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Plane crash kills five
BRANDON, Miss. (UPI) -
Five persons were killed early
Wednesday when their light
plane hit the top of a tree
during a blinding rainstorm and
crashed into a section of
interstate highway near here.
Authorities said four of the
victims were from Florida and
the fifth was a resident of
Georgia. Their small red and
white single engine aircraft was
■registeed in lowa and reported
ly had been on a flight from
Clearwater, Fla., to Denver,
Colo.
The Mississippi Highway Pa
trol identified the victims as
Richard L. Hawes and his wife,
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‘Joy’ program
The Griffin Business and Pro
fessional Women’s Club met at
the Country Club for the
December dinner meeting.
The program, “Joy to the
World” was presented by the
Griffin Music Club, under the
direction of Mrs. James
Mankin.
A sang-a-long with Angie was
led by Mrs. Mankin.
Mrs. Norma Collins, presi
dent, presided. Mrs. Florence
Barker gave the invocation.
Sen. Virginia Shapard was
presented a membership
certificate by Mrs. Collins.
The meeting closed with a
Christmas prayer entitled “Let
There Be Peace on Earth.”
Seventy members and guests
were present.
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Lois Scott Hawes, both of l
Clearwater, Fla.; the pilot, <
Alfred L. Harville II of
Clearwater; Russell M. Diifey !
of Dunedin, Fla.; and Robert A. 1
Scott of St. Simons, Ga. 1
A spokesman for the Rankin 1
County Sheriff’s Department
said the Cessna 210, a four- i
passenger plane, crashed short- i
ly after 8 a.m. on Interstate 20 i
three miles east of here. The
crash sight was about seven
miles west of the Municipal
Airport, but authorities said
there was no indication the
plane was going to land here.
Investigators said the plane
shattered on impact, scattering
wreckage, shoes, and a wig
over a wide area. One body
was hurled more than 50 feet
from the impact area. The
eastbound lane of 1-20 was
closed until the debris could be
removed.
Louis Simmons, a truck
driver from Clinton, Miss., and
Bill Ford of Brandon, were
driving along the interstate
when the crash occurred.
Simmons had to slam on his
brakes to keep from plowing
into the wreckage.
“The plane hit the top of a
tree, went straight up and then
plummeted straight down onto
the interstate,” said Simmons.
“The plane exploded on impact
but there was no fire.”
Mrs. Josh Cox, who lives less
than a quarter mile from the
crash sight, said she heard the
plane “cutting out” as it passed
over her house.
“I was afraid for a minute
that it was going to hit my
chimney that low,” she said.
Mrs. Cox said her daughter
saw the plane’s “wheels catch
the top of nearby pine trees,
flip into the air and crash onto
the interstate.”
The Federal Aviation Ad
ministration (FAA) and state
and local authorities were
investigating the crash.
Music Club
has Yule
program
The Griffin Music Club held
its December meeting at the
home of Mrs. Tofey Smaha.
The program, built on a
Christmas theme, was in
troduced by Mrs. Jerry Walker.
Mrs. Nan Carley and Mrs.
Peggy Chandler presented a
piano-organ arrangement of
“Good Christian Men Rejoice.”
Mrs. Linda Smaha Craig and
Mrs. Marian Fetzer performed
“Tarantella” from Rach
maninoff’s Second Suite as a
two piano duet
The club chorus, under the
direction of Mrs. Angie Mankin,
sang a quadlivet of Christmas
carols, “Pine Cones and Holly
Berries,” and “Have Yourself a
Merry Litrtle Christmas.”
The chorus concluded the
program by singing the Hymn
of the Month, “Angels From
The Realms of Glory.”
As a special presentation six
members of the chorus sang the
National Federation of Music
Clubs’ Collect. The chorus was
accompanied by Mrs. Marion
Fetzer.
Hostesses for the meeting
were Mrs. Rofey Smaha, Miss
Nelle Tanner and Miss Thelma
Brisendine.
The Griffin Music Club is
affiliated with the National
Federation of Music Clubs.
Lisa Woods
celebrates
4th birthday
Melisa Jean Woods
celebrated her fourth birthday
with a surprise party given by
her mother, Mrs. Wanda
Woods and her grandmother,
Mrs. Irma Buffington.
The cake was decorated with
Santa Claus. Cake, punch and
party favors were served to the
guests.
The honoree is the grand
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James E. Buffington Jr. and
Mr. and Mrs. Bart Bridges.
Those present were Susan and
Scott Tuggle, Mrs. Mary
Tuggle, Kelly Gill, Flynt Woods,
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Maddox,
Mr. and Mrs. Steve F. Woods,
Mrs. Irma Buffington and the
honoree.
Surprise Island
Kovachi, a submarine
volcano in the British
Solomon Islands of the South
Pacific, was first observed in
eruption by an airline pilot in
October, 1969. What began as
a bubbling discoloration of
sea water eventually turned
into a new island.
Ford won’t change
inflation strategy
By JAMES R. KING
United Press International
President Ford says the
nation is not in an economic
crisis and he has no intentions
of changing his anti-inflation
strategy.
“If there are any ... who
want me to take a 180-degree
turn from inflation fighting to
recessionary pump-priming,
they will be disappointed,”
Ford told a meeting of top
industrialists and financiers
Wednesday night.
The President said he will
soon give Congress additional
economic plans which he
described as “new or alterna
tive measures to augment and
update the economic package I
placed before the Congreess
two months ago.”
“The economy is in difficult
straits,” Ford said. “We are in
a recession. Production is
declining and unemployment is
rising... Nevertheless, our coun
try is not in an economic
crisis.”
Earlier in the day three
economists testifying before the
Senate Budget Committee fore
cast a bleak economic picture
for 1975, with unemployment
soaring to 8 per cent or beyond
and no recovery in prospect
until late in the year.
Democratic economists Otto
Eckstein of Harvard University
and Arthur M. Okun of the
Brookings Institution were the
most pessimistic.
Arguing that recession was a
bigger problem than inflation,
they said the government
Saxbe to get nod
for ambassador post
WASHINGTON (UPI) - At
torney General William B.
Saxbe will be nominated as
ambassador to India, sources
said Wednesday.
Both the State Department
and Saxbe declined to comment
on the report.
Saxbe, in office almost a year
as the fourth attorney general
since June of 1972, would
replace Daniel Patrick Moyni
han in New Delhi.
Moynihan was understood to
be planning to resign soon to
resume teaching at Harvard
University after nearly two
years as ambassador.
Scripps-Howard newspapers
reported Tuesday that Saxbe
and President Ford met this
week to discuss the attorney
general’s resignation, but it
was not known who initiated
the talk.
Saxbe, in Columbus, Ohio, to
attend the funeral of prominent
insurance man Fred Jones, a
long-time friend, said there
may be an official announce
ment “possibly later in the
week” but also added, “or
there might be nothing.”
“I am not privileged to make
any statement,” Saxbe said,
“but ... I did have a meeting
should prime the economy with
an income tax cut and by
allowing the money supply to
grow at a higher rate.
But Republican Murray Wei
denbaum of Washington Univer
sity in St. Louis was wary of
any long-range economic-boost
ing policies for fear they could
make inflation worse.
In other developments:
—The prestigious Wharton
School at the University of
Pennsylvania issued its quar
terly economic forecast, pre
dicting the recession will
continue for several months but
disappear in time for the
nation’s bicentennial celebra
tion in 1976, when inflation
should be about 7 per cent.
—New York City Mayor
Abraham Beame announced
7,300 jobs will be eliminated by
June 30 —3,725 by immediate
layoffs and the rest by attrition.
—The 42 Republican mem
bers of the Senate adopted their
own set of economic proposals
Wednesday, including tax cuts,
500,000 new public jobs, manda
tory energy conservation meas
ures and a tax on wasteful
energy consumption.
—A bill to provide more than
$6 billion for jobs and jobless
benefits was approved by the
Senate Labor and Public
Welfare Committee. A similar
bill in the House bill provides
$2 billion for public service jobs
during the first six months of
next year, plus the same
unemployment benefits as the
Senate bill.
with President Ford on Monday
at some length and we
discussed some things but there
are are number of elements
involved and there is nothing
settled ...
The outspoken Saxbe, ap
pointed attorney general by
former President Nixon to
replace Elliot Richardson after
the “Saturday Night Massacre”
of October, 1973, previously was
a Republican senator from
Ohio.
In 1971, Saxbe spoke on
behalf of the Bangladesh
independence movement and
cosponsored a resolution cutting
off aid to Pakistan, a move he
said was his greatest accom
plishment in the Senate.
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Bulloch farmer dies in wreck
STATESBORO, Ga. (UPI) -
Prominent Bulloch County
farmer William H. Smith Jr.,
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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, December 12,1974
58, was killed Wednesday when
his pickup truck and a large
piece of earth moving equip-
ment collided near here.
Police said the accident
occurred on a rural road near
the Statesboro city limits when
the earth mover hit the side of
Smith’struck.