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— Griffin Daily News Monday, March 31,1975
Deaths -F unerals
Mr. Eschmann
Funeral services will be
conducted at 11 o’clock
tomorrow at Christ Episcopal
Church in Macon for Mr. E. A.
Eschmann, and burial will be in
Americus.
Mr. Eschmann choked and
died Friday night while eating
dinner in Norwell, Mass., where
he and his wife were visiting
their daughter and her husband,
Mr. and Mrs. John Spear. Mrs.
Eschmann is the former Clara
Belle Hooks, niece of Quimby
Melton, Sr., of Griffin. She was
society editor of the Griffin
Daily News before her
marriage and now is food editor
of the Macon Telegraph.
Educator and soldier, Mr.
Eschmann retired from the
staff of Wesleyan College in
Macon a year ago. He was a
graduate of the University of
Georgia and had taught also at
Mercer in Macon and at several
preparatory schools in the East.
He came to Georgia as a
World War II soldier assigned to
Camp Wheeler in Macon for
basic training. He attended
Officer Candidate School and
rose to the rank of major in the
Infantry. A foreign language
expert, he was attached to the
French Foreign Legion in North
Africa and later drew assign
ments in Paris and other places
in Europe. After World War II
he continued to serve in the
Army Reserve and retired as a
full colonel.
In addition to his wife and
their daughter Mrs. Spear, he is
survived by another daughter,
Mrs. Jack Fischer of
Washington, D.C., and a son, Ed
Eschmann, a student at
Georgia Southwestern College
in Americus.
Mrs. S. Smith
Mrs. Susie Hollis Smith, 68, of
Route one, Milner, died this
morning at the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital after being admitted
on Saturday.
Mrs. Smith was a lifelong
resident of Lamar County and a
member of Springhill Baptist
Church in Milner.
Survivors include two
daughters, Mrs. Fannie Ellis
and Miss Inez Hollis, both of
Milner; two sons, Thomas
Hollis of Milner and the Rev.
Henry Hollis of Covington.
Funeral plans will be an
nounced by McDowell United
Funeral Home.
Mr. Booker
Mr. Joe Booker of Griffin died
Saturday morning at the
Veterans Hospital in
Milledgeville, Ga. »
He was a lifelong resident of
Griffin and a member of the
Corinth Baptist Church. He was
a World War One veteran and a
member of American Legion
Post 546.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Annie Bell Booker and
several other relatives.
Miller’s Funeral Home will
announce arrangements.
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MARCH 30 THRU APRIL 6
Music Led By Gene Love
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
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Billy Southerland, Pastor
Charles Jones, Education and Youth
“Welcome To The Church Alive In ’75”
Master McCord
Master Perry Lee McCord,
age two, of 516 North Sixth
street, died Saturday morning
at his home.
Survivors include his mother
Mrs. Katherine McCord; sisters
Celestine, Denise, and Er
nestine; brothers, Robert, Gary
and Willie.
Miller’s Funeral Home will
announce arrangements.
Strike
ballots
received
MIAMI (UPI) - The 600
pilots of National Airlines are
receiving strike authorization
ballots from the Air Line Pilots
Association (ALPA) concerning
a possible walkout April 26.
Capt. Charles Caudle, presi
dent of the ALPA local
representing National’s pilots,
said Saturday the union and
National have been attempting
to negotiate a new contract
since October, 1973, and pilots
have been flying under an
extension of the old agreement.
A 30-day cooling-off period
imposed by the National
Mediation Board expires April
26, and Caudle said a walkout
is possible at that time. He said
the pilots have rejected an offer
of arbitration by the Mediation
Board but he expects it to
attempt to arrange a meeting
of the two sides before the
cooling-off period ends.
Bob Mattel, National’s vice
president for public relations,
said, “It would be premature
even to speculate on the
possibility of a pilots’ strike.”
National won approval Friday
from the Civil Aeronautics
Board in Washington for a trial
of “no frills” cut rate coach
fares to and from Florida, on
which officials of the line say it
is staking its future.
But Caudle said the union had
a “slogan of its own —’no frills
and no flights’.”
National was shut down for
more than three months last
summer and fall by a strike of
the International Association of
Machinists (IAM).
To win back the business it
lost then, National has been
offering free cocktails to its
passengers, a practice it plans
to discontinue in two weeks.
Rival Eastern Airlines, which
matched the free cocktails and
asked the CAB to match the
“no frills” fares, has accused
National of starting such
service to win back the
business it lost during last
year’s IAM strike.
CITY FARMS
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
Although San Francisco is
densely populated and occupies
only 45 square miles, there are
still two thriving farms within
the city limits.
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A young couple does a highstepplng dance to a bluegrass band’s tunes played from behind
the crowd during the 51st annual Fiddler’s Convention. (UPI)
Postman top fiddler
UNION GROVE, N.C. (UPI)
— This Appalachian foothill
town today returned to being a
quiet community of a few
thousand after a weekend as a
city of 100,000 bluegrass music
fans.
By Sunday night, only a
dozen persons clearing debris
were left on the farm of J.
Pierce Van Hoy after the 51st
annual old time fiddlers’
convention where Saturday
night, for the third year in a
row, Stuart, Va., postman
Buddy Pendleton was picked as
the top fiddler.
A Friday crowd of about
50,000 swelled Saturday to an
estimated 100,000 but Sunday
afternoon had dwindled to only
a few thousand, mostly those
waiting for tractors to pull their
cars from the mud after a
heavy early morning rain.
Connally
bribe trial
to start
WASHINGTON (UPI) - For
mer Treasury Secretary John
Connally goes on trial Tuesday
for allegedly accepting SIO,OOO
in bribes from the Associated
Milk Producers Inc.
The U.S. District Court trial,
one of the final Watergate court
actions, will climax the “milk
fund” case.
In that case, the Nixon
administration allegedly in
creased the federal price
support for raw milk in 1971 as
a payoff for a $2 million
campaign pledge from AMPI
and other organizations repre
senting milk producers.
Jake Jacobsen, charged with
twice giving Connally $5,000 in
cash out of AMPI funds for his
help in getting the price
increased, is expected to be a
key prosecution witness.
Jacobsen and Connally, long
time Texas associates, were
indicted last July on charges of
bribery, conspiracy and lying to
the Watergate grand jury about
it.
Jacobsen pleaded guilty in
August to one count of making
an illegal payment to a public
official in exchange for the
dropping of federal charges
against him involving a Texas
saving and loan association.
Although the question of the
dropping of the charges now is
in the hands of a federal
appeals court, Jacobsen is
expected to carry through on
his promise to testify.
Connally contended the
SIO,OOO went into a safety
deposit box for legitimate
political purposes. The prosecu
tors are expected to respond
that when the money was
removed from the safety
deposit box in late 1974, some
of it was dated later than 1971
—indicating that funds had
been switched in the meantime.
Among the other prosecution
witnesses are expected to be
AMPI officials, including Ha
rold Nelson, former general
manager, who pleaded guilty in
connection with illegal cam
paign contributions.
Connally faces a maximum of
19 years in prison and $50,000
fine if convicted on the five
counts against him. He will be
tried first on the two bribery
counts. No matter which way
the first case goes, ‘here is
little likelihood a second trial
on the other counts ever will be
held.
The event began as a
gathering of rural folk as an
Easter weekend outing but now
the bulk of the crowd comes
from the younger bluegrass
fans on the Eastern Seaboard.
Although it’s taken on a
modem tone, it’s still dedicated
“to the preservation of old
timey and traditional bluegrass
music,” said Van Hoy.
While waiting Sunday for
roads to clear and fields to dry,
many of those who remained
behind struck up their own
hootenannies and killed time
pickin’ and singin’. The event
drew 95 bands and scores of
individual performers to the
one-acre tent in Van Hoy’s
pasture. It also featured exhib
its by mountain craftsmen and
country dancing.
While there were over 100
arrests on drug and alcohol
News summary
By United Press International
| Evacuation suspended
SAIGON (UPI) — The captains of three American g
| charter ships were forced to suspend the evacuation of
refugees from Da Nang today, because of Communist
rocketpropelled grenade fire. The ships themselves were
out of range, but the rounds were aimed at barges and
smaller vessels hauling the refugees to the ships in the
South China Sea. They ships are now on their way to Cam
Ranh Bay with more than 20,000 refugees. The
Communists, who warned no ships or planes could enter
the area without their permission, occupied Da Nang,
their biggest trophy in 20 years of war.
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| Lon Nol on way out?
PHNOM PENH (UPI) — Sources in Cambodia and
Thailand said plans for President Lon Nol to leave
became final last week and that he will do so either today
or Tuesday. The paralyzed leader probably will not i
return, according to sources. He will visit Indonesia and
then go to Hawaii for a medical examination. Rebel
gunners fired three rockets into the city after a four-day |
| pause, wounding one boy. Three more rockets fell near the
American Embassy. Lon Nol recently has been
under pressure by Cambodian leaders to leave.
j She hoped for miracle
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) - The mother of Marcia
Trimble, who has been the object of one of the most
intense searches in Nashville history, after disappearing
| Feb. 25, returned home from church Sunday to learn the
| child had been murdered. Mrs. Virginia Trimble went to g
church Easter Sunday hoping that “God will perform a
| miracle.” The child’s body was found in the cluttered
| garage of a neighbor’s home and was sent to Memphis for
J an autopsy. Metro Police Chief -Joe Casey said Marcia
apparently was strangled. The girl would have been 10
|| years old Good Friday.
Ford checks reserve
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (UPI) - President Ford will
inspect the Navy’s Elk Hills petroleum reserve 110 miles g
north Los Angeles, today. He is aiming at congressional
passage of an energy program that will help the nation
become independent of foreign oil supplies by May Day, g
and wants to free most of the reserves for civilian use.
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i charges, authorities described
the crowd as well-behaved. The
rural school house which first
housed the event was converted
into a medical station for the
convention.
Saturday night rescue crews
were summoned briefly when
small creeks in the area
overran thei banks from the
heavy rains. However, they
were not needed. Most of those
who stayed through the rains
early Sunday morning sought
shelter under the tent that held
15,000 persons during the
competition.
The Pine Ridge Boys, led by
Ernest East of Mount Airy,
N.C., were named the best “old
timey” band while the Blue
grass Masters led, by Jerry
Casstevens of Yadkinville was
named the best bluegrass band.
Snipers
They went on killing spree
By United Press International
A former mental patient
firing at neighbors in West
Monroe, La., with a hunting
rifle Sunday killed two men,
wounded a third, and then
killed himself.
The shootings lasted only five
minutes.
He was not the only sniper
active Easter Sunday.
In Little Axe, Okla. Joe
McGraw thought he heard a
firecracker outside a school
gymnasium. Moments later he
walked into sniper fire from a
gunman perched atop a school
cafeteria.
Buckshot exploded near his
feet, kicking up gravel that
slightly cut him and his
daughter, Kerrie.
The sniper fired again, this
time through the open doors of
the school gymnasium, shatter-
Daughter
of climber
killed
KATMANDU (UPI) - The
the wife and daughter of Sir
Edmund Hillary, the first man
to conquer Mt. Everest, and
three other persons were killed
today in the crash of a single
engine plane shortly after
takeoff from Katmandu airport,
police said.
Sir Edmund, a New Zealand
er who climbed the world’s
tallest peak in 1953, flew
directly to the scene in a
special helicopter and glumly
inspected the bodies of his wife,
Louise, and daughter
Belinda.
Sir Edmund has been living
in the village of Phaphlu, 100
miles northeast of Katmandu at
the foot of Mt. Everest, where
he is directing construction of a
hospital for Nepalese sherpas.
Hillary’s family was flying to
Phaphlu to visit Sir Edmund
and the hospital site together
with former American Peace
Corps# volunteer Barbara Wylie
and her husband A. Lama, a
Nepalese national.
Royal Nepal Airlines officials
identified the pilot as New
Zealander P.C. Shand. All five
were killed in the crash.
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ing glass that slightly injured
Robin Robinson, 9. Police said
four shots were fired into the
gym where a basketball game
was under way.
Police later' arrested a 17-
year-old suspect about a mile
from the school, but said they
were unsure of a motive for the
shootings.
The killings in West Monroe,
La. occurred as Robert Ho
ward’s mother was attending
Easter church services.
Alone in the apartment,
Robert, 29, opened fire from the
window of his second floor
bedroom.
Dane Evers, 17, a visitor
from Jackson, Miss., was hit
first.
Evers was outside retrieving
his motorcycle helmet. Wound
ed in the right shoulder, he
struggled to the doorway of his
apartment where his brother,
Daryl, was shot and killed.
The sound of gunfire roused
other apartment residents. Ro
nald Mitchell, 32, stepped to his
door. Three apartments away,
Howard fired two bullets into
Mitchell’s chest, killing him.
Police said Howard then
returned to the bedroom and
shot himself in the head.
“He has a history of mental
illness, this much we did get
from the mother,” said Police
Chief Johnny Mitchell, no
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relation to the victim. “We did
not find a suicide note as such,
but we found notes from his
typewriter that he was having
personal problems, and it was
very apparent he was having
mental problems.”
In New Jersey, Mount Holly
police prepared charges against
James Carhart, 23, for the
shooting deaths Friday of two
policemen and the wounding of
a third in a three-hour shootout.
Carhart had barricaded him
self in his family’s three-story
home, holding off 100 police
men. Under cover of tear gas,
police dragged him, bleeding
and struggling, out of the
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