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Grasping one child by the shoulder and carrying another, a Vietnamese woman joins an
estimated 25,000 people walking from Pleiku to Phu Thu. Communist forces occupied Da
Nang in triumph and warned, even as American military ships steamed toward the
embattled city, that all ships and planes must have their permission before evacuating
refugees from Da Nang. (UPI)
Mutiny hits ships
SAIGON (UPI) — South
Vietnamese marines mutinied
aboard two ships carrying
refugees from fallen Da Nang
today, forced the U.S. crew of
Bus
They talked about religion and dying
BROOMFIELD, Colo.(UPI) - The 22
snowbound passengers ate peanut butter
and fruits, drank cherry vodka and spring
water and talked about religion and dying.
“We discussed what it really would be
like to freeze to death,” said Judy Lang of
Broomfield, who along with 21 others was
stranded for 28 hours last week east of
Chappell, Neb., when their Greyhound bus
hit a snowdrift and slid into a ditch.
“We decided it wouldn’t be too bad, not
too painful. You just go to sleep.”
Mrs. Lang said she and the other
passengers managed to stay alive by
huddling, burning paper towels,
newspapers, books and sharing box
lunches.
“One person had a picnic basket filled
with natural foods, fruits, whole-grain
crackers, peanut butter and home-canned
peaches,” she said. “Several high school
boys on their way to ski had about 12 dozen
cookies. And we had a quart of cherry
vodka, two bottles of Cold Duck, a pint of
the Pioneer Contender to
barricade themselves in a cabin
and then went on an orgy of
rape, murder and looting,
terrified passengers reported.
DAI LY NEWS
Vol. 103 No. 76
The evacuation of Da Nang
itself ended today when the
Viet Cong began firing from the
beaches at U.S. tugs and
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vodka and a half gallon of spring water.”
Mrs. Lang said the top of a towel
dispenser was ripped from a restroom wall
and used as a stove but did little to raise
the temperature because of a combination
of the heat and moisture from the
passengers’ breath which formed ice one
half inch thick on the windows.
“The stove didn’t warm us, no,” she
said. “But there’s something about
knowing there’s a fire going that helps.”
The passengers’ struggle for survival
began early Thursday, six hours after
leaving Omaha en route to Cheyenne, Wyo.
Snow blanketed the region and winds with
gusts up to 80 miles an hour mph were
reported throughout the day.
“We sang anything anybody suggested,
and at one point I remember singing, ‘I
want to go home. I want to go home. Lord,
how I want to go home.’”
She said the passengers’ gloom was
broken by an antic of one of the youths
aboard the bus.
“He got up and started for the front of
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, March 31,1975
Sandy Morgan, chairman of
the Spalding County Commiss
ioners, today dropped a local
political bombshell with his
resignation.
He said he was resigning for
personal reasons. He would not
elaborate beyond that.
Mr. Morgan said today he
would serve until the vacancy
could be filled.
He said Judge George Imes
would have to call a special
election to fill the vacancy.
Morgan sent his letter of
resignation to Gov. George
Busbee. He said it would be
effective upon the governor’s
acceptance.
Morgan said the present
controversy between the city
and county commissioners over
financing the recreation
program did not figure in his
decision to resign.
“I feel it incumbent upon me
to emphasize the fact that my
resignation is being done for
personal reasons because I do
not want it to appear to the
people of Spalding County that I
am resigning for any other
reason.
“I am well aware of the
recent controversy between city
and county over the recreation
p. ogram and I am hopeful that
this is being reconciled, which I
hope and trust will be to the
satisfaction of both parties and
for the best interest of the
people of Griffin and Spalding
County,” Morgan said in a
statement.
Morgan became chairman of
the commissioners in January.
He had served as a commiss
ioner since 1971.
Reid Childers came on the
board in January and Commiss
ioner P. W. Hamil moved up to
Morgan
be vice chairman.
Morgan succeeded Jack Moss
as chairman after Commiss
ioner Childers defeated Moss in
last fall’s elections.
“It has been a privilege to
serve the people of Spalding
County and I appreciate the
opportunity of having served
them to the best of my ability as
a county commissioner. Also, it
has been my personal privilege
to work with Mr. P. W. Hamil,
Mr. Reid Childers, the present
county commissioners, and to
work with their predecessors in
office, Mr. David Elder and Mr.
Jack Moss,” Morgan stated.
He said his work with the
present commissioners and all
county officials had been most
harmonious.
“I want it clearly understood
by them and the people of
Spalding County that I am
grateful for the opportunity to
have served with them and my
resignation has nothing to do
whatsoever with my official
duties as a county com
missioner and was prompted
solely by matters of a personal
nature,” Morgan said.
the bus, looking at each of us as he went,”
Mrs. Lang said. “Then he said to the
driver, ‘Okay, John, I think we’ve had
enough fun. Let’s go home.’
“We decided if we could joke about it,
we’d be all right.”
The 22 passengers, including a 40-year
old and 70-year-old man who suffered
frostbite, were rescued Friday after a high
school boy and a 21-year old volunteered to
seek help.
The pair found a police car that had been
sent to look for them and the officers
radioed for another bus to pick up the
travelers.
“Everybody just yelled ‘EEEYAHH!’”
Mrs. Lang said.
She said as a result of the incident “We
all decided we would do anything we could
to let Greyhound know it should get
shortwave or CB (citizen’s band) radios in
all its buses. And in the future, if I travel
by bus, I’m definitely going to take a
blanket.”
Long lines continue
Long lines continued to form at the Spalding Courthouse today as the deadline for getting
new vehicle tags and paying taxes on them neared. A spokesman for the tag office today
said tomorrow, April 1 will be the last day a person can get his 1975 tags, and pay vehicle
taxes without penalty. The long lines at the courthouse are expected to continue through
tomorrow.
Daily Since 1872
Tax refund checks
could begin in May
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Americans
who filed their income tax returns early
will get the first rebate checks by mid-
May, according to the Internal Revenue
Service.
A spokesman said Sunday that the IRS
anticipated some kind of tax cut measure
and programmed its computers
accordingly.
The first tax returns to run through the
computers for rebates will be for those
who filed early, and many have already
received refunds. They can expect to
receive S9B to S2OO by mid-May.
Returns filed close to the April 15
deadline will probably receive a single
check combining any refund plus the
rebate. The check may not reach the
mailbox until June.
Those getting the biggest benefits from
the new tax law would be in the unlikely
situation of earning $20,000 last year for a
family of four, currently unemployed but
hiring child care and planning to buy a new
house.
Such a family would get a S2OO rebate,
credit on 1975 income taxes of up to $2,000
for purchase of the house, a special child
care deduction and still have 65 weeks of
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Fingers still crossed
Dr. E. F. (Rip) Savage, the state’s top peach expert, checks the Dixie Red variety orchard
at the Georgia Experiment Station in Griffin this morning. Peach growers usually believe if
they can get past Easter, without a killing freeze or frost, they have a chance for a good
crop. But Dr. Savage said today growers still have their fingers crossed, watching for a late
frost.
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unemployment benefits to draw upon.
Ford signed the $24.8 billion measure
Satuday, declaring that it reached the
upper limit of allowable tax cuts.
Rebates range from a low of S9B for a
family of four earning $5,000 last year to a
high of S2OO for a family of four earning
$17,500 to $20,000. Singles will get S2OO if
they earned $12,500.
Other major provisions:
—A $7.8 billion 1975 tax reduction that
will show up in lower withholding from
paychecks. Part of the figure includes a
new S3O per person tax credit.
—Payments up to S4OO to working poor
families with children.
—One-time SSO payments to all Social
Security recipients.
—A 13-week extension of unemployment
benefits in high unemployment states.
That raises the entire period of
unemployment eligibility to 65 weeks in
those areas.
—A 10 per cent increase for two years in
the investment tax credit for businesses.
—Scaled down oil and gas depletion
allowances and limits on foreign tax
breaks for multinational corporations.