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Arab press reacts angrily
to Ford’s oil statement
By United Press International i
The Arab press reacted i
angrily today to attacks on
Arab oil price policies by j
President Ford and Secretary (
of State Henry A. Kissinger, i
and Arab League sources in
Cairo called the statements “a i
serious move reflecting Ameri- i
can intentions toward the Arab i
region.” i
One Beirut newspaper said 1
Rumors are wrong
Gold still at Ft, Knox
• FORT KNOX, Ky. (UPI) -If
it weren’t for the forbidding
electric fence and the sullen
t guard with the submachine gun
resting on his hip, the gray
granite building in the middle
of the rolling Kentucky hills
• might pass for a county
courthouse or a Masonic Lodge.
Or a mausoleum.
Well, the bullion depository at
• Fort Knox, Ky., is a burial spot
of sorts. For resting in its
crypts is more than half the
, gold reserve of the United
States.
More than 8,000 tons of the
shiney stuff, worth $6.2 billion,
• or $22 billion, depending on
whether you use the “official”
world monetary prices of $42.22
an ounce or the speculator’s
• free market price of $l5O an
«Head signs
.to seek
reelection
• Raymond Head has qualified
to succeed himself as a city
commissioner.
• He signed up for Post Two
(Second Ward) in the Novem
ber general election.
Qualifying opened yesterday
• and will end at noon Oct. 25.
Post Two is the only one to be
filled in the city election this
year.
• Candidates are required to
live in the ward which they seek
to represent. However, all
• voters in the city are eligible to
cast ballots in all city com
mission races.
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The Georgia Department of Labor today presented a
certificate to Spalding Knitting Mill because the Griffin
firm had no loss time accidents in more than 12 months.
Participating in the presentation were (1-r) Bobby
Remember Cub School night. Page 7
the statements were “tan
tamount to a declaration of
war.” The Iraqi News Agency,
in a dispatch from Cairo,
quoted members of the 18-
nation Arab group as saying:
“President Ford’s statements
represent a serious move
reflecting American intentions
toward the Arab region. Arab
use of their oil is, and always
has been, a natural right which
ounce.
That’s what the Treasury
Department claims is there.
But lately, there were rumors
that the vault is bone dry and
that the national boodle has
been spirited away by subver
sive elements to Mexico,
Switzerland or other alien
points.
Seeking to put these stories to
rest, a handful of congressmen
traveled to Fort Knox Monday
at the invitation of Treasury
Secretary William E. Simon to
look at, fondle, and examine the
bullion for themselves. They
were the first outsiders allowed
inside the gold storehouse since
1953.
Dozens of reporters and
cameramen followed on the
heels of the government delega
tion, the first newsmen allowed
inside the high security deposi
tory since it was built in 1936.
What did the visitors find?
One compartment stacked floor
to ceiling in golden yellow bars
—36,236 of them —according to
the sign on the door. That’s
$609 million or $2.2 billion right
there (again, depending on
whether you compute by the
official or free market price.)
Peering through peepholes in
other steel doors, the congress
men verified that 12 other
compartments held equally
lucrative stores.
Whether the contents of Fort
Knox match the published
figures won’t be known until
the end of a full scale audit
that started Monday. It is
expected to take about a
month, but the spectacle of
even a fraction of he golden
hoard seemed reassurance
enough for most of the official
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they can use to serve their own
interests and causes. Nobody
can influence them as far as
this right is concerned.”
The sources said Arab foreign
ministers presently in New
York to attend the U.N.
General Assembly session
would meet Wednesday to study
the Ford and Kissinger state
ments.
visitors.
“Any doubt that the gold has
been shipped out has been
reasonably dispelled,” said Sen.
Walter D. Huddleston, D-Ky.
Goats, sheep
for sacrifice
KATMANDU, Nepal (UPI) -
Nepal will import 10,000 moun
tain goats and sheep from Tibet
next month to be used for
sacrifices during the Hindu
festival of Desain.
The animals will be offered to
the Goddess Durga Bhawani to
keep her in good humor.
For the past few years, Tibet
has been exporting the animals
to Nepal during the Hindu
festival —when demand out
strips supply.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
70, low today 52, high yesterday
75, low yesterday 50, high
tomorrow in upper 70s, low
tonight in mid 50s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:27, sunset
tomorrow 7:30.
A.iWki?
“We’d be in pretty good shape
if only those who meant to were
doing the sinning.”
Griffin firms get safety awards
Shapard, vice president of the mill; Willard Vickers and
Esters M. Shiver of the Labor Department; Mrs. Hazel
Jones, Mrs. Ethelene Reese, Bay Pryor and Charles Alli
son, representing the employes.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, September 24, 1974
Ford and Kissinger, in
speeches Monday in Detroit and
New York, said the continued
high oil prices risked a world
depression and the breakdown
of world order and safety that
could lead to war.
In Vienna, Abderraham
Khene, secretary general of the
Organization of Petroleum Ex
porting Countries, scoffed at
Ford’s threats and said, “we
are the last people to blame for
what is happening in the
world.”
The group’s 12 member
nations, which produce 85 per
cent of world petroleum ex
ports, increased the price of
crude oil 400 per cent the past
year and voted for another 3.5
per cent increase to $9.74-a
--barrel next month.
Some Arab newspapers repre
senting factions generally hos
tile to American policy in the
Middle East gave extreme
interpretations to the American
warnings.
“America warns the Arabs,
threatens nuclear war over
petroleum,” the pro-Syrian
newspaper Al Sharq said in a
headline. The pro-Baghdad
newspaper Beirut said: “Ford
threatens to seize Arab oil by
force of arms.”
Columnist Abu Jawdeh of the
Beirut newspaper An Nahar,
regarded as a political modera-
Dr. Sowell opposes
Bill Westmoreland
Dr. Grover Sowell who last
week qualified to run for Post
Seven on the school board has
withdrawn from the race and
has qualified as a candidate for
Post 10 instead. Post 10
presently is held by William F.
Westmoreland who is seeking
reelection.
Three other candidates are
seeking election for Post Seven.
They are Mrs. Jean Boggs, 1542
Ridgewood drive; Dan Boyd,
Brook circle; and Mrs. Yvonne
M. Langford, South Hill street.
In announcing his withdrawal
from Post Seven, Dr. Sowell
said he believes all the voters
should have a choice of can
didates for all posts on the
school board.
“It is illogical that there
should be four candidates for
te, said America appeared to
be trying to pose as a movie
hero defending the world
against the “Arab villains.”
“The (American) campaign
has become tantamount to a
declaration of war,” he said.
“The entire war appears to be
aimed at suppressing the
Palestine cause at the United
Nations, where the U.S. is in a
very difficult position.”
On the official level, Arab
officials remained reticent and
appeared to be waiting to see
what might develop from the
American statements.
Abdul Rahman Salem Aitqi,
Finance and Oil Minister of
Kuwait, which strongly opposes
any reduction in oil prices, said .
if Ford’s statements were
aimed at reducing energy
consumption, “we are all for it.
But if his words mean cuts in
oil imports, this will result in
harmful consequences for pro
ducoion and contraction of the
oil industry.”
In Cairo, Selim Rizkallah,
Egyptian Oil Ministry underse
cretary, said the statements of
Ford and Kissinger “will
remain under study for the
time being.
“The study will have to be
held jointly with the other Arab
countries,” Rizkallah said. “We
will consider no official opinion
right now.”
one post and only one candidate
for each of several other
posts.... The larger number of
candidates in this election is a
very healthy sign that
responsible citizens are feeling
an increasing obligation to
become more actively involved
in the education of their
children”, he said.
The election is county-wide
and candidates no longer are
required to reside in the area of
the post for which they are
seeking election.
Others who have qualified are
Dr. Tom Hunt and Mrs. Bar
bara Alexander, Post Six; A. C.
Touchstone and Mrs. Mary C.
Stinson, Post Eight; and J.
Henry Walker 111, Post Nine;
The qualifying deadline is
noon Friday.
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United Cotton Goods today received a no loss time accident certificate from the Georgia
Department of Labor. The Griffin firm has not had any loss time accidents in more than a
year. Discussing the award are (i-r) “Chick” Henderson, vice president of manufacturing;
Tyndall McMillan, Jr., plant superintendent; Esters M. Shiver and Willard Vickers, both of
the Department of Labor.
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Pet show in Griffin
Alyson Cutler, 2Mt, wants to brush this rabbit’s teeth before the Jaycettes pet show Saturday
at the National Guard Armory beginning at 10 a.m. Alyson’s mother, Bonnie, holds the
rabbit at the Griffin Pet Center which will co-sponsor the show.
Saxbe asked to probe
charges against Flynt
ATLANTA (UPI) - State Re
publican Bob Shaw has asked
Atty. Gen. William Saxbe to in
vestigate allegations Rep. John
Flynt accepted money from
Ford Motor Co. while working
on legislation favoring the auto
industry.
Shaw told newsmen Monday
that Flynt, a Democrat from
Griffin who has represented the
6th Congressional District
more than 20 years, allegedly
rented his Spalding County farm
to Ford for $6,250 monthly so
the company could park cars on
the cleared land.
He claimed Flynt made
speeches on the House floor
supporting legislation to reduce
federal requirements on auto
emissions control while renting
the land to Ford.
“Under the circumstances,
were the corporate payments to
an incumbent running for re
election to the Congress a
sophisticated way of laundering
money? ” Shaw asked.
“Are we to believe that Ford
had to go all the way from
Hapeville to Griffin to find a
suitable forty acres for parking
cars?”
Flynt said in Washington the
lease agreement he entered into
with Ford was “a perfectly
legitimate business transaction
involving the use of private
property.
“I would welcome any inves
tigation,” he said.
Shaw also asked Saxbe and
the House Ethics Committee of
which Flynt is a member, to in
vestigate whether Flynt accept
ed federal subsidies from
the Agriculture Department at
the same time he was renting
the land to Ford.
Shaw claimed Flynt received
$l,lOO from the department’s
Land Bank Program during
1972.
Shaw, who said he first
learned of the allegations in
Saturday editions of the Atlanta
Constitution, said Ford paid
Flynt two months rent on the
property, while actually using
the land only five weeks.
Flynt, seeking his 12th term
as 6th District congressman,
will face Republican Newt Ging-
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rich, a former professor at West
Georgia College in Carrollton, in
the Nov. sth general election.
Shaw said he is conducting his
own investigation into land ren
tal prices in the Spalding Coun
ty area, and into the availability
of other suitable land Ford
could have rented to park cars.
Oil nations
vow to keep
prices high
By United Press International
The world’s major oil nations
vowed today to keep fuel prices
at record levels in defiance of
President Ford’s call for a cut
to head off an international
depression.
In Vienna, Abderraham
Khene, secretary-general of the
Organization of Petroleum Ex
porting Countires, scoffed at
Ford’s threats. “We are the
last people to blame for what is
happening in the world,” he
said.
The group’s 12 member
nations, which produce 85 per
cent of world petroleum ex
ports, increased the price of
crude oil 400 per cent the past
year and voted for another 3.5
per cent increase to $9.74-a
--barrel next month.
“We will take tough steps to
obtain the degree of self
sufficiency necessary to avoid
disruption of our economy,”
Ford said Monday in Detroit.
“We will make sure there’s
heat for our homes and power
for the people who work in our
plants.”
In Kuwait, Oil Minister Abdel
Rahman Salem Aitqi shrugged
off the Ford attack, saying,
“Let the President speak as he
wishes, he can say whatever he
wants to say.”
Khene said Americans are
‘ ‘misleading themselves and the
rest of the world” if they think
pressure can change the
situation.
“We increased our prices to
protect purchasing power,”
Khene said. “We did not do
anything with the aim of
destroying the economy of the
world. On the contrary, we
were, and still are, suffering
from what happens within this
economy.”
Venezuelan President Carlos
Andres Perez sent a 2,500-word
telegram to Ford last week,
rejecting earlier criticism of
the oil group.