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— Griffin Daily News Friday, September 6,1974
Page 6
Lawmen search for two
in Gainesville rob
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (UPI)-
Authorities combed an area
near Gainesville today for two
men who robbed the First Na
tional Bank Thursday and es-
Prices steady
VALDOSTA,Ga. (UPI)-Pric
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eighth week of tobacco auctions
closed Thursday on the Georgia-
Florida belt. Most grades still
brought a high of sll2 per hun
dred pounds.
Total sales at markets in the
states totalled 5.9 million
pounds. All markets reported
heavy sales volume with
grades of lead and smoking
leaf making up most of the
product.
The average sale price of
$110.82 was a drop of only three
cents from Wednesday’s aver
age and 34 cents under Tues
day’s record high.
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caped with a pillowcase full of
money.
The money sack also con
tained a red dye bomb which
a teller dropped in with the
loot.
The two men, wearing white
pillowcases over their heads,
leisurely robbed the bank at
gunpoint, then drove off in a
car found abandoned less than
two miles away. A truck driver
said he saw only one man
emerge from the car and dis
appear into some woods, indi
cating the pair may have split
up.
Police said the men, who
completely hid their identity
with the head covering, cover
alls and gloves, entered the
South Hall branch brandishing
a sawed-off shotgun and a re
volver and said, “Let’s have
it.”
Tellers stuffed money into
another pillowcase carried by
the gunmen.
news
State in line for share
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia is in line for $359,064 as its
share of almost $lO million from income earned by
national forests in the South during the past fiscal year.
The overall total represents 25 per cent of the receipts
from grazing, recreation, minerals and other landuse
charges and from sale of timber. By law, that percentage
goes back to the states for use for public schools and
roads.
Crisis cut traffic
ATLANTA (UPI) — Traffic cell off 5.4 per cent during
the height of the fuel crisis this past winter, the state
Transportation Department says in a continuing survey.
Made at 46 locations throughout Georgia, the report
indicated an average 4 per cent drop from December,
1973, to May, 1974, as compared to an average hike of 7 per
cent during the same period a year earlier. Biggest drop,
of 5.4 per cent, came last March.
Suspect was a fugitive
ATHENS, Ga. (UPl)—Clarke County police hauled in a
man caught driving without a license, then discovered he
was a fugitive who fled the Macon County Correctional
Institution nearly a year ago.
Alvin Sullivan, 36, refused to give his name when
arrested early Thursday, but a check of his fingerprints
identified him. Sullivan had fled the institution Sept. 8,
1973, where he was serving 20 years for burglary.
Tom Callaway pulls out
ATLANTA (UPI) — Tom Callaway, running for the
state House both as a Republican and a Democrat,
withdrew his GOP candidacy Thursday —two days after
he lost the Democratic runoff to Peggy Childs.
Callaway, former DeKalb County commissioner, had
been a strong advocate of election reform, but he said a
third race with Mrs. Childs “would negate the real
meaning of my original stand.”
Thompson wants GOP leaders
to quit; charges blackmail
By JACK WILKINSON
ATLANTA (UPI) - Republi
can gubernatorial nominee Ron
nie Thompson, calling himself
“a victim of political blackmail”
lashed out bitterly Thursday at
the state GOP “hierarchy”
for allegedly supporting Demo
cratic nominee George Busbee.
Thompson, who goes before a
federal grand jury in Macon to
day in what he claims to be
part of a continuing harassment
against him, called for the re
signation of the entire 67-mem
ber state Republican Executive
Committee. It’s members in
clude Chairman Bob Shaw, Con
gressman Ben Blackbum, form
er Rep. Fletcher Thompson, Na-
New trial
motion
rejected
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.
(UPl)—New trial motions for
two North Carolina men sen
tenced to death for the murder
of a school official were denied
Thursday by Superior Court
Judge Reid Merritt.
Bill Jordan, 31, and Ted Pre
vatte, both of Wadesboro, N.C.,
were convicted of killing As
sistant Principal James A.
Rouse of East Atlanta High
School last March. Rouse was
killed by a shotgun blast. His
body was found three days later
in a rural area of Gwinnett
County.
Attorneys asked for a new
trial on the basis of what they
called use of “irrelevant,
prejudicial and inflammatory”
photos of Rouse’s body. And
they claimed the death sentence
violated the constitutional ban
against cruel and unusual pun
ishment.
tional Committeeman Nolan
Murrah and Committeewoman
Nora Allen.
Thompson said if Harold Dye,
who lost by 305 votes in the un
official runoff tally, managed to
reverse the outcome through a
recount he could not accept it.
“I would feel the nomination
had been stolen from me,”
Thompson said. “I would offer
myself as a write - in candi
date in November. Under the
circumstances this election has
been held, I don’t think I could
accept a reversal.
“TTiey played dirty with me
and they have violated my
rights. Some of their acts were
criminal.”
The firebrand mayor of Ma
con said he had asked the Jus
tice Department to oversee any
recount.
Thompson charged the unspe
cified grand jury investigation
was part of “a brilliant scheme”
to embarass him and to keep
him from campaigning proper
ly. He accused U. S. District
Judge Wilbur Owens of intimi-
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dating him and said Owens and
Shaw were involved in a move
to get him out of the race. He
said Shaw relayed word he
should drop out because of a
possible indictment. The may
or indicated GOP leaders
wanted a weak candidate and
would make a deal with the
Democrats.
“Without a shadow of a doubt
I’m a victim of political black
mail,” Thompson said.
He said he was acting in his
capacity of titular head of the
party as its gubernatorial nomi
nee is calling for resignation of
the GOP leadership. Shaw
promptly replied he had no in
tention of stepping down.
“Being titular head of the par
ty means you have the right to
run for governor in November
1974,” Shaw said. “It doesn’t
include the right to dictate to
the party.”
Shaw said he and the rest of
the executive committee had
been elected until mid 1975 when
a new convention will be held.
“Until then, I’ll still be
around,” he said. “I hope he
comes off this and tries to pull
the party together instead of
trying to pull it apart."
Flournoy
at home
FLOURNOY, Calif. (UPI) -
The Republican candidate for
governor drove into this tiny
town for a hot dog and cottage
cheese lunch with numerous
residents named Flournoy.
The candidate’s name: Hous
ton Flournoy.
Nobody could trace a blood
relationship but the Republican
standard bearer said it was
nice to be where people were
“familiar with the name
Flournoy.”
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