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Four on rec board to resign
Four of the five appointed
members of the joint Griffin-
Spalding County Recreation
Board said they will resign
within a few days, according to
Bob Braddock, chairman.
Frank Touchstone, the
remaining appointed member,
said he had decided not to
Lyn Banks
to enter
county race
Lyn Banks, native of Griffin,
announced today he would
qualify as a candidate for
Spalding County Commissioner
early next week.
Banks makes his home in the
Jackson Road area with his wife
and five children. Their
children range in the kin
dergarten through elementay
school age levels.
He is employed at General
Motors Division at Lakewood in
Atlanta and commutes daily to
work.
Banks earned as associatee
degree at Clayton Junior
College and a Bachelor of
Business Administration degree
from Georgia State University
in Atlanta
He said he would like to
promote harmony and
cooperation in the community
and “communication between
me and the voters.”
Banks was an outstanding
football player at Griffin High
as were his other three
brothers.
Rep. Hansen
sentenced
two months
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep.
, George V. Hansen, R-Idaho.,
was sentenced today to serve
two months in prison for failing
to file complete campaign
finance reports for the 1974
Republican primary in Idaho.
U.S. District Judge George L.
Hart Jr. gave Hansen a one
year sentence, but suspended 10
months of the term. Hansen
was also placed on probation for
one year after serving his two
month prison term.
Connally innocent; not out of public life
WASHINGTON (UPI) - For
mer Treasury Secretary John
Connally, acquitted on charges
he accepted payoffs of SIO,OOO,
is considering re-entering politi
cal life some day.
A four-man, eight-woman
federal court jury deliberated
for six hours and 45 minutes
Thursday before clearing the
former Texas governor of
charges he accepted cash in
1971 from milk producer
lobbyist Jake Jacobsen for
helping win higher government
milk price supports.
flying saucer lhals for real
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By GREGORY JENSEN
CARDINGTON, England (UPI) — The flying saucer is
I for real —and stamped “made in Britain.”
Its first flight was hardly impressive. It lifted off, wob
bled along for a few hundred feet and dropped to the floor.
But its makers say better things are to come.
The model that flew Thursday inside a giant hangar on
the Royal Air Force Base looked just like the flying
saucers of the old space movies: 30 feet around and 9%
feet high, with a rim of portholes around the edge.
John West, head of the firm that designed it, said it was
a prototype of what will someday be a 700-foot craft
capable of hauling 400 tons of cargo thousands of miles.
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resign and to stay on the board.
The four are Bob Braddock,
chairman; Henry Walker, vice
chairman; Mrs. Carolyn
Harris, secretary; and George
Reid.
Other members of the board
are elected officials, Griffin
Mayor Louis Goldstein and
County Commissioner Reid
Childers.
Braddock said the four
agreed to resign in view of the
agreement reached yesterday
among City Commissioner
Preston Bunn and the two
County Commissioners, P. W.
Hamil and Reid Childers.
“We do so cheerfully in the
hope that this dispute may
finally be resolved and the
recreation program can
proceed to more important
matters,” the four who will
resign said.
The statement said Griffin
long has been recognized as
having one of the finest recrea
tion programs in the state.
“It has attained this position
through many years of com
munity interest and support,
together with the work of a
multitude of dedicated men and
women. We sincerely hope that
this program will never again
be placed in jeopardy,” the
statement continued.
The four members said within
a few days they will present
their letters of resignation to the
respective governmental body
which reappointed them to the
joint city-county board as of
Jan. 1.
Yesterday the two Spalding
County Commissioners agreed
that if the board were
reorganized, the county would
go along with the original
$352,000 budget, plus an ad
ditional $30,000 for parks’
security.
They discussed the matter
with City Commissioner
Preston Bunn who said he would
present it to the other city com
missioners.
There was no criticism of the
present board members during
the meeting. The commiss
ioners all said the present board
had done a good job, but they
felt the board should not have
elected officials as voting
members and the board should
have more business men.
They all stressed their at
titude was not a critical one.
They just wanted to settle the
matter and get on with other
business, they said.
The tall, silver-haired Connal
ly, his family, and his defense
lawyers all burst into a round
of bear hugs, back slapping,
kisses, smiles and tears after
the jury foreman read the
verdict.
His wife, Nellie, the only one
of the four Connally women
who didn’t cry, nodded her
head and wispered audibly,
“Oh, thank you!” Later she
squeezed her husband’s arm
and said to him, “Now
everyone knows what we
know.”
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Clean sweep
Griffin High students made a clean sweep in the math
competition yesterday at Cooperative Educational
Services Association (CESA) headquartered at the old
Vineyard Road School. The Griffin High team won first
place and three Griffin students won first, second and
third place individual honors. Stockbridge high won the
second place team award and Fayette County placed
third. Other school teams participating were Henry
County, Butts (Jackson), Pike and Lamar. Frank Ward
In freeing Connally, the jury
rejected Jacobsen’s testimony
that he paid Connally $5,000 on
each of two visits to his
Treasury Department office
and later conspired with him to
cover up the transaction.
Edward Bennett Williams,
Connally’s lawyer, had called
Jacobsen “a perjurer, a swin
dler and a scoundrel” who
“bore false witness” against
Connally to get a light sentence
and to cover up for pocketing
the cash himself.
Chief U.S. District Court
“It’s not a gimmick,” West said.
The “Skyship,” in fact, is a radically designed balloon
propelled by eight miniature electric motors driving six
inch plastic propellers.
Helium-filled bags filled inside the saucer’s white
sailcloth skin provided the lift, and a remote control
“pilot” maneuvered the craft up, down, forward,
backward and even sideways.
“Any basic design must take into account the problems
you’re trying to solve,” West said. “Only a saucer design
can satisfactorily solve the problems of the airship we
have in mind.
“Its role is to lift up goods and take them right to the site
Judge George L. Hart Jr. told
the jurors they must scrutinize
carefully the testimony of an
informer such as Jacobsen. The
jury, apparently taking Hart’s
advice, called for a full
transcript of Jacobsen’s tes
timony during its deliberations.
The first question newsmen
asked Connally as he emerged
smiling from the courthouse
with Nellie on his arm was
about his political future.
“I won’t think about it for
some time, but I hope I never
lose a desire to be involved in
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won the first place individual award. Timothy Young won
second place and Ward Simonton won third place. In
candid pictures at top Ward Simonton, Frank Ward and
Hank Ellison of Griffin High concentrate on math
problems. In other picture with the trophy Griffin High
won are (front, 1-r), Tim Young, Frank Ward and Ward
Simonton (back) Wayne Hutchings and Marian Smith of
the faculty, Tim Burke and Hank Ellison.
political affairs,” he replied.
When asked if that wasn’t a
strong indication he would re
enter politics, he replied with a
grin: “I’ve already said
enough.”
More than 50 reporters and
100 spectators who had waited
throughout the afternoon in the
courthouse were surprised when
the verdict came. They had
expected that the 5:43 p.m.
courtroom session would bring
only an announcement that the
jury was breaking its delibera
tions for dinner.
where they’re used. It doesn’t need ports, airports,
harbors, major roads, any infrastructure. It’s
ecologically sound — little noise, almost no pollution,
great fuel economy.”
West said he hoped the first cargo-carrying “Skyship,”
a 200-foot diameter version with a payload of 10 tons,
would be flying in a couple of years.
His team already is busy on plans for one 700 feet in
diameter that could carry 400 tons for 3,500 miles at a
speed of 90 miles per hour.
That’s slow for an aircraft, but West said he prefers to
think of it this way: it’s mighty fast for a ship.
Guerrilla
Jeeps made
in America
wy
“I don’t see how government
spokesmen can spread so little
thought over so many words.”
By United Press International
The new Khmer Rouge leaders of Cambodia tightened
their hold on Phnom Penh today and moved to put down
the last pockets of government resistance in the
provinces.
The black-clad guerrillas, riding in captured American
made jeeps and armored cars, patrolled the capital as the
Communist-led Khmer Rouge took over running the city.
Diplomatic sources in Saigon said an air force pilot for
the defeated government bombed a radio transmitter just
south of Phnom Penh.
Sketchy reports reaching Saigon said some members of
the fallen Cambodian government were setting up an anti-
Communist resistance base outside Phnom Penh.
A handful of Cambodian rulers, including the brother of
exiled President Lon Nol, heeded guerrilla surrender de
mands and turned themselves in to the ruling
“revolutionary liberation committee.”
But most of Cambodia’s deposed leaders fled the war
tom capital by plane and helicopter to scattered enclaves
still held by anti-guerrilla forces or military bases in
neighboring Thailand.
Gen. Sak Sutskhan, the leader of the defeated army and
acting president of the fallen government, landed in
Thailand this morning aboard a Cambodian air force
plane.
Diplomats in Saigon said two former prime ministers —
Sirik Matak and In Tam —planned to meet at the
encircled provincial capital of Battambang, 148 miles
northwest of Phnom Penh, to map resistance to the rebels.
But Battambang, Cambodia’s second largest city,
appeared likely to fall to the Khmer Rouge before long. “I
think Sirik Matak and In Tam will go to the forests to fight
a guerrilla war,” the diplomats said.
Reports reaching Saigon said the guerrillas were
assaulting Battambang as well as the provincial capital of
Svay Rieng, 70 miles southeast of Phnom Penh.
The insurgents imposed a news blackout on the
Cambodian capital, halting Radio Phnom Penh
broadcasts and cutting off communications with the
outside world.
Some residents of Phnom Penh feared a bloodbath by
the victors, but the Khmer Rouge said there would only be
reprisals against high-level leaders.
Chau Seng, a member of the revolutionary politburo,
said in Paris the defeated leaders would be brought to
trial and judged “in a humane way” if taken into custody.
“You’ve seen that there is no bloodbath in Phnom
Penh,” he said.
But reports from outlying “liberated” areas captured
during the final, three-month advance on Phnom Penh
told of thousands of villagers killed by conquering Khmer
Rouge forces.
Foreign diplomats, correspondents and relief workers
caught in the capital, including some Americans, were
holed up in the Hotel Le Phnom under Red Cross
protection.
The International Red Cross in Geneva lost radio
contact with the hotel Wednesday but later received word
that “all is well.”
The Khmer Rouge pledged the new regime would be
neutralist and bar foreign bases on Cambodian territory.
But diplomatic sources in Saigon predicted a left-leaning
neutrality.
Thailand sealed its border with Cambodia, but at least
140 desperate refugees managed to flee to safety by flying
over the frontier in a variety of aircraft.
At least two toppled cabinet members —Foreign
Minister Keuky Lim and Cultural Minister Long Botta —
reached Bangkok. Some unconfirmed reports said Prime
Minister Long Boret also reached the Thai capital.
President Ford expressed “sadness and compassion”
over the fall of Cambodia, but Third World leaders
praised the Khmer Rouge victory.
“I wish to express my admiration for the Cambodian
government leaders and people, who showed great
courage until the end, and to their armed forces who
fought valiantly with their remaining supplies,” Ford said
in Washington.
In Peking, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the figurehead
leader of the Khmer Rouge, called the guerrilla victory
“the most beautiful page in Cambodian history.”
The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, reporting from
Peking, quoted Sihanouk as saying he would be chief of
state in Cambodia. But he said Khieu Samphan, the
Communist commander of the Khmer Rouge, would wield
the real power.
Congress may grant
part of aid request
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Con
gress appears willing to grant
part of President Ford’s appeal
for emergency humanitarian
aid for South Vietnam, but
seems certain to deny any
substantial military aid or to
meet Ford’s Saturday deadline.
An unresolved dispute over
what some senators consider to
be too slow a rate of evacuation
of Americans from South
Vietnam could further delay
funds for evacuation operations
and other humanitarian pur
poses.
Nevertheless, Press Secretary
Ron Nessen said Thursday that
the White House was “pleased”
with the progress Congress was
making. President Ford said in
a speech Wednesday he did not
intend to hold Congress strictly
to his April 19 time limit.
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee was meeting today
and hoped to get word from the
administration that the depar
ture of Americans from Saigon
is being speeded up. Failing
such assurances, the committee
is withholding a final recom
mendation for S2OO million in
evacuation and humanitarian
aid funds.
The Senate Armed Services
Committee Thursday killed a
variety of proposals for addi
tional amounts of military aid
for Saigon.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
75, low today 57, high yesterday
80, low yesterday 48, high
tomorrow in upper 70s, low
tonight in upper 50s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:09, sunset
tomorrow 8:06.