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School board appoints
citizens study committee
The Griffin-Spalding Board of
Education today announced
formation of a 20-member
citizens committee. It will
evaluate school facilities and
make recommendations on
implementing a comprehensive
educational program.
C. T. Parker, chairman of the
school board, announced
members of the committee as
follows:
Oil companies asked
to aid independents
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Federal Energy Office wants
big oil companies to help small
independent dealers obtain
more low cost domestic fuel, a
move the independents say is
necessary to keep them from
going out of business.
“Recent increases in the
price of foreign (petroleum)
products appear to threaten the
very existence of this segment
of the industry,” Simon said
Monday in a telegram to 26
major oil companies.
Simon also said he was
concerned about reports “that
some companies with compara
tively large supplies of lower
cost domestic products are
aggressively exploiting the cur
rent situation at the expense of
their competitors.”
“We simply cannot permit
today’s energy situation to
disadvantage the small in
dependent businessmen who
provide healthy competition,”
Simon said.
By United Press International
Not likely to respond
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., (UPI) - A high
administration official says it is unlikely President Nixon
will respond to any request by the Senate Watergate
committee because of the “partisan attitude of some
members of the committee and the staff” as well as the
“blatant usurpation of executive power” by Congress.
In addition to a pending subpoena for five tapes, the
committee recently subpoenaed about 500 White House
tapes and documents on a wide range of subjects.
Rockets hit city
PHNOM PENH (UPI) — Rebel gunners rocketed the
city Monday, wounding eight persons in a hit on a hospital,
and President Lon Nol ordered the mobilization of
paramilitary neighborhood committees to prepare
against a possible attack.
Astronauts undaunted
HOUSTON (UPI) - The Skylab 3 astronauts,
undaunted by the excessive use of hydrogen thruster gas,
faced their busiest day of the long flight with three more
maneuvers scheduled.
J. Henry Walker, chairman;
Mrs, Barbara Alexander, David
Elder, Mrs. Gordon Futral,
Ralph Gatlin, Louis Goldstein,
Mrs. Connie Kendrick, Dr.
William King, C. A. Knowles,
Mrs. Robert Langford, Allen
Marshall 111, Jack Moss, Evans
McMullen, George Reid, Scott
Searcy, A. C. Touchstone, C. E.
Williams, Jr., Calvin Hill, Terry
“We must do everything
possible to ensure that those
smaller dealers who are threat
ened by the current price
structure have available to
them a greater percentage of
the lower cost domestic product
than many of them are
currently able to purchase,” he
told the “majors.”
Ford Makes Suggestion
Vice President Gerald R.
Ford also responded to the
higher prices of foreign oil and
the continuing Arab petroleum
embargo by suggesting that
unless the embargo were
relaxed, the United States could
halt the flow of food to the
Middle East.
“The United States is the
world’s most efficient producer
of soybeans, wheat and other
grains,” Ford said while noting,
“North Africa and the Middle
East have some of the greatest
food deficits in the world.”
“Close an oil valve in the
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Walton and Clifford Harps.
The committee will hold its
first meeting this afternoon at 5
o’clock in the new math
building on the Griffin High
campus.
The committee is to review
recommendations included in
the comprehensive study made
here last May by the State
Department of Education.
The citizens committee will
Middle East and you threaten
to shut down a farm tractor in
our Middle West,” he said.
“Halt that tractor and some
people in the world will hunger
for bread.”
But Ford also said he was
“optimistic” the embargo will
be lifted “within a relatively
short time” and repeated
administration assertions that
gasoline rationing will come
“only as a last resort.”
Both the Justice Department
and the Internal Revenue
Service, meanwhile, issued
warnings to retail gasoline
dealers they face possible
criminal or civil action for
price gouging or gimmicks
forcing gas prices higher than
federal controls allow.
Food, fuel prices
rose sharply in Dec.
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Prices of fuels and food rose
sharply in December and
pushed the wholesale price
index up by 2.5 percent, second
largest one-month increase in
23 years, the government said
today.
The Labor Department’s Bu
reau of Labor Statistics said
wholesale prices of refined
petroleum products soared for
the second month in a row,
rising 19.5 percent in reflecting
the worsening energy crisis and
the Arab oil embargo. But the
December increase was little
more than half of the 34.7
percent jump in November.
Food prices, after declining
for three months in a row, shot
up 2.2 percent in December,
mainly because of higher prices
for grains, vegtables, eggs,
cotton, oil seeds, dairy pro
ducts, cereal and bakery
products, animal feeds and fats
and oils.
Last month’s overall increase
was exceeded since January,
1951, only by an 5.8 per cent
jump last August When adjust
ed for seasonal factors, the
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, January 8, 1974
visit every school campus in the
system to inspect present facili
ties.
It will be asked to make
recommendations on building
needs and implementing the
comprehensive education
program.
The comprehensive program
calls for a high school program
which emphasized vocational
Tanker
fire under
control
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) - A
boiler explosion aboard a fully
loaded Greek oil tanker that
threatened the ship’s own
engine fuel was brought under
control today by the ship’s
crew.
“The captain reports that as
soon as he makes repairs to the
other boiler he will start for
Corpus Christi, Tex., under his
own power,” the Coast Guard
said.
An explosion shook the 579-
foot Atrotos as it moved near
the center of the Gulf of Mexico
around midnight. It took the 29
crew members eight hours to
control the fire. The vessel’s
cargo tanks were filled with
tons of Venezuelan oil. No
injuries were reported.
Heat from the fire became so
intense that one of the ship’s
smokestacks was warped and
twisted.
wholesale price rise was 2.2
percent in December, only the
fourth largest increase in 1973.
The 2.5 per cent increase in
wholesale prices in December
was higher than the 1.6 per
cent advance in November
because of the higher food
prices. But the size of price
increase for most nonfood items
was lower last month than in
November.
Wholesale prices of gasoline
rose about 17 per cent in
December compared with a
record 32.3 per cent jump in
November. Wholesale prices of
deisel fuel and home heating oil
went up about 27 per cent in
December compared with 45
per cent in November.
Wholesale prices for residual
fuel oil, used in mostly in utlity
and industrial power plants,
went up 2.25 per cent last
month after soaring 30 per cent
in November.
Overall, industrial commodity
prices increased 2.7 per cent in
December, compared with 3
per cent in November.
The fuels index accounted for
During a white-hot week in
1952, Richard Nixon found
himself engulfed in his se
cond crisis, one which came
within a hair’s breadth of
ending his political career.
Senator Nixon had been
nominated as Gen.
Eisenhower’s vice-presiden
tial running mate.
A couple of weeks into the
campaign, Peter Edson, a
Washington columnist for
Newspaper Enterprise
Association, asked Nixon
about an alleged “supple
mentary salary” of $20,000
which was paid by a handful
of California businessmen.
Nixon had no doubts about
the propriety of his fund, and
he referred Edson, as well as
Leo Katcher of the New York
Post, to-Dana Smith,a former
campaign treasurer, who ad-
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and technical training as well as
an academic program geared to
prepare students for college and
university level training.
It also suggested some
elementary school consolida-
State employment
up 25.7 percent
in three years
ATLANTA (UPI) - A state
auditor said Monday that in the
past three years state employ
ment rose 25.7 per cent and the
payroll increased 54.4 per cent,
but a spokesman for Gov. Jim
my Carter said those figures
were misleading.
Ernest Davis told a joint leg
islative budget hearing that he
will release an audit of the huge
Human Relations Department,
which was reorganized by Car
ter and was a “colossal mud
dle” according to Davis.
The auditor said he had dif
ficulties preparing the accounts
for the huge agency which he
said “got too big too fast”
He said, “It’s a problem of
a colossal muddle, of mishand
ling. It wasn’t intentional.”
But the Carter aide said the
rate of employment had been
reduced in each year of Car
ter’s administration.
And when questioned, Davis
admitted that the three - year
audit covered only one year of
more than 60 per cent of the
industrial commodity increase,
the BLS said. Gasoline, home
heating oil and other distilates
caused almost all of the
increase in fuel prices.
The BLS noted, however, that
its index for refined petroleum
products reflected chiefly quo
tations from “spot markets”
rather than the normal chan
nels of established trade in
these products.
The bureau added that these
spot markets, “because of
developments over the last few
months, appear to represent a
declining portion of the transac
tions taking place in domestic
markets.”
The BLS said it plans to
improve its data on refined
petroleum products in the near
future.
The wholesale price index
increased 18.2 percent during
1973, highest for a calendar
year since it was 31.7 precent
in 1946. Industrial commodity
prices went up 14.8 percent,
highest since the 24 percent
' also in 1946.
ministered the fund.
According to Smith, the
fund collected around $20,000
a year from wealthy backers.
The money was used for
transportation, telephone
charges and for circulating
speeches, questionnaires,
newsletters and Christmas
cards, which Nixon’s
senatorial salary of $12,500
could not cover.
While Edson’s story was
handled soberly, the Post ar
ticle ran under the headline:
“Secret Nixon Fund: Secret
Rich Men’s Trust Fund Keeps
Nixon in Style Far Beyond
His Salary."
The Democrats seized on
the issue, demanding that
Eisenhower jettison Nixon
from his ticket. The fund
became a national issue.
Editorials called for Nixon's
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tion.
Chairman Walker of the
citizens committee is a member
of the Griffin-Spalding Board of
Education which authorized the
committee to be formed.
Carter’s reorganization.
Davis was the leadoff witness
on the first day of a week-long
series of budget hearings before
the House and Senate Appro
priations Committees.
Peter Hackney, the legislative
budget analyst, told the commit
tee he thought Carter’s revenue
estimate was “conservative but
satisfactory. I think however,
that we can find some S3O mil
lion more to be added to the
1975 fiscal budget,” he said.
Carter’s proposed budget for
$1,619 billion represents nearly
$47 million less than the current
budget. The governor is also
seeking $lO million in supple
mental appropriations for the
current fiscal year.
But House Appropriations
Chairman James “Sloppy”
Floyd indicated he would fight
to cut the current budget. Floyd
repeatedly has criticized Car
ter’s“unnecessary” state spend
ing during the energy crisis.
Floyd named five appropria
tions subcommittees, including
groups to study possible reduc
tions in the current budget and
the supplemental budget.
State agency heads begin tes
timony before the committee to
day with the Transportation De
partment as the first agency.
Glue
It’s just too good
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Consumer Product Safety Com
mission is attempting to
remove from the market
thousands of tubes of a
superglue that is so strong it
can cement fingers and hands
together.
The government agency said
there may be more than one
million tubes of the glue on the
market. It was developed
originally for use during
surgery in place of stitches.
The firms manufacturing ten
brands of it have been asked to
halt shipment and to recall
outstanding stocks, with the
threat of a possible seizure by
the government if they fail to
comply.
“It has the feature of gluing
almost anything to anything,”
Commission Chairman Richard
replacement.
Nixon’s advisers decided
that his only option was to go
on television and plead his
case to the nation.
An hour before Nixon was
scheduled to go on the air, he
received a call from Thomas
Dewey, one of the G.O.P.'s
elder statesmen, telling him
that Eisenhower’s advisers
had concluded that Nixon
should announce his resigna
tion at the end of his telecast.
“What should 1 tell (the ad
visers) you are going to do?”
Dewey asked.
“Just tell them ... 1 know
something about politics too!”
Nixon replied, slamming
down the receiver.
A few minutes later, he
delivered an impassioned
speech baring all his per
sonal finances and revealing
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Nutcracker
Bonnie Bonds who will be Clara in the Jan. 19 presentation
of “The Nutcracker” gazes at a toy nutcracker which, in
the story, was given her by an uncle. She never dreams
that the nutcracker will come to life and show her a land
where sugar plums, toy soldiers and flowers dance, magic
spells are cast, and a handsome prince comes to the
rescue. Bonnie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. A.
Bonds. The Griffin Ballet Company will present the
program with guest dancers from Atlanta Ballet
Company. Curtain time is at 8 p.m. at Griffin High
auditorium. Members of the Griffin Ballet Company have
advance tickets and they may be purchased at the door.
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63, low yesterday 50.
“It’s comforting to see how
much of what we failed to do
wasn’t worth doing anyway.”
O. Simpson told reporters
Monday. “It’s a good, all
purpose glue. The problem is
maybe it’s too good.”
Simpson said the commission
began investigating the glue,
known by the general name
“cyano-acrylic,” after Con
sumer’s Union told the agency
the glue could stick peoples’
fingers together or to other
parts of the body, requiring
medical help to free them.
Simpson said the commission
discovered that two brands of
the glue, “Krazy Glue,” the
largest selling, and “Per
mabond 102” did not have label
warnings that the glue could
cause eye irritation. He said
washing the eye with water
would make the glue set faster.
Researchers found the same
lack of eye warning in eight
that the only political gift he
had ever accepted was
Checkers, a cocker spaniel
which had been given to his
daughters.
Nixon concluded his' plea
by inviting the audience to
wire its verdict to the
Republican National Com
mittee. The public response
overwhelmingly supported
him. Eisenhower called him
“a courageous warrior."
According to Nixon
biographer Earl Mazo, “(Nix
on s) success sent the
Republican campaign soar
ing, establishing him as the
. . . best-known, largest
crowd-drawing Vice-Presi
dential candidate in history."
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Historical
Society gets
$5,000 grant
The Griffin Historical and
Preservation Society has been
awarded a $5,000 matching
grant. It was presented through
the Georgia Commission for the
National Bicentennial
Celebration.
The grant is for structural
restoration of the Lewis-Mills
House on North Hill street.
The local historical society
has been working on restoration
of the building many months.
other brands and are telling
their manufacturers or distribu
tors that they are in violation of
the law on that count.
A hearing will be held on the
overall hazards of the glue, but
no date has been set.
The other brands and their
manufacturers or distributors
are “Rapid Set,” from Aran
Dee Assoc. Ltd., Warwick, R.1.;
“Zip Grip”, from Devcon Corp.,
Danvers, Mass.; “Superbon
der,” from Loctite Corp.,
Newington, Conn.; “Eastman
910” from the Eastman Co.,
Kingsport, Tenn.; “Super Three
Cement,” from Three Bond of
America Inc., Los Angeles;
“Zip Bond,” from Tescon
Corp., Minneapolis; and two
brands from Oneida Electrical
Mfg. Co., Meadville, Pa. —
“One Drop” and “Oneida
Instant Weld.”