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Newton Co. 6
SW DeKalb 56
Marist 9
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By United Press International
Nixon to cooperate
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon met for two
hours with the Republican leaders of Congress Friday to
assure them he will cooperate with the Watergate
investigation.
There were signs from the White House that a major
development may be brewing, including the possibility of
an informal meeting by the President with the Senate
Watergate committee. There were also hints that Nixon
wants the secret White House tapes made public.
In a related development, a federal judge gave the
administration the weekend to come up with arguments to
justify the firing of Watergate special prosecutor
Archibald Cox.
Israel agrees to 6-point plan
Israel announced that it had agreed to the six-point
preliminary cease-fire plan worked out by U.S. Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger, but denied it had agreed to sign.
A UPI correspondent reported today U.N. sources in
Cairo told him the accord was expected to be signed this
afternoon along the Cairo-Suez road in Egypt.
Skylab running behind
CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) — Engineers said they are
behind schedule in replacing eight cracked tailfins on the
Skylab 3 launch rocket, but they expect to know by Sunday
whether Thursday’s launching will go off as scheduled.
Kissinger in Peking
PEKING (UPI) — Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger has arrived in Peking for a three-day visit with
Chinese leaders. He called it an important mission but
said he doubted there would be any major announcement.
The visit to China is one of the last stops of an around
the-world trip that has resulted in a Middle East peace
agreement, which appears will stop the fighting between
Egypt and Israel for the near future, at least.
Mercury causes eclipse
Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet, passed
between the Earth and the sun today, in an eclipse that
covered about l-200th of the sun’s surface. The next time
such an eclipse will be visible from the United States will
be May 7, 2003.
Files on Ford reviewed
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Members of the House Judici
ary committee began looking at FBI files on Rep. Gerald
Ford in preparation for hearings on his nomination to be
Vice President. The confirmation hearings will begin next
Thursday.
Auto production lost
DETROIT (UPI) — Ford is losing production of 1,350
cars and 850 trucks a day during each day of local strikes
at three assembly plants. The problem is local contracts.
Violence takes 900th
BELFAST (UPI) — Terrorists rolled a home-made
bomb down a street and killed a pedestrian. He was the
900th victim of the four years of Northern Ireland
violence.
Hanoi accuses U. S.
SAIGON (UPI) — Hanoi accused the United States of
sending spy planes on reconnaissance flights over North
Vietnam twice last Thursday, after reports of stepped-up
fighting between government troops and Communist
troops in the South. A U.S. government spokesman denied
the charge.
Avondale 34
Walker 7
Valdosta 25
Lowndes Co. 0
Thomasville 20
Moultrie 0
Newnan 59
Jonesboro 28
GRIFFIN
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Upson County is looking into
the possibility of getting a
regional juvenile detention
center located there.
Upson Juvenile Officer T.
Alton Perdue said state funds
through the Department of
Human Resources were
available for such a center.
He said since Thomaston was
beyound the 50 mile radius of
Atlanta, the Upson area would
be eligible for state money to
help build such a facility.
DHR told Perdue a million
dollars already is earmarked
for juvenile facilities.
Upson officials said their
legislative delegation would be
asked to help promote the
project on the state level.
Richard Harden, HRD
director, said during a visit to
Griffin that this area would not
be eligible for state funds for a
center because it was within 50
miles of Atlanta.
Since then, Rep. Clayton
Brown of Griffin has written
Harden asking if the restriction
is a matter of policy or law.
Brown said he would seek to
change it, if it were state law
and would ask an exception if it
were policy.
Daylight
time
backed
ATLANTA (UPI) -The Geor
gia Chamber of Commerce
urged businessmen Friday to
take immediate steps to con
serve fuels and electricity,
including support for a return to
Daylight Savings Time.
Earlier Friday, Southern Bell
Telephone Co. said it is “com
pletely committed to President
Nixon’s efforts to conserve en
ergy” and outlined a four-point
conservation program.
Chamber President Jasper
Dorsey said highway speeds
should be reduced to 50 miles
an hour as Nixon urged and
heating systems lowered to be
tween 65 and 68 degrees.
Dorsey also called for year
round Daylight Savings Time.
Dorsey, who is Southern Bell
vice president, said earlier in
the day company vehicles will
be driven below 50 miles an
hour, and the thermostat in
company buildings lowered.
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out better advice for himself
than most of us can give him.”
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Stone Mt. 7
Jackson 6
LaGrange 14
R. E. Lee 7
Watergate
six get
light terms
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Fed
eral Court Judge John J. Sirica
has given light final sentences
to the six break-in conspirators
who participated in the bur
glary of the Democratic nation
al headquarters, leading to the
uncovering of the whole Water
gate affair.
The sentences, handed down
by Sirica Friday, were topped
by a minimum 30-month jail
term and $10,0(11) fine for E.
Howard Hunt Jr.
James W. McCord, the Nixon
campaign security chief who
first broke the Watergate
team’s silence in late March,
received a prison term of one to
five years for his part in the
June 17,1972, break-in at
Democratic headquarters.
The other final sentences:
—Bernard L. Barker, admit
ted recruiter among the four
Miami men on the team, 18
months to six years in jail.
—Frank A. Sturgis, Virgilio
R. Gonzalez and Eugenio R.
Martinez of Miami, each one to
four years in prison. Sirica said
theirs was the “lowest mini
mum I thought was justified
under the circumstances,” and
they could be released on
parole by Christmas.
Hunt, the former CIA agent
and White House consultant
who helped plan the break-in,
stood pale and staring vacantly
when Sirica announced his
sentence, the stiffest, at 2% to
eight years in jail and the only
one with a fine.
His lawyer, Sidney Sachs,
pleaded in vain for an end to
Hunt’s imprisonment because
of his “deteriorating” health.
The seventh convicted con
spirator, G. Gordon Liddy,
former general counsel to
President Nixon’s re-election
campaign committee, was sen
tenced March 23 to a minimum
of six years and eight months
to a maximum of 20 years in
jail and fined $40,000.
Sirica, chief judge of the U.S.
District Court who presided
over the original trial of the
seven last January, imposed
maximum “provisional” sent
ences on Hunt and the four
Miami men at that time as an
inducement for them to cooper
ate with federal and Senate
investigators.
He freed McCord on SIOO,OOO
and postponed his sentencing at
the same time when McCord
volunteered to tell all he knew
of the Watergate conspiracy
and alleged involvement of
higher-ups.
Atlanta Douglas 22
Decatur 6
North Clayton 14
Forest Park 14
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CHICAGO — Steven Flory, 21, Lawrenceville, Hl.,
paralyzed from the waist down in a car crash that
happened as he was driving to his parents’ home in
Lawrenceville to pick up rice for his wedding, kisses his
Third man held
in bank rob case
NICHOLSON, Ga. (UPI) -
State Division of Investigation
(DOI) agents arrested a Nichol
son man Friday who had been
sought in connection with the
robbery of the Bank of Molena
and kidnapping of a bank of
ficial and his family last month.
DOI Director William Beards
ley said Daniel Warren, 36, of
Georgia court upholds
PSC on rate hike ruling
ATLANTA (UPI) - The State
Supreme Court upheld Friday a
Public Service Commission de
cision to grant only part of a
Georgia Power Co. rate in
crease, but called for changes in
the rate making structure.
In a separate ruling, the court
upheld the trespassing convic
tions last year of seven students
and a government instructor at
the University of Georgia.
The high court said that while
the Georgia Power rate decision
“approaches the area of consti
tutional confiscation,” it was
within the law and did not vio
late due process.
“It may be that current condi
tions related to both economics
and population growth require
the commission to adopt new
and different methods,” the jus
tices said in a unanimous de
cision.
But, the court said, the
changes could have to come
from within the commission.
Georgia Power sought a
Harris Co. 21
Lamar Co. 14
Henry Co. 20
Stockbridge 12
Nicholson, has been charged
with auto theft in Fayette Coun
ty. Beardsley refused to say
whether Warren will be charged
in connection with the robbery,
but said the DOI has ended its
search for the third bandit.
State and local officers arrest
ed Ambrey Dewitt Allen, 50, of
Commerce, and Charles
Patrick, 25, of Maysville, the
$47.9 million increase in June,
1972. The commission, in a Dec.
14 order, approved only $17.8
million.
The utility filed suit, charging
the order was “insufficient to
allow a fair return on property
dedicated to public service.” It
claimed the order violated “due
process and just and adequate
compensation.”
A lower court upheld the com
mission decision and Georgia
Power appealed to the state Su
preme Court.
The high court said there was
“no reversible error” in the
trespassing convictions last year
that arose from a student hous
ing protest. The eight were ar
rested when they refused to
leave the office of Georgia Pres
ident Fred Davidson.
The studepts and government
instructor Rollins McCommons
Jr. were told Davidson was out
of town. They refused to pre
sent a protest petition to Albert
Jones, an assistant to Davidson,
Mary Persons 33
Dublin 6
Wheeler 14
Marietta 3
bride, the former Jama McNeese, 21, after their wedding
in a chapel at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Steven
was flown to the hospital’s Spinal Cord Center the evening
of the accident. He is scheduled for surgery. (UPI)
day after the holdup.
Allen and Patrick were cap
tured by a large posse near
Fayetteville, about 30 miles
north of Molena.
A bank vice president and his
family were held hostage over
night by three men and the of
ficial later forced to assist the
robbers. The hostages were not
harmed.
and refused to leave the office.
The eight were placed on pro
bation and fined. McCommons’
contract was not renewed by the
university.
The students were David and
Phillip Alonso, Stephen Letzsch,
Scott McLarty, Stephen Patrick,
Charles Searcy and Michael
Walker.
Weather
COOLER
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
55, low today 27, high yesterday
64, low yesterday 51, high
tomorrow in upper 50s, low
tonight in low 30s, sunrise
tomorrow 7:07, sunset
tomorrow 5:34.
Dougherty 13
Albany 6
Lakeshore 35
West wood 8
Forecast
Cold
Map Page 3
Energy
bills gets
push
By United Press International
The Senate Interior Commit
tee Friday moved with unusual
speed to shape the final version
of a measure to put Pesident
Nixon’s emergency energy
saving progfam into effect.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson, Il-
Wash., chairman of the com
mittee, said he hoped to have
the measure on the floor
Monday and ready for a Senate
vote by the middle of next
week. It would order a national
highway speed limit, prevent
power plants from converting
from coal to oil and relax clean
air rules on highly polluting
fuels.
In other developments:
—Ross Barnett, the former
governor of Mississippi, and
Dr. S. R. “Pete” Abramson,
chairman of the American
party of Louisiana, suggested
that one way to save fuel might
be to stop court-ordered busing
designed to help integrate
schools.
—The Environmental Protec
tion Agency gave permission
for the first time for the sale of
high sulfur fuel oil.
No Outdoor Lights
—Three department stores in
Minneapolis said they would not
put up outdoor Christmas
lights.