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WASHINGTON — President Nixon sent Congress a wide
ranging energy message that fought $l.B billion for
research and development, unemployment insurance for
workers ousted from jobs by the energy crisis and a plan
to prevent price gouging. (UPI)
Nixon talks to Congress
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon delivered a
message to Congress Wednesday containing five new
legislative proposals for dealing with the energy crisis.
Nixon asked for $l.B billion for energy research,
passage of legislation designed to end “windfall” profits,
mandatory reporting of oil inventories and an elimination
of the foreign depletion allowance.
He also challenged any attempts at “profiteering” by
the major oil companies, and modified his stated goal of
total self-sufficiency in energy for the United States by
1980, dropping any plan to eliminate all oil imports by that
date.
Stretched out schedule
WASHINGTON (UPI) - After fighting to speed up the
Trident nuclear missile submarine last year, spokesmen
said Wednesday, the Navy has given in and quietly will
offer Congress a stretched out schedule in the 1975 budget.
Education budget
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon asks
Congress today to approve an education budget that “very
closely” follows the lines of Nixon’s proposed $2.5 billion
Better Schools Act of 1973.
Commanders to negotiate
KILOMETER 101, Egypt (UPI) — Israeli and Egyptian
military commanders went back to the desert today to
negotiate the final details of the troop pullback accord
worked out by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.
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WASHINGTON — Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott
said he has seen material at the White House which could
warrant “several indictments” against former
Presidential Counsel John W. Dean HI. “I saw enough to
convince me the person involved (Dean) who gave
testimony before the Ervin Committee testified to
matters that had not occured at the dates and times he
said they occured,” the Pennsylvania Republican told
reporters. (UPI)
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
City is asked to delay
closing downtown block
Bobby Parker
bank president
Robert A. Parker has been
elected president of the Concord
Banking Company, succeeding
A. M. Stewart
Mr. Parker has been
associated with the Concord
Banking Company as cashier
since April, 1973. He was for
merly a branch manager with
Trust Company of Georgia in
Atlanta.
Mr. Parker is a graduate of
Griffin High School and the
University of Georgia with a
bachelors’ degree in finance. He
served as an officer in the U. S.
Navy four years.
Mr. Parker is married to the
former Susan McConnell of
Charleston, S.C., and has two
sons, Robert and David. He
resides in Griffin and is a
member of the First Baptist
Church and the Rotary Club of
Griffin.
The directors of the Concord
Banking Company are W. R.
Hancock, Jr., R. A. Parker,
Jackson asks
oil rollback
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen.
Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash.,
called today for rollbacks and a
freeze of prices of many
petroleum products in this
country, contending the “seven
sisters” of the oil hierarchy
admitted prices were too high.
Jackson, chairman of the
Senate investigations subcom
mittee which questioned execu
tives of the top seven oil
companies for three days, said
he was introducing a bill
calling for a rollback.
Federal Energy Chief Wil
liam E. Simon promptly op
posed such a move. He said
last year’s price freezes on food
—marked by such things as
drowning of baby chicks
because of low prices—showed
that “an uneconomic price” is
paid for such restraints.
Jackson and Simon appeared
together in an interview on the
CBS-TV Morning News pro
gram.
Simon for the second day in a
row urged against hasty legisla
tive remedies that might
High heart attack risks target
MARCO ISLAND, Fla. (UPI)
— A major nationwide study of
12,000 men considered high
heart attack risks is getting
under way to turn ideas into
facts and try to show that
America’s heart disease epi
demic can be curbed.
Dr. Henry Blackburn, profes
sor of medicine at the
University of Minnesota School
of Medicine, said the six-year,
federally financed survey will
be conducted in 19 urban areas
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, January 24, 1974
Bobby Parker
John P. Strickland, R. H.
Strickland, and L. H. Thomp
son, Jr.
Mr. Stewart resigned as
president of the Concord bank to
become president of one being
organized in Thomaston.
aggravate rather than improve
the energy crisis by discourag
ing oil companies from search
ing for new oil sources in this
country.
In President Nixon’s energy
message to Congress Wed
nesday, he served notice that
“private profiteering at public
expense” would not be per
mitted in the energy crunch.
Jackson said after the third
day of his hearings Wednesday
—with a one-day recess today
before he calls in Simon Friday
morning — that there was no
hard evidence that the oil
companies contrived to produce
the crisis. But he said they
profited from it.
Jackson questioned today the
effect of some of Nixon’s
proposals to hold down profi
le a-ing—such as the adminis
tration’s brand of legislation to
cope with windfall profits.
“This is not adequate, frankly,”
he said.
among men who smoke, who
have high blood pressure and
who have above normal levels
of fat in their blood.
According to present es
timates, about 80 per cent of
death and disability from
cardiovascular diseases occur
among persons having one or
more of these risk factors
working against them.
The object of the study is to
see whether these risks can be
reduced by countermeasures
The Griffin Beautification
Committee has decided to ask
the City Commission to delay
closing a block of Bank avenue
to turn it into a downtown park.
Felton Rainwater, chairman
of the committee and also
retiring chairman of the
Merchants Division of the
Chamber of Commerce, in
formed the annual meeting of
Griffin merchants of this today.
The requested delay, Mr.
Rainwater said, was in order
that the full board of directors
of the Chamber of Commerce
could consider it.
Several weeks ago the City
Commissioners voted to close a
block of Bank avenue between
South Hill and State street for a
covered mall-like shoppers rest
center.
It was part of an overall
designed beautification
program for downtown Griffin.
Some property owners and
businesses that would be af
fected with the closing objected
to the proposal. They argued
their case before the City Com
missioners but the board voted
to close the block anyway.
Rainwater, representing the
beautification committee,
appeared before the com
missioners at the same time to
present the recommendation to
proceed with the mall.
The Griffin merchant has
been working more than a year
with the committee on down
town beautification proposals.
A local fund raising campaign
to finance part of it has been
under way many months.
The committee, through
Mclntosh Trail, has made
application for federal funds to
help with the beautification
proposal.
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65, low today 59, high yesterday
69, low yesterday 53, high
tomorrow in low 60’s, low
tonight in mid 50’s. Sunrise
tomorrow 8:41, sunset
tomorrow 6:58.
“Inflation is tough on church
goers — it makes coins seem too
small for the collection plate,
and bills too large.”
such as diet changes, cessation
of cigarette smoking or efforts
to reduce blood pres ire.
Blackburn, coordinator of the
study, pointed out in a report
released today that despite
great strides in recent years in
medicine, the estimated life
expectancy of men who reach
the age 40 has not improved
during the past7o years.
“Whatever social affluence
and medicine have achieved,
something else has taken away.
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To catch a thief
Mrs. Diane Maher representing the Junior Woman’s Club watches as Capt. Wallace Pitts of
the Griffin Police Department uses electric pencil to engrave an identification mark on a
radio. The club donated the pencil to the department. It will be available to the public to
check out and use in putting identification marks on household and other items. Police said
the numbers could be used in tracing stolen merchandise. There will be no charge for use of
the electric pencil.
Resolution supports
city parking meters
The Merchants Division of the
Chamber of Commerce
declared today that parking
meters serve a purpose and
that money from them pays for
offstreet parking.
In a resolution, the merchants
said they serve the best in
terests of the business district:
By regulating parking as to
time.
Parking meters permit
parking beyond a given time.
That something else is princi
pally the atherosclerotic, coro
nary and cardiovascular
disease epidemic,” he said at
the closing session of an
American Heart Association
seminar.
“Most of us believe that the
intense, widespread social
changes that are needed will
not occur in our society until
we have a definitive result
from our trials.”
Parking meters prevent
policing to regulate parking.
Parking meters provide a
revenue that pays the cost of
over 700 parking spaces in
parking lots surrounding the
downtown area.
Parking meters are a
dignified system of controlled
parking.
They asked that criticism and
suggestions to remove parking
meters be discouraged and that
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the ordinance be supported as to
its value to the community,
realizing that were it not for
parking meters and the revenue
derived therefrom, the City of
Griffin would have no off-street
parking unless provided by the
merchants of Griffin.
The merchants referred the
resolution to the Board of
Directors of the full Chamber of
Commerce for consideration.
The trials are now beginning
in New York and Boston with
the testing of men between the
ages of 35 and 57. The study
will begin soon in Baltimore,
Miami, Birmingham, Ala.,
Portland, Ore., Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia, Davis, Calif., St
Louis, Minneapolis, Chicago
and four other areas not yet
selected.