtailed
by the lack of electrical power
in Skylab. A successful space
walk by Conrad and Kerwin
freed a stuck solar energy
wing, giving the 100-ton space
lab power to spare.
Problem Continues
Skylab’s cooling system con
tinued to be a problem. A
primary coolant network was
that abolished on-campus ROTC
and said the school military
program insures an “anti-mili
taristic attitude” in the services.
Lt. Gen. Melvin Zais, com
mander of the 3rd U.S. Army,
said ROTC serves as a broaden
ing influence on the military
and “insures the presence of
university and university edu
cated young men in the mili
tary.”
“Those who demand an end
to ROTC on campus actually
are encouraging the demise of
the most effective means we
have of insuring the continua
tion of an anti - militaristic
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turned off because of a stuck
valve and early Friday the
astronauts had to make emer
gency repairs to keep the
secondary system from freezing
up.
The secondary system re
turned to near normal opera
tion, but engineers were
unsuccessful in an attempt
Friday night to turn on the
main unit.
“We were kind of hoping it
would work, but apparently
that’s not the case,” said
capsule communicator Henry
Hartsfield.
fighting force,” Zais told Geor
gia Tech ROTC cadets at com
missioning ceremonies.
Zais, an ROTC graduate him
self, said the influence of ROTC
and civilian control of the mili
tary are the best weapons
against “an elitist, self - perpet
uating corps of officers...a very
remote possibility in this na
tion.”
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81, low yesterday 64, high
tomorrow in mid 80s, low
tonight in upper 60s. Total
rainfall .43 of an inch.
Griffin. Get., 30223. Saturday. June 9. 1973
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Spe
cial Watergate Prosecutor Ar
chibald Cox today had the
additional duty of probing the
settlement of a federal antitrust
suit against ITT. Attorney
General Elliot L. Richardson
made the assignment, saying
the two issues had “begun to
overlap.”
Richardson announced his
decision to put Cox on the
International Telephone & Tele
graph case Friday in a letter to
Sen. James O. Eastland, El-
Miss., chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
“The ITT inquiry has begun
to overlap with the Watergate
investigation, particularly in
the area of subjects for
review,” Richardson said.
“Moreover, this investigation
appears to fall within the
guidelines that I have formulat
ed as to matters appropriate
for the consideration of Mr.
Cox. Therefore, I have referred
it to Mr. Cox for such action as
he deems necessary.”
In No Way Connected
An ITT spokesman said in
response to Richardson’s move
that neither the corporation
“nor any of its personnel are in
any way connected with the
Watergate matter.”
The government settled its
antitrust suit against ITT out of
court in 1971 after seeking a
judgment that would have
stopped ITT from acquiring the
Hartford Fire Insurance Co.
and several other major firms.
The settlement allowed ITT to
keep Hartford while selling off
its interests in some of the
other companies involved.
The Senate hearings into the
Watergate scandal are recessed
until Tuesday. Chief Judge
John J. Sirica of the U.S.
District Court in Washington
has promised to rule one-half
hour before the start of the
Tuesday session on whether to
grant Cox’s request for a ban
on live television coverage of
testimony by Watergate figures
Jeb Stuart Magruder, former
deputy campaign director for
President Nixon, and John W.
Dean 111, former White House
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FT. WORTH, Texas—Mr. and Mrs. Roy Payne operate one of
the more unique business enterprises in Ft. Worth —a
cricket farm, complete with a barn and a flock of setting
counsel.
Cox Argues Endangerment
Cox, the Harvard law profes
sor chosen last month to handle
the government’s prosecution of
Watergate offenses, has argued
that publicity attached to
testimony at the Senate hear
ings could endanger prosecution
of witnesses testifying with
immunity.
Members of the Senate
committee, however, have re
jected this argument, and
Chairman Sam J. Ervin, D-
N.C., said Friday the commit
tee will broaden its probe to
cover the burglary of the office
of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychia
trist and other illegal, govern
ment sanctioned activities.
In another move Friday,
Sirica ordered postponed indefi
nitely sentencing of James W.
McCord Jr., the convicted
member of the burglary team
that broke into Democratic
national headquarters last year
and the former chief of security
for the Nixon re-election
committee.
McCord, a star witness at the
Senate hearings last month,
asked the court to reverse his
conviction or grant a new trial.
He cited “massive efforts in
this case to obstruct justice,"
including possible perjury by
Magruder.
McCord Free on Bond
McCord was to have been
sentenced next Friday, but
Sirica decided it would take at
least that long to get a
“thorough response” from the
government and hold a hearing
on McCord’s motion. McCord is
out of jail on SIOO,OOO bond.
McCord, a former CIA and
FBI operative, who has been
described as a skilled “wire
man” —or wiretapper—argued
in his 20-page motion that he
was “enticed by high govern
ment officials” into the bugging
operation.
The Justice Department since
settling the ITT case has been
accused by critics of agreeing
to the terms after ITT
executives sought aid from high
administration officials with the
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Not quite the little ole lady that lived in a shoe, Laura Davis holds Runtley, Huntley and
Brinkley—wild rabbits that the Davis family has raised from birth. The rabbits have used the
sneeker for a house. Laura is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Davis of 1124 Placid Road,
Griffin.
Discount rate hiked
Federal reserve moves
to fight inflation
WASHINGTON (UPI) - In
an unusually tough move
against inflation, the Federal
Reserve Board has raised its
key discount rate from 6 to 6.5
per cent, the highest since 1921.
The board’s governors said in
a statement Friday they took
the step “in recognition of
increases that have already
occurred in other short-term
interest rates, the recent
growth in money and bank
credit and the continuing rise in
the general price level.”
The explanation implied that
crickets. Mr. Payne started out with a box full of crickets in a
back room of the house, now they sell about a millinn
crickets annually to zoos, universities and fishermen. (UPI)
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the governors were unhappy
with President Nixon’s seeming
inability to make a significant
dent in the inflationary spiral.
It was the fifth time since
January that the board had
raised the interest rate com
mercial banks pay for money
borrowed from the 12 district
banks of the Federal Reserve
System.
The board hoped by making
borrowing more expensive to
play its part in slowing down
business investment spending
and dampen the economic
expansion that has pushed
prices and economic growth
upward in recent months.
It was the highest the rate
has been set since 1921 when
the rate peaked briefly at 7 per
cent.
The prime borrowing rate
which most commercial banks
charge their most credit worthy
customers now stands at 7.5 per
cent, the highest since the 1969
credit crunch. The FRB action
is likely to give the prime rate
another push upward.
Firecracker
kept him
from grad
ROCKY RIVER, Ohio (UPI)
— William M. Smith, an honor
student and champion diver,
was not permitted to graduate
with his high school class here
Friday because he had set off a
firecracker outside the prin
cipal’s office.
Smith went to federal court
Friday morning in an attempt
to win a reversal of Principal
Morton B. Beil’s suspension
order.
However, Judge William K.
Thomas ruled against the boy
and said the Constitution does
not guarantee the right to
participate in commencement
exercises.
Beil suspended Smith after
the firecracker incident, barred
him from attending commen
cement, threatened to have him
arrested if he ever stepped on
school property and did not
allow him to take a final
examination in one subject.
In an agreement reached
Friday afternoon, school board
President John F. Faulkner
said Smith will receive his
diploma Monday and could
attend graduation ceremonies
as a spectator.
Smith plans to enter Purdue
University this fall and study
engineering.