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Many Griffin stores open all day tomorrow
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Debt Bill
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Voting heavy today
on liquor question
The voting was heavy today
as Griffin and Spalding County
Energy struggle
Love resigns;
Simon named
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Nixon’s energy ad
viser, John A. Love, and his
deputy have both resigned in an
apparently bitter bureaucratic
struggle over how to deal with
the energy crisis.
The administration was ex
pected to announce today
formation of a new federal
energy administration to take
charge of its energy programs.
It will be headed by William E.
Simon, now deputy secretary of
the Treasury.
Love’s supporters privately
told newsmen the former
Colorado governor lost out in a
power struggle with Treasury
Secretary George P. Shultz.
They said Love favored im
mediate gasoline rationing but
Shultz did not—and Shultz won.
One Love backer said at
tempts were made “to muzzle
Love” and that the plan for the
new agency was put together
“behind Love’s back.”
Shultz’s supporters said ra
tioning wasn’t the issue. One
official said Simon was chosen
for the new agency because
Love wasn’t “getting action”
and “just didn’t do the job.”
Resignations Become Final
Resignations of Love and his
deputy, Charles G. Dißona,
became final Monday after
several days of reports they
were in the works. President
Nixon accepted Love’s resigna
tion saying Love “has done an
outstanding job under difficult
circumstances.”
Sources said Love was
offered a post within the new
energy agency or the job of
ambassador to Canada. But
Love, who resigned as Colorado
governor last July to become
Nixon’s “energy czar,” said he
will return to his home state
and practice law.
He said in a statement: “I
fully agree that the time has
come for creation of a new
structure to deal with the
energy crisis.” He told CBS
news: “I’m wishing Mr. Simon
well.” In a more revealing
Key words:
mail early
The key words are mail
early.
That was the message
today from Griffin Post
master James Chappell.
He announced the post
office would be open all day
Wednesday and would be
open on Saturday this week
to handle Christmas mail
ing.
Postal officials had
urged early mailing in view
of the energy crunch.
Chappell put a special
plea Saturday for people to
mail early.
His report today was:
“It’s working.”
Chappell said the post
office was swamped
yesterday with holiday
mail.
citizens went to the polls to
decide the wet or dry issue.
interview copyrighted in the
Denver Post, he said of his
troubles: “To be honest, it’s
been difficult to try to do
anything meaningful and even
get the attention of the
President.”
In other energy developments
Monday:
Drivers Protest
—The drivers of tractor
trailers, protesting energy-gene
rated lower speed limits and
higher fuel costs, blocked two
interstate highways near New
York City. About 100 tractor
trailers blocked Interstate 80 at
Exit 43 near Blakeslee, Pa., in
both directions early today to
protest the 55 m.p.h. speed
limit and the rising price of
diesel fuel and the drivers of 12
tractor-trailers Monday blocked
1-84 along the Connecticut-New
York state line.
—The House passed by voice
vote and sent to the Senate a
bill to establish a nationwide 55
mile-an-hour speed limit for
cars, buses and trucks.
—A study group sponsored by
the Consumer Federation of
America urged President Nixon
to devise a plan to ration
gasoline immediately.
—Chairman Herbert Stein of
the President’s Council of
Economic Advisers said in
Detroit that gasoline rationing
still can be avoided and a
better alternative would be to
let gasoline prices rise to
discourage driving.
Isolated Reports
—The Agriculture Depart
ment said it has received
isolated reports of farmers
running out of diesel fuel or
gasoline for brief periods in
California, Texas, Nebraska,
Tennessee, Alabama, Louisia
na, Florida, South Carolina and
Maine.
—The House Commerce Com
mittee, which is studying
emergency fuels legislation,
debated for two hours whether
to ban gasoline for school buses
used for desegregation, then
postponed a vote on that
indefinitely.
Energy consumption
decreases in state
ATLANTA (UPI) - Thanks
primarily to above-normal tem
peratures in Georgia, energy
consumption decreased from
eight to 15 per cent during
November, according to the
state’s main suppliers of
natural gas and electricity.
Atlanta Gas Light Co. said
Monday there was about a 15
per cent reduction in the
amount sold to customers.
“Due to a warm November
we were able to supply all our
residential customers and any
body else who needed it,” a gas
company spokesman said. “Ev
erybody used as much as they
GRIFFIN
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Some 15,994 people were
registered and eligible to cast
ballots in the referendum.
Voters had the choice of
casting a “yes” or “no” vote on
the question of making package
liquor sales legal in the city and
county.
The referendum climaxed a
year-long campaign for a vote
on the issue.
Citizens for legal control of
liquor sales have argued for
approval of the package sales.
An organization known as
COPE fought against the
proposal.
COPE is an abbreviation for
Citizens Organized for a
Two commissioners
oppose land use tax
Two Spalding County Com
missioners today said they
opposed a land use tax plan
which would replace the present
ad valorem system in use now.
Jack Moss, chairman of the
County Commissioners, said he
would relay his feelings to Rep.
John Carlisle.
Rep. Carlisle will have a
public discussion of the
proposal tomorrow night at the
Chamber of Commerce.
Moss said he would not be
able to attend the meeting but
would let Carlisle know he
opposed the plan.
Moss said he believes getting
away from taxing on assessed
value of property would lead to
trouble.
He said big land holders such
as timber dealers would gain
the most.
Moss said he wanted farmers
to get consideration when tax
reform is considered. He said he
was speaking for people who
actually grew food and fiber for
the nation.
Moss said he was not con
sidering people who might buy
some pasture land and put a few
cows on it as farmers.
Commissioner Sandy Morgan
agreed with Moss that going to a
land use tax system would be a
bad thing.
Commissioner P. W. Hamil
said there were several ways of
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
70, low today 53, high yesterday
67, low yesterday 45, high
tomorrow in upper 50s, low
tonight in upper 30s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:29, sunset
tomorrow 5:27.
wanted to.”
Alsocontributing to the reduc
tion was the action of business
men and homeowners who cut
down their thermostats and re
duced use of gas in lighting.
The spokesman said the gas
saved was distributed to indus
tries to keep them going. “We
get ‘X’ amount of natural gas
from our pipeline supplier and
if it’s not used by residential or
commercial customers, we sell
it to industry,” he said.
That helps to keep the econ
omy going and also means the
industries have to use less of
the scarce fuel oil.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, December 4, 1973
Protected Environment.
When the polls opened at 7
a.m. this morning, hundreds of
people throughout the city and
county were waiting to cast
ballots.
Poll managers reported a
steady stream of voters at
Petitioners ask
Dutch road paving
Spalding County Com
missioners today accepted a
petition for about 1,000 feet of
paving on Dutch road.
They said the work would
have to be figured when spring
schedules are drawn.
looking at the property tax.
He said he thought the so
called tax breaker idea seemed
fair to him. He said he would
tend to support such a principle.
Hamil said under the proposal
as he understood it, land value
still would be assessed but taxes
would be tied into a formula
that would take into con
sideration a person’s ability to
pay.
Palmer said such an idea
would protect widows who
might inherit land and not use it
in some profit making way.
Hamil agreed with Moss that
some allowances should be
made for the food and fiber
producing farmers.
Moss and Morgan concluded
they were talking about two
different pieces of legislation.
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Recreation
board
appointed
City and county commission
ers met yesterday and ap
pointed a new City-County
Recreation Board.
The city appointed three
members to the board and the
county appointed three. Those
six members then elected a
seventh member.
The seven-man board will be
responsible for operating the
recreation program here.
The city appointed Louis
Goldstein, Bob Braddock and
Henry George Reid.
The county appointed Jack
Moss, Frank Touchstone, Jr.
and J. Henry Walker 111.
Those members then ap
pointed Mrs. Fran Harris.
The board will hold an
organizational meeting soon.
The members will serve a one
year term, beginning Jan. 1.
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polling places in the community
throughout the morning.
A late hour rush of voters was
expected this afternoon when
people working in textile mills
get off their jobs and head for
the voting machines.
Results of the referendum
will be binding on both the city
and county governments.
The polls will be open tonight
until 7 o’clock.
Inmates
captured
ALTO, Ga. (UPI) — Two in
mates who escaped early Mon
day from the Georgia Industrial
Institute here were recaptured
early Monday evening in Hall
County.
Theescapeeswere 16-year-old
Johnny R. Strozier of Atlanta,
serving 20 years for aggravated
assault and burglary, and 18-
year-old James Davis of Fort
Valley, serving 20 years for
burglary, theft and escape.
The men jumped chow line
climbed over a fence about
7:15 a.m., prison officials said.
Guards are withdrawn
The state troopers guarding
Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr., and
his family, Pike Sheriff J. Astor
Riggins and his family, the John
Barkers and other members of
their family were withdrawn
today, according to Sheriff
Riggins.
Riggins said no threats have
been received since A. D. Allen
Jr., 50, of Commerce, Daniel
Warren, 37, of Nicholson, and
Charles Waymon Patrick, 25, of
Danielsville were found guilty
of kidnapping the Bank of
Molena Executive Vice Presi
dent John Barker, his wife and
two-year-old son, burglarizing
Nixon reveals finances
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon gave eight
GOP leaders of Congress details on his personal finances.
His invitation to the White House was part of an effort to
show that even though he is almost a millionaire every
penny he has made in public life was earned honestly.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica, who has
started listening to the President’s Watergate tapes, said
he hopes to complete his examination by Christmas.
Hearings begin
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court will begin
hearings today on two cases involving the deaths of four
students at Kent State University in Ohio during a May,
1970, antiwar demonstration.
The Court refused to review the conviction of W. A.
“Tony” Boyle of illegally contributing union funds to
political candidates.
The former United Mine Workers president was sen
tenced to five years imprisonment on the conviction and
probably will have to begin serving it within a few weeks.
He also faces charges of conspiring to murder Joseph A.
“Jock” Yablonski, his wife and daughter.
Pioneer 10 escapes
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (UPI) — Pioneer 10 escaped
Jupiter’s radiation belt, soared away from the large
planet and transmitted to Earth information that could
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Griffin and Spalding County voters went to the polls today to vote “yes” or “no” on the
question of legalized liquor sales here. The referendum will decide the fate of packaged
liquor sales for Griffin and Spalding County. Officials predicted a heavy voter turnout.
their house, robbing the bank of
some SIB,OOO, and fleeing in the
family station wagon.
Testimony during the trial
brought out that Judge Whalen
and Sheriff Riggins had
received indirect threats which
they heard about from mem
bers of the Clayton County
Police Department.
While the trial was in
progress three letters threaten
ing the lives of persons involved
in the case were received.
The three defendants were
each sentenced to life plus 87
years in prison.
Their attorneys immediately
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filed motions for a new trial.
Riggins said that these motions
will be heard March 4 before
Judge Whalen.
He said that the trio was
separated and removed Satur
day from the Upson County jail,
where they were housed during
the trial, to three maximum
security jails in different sec
tions of the state. He did not
disclose their locations.
Lawmen said despite the
lengthy sentences, the men,
under Georgia law, would
become eligible for parole after
serving seven years.
provide clues to formation of the solar system.
Scientists had feared the radiation could have ruined
Pioneer, but scientists at the Ames Research Center said
it escaped after passing to a point of “near saturation.”
‘Hot spots’ photographed
HOUSTON (UPI) — Skylab 3 astronauts today will test
further their ability to live in zero gravity and take
pictures of so-called “hot spots” in the American
Southwest, in the search for new sources of energy.
Meanwhile, a Saturn IB rocket has been rolled out to the
launch pad at Cape Canaveral in case a rescue vehicle is
necessary to bring the three crewmen home.
No easing of positions
Officials in both Tel Aviv and Cairo expect no easing of
the hardline positions in the truce talks until Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger visits the Mideast later next
month.
Sporadic battles were reported Monday between Israeli
and Egyptian troops on both banks of the Suez Canal. The
Syrian front has had two days of heavy fighting.
Shootout in Londonderry
BELFAST (UPI) — A youth was reported killed and two
young women wounded in a shootout in Londonderry.
The fight was between a British army patrol and ex
tremists who fired a machine gun from a hijacked taxi.
Forecast
Colder
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