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Mickey Mouse brings greetings
W ASHTNGTON—Mickey Mouse makes an appearance children of members of the Diplomatic Corps at a party in
and First lady Betty Ford introduces him to some 500 the East Room of the White House. (UPI)
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live so as never to bring tears to
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‘lt’s not a joke at all 9
Bachelor advertises for wife
By RICHARD P. JONES
MADISON, Wis. (UPI) - A
31-year-old bachelor has tired
of the singles clubs, bars and
dance halls and has decided to
take a more direct approach to
findng a wife. He spent $175.07
for newspaper ads and is
accepting applications from
prospective brides.
“It’s not a joke at all,” said
wife-seeking bachelor, who
wished to remain anonymous.
“There should be some more
convenient way, more efficient
way of seeing people that you
like than just taking potluck at
bars, dance halls and things
like that,” he said.
So he placed 11-by-4-inch ads
this week in Madison’s two
newspapers. But from the looks
of the advertisement, it appears
he is seeking the perfect wife.
“Are you tired of hanging
Vol. 102 No. 291
She was trying to help
Car pool under court order
SANTA ANA, Calif. (UPI) -
Garlene Zappitelli said she was
just trying to heed President
Ford’s advice to save gasoline.
Now she may have the only car
pool in the nation placed under
a state order not to share
gasoline expenses.
Mrs. Zappitelli pleaded her
case Wednesday before a
hearing by the California
Public Utilities Commission. At
issue is whether Mrs. Zappitelli
is running a car pool or a small
busline.
To the commission, a car
pool must be noncommercial
and operate with a private auto
no bigger than a station wagon.
Mrs. Zappitelli’s vehicle is a
12-passenger van which she
around bars looking for a
mate?” he asks in the ad.
“I am.
“Do you refuse to settle for
someone who isn’t what you
want even though he appears to
be the only available one
around? Good for you!
“If you have the attributes
listed below and you like what
you read about me, I want to
meet you.”
Then he set forth the
qualifications. The propective
bride, he said, must be between
the ages of 23 and 28 and
should not have been married
before.
She should have at least a
four-year degree from a nation
al university in either accoun
ting, physical or medical
sciences, law, history or library
sciences. It says he would
prefer career girl earning at
griffin
DAI N E WS
said she bought because she
has six children. She began
giving fellow workers at TRW,
Inc., where she is a budget
data clerk, rides from her
home in Fountain Valley, Calif.,
to the firm’s Redondo Beach
office. She charged $8 a week
for the 77-mile round trip, and
said at that she could just
break even.
The Southern California Com
muter Bus Service Inc, a local
subscription bus service,
brought a complaint before the
utilities commission, accusing
her of operating an unauthor
ized “fly-by-night bus route”
and asking that she be stopped
and fined "SSOO per offense”
and ordered to make restitution
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, December 12,1974
least $9,000 annually. more than two children.”
She shouldn’t be taller than 5- Those interested were in-
feet-5 and should not weigh structed to send resumes to
more than 115 pounds. She Route 2, Box 46A, Jefferson,
must be a nonsmoker, infre- Wis., 53549.
quent drinker, frugal, aggress- The ad appears unemotional
ive, studious, a late sleeper who and businesslike. And perhaps
prefers a house temperature of that businesslike attitude is the
not more than 65 degrees. basis for the story of love lost
Concerning religion, he calls that lies behind the ad.
for an agnostic or member of He said in an interview that
any major denomination. Politi- he had never been engaged but
rally, the prospective bride had fallen deeply in love with
should be a moderate Democrat his childhood sweetheart.
or independent. And her nation- “She liked me, she really like
al origin should be northern me,” he said. “But I finally
European, British or Irish. decided it would be best for her
The ad also describes the not to marry me because of her
propective bridgroom as a man particular personality.
with three college degrees, an “She had a peculiar preferen-
agnostic who stands 5-feet-10 ce,” he said. “She was a nut on
inches tall and weighs 160 France and French things. So I
pounds. It said he is healthy, advised her to go to France,
and “willing to negotiate after marry a Frenchman.
two years of marriage for not “So. She did.”
Henry County sheriff’s in
vestigators have arrested Jerry
Banks, 23, of Stockbridge, and
have charged him in the shot
gun slayings of Marvin King
and Melanie Hartsfield.
Banks reportedly had been
hunting in the area where the
bodies were found just after
sundown on Nov. 7. It was he
who led officers to the site.
Investigators would not
divulge the information which
resulted in the arrest of the
young black man, but it is
known that Banks owned a
shotgun of the type which killed
the Jonesboro band director and
his former star student.
On the night of Nov. 7, Henry
County Detective Dick Barnes
answered a telephone call from
an anonymous caller stating a
man had attempted to wave him
down on Rock Quarry road with
the story two people had been
shot.
Officers went to the scene and
found the two bodies in dense
woods about 100 yards off Rock
Quarry road.
Both victims had been shot
twice at close range with a 12
gauge shotgun.
Miss Hartsfield had a red
blanket pulled over her body.
Both bodies were still warm.
The subsequent investigation
resulted in hundreds of in
terrogation sessions in attempts
to solve the baffling crime.
Mr. King was a respected
band director who presented
half time performances at
to the bus line for lost business.
Eight of Mrs. Zappitelli’s
riders appeared at the commis
sion hearing Wednesday, testi
fying that they had not been
commercially solicited to ride
the Zappitelli line, as the bus
company charged.
The commission said its
decision will take about a
month to prepare.
“I don’t feel I’m guilty of
anything except sharing a ride,
which the President and every
one else asked us to do,” Mrs.
Zappitelli said.
“I asked them (the commis
sion) if I could continue the car
pool if I charged them
nothing,” she added. “They
said yes. So I won’t collect any
money.”
Daily Since 1872
Atlanta Falcon football games.
Miss Hartsfield was a student
at Clayton Junior College and a
former band student of King’s
at Jonesboro High School.
Miss Hartsfield was a close
personal friend of the entire
King family and one of the
closest friends of Marvin King’s
daughter.
College
tuition
to go up
ATLANTA (UPI) - Shealy
McCoy, vice chancellor for
fiscal affairs of the state Board
of Regents, said Wednesday
inflationary costs may make it
necessary to raise tutition fees
at Georgia colleges by at least
10 per cent.
McCoy said at least $5 million
is needed to make up for
inflation in the cost of fuel,
paper, utilities and other items.
The $5 million would come
from a 10 per cent increase in
over-all tuition for the system’s
three levels of institutions.
McCoy said the present
annual operating budget for the
university system is $384
million with $259 million com
ing from state appropriations,
SSO million from tutition fees
and the remainder from other
sources.
Board of Regents member
Lee Burge said it may be
necessary to increase the
tuitions because of the “failure
of the governor to include
inflationary cost figures in
operational areas” of the
university system budget.
A 10 per cent pay increase
has been requested by the
board of regents for faculty
members of the university
system and McCoy said the
amount of the tutition increase
would depend on whether or not
the pay increase is granted.
Jim Mclntyre of the state
office of planning and budget
said Gov.-elect George Busbee
is expected to make a decision
in the next few days of the
salary increase.
Mclntrye said, “The universi
ty system is going to get
somewhere in the neighborhood
of S3O million more for its
budget excluding a salary
increase for its faculty.”
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President Ford, addressing the Business Council at the
Mayflower Hotel, said he would soon present Congress
new plans to fight the “devils of inflation, recession and
energy.” (UPI)
Concerned Ford talks
with auto makers
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A
“deeply concerned” President
Ford met with the ailing auto
industry’s top executives and
union leaders at the White
House today after promising
new proposals to help beat
inflation and recession.
In a speech Wednesday night,
Ford said his proposals would
include “no drastic action.”
Ford said he called today’s
meeting to see what could be
done to solve the auto
industry’s problems of falling
sales and rising layoffs. The
industry has been one of the
hardest hit by inflation and
recession.
The President sat at the
Cabinet table with officials of
Ford, General Motors, Ameri
can Motors and Chrysler and
President Leonard Woodcock of
the United Auto Workers union.
Also attending were Tran
sportation Secretary Claude
Brinegar, Treasury Secretary
William Simon and Michigan
Gov. William Milliken, who has
pressed hard for federal inter
vention in his state, biggest
auto producer in the country.
Spelling out his latest views
in a speech Wednesday night,
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Ford said he is “deeply
concerned” about “three
domestic devils — inflation,
recession and energy.”
He said the auto industry’s
problems “affect our economy
on a very broad basis.”
Ford told a dinner meeting of
the Business Council “the
economy is in difficult straits”
and that he would propose “a
number of new or alternative
measures to augment and
update” his policy by mid-
January, shortly after the new
Congress convenes, “if not
sooner.”
The President did not go into
specifics before the group of
more than 100 corporate of
ficials.
But he made it clear that he
is not planning a major shift in
the broad policy he advanced
last October, although the
White House said earlier
Wednesday Ford had all but
abandoned hope for passage
this year of his 5 per cent
income tax surcharge proposal
and did not know if he would
put it before the new Congress.
In sum, Ford said in his
speech, “Our country is not in
an economic crisis ... that
demands immediate and dras
tic action.”
At one point, he drew
applause when he told the
businessmen: “If there are any
among you who want me to
take a 180-degree turn from
inflation-fighting to recession
ary pump-priming, they will be
disappointed. I will continue to
treat this general economic
ailment with a balanced pro
gram.”
Ford said he knew further
steps must be taken to deal
with continuing high rates of
inflation, declining production
and rising joblessness, which
reached 6.5 per cent last
month.
But “I cannot and will not
promise you a sudden change
for the better,” he said because
even if additional steps are
taken now the results “would
not be felt for months to
come.”
Moreover, he said he was
skeptical about “short-term
panaceas” such as an immedi
ate return to wage and price
controls, mandatory gasoline
rationing or “other compulsory
programs that treat the symp
toms but retard the cure.”