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Cutback on energy
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) — The
Medical College of Georgia
announced Tuesday a voluntary
plan of cutbacks on energy use
by all its employes in an effort
to diminish a $1 million per
year electrical bill at the huge
complex.
The plan, which is directed at
employes of the hospital and
not patients, will involve such
Mamie doing well
FT. GORDON, Ga. (UPI) -
Former First Lady Mamie
Eisenhower continued to make
substantial progress in her
recovery from an intestinal
condition Tuesday, one week
after she was admitted to the
U.S. Army Medical Center at
Two escapees captured
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (UPI) -
Two of three prisoners who
escaped from the Hall County
Jail by fashioning a rope from
sheets and blankets and lower
ing themselves from the win
dow of their third-floor cell
were recaptured Tuesday.
Police said Bennie Ray
Garmon, 19, was captured at
his parents’ home here. Terry
Rob suspect arrested
ATLANTA (UPI) - The FBI
announced Tuesday the arrest
of John B. Simerly of Wood
stock on charges of robbing the
Commercial Bank of Cobb
County in Marietta last Mon
day.
Special FBI Agent Wilburn K.
Debruler said Simerly, 48, was
Rome eyes building
IN MEMORY
In memory of my loving son,
Walter Monroe Johnson.
Who passed away 2 years
ago today April 2, 1973.
God hath not promised skies
always blue.
Flower strewn pathways.
All our Ilves through.
God hath not promised sun
without rain.
Joy without sorrow, Peace
without pain.
But God hath promised
strength for the day.
Rest for the laborer.
Light for the way.
Grace for the trials.
Help from above.
Unfailing sympathy for
undying love.
He prayeth best who loveth
best.
All things both great and
small.
Sadly missed.
Loving mother, brother
Douglas and Walter
Johnson, Jr.
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energy-saving practices as
walking up and down flights of
stairs rather than using eleva
tors, which costs $l3O per day
to operate.
The main hospital building
has nine floors and the
administration offices are in a
three-story addition, according
to a spokesman.
Ft. Gordon.
“According to her doctors she
had a comfortable night and
currently is doing very well,”
said Maj. George Foster,
spokesman for the U.S. Army
Medical Center at Ft. Gordon.
Dean Gregory, 17, was ap
prehended on a Gainesville
street.
Still at large is Travis Hollis,
21, who was serving time for
burglary and awaiting trial on
two more misdemeanor counts.
Garmon was serving a term
for burglary and Gregory was
in for probation violation.
arrested in Marietta as the
result of an investigation by the
FBI and Cobb County police.
Simerly, who offered no
resistance at his arrest, will be
arraigned before a federal
magistrate today on bank
robbery charges.
ROME, Ga. (UPI) - The
Floyd County Board of Com
missioners voted Tuesday to
study the feasibility of buying
the old federal building for
about SIBO,OOO and converting it
into a combination county
courthouse-office building.
The old building became
available recently when the
federal post office was moved
to a new structure.
The commissioners voted to
set up a committee to study the
plan and make recommenda
tions to the full commission.
Federal officials had report
edly asked $275,000 for the
building, but came down from
that price through negotiations
with county authorities.
If the voters were to approve
a bond issue in a referendum to
finance the venture, extensive
renovations would be required
on the building, the commis
sioners said.
DeKalb schools under fire
ATLANTA (UPI) - A federal
agency accused the Dekalb
County school system Tuesday
of practicing widespread dis
crimination against black stu
dents and warned of possible
cutoffs in federal funds if the
allegations are upheld in the
Carter defends
N.C. primary
RALEIGH (UPI) - Former
Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter
has come to the defense of
North Carolina’s threatened
presidential primary, saying he
would like to see the balloting
retained.
In a news conference Tues
day, Carter, among the five
announced contenders for the
1976 Democratic presidential
election, said, “I think the
primary route is the best
approach to let the people’s will
be expressed frankly, openly
and without interference...and
do hope that North Carolina
does retain its primary.”
North Carolina’s House has
voted by more than a 2-1
margin to drop the primary
which during its only test saw
Alabama Gov. George Wallace
beat former North Carolina
Gov. Terry Sanford in 1972.
Wallace has asked to be heard
when the proposal arises in a
Senate committee.
Carter said he hopes to enter
Newcomers
to celebrate
3rd birthday
The Griffin Newcomers
Social Club for Women will
celebrate its third birthday in
April.
The first meeting was held on
April 6,1972 with the president,
Sandy Schenk, presiding and 67
present.
The membership has grown
to its present 164 members
under the leadership of
presidents Sandy Schenk, 1972;
Zoe Zaremba, 1973; Ann
Barker, 1974 and JoAnn
Chapman, 1975.
The April meeting will be held
Thursday night at the Moose
Club with Ms. Molly Harper as
guest speaker. She will
demonstrate cake decorations.
Mrs. Bollberg
UDC speaker
Mrs. M. Douglas Hollberg
was the speaker at the monthly
meeting of Boynton Chapter,
United Daughters of the Con
federacy. She discussed the
political and military career of
Andrew Johnson of Tennessee.
Mrs. Adair Chunn presented
the speaker.
The meeting was held at
Memorial Clubhouse with the
president, Mrs. W. J. Proctor,
presiding.
Mrs. 0. N. Mathis, music
chairman, presented Frank
Thomas, Jr., who sang two
selections. He was accom
panied by Mrs. Mathis at the
piano.
Following the meeting, a
social hour was held. Hostesses
were Mrs. L. W. Russell, Mrs.
W. B. Forbes, Mrs. E. A. Scales
and Miss Catherine Wolcott.
Church plans
celebration
The Wolfcreek County Line
Baptist Church will begin its
78th anniversary celebration
April 3-6.
The Rev. E. L. Harris will
speak on Thursday night and
the Rev. Rufus Colvard will
speak on Friday.
The Sunday afternoon service
will be given by the Rev. B.
Bowens.
78th Anniversary
of Wolf Creek
COUNTYLINE
BAPTIST CHURCH
Will Begin
April 3thru6-1975
Thursday Night
Rev. F. L. Harris
Friday Night
Rev. Rufus Colvard
Sunday Morning-
Regular Service
Sunday Afternoon
Rev. B. Bowens
courts.
The Department of Health,
Education and Welfare’s Office
of Civil Rights also said the
county may be in violation of a
1969 desegregation order.
DeKalb School Superin-
as many primaries as possible
during his presidential bid and
said, “I intend to do very well
in the New Hampshire and
Florida primaries and this will
lay a groundwork, I think, for a
ready acceptance of me as a
major candidate who could
contend indeed for the presiden
cy itself.”
Carter said he thought he
could beat Wallace in the
Florida primary and said
Wallace couldn’t win the
nomination.
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tendent James Hinson charged
that many of OCR’s points “are
questionable in fact and con
clusion.”
A report released by the OCR
singled out the administration
of Columbia High School, where
about 100 students students
were arrested during demon
strations protesting allegedly
discriminatory conditions at the
school in February.
“In summary, we find that
Columbia High School is
administered in a fashion which
results in racial discrimina
tion,” the OCR report said.
It said the discrimination is
based “partly on the harsh,
limited-option disciplinary poli
cy and the rigid grouping
procedure” used in the school,
and is “contributed to by the
insensitivity which results in a
lack of participation by black
students in extracuricular ac
tivities” and in interracial
tensions among “faculty as well
as students.”
The report said black stu
dents are “over-included” in
disciplinary suspensions and
that such discrimination has
increased this year, with 61 per
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cent of the students suspended
at the school being black as of
January, compared to 57 per
cent in November.
The OCR review team spent
five days at Columbia, which
has a student population that is
36 per cent black, and
concluded that complaints
about student suspensions were
valid.
OCR Regional Director Wil
liam Thomas said in a letter to
Hinson that the study shows
violations of the Emergency
School Aid Act and of the 1964
Civil Rights Act.
These alleged violations
“may also be violations of your
court order” to desegregate,
handed down in 1969 by Federal
District Judge Newell Eden
field, Thomas said.
If Dekalb does not comply
with the regulations, the
county’s federal grants totaling
some $516,000, “will be in
jeopardy” and will probably be
cut of, Thomas said. The OCR
intends to forward the report to
the district court, which could
take further action, including
cutting off other federal funds,
Thomas said.
Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 2,1975
Bradley expected to recover
LOS ANGELES (UPI) —
Omar Bradley, the nation’s
only surviving five-star general,
apparently will recover com
pletely from a stroke he
suffered last month and subse
quent brain surgery, UCLA
Medical Center said Tuesday.
There is still no indication
when the general, 82, will be
able to leave the hospital, a
spokesman said. He was
removed from the intensive
care unit Sunday where he had
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been under treatment since a
small hole was drilled in his
skull last Wednesday to remove
a clot.
Bradley, field commander of
the U.S. troops who landed at
Normandy and fought their way
into the heart of Germany, is
the only survivor of the five
generals and four admirals who
were given five-star rank —
authorized only in wartime —to
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