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LOS ANGELES—Toussiant Dubois receives acupuncture treatment at USC School of
Dentistry. She and 25 other patients are being treated for previously incurable dental pains.
The clinic’s program is to relieve stubborn, hard-to-diagnose dental pains through
acupuncture that could not be treated effectively before by conventional Western methods.
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Windom breaks foot |
on tour of Holy Landl
The Rev. Neal Windom brought home a souvenir of his
Holy Land tour this summer that he doesn’t particularly
care for—a broken foot.
It happened in historic Caesarea, well known Biblical <:
place, often mentioned in the Scriptures and sermons.
The Rev. Windom arranged for the tour and was its
coordinator.
He said during a walking tour, he stepped on some stone $
the wrong way. He was advised twice by physicians that
x-rays showed no broken bones.
The Griffin minister hobbled through the remainder of S
the tour for about a week. When he returned home, he
checked with his doctor who found his had been fractured.
Now he’s sporting a cast. «
Rev. Windom is superintendent of United Methodist
Churches in the Griffin District and his home base is
Griffin. $
pangler says ‘closing’ idea his
Russ Spangler, executive vice
-esident of the Chamber of
ommerce, said the suggestion
lat stores consider staying
>en on Wednesday afternoons
as his own and not that of the
hamber directors.
Spangler said apparently
lany merchants here are
ihappy with the suggestion
id read it as a recommenda
on from the Chamber direc
rs.
The idea was discussed in an
rticle in the August Chamber
ewsletter.
Spangler said he made the
Food wholesale prices
‘have taken nose dive’
ATLANTA (UPl)—Wholesale
prices on beef, pork, eggs and
broilers “have taken a nose
dive,” an official of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
said today. But he said it may
be a while before the consumer
realizes much of a drop in
prices.
“The price rise we’ve been
suggestion so merchants could
(1) better serve the public and
(2) upgrade the image of Griffin
as a progressive, forward
thinking community.
Spangler said this was his
personal opinion and did not
reflect the Chamber directors
opinion.
Since the article appeared in
the newsletter, Spangler
pointed out that four additional
developments have been an
nounced.
The Kroger site on West
Taylor street is now under
construction, he continued.
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experiencing has stopped on all
four,” Stan Prochaska of the
USDA said. “With broilers lead
ing the way, the prices have
taken a nose dive.”
Prochaska said consumers
had rebelled against high
chicken prices, and their
resistance apparently has
started the decline in wholesale
prices. Based on wholesale
prices this week, chicken to be
sold in supermarkets next week
is expected to be 12 to 20 cents
cheaper than last week when
prices for whole chicken
reached about a dollar a pound.
“Poultry got too high and I
think it has peaked out now,”
state Agriculture Commissioner
Tommy Irvin said. He added
that eggs, which have sold from
90 cents to one dollar per dozen
“have probably topped out,
too.”
Prochaska said supplies of
both pork and beef were in
creasing on the market, a pos
sible “over-reaction to the so
called meat shortage.”
“It’s moving to market now,
causing the prices to decline,”
he said. “There is no real short?
age of meats and broilers. This
fall I think we can really start
seeing more realistic prices
than we’ve been seeing lately.”
Days Inn announced plans to
build a motel on the North
Expressway next to Bonanza
Sirloin Pit and Holiday Inn is
planning a 500 seat convention
center, Spangler said.
Development of a large area
on U. S. 41 south of Cook’s soon
will be announced, the execu
tive director said.
In addition to these four
projects, Spangler said a major
Atlanta company has been to
Griffin considering this city for
a large apartment complex and
condominum complex.
“I know if I had the opportun-
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, August 16, 1973
The Griffin-Spalding Hospital
Authority has reached
agreement with Reddick
Construction Company in
Thomaston for construction of
an addition to the hospital.
Carl Richardson, chairman of
the authority, said final details
of the agreement are being
worked out. He said con
struction should begin soon.
It will be for 66 beds and other
facilities.
Roughly, the program will
involve some $2,540,000,
Richardson said.
This will cover the major part
of the original plan, Richardson
Columbus
removes
meters
The city of Columbus, Ga.,
has removed nearly all of its
downtown parking metera and
put a two-hour limit on parking
downtown.
The Police Department there
has returned to the practice of
marking automobile tires every
two hours so violators of the
limit can be detected and given
tickets.
The only meters remaining
are those around the Post Of
fice. They are for 12 minute
periods.
A spokesman for the Police
Department said the fine for
overtime parking would be
increased from $1 to $3 im
mediately.
He said many motorists who
had been using private, off
street parking had started using
downtown streets. He said ap
parently they had rather risk
paying a $1 fine than to pay
parking fees off-street.
The spokesman said the in
creased fine was to encourage
motorists to use off-street lots
for long term parking.
9 judges
won’t hear
Agnew case
BALTIMORE (UPI) - Mary
land’s nine federal judges have
disqualified themselves from
any court action involving Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew.
Chief U.S. District Judge
Edward Northrop said Wednes
day the judges in Maryland
would not “handle anything
relating to the vice president”
because of Agnew’s “unique
position” in the state. Agnew is
the former governor of Mary
land.
Northrop asked the 4th U.S.
Court of Appeals in Richmond,
Va., to designate a judge from
outside Maryland to “supervise
and handle all future matters
arising from the inquiry of the
special grand jury which in any
matter whatever pertains to the
vice president of the United
States.”
ity to have every Wednesday
afternoon off, it would be ex
tremely difficult to open my
business and make this change.
Initially, it could cause some
problems, but over the long run,
it would benefit the merchants
financially and certainly
provide better service for the
public, both of which I believe
are the purposes of being in
business,” Spangler said.
“I still feel that if local
merchants are to compete with
newer businesses, the time to
start is now,” Spangler said.
said. He said the Authroity
hopes to be able to work out
other plans so that the entire
project can be completed.
Carl Ridley, administrator,
was in Atlanta today ham
mering out details of the project
with State Health Department
officials.
Richardson reiterated today
that the expansion program
would be done without a tax
increase to the citizens of this
community.
When Authority members
opened bids on the project June
12, they were disappointed that
they were much higher than had
been expected.
The Authority began
negotiating with the low bidder
to see which of the alternates
could be cut out and what other
changes could be made to bring
the building program within the
amount of money available.
Reddick’s original base bid
was for $3,023,000.
Ridley, the administrator, is
expected to spend some more
time consulting with State
Health Department officials
before completing details of the
building agreement.
Nixon says he’s innocent
of guilt in Watergate
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Nixon said Wednes
day night it is the “simple
truth” that he is innocent of
guilt in the Watergate affair.
He suggested Senate investiga
tors help solve the country’s
problems instead of trying to
put the blame for the scandal
on him.
Nixon asked the public to join
him in demanding that the
Senate end its hearings on
Watergate and turn the matter
“over to the courts where the
questions of guilt or innocence
belong.”
Nixon’s remarks, made in a
half-hour television address
from the Oval Office, were a
clear signal to his critics that
he was coming out fighting
after four months of self
imposed silence on the scandal
that has wrecked the upper
echelons of his staff and sent
his popularity rating to an all
time low.
He declined to answer any of
the specific charges of wrong
doing raised during the 37 days
of Watergate testimony on
grounds that “it would be
neither possible to provide nor
appropriate to attempt a
definitive account of all that
Goldwater says President
didn’t divert suspicion
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen.
Barry M. Goldwater believes
President Nixon failed to say
anything in his Watergate
report that will tend to divert
suspicion from him.
The former Republican presi
dential candidate made the
assessment Wednesday night
after Nixon addressed the
nation on television. But Gold
water also said he stood behind
the President in his appeal that
the country get on with more
urgent business.
Generally, reaction from offi
cialdom to the President’s
speech was along party lines.
Sen. John Tower, R-Tex., said
Nixon’s remarks were “frank,
candid, honest and as much as
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took place.”
Sought to Convince Public
Rather, he sought to convince
the public that foes bent on his
political destruction were pre
venting an innocent President
from solving inflation and other
urgent problems.
“We must not stay so mired
in Watergate that we fail to
respond to the challenges of
surpassing importance to
America and the world,” he
said.
“We cannot let an obsession
with the past destroy our hopes
for the future ... These are
matters that will not wait. They
cry out for action now.”
Nixon said that while the
Senate committee had set out
initially to uncover facts about
the bugging at the Democratic
national headquarters, it had
become clear after more than
two million words of testimony
that it has “become increasing
ly absorbed in an effort to
implicate the President person
ally in the illegal activities that
took place.”
His television address was
accompanied by a 3,000-word
statement in which the only
specific charge he dealt with
was the claim by John W. Dean
Reaction
should be required.” Sen.
Edmund Muskie, D-Maine, said
he was “not impressed” and
found it difficult to understand
how Nixon could be “totally
ignorant” of the actions of high
officials of his administration.
Goldwater said it appeared to
him that “the President did not
add anything to his other
speeches that would tend to
divert suspicion from him.” He
said, however, he stood behind
Nixon “in his appeal for
Americans to recognize existing
and obvious dangers to our
Republic, our economy and the
good of the nation and the
world.”
Three members of the Senate
Watergate committee had im-
1st
First members of the Spalding
Inferior Court were their Honors Josiah
B. Beall, Albert G. Colbert, James
Lavender, Miles G. Dobbins, and Jason
Burr. They took office on Feb. 7, 1852.
111, his ousted White House
counsel, that he had been
warned as early as last
September that a Watergate
cover-up was under way.
“He Gave Me No Reason...”
On the contrary, Nixon said,
“he gave me no reason
whatever to believe that any
others were guilty.” And on top
of this, he said Dean’s
testimony had been contradict
ed by the 34 other witnesses
before the committee.
“I had no prior knowledge of
the Watergate operation. I
neither took part in nor knew
about any of the subsequent
cover-up activities. I neither
authorized nor encouraged
subordinates to engage in
illegal or improper campaign
activities,” Nixon said.
“That was and is the simple
truth.”
As he had on May 22 in a
previous public statement,
Nixon said it was not until
March 21 when Dean came into
his office and laid out the whole
story that he became aware of
the dimensions of the scandal.
“Because I trusted the
agencies conducting the investi
gations and because I believed
the reports I was getting, I did
mediate comments. Sen. How
ard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., said
any information. Nixon could
offer was welcome and would
be used to help the investiga
tors write a “meaningful
report.”
Sen. Joseph P. Montoya, D-
N.M., complained Nixon failed
to inform the public about
essential facts regarding his
role and was wrong in
suggesting the hearings should
be concluded.
Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii,
said contrary to Nixon’s feeling
the commitee was trying to
implicate him, “I think all of us
have been trying our best to
assist the President and to
clear the President.”
not believe the newspaper
accounts of a cover-up,” he
said.
“I was convinced that there
was no cover-up because I was
convinced that no one had
anything to cover up.”
Nixon Turns Philosophical
In a philosophical vein, Nixon
said he recognized that the
term “Watergate” had come to
mean far more than the
burglary of the national Demo
cratic headquarters.
“It has come to stand for
excessive partisanship, for ‘ene
mies lists,’ for efforts to use the
great institutions of government
for partisan political purposes.”
He said he deplored these
actions and promised greater
vigilance against them.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
86, low today 66, high yesterday
85, low yesterday 70, high
tomorrow in mid 80s, low
tonight in upper 60s. Rainfall
yesterday .33 of an inch.
Merger
discussion
here tonight
City-county mergers will be
discussed tonight in a town
council type meeting at Holiday
Inn.
The Republican Party of
Spalding County will sponsor
the meeting.
Martell Layfield and Nolan
Murrah of Columbus, attorneys
who worked for the consolida
tion of Columbus and Muscogee
County governments, will be the
speakers.
The program will be part of
an in-depth study by the County
GOP on mergers to provide
citizens with information on the
matter.
The party plans to sponsor a
similar meeting and invite
representatives from Macon
and Bibb Counties here to
discuss the proposal there.
Voters turned it down.
A Chamber of Commerce
Committee also is gathering
information on city-county
merger. The committee will
provide its findings to citizens
so they can use it as a basis for
deciding if merger of Griffin
and Spalding governments
would be a good thing.