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Let’s eat
Dr. George Walker flashed a “let’s eat” smile yesterday as he approached a king size cake
baked for his retirement party at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital cafeteria. Nurses, doctors,
hospital officials and community leaders packed the cafeteria to praise Dr. Walker and
thank him for his unselfish, dedicated service to the community in caring for the sick for the
past 40 years. A huge silver tray from nurses was among the many gifts he received. Jerry
Savage, The Bank of Griffin president, was moderator for the affair. He introduced city,
county and hospital officials who paid tributes to Dr. Walker.
Russian writer awaits
arrest without fear
PARIS (UPI) — Alexander
Solzhenitsyn awaits without
fear what he thinks is likely
arrest for his new book
condemning the Soviet secret
police and prison system,
according to three French
lawyers.
In Moscow, the Soviet press
finally informed the Soviet
public about the book, “The
Gulag Archipelago,” after two
days of attacking Solzhenitsyn
in foreign news dispatches.
Tens of millions of viewers of
Vremya, an evening news
program, Friday were told for
file first time of the publication.
It was called, “a libelous
defamation of the Socialist
System” by commentator
Skymen check Kohoutek
HOUSTON (UPI) — Skylab 3 astronauts Gerald P.
Carr, Edward G. Gibson and William R. Pogue aim their S
collection of sun study instruments at Comet Kohoutek
today in one of the final efforts to study it as it continues g
its journey back toward the far end of the solar system.
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Nixon’s 12 crises
An exclusive 12-part series starts Monday
Anatoly Potapov.
The Paris attorneys visited
the Nobel Prize-winning author
Monday in Moscow and found
“he is not afraid of a trial,”
lawyer Jean-Michel Perard said
Friday.
“Solzhenitsyn told us, ‘I will
be tried. I don’t know when, I
am waiting. I am not afraid. I
knew the risks. But I’ve lived a
lot. I was in prison for nine
years. I will carry on,’” the
lawyer said.
Perard said Solzhenitsyn ap
peared “content” that his book
was published in Paris in
Russian Dec. 28. But Solzhenit
syn expects the Soviet Union to
try to stop further publication
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
in other languages, Perard
said.
The book, which demands
Soviet officials be arrested for
the imprisonment of millions
between the Bolshevik Revolu
tion and 1956 is scheduled to be
published in France, the United
States, England, Sweden, Ger
many and other countries
during 1974.
Boris D. Pankin, head of the
new Soviet copyright agency,
said Dec. 25 any Soviet author
who goes directly to a publisher
abroad is violating Soviet law.
He declined to say whether this
would apply to future publica
tion of Solzhenitsyn’s books. All
but one of his books never have
been printed in the Soviet
Union.
“Solzhenitsyn said, Pankin
will take action against me,”
according to Perard.
Perard, 27, Elisabeth Pius
san, 23, and Eric Delcroix, 30,
spent 12 days in Moscow asking
intellectuals to sign a petition
to the Soviet government
demanding “free circulation of
men, ideas and information
between the West and the
Soviet Union.”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, January 5, 1974
Set clock forward
one hour tonight
WASHINGTON (UPI) - For
the first time since World War
n, the nation tonight switches
to year-round Daylight Saving
Time to help save energy.
The clock is set ahead one
hour and fast time becomes
effective at 2 a.m. local time
Sunday.
The logic behind the idea is
simple: an extra hour of
evening daylight will cut the
use of electrical energy needed
to light homes, offices and
streets.
Also this weekend, President
Nixon will grapple with the
economic aspects of the energy
crisis. Budget Director Roy Ash
was summoned to San Cle
mente from Washington late
Friday to meet with Nixon for
discussions on how the energy
crisis will affect the Fiscal 1975
budget, which will be sent to
Congress later this month.
A Word of Caution
The American Automobile
Association had a word of
caution to drivers about the
time change. It will require
even more caution than the
traditional spring and fall clock
adjustment because it comes
during the winter season when
snow and ice already create
hazardous driving conditions.
The AAA also pointed out
that “millions of pedestrians
will be on the streets in total or
partial darkness, including chil
dren on their way to school and
drivers should “be on the
lookout for them.”
Not all states will make the
changeover. Under provisions
of the 1966 Uniform Time Act,
Hawaii, Arizona, and portions
of Indiana exempted them
selves from the Daylight Saving
Time provisions of the act.
On Friday, Transportation
Secretary Claude S. Brinegar
granted temporary exemptions
to the emergency Daylight
Saving Act to some counties in
Idaho and Oregon.
No Precise Measurement
Despite its billing as an
energy saving measure, there
is no precise measurement on
the amount of energy that will
be saved. The Transportation
Department reported earlier
this year that the change to
year-round daylight time might
cut the demand for energy by
“one or two per cent.”
But Benjamin Franklin would
be happy with the idea.
Franklin is generally recog
nized as the originator of the
Daylight Saving Time concept,
which he supported as away to
save candles.
In other energy develop
ments:
—Sen. Walter Mondale, D-
Minn., said a 10-cent a gallon
price rise in gasoline predicted
by the Nixon administration
would cost motorists an extra
$8 billion a year and called for
maintaining price controls on
the petroleum industry.
Woman shot
Griffin Police arrested
William Richards, 1330 Boyd
Row, last night in connection
with the shooting of Carolyn
Johnson. The victim was being
treated at the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital.
Attempted auto theft and
assault charges were placed
against Richards, 20.
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Lots of clockwork
LOS ANGELES — Pity poor Melodee King, a hostess at the Marriott Hotel here, she has
nothing but time on her hands. She has been picked to change the 1,020 clocks in the rooms of
the hotel to conform with going on Daylight Savings time Jan. 6. (UPI)
Building
in city
$lO-million
The city of Griffin issued
more than $lO-million worth of
building permits during 1973, a
report from Inspector Robert
Reed showed today.
New commercial con
struction accounted for
$4,033,339 with 17 permits being
issued in this category.
Additions, alterations and
conversions of commercial
buildings amounted to
$2,989,002. There were 90 such
permits.
Forty-six permits for single
family residences totaled
$1,339,688.44.
Two permits for apartments
(83 units) totaled $748,877.
An industrial waste treatment
plant permit was for $463,339
and a permit for a new church
was for $70,000.
A total of 301 permits for
residential alterations totaled
$304,639 while three permits for
alterations to churches totaled
$4,450. One school alteration
permit was for $34,000.
One permit for a utility
building was for $11,035.
Twenty-one sign permits
totaled $20,903.
Twenty-three permits to
demolish residential structures
were issued and one com
mercial permit was issued.
Two moving permits were
included.
“Ever faster ways to travel,
communicate and destroy
demand that we exchange some
national patriotism for world
patriotism.”
Vol. 102 No. 5
News highlights
By United Press International
Nixon defies subpoenas
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon defied Friday
the Senate Watergate committee’s subpoenas for about
500 tape-recorded conversations and voluminous other
White House documents. In a letter to committee
chairman Sam Ervin, D-N.C., Nixon said he viewed the
subpoenas as “an overt attempt to intrude into the
executive to a degree that constitutes a constitutional u
surpation of power.”
Saxbe attorney general
’ WASHINGTON (UPI)— Calling himself a “law and order
man,” William B. Saxbe was sworn in Friday as
President Nixon’s fourth attorney general. After he was
sworn in he pledged to run the Justice Department “to
bring credit on the law.”
Ice story in Tennessee
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — A wrecker pulls an auto from an ice-encrusted ditch after
freezing rain caused hazardous driving conditions in the area. Many families were left
without power and some churches here have made available their facilities for those forced
to leave their homes. (UPI)
Inside Tip
Kohoutefc
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Dogwood
seedlings
free again
Dogwood seedlings will be
given away free of charge Jan.
26 at the County Agent’s office
beginning at 9 a.m. The
program is sponsored annually
by the Woman’s Division of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. Gloria Neel is chairman
this year.
The seedling distribution is
part of a continuing
beautification emphasis the
Women’s Division started a few
years ago.
DAV unit
to visit
in Griffin
Griffin will be one of 24
Georgia communities to be
visited by one of a fleet of
Disabled American Veterans
(DAV) mobile field service
units.
The purpose is to counsel
wartime disabled veterans as to
the many free services provided
for them.
DAV officers will be on board
the mobile units to assist
wartime disabled veterans and
their families in handling
claims for federal benefits to
which the vets are entitled by
law.
The special mobile DAV of
fice will be in Griffin Jan. 15 at
Eighth and Solomon streets, in
the city parking lot.
The van will open for business
at 11 a.m. and operate until 8
p.m.
Carla Cartledge
wins 3rd place
Carla Cartledge, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cartledge,
1131 Pine Valley road, has won
third place in the Elks state
leadership competition.
She was a winner in the local
contest at Griffin High, spon
sored by the Elks Lodge 1207 in
Griffin.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
56, low today 45, high yesterday
60, low yesterday 58, sunrise
tomorrow 8:45, sunset
tomorrow 6:42.