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> — Griffin Daily News Monday, April 1, 1974
About people
Singer Tom Jones
flubbed with snubbed
By United Press International
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica
(UPI) — Popular Welsh singer
Tom Jones snubbed an official
greeting party on his arrival
here Sunday for a vacation,
raising boos from fans gathered
at Sangster International Air
port.
For unexplained reasons,
Jones’ four bodyguards refused
to let an official government
welcoming committee get near
the singer as he descended
from his plane.
Jones was rushed to a
waiting car and driven to a
private cottage at the Tryall
Hotel, 15 miles west of Montego
Bay, where his wife, Linda ,
has been staying since Thurs
day.
ML* " Peoples
WACO, Tex. (UPI) - Clint
Peoples, senior captain in the
famed Texas Rangers who kept
peace in the old West, retired
Sunday.
Peoples joined the Rangers,
organized a century and a half
ago, in 1946. He had been a
sheriff’s deputy in Conroe,
Tex., and a highway patrolman
before that.
Peoples was one of the band
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of 82 remaining members who
last July celebrated the anni
versary of the founding of the
Rangers.
The actual anniversary was
Aug. 5,150 years from the date
Stephen F. Austin hired 10
frontiersmen at sls a month
each, from his own pocket, to
“range” Texas and to protect
settlers from outlaws and
Indians.
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wLjM Kennedy
BOSTON (UPI) -Teddy Ken
nedy, 12, son of Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy, checked out of
Childrens Hospital Sunday after
the fourth in a series of bone
cancer treatments, then joined
his father in watching the
Boston Bruins defeat Detroit in
hockey.
Doctors said young Kennedy
spent three days in the hospital,
and that treatment of his
amputated right leg continues
satisfactorily.
CINCINNATI (UPI) - Mi
chelle and Angela Wright, the
“twins” born here from com
pletely independent and sepa
rate uteri in one of the rarest
births in history, received a lot
of presents on their first
birthday Sunday, but the “best
gift is their health,” said their
mother.
Lisa Wright remembered how
the girls were born premature
ly and lost one pound after
birth. Michelle weighed 4
pounds, 13 Ms ounces at birth
but now weighs 19 pounds, and
Angela weighed 4 pounds, 3
ounces at birth and now weighs
17 pounds.
newsl
Stoner to make race
ATLANTA (UPI) — Marietta
attorney J. B. Stoner says he
will run for lieutenant governor
and stick with the white suprem
acy campaign that aroused in
tense controversy when he ran
for the U.S. Senate two years
ago.
Stoner, who announced his
candidacy Sunday, was attacked
by whites as well as blacks for
his campaign advertising in 1972.
“I think I took a stand for the
white race and more people
Tallulah fall kills man
CLAYTON, Ga. (UPI)-A 28-
year-old Atlanta man, Samuel
L. Couch, fell to his death while
scaling a cliff at Tallulah Gorge
near here Sunday night.
Rabun County Sheriff Chester
York said Couch slipped from
a rope and plunged 400 feet
while his sister and brother-in
law watched helplessly.
Rpsciip units from Rabun and
Rivers recommended
WASHINGTON (UPI)
—Rogers C.B. Morton, U.S.
secretary of the interior, has
recommended that two rivers
originating in Georgia, the Su
wannee and Withlacoochee, be
added to the National Wild and
Scenic Rivers System.
Waterways in the wild river
system are protected from over
development.
Morton’srecommendation, re
leased Sunday, includes all 265
Four charged in death
ATI ANTA (UPl)—Four Atlan
ta teen-agers have been charged
in connection with the purse
snatching murder of a 94-year
old widow.
Four boys snatched the purse
of Mrs. Maude Baldwin, who
had left her home to go shop
ping in the sunny weather Sun
day. They pushed her roughly
to the sidewalk and she died two
hours later in Grady Hospital.
Her purse contained $25.
Arrested by police were Lin-
Killer escapes jail
BUCHANAN, Ga. (UPI)-A
prisoner sentenced to a life
term for the slaying of a police
man escaped from the Haralson
County jail late Sunday, authori
ties said.
Vernon Cleve McElroy and
another prisoner escaped by
sawing through the bars of a
window in their cell. The other
man, Steve Addison, was appre
hended a short time after the
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agree with me now than be
fore,” he said.
Stoner said he will call for
repeal of “anti-gun laws that
disarm white victims, but not
black criminals,” and for state
tuition grants to parents who
send their children to private
kindergartens and schools.
“The election of J. B. Stoner
would take the fear of black
savages out of white people,” he
said.
Habersham counties removed
the broken body from the gorge
and took it to the Rabun County
Hospital in Clayton where
Couch was pronounced dead.
He fell only a short distance
from the spot where famed
highwire walker Karl Wallenda
made his walk across the gorge
three years ago.
miles of the Suwannee, which
originates just north of the
Okefenokee National Wildlife
Refuge and flows into Florida,
and the lower 12 miles, of the
Withlacoochee in Florida. The
Withlacoochee originates near
Nashville, Ga.
Morton said the rivers would
be state administered, except
for 28 miles of the Suwanee,
part of the Okefenokee wildlife
refuge.
ton Blackwell, Robert Hurst,
Jr., and Willie Lawrence Mur
phy, all 17. A fourth teen-agejr.
is a juvenile and his
name cannot be made public
under Georgia law.
Mrs. Baldwin had lived alone
in a house on Candler Street in
northeast Atlanta since 1940.
She had no children and no liv
ing close relatives but was well
known to other residents of her
neighborhood.
escape but McElroy remained
at large.
McElroy, 24, a native of Hef
lin, Ala., was sentenced to life
imprisonment plus 10 years
Feb. 23 for the murder of Talla
poosa police Lt. William T.
Manning. McElroy was in the
Haralson County jail awaiting a
hearing on a motion for a new
trial.
Summary of the news
A summary of the news from the wires of United Press
International:
Daily pounding resumes
Syrian and Israeli guns and tanks resumed their daily
pounding in the Golan Heights for the 21st straight today.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan reportedly warned
against further escalation.
Three Americans held
ADDIS ABABA — Ethopian guerrillas have begun
negotiations for the release of three American and two
Canadian mineral prospectors captured last week. The
American owned Tenneco company said the guerrillas
contacted officials last night. They said they were hopeful
the hostages could be released soon.
Dayan wants U.S. aid
WASHINGTON — Israeli Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan presented the United States today with an arms
shopping list that includes an urgent request for help in
blunting Arab superiority in anti-aircraft missiles. Dayan
met with Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger this
morning.
N.Y. strike averted
NEW YORK —A new contract settlement has averted a
citywide shutdown of New York bus and subway systems
that serve six million people a day. Agreement on a new
contract was reached two hours before the deadline.
Mariner 10 hunts moonlet
PASADENA, Calif. — Mariner 10 hunted through space
today for a glimpse of “Charlie”, the unknown moon of
Mercury whose possible existance surprised astronomers
Sunday. The cameras of the spacecraft nursing a serious
short circuit, swept the area above sun-baked Mercury as
it retreated from the planet at 25,000 miles per hour,
hoping to confirm the existence of the moonlet.
Veterans panel set up
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — President Nixon has created a
Domestic Council Committee on Veterans Services to
coordinate federal efforts to more fully meet the needs of
veterans. Donald Johnson, administrator of Veterans
Affairs, will head the committee. It will include four
cabinet members to be named.
Chapin trial begins
WASHINGTON — Dwight L. Chapin who once was
President Nixon’s appointments secretary, went on trial
today for perjury. It is the first jury trial arising from the
Watergate scandal. Chapin pleaded innocent to four
counts of lying to the Watergate Grand Jury.
Committed to Vietnam
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger said even though there is no formal treaty, the
United States is committed to providing South Vietnam
whatever it needs for self-defense. Sen. Edward Kennedy
said the policy statement distressed him because it
shatters the hope that “we could finally disengage” from
direct involvement in Vietnam.
Agnew arguments today
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Final arguments to decide former
Vice President Agnew’s future as a practicing lawyer in
Maryland will be heard before a court of appeals
tomorrow. Disbarment was recommended by the state
bar association last month.
Pontoon for bridge
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Construction of a
temporary pontoon bridge at the north end of the James
F. Byrnes Memorial Bridge was to begin today by the
Army Corps of Engineers. It will be a temporary measure
until repairs are completed. The bridge was knocked out
of commission Wednesday night when a barge struck it.
Fomer
Speaker
dead
OCILLA, Ga. (UPl)—Funeral
services will be held here
Wednesday for Arlie D. Tucker,
former speaker of the Georgia
House of Representatives and di
rector emeritus of the state
Board of Workmen’s Compensa
tion.
Tucker, who was 79, died at
his Ormond Beach, Fla., home
Saturday.
Tucker was a native of Ocilla
and served as a state represen
tative from Berrien County from
1925 to 1933. He was a member
of the workmen’s compensation
board from 1945 to 1949 and its
chairman from 1949 to 1953.
Survivors include his widow, a
son and a daughter.
That’s Progress?
Sheep flocks total 15.8
million head today, com
pared with 19 million 15
years ago or 44.9 million just
after the Civil War. Man
made cloth has blanketed
much of the wool industry.
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Teamster strike looms
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Teamsters voted 377-2 to strike
the Kansas City area construction industry Wednesday if
there is no significant progress on a new contract with 10
craft unions.
Thinks his dad agrees
LOGAN, Utah — Vice President Gerald R. Ford’s 22-
year-old son, John, says he has become disillusioned with
President Nixon. “I’m not sure my father disagrees with
me,” he said in an interview published Sunday in the Salt
Lake City Tribune.
Tony Boyle trial opens
MEDIA, Pa. — Special prosecutor Richard A. Sprague
today began trying to trace the killing of a reform
candidate for United Mine Workers president to W. A.
(Tony) Boyle, former UMD president. He is charged with
the 1969 Yablonski murders.
Republicans differ
CHICAGO — Four Republican presidential prospects
seem to agree that the GOP must convince the people that
Watergate was not the party’s fault. But Vice President
Gerald Ford, U. S. Sen. Charles Percy of Illinois,
California Gov. Ronald Reagan and former New York
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller differed on how this could be
done. They spoke during the weekend to some 1,000
attending the Midwest Leadership conference.
Heavy fighting erupts
SAIGON — In some of the heaviest fighting near Saigon
since the Vietnam cease-fire, Communist gunners shelled
a division headquarters 20 miles to the northwest Sunday
and today in an effort to blunt a government counter
attack.
Americans threatened
HERMOSILIO, Mexico — The ransom note found after
the disappearance of U. S. Vice Consul John Patterson 10
days ago threatened that the kidnapers would kill one
American a week if the money was not paid.
Russia sides with North
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union has indirectly supported
the North Vietnamese charged that the United States is
violating the Paris Vietnam cease-fire agreement by
sending new military supplies to South Vietnam.
Off shore drilling okay
WASHINGTON — The Council on Environmental
Quality has given President Nixon a report saying that the
benefits of oil drilling off the Atlantic coast are worth the
environmental risks.
Pickets arrested at Dow
MIDLAND, Mich. — Police arrested between 30 and 50
pickets blocking the main gate to the Dow Chemical Plant
today. Worker resistance strengthened in the strike which
entered its third week.
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