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Will Griffin mushroom?
Japanese firm eyes
plant space here
A Japanese holding company
with diversified firms continues
to be interested in locating a
mushroom plant in the Griffin
area.
The Chamber of Commerce
here is campaigning actively
for it.
Company representatives in a
meeting in Atlanta yesterday
said they wanted five acres of
land for the project, possibly in
the Griffin area.
The Griffin Daily News last
week reported Griffin City
Commissioners expressed some
concern about the firm’s getting
Nixon pays
part of taxes
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Nixon has paid most
of his half million dollar tax
bill, an administration official
said today.
Prayer rally
for nation
is tonight
A prayer rally for the nation
will be held tonight at the New
Salem Baptist Church begin
ning at 7:30.
The rally was planned in
connection with the national
day of humiliation, fasting and
prayer being held today
throughout the nation.
The day was set aside by
congressional resolution.
The church is in the Vaughn
community.
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KINGSTON SPRINGS, Tenn. — When Sam Ament began
collecting “junk” some 50 years ago, he carried off “two
fortunes before I learned the value of things.” Literally
Nixon, releases transcripts. See page 7.
five acres of industrial park
land for an operation that would
employ so few people.
The commissioners discussed
the firm’s overtures toward
Griffin.
Russ Spangler, executive vice
president of the Griffin
Chamber of Commerce, said
the Japanese firm was in
terested in an initial mushroom
plant of 5,000 square feet that
would employ about 10 people.
He said the initial investment in
the plant would be about
$300,000. Payroll estimates to its
employes have not been in-
The official declined to
specify precisely how much of
the $467,000 owed by Nixon in
back taxes and interest had
been in his first installment to
the Internal Revenue Service,
but said “most of it" was paid.
The IRS ruled that the
President had underpaid taxes
for his White House years
between 1969 and 1972.
Presidential aides said Nixon
would have to borrow money to
meet the debt, but has returned
thousands of dollars in contri
butions from sympathetic
Americans who have read
about his tax plight.
Nixon won a two-month
delay, until June 15, to pay his
1973 income taxes after the IRS
ruling. A White House state
ment said “any errors” in
Nixon’s back taxes were the
responsibility of those who
prepared them for the Presi
dent.
The President’s tax returns
over the past several years
have been prepared by Frank
De Marco and accountant
Arthur Blech, both of the Los
Angeles area.
GRIFFIN
Vol. 102 No. 103
dicated.
Spangler represented the
Chamber at the meeting in
Atlanta yesterday. President
Tetsuo Fukaishi of Japan’s
Fukaishi Group, Inc., an
nounced it was making a
$900,000 gift to Oglethorpe
College for Oriental studies. He
also announced a SIOO,OOO
contribution to the Atlanta
office of the Institute of Interna
tional Education.
Gov. Jimmy Carter was
among the state leaders on hand
for the meeting.
Two representatives of the
Girl injured
in accident
at school
Barbara Mullen, 10, is in the
intensive care section of
Egleston Hospital in Atlanta.
She suffered a head injury
yesterday at Atkinson Elemen
tary School while playing soft
ball.
School officials notified her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Mullen of 1336 North Ninth
street, after the accident. They
took their daughter to the
hospital at Ft. McPherson in
East Point. After a preliminary
check there, the little girl was
transferred to Egleston.
Mrs. Mullen said today her
daughter was expected to need
brain surgery, possibly next
week.
The parents took their
daughter to Ft. McPherson
hospital because her medical
records are there. Her father
was a career Army man and
was assigned from there.
He is on the staff of the ROTC
Department at Griffin High.
The Mullen family has lived
in Griffin about 10 years.
They have a son who is a
student at Atkinson also.
Junk or treasure?
thousands of very old pieces of junk line the walls of
his weather-worn garage but among these are several rare
items including a 17th Century “grease lamp.” (UPI)
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, April 30, 1974
Japanese company were in
Griffin last week to meet with
some of the community’s
leaders.
They were guests at a
gathering of about 25 people at
the Griffin Country Club.
Among those attending were
representatives of Griffin’s
three banks, three city com
missioners and other business
people.
President Fukaishi may
make a personal visit to Griffin
as part of firm’s interest in the
mushroom plant here, ac-
City asks traffic
survey at center
The city commissioners will
ask that the State Highway
Department make a study of
traffic on the Zebulon road area
around Spalding Square
Shopping Center.
During their administrative
session this morning, the com
missioners decided to request
the study with the prospects of
installing a traffic light at
Spalding Square and also of
widening the Zebulon road in
that area.
They also agreed, pending the
approval of all affected mer
chants, to change the hour
parking meters to 24 or 30-
minute meters in the 200 block
of South Sixth street.
The request was made by
Billy Reeves of Reeves
Cleaners and Walter Murphy,
director of Hawkes Library.
The Griffin Engineering Co.
has invited City Manager Roy
Inman and Harry Simmons,
water works superintendent, to
fly to Washington, D.C. next
Tuesday to assist them in
lobbying on legislation con
cerning water and sewer in-
cording to Spangler.
Spangler said he thought the
Chamber would be at least 99
percent in favor of supporting
the firm’s location here.
The Japanese mushroom to
be grown is known as the
Enokidake. It can be mass
produced year-round in air
conditioned rooms in a com
bination of sawdust, rice hulls
and water.
Spangler said the firm’s loca
tion here would not bring any
pollution problems or unusual
demands on sewerage facilities.
stallations.
Representatives from the
Griffin firm, along with other
engineering companies and city
officials also will make the one
day trip.
After their short administra
tive session, the commissioners
continued in a closed meeting to
discuss personnel matters, they
said.
Speeding
cases high
in state
ATLANTA (UPI)-The State
Patrol said today that speeding
arrests on the highways this
month are running 2,000 above
March, a possible indication
that motorists are flocking to
the highways in great numbers
now that the fuel problem has
eased.
The patrol said most of the
arrests were for exceeding the
55-mile-an-hour speed limit. A
spokesman said arrests for that
and similar hazardous traffic vi
olations this past weekend
“jumped dramatically.”
So far this year, traffic ar
rests on the highways—which do
not include those made by city
and county authorities — have
been running about 20 per cent
ahead of last year.
However, traffic deaths are
still well below last year with
444 reported so far in 1974
against 579 for the first four
months of last year.
Whaley
won’t
run
Claude Whaley announced
today that he will not run for the
State Senate.
The Clayton County and
Henry County businessman had
been considering the race for
the post being vacated by Bob
Smalley of Griffin who did not
choose to seek reelection.
Whaley ran unsuccessfully
against Smalley two years ago
but made a strong showing.
Virginia (Mrs. Bobby)
Shapard of Griffin has an
nounced that she is a candidate
for the Democratic nomination
for the Senate seat. No one else
has made an announcement,
but a Griffin businessman has
been talking with friends about
it.
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Dog returns home
SACRAMENTO — Mrs. Giovanna Ashley has given up trying to give away her dog, Lucky.
About four months ago she gave the 5-year-old German Shepherd-Collie mix to a friend 30-
miles away and he walked home. Last week she gave the dog to her stepdaughter 60-miles
away and Lucky walked home. Mrs. Ashley, who gave the dog up because she couldn’t
afford a license, says she’ll just have to get that license now. “I’ll make room for him this
time.” (UPI)
White House launches
full attack on Dean
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
White House said today that
“not once does it appear” in
transcripts of Watergate con
versations that President Nixon
was engaged in a criminal plot
to obstruct justice.
In issuing a 50-page summary
“white paper,” the White House
launched a full-fledged attack
on John W. Dean 111, fired one
year ago today as presidential
counsel. Much of the document
dealt with Nixon’s Sept. 15,
1972, and March 21, 1973,
conversations with Dean, who
later became the President’s
chief accuser.
The summary was presented
to substantiate Nixon’s asser
tion Monday night that his
release of 1,200 pages of the
transcripts would clear him of
any involvement in Watergate
and would “tell it all.”
In reference to the Sept. 15
conversation, the day the
original seven Watergate indict
ments were handed down, the
summary says that Nixon told
Martha decides
to sue John
NEW YORK (UPI) - Martha
Mitchell has decided to sue her
estranged husband, former
Attorney General John Mitchell
for separate maintenance, at
torney Melvin Belli said Mon
day.
“We don’t know what he
(Mitchell) has so we are asking
for reasonable temporary sup
port, legal fees and division of
property and assets wherever
located,” the San Francisco
attorney said.
Mrs. Mitchell returned to
New York Monday night from
Phoenix, Ariz., and would move
back into her Fifth Avenue
condominium today after a two
week absence, Belli said.
The Mitchell’s separated late
September and Mitchell moved
into the fashionable Essex
House, where a Belli associate
sought Monday night and early
today to serve Mitchell with a
Dean:
“But the way you have
handled all this seems to me
has been very skillful, putting
your finger in the leaks that
have sprung here and have
sprung there.”
The white paper said Nixon
made the statement “in the
context not of a criminal plot to
obstruct justice as Dean al
leges, but rather in the context
of the politics of the matter.”
Dean testified at the Senate
Watergate hearings last sum
mer Nixon in that conversation
had congratulated him for
containing the investigation of
the Watergate break-in.
In reference to Nixon’s
conversation with Dean on
March 21—the date the Presi
dent said he first learned of the
scope of the cover-up—the
white paper said the President
asked Dean: “Tell me this: Did
Mitchell go along?
“Did Colson (former White
House special counsel Charles
W. Colson) know what they
civil summons to respond to his
wife’s suit.
Belli blamed the break up of
the marriage on President
Nixon. “I think the principle
party in the whole break up
was the White House,” he said.
“This was a good marriage
and a long one, and she is a
very good, substantial girl and
if there is a villain in this piece
it is you know who.”
The talkative Mrs. Mitchell
was not available for comment
immediately.
The Mitchells, who married
in 1957, met while she was
working in Mitchell’s New York
law office. It was the second
marriage for both.
Mitchell was acquitted Sun
day of federal charges of
perjury, conspiracy and ob
struction of justice.
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(Watergate conspirators G.
Gordon Liddy and E. Howard
Hunt) were talking about?”
“Did he (Colson) talk with
Haldeman?
“Did he (Haldeman) know
where it (the information) was
coming from?”
The summary did not say
how Dean answered the ques
tions, which it said were among
more than 150 Nixon asked of
Dean at the meeting.
In the conclusion of the
summary, the White House
said: “Throughout the period of
the Watergate affair the raw
material of these recorded
confidential conversations esta
blishes that the President had
no prior knowledge of the
Watergate break-in and that he
had no knowledge of any cover
up prior to 1973.”
“In all of the thousands of
words spoken, even if they are
not clear and ambiguous, not
once does it appear that the
President of the United States
was involved in a criminal plot
to obstruct justice.”
Dean testified last summer
that he warned Nixon at that
meeting of a “cancer growing
on the presidency” because of
Watergate.
The White House summary
conceded the transcript “con
tains ambiguities and state
ments which, taken out of
context, could be construed to
have a variety of meanings.”
“While boys dream of what
they’ll do as men — men are
dreaming of what they’d do if
they were boys.”