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Tackle Mule Crawford (78) and defensive back Randy Cooper (21) look dejected as they
leave the field in the fourth quarter. They weren’t. Crawford had just recovered his fourth
fumble of the night A few minutes later Cooper rambled 30 yards to set up Griffin’s fourth
touchdown. He scored the TD on a four yard plunge. Griffin beat Rockdale County 27-7 to
win the Region S-AAA championship.
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WASHINGTON—Former Treasury Secretary John
Connally and his wife Nelly leave U.S. District Court after
Chief UJS. District John George Hart Jr. denied motions
for dismissal of four crlnimal courts against Connally in
connection with the milk scandal. Connally is accused of
accepting SIO,OOO from milk cooperatives in 1971 in
exchange for his help in swinging milk price support
increases. (DPI)
One of Ford’s better ideas?
Auto makers cool to gas tax hike
DETROIT (UPI) - The
ailing auto industry reacted
coolly today to a suggestion by
industrialist Henry Ford II that
the government raise gasoline
taxes by 10 cents a gallon.
The United Auto Workers
union said it opposed the idea.
General Motors Corp, and
Chrysler Corp., the two major
rivals to Ford Motor Co., each
reiterated previous statements
opposing such a tax.
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They figured in Griffin victory
Ford said in two Detroit
newspaper interviews Friday
that the government should
consider boosting gasoline taxes
10 cents a gallon to generate
funds for unemployment bene
fits.
He said he supported the idea
even though it could hurt auto
sales.
The present federal tax on
gasoline is 4 cents a gallon.
The Ford proposal also is
flt wasn’t John Gardner of Griffin
CARNESVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
— The on-again, off-again
burial of a man with no name,
who fell off a bar stool and
fatally fractured his skull, is off
again as police try a few more
times to find out who he is.
The man, thought to be in his
mid-50’s, fell backward from a
stool in a beer tavern Nov. 14.
He was taken to Talmadge
memorial hospital for emergen
cy surgery, but died.
Police found a piece of paper
with a pencil scrawl in his
pocket, with a name and a 1909
birth date. But they decided
that it was not his name and
birth date, because he did not
appear to be 65 years old.
He also had a used bus ticket
from Tennessee.
Authorities notified police
agencies in several towns, and
numerous relatives of missing
persons checked unsuccessfully
Vandalism blamed
in crossing block
A stalled freight train blocked
the North Hill street grade
crossing this morning some 38
minutes and caused traffic
problems downtown.
Vandalism was blamed.
Officer John Ballard of the
Griffin Police Department
opposed by another Ford —the
President.
But th<> chairman of the Ford
Motor Co. said a gas tax
increase would generate funds
to finance a tax cut for low and
middle income families and
provide gas stamps for low
income motorists.
“The idea deserves a lot of
consideration now,” Ford said.
Opposition in the auto indus
try was expected since car
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Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, November 23, 1974
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Coach Max Dowis discusses strategy with quarterback Willie Jordan. Jordan threw three
touchdown passes here last night as Griffin beat Rockdale 27-7 for the Region 6-AAA
championship and a berth in the state playoffs.
with the local funeral home
where the body has been kept.
Police had intended to bury
the man last Thursday, if no
one identified him, but the
funeral was put off until this
weekend when a few more
inquiries were made.
A deputy said Friday night
that the weekend date had been
shelved also, because of
inquiries about the dead man,
and there is currently no set
date for burial.
Police found a piece of paper
on the dead man with the name
of John Gardner on it.
John Gardner who is a retired
Griffin policeman said he was
interested in case. He said since
the original UPI story was
carried in several newspapers,
he has had at least one friend
call to check on him.
Gardner in Griffin retired
investigated.
Train officials said someone
tampered with a switch on one
of the cars and they had to
check 115 cars before finding
the trouble.
When it was found and
corrected, the train moved on.
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from the force this fall. He said
the piece of paper found on the
dead man had the same year of
birth on it as his but that there
were several months difference
in their ages.
Griffin’s Gardner noted that
the bus ticket found on the man
was from Gatlinburg, Tenn. The
retired policeman said he and
his wife visit sometimes in the
Tennessee resort city but had
not done so recently.
Gardner is following
developments from the Car
nesville, Ga., city to see what
the outcome will be.
Big babies
HANFORD, Calif. (UPI) —
When Mrs. Clara Loya of
LeMoore entered Sacred Heart
Hospital here Friday, she
expected to give birth to what
her doctor said would be “a
very large baby.”
The doctor was half right.
She gave birth to two large
babies.
Jolene Nicol was born about 2
a.m. and weighed 8 pounds
even. Eight minutes later, her
brother, Jason Michael, arrived
and weighed in at 8 pounds 2
ounces.
Dr. Eugene Haslett said that
they were the largest twins
ever recorded in Kings County.
sales already are reported at
their poorest in a decade.
Higher gasoline taxes could cut
sharply into sales, especially
among families purchasing a
second car.
The only auto executive who
did not react to Ford’s
suggestion was Roy D. Chapin
Jr., chairman of American
Motors Corp., who said he did
not want to comment.
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President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev wearing fur hats upon Ford’s arrival at
airport in Vladivostok, USSR. (UPI)
In Russia
Ford pushes
for control
of N-Arms
VLADIVOSTOK (UPI) -
Pursuing detente in frozen
Siberia, President Ford met for
the first time today with Soviet
leader Leonid I. Brezhnev and
urged that the two nuclear
superpowers “get on with the
business of controlling arms.”
The President pledged his
personal commitment to the
policy of U.S.-Soviet detente
established in two earlier
summit meetings between
Brezhnev and Richard M.
Nixon.
“We share a responsibility—
not only to our own people, but
to all mankind,” Ford said in a
toast prepared to mark the
start of his first effort at
international summitry.
“We must avoid war and the
destruction it would mean. Let
us get on with the business of
controlling arms. Let us con
tribute through our cooperation
to the resolution of the great
problems facing mankind.”
Even though Brezhnev and
Ford had never before met,
they struck an immediate and
easy rapport.
The two leaders began their
talks in a jovial mood aboard a
13-car train crossing the bleak,
snow-covered plains of far
eastern Russia in zero-degree
weather. They continued them
at the Okeanriky health spa 11
miles outside the secret city of
Vladivostok near the Chinese
border.
Brezhnev signaled a new
thaw in relations between the
two countries, inviting report
ers accompanying the Presi
dent to tour Vladivostok. They
will be the first U.S. citizens to
enter the city—home port for
the Soviet Pacific fleet—since it
was closed to Americans in
1923.
Ford said if history is to
remember the United States
and the Soviet Union favorably
in this age, the two nations
must cooperate to solve such
world-wide problems as food,
population and energy.
“The world has become
accustomed to regular meetings
between the leaders of the
Soviet and American peoples,”
he said. “As a result, all people
now have a better chance to
live in peace and security.”
The President was on the last
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and most important leg of his
first state journey abroad—a
trip that earlier had carried
him to Tokyo and to Seoul,
where he was engulfed by more
than two-million confetti-tossing
South Koreans.
The first “deal” between
Ford and Brezhnev, made
jokingly over a table laden with
fruit and mineral water, was
for Russian snowplows to solve
the winter problems of Wash
ington D.C. That set the pattern
for a steady patter of jokes and
clowning between the two men,
both of whom are extremely
outgoing.
But serious topics—efforts to
agree on nuclear arms limita
tions, the tense Middle East
situation and European security
—dominated the agenda.
Concern about nuclear weap
ons even penetrated the joking.
Just before the private talks
started, Brezhnev looked across
the conference table at his
American guests and with a
broad smile spelled out “M-I-R-
V,” the name applied to
maneuverable nuclear war
heads.
Both nations have such
warheads in their arsenals, and
a major U.S. objective is to
have them limited according to
size and number.
Deputy White House Press
Secretary John Hushen said
arms limitation was the first
topic taken up by Ford and
Brezhnev. Their opening discus
sions lasted more than three
and a half hours—almost twice
the scheduled time—before
breaking for a welcoming
evening banquet.
The arms negotiations, which
were expected to pave the way
for a 1975 agreement rather
than produce an immediate
treaty, were expected to be the
major topic of the summit. But
Ford also planned to urge
Brezhnev to exercise restraint
in the Middle East.
Observers found the meeting
much more relaxed and friend
ly than was the final Nixon-
Brezhnev summit last summer,
when Brezhnev unyielding and
appeared to feel Watergate had
robbed Nixon of his effective
ness as a world leader.
