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GRIFFIN
DAI LA NEWS
Vol. 103 No. 82
Rumor mill runs full speed
on who’ll be candidates
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Water from Flint river covered this gate at Camp
Thunder Sunday afternoon. The water came from heavy
rains which hit this section of the state last week. Troop
One of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Griffin
Henry students escape
injury in bus-car wreck
Around 20 Henry County
school children escaped injury
this morning when the school
bus in which they were riding
collided with a car on Jonesboro
road.
School officials said the bus
was “barely scratched”,
although the auto, driven by
Mrs. Joyce Oglesby Berger of
McDonough, was damaged
heavily.
A third car also was damaged
when its driver, Margarette B.
Starrett of McDonough, drove
off the road and into a tree to
avoid the bus-car accident.
Griffin State Trooper Don
Halstead said Mrs. Berger lost
control of her car when its
State budgets
The rainy day
has finally come
By DONALD E. MULLEN
United Press International
State governments are cut
ting back on services and
trimming their budget.
In state after state, the
combination of inflation and
recession has cut into income.
Coupled with newly elected
legislatures’ spending promises
and cries of anguish from state
budget directors that there’s no
money to pay for them, many
states are teetering over a sea
of red ink.
A survey last fall showed
there was approximately $4-1
billion in surplus money scat
tered throughout the states.
A new April survey shows a
paper surplus of about $3.6
billion, with some of it already
spent through overly optimistic
tax cutting and building pro
grams and some earmarked to
cover upcoming deficits.
Texas is a good example.
last, year Texas had a
projected $1.5 billion surplus. In
April it has dwindled to $750.6
million, with the appropriations
bill for the next two years not
prepared.
The vanished Texas surplus
is blamed on sagging tax
revenue and the deepening
recession, plus emergency
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, April 7,1975
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brakes locked and caused her to
hit the bus.
At least 10 persons were in
jured in other Griffin area
wrecks over the weekend.
Late yesterday afternoon
Ralph Eugene Porter, 26, of
Route Three, was injured in a
collision about four miles west
of Griffin on Ga. 73.
Dennis M. Harry, 19, 469
Minter road, suffered neck and
face injuries when his car
collided with a truck on the
North Expressway at Vineyard
road Saturday night.
Four people were injured in a
wreck at Meriwether and Ninth
streets early Saturday after
noon.
spending bills passed by state
legislators.
State Comptroller Bob Bul
lock, in justifying his surplus
estimate, said, “I’m not going
to go out with a witching rod to
find something that’s not there.
If the legislature is going to
dance this session, somebody’s
going to have to pay the
fiddler.”
In contrast, a lot of states, if
not prosperous, generally are
healthy.
The fuel shortage and rising
coal prices have helped Ken
tucky and West Virginia both
keep $125 million surpluses.
Caifomia has an estimated
$552 million surplus, with hopes
of holding on to most of it in
the next budget year. Min
nesota has an estimated S4OO
million surplus, and Oklahoma,
with increasing gas and oil
income, an estimated $l9O
million in extra cash.
Other states with solid
surpluses and generally healthy
economies are Montana, Kan
sas, Hawaii, lowa, Indiana,
North Dakota and Arkansas.
But for many states, it is a
fight to find money to pay the
bills.
Massachussets with its high
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constructed the gate on Dripping Rock road. The high
water turned the road into a small river during the
weekend.
They were Mary Helen
Grubbs, 34, Angie Brock 15, and
Wendy Brock, 13, all of 1406
June street, and Christy
Johnson, 15, of Carver road,
police said.
Police said Roger Manley
Cranford, 46, of Route One, Box
131, suffered chest pains when
his car hit a parked auto on East
Poplar street Saturday mor
ning.
Romy Maria Gunter, 16, 104
Forestwood drive, and Cheryl
Hambrick, 16, Route Four, Box
406, were treated at the Griffin
hospital for injuries they suf
fered in a rearend collision on
the Old Atlanta road Saturday.
Linda Gale Young, 27, of 1307
North Ninth street was injured
when she was in an accident on
Ga. 16, east. Her car ran into a
ditch when she became blinded
by the sun, she said.
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When lunch time came Saturday afternoon helicopter
pilot Larry Chapman of Atlanta decided to drop in on a
Griffin restaurant on the North Expressway for
Directories
being delivered
The Southern Bell office in
Griffin is in the process of hand
delivering some 19,000 new
directories.
Manager Bill Byram said
about 1,000 would be mailed.
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The date for a special county
commission election has not
been set yet but already rumors
and speculation were spreading
about who would run.
No one had announced flatly
that he would run as of today.
But two men said they were
thinking about it seriously.
Earl Stokes today was the
second person to say he might
be a candidate.
Stokes said he would sell the
loan company business he
operates on West Solomon
street so he could devote full
time to being a commissioner.
Stokes was a candidate in the
commission election last fall
which Reid Childers won after a
runover.
Henry Miller, appliance
dealer, said Saturday he was
seriously considering running.
He said he expected to decide in
a few days.
Dr. John Ellis, chiropractor,
said today he was thinking
about being a candidate but had
not reached a decision.
He said he would make up his
mind in a few days.
Kyle Cobb who ran for the
state senate last fall said he had
received some phone calls from
people asking if he were in
terested in running.
Cobb didn’t talk much like a
candidate this morning but left
the door open. He said he would
think about it.
Bobby Dunn who operates a
tree cutting and trimming busi
ness here has popped up in the
rumor mill as a possible can
didate.
He was in Barnesville today
and could not be reached for
comment.
Dunn has been a candidate for
both the city and county boards
before.
Rumors that Jack Moss might
be a candidate popped up again,
too.
Moss was out of telephone
reach this morning and not
available for comment.
A vacancy will occur on the
Spalding County Commission
when Gov. George D. Busbee
accepts the resignation of
Chairman Sandy Morgan.
The two remaining commiss
ioners, Vice Chairman Palmer
Hamil and Commissioner
Childers, will have to set the
date for a special election when
the resignation is accepted.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
75, low today 40, high yesterday
71, low yesterday 34, high
tomorrow near 70, low tonight
near 40. Sunrise tomorrow 7:22,
sunset tomorrow 7:58.
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VUNG TAU, S. Vietnam—Voluntary workers reach out to unload a Vietnamese child inside
a basket hanging down from the ship named “Booheung-Pioneer”. Some 25,000 refugees
were evacuated from Cam Ranh Bay to this resort city by U.S. ships during the last two
days. (UPI)
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WASHINGTON — Defense
Secretary James Schlesinger
said South Vietnam will
collapse without more United
States aid, and even if the
Communist advance were
halted Saigon would still
require years of U. S. assistance
to survive. (UPI)
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Mothers tried
to give their
babies away
By CHARLES R. SMITH
UPI Senior Editor
SAIGON (UPI) — There were 18,000 refugees aboard
the cargo ship, enough to populate a small city. Many
hadn’t eaten or drunk in days. Desperate mothers tried to
jive their starving babies away in hopes someone would
care for them.
Lyndsey Davis, a former U.S. Army sergeant, spent
four days aboard the ship Trans Colorado during its
recent rescue operation. He said mothers “by the
hundreds’’ tried to give their infants away.
“They didn’t want to part with their children,” Davis
said. “It was sheer desperation. They couldn’t even feed
themselves. How could they care for the children?”
Davis said babies were born, lived briefly and died on
the Trans Colorado, which carried refugees —most of
them soldiers —fleeing Quang Tri, Hue and Da Nang.
The ship took the passengers to Nha Trang, Cam Ranh
Bay and Vung Tau.
“I spent 22 years in the Army, fought in two wars, Korea
and Vietnam, and I have never seen suffering like the
suffering I saw on that ship and among the refugees in
some of the places we stopped,” Davis said.
“The refugees fought for just a drink of water. The crew
dug into its limited provisions and cooked up 600 liters of
rice soup, using hamburger and other meat and
vegetables. They were almost mobbed when they tried to
serve it.”
When refugees arrived in Cam Ranh Bay, Davis said,
“there wasn’t anything for them, not even a piece of bread
or a drink of water.”
He said the 37-man crew of the ship “performed mag
nificently.”
“They just performed miracles. They didn’t even stop
to eat. Even when they grabbed a sandwich from the
ship’s mess, most of the crewmen just gave the
sandwiches to some of the refugees, many of whom had
nothing to eat for days.”
Using its salt water conversion facilities, the ship pro
duced more than 1 million gallons of water for the
refugees, many of whom had gone without food or water
for several days before being picked up by the ship.
Davis was on the Trans Colorado looking for his wife
and child, who were in Da Nang when that city fell to the
Communists.
The retired soldier from Walhalla, S.C., said he would
keep looking and keep working with the refugees.
“I’m going to try to help do something for these people,”
he said. “After seeing the suffering, the human misery
and desperation —women trying to give their babies away
—you’ve got to try to do something. It hurts a man to have
to see good people suffering like that.”