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Mike Head (28) gained 13 yards on this first half play.
Shortly after the run, Head was injured. X-rays at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital showed the running back-
Rep. Flynt says
no connection
Rep. Jack Flynt, Jr., of
Griffin said today there was no
connection between his rental of
farm property at Sunny Side to
Ford Motor Company and his
efforts to get delayed new anti
pollution controls on
automobiles.
Newt Gingrich, Republican
opponent of Flynt in the general
election, said he was appalled
that the Griffin congressman
would accept money from Ford
Motor Co., then work to reduce
new federal controls on
emissions from automobiles.
Flynt said he never tried to
get the controls changed but
simply joined others in the
House in a move to get then
delayed for one year.
Flynt rented some of his farm
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long the earth has been here —
politicians how long it will be.”
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
(UPI) — Stunned Honduran
officials said today 5,000 per
sons have died in the wake of
Hurricane Fifi’s rampage
across five Central American
countries.
The storm caved in moun
tains, buried entire villages
with mud, and swelled small
creeks into deadly rivers.
“Nothing is certain yet but
we now calculate 10,000 missing
and fully half of those dead,”
said Lt. Roger Vallecillo of the
Honduran government’s Nation
al Emergency Comittee.
Fifi, propelled by 130 mile an
hour winds and lashing rains,
cut a path of destruction across
Nicaragua, Honduras, El Sal-
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Just before the accident
property to Ford so automobiles
made at the Hapeville plant
could be stored there. He said
had the auto building firm not
found the space, the Hapeville
plant might have had to close
and put people out of work.
They were withheld from the
market temporarily after the
U.S. Evironmental Protection
Agency required Ford to reset
anti-pollution devices.
Flynt said he supported the
move to delay the new emission
controls a year because it was
estimated such a move would
save six million gallons of
gasoline. Flynt said in view of
the fuel shortage, that figured in
his support of the delay.
He said the delay figured to
put off an approximate S2OO per
car cost increase, too.
Gringrich did not call Flynt’s
arrangement with Ford illegal
but said it raised a possible
serious breach of ethics.
Flynt said supporting the
delay on the auto controls and
his renting the property to Ford
were not connected in any way.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
84, low today 65, high yesterday
84, low yesterday 63, high
tomorrow in upper 70s, low
tonight near 60.
Hurricane death toll stuns Honduras
vador, Guatemala, and Belize,
the former British Honduras,
before it died out over
southeastern Mexico Friday
night.
“Even to us the figures seem
exaggerated but nevertheless
reports keep coming in con
firming them,” Vallecillo said.
“Whole villages were wiped
out. Little creeks became
monstrous swollen rivers. The
north section of the country is
total disaster. This is .one of
the worst moment in the
history of Honduras.”
He said in the village of
Quebrada Seca, along the Ulua
River, “almost nothing is left.
Even the church is buried by
mud.”
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defensive end suffered a broken bone just above the
ankle- He is expected to miss the remainder of the 1974
prep season.
DA pleads
guilty
WELLSVILLE, N.Y. (UPI) -
Allegany County District Attor
ney John D’Arcy, accused of
tying up seven women and
whipping some of them, plead
ed guilty Friday to three counts
of unlawful imprisonment and
other charges. He said he had
been conducting a “survey on
bondage.”
An 85-count indictment
against D’Arcy, 39, was brought
after one of the girls, who was
under 18, complained to her
parents.
D’Arcy was accused of
writing the women letters on
official letterhead asking them
to participate in a survey of
bondage during 1973 and 1974.
When the women agreed to
participate in what they
thought was an official study,
the indictment accused D’Arcy
of tying them up and whipping
some of them.
D’Arcy said he mailed a
letter of resignation to Gov.
Malcolm Wilson two days ago.
County Judge Edward M.
Horey set Oct. 22 for sentencing
on three counts of unlawful
imprisonment, one of forgery
and one charge of official
misconduct.
The highest toll was appar
ently in Choloma, a town of
5,000 near the source of the
Ulua river, which is “usually
just a trickle,” he said.
“Part of a mountain caved in
above the town, breaking a
dam, sending water crashing
over the town when the people
were still asleep,” he said. “It’s
almost impossible to conceive
of the damage done. You have
to see it to believe it, and even
then it’s hard.”
Vallecillo also confirmed pi
lots’ reports of hundreds of
bodies floating near the mouth
of the Motagua River along the
border between Guatemala and
Honduras.
The full Honduran Air Force
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Lisa Young was presented the outstanding student award
last night as the latest class of LPN’s graduated in
ceremonies at the First Christian Church. She is the
daughter of Lamar Young, 331 South 12th street She plans
to study to become a registered nurse at the School of
nursing in Augusta.
was mobilized today to join
U.S. and Central American
forces in a massive emergency
air lift.
“We’ve given priority to the
northern area,” Vallecillo said.
“But the whole country is a
disaster zone. The people in the
north are the most affected
because they are totally cut off
from the rest of the world.
They need food, water, medici
ne, shelter and emergency
supplies.”
Another official said the
government was certain of at
least 1,500 dead in the village of
Choloma alone.
“Only the people on high
ground were saved,” the
official said. “The whole town
South may lead
economic era
ATLANTA (UPI) - A Wash
ington, D.C. economist predict
ed Friday the South will spear
head a new economic era,
which he said the United States
is approaching.
“I think we’re on the thresh
hold of a new era and the
South is going to be the spear
head,” said Dr. John Osman,
an economist with the Brook
ings Institution.
But he said the South would
need to produce new ideas in
order to lead the national econ
omy.
He told the Commission on
the Future of the South “there
is a tendency in the South to
be too introspective about its
past. We’ve got to stop looking
back and seeking precedents.
The times call for new ideas
and institutions.”
Osman, a member of the
commission, said the South
could take the lead by develop
ing its agriculture and energy
producing potential. He said the
South has 80 per cent of the
was asleep before dawn Thurs
day when the river came
crashing down on them carry
ing mud, trees, and rocks.
Nobody had time to run.
“We’ve been digging bodies
out of the mud and debris,
many of them naked or still in
their night clothes. There are a
lot of small towns and villages
in the same area that may
have been totally destroyed. We
have no sure reports.
“In the Sula and Aguan
valleys we are receiving
constant reports of more dead.
We haven’t been able to count
them all yet.”
The U.S. Embassy in Teguci
galpa said it was trying to
locate about 70 Peace Corps
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nation’s coal and can provide
energy for much of the rest of
the nation.
Later, in preparing a policy
statement on Southern growth,
the commission rejected a pro
posal to include a strong stand
against racial and sexual dis
crimination.
Mrs. Athalie Range of Miami,
a black member of the com
mission, proposed the 150-page
report on growth include a plea
for state involvement in enforc
ing civil rights laws, in addition
to federal government enforce
ment.
Some members of the com
mission argued that racial seg
regation no longer exists and
some legislators dnd governors
might see the proposed amend
ment as an accusation that they
are still discriminating.
James Huber, business
manager of Bethune-Cookman
College in Daytona Beach,
Fla., another black commission
member, agreed the proposal
might be a “red flag” to some
Southern policymakers.
But Mrs. Kay McKenzie of
Atlanta argued in favor of the
resolution, saying, “I think we’d
be kidding ourselves if we sit
here and say that discrimina
tion against race and sex
doesn’t exist anymore, just
because we now have
something on the books.”
The proposal stated, “Human
rights should be protected by
the full and constant attention
by the states to achieve jus
tice, equality and freedom for
all people; to creating and en
couraging mutual understand
ing, respect and fair treatment
among our people; and to ad
vancing equality of rights and
tion against race and sex
doesn’t exist anymore, just be
cause we now have some laws
on the books.”
The proposal stated, “Human
rights should be protected by
the full and constant attention
by the states to achieve jus
tice, equality and freedom for
all people; to creating and en
couraging mutual understand
ing, respect and fair treatment
among our people; and to ad
vancing equality of rights and
equal protection of the laws so
as to eliminate any discrimina
tion based on economic status,
sex, race, religion, national or
igin or ethnic identification.”
volunteers working in
northeastern Honduras.
In Nicaragua, the town of
Wiwili on the Coco River
border with Honduras was
reported wiped out and many of
its 500 residents were reported
clinging to treetops to stay
above the fast rising flood
waters.
Cameraman Elliot Craig in
San Pedro Sula, Honduras —
where the committee reported
at least 75 confirmed dead —
said, “I just watched four
bodies being buried in a
communal grave. That’s very
frequent here.
“The rains and winds broke
off whole chunks of mountains
and mud and sand have washed
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Where’s dean
“Which way to the dean’s office?” might very well have
been the question on this tot’s mind as he sat down to think
things over at Gordon Junior College in Barnesville.
Photographer Randy Plland of Griffin caught this candid
picture of Wendell C. Tidwell 111 as students and
professors hustled about the campus buildings this week
getting the fall quarter under way.
Agency head
is suspended
The board of directors for the
Upper Ocmulgee Economic
Opportunity Agency with
headquarters in Jackson has
voted to suspend the director,
pending an investigation of an
audit of the books.
The board met in a called
session last night and took the
action.
Allen J. McGill, the director,
took a leave of absence last
month to accept a fellowship
offer to study at Yale Univer
sity.
The leave was rather in
definite but it was understood
the study would be six weeks or
so.
The board last night ordered
the director suspended until an
investigation of exceptions
found in the audit of the books
can be completed.
Bill Jones of Jackson is
chairman of the board. He
accepted the appointment last
down over the city by the tons.
Bridges are out and there is a
fuel shortage.”
Small government relief
planes flew over the flood
stricken areas dropping food
out with parachutes, Radio
Honduras said. Planes carrying
relief workers were unable to
land anywhere near the disas
ter zones.
A Nicaraguan Air Force C-47
cargo plane still was reported
missing after flying into the
torrential rains over the afflict
ed area Friday morning.
U.S. relief forces flown from
Panama were turned back by
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The agency operates several
OEO programs including the
one for the Golden Age Club in
Spalding County.
The agency with headquar
ters in Jackson is continuing to
operate under a temporary
director.
Man held
in beating
Griffin Police were holding in
jail today a man identified as
Curitis G. Leetch of 113% West
Tinsley street in connection
with the beating of two of his
small children.
The incident occurred this
morning about 1:30.
The case still was under in
vestigation today.
Police records show suspect
was employed in textile work in
DeKalb County.
the storm Friday but planned
another attempt today to land
food, drinking water, clothing,
medicine and other emergency
supplies at San Pedro Sula, the
largest city in the area.
“The people are desperate,”
an emergency committee
spokesman said. “They have no
drinking water, little food or
medicine, and few of them have
shelter. Approximately 10,000
houses —not shacks or lean-tos
but solid buildings —were
destroyed by the storm.
“Roads and bridges are out
and there was no way to bring
them help yet except by
parachute drops from the sky.”