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Griffin American Legion Post 15 Auxiliary President Mrs. Ray Fleming displays awards
presented to the unit at the department convention in Savannah. The awards include
recognition for work in child welfare, national security, fighting blood disease, God and
country, community service and music.
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Local winners in the state American Legion Americanism Essy contest (1-r) Charles
McKemie, third place; and Debbie Ogletree, first place; are presented awards by Griffin
American Legion Auxiliary Post 15 President Mrs. Ray Fleming. Charles is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward McKemie and Debbie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Ogletree.
GOP praises
new Phase IV
By LEONARD CURRY
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Republican legislators are
praising Phase IV as “tough,”
but many Democrats and
spokesmen for business and
labor question its effectiveness
and say it will hurt city
dwellers and consumers gene
rally.
Senate Republican Leader
Hugh Scott and House GOP
leader Gerald R. Ford both
picked up the administration’s
word, “tough,” to describe the
program.
Scott said it “should avoid
explosive increases in the price
of food,” although he conceded
there would be short term food
price increases during the last
half of this year. Ford called it
the “best program.”
AFL-CIO President George
Meany declined comment for
the time being, but several
leaders of individual unions
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denounced the policy for
allowing food price increases in
the months ahead.
Means Only One Thing
“Higher prices for food and
other necessities plus retention
of the 5.5 per cent wage
guideline can mean only one
thing,” said Paul Jennings,
president of the International
Union of Electrical Workers,
“further falling behind for
working families.”
“If prices of food increase as
anticipated, the government
might find it necessary to issue
food stamps to everybody
because of high prices,” said
James H. Rademacher, presi
dent of the National Association
of Letter Carriers.
The letter carriers recently
negotiated a 6.8 per cent first
year increase with the U.S.
Postal Service, despite the
government’s plea to hold wage
increases to 5.5 per cent.
Rademacher said he is “fear
ful” the government will now
order the agreement rolled
back.
“Phase IV is a new summer
offensive against the con
sumer,” said Patrick E. Gor
man, secretary-treasurer of the
Meatcutters. “It will permit
most food prices to rise. It will
presumably seek to keep wages
stabilized at unrealistic levels
that are rapidly losing their
buying power in this inflation
ary era.”
House Democratic Leader
Thomas P. O’Neill said, “There
is no question but that it is an
increase (in the cost of living)
for the city fellow. I just hope it
is not unbearable.”
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y.,
said, “The city people are
disappointed that raw agricul
tural products are uncontrol
led.”
Sen. Russell Long, D-La.,
chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, said he doubted
Phase IV would work. “There
remain inequities and short
comings,” he said.
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opera singer,
is dead
MIAMI (UPl)—Opera singer
Merrige-Abrams died early to
day withoutregaining conscious
ness from an overdose of pills
she took last Saturday after
killing her ex-husband and two
children.
Mrs. Merrige-Abrams, 43, died
at the South Miami General
Hospital at 1:25 a.m., just hours
after her pilot ex - husband,
James Abrams, and children
Jack, 14, and Melisa Ann, 10,
were buried.
Abrams and the two children
were shot to death in the cou
ple’s fashionable southwest Mi
ami home last Saturday the day
after the couple had been di
vorced after 19 years of mar
riage.
Mrs. Merrige-Abrams had
been performing locally for over
a decade and was rated by the
directors of several South Flori
da opera companies as one of
the best mezzo sopranos in the
nation.
Mrs. Merrige - Abrams had
turned down a number of offers
to join larger opera companies
that many people believe would
have vaulted her to national
stardom. But the attractive sing
er said she preferred to remain
close to home to be with her
husband, a National Airlines pi
lot, and help raise her two chil
dren.
Mrs. Merrige-Abrams and her
husband separated about a year
ago and the tall, handsome air
line pilot filed for a divorce.
The divorce was finalized last
Friday despite the opera sing
er’s claim she still loved Ab
rams and did not want the di
vorce.
The day after the divorce was
final, Abrams went to visit his
children. Several hours later,
police were called to the house
and found Abrams and the two
children dead and Mrs.
Merrige-Abrams unconscious.
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Elvis Presley’s wife says
he didn’t give companionship
NEW YORK (UPI) - Elvis
Presley’s wife, Priscilla Beau
lieu Presley, says the rock and
roll superstar gave her riches,
luxury, and comforts of life—
but no companionship.
S&H agrees to
redeem stamps
for $2 per book
By MICHAEL J. CONLON
WASHINGTON (UPI) - In a
move potentially worth more
than S2OO million to American
consumers, the makers of S&H
Green stamps have agreed to
start redeeming the stamps for
$2 cash per book.
Such cash redemption is
currently available in only 20
states, where the amount varies
from $1.20 to $2 per book. But
under a consent order tentative
ly accepted by the Federal
Trade Commission (FTC)
Wednesday the redemption
starting at 50 cents per 300
stamps will be available
nationwide, except for Kansas,
where trading stamps are
illegal.
An estimated 32 million
American families collect trad
ing stamps. S&H stamps alone
are distributed by 50,000 retail
ers from 60,000 outlets. S&H
stamp revenue in 1972 amount
ed to $363 million.
There were 117,359,000 books
of S&H stamps redeemed last
year. Had they been turned in
for $2 each, they would have
been worth $234,718,000.
The order is the result of a
lengthy case which went to the
Mrs. Presley, 28, who lives in
a California penthouse apart
ment with the couple’s 5-year
old daughter, has been separat
ed from Presley for a year. She
is dabbling in a new career as
Supreme Court. The high court
ruled that the FTC has wide
powers to attack practices
which are unfair to consumers.
In addition to the cash
redemption, Sperry & Hutchin
son, Inc., New York, was
ordered to drop any court
injunctions it has obtained
during the past 12 years against
stamp exchanges — agencies
that trade one brand of stamps
for another or redeem them for
cash. The firm was also
ordered not to interfere with
the operation of such exchan
ges.
But Commissioner Mary Gar
diner Jones, in a lengthy and
strongly worded dissent, said
the commission should have
done more.
“In my judgment this settle
ment accomplishes virtually
nothing for the consumer. It
accepts the basic unfairness of
forcing trading stamps on
consumers and gives them
simply an option of getting cash
instead of merchandise for
these stamps,” she said.
Mrs. Jones was critical
because the order does not stop
S&H’s practice of letting only
certain stores in a given area
buy stamps from it.
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, July 19,1973
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co-owner of a boutique.
Her married life, Mrs. Pres
ley told Ladies’ Home Journal,
was a series of separations
caused by Presley’s professional
commitments.
“In mid-1972 I finally realized
that things were not going to
change—and that we had sep
arate lives completely,” she
said.
Priscilla was married to Pres
ley after a long and private
courtship, which began when she
was the 14-year-old daughter of
a U. S. Air Force officer, and
he was a 25-year-old pop music
entertainer serving an Army
hitch in West Germany.
When Presley returned to his
Memphis, Tenn., home, Priscilla
came with him—with her par
ents’ permission—to finish high
school. For four years she led
“a Cinderella existence,” the
magazine said, with a mansion,
servants and comfortable cars.
“Elvis would rent an entire
theater, invite friends, and we
would talk loudly to each other
without worrying that the man
ager would throw us out,” Mrs.
Presley said.
The Presleys, married in 1967,
later moved to a $550,000 man
sion in California, where the en
tertainer’s professional involve-
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vis to come home from a trip
and leave again was routine,”
Mrs. Presley said. “Sure I was
disappointed, but I got over it.
“I kept thinking, ‘lt’s going
to work itself out—we’ll make it
somehow!’ I had to, because if
if you think ‘l’m always going
to be alone,’ you’ll go crazy.
You have to live one day at a
time, and hope that things
aren’t always going to be like
that.”
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