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Anti-Carter sentiment
side order for forums
Weirs
By United Press International
Doesn’t plan to quit
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon, whose aides
have spent three days in court trying to prove that two
White House tapes relating to Watergate never existed,
said he has “no intention of resigning.”
A White House aide testified Friday that the President
knew the two tapes were missing four weeks before
admitting it
The latest Watergate flap caused further erosion of
Nixon's support on Capitol Hill, and pro-Nixon columnist
Joseph Alsop wrote, “the time has come for President
Nixon to offer his resignation.”
Jobless rate drops
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Unemployment during
October dropped to 4.5 per cent, its lowest point in more
than m years. The Nixon administration had projected a
4.5 per cent rate by the end of the year.
Unemployment for males over 20 is now the lowest it
has ever been in peacetime, and the proportion of civilians
holding jobs is the highest since World War n.
Troop pullback sought
In the Middle East, Israel has called for both Egyptian
and Israeli troops to pull back across the Suez Canal and
establish a United Nations buffer zone on both banks of the
waterway. But Egypt has already gone on record against
it, UPI reported.
In Washington Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met
with the Syrian vice foreign minister in the first high-level
U.S.Syrian contacts since the 1967 Arab-Israel war. The
Syrian, Mohamed Zakarya Ismail, called the meeting
“useful.”
And in a related development, a senior Pentagon official
said U.S. military shipments to Israel during the past
three weeks have created shortages in America’s own
stockpile of weapons.
Bombs wreck shop district
BELFAST (UPI) — Two terrorist bombs hidden in
parked cars exploded and wrecked a shopping district in
Newtown Hamilton, a predominantly Roman Catholic
town Friday. There were no injuries. In Belfast, the
British Army ordered a special task force into the streets
of the Northern Ireland capital today in an emergency
move to curb a two-day wave of bomb and bullet attacks
against Catholics.
Couple on hunger strike
MOSCOW (UPI) — Valery Panov, 34, a Jewish ballet
dancer and his 24-year-old wife Galina began a hunger
strike in Leningrad Friday. They are protesting the Soviet
Union’s refusal to allow them to emigrate to Israel.
Mercury satellite on way
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - The Mariner 10
satellite launched a 4% month journey to Mercury early
today. The unmanned craft will study Mercury’s
atmosphere, surface and physical characteristics. The
satellite blasted off at 12:45 a.m., trailing a pale orange
plume of fire across the midnight sky over the Atlantic
Ocean.
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Lakeside 21
Cross Keys 0
Towers • 14
Avondale 8
14 city tour planned
Valdosta 21
Tifton 14
Moultrie 30
Albany 28
GRIFFIN
Vol. 101 No. 262
ATLANTA (UPI) -A large
helping of key legislative issues
laced with a sizeable side order
of anti -Carter sentiment awaits
businessmen in 14 Georgia cities
in the next two weeks.
With a probable gubernatorial
candidate, a powerful House
leader who guards the purse
strings, and the state’s only Re
publican headlining the bill, the
annual pre-legislative froum
tour opens Thursday.
The object is to fill in busi
nessmen at each stop on major
issues facing the 1974 General
Assembly, ranging from money
to drug abuse to ethics. Gov.
Jimmy Carter, at odds with at
least two of the main speakers
as well as the sponsoring Geor
gia Chamber of Commerce, will
probably get considerable going
over also.
For Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox,
this could be a valuable show
case for his expected bid next
year for governor. But he says
that is not his intention.
“As far as I’m concerned, I’m
going to stick strictly to
legislative matters,” Maddox
said. “I haven’t announced for
governor yet.”
Still, Maddox was the only
probable gubernatorial can
didate invited to the week-long
affair. Glenn Anthony, a
chamber of Commerce
spokesman, said, however, that
no consideration was given to
the 1974 elections, that Maddox
was chosen because he is the
presiding officer of the Senate.
Others on the program in
clude House Appropriations
Chairman James “Sloppy”
Floyd of Trion, who stands
ready to rip into
the Carter administration for
what he considers flagrant vio
lations of legislative intent, and
Rep. Ben Blackburn, R- Ga., an
outspoken critic of the Demo
crats and staunch Nixon defen
der.
Carter, who went on the tour
last year, has criticized the
chamber of commerce, mention
ing Anthony by name, for al
legedly helping blunt his efforts
for consumer protection laws.
Since Carter has pledged to try
anew for consumer legislation,
this probably will be another
area widely discussed.
The forum opens Thursday
with a breakfast at Toocoa in
north Georgia, followed by a
luncheon at Gainesville and a
dinner at Athens. The tour moves
on to Atlanta and Rome on Fri
day before breaking for the
weekend.
It’s on to Augusta and Vidalia
on Monday, Savannah and Way
cross on Tuesday, Valdosta and
Moultrie on Wednesday and Al
bany and Macon on Thursday.
The forum winds up with a Fri
day luncheon at Columbus.
Local revenue likely will be
aprime issue fordiscussion since
Floyd and others have predicted
a very tight budget for the next
fiscal year. A legislative com-
Football Scores
Carrollton 21
Jackson 19
Rockdale 42
LaGrange 28
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, November 3, 1973
mittee is studying possible meth
ods of local option taxation, a
proposal Maddox opposes, as a
way of raising money to meet
increasing demand.
Other issues include the al
ways pressing sentiment for
reduction in property taxes, edu
cation and a proposal for the
state to take over the cost of
basic public education, and a
financial disclosure law for can
didates for governor and lieut
enant governor.
Floyd will “have something to
say” about his plan for detailed
appropriations bill for the next
fiscal yar and the motives be
hind it. He says he will use the
the item provision mucy more
extensively than before to head
off what he considers a viola
tion of legislative intent by Car
ter’s Department of Human
Resources.
Floyd was miffed by a shifting
of funds within the department
to finance two projects rejected
by the General Assembly last
winter. By line iteming objects
which ordinarily would be un
der group headings such as
“operating expenses,” Floyd is
hoping to stop such shifting of
funds.
Department heads it would
hurt their operation and, as
Human Resources Comm
issioner Richard Harden put it,
“prevent us from responding to
changing needs.”
Junior
float
winner
The Griffin High junior float
won first place in the
homecoming parade yesterday
afternoon.
Judges awarded second place
to VOCA Club and third place
award went to the DE Club.
Winners were announced last
night at halftime during the
Griffin-Newnan homecoming
game.
Cherry Gregory was an
nounced as the Homecoming
queen. Princesses were Karen
Bouchell and Emmette
Touchstone.
m
“Only little people belittle
people.”
Thomasville 48
Monroe 0
Pike Co. 28
Palmetto 7
Cease-fire
violations
reported
SAIGON (UPI) - The
government and Communists
accused each other today of
almost 300,000 cease-fire viola
tions in the past nine months,
more than 1,000-a-day since the
Jan. 28 truce was supposed to
end the Vietnam War.
The. Viet Cong’s Provisional
Revolutionary Government said
Saigon troops violated the truce
271,125 times since Jan. 28. The
Saigon government charged the
Communists with 28,547 viola
tions during the period.
Both sides accused each other
of a virtually total disregard
for the cease-fire and the latest
government casualty figures
indicated the war was still
raging despite the American
pullout.
South Vietnamese President
Nguyen Van Thieu said last
Wednesday nearly 50,000 per
sons on both sides have been
killed in fighting since Jan. 28,
topping the 45,942 Americans
reported slain in more than 12
years of combat.
The Viet Cong, in a statement
broadcast today by Radio
Hanoi, accused the Saigon
government - of launching 79,635
military attacks since the truce
began, including 32,852 infantry
raids, 34,340 shellings and 12,443
air strikes.
“Besides, the Saigon adminis
tration launched 191,490 police
or pacification operations dur
ing which the people were
subject to savage repression,
arrests and other terror acts,
and untold mourning and
suffering were caused to
them,” the Viet Cong said.
The government, in its latest
report, charged 28,547 Commu
nist military actions since the
truce. It did not report on
“police or pacification opera
tions’’—listed in the Viet Cong
statement—which partly ac
counted for the 10-1 disparity in
violation charges.
In the fighting, the South
Vietnamese command said four
civilians were killed and 17
wounded by mines and shell
ings Thursday in the Mekong
Delta and along the Central
Coast.
Lt. Col. Le Trung Hien, the
Saigon command spokesman,
said the Communists also
shelled a government patrol
near Bu Prang, 112 miles
northeast of Saigon, killing two
soldiers and wounding two.
Weather
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75, low today 53, high yesterday
75, low yesterday 43, high
tomorrow near 70, low tonight in
50s.
Forest Park 37
Jonesboro 0
Morrow 12
Henry Co. 6
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Homecoming queen
Cherry Gregory was crowned Griffin High Homecoming Queen last night at the Griffin-
Newnan football game halftime. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gregory, 1325
Grantland road, Griffin. Mr. Gregory is principal of Orrs elementary school. Escorting the
queen was Randy Laster.
T-squad, deputies
make 56 arrests
Spalding sheriff’s deputies
teamed with Georgia State
Troopers last night to make a
total of 56 arrests in the
Spalding County area.
The Griffin Post of the
Georgia State Patrol accounted
Aide says Nixon
knew tapes missing
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Hard on the heels of President
Nixon’s pledge to surrender all
nine of his subpoenaed Water
gate tapes, a White House aide
now has testified Nixon knew
weeks ago that one—and
perhaps two—of them never
even existed.
Capping a week of stunning
developments in the case of the
secret tapes, Presidential As
sistant Stephen Bull said at a
federal court hearing Friday
two crucial recordings came up
Fayette Co. 26
Russell 0
Warner Robins 14
Hardaway 0
for 20 of the arrests made in the
Spalding, Henry, and Butts
County area.
Spalding County Sheriff’s
deputies combined efforts with
tactical squad members to
missing Sept. 29. The hearing is
investigating the White House
claims the tapes are missing.
“Who told you that?” Bull
was asked by White House
lawyer Douglas M. Parker.
“Ultimately, the President,”
Bull replied.
“Did anyone else tell you
that?”
“No, sir.”
The two tapes Bull said Nixon
found missing five weeks ago
were of conversations he had
June 20, 1972 with John N.
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Fulton 8
Lakeshore 21
College Park 0
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make 36 separate cases, in
cluding seven for driving under
the influence and six drug
related arrests.
The patrols will be out again
tonight.
Mitchell and April 15, 1973 with
John W. Dean lll—both of them
subpoenaed last summer by
fired Special Prosecutor Ar
chibald Cox.
Bull’s testimony came 10
days after the White House
announced Nixon would “com
ply in all respects” with two
court orders that he surrender
all nine tapes Cox sought and
only two days after the White
House said it had been
discovered just last weekend
the two tapes did not exist.