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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, March 4,1975
Flynt’s study group
to uresent conclusions
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A
majority of the eight-member
congressional delegation just
back from Indochina favors
sending about $l2O million
worth of ammunition to Cam
bodia.
And they all recommend
sending $75 million in emergen
cy food there.
The delegation, headed by
Rep. John Flynt, D-Ga., offi
cially presents its conclusions
on Cambodia today at a
hearing of the House foreign
operations subcommittee.
President Ford has asked
Congress for $222 million in
emergency aid for Cambodia
and S3OO million for South
Vietnam. Some members of
Congress have sharply criti
cized the aid requests. The
administration proposed that
Congress send the delegation to
see for itself if aid is needed.
Reps. Paul McCloskey, R-
Calif., Millicent Fenwick, R-
N.J., and Bella Abzug, D-N.Y.,
described the delegation’s con
clusions reached in a Monday
afternoon meeting hours after
the group returned from
Cambodia and South Vietnam.
Ms. Abzug said she would
dissent from the majority view
on providing emergancy ammu
nition for Cambodia. She told a
news conference, nevertheless,
S.C. peach growers
assess crop damage
By United Press International
South Carolina peach growers
are in the process of assessing
the damage to the peach crop
after two nights of subfreezing
temperatures swept across the
Palmetto State.
The National Weather Service
office in Columbia predicted
subfreezing temperatures again
Senate passes
pornography bill
ATLANTA (UPI) — A bill
which would make it illegal to
distribute obscene material of
any discription was passed by a
vote of 51-2 in the Georgia
Senate Monday.
The bill’s author, Sen. Ed
Garrard, D-Atlanta, said the
bill would make it easier to
prosecute pornography cases
and would also bring Georgia
law into line with some U. S.
Supreme Court decisions on
pornography.
Garrard said, “This will give
your counties and law enforce
ment officers a tool for dealing
with this element.”
The bill would make it a
misdemeanor “of a high and
aggravated nature” to dis
tribute, sell, rent, lease, give,
advertise or publish obscene
material of any description, or
possess such material with the
intent to distribute it. For
conviction, the person would
have to have knowledge of the
obscene contents of the mate
rial.
A bill authorizing the state
Board of Corrections to pay
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WASHINGTON—Rep. Bella Abzug, D-N.Y., following her
return from an Indochina fact finding mission along with
seven other members of Congress, held an emotional
news conference yesterday at which she depounced the
sending of $552 million in emergency military aid to South
Vietnam and Cambodia. She said it was likely to produce
only more killing. (UPI)
“I see a tremendous obligation
to the people. We are forgetting
there are people in South
Vietnam and Cambodia and
they do not progress; they only
are destroyed.”
Ms. Fenwick said her earlier
opposition to emergency mili
tary assistance to Cambodia
had been shaken. She said it
tonight but with lows in the
high 20s. Temperatures at 6
a.m. today were in the low and
mid 20s throughout the state.
Temperatures in the teens
and low 20s were reported
Monday and Tuesday nights,
especially in the piedmont
sections of the state where the
peach crops are predominant.
counties which operate prison
work camps at which state
prisoners are assigned for the
operation and maintenance of
the institutions was also passed
by the Senate Monday.
Gov. George Busbee recom
mended $l.B million in his 1976
budget to pay the counties for
operating the work camps.
About 40 work camps and 2,500
prisoners are involved in the
appropriation.
The money would be divided
among the counties operating
work camps by the number of
state prisoners assigned to the
institutions. The House passed
the same bill earlier this
session, and the Senate agreed
to the House version without
amendment.
Another bill passed by the
Senate would give a law
enforcement officer, charged
with a crime that allegedly
occurred on duty, the right to
go before a grand jury before
an indictment is returned.
probably is required to hold
together the government so that
there would be a chance of
distributing food aid.
“This is a dramatic tragedy
of the most urgent nature,” she
said, and described dodging
rockets fired by insurgents into
Phnom Penh from across the
Mekong River.
Growers said they expect most
of the damage to be confined to
the varieties of peach trees
already in bloom.
E.R. Taylor, a peach grower
from Greer, said Monday some
of his trees were damaged but
that it was really too early to
tell how badly they were hurt.
Another grower, S. J. Work
man, said some of his trees
were damaged.
“Those trees that were in
bloom were hurt pretty bad,”
Workman said. “Most of them
suffered from the frost.”
Workman said adding to the
damage was the early growth
of some of the trees caused by
the recent mild week.
Spartanburg County farm
agent George Bowen said it
was probably too early to tell
how badly the crops are
damaged but said “we probably
got some damage.”
Bisher withdraws
from scholarship
ATLANTA(UPI)-Dr. J. M.
Pettit, the president of Georgia
Tech, said Monday the award
of an athletic grant-in-aid to
Atlanta Journal sports editor
Furman Bisher’s son was
"inappropriate and regretta
ble” and the school would be
reimbursed for all funds
granted under the scholarship.
Pettit said Roger Bisher, who
did not participate in any sport
at Tech, was withdrawing from
the athletic scholarship and his
father had voluntarily offered
to repay money his son had
received while on the grant-in
aid.
Pettit said “this offer has
been accepted and Roger is
withdrawing from the scholar
ship.”
Roger, 19, a sophomore in
industrial management, has
been receiving tuition, room,
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Douglas pays
its employes
DOUGLASVILE, Ga. (UPI)
— Douglas County Commission
er Raymond Teal said almost
200 county employes had
received their salaries Monday
after about $86,000 was raised
in various county offices.
There had been some doubt
whether the employes would be
paid this month after a court
case tied up more than $1
million in 1974 tax revenues.
The elected county officials
did not receive their pay but
Teal said he thinks enough
money would be available by
March 10 for the officials to
receive their salaries.
Teal said the county could
run short again next month but
he hoped the financial problem
would be eased soon.
He said, “We are operating
the county with 1973 monies
and here it is 1975."
The shortage of funds came
after several large taxpayers
filed suit over re-evaluation of
property which increased their
taxes.
Police have suspect
in slaying of five
SMITH RIVER, Calif. (UPI)
— Investigators have a suspect,
but they’re still missing two
important pieces —a murder
weapon and a motive —in the
rifle slaying of five persons at
an oceanside resort.
Robert Paul Sander, 23, of
Cincinnati, Ohio was arrested
in Oregon three hours after the
shootings Sunday. He waived
extradition before a judge in
Grants Pass Monday and will
be returned to Crescent City,
Calif., today to face multiple
murder charges. •
“He denied doing any shoot
ing or having any part of it,”
said Lt. Dale Flener of the
Oregon State Police.
Del Norte County sheriff’s
deputies recovered nine empty
rifle casings from the balcony
in front of a room Sander had
occupied at the Ship Ashore
Real estate executive
sets 10 year sentence
ATLANTA (UPI) - An
Atlanta real estate executive
was sentenced to 10 years in
prison Monday in an alleged
books and $l3O a month since
he enrolled at Tech.
The scholarship was offered
the day Roger was born by
Tech Athletic Director Bobby
Dodd. Dodd said such goodwill
offers were not uncommon but
were rarely accepted.
Bisher called Dodd and
asked him to send the bill
incurred by his son after the
story was publicized last
Friday in a copyrighted story
in The Technique, the student
newspaper at Georgia Tech.
Bisher said that when the
offer was made, “I assumed it
was Bisher said that when the
offer was made, “I assumed it
was a sincere gift and I was
pleased to receive it.” He said
that he would probably continue
his son at Tech “if I’m still in
town. I may not choose to be in
town.”
Hungry lion livens dull day
NEW YORK (UPI) — Life is generally rather
uneventful for a Staten Island policeman. Then, too, he
can find himself feeding dog food to a hungry lion.
“When it happens, it’s really flaky,” says Police Officer
Frank Tully.
And it was just that, Monday.
Tully and some 10 fellow officers spent 2% hours watch
ing over a hungry lion found chained in the back yard of a
vacant house on Staten Island. They kept feeding it dog
food and waited nervously for help.
The lion, a male believed to be about nine months old,
eventually was druggged with a shot from a tranquilizer
revolver fired by a Staten Island Zoo official.
The cat, weighing about 150 pounds, was tied with ropes,
placed in a net and carted off to the zoo in the back of a
police van.
Police received a telephone call at about 4:20 p.m. from
a man who said he had seen a lion in a yard behind a house
in a sparsely populated area.
“We didn’t believe it at first ourselves,” said Tully, who
is assigned to the Emergency Service Section. “But we
investigated —and there it was.”
resort motel on the California-
Oregon border.
Witnesses said a gunman
opened fire from the balcony,
which overlooked the ocean. He
fired apparently at random into
the parking lot, killing Barbara
Harmon, 58, and critically
wounding her husband, Percy
Harmon, 58, who later died in a
hospital. ,
A guest, Melvn Sarina, 28,
said he didn’t know of the
shooting when he saw Mr.
Harmon lying on the ground.
“I asked him if he’d had a
heart attack, and he said, ‘No,
I’ve been shot through the gut.”
Another shot from the balco
ny crashed through a coffee
shop window and killed a
waitress, Ella Beam, 22.
Shortly afterwards, the gun-
I man entered the motel office
i and killed the manager, Gordon
real estate scheme.
Fulton County Superior Court
Judge Luther C. Alverson
sentenced Sam R. Gassaway,
28, to the term after Gassaway
was convicted by a Superior
Court jury last month on 26
counts of theft.
Alverson also sentenced Gas
saway to 10 year terms on each
of the other 25 counts with the
terms to run concurrent with
the first.
Gassaway was convicted Feb.
14 of taking money paid by
investors to Gassaway and Co.,
and putting it to his own
personal use.
The judge denied a defense
motion for acquittal and sen
tenced the defendant to the 10
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A maid, Denise DeGraff, 17,
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A fine funeral
TEMPIO PAUSANIA, Sar
dinia (UPI) — Shepherd
Vincenzo Corrado, who has
lived alone since he immigrated
from Sicily 25 years ago says
he is in good health, but he has
decided to make arrangements
just in case.
Corrado, 73, spent 606,000 lire
($947) on arrangements for his
funeral, including the hiring of
10 girls in peasant costumes to
march behind his coffin.
“...It’s going to be a fine
funeral, with those beautiful
girls in black,” Corrado said.
year term in connection with
the first count against him.
Witnesses told the court they
had invested money with
Gassaway’s firm to purchase a
58-acre track of land near
Atlanta which was to be be
resold for residential develop
ment. The witnesses said they
had been promised a high rate
of return on their invested
money.
Gassaway’s holdings were
placed in a receivership after
he filed for bankruptcy and the
witnesses testified they never
got their money back.
Gassaway said he would
appeal the case and would ask
the state to review his
sentence.
The officer said the lion had emerged from a shed where
he had been chained and apparently abandoned.
“He broke the door down and came out. He was on a 20-
foot link chain,” Tully reported.
The policemen quickly assumed the lion might be
hungry and ordered up the meal of dog food from a
neighbor’s house.
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“We put it on a two-by-four in a dish,” Tully said. “He
sat down and he was playing with it and then he ate it.’
Tully said “we kept our distance,” although he reported
the lion at first “was more or less docile. He had been
around people before.”
Then the lion became nervous, Tully said, and began to
growl and tried to claw. The officer said one bystander
received a slight cut on an arm, but did not require
medical assistance.
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Then came the zoo official came. The lion was asleep
about 10 minutes later.
Tully said police do not know who owned the home
who the lion was found, but that neighbors reported they
had been aware of the animal being kept there.
“We understand it came from Florida as a cub and it
just grew bigger and bigger and bigger,” he said.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Navy says it will phase out 32
ships, including two air craft
carriers, by next summer as an
economy move.
The cutback will put the fleet
at 490 ships, about the size it
was in 1939. The Navy now has
501 active ships.
Half of the ships will go into
mothballs and the rest will be
split between the Naval Re
serves and the Military Sealift
Command. Eight relatively new
patrol boats built between 1966
and 1969 will go to the
Reserves.
The ships being dropped are
mostly old oil burners and
support ships, but the list also
includes the carriers Oriskany
and Hancock. The Hancock is
the last World War 11-era
carrier still in service. It was
comissioned in 1944.
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