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HOLLYWOOD—The sun breaks over the hill on a
beautifully clear day as the 55th annual Hollywood Bowl
American air crews in Vietnam prayed for refugees of the war
By United Press International
American air crews in Vietnam prayed for refugees of
Communist-overrun areas, pilgrims gathered at the
traditional site of Christ’s burial and resurrection, and
Pope Paul VI preached of “a hope for all mankind”
Sunday as the Christian world observed Easter.
Christian pilgrims, fewer than in previous years, cele
brated Easter services in the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem. About 2,000 pilgrims attended a
pontifical High Mass sung by Msgr. Giacommo J.
Beltritti, Roman Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem.
In Saigon, American air crews who flew the last
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PALM DESERT, Calif.—President and Mrs. Ford greet the crowd as they leave St.
Margaret’s Episcopal Cathedral in Palm Desert Calif., where they attended Easter
services. The President is staying in Palm Springs on a working vacation. He will visit Elk
Hills Petroleum Reserve, San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas for speaking
engagements, returning to Palm Springs each night. No plans to visit former President
Richard Nixon have been announced. (UPI)
Ford
Next goal: energy bill
PALM SPRINGS, Calif.
(UPI) — President Ford
accomplished the first goal of
his administration Saturday by
signing a $24.8 billion tax cut
bill. He aimed today for
completion of his second goal,
congressional passage of an
energy program by May Day.
Ford was invited to inspect
the Navy’s Elk Hills petroleum
reserve today 110 miles north of
Busbee steps up recruiting of foreign investments
By WILLIAM COTTERELL
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
George Busbee will step up his
recruiting efforts next month in
trying to convince businesses
from foreign countries, particu
larly the Middle East, to invest
their wealth in new industry in
Georgia.
“The big difference, as far as
trade and economy and so forth
are concerned, since my
becoming governor, is that in
Los Angeles. He wants to free
most of the reserves for civilian
use to help the nation become
independent of foreign oil
supplies.
He planned to fly from his
Palm Springs holiday house to
Bakersfield, Calif., at 12:30
p.m. EDT and then to the oil
fields.
President William Howard
Taft ordered the Elk Hills
the early years that I was in
the legislature, the whole
economic development program
was trying to attract industry
out of the north,” Busbee said.
“Those days are gone.
“What I’m now involved in,
along with the governors of the
other southeastern states, is
trying to attract trade and
industry from other countries,”
he said in an interview. “I’ve
been real active in this —every
day of the week, I meet with
Easter sunrise service gets under way. An estimated
10,500 persons attended. (UPI)
evacuation flights out of Da Nang attended an Easter
mass for refugees from the fallen city —and for those who
didn’t make it out. No refugees attended the service, held
in the courtyard of a Jesuit school, but most of the eight
World Airways crews which flew the overcrowded jets
were there.
President Ford attended Easter Services at St. Mar
garet’s Episcopal Church in Palm Springs, Calif., and
heard Episcopal Bishop Robert Wolterstorff preach of the
need for the Christian spirit to take effect in “affluent
Southern California, in arid and droughtridden Africa and
in starving Bangladesh and in Vietnam.”
reserve for the Navy in 1912. A
decade later Elk Hills figured
in the Teapot Dome oil
scandals, in which a member of
President Warren G. Harding’s
Cabinet went to prison for
accepting a SIOO,OOO bribe. Elk
Hills slipped from the spotlight
until 1973, when the Arab oil
embargo dramatized the need
for America to marshal its
petroleum reserves.
some foreign visitors.”
Busbee, who took office in
January, has had his hands full
with the General Assembly
session, which ended last week.
He hopes now to concentrate on
his campaign promise of
improving Georgia’s economic
development.
Before leaving for a post
legislative session fishing trip
on the Georgia coast, Busbee
contacted Lieutenant Governor
DAILY NEWS
Hope abandoned
for N.S. Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI) -
Mayor John Rousakis plans to
notify federal officials today
about the fate of the N.S.
Savannah, the world’s first
nuclear-powered merchant ship,
now anchored at a berth on the
Savannah River.
Savannah city officials all but
abandoned hope last week they
would be able to raise enough
money —an estimated $2
million —to turn the ship into
an Atoms for Peace display
honoring former President
Dwight Eisenhower and the
peaceful uses of atmoic energy.
The ship traveled almost
500,000 miles in the 1960 s before
it was deactivated in Galveston,
Tex., in 1971 and docked on the
Savannah River in January of
1972.
The mayor said he plans to
notify the federal Maritime
Administration today that the
project has been cancelled due
to lack of funds, unless he can
quickly find several million
dollars to finance the ship’s
Zell Miller and told him to be
ready to go industry scouting in
the late spring and early
summer. Miller also cam
paigned on economic develop
ment, saying he wanted to
serve as the state’s trade
envoy. Miller said his title
might make a more dignified
impression on foreign investors
than some lower-level bureau
crat’s.
Miller said his travel plans
are tentative now. “It’s going
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Wall to wall vacationers flood
the beach for Easter. Fun for everyone as everything
movable jockeys for position on the sands or moves at a
At the Vatican, Pope Paul, speaking in a strong voice to
some 400,000 Holy Year pilgrims, told of the ressurrection
of Christ as “a comfort for the poor and suffering... a hope
for the humble and for those who pray, for the whole
church, for all mankind.”
In New York, several thousand persons strolled along
Fifth Avenue in the annual “Easter Parade,” but wet, raw
weather discouraged traditional bonnet wearers from
sporting their Easter finery. Many of the paraders,
instead, wore wild costumes, gaudy headresses and
outlandish makeup.
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conversion into a tourist attrac
tion.
“We were rebuffed at every
point,” Rousakis said. “Every
body kept telling us, ‘lt’s a
great idea, but you do it.’”
He said a bill that would have
created a statewide authority to
administer the ship, similar to
he Jekyll Island Authority or
the Stone Mountain Authority,
failed to get out of committee
during the recently-ended legis
lative session. Citizens opposed
the use of city funds for the
project, he said, and the
Savannah Port Authroity de
clined a city request to help
maintain the ship.
City officials estimate it
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FT. GORDON, Ga. (UPI) -
Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower con
tinued to show steady improve
ment and was listed in “very
good” condition Sunday at Ft.
Gordon Army Medical Center.
would take $2 million and three
years to turn the ship into a
tourist attraction, and another
$2 million to remove a slight
amount of radiation that
remains in the reactor area.
Rousakis said Maritime Ad
ministration officials have been
asked to pay for the decontami
nation, although he has re
ceived no firm commitment
from the federal agency.
The mayor said Savannah
citizens have not fully com
prehended the city council’s
decision to give up the ship.
“I think the day it will hit is
when they start pulling that
'ship out of here,” he said.
“People, at that time, may
have second thoughts about it.”
Mrs. Eisenhower, widow of
former President Dwight Eisen
hower, was admitted for
treatment of intestinal bleeding
last Tuesday.
to be to various sections of the
country and also probably out
of the country.”
During the legislative session,
Busbee met with a large
delegation of Japanese busi
nessmen and promised to visit
Japan personally to encourage
more trade with Georgia and
development of plants in the
state. Busbee recently placed
an Arabic magazine advertise
ment in several foreign publica-
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— Griffin Daily News Monday, March 31,1975
snail’s pace for that elusive spot where one can capture
that eviable pre-season tan. (UPI)
A woman and four artist friends appeared as “the
Easter apparitions,” dressed in rags, toilet paper rolls,
egg boxes and assorted veils.
In an eastern Tennessee mountain valley, Ike Taylor of
Carter County was the runaway victor in the annual
Peters Hollow Easter egg fight. When everyone’s eight
dozen egg maximum supply was exhausted, Taylor still
had some four dozen left. The broken eggs — tapped
against each other to determine which is harder — were
donated to an orphanage at nearby Elizabethton after the
fight.
Atlanta eligible
for some storm aid
ATLANTA (UPI) - Victims
of the tornado which ravaged
northwest Atlanta last week
will be eligible for federal aid
in the form of temporary
housing, low interest loans and
special unemployment compen
sation.
President Ford declared por
tions of Atlanta a major
disaster area Saturday, making
the city eligible for millions of
dollars in federal disaster
assistance funds.
Ford’s action in signing the
order at 9:45 a.m. Saturday
was quicker than expected.
Gov. George Busbee submitted
a request for federal assistance
Thursday, after estimating
property damage at $56.5, of
which s2l million would be
reimbursable to the city and
state for debris clean-up, street
repairs and damage to public
buildings. Busbee’s aides had
predicted Ford would sign the
order by today at the earliest.
Busbee press aide Duane
Riner said the governor, on a
fishing trip on the Georgia
coast, was “delighted” by the
swift White House response.
The tornado killed three
persons and injured more than
100 when it struck the city’s
northwest section shortly after
dawn last Monday.
Riner said federal disaster
centers would open immediate
ly at Archer and Northside high
tions urging Middle East
businessmen to check out
Georgia’s industrial potential
when investing their oil wealth.
Busbee said he met with the
Iranian ambassador and hopes
to meet the Shah of Iran to talk
business.
“They bought 30 C-130’s from
Lockheed, and we’re trying to
sell more planes,” he said.
Busbee said he has discussed
“foreign trade, reverse invest-
schools.
Thomas P. Credle, regional
director of the Federal Disaster
Assistance Administration
(FDAA), said briefings will be
conducted for local government
officials wishing to apply for
federal financial assistance to
repair damaged public facili
ties.
Credle said the disaster relief
centers will provide the follow
ing assistance:
—The Department of Housing
and Urban Development will
provide temporary housing for
homeless families.
—The Small Business Ad
ministration will offer low
interest loans to homeowners
and businessmen who suffered
property damage in the storm.
—The federal and state
departments of labor will
provide special unemployment
compensation for those out of
work because of the storm.
—The Internal Revenue Ser
vice will advise on special tax
provisions that may provide
immediate tax refunds.
Credle said Sunday citizens
could apply for federal help in
removing downed trees and
other debris from private
property if the rubble constitut
ed a safety hazard.
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ment” with a Swedish price,
the Turkish ambassador and
officials from Kuwait.
“I’ve also met with the
President, in order to get a
regional office of the State
Department located in Atlan
ta,” he said. “I hope to be
meeting with Mr. (Secretary of
State Henry) Kissinger and the
President again in the next few
months on trade and domestic
matters.”