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Colonel from Griffin
heads President Ford’s
official honor guard
Col. Robert H. Clark has
assumed command of the Third
United States Infantry, (The
Old Guard). As the oldest in
fantry regiment, The Old Guard
is the Army’s all-volunteer,
official ceremonial unit and
escort to the President, station
ed at Fort Myer, Va.
Col. Clark is the son of Mrs.
W. C. Clark, 865 East College
street, Griffin. Mrs. Charles
Joiner and Mrs. Lee Beckham,
both of Griffin, are Col. Clark’s
sisters.
A veteran of combat action in
Vietnam, Col. Clark’s assign
ment with The Old Guard
follows a tour in the Officer
Personnel Directorate, U. S.
Army Military Personnel
Center, Washington, D.C.
Col. Clark was bom in Alamo,
Ga., on Jan. 19,1932, but claims
Griffin, as his home of record,
having lived there most of his
life.
Prior to entering the Army,
Col. Clark attended North
Georgia College, graduating in
1954 with a A.B. degree in
history. Upon graduation
from North Georgia College,
Col. Clark was designated a
Distinguished Military
Graduate, and was com
missioned as a Second
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Nixon’s ‘clot’ is dangerous
By JAMES J. DOYLE
LONG BEACH, Calif. (UPI) —A blood clot has traveled
to Richard Nixon’s right lung, a warning of dangerous
medical poossibilities that will keep the former president
in the hospital longer, and off the witness stand at the
Watergate coverup trial at least temporarily.
The spread of phlebitis from Nixon’s left leg to his right
lung “is a potentially dangerous situation, but not critical
at this time,” Nixon’s personal physician, Dr. Walter
Lungren, said in announcing the development
Wednesday.
A blood disease specialist in Washington, Dr. Joseph
Fratantoni of the National Heart and Lung Institute, said
the discovery of a dot affecting a dimesized area in
Nixon’s lung was a warning that more dots might be
found, possibly leading to fatal complications.
From 300,000 to 400,000 cases of phlebitis are recorded in
the country each year, Fratantoni said, with about 50,000
cases — one in seven —causing death from pulmonary
embolisms, or lung clots.
“Naturally this means the hospital stay will be
extended,” at least through the middle or end of next
Lieutenant in the Regular
Army.
He entered active service the
same year as a student officer,
completing the Basic Infantry
Officer Course at Fort Benning,
Georgia. After graduation, Col.
Clark served two years in the
82nd Airborne Division, Fort
Bragg, N. C.
It was at Fort Bragg that Col.
Clark and his wife, the former
Nancy Temple of Hartwell, Ga.,
were married.
The Clark’s have one son,
Robert, who will enter the
University of Georgia this fall.
Col. Clark, by then a first
lieutenant, left Fort Bragg for
an overseas assignment in the
25th Infantry Division, Scho
field Barracks, Hawaii. While in
the 25th Infantry Division, Col.
Clark served consecutively as
platoon leader, company execu
tive officer, company com
mander and aide-de-camp to
the assistant division com
mander.
Returning to the states in July
1960, Col. Clark was selected to
attend the Infantry Officer
Career Course, Fort Benning,
Georgia, and while there was
promoted to Captain in October
1960.
Upon completion of the course
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of instruction, Col. Clark
remained at Fort Benning as an
instructor at the United States
Army Infantry School until May
1963.
From Fort Benning, Col.
Clark again headed overseas,
this time for duty with the
Advanced Research Projects
Agency, Office of the Secretary
of Defense in the Republic of
Vietnam.
Again returning to the states,
Col. Clark was selected to at
tend the United States Army
Command and General Staff
College, Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, and was promoted to
the rank of Major in August
1964.
Upon graduation, Col. Clark
was assigned from July 1965 to
October 1966 to the 3d United
States Infantry, (The Old
Guard), Fort Myer, Va., as
Executive Officer. After
completing his first tour with
The Old Guard in 1967, Col.
Clark remained in the Military
District of Washington until
May 1969 as Ceremonies Of
ficer. By December, 1967, Col.
Clark had been promoted to the
rank of lieutenant colonal.
Red
Cross
handles
The Griffin Red Cross office
announced today that it would
accept contributions of money
to help victims of the hurricane
which swept through Hondorus.
Checks may be made out to
the Red Cross Central
American Hurricane Relief
fund and mailed to box 541,
Griffin, Ga. 30223.
A spokesman for the office
here said it was not equipped to
handle contributions of food and
clothing.
The office said the Red Cross
already had geared up to help
victims of the hurricane and
contributions of money was the
best way people in this area can
help.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
65, low today 55, high yesterday
56, low yesterday 50, high
tomorrow in 70s, low tonight in
mid 50s. Total rainfall .32 of an
inch. Sunrise tomorrow 7:29,
sunset tomorrow 7:28.
week, Lungren told reporters.
When Nixon entered the hospital Monday, reluctantly
giving in to weeks of urging by his doctors and family, he
was expected to be released at the end of this week.
Nixon is under court order to appear as a witness at the
Watergate cover-up trial in Washington of six of his
former highest ranking aides. He was subpoenaed by both
Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski and defendant John
Ehrlichman.
The trial is scheduled to begin Monday, and Nixon’s
worsened condition appeared to rule out any chance he
would be in Washington when it began.
Defense and prosecution lawyers have talked to U.S.
District Court Judge John Sirica about possibilities if
Nixon argues that he is too sick to testify. But Nixon’s
attorneys have not yet formally made such an argument.
Jaworski told the judge that if they do, Sirica should
appoint his own medical team to examine Nixon.
In another development, the California Supreme Court
accepted Nixon’s resignation from the California State
Bar on the recommendation of that association.
The bar originally had resolved to oppose Nixon’s letter
of resignation, but reversed itself.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, September 26,1974
In July 1969, Col. Clark,
returned to the Republic of
Vietnam and was assigned as
Battalion Commander, 4th
Battalion, 12th Infantry, 199th
Infantry Brigade. Col. Clark
served his second tour in the
Republic of Vietnam from July
1969 to July 1970.
Upon departure from his
second combat tour in Vietnam,
Col. Clark returned to Washing
ton, D.C. and was assigned to
the Office of the Deputy Chief of
Staff for Military Operations,
Department of the Army in the
Pentagon.
While assigned to the Army
Staff, Col. Clark was selected to
attend the United States Army
War College, Carlisle Barracks,
Pennsylvania, where he
graduated in the class of 1972. In
1971, Col. Clark was selected for
promotion to his present rank of
Colonel, and was subsequently
promoted in June 1973. In ad
dition to completing require
ments for graduation from the
Army War College, Col. Clark
attended graduate school at
Shippensburg State College,
Shippensburg, Pa., where he
earned a Master of Science
Beans black, corn white;
it’s going to cost us all
By JOHN LESAR
United Press International
The beans are black, the corn is white and the prospects
are bleak for both farmers and consumers.
An early frost is the latest jolt to the country’s
agricultural economy, coming close on the heels of a
summer drought and spring flooding, and, while experts
differ on the extent of damages exacted by the latest
round of malevolent weather, most agree it will take its
toll on grocery (rices.
Canning company officials in Minnesota said prices on
sweet com and green beans likely were to go up by about 5
per cent as a result of this growing season’s combination
of bad weather.
Indiana Gov. Otis Bowen moved Wednesday to have his
state declared an agricultural disasterareabecause of the
combined impact of the freeze, the drought and the floods
—which he estimated cost Indiana farmers $661 million in
com and soybeans.
Another in board race
L. J. Stemberger, employe of
Southern Bell in Griffin, today
qualified as a candidate for the
Degree in Public Administra
tion.
Col. Clark served two years in
the U. S. Army Military Per
sonnel Center following gradua
tion from the Army War
College. It is from that assign
ment that Col. Clark rejoins The
Old Guard.
Among his awards and
decorations, Col. Clark holds
two awards of The Legion of
Merit; the Distinguished Flying
Cross; three awards of the
Bronze Star Medal; the
Meritorious Service Medal; 14
awards of the Air Medal, one
with “V” device; the Joint
Service Commendation Medal;
the Army Commendation
Medal; the National Defense
Service Medal; the Armed
Forces Expeditionary Medal;
the Republic of Vietnam
Campaign Medal; the Viet
namese Gallantry Cross with
gold and silver stars; the
Vietnamese Armed Forces
Honor Medal, Ist Class; the
Vietnamese Service Medal; the
Senior Parachutist’s Badge; the
Expert Infantryman’s Badge;
the Combat Infantryman’s
Badge; and four Overseas
Service Stripes.
Griffin-Spalding School Board.
He signed to seek Post 10.
Incumbent Bill West
moreland and Dr. Grover
Sowell already have announced
for the same post.
Deadline for entering the
races in noon tomorrow.
Country
parson
“Mankind has learned how to
do a lot of things in the last
hundred years—especially how
to waste more.”
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“The beans are black and the com is white,” one
Indiana farmer said.
However, government agricultural experts, while ad
mitting the country’s drought depleted com and soybean
crops would be further cut by this week’s killing early
frost, maintained that early, off-thdcuff estimates of frost
damage to crops were over-inflated.
A spokesman for the Agriculture Department’s
Economic Research Service said radio and television
reports that damage to corn and soybean crops might run
as high as 20 per cent were unrealistic.
“We have not yet been able to get a firm estimate, or
even a good guesstimate, of the extent of damages, but we
don’t think it will be even as high as 10 per cent,” the
spokesman said.
The next government crop report was due Oct. 10 and
will be based on a survey to be made by Oct. 1.
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Gift to clinic
Roger Scott (1), district coordinator for the Mclntosh Trail’s alcoholic clinic on South Hill
street, accepts >IOO contribution from Dick Brooks (c), Jaycee external vice president; and
Jim Rawls (r), chairman of the Jaycee committee which arranged for the gift to the
program.
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