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Orphans in Atlanta
They didn’t know about tragic air crash in Saigon
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A Vietnam orphan shares the contents of a packet of
mementos he carried with him on the nearly 24 hour flight
from Clark Air Force Base to intrigued Atlanta children
Galaxy made at Marietta
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
CSA Galaxy, the Air Force
transport that crashed with a
planeload of Vietnamese or
phans in Saigon today, is the
world’s largest airplane and
was designed to carry tanks
and helicopters.
Built by the Lockheed Corp,
of Marietta, Ga., the Galaxy
first flew in 1968 and had never
before been involved in a fatal
accident.
Two of the 81 planes, built at
a cost of about $55 million each,
had burned while on the ground
and a third was destroyed by
fire last year after making a
crash landing forced by a
midair fire in one of its four
Porno expert wants
laws to be overhauled
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - An
expert on national pornography
laws called Thursday night for
a complete overhaul of such
laws in the courts because they
are being used to tar pornogra
phy dealers and legitimate
merchants with the same
brush.
Dr. William B. Lockhart,
former chairman of the U.S.
Commission on Obscenity and
Pornography, said varying in
terpretations of obscenity laws
are leading to suppression of
material that is protected under
the First Amendment.
“Vague standards keep dis
tributors of films and publica
tions from knowing if they are
protected by the Constitution
and cause them to withhold
material for fear of being
prosecuted,” said Lockhart in a
lecture at the University of
Georgia Law School.
He charged that films which
are “not clearly obscene” are
being prosecuted under present
GAEmeeting
Teachers want starting pay at least equal to troopers
By KAY BROWN
ATLANTA (UPI) - An
official of the Georgia Associa
tion of Educators (GAE) said
Thursday teachers, who must
have a college education,
should have a starting salary at
least equal to state troopers,
who are not required to have a
degree.
Dr. Horace Tate, GAE
associate executive secretary,
said the salary for a beginning
teacher in 1975, even with the 7
per cent pay increase voted by
General Electric turbofan en
gines. There were no injuries in
any of those incidents.
Jane’s All the World’s Air
craft says the 230-foot craft has
a maximum payload of 225,000
pounds and a top speed of 550
miles per hour.
“Typical freight loads include
two M6O tanks or one M6O and
two Bell Iroquois helicopters,”
according to Jane’s.
The plane has a normal crew
of five and can carry as many
as 15 in relief crews. An upper
deck can seat 75 troops and the
main deck can carry 270. “But
the aircraft is intended primari
ly as a freighter,” Jane’s says.
Some congressmen and Air
Force officials criticized the
law and that threats have been
made by police against dealers
selling publications such as
“Playboy.”
Lockhart said the problem is
that present laws fail to
differentiate between what is
obscene and what has serious
literary, artistic, political or
scientific values. Such laws can
be used to exclude or include
almost anything, according to
Lockhart.
Lockhart said a distributor
should be allowed to express
his belief that the material is
not obscene in making his
Georgia Power in experiment
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Georgia Power Co. will partici
pate in a revolutionary experi
ment that might do away with
the need for controversial
smokestack scrubbers to
remove sulfur from the exhaust
gases of coal burning power
plants.
the General Assembly, will be
17,468.
Beginning state troopers, who
also received a raise from the
legislature this year, will make
$9,780, he said.
“Last year our starting
teachers were $1,200 behind the
starting state troopers, and now
we are $2,312 below them,”
Tate said. “I think the troopers,
who do not have to have a
college degree, deserve the
raise, but I believe educators
who are forced to have a
at the airport. He was among the first 14 orphans to arrive
east of the Rockies to be placed with waiting adoptive
parents. (UPI)
CSA and said it was deficient in
both performance and cost.
After less than a year in
operation, the airplane’s wings
were found to have developed
tiny cracks, and its payloads
were reduced.
The Galaxy grew out of an
Air Force contract, awarded to
Lockheed and the Boeing
Aircraft Co. in 1963, calling for
a giant plane for long flights.
The two companies presented
their proposals to Pentagon
officers, and Lockheed was
nominated as the builder in
October, 1965.
On June 30, 1968, the plane
made its first test flight, and
one of its wheels fell off on
defense in court. He said also
that no arrests of suspected
obscenity dealers should be
allowed until the material has
been seized and the films or
books actually judged to be
obscene in court.
Lockhart said one problem
with this is that by the time the
material is judged, the distribu
tor may have removed it from
his store.
Lockhart is a former dean of
the University of Minnesota
School of Law, and is now a
visiting professor at Arizona
State University.
The Ilok Powder Co. said
Thursday it has signed a $lO
million contract with Georgia
Power to demonstrate the
process which removes all
sulfur from coal by grinding it
into grains finer than talcum
powder.
Dr. V. Stephen Krajcovic-
college degree before they can
teach deserve more than they
are presently receiving.”
Tate spoke to more than 1,000
teachers attending the GAE’s
annual convention.
He said although some people
“will attempt to shame us” for
seeking salary increases, “we
cannot stop until we are on a
professional salary level.”
“For those who still feel that
educators cannot be committed
and dedicated because they are
landing.
By the end of 1970, the first
Galaxy and its successors had
accumulated 13,000 flight hours
without a serious mishap.
The compression system
which reportedly failed and
caused Friday’s crash was a
feature of the airplane.
Known as a “bootstrap air
cycle pressurization system,” it
was controlled electronically by
four generators.
The sweptwing jet which
crashed Friday had carried
nearly 50 tons of arms and
ammunition to South Vietr
namese combat forces before
loading the orphans and other
Americans, taking off and
crashing.
Rep. Lane
to have
surgery
ATLANTA (UPI) — Rep. W.
Jones Lane of Statesboro will
undergo open heart surgery to
replace part of a blocked artery
nenr his heart with another
vessel taken from one of his
legs today.
Lane, a 15-year veteran of the
state House, entered St. Jo
seph’s Hospital Monday for
tests after suffering chest pains
during the recently-ended Gen
eral Assembly session. Lane,
54, said his doctors diagnosed a
severe cardiac condition and
scheduled the surgery.
Ilok, president of the Washing
ton-based company, said strip
ping the sulfur from coal before
it is burned would allow even
the dirtiest U.S. coal to fire
power plant boilers without
contaminating the air with
potentially dangerous sulfur
dioxide emissions.
seeking salary increases, tell
them that we can’t pay our
bills with commitment and
dedication.
“The doctors, the grocers and
bankers will not accept com
mitment and dedication as
payment,” he said.
Tate said the teacher retire
ment system “is one of the
worst retirement systems of
any category of state em
ployes” and must be upgraded.
Teachers were authorized for
By MORRIS SHEETS
ATLANTA (UPI) - Fourteen
Vietnamese orphans arrived
tired and sleepy from a 24-hour
plane ride today shortly before
a giant transport carrying 243
orphans crashed and burned in
Saigon.
A subdued crowd of about 100
persons was not aware of the
tragedy in Vietnam as they
watched the orphans, most of
them babies carried by stewar
desses, disembark from the
Eastern Airlines jet in 35-
degree weather.
The jet landed on a flight
from Los Angeles at 4:53 a.m.
EDT, only minutes before a
U.S. Air Force Galaxy with 298
persons aboard crashed while
trying to make an emergency
landing at Saigon.
The Galaxy, the world’s
largest airplane, was built by
Lockheed Aircraft Corp, of
Marietta, Ga., a suburb of
Atlanta.
“I’m absolutely horrified and
terribly upset,” said Mrs. Linda
Busser, vice president of the
Friends of Children Inc., a
volunteer group that seeks
homes for Vietnamese children
in the United States. “I was
riding home when I heard the
news of the crash.
“I hope this will not stop
them from trying to get the
kids out. It is certain death if
they don’t get out. Food is in
short supply and prices have
tripled in die past week. The
death rate has been 80 per cent
in orphanages (in Vietnam).
Now it will be even worse.”
The orphans that arrived in
Atlanta were bound for cities
“east of the Rockies,” Mrs.
Busser said, some as far away
as Minnesota and New York.
Only two of the children, both
year-old girls, were met by
their new parents.
“Isn’t she cute, She’s a doll,”
exclaimed Mrs. Tom Pope of
Calhoun, Ga.
Jim and Mary Lee of Atlanta
eagerly rushed to the steward
ess carrying their baby.
“I feel weak and excited,”
said Lee.
Mrs. Busser said there were
“a lot of boys on the flight,
which is unusual because boys
are hard to place.”
The orphans, part of some
2,000 children being airlifted
from the Vietnam War, had
flown from Saigon to Clark Au-
Force Base in the Philippines,
then to Los Angeles and on to
Atlanta.
A stewardess said the oldest
child, a 10-year-old boy, had
become frightened on the flight
when he saw the flashes of the
plane’s wing lights.
“He indicated he thought it
was the glare of fire from
bomb explosions,” she said.
Most of the orphans slept
during the flight from Los
Angeles. They were kept
aboard the plane until the other
passengers disembarked in
Atlanta, then they were brought
out in a procession of stewards
and stewardesses.
“We have two other children
and felt like we should adopt an
orphan instead of having
another child of our own,” said
Mrs. Pope. “Our two little boys
will give her a lot of love.”
A group of around five
American children, waiting at
the airport with their parents
on other flights,- gathered
around a Vietnamese boy of
about eight. The orphan didn’t
speak but pulled out a packet of
photographs, one of an Ameri
can soldier, and showed the
pictures to the other kids.
the first time by the General
Assembly this year to retire
after 30 years of service on
about 52 per cent of their
salary, he said, while other
state employes have much
more attractive benefits.
“There are retirement sys
tems in this state that already
mandate that their employes
retire at 25 years ... and here
we are having to fuss and
strategize and squabble to
retire at 30 years.
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Diep Whitcomb, a Vietnam orphan bound for Florida, is wide-eyed as she clings to
stewardess Beverly McDaniel while a steward checks her wrist tag for her final
destination. Fourteen children ranging from 11 months to 10 years arrived in Atlanta to be
united with their adoptive parents. (UPI)
Talmadge sees fall
weeks, months away
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - Sen.
Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., said
Thursday it probably will be a
“matter of weeks or months at
the most” before South Vietr
nam falls to the Communists.
“I hope that never again
under any conditions, any
where, at any time will
American troops be committed
to battle without any direct
national security being invol
ved,” Talmadge said in a
question and answer session
with about 100 University of
Georgia students.
Talmadge said he opposes
relocating South Vietnamese
refugees in the United States
because unemployment already
is too high in this country.
In a speech delivered to the
Georgia chapter of Alpha Zeta,
Talmadge said more Senate
and House members, especially
the newly elected ones, are
trying to get assignments on
the agriculture committees
because they realize the impor
tance of the nation’s food and
agriculture policy.
Traffic deaths down,
thanks to 55 limit
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Georgia State Patrol said
Thursday the traffic death rate
on the state’s roads and
highways has declined 16 per
cent in a year, primarily
because of the 55 miles per
hour speed limit.
Col. Herman Cofer, Georgia
public safety commissioner,
also said the death rate for this
year is 30 per cent under the
death rate of two years ago.
“To us this means that more
and more people are reducing
“It just ain’t right,” he said.
The GAE actively lobbied
during the recently-ended Gen
eral Assembly session for a 12
per cent salary increase,
increased health and retirement
benefits, an improved pupil
teacher ratio in grades four
through seven and a statewide
kindergarten program. The
association endorsed Gov.
George Busbee and Lt. Gov.
Zell Miller in their contests last
fall, as well as making 152
endorsements for the state
-—Griffin Daily News Friday, Apri14,1975
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Talmadge, chairman of the
Senate Agriculture Committee,
said there wasn’t as much
interest in agriculture when he
went to the Senate 18 years
ago.
“There wasn’t a great deal of
interest in agriculture and we
had to go out and recruit new
senators for our committee.”
Talmadge said. Frequently
senators would ask to be
transfered from Agriculture to
another committee assignment,
he said.
This year, no one asked to be
transfered and two new sena
tors asked for assignment to
the Agriculture Committee.
“And in the House, more
freshman congressmen asked
for assignment to the Agricul
ture Committee than any
other,” he said.
“There is no issue before
Congress and the nation that is
more ‘major’ than our food and
agriculture policy,” Talmadge
said.
On Tuesday Talmadge had
issued a statement saying
their speeds for energy savings
reasons as well as money
savings reasons,” said Cofer.
“I think that enforcement has
played a definite role in
causing reduced speeds.”
Cofer said arrests by the
State Patrol for more serious
violations, including speeding,
were up by 18 per cent. He said
he thought other law enforce
ment agencies in the state have
similar increases in arrests for
traffic violations.
By the end of March, there
legislature.
Earlier Thursday, the GAE
adopted a proposal of its Task
Force, chaired by Clyde Kim
ball Jr. of Atlanta, concerning
“governance,” or who controls
the professional standards for
the teaching profession.
The GAE will work for the
enactment of legislation estab
lishing a Standards Board, with
the authority to determine what
courses teachers must take in
college, which colleges have
certified teacher education pro-
suspension of a federal-state
program to control fire ants
would be “a reckless action
that would threasten the health
and welfare of hundreds of
thousands of people in eight
states.”
The Department of Agricul
ture announced April 1 that it
would discontinue the program
because of restrictions imposed
by the Environmental Protec
tion Agency. Talmadge said he
can understand the frustration
of the Agriculture Department
since the EPA decided to
curtail use of the chemical
Mirex for fire ant eradication.
The decision, Talmadege
said, has made the insect a
“terrible menace throughout
the southeast.”
Talmadge said he has urged
that the budget for agricultural
research be increased by
$400,000 to undertake a crash
program of research on envi
ronmentally safe methods to
control fire ants at the
Richard B. Russell Laboratory
in Athens.
had been 289 traffic deaths in
Georgia in 1975. At the same
period a year earlier there
were 344.
Cofer said not many people
are driving 55 miles per hour
on the state’s highways but that
most were within the range of
from 60 to 65 miles per hour.
Before the imposition of the 55
miles per hour speed limits, he
said, highway speeds usually
ranged from 70 to 80 miles per
hour.
grams, the standards for
teacher certification and stand
ards of continuing education for
teachers already in the field.
Kimball said standards for
entering the teaching profession
are now determined by lay
persons serving on state
boards, not professionals.
“The professional educator
must carry the burden for
failure in education,” he said,
“yet we have the least say-so of
anybody about who gets into
the profession.”