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In memory of our beloved
son and Grandson Wayne
Crane who departed this life
five years ago today, Dec. 14,
1968.
Just thinking about you
today little Wayne, as we
very often do. But it being
almost Christmas time our
thoughts are all of you. It
was this time of year you left
us, five years ago today, life
lost its meaning when you
went away. We know that
you and Mama, are happy
with Jesus there. But oh so
very often life seems hard to
bear. But after so long,
you've been away we've
learned to understand that
you're much better off than
we over in the Glory Land.
You'll have no more pain
and disappointment as
sometimes you often had. It
always made us very blue
whenever we saw you sad. So
now we'll say good-bye little
Wayne enclosing all our love.
We hope to meet you later in
that happy home above.
Sadly missed by the family
of Little Wayne Crane.
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PSC under fire
from both sides
ATLANTA (UPI) - The Pub
lic Service Commission, finding
little support for its approval of
a S6B million rate increase for
the Georgia Power Co., has been
attacked by both consumer
groups and the utility.
The PSC approved Thursday
a package raising residential
and commercial customer rates
11.8 per cent over June, 1973
charges, and industrial custom
er rates 18 per cent.
The package, which goes into
effect Sunday, includes the sll
million temporary increase ap
proved this summer. Georgia
Power sought an SB6 million
increase.
John Wright, president of the
Atlanta Labor Council, quickly
announced plans to challenge
the rate decision in Fulton Coun
ty Superior Court. Wright charg
ed last week Georgia Power and
the commission had secretly
worked out a rate hike com
promise.
“The Public Service Commis
sion turned its back on Georgia
consumers and, consequently,
reached a new low in its other
wise poor showing of concern
for the plight of our people,”
Wright said.
The Georgia Power Project,
a consumer protection organiza
tion in Atlanta, said the rate
increase “stinks, and the smell
is of political influence.”
Neill Herring, a spokesman
for the group, said a motion for
rehearing will be filed.
“The S6B million figure is
based on company data submit
ted after the public hearings
were over, and was not subject
to any cross-examination,” Her
ring said. “The public hearings
were just a sham designed to
hide the reality of company
meetings with the com
missioners and the pulling of
I political strings.”
I Georgia Power President Ed
s win I. Hatch also blasted the
■ commission, charging that it
[ “once again has not fully recog-
I nized our needs and thereby en-
L dangered our ability to assure
r reliable electric service.”
k Georgia Power, in its rate in
f crease application filed June 15,
I said greater revenues were
[ needed for work on four gener-
I a ting plants—Wallace Dam near
L Eatonton, the Rockey Mountain
hydroelectric project and pro-
I posed nuclear plants near Bax
ley and Waynesboro. Work on
the Eatonton and Rome area
projects has been suspended and
construction of the nuclear
plants has been postponed.
“In light of this decision, con
struction plans must be care
fully reexamined to determine
whether funds can be raised to
continue a program which will
meet the needs of the state,”
Hatch said.
Hatch said Georgia Power’s
electric rates “will remain be
low the national average where
it has been for 44 years,” de
spite the S6B million rate hike
package.
Residential customers will
find their electric bills up about
90 cents a month over present
charges and $1.97 over charges
before the temporary increase
was granted.
Georgia Power has 900,000
customers throughout the state.
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WASHINGTON—In an effort to make Americans more energy conscious, President Nixon
will travel by train to his Florida retreat after Christmas, White House officials said, but it
was not clear where the rail journey would actually save fuel. After the announcement was
made, officials indicated the Presidential jetliner, “Spirit of ’76,” would be flown to Florida
anyway in case Nixon should need it in an emergency. The plane consumes about 2,000
gallons of fuel an hour. (UPI)
Washington
calls off
milk probe
ATLANTA (UPI) - An in
vestigation into Georgia’s milk
prices, which has been called
off by the Justice Department,
drew criticism from the state
agriculture commissioner
Thursday.
Georgia Agriculture Commis
sioner Tommy Irvin had re
quested the probe in an effort
to stop the kickback system be
tween dairy distributors and
food stores.
U. S. Attorney John Stokes,
who was directing the investiga
tion, said he called off the in
vestigation on orders from
Washington.
Irvin said “I agree with Mr.
Stokes in that such an anti-trust
milk investigation would be
highly productive. At least, it
should help us get down to the
nitty gritty of how and why the
wide disparity between farmer
prices and consumer prices is
being split up by distributors
and retailers.”
Irvin said he could not under
stand why Washington would
stop Stokes’ inquiry. He said in
his opinion the milk pricing sit
uation “warrants a full investa
gation” by the Justice Depart
ment.
He said if the Justice Depart
ment does nothing, the only
course left, “will be for the
General Assembly to make this
a matter a prime item on its
agenda.”
Grocery store interests saw
the kickback practice as a bene
fit for the consumer. To try to
regulate it legislatively, would
be a blow to free enterprise,
they told a joint House - Senate
Committee.
Plastics
suffer
in crunch
ATLANTA (UPI) - The oil
shortage has cost the Georgia
plastics industry millions of dol
lars this year and may result
in layoffs and shortages of plas
tics products.
Industry spokesmen said fur
ther cutbacks in crude oil by
products supplies could mean
employe cutbacks.
J. J. Cawley, manager of the
Permapipe Co. of Stone Moun
tain, said the firm’s production
of plastic sewer pipe has been
cut by 45 per cent over the last
half of 1973 due to a shortage of
polystyrene. Al Ballard, plant
sales manager, estimated the
firm lost a million dollars in
sales because of the cutbacks.
Charles Sewell, president of
Sewell Plastics in Atlanta, said
his firm’s three plants have cut
back from a seven-day-a-week
operation to five or six days af
ter being placed on 90 per cent
allocation by its supplier in Au
gust.
He said the firm had been
able to maintain normal produc
tion of its milk and industrial
containers.
John P. Nesbitt, a plant man
ager for Sewell, said “we are
not going to be affected as
much as many smaller compan
ies. But in some areas I under
stand it is very critical.”
H. F. Royal, whose Royal
Moulded Products produces
plastic toilet seats at Newnan,
said the shortage of petrochem
icals cost his company $90,000 in
profits in the last quarter of the
year.
Tape buzz
still mystery
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Technical experts don’t know
yet who or what caused an 18-
minute “buzz” on one of
President Nixon’s Watergate
tapes, but it wasn’t Rose Mary
Woods’ typewriter or lamp.
Whatever happened, the ex
perts told Chief U.S. District
Judge John J. Sirica in a
preliminary report Thursday, it
appears that the obliterated
conversation “probably will not
be retrievable” even with the
most advanced equipment.
Their report ruled out as the
culprit in the erasure the
electrical equipment used by
Miss Woods, Nixon’s personal
secretary for nearly 25 years,
as she was transcribing the
tape last fall.
“Neither the lamp nor the
typewriter used by Miss Woods
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was a likely cause of the 18-
minute buzz on the White House
tape of June 20, 1972...,” Sirica
said after meeting with the
experts, White House lawyers
and prosecutors.
“Tests made with sophisticat
ed instruments have failed to
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electric typewriter or the
Tensor Lamp, if used in the
arrangement described in tes
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Nixon had just three days after
the Watergate bugging arrests
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Getty’s mother
waits for son
ROME (UPI) - The mother
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Getty 111 was reported today as
confident of her son’s safe
return following payment of
$3.4 million in ransom to the
youth’s alleged kidnapers.
Friends of the family said
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her 17-year-old son, a grandson
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