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Griffin wins Region championship. Page 8 Forecast Showers Map Page 7 Ki ||. : ■ j| s. * '""'' x , X r Wi K I I w • M ■ ,m fk k Jfi *& .JiO I SKfe ;gMK® Jk 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. ti il.>" I iL k z 1 J ; i ■ r iU ' i . »• ■'M \ / • -- ■ I 1 gg " ■ ?l ■ i Jr i Loses round 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. DAILY Vol. 102 No. 276 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 GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, November 23, 1974 1 ,\ «l Bk / Ml 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. NEWS 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. Daily Since 1872 =t| IbSpaS “Folks who think newspapers shouldn’t print bad news ought to spend their time making good news.” Weather ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 69, low today 32, high yesterday 66, low yesterday 35, high today in upper 60s, low tonight in upper 40s. ■n 1 k Sflb ■■ ‘** > B fl 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 ®A Prize-Winning Newspaper 1974 Better Newspaper Contests 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.