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ATHENS, GA — Robert Gair, science writer at the University of Georgia, appears a bit
huffy over the energy crunch. Gair, with a bit of flair, is demonstrating of conservation
measures that could result if students ignore the conservation campaign. (UPI)
Yule mail
moved up
• Postmaster James Chappell
of Griffin today reminded
Griffinites that they need to get
their Christmas packages
* mailed by Monday.
The energy crisis caused the
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LAST ACTION for a Cambodian government soldier
wounded in a clash with Communist forces south of
Phnom Penh. Comforted by comrades, he died while
awaiting medical aid.
Pioneer 10 nears Jupiter
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (UPI) — The U.S. unmanned
spacecraft Pioneer 10 today took ultraviolet
measurements of Jupiter’s atmosphere. Pioneer will pass
late Monday 81,000 miles from the cloud-shrouded planet,
so massive it contains two thirds of all the material in the
solar system except the sun.
deadline to be moved up, he
said.
Christmas cards should be in
the post office by Dec. 8, he
said.
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
Ben-Gurion
of Israel
dead at 87
TEL AVIV (UPI) - Former
Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion, who helped found the
state of Israel and led it
through two wars with the
Arabs, died today in hospital,
two weeks after suffering a
stroke, the national radio said.
He was 87.
The radio said Ben-Gurion,
known as the “Old Man” of
Israel, died at 11:06 a.m. (4:06
a.m. EST) at Sheba Medical
Center outside Tel Aviv.
The white-haired former lead
er had been in serious condition
since the cerebral hemorrhage
that put him in the hospital
Nov. 18.
He took a turn for the worse
Nov. 21 when doctors said his
pulse and blood pressure had
dropped and his consciousness
was “fogging.”
The stroke paralyzed Ben-
Gurion’s right side, but doctors
said at the time he did not need
medication.
The former leader’s personal
physician Dr. Boleslaw Gold
man said Ben-Gurion had had a
history of illnesses in the past
several years resulting from
advanced age.
The former prime minister
emigrated from his native
Poland as David Green to what
was then Palestine in 1905.
In a room of the old Tel'Aviv
museum, he proclaimed the
birth of Israel May 14, 1948 and
became its first prime minister
and defense minister.
With both jobs firmly in
hand, he conducted Israel’s
first war with the Arabs and
led the nation for 12 years. His
term in office was broken only
by a three-year voluntary
retirement in the mid-19505.
Since his permanent retire
ment in 1963, Ben-Gurion had
been living at the communal
settlement of Sde Boker in the
Negev Desert.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, December 1, 1973
The longest trial ever held in
Pike County Superior Court
ended early this morning when
three defendants in the Bank of
Molena robbery were found
guilty. Each was sentenced to
life, plus a total of 87 years in
prison. The 87-years will run
consecutively with the life
sentences.
The defendants, Ambrey
Dewitt Allen 50, of Commerce,
Charles Waymon Patrick, 25, of
Danielsville, and Daniel
Warren, 37, of Nicholson,
received life sentences for
robbing the Bank of Molena of
more than SIB,OOO, 20 years on
each of three counts of Kid
naping bank Vice President
John Barker, his wife, and
small son, 20 years for
burglarizing the Barker home
and seven years for stealing the
Barker’s station wagon.
Just before the sentencing, at
12:40 a.m. today, Allen looked
back at his wife, Ann, who was
crying, and said, “Don’t cry.”
The three men seemed to take
the verdicts calmly.
Judge Andrew Whalen Jr.
warned the trio that to escape is
a felony.
Defense attorneys im
mediately filed motions for a
new trial. Whalen told Sheriff J.
Astor Riggins, “Remove these
prisoners from this courtroom.
All others keep your seats.”
They were whisked down the
back stairs of the Pike Cour
thouse by a guard of 11 state
troopers to a convoy of six state
patrol cars which took them to
undisclosed jails.
After the prisoners had left,
the judge asked the jury to
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Applications
for baskets
begin Monday
Capt. Roy Asher of the
Salvation Army Post on Ex
periment street reminded
Griffinites that applications for
Christmas food baskets would
be taken Dec. 3-7 and Dec. 10-14
between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
No applications will be ac
cepted by telephone unless
there are unusual cir
cumstances, Capt. Asher said.
He said generally people
would have to make application
in person. In special hardship
cases, arrangements can be
made for someone to make
application in behalf of another,
Capt. Asher said. But he said
such arrangements must be
made in advance.
Ethridge Mill
paving okayed
Spalding County at last has
received the paving contract it
had sought for Ethridge Mill
road.
If all goes well, Chairman
Jack Moss of. the County
Commissioners said today the
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“Persons with influence will
lose it unless folks without it are
given justice.”
County
takes no
stand
Spalding County Com
missioners Jack Moss, Sandy
Morgan and P. W. Hamil an
nounced they would take no
public stand for or against the
legal sale of liquor.
They said they would leave
the decision up to the voters in
the Dec. 4 referendum.
The commissioners said they
would comply with the will of
the people voiced in the vote
Tuesday.
WARMER
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
70, low today 40, high yesterday
67, low yesterday 31, high
tomorrow near 70, low tonight
near 40. Sunrise tomorrow 7:26,
sunset tomorrow 5:27.
road could be widened and
resurfaced before Christmas.
The contract is for $26,244.60.
It calls for widening to 20 feet
and resurfacing with a plant
mix, the surface the county
asked for originally.
Vol. 101 No. 284
COPE spent
$2,990.57
in battle
COPE spent nearly $3,000 in a
campaign against legal liquor
sales in Griffin and Spalding
County, a report from chairman
Dillard Wilbanks showed today.
COPE is an abbreviation for
Citizens Organized for a
Protected Environment.
It came into being early last
year as a counter move against
a city wide effort for a liquor
referendum.
The first referendum effort
lost its push and a new one got
under way this fall when law
officers announced dry liquor
laws would be enforced to the
letter.
A liquor referendum will be
held Tuesday.
COPE listed the total amount
of money it spent in the cam
paign to date totaled $2,990.57.
Contributions totaled $3,101.20
COPE reported it received
contributions from January
through April totaling $1,121.45
and spent $783.05 during that
time.
From Oct. 27 through today,
contributions totaled $1,979.75
were made, COPE said.
Spent during the period,
COPE said, was $7lO for
newspaper advertising, S6BO for
radio advertising, $375.52 for
bumper stickers and other
printing, S4OO for postage and
S6O for miscellaneous.
Wilbanks said this left $110.63
for the campaign which ends
Monday.
COPE had announced it
would make a full report on
financing the battle against
legal liquor.
Most of the money came
through churches, he said.
The Commissioners, said they
appreciated the help they
received from Rep. Clayton
Brown, Rep. John Carlisle and
Sen. Bob Smalley in getting the
contract.
By United Press International
Getty kidnapers
ROME (UPI) — The alleged kidnapers of J. Paul Getty
111 have contacted the youth’s father in London and
agreed to exchange him for more than $1 million, friends
of the boy’s mother said today.
In London, a Getty family spokesman said a family
conference had decided to offer the alleged kidnapers
more than the $1 million offered earlier this week.
Mid-East talks deadlocked
In the Middle East, Egypt says the truce talks with
Israel on mutual troop pullbacks offer no hope of success
and warned today the crisis may ruin plans for a Dec. 18
Middle East peace conference. Israeli forces kept a battle
alert in response to a sudden outbreak of clashes with
Egyptian troops.
Despite the tense atmosphere, Israeli Foreign Minister
Abba Eban told the nation in a television interview Friday
he believed the two sides would find an alternative to
renewed all-out war.
In Cairo, the semi-official Egyptian newspaper Al
Ahram warned that the government felt the deadlock with
Israel appeared permanent.
Venezuelan oil prices double
Venezuela, the world’s third largest oil exporter,
increased the price of oil for the 11th time this year. The
price now is $7.74 per barrel, almost double the cost at the
beginning of 1973.
In Washington, President Nixon met with his Cabinet
level task force. Although Nixon has professed a reluc
tance to order gasoline rationing, planning for such a
move was discussed at the session.
Whitehouse ‘plumber’ guilty
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Egil Krogh, former White
House chief “plumber,” Friday pleaded guilty to master
minding the break-in of Dr. Lewis Fielding’s office in Los
Angeles. He said he would not tell the whole story of what
happening until after he is sentenced so there would be no
appearance of making a deal for leniency.
At a meeting later in the day, White House lawyers and
counsel from the special Watergate prosecutor’s office
agreed with U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica that
four White House tapes recorded last March should go
before a grand jury, probably next week.
Government credit ends
-WASHINGTON (UPI) — Congress allowed the
government’s borrowing power to expire as of 12:01 a.m.
today as the Senate was locked in a filibuster over
legislation to finance presidential election campaigns
with tax money.
The Senate called a session today and scheduled its first
Sunday session in more than a century to vote on a petition
to stop debate on the campaign reform measure, attached
to a bill increasing the limit on the national debt.
Inside Tip
We win
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