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Sheriff Gilbert talks about growth.
Tire firm hits snags
in expansion plans
Charles Neel who operates a
tire dealership on Everee road
ran into a couple of snags last
night in efforts to expand the
business.
He learned from City Atty.
Bob Smalley at the city com
mission meeting that some of
the land involved has restrictive
clauses in FHA and VA insured
loans on some of the houses
nearby.
Neel also heard objections
from Benny Henzel, 805 Pamela
drive. He presented a petition
he said was signed by 40
residents in the area who ob
jected to rezoning the area to
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“You’re only young once —
during which folks try to make
you behave as if you weren’t.”
Storm over pardon picks up force
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Ford will consider
requests for clemency from
Watergate defendants on an
individual basis but has no
present plan to grant mass
pardons, it was announced
today.
In what apparently was a
reversal of an announcement
Tuesday that the “entire
matter” of pardons for those
convicted or charged in the
Watergaate scandals was
“under study,” Senate Republi
can leader Hugh Scott read a
statement by Ford following a
meeting between the President
and congressional leaders.
Scott told reporters there is
“no study going on” at the
present on the President’s
permit expansion of the busi
ness.
Such an expansion would
cause more drainage problems
and increase business noise in
the area, Henzel said.
He read a two page statement
typewritten on legal size paper
to the commissioners outlining
some of the objections to rezon
ing.
Neel said the land he wanted
rezoned to commercial and
light industry would be used for
paved parking lots.
Henzel said the paving would
make worse a drainage
problem in the area.
Neel said he had contacted
people with property involved.
There were 18 at first, he said,
then he purchased three lots,
cutting the number of people to
15. Three of these still objected
to the rezoning, Neel said, while
the others either said they
would not object or would not
protest.
Chairman Louis Goldstein
examined the list of signatures
Henzel presented and spotted
the names of some people on
both the list Neel had got up and
the one Henzel presented.
Commissioner Preston Bunn
made a motion that action on
the rezoning be tabled until the
next meeting of the com-
power of pardon.
Scott said that if Ford
receives in due course applica
tions for pardon they will be
considered.
He said no such requests
have reached the President’s
desk.
The statemnt authorized by
Ford Tuesday and delivered by
John W. Hushen, deputy press
secretary, said Ford was
studying the question of blanket
amnesty for Watergate defen
dants. It brought an outpouring
of criticism from both Republi
cans and Democrats in the
aftermath of the unconditional
pardon granted former Presi
dent Nixon Sunday.
Ford, in his formal statement
today, said that a study will be
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missioners Sept. 24.
He said this would allow time
for city officials and Neel to get
together and check on the land
restrictions in the area.
The other four commissioners
agreed to the delay.
Don Young, manager of the
Atlanta Gas Light Company in
Griffin, introduced Dave Jones,
the new assistant manager of
the Griffin operation.
Young said Jones is expected
to become manager here when
he (Young) retires in a few
months.
The commissioners
welcomed Jones to the com
munity and said they looked
forward to working with him.
The commissioners also
recognized Wendy Wright,
Teresa Strickland and Gregg
Head of the Griffin High Student
Council. They came to observe
the meeting. The students said
others on the council would
attend future meetings of the
commissioners so they could
learn how local governments
operate.
The commissioners also
welcomed Mrs. Sydney Wynne
of the Provisional League of
Women Voters. The League has
its representatives attend
public meetings of local govern
ing bodies.
made “for any request concern
ing pardon of an individual.”
“However,” he added, “no
inference should be drawn as to
the outcome of such study in
any case. Nor is my pardon of
the former President under
unique circumstances stated by
me in granting it, related to
any other case that is or may
be under study.
“The announcement yester
day by Mr. Hushen concerning
study of the entire matter of
presidential clemency and par
dons was prompted by inquiries
to the White House press office
concerning Mrs. John Dean’s
reported statement in reference
to pardoning of her husband
and similar public statements
in behalf of others.”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, September 11,1974
Spalding growth
With more and more people
living in Spalding County, the
amount of law enforcement
work the sheriff’s department is
called on to do has increased
considerably.
That was the thrust of what
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert told the
Exchange Club yesterday. He
called it a report on the “state of
the sheriff’s department.”
He clicked off statistic after
statistic to show what he meant.
For instance, between Janu
ary and August of this year the
department has:
—Made 1,698 arrests. (Os
these 911 were from warrants
sworn out by one citizen against
another.)
—Served 395 civil papers.
—Patrolled 196,700 miles
which is enough to go round the
world eight times.
—Has worn out two and a half
patrol cars.
—Made 89 trips to the state
mental hospital at Milledge
ville.
—Made 25 trips to Georgia
prisons.
—Made 73 trips to other penal
institutions and jails to pick up
prisoners arrested for Spalding
County.
—Answered 1,862 citizen
complaints ranging from
reporting prowlers to murder.
The Investigative Division of
the department has investigat-
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Welcome
WASHINGTON—President Ford and Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin stand side by side at White House
welcoming ceremonies for Rabin. Ford said the U.S.
stands with Israel and is committed to Israel’s survival
and security. (UPI)
Scott and House GOP leader
John J. Rhodes briefed report
ers after the hour and 45
minute meeting with Ford.
Scott said there is “no study
going on” at the present on the
President’s power of pardon.
Scott said Ford called several
congressional leaders including
himself Sunday morning in
advance of the Nixon pardon
announcement but the decision
was Ford’s alone.
In response to questions,
Rhodes said nothing came up in
the morning meeting concern
ing Nixon’s health —“Nothing
was said.”
There have been reports that
Nixon was depressed and that
Ford was influenced by friends,
and perhaps members of the
GRIFFIN
What it means to law enforcement
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ed one murder, three rapes, five
robberies, 41 assaults, and 86
All of the burglaries
were at residences.
The department has in
vestigated 18 deaths, 48 missing
persons and 414 other cases.
The sheriff injected a footnote
to say that since he began a
business house watch service
last October, not one business
house has reported a burglary.
A deputy on patrol makes
regular checks at business
houses. During the check he
leaves the patrol car, checks the
business to make sure it is as
secure as possible against
break-in, and leaves a card
telling the owner when the
check was made.
The plan has proved itself
effective, the sheriff’s records
show.
This work load is carried out
by a total of 23 full time people
and two part time.
There are 12 uniformed
deputies and three in
vestigators. There are three
jailers, two clerks, two school
crossing women and a
dispatcher.
Ten of the deputies are
assigned to regular patrol car
duty. It averages out having
seven of them at work daily,
Gilbert figures, considering
time off, sick days and vaca
tions.
This means two (plus) patrol-
Nixon family, to move compas
sionately to relieve Nixon of the
anxiety of facing possible
Watergate charges.
White House spokesmen have
denied that Nixon’s health
entered into the discussion of
pardon.
Hushen said Tuesday Ford
knew the Nixon pardon “was a
controversial decision. He still
thinks this was the right
decision and he will be proven
right in the long run.”
Asked if the President was
aware of the extent of the
dissenting reaction he has
aroused, White House counselor
Robert Hartmann, one of
Ford’s closest advisers, said, “I
think so.”
The criticism came from both
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men average working each
eight hour shift.
It means, Sheriff Gilbert
continued, that some of them
work nine and 10 hours a day.
It also means that there is one
patrolman in a car and three
patrolmen working alone in
separate cars trying to main
tain law and order and answer
all calls at night, the sheriff
explained.
When new wage and hour
laws go into effect next Janu
ary, some changes in the
number of hours worked and
salaries will be affected, Sheriff
Gilbert pointed out.
All law enforcement and lire
protection people will be af
fected with the new regulations.
Sheriff Gilbert figures he’ll
have to have three more
deputies by then just to
maintain the present level of
service.
He has had 24-hour patrol
service here for seven years.
Records show that the city of
Griffin had 22,000 people in 1970,
the sheriff went on. The county
had 18,000.
Since then, single residential
permits have been issued to
3,260 people in the county. That
figures to be about 10,000 more
people in the county since 1970,
the sheriff estimated.
The city of Griffin has 60
people in police work while the
county has 23, the sheriff ob
served.
Jet crash kills
69 of 82 aboard
CHARLOTTE, N. C. (UPI) -
An Eastern Air Lines DC-9 jet
crashed and burned today while
attempting a landing in fog at
Charlotte’s Douglas Municipal
Airport, killing 69 of the 82
persons aboard.
“We have received 13 victims
from the crash and we have
been notified that this is the
total number of survivors,”
Harold Green, administrator at
Charlotte Memorial Hospital,
told UPI.
The flight was Eastern 212,
bound from Charleston, S.C., to
Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, via
Charlotte.
In Miami, Eastern officials
identified the commander of the
flight as Capt. J. E. Reeves, 48,
and the copilot as James Miller
Daniels Jr., 36. Both men were
based in Atlanta.
The plane crashed at 7:33 a.
m. EDT in an open field two
and one half miles south of the
airport, near Charlotte’s York
Street Exit of interstate high
way 77.
Residents near the airport
said the plane’s engines seemed
to be functioning properly when
it passed overhead, but that the
craft apparently was too low.
They said after the plane went
Democrats and Republicans.
Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., said
further pardons would be “a
mockery of equal justice under
the law.”
House Republican leader
John J. Rhodes of Arizona said
that while he supported Ford’s
pardon of Nixon, “It does not
necessarily follow that a
similar pardon should be issued
to those individuals under the
former President who par
ticipated in criminal activity.”
Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-
Hawaii, asked: “Are they going
to empty out the prisons now?”
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-
Mass., urged Ford to declare at
least a 30-day moratorium on
any further Watergate pardons.
And Sen. Walter F. Mondale,
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over, they heard an explosion
and saw smoke billowing into
the sky.
Witnesses said those who
survived the crash were thrown
free from the plane into a
clump of trees.
Dozens of ambulances and
police threaded their way
through the morning rush hour
traffic to reach the scene and
transport survivors to Charlotte
Memorial Hospital. A hospital
spokesman said most of the
survivors were burned and all
were reported in critical
condition.
The DC-9 is designed to carry
a total of 88 passengers, so the
flight was filled almost to
capacity.
A Federal Aviation Adminis
tration spokesman in Washing
ton said the plane was
approaching Runway 36 from
the south when it disappeared
from the radar screen.
Another FAA spokesman,
Jack Barker in Atlanta, said
radio communications with the
aircraft were routine up to the
moment of the mishap. He said
there had been nothing to
indicate the plane was in
trouble.
Barker said the plane was on
D-Mont., proposed a constitu
tional amendment giving Con
gress the power to overrule
presidential pardons by a two
thirds vote.
Hushen made the surprise
announcement that Ford was
studying clemency for all
persons involved in Watergate
related scandals only two days
after Ford startled the nation
with his unconditional pardon of
Nixon.
The study would cover 48
defendants, including those who
have pleaded guilty or have
been convicted by juries.
Executives of 14 corportations
also have pleaded guilty in
connection with contributions to
He was quick to say he did not
conclude that the city did not
need that many people — not by
any means.
His point was that the county
would need more law enforce
ment people just to maintain
present services to the growing
number of people in the county.
Turning to training and
minimum standards for law
enforcement people in the
future, Sheriff Gilbert sees that
by 1982 a four-year degree will
be required.
The society becomes more
and more complex and
demands on law enforcement
people increase almost every
week, the sheriff continued.
He predicts that minimum
basic training soon will be 114
hours or three weeks and a
middle ground figure in this
area would be about seven
weeks.
As training requirements
increase, an 11-week training
program is probable. Sheriff
Gilbert said an ideal program
would be 26 weeks of training,
just in basics of law enforce
ment.
He has taken an active
leadership role in trying to get
training improved and thinks
the program is headed in the
right direction.
a radar approach because the
fog was too thick for a visual
landing.
One eyewitness reported
hearing what he said sounded
like several explosions before
the plane crashed and burst
into flames.
Dense smoke billowed up
from the crash scene and
ambulances and police had
difficulty reaching the site
because of the early morning
traffic.
Jim Stanley, 19, who was
driving near the airport said:
“I heard the jet and then I
heard the explosion. I ran down
into the woods and saw a
tremendous funnel of smoke. I
had seen what looked like the
tail section going into the fog.
The roar of the fire was
tremendous.”
Stanley said upon closer
inspection “I saw a girl lying
beside the fusilage screaming.
There wasn’t anything we could
do for her. I got sick watching
that girl.
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Nixon’s re-election campaign.
Former Nixon cabinet mem
bers John Mitchell and John
Connally, who are awaiting
trial in separate cases, would
be included in the study.
Amid these developments,
Ford has postponed his an
nouncement on a conditional
amnesty program for Vietnam
era draft dodgers and deserters
until later this month.
He said Ford would act on
that issue “certainly no later
than the end of the month.”
When asked whether the
Nixon pardon would lead Ford
to liberalize the amnesty plan,
Hushen said: “I would not
speculate along those lines.”