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By Quimby Melton
■ Griffin and Spalding County
■face a problem, just as many
■other cities and counties. It is a
■serious one and some way must
■ be found to solve it.
S Simply stated it is this: Our
■county jail is not big enough to
■house all the people sentenced
■to be jailed there. One of the
■most serious things about it all
■is that we do not have enough
■room to separate juveniles from
■older prisoners. Many of these
■older prisoners are “repeaters”
land they tend to pass on their
■knowledge as to how to evade
■the law to the young.
M Court officials here are doing
■what they can to relieve the
■situation. Judge Andrew
■Whalen Jr., is holding a special
■session of court this week in
■order to catch up with the heavy
■docket.
I Griffin Police Department
■has been given a $14,752 grant
■for a “Community Relations”
■project.
U Promoters announced work is
■under way on two more shop
■ping centers "Spalding
■Square”, on the old Zebulon
■road across from the Griffin
■Airport; and “Northgate” on
■the Atlanta four-lane highway.
I Dr. Leiv Takle has moved to
■Griffin and “likes Griffin.” He
■is a native of Oslo, Norway.
"; fj President Nixon was dismiss
led from the hospital.
fl Accidents, robberies and
■shootings reported from many
■parts of the state.
U And much talk about possible
■food shortage.
J Never before has this layman
■heard of so many people who
■have planted home gardens in
■an effort to raise vegetables to
■help solve this.
i; M Hank Aaron, Atlanta Braves’
■homerun king hit his 700th home
■run last week. He is the second
■big leaguer who has hit that
■many. The other is Babe Ruth.
■Aaron needs 14 more to equal
■the Babe’s record.
Ji Here’s something about this
■race for top homerun honors
■that some may not know.
■Atlanta, because it is now the
■home of the Braves, can claim
■both Aaron and Ruth, for Ruth
■wound up his playing days with
■the Boston Braves, forerunners
■of the Atlanta Braves. Babe
■Ruth hit 708 homers with the
■New York Yankees, Boston Red
■ox of the American league,
■then was sold to the Boston
■Braves of the National League
■where he hit six. Babe Ruth’s
■irst few years were as a pitcher
Knd he was sold by Boston Red
Kox to the Yankees for $125,000.
Weather
I ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
■3. low today 73, high yesterday
■)3, low yesterday 71, high
■omorrow in upper 80s, low
■onight in lower 70s.
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MIAMI—Hie death of aviation pioneer Capt Eddie
Rickenbacker (shown in 1930 when he received the
Congressional Medal of Honor) was reported today. He
was 82-years-old. (UPI)
Special court
opens today
The second week of the
special July session of Spalding
Superior Court got under way
this morning with the jury trial
of Billy E. Parker who was
charged with murder in con
nection with the shooting of
Wayne Gresham on Jan. 4.
Two other murder cases are
on the court docket. They are
the cases of Randy Love of West
Oak street who was charged
with the beating death of Rosa
Louise Edwards and Lewis
Blandburg of Ellis road, who
was accused of shooting and
Man drowns
at High Falls
The lake at High Falls State
Park has claimed its second
drowning victim this year.
An Atlanta man, Arthur
Willis, 28, of 1900 Winthrop
drive, N.E., drowned late
yesterday afternoon when he
apparently stepped from a
fishing pier to a paddle boat,
missing the footing and fell into
water 20 feet deep.
The body was recovered some
25 minutes later by S. L.
(Shorty) Letson, park
superintendent, and Russell
Crane, park employee. They
began dragging operations as
soon as the drowning was
reported.
According to Letson, Willis
and his wife, Lonnie Jean, had
come to the park Sunday af
ternoon for an outing and had
rented a paddle boat from a
concession stand across the
lake from where the drowning
occurred. He said the couple
had evidently paddled across
the lake and had reached the
pier in the camping area.
Mrs. Willis told him her
husband stepped from the pier
onto the boat, lost his footing
and fell into the deep water
without reappearing or making
an outcry.
Two brothers, who are
lifeguards at the park, Bruce
and Wright Hicks, Jr., at
tempted to recover the body,
but the water was too cold and
too deep to allow them to
remain under long enough.
Letson said the Butts County
Civil Defense Unit and State
Game and Fish Department
sent rescue groups but they
arrived after the body was
recovered.
Letson was informed of the
drowning at 5:55 p.m. The body
was found at approximately
6:20, just 25 minutes later.
Willis, 28, of Atlanta, a former
resident of Spalding and Pike
Counties, was drowned Sunday
afternoon at the High Falls
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killing his wife, Cleola, on Feb.
17.
A number of drug cases also
are scheduled. They are against
David L. Odum, Wendell Ray
Buffington, both of Griffin,
Lance G. Knox of Zebulon road,
and Kenneth Bearden, 17, of
Barnesville.
Gambling cases against Mrs.
Ruby Nutting, 113 West Slaton
street, Mrs. Annie Dingier and
Willie Lee Dingier of 28
Bleachery street, also are
scheduled.
State Park.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Lonnie Jean Willis; a sori,
Marion M. Willis; mother, Mrs.
Queen Willis, all of Atlanta.
Friends may visit the family
at the home of Mrs. Gladys
Leeks on the old Meansville
road in Zebulon.
McDowell United Funeral
Home is in charge of plans.
Grocers
predict
shortages
ATLANTA (UPI) - Many
metro area grocers have pre
dicted that Atlanta consumers
will find spot shortages this
week on some meat items fol
lowing a weekend meat buying
spree by shoppers.
“Most of them (grocery
buyers) read in the paper or
heard on television that prices
on meat were going up, so
they’re buying all they can,”
said the manager of a Colonial
store in the northeast section of
the city.
“They’re passing up things in
the store they usually buy and
investing in meat instead,” he
added.
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“Happiness shouldn’t be
traded for things — but lots of
folks are doing it.”
Rickenbacker
is dead at 82
MIAMI (UPI) — Eastern Air
Lines officials said they re
ceived word that aviation
pioneer Capt. Eddie Ricken
backer had died in a hospital at
Zurich, Switzerland, early
today.
Rickenbacker was 82 years
old and an officer with Eastern.
An Eastern spokesman said
Rickenbacker died of a heart
attack at the Neununster
Hospital in Zurich early today.
He said the aviation pioneer
and his wife had been in Zurich
since July 11.
Rickenbacker was hospital
ized in Miami nearly a month
this spring, but doctors said he
had improved so much he was
allowed to go home and later to
make the trip to Zurich.
An Eastern spokesman said
services for Rickenbacker
would be held in Columbus,
Ohio, but no specific arrange
ments had yet been made.
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Casey’s last run
Trainman Richard Schreeder stands by the controls of the
Georgia Railroad Historical Society’s steam engine 750
while waiting for artists in Griffin to convert the Central
of Georgia train into a replica of the famous Illinois-
Central Engine 813, which road the rails under engineer
John Luthur “Casey” Jones at the turn of the century. The
Many dead
in jet crash
PAPEETE, Tahiti (UPI) - A
Pan American Boeing 707 with
79 persons aboard cartwheeled
into the sea a mile off this
South Pacific Island today
moments after the pilot report
ed a smashed windshield and
said he would attempt an
emergency landing.
Aviation officials said 10
bodies had been recovered from
the oil-stained water and that a
Canadian tentatively identified
as a “Mr. Campbell” was
rescued alive. The officials said
a stewardess pulled alive from
the water died in a hospital and
they doubted if there would be
any other survivors.
“As for other survivors,
anything is possible but as the
hours pass the chances get
smaller and smaller,” a rescue
worker reported.
Rescue workers said an
unidentified American tourist,
whose wife boarded the plane
at Papeete, vanished during the
rescue attempts. They said he
was in one of the boats going to
help. When he saw his wife’s
body floating on the surface, he
plunged into the water and had
not been seen since.
'Tfiere was no immediate
breakdown of nationalities of
the 69 passengers. Because of
the French nuclear explosion
last Saturday, Pan American
had taken on a number of
Australian Qantas and Air New
Zealand passengers because
those airlines were boycotting
this French possession. Local
officials said 10 Frenchmen
were aboard the plane.
The officials said the plane,
flight PA 816, originated in
Auckland, New Zealand, and
was en route to Los Angeles
and San Francisco when it
plummeted hundreds of feet
into the sea shortly after take
off
Airline officials said the pilot
reported a smashed windshield
and asked for an emergency
landing. But witnesses said the
plane made a 90-degree turn
and then hit the South Pacific
with a tremendous impact a
mile off Papeete port.
“The crash happened at 10.15
p.m. Sunday Tahiti time (4:15
a.m. EDT today),” an airport
technician said. “I was in a
house at a level above the
airport. The plane took off
apparently normally. Its lights
were on so I could see it was a
Panam plane.
“Suddenly it took a sharp
turn to the left and started
losing altitude fast. I got the
impression almost as if a
missile was launched from the
plane. There was a loud bang
but no explosion. Then nothing
else—silence.”
Rescue officials said a fleet
of official launches, yachts,
pleasure boats and fishing
vessels sped to the scene.
“The rescuers worked by
searchlights and recovered six
bodies,” an official said. “They
also retrieved some seats, the
flight book from the cockpit,
part of the plane’s undercar
riage.” Later they found four
more bodies.
French secretary of state to
the Ministry of Armies, Aymar
Achille-Fould, went to the crash
scene with Tahiti Governor
Pierre Angeli.
“We picked up pieces of the
fuselage, plane seats and the
body of a drowned woman that
we loaded on the launch that
followed us,” he said.
A hospital spokesman said
the survivor spoke a few words
in English and later was
confirmed to be a Canadian.
The spokesman said he was
seriously injured but there was
optimism about his future.
The recovered bodies were
thickly covered in oil.
The crash came on the last
day of week-long July 14
celebrations and many holiday
makers saw the plane go down.
Fixtures
for sale
City officials today reminded
Griffinites that it will sell old
light fixtures tomorrow from 9
a.m. until 4 p.m. at the line crew
yard on South Ninth street.
The light fixtures are the ones
taken down when the city
replaced all street lights in the
city with mercury vapor lamps.
The fixtures are $1 each.
Daily Since 1872
Nixon’s chief economist
doesn’t see recession
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Nixon’s chief eco
nomic adviser does not foresee
a recession despite a sharp
drop in the rate of growth of
the economy.
Herbert Stein, chairman of
the President’s Council of
Economic Advisers, said Sun
day that he did not believe
“there’s any doubt that the rate
of growth of the economy has
slowed down.”
But he said he did not see
“any evidence” a recession was
in the immediate future despite
the fact the gross national
product annual rate of growth
dropped to 2.6 per cent in the
second quarter of this year
after booming at an 8 per cent
rate in the first quarter.
“I don’t think it is the most
probable development,” Stein
said of the recession talk. “We
don’t think it’s a likely
development, but we are in the
business of being concerned
about possibilities and consider
ing what might be done if that
Big food price hikes
to be posted today
By United Press International
Last week’s food advertising
is out of date, and the nation’s
grocers know how Phase IV,
the new economic plan, is
supposed to work. Today the ax
falls.
Food prices have been
increasing slowly since last
Wednesday, when the adminis
tration announced the new plan,
which allows the food industry
to pass along increased produc
tion costs to the public.
Today the big price hikes that
were stymied since Phase HI
and one-half was announced in
mid-June will be posted.
In Washington, Agriculture
Secretary Earl L. Butz Sunday
ruled out food rationing by the
government during Phase IV,
but he conceded that “spot
shortages” of beef would likely
develop in the months ahead.
Herbert Stein, chairman of
transformation will take place on a side track across from
the Spalding County sheriff’s office today. The engine will
recreate a portion of Casey’s last run on track near
Vaughn at daybreak tomorrow. The engine is in the care
of Southern Railway Mechanic (Steam) W. J. Purdue.
Railway Mechanic (Steam) W. J. Purdue.
possibility, which we now think
is small, should become more
serious.”
Bars Food Rationing
Both Stein and Agriculture
Secretary Earl L. Butz conced
ed Sunday there would be
increases in food prices in the
coming days due to the lifting
of most price controls with the
start of the administration’s
Phase IV economic program.
Stein said the putting into
effect of more flexible controls
was “the only way to assure an
adequate supply of food and
less rapidly rising food prices a
year from now.”
Butz said the loosening of
controls was necessary to
prevent shortages of some
foods.
“It is far more important to
have the produce here than not
to have it there at 15 per cent
lower prices,” Butz said.
Stein was interviewed on
CBS’ Face the Nation. Butz
appeared on NBC’s Meet the
Press.
the Council of Economic
Advisers, said retail food prices
would begin to climb this week,
especially for eggs, poultry and
pork.
“As long as we pursue the
present policy we have of
relatively free prices in the
market, obviously there will not
need to be rationing,” Butz
said.
The Fisher Foods Supermar
kets of Ohio will increase
chicken prices 26 per cent, pork
butts 13 per cent and pork loins
20 per cent, all starting today.
Phase IV allows increases in
the price of all foods except
beef. It also allows the health
industry to raise its prices, but
other sectors of the economy
will have to wait until Aug. 12.
Herrel L. Degraff, president
of Chicago’s American Meat
Institute, predicted that pork
prices will rise sharply this
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Butz ruled out food rationing
during the Phase IV period but
conceded that “spot shortages
of beef likely would develop in
the months ahead.”
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We may have some spot
shortages of beef and some cuts
of beef may ba in short supply
in some locations in the months
ahead,” Butz said.
Nixon’s program announced
last week kept price controls on
beef until Sept. 12 but eased
controls on other foods.
Stein said the program was
designed to allow a “gradual
phasing in of the price
increases that we think are
inevitable over the next three
or four months without a big
bump at any one stage.”
Stein was asked if he
expected housewives to begin
hoarding beef.
“It depends on how full she’s
already got the freezer,” he
said, “and whether she thinks
it’s better to invest in steak
than in the stock market.”
week. He urged shoppers not to
hoard meat, however, saying
there would be enough to go
around.
The Ohio Department of
Agriculture predicted that meat
and poultry prices would jump
20 per cent during the next 15
days.
There were indications at
many supermarkets and food
stores across the nation this
weekend that shoppers were
stockpiling food before the
expected increase hits.
A tentative end to a three
day-old canning strike in
California was reached Sunday,
according to the Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Ser
vice in Washington. It had been
predicted that unless the strike
was ended quickly there could
be a price increase in canned
goods.