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By United Press International
Fuel shortage
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The first of at least four
congressional inquiries into the extent of the fuel shortage
begins today when a subcommittee of the Joint Economic
Committee looks into the availability and accuracy of oil
industry statistics.
Energy Office Administrator William E. Simon and
consumer advocate Ralph Nader were among the
subcommittee’s scheduled witnesses. Subcommittee
Chairman Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., asked Attorney
General William B. Saxbe Sunday to take antitrust action
against the major oil firms.
In Oregon, the nation’s first gasoline rationing went into
effect, with motorists allowed to buy gasoline only every
other day during the week. Gasoline will be available to
everyone on Saturday and no one on Sunday.
UPI has learned that new fuel allocation regulations to
be issued by the government Tuesday carry no provision
for gasoline rationing.
Kissinger meets with Sadat
ASWAN, Egypt (UPI) — U.S. Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger meets again today with Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat. Diplomatic sources said Egypt felt satisfied
with the broad lines of a “concrete and specific” troop
withdrawal formula worked out by Kissinger in talks with
Israeli leaders.
The plan, if approved by Egypt, would mark the first
major Arab-Israeli agreement since the start of the
Middle East peace conference in Geneva.
Diplomatic sources said Egypt already was satisfied
Israel would withdraw its troops from the Suez Canal into
the Sinai Desert. The sources said Israel agreed to accept,
in return, U.S. security pledges and a token
“streamlining” of Egyptian forces on the east bank of the
canal.
Kissinger held two days of intense talks with Israeli
leaders over the weekend before achieving the proposal to
separate Israeli and Egyptian armies on the Suez front.
Heath to meet with chiefs
LONDON (UPI) — Prime Minsiter Edward Heath
meets today with chiefs of the 10-million-member Trades
Union Congress for a second and possibly final bid to end
the coal slowdown. Political sources predicted new
parliamentary elections next month if Heath failed to
achieve an accord.
Ministers begin meet
BRUSSELS (UPI) — Foreign ministers of the nine
Common Market nations begin a three-day meeting today
in response to President Nixon’s call for European
participation in an international “energy action group.”
Reacted with coolness
TUNIS (UPI) — Algeria and Morocco, which Tunisia
and Libya said would be invited to join a new Arab Islamic
Republic, reacted with coolness today to the latest in a so
far unsuccessful string of Arab merger attempts.
West to be successor
BELFAST (UPI) — A spokesman for the Ulster
Unionist Council says Harry West, head of a campaign to
destroy’s Northern Ireland’s new coalition government,
probably will be chosen today as a successor to Brian
Faulkner, who resigned as leader when the Protestant
group repudiated his overtures to the Irish Republic.
Workers called back
DETROIT (UPI) — General Motors, Ford and Chrysler
today began calling back about 25,000 workers who had
been laid off temporarily, either because they built slow
selling big cars or their plants were being converted to
small car production.
Students to testify
CLEVELAND (UPI) — Two of nine students who were
wounded by National Guard gunfire at Kent State
University will testify today before a federal grand jury
investigating the slaying of four students during a 1970
campus antiwar demonstartion.
Beckwith goes on trial
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) — Byron de la Beckwith, tried
twice but never convicted for the 1963 killing of civil rights
activist Medgar Evers, goes on trial today on charges of
bringing a ticking time bomb into the city.
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
State legislators report
to hill in awkward bind
Mrs. Bolton
appointed
to jury panel
Mrs. Alfred (Elaine) Bolton
has been appointed to serve on
the Spalding County Jury Com
mission. The appointment to the
six-year term was made by
Superior Court Judge Andrew
Whalen, Jr.
Mrs. Bolton will replace 0. M.
Snider, Jr., whose term expired
this year. Snider had served as
chairman of the commission.
The new chairman is W. F.
(Bill) Myers.
Other members of the com
mission are J. W. Smith, Mrs.
Wyman F. (Reba) Mathews,
Mrs. J. Frank Stovall and S. C.
Mitchell.
They will meet the first
Monday in August (Aug. 5) to
revise the grand jury and
traverse jury lists.
Any Spalding County
resident, 18-years-old or over,
who would like to serve on a
jury was asked to contact one of
the members of the com
mission.
The oath of office was ad
ministered to Mrs. Bolton this
morning by Spalding County
Ordinary George Imes, Jr.
Money order
alert out
Griffin police today warned
merchants to be on the lookout
for stolen American Express
money orders which the thieves
may attempt to cash in the
area.
Saturday a white woman
attempted to cash one of the
money orders at a downtown
business but left after ap
parently becoming frightened
when questioned.
Thirty-six American Express
money orders were stolen in a
recent Henry County burglary.
Merchants should watch for the
serial number 02-452,796,750 and
others the same numbers ex
cept for the last three digits.
Anyone spotting one of the
stolen money orders was asked
to contact Griffin police.
Henley trial begins
HOUSTON (UPI) — Elmer Wayne Henley, 17, indicted
for the murders of twenty-six young runaways, goes to trial
today charged with only one killing — that of a 17-year-old
boy from Houston.
Sock it to me, I’m numb
Why should the world worry
about another ridiculously large.
increase in the price of oil? It has
not yet figured out how to pay for
the last one. An Economist com
mentary. (Page 12)
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, January 14, 1974
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia’s
236 legislators assembled at the
Capitol today for the formal
opening of the 1974 General As
sembly.
The two chambers were to
convene at 10 a.m. to begin 40
days of debate on key issues
ranging from pay raises for
state employes to strict new
ethics legislation to cover all
state officials.
It marked the first time in 30
‘State ’
address
at 7p.m.
ATLANTA (UPI)—Gov. Jim
my Carter goes on statewide
television tonight to give his
“State of the State” address.
Carter will deliver the add
ress to a joint session of the
Georgia House and Senate at
7 p.m. His office said at least
13 of the state’s 16 television
stations would carry it.
Tonight’s speech is the last
“State of the State” address
Carter will give as governor.
An aide said the speech would
review the progress of the last
three years and “emphasize
what needs to be done this
year.”
Among the topics he plans to
discuss are mental health,
prisons, law enforcement, con
sumer protection, and no-fault
auto insurance. He also will ask
the public to lobby for passage
of a strong ethics bill in the
General Assembly, the aide
said.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
40, low today 34, high yesterday
50, low yesterday 27, high
tomorrow in upper 50’s, low
tonight in upper 30’s. Sunrise
tomorrow 8:44, sunset
tomorrow 6:49.
“A smart fellow is one who,
no matter what’s just happened,
knows what to do next.”
years that the late George L.
Smith, the former speaker who
died last month, was not pres
ent. Rep. Tom Murphy, D-
Bremen, who was chosen to be
his successor by the Democratic
caucus, was to be voted into
office officially today and sworn
in.
The lawmakers are in an
awkward political bind this
year. All House and Senate
seats are up for grabs in the
November election, and no less
than six leaders in the two
chambers have their eye on the
governor’s chair.
But at the same time the
legislators are looking for sup
port from the voters back
home, they are being asked to
cut state spending and vote
down pay hikes for teachers
and state employes.
Legislative leaders said it’s a
good bet that Georgia’s 55,000
teachers and 40,000 state em
ployes will win in the end, get
ting at least a five per cent
cost of living raise.
A major effort is underway
to force a strong ethics bill
through the two chambers early
in the session. Gov. Jimmy
Carter, a leading advocate of
public disclosure of campaign
financing, plans to ask for pub
lic support for ethics legislation
in his “State of the State” ad
dress to the House and Senate
tonight.
Carter has proposed a $1.6
billion budget which provides no
money for pay raises. He con
tends the state cannot afford the
extra money for salary increas
es because of the energy short
age and its effects on the econ
omy.
“The shortage of funds has
put a crimp in expectations,”
said Sen. Terrell Starr, Forest
Park, a leader of the special
Senate committee which
suggested changes in the state’s
education programs.
“Apparently all we have is a
continuation budget, and the fu
ture is not bright for new, inno
vative programs.”
Two issues left over from
last year’s session, the Equal
Rights Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution and no-fault auto
insurance, are expected to come
up for early votes.
“We want to get all the con
troversial stuff out of the way
early,” one House leader said.
The six unannounced but like
ly candidates for governor from
the legislature include Lt. Gov.
Lester Maddox, who presides
over the Senate, and three oth
er Democrats — Sens. Harry
Jackson of Columbus and Bobby
Rowan of Enigma and House
Majority Leader George Busbee
of Albany. The two GOP hope
fuls are House Minority Leader
Mike Egan of Atlanta and
House Minority Whip Harry
Geisinger of Dunwoody.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate Watergate Committee is investigating the possibility former
associates of Howard Hughes (L) paid “substantial” sums to President Nixon’s brother F.
Donald Nixon (c) for his help in mining claims ventures in the western U. S. and the
Dominican Republic. Key figure in both ventures in Hughes’ mining associate John Meier
(r). (UPI)
Nixon’s brother Donald,
Howard Hughes drawn
into election investigation
Editor’s note: The Senate
Watergate Committee, in what
its chief counsel calls “as
important as anything we have
done so far,” is investigating
billionaire Howard Hughes’
connection with President
Nixon’s 1972 re-election cam
paign. The committee is inves
tigating the possibility former
associates of Hughes paid large
sums of money to Nixon’s
brother Donald for mining
claim ventures. In the following
dispatch, first of a five-part
series on where the Watergate
scandal stands now, Clay F.
Richards reports on what he
has uncovered about the mining
ventures in which Donald Nixon
apparently was involved. Subse
quent articles in the series will
deal with the committee’s
probing of possible gambling
ties in the Bahamas with
President Nixon’s kin and
friends; where the ITT merger
controversy stands; the House
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CARBONDALE, 111. — Gary Smith, left, who has a record of five burglary convictions and a
reputation as one of the country’s best known safe crackers, has been named one of the 10
outstanding young men in America by the Jaycees for his community work with young
offenders. He is seen here with his wife, Nancy, as they visit his step-son, Kevin, 9, at St
Joseph Hospital at Murphysboro Jan. 12. (UPI)
Judiciary Committee’s im
peachment investigation; and
the controversy surrounding
Nixon’s raising of milk price
supports after pledges of
campaign contributions from
the dairy industry.
By CLAY F. RICHARDS
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Senate Watergate Committee is
investigating the possibility
former associates of Howard
Hughes paid “substantial”
sums to President Nixon’s
brother Donald for his help in
mining claims ventures in the
western United States and the
Dominican Republic.
In its probe of a SIOO,OOO
donation that a Hughes agent
made to Nixon’s 1972 campaign
—what the committee’s chief
counsel terms “as important as
anything we have done so far”
—the investigators linked F.
Donald Nixon to these mining
ventures:
—One in which Hughes
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contends his associates con
spired to buy 2,700 worthless
mining claims in Nevada and
Utah cheaply, selling them to
him for greatly inflated prices
totaling $lB million.
—Another involving an al
leged attempt to pay off
Dominican Republic officials to
obtain mining rights in that
Latin American country.
F. Donald Nixon’s tie with
the alleged scheme to swindle
Hughes over worthless mining
claims is not clear. But it is
known the President’s brother
traveled to the Dominican
Republic in 1969 with Hughes
mining associate John Meier,
the key figure in both ventures.
Committee sources said they
are convinced the White House
has details of F. Donald
Nixon’s involvement. They said
they have learned that Herbert
W. Kalmbach, the President’s
personal lawyer, fund raiser
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