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Rock Howard suggests
Henry water project
might help Spalding
The boss of the Georgia Water
Quality Control division has
Suggested that construction of a
"•aw water reservoir in Henry
County might help Griffin and
Spalding County.
R. S. (Rock) Howard brought
• ip the possibility in a letter to
Suss Spangler, executive vice
President of the Griffin Area
* Chamber of Commerce. The
Chamber directors had gone on
•ecord as opposing a Henry
' eservoir. It would be near the
1 Jpalding County line.
Spangler relayed the objec
ions of the local Chamber to
; toward.
‘ Some Griffinites had express
-1 sd fear that the reservoir might
lavid Kennedy
injured in wreck
< HYANNIS, Mass. (UPI) -
■ )avid Kennedy, 18, the son of
he late Sen. Robert Kennedy,
prained his back in a car
iccident Monday. Five young
ramen were in the jeep-like
'ehicle, driven by David’s
irother Joseph P. Kennedy 111,
1, when it failed to make a
urve and overturned.
Joseph Kennedy escaped in
ury, but one of the five girls
J fas hospitalized in serious
] ondition. Three of the other
I jrls were treated and released
lit Cape Cod Hospital in
iyannis, and one remained
ospitalized, but she was listed
n good condition.
Nantucket police charged
bseph Kennedy with “driving
legligently so that the lives and
afety of the public might have
een endangered.” He was
rdered to appear at a court
earing next week.
All except Joseph Kennedy
rare thrown from the vehicle
efore it landed upside down in
irush on Nantucket Island.
David was admitted to Cape
)od Hospital where he was
eported in satisfactory condi
ion.
Pamela Kelley, 18, of Center
ille, Mass., the most seriously
njured, underwent surgery
Monday night for an apparent
I pinal injury and was listed in
K erious condition.
I J Mary Schlaff, 22, of Grosse
> ’ointe, Mich., also was admit-
V ed to the hospital, where she
I; yas listed in good condition
li vith a possible pelvic fracture,
n Passer-by Luke Gruber said
I ie saw the open-air vehicle fail
I* |o make the curve and flip
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NANTUCKET, Mass.—On lookers crowd near the
overturned jeep driven by Joseph Kennedy 111, son of the
late Senator Robert Kennedy after it crashed, injuring his
brother David, and two women companions. Both women
curtail development of land in
Spalding.
Alfred Bolton, head of the
Griffin Engineering Company,
brought up the matter at a
Griffin Chamber directors
meeting. After discussion, the
directors went on record as
being opposed to the Henry
project because it might
hamper development in Spald
ing.
Howard, responding to the
Chamber opposition, wrote
Spangler about the matter. He
sent copies of his letter to Rep.
Clayton Brown of Spalding
County and to Bolton.
Bolton was out of the city this
week and could not be reached
“One girl was thrown 25 or 30
feet,” Gruber said. “Two were
on their feet right away. One
was sitting there and talking,
but he apparently couldn’t get
up. That must have been David
Kennedy, but we didn’t know
who they were until later.”
The accident happened as the
seven were heading from
Siasconset on the eastern end of
Nantucket to the other side of
the island. All were dressed in
beach wear.
Those involved in the acci
dent were flown by plane to
Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis
except for one girl, who was
treated at Nantucket Hospital
and released
A spokesman at Cape Cod
Hospital reported David, who
was visited by his mother,
Ethel Kennedy and aunt and
uncle, Eunice and Sargent
Shriver, was “resting comforta
bly” overnight.
The women who were treated
and released were Patricia
Powers, 22, of Spring Lake,
N.J., her sister Kimberly
Kelley Powers, 17, and Fran
cesca Deonis, 18, of Centerville,
Mass.
Diabetic clinic
planned here
The Spalding County Health
Department will have another
diabetic screening clinic
Thursday from 2 till 4 p.m.
Tests will be free.
Anyone planning to be tested
should eat a good meal at least
two hours before.
GRIFFIN
DAI IJY #NE WS
Daily Since 1872
for comment on Howard’s posi
tion.
Spangler said he had no
comment on the Howard letter
and it would be brought up at
the next regular meeting of the
Chamber directors Monday
afternoon.
Howard said the Towaliga
River Reservoir is needed by
Henry County for dependable
water supply, and this need
necessitates maintenance of
good water quality.
He said his agency had the
responsibility of protecting
water quality for beneficial
uses.
Howard pointed out that no
additional wastewater
discharges in the Towaliga
basin are permitted.
“While it may be desirable
from some standpoints for
Henry County to obtain its
water supply from other basins
which are already closed to
wastewater discharges and
which do not affect growth in
adjoining counties, this office
does not have statutory
authority to prevent a county or
an individual from building a
reservoir if it desires. Henry
County has studied other
alternatives for water supply
and has apparently found this
one to be more feasible,”
Howard wrote.
He also wrote:
“I am sure you know that the
Flint River is unsuitable at
times for the City of Griffin to
School tax
16.62 mills
The Griffin-Spalding School
Board last night set the tax rate
for school operations at 16.62
mills, the same as last year’s
rate.
The board said it would need
$1,912,913.74 from local tax
funds to meet the 1973-74
budget. This will be an increase
over last year’s $1,600,000 in
local taxes for school opera
tions.
Supt. D. B. Christie said the
budget is a tight one again this
year. He said indications are
that the local digest growth
would not produce enough in
come to meet the additional
budget needs.
The school board based its
budget estimates and an
ticipated local money on a five
percent growth of the digest.
Mrs. Ruby Hill, tax com
missioner, told the board that
were among the seven persons in the jeep at the time of
the mishap. David was reported to have suffered a broken
back. Joseph, who was not injured, police said would be
cited for driving to endanger. (UPI)
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, August 14. .1973
use as a water supply. We must
prevent the development of
other situations similar to this,
and that is why we have adopted
the policy of allowing no more
discharges in the Towaliga
basin.
“... We are in the process of
requiring advanced wastewater
treatment for all wastewater
sources in the Flint River basin
above Griffin’s water intake
and we will most likely have
to close that basin to additional
discharges in the future. This
would constitute curtailing
certain types of development in
adjoining counties because of
the problem in Spalding
County,” Howard said.
County Commission Chair
man Jack Moss at a city-county
planning discussion last week
had cautioned the Griffin-
Spalding community against
not having an open mind on the
proposed Henry County
reservoir. He said it might be
possible for Griffin and Spald
ing to purchase water from the
new Henry source, thereby
boosting this community’s
water supply. •
City Commissioner Scott
Searcy at the same meeting
said that one of the main objec
tions to the Henry development
was that potential septic tank
seepage in Spalding develop
ments might make it
prohibitive to develop Spalding
County land in the area.
was the anticipated digest
growth this year.
The total budget for the 1973-
74 school year is $7,889,409.71.
Last year’s total budget was
$6,975,516.82.
The school system expects
state and federal funds to be up
this year, too.
In addition to the operating
tax levy for schools, the board
asked for .43 of a mill to pay
principal and interest on 1949
school bonds and 1.19 mills for
1962 school bonds and for Griffin
Tech bonds.
Supt. Christie announced
Title One federal money for
students in families with low
incomes would be $277,341. The
program will provide reading
teachers for educationally
deprivated students at Atkin
son, Moore, North Side, Fourth
Ward and West Griffin.
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MARLBORO, Mass.—Mary Chaffee, 19, of Oxford, offers
a new dimension as a mail carrier at the Marlboro Post
Office. A student at Westfield State College majoring in
elementary education, she will work at the job for the rest
Orders issued to stop
bombing in Cambodia
By United Press International
Orders to halt the bombing of
Cambodia went out today from
a peaceful Marine Corps base
overlooking Pearl Harbor on
the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
American pilots and crews
were instructed that the last
bombs were to be dropped
before midnight EDT tonight
ending more than a decade of
U.S. combat involvement in
Southeast Asia and 160 consecu
tive days of the intensified air
campaign in Cambodia.
In those six months, the U.S.
Air Force has dropped more
than 240,000 tons of bombs on
suspected rebel emplacements
in Cambodia—nearly half again
the 160,000 tons of conventional
explosives dropped on Japan in
World War 11.
U.S. warplanes used their last
hours in Cambodia today to
give guerrillas in the jungles
around Phnom Penh a final
pounding before the cutoff. The
heavy bombing shook founda
tions and rattled windows in the
city, but unruffled Cambodians
went about their business as
usual, oblivious to the racket.
Auto, steel makers
seek price increases
United Press International
Auto and steel makers were
first in line Monday for
increases as price controls
ended under Phase IV.
Chrysler Corp, asked the Cost
of Living Council for permis
sion to increase prices on 1974
&.%- — ■
“The man who has everything
he wants has learned to do
without some things.”
Vol. 101 No. 192
Female mail employe
Troops Biding Their Time
The government of Cambodi
an President Lon Nol says
10,000 rebel troops are perched
on the city’s outskirts, biding
their time until the bombing
stops. Some intelligence offi
cials predict a new rebel
offensive on the capital shortly
thereafter.
The orders for all U.S. forces
to comply with a law ending
bombing and combat activity
throughout Indochina as of Aug.
15 came from the office of
Adm. Noel Gayler, commander
of U.S. forces in the Pacific
headquartered on Oahu. The
directive was in response to an
agreement ending the Ameri
can campaign in Cambodia
between President Nixon and
Congress.
Gayler said, however, “We
will continue to fly unarmed
and unescorted reconnaissance
missions over Cambodia. This
is legal under the federal law
passed by Congress.”
Gayler added that while the
combat missions would be
halted, most of the planes and
models by an average of s7l.
American Motors also applied
to increase car prices an
average of $55.
Ford and General Motors
were expected to apply for
similar increases for their
models coming out in the fall.
Under Phase IV, prices can
be increased only as much as
higher dollar costs to the seller.
Big companies, those with
annual sales of SIOO million or
more, are required to give the
council 30 days notice before
raising prices, but the increases
are automatic if the govern
ment does not challenge them.
Reinstatement Asked
Armco Steel Corp, said it was
asking to reinstate price hikes
averaging 5 per cent on sheet
steel products. These had been
scheduled for June, but were
disallowed by the freeze.
The administration would not
give in on the freeze on beef
First authorization of Spalding
County was by Act of the Legislature
which created it from parts of Pike,
Henry and Fayette Counties on Dec. 20,
1851. (No. 28 Page 58 Georgia Laws
1851-52).
of the summer. She applied for the summer job after
seeing a sign in the dormitory at Westfield last February.
(UPI)
their crews would remain at
their bases in Southeast Asia,
at least for the time being.
Including the secret bombing
by U.S. 852 s that began in
March, 1969, Cambodia has
been bombed by American
planes off and on for 4t4 years.
The campaign intensified when
insurgent troops launched their
current offensive ih the country
shortly after the Jan. 28
Vietnam cease-fire took effect.
Deposed Leader Visits
On a visit to North Korea,
deposed Cambodian leader
Prince Norodom Sihanouk said
Sunday victory of the insurgent
forces in Cambodia “is already
practically achieved.” He
warned foreigners in Phnom
Penh to evacuate the capital in
the face of an onslaught by the
troops, which are under his
leadership.
But the day before, Lon Nol
went on nationwide radio to
proclaim his government will
fight “until final victory. I will
not leave. The Khmer (Cam
bodian) Republic will win even
more victories over the enemy
after the 15th of August, as it
that is scheduled to last until
Sept. 12. The meat industry,
and disgruntled shoppers, have
complained that this has done
nothing but keep down the
supply of beef.
The Canadian government
imposed controls on meat
exports to the United States,
cutting down on the supply that
some U.S. markets near the
border had relied on. The
action is intended to preserve
the supply of meat for
Canadians, Prime Minister
Pierre Elliott Trudeau said.
Other food prices, which were
unfrozen a month ago, ap
peared to have leveled off
Monday. Poultry prices were
down. An uncut fryer chicken
dropped 14 cents a pound retail
in Dallas, eight cents in
Atlanta, Chicago and Los
Angeles and five cents in
Portland, Ore.
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has done before that date.”
Monday, a Cambodian gov
ernment spokesman said infor
mal contacts were being made
between the Lon Nol regime
and the insurgent Khmer Rouge
(Cambodian rebel) troops. But
he warned the war would
continue so long as the North
Vietnamese continue their in
tervention in the country.
That view was reiterated
today in Tokyo by Sim Var,
Cambodia’s ambassador to
Japan. He said if Sihanouk
returns to power, the country
will be destroyed by North
Vietnamese aggression.
Var, who has held many
important ministerial portfolios
in the Sihanouk and Lon Nol
governments, said “If Sihanouk
returns to power with the
Khmer Rouge, North Viet
namese troops will not leave
Cambodia. They will never quit
trying to realize the testament
of Ho Chi Minh, to control all of
Vietnam. And South Vietnam
will resist their attacks and in
turn will attack Cambodia.”
LOS ANGELES—Gen. Omar N.
Bradley, the nation’s only living
five star general, was admitted
to UCLA Medical Center
Sunday, suffering from a blood
clot on the lung. A hospital
spokesman said Sunday that
Bradley’s condition was “stable
and he is resting comfortably.”
The General, 80, won his
greatest fame as commander of
U.S. forces in the invasion of
Normandy in World War II
(UPI)
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tonight in upper 60s.