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It’s Easter
Mrs. Angie Mankin of Griffin formed this silhouette against one of the stained glass
windows at St. George’s Episcopal Church during a Good Friday community service. It was
one of many planned here for Easter. Mrs. Mankin coordinated music by a community
choir for the service.
Mr. Al Hill dies;
Spalding tax assessor
Mr. Al S. Hill, 1010 Skyline
drive, died early this morning
at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital
where he had been a patient for
eight days. He was 50.
A native of Bronwood, Ga., he
was the son of the late David B.
Hill and the late Mrs. Maude
Stroud Hill.
He had made his home in
Griffin 35 years and was a
member of the First United
Methodist Church.
Mr. Hill was a graduate of
Griffin High School, the
University of Georgia and
Atlanta Law School. He was the
Spalding County Tax Assessor,
and chairman of the Legislative
Committee of the Georgia Tax
Assessors Association. He was a
past president of the
organization.
He was a member of the
Sen. Talmadge to talk
The Griffin-Spalding
Association of Educators will
honor the retired teachers and
the currently retiring teachers
of the Griffin-Spalding School
System at its annual banquet on
Tuesday evening, at 7:30 p.m. in
the Spalding Junior High II
Cafeteria. Sen. Herman E.
Talmadge will be the speaker.
Retiring teachers this year
include: Mrs. Nelle Presley,
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International Tax Assessors
Association, and served in the
Air Force during World War 11.
He was a member of the
American Legion and the
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Mr. Hill was a member of the
Griffin Exchange Club, the
Chamber of Commerce, Elks
and Moose Lodges.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Ruby Cobb Hill; two
sisters, Mrs. Leroy Hicks of
Griffin and Mrs. Harold Henn of
Oveida, Fla., several nieces and
nephews.
The funeral will be held
tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the
chapel of Pittman-Rawls
Funeral Home. The Rev.
Lamar Cherry will officiate.
Burial will be in Oak Hill
cemetery.
The body will remain at the
funeral home until the funeral.
Griffin High School; Miss
Althea Smith, Griffin High
School; Miss Nellie B. Sanders,
Jackson Road School; Mrs.
Sara K. Manley, Unit I; Mrs.
Ruth D. Hickey, Unit II; and,
Mr. Joseph B. Campbell, Unit
111.
All Griffin area teachers are
invited. Tickets will be on sale
at the door.
Arkansas
twister
kills five
WARREN, Ark. (UPI) - A
tornado spun out of a heavy
thunderstorm and smashed
through a residential area of
this southeastern Arkansas
farming town Friday night,
killing five persons and injuring
more than 70 others.
“It tore a pretty good strip
through an eight block area,”
said Arkansas State police
trooper Bill Young.
The Red Cross said the
twister destroyed 50 homes and
heavily damaged several hun
dred others.
The tornado also caused
heavy damage at the Potlatch
Co., paper plant, the major
industry in the town of 6,500
persons. State police said gas
leaks caused by the tornado
started several fires at the
plant
“The Potlatch plant was
pretty well wiped out,” he said.
State police said five persons
were killed and 74 injured.
Eighteen of the injured were
hospitalized.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
72, low today 49, high yesterday
70, low yesterday 50, high
tomorrow near 60, low tonight
near 50. Sunrise tomorrow 7:35,
sunset tomorrow 7:52.
GRIFFIN
Vol. 103 No. 75
Ford to give decision
on tax cut bill tonight
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Ford will tell the
nation tonight if he will sign or
veto the $24.8 billion tax cut bill
that the Democratic controlled
Congress passed hoping to lift
the economy out of a recession.
The President obtained air
time at 7:30 p.m. EDT on all
major radio and television
networks to reveal his decision.
The White House said his 10 to
15 minute speech from the Oval
Office will include “a statement
on economic policy.”
Ford plans to leave im
mediatly afterward for Cali
fornia to begin a nine-day
Easter vacation.
If Ford signs the legislation,
most Americans will collect
rebates of between SIOO and
S2OO on their 1974 tax payments
starting in mid-May, and
withholding for 1975 taxes will
be reduced. Those provisions,
plus other tax credits, were
approved Wednesday by Con
gress in an effort to stimulate
the sluggish economy.
If Ford rejects the measure,
as the White House has said he
might do, a vote on whether to
override his action in Congress
is certain soon after the House
and Senate return April 7 from
their Easter recess. The Repub
lican President was said to
believe he has the votes to
make a veto stick.
The President has repeatedly
voiced objections to numerous
amendments that were added
to the basic tax relief plan,
arguing that they would sharply
increase federal spending while
slashing tax revenues and lead
to a new upsurge of inflation.
But a Ford decision to veto
the bill is sure to have political
impact, and some White House
aides advised him to sign the
bill rather than risk sharp
criticism from the public for
further delaying tax relief.
One White House official said
Ford considered the decision
the toughest he has had to
make since taking office last
August. Others said the Presi
dent was torn between conflict
ing recommendations from his
top advisers.
As late as Friday evening,
when Ford’s speaking plans
were disclosed, it appeared that
the President still was in the
process of making up his mind.
Asked then if Ford had reached
a final decision, Press Secre
tary Ron Nessen said, “He is
deciding.”
Ford originally recommended
a tax cut of sl6 billion when he
outlined his own antirecession
program in January. The White
House has said in recent days
that the President was unhappy
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with the size of the congression
al approved bill, which would
provide a net tax cut of $22.8
billion after raising taxes $2
billion for oil companies and
U.S.-based multinational com
panies.
The President’s announce
ment tonight will cap a series
of intensive conferences that he
has had in recent days with his
principal economic, energy and
political strategists. Ford has
also conferred at length with
GOP congressioal leaders to get
their advice.
The bill includes payments up
to S4OO working poor families
with children, one-time pay
ment of SSO to Social Security
recipients and a tax credit up
to $2,000 for buyers of certain
newly built homes. It partially
repeals the oil-industry’s tax
benefit, the oil depletion al
lowance.
President and Mrs. Ford will
stay in Palm Springs, Calif.,
during their vacation. Ford will
make side trips to San Diego,
San Francisco and the Elk Hills
naval oil resetrve, flying back
to Washington April 7.
Laughed
himself
to death
KING’S LYNN, England
(UPI) — Alexander Mitchell
found the antics of his favorite
television program so hilarious
that he laughed nonstop for 25
minutes. Then he collapsed and
died.
His wife Nessie said Friday
she would send her thanks to
the creators of the comedy
program.
“I’m writing to thank them
for making Alex’s last minutes
so happy,” she said.
Mitchell, a 50-year-old brick
layer, ate a heavy dinner
before watching the program.
Doctors said the strain of the
laughter as he was digesting
his food killed him.
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“A fellow whose goal is to find
pleasure seldom looks where
it’s likely to be found.”
Spuds
Idaho farmers give them away
By MARGARET BAILEY
BOISE, Idaho (UPI) - They
came quietly and stood in lines
in the freezing cold. They
brought plastic bags, boxes,
buckets or sacks —anything
that would carry away a few
pounds of free potatoes.
Then they loaded their
containers and silently left.
The occasion was a giveaway
of 59,000 pounds of spuds by
southern Idaho potato growers
unhappy with the low prices
they’ve been getting.
The growers, who called a
similar giveaway today in Salt
Lake City, originally planned to
burn the potatoes as a protest.
But Idaho Gov. Cecil D. Andrus
urged them to hand them out
instead.
“I have seven children, six in
school and one other,” said a
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“I’ll take you home for Easter,” little Cindy Hendrix seemed to be saying to the baby chick.
Cindy is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hendrix of McKinley drive. She was one of
many children who got a free chick from a local feed store which gave them away for
Easter.
South Viet soldiers
gun down refugees
DA NANG, South Vietnam
(UPI) — South Vietnamese
soldiers today opened fire with
machine guns on hundreds of
frantic refugees trying to get
aboard one of the last flights
out of Da Nang, which
observers believe is about to
fall to the Communists.
Panic-stricken refugees threw
man who had driven 24 miles
from Caldwell, Idaho, with a
friend to get some of the
potatoes. His friend said he had
six youngsters.
One of the growers called
aside the men, who said they
were disabled, and gave them a
large bag of sorted potatoes to
take to their 13 children.
“We were out of potatoes and
this will help,” said a young
man has be,en using food
stamps to help feed his family.
“I think it’s a great gesture by
the governor and the growers
to give us these potatoes
instead of burning them. It’s
going to help a lot of people.”
“I’m on welfare,” said one
elderly man standing in line.
He bought 50 pounds of spuds in
the fall and a few days ago
found his supply was nearly
themselves in front of the
aircraft’s wheels and soldiers
fired on the crowd with
machine guns.
When the plane landed in
Saigon the mangled body of a
soldier, his Ml 6 rifle still
strapped to his shoulder, was
dangling from the undercar
riage of the jet. This corre-
Daily Since 1872
spondent was on the flight.
The only civilians in the
cabin of the World Airways 727
jet were two women and a
baby. All the other passengers
were in uniform, the majority
of them men from the South
Vietnamese Ist Division’s Black
Panther unit.
gone. The free potatoes came
just in time.
Del Ray Holm, of Roberts,
Idaho, one of the organizers of
the giveaway, said he doubted
the demonstration would help
potato growers with their price
problem.
“It’s a shame that we can’t
get the potatoes to the really
poor people of the world,” he
said. “We”re dumping 2 million
pounds a day in Idaho. They’re
good edible potates, but we
can’t move them.”
Potatoes have to be removed
from potato cellars after a
certain time to prevent them
from sprouting, losing moisture
and ruining the cellars. Those
which are not being given away
are dumped on the desert or
sold to cattle feeders.