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Federal money boosts
Hospital expansion
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tion center” in Phnom Penh to watch military police enrol) volunteers and “draftees”
for defense of the capital against the Communist forces.
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TAOS, N.M.—Heavily armed law enforcement officers
gather around the car during a break in the search in the
pinon covered foothills of northeast New Mexico for a
former policeman charged with threatening the life of
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“I guess a meeting isn’t very
important if it starts on time —
if it were they’d wait for folks to
get there.”
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
85, low today 59, high yesterday
8.6, low yesterday 66, high
tomorrow in lower 80s, low
tonight in lower 60s.
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
Fayette
injunction
permanent
Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr., of
the Griffin Judicial Circuit has
made permanent an injunction
against Fayette County
prohibiting it from making tax
assessments on the 1972 digest.
In effect, the order means
that tax officials of the county
will have to resubmit the digest
to the State Revenue Depart
ment for factoring under state
law.
The county is understood to
have collected some 90 percent
of its taxes already, based on
the digest, on a voluntary basis.
President Nixon. Police are searching for Edwin M.
Gaudet, 30, who escaped from Secret Service agents who
had gone to a commune to make the arrest. (UPI)
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, August 22, 1973
Carl Ridley was smiling
today.
“It means we can complete
the original program,” he said.
The Griffin-Spalding Hospital
administrator was commenting
on the word reaching his office
that the federal government
had made available up to a
million dollars to help with the
hospital expansion program.
The office of Rep. Jack Flynt
sent word here yesterday that
up to a million dollars in Hill-
Burton funds would be
provided.
The project to add 66 beds and
other facilities had been put in a
tight squeeze. It had cost almost
a million dollars more than the
hospital authority had
estimated.
The authority had begun
cutting the project to the bone in
order to get some building
started.
Only last week tentative
agreement had been reached
with Reddick Company of
Thomaston on a scaled down
addition. Reddick was low
bidder.
But the promise of new money
from the-federal government
meant today that the original
project largely can be financed,
Ridley indicated.
“There for awhile it looked
like the whole thing would
crumble in my face,” the ad
ministrator said.
He and the Hospital
Authority, under leadership of
Chairman Carl Richardson had
agonized over ways to build the
addition without having to ask
for a bond issue or tax increase
to do the job.
The promise of the federal
money definitely eased the
strain on the project, the ad
ministrator said.
Health Department officials
were at the hospital today to go
over some details of the project.
Ridley said he hoped some
grading could be under way on
the work within 30 days.
The contractor has 630
calendar days to complete the
project.
It will add all of the 66 beds
originally planned, and some
other facilities.
The new beds will bring the
capacity of the hospital to 229.
McGovern
talks
impeach
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen.
George S. McGovern, D-S.D.,
said today President Nixon
“almost leaves us no alterna
tive except to consider im
peachment” of him over the
Watergate scandal.
McGovern said continued
refusal by the President to give
Senate and federal investiga
tors access to White House tape
recordings and documents bear
ing on Watergate “makes it
very hard for Congress not to
give serious consideration to an
impeachment proceeding.”
“Neither I nor any other
member of the United States
Senate relishes the thought of
impeachment,” McGovern said.
“We’d like to believe the
President is innocent. We would
like to believe he would
cooperate with the constitution
al procedures of our country so
we can avoid the possibility of
impeachment.”
“But ... if the President
persists in (resisting) giving
either the courts or the
Congress the information and
the evidence that we need on
which to base a sound
judgment, then he himself
almost leaves us no alternative
except to consider impeach
ment.
Impersonate
suspects
sought here
Griffin Police today were
looking for two men they
believe are impersonating
insect exterminators.
The two suspects were
described as being long haired
and long bearded and traveling
in a white panel truck.
Griffinites in contact with
people meeting that description
have been asked to notify
police.
She helps look for him
Wife says husband couldn’t
have threatened President
TAOS, N.M. (UPI) - The
wife of a former New Orleans
policeman wanted for threaten
ing the life of President Nixon
said today her husband could
not have made the threat
because he was living with her
at the time in a commune.
Judy Gaudet and a cousin,
Stanley Gaudet of New Orleans,
talked the Secret Service into
ending its 24-hour search for
the suspect. Then the two of
them hiked into the jagged
Sangre de Cristo Mountains to
try and find Gaudet.
According to a federal
warrant, Gaudet was overheard
last week in New Orleans
threatening the life of President
Nixon.
“I know he couldn’t have
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WOODROOF AND CARTER: A couple of peanut men enjoy some chips.
Carter and Woodroof
Peanuts was the subject
A couple of men interested in
peanuts got together the other
day in Atlanta to talk about the
Georgia crop.
They were Gov. Jimmy
Carter and Dr. Guy Woodroof of
Griffin.
Dr. Woodroof, an authority of
food processing, had some
samples of peanut chips for the
governor. The chips are one of
several new peanut products
coming on the market.
Dr. Woodroof also presented
the governor a copy of his book,
“Peanuts: Production,
Processing, Products.” The
book by the Griffin food
researcher is in its second
edition.
Gov. Carter expressed in-
done it, because he was with
me here,” Judy Gaudet said at
the Morning Star Commune in
northern New Mexico. “He
supposedly made the threat
Aug. 15, but we’ve been here
since Aug. 2 or 3.”
“I wish someone would
check.”
Gaudet Traced to Commune
Gaudet had been traced by
Secret Service officers to the
commune, located on a high,
brush-covered mesa on the west
side of New Mexico’s highest
mountains.
But Gaudet escaped and later
shot three times with a rifle at
sheriff’s officers, then disap
peared into the pine trees and
canyons.
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First officers of Spalding County
were commissioned in February of 1852
and were Addison A. Wooten, Sheriff;
Henry B. Holliday, Clerk of Superior
Court; James S. Wood, Clerk of Inferior
Court; William L. Gordon, Ordinary;
Elisha P. Bolton, Tax Receiver;
Pressley Burdett, Tax Collector;
Hezekiah Wheeler, Coroner, and
William Ellis, Surveyor.
terest in the research of Dr.
Woodroof. The governor was
widely known as a peanut
farmer before he became the
state’s chief executive.
National news reports
referred to him as a peanut
farmer when he was campaign
ing for the state’s top post and
when he became governor. He
still carries the peanut farmer
identification, even as governor
of the state.
The growing food crisis in this
and other countries prompted
food suppliers to look to peanuts
as a diet supplement.
Three chapters of Dr. Wood
roof’s book have been lifted and
published in pamphlet form.
The chapters are titled
Gaudet’s wife, who said she
and the suspect had been living
at the commune for about a
year except for a brief trip in
the early summer, said she
thought she knew where he
might be.
She said she wouldn’t tell the
agents, but would try to find
him and bring him out of
hiding.
Mrs. Gaudet also said she
thought her husband was being
framed so there would be more
public sympathy for Nixon.
Officers Find Traces
State Police Lt. Tommy
Cantu said officers had found
traces of Gaudet in the
mountains, but couldn’t pin him
down. Cantu said Gaudet knew
the area well and could elude
“World Production and Market
ing of Peanuts.” “Composition
and Nutritive Value of
Peanuts,” and “Technical
Developments in Peanut Uses.”
Bloodmobile
scheduled
next Tuesday
The Bloodmobile has
scheduled a visit here next
Tuesday.
Headquarters will be set up at
the Cheatham building of First
Baptist Church between 11:30
a.m. and 5 p.m.
Wayne Brown, chairman of
the program, said the goal
again would be 200 pints of
blood.
officers easily if he got far
away.
A case containing bullets for
a high-powered rifle was found
Tuesday and officers also
located Gaudet’s camp site.
Gaudet, nicknamed “Pun
chy,” was arrested three years
ago in New Orleans for
throwing a flaming American
flag at Nixon’s car during a
parade.
The man who owns the
commune, Mike Duncan, said
Tuesday he didn’t think Gaudet
could shoot anything. Duncan
said Gaudet had been unable to
shoot a deer last year even
though it would have meant
food for his family.