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The Griffin High ROTC unit held its annual parade at
Memorial Stadium this morning. It was part of the federal
inspection. Army officers were on hand to grade the unit’s
performance and review the entire program. The school’s
unit will be rated on its performance in the parade and
other work. Griffin High always has maintained the top
rating. Major. Gus Pelt is the coordinator.
School bond issue
would cover 30 years
The six million dollar school
bond issue on which Griffin-
Spalding voters will cast ballots
May 21 would be paid off in 30
years.
The notice of bond election
sets the maximum interest at
6.5 percent per year. It would be
payable on the first days of
January and July each year
running through the year 2004.
In calling for the bond vote,
the school board said ballots
would be cast at regular polling
places from 7 a.m. till 7 p.m.
Persons already not
registered to vote may do so by
Saturday and be eligible to cast
bond issue votes. The registrars
office at the courthouse will be
open daily 9-5 to handle
registrations.
Some 16,000 people are
registered already.
The bonds would be in
denominations of $5,000 each,
according to the school board.
They would be paid as fol
lows:
Year Amount
1975 $55,000
1976 60,000
1977 65,000
1978 70,000
1979 75,000
1980 75,000
1981 80,000
1982 85,000
1983 90,000
1984 95,000
1985 100,000
1986 105,000
1987 115,000
1988 120,000
1989 125,000
1990 130,000
1991 135,000
1992 145,000
1993 260,000
1994 275,000
1995 290,000
1996 305,000
1997 325,000
1998 340,000
1999 360,000
2000 380,000
2001 400,000
2002 425,000
2003 445,000
2004 470,000
Lawmen find body
buried near river
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (UPI) -
Otis Reidling Sr. huddled about
a log fire as deputies and FBI
agents brought out the body of a
man Tuesday found buried along
the Mulberry River.
Reidling said he believed the
body was that of his son, Otis
Jr., missing from his home
since last November.
“I hope it ain’t, but I’m
afraid it is,” he said.
Medical authorities identified
the body late Tuesday as Reid
ling’s24-year-old son.. .and depu
ties and agents prepared to
search for more bodies.
The FBI, breaking its silence
on the search that began last
Friday, said the digging is
linked to probes of “a number
of robberies, a number of mur
ders, explosions and arson in
north Georgia.”
Kissinger resumes schedule
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger returned Tuesday
night from his 10-day Mexican
honeymoon to resume the
frantic diplomatic schedule he
has maintained since adding
the cabinet post to his White
House duties last September.
Kissinger will go to New
York late Sunday to make an
important speech Monday
morning at the United Nations
special session on world resour
ces. While there, he is expected
to meet with “several” foreign
ministers attending the confer
ence before returning Monday
night to Washington, Depart
ment spokesman John F. King
said.
Between now and the week
end Kissinger’s schedule in
cludes a number of meetings on
items of critical importance,
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Special Agent Robert Kane of
Athens refused to say how many
bodies are being sought. Uncon
firmed reports, however, have
authorities looking for as many
as 12 persons who disappeared
mysteriously during the past
two years.
Bill Beardsley, director of the
Georgiaßureauof Investigation,
said Tuesday GBI agents also
have been working on unsolved
crimes in the area.
“Our only hope is that they
come up with some solutions to
all those murders,” Beardsley
said.
Beardsley confirmed reports
the FBI had ordered the search
after receiving a tip from a
prisoner. Beardsley said he
knows the informer, but would
not identify him.
including the Middle East
peace efforts and Soviet-
American relations.
Kissinger will meet at mid
day Wednesday with Icelandic
Foreign Minister Einar Agust
sson, who is here discussing his
country’s desire for the with
drawal of all 3,000 U.S. military
personnel from NATO bases in
Iceland.
He then will lunch with a
group composed of members of
the Bundestag of West Ger
many.
Following that, the secretary
will meet in executive session
with members of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee.
The meeting was arrranged at
Kissinger’s initiative. It is
understood he asked for it
because he wanted an oppor
tunity to explain at a closed
hearing what he did and did not
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lives and destroyed about 40 percent of this city last week Nixon made the inspection with
Rep. Clarence J. Brown, R-Ohio, whose district covers Xenia. (UPI)
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accomplish during his recent
Moscow trip and the chances of
overcoming some of the dif
ficulties blocking a strategic
nuclear arms agreement.
Kisssinger meets Thursday
with a Syrian delegation headed
by Brig. Gen. Hikmak Chebabi,
Chief of Syrian Intelligence.
The delegation is here to
discuss the problem of disen
gaging Israeli and Syrian
forces on the Golan Heights
front.
The Syrian delegation, which
is scheduled to arrive in
Washington Wednesday, is not
authorized to enter into any
substantive negotiations, in
formed sources said. Hikmak
and his group will present the
Syrian disengagement proposal
which reportedly requires the
withdrawal of all Israeli forces
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Kissinger will hand him the
Israeli proposal, presented to
the United States two weeks
ago, in which Israel proposes to
pull back from about two-thirds
of the 325 square miles
occupied on the Golan front.
On Thursday, Kissinger also
will meet with President Houari
Boumediene of Algeria. Their
discussion, which will take
place over lunch at the State
Department, is expected to
advance prospects for the
restoration of U.S.-Algerian
relations broken off by the
Algerians at the time of the
June 1967 Middle East war.
Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Gromyko also is expected
in Washington later this week
to continue discussions on
major issues in preparation for
President Nixon’s scheduled
visit to Moscow in late June.
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after .a 10-day honneymoon in Acapulco. (UPI)
Nixon campaigns
in Michigan
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
President Nixon flies to Michi
gan today to support a
Republican congressional candi
date and to test his own
political strength, which has
eroded in the wake of the
Watergate scandals.
Nixon arranged a one-day
motorcade swing through nine
rural conservative communities
in Michigan’s Bth Congressional
District to campaign for James
M. Sparling Jr., a Republican
running against Democrat Rob
ert Traxler in a special election
April 16.
The President was scheduled
to arrive at Tri-City Airport in
Saginaw County at 11 a.m. EDT
and will be met by Gov.
William G. Milliken and Spar
ling.
Nixon’s political foray will
conspicuously avoid the two
major blue collar cities of
Saginaw and Bay City in the 1
Michigan thumb area and will
concentrate instead in small
towns and villages where
farmers have traditionally sup
ported him. ,
The presidential motorcade
will make a brief stop in Bad ]
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Axe and Cass City and will
pass through the villages of
Popple, Ivanhoe, Deford, Wil
mot, Hernans, Decker, Snover,
Elmer and the town of
Sandusky.
The invitation to campaign
was issued by Sparling despite
wariness on the part of other
GOP leaders who question
Nixon’s current political clout.
At the same time, White House
aides view the tour as a
“testing ground” for presiden
tial drawing power.
Egg hunt
tomorrow
The Distributive Education
Club at Griffin High will
sponsor a student Easter egg
hunt at Memorial stadium
tomorrow at noon.
Don Pierce, program coor
dinator, said some 20 prize eggs
would be included in the hunt.
He said the prizes would be
donated by merchants.
All Griffin High students will
be invited to participate.