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Carter says Northcutt wrong
ATLANTA (UPI)- A spokes
man for Gov. Jimmy Carter
says Democratic State Rep.
Lamar Northcutt was wrong in
referring to Cuba’s flag as
“communist” and warning he
might strike it in Atlanta next
week.
Northcutt, a candidate for
lieutenant governor, said in a
capitolnews conference Tuesday
he didn’t like the idea of the
Cuban flag flying “under this
gold dome” in conjunction with
an Organization of American
States (OAS) General Assembly
meeting next week.
“I may attempt to tear it
down,” said Northcutt.
“There is no place in this
great capitol for the communist
flag,” he added. “If we got
Upson okays board change
THOMASTON, Ga. (UPI) -
Rural Upson County voters have
approved a referendum making
seats on the board of education
elective offices and increasing
the size of the board.
The referendum was approved
594 - 111 Tuesday.
The board will be increased
Kidd raps bike tape veto
ATLANTA (UPI) —State Sen.
Culver Kidd says Gov. Jimmy
Carter should have been more
worried about human lives than
any effects on business before
he vetoed a bill requiring reflec
tor tape on bicycle tires.
Carter vetoed the legislation
earlier, arguing only one com
pany, 3M, produces the reflec
tor tape and would have a mo
nopoly.
“My worry is how may
State has fighting chance
ATLANTA (UPl)—The State
Energy Office says Georgia now
has “a fighting chance” to es
cape gasoline shortages in April
because of an additional alloca
tion of 8.2 million gallons.
Michael E. McGuinn, SEO di
rector, said Tuesday the total
supply now available is “an ac
ceptable, but tight” 230.4 million
gallons.
The latest release by the Fed
eral Energy Office brings Geor
gia’s total for April to 4.2 mil
lion gallons more than it re
ceived in March.
The new allocation “gives us
Suspect held in Tampa
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPI) - A
suspect in the murder of a
North Augusta, S. C„ youth last
Feb. 27 has been arrested in
Tampa, Fla., Marietta police
said today.
Michael W. Ford, 19, was ar
rested by the FBI Tuesday on
warrants charging him with the
murder of Douglas Moulton, 19,
whose body was found in an At
lanta alley.
Police Capt. Bill Elliott said
two other persons, John Jacobs,
a casually attired
William Simon, head of the Federal Energy Office,
stokes the fire in his Washington, D.C. office before
warming his feet.
communism in this state capi
tol, I don’t care whom I’m in
timidating.”
Cuba is not an active mem
ber of the OAS because its gov
ernment is not recognized by
the group.
Jody Powell, press secretary
for Gov. Jimmy Carter, said
Northcutt “doesn’t understand
what he’s talking about.”
“The flag that will be flying
doesn’t represent the govern
ment of Fidel Castro, which has
been expelled from the OAS,”
said Powell.
“That flag is the historic flag
of the Cuban nation and the
same flag that is used and ad
hered to by anti - Castro, anti
communist Cubans both within
Cuba and throughout the world,”
Powell said.
from five to seven members.
Board members, now appointed
by the Upson County grand
jury, will run for four - year
terms this summer to take ef
fect next January.
The City of Thomaston has
an independent school system
and its own school board.
lives might be saved, ’ ’ said Kidd,
Democrat from Milledgeville.
Kidd said he knows of at least
two other companies that would
produce the tape, but did not
identify them.
The bill required special side
view reflectorized tape on bi
cycle tires and pedals by July 1,
1975.
Kidd said the legislation may
be revived in the 1975 General
Assembly session.
a fighting chance to avoid se
vere statewide shortages," Mc-
Guinn said. He added, however,
“Georgia is not out of the woods
by any means,” and said gaso
line conservation measures must
continue.
“Greater highway travel
during the Easter vacations and
agriculture planting
requirements could offset the
increased allocation,” he said.
McGuinn reminded Georgia
motorists that many service sta
tions had to close during the
last weeks of February and
March because they were out of
gas.
32, and his wife, Christine, 25,
were also being sought.
Elliott said Moulton had lived
with the Jacobs couple and
Ford often spent the night in the
same apartment here. Evidence
at the time of the shooting indi
cated Moulton was shot in the
apartment and his body carried
to the alley.
Ford is expected to be re
turned to Marietta immediately
if he waives extradition in Tam
pa.
Venue change argued
ATLANTA (UPl)—Federal at
torneys said Tuesday they felt
the couple charged with abduct
ing Atlanta Constitution editor
Reg Murphy could receive a
fair trial here in asking that a
request for a change of venue
be denied.
U. S. Atty. John W. Stokes Jr.
and Asst. U. S. Atty. William
P. Gaffney said news reports of
the kidnaping and the arrest of
William A. H. Williams and his
wife Betty Ruth had been
“largely accurate, objective and
unemotional.”
Their statement was made in
response to the plea by attor
neys for the Williamses that a
fair trial was not possible here
because potential jurors had
been influenced by news ac
counts.
“The publicity in this case
has not resulted in prejudice
and bias against the defendants
throughouttheNorthem District
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The decision to build was announced in
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of Georgia that would reasona
bly jeopardize their rights to a
fair and impartial trial,” the
government attorneys said.
They said that “if anything
the media engendered sympathy
for defendant Betty Ruth Wil
liams.”
The Williams couple, charged
with extorting $700,000 ransom
in the abduction, had been
scheduled to face trial April 22
but it was postponed. A new
date has not been set.
The government also denied
that the Williams house was il
legally searched, and that Wil
liams was not advised of his
constitutional rights following
arrest. They said Williams
signed an “unequivocal” waiver
of his rights.
Murphy was kidnaped Feb. 20
and released about 50 hours lat
er upon payment of the ransom.
The Williams couple was arrest
ed a few hours later and the
money recovered.
Thomas gets 20 years
DECATUR, Ga. (UPI)-A De-
Kalb County Superior Court ju
ry sentenced Anderson Thomas
Jr., 28, to 20 years imprison
ment Tuesday for voluntary
manslaughter in the stabbing
death of his wife.
The jury was asked by Assis
tant District Attorney Tom Du
vall to impose the maximum
sentence of 20 years against
Thomas, who was charged with
stabbing his wife, Gwendolyn,
last January in front of a radio
station where she worked.
Two witnesses, also employed
at the station, testified on the
first day of the trial Monday
they saw Thomas and his wife
talking, and that he stabbed her
when she tried to go in to work.
Duvall had sought a murder
conviction, but Thomas’s attor
ney pleaded for leniency, claim
ing Thomas committed the
crime “in the heat of passion.”
“This unfortunate death was
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caused by a violent passion of
a man who loved a woman who
...no longer loved him. ... This
is not murder,” said public de
fender Al Bridges.
Testimony and closing argu
ments in the trial were conclud
ed in less than two hours.
Sleep problem
LONDON (UPI) - Robert
Robinson, anchor man of the
British Broadcasting Corpora
tion’s early morning current
affairs program “Today,” is
quitting because “I am slowly
turning into an insomniac.”
Robinson, 46, who has had to
leave his house at 5 a.m. to
present his early morning show
for the past three years, said
Tuesday: “I go to bed at 9:30
p.m. but I can never sleep
before at least 11:30. Then I
keep waking up to make sure
how much time I have left to
sleep.”
HIGHLIGHTS OF 1973
Life Insurance in Force $2 813.477.363 00
Paid to Policyholders and Beneficiaries 51.862.705 99
Reserve for Protection of Policyholders 248 271 273 32
STATEMENT OF CONDITION
December 31. 1973
ASSETS
Bonds $ 176.891.853 49
Preferred Stock 4.355.335 36
Common Stock 4.276.779 45
Investment in Herald Life Insurance Co 2.646 222 98
Investment in Independent Fire
Insurance Company 5.059.623 75
First Mortgage Loans on Real Estate 114 647.266 24
Real Estate 30,070.393 37
Cash and Bank Deposits 9,126,457.24
Premiums Due and Uncollected 5.246.146 73
Investment Income Due & Accrued 3.851.410 82
Loans to Policyholders 5.379,514 80
Collateral Loans 240,000 00
Other Assets 8.61150
TOTAL ASSETS $ 361.799.61573
LIABILITIES, CAPITAL, AND SURPLUS
Reserve for Life Policies & Contracts $ 240,986,068 60
Reserve for Accident & Health Contracts 6.935,693 50
Supplementary Contract Claims Payable 349.511.22
Policy & Contract Claims Payable 7.652.489 16
Premiums Received in Advance 1.677.062 42
Commissions Due & Accrued 2,204,337 81
General Expenses Due & Accrued 930.385 78
Taxes. Licenses & Fees Due & Accrued 5.275.570.09
Amounts Withheld as Agent or Trustee 82.744.02
Security Valuation Reserve 1.272,601.74
Other Liabilities 3.025.227 65
TOTAL LIABILITIES 270.391.69199
Capital Stock 9.825,704 00
Paid in Surplus 7.026,117.50
Unassigned Surplus 74.556.102 24
TOTAL CAPITAL AND SURPLUS 91.407,923 74
TOTAL LIABILITIES. CAPITAL
AND SURPLUS $ 361.799.615 73
DIRECTORS Jacob I Bryan 111 Cluurmnn
WilfordC I yon Sr Charles A Snead Burton C Bryan Lucy B Gooding
James H Stanley J Alex Howard William A Howard Virginia Y Hendry
G Howard Bryan Richard M Lyon George M Baldwin Wilford C Lyon Jr
Independent Life and Accident Insurance Co.
Home Office 23.3 W Duval Street. Jacksonville. Florida
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 10,1974
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C.,
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on
Constitutional Rights, said American society should “be
willing to forget past indiscretions” and bring unlawful
surveillance of citizens under control. Ervin made the
statement at the opening of two days of hearings on
military surveillance. (UPI)