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— Griffin Daily News Monday, December 17,1973
Page 12
Highway toll
zooms upward
By United Press International
At least 27 persons died on
Georgia highways this weekend
as the death toll, held in check
for two weeks largely by slow
er driving and “gasless” Sun
days, suddenly erupted.
Only five died the previous
weekend and the grim toll was
running 40 per cent below that
of the same period a year ago.
All that went by the boards
Sunday, spurred by a rash of
multiple death accidents and
headon collisions.
One pedestrian accident ear
ly Sunday almost equalled the
entire death count of the pre
vious weekend. Three persons,
walking along a county road
east of Sparta, were struck by
a car and killed. The state pat
rol said a fourth person report
edly leaped to safety. The vic
tims were identified as Shirley
Kitchens, 18, Sterling Andrews,
26, and Thomas Charleston, 26,
all of Sparta.
Michael Edward Jerrell, 11,
of Atlanta was killed when the
truck in which he was riding
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crashed, exploded and burned
on a county road near Atlanta.
Also killed early Sunday was
Jesse George Hicks, 27, of Fay
etteville, who died when the car
in which he was riding crashed
on Georgia 54 west of Fayette
ville.
Two truck drivers died Satur
day when their vehicles collided
17 miles south of Bainbridge.
They were Morris Laverne Wal
dron, 51, of Bainbridge and Wil
liam Golden Jr., 49, of Cullman,
Ala.
A headon collision south of
Thomaston killed Tina Rogers,
16, who was on her way to
school, and Sammy Jones, 20,
of Thomasville. Another headon
crash, this one south of Sylvan
ia, killed William Lariscy, 59, of
Sylvania and Dick Beasley of
Augusta.
Still another collision Satur
day killed Henry W. Bradshaw,
35, of Manchester and Walter
Kenneth Cumbie, 43, of Forest
Park. The crash occurred 2.9
miles north of Woodberry on
Georgia 85.
Two teen-agers died Friday
night when their car ran off
Georgia 135 and hit a power
pole. They were Robert Bennis
Richardson, 18, of Ailey and
Eugene Thigten, 19, of Glen
wood.
Roscoe Johnson, 49, of Jesup
was killed Saturday when his
car collided with another ve
hicle 17 miles south of Baxley
on Georgia 15. Bradley Evans,
21, of Milner died when thrown
from his car and crushed be
neath it 9.1 miles north of
Barnesville.
Eunice Hilda Stockton, 31, of
Stockbridge died in a headon
collision nine miles south of At
lanta in DeKalb County Satur
day. Martion Beidelman, 60, of
Lumber City died in another
headon crash Saturday night,
south of Lumber City on Geor
gia 19.
Jerry Denyrd, 30, of Doe Run
died when hit by a car on
Georgia 133 south of Doe Run
Saturday. Deryck Eugene Haw
kins, 19, of Covington was killed
when his car overturned 3.7
miles west of Covington on 1-20.
I>awrenceTracy Vinson, 27, of
Washington was fatally injured
when his car went out of con
trol and struck another car in
Washington. Martha McCamey,
53, of Chatsworth died in a
headon collision 3.4 miles east
of Dalton on a county road.
Tommy Black, 22, of Plain
ville, died when his car went
out of control, hit an embank
ment and overturned several
times two miles west of Adairs
ville on Georgia 140 in Bartow
County. Robert Marks, 30, of
Eatonton drowned when his car
ran off Georgia 24, about 10
miles south of Eatonton, and
fell in a lake.
Ricky Cain, 16, of Cedartown
died when his car ran off a
Polk County road five miles
west of Cedartown and hit a
tree. Uldine M. Cullen, 44, of
Hinesville, died when her
parked car was hit by another
car on Georgia 38.
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Mrs. Dolores Smith, of Olney, Md., is a dedicated admirer
of President Nixon. For the past three months she has
been stacking pro-Nixon letters she received as testimony
for the news media and other nations that the U. S. backs
its Chief Executive. She conducts her campaign from a
card table in her living room (UPI)
Refiguring 1974 economic outlook
LONDON - (LENS) -
Governments all around the
world are busy redoing the
sums of their economic
prospects for 1974 in the light
of the oil crisis. The exercise
may amount to little more
than doodling at this stage,
and nobodv would chance his
shirt on the results.
But the figures that are
popping up are very uncom
fortable: the revisions are
pointing up just how poor
prospects were even before
there was talk of an energy
shortage.
The most worrying figures
came from the United States,
where for the first time the
Nixon Administration has
released official forecasts of
the impact of the oil shortage.
Herbert Stein, chairman of
the Council of Economic Ad
visers, had been expecting
America’s gross national pro
duct to grow by just 3 per
cent in 1974 year on year,
compared with 6 per cent in
1973, but now reckons that
the oil embargo could cut as
much as 2 per cent off that,
leaving a bare 1 per cent.
This would mean an actual
downturn in the first quarter.
The Department of Com
merce put it rather dif
ferently, and more dra
matically, by arguing that
supply shortages could have
a maximum 4 per cent im-
British hammer out
austerity program
LONDON (UPI) - Govern
ment officials worked on the
final details today of a tough,
austerity package of tax hikes,
credit curbs and public spend
ing cuts aimed at getting
Britain’s crisis-shaken economy
moving again.
Government officials said
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Anthony Barber will announce
the new program this afternoon
in an emergency budget state
ment to Parliament. Barber
was to address the nation later
in the day.
Political sources predicted
the new program would include
higher taxes on personal
incomes, whisky, beer, tobacco,
oil, gasoline, television sets,
washing machines and other
consumer items.
Government officials said it
was designed to hit the nation’s
pocketbooks to put a crimp on
consumer spending and slow
down inflation, which last
month was at an annual rate of
10 per cent.
They said Barber also proba
bly would announce cuts in
government spending and stiff
curbs on bank credit and time
buying.
Fears that the government
package would mean still
higher prices sent Britons this
weekend on a last minute
buying spree. Many liquor
stores ran out of whisky-, gin
and rum by Saturday night
The new tax package consti
tutes the second phase of
measures which Prime Minister
She supports
President Nixon
OLNEY, Md. (UPI) —
Anyone wishing to express
support for President Nixon
may eat fried chicken or a
pancake supper, march with
placards or sign petitions. Now
there’s a new alternative.
She is Mrs. Dolores Smith
Olney, and for the past three
months her work of dedication
has been to “stack and stack”
pro-Nixon letters she gets as
testimony for the news media
and other nations that the
United States backs its chief
executive.
So far, she said she has
“stacked” over 200 such letters,
most of them from retired or
military people.
The 40-year-old Maryland
housewife conducts her cam
paign from a card table in her
living room, sometimes work
ing into early morning.
“In this time of crisis, our
President, the man we elected,
needs our full support to carry
out the urgent tasks before >
him...l firmly believe this,” she
said.
She has followed the Senate
Watergate hearings, kept track
of opinion polls, read the
Constitution in full for the first
time, written and phoned
congressmen and made several
frustrating attempts to interest
Washington newspapers, radio
and television stations.
Reading about the outpouring
of telegrams that followed the
dismissal of special prosecutor
Archibald Cox, she did some
figuring.
“Even if every one of the
56,000 messages were critical,
my almanac says 45 million
voted for him in 1972,” she
said. “There really is a silent
Cact on gnp if things went
adly wrong, which would
imply throwing a much high
er proportion out of work.
Even without taking this
kind of figuring into account,
other countries, particularly
Germany and Japan, the next
two biggest in the growth
league, expected their
economies to slow down quite
sharply in the year ahead,
and are now talking of zero
growth.
Nor are the two mid
dleweights, France and Bri
tain, expected to do much
better. The betting now is
that France’s growth rate
will be more than halved, to
under 3 per cent next year,
while Britain’s is more likely
to be 2 per cent than the
target 3*/4 per cent.
Interest rates are still ris
ing in America and Presi
dent Nixon is still balking at
proposals for gasoline ration
ing. No one is quite sure what
Japan’s measures mean. Yet
recessions feed each other.
Industrial countries nor
mally rely on each others’
markets to take three-quar-
Edward Heath said were
necessary for "national sur
vival.”
Last Thursday the govern
ment ordered British industry
to a three-day work week in a
desperate bid to save fuel
stocks critically hit by work
slowdowns for increased pay by
coal miners and railroad
engineers, as well as Arab oil
cutbacks against the West.
There was no end in sight to
either of the critical slowdowns,
and Britons had another day of
no commuter trains.
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majority out there ...”
Not long ago Mrs. Smith was
a silent American herself and
she doesn’t find easy to explain
the transformation.
One element, she said, was
open-heart surgery this past
year on one of her four-year-old
twin daughters, Stacy, which
she described as a maturing
period.
She has drafted an informa
tion which says “the office of
the President is regarded with
great respect by countries
around the world” and requests
that “each concerned citizen
write a letter to the President
pledging him the support he
needs to build a better
America.”
“I merely want to provide the
silent majority out there with
an opinion poll of its 0wn...1
want all Americans to evaluate
the issue fairly,” Mrs. Smith
said.
She finances her campaign
from household funds. “The
last thing I want, with all that’s
going on now, is financial
contributions,” she said, wav
ing a dollar bill and letter from
a retired lieutenant colonel.
Mistaken identity
BIRMINGHAM, England
(UPI) — Post Office engineer
Eric Webbley spent several
hours trying to convince callers
that he was not Santa Claus
before he discovered the post
office had given his office
number in error for the “dial a
story from Santa” service.
Now the calls were being
intercepted and switched to the
“real” Santa Claus.
ters of their total exports,
and, although some under
developed countries (oil pro
ducers aside) are now flush
with reserves they may hesi
tate to run these down sharply
if a world recession does
come and finally bursts the
commodity price bubble.
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