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Georgia Power files
suit against Griffin
The Georgia Power Company
has filed an injunction in
Spalding Superior Court against
the City of Griffin, City
Manager Roy Inman, and Light
and Water Superintendent
Charlie L. Smith in connection
with a territorial dispute over
electrical service of a residen
tial subdivision near Orchard
Hill.
The subdivision is being
constructed by Smith Brothers
Realty on property formerly
owned by Tommy Shapard off
Old U. S. 41 south of Orchard
Hill.
The suit states that both
plaintiff and city are subject to
the provisions of the Georgia
Territorial Electrical Service
Act which became effective on
March 29, and that on that date,
the plaintiff was the only
electrical supplier having
Griffin Police
get SI 4,752
The Georgia State Crime
Commission has allocated
$98,711 in federal funds to the
eight-county Mclntosh Trail
area law enforcement units,
with the largest single grant
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point where crime costs us
more than it would to avoid
raising criminals.”
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NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla—Motorists using the parking lot at the post office here get the
message in the old fashioned way as well as by use of the standard, run-of-the-mill stop sign.
(UPI)
existing electrical lines in close
proximity to said subidivision,
and therefore had exclusive
rights to service each new
premise in said subdivision.
It further states that at
sometime prior to the effective
date of the Act, the City, at the
direction of Smith and with the
consent and approval of Inman,
started construction for an
electrical distribution line to the
subdivision with the avowed
purpose of serving the sub
division and the Potato Creek
Secondary Sewerage Treat
ment Plant under construction
in Lamar County.
The plaintiff shows that on the
effective date the city had not
completed construction and had
not energized the electrical line
to the sites, therefore, did not
have any existing lines in close
proximity to the boundaries of
going to Griffin.
Griffin was awarded $14,752
for a community relations
program, while Covington also
received funding in the same
area.
The grant will initiate
projects including computer
terminals, law clerks, reduction
of burglary, community
relations, investigative equip
ment and local drug units.
Awards to Griffin include:
$1,218 for computer terminals;
$13,428 for a local drug unit; as
well as the grant for community
relations.
Awards made to Covington
include: $761 for computer
terminals, $9,648 for a local
drug unit; SI,OOO for police
recruitment as well as the
$13,334 grant for the community
relations project.
Henry County will receive:
$1,522 for a computer terminal;
and $8,163 for a local drug unit.
said subdivision, its closest line
being about 2.5 miles away.
Georgia Power Co. alleges
that the city planned the
proposed electrical line by the
city’s desire and threat to
service the said subdivision,
and not by location of said
sewerage treatment plant and
that lines were constructed
down Highway 41 and in the
subdivision without lawful
authority.
It further alleges the city’s
'sole purpose was to service the
premises of lots in the sub
division in violation of the
plaintiff’s exclusive right to
service the said premises.
Unless enjoined from doing
so, the city will serve the
premises and customers and
will extend its line to serve
additional customers which will
be illegal to the provisions of the
Awards to Newton County
include: $9,300 for a Law Clerk
and $1,234 for improvement on
the investigative capacity of the
Sheriff’s Department.
Butts County was awarded
$10,113 for the reduction of
burglary.
Lamar County received $7,938
for the reduction of burglary
while Fayette was awarded
$6,399 for a local drug unit.
The Lake Jackson recreation
al area has been a sore spot in
that the majority of burglaries
committed in Butts County are
perpetrated on cabins from the
waterfront.
As a result of the purchase of
the boat and motor, a surveil
lant deputy will be assigned to
Lake Jackson in order to reduce
burglaries in that area.
Act and will deprive the
plaintiff of its property rights to
serve them. This will result in
irreparable damage to the
plaintiff, the suit continues.
The plaintiff requests that the
defendants show cause why
they should not be temporarily
enjoined from construction or
utilizing existing lines in said
subdivision and from in
terferring in any manner with
the plaintiff’s exclusive right to
service all premises of said
subdivision; that defendant be
permanently enjoined from
erecting or constructing ad
ditional lines in said sub
division; and that all of
plaintiff’s costs of this cause be
taxed against defendant.
Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr.
has scheduled a hearing on the
matter Aug. 3 at 9 a.m. at the
Spalding Courthouse.
Hijackers
threaten
jumbo jet
BEIRUT (UPI) - Five
airline hijackers who forced the
crew of a Japan Air Lines
(JAL) jumbo jet to fly them
from the Netherlands to the
Persian Gulf threatened today
to blow up the plane and its
passengers if police tried to
disarm them.
A Dubai spokesman said the
hijackers refused to let the
passengers leave.
“Our police surround the
aircraft,” said a police spokes
man in the Persian Gulf
sheikhdom of Dubai, where the
Boeing 747 landed. “The au
thorities are negotiating with
the hijackers.”
They did not say what the
negotiations were about and the
goals of the five hijackers were
still not clear.
On board, officials in Dubai
said, were about 135 persons. In
Tokyo, the airline said the
plane carried 144 persons—two
Germans, one Swiss, one
Dutchman and 119 Japanese,
plus the 22-man Japanese crew.
Officials in Dubai said a
woman—identified as one of the
hijackers—died in an explosion
on board that also wounded a
crew member. The hijackers
let police remove the woman’s
body but refused to allow
anyone else off the plane.
No Demands Made
The dead woman was...killed
when a hand grenade tied to
her waist exploded,” the Dubai
police said.
In Tokyo, an airline official
said the woman died just before
the hijacking.
“The hijackers have, so far,
asked for only food and water
and nothing else,” the Dubai
police said. “They have threat
ened to blow up the craft if
attempts are made to disarm
them.”
Nunn to speak
at CGEMC meet
Senator Sam Nunn will be the
guest speaker at the 36th annual
meeting of the Central Georgia
Electric Membership Corpora
tion to be held at Indian Springs
State Park on Aug. 8.
Registration will begin at 9
a.m. and the program is at 10
o’clock in the morning.
Three directors, one from
Butts County, one representing
Monroe and Bibb Counties and
one serving Spalding and
Lamar Counties, will be elected
for three year terms each,
President
to stop
tapings
CAMP DAVID, Md. (UPI) -
President Nixon is discontinu
ing the secret taping of his
phone calls and office conversa
tions, his aides report. Mean
while, the President is
preparing a strong fight to
prevent the Senate Watergate
committee from obtaining tapes
already made.
White House sources say
Nixon plans to inform commit
tee chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr.,
D-N.C., Monday of his “ir
revocable” decision not to give
the committee the tapes of
presidential conversations with
Watergate figures which the
committee wants.
If the committee issues a
subpoena for the recordings,
the President will refuse,
according to aides, setting the
stage for a constitutional test
which might have to be settled
by the Supreme Court.
He also is expected to turn
down as unnecessary Ervin’s
request to meet with him
personally to seek away
around the impasse over the
tapes —a request to which
Nixon had agreed a little over a
week ago, before he went to the
hospital with pneumonia.
White House officials said the
fact that Nixon’s policy of
having his conversations re
corded for “historical” pur
poses has become public
knowledge prompted him to
decide to end the practice.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
88, low today 68, high yesterday
88, low yesterday 68, high
tomorrow in upper 80s, low
tonight near 70.
Sam Nunn
to visit
in Griffin
Griffin will be one of 27
Georgia towns to be host to
Senator Sam Nunn during a
public forum tour of the state he
will make during the first two
weeks of August
The senator will be in Griffin
Aug. 8, for a dutch treat break
fast at 7:30 a.m. at the Holiday
Inn.
The breakfast will serve as a
public meeting forum, the
senator emphasized today from
his Washington office.
“Citizens do not have to at
tend the breakfast to par
ticipate in the following
discussion,” he said.
Senator Nunn stated that
three members of his
Washington staff would be
stationed all day at the Griffin
Chamber of Commerce to talk
with citizens.
After the breakfast, he in
tends to speak with as many
people as possible, his staff
said.
“I look forward to discussing
with Georgians any individual
problems they may bring to my
attention at the meeting,” the
senator added.
beginning Aug. 8. Present in
cumbents include G. L. Morgan,
T. F. Freeman and W. C. Futral
respectively.
Quimby Melton, Jr., editor of
the Griffin Daily News, will
serve as master of ceremonies.
Group singing will be led by
First Baptist Church Music-
Youth Director Steve Jett ac
companied by Mrs. G. R. Lewis.
The Jett-Sets, a choral group
formed by Mr. Jett, will provide
the entertainment for the meet
ing.
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Butchers ready meat
CHlCAGO—Butchers at Howland’s Meat Market in suburban Arlington Heights prepare
cuts of beef for customers. Owner Jim Howland said orders have tripled since President
Nixon’s announcement of Phase 4. (UPI)
Some shoppers buying
whole cases of food
United Press International
Most supermarkets have not
yet posted the price boosts
allowed under the Phase Four
economic program, but shop
pers thinking ahead to higher
costs are buying up whole cases
of food in some cities,
according to a United Press
International survey.
“It was a little busier than a
normal Friday, probably due to
people trrying to beat possible
price rises,” said David Bar
ranti, manager of the Arguello
Supermarket in San Francisco.
“We’ve had a lot of people
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WASHINGTON—Sen. Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., adjusts
his glasses as he questiops Robert C. Mardian, a key
Nixon campaign official at Senate Watergate hearing.
(UPI)
Sen. Talmadge:
‘Watergate issue
may never be solved ’
NEW YORK (UPl)—Sen. Her
man Talmadge, D-Ga., said in a
national television interview
Friday the Watergate issue
“may never be resolved.”
Talmadge, a member of the
Senate Watergate Committee,
said, he felt President Nixon
would be making a “great mis
take” if he kept tape record
ings of the bugging scheme se
cret.
“The American public is the
jury to determine the facts in
this matter...they will make
their own decision,” Talmadge
said on the CBS Morning News
buying full cases of merchand
ise,” said Don Lyons, manager
of the Food City store in
Winston-Salem, N.C. He said 48-
can cases of tuna fish and 24-
can cases of vegetables have
been selling well.
In Raleigh, N.C., some
shoppers were filling up over
sized baskets and one man
bought S2OO worth of meat.
Phase Four allows increases
in the cost of producing food to
be passed along immediately to
the consumer on all products
except beef. The health indus
try was also allowed to raise
show.
“Our committee is not a
court, it is not a jury. It is a
fact-finding legislative body,”
he said. “The American people
will be the jury in this matter in
the final analysis.”
The Georgia senator said the
White House tapes were import
ant even though the President’s
possible involvement in the Wa
tergate breakin and coverup
might be resolved without the
recordings.
But, he added, “this conflict
may never be resolved, as a
matter of fact.”
prices. Other sectors of the
economy have to wait until
Aug. 12.
Problems Prediced
While the price of many
retail foods remained unchan
ged, perhaps because grocers
have not been able to publish
advertisements with new pri
ces, a number of increases
were reported, including a
jump from $1.31 to $1.85 at
Burlington, Vt. for a 10-lb. bag
of potatos.
Prices for bread, eggs, milk
and chicken remained mostly
unchanged at stores surveyed
in nine cities Friday, but milk
leaped from 52 cents to 70 cents
a half-gallon in Dallas and from
58 cents to 61 cents in San
Francisco. Eggs were up 4
cents in New York, to 79 cents
a dozen for the A large size.
The price of uncut chicken went
from 49 cents a pound to 59
cents in New York and from 63
cents to 69 cents in Boston.
The price of bread was down
in Chicago, San Francisco and
New York.
In California, a strike of
cannery workers today went
into its third day. The state’s
Farm Bureau Federation and
leaders of the peach, pear and
tomato growing industries ap
pealed to President Nixon to
order a 60-day “cooling off”
period.
Alan Grant, farm bureau
president, said that failure to
settle the strike by 65,000
workers at 84 canneries could
result in severe economic
problems for growers and farm
workers “and higher prices for
consumers.”
Wholesale Prices Up
At the wholesale level, prices
went up. Oklahoma hog prices
shot upwards by $4 to $6 per
hundredweight, “the highest
jump in a single day I can
remember,” according to
Charles R. Hamilton, vice
president of Wickham Packing
Co. The State Agriculture
Department reported that the
price of broiler chickens
increased 2% cents per pound.
On the commodity markets,
wheat and oats sold for
irregularly higher prices and
the price of corn went up by
more than $1.25 a bushel.
The Stanford University Hos
pital in California announced a
4.65 per cent incease in rates,
effective today.