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Doing their good deeds
These members of Girl Scout senior troop 102 did their
good deed by pitching in and cleaning the more than 500
headstones in the Confederate Cemetery, just off
Memorial Drive yesterday. Mrs. J. W. Proctor, president
of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Griffin,
Deadline
Sunday
Nominations for the Young
Woman of the Year award must
be postmarked by midnight,
March 31, the Griffin-Spalding
Jaycettes reminded Griffinites
today.
They may be mailed to Mrs.
Lamar Scott, chairman; Box
314, Griffin.
Nominees must be between 21
and 36 years old.
The award will be judged on
merit and worthiness in con
nection with their contributions
to the community and their
accomplishments during 1973.
The award will be presented
April 18 at the Moose Club.
Atlanta papers
going up
The Atlanta Journal and the
Atlanta Constitution announced
price increases effective
Monday, April 1.
The home-delivered price of
The Atlanta Journal, daily and
Sunday, and the Atlanta Con
stitution, daily and Sunday, will
be SI.OO per week plus sales tax.
The daily only home delivered ‘
price for either paper will be 60
cents per week, plus sales tax.
The single price of the daily
papers will remain at 10 cents.
The single copy price copy for
the Sunday Journal and Con
stitution effective April 7, will
be 40 cents.
The Griffin Daily News has
not increased its circulation
costs, except for papers
delivered by mail in nearly five
years. The price was set at 50
cents a week on June 2, 1969.
It was a bad day for male chauvinists in U.S.
By United Press International
It was a bad day for the male
chauvinists of America.
In New Jersey, the court of
appeals said Friday that Little
League baseball must allow
girls to play, a ruling that
seemed mostly to chagrin
grown-up men rather than kids
of either sex.
In New Haven, Conn.,
Mory’s, the celebrated restau
rant enclave of male Yale
University students and faculty
members, gave up a long fight
Severe storms
buffet Georgia
By United Press International
Severe storms, packing high
winds, hail and possibly torna
does, buffeted Georgia today for
the second day in a row, causing
scattered minor damage.
Portions of northern Georgia,
including Atlanta, Athens,
Gainesville, and surrounding
areas, were placed under a
tornado watch for several
hours.
The National Weather Service
said an Eastern Air Lines pilot
spotted a funnel cloud 10 miles
east of Carrollton at 1:30 a. m.
and there were reports of twis-
Mountain View loses
traffic police powers
ATLANTA (UPI)-Gov. Jim
my Carter, a member of the
state’s speed trap panel, has
signed an executive order strip
ping the Clayton County com
munity of Mountain View of
most of its traffic police powers
for six months.
Carter’s office said Friday the
executive order had been signed
stripping Mountain View of its
authority to enforce traffic laws
on highways going through the
community.
The executive order said the
speed trap panel had “deter-
to exclude women.
Little League baseball is a
“public accommodation”, said
the Appellate Division of State
Superior Court, and girls may
play even if they, as a League
official direly predicted, will
never make the major leagues.
The case appeared headed for
the state Supreme Court.
The court in a 2-1 ruling
turned down arguments that
girls are likely to get breast
cancer if struck by a ball in the
chest, that they will feel
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watches (front, 1-r) Patricia Hunter, Fran Evans, Julie
Dorton, Tina Howard (back) Carol Prince, Laura Hunter,
Marianne Deignan, Beth Campbell and Julia Davis
spruce up the markers.
ters between Atlanta and Mari
etta in the Roswell area.
A father and his son suffered
minor injuries near Flowery
Branch during the storm but did
not require hospitalization.
Golf ball-size hail was report
ed at Dallas and a boat ram
med an abutment on Lake Lan
ier at the height of the storm
but damage was not believed
extensive. Hail was also reported
in Rabun and Hart counties and
at Monroe and west of Athens.
Winds were clocked at 62
miles an hour in Atlanta with V<
inch hail and intense lightening,
mined that the speed limits
were being primarily enforced
for the collection of revenue
rather than for purposes of pub
lic safety.”
Highways affected by the or
der are U.S. 19 and 14, the com
munity’s main street, and Inter
stated 75 and 285.
The highways will be policed
by state highway patrolmen.
The city will be able to apply
to get its traffic powers rein
stated in six months.
The speed trap panel is made
up of the governor, Secretary of
inferior or that their “bodily
privacy” will be threatened.
“The suggestion that such a
hazard is presented when a
male coach gives first aid to an
injured player appears to
border on the frivolous,” the
court said.
The ruling is expected to help
end sex discrimination by Little
Leagues throughout the coun
try.
In Williamsport, Pa., officials
of the National Little League
said the board of directors will
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, March 30, 1974
the weather service said.
The storm barreled across the
state just 24 hours after another
storm system dropped an ap
parent twister near the Mcßae
farm home of Mrs. Eugene Tal
madge, mother of Sen. Herman
Talmadge.
The family homestead at the
Talmadge farm was untouched,
and, although high winds caused
damage in other spots, no injur
ies were reported.
The elderly Mrs. Talmadge
was inside the two-story colon
ial mansion at the time.
State Ben Fortson and Attorney
General Arthur Bolton.
A Carter spokesman said
state law requirs the panel to
review any community where
traffic fines are “a major
source of revenue.”
Fines furnish about 50 per
cent of the total revenue of
Mountain View, the spokesman
said.
Mountain View policemen still
will carry out their other law
enforcement duties, the spokes
man said.
meet next week to consider the
decision. Robert Stirrat, vice
president, said the national
group also may appeal.
The Little League sex barrier
has already been broken
elsewhere in the country. A
Ypsilanti, Mich., girl, Carolyn
King, won a court fight in 1972
and was believed the first girl
Little Leaguer in the country.
In California, Donna Dom
browski, 17, and her sisters
Deborah, 16, and Dorothy, 14,
have been accepted by- the
NEWS
Two escapees
captured here
Two of three black men who
escaped from the Spalding jail
early yesterday morning were
captured early this morning.
They were identified as Guy
Lewis Jordan, 20, of 615 East
Chappell street and John Ed
ward Redding, 19, of 507 East
Chappell street.
The third escapee, Royce
Lovette of South Ninth street,
still was at large today.
Lawmen captured the two
this morning about 1:43 in the
Chappell street area. They were
being held in city jail on charges
of burglary, auto theft and
escape.
The three escapees were
being held in the county jail on
theft and burglary charges.
They sawed three bars of
their cell with hacksaw blades
smuggled in apparently by a
visitor, according to Sheriff
Dwayne Gilbert.
Sheriff Gilbert figures the
three waited for the way to
clear and fled through an open
downstairs door when the
number of guards at the jail is
at a minimum yesterday
morning.
Would-be
hijacker
disarmed
BRADENTON, Fla. (UPI) —
A young man, armed with a
shotgun and holding an elderly
couple as hostages, tried to
hijack a National Airlines plane
early today but was disarmed
by an airline worker and later
captured by sheriff’s deputies.
The three-engine Boeing 727
jet which the man tried to
commandeer was empty of
passengers and crew at the
time of the incident, an airline
spokesman said, and no one
was involved except the would
be hijacker, National station
agent Edwin Bemiard, 27, and
the couple.
The Amanatee County she
riff’s office said it had a
suspect in custody, but would
not immediately identify him or
release details of how he was
captured.
The National spokesman,
basing his information on the
statement Bemiard gave inves
tigators following the 2:30 a. m.
EDT incident, said Bemiard
had just finished putting the jet
in order for its 7:10 a. m.
scheduled flight.
Dundee firemen
put out blaze
Dundee Volunteer fire
fighters put out a house fire in
Orchard Hill last night.
Damaged was limited to an
area beneath the house.
Fire broke out at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Louvin Freeman
on the Liberty Hill road.
The blaze was believed to
have started from a butane gas
leak.
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WASHINGTON — President Nixon’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler peers through a hole in
his transparent umbrella as he prepares to board a car in the presidential motorcade going
to Ft. McNair to attend a veterans day parade. (UPI)
Kent State grand jury
indicts eight guardsmen
CLEVELAND (UPI) - Al
most four years after four Kent
State University students were
gunned down while protesting
the American invasion of
Cambodia, a panel of citizens
wants eight present and former
Ohio National Guard troops to
answer in court why they
pulled the trigger.
Indictments against the eight
were brought by a 23-member
federal grand jury Friday.
A presidential commission
headed by former Pennsylvania
Gov. William Scranton looked
into the killings shortly after
they occurred May 4, 1970. So
did a state grand jury. The
grand jury’s findings did not
satisfy families of the slain
students, and others, that
justice had been served.
The new investigation was
ordered last year by Elliot
Richardson, then the U.S.
attorney general.
The students who died of
bullets fired by the Guard
troops sent to quell the anti-war
protest were William Schro
eder, 19, Lorain, Ohio; Allison
Krause, 19, Pittsburgh; Jeffrey
Miller, 20, Plainview, N.Y., and
Sandra Scheuer, 20, Young
stown, Ohio.
After spending all week
reviewing 6,800 pages of tran
script taken in questioning 173
witnesses in 39 days of sessions
since last Dec. 18, the federal
jury indicted the guardsmen on
charges of violating the civil
rights of the students on May 4,
1970.
Indicted were former guards-
Redondo Beach Little League,
according to an announcement
Thursday by the club’s publici
ty director—their father Stan
ley.
Mory’s board of governors
voted Friday to change its
bylaws to admit “women
members of the Yale com
munity” to the bare wooden
tables in the two-story white
house on York Street in New
Haven.
The 100-year old tavern
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men Lawrence A. Shafer, 28,
Ravenna, Ohio; James D.
McGee, 27, Ravenna, Ohio;
William E. Perkins, 28, Canton,
Ohio; James E. Pierce, 29,
Amelia Island, Fla.; Ralph W.
Zoller, 27, Mantua, Ohio; Barry
W. Morris, 29, Kent, Ohio, and
Leon h. smith, 27, Bay City,
Ohio.
The present guard member
indicted was Mathew J. McMa
nus, 28, West Salem, Ohio. All
eight were enlisted men.
Date of arraignment for the
eight was not immediately set.
J. Stanley Pottinger, who
headed the U.S. Justice Depart
ment team here, emphasized
that Friday’s actions were
“indictments, not convictions.”
“It is only probable cause to
believe a crime has been
committed,” he said.
Bike race
tomorrow
Chief Noc-A-Homer of the
Atlanta Braves will be on hand
for the leukemia fund raising
bike race tomorrow afternoon
at city park.
The Griffin Police Depart
ment set up the seven-tenths of
a mile course and will limit
parking at the park from 1 p.m.
until the race is finished.
Bob Thomas, chairman of the
immortalized by the Whiffen
poof Song had lost its liquor
license three weeks ago to the
state liquor control commission
which agreed with advocates of
women’s rights that it was
guilty of sex discrimination.
Kathryn Emmett, a lawyer
for the group, said of the
decision: “It helps to continue
the tradition of Mory’s and
bring it into the realities of
today.”
It was expected Mory’s liquor
license would be restored
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“Man’s only real success is
that there’s always something
better still ahead.”
Frederick Coleman, U.S. at
torney for the northern district
of Ohio, said the jury had been
“very thorough in its considera
tion and certainly served its
country in this investigation.”
The special state grand jury
that previously investigated the
shootings indicted 25 students
and professors—and exonerated
guardsmen. A federal judge
later ordered the report de
stroyed, saying the state grand
jury had overstepped its
bounds.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
75, low today 54, high yesterday
78, low yesterday 59, high
tomorrow in mid 70’s, low
tonight in upper 40’s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:37, sunset
tomorrow 7:52.
fund raising, said sponsors will
pay $25 each for youngsters
riding in the bike race.
Judges for the race will be
City Commissioners Louis
Goldstein, R. L. Norsworthy
and Raymond Head.
Riders from 12 to 18 years of
age are eligible. There will be
two age divisions.
quickly, probably next week.
Mory’s first opened in 1861.
The first manager was
named “Moriarity,” from
which the name Mory’s was
taken.
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It was popularized in the 1909
song hit, “The Whiffenpoof
Song,” which begins: “to the
tables down at Mory’s, to the
place where Louis dwells,” a
reference to Louis Linder,
, another manager.