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This just
might do
for May pole
It won’t be too long before some youngsters will be
winding May poles and little Beth Tysinger seems to be
checking this one out. It was one of the activities she
seemed to enjoy at the “Mother’s Day Out” school at First
Presbyterian Church. Beth is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. Lee Tysinger of Williamson.
Downtown merchants want
to keep free parking
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. (UPI) - Newspaper
| distributor George Freeman is trying to think of a more
likely story to explain to his insurance company about the
crushed roof on his station wagon.
There he was, Freeman said in a statement to police,
driving down busy U.S. 1 the other day when he saw these
| two elephants. He said he tried to stop, but nudged one of
| the pachyderms, which promptly sat down on the roof of
his car. Police said they soon rounded up two elephants
who had escaped from the winter quarters of the Clyde
Morris Circus.
Man changes mind
By United Press International
The switch of one vote kept
the Equal Rights Amendment
alive in in the North Carolina
House Tuesday, but the man
who changed his mind gave no
indication he would vote the
same way in the final tally
today.
Rep. Ronald E. Mason, a 45-
year-old father of three grown
daughters, pulled the ratifica
tion issue from a 59-59 deadlock
by switching his “no” vote to
“yes.”
Mason, who proponents had
counted on their side originally,
said he switched his vote to
save House Speaker James C.
Green from having to make a
difficult political decision.
“My feelings were not strong
enough against the measure to
keep me from voting yes,”
Mason said. “At the beginning
of the session I was for it but
Cambodia
Black shirted guerrillas push
PHNOM PENH (UPI) -
Black-shirted guerrillas battled
their way into Phnom Penh
today, driving back diehard
armored troops ordered to
defend the Cambodian capital
at all costs.
Reporters at the scene said
the Communist-led insurgents
crossed the United Nations
Bridge at the southern edge of
the city this morning, gaining:
the first rebel foothold inside
Phnom Penh.
The Khmer Rouge insurgents
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petitions and letters influenced
me to change my opinion.
“All I did was keep it alive. I
don’t know how I’ll vote next
time. I didn’t feel like it was
the proper position for the
speaker to be in.”
Legislatures in Florida and
Missouri, and perhaps Illinois
and Louisiana, may also take
action in coming days. Texas is
considering a move to rescind
its 1972 ERA ratification vote.
The amendment, which would
prohibit denial of equal rights
based on sex, has been ratified
by 34 of the needed 38 states.
Even though supporters have
until March, 1979, to get
ratification in 38 states, defeat
in any one of them would kill
chances ERA could become
part of the Constitution before
the national bicentennial cele
bration.
—firing rifles, machine guns
and bazooka-like rocket gre
nades —drove a government
armored force back to a traffic
circle near the bridge.
Reporters near the bridge
said dive-bombing government
warplanes blasted the guerril
las again and again but failed
to halt the advance across the
span.
An estimated 1,000 homes on
devastated streets around the
bridge burned down, trapping
thousands of terrified civilians
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Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, April 16,1975
The Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce is asking business
men and merchants for con
tributions so the free downtown
off-street parking program may
be continued.
The program began a year
ago on June 10, when 375 meters
were removed to provide Tree
parking in several downtown
city parking lots.
For this, the Chamber pays
the City of Griffin $7,000 an
nually for its fair share of the
costs of these lots.
David Bolton, chairman of the
Merchants Steering Committee,
said the city has agreed to keep
the cost at $7,000 for the
Chamber’s 1975 portion.
“This is a small part of the
actual costs of the lots, con
sidering taxes, leases, main
tenance, marking, etc. The
major costs are still funded by
on-street meter receipts,”
Bolton explained.
Merchants were asked to
contribute from SSO to S3OO,
depending on the relative
benefit derived from the free
parking and the approximate
business size.
May 20 is the target date for
the subscription campaign.
Bolton urged the merchants
to return their fair share
payment promptly, saying, “It
is up to the merchants and
professional businessmen in the
downtown area to do our part in
maintaining a viable business
district.”
For additional information,
merchants may contact either
Mr. Bolton or Mr. Doug
Hollberg, Jr., co-chairman.
hiding from the bombs and
bullets.
The rebels captured a major
marketplace on the suburban
side of the bridge early this
morning and then pushed
across the Bassac River span
into Phnom Penh.
Government armored cars
guarding the bridge, considered
the southern gate to Phnom
Penh, pulled back in the face of
the fierce insurgent fire.
The beleaguered government
ordered troops to fight to the
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (UPI) — Timothy Lloyd, 18, is
out of Jail, nursing a bad case of writer’s cramp.
Lloyd was convicted of stealing a record album, handed
I a ball point pen and a stack of paper, and sentenced
Monday by Judge John Sharlin to remain in the Pinellas
County jail until he had written “I will not steal anymore”
< 5,000 times.
Lloyd finished the job early Tuesday morning, and jail
supervisor Bruce Shelton said, “I imagine he went home
I to soak his fingers.”
Energy talks fail
PARIS (UPI) — Both oil
producing and oil consuming
nations expressed disappoint
ment today at the collapse of
their preparatory meeting for a
world energy conference and
said they hoped talks could
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but at least you don’t have to
hire security guards to protect
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end but the capital’s defenses
were crumbling. The fall of
Phnom Penh appeared only a
matter of time.
The government called for
volunteers to replace police
sent to the front lines to
reinforce war-weary troops
trying to stop the guerrilla
advance.
The guerrillas, bandoliers of
ammunition wrapped around
their chests and Chinese-made
rifles in their hands, were only
a half-mile from the presiden-
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resume.
The eight-day meeting attend
ed by 18 nations broke up late
Tuesday. It was organized to
work out a cabinet-level world
conference later this year but
became deadlocked at the
outset over the conference
agenda.
Neither side held out hope
that the talks would resume
very soon or that the major
world conference would take
place this summer on schedule.
The seven oil producing and
developing countries at the
meeting, led by Algeria, wanted
the later conference to organize
a new world economic order
with emphasis on helping poor
countries.
The 11 industrial countries
insisted that the United Nations
was an adequate forum for
such discussions.
They said the coming special
conference should concentrate
tial palace and Phnom Penh’s
main power generators.
Rebel radio broadcasts said
the insurgents also seized
Phnom Penh’s lifeline airport
west of the capital but
reporters in the area said the
installation was still in govern
ment hands.
The insurgents captured the
provincial capital of Takhmau,
five miles south of Phnom
Penh, on Tuesday and forced
the government’s best fighting
unit —the 7th Division —to
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solely on setting up a world
marketing policy for oil and
other forms of energy.
Thomas O. Enders, assistant
secretary of state for economic
affairs, who took over as chief
American delegate from
Charles W. Robinson, told a
news conference, “We are
disappointed, (at the collapse).
The differences were greater
than we had thought.
“We are going to keep trying
for a meeting on oil policy.”
Iranian delegate Mohammed
Yeganeh said he hoped that
further contacts will “resolve in
a consensus on the agenda.”
World oil prices, which have
quadrupled to about sll a
barrel in the past 18 months,
were not expected to be
immediately affected by the
collapse of the talks.
retreat in disarray.
Reporters said the fleeing
troops abandoned trucks, artil
lery pieces and ammunition to
the insurgents before retreating
toward Phnom Penh.
The advancing guerrillas
burned down thousands of
houses in the advance from
Takhmau to the United Nations
Bridge, sending an estimated
100,000 refugees fleeing into
Phnom Penh.
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gives boot
to ex-chief
MOSCOW (UPI) - The
Communist party Central Com
mittee today ousted former
KGB secret police chief Alex
ander N. Shelepin from the 16-
man Politburo, the country’s
top ruling body. It was the first
shakeup in die Kremlin hie
rarchy since April, 1973.
Shelepin, 56, once a strong
contender for Communist party
Secretary General Leonid I.
Brezhnev’s job, was retired at
his own request, the Tass news
agency said.
Western diplomatic sources
said the effect of the ouster was
to strengthen the position of
Brezhnev, against whom Shele
pin fought for the top job of
party general secretary after
the ouster of Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev.
Shelepin was Khrushchev’s
protege and, when Brezhnev
won that power struggle,
Shelepin’s star swiftly waned.
Shelepin reached the peak of
his career in the last two years
of Khrushchev’s rule.
But in 1965, the party-state
control agency he headed was
disbanded and two years later
he was named to head the
trade unions, a second level job
in the Soviet system.
“This puts the cap on it and
finishes Shelepin,” one Western
source said, discounting as
“baloney” the official version
that he quit at his own request.
The sources said the excuse
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WASHINGTON — President Ford waves to the crowd as
he sits with Republican National Chairman Mary Louise
Smith while waiting for the Chief Executive to address the
Republican House-Senate Dinner. In his speech Ford
struck at the political exclusiveness of conservative
elements in the Republican party and said he intends to
base his election campaign next year on a broad-based
GOP philosophy. (UPI)
for the ouster probably was
provided by Shelepin’s visit to
Britain earlier this month,
which was met with demonstra
tions and minor incidents of
violence.
“He is a liability now—even
in the third-level job of a trade
union chief. He cannot be sent
anywhere now,” the source
said. “The British business was
the perfect excuse.”
The plenum also decided to
hold the party’s 25th congress
next Feb. 24. There has been
speculation that Brezhnev may
voluntarily retire after the
congress.
Brezhnev has been reported
ill in recent months.
The party congress meets
every four or five years in its
formal role as governing body
of the Soviet party. It approves
the political and economic
course set by the central
committee.
The last meeting in April,
1971, lasted 10 days and
attracted 5,000 delegates and
observers from here and
abroad. Among its acts was the
expansion of the Politburo from
11 to 15 members, all Brezhnev
proteges.
Shelepin’s ouster reduced the
number of full voting Politburo
members to 15.
The source said there was no
indication who, if anyone,
would replace Shelepin.