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Retired army colonel stays
in shape by ‘policing’ area
ATLANTA (UPI) —Each day of the week for two hours,
a retired Army colonel may be found walking along the
busy Atlanta expressway system with a cleanup stick, a
trash barrel and a plan for cleaning up the environment
while staying in shape.
Clyde T. Sutton, 59, has been getting out and cleaning up
other people’s litter on his free time ever since he took the
job as chief probation officer for the City Court of Atlanta
in 1959.
He says it’s an excellent way to stay in shape, bending
over picking up beer cans and discarded wads of paper
which people throw from car windows.
“I’m not a physical fitness nut,” said Sutton. “Nor am I
an environmental nut. What I am is a man who found a
way to keep his body fit and do a good deed at the same
time.”
A trim and healthy-looking six-footer, Sutton rises at
4:30 each morning so he can get an early start on his one
man cleanup detail before he reports for work and opens
up the court at 8. On weekends, he and his wife, Virginia,
clean up the streets near their home.
“I have had this back trouble and I know that the real
problem was that I didn’t use my back enough,” he said.
“There’s no question about the exercise helping my back.
It also helps your circulation.”
A 1939 graduate of West Point, Sutton commanded
infantry in the Pacific in World War II and served 15
months in the Korean War. He was a member of the
Korean Military Advisory Group from June, 1950, to
August, 1951, where he was awarded the Purple Heart,
Combat Infantry Badge and six campaign stars.
In 1956, Sutton achieved the highest score ever made on
the U.S. Army’s Physical Fitness Test.
“It would be punishment for someone to tell me, ‘Stay in
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Milner terminal
Richard Ferrell displays the excellence plaque the Kenan
Transport Company terminal at Milner was awarded. The
terminal was one of 19 in the company eligible for the
award. The year old Milner terminal is the newest in the
transportation firm. Ferrell is its manager and lives near
Milner.
Economist’s suggestion
Use rebate as
down payment
By RICHARD HUGHES
UPI Business Writer
The best way consumers can
help end the recession, an
econmist says, is to take the
tax rebate when it arrives and
use it as a down payment on an
expensive item.
“We’d get tremendous impact
out of that,” Alan Murray of
First National City Bank of
New York, said Monday.
If consumers use their S9B to
S2OO tax rebate as a down
payment to buy something on
the installment plan, Murray
said, the $22.8 billion tax cut
would be multipled several
times as it rippled through the
economy.
But the major question is not
whether consumers will buy
something on installments but
whether they’ll buy anything at
all.
Otto Eckstein, director of
Data Resources, a major
economic consulting group,
believes at least two-thirds of
the money will be spent, and
the rest saved.
“The whole theory of the
present tax cut is to reduce the
decline in purchasing power,
increase consumer spending
and have the whole economy
catch fire,” said Eckstein. “We
think it wUI.”
But, he addded, “Our concern
is that it will peter out too
quickly. When all the one-shot
cuts are over, then the
economy has enough momen
tum to carry forward or it
doesn’t.”
Eckstein said the tax rebate
should stimulate consumer
spending enough to raise
consumption by 6 per cent and
produce “positive” growth in
the Gross National Product in
the next three months for the
first time in more than a year.
Albert Sindlinger of Sindlin
ger & Co. said recent surveys
indicate the rebate won’t work
because the majority of people
will use the money to pay bills,
mostly for utilities, or save it.
Sindlinger said surveys taken
two years ago showed “tremen
dous hedge-buying” in cars and
houses to beat inflation. “Peo
ple were even buying canned
peas to beat rising prices,” he
said.
Therefore, he said, there is
not a pressing need for cars
and houses. “Without housing
and cars, the economy can’t
possibly turn around,” he said.
Murray, the Citibank econo
mist, said the debate over
whettier consumers will spend
or save their rebates has been
“exaggerated way out of
proportion.”
“If a consumer doesn’t spend
any of it,” he said, “one way or
the other he puts the funds in
the hands of people who will
spend it.”
the house and watch TV,’ he said. “I just have to remain
active. It helps me feel better and sleep better, and it
makes for a longer life.
“In the Far East where people don’t have cars and the
women carry loads on their heads, back trouble is practi
cally unknown. The reason why more of us should use
mass transportation is it gives us the opportunity to walk
to and from bus stops. It’s better than stepping from the
kitchen to the carport and from the carport to the kitchen.
“Some people even say we ought to purposely get off the
bus at a stop not the closest to our home so we would have
to walk more.”
Sutton estimates that he picks up about seven barrels of
litter on an ordinary weekend.
“That would be about 200 pounds a weekend,” he said.
“I guess it would be about five tons a year on weekends
alone and about 10 tons a year if you figure downtown and
weekends together.”
Sutton said most of the people he encounters either
greet him warmly or call out encouragement from their
vehicles as he goes about his daily rounds. But once he
was accosted one morning by two young toughs who made
off with a pair of grass shears which he used to trim the
overgrown weeds along the roadbed.
Another time, while picking up in broad daylight near
the state Capitol, he had to climb a grassy bank to avoid
two other youths who obviously had evil intentions.
But Sutton finds pleasure and relaxation in his
avocation and he says he intends to stay at it. “Where else
can you get out and stay active without it costing you a
cent?” he said.
The exercise is paying off for Sutton. He was recently
asked by his superiors to explain why he hasn’t taken any
sick leave in 16 years.
GRIFFIN
Lon Nol flies
into political exile
By ROBERT KAYLOR
PHNOM PENH (UPI) - A
tearful President Lon Nol flew
into exile today in a move that
opened the way for possible
peace talks with Communist-led
insurgents.
He departed to the sound of
three rebel rockets exploding
near his plane.
As he left, possibly never to
return, Cambodian military
commanders moved troops to
block breaches in the city’s
defense line to keep Khmer
Rouge rebels from breaking
through. The rebels are within
four miles of the besieged
capital.
The ailing president flew first
to the U.S. 852 air base at
Utapao in Thailand aboard an
Air Cambodge Caravelle jet
with his family and staff
members and then on to
Indonesia. Indonesian Foreign
Minister Adam Malik said he
would remain about 10 days
before continuing to the United
States.
Before he left, Lon Nol
reviewed a guard of honor
drawn up in the palace
courtyard and bowed with
clasped hands in a Buddhist
tribute before the Cambodian
flag, tears in his eyes. He then
boarded a helicopter with his
wife and three children for the
airport. Both the marshal and
his wife were weeping openly.
U.S. Ambassador John Gunth
er Dean spent 90 minutes at
Pochentong airport today, at
times crouching from rebel
rocket fire, waiting to say
goodbye to Lon Nol, a man that
political sources said left Dean
less than impressed with his
leadership.
When Lon Nol finally arrived,
Dean strode out to his plane,
shook his hand briefly and then
watched his aircraft lift off
from the dangerous airport,
where up to 30 rockets fell in
the first five hours today.
“It won’t have an adverse
effect,” Dean said when asked
about the significance of Lon
Nol’s departure. Cambodian
sources say the U.S. Embassy,
led by Dean, played a
significant role in persuading
Lon Nol to leave.
The Cambodian president was
considered a major stumbling
block to the possibility of peace
negotiations. The Cambodian
insurgents and Prince Norodom
Sihanouk, their nominal leader,
have said they would never
negotiate with the Lon Nol
regime.
Despite Lon Nol’s departure,
most political and diplomatic
observers expressed belief that
the insurgents will not agree to
negotiate a peace settlement
especially considering their
overwhelming military advan
tage.
Rebel troops today partially
overran one of the govern
ment’s last provincial strong
holds, the Mekong River town
of Neak Luong where an
estimated 60,000 troops and
refugees have been encircled
for two months.
Street fighting was reported
in the city 32 miles below
Phnom Penh and the military
sources said: “They’re in
control of a good part of the
town, they may have half of it.
It looks like its going to fall.”
Even more significant, the
sources said, the fall of Neak
Luong would free thousands of
People
By United Press International
Beall resigns
BALTIMORE, Md. (UPI) - George Beall, the
prosecutor who toppled Spiro T. Agnew from the vice
presidency, has resigned as U.S. attorney for Maryland to
join a private law firm.
Beall’s successor, former State Sen. Jervis S. Finney,
43, was nominated for the post Friday by President Ford
and was sworn in on an acting basis Monday pending his
confirmation by the Senate.
Beall, 38, said for the next two years his only political
activity would be to help his older brother, Sen. J. Glenn
Beall, R-Md., win re-election in 1976.
Mamie ‘very good’
FT. GORDON, Ga. (UPI) — Mamie Eisenhower, widow
of former President Dwight Eisenhower, will remain at
Ft. Gordon Army Medical Center longer than expected to
regain her strength, officials said Monday.
Mrs. Eisenhower, who is listed in “very good”
condition, was hospitalized for treatment of intestinal
bleeding a week ago today, and doctors first said she
would be released in seven to 10 days. Physicians
attending the former first lady said she is now eating a
normal diet and gradually increasing her activities.
In private room
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Gen. Omar Bradley was de
scribed Monday as “progressing satisfactorily” in his
recovery from brain surgery following a cerebral stroke
March 16.
A source at UCLA Medical Center said it was too early
to say when Bradley, 82, might be returning home. He has
been transferred from the hospital’s intensive care unit to
a private room.
“He is doing all right,” the source said. “Everything is
progressing satisfactorily.”
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ATLANTA—For two hours each day of the week, retired
Army Colonel Clyde T. Sutton, 59, and his wife Virginia
may be found along the busy Atlanta expressway system
picking up trash...his plan for cleaning up the
insurgent troops to turn their
attention to Phnom Penh.
Within hours after Lon Nol
departed Phnom Penh, India
recognized Prince Sihanouk’s
Royal Government of National
Union of Cambodia based in
Peking. The Indian decision
was announced in a joint
communique issued at the end
of a four-day visit to New Delhi
by the Sihanouk government’s
foreign minister, Sarin Chhak.
Lon Nol said he was
appointing the president of the
senate, Lt. Gen. Sau Khamkoy,
to be caretaker president in his
absence as provided in the
constitution.
“I appeal to you to cooperate
with the government in resolv
ing the Khmer problem and
defending national integrity,”
he said in a speech released
after his departure.
warning to the
people back East 9
By ROLAND LINDSEY
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) - When
Texas joined the union in 1845,
it retained the right to divide
itself into as many as five
states.
Now two state lawmakers,
Sen. Bob Gammage, a Houston
Democrat, and Rep. Fred
Agnich, a Dallas Republican,
have introduced a bill calling
for a public vote on the issue in
1976. The vote would be in the
form of a nonbinding referen
dum.
Gammage got a telegram
later saying, “You’ve got to be
out of your .... mind.”
But the two say Eastern
states have a disproportionate
share of power in Congress.
They say Texas could increase
its clout by dividing and getting
eight additional senators for the
four new states.
“It’s simply a warning to
some of the people back East,”
Agnich said.
Since Gammage got the
telegram suggesting he was
insane, reactions have moderat
ed somewhat.
“If you don’t have the
emotional blocks most Texans
have, it sounds like a pretty
good idea,” Gammage said.
“But I’ll admit I have a block.
I don’t want to see it divided
up. But it’s something to think
about.”
“It’s kind of interesting to see
people’s reactions,” Agnich
said. “The first reaction tends
to be totally negative. Then
after some thinking it tends to
be less negative. My personal
reaction is that at present the
disadvantages outweigh the
advantages.”
Jack D. Knox, president of
Summit Energy, Inc., of Dallas,
wrote Gammage endorsing the
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Elected
Fisher L. Barfoot, vice
president of Piggly Wiggly
Southern of Vidalia, has been
named president of the Georgia
Agribusiness Council. The food
store organization operates a
store in Griffin. Mr. Barfoot
was here to help organize the
store and coordinate its
opening.
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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, April 1,1975
environment while staying in shape. “I’m not a physical
fitness nut,” said Sutton. “Nor am I an enviornmental nut
What I am is a man who found away to keep his body fit
and do a good deed at the same time.” (UPI)
idea to protect Texas oil and
gas.
“This resource-rich area sim
ply must have protection from
the Eastern liberal consumer
group, and the only way I can
see for us to do it is to utilize
the considerable wisdom of our
forebears and exercise our
privilege of dividing this area
into five separate states in
terms of representation in
Washington,” Knox said.
Carl E. Blass, a Rosenberg,
Tex., voter, didn’t think it was
News summary
By United Press International
Nha Trang overrun
SAIGON (UPI) — Nha Trang, the Saigon government’s
headquarters base for the central region of the country,
was overrun by Communist troops today, military sources
said. The takeover of the city isolates Phu Yen province,
the northernmost area still controlled by Saigon. Monday
the Communists seized Qui Nhon, South Vietnam’s fourth
largest city. Amid rumors of a coup in Saigon, President
Nguyen Van Thieu canceled a meeting with U.S. Army
Chief of Staff Gen. Frederick C. Weyand, who is on a fact
finding mission for President Ford.
Lon Nol leaves
PHNOM PENH (UPI) — President Lon Nol, along with
Prime Minister Long Boret, left Cambodia today. The
two, along with the family of Lon Nol’s younger brother,
Brig. Gen. Lon Non, flew from Pochentong Airport, under
fire from rebel 105 mm howitzers and 107 mm rockets. Lon
Nol’s departure may bring about negotiations with the
Communist-led insurgents, who are within four miles of
Phnom Penh. However, in light of their military successes
it is uncertain whether the Khmer Rouge rebels would
now be willing to talk.
Connally in court
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Former Treasury Secretary
John B. Connally Jr., begins his day in court with the
selection of a jury today. Connally is charged with twice
accepting $5,000 in cash for his help in getting a 1971
increase in federal price support for raw milk. Judge
George L. Hart Jr., estimated a day and a half would be
needed to select the jury, which will not be sequestered.
Snow falls in East
More snow fell today—in the East and again in North
Dakota. Flooding was reported from the Mississippi
Valley to the eastern Appalachians. In New England six to
eight inches of snow fell, although Jackson, N.H., had 18
inches. On Mt. Washington winds gusted at 127 miles per
hour and the temperature dropped to 2 below zero. North
Dakota got five more inches of snow. The Mississippi
River was expected to climb to 55.7 feet at Cairo, Hl.,
today. Monday 30 families left their homes in western
Kentucky along the flooding lower Ohio River.
Make people happy
SPRINGFIELD, 111. (UPI) - Every Saturday about 25
Methodist teen-agers dress in their clown costumes and go
out into hospitals, nursing homes and halfway houses to
make people happy. They call themselves “The Holy
Fools,” and their leader, Joey the Clown, is really the
Rev. William J. Peckham, the youth minister at
Springfield’s First United Methodist Church.
such a good idea.
“Thanks for the comedy
relief,” Blass told Gammage.
“Most Texans are after all
Americans first and Texans
second. To do what you
advocate could better be done
by secession.”
A seventh-grade class from
Hubbard Junior High School in
Tyler, Tex., sent Gammage and
Agnich a series of maps
suggesting how Texas could be
divided. One suggested naming
a Panhandle state “Agnich.”