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:•:• 'The only time most people come in contact with a state •:•
:•:■ patrolman is when they come in for a driver’s license or x
:•:■ renewal. Therefore, for good public relations, it is :•:
$ especially important that the license division have :•:
•:•: pleasant, well mannered men. >•:
The Griffin Post has two such license examiners who S
x get along well with everybody, Wendell Powell and Frank :$
x Slivers, Jr. They are the only examiners in the state who
work two posts. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays they
are in Griffin. Other days are divided between Forsyth,
$ Barnesville, McDonough, and Jackson.
They know that they often make the first and only ¥:
impression some people have of the entire department, so
they try to be extra nice.
x As Wendell puts it, “It takes just as much energy to be
nice as to be rude, so why not be nice? ” £
Wendell is the first member of his family to enter the x
field of law enforcement. He always had wanted to be a :$
state trooper and got his chance last October when he
joined the department in Griffin. He hopes he soon will be
transferred into the patrol division but until then, he says :<
he really enjoys administering tests for the five different $:
classes of licenses and helping people from the beginning $:
driver to the person who has had his license suspended or
revoked.
Wendell graduated from the University of Georgia in x
x 1971 where he was on the Dean’s List. He majored in x
management with a minor in sociology and criminology.
He studied for the first two years at Abraham Baldwin
before transferring to Athens. £
He has been employed as a computer teller station S
operator at the Albany Federal Savings and Loan Asso.,
as a management trainee for Colonial Stores in Adel. He
also worked as an accountant for Strickland Mills in g
x Valdosta.
Wendell has been staying at the patrol station on the
North Expressway during the week. Every weekend he
$ heads for Adel where his wife, Kay, teaches school. Now
that school is over, she plans to move to Griffin. "
$ The Powell’s favorite hobby is bike riding. Wendell calls g
himself a ‘ ‘health nut’ ’ and riding helps keep him in shape.
x He also is an avid coin collector and has a large collection, g
He is a member of the First Baptist Church in Nashville. :•(
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Nixon freezes prices
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Nixon froze all
consumer prices for 60 days,
beginning today, in a tacit
admission that his voluntary
economic controls had failed to
halt the country’s worst round
of inflation in a generation.
Wages, for the time being,
remained unfrozen.
Nixon said the freeze would
be followed, probably in early
August, by “a new and more
effective system of controls,”
—Phase IV—that will be bigger
and tougher than the mostly
voluntary Phase HI stabiliza
tion program.
The President announced his
latest experiment with econom
ic controls, his fourth in two
years, in a nationally televised
speech Wednesday night that
followed several days of debate
at the White House over the
nation’s economic plight.
These were the main points
of the new Nixon program:
Mrs. Dirksen says late husband
might have prevented Watergate
By SUSAN TAYLOR
PEKIN, 111. (UPI) - If
Everett McKinley Dirksen were
still alive, Watergate might not
have happened, the senator’s
widow said today.
Louella Carver Dirksen was
interviewed on the eve of the
dedication of the Dirksen
Congressional Leadership Re
search Center.
President and Mrs. Nixon will
fly to this prairie town, where
Dirksen was born and is buried,
to lay the granite cornerstone
Friday.
Mrs. Dirksen’s daughter, Joy,
and her husband, Sen. Howard
Baker, R-Tenn., ranking Repub
lican on the Senate Watergate
Subcommittee, also will be here
for the dedication. A number of
members of Congress were also
invited.
Senate turns down
Morris nomination
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Fearful that a long-time oil
company lawyer might turn his
back on the consumer, the
Senate refused Wednesday to
confirm the nomination of
Robert H. Morris to the
Federal Power Commission
(FPC).
It was the first time that the
Senate has rejected an appoint
ment by President Nixon to a
regulatory agency.
The Senate voted, 49-44, to
return the nomination to the
Commerce Committee, and
even Morris’ staunchest back
ers conceded it killed the San
Francisco lawyer’s chances of
becoming a member of the
FPC.
Sen. John V. Tunney, D-
Calif., called the action “a nail
in his coffin” and Sen. Ted
Stevens, R-Alaska, said “if this
nomination is recommited it is
killed.”
Nixon nominated Morris to
the rest of the term, ending
June 22 of this year, of John A.
Carver Jr., who resigned.
The Senate’s action gives
Nixon the option of sending
Morris’ name to Capitol Hill for
a full five-year term after June
22 or making a different
appointment.
Morris worked for a law firm
that represented Standard Oil
June 1-8 Prices the Standard
—For the duration of the
freeze, a maximum of 60 days,
sellers may not charge more
than the highest price at which
items or services were sold
between June 1 and June 8.
—Wages will not be effected
so long as pay increases
“continue to be responsible and
non-inflationary.”
—Raw farm products (such
as raw potatoes or a head of
lettuce) are exempt from the
freeze at the first sale but are
covered when they hit the
grocery stores.
—Rents, which have been
increasing at a slower rate in
recent months, are also free of
the freeze.
— Dividends and interest
rates remain subject to volun
tary regulation.
—A beefed-up Internal Reve
nue Service will conduct a
“profit sweep” to determine if
price increases since January
“I know that if Senator
Dirksen were here, he would
have access to President Nixon
and seen some of the things
going on,” Mrs. Dirksen said,
“and a lot of this wouldn’t be
happening.”
Dirksen, trusted confidante of
at least four presidents and
leader of the “loyal opposition”
in the eyes of many Capitol Hill
Democrats, died in September,
1969, after serving 10 years as
Senate Republican leader. He
would be pleased the President
will lay the cornerstone of the
center.
Asked if an absence of strong
congressional leadership might
have contributed to Watergate,
Mrs. Dirksen said, “I feel they
have to be stronger ... And it’s
their own fault. The men just
haven’t assumed the position of
Company for 15 years and in
the last seven years focused on
natural gas matters involving
the FPC and non-regulatory gas
problems.
It’ll be
special
in Seminole
DONALSONVILLE,Ga.(UPI
— June 17, Father’s Day, will
have special significance for
Seminole County this year as
it honors the memory of the
Ned Alday family, slain in their
home May 14.
County officials have declared
Sunday Alday Memorial Day for
Med Alday, his brother, three
sons and a daughter - in - law
The family settled in Seminole
County early in the 1800’s and
was one of the most respected
clans in the area.
All churches in the county
have agreed to to take up a
special collection for the Alday
Memorial Fund to be used for
a new sanctuary at the Spring
Creek Baptist Church.
Four Marylanders, including
three prison fugitives and the
teenaged brother of one, are
awaiting trial for the murders.
have violated Phase 111 guideli
nes.
Congress Asked for Authority
—Congress will be asked to
give the President new authori
ty to limit exports of feed
grains and certain other
agricultural commodities in
short supply that have helped
drive up the domestic cost of
food.
Since neither wages nor
interest rates were frozen, and
since both affect the cost of
housing, it was not immediately
clear what impact the new
measures would have on that
aspect of the economy.
At no time in his 15-minute
speech did Nixon mention the
Watergate scandal. But it was
clear that the new economic
tactics were at least partially
intended to restore sagging
confidence in the value of the
dollar, which had slumped
beyond the levels Nixon set in
his second devaluation because
leadership.”
She said she is not sure
Dirksen would have been able
to prevent the coverup of the
break-in at Democratic Nation
al Committee headquarters.
“It probably went on while
nobody up on the Hill had
anything to do with it,” she
said. “I don’t think President
Nixon had anything to do with
it, but there is such a thing as
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lacked confidence in his ad
ministration.
The President also promised
that the freeze, which some
what resembled the Aug. 15-
Nov. 13, 1971 wage-price freeze
that kicked off Nixon’s new
economic policy, would not lead
to permanent controls.
“We are not going to put the
American economy in a strait
jacket ...,” Nixon said. “We
must not let controls become a
narcotic, and we must not
become addicted.”
Shultz Against Freeze
The decision to freeze prices
flew in the face of recent
arguments by most administra
tion economists, especially
Treasury Secretary George P.
Shultz, who counseled that
supply-and-demand forces were
at last beginning to cut into
inflation and that a booming
economy with increasing short-
overprotection.
“He was busy trying to do
the big job of getting out of
Vietnam.”
Mrs. Dirksen said a resur
gence of congressional power
will probably follow the Water
gate scandal. “It’s got to
because this is a three-branch
type of government and it
should not be that one branch
should dominate over the
others,” she said.
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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, June 14.1973
ages was the worst time to
tighten controls.
But demands for action from
economic activists such as
former Treasury Secretary
John B. Connally apparenlly
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In the five months of Phase
HI, retail prices rose at an
annual rate of 9.2 per cent,
about three times the 1972 rise.
Wholesale prices went up an
alarming 23 per cent in the
same January-May period.
Nixon also repeated his
threat to veto “budget-busters”
—bills passed by Congress that
exceed his spending limits.