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READING, Pa. — Four-year-old Jeff Wolf, a 1974 Poster
Citizen for the Berks County Pa.-Chapter for Retarded
Citizens, did his bit to help raise money for the local
chapter in the third annual Bike-A-Thon. (UPI)
Kissinger says
Cuba ties out
ATLANTA (UPI) — Foreign
ministers from 22 Latin Ameri
can countries settle down to
business today following a
dramatic weekend with Secre
tary of State Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger’s visit for the an
nual General Assembly of the
Organization of American States
(OAS) ended Sunday with his
assertion that the OAS had no
intention of restoring diplomatic
relations with the suspended
communist regime of Fidel Cas
tro.
Before leaving for Washing
ton, Kissinger answered a news
man’s question about Cuba, say
ing “we don’t have any inten
tion of restoring diplomatic re
lations with Cuba, and I don’t
expect this will be a big subject
this week.”
In today’s session of the 11-
day General Assembly, the
Mexican and Venezuelan foreign
ministers will address the group,
which then will settle down to
committee meetings on political,
Health care measure outlook never better
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Hearings will begin on Capitol
Hill Wednesday on an issue
affecting the well-being and the
pocketbooks of all Americans—
how to finance the nation’s
health care.
There is a complex array of
proposals, but there are signs
that chances for passage of
ground-breaking legislation
never have been better.
For the 25 million persons
without any insurance at all
and for millions of insured
persons whose coverage is
woefully inadequate, the stakes
are high. These and other
shortcomings of the present
$94.1 billion a year health care
financing system are acknowl-
social and other mutual con
cerns. They are expected to en
dorse Argentina’s call for lifting
the sanctions against Cuba.
Many of the foreign ministers
are scheduled to leave Atlanta
by the middle of the week. Af
ter that, the OAS conference
will begin tackling the organiza
tion’s routine administrative af
fairs.
Kissinger set the tone of the
OAS conference at opening ses
sions during the weekend. He
urged greater global under
standing, a less formal OAS
structure and closer ties, but
“not a common front against
others.”
He told the foreign delegates
President Nixon was trying to
raise U. S. assistance to food
production programs in the
Americas by 50 per cent. And
in reference to the controversy
over some U. S. businesses in
Latin America, he pledged hemi
spheric harmony would take
precedence over commercial in
tersts.
edged so widely that, whatever
their differences, the twenty or
so bills now before Congress all
call for some change.
Even the health insurance
industry, whose role in a new
system will be a major issue at
the hearings, supports legisla
tion setting federal standards
for a minimum level of
insurance benefits.
“We feel that the (health
insurance) business has demon
strated the capacity for full
partnership with government in
a national health insurance
program,” Leslie P. Hemry,
president of the Health Insur
ance Association of America,
said in an April 5 letter to each
member of Congress.
GRIFFIN
DAI NEWS
Vol. 102 No. 96
Gas leak suspected
in N.Y. explosion
NEW YORK (UPI) - An
explosion and fire, apparently
caused by accumulated gas,
today ripped through a com
mercial building and heavily
damaged an adjacent apart
ment building just one block
from the United Nations.
At least 40 persons received
Vandals
throwing
at autos
Police are looking for vandals
who were throwing rocks and
bricks at cars traveling down
South Ninth street during the
weekend. They also in
vestigated a number of other
acts of vandalism and thefts.
There were four reports of
cars damaged by bricks and
rocks.
Last night around 10:50 p.m.,
Mike Hilly of Route One,
Williamson, was driving north
on South Ninth and someone
tossed a brick through his wind
shield.
Yesterday afternoon Charles
Edward Coe, 1025 Meriwether
street, complained that a brick
was thrown through his wind
shield.
Saturday night, within 10
minutes of each other, two cars
were damaged by flying rocks.
Addison Lester of 195 Stone
wall avenue, Fayetteville, told
officers he was going south on
South Ninth when a brick hit
and damaged the vinyl top of his
auto. He estimated the damage
at $l5O.
Ten minutes later, Terry
Graham of Route Seven,
reported he was driving north
on South Ninth when a rock
shattered his windshield.
Vandals damaged the left
door of an International truck
parked at the Mortell Co. on
Industrial drive over the week
end. Damage to the truck was
set at $350.
Eleven hubcaps, valued at
S3OO, were stolen from three
cars parked at Southern
Chrysler-Plymouth on West
Taylor street. Police said the
hubcaps were taken from a 1971
Vega, 1971 Ford, and 1974 Ply
mouth.
Burglars broke three win
dows at Batton and Jackson to
get into the building. Ten
dollars was taken from the cash
register in the office.
Mrs. Annie Jackson of 120
Coleman street, Milner, told
police she parked her car on the
Broad street lot and while she
was gone, someone stole a pair
of white shoes, a white dress,
both valued at under S2O, and a
tan metal box which contained
some change.
A child’s bicycle was stolen
from the home of Maudell
Knight, 611 East Solomon
street. It was worth $75, she
said.
Administration Leads Off
The Nixon administration,
eager to accomplish something
in the domestic legislation area,
will present the leadoff testimo
ny Wednesday before the House
Ways and Means Committee.
A tentative schedule calls for
testimony Thursday on a bill
sponsored by Sens. Russell B.
Long, D-La., and Abraham A.
Ribicoff, D-Conn., and from
major medical and hospital
groups.
The battle to shape a bill will
center around the administra
tion’s Comprehensive Health
Insurance Plan (CHIP), sub
stantially increased in its
extent of coverage from a 1971
proposal, and a compromise
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, April 22, 1974
injuries, most of them minor.
Most of the injured came
from the Envoy Towers, a
residential building adjoining
the structure where the blast
occurred, and they suffered
cuts from flying glass. The 250
families in the building were
ordered evacuated.
The injured were taken to
five area hospitals. One suf
fered serious burns, a Bellevue
Hospital spokesman said.
The blast shortly before 7
a.m. EDT severely damaged
the two buildings and blew out
windows in the east midtown
area between Second and First
avenues from 42nd Street north
to 50th Street.
One of the buildings, a 22-
story block-long office building
at 305 E. 45th St., suffered the
most damage. Almost the
entire ground floor on the north
side was blown out.
There were no immediate
reports of damage to the huge
United Nations complex, which
is located east of Second
Avenue along the East River
and runs from 42nd Street to
48th Street.
Two and one half hours after
the blast, firemen still were
battling a stubborn fire which
they contained to the ground
floor of the commercial buil
ding.
Firemen with heavy axes
climbed to upper floors of the
18-story apartment building to
break through buckled doors to
reach occupants believed
trapped inside.
At the time of the blast
shortly before 7 a.m. EDT, at
least two custodial employes
were in the 25-story commer
cial building.
Sal Desposito, a porter, told
reporters:
“I was sitting down in the
back (on the first floor) and the
whole thing went up. Nothing
hit me and I ran out.”
John Moglia, another building
employe, was standing over the
basement where he believes the
explosion took place.
“The whole floor came up,”
he said. “I was thrown about 30
feet. I lost my glasses and my
cap but I wasn’t hit by any
flying objects.
“I couldn’t see anything or
hear anything for what seemed
like about ten minutes. I groped
my way out but on my own
power not with the help of
firemen.”
The cause of the early
morning blast was not immedi
ately determined, but fire
officials said they suspected a
gas leak.
“It must have been leaking
for a long time,” one fire
offficer said.
The explosion apparently
centered in the basement and
blew out much of the struc
ture’s brickwork.
It also blew out every window
in the building, and shattered
others over a wide area.
bill submitted April 2 by
Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, El-
Ark., of the Ways and Means
Committee and Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy, D-Mass., who chairs
a Senate health subcommittee.
Kennedy earlier had pushed a
far more extensive so called
“health security” plan, and
organized labor supported it.
But he decided it stood no
chance of passage and has
abandoned it for the time being
in favor of the compromise
with Mills.
“We are willing and eager to
testify on our proposal...,”
Health, Education and Welfare
Secretary Caspar W. Weinberg
er said. “As a significant move
toward the administration
Building boosts
electricity here
Griffin’s current building
spurt will increase the use of
electricity in cold weather
months by as much as five
percent, according to the Light
& Water Department.
Eleven of 17 new commercial
businesses which have opened
or are under construction will
heat with electricity.
These include: Day’s Inn on
the North Expressway, new
Social Security on West Poplar;
Commercial Bank & Trust Co.
branch, Piggly Wiggly, Rose’s,
Elliott’s Drugs, all in Spalding
Square shopping center; K-
Mart and Big Star food stores on
West Taylor near the By-Pass
intersection; Southern Bell’s
new building on Memorial
drive; Eckerd’s in Northgate
shopping center (it’ll have gas
back-up heating), and Sam’s
Liquor Store on North Hill.
The Light and Water Depart
ment believes other commer
cial concerns will follow in
going with total electric
Mother
of year
sought
The Griffin Area Jaycees are
seeking nominations for the 1974
Mother of the Year in the
Griffin-Spalding County area.
The award will be presented in
conjunction with Mothers Day,
May 12. The recipient will be
honored by the Griffin Jaycees
at their monthly meeting in
May.
Any mother who is a resident
of Spalding County may be
nominated. Nominations must
be in the form of a letter written
by an individual in 500 words or
less, describing why the person
nominated should be selected.
The person being nominated
does not have to be the mother
of the person making the
nomination. All letters must be
signed by the person making the
nomination and must include
the address and the phone
number of the nominee.
The deadline for submitting
nominations is 5 p.m., Thurs
day, May 8. All entries should
be addressed to Mother of the
Year Contest, 585 South Hill
street, Griffin, Ga.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
78, low today 58, high yesterday
74, low yesterday 50, high
tomorrow in lower 70’s, low
tonight in lower 50’s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:05, sunset
tomorrow 8:08.
proposal, the Kennedy-Mills
health insurance bill is a
welcome development...an en
couraging step forward.”
The administration and
Kennedy-Mills plans each would
cost the taxpayers at least an
additional $6 billion a year.
Each would represent an
annual cost of about S4O billion,
most of it from the federal
government, some from the
states and some from the
private insurance sector.
Many Elements Similar
Many elements of the two
plans are similar. Each seeks
to make some form of health
insurance available to every-
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heating.
Charlie Smith, director of the
department, said the demand
for electricity continues to be
high during summer months
because of air conditioning.
He said this demand slacks
off during the cold weather
months. He said the new
commercial concerns should
push power consumption up five
percent or more.
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ARCADIA, Neb. —Townspeople in Arcadia, Neb., were sifting through debris near what is
left of their home after a tornado cut a block-wide swath through the north central Nebraska
farm community. “The morale is terrific for what we’ve gone through,” said mayor Ed
Dalby. “We’re hauling trash out of here like made.” No one was injured in the twister.
(UPI)
Man, 52, injured
(
in hit-and-run here
A Spalding County resident
was injured yesterday when he
was struck by a hit and run
vehicle.
Troopers at the Griffin State
Patrol Post said John Loyd
McCord, 52, of Route One, Box
478, suffered shoulder and facial
injuries and was carried to the
local hospital emergency room.
He was walking west on the
West Mclntosh road, near the
Vaughn road intersection, when
an unknown vehicle struck him
from the rear, they said. It did
not stop.
There were no witnesses and
no description of the hit and run
vehicle, troopers said.
A Zebulon woman, identified
as Ruby Prather Crisp, 32, of
Route One, Zebulon, suffered
neck and shoulder injuries in a
two car collision on the Griffin
By-Pass at the Zebulon road
intersection.
She was carried to the Griffin-
He said energy delivery has
two main concerns now.
They are the energy itself and
the capacity to deliver it.
Smith said the cold-weather
use increase will help to give
some balance to the city’s
electricity distribution
program.
Despite inflation, electricity
continues to be low cost, Smith
points out.
Spalding Hospital for treat
ment.
Thomas Moore Patrick, 22, of
Gainesville, was the other
driver. He escaped injury.
Damage to both cars was
heavy.
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“I’ve seen parents slap
children for crying — I wonder
if they think slapped children
are happier children.”
one. Each would protect against
the catastrophic cost of major
illnesses. Under the Kennedy-
Mills plan, no family would pay
more than SI,OOO in medical
bills in one year; under the
administration plan, no more
than $1,500.
But important differences
exist. Insurance coverage
would be compulsory for
individuals under the Kennedy-
Mills bill. Although employers
would have to offer health
insurance under the administra
tion plan, individual participa
tion would be optional.
Private insurance companies
would collect the premiums and
Inside Tip
Hearst
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He cited as an example that
the city received payment
recently of a bill it sent out 22
years ago. It was for 69 kwh and
the cost was $3.67. The 1973 rate
would have figured the bill to be
$3.57 for 69 kwh, which would be
a decrease, Smith observed. He
said under rates as of Jan. 1,
1974, the cost would be $4.08.
This represents an increase of
11 percent, Smith noted.
Students
are down
on GOP
PRINCETON, N.J. (UPI) -
A survey by the Gallup Poll
released Sunday shows student
allegiance to the Republican
party is at its lowest point in
almost 10 years.
Os 1,089 fulltime students
interviewed on 60 college
campuses, only one in seven
said he was a Republican.
Thirty-seven per cent of the
students claimed Democratic
affiliation and were outnum
bered by the 49 per cent who
referred to themselves as
independents.
The survey showed GOP
party affiliation among the
students was in agreement with
the nation’s voters as a whole.
Only 24 per cent of the adults
questioned in the most recent
Gallup Poll allied themselves
with the Republican party.
administer the administration
plan. They would have a more
restrictive role under the
Kennedy-Mills plan, which
would be administered through
the Social Security system.
Payroll taxes would be in
creased with the Kennedy-Mills
approach.
One complication is the fact
that all remaining wage-price
controls expire April 30 unless
Congress extends some of
them, which is unlikely. The
administration wants controls
extended in the health industry.
Otherwise, it fears, costs will
increase so much that its health
insurance proposal could be
unworkable.