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Textiles getting ready for recovery
BOCA RATON, Fla., -
“Textiles is getting ready for a
recovery,” John M. Hamrick,
president of the American
Textile Manufacturers In
stitute, told the 75th an
niversary meeting of the
Georgia Textile Manufacutrers
Association here today.
Mr. Hamrick, president and
treasurer of Hamrick Mills,
Gaffney, S. C., was a featured
speaker at the diamond an
niversary celebration of GTMA.
Other speakers included George
D. Ray, president of GTMA;
Zell Miller, lieutenant governor
of Georgia; broadcaster Paul
Harvey, Chicago, III; and Dr.
George D. Heaton, Minister
consultant, Charoltte, N. C.
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A citizens committee working on plans for long range development of the
Griffin-Spalding community toured the city disposal plant just off North Hill
street yesterday afternoon. Alfred Bolton of the Griffin Engineering
Company and Harry Simmons of the water works operation for the city
explained the operation of the plant and what must be done to it to bring it up
Griffinite president
of Music Club federation
Mrs. John L. Mostiler of
Griffin was elected president of
the Georgia Federation of
Music Clubs at the State con
vention in Atlanta. Dr. Merle
Montgomery of New York,
president of the National
Federation of Music Clubs,
installed the new officers.
The Georgia Federation is
made up of senior, student and
junior divisions with the pur
pose of developing and main
taining high musical standards,
aiding and encouraging musical
education; and the promotion of
American Music and American
artists throughout America and
other countries.
This past year, the senior
clubs awarded approximately
$3,000 in scholarships to young
people throughout Georgia.
Other scholarships are ad
ministered and, or provided by
the Federation.
Mrs. Mostiler is retiring
president of the Griffin Music
Rate hike won’t affect
city electric customers
The rate hike granted
Georgia Power Co. yesterday
will have no effect on City of
Griffin electrical customers,
according to Charlie Smith,
head of the Griffin Light
Department.
The five-member Public
Service Commission yesterday
gave its unanimous approval of
a sll6-million hike. This was
substantially below the $305-
million sought by the utility, but
was still the highest permanent
rate increase in the company’s
history.
Mr. Smith explained the PSC
The ATMI president told the
GTMA members that he is
encouraged at signs of a
gradual imporvement in the
textile industry during recent
weeks.
According to Hamrick, this
trend is the result of several
positive factors: costs and
supplies of raw materials have
stabilized and in some areas
declined; the supply of im
ported oil remains high; con
sumer buying attitudes have
imporved; personal savings are
at their highest levels in years;
and apparel prices have been
cut.
Other positive factors include
federal tax rebates, lower
federal tax withholding rates
DAILY NEWS
Vol. 103 No. 98 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, April 25, 1975 Daily Since 1872
Checking out disposal plant
Mrs. John Mostiler
Club. She served the state
organization as corresponding
secretary in 1970-71; awards
chairman 1971-72 and recording
secretary 1972-75. She is active
in the music program of the
First Baptist Church.
has jurisdiction over rates of
retail customers of Georgia
Power, not over wholesale or
City of Griffin customers.
There is a rate case being
argued now before the Federal
Power Commission in
Washington which controls
wholesale rates. This may take
several years to settle, Smith
said.
Even though Griffin electrical
rates went up 10 percent Jan. 1,
they are still lower than
Georgia Power retail
customers, Smith continued.
“From now on electrical
users can expect their rates to
and Social Security pension
bonus payments.
Mr. Hamrick said, “Each of
these should begin to stimulate
consumer spending during the
middle of the second quarter,
and add to this an estimated 12
billion dollars in federal tax
rebates, and more than nine
billion dollars in taxpayers’
pockets as a result of lowered
withholding rates from
raychecks.
“All of this should encourage
spending and purchases, which,
in turn, should result in in
creased productivity and re
employment for the textile
industry.”
Mr. Hamrick also noted the
adverse factors of meeting the
GRIFFIN
Tornado kills three
By United Press International
A tornado struck the small
southwestern Missouri town of
Neosho Thursday night, crum
pling trailers and blowing away
buildings. Three persons were
killed and more than 20 others
were injured, including three
seriously.
“There is nothing left on the
West Side,” a state highway
patrolman reported.
Missouri National Guard
units were called in to help in
searching the rubble for dead
or injured. Ambulances with
blood supplies were dispatched
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
78, low today 63, high yesterday
80, low yesterday 59, high
tomorrow in low 80s, low tonight
near 60. Sunrise tomorrow 7:04,
sunset tomorrow 8:10.
increase. There’s no way to go
but up,” Smith said.
The action by the PSC means
about a 10 percent decrease in
electrical bills of Georgia
Power customers. The increase
replaces a $205-million
emergency rate increase that
went into effect in January and
which expires at the end of this
month.
Georgia Power customers’
rates will be higher, however,
than they were last November.
During the summer months,
the cost of electricity will be
greater.
Good news!
to Federal Environmental Protection Agency standards. Citizens will have a
chance to learn about the details of this and other phases of the overall
planning program next Tuesday night at the Spalding County courthouse.
Bolton urged people to attend and offer their ideas on the direction the
community should take in planning for the future.
from nearby towns.
Police said a motel just west
of of the Newton County town
of 7,500 residents was “blown
away” and that 40 to 50 mobile
homes in a trailer park and two
64-unit apartment complexes
were severely damaged.
The State Highway Depart
ment’s huge barn also was
destroyed.
The tornado was one of
several spawned by a slow
moving storm front that swept
across northeast Oklahoma and
southwest Missouri.
Two other twisters skipped
Fear of panic
clouds refugees
SAIGON (UPI) - South
Vietnamese streamed into an
evacuation center at Saigon’s
Tan Son Nhut Air Base today
but there weren’t enough planes
to handle them all. Officials
feared panic.
U.S. Air Force planes made
only 22 flights during the past
24 hours, down from 28 the
previous day. The usual back
log of about 1,000 persons
awaiting evacuation appeared
to be close to 5,000 at mid
morning today.
“This place is getting so
tense it could blow at any
minute,” one U.S. official
working on the evacuation
program said.
A Ford administration official
in Washington said about 5,000
evacuees were being flown
daily to Guam, a tiny U.S.
island in the Western Pacific.
costs of government-ordered
regulations on noise level,
cotton dust exposure, water-air
guidelines.
“There is an industry
challenge,’’Hamrick said, “to
be met in the government
regulations which affect both
manufacturers and consumers.
The industry must make the
public aware of the trade-off in
terms of safety and consumer
preference and higher product
prices.” Hamrick urged that
government controls should be
designed so that they won’t
destroy the industry nor severly
curtail consumers’ buying
power because of increased
costs.
He also stated that the in-
over Oklahoma, one touching
down in the extreme northeast
corner of the the state and the
other in the southern portion
near Ada. No injuries of severe
damage were reported.
Several tornadoes, apparently
from the same storm system,
raked parts of northern Mis
souri Wednesday night, killing
two persons, injuring several
others, and causing heavy
property damage.
Powerful thundershowers
lumbered across much of the
midlands Thursday, dumping
Most of them were Vietnamese.
On Guam, U.S. officials said
refugees were arriving at the
rate of 400 an hour, severely
taxing military facilities there.
By midday, 12,215 refugees,
the majority of them Viet
namese, had arrived from both
Saigon and the Philippines.
U.S. military authorities
worked around-the-clock to
build a tent city to shelter up to
50,000 newcomers, but the city
was not expected to be
completed for another day.
About 50 doctors and 350
medical corpsmen stood by to
monitor the physical condition
of the refugees.
Os more than 6,000 Americans
in South Vietnam before the
airlift began, only 1,681 re
mained Wednesday. A U.S.
Embassy source in Saigon said
the number of American
govenment workers in the
dustry will continue to be in
volved in efforts to build new
commercial relationships with
foreign nations.
“Tome,” Mr. Hamrick noted,
“the work we are now doing in
building new relationships
between our industry and other
world trading nations in textiles
is perhaps the single most
important activity now being
conducted by ATMI.”
He praised the textile in
dustry and GTMA for making
significant efforts to cover the
needs of putting people back to
work in full-time industry jobs,
in developing a national energy
policy, and in becoming more
aware of and sensitive to the
real needs of the American
Earl Stokes
won’t run
Earl Stokes, Griffin
businessman, said today, he
would not be a candidate for
Spalding County Commissioner
in the May 27 special election.
He said earlier he was con
sidering getting into the race.
Some additional business
responsibilities would not allow
him the time he said he thinks
would be needed to be a com
missioner.
Stokes said he would continue
his interest in local government
and might be a candidate for
office in the future.
Stokes said he favored the
five-member county com
mission with four year-terms, a
proposal to be voted on this fall
in a referendum.
Stokes said if approved by the
voters, he thought the present
outlay for salaries should not be
increased but divided among
five commissioners.
May 9 is the deadline for
candidates to qualify for the
race.
heavy rains and touching off
some flooding.
A school bus overturned in
flash flood waters 13 miles
north of Tell City, Ind., but
none of the 12 to 15 persons
aboard was injured.
Louisville, Ky., received
more than two inches of rain in
a six-hour period, and 1.46
inches fell at Lexington, Ky.
Evansville, Ind., recorded 1.42
inches of rain during the same
period. The National Weather
Service said the ground had
reached the saturation point at
several places.
country would be down to 500
today.
A U.S. official at Tan Son
Nhut said that because of the
shortage of planes passengers
were being packed into the Cl4l
Starlifter and Cl3O Hercules
transports.
“We’re now trying to get at
least 200 people on each flight
by strapping 'em to the floor,”
he said.
Ford administration officials
said, however, there were
enough aircraft to handle 10,000
refugees a day if the U.S.
Embassy in Saigon could clear
them. As many as 130,000
refugees could eventually be
evacuated.
But Peiitagon officials in
Washington said Communist
forces have moved surface to
air missiles almost within
range of Saigon, threatening
the airlift.
public.
“I look forword during the
next year,” he concluded, “to
working with you to bring about
a full economic recovery and to
meet the needs of our industry. ”
Calling the events of the past
year a “bucketful of worries,”
the president of the Georgia
Textile Manufacturers
Association today sounded an
optimistic note that conditions
in the textile industry will
improve during the coming
months.
George D. Ray Jr., Speaking
to fellow textile executives at
their 75th anniversary, cited a
slow upswing in orders and a
drop in inventories as in-
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Psychic David N. Bubar leaves U.S. Marshal’s office at
Memphis. (UPI)
FBI accuses owners
in plant bombing
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UPI)
— Three workers on duty
March 1 when the Sponge
Rubber Products Co. in Shelton,
Conn., was bombed to destruc
tion, were kidnaped by masked
gunmen who said they were
“working stiffs.”
There had been layoffs at the
plant, and 327 discharged
workers had filed a civil suit
against the factory’s owner.
Police began investigating the
sl4 million bombing on the
possibility that disgruntled
workers were to blame.
But Thursday the FBI indict
ed the owner of the bombed-out
plant’s parent corporation and
nine other men on charges
connected with the bombing.
The indictments accused
Charles D. Moeller, 48, of
Cridersville, Ohio, president of
Ohio Decorative Products Co.
and Grand Sheet Metal, Inc.,
parent firms of the Shelton
company, of conspiracy, bom
bing, and other crimes.
Among the others charged
was Moeller’s psychic adviser,
the Rev. David N. Bubar, 46, a
Southern Baptist minister who
predicted a fire several days
before the bombing.
Authorities refused to discuss
possible motives for the arson
or the company’s financial
condition.
The company’s original
Dome center
dedication
will be Sunday
First Assembly of God
Church, 1411 Atlanta Road, will
have dedication and open house
Sunday for its new dome
learning center, part of Griffin
Christian School complex. The
church sponsors the school
The open house and
dedication will begin at 2:30
p.m.
Participants will include the
Rev. Aaron Will, Georgia
District Superintendent of the
Assembly of God Churches;
Mayor Louis Goldstein of
dications that the textile in
dustry is on the road to im
provement.
“News this past year has
caused worry by the bucketful.
Since our last meeting, we have
changed from talking about
labor shortages and scarce raw
materials to other serious
matters of 75 percent
production levels and over
abundant inventories,” Ray
said.
Ray, who is also president of
Southern Mills, Inc., Atlanta,
cited the accomplishment of the
Georgia textile industry over
the past 75 years as a source of
“inspiration and pride” to all
involved.
owner was B. F. Goodrich. It
was purchased from Goodrich
in 1974 with a condition any fire
insurance claims filed before
the deal became final would go
to Sponge Rubber’s new ow
ners.
The indictment charged the
10, two of whom are still at
large, with conspiracy, the
actual dynamiting, and inter
state transportation of dyna
mite and gasoline, which the
government said was used to
spread the fire.
Bubar, who claims to be
clairvoyant, had predicted the
Shelton fire in a conversation
with a secretary at the plant a
few days before it occurred. He
recently denied complicity in
the blaze, saying his prediction
came only from his psychic
powers.
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“The human race is a contest
to see whether we can learn to
live with each other before we
destroy ourselves.”
Griffin, Spalding Rep. John
Mostiler, Rev. Paul Stanek,
former principal of the school;
and Tommy Prisoc, Principal of
the school.
Rev Wall will speak at the
10:45 a.m. worship service at
the church and Rev Stanek will
speak at the 7 p.m. worship
service.
A fellowship dinner is
scheduled at 12:30 p.m.
The Rev. W. Thurman
Fountain is pastor of the
church.