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Hijacked truck
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News highlights
By United Press International
Refugee camp hit
SAIGON (UPI) — Communist forces fired a barrage of
mortar rounds into a Central Highlands refugee camp,
killing four persons and wounding 23 others, the South
Vietnamese military command said today. In Cambodia,
government forces stepped up their operations outside
Phnom Penh on a push to dig out rebel forces entrenched
in rice fields near the capital’s airport.
Walkout canceled
LONDON (UPI) — Trainmen called off a paralyzing
rail walkout today while Prime Minister Edward Heath
and leaders of the country’s 260,000 miners agreed to take
a new look at a rejected union plan aimed at ending a
crippling coal slowdown.
Suspect kills 3 people
DOVER, Del. (UPI) — Police say a man awaiting trial
on two felony charges killed three persons and wounded
another at two Dover residences, wounded a state
policeman and a woman hostage and then apparently
killed himself and his 19-year-old girl friend Thursday
night after their getaway auto crashed into a field.
Warren charged in killings
TAOS, N.M. (UPI) — Jerry Warren, 35, Costilla, N.M.,
was charged Thursday with three counts of murder and
one count of aggravated assault. Investigators say they
are positive the unemployed farm worker killed three of
his children and wounded a fourth.
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
left on his third peace-seeking trip to the Middle East
since the October War, expecting to get concrete
proposals from Egypt and Israel that will lead to a
separation of their forces along the Suez Canal. (UPI)
GRIFFIN
DAI N E WS
Daily Since 1872
A meat truck hijacked yester
day afternoon on the ex
pressway near the Atlanta
International Raceway at
Hampton was found near the
Griffin Country Club this
morning.
Some packages of meat still
were in the truck.
President’s aides
want panel to die
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.
(UPI) — President Nixon’s key
advisers say the Senate Water
gate Committee has fulfilled its
mandate and should go out of
business next month.
They contend it is “time to
take the Watergate investiga
tion out of the public arena.”
“The sooner, the better,” one
adds.
The Senate committee’s au
thority expires Feb. 28, but
Chairman Sam Ervin Jr, D-
N.C., may seek an extension.
Nixon's aides argue that the
committee is “no longer seek
ing the facts” but has become
“politicized.”
Talk is Wailing
They say their grass roots
soundings taken in the post-
Christmas period show that
impeachment talk is waning
and the people are more
concerned with the energy
crisis and inflation than Water
gate.
The White House may find a
receptive attitude among some
members of the Senate panel,
who themselves are not certain
whether further hearings are in
order. Ervin has said he has an
open mind on the subject. Sen.
Howard H. Baker, R-Tenn., the
vice chairman, has said he is
not convinced more hearings
are needed.
While White House aides are
unhappy with committee coun
sel Samuel Dash and some
members of his staff, they are
speaking more kindly of the
staff of Special Prosecutor Leon
Jaworski. Jaworski’s judicial
approach is the “appropriate
forum” for Watergate to be
aired, according to aides.
They stress that the Presi
dent has been “fully coopera
ting” with Jaworski’s investga
tion, by turning over tapes and
documents. As to the com
mittee, they say: “Enough is
enough.”
Six Atlanta deaths
called drug related
ATLANTA (UPI)-The death
of six young people in the At
lanta metropolitan area within
the past 10 days were all “drug
related,” The Fulton County
medical examiner said today.
The latest victims, Gordon H.
Kawa, 21, and Curtis C. Kelly,
23, of nearby Oxford, were
found dead Thursday in Kawa’s
DeKalb County apartment.
DeKalb County police said the
deaths were due to either a
drug overdose or bad drugs. A
patrolman gave the two victims
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
but failed to revive them.
Dr. Robert Stivers, Fulton
County medical examiner, said
two other bodies had been
brought in from DeKalb, one
from Fulton and one from Clay-
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, January 11, 1974
The back doors of the vehicle
had been hammered open.
Griffin Police joined Henry
County authorities in the in
vestigation.
Employes at the Griffin
Country Club spotted the
vehicle on a side road this
morning. They figured it wasn’t
“No Compromise”
They also say there will be
“no compromise” in the Presi
dent’s refusal to turn over some
500 taped conversations and
several hundred other docu
ments subpoenaed by the
committee.
The future of the Senate
investigation will be determined
when Congress returns Jan. 21.
For the past two days, the
President and his family have
been enjoying sunshine and
warmer weather at Palm
Desert, 125 miles away from
the Western White House
Desert. They were staying at
the 250-acre estate of U.S.
Ambassador to Great Britain
Walter Annenberg.
Nixon was keeping in touch
with Gen. Alexander M. Haig,
his chief of staff, and/ Press
Secretary Ronald Ziegler by
telephone. None of his press
aides would indicate when
Nixon would wind up his 17-day
California stay and return to
Washington.
Stewart president
of Thomaston bank
Alex Stewart, Sr. of Griffin
has resigned as president of the
Concord Banking Company to
become president of a new bank
in Thomaston.
The new bank is being
organized by Jesse Rogers and
others of Thomaston and will be
located on the square. Its name
is the West Central Georgia
Bank and plans call for it to
open on April 1.
Mr. Stewart plans to move his
home from Griffin to Thomas
ton but said that he wanted to
express his appreciation to his
many friends here, that he
always will cherish them and
ton in the past 10 days and all
six deaths “definitely were
drug-related.
“When you’ve rocked along
for a year with only one or two
deaths a month from drugs in a
four-county area and you sud
denly find yourself with
six within 10 days, then you
know semething is wrong,”
Stivers said.
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Griffin Policeman Earl Ethridge (1) and Lt. David
Sherwood check meat found in hijacked truck. The
wrecker which was towing the truck to Griffin developed
supposed to be there and called
lawmen to investigate.
The truck was being pulled to
Griffin this morning by a
wrecker when the wrecker
developed engine trouble. The
wrecker and truck were stalled
late this morning on West
Taylor street.
Det. Aubrey Truitt of the
Floyd wants Harden
taken into court
ATLANTA (UPl)—House Ap-
the time he has lived in Griffin,
and that Thomaston is less than
30 miles away and he hopes to
continue to see his friends here.
Mr. Stewart came to Griffin
in August of 1968 as vice presi
dent and cashier of the then
newly-organized Bank of
Griffin. He left that position in
January of 1973 to become
President of the Bank of Con
cord in Pike County but con
tinued to live in Griffin.
His successor as President of
the Bank of Concord will be
elected at a meeting of stock
holders.
Women
to march
for ERA law
ATLANTA (UPI) - Women
will be marching along the
Atlanta streets this weekend in
support of the Equal Rights
Amendment.
While 30 states have approved
the measure giving women e
qual rights, eight more are still
needed to make it part of
the U.S. Constitution, and Geor
gia has not acted on it.
A beer bash in Undergound
Atlanta will follow a rally at
the Capitol grounds where the
women will march to from Five
Points Saturday.
Rally speakers include Mar
tha Gaines, state chairman of
the National Organization for
Women; Myriam Richmond a
radio news reporter; and Herb
Butler of the United Auto Work
ers.
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Griffin Police Department and
Henry County Deputy Tommy
Floyd were leading the in
vestigation which centered in
Griffin today.
Officers said that whoever
was driving the hijacked truck
drove it as far as they could on a
road off the route leading to the
Country Club. The wrecker
propriations Chairman James
“Sloppy” Floyd says he wants
to see Human Resources Com
missioner Richard Harden tak
en to court in a fight over how
Harden spent money last year.
In budget hearings Thursday,
Floyd, D-Trion, leveled a scath
ing attack against the young
commissioner. He accused
Harden of defying the
legislature’s decision not to
fund a regional health and
welfare network and setting it
up anyway.
Floyd said if he had the
money, he personally would
take Harden to court on charg
es of misuse of funds.
“I would like to see it tested
in court, and I would hope
some citizen or citizens’s group
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Energy
aide killed
engine trouble on West Taylor street this morning. Oil
slick on pavement was caused by leaking fluid from the
wrecker.
pulled it from a ditch like hole.
The truck reportedly was
headed to Griffin yesterday
afternoon to make meat
deliveries. Two white men and
one black reportedly flagged
down the vehicle at the race
track, forced the driver to walk
into a nearby wooded area, then
fled in the truck and their own
would do just that,” he said.
“It’s this type of government
that gets into a dictatorship.”
The two men are fighting
over a $l.B million program
which took all the county health
and welfare programs and
bunched them into 23 regional
ones. The program was design
ed to cut down on administrat
ive red tape and make services
available to people faster.
The legislature declined to
finance the network last year,
but Harden set it up anyway
by switching departmental
funds around. Gov Jimmy Car
ter’s proposed budget for 1975
includes SBOO,OOO for the net -
work.
Floyd, who was particularly
upset that Harden took SIOO,OOO
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPI) — The top energy aide to
Indiana Gov. Otis Bowen and a one-time candidate for
mayor of Indianapolis were among four persons killed
Thursday when their vacation-bound private plane
crashed on takeoff from Jacksonville International
Airport.
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vehicle.
The three men were reported
to be armed
The driver reportedly notified
police of the incident in a
teiphone call from a motel in
Griffin.
The van truck was from the
Arrow Meat Packing Company
in Atlanta.
from a drug abuse program to
fund the network, vowed to rip
the funds from the budget be
fore it ever reaches the House
and Senate floors. Harden re
plied that he would consider
shifting funds again this year
to maintain the program.
The Democratic lawmaker
said he was “floored” at the
response.
“I have never in my 22 years
in the General Assembly heard
a department head defy the leg
islature and make such a state
ment—it’s the most damaging
statement he made all day,”
Floyd said following the day -
long session. “He just told the
legislature ‘l’ll do what I
please.’”