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Hijack suspect handcuffed.
Art festival planned
Alan Tiegreen, professor of
art at Georgia State University,
will be the judge for the sixth
• annual Crimson Clover Art
Festival to be held at the
Commercial Bank Saturday,
May 10 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00
• p.m.
Mrs. Lee Pfrogner, chairman
of the 1975 festival, reports that
• a large number of businesses,
State may get
' 45 percent
of peach crop
Dr. E. F. Savage of the
Georgia Experiment Station in
Griffin said today Georgia may
• have about 45 percent of a peach
crop this year.
Dr. Savage went to South
„ Georgia to check with growers
and found some frost damage
and said the lack of pollination
was a big factor.
• He estimated 20-25 percent of
a crop might be made in the
Griffin and surrounding areas.
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organizations, and individuals
will cooperate with the Griffin-
Spalding Art Association and
the Commercial Bank and Trust
Company in producing this
year’s festival.
The Federated Garden Clubs
of Griffin will sell plants and
home-baked items. Senior Girl
Scout Troop 102 will operate a
concession stand featuring
Inspection stations checked
Reports circulated in Griffin
that several automobile in
spection stations had their
permits lifted by the state.
An undercover man repor
tedly came here and found
several places which inspect
vehicles were not meeting state
requirements.
Their permits reportedly
were pulled.
However, no one in authority
in the State Patrol organization
who could discuss the matter
could be found today.
GRIFFIN
Griffin,.Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, April 26,1975
Hijacker locked in
at Atlanta airport
ATLANTA (UPI) — When someone called Frank
Covey’s house in Richmond and told an elderly lady there
that Frank had just tried to hijack a plane to Cuba, she
thought for a while and then said “What in the world
would he be going to Cuba for? I thought he was going to
Florida.”
That very question may have occured to Frank as he sat
in an empty 727 jetliner on an unused runway in Atlanta
Friday night, his vacation plans shot and the FBI walking
up the ramp to get him.
Francis Page Covey, it appeared, was the victim of
vodka—some said it may have been gin—and a rather
neat bamboozle by the flight crew of United Airlines
Flight 344.
One woman said she saw the 43-year-old man sitting in
the bar tossing them back at the Raleigh-Durham, N.C.,
airport, and said he was drunk when he got on the flight
for Newark, N.J, with 60 other passengers.
Shirley Woodard of Wilson, N.C., agreed. She said he
was “drunk when he got on the plane and I saw him have
at least three more drinks after that.”
At any rate, somewhere over Washington, D.C., it
occured to Frank that it would be nice to see Fidel Castro
on his vacation. So he stood up, plunged his hands into his
flight bag and told a stewardess it was full of
nitrogylcerin.
He said he wanted to go to Cuba, and he apparently
sandwiches, beverages and
cookies.
Entertainment will be
provided by dance students of
Mrs. Margie Piland, and by the
‘(Shaggy T’s”, a group of
dancers composed of Griffin
High School boys.
Mrs. Pfrogner has announced
that cash prizes and ribbons will
be awarded for work in four
Officers authorized to speak
for the division were on a
Confederate day weekend
holiday.
The corporal out of the
Forsyth district who handles
this area’s inspection stations
said he was not authorized to
give out such information.
The State Patrol headquar
ters in Atlanta was responding
to telephone calls with a
recorded message that the
office was closed for the
holidays. The recording gave an
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categories: painting and
drawing, sculpture,
photography, and fine crafts.
Only original work will be
accepted. Six awards of merit
will also be given.
Artists or craftsmen in
terested in entering work in the
exhibit may contact Mrs. Lee
Pfrogner, Mrs. Lester Luttrell,
or Mrs. W. Glenn Bryant.
emergency number.
The woman who answered the
emergency number said she did
not know how to contact anyone
in authority who might discuss
the matter.
The public information of
ficer’s number didn’t answer
calls today.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
82, low today 64, high yesterday
82, low yesterday 63, high
tomorrow near 80, low tonight in
upper 50s. Sunrise tomorrow
7:05, sunset tomorrow 8:11.
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wanted everybody else to know about it.
John Morris, a Duke University student from
Springfield, N.J., said Covey stumbled into the coach
section and said “Be calm, folks, we are all going to go for
a ride.”
fovey, he said, “sounded very much inebriated and he
had his hands in his flight bag all the time. The
stewardesses started walking him back to the first class
section and they told us the man had had too much to
drink.”
The flight crew—Capt. R.A. Branch, co-pilot Tom
McCullough and flight engineer Jack Rahder—said they
would have to re-fuel and suggested Dulles Airport outside
Washington. But Covey vetoed that and told them to land
at Atlanta.
When they landed, Covey told the 61 passengers and
four stewardesses they should get out through the rear
ramp. He told the flight crew to remain aboard.
But Covey apparently got too involved in getting the
passengers off and the flight crew jumped out through a
front hatch, leaving him holding his bag—which turned
out to be harmless—and waiting for FBI agent James T.
O’Keefe.
A lady at Covey’s house in Richmond explained he was
on vacation. The FBI said they would charge him with air
piracy, and United Flight 344 finally got off for Newark
shortly after 10 p.m.
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Hugh Hunt, president of Pomona Products Company in
Griffin was honored as “Boss of the Year” at the annual
Secretary’s luncheon at the Moose Club yesterday. The
Woman’s Division of the Chamber of Commerce sponsors
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— GROWING OLDER — but instead of ignoring
lit Harold Blumenfeld and Lou Cottin rattle the
? rocking chairs from baby dom to bureacracy . . .
-for readers in a new feature.
Begins next week in
J Griffin Daily News
S. Viet Assembly
moves toward talks
SAIGON (UPI) — The South
Vietnamese National Assembly
voted 120-0 today to give
President Tran Van Huong
authority to nominate a new
chief executive if such a change
is necessary to start peace
talks with the Communists.
The unanimous vote approved
a proposal allowing Huong to
go outside the country’s consti
tution and name a successor,
who has to be approved by the
Assembly.
A separate resolution, passed
by an identical 120-0 margin,
authorizes a political solution to
the war based on the Paris
peace agreement of 1973.
The vote came following a
day-long session and was seen
as a major step toward forming
a coalition with the Com
munists.
The Communists have said a
number of times they will not
negotiate with Huong because
Boss of the year
the annual event. Pictured with Hunt are (I-r) Kay
Harper, president of the Woman’s Division; Sue Ogletree,
vice president; and Sandra Manley, one of the secretaries
at Pomona who had a hand in nominating Mr. Hunt.
Power
Short term favor;
long term injustice
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia
Power President Robert W.
Scherer said Friday the Public
Service Commission (PSC)
would be doing the public “a
short term favor and a terrible
injustice in the long run” by
refusing to grant needed rate
relief.
The PSC granted Georgia
Power a sll6 million permanent
rate hike Thursday, the largest
ever granted to the utility, yet
far below the $305 million
increase the company says it
needs.
Scherer, who took over as.
president of the Southern
Company utility March 19, said
the PSC commissioners must
“accept the economic facts of
life and make hard decisions
that are not favored by the
public.”
At the same time, he said,
the utility itself must have the
courage to seek rate relief
before situations reach a
critical level.
“It’s not in our interest to be
over there (asking the PSC for
relief),” Scherer said. “That
makes us very visible and we
tend to become the focus for all
the frustrating things the public
can’t do anything about.
“It’s not pleasant to be the
butt of attack...”
Scherer said the current sll6
million rate increase will allow
the utility to operate financially
“through the better part of
he is too closely aligned with
former President Nguyen Van
Thieu.
The major contender for the
presidency, if Huong should
decide to step down, is Gen.
Duong Van “Big” Minh, who
turned down Huong’s offer of
the premiership on Friday,
saying he wanted the presi
dent’s job.
There was no immediate
indication Huong would name
Minh or any one to take his
place, but the way to do so was
cleared by the national assem
bly vote.
Neither Huong nor Minh was
available for comment.
The assembly will meet again
on Sunday to debate possible
nominations.
Huong appeared before the
assembly earlier in the day and
quoted Minh as saying the
Communists had agreed to talk
with him.
1976,” but he declined to say
how soon Georgia Power will
have to ask for another
increase.
“I just don’t know at this
point,” he said. “Obviously,
had we gotten a larger level of
rate relief, it would have been
easier to attract investors. But
we are going to do all we can
to get the best use from these
dollars.”
He said Georgia Power is
projecting that the demand for
power will increase 10.1 per
cent each year, and that by
1980 power reserves in Georgia
will have dropped to 2.5 per
cent with the current level of
construction. The Federal
Power Commission, he said,
recommends a reserve level of
20 per cent.
“By the time a fellow’s
I learned how to live he doesn’t
have much of it left to do.”