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— Griffin Daily News Friday, November 22,1974 Page 8 , ,»' jfj •■ 'WI y b 'ipS9W Xfl| Bl Xi . v Zi -‘ », " ‘W V • B 'Oi “* ■■■■■■■■l Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose in 1947 picture. Spruce Goose may fly again By LAURENCE MOSKOWITZ PITTSBURGH (UPI) — Alfred Bennett, at 70, wants to take the “Spruce Goose” out for another run, this time a test run for peace, not war. Bennett, of nearby Beaver, owner of Bennett Aircraft Co., an airplane brokerage firm, said he is determined to fly the world’s largest seaplane, built during World War n by Howard Hughes, to cities across the nation as an attention grabber for his campaign to promote world peace. “When Ping Pong was the triviality to break the barriers with Red China, what do you think Howard Hughes’ airplane would do?” Bennett asked. “This airplane has more attention value than Marilyn Monroe. It would be like unearthing an Egyptian pharaoh." Bennett is confident an airplane with a wing span of 320 feet—2o feet longer than a football field and 90 feet longer than the span of a commercial 747 jumbo jet —would have no trouble catching the public eye. “I could land a Piper Cub on that wing,” Bennett said. The plane, which has been locked in an atmospherically controlled hangar at Long Beach, Calif, for nearly 20 years, was designed and built by Howard Hughes on commission from the government. Industrialist Henry (allktbitelMHiMH S—W good living at a'make sense’price Buy your home at... HOLIDAY MOBILE HOMES 6729 South Expressway Jonesboro 478-1196 1974 CLOSEOUT SPECIALS Prices start at As low as tfcooc ecnn Completely furnished, down delivered, set up. • 12 WIDES • DOUBLE WIDES • MODULARS (approved for Fayette Co. private land) A SITE TO BEHOLD Lots available at Landmark Mobile Home Village Milam Rd., Fairburn 964-5018 Beautifully developed with clubhouse. 2 swimming |>ools. playground. Land scaped. underground utilities $55 tno. in cludes water, garbage, sewerage, TV cable SPORTSWEAR SALE Sts 40%”" TOPS COORDINATES Lay-A-Way •dtMancU or Charge Griffin, Ga. DIRECTIONS- Go 1 85 South to Fairburn Exit. Go left on Hwy. 74 I mile to Milam Road. Left again to LAND MARK Kaiser collaborated with Hughes initially, but dropped out because, “the two of them could never go in the same direction for very long,” Bennett said. The plane, officially named the HKI for its developers, was dubbed the “Spruce Goose” because it was made almost entirely of wood. It was taken on its first and only flight on Nov. 2,1947 by Hughes himself. It was flown 1,000 yards at an altitude of 70 feet. But the war soon ended and the “Spruce Goose” became as obsolete as a knight’s suit of armor. Hughes leased the plane from the government, but last year, the lease expired and the General Services Administration took custody of the HKI. “The plane belongs to you and me—the taxpayers,” Bennett said. “The stupid government bureaucracy keeps barriers around it. The GSA says it wants the plane used in away that it would do the most good for the most people and I am the only one who wants to fly it.” And he wants to fly the plane to “bring the spirit of goodwill around the world. For the first time in its history, the world has the tools to create a real pace. These are electronic communications and the airplane. And the HKI is the largest airplane of them all. The Spruce Goose will fly again,” Bennett said. Another partical discovered STANFORD, Calif. (UPI) — Scientists collided matter with anti-matter at 3.7 billion electron volts Thursday to find the second member of what could be a new family of subatomic particles. • A group of 41 physicists from two California laboratories participated in the experiments leading to the second discovery within two weeks of a particle with the unusual combination of large mass and long nuclear life. One experimenter, Prof. Sidney Drell, a theoretical physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, said the find could fit several theories, and could even be the elusive “quark,” a fundamental particle believed to exist but never found. A Stanford team was joined by physicists of UC’s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to search for possible “brothers or sisters” of a similar particle discovered 13 days ago when electrons were collided with positrons at 3.105 billion volts at Stanford’s colliding beam facility. “The exciting question is, is it an isolated set of two particles or an entire series?” asked UC physicist G. Goldhaber. “We’re going to look further into this right away.” The new particle, named psi (3700), had a halflife, or decaying time, of less than a hundred billionth of a billionth of a second, a relatively long time in high energy physics. Its exact halflife may take days to determine. Thursday’s discovery occurred at 4:30 a.m. and confirmed the earlier discovery that was announced simultaneously over the weekend by Stanford researchers and a scientific team at the Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, N.Y. That particle was named psi (3105). 17 killed PORT MORESBY, New Gui nea (UPI) — Police said Thursday at least 17 persons have been killed and 100 wounded by arrows, spears and clubs in tribal battles in the past two weeks in the New Guinea Highlands. The chief minister of Papua- New Guinea, Michael Somare, said his government would more than treble the strength of riot squads in the Highlands. He said a system of mass arrests would be introduced and there would be group punishment to deal with clans involved in fighting. Criers used CLEVELAND (UPI) — “Town criers” were sent into the streets here Thursday to give out news of the winning Ohio lottery numbers because neither of the local newspapers was publishing. Three men wearing three cornered hats walked the streets with sandwich boards carrying the numbers. They also carried bells like their 18th-century predecessors. Last week, the Lottery Commission used a helicopter to tow a banner displaying the winning numbers over the downtown area, but high winds kept the helicopter grounded this week. Announcing the alternative to the noodle casserole: Steak. ._ < a I Wriiu a, t ED* J .rlLwf js/ Close your eyes and imagine a nice thick steak, a baked potato, a salad and Texas Toast. Your mouth is watering, right? Now keep your eyes closed and imagine that you’re looking at the check. If you’re a little nervous, obviously you’ve never eaten in Bonanza. At Bonanza, a family of four can eat beautifully - steak dinners for Mom and Dad, hamburgers and Coke’for the kids, and in these most difficult economic times, the cost is delightfully low. Low enough to make an evening out at Bonanza a reasonable alternative to a noodle casserole at home. fc 1 Chew on that, Dad. the family restaurant even a father could love. 1 Open Sunday Thru Thursday 11 A.M. - 9 P.M. Friday And Saturday 11 A.M. - 10 P.M. 1707 N. Expressway Phone 227 ‘ 277 ® Carter backs detente MOSCOW (UPI) — Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter said in an interview published in the government newspaper Izvestia Thursday he thinks the policy of detente must be more vigorously pursued. Carter also said Atlanta would like to have a Soviet consulate. “Speaking about the changes in the south and Atlanta’s growth as an international city, Jimmy Carter said Atlanta would very much like to have a Soviet consular office,” the newspaper said. It quoted Carter as saying he favored a policy of detente but thought that the “policy must be more vigorously pursued.” 2 held on pot charges ATLANTA (UPI) — U. S. Customs officials said Thursday that two New York women were arrested at Hartsfield International Airport with 21 pounds of marijuana taped to their bodies. Dolores E. Carroll, 27, and Brenda E. Elliott, both of New York City, were turned over to the Metro Atlanta narcotics unit. They were arrested Wednes day night on their arrival on an international flight from Jamai ca. An immigration official became suspicious of their actions and a search showed about 10 pounds taped to Miss Carroll’s body and 11 pounds taped onto Miss Elliott. No one to run SOAP LAKE, Wash. (UPI) - The city’s two top officials have “taken a bath” in political warfare here and nobody wants to run for office. No candidates have filed for mayor after Mayor John Harville was thrown out of office in a recall election. The drive to get rid of Harville was led by the ex police chief. He had been fired by the mayor. f 1 -J! Booth People By United Press International Agnew wants privacy NEW YORK (UPI) - Spriro Agnew, on his way to becoming a millionaire at his new job, says he’s “just trying to make a living.” The former vice president has set up his own business, Pathlite, Inc., which buys and sells property. Some of his best customers are kings and princes in the oilrich Arab countries, according to an article in the December issue of McCall’s magazine, and Agnew “could well be on the way to becoming a millionaire.” “You people in the press are always arguing for the right to privacy,” Agnew told McCall’s. “How about letting me have mine? I’m just trying to make a living.” Recover from inflation BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) — Arch N. Booth, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says the United States will recover from inflation within a year if the new Congress can keep from overspending. “The worst thing we have to fear is that the new Congress will come back and get a little panicky and start busting the budget, as the say, priming the pump, reinflating the economy to too great an extent and too fast,” Booth said at a news conference Thursday. Griffin Headquarters For LA-Z-BOY RECLINA ROCKERS »- —Large Se|ecti ° n Bkw. 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