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Mrs. Charles Crawley, Roger Bevil and Charles
Crawley (l-r) display Georgia flag which will be presented
to Herbert T. Heilman, director general of the Loyal
Evel set for shot
By TERRANCE McGARRY
i TWIN FALLS, Idaho (UPI)
— A milling carnival of
thousands of thrill seekers
jammed southwestern Idaho
• today to see an edgy Evel
Knievel, master stuntman and
self-publicist, rocket over the
Snake River Canyon.
An irritated Knievel poked a
television cameraman with his
famous cane Friday.
i The Twin Falls County
sheriff’s office estimated at
least 10,000 persons had crowd
ed into the area for Sunday’s
launch, with more arriving by
the hour, and said all hotel and
motel rooms were occupied for
at least 50 miles in all
directions. Thousands more
were camped at the jumpsite or
elsewhere.
> Convoys of motorcycles,
campers and cars rolled along
Conviction
upheld
The Georgia Court of Appeals
had confirmed the conviction of
Dr. Marvin L. Marchman of the
-Atlanta area who was tired in
Spalding County Superior
Court.
He was convicted of charges
that he stole some equipment
from the Griffin-Spalding
Airport.
-, Marchman was tried for a
second time in the case after the
Ccurt of Appeals had reviewed
his first conviction.
‘ > District Attorney Ben Miller
recieved the 17-page ruling
from the Court of Appeals this
morning, stating that the
conviction of Dr. Marchman
was upheld and no trial errors
were found.
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“Not everybody in life or the
theater is a star — we need
' . some folks to applaud those who
perform.”
Moose leader to get state flag
the desert highways toward
Twin Falls from Arizona, Utah,
Montana, California and other
states.
A spokesman for Top Rank,
Inc., promoter of the event,
said 25,000 tickets —priced at
$25 a head —had been sold and
it was expected the figure
would reach 35,000 by launch
time.
Knievel, 34, hobbling off his
private jet plane Friday to
make the jump he has talked
about for eight years, appeared
edgy and depressed. He public
ly has estimated his chances of
surviving the shoot at 50-50,
although there was widespread
disagreement by experts and
knowledgeable observers over
just how dangerous it is,
ranging from “a piece of cake”
to “suicidal.”
Las Vegas oddsmaker Jimmy
Ford vows to beat
double diget enemy
By HELEN THOMAS
UPI White House Reporter
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -
Surrounded by the symbols of
the colonists’ struggle for
independence, President Gerald
R. Ford promised Friday night
to conquer inflation by the
country’s 200th birthday.
“The tyranny of the British
Parliament and Crown in 1774
animated our ancestors,” he
told a bicentennial gathering.
“The tyranny of double-digit
inflation is our double enemy in
1974.
“We are going after the
public enemy of inflation in
1974, and we will lick him
before July 4,1976.”
Later in the night, flying
back to Washington, Ford said
he was creating a Clemency
Review Board to oversee his
conditional amnesty program
for Vietnam war resisters and
to rule on special cases.
Ford said he already was
picking members of the board,
and indicated he might an
nounce the conditional amnesty
program Tuesday.
Today the President planned
an early game of golf and a
meeting with American and
Soviet astronauts, possibly tak
ing them along to a “crab
pick” in Alexandria, Va., where
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Order of Moose, who will be here when the Georgia Moose
Lodges have a state meeting in Griffin Oct. 3-6. The
Griffin Lodge will be the host.
“The Greek” Snyder, who
previously gave Knievel 3-1
chances of surviving, has
dropped his estimate to 50-50.
Knievel got into a shoving
match Friday with NBC televi
sion cameraman Jim Watt.
Knievel ordered Watt to smile
and, when Watt replied nobody
could order him to smile,
Knievel told guards to throw
Watt out. In a pushing and
shoving tussle, Knievel poked
Watt with his $22,000 gold and
diamond-headed cane, one of
Knievel’s trademarks.
Knievel carries the walking
stick —hollowed to contain vials
of liquor —to help him get
around because of his many
injuries. He has had 50 bone
fractures in 11 accidents, by his
count.
UPI Correspondent Roger
Bennett of Salt Lake City was
he lived before he became
President.
The evening in Philadelphia
was steeped in patriotism. Ford
spoke under a yellow and white
tent, next to Independence Hall
and the Liberty Bell, at a
chicken and champagne dinner
honoring the reconvening of the
first Continental Congress on
Sept. 5, 1774. The 1,600 guests
included six governors, 22
senators and 123 congressmen.
The band played “America”
and “The Battle Hymn of the
Republic.” The speeches were
filled with Founding Fathers.
“I have decided to make the
first priority of my month-old
administration an all-out war
against inflation,” Ford said.
“Like the other patriots who
met here 200 years ago, we
may seem to move cautiously
and too deliberately, but I hope
no one will underestimate the
fighting ability of Americans
today the way they did in 1774.
“I warn you, as old wise Ben
Franklin did, that if we do not
all hang together, we will all
hang separately.”
The early patriots, Ford said,
were “inflation fighters,” meet
ing to press economic interests
against Britain before the
revolution. He compared them
to his own “inflation fighters,”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, September 7,1974
roughed up by members of the
crowd who made angry re
marks about newsmen and
apparently were disgruntled
over prices at the jump site —a
$lO camping fee on top of the
$25 admission ticket and high
prices for parking, food and
beverages.
Knievel sat for a while in his
steam-powered “skycycle” on
its almost vertical launch ramp
on the south rim of the 600-foot
deep canyon, while engineers
static tested its engines.
He was surrounded by rings
of fences patrolled by armed
guards. Most of those in the
crowd —which took on the
atmosphere of a rock concert
without music in the 90-degree
heat and dust —could see only
his helmet and a wave of his
arm following the test.
the participants in a series of
economic conferences now in
progres.
“Then as now there were no
easy answers,” he said. “Then
as now they had to depend
heavily on popular understand
ing and popular support.”
In Washington, Ford’s chief
economic adviser, Alan Green
span, said Friday “inflation is
just not about to go away
quickly,” a statement which
seemed to leave room for
Ford’s 1976 deadline.
Ford asked Americans in the
coming months to “study
carefully the character and
quality of the men who founded
this nation.”
“Let us grasp the stuff that
was inside of them.
“And then let us release the
same spirit within ourselves.
We have the same capacity for
unity, discipline and sacrifice.
Let us show the world that the
character and quality of the
American people has not
changed.”
Outside, as the dinner ended,
a big fireworks display was set
off and lit up the rainy sky.
Ford stood under shelter to
watch it.
Carmen sending
rains to Griffin
More rain was in the works
for the Griffin area during the
weekend, thanks to a lady
named Carmen who is
misbehaving.
The Gulf hurricane figured in
the forecast which said this
area would continue to have
cool temperatures and rain.
Rainfall threatened to turn
Memorial Stadium into a mud
puddle yesterday for the
opening of the home football
season.
But the showers let up before
game time and thousands of
fans sat reasonably dry in the
stands.
A little mist fell occasionally.
Griffin was lucky, compared
to the states threatened with the
hurricane.
Thousands of residents of
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alaba
ma, and to a lesser degree
Florida, boarded up windows
and stocked storm supplies.
Evacuation began early today
in the flat delta country south
of New Oreans to Grand Isle,
La., the expected target of the
eye of the storm.
“The people are so used to it
it’s pitiful,” said the dispatcher
in the sheriff’s office in St.
Bernard Parish. “They’re
boarding up their homes and
doing everything they usually
do.”
The National Weather Service
issued hurricane warnings from
Grand Isle, La., to Mobile, Ala.,
and a hurricane watch from the
Texas-Louisiana border to
Grand Isle, and from Mobile to
Panama City, Fla.
At 7 a.m. CDT Navy
reconnaissance located the cen
ter of Carmen near latitude 26.7
north, longitude 90.3 west, or
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
70, low today 63, high yesterday
66, low yesterday 58, high
tomorrow in mid 70s, low
tonight in mid 60s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:10, sunset
tomorrow 8:05.
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It’s for Golden Age Club
Norma Lenhart, Mary Barinear and Deputy Tommy
Whaley boost talk-a-thon tomorrow for the Golden Age
Club. It will be staged at the National Guard Armory
between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. People wishing to support the
Golden Age club may take contributions to the armory or
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about 225 miles south of New ;
Orleans. It had increased <
forward speed to 12-15 m.p.h, I
and highest winds were 130
m.p.h, with gusts 160 and 1
hurricane force winds extend
ing 50 miles from its center. It
was expected to increase its
size through today.
“We started evacuating the
lower end of the parish at four
this morning,” said Sheriff H.B.
Schoenberger of Plaquemines
Parish just west of New
Orleans. “We expect to evacu-
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ate perhaps in the neighborhood
of 20,000 heople. We’re getting
them out.”
Thirty-seven serious storms
have struck the Louisiana-
Mississippi border areas in the
last four years. Three storms
since 1957—Audrey, Betsey and
Camille—have killed over 600
persons and caused hundreds of
millions of dollars in damage.
Grand Isle was considered
particularly vulnerable in its
southernmost position south of
New Orleans. The smallest tide
Johnny Wilder (20) of Griffin tackles Central’s Jim
Holmen after Holmes grabbed a 12 yard pass. Central
won, 28-0.
telephone pledges there on one of the eight phones set up
for the affair. Several singing groups will entertain during
the afternoon at the armory. Radio station WHIE and the
Spalding BPW Club are handling the talk-a-tbon.
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floods the city, and there is
only one road out, which
quickly closes under flood tides.
Mississisppi coastal residents,
shattered by Hurricane Camille
five years ago, moved small
boats to inland bays and
streams, while housewives
stocked up on canned goods,
flashlights and other storm
supplies.
The Red Cross began moving
workers into place in Louisiana,
Alabama, Mississippi and Flori
da .