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State’s supplemental budget
increased to s4l -million
ATLANTA (UPI) - Geor
gia’s supplemental budget for
the current fiscal year, swollen
from $35 million to s4l million
in the Senate, goes to a joint
conference committee today for
compromising as the Georgia
General Assembly clears the
first hurdle in its annual budget
work.
The House and Senate infor
mally set their positions Mon
day, with the Senate approving
its more costly version of
supplemental spending for the
fiscal year ending June 30 and
then adjourning. The legal
formalities of agreeing to
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Ford arrested
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI) - Henry Ford H,
chairman of the board of the Ford Motor Co., has been
ordered to appear in court March 7 for arraignment on
suspicion of drunken driving.
Ford, 58, was arrested and jailed for four hours
Saturday after officers observed him traveling on the
wrong side of the street. He was booked after allegedly
failing both a field sobriety test and later a blood test. He
was released from jail after posting $375 bond.
Hiss returns
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — Alger Hiss, whose downfall
came in the anti-Communist investigations of the 1950 s
that thrust Richard Nixon into national prominence, is
returning to San Francisco after 30 years.
Hiss, 70, who now works for a stationery firm in the
East, will appear at a seminar at the Press Club Tuesday.
India not dependent
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPI) — Daniel Moynihan,
former ambassador to India, says that nation is not
dependent on outside support for survival.
“It’s a very weak economy, but India is not a basket
case,” he said in an interview with the Harvard Gazette.
“It has the ninth largest GNP (Gross National Product) in
the world. It is self-supporting and it makes its own way in
the world to an astonishing degree.”
“They pay cash and they haven’t asked anything for
free,” he said.
Bedside meeting
HONG KONG (UPI) — Prince Norodom Sihanouk,
nominal head of the Communist rebel movement in
Cambodia, met with Chou En-lai Monday in a Peking
Hospital.
The New China News Agency said in a broadcast
monitored here the two held a bedside meeting in the
hospital where the Chinese premier is resting.
Jacksonville girl, 16,
will return to Holy Land
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JACKSONVILLE—DeJean Replogle, the 16-year-old girl
whose right leg had to be amputated after she was
wounded in an Arab grenade attack in Israel last Dec. 22,
takes her first steps in a steel walker. (UPI)
disagree were left overnight.
Today, the familiar fiscal
format was scheduled: the
House refusing to accept the
Senate amendments and asking
the Senate to recede or appoint
its conferees for a joint
compromise session, the Senate
refusing to recede and sending
its three go-betweens to meet
with three House members.
Lieutenant Governor Zell
Miller appointed Appropriations
Committee Chairman Paul
Broun, D-Athens, Senate Presi
dent Pro Tempore Al Holloway,
D-Albany, and Majority Leader
John Riley, D-Savannah, to
whose first trip to Israel last
December ended in tragedy
represent the Senate.
House Speaker Tom Murphy
chose Appropriations Chairman
Joe Frank Harris, D-Cartersvil
le, Majority Leader Clarence
Vaughn, D-Conyers, and Ways
and Means Committee Chair
man Marcus Collins, D-Pelham,
to be the House conferees.
Broun said the nearly $7
million in Senate changes in the
House bill would come out of
s9l million in available surplus,
but that the House wants to
keep as much surplus as
possible for funding the $1.9
billion budget for the fiscal
year starting July 1.
GRIFFIN
Speaking to homefolks
Carter says he intends
to become president
AMERICUS, Ga. (UPI) -
Former Gov. Jimmy Carter
told his “home folks” Monday
night that he has achieved
everything in life he set out to
do and he intends to become
President of the United States.
“I intend to win,” Carter told
a $25-a-plate appreciation din
ner attended by more than 500
persons. He later was presented
a check for $10,650.
Carter, a millionaire peanut
farmer who grew up in the
community of Plains, nine
miles south of Americus, said
he has campaigned in 13 states
since announcing for the
Democratic presidential nomi
nation last month.
“I will have 250 days to
campaign to seek and support
and spell out my campaign,”
Carter said. “Everytime a
better known candidate puts in
one day of campaigning, I will
put in five days and my family
will also be campaigning with
me.”
Carter, who finished a four
year term as governor in
January, said he decided to run
for president two and one—half
CZECH TURBINES
BUENOS AIRES (UPI) -
The Argentine Trade Se
cretariat has signed an agree
ment to buy two 600-kilowatt
turbines from Czechoslovakia
for $9 million. The turbines will
be installed at the Rio Turbio
Hydroelectric plant.
when a terrorist grenade ripped
her right leg is already making
plans to return to the Holy
Land “maybe in a year or
two.”
, Dejean Replogle, 16, said
Monday from her hospital bed
she is anxious to “get back out
on the street and just talk to
people.
“I want to learn to walk
again,” said the high school
student, whose leg was am
putated after the Dec. 22 Arab
attack. “I know it’s going to be
hard, but I’m not going to let it
stop me.”
Doctors at St. Luke’s Hos
pital, where Dejean has been
staying since returning to
Jacksonville last week, are
evaluating her progress and
considering further surgery on
the leg.
“There’s some fat tissue in
the stump and the doctors told
me it would heal faster if that
went away,” Dejean said. “And
I want to be as light as possible
when I start using that
artificial limb.”
Dejean was on a bus tour of
the Holy Land with her parents
and other members of her
parish when a grenade struck
the vehicle. Grenade fragments
entered her leg and doctors
were forced to amputate. She
spent the next two months at
Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital.
In one of its major amend
ments to the supplemental
appropriation bill, the Senate
agreed to leave in $425,000 for
operation of the Department of
Human Resources’ 23 “area
service networks.” Sen. Hugh
Gillis, D-Soperton, who opposed
the DHR appropriation, agreed
to let it go through after Gov.
George Busbee promised the
network system would be
streamlined next fiscal year.
The senators also left in
$75,000 for the Labor Depart
ment to train applicants for the
state merit examination, and
years ago and began studying
for the office. He said he has
made up in study what he lacks
in experience for the nation’s
highest office.
“I would like to see our
country great again and not
18 deaths blamed
on tornadoes, snow
By United Press International
It was a classic snowstorm —
and a killer. It dumped foot
deep snows across the Midwest,
burying cars, stranding motor
ists and closing schools and
businesses. It even halted the
proceedings of government in
Missouri.
At least 18 deaths were
blamed on the one-two punch of
flood-producing weekend thun
derstorms and tornadoes and
blizzard-proportion snows Mon
day.
The storm swelled to blizzard
proportions in eastern lowa,
unloading up to 14 inches of
snow and piling up 6 to 8-foot
drifts in some Mississippi
Valley communities.
Snowmobiles were called out
in southern Wisconsin to rescue
marooned motorists and aid
ailing persons. One Grand
County, Wis., deputy sheriff
was standed for two hours in
his snowbound squad car until
another officer on a snowmobile
rescued him.
The Missouri Legislature
postponed the opening of
weekly sessions for the first
time in about two decades
because more than a foot of
snow piled up in Jefferson City.
Most industries at Rock
Island and Moline, Hl., along
the Mississippi River, shut
down or operated with skeleton
crews.
Hundreds of schools were
closed in the storm-swept area.
Quincy, 111., schools closed for
U.S. lifts arms
embargo to India
SAIGON (UPI) - The United
States moved hundreds of
truckloads of rice to Saigon
airport today for the start of a
massive airlift to the besieged
Cambodian capital of Phnom
Penh.
Reports from Phnom Penh
said 13 rockets slammed into
Ponchentong airport, where the
U.S. planes will have to land,
but U.S. officials said the
attacks would not stop the 35
planes a day carrying food to
the city of two million.
The morning rocket attacks
destroyed a DC3 commercial
airliner and wounded four
persons. Other rockets hit in
the city and the suburbs. More
than 40 rockets were counted.
U.S. spokesmen said the
airlift will begin Thursday and
last 30 days, but it may go
longer. Sources said 20,000 tons
doubled the $300,000 appropria
tion for Tifton’s “Agrirama”
exposition.
The House voted 119-50 in
favor of a bill that would
require utilities to tell consum
ers on their electric, water or
gas bills the exact meter
readings on which the bill is
based and the rate schedule per
kilowatt hour, or unit of water
or gas.
The Senate defeated a propos
al that would have required
married women to get permis
sion from their husbands before
having abortions.
shrouded in any deceit or
secrecy,” he said.
Carter said he would leave
today for a five-day campaign
tour of Nebraska, lowa and
Kansas.
the first time in 10 years.
Thirty-five persons spent Sun
day night snowbound at the
Driftwood Supper Club in Avon,
111. When snow plows freed
them, one man happily announ
ced: “We’re all drunk.”
Elsewhere there was tragedy.
One man died of a heart attack
while shoveling snow in St.
Louis, Mo. Another died while
walking up a hill from his
snowbound car near Rock
Island. A plane crash which
killed two persons near Rock
Falls, 111., also was blamed on
the foul weather.
Yet another plane crash, near
Pontiac, Mich., was blamed on
fog and bad weather.
East and south of the snow
stricken area, heavy weekend
rains produced flooding or
threats of flooding in Indiana,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and New
York. Flooding Monday night
forced the evacuation of several
families from Chemung, N.Y.,
just north of the Pennsylvania
border, because of flooding on
the Chemung River.
A state of limited emergency
was declared in Elmira, N.Y.,
because of high water but no
evacuations were ordered.
At least eight deaths have
been attributed to flooding in
Indiana alone. North Carolina
reported four deaths in a bridge
collapse blamed partly on fog,
and one person was killed in
Alabama by a tornado spawned
by heavy weekend thunder
storms.
of rice were being stockpiled at
Tan Son Nhut airbase for the
airlift.
First reports from the field
today indicated heavy rebel
assaults on outposts and perim
eter defenses aound Phnom
Penh.
Although some officers said
they were not sure, one
military source said it ap
peared to be the start of the
long-awaited second phase of
the Communist offensive.
The first phase began last
New Year’s Eve, and has
placed Cambodia in danger of
falling to Communist control
within weeks.
Only the U.S. airlift of
hundreds of tons of ammunition
and fuel —and, beginning
Thursday, food —has kept the
refugee-swellen capital from
falling.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—ls Sherlock Holmes were in the market for a replacement for Dr.
Watson he need look no further. Jeffery Watson, age 6, of 286 Marlboro Rd., Newport News,
appears ready to step right into the footsteps of the famous sleuth. (UPI)
Gallup says public wants
more women in politics
COLUMBUS, Miss. (UPI) -
National pollster George Gallup
said Monday the American
people apparently think there
should be more women in
politics.
“Surveys prove that attitudes
toward minorities are more
favorable,” Gallup said in an
address on the campus of
Mississippi State University for
Women.
“Polls reveal that people
want more women in politics,”
he added. “Our studies show
that people believe if more
women were in politics, we
would have fewer Watergates.”
Gallup, president of the
Princeton-based national poll,
said the American public’s
general mood was “apprehen
sive but not despondent”
regarding the current economic
situation.
“One-third of the general
public believes we are now in a
general depression,” he said.
Oil prices
will stay
frozen
VIENNA (UPI) - The price
of oil will stay frozen for the
near future, officials in the
Organization of Petroleum Ex
porting Countries said today.
Oil ministers of the 13 OPEC
nations met today to talk about
inflation and the decreasing
value of the dollar, but were
not expected to recommend
another increase in the price of
petroleum, which quadrupled
since 1973.
“The price will remain
frozen,” said Jamshid Amouze
gar, Iranian interior and oil
minister. He said the ministers
would stick by last December’s
decision to keep prices at
$10.12-a-barrel.
The Vienna meeting was
called to prepare for the first
conference of OPEC heads of
state, expected to start in
Algiers March 4.
Two Iranian proposals to
combat the loss of revenue
were up for discussion.
One would link the price of
oil to the rate of world
inflation. The other, backed
strongly by Shah Mohammad
Reza Pahlevi, would link oil
prices to the cost of a “basket
of commodities.”
Under the shah’s plan, the
price of oil would fluctuate with
the prices the oil-producing
nations must pay for 20 or 30
basic items they import from
other countries.
Kuwait, Algeria and Iraq are
opposed to the continued use of
the dollar as the sole basis for
calculating world oil prices, the
sources said.
The aim of the Algiers
meeting is work out a unified
policy among the oil-exporting
nations for an energy confer
ence proposed by France.
— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, February 25,1975
Although the economy is low,
we have objective data con
cerning the future.
“The cost of food in the total
budget is less than it was 25
years ago. Jobs are better with
shorter hours —when you can
News summary
By United Press International
A good sign
A look at the economy shows a modest 2.8 per cent
decline in durable goods in January—the fifth consecutive
monthly drop. But compared with the plunge of 12.4 per
cent in the prior month, it added a note of optimism the
recession may be close to bottoming out. Inventories of
unsold goods remain high, however, and more cutbacks
and layoffs were announced.
Ford’s Address
WASHINGTON (UPI) — In a prepared address to be
delivered to the National Bicentennial Conference in
Washington, President Ford today said he believed
Americans will exhibit the same sacrifice, hard work and
tenacity found in past generations to solve their economic
and energy problems. Ford will deliver the speech before
flying to Florida to campaign for his anti-recession
program.
Exchange moving
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — The San Francisco
Exchange, created in 1882 to handle demands for silver
and gold stocks, is moving to Los Angeles. The move was
confirmed Monday by exchange President G. Robert
Ackerman. He said the old exchange facility would be
used for options trading.
New arms race
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Indian ambassador said
there may be a new arms race when it was announced the
United States’ embargo on the sale of arms to India and
Pakistan had been lifted. A State Department spokesman
said that sales to either country would be made on a cash
only, case-by-case basis. Apparently the only buyer will
be Pakistan.
Rice airlift
SAIGON (UPI) — Hundreds of truckloads of rice have
been moved to the Saigon airport for airlifting to Phnom
Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The United States will
begin a massive airlift of 35 planes a day to the besieged
city Thursday. Phnom Penh today reported 13 rockets
slammed into Ponchentong airport, but U.S. officials said
the attacks would not stop the airlift.
New constitution
LISBON (UPI) — The election of delegates to write a
new constitution for Portugal scheduled for April 12 may
be postponed. The ruling military group has insisted on a
permanent voice in running the country before letting
candidates begin their campaigns. Sources said the
military also insisted on the power to pick the economic
and defense ministers as well as the authority to reject
proposed presidential candidates.
tmd them —poverty and infant
mortality are decreasing and
education is more widespread,”
Gallup maintained.
He was the first speaker at
the university’s newly formed
lecture series.