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Griffin delegation visits new Newton school
A delegation of students and
faculty members from the
Griffin-Spalding System
returned home with favorable
reports about a new high school
they visited yesterday in
Newton County near Covington
Supt. D. B. Christie called the
new building a dream plant.
It will house the county’s
comprehensive high school
program.
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Down on his knees
ATLANTA — Rep. Vinson Wall (D) Lawrenceville gets right down on his knees as he
huddles with Rep. Mike Egan, House Minority leader during House session. (UPI)
Fight in works
on ethics ‘joke’
ATLANTA (UPI)-TheSenate
votes today on a campaign fi
nance disclosure bill that Gov.
Jimmy Carter says “is a joke”
and an attempt “to perpetuate
the undue influence...among
public officials which now is
permitted by Georgia law.”
A fight almost is certain be
tween Carter supporters and
backers of the bill who claim
the governor is irritated because
his ethics bill wasn’t passed un
touched.
The Senate Committee on
Economy, Reorganization and
Efficiency in Government
(EREG) approved the bill after
discarding other ethics propos
als, including Carter’s plan that
would have required disclosure
of personal finances.
The bill, sponsored by Senate
Majority Leader Gene Holley, D-
Augusta, requires disclosure of
campaign contributions and ex
penditures, but makes no men
tion of personal finances or con
flicts of interest
Carter, during a news confer
ence Thursday, charged the
EREG committee had “emascu
lated” his bill and that the “Sen
ate leadership” will not allow
“any kind of viable (ethics) leg
islation” to get through this sea
son.
The House passed a bill sim
ilar to Holley’smeasure Weches
day.
Carter said some Senate mem
bers were committed to special
Covington and other Newton
County communities will at
tend. The plant is designed to
accommodate up to 2,000
students in grades 9-12.
There are some 1,700 students
in Newton County at this grade
level now. School officials
allowed a growth factor of 300
students in the rapidly growing
county.
Griffin High student council
members with some Spalding
interests and called Holley “a
strong advocate of banks he rep
resents.”
Holley later confronted Car
ter and denied that his law firm
was involved with a major bank
“on a regular basis or by re
tainer.”
The exchange solidified Hol
ley’s determination to get his
ethics bill through the Senate
“with few, if any, amendments.”
He said he thinks it
“represents the thinking of the
majority of the senators.”
“It’s true that I and a num
ber of other senators dramatic
ally amended his ethics bill, but
I attribute that to the way he
drafted it...with no input from
the legislature, as he has done
on so many other bills in the
past,” Holley said.
Sen. Al Holloway, D-Albany,
Carter’s floor aide, said he be
lieves some parts of the gover
nor’s bill can be put in by the
full Senate.
“There is a substantial group
of senators who want to express
for the record a desire for a
more enforceable bill,” Hollo
way said.
The House passed legislation
Thursday establishing the Geor
gia Residential Finance Agency
to make home loans to “low
and persons who otherwise
would be unable to obtain
adequate dwellings.”
The bill, approved 104-24, now
goes to the Senate.
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Junior High students, Supt. D.
B. Christie and Griffin High
Principal Ormand Anderson
made up the bus load of people
who made the trip to Covington.
Carla Cartledge of the Griffin
High council said she heard
comments from fellow students
such as “beautiful” and “im
pressive.”
She said the Griffin students
liked the concept of the build
ing’s being constructed with
The agency, acting through lo
cal banks, would loan money to
Georgians who are unable to
qualify for Federal Housing Ad
minstration loans or public
housing.
“There are people who can
get better accommodations if
they’re on welfare and poor
than a man who is working for
a living,” said Rep. Elliott Le
vitas, D-Atlanta, the bill’s spon
sore.
Eligibility for the loans would
be based on each county’s me
dian, or average, income, but
generally would range between
$7,500 and $15,000 a year.
The House also approved a
Mil by Rep. John Greer, D-At
lanta, changing the state insur
ance code to require coverage
of infants from the day of birth.
Under present law, infants
are not covered by insurance
policies until they are two weeks
old.
The Senate passed and sent to
the governor a bill that would
allow offenders sentenced to jail
on a misdemeanor charge for
less than six months to serve
the term on weekends.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
47, low today 41, high yesterday
61, low yesterday 51, high
tomorrow in mid 50’s, low
tonight in low 30’s. Total rainfall
1.57 inches. Sunrise tomorrow
8:31, sunset tomorrow 7:12.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga„ 30223, Friday, February 8, 1974
students as the main people who
will occupy it.
Everything is student
oriented, she said.
The Griffin High council
discussed what they had seen at
a meeting this morning.
One thing that was brought
out during the discussion today
was the openness of the huge
complex, all under one roof.
There are no corridors or
hallways. The Griffin students
State Supreme Court
says tax relief legal
Skylab crewmen
end 84-day trip
ABOARD USS NEW OR
LEANS (UPI) - The last
Skylab astronauts landed on
target in the gentle Pacific
today from man’s longest
spaceflight, an 84-day, 34.5
million mile journey that
opened the way for a trip
someday to Mars.
“It’s good to be back,” said
mission commander Gerald P.
Carr as he, Edward G. Gibson
and William R. Pogue chatted
with recovery forces in heli
copters hovering overhead their
landing capsule.
The Skylab 3 astronauts
splashed down about 6,000
yards from this veteran recov
ery ship. The astronauts
indicated they were in good
shape after spending nearly
three months in weightless
space.
Strike
hits WSB
ATLANTA! UPl)—The Ameri
canFederationof Television and
Radio Artists (AFTRA) called a
strike for 12:30 p. m. today at
WSB television and radio, leav
ing the station with no reporters
or on - the - air announcers
and newscasters.
Don Elliot Heald, general
manager of WSB-TV, said the
station was prepared to use
“supervisory and other station
personnel” in news jobs “in
definitely.”
The contract between AFTRA
and WSB expired Dec. 31, but
negotiationshad been continuing
under an extension agreement.
Union members voted to strike
Thursday night, and no further
negotiations were scheduled.
Heald said news programming
will go “as normal.”
“We don’t anticipate any seri
ous problems,” Heald said
Thursday night,” “but there
will be some new faces on the
air.”
Bandits kill
WSB janitor
ATLANTA (UPI)—A janitor
at WSB and WSB-TV was shot
and killed by bandits early to
day as he surprised them in the
act of robbing a canteen food
truck which delivers food to the
station’s cafeteria.
Leon Cook, 59, apparently
fired some shots at the robbers
with a small handgun before one
of the bandits jumped from the
truck and shot him, station em-
NEWS
“Well done,” said Pogue as
he and his crewmates took
pulse readings to see how well
they were adjusting to the
rigors of earth gravity. They
wore special pressure pants to
prevent blood from pooling in
their legs.
America’s first space station
was left behind in a 269-283
mile high orbit where it is
expected to drift like a ghost
ship around earth for at least
five to eight years. Stowed
aboard was a “time capsule”
containing equipment for possi
ble retrieval by visiting space
men in the future.
Primary
vote bill
approved
ATLANTA (UPI)-Thedate of
Georgia’s presidential primary
would be between March 1 and
June 1 and determined by the
governor and other statewide of
ficials under a bill approved by
the House today.
The General Assembly creat
ed the primary late last session,
but did not determine a date
for the balloting.
The House passed 136-1 today
a bill by Rep. Mobley Howell,
D-Blakely, setting up a proced
ure for determining the date
and limiting the primary to the
three-month period. The bill
now goes to the Senate.
The primary date would be set
by the governor, lieutenant gov
ernor, house speaker, secretary
of state, attorney general, mem
bers of the state election board,
and the state chairmen of the
Democratic andßepublican par
ties.
Gov. Jimmy Carter, while not
opposing a Georgia presidential
primary, is pushing for a South
wide primary he believes would
become one of the most import
ant in the nation.
ployes said.
The bandits then drove off in
a car. A witness said three
black men were involved.
The intruders had forced the
driver of the truck into his ve
hicle when Code arrived on the
scene. The bandits fled without
getting anymoney.
The truck driver was hit on
the head by therobbers but was
not seriously injured.
wondered if noise from neigh
boring classes might not be
distracting. There are some
sliding walls in the building but
not too many.
Most student council mem
bers from Griffin High said they
thought the traditional class
room concept would be better.
Supt. Christie said he was not
an open classroom advocate. He
said he could see some
problems in making such a
ATLANTA (UPI)-The Geor
gia Supreme Court, reversing a
decision last year in Fulton I
County Superior Court, ruled to- 1
day a SSO million property tax
relief plan passed by the 1973
legislature is constitutional ...
The court ruled only two days
after public arguments on the
case, responding to what it
called “the urgent and compell
ing public issues.”
Under the tax relief plan, local
governments would have re
ceived state funds for county
roads if they provided property
tax credits. The legislature ap
propriated SSO million to cover
the credits.
A Fulton County Superior
Court judge ruled last fall the
act violated due process and
equal protection clauses in the
U. S. Constitution.
The Supreme Court ruled the
lower court erred. “We have ex
amined the statutes...and do not
find that it violates due process
or equal protection provisions of
the constitution of Georgia or
the United States,” the court
said.
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“You’re doing the world a
great service if you still smile
after you understand the
problems.”
Police arrest six
burglary suspects
Griffin Police have cleared a
number of recent burglaries
and thefts with the arrests of six
suspects yesterday and this
morning.
Three people have been
charged with burglarizing
Spalding Junior High School
Unit I.
They were identified as Guy
Lewis Jordan, 19, of 615 East
Chappell street; Edward
Charles Smith, 19, of 212 Quincy
avenue; and John Edward
Redding, 18, of 507 East
Chappell street.
Police said they are accused
of stealing a number of coats
from the school gym and taking
some food from the cafeteria.
Redding also has been
charged with receiving stolen
property in connection with a
recent break-in at the H & W
Grocery on East Broadway.
The three were to be tran
sferred from the city jail to the
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concept work and he said he
would be opposed to the idea
here, should a comprehensive
high school building be con
sidered.
But otherwise, the Griffin
delegation was impressed with
the new educational complex.
It includes a gym with a
seating capacity of 2,500.
Beneath it are classrooms,
other facilities and equipment
for teaching and instructing.
Newton County approved a
Spalding County jail where
bonds were to be set today.
Danny Archer of 126 Searcy
avenue was arrested yesterday
and charged with stealing
sheets and pillowcases from
Morris Goldstein and Sons Inc.,
where he was employed.
Two young men were
arrested this morning in con
nection with the theft of beer
from a truck last night at
Laseter Distributing Co., 300
West Broad street.
They were identified as Jerry
Brittion, 20, 1335 Edgewood
avenue, and William Otis
Evans, 21, of 1312 Edgewood
avenue.
The thieves apparently put
the beer in a grocery store
shopping cart and drank it as
they hauled it away as police
were able to follow a trail of
empty beer bottles and cart
tracks for a short distance.
The suspects were arrested
By United Press International
Truck traffic picks up
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Truck drivers across the
country shouted down Thursday a compromise proposal
that did not meet their demand for lower fuel costs and
the agreement reached after negotiations in Washington
provides for truckers to get all the diesel fuel they need, to
pass on increased fuel prices to the firms that hire them,
and for government monitoring of prices and supplies.
There were reports that truck traffic picked up after the
agreement was announced, but on-the-scene observers
said the increase was not large enough to make much
difference.
Guerrillas free hostages
KUWAIT (UPI) — Five Arab guerrillas ended their
two-day occupation of the Japanese embassy today, freed
all 12 remaining hostages and drove to the airport to join
four other commandos aboard a special Japanese airliner
for a flight out of the country.
Japanese Ambassador Yoshitaka Ishikawa, one of the
hostages, said at a brief news conference immediately
after his release that there were only five guerrillas, all of
them Arabs and none Japanese.
Administration faces delay
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Nixon administration
faced a new delay today in obtaining emergency energy
powers from Congress. Meanwhile, it urged states with
severe gas shortages to impose their own rationing
systems.
Heath begins campaign
LONDON (UPI) — Prime Minister Edward Heath
began a three-week election campaign in crisis-shaken
Britain today, fighting for his political life against
militant unions opposed to his wage controls. Opinion polls
predicted Heath’s Conservative government would run
into serious trouble in the Feb. 28 parliamentary vote.
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Terrorists
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bond issue to help finance the
new building. The building cost
some $4-million and now the
county is faced with having
another three quarter million
dollar bond issue to buy furnish
ings for the building. The
Newton County is operating
under deficit financing already.
The new structure has been in
the making for some three
years and school officials hope
it will be ready for use in the
fall.
by Sgt. Herman E. Parker and
Officer Mark Foster.
Two burglaries were reported
yesterday.
Johnny Walston of Ga 16,
west, told deputies that
someone broke into his mobile
home and stole two shotguns
and a rifle.
Burglars took sl2 in pennies
and halves from the heme of W.
T. Ison at 382 Jefferson street.
Entry was made by breaking a
window in the rear door.
Capitol Motors of 1140 West
Taylor street told police that
someone stole a distributor
from one of the used cars
parked on their lot last night.
Police also were investigating
a vandalism.
Thomas Blanton of Scales
street discovered that someone
had broken out the rear window
in his pickup truck which was
parked at his home.