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Betty Hill (1) and Rebecca Buck hope that donations to the Salvation Army kettle appeal
will increase this weekend. Capt. Roy Asher who is commander of the post in Griffin said
that contributions through the kettle appeal were running behind last year’s. Members of
Griffin civic clubs helped with the kettle coUections today by ringing bells and soliciting
contributions downtown and at shopping centers.
Flu hits state
ATLANTA (UPI) - The state
Health Department reported
three confirmed cases of
influenza in Georgia Friday,
the first reported cases this
year.
Tom McKinley, assistant di
rector of the epidemiology
division of the department, said
Grady Hospital in Atlanta had
reported three confirmed cases
of influenza and added these
cases were an indication that
many other victims in the city
Attorney
appointed
in Henry
MCDONOUGH, Ga. (UPI) -
A. J. Wells, a local attorney,
was appointed Friday to defend
Jerry Banks, 23, charged with
the murder of a Jonesboro High
School band director and a
college coed.
Flint Judicial Circuit Judge
Hugh D. Sosebee named Wells
as attorney for Banks. No date
was set for an arraignment.
Banks is charged with killing
Marvin King, 38, and 18-year
old Melanie Ann Hartsfield, a
student at Clayton Junior
College, with a shotgun Nov. 7.
He had reported to police that
he found their bodies while
hunting.
Georgia Power wants permanent rate hike
ATLANTA (UPI) - Georgia
Power Co. will ask the state
Public Service Commission for
a tempporary emergency rate
increase Monday of $85.8
million to be collected before
May 1, 1975.
A spokesman for the utility
said Friday the utility is
preparing a case to ask for a
permanent increase which will
be filed before the end of the
Kettle gifts slow
are coming down with the
ailment.
McKinley said the three cases
reported at Grady had been
identified as similar to those of
the Port Chalmers A-strain.
The Port Chalmers virus is a
new type of influenza that
shifted antigenically and
brought about the necessity of
producing a new vaccine to
provide adequate protection.
He said health authorities had
been notified of a “sharp
increase” in school absenteeism
in public schools in Dalton and
Campbell says controls
lower home food prices
ATLANTA (UPI) - Two
speakers told a regional meet
ing of the American Meat
Institute Friday that export
controls on farm products and
employment are two of the
main problems facing farmers.
J. Phil Campbell, U. S.
undersecretary of agriculture,
said export controls on farm
products would raise prices
aboard while lowering them at
home.
Georgia state economist Do
nald Ratajczek told the meeting
that unemployment may reach
year and possibly as early as
next week.
Friday Harold McKenzie,
Georgia Power senior vice
president, responded to a letter
Gov. Jimmy Carter wrote last
week contesting the company’s
need for higher rates.
Carter’s letter contended
Georgia Power customer de
mands only showed a three per
cent growth in 1973 but
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Whitfield County because of
upper respiratory illnesses.
The cases of flu in Georgia
are occurring this year about
three to four weeks earlier than
usual, McKiney said. He said
that this might be the result of
improved surveillance tech
niques.
McKinley said, “It’s beginning
to make its presence known.
“There has been a definite
increase in cases of respiratory
illness at Grady this week
compared to last week.”
eight per cent in the United
States by next summer.
Ratajczek said there had
been four quarters of double
digit inflation this year but he
doesn’t expect it to run that
high in 1975. He said he thought
the prime lending rate would
drop to seven per cent in the
spring and “that kind of move
will cause the economy to show
an upward move.”
Campbell said that if farmers
were not allowed to sell
overseas and reserve supplies
were built up in the United
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, December 14,1974
Lawmakers plan
public meetings
People in this community will
have a chance to tell local legis
lators what’s on their minds at
two public meetings.
The first will be next Wednes
day at the Chamber of Com
merce auditorium beginning at
7 p.m.
The second will be at the
Stuckey building of the Ex
periment Station Jan. 7 at 7
p.m.
Rep. John Carlisle announced
plans for the meetings today.
He and Rep.-elect John
Mostiler and Sen.-elect Virginia
Shapard will be on hand to
answer questions about state
and local legislative matters at
the two sessions.
Carlisle said the Chamber
Emigrations figure
in Russ trade bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
After two years of delay, the
Senate has passed a bill to offer
the Soviet Union nondiscrimina
tory trade terms in exchange
for free emigration for its
Jews.
President Ford was expected
to welcome Friday’s passage of
the bill by a 77-4 margin
although there was no immedi
ate comment from the White
House. The bill now goes to a
conference with the House.
At the State Department, a
spokesman expressed gratifica
tion over passage of the bill
which the administration con
siders crucial in building
international good feeling with
the Soviet Union and other
Communist countries.
The Senate endorsed, by an
88-0 vote, an amendment by
Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-
Wash., to provide most favored
nation treatment for the Soviet
Union only if Russia opens its
doors. That amendment had
held up the bill for a year until
States, “this becomes a pricing
mechanism that drives far
mers’ prices down at home and
prices up on the world
market.”
Campbell said, “Export con
trols and the holding in reserve
of stocks that could be sold
simply do not work. Besides
why should farmers alone be
selected for price controls
through such a devious device
when wage and price controls
have been found objectionable
and not workable and only
recently been abandoned?”
McKenzie said company figures
show peak demand climbed by
nearly seven per cent last year.
The utility acknowledged that
Carter’s figures showing almost
no increase in national electric
demand through August of this
year were correct but McKen
zie said Georgia’s peak demand
over the same period increased
by 6.5 per cent.
McKenzie said the company
meeting will focus a good bit on
tax relief proposals which may
come before the General
Assembly next year.
Emphasis on problems facing
Georgians who work for an
hourly wage will be emphasized
at the Jan. 7 meeting at the
Stuckey auditorium.
The legislators said citizens
are invited to attend the
sessions, participate in the
discussions, give their views
and hear from the people who
will represent them in the
General Assembly next year.
The hearings in years past
have been well attended and
lively and legislators think the
sessions this time will be the
same.
a compromise was reached Oct.
18 between Jackson, Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger and
the Russians.
As debate on the bill
unfolded, Jackson said: “If the
Soviets fail to live up to the
letter and spirit of this
agreement the basis of trust
and confidence that is essential
to the whole range of our
relations will be destroyed.” He
said he wanted his investiga
tions subcommittee to monitor
emigration.
Congress will have the ability
to rescind most favored nation
treatment for Russia after 18
months, if the Soviet Union
does not allow disgruntled
citizens to leave.
Jackson said he expected at
least 60,000 Jews to emigrate
annually.
The Senate also adopted
amendments which would:
—Establish an East-West
Trade Review Board to assure
orderly development of trade
with Communist countries and
avert huge, unbalancing deals
like the Soviet grain purchase
two years ago.
—Limit credits to the Soviet
Union to S3OO million.
Additionally, the bill will
grant President Ford authority
to enter into international
negotiations to lower world
trade barriers, compensate any
domestic industry injured by
foreign competition, and set up
preferences for developing na
tions. '
Guard open house
will be tomorrow
The Griffin National Guard
unit reminded Griffinites they
are invited to inspect facilities
of the company tomorrow
during open house from 1-4 p.m.
“must look at Georgia custom
er patterns and not national
averages if we’re to plan
wisely.”
McKenzie said all indicators
point to more, rather than less
use of electricity in the future
and he cautioned against any
policy or action that suppposes
future “growth trends will defy
the past.” He said any effort to
impose “artificial social restric-
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The joy of Christmas
BINGHAMTON, N. Y. — Saint Nicholas may be Jolly but little Niki Margaritis is fearful
during her first encounter with the jolly old gent in a department store in Binghamton
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Fist
fight
breaks
SEOUL (UPI) - Legislators
from the ruling party and. the
opposition fought with their
fists on the floor of the South
Korean parliament today after
an opposition lawmaker called
for President Park Chung-hee’s
resignation.
The fistfight broke out only
one day after the reopening of
the National Assembly, which
had been paralyzed for 45 days
by an opposition boycott to
push demands for constitutional
revisions.
Lippman dead
NEW YORK (UPI) - Walter
Lippman, a giant of American
journalism who twice won the
Pulitzer Prize, died today after
a lengthy illness. He was 85.
tions” would jeopardize “the
quality of life for Georgians.”
McKenzie denied implications
the company is building indis
crimantly. He said Georgia
Power is only trying to meet a
growing demand that is being
further boosted by the shift to
electricity from scarcer or
costly energy sources.
The Georgia Power Project, a
consumers group, announced at
Daily Since 1872
Slump may claim
work by Picasso
TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) — The
nation’s economic slump may
have claimed another victim —
a posthumous work of art by
Pablo Picasso.
Picasso had donated the
design of a huge sculpture,
“Bust of a Woman,” to the
University of South Florida
here before his death and the
school donated the site.
But to actually construct the
100-foot high sculpture will cost
a half-million dollars and a two
year fund raising effort has
brought in only $125,000.
“The general state of the
economy has been the principal
factor contributing to the lack
of success in securing the
support needed,” said George
S. Jenkins, chairman of the
Picasso fund campaign.
a press conferencce Friday'
they would oppose the rate
increase. Jane Switek, spokesp
erson for the group, said this is
the fifth time since 1971 that
Georgia Power has asked for a
rate increase.
She said her group is
conducting a petition drive to
mobilize opposition to the rate
increase.
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ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
60, low today 31, high yesterday
54, low yesterday 34, high
tomorrow near 50, low tonight
near 40.
But Jenkins said the project
should not be abandoned.
“Indeed, we continue to
believe that the Picasso should
and will be built,” Jenkins said.
Project director Jerry Ed
monson, director of university
development, said Friday’s
meeting of the fund raising
committee was the first in
several weeks.
“When we were told to meet,
most of us really thought it
would be to tell us the project
would be shelved, but instead,
we discussed exploring a couple
of possibilities,” Edmonson
said.
He said one avenue will be an
attempt to obtain support from
major corporate donors.
If the statue is completed, it
will be the largest Picasso
sculpture in the world.
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“Folks who move leave
behind neighbors who either are
glad they were there — or that
they’re not”