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Forecast Show Map Page 5 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. High school students in ■Bt «*fc 3& <v '** mHHMHEu|I _ JK|l 1 Ol ■ Z «<w - 4bk J/\. < r>\ - L J I Jf ■* LJt\ 4 MmK «.W,i Jy \ ** 23M Blßmwy* ’b / 'Ps'>■ B 1 \^fJr E flafcWlui h Mxllg®, * jHf /'. MBHMMBM 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. DAILY Daily Since 1872 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. $ ■Pw# ■ar *' X. “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 Vol. 102 NO. 34 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. Inside Tip Terrorists See Page 12 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.