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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 2,1975
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Jobless rates drop in Georgia
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
State Labor Department
released figures Tuesday that
show a 69 per cent decrease
from January in the number of
newly unemployed Georgians
filing for unemployment com
pensation, a hopeful sign in
these recessionary times.
TRAFFIC DEATHS
CARACAS (UPI) - The
Venezuelan government says
traffic regulations will soon be
taught in all public and private
schools in the country.
Venezuela has one of the
highest rates of traffic fatalities
in Latin America.
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Labor Commissioner Sam
Caldwell said the decline in
Georgia’s unemployment rate is
one indication the state “is
coming out of this negative
economy.”
“I believe we are bottoming
out,” said Caldwell. “The
lowering of interest rates, both
in housing and in construction,
is the best barometer to gauge
the economy by —that and the
steadily falling number of new
claims at our unemployment
centers.
Although the state has not yet
figured the percentage of
unemployment in Georgia,
Caldwell estimated that it will
be between 10 % and 11 per
cent.
January’s unemployment rate
was 9.7 per cent, the highest
since the state began keeping
employment records.
In the week ending Jan. 25,
DIEHARDS
MARSHALL, Texas (UPI) —
During the Civil War, while the
state of Missouri was in federal
control, the Confederate capital
of the state was moved to
Marshall, Tex. The governor of
the Missouri moved to the city
and transacted business on
behalf of the Show-Me state.
some 32,590 Georgians filed new
unemployment claims, “one of
the most miserable statistics
ever reported by this depart
ment,” said Caldwell.
That figure has declined
weekly until there were only
14,070 new jobless claims filed
the week ending March 22. Last
week, that figure was estimated
to have declined further to
10,200.
For the week ending March
21, the state paid out a record
$9.1 million in unemployment
compensation to about 130,000
persons. But by last week that
figure had dropped to $7.76
million.
NO PROBLEM
BURBANK, Calif. (UPI) -
Mickey Mouse and Donald
Duck aren’t feeling the reces
sion.
Walt Disney Productions said
Tuesday that attendance at
Disney World in Florida for the
six months ending March 31
was almost 5.2 million, a 28 per
cent increase, over the same
period in the previous fiscal
year. The increase during the
second quarter of the fiscal
year was almost 50 per cent.
During the first half of the
fiscal year, Disneyland in
Anaheim, Calif., drew more
than 3.3 million visitors, a 9 per
cent increase in attendance.
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VALDOSTA, Ga.—Freak of nature or not, this Z-shaped tree on the J. E. Coody farm in
Brooks County, provides a comfortable spot for young Frankie Mitcham to work on his art
class project. (UPI)
Lowndes sheriffs race
to have runoff April 22
VALDOSTA, Ga. (UPI) -
Two experienced lawmen failed
to gain the necessary votes to
win a special election to
determine a successor for
retired Lowndes County Sheriff
Jewell Futch Tuesday, and
must face each other in a
runoff on April 22.
Unofficial election returns
Tuesday night showed Robert
Carter, 51, former Valdosta
assistant police chief, polled
32.9 per cent of the total 8,826
votes cast.
June Downing, 42, former
commander of Georgia State
Patrol Post 31 in Valdosta, got
29.1 per cent of the vote.
Carter polled 2,873 votes to
Downing’s 2,539, denying each
man the necessary majority for
an outright win and sending the
election into a runoff.
Lowndes County has 21,000
registered voters.
Carter and Downing were the
favorites in a nine-man field
running for the post Futch
vacated with his resignation
effective March 1.
Interim Sheriff Ken Ferrell,
an instructor at Valdosta State
College, will remain on the job
until Futch’s successor is
Irvin raps
fire ant
money loss
ATLANTA (UPI) — State
Agriculture Commissioner
Tommy Irvin criticized Tues
day the federal government’s
decision to suspend its efforts
to control the spread of fire
ants after Georgia has pumped
$17.3 million over the last 19
years into the program.
“Today’s announcement com
pletely destroys our effort to
give Georgians the relief they
demand,” Irvin said.
Agriculture Secretary Earl
Butz announced in Washington
that the fire ant eradication
program, begun in 1957, was
being suspended effective June
30. Butz said restrictions
imposed by the Environmental
Protection Agency on the
chemical pesticide Mirex,
which kills fire ants, had made
the program “completely un
workable.”.
Irvin said he was “extremely
disappointed” by the decision,
which affects nine Southern
states, including Georgia.
He challenged the Depart
ment of Agriculture and the
EPA to come up with “a
workable program” to protect
public health and welfare in the
infested areas.
“Citizens in both rural and
urban areas need help protect
ing themselves and their
property against the pest,” said
Irvin.
Georgia first entered the fire
ant eradication program in 1958
with an appropriation of
$400,000, Irvin said. Since that
time, the state has spent
$17,315,500 on the program, a
sum that was matched by the
federal government.
The other states involved in
Butz’s order are Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana,
Mississippi, North and South
Carolina and Texas.
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chosen.
The winner of the runoff will
fill out Futch’s term, which
expires Dec. 31, 1976.
News summary
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Viet senate blames U.S.
SAIGON (UPI) — The South Vietnamese Senate, in is
first session since the Communist offensive began March
4, approved a resolution on the staggering defeats of
government troops. The resolution blamed the failure of
the United States to honor its commitments and the
mistakes of the Thieu government and called for a change
of policy to solve the war. It also called for a new
leadership which will base its policy on freedom and
justice. The government called on the people not to give
up despite the overwhelming string of Communist
victories.
Another town falls
PHNOM PENH (UPI) — Just a few hours after
President Lon Nol flew to Indonesia Tuesday, the towns of
Neak Luong and Banam, 30 miles southeast of Phnom
Penh, fell to an insurgent siege. Sources said as many as
6,000 Communist-led rebels may have been involved in the
fighting. Nine landing craft that readied Phnom Penh this
morning were believed the only government units to
escape. Rebel gunners fired two barrages of rockets into
the south side of Phnom Penh, near the U.S. Embassy,
killing one person and wounding five.
Diplomacy said futile
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (UPI) - The State Depart- |
ment's top analyst on East Asia, Philip C. Habib, Mid in
Washington the administration has concluded the North
Vietnamese were trying to take South Vietnam on the
battlefield and that diplomatic attempts at settlement
were futile. Meanwhile, President Ford, who is
vacationing in Palm Springs, is waiting for more
information on the situation. Habib feds the President
would ask Congress for massive aid for Saigon if reports
convince him that Saigon can “stabilize the military
situation.’*
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Strong recovery in sight
The country will experience strong economic recovery
in the second half of 1975, according to four top econo
mists. And one, Edward Bernstein, a U.S. Treasury
consultant, said, “...By the middle of the bicentennial
year (1976) we will be in one of the biggest booms of the
postwar era.”
Woman in runoff for mayor
The largest of several municipal elections was held
Tuesday in Chicago, where Mayor Richard J. Daley told
his suporters how glad he was that they had given him an
unprecedented sixth term. San Antonio, Tex., gave Lila
Cockrell a chance to become the first woman mayor of a
major Texas City. She fell just short of the needed 51 per
cent of the votes, forcing a runoff with her primary
opponent, John Monfrey. However, in Dallas, Mayor Wes
Wise was victorious in running for his third term. Paul
Soglin, a one-time antiwar protest leader at the University
of Wisconsin, won his second term as mayor of Madison.
And in East St. Louis, DI., the city’s first black mayor,
James E. Williams Sr., was unseated by William E.
Mason, also a black.
I Duke of Duval slain
CONCEPCION, Tex. (UPI) - The “Duke of Duval,”
South Texas political boss George B. Parr, who faced a
prison sentence for income tax evasion, was found shot to
death in his car Tuesday. Justice of the Peace Luis
Elizondo ruled that Parr shot himself in the right temple
with a pistol found near the body. At the peak of his power,
Parr ruled with an iron hand in the oil-rich brush country.
Only federal investigators and the Texas Rangers ever
questioned his authority.
Futch, 62, announced Feb. 10
that he was resigning on the
advice of his doctor because of
a chronic heart condition.