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Mrs. Nixon leads tour
WASHINGTON — Mrs. Pat Nixon leads reporters on a tour of the newly decorated
Executive Mansion to show off the Christmas decorations. Behind the First Lady is a red
and white gingerbread house. The White House chef said it took three days to bake. (UPI)
PSC to hear motion
on power rate hike
ATLANTA (UPl)—The Geor
gia Public Service Commission
will consider a motion Tuesday
for a rehearing on the S6B mil
lion rate increase granted to the
Georgia Power Co.
The Atlanta Labor Council
filed the motion Friday seeking
the rehearing and oral argument
on the increase as part of the
commission grievance proce
dure.
Council President John Wright,
who called the decision on the
rate increase “disgusting,” also
said he will file suit in Fulton
County Superior Court “as soon
as possible” seeking to halt the
increase.
Larry Thomason, attorney for
the council, said through his sec
retary that he had filed a mo
tion for supersedean. He con
tended this automatically sus
pended the rate increase under
PSC rules.
Kissinger talks with king
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (UPI) — Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger talked with Saudi Arabian King Faisal
for two hours Friday. Afterward, U.S. officials said Faisal
gave him no reason to believe the oil embargo against the
United States will be eased.
Bishop Cannon will dedicate
Ist Methodist building Sunday
The leader of Methodism in
Georgia will be here tomorrow
to dedicate the chapel and
fellowship hall of the First
United Methodist Church.
The dedication will be part of
the morning worship service
under the direction of Bishop
William R. Cannon, resident
bishop of the Atlanta area.
He heads the North and South
Georgia Conferences.
The worship service will
begin at 11 a.m.
The Rev. D. B. Shelnutt is
pastor of the church.
He along with Bishop Cannon,
Dr. Delma Hagood, former
pastor, and the Rev. Neal
'Windom, Griffin District
Superintendent, will participate
The PSC, however, denied
Thomason’s claim that the rate
increase, scheduled to go into
effect Sunday, had been stayed
by the council action.
A Georgia Power Co. spokes
man said company officials
knew nothing of the council mo
tion and had not been notified
of any stay in the rate hikes.
The increase provides for a
4.8 per cent increase in resi
dential rates, or about 90 cents
a month over present charges.
The increase would be about
11.8 per cent, or almost $2 a
month, over the residential rate
charged by Georgia Power in
June before it was granted a
temporary increase of sll mil
lion.
The utility had filed for an SB6
million rate hike, arguing that
it had been forced to suspend
or delay work on four generat
ing plants because of lack of
revenues.
in the program.
Bishop Cannon will be the
preacher for the worship ser
vice.
Afterwards a picnic style
covered dish dinner will be
served in the fellowship hall.
Dr. Hagood will be the
speaker at the 7:30 p.m. evening
service.
Under Methodist Church law,
a building cannot be dedicated
until all debts on it are paid.
The First United Methodist
Church in Griffin paid its last
note on the chapel and
fellowship hall building in
September.
This phase of the building
program was started under the
ministry of Dr. Hagood.
GRIFFIN
DAI I A <“NEWS
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“The poorer you are the less
likely you’ll be forgiven for
transgressions.”
The Rev. Frank Crawley and
the Rev. J. W. (Red) Segars
were pastors when much of the
planning and construction work
were done to move the complex
from its historic South Hill
location to the present site off
South Sixth street.
The Rev. Wallace Wiggins
was pastor when the
congregation moved into the
new sanctuary and educational
buildings, the first of the two
structures completed in the new
complex.
They already have been
dedicated.
The congregation has in
vested more than a million
dollars in the property and
buildings to date.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, December 15, 1973
Storm brings deluge;
rain to give way to cold
The small storm front that
rushed in over the Griffin-
Spalding community this
morning was to give way to cold
weather tonight.
The heavy winds whipped
sheets of rain about the area but
apparently did little damage
early today.
Heavy thunder rumbled over
the community, causing some
Griffinites to remember the
tornado that had hit the
Gainesville area earlier this
week.
Weather Observer Horace
Westbrooks estimated rainfall
at a half inch early today as the
rains continued to pepper down
here.
Heavy black clouds rolled in
over the Griffin area pouring
rainfall and taxing drainage
systems to the limit for a few
minutes.
But the rain and heavy winds
slacked soon.
The forecast for this area of
the state called for the rains to
end this evening and make way
for a new cold front.
The temperature is expected
to tumble to the low 30s early in
the morning.
The heavy Christmas shop
ping traffic downtown early
today slowed as the storm front
moved over the area, causing
driving conditions to be
hazardous.
By mid-morning the
Mail those
Santa letters
by Monday
Boys and girls.
Try to get your letters to
Santa Claus in the mail to the
Griffin Daily News by Monday.
We want to make sure they
reach the North Pole before
Christmas.
Empty Stocking
drive tomorrow
Members of the Griffin
Jaycess are scheduled to cover
the community door to door
tomorrow for contributions to
the Empty Stocking Fund.
The Jaycees hope to get a
dollar or more from each
household to make sure every
child in the community will
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threatening weather had
moderated, however.
Lockheed
needs
more cash
BURBANK, Calif. (UPI)-The
Lockheed Aircraft Corp., saved
from bankruptcy two years ago
when the government stepped
in, now says it may need more
cash during 1974 than it can get
from its federally backed bank
loans.
Board Chairman Daniel J.
Haughton met with officers of
Lockheed’s principal banks and
representatives of various gov
ernment agencies, and said Fri
day that the money pinch is be
ing caused by so many factors
that it will be difficult to esti
mate the amount of extra cash
the firm will need next year
and beyond. Lockheed’s current
credit limit is $650 million.
Among the problems, he said,
were “...the slowdown in air
line traffic, the fuel shortage
and other uncertainties which
generally prevail in the aircraft
and airline industries and in the
national economy.”
He also said that it is taking
longer to produce LlOll Tri-
Stars than expected, but the
company may seek short term
financing to cover any adverse
cash impact.
In 1971, Congress passed legis
lation guaranteeing up to $250
million in loans to the finan
cially troubled company. At the
same time, Lockheed worked
out an additional S4OO million in
credit agreements with various
banks.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
50, low today 38, high yesterday
58, low yesterday 37. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:39, sunset
tomorrow 5:29.
have some toys this Christmas.
The Empty Stocking program
was started by the Griffin Daily
News in 1927 and has operated
annually here with the ex
ception of a few World War II
years.
The Jaycees sponsor the fund
raising drive and other phases
of the work. The Utility Club
helps with applications.
Comet Kohoutek obscured
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The comet Kohoutek is
obscured from ground observers by the morning twilight,
but astronomers say the best viewing will come after the
coment swings around the sun Dec. 28.
Once it swings around the sun, Kohoutek will appear in
the evening sky and the best viewing is expected to begin
after Jan. 1. The comet so far has not been as bright as
was expected but astronomers say its intensity should
increase greatly in January.
Ford ups small cars
DETROIT (UPI) — Ford Motor Co. says it will build
450,000 more small cars in 1974 than it did in 1973.
Henry Ford 11, chairman of the nation’s No. 2
automaker, predicted small cars will account for one of
every two sales in the automobile industry in 1974.
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ROME — Mrs. Gail Getty, mother of the missing J. Paul Getty 111 inside a police car leaves
her home for unknown destination. At right, an unidentified policeman. (UPI)
J. Paul Getty 111 home;
his right ear missing
ROME (UPI) — J. Paul
Getty 111, his right ear missing,
was freed from five months’
captivity by his alleged kidnap
ers today. He ate spaghetti,
held a tearful reunion with his
mother and then was taken to
Rome for police questioning.
Police found the 17-year-old
grandson of the American
billionaire shivering in freezing
rain by the side of a country
road near the town of Lagone
gro, about 100 miles south of
Naples. He was clad in only a
shirt, trousers and tennis shoes.
Fernando Masone, chief of
the Rome Police Flying Squad,
drove young Getty back to the
capital hours after his release.
Getty was freed two days after
the family completed payment
of a $2.9 million ransom.
Getty, the red-haired, freck
led “golden hippie” of Rome’s
teen-age set, was examined by
a doctor and then questioned
briefly by police and the
district prosecutor of Lagone
gro.
“I am ill,” police quoted
young Getty as saying. “I want
to leave here. I don’t want to
talk about it.”
Police said they suspected a
band of Calabrian drug runners
organized the kidnap. Getty
was abducted the night of July
9 in front of the French
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Embassy in Rome’s Piazza
Farnese.
Police said young Getty
“devoured” a plate of spaghetti
with butter they prepared for
him at their Lagonegro bar
racks. Later, a doctor exam
ined him and the bandaged
wound where his ear had been
severed, allegedly by his
abductors.
The doctor said apart from
numbness from the cold, Getty
was in good physical condition.
The boy’s mother, Mrs. Gail
Harris, left her Rome apart
ment and drove with Masone to
the Lagonegro barracks. There,
weeping, she hugged and kissed
her son repeatedly.
“It’s finally finished,” police
quoted him as saying to his
mother.
“Paul, only now I’m begin
ning to live again,” she was
quoted as telling him. “I have
always believed in you.”
Police said the youth was
standing in the rain under a
gas station shelter. As soon as
the police car pulled up to the
station, he ran toward it.
“I am Paul Getty, captain,”
police quoted him as saying.
“Can you give me a cigarette?
Look, they cut off my ear.”
Police quoted the youth as
saying of his kidnapers: “They
left me here several hours ago.
Arabs say try harder
COPENHAGEN (UPI) — Arab leaders who showed up
uninvited at a European Common Market summit
meeting Friday told the fuel-starved nations they must try
harder to end the Middle East situation before the Arabs
will take steps to ease their oil embargo.
According to French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert,
the five gate-crashing Arabs wanted more anti-Israeli
words and actions and an Arab-European pact.
British electricity short
LONDON (UPI) — Britons faced the prospect today of
doing without electricity in their homes for up to 40 hours
a week. The nation is already suffering blackouts, strikes,
three-day work weeks, slow moving trains and possible
mass unemployment. The national crisis was caused by
labor stife, an economic slump and most significantly, a
fuel shortage.
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I walked a great deal in the
rain. I haven’t eaten for several
days. For five months they kept
me traveling.”
During the five months of
negotiations, Getty’s alleged
kidnapers sent a human ear to
a Rome newspaper and said it
was his. They later sent a poor
quality photograph to another
newspaper showing the youth
without an ear and threatened
to cut him up “piece by piece”
if the ransom money were not
paid.
The youth’s wealthy grandfa
ther refused to pay any ransom
throughout ordeal, saying it
would subject his other grand
children to abductions. Young
Getty’s father, divorced from
the youth’s mother and who
like the grandfather lives in
London, finally agreed to pay
the money when pictures of the
missing ear hit the press.
SHOPPING DAYS
TO CHRISTMAS