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Hospital room rates
increased $2 per day
Patients at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital will pay two
dollars per day more for their
rooms beginning Sunday, Dec.
2.
The across the board increase
was passed at last night’s
hospital authority board
meeting. It is lower than the
increases proposed earlier by
the board but which did not
meet the guidelines set by the
Cost of Living Council.
Board Chairman Carl
Richardson brought out that the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital has
the lowest costs per room of any
hospital of comparable size in
the state.
Presently the rates range
from $26 for a four-bed room to
$36 for a private room. On Dec.
2 the costs of all rooms will be
increased by two dollars.
For comparison, board
members took a look at the
room rates at Coweta General
Hospital in Newnan. They have
only two rates — $49 for a
private room and s4l for all
other rooms.
The coronary care unit in
Griffin is SBS per day compared
with $l5O at Coweta General.
It was noted that Newnan has
two hospitals and that Coweta
General has a 70 per cent oc
cupancy rate with most of its
patients under Medicare or
Medicaid.
The occupancy rate at
Tornadoes kill 5,
cause heavy damage
By United Press International
Tornadoes sliced through
Kansas and Oklahoma late
Monday, killing five persons,
injuring at least 50 others and
causing at least $2 million in
damage to a number of cities
and towns.
A woman and her 3-week-old
child were killed in Blanchard,
Okla., and three other persons,
including a 4-month-old child,
were killed in Moore, Okla.
The twisters were part of a
huge storm that battered the'
middle of the nation from the
Rockies to the Mississippi
Valley.
Rainfall registered over an
inch at several places late
Monday, including Oklahoma
City, Okla., Grand Island, Neb.,
and Emporia, Kan.
Sirica grants delay
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Shortly after the Senate ap
proved legislation to extend the life of the Watergate
grand jury, Chief U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica
granted a week’s delay in the surrendering of President
Nixon’s subpoenaed Watergate material. The delay was
granted because of the illness of one of the White House
lawyers.
No agreement yet
Israel and Egypt failed to reach an agreement on the
crucial issue of troop pullbacks Monday, and it posed a
block in the full-scale conference, which supposedly will
get under way early next year in Geneva.
However, in spite of the stalled talks, the two sides
agreed to set up three joint teams at the Suez Canal today
to search for missing troops in the Sinai Desert. And
generals of the two sides scheduled more truce talks
Thursday.
Lon Nol determined
President Lon Nol of Cambodia, saying “I am
Griffin-Spalding is 77 per cent.
Comptroller Charles Aench
bacher reported that the net
billing for the month of October
was $293,000 with an SBOO plus
profit.
Richardson added that the
hospital will go through a rough
period financially during the
construction of and for about a
year after opening the new
wing.
It was brought out that the
American Hospital Association
agreed last week to proceed
with a law suit against the Cost
of Living Council as having
guidelines unfair and un
realistic to the health care field.
The board was shown results
of a patient opinion poll taken
during the month of October. Os
the 472 patients polled, 110
answered the questionaires.
Although some bad comments
were received, the good
remarks far outweighed the
bad.
Fifty-nine patients rated their
overall care in the hospital as
excellent and 46 rated the care
as good. Five said they had fair
care. None of the patients said
they had poor care.
A plan to place patients in the
same wing with the same or
similar ailments regardless of
whether they are male or
female will get under way Dec.
1.
Heretofore men and women
Snow fell in the colder air to
the west and northwest of the
storm. Three inches of new
snow were reported late Mon
day at North Platte, Neb.,
Goodland, Kan., Denver and
Lamar, Colo.
Heavy snow warnings were in
effect for today in the north
central mountains and
northeast Kansas and eastern
Colorado while the warnings
were extended until tonight for
the Colorado mountains.
A cold wave warning was
posted for central and south
west Oklahoma today and
stockmen and travelers were
advised of snow or rain
changing to snow with strong
winds and cold temperatures
from eastern North Dakota and
northwest Minnesota across
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patients have been separated,
but for the convenience of the
physicians and in order to give
the patients better service,
patients with the same ailments
will be placed in the same wing.
The board authorized the pur
chases of two pieces of hospital
equipment. They include an
orthopedic tool for $3,500 and a
machine for sterilization
purposes to be used by the OB
GYN section, costing $940.
Senior staff privileges were
approved for Drs. William S.
Colvin and Peter Berry who
have completed the require
ments by serving as junior staff
members for one year.
No action was taken on a
request by Dr. Ralph Hajosy
that the board endorse the
rezoning of property he owns
directly across from the rear of
the hospital on South Eighth
street to allow him to construct
a place, similar to a motel, to
house families and friends of
patients confined to the hospi
tal.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
69, low today 47, high yesterday
77, low yesterday 41, high
tomorrow in upper 60s, low
tonight in lower 50s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:17, sunset
tomorrow 5:30.
western Nebraska into west
Texas.
Another large storm was
traveling southeast toward the
Pacific northwest early today
with rain and snow spreading
from the North Pacific Coast
inland.
Storm warnings were issued
for the Washington and North
Oregon coasts and gales were
expected southward along the
coast to northwest California.
Dense fog packed in the
middle Mississippi and Ohio
valleys and formed along the
South Atlantic coastal states.
Temperatures around the
nation early today ranged from
a low of six below zero at
Havre, Mont., to a high of 78
degrees at Key West, Fla.
determined to stay ... in order to fulfill the nation’s work
until the final and permanent victory,” vowed to stay in
office despite the latest attempt on his life. A government
pilot bombed the presidential palace grounds Monday and
Lon Nol has accused North Vietnam of paying the pilot for
the action.
In South Vietnam, the Viet Cong today claimed the
government had launched air strikes against Communist
strongholds and said its forces had shot down 10 Saigon
planes.
It was no mystery
PORT ISABEL, Tex. (UPI) — In what turned out not to
be a mystery, 13 crew members of a suppposedly wrecked
schooner were found in an abandoned beach house.
The schooner was spotted Friday by persons on a
fishing expedition, in a remote section of the upper east
coach of Mexico, and their report to the Coast Guard
launched a massive sea and air search for the survivors
Monday. It turned out the schooner had started leaking
faster than the crew could bail it out, so they abandoned
the boat, waded ashore, and spent the weekend at the
beach house.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, November 20, 1973
Central
church
service
Plans have been completed
for the Thanksgiving Day
service sponsored by the
downtown central churches.
The service will be held at the
First Baptist Church at 10 a.m.
with the Rev. Orville Wright of
the First Christian Church
delivering the sermon.
Other ministers participating
will be the Rev. Dumas Shelnutt
of the First United Methodist
Church, Father Paul Sullivan of
Sacred Heart Catholic Church,
the Rev. Douglas Winn of St.
George’s Episcopal Church,
and the Rev. Bruce Morgan of
First Baptist.
The First Presbyterian
Church and the Griffin
Lutheran Mission also will
participate.
No special music is planned
but hymns will be sung by the
congregation.
Committee
recommends
Rep. Ford
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Senate Rules Committee voted
unanimously today to recom
mend the confirmation of Rep.
Gerald R. Ford as vice
president.
All nine of the members were
present and voted for confirma
tion, Sen. Marlow Cook, R-Ky.,
said as he left the half-hour
long private session of the
panel.
Cook said preparation of the
formal committee report would
be completed over the four-day
Thanksgiving recess this week,
and the Senate would start
debate of the nomination on
Monday with a vote expected
Tuesday.
The committee action had
been expected. Ford, 60, the
House Republican leader, un
derwent four days of hearings
and extensive investigations by
the Senate panel.
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Mrs. Don Rainwater (1) and Mrs. Arthur Krepps,
representing the Griffin Utility Club, present a check for
SI,OOO to Doug Hollberg and John Goddard (R),
representing the Griffin-Spalding Historical Society. The
Shapard
Chamber
president
Billy Shapard, textile manu
facturer, was elected president
of the Chamber of Commerce
for 1974 at the directors meeting
yesterday.
He will succeed Bob
Scroggins, Dundee mills execu
tive.
Shapard operates American
Mills in Griffin and Jackson.
Scott Searcy, real estate man
and city commissioner, was
elected vice president. P. A.
Bond, Coca-Cola official in
Griffin, was elected treasurer.
The new officers assume their
duties in January.
The directors said they expect
the Christmas parade on the
night of Nov. 29 to be one of the
biggest and most colorful ever.
It is expected to draw thousands
downtown.
Plans for the annual Women’s
Division luncheon Dec. 4 at
Eleven Acres have been
completed, the directors were
told.
The annual Chamber banquet
will be held Jan. 17 at Spalding
Junior High II cafeteria.
Marilyn VanDerber, Miss
America in 1958, will be the
featured speaker.
Record
litter
of cheetahs
ATLANTA (UPI) — A record
litter of five cheetah cubs, the
largest ever born outside Africa,
has surved the first critical
weeks of life.
The five cubs were bom ear
lier this month at Lion Country
Safari and are being guarded by
their mother in a dark and re
mote nest.
Zoologists said only a few peo
ple have seen the new litter of
chettah, an endangered species
difficult to breed in captivity.
Park officials predicted it will
be a month or more before the
cubs will leave their shelter.
A normal cheetah litter is two
to three cubs, and only one
other captive birth of five has
ever been recorded anywhere.
Vern McGrann, a Lion Coun
try zoologist, said the most cri
tical period for the new cubs is
the first 90 days of life. The ex
tremely delicate nature of
cheetah digestive systems pre
sents the greatest single danger,
he said.
Vol. 101 No. 276
Check presented
Sunday driving
ban considered
By United Press International
A top energy adviser warned
Monday that the administration
is considering a ban on Sunday
driving in the United States.
The warning came just before
the Senate voted to give
President Nixon the emergency
powers he wants to deal with
the energy crisis.
There appeared to be no
relief in sight from Arab oil
producers, who clamped an
embargo on shipments of oil to
the United States for this
country’s support of Israel in
the 1973 Middle East war. They
vowed again Monday they
won’t relax the embargo.
Britain Monday cut deliveries
of all main oil products by 10
per cent effective today and
asked drivers to limit weekend
pleasure driving and observe a
nationwide 50 mile an hour
speed limit.
In Germany, Economics Min
ister Hans Friderichs an
nounced a ban on all private
driving for the next four
Sundays, and cut the speed
limit on all roads to offset the
shortage of Arab oil.
Japan Mounts Offensive
Japan mounted a diplomatic
offensive to get more Arab oil,
but Arab diplomats insisted
Japan must break diplomatic
relations with Israel to be
exempted from the boycott.
“Japan cannot help us
militarily, so the second thing
to do is to cut relations with
Israel,” said Saudi Arabian oil
minister, Sheikh Ahmed Z.
Yamani.
One energy specialist, Dr.
Quentin Looney, said Ameri
cans won’t help the energy
crisis even if they turn off their
Maddox likes private schools
Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox told
the Griffin Exchange Club
today he was pleased to see the
growing number of private and
religious oriented schools in
Georgia and across the nation.
In remarks prepared for
delivery here today he said,
“Many of the schools are built
around the educational facili
ties of churches and I can’t say
enough about how glad I am to
see this happen.”
“I’m personally in favor of
both public and private schools
throughout the nation,” Maddox
continued.
“I believe one helps the other.
And at a time when our public
educational systems are beset
society will use the money to help with the restoration of
the Lewis-Mills home on North Hill street. It will become
the society’s headquarters.
electric lights and drive under
50 m.p.h.
Looney said if industry
doesn’t conserve energy, the
President’s energy conservation
program will fail.
“If industry could cut energy
consumption by 5 per cent,”
Looney told members of the
Alabama Textile Manufacturers
Association in Montgomery
Monday, “that would amount to
turning out all the lights in
America for a year.”
Senate Passes Bill
By a vote of 78 to 6 the
Senate passed the emergency
energy bill Monday. If ap
proved by the House it would
allow Nixon to ration gasoline
and other fuels, limit energy
use by business, relax clean air
rules and curb oil exports.
Charles Dißona, an aide to
energy adviser John Love,
warned Congress’ Joint Eco
nomic Committee a natonwide
ban on Sunday driving was
among “very real pos
sibilities.” He said the adminis
tration is also studying cutting
off fuel for private boats and
airplanes, closing service sta
tions and other businesses on
Sunday, and closing public
parks to automobiles.
The Washington Post report
ed today that a presidential
task force headed by Love
recommended that the sale of
gasoline be banned from 9 p.m.
Saturdays until midnight Sun
days to discourage Sunday
driving. The Post said the plan
calls for a 10-gallon limit on
gasoline sales per vehicle from
midnight Fridays to 9 p.m.
Saturdays to make it harder to
gas up ahead of time for a
Sunday drive.
with so many problems, I
believe the emergence of so
many good private schools, and
private school systems can do
nothing but heft) our public
schools,” Maddox said.
He said he believed private
schools can lead the effort to
teach children what it means to
be an American.
“In addition to promoting
academic excellence and good
citizenship, I believe our
private schools can teach not
just how to make a living, but —
more importantly — how to
live,” the lieutenant governor
continued.
He said children could be
taught not to place their trust
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WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
National Energy Emergency
Act of of 1973, as approved
Monday by the Senate, gives
the President the power to:
—Order gasoline rationing;
—Set up rationing of any
other fuel he considers scarce
during the emergency;
—Require power plants using
“cleaner” fuels such as natural
gas or low-sulfur oils, to
convert to “dirtier” fuels such
as high-sulfur oil or coal, when
the conversion is possible;
—Offer incentives for use of
mass transit and other efficient
modes of transportation such as
car pools;
—Hold up for the time being
certain clean air requirements,
to accommodate the emergency
use of “dirtier” fuels;
—Direct that oil wells on
federal lands be produced at
their maximum efficient rate;
—Order a halt to exports of
oil products considered scarce;
—Limit the amount of energy
businesses use,
—Make arrangements with
other nations to alleviate
United States fuels problems.
—S')
“Lots of us are both smart to
know what we shouldn’t do —
and dumb enough to do it.”
and faith totally in presidents,
governors, political parties,
prestigious positions, silver and
gold but to place their ultimate
trust in God.
They can be inspired to be
patriotic, Lt. Gov. Maddox said.
He said he believes the hope
of America might well depend
on how successful the private
schools are in competing with
public systems of education,
and therefore provide the
stimulus to upgrade the entire
educational network of
America.
Joe Dutton, former Griffin
City Commissioner, was
program chairman and in
troduced the speaker.