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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, February 25, 1975
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ATLANTA—Lt Gov. Zell Miller stands in the well of the
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U.S. begins Berlin-style
airlift to besieged Phnom Penh
SAIGON (UPI) - The United
States collected hundreds of
tons of rice today for the start
of a massive, Berlin-style airlift
of food to the besieged
Cambodian capital of Phnom
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U.S. Embassy sources said
American commercial jets will
fly about 15 supply flights a day
from Saigon to Phnom Penh in
a desperate attempt to save the
refugee-swollen Cambodian
capital,
capital.
The sources said the month
long airlift will carry 583 tons
of rice daily to Phnom Penh,
providing each of the city’s
residents with a half-pound of
rice each day, a bare subsist
ence level.
The food airlift, scheduled to
begin by Thursday morning,
will be in addition to hundreds
of tons of ammunition and fuel
honor of his 43rd birthday. (UPI)
already being flown daily on
U.S. planes to Cambodia’s
beleaguered armed forces.
In Washington, the State
Department said the Cambodi
an government of President
Lon Nol will collapse within two
months without emergency aid
from the United States.
Phillip Habib, assistant secre
tary of state for East Asian
affairs, called on the Senate
Monday to approve President
Ford’s request for $222 million
in emergency aid to Cambodia.
“It’s not just the government
of Marshal Lon Nol,” Habib
said. “No government could
survive beyond a month of
two.”
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Habib, a former Vietnam
peace negotiator, sketched
Cambodia’s situation in grim
terms. “Militarily, the situation
is more serious than it has ever
been since fighting began in
1970,” he said.
U.S. sources in Saigon said
the Cambodian capital’s food
stockpiles will be down to less
than a week at the start of the
American airlift.
The Cotnmunist-led Khmer
Rouge insurgents have cut all
the capital’s road and river
supply routes, leaving the
airlift as the only alternative to
an immediate collapse of the
Lon Nol government.
Surry resident says bridge
should have been condemned
SILOAM, N.C. (UPI) -
Howard Miller, a 78-year-old
lifelong resident of this Surry
County town, says he helped
build a bridge across the
Yadkin River in 1938 and knows
it should have been tom down
“a long time ago.”
But the bridge wasn’t tom
down and Sunday night when a
car rammed into a structural
support and snapped a tension
cable on the wooden, one-way
bridge, it came down by itself
—at a cost of four lives and 15
injuries.
“It should have been con
demned last summer,” said
Miller, who said he helped
gather labor crews to build the
bridge as a Works Progress
Administration (WPA) project
in 1938.
“Everybody on both sides of
the river’s been trying to get it
tore down,” he said. “Lord, we
tried.”
In Raleigh, North Carolina
Transportation Secretary Troy
Doby said the bridge was
structurally sound, but agreed
that it should have been
replaced.
“It was a question of
money,” Doby said. The bridge
was rated only “fair” in
4 held
in Douglas
killing
DOUGLAS, Ga. (UPI) -
Four men, one of whom had
been released from a prison
camp in error, were held
without bond today in the
holdup-murder of a package
store operator who was the 12th
victim to die in the month-long
spate of violence in rural
Georgia
Jeff Monroe Hutcheson Sr.,
42, co-owner of the S-B Package
Store, was shot and killed
Saturday night when two men
attempted to rob the store.
Police Chief Darlian Faulkner
said Hutcheson’s business part
ner, S.B. Bounds, fired a
shotgun blast at the bandits as
they fled empty handed from
the store.
More than 50 state troopers,
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
agents and Coffee County
deputies launched a search for
the four men which led to the
arrests Sunday of Leon Banks,
25, of Atlanta; Ronnie Hamil
ton, 19, Waycross; Morris
Paulk, 22, and Frank Johnson,
34, both of Douglas.
Faulkner said Banks was
charged with robbery, murder,
kidnaping and auto theft. He
said the other three were
charged with robbery and
murder.
The kidnaping charge against
Banks stemmed from an
incident which occurred shortly
after the robbery, according to
Chief Faulkner.
Banks, who had been wound
ed in the arm by buckshot from
Bounds’ shotgun blast, was
walking along a road when an
auxiliary policeman and a
nurse drove by and spotted
him. When they stopped the car
to render assistance to the
wounded man, he shoved a gun
in their faces and made them
drive him across town where he
left the car without harming
them, Faulkner said.
Banks had been released
from Bellwood Prison in Fulton
County Dec. 31.
A state Department of
Offender Rehabilitation spokes
man said Banks was given a
conditional transfer from the
Ware County Correctional Insti
tute last Oct. 1 in order to serve
a six-month sentence at Bell
wood for escape.
Banks had been sentenced in
1971 to 10 years for multiple
counts of auto theft and 15
years for burglary, to serve
eight years concurrently on
each conviction.
The spokesman said state
officials were to have been
notified when Banks completed
the Bellwood sentence.
Bellwood officials said they
had no detainer against Banks
and released him last Dec. 31
when the six-month sentence
was completed.
Banks would not have been
discharged under the state
sentence until May 5, 1976.
November inspection and the
wooden floor was replaced,
Doby said.
At that time, he said, the
weight limit was reduced from
10 tons to seven tons after
inspectors rated the steel work
in only “fair” condition. But
Doby said that, except for the
accident snapping the structur
al support, the bridge would
still be standing.
Miller, a retired undertaker,
said he was a longtime friend
of Hugh Atkinson, 75, and his
wife, Ola, 70, both of Siolam,
who were among those killed in
the crash.
“He was the best friend I
ever had,” said Miller. “We (he
and Atkinson) tried for years to
get that bridge replaced.
“They just claimed they
didn’t have the money,” said
Miller, “but they’ve built
bridge after bridge without as
much traffic.”
Also killed when the bridge,
which spans the Yadkin River
between Surry and Yadkin
counties near here, collapsed
were Mrs. Judy Brown Need
ham, 28, and her 3-year-old
daughter, Andrea.
The child’s body was the last
recovered, with rescue workers
aided by scuba divers pulling it
from the river’s rain-swollen
waters Monday afternoon.
Doby said many state bridges
had a design similar to the 65-
foot high, 387-foot long bridge
and were as old. Many bridges,
he said, are in need of
replacement but a sweeping
replacement program is “finan-
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sent financing of the
department.
“You’re talking hundreds of
millions of dollars,” Doby said.
Highway contractors and
construction equipment manu
facturers last August had listed
the bridge as among 1,222 in
the state considered deficient
and in need of repair or
replacement.
Doby said figures compiled
by the Transportation Depart
ment in January, 1974, showed
the state’s 16,000 bridges were
wearing out faster than they
were being replaced. It also
showed there was little data
available on the load capacity
and life expectancy of many
older bridges.
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Miller said area residents
once even began a petition
drive and sent letters to
Raleigh in an effort to get the
bridge replaced.
“But all our doing weren’t
worth a plugged nickle,” he
said.
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