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Egads! Hoople gives nod to Griffin. Page 16. Forecast Cold Map Page 10 I ui a T . .~~ -> kA '—' & V iMrLjf i g • 11 RHk k I l» hi HH&? 1 ‘X ,iX V W' ‘‘TFf W^Bsj^Ssia^^lfe^V £ S’* ?? : - ; - ?; flfl|a|9gS|L ilyjiic " a ||L <1 Knowles at Milledgeville MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.—Former Florida convict Paul Knowles is led to the Milledgeville courthouse where a hearing date was set for Monday on murder charges of Carswell Carr and his 15-year-old daughter, Mandy. Knowles is suspect in kidnapping a Florida Highway trooper and a man from Wilmington, De. See story, page 7. (UPI) Story page 7. Pike school tax is 14.67 mills The 1974 Pike County tax digest recently was approved 'by the State Department of Revenue. A 13-percent factor was imposed by the state to bring • the digest up to the 40-percent acceptable level. Due to the increased net • digest, it was possible for the Pike County Board of Education to set the 1974-75 school millage rate at 14.67 mills. This is a reduction of ap proximately six mills from the 1973-74 rate of 20 mills. • The 40-percent net digest was assessed at $26,814,298. It was explained that the , $26,814,298 is the total against which the county can apply millage to raise money for Juvenile court gets tough on staying out of school A special session of Spalding Juvenile Court was heM yester- • day to take action on 14 students who have not been attending school. Fourteen were subpoenaed ’ and three did not show up. They will be picked up by authorities. The remaining 11 were placed , on probation and warned that * any violation of the probation would mean a revocation and that they would be declared • delinquent. If it is determined that their absences from school is a parental problem, then * warrants will be issued for their operating the county govern ment and schools. (Each mill is one-tenth of one cent and will raise $1 of tax for each SIOO assessed value on property.) “Citizens may figure his approximate tax for schools by multiplying 14.67 mills times his 40-percent property assess ment. “For example, if a tax payer had a $15,000 property assess ment the school tax would be $220.05,” the Board of Educa tion explained. The Board of Education said that state and local audits have determined that the board has responsibily used all money received in a lawful manner as did the four local schools. parents. Some of the students had been absent more than 30 days. A spokesman at the juvenile office said some of the parents were shocked to learn their children had been absent so much. Judge Tom Lewis also presided in a special session of the court held Tuesday. Juvenile Court Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr., is recovering from surgery. Three boys, a 13 and two 15- year-olds were committed to the Department of Human Resources and sent to training GRIFFIN Vol. 102 No. 275 The Pike Board of Education has passed a policy requiring all purchases which total SIOO or more to be placed on a bid program. “This assures tax payers that their tax dollar will be spent effectively,” a spokes man said. The school system also enters into consolidated purchasing with several surrounding school systems through CESA in order to obtain the lowest price possi ble on large items such as buses and other equipment. Pike citizens were invited to the superintendent’s office for an explanation of the school system’s financial matters and curriculum. The board meets the second Tuesday of each month and the meetings are open to the public. schools for robbery by intimida tion at Spalding Junior High School. One of the 15-year-olds was accused of writing threatening letters, demanding money, from another student. The others were charged with demanding money from students. They also took a watch from a student and a cigaret lighter from another. A 16-year-old boy was placed on probation and ordered to make restitution of $l5O to the owner of a motorcycle and mini bike he and some older boys stole. Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, November 21,1974 Atlanta-Macon fare might be $7 to sl3 The one way fare on a rapid transit system between Atlanta and Macon probably would range between $7 and sl3, provided an average of 3,000 passengers used the service daily. That was one of the estimates made during a public hearing in Griffin this morning as a study of a possible transit system continued. The session opened at 10 a.m. at the Civil Defense building with some 26 people attending. A rapid transit link between the two cities might be con structed to serve Griffin. Cost estimates of the system ranged from $l5O-million to S2OO-million. The systems under study include a bus service on 1-75 between the two cities, a rapid rail system on Southern-Central tracks already in use; a new rail route and others. Southern Railway people at the hearing didn’t seem to favor using the present Southern- Central tracks already in place. They pointed out that there is a heavy schedule of freight traffic already on the rails. Some conversion that would be necessary to adapt the tracks for rapid rail transit also would cause problems, the Southern Railway people observed. Allen Douglas of Southern Railway said he didn’t believe using the tracks for rapid transit was feasible. An attorney told the session that new legislation would be required to provide the rapid transit systems under study. The session here was one of several being held to look into the possibility of a rapid transit link between the two Georgia cities. “To escape boredom folks need some surprises in their lives — even painful ones.” A 1,3-year-old boy was com mitted to a detention home for threatening to kill a member of his family, not attending school and having a poor attitude and being a behavior problem at school. A girl, 13, was placed on probation for driving without a license. A boy, 15, was sent to a detention home for burglarizing a house and stealing a small amount of money. A 15-year-old boy was placed on probation and ordered to attend drug classes for possess ing marijuana. Rapid transit hearing Prices keep going up WASHINGTON (UPI) - Higher prices for food, cars and housing raised the Consumer Price Index by 0.9 per cent on an adjusted basis in October, the Labor Department said today. Consumer prices have risen 12.2 per cent over the past 12 months, three times faster than the 1970-71 inflation that lead to wage price controls. Spendable income for work ers after adjustment for infla tion and higher payroll taxes continued to erode in October, the department said. Real spendable income was down 0.3 per cent from September, despite pay raises and was down 4.9 per cent from October, 1973. The Labor Department said the October rise in the CPI was led by an increase in food prices, which traditionally de cline in the month. Sharply higher prices for sugar, cereal and bakery products offset declines in meats to send the food segment of the index up 1.3 per cent. Prices for eggs, soft drinks, convenience foods, peanut but ter and other fat and oil products also increased in October, although not so rapidly as sugar and grain products. Cars also accounted for a major portion of the increase, the department said, because of higher sticker prices for new cars and unusually high resale value of used cars. The cost of buying a home also continued to rise last month because of interest rates in the 9 per cent range. And furnishings for new homes such as ranges, refrigerators and other appliances also went up. The rise in interest rates for new homes accounted for 40 per cent of the increase in the services sector of the CPI. The department said rents, utilities, costs for home im provements and repairs also increased in October. A 16-year-old boy was placed on probation for simple battery. His mother and a neighbor were fighting and he tried to help his mother by hitting the other woman on the head with a base ball bat. Two boys, 13 and 15, and a girl, 14, were committed to the Department of Human Resources for skipping school and violating probation. They will be under the supervision of the Spalding Community Treat ment Center. They were placed on probation in May and violated that probation bwiot attending school this Daily Since 1872 ■k fl KYOTO, Japan—Two Japanese women watch as President Ford uses chop sticks while eating at a local restaurant during his visit to Japan’s old imperial capital. (UPI) Ford sees first tour protesters KYOTO (UPI) — President Ford encountered the first protest demonstrations of his state visit to Japan today while touring ancient landmarks in this former imperial capital, now is a hotbed of Japanese communism. The President, accompanied by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, heard shouts of “Fuodo kaere” (Ford go home) from groups of hecklers as he drove in his White House limousine for a visit to the old Imperial Palace. But thousands of other Japanese lining the streets of Kyoto, 300 miles southeast of Tokyo, cheered the President. Aides said Ford was “having a wonderful time” sightseeing on the eve of his departure for South Korea. Ford said farewell to Emper or Hirohito in Tokyo this morning, wrapping up the two day official portion of his Japanese visit, and flew aboard Air Force One to Osaka. He mhrhhpmbmmbßßKMß BEEftSMOfI a■* a ■’ W BH i ibi par jftz *• 1 HOPPING MAD, members of Britain’s Population Action Group demonstrate before Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s residence in London to protest “poor public educa tion surrounding birth control.” The group submitted a letter to the PM warning that the world’s population will double within 30 years unless more effective birth control methods are immediately put into use. transferred there to a helicopt er for the 17-mile trip to Kyoto. After a quick lunch in his SSOO a day suite in the Miyako Hotel, Ford set out for a full afternoon of touring this an cient city which gives all the appearances of having locked the 20th century outside its palaces, temples and gardens. Small demonstrations were mounted around the old Imperi al Palace and at the Nijo Castle, built in 1603. Both the protest demonstra tions and the flag-waving welcome to Kyoto by thousands of Japanese clad in kimonos and other traditional forms of dress were the first contact Ford has had with large numbers of the Japanese public. Even the bellboys grinned and applauded when Ford i arrived at his hotel. The President did not see a single demonstrator during his stay in Tokyo, first stop on a historic Far East tour. Hopping mad ®A Prize-Winning Newspaper 1974 Better Newspaper Contests Heavy security prevailed everywhere Ford went in Tokyo and the President drove for the most part through virtually empty streets there. “He’s having a wonderful time,” White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen told reporters. He said Ford had made no comment about the demonstrators and was not upset by the scattered protests. Kyoto, 300 miles southeast of Tokyo, was founded in the Bth Century and was Japan’s imperial capital until 1897. It is dotted with Shinto and Buddhist shrines and more closely resembles the Japan of story books than part of one of the world’s great industrial nations. Weather ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 63, low today 40, high yesterday 1 68, low yesterday 59, high tomorrow in low 60s, low tonight in 30s.