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Brandy Brooks, three, spotted this doll yesterday afternoon and the two went for each other.
She was at the Extension Service office on Slaton avenue where some women were getting
ready to have a bazaar for M t. Zion United Methodist Church Nov. 30.
Reriew of drill
It scared some people
Those involved in putting on
Tuesday’s disaster drill all
agreed there were a few areas
which could be improved.
The drill which was a
simulated boiler explosion,
supposedly wounding some 14
persons at Dundee Mills, Tues
day around 2 p.m. seemed to go
off well except for scaring a
number of Griffinites.
The Griffin-Spalding Hospital
is required to have two such
drills each year to meet cer
tification standards. Its purpose
is to practice orderly hospital
care in the event of a real
disaster.
The first most Griffinites,
including the police, knew of the
drill was the sound of am
bulance sirens. Many people
became frightened and thought
there was a real disaster.
The Griffin-Spalding am
bulance service has three
ambulances and all three
responded to the call at Dundee.
Miller’s ambulance also
responded.
One of the main criticisms
« Concerned about famine
Thousands go hungry for a day
By PETER A. BROWN
United Press International
Thousands of persons concerned over famine in other
lands chose to go hungry in the United States Thursday.
Officials of Oxfam-America and Project Relief, co
sponsors of a daylong fast, said numerous schools and
colleges had set up programs under which students would
donate the money they would have spent on food.
The funds are to be distributed by the two group’s relief
projects around the world.
Gary Goodrich, national coordinator for the fast day,
said he estimated a quarter of a million persons had
fasted, based on calls from schools, businesses and
churches.
Nathan Grey of Oxfam-American said the figure
probably was on the conservative side.
was from Dept, of Public Safety
head, Leonard Pitts, who said it
“bugged” him that all the
ambulances rushed to the
pretended disaster, leaving
none at the hospital to answer
real calls.
He said his men were working
two wrecks at the time and he
wondered what would have
happened if there had been
injuries in those wrecks.
Hospital Administrator Carl
Ridley explained that the
ambulances have radio contact
with the hospital and if a call
had come in during the drill, the
ambulances could have just as
quickly responded to a real
disaster while they were at
Dundee as they could have from
the hospital.
It was brought out however,
that the ambulances were left
unattended for a few minutes at
the scene while the drivers were
helping to get the “victims” and
were out of radio earshot.
The Dundee Fire Department
responded first to the call. They
in turn notified the ambulance
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service and the Spalding
Sheriff’s Department, as
Dundee is outside the Griffin
city limits.
Chief Pitts said his depart
ment called the sheriff’s
department to ask where the
ambulances were going and
learned of the drill then.
Minutes later Mr. Ridley and
the Dundee Fire Department
called them, he said. They also
were asked to help direct
traffic.
Sheriff’s deputies were
praised for their quick action.
They were at the scene in about
a minute and a half. When a
crowd gathered at the mill, the
deputies assured the people it
was only a drill.
Dr. Jack Austin reported
there were 14 doctors at the
hospital within 20 minutes.
The whole thing lasted 29
minutes.
The group concluded it was a
well kept secret. “The police
didn’t know, the doctors didn’t
know. . . It went well.”
Participation in the fast was heaviest in the Northeast,
especially among college students.
At Stonehill College, in Easton, Mass., more than 80 per
cent of the 1,500 students were reported to have gone
without meals, and raised $1,600.
“Not since the protests against the Vietnam War have
the students at Stonehill showed this type of activism,”
said George J. Hagerty, student government president.
Officials at Boston College, Harvard, Wellsley and the
University of Massachusetts said arrangements had been
made for rebates from dormitory food to go to stop hunger
in Asia, Africa and South America.
At the University of Massachusetts’s Amherst campus,
the student newspaper sponsored a $20,000 fund-raising
drive, with its editor offering to let anyone spill a bucket of
water on his head for a 25-cent donation.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, November 22, 1974
Use common sense,
transit panel told
A committee studying a
- high speed transit
system between Atlanta and
Macon was asked to use com
mon sense yesterday.
R. M. Bullington, a member
representing the United
Transportation Union (AF of
L), told the group that the
Central of Georgia rail lines
could be used “if they wanted it
used. . . The track is there. . .
Use common sense.”
He said the railroad industry
has two lines between Atlanta
and Macon and to build new
road beds, the 106 miles would
cost some $41,800,000.
He charged, “We can’t get
there from what we’ve heard
this morning unless common
sense is used.”
The committee members
represent the Georgia Depart
ment of Transportation, The
Georgia Conservancy, Southern
Railroad, Macon-Bibb County
Planning & Zoning Commission,
Mclntosh Trail Area Planning
and Development Commission,
MARTA, Governor’s Planned
Growth Commission, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Ga.
Dept, of Natural Resources,
National Association of Motor
Bus Owners, Atlanta Regional
Commission, National Railroad
Passenger Corp, and the United
Transportation Union.
They met at the North Ex
pressway Civil Defense building
yesterday and had lengthy
reports on their studies. They
estimated the costs of a new
rapid transit system, including
equipment and rights of way,
would run from $l5O-million to
S2OO-million.
To break even, 3,000 riders
per day would be needed at
costs of $7-sl3 each trip.
Allen Douglas, representing
the Southern Railroad, said he
did not think either Southern or
Central tracks could be used,
due to the already heavy traffic
of freight trains and the high
costs of upgrading the tracks.
He thought a new high speed
corridor should be built.
Mr. Douglas told of how the
Nancy Hanks, a passenger train
between Atlanta and Savannah
which was discontinued in 1969,
continually lost money.
It never was a paying
proposition, he said, even
though when the train first
started in 1947, it had a newly
equipped lounge, food service,
and was air conditioned.
The meeting yesterday was
the committee’s third. Its
purposes are to decide whether
it would be worthwhile to go into
more detailed studies on costs
and routes.
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Male
slate
offered
WALTHOURVILLE, Ga.
(UPI) — This small south
Georgia town’s all-female
government, elected without a
challenge last spring, now has
opposition—from an all-male
slate.
When the town election comes
up Dec. 4, Mayor Lyndol
Anderson and the five council
members will each be faced by
a man for reelection.
Walthourville was incorporat
ed last spring with an all
female government, perhaps
the only one in the country
because the women had signed
the incorporation papers and
the men apparently weren’t
interested.
But that’s changed now.
First, Ed Rogers qualified to
run for mayor. Then all the
women qualified for reelection
and five men followed suit for
the council posts.
At Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H., more than
1,000 students and faculty went hungry, raising $2,300.
About 2,000 persons at the University of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia got together for a meal of bread, wine and
cheese Thursday night as they ended their fast.
According to the Rev. Joel Warren of the school’s
Protestant ministry, which helped sponsor the fast,
students at between 25 to 30 colleges across Pennsylvania
participated in the fast.
Warren said the fasters included a “very broad section
of both faculty and students. It is not simply an
undergraduate movement.”
“The tragedy of world hunger has stirred a profound
type of concern among students that I have not witnessed
in 25 years of college experience,” said the Rev. J. Donald
Monan, president of Boston College.
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Panel votes
9-0 for Rocky
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Senate Rules Committee today
unanimously approved the
nomination of Nelson A. Rock
efeller to be vice president.
Hampton
driver
killed
WHATELEY, Mass. (UPI) -
Edward Sallsperger, 26, of
Hampton, Ga., a truck driver,
was killed early today when his
tractor-trailer rig plowed into
the rear of another truck on
Interstate 91.
Police said the accident
occurred shortly after 3 a.m.
during a driving rain storm.
The committee voted 9-0 to
send the nomination to the full
Senate as the House Judiciary
Committee began its second
day of hearings on the former
New York governor.
The Rules Committee was
expected to complete a formal
report on the Rockefeller
nomination sometime next
week, perhaps Wednesday, but
a Senate vote was not expected
until after Congress returns
from the Thanksgiving holiday
recess.
Rules Committee Chairman
Howard Cannon predicted the
nomination ultimately will be
approved in both chambers,
despite a furor over Rockefel
ler’s generous loans and gifts to
Pritchett fired
HIGH POINT, N.C. (UPI) -
Laurie Prichett, whose depart
ment had been the target of a
city council investigation, was
fired as chief of police today.
City Manager Harol Cheek
said Pritchett’s dismissal was
“in the best interest of High
Point and the High Point police
department.”
Pritchett, police chief of High
Point since 1966, had been on
sick leave since shortly after
the city council hearings, now
in recess, started in late
September.
He has been confined on
several occasions to North
Carolina Baptist Hospital, suf
fering from hypertension, and
had sought disability retire
ment.
But the state attorney gene-
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political friends and a con
troversial book which his
brother financed.
“Troubles, like clouds, can
add a touch of beauty unless
they get thick enough to shut out
the sunshine.”
ral’s office issued an opinion
this week that Pritchett was
ineligible for disability retire
ment benefits.
The opinion, in which High
Point city attorney Knox Walla
concurred, was that such
benefits were for officers
injured in the line of duty.
Pritchett’s attorney had con
tended he suffered from hyper
tension as a result of his duties
as chief.
Conflicting testimony about
alleged irregularities and poor
morale in the department was
presented during the hearings,
conducted under a 1971 state
law authorizing city council
investigations.
Pritchett, a native of Griffin,
Ga., was police chief at Albany,
Ga., before coming to High
Point.