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LONDON — Miss World, Miss USA, Marjorie Wallace, is
crowned by the Miss World of 1972, Belinda Green. Second
was Miss Phillipines, and third Miss Jamaica. (UPI)
Shoppers bustle
about Griffin
The hustle and bustle of
Christmas shopping continued
in Griffin today.
Thousands of shoppers were
downtown and in other shopping
areas of the community to open
the season.
The day after Thanksgiving
traditionally brings out shop
pers eager to get some of the
season’s shopping done.
Commenting on yesterday’s
business, one merchant
declared he’d never seen
anything like it before.
Shopping was brisk
throughout the day. Some
people here had an extra
Thanksgiving holiday on Friday
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At a news conference at their home, Mrs. Jackie Nelson (c) and her daughter, Debbie (r),
said they didn’t think their three kidnapers would have killed them. But the Rev. E. M.
Nelson (1) said he had been give a three-hour deadline by the kidnapers to secure the
release of an accused bank robber. When the deadline had passed, he assumed they had
been killed. Hie two women were taken from their home at gunpoint and released some 30
hours later, unharmed. The men are still being sought by the police. (UPI)
and took advantage of the time
off to get into the swing of the
season.
With the good start yesterday
and today, merchants believe
the shopping season will gain
momentum from this point on
and continue through Christmas
eve.
The annual Christmas parade
next Thursday night will be
another highlight of the season.
It annually attracts the
largest crowd of the year to
Griffin.
The Chamber of Commerce
coordinates the affair and has
GRIFFIN
DAI NEWS
Vol. 101 No. 270*
Two men arrested in raids;
39 gallons of liquor seized
Lawmen arrested two club
managers, seized 39 gallons of
tax paid liquor and an
automobile in raids here last
night.
Arrested at the VFW Post
8480 on North Third street was
J. L. Williams, 51, of 549 North
Second street. He was charged
with possessing more than the
legal amount of tax paid liquor.
Officers said they seized 34
gallons and that the legal
amount per person is one quart.
Arrested at the Eagles Club
on West Solomon street was W.
A. Gill, 56, of Route Three,
Griffin. Lawmen seized five
gallons of tax paid liquor and
Gill’s car where they said the
liquor was found.
Gill was charged with
House may skip
‘budget break’
ATLANTA (UPl)—Leaders in
the Georgia House have sched
uled early committee work on
the new state budget and hope
to be able to complete the 1974
session without the customary
will be bigger and better than
ever.
“If you tackle your own faults
first — it won’t leave you time
for those of others.”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, November 24, 1973
possessing and transporting
over the legal amount of liquor.
Both men were released
under SI,OOO bonds.
Lawmen said they went to the
American Legion Post on North
Third street, too, but found no
liquor law violations.
Lawmen said the three clubs
were targets of the raid because
numerous complaints about
these had been received.
The raids were carried out
between 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Lawmen conducting the raids
included Leonard Pitts, Griffin
Director of Public Safety; Capt.
H. L. Blackmon, Sgt. Glenn
Whidby, Officer Dean Ray and
Bobby Imes of the State
Department of Revenue.
two-week break.
House Speaker Pro Tempore
Tom Murphy, a Bremen Demo
crat, said Friday he met with
three other House leaders—Maj
ority Leader George Busbee,
Majority Whip Jack Connell
and Appropriations Committee
Chairman James “Sloppy”
Floyd—to work out away to
speed up action on the budget.
Murphy said the legislative
leaders agreed to call Floyd’s
appropriations committee into
session Jan. 7, a week before
the full General Assembly
meets, to begin work on the
budget.
The leadership hopes to go
straight through the 40-day leg
islative session without the two
week break used in the past for
committee work on the spend
ing blueprint, Murphy said.
Murphy, who will preside
over the House in the likely
event that Speaker George L.
Smith is still critically ill,
pledged to conduct “a good,
smooth session without any ser-
Weather
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tomorrow near 70, low tonight in
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Kidnap
Nelson thought wife, daughter dead
JONESBORO, Ga. (UPI) -
The Rev. E. M. Nelson Jr., said
Friday he believed that his wife
and daughter probably were
dead when a deadline set by
the women’s kidnapers passed
and accused bank robber Daniel
Warren was not released.
Nelson, along with his wife,
Jackie, 44, and daughter, Deb
bie, 16, discussed the 30 - hour
ordeal at length during a news
conference in their small trick
home.
Nelson said he hoped this
would end the constant tele
phone calls and the family
would be able to resume their
normal lives. Mrs. Nelson said
she hoped things would be calm
by Sunday so they could finally
have Thanksgiving dinner to
gether.
Earlier in the day, state Di
vision of Investigation agents
were sent to Warner Robins to
coordinate the search for the
three kidnapers and possibly a
fourth man.
Authorities are concentrating
on a wooded area near Cochran
Swint was near end
of Argentine job
DETROIT (UPI) — John
Swint, a Ford Motor Co.
executive slain Thursday in
Argentina, was to have left
South America to return to the
United States the beginning of
next year, a family spokesman
said Friday.
“He was coming home for
Christmas, and his assignment
would have been completed
after the first of the year,”
Swint’s brother-in-law, Frank
Sherman, said.
Swint’s widow, Helen, re-
ious disturbances.”
Smith suffered a stroke ear
lier this month and remains in
an Atlanta hospital.
“We will carry out things as
near as to what the speaker
would do as we can,” Murphy
said.
Two held
in robbery
LITHIA SPRINGS, Ga. (UPI)
—Two men, armed with pistols,
robbed the Southern Federal
Savings and Loan Association in
this small Douglas County com
munityFriday.Sheriff’sdeputies
arrested two suspects about 15
minutes later.
The robbers entered the bank
shortly before noon, ordered em
ployes on the floor and then
rifled the cash drawers, getting
between $3,000 and $4,000.
The bandits escaped in a car
belonging to one of the bank’s
tellers.
Deputies arrested two men
later as they attempted to scale
a fence along 1-20 near the
Georgia 6 exit. The teller’s car
was found abandoned nearby.
The money was recovered.
Deputieshave charged the two
men with armed robbery, but re
fused to identify them.
where the women were aban
doned by their captors early
Thursday.
Nelson, pastor of the Jones
boro United Methodist Church,
said he had been given about
three hours after Jackie and
Debbie were seized early
Wednesday to get Warren freed.
The kidnapers were to call
Clayton County police around
4:30 a.m., telling authorities the
women had been taken hostage
and Nelson left handcuffed to a
pole in his basement. Nelson
was to relate to police the
men’s demands.
Police would then have 90
minutes to “set Warren on the
ground.”
Nelson recounted a story of
frustrations. He kept waiting for
police, but no one came.
Finally he was able to pick the
handcuffs shortly before 5 a.m.,
but found that his phone had
been cut by the kidnapers.
He went to his associate min
ister’s house down the street to
use the phone, but was unable
to get an answer at county po-
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turned from Argentina to the
couple’s home in Kewadin,
Mich., more than a year ago
“because of the difficulties in
that country,” Sherman said.
“They both felt it would be best
for her to come back and live
here.”
By Friday evening, no
guerrilla group or terrorist
group had claimed credit for
the machine-gun slaying of
Swint, 56, and two of his body
guards. A third bodyguard was
critically wounded in the
shooting in Cordoba, Argentina.
Swint was general manager of
Transax, S.A., a Ford-owned
transmission and axle plant.
A Ford spokesman in Detroit
Friday said the attack on Swint
came without warning “and the
company had not been contact
ed by any terrorist group since
the shooting.”
Edgard R. Molina, Ford vice
president in charge of Latin
American automotive opera
tions, said the company “has
no idea what precipitated the
attack.”
“There’s been no labor unrest
at the Cordoba plant.”
Swint’s body was flown to
Buenos Aires and was to be
sent to the United States in
about three days.
Memorial services were to be
held this morning at 11 o’clock
at First United Methodist
Church for Mr. John Albert
Swint, native of Spalding
County. The Rev. D. B. Shelnutt
and the Rev. Bruce Morgan
officiated.
Tentative plans are for the
body to be sent to Detroit,
Tuesday and funeral services
held there Friday, Nov. 30. The
body is to be cremated.
Among his survivors are his
mother, Mrs. Albert Swint of
Orchard Hill, brothers, Herman
Swint of Griffin, James Swint of
Hayward, Calif., George Swint
of Cordele, Ga., and a sister,
Mrs. Lillian Murphy of Griffin.
Mr. Swint was married to the
former Helen Sherman and they
made their home in Kewadin,
Mich. The Swint’s had two
grown sons.
lice headquarters. He called
Police Chief Howard Smith, a
member of his church, at home
and then waited frantically for
Smith to pick him up.
“A half hour of my hour and
a half to get him (Warren) out
of jail was already gone,” Nel
son said.
When Nelson and Smith ar
rived at police offices, they
found that telephone and elec
trical services had been
knocked out by severe thunder
storms. Services were not re
stored until 9 a.m.
No contact was made by the
kidnapers until around midnight
Wednesday, only hours before
Mrs. Nelson and Debbie were
left near Cochran.
“We had no contact, nobody
knew what to do,” Nelson said.
“I had to assume that prob
ably Jackie and Debbie were
dead as of 6 a.m.”
The kidnapers had been
courteous and polite, but firm
in their demand that Warren
be set free, Nelson said. “We
don’t want to kill anybody,
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By United Press International
Nixon has energy talks
President Nixon, still awaiting House action on a
Senate-passed bill giving him wide emergency powers to
deal with the energy shortage, meets with John A Love,
his chief energy policy adviser, and domestic affairs
counselor Melvin A. Laird today to decide on the next step
for easing the crisis.
Nixon was said to be considering a ban on all Sunday
driving, a move already adopted by six European
countries. Italy, where the Sunday ban begins December
2, raised gasoline prices Friday to $1.32 a gallon—highest
in the Western world. Beginning Monday, electrical power
to the six New England states will be cut by five per cent,
four hours a day; on Jan. 1, airline fares in Europe will be
six per cent higher.
Generals meet in desert
With U.N. officials reporting progress and Israeli
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan denying it, generals from
Israel and Egypt met at a desert outpost today for a third
consecutive meeting on the stalled issue of troop
withdrawals.
South Viet planes raid
SAIGON (UPI) — South Vietnamese warplanes bombed
and strafed a Viet Cong camp northwest of Saigon in the
heaviest air raids since the Jan. 28 cease-fire, military
sources said today. The sources said fighter-bombers
dropped 127 planeloads of bombs Friday and hit the
Katum Camp and airfield with strafing runs. The camp, 70
miles from here, now is believed to one of the
Communists’ chief petroleum storage points.
Greeks to up salaries
ATHENS (UPI) — The military-backed Greek regime
will announce wage and salary increases today to cover
this year’s cost-of-living increase, which economists
estimate will be 27 per cent by Dec. 31, according to
government sources. The government returned the battle
scarred Athens Polytechnic School to its administrators
Friday and relaxed restrictions on public gaatherings in a
bid to restore normalcy to the ancient capital.
Tape deadline Monday
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon faces a Mon
day deadline to hand over the Watergate tapes to U.S.
District Court Judge John J. Sirica, but the White House
has given no indication what Nixon’s answer will be.
In a related incident, a controversy has arisen between
the Justice Department and Sen. William Proxmire, D-
Wis., over the legality of Acting Attorney General Robert
H. Bork’s holding his position over 30 days.
they had said. But we’re more
than willing to.”
Mrs. Nelson and Debbie said
they didn’t really believe they
would be killed, although they
“could not be sure” about one
of the kidnapers.
“At no time did they bother
us in any way,” she said. “They
were very polite. They wanted
to know if we were comfort
able.”
The women were blindfolded
with tape and gauze and hand
cuffed the entire time.
' “They said these (the blind
folds) were our saving factor,”
Mrs. Nelson said.
The kidnapers put the host
ages into the back of Nelson’s
1966 stationwagon. The rear seat
was folded down and the wom
en covered with blankets.
Two of the kidnapers rode in
the stationwagon and the third
followed in another car. The
women said they don’t know if
a fourth man was in the other
car, although the kidnapers had
tried unsuccessfully to reach
someone by walkie - talkie from
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the Nelson home.
Around 5 a.m., the station
wagon stopped “and we stayed
and stayed and stayed,” Mrs.
Nelson said. The two men got
out and talked with whoever
was in the second car.
About daylight, the stationwa
gon was driven off the main
highway onto “a log road.” The
other car was leading now. It
became stuck in the muddy
road and the stationwagon
bumped into its rear.
The men got out of the sta
tionwagon, which was also stuck
in the mud and camouflaged it
with underbrush. The women
then spent most of the day ly
ing uncomfortably in the station
wagon. They were allowed to
stretch their legs briefly twice.
Mrs. Nelson said one of the
menleftlate Wednesday to make
telephone calls and later re
turned, but the men continued
to wait by the stationwagon.
“Finally, we heard one of the
men say, “It’s twenty after
three. We’ve got to do some
thing’,” Mrs. Nelson said.