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Political mail list kicks up fuss
' By United Press International
The mailing lists of defeated
gubernatorial candidate Bert
Lance have become an 11th
hour election issue with George
> Busbee charging that Lt. Gov.
| Lester Maddox has “gotten his
hand caught in the cookie jar.”
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Trains collide
MUSTANG, OKLA.—Freight and tank can Be burning outside this central Oklahoma
community Sunday afternoon, after two freight trains collided head on. Burning gas and the
treat of exploding tank can kept firemen from fighting the blaze and caused evacuation of
area residents for a mile and a half radius. (UPI)
(Ford signs pension law
/ WASHINGTON (UPI) -
p Resident Ford signs a law
jday to insure that 30 million
American workers will have
aoney when they retire.
I Ford planned to interrupt a
f weekend at Camp David, Md.,
to sign the bill, which would
r establish government standards
for more than $l6O billion in
pension funds. The guest list for
the Labor Day ceremony in the
•( Rose Garden included 194
I people —members of Congress
involved in the law, business,
j government and labor union
‘ i leaders.
I The legislation establishes
| minimum requirements for
/ pension participation, vesting,
( funding and management —
I guaranteeing that a worker
) over 25 who has worked 5 to 10
1 years under a pension plan will
> receive at retirement age at
< least a partial pension, and
X after 15 years will be entitled to
f i full pension based on years of
Remember to vote tomorrow in runoffs
The two Democratic guberna
torial hopefuls, who called each
other liars last week, tossed
the mailing list issue around
Sunday as if it were a hot po
tato and questioned who had the
right to use the list.
Busbee reacted to Maddox’s
service. They also guarantee
that his company will set aside
enough money to pay the
pension and that that money
will not be used for questiona
ble purposes.
Ford had planned to work and
rest during his weekend. “I’ve
got a stack like that of things I
didn’t get to last week, on a wide
variety of subjects,” he told
reporters Sunday, holding his
hands about a foot apart.
Did that mean there would be
no time to evaluate amnesty
proposals? “Oh no, not at all,”
the President said. “I’ve got
that among them.”
Ford referred to a set of
proposals he received from
Secretary of Defense James R.
Schlesinger and Attorney Gen
eral William B. Saxbe during a
two-hour meeting Saturday.
Ford’s spokesman, J.F.
terHorst, said the President
“has some ideas of his own,”
planned to make some changes
GRIFFIN
DAI LY £nEWS
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comment angrily. “We did not
receive any list from the Lance
campaign, youth portion or
otherwise,” he said. “We have
n’t even used direct mailing in
the runoff campaign.”
State Sen. Beverly Langford
of Calhoun, Lance’s former
in all the recommendations, and
that the policy probably would
be announced later this week.
terHorst’s insistence on the
term “earned re-entry” rather
than amnesty was an indication
Ford would indicate that draft
dodgers and deserters would
have to perform alternative
service to get back to the
country.
Ford asked Congress to
postpone for three months the
5.5 per cent pay increase for
federal employes. He estimated
it would save S7OO million, but
it brought prompt criticism
from union officials who were
expected to praise the oension
bill.
Here are the basic provisions
of the pension legislation:
Participation: Any worker
must be included in a company
pension plan after reaching age
25 and working one year
although workers who begin
work before 25 must be given
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, September 2,1974
Griffin-Spalding voters
to help settle contests
Griffin and Spalding County
voters will go to the polls
tomorrow to help settle some
local and state political races
which developed three weeks
ago in primary voting.
On the local Democratic
primary level, incumbent Jack
Moss will be matched against
challenger Reid Childers in a
bid for a County Commission
post. Winner in the runoff
tomorrow will meet Republican
Ivan Taylor in the November
general elections.
In a runoff for the Democratic
nomination to Senate District
28, Kyle Cobb and Virginia
Shapard have conducted a
spirited campaign during the
last three weeks.
Voters in Spalding as well as
those in all or parts of Henry,
Fayette, and Coweta will decide
who is the nominee.
The winner will be matched
against Al Norris of Griffin who
was unopposed in the
Republican primary three
campaign manager, said the
lists were taken “without au
thorization.” Pro-Maddox ma
terial is being sent to the
names on the list, he said.
The list, which includes ‘ ‘thou
sands and thousands” of
names, Langford said, ‘ has ap
parently been used in an un
ethical, outrageous and com
pletely unauthroized manner. ”
Maddox denied that he was
not authorized, and his cam
paign staff called a noon news
conference today to discuss the
matter. Some former supporters
of Lance were expected to be
at the meeting.
Busbee said that “Every time
Lester Maddox gets caught, he
accuses his opponent of commit
ting the same crime to try and
muddy the waters to distort the
issue. He muddies everything
after he has gotten his hand
caught in the cookie jar in an
effort to distort the issues.”
Maddox claimed that Busbee
was upset because he did not
receive the entire list.
Republican Harold Dye says he
was only trying to avert
“another Watergate” by asking
GOP Chairman Bob Shaw to ask
Macon Mayor Ronnie
Thompson about a grand jury
investigation, but Thompson
says Dye sought “to blackmail
me out of the race” for
governor.
“That’s a ridiculous charge,”
up to three previous years
pension credit.
Vesting: A worker is said to
be vested in a pension when he
is guaranteed eventual pension
payments. The bill would give
employers three alternative
minimum standards: (1) Vest
ing of 25 per cent after 5 years,
gradually increasing to 100 per
cent after 15 years; (2) 100 per
cent vesting immediately after
10 years, or (3) Vesting of 50
per cent after age and years of
service total 45, increasing to
full vesting 5 years later.
Funding: Companies must
put enough money into the
pension fund tp pay all current
pension liabilities. They will be
given 30 to 40 years to fund
future liabilities.
Breaks in Service: Once a
worker is vested, he may leave
a company and return later
without any loss of pension
benefits.
weeks ago.
Statewide George Busbee is
matched against Lester
Maddox in the Democratic
contest for the governor’s
nomination.
Harold Dye and Ronnie
Thompson are locked in a battle
to represent the Republicans in
the November voting for the
governor’s post.
Mary Hitt and Zell Miller
continued their spirited battle
for the lieutenant governor’s
nomination in the Democratic
runoff.
Thomas 0. Marshall and Jack
Dorsey meet each other in the
Democratic primary for judge
of the Court of Appeals.
To date, a total of 224 ab
sentee votes had been handled
for the runoffs tomorrow in
Spalding County .
Election officials advised that
people who voted in the
Democratic primary three
weeks ago must vote in the
same primary tomorrow if they
Dye snapped when asked about
Thompson’s complaint Sunday.
“We simply wanted to keep
from having another Water
gate.”
Dye said he had heard re
ports that a Macon grand jury
might make a report embar
rassing to the mayor’s office in
connection with a gambling in
vestigation. He said he brought
the situation to Shaw’s atten
tion, asking the chairman to
make inquiries to Thompson,
but at no time suggested that
Thompson drop out of Tues
day’s runoff primary for gover
nor.
Shaw said he checked out the
allegations that the grand jury
might be looking into Thomp
son’s conduct and found “the
report was not as all-inclusive
as had been reported to me.”
He said after checking with
other party officers, he decided
to drop the matter.
“You can be honest and
never be great — but no person
ever became great without
being honest.”
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Friendly fawn
CAMP DAVID, MD—President Ford and his famfly play with a tame fawn at the
Presidents! retreat Camp David. Relaxing on the Labor Day week-end the President
showed newsmen the mountain top; shown with the fawn are (L-R) President Ford, Betty,
Steven, and Susan. (UPI)
Daily Since 1872
go to the polls. The same holds
true for people who voted in the
Republican primary. They will
have to stick to the Republican
ticket tomorrow, too, when they
go to the polls.
Polling place officials will
have a record of the primary in
which a person voted three
weeks ago to prevent people
from voting in one party
primary one time and switching
in the runoffs.
In the November general
elections, a voter will be able to
vote for candidates in both
parties by voting a split ticket.
But this will not be the case in
tomorrow’s primary runoffs.
Some 16,417 people are
eligible to cast ballots tomorrow
in the runoffs.
The polls will open at 7 a.m.
and close at 7 p.m.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
85, low today 64, high yesterday
85, low yesterday 65, high
tomorrow in low 80s, low tonight
in upper 60s, total rainfall .57 of
an inch. Sunrise tomorrow 7:04,
sunset tomorrow 8 o’clock.
Johnny Cash
train draws
big crowd
A steam engine passenger
train chugged back and forth in
Orchard Hill into the late hours
last night as part of a Johnny
Cash television special to be
aired this fall.
The unannounced filming
drew a large crowd of spec
tators.
The conductor on the train
told some people it was
scheduled to shoot some scenes
in the Zebulon area and that
Johnny Cash might be in this
area in a few days to shoot his
part.
The special is to be about
Casey Jones.
The steam engine and few
cars pulled into Orchard Hill
yesterday afternoon bringing
along hundreds of technicians to
direct the filming. Professional
actors and actresses dressed in
old fashion garb were aboard to
make the scens authentic.
The action centered between
what is known as Shepherd’s
curve and Orchard Hill.
Jim Smith
fun festival
BOILING SPRINGS, Pa.
(UPI) — Men named Jim
Smith played every position on
both sides in a softball game
Sunday which climaxed the
fifth annual “Jim Smith Fun
Festival.”
The festival is a gathering of
bearers of America’s most
common name and the softball
game which ended it posed no
problem for the Jim Smith
doing the announcing.
It went like this:
“Oil City’s got what looks like
a two-bagger to left field and
here comes Fairless Hills, Pa.,
and Indian Hills, N.J., both in
to score.
“The next batter is
Wapakoneta, Ohio, followed by
—hold up a minute, Tonawanda
Jim Smith —the bus station
just called and your luggage is
in and there is a $5.82 delivery
charge due.”
The film makers set up huge
flood lights along the tracks for
night shots.
Mrs. Jack Grubbs and her
husband who live in Orchard
Hill were among the many
people who watched the filming.
She said the crews started
filming just before the sun went
down and continued well past
midmight.
“That train whistle kept
blowing well into the night,”
Mrs. Grubbs said.
She said people who live along
the tracks in the filming area
had to turn out the lights in their
homes so the lighting would not
conflict with the film.
“You’ll never be able to tell
this film was shot in Orchard
Hill,” observed Jack Grubbs. It
was shot at night and nothing
that would identify the Spalding
town was showing.
Word spread through the
crowd that the teevee special is
scheduled to be shown
sometime in November.
®A Prize-Winning
Newspaper
1974
Better Newspaper
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DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
RUN-OFF
SPALDING COUNTY,
GEORGIA
September 3, 1974
GOVERNOR
(Vote for One)
A
Lester Maddox
O II
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
(Vote for One)
Mary Hitt
A
Zed Mier
IA
JUDGE, COURT OF APPEALS
OF GEORGIA
(To Succeed Homer C. Eberhardt)
(Vote for One)
Jack Dorsey
II
Thomas 0. Marshall
A
STATE SENATOR
mix SBurouw mshuct
(Vote tor One)
Kyle T. Cobb
|A
Virginia Shapard
]A
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
SHLNK COWH
(To Succeed Jack Mou)
(Vote for One)
Reid Childers
Jack Moss
(INCUMBKNT)
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
RUN-OFF
SPALDING COUNTY,
GEORGIA
September 3, 1974
GOVERNOR
(Vole for One)
Harold A. Dye
|a
Roorfc Thompson
Ia
Death note
says drugs
no good
EVERETT, Wash. (UPI) - A
teen-ager from San Francisco
who hanged himself in the
county jail left behind a note
that said, “Drugs are no good
for you.”
The young man had been
arrested two days earlier for
possession of marijuana and
1,000 amphetamine tablets as
well as theft of a credit card.
Authorities at the Snohomish
County Jail said he hanged
himself in his cell Saturday
night with a television lead-in
wire, leaving a note that said in
part:
“I’d like to teU all the kids
that drugs are no good for you.
It gets you in all kinds of
trouble. I’ve been through a lot
of it. First I started out on pot,
then LSD, speed, downers and I
got all messed up myself. Put
this on the news and tell all the
kids out there ‘please.’ Thank
you.”
The youth wrote his father’s
name and telephone number on
the note, asking that he be
called “after I die.” The
coroner withheld the youth’s
identification because he was
unable to contact his parents.