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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 GRIFFIN DAILY# NEWS 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. - ■iw * ■ rrniiirffKlilMOftlßll =*- ' wBMwaW .MBfl**' ■jLTMfiaXa , j , . V.' y•' ’ r ■ to-*w*vflflf» m J matflH' IWiMmlllHiM flfis isl \ Ar* . qflMLaflHflß3MrJß ■ . • ...•< a ■B" "j< ■* nl 1 " .**•''•lA'c'-'?**s 1 mA W - • » •. yXjIM ■ >v «, \ HrMflfltWwHWßirfffiMlL President Ford greeted in Seoul. Page 2. 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. Daily Since 1872 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- ®A Prize-Winning Newspaper 1974 Better Newspaper Contests 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.