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Student hit
Daylight time may figure in it
Daylight Savings Time may
have been the cause of an acci
dent this morning which sent a
Griffin High School student to
the hospital emergency room
with injuries.
Griffin Police Lt. Paul Short
and Officer Roy Williams said
Vena Tyson, 17, of 617 Garrett
street, was struck by a pickup
truck as she was walking in the
dark and rain from the Griffin
High parking lot across Taylor
street around 8 a.m.
The accident occurred when
Trucks may roll
by this weekend
United Press International
Agreement between federal
officials and independent truck
drivers was reached early
today in Washington, giving
rise to hopes that truck
deliveries might be resumed as
early as this weekend.
There were reports of scat
tered violence from at least 40
states Wednesday, according to
Pennsylvania Gov. Milton J.
Shapp, who called the meeting
in Washington.
A spokesman for the truckers
said the agreement must be
presented to the several differ
ent organizations of independ
ent owner-operators
represented at the talks for a
vote by the rank-and-file
drivers. It was not known
exactly how many drivers they
represented.
Although details were not
spelled out, Shapp said an
nouncements will be made later
in the day by the Department
of Transportation, the Inter
state Commerce Commission
and the Federal Energy Office.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
60, low today 51, high yesterday
51, low yesterday 36, high
tomorrow in upper 40’s, low
tonight in upper 30’s. Total
rainfall yesterday 1.24 inches.
Sunrise tomorrow 8:32, sunset
tomorrow 7:10.
Carlisle, Brown
back ethics bill
Rep. John Carlisle and Rep.
Clayton Brown voted for the
House version of an ethics bill
yesterday.
It headed for the Senate
where some observers believe it
will die in a committee.
The Senate is expected to
come up with its own version of
an ethics bill.
Rep. Carlisle said the House
measure was not a strong one
but about all he thought might
get through the House at the
present.
“It’s a step in the right direc
tion,” Carlisle said. “You have
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Mrs. Eva G. Hoffman of
Williamson, who was driving
the truck, turned left from
Fourth street onto Taylor and
apparently did not see the
teenager, they said.
Miss Tyson was brought by
ambulance to the hospital
where she was treated for a
head abrasion and injury to her
knee. She was not admitted.
Mrs. Hoffman was charged
with failure to grant the right of
way to a pedestrian.
Two teenagers also were
The president of the Frater
nal Association of Steel Hau
lers, William Hill, who was
acting as the spokesman for the
truckers, said, “It will take a
few days to get this thing
geared down,” if the the
agreement is accepted. But, he
added, “hopefully” it could be
done before the weekend.
Presidential assistant W.J.
Usery refused to say whether
the agreement had been given
White House approval.
There were wide spread
reports that communities would
be short of food by week’s end
because of the lack of truck
deliveries.
Early Wednesday, dynamite
placed at the base of the
supporting pillars of a Pennsyl
vania Turnpike bridge north of
Pittsburgh blew off a chunk of
the span, causing only slight
damage. The bridge was not
closed.
In Jersey City, N.J., Gene
Lopez, 25, the driver of a
tractor-trailer truck, was
charged with assault and
obstructing traffic after he
dropped his trailer during the
busy morning rush hours in the
Manhattan-bound lane of the
Holland Tunnel. Police said the
action, which appeared to be
deliberate, halted traffic for 45
minutes and caused delays
lasting well into the morning.
In continuing violence that
has already claimed two lives,
to crawl before you can walk.”
The ethics measure was one
of many that kept the
lawmakers busy yesterday and
today.
Carlisle said the house
members were “going like
gangbusters” to get as many
bills considered during the
session as possible.
He said daily House sessions
begin early and continue until
late in the afternoon and that
committee sessions follow.
These sometimes keep legisla
tors at the capitol as late as 7
p.m. or longer, Carlisle said.
GRIFFIN
NEWS
Daily Since 1872
one driver near Pompona, Fla.,
was hurt when a rock crashed
through the windshield of his
truck. When he drove into a
truck stop later he was
threatened by several men, one
of whom pointed a double
barreled shotgun at him. He
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HOUSTON — Timmy Morris, 2%, and his dog, Shorty, know how to get into the swing of
things at their home. Timmy perfers the traditional old tire, but the playful Dachshund used
only his strong teeth to grip a rope and swing back and forth with his young master. (UPI)
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, February 7, 1974
injured last night in separate
accidents when they lost control
of their cars in the rain.
Troopers at the Griffin State
Patrol Post said Bonnie Moss,
17, of Orchard Hill, who also is a
student at Griffin High, was
treated at the hospital for leg
injuries following an accident
south of town on Old U. S. 41 at
the East College street in
tersection around 6:15 p.m.
Her car ran off the road on a
curve and into a ditch, troopers
said.
talked them into letting him
call an ambulance and left
In Texas, at least a half
dozen bullets hit two trucks in
the Rio Grande Valley and one
driver was injured.
A Flovilla teenager, Ernest
Walter Pearl, 17, was injured
around 6 p.m. in a Butts County
accident on Stage Coach road
south of Jackson.
He lost control of his car on a
wet muddy road and crashed
into a utility pole, patrolmen
said.
Edison Hayless of Route One,
Box 261, Senoia, was treated for
head injuries at the local
hospital following an accident in
Meriwether County near Green
ville last night.
British set
Feb. 28 vote
LONDON (UPI) — Prime
Minister Edward Heath today
sought a new mandate in a
general election Feb. 28 to lead
Britain out of the grave crisis
into which a national mines
shutdown this weekend has
plunged the natioa
The decision, taken at a two
hour crisis session of the
cabinet, came after eleventh
hour attempts by the govern
ment and industry leaders to
head off the strike failed.
Abandoning hopes of a
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Woodward
buys land
COLLEGE PARK — Wood
ward Academy of College Park
has purchased a tract of land
near Talmadge Farm between
Griffin and Jonesboro for
possible development or
relocation.
The tract consists of 42 acres,
three of them on the Griffin-
Atlanta expressway.
The private school already
operates a satellite elementary
school near Fayetteville as well
as the main one at College Park
which has 1,600 pupils and
students from kindergarten
through high school, boarding
and day school departments for
both male and female students.
Formerly, Woodward was
Georgia Military Academy
(G.M.A.), but it changed its
name and discontinued its
military program.
Officials at the school said
today that there are no present
plans for moving it.
settlement, Heath called the
cabinet together and said he
has decided to dissolve Parlia
ment and hold a general
election. The Feb 28 election
date was announced shortly
aftewards.
The announcement said the
present Parliament, elected
June 19, 1970, will be dissolved
Friday. The election will be
held Feb. 28 and the new
Parliament will hold its first
session March 12.
Heath wrote mineworkers
President Joe Gormley this
morning asking him to postpone
the walkout for the duration of
the election campaign.
“It is clearly desirable that
during the election campaign
the people should be able to
concentrate their attention on
the issues upon which they will
be asked to vote,” Heath said.
Gormley at once summoned a
meeting of his union’s executive
Friday to consider Heath’s
request
“My personal view—and that
is personal,” Gormley said, “is
that we ought not to fight an
election in the current climate
and therefore a strike should be
deferred.”
But he said it will be for the
27-man executive to decide.
The government’s decision
boosted prices on the London
stockmarket.
Heath was not obliged to hold
new elections until July, 1975.
But he took the gamble of
seeking a new mandate at once
after the miners walkout
starting this weekend plunged
Britain into what Heath himself
has said will be her worst crisis
since World War 11.
Since Britain gets 70 per cent
of its energy from coal, the
strike faced the nation with the
threat of industry grinding to a
halt in a few weeks, hours long
electric power cuts, business
bankruptcies and millions jo
bless.
Political sources said the
election campaign is certain to
be one of the bitterest and most
divisive in the country’s recent
history.
Heath’s Conservative party,
the sources said, is certain to
fight the election on the issue
“Who runs the country—the
government or the labor
unions?”
Heath himself has attacked
what he described as “the
brute force of union power.”
The opposition Labor party,
political sources said, will fight
it on the issue of “settle the
strike and get Britain back to
work.”
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Forehand resigns
from Pike Schools
Dr. Lee Forehand,
superintendent of Pike County
Schools for two years, an
nounced his resignation today.
It will be effective at the end of
the current school year, June
30.
He said he would stay in
public education but said his
plans are indefinite right now.
Dr. Forehand praised the
Pike County Board of Education
for its dedication to the
educational interests of the boys
and girls of Pike County.
He said the schools in the
Spalding vets
paid $2,083,254
Spalding County veterans and
their dependents received more
than two million dollars in
Veterans Administration (VA)
benefits in fiscal 1973, according
to a VA regional spokesman.
Quoting newly compiled VA
statistics, A. W. Tate, director
of the regional office in Atlanta,
broke down the Griffin area
figures as follows:
$1,361,450 went to veterans for
disabilities incurred during
military service, and for pen
sions.
$578,754 was paid to veterans
for GI Bill educational
assistance and for vocational
rehabilitation.
$120,050 was made in
payments to beneficiaries of
deceased veterans with regard
to VA insurance and in
demnities.
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county are improving con
stantly, because of the
professional competence of the
administrative and teaching
staffs.
“The two years I have served
in Pike County have been most
rewarding; however, at this
time the superintendency is not
compatible to my charac
teristics, interests and goals,”
he said.
He said he would stay in
public education but in a dif
ferent capacity.
$21,000 was distributed in
Spalding County to veterans as
direct loans.
Actual value of all Griffin
area VA benefits was $2,083,254.
“About all a fellow needs in
order to be happy is a clear
conscience.”